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The Overview of the Plan of God, Part 12B

Judging in the Year of the Jubilee

[Study Aired November 2, 2025]

1Co 6:2  Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
1Co 6:3  Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?

In this study we will consider the spiritual significance of all the statutes which the Lord gave Israel to properly and justly implement the year of the jubilee. The jubilee is the one part of the instructions given to ancient Israel which had nothing to do with the three annual seasons and seven annual holy days within those three annual seasons. The jubilee is a type of Pentecost of years instead of days. Pentecost means ‘count fifty’. ‘Pente’ is the Greek word for ‘fifty’ and ‘cost’ is the Greek word for ‘count’. Pentecost counts fifty days while Jubilee counts fifty years. In other words, Jubilee is far more comprehensive than Pentecost because the Jubilee deals with all who were not converted at the Pentecost of this present time. Jubilee relates to redemption of the whole of humanity, and Jubilee is accomplished and is attained by the great multitude which no man could number, through the mercy which will be administered by those who were redeemed at the Pentecost of this present time.

Pentecost signified the birth of the firstfruits, “the firstborn among many brothers”:

Rom 8:29  For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

We are informed that the Father sent Christ to save the whole world:

Joh 3:17  For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

‘Might’ here does not mean ‘might possibly be saved’. What ‘might’ means in this verse is that this is what the Lord wills and that what He wills is what He does:

1Ti 2:4  Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.

For those who believe that the word ‘will’ in this verse means that ‘God desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the Truth’ this is what we know about what God ‘desires’:

Job 23:13  But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth. 

To bookend this point the apostle John unequivocally states: 

1Jn 2:2  And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.

Therefore Christ has been sent by His Father to save the whole world, and that is exactly what He is in the process of doing. How will He accomplish the redemption of all of mankind? This is where the means of administering the rules governing the Jubilee come to our attention because Christ made this incredible statement which does not begin to be comprehended by the churches of this world:

Joh 20:21  Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.

Remember what Christ’s Father sent Him to accomplish:

Joh 3:17  For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

Salvation is always preceded by fiery judgment:

Joh 9:39  And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind.

Peter tells us that God’s judgment is now on the house of God:

1Pe 4:17  For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?

If judgment “begins at us” then it obviously continues at a later date and that ‘date’ is “the great white throne judgment” of Revelation 20:

Rev 20:11  And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.
Rev 20:12  And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
Rev 20:13  And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.
Rev 20:14  And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
Rev 20:15  And whosoever was not found written in the book of life [Those in the book of life being those who had died to their old man first, in “this present time”, (Rom 8:18)] was cast into the lake of fire [To be “judged every man according to his works”].

The lake of fire, which is the second death, is not “those who first trusted in Christ” (Eph 1:12). It certainly is not that “blessed and holy first resurrection.” Concerning the lake of fire, Christ tells us to cut off our hands and feet and pluck out our eyes to avoid being cast into this thing which is signified by the Greek word ‘gehenna’, and the English phrase, ‘the lake of fire’. But the reason for such graphic words is not that the fire is literal and eternal. The reason for such graphic words as ‘cut off your hand and cast it from you if it offends you’ is because of the blessings, the honors, and the glory we forfeit if our names are not written in His book of life, which is contrasted with “the books” out of which all those in the lake of fire are to be judged.

The great white throne is a ‘white throne’. It isn’t a ‘black throne’. It is the ‘great white throne… judgment’ where “every man [is] judged… according to his works”.

What is the Biblical purpose for judgment? There are two sections of scripture which answer that question forcefully. Paul tells us this about our judgment which is now on the house of God:

1Co 11:31  For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.
1Co 11:32  But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.

Paul is affirming what Isaiah had written centuries earlier:

Isa 26:8  Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we waited for thee; the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee.
Isa 26:9  With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.

Our judgment “in this present time… chastens us… that we should not be condemned with the world” to the great white throne judgment/lake of fire/second death referred to in Revelation 20:

Rev 20:11  And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.
Rev 20:12  And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
Rev 20:13  And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.
Rev 20:14  And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
Rev 20:15  And whosoever was not found written in the book of life [at “the resurrection of life”, (Joh 5:29)] was cast into the lake of fire.

Our goal in “enduring the sufferings of this present time” is not to avoid the second resurrection at the time of “the second death”. Our goal is to be “the manifest… sons of God [for whom] the whole creation moans and groans until now”:

Rom 8:18  For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
Rom 8:19  For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. [That “blessed and holy… first resurrection”]
Rom 8:20  For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,
Rom 8:21  Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
Rom 8:22  For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
Rom 8:23  And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. [At the first resurrection… “the resurrection of life”, (Joh 5:29)]

Our goal is to be given to “have part in that… blessed and holy… first resurrection [upon whom] the second death hath no power”:

Rev 20:4  And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
Rev 20:5  But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
Rev 20:6  Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.

Nevertheless the lake of fire serves the same purpose as the “fiery trials” endured by the house of God of this present time inasmuch as the judgment and tribulations of the great white throne will chasten all the rest of mankind to “forsake ungodliness” (Tit 2:11-12) and “learn righteousness” (Isa 26:9).

The Lord has revealed that the judges of the thousand-year reign over “the kingdoms of this world” will also “judge angels” at the time of the great white throne judgment/lake of fire/ second death:

Let’s read it again:

1Co 6:2  Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
1Co 6:3  Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?

The ordinances given Israel which were to be administered in the year of the jubilee signify the manner in which “we shall judge angels” in that life.

In this study we will examine how the rules governing the application of the year of jubilee signify the justice and mercy which we, as judges of angels, will administer in that life.

It is generally understood that “the land” signifies our lives in the land. When Israel was commanded to “occupy the land” they were expected to cleanse the land of all the giants and all the doctrines and customs and cultures of those giants who originally occupied ‘the land’. This is what the Lord did for Israel:

Jos 21:43  And the LORD gave unto Israel all the land which he sware to give unto their fathers; and they possessed it, and dwelt therein.
Jos 21:44  And the LORD gave them rest round about, according to all that he sware unto their fathers: and there stood not a man of all their enemies before them; the LORD delivered all their enemies into their hand.
Jos 21:45  There failed not ought of any good thing which the LORD had spoken unto the house of Israel; all came to pass.

Those last two verses of Joshua 21 signify God coming to be “all in all.” They signify the redemption that is anti-type of the year of jubilee:

Jos 21:43  And the LORD gave unto Israel all the land which he sware to give unto their fathers [1Co 15:22]; and they possessed it, and dwelt therein.
Jos 21:44  And the LORD gave them rest round about [Heb 4:9-10], according to all that he sware unto their fathers: and there stood not a man of all their enemies before them; the LORD delivered all their enemies into their hand.
Jos 21:45  There failed not ought of any good thing which the LORD had spoken unto the house of Israel; all came to pass [Rom 8:28].

“All the land” ultimately is “all in Adam”:

1Co 15:22  For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

Christ and His Christ are the firstfruits of this promise:

1Co 15:23  But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.

The jubilee is “the end” of the year harvest:

1Co 15:24  Then cometh the end [The harvest at the end of the year, (Exo 34:22) the great white throne judgment, the jubilee], when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power
1Co 15:25  For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet.
1Co 15:26  The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.

Exo 34:22  And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year’s end.
Exo 34:23  Thrice in the year shall all your men children appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel.

Everything the Lord has promised, He will fulfill:

Jos 21:45  There failed not ought of any good thing which the LORD had spoken unto the house of Israel; all came to pass.

1Ti 2:4  Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.

1Jn 2:2  And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.

It is “by the church” that Christ will fulfill the commission His Father gave Him:

Joh 20:21  Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.

Eph 3:9  And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:
Eph 3:10  To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God,
Eph 3:11  According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord:

“To make all men see… the fellowship of the mystery… of the kingdom of God” is the spiritual significance of “the year of the jubilee”:

Lev 25:8  And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years.
Lev 25:9  Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.
Lev 25:10  And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.
Lev 25:11  A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine undressed.
Lev 25:12  For it is the jubile; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field.
Lev 25:13  In the year of this jubile ye shall return every man unto his possession.
Lev 25:14  And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest ought of thy neighbour’s hand, ye shall not oppress one another:
Lev 25:15  According to the number of years after the jubile thou shalt buy of thy neighbour, and according unto the number of years of the fruits he shall sell unto thee:
Lev 25:16  According to the multitude of years thou shalt increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of years thou shalt diminish the price of it: for according to the number of the years of the fruits doth he sell unto thee.
Lev 25:17  Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God: for I am the LORD your God.

It will be the elect who will administer the spiritual jubilee which will be the fruit of the “great tribulation” of Revelation 7:14, which ‘great tribulation’ signifies the great white throne judgment/lake of fire/second death of Revelation 20:7-15. That white throne judgment/lake of fire/second death, will be administered by the “manifest sons of God [of] this present time.” It is this great white throne judgment for which “the whole creation groans and travails… until now”:

Rom 8:18  For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
Rom 8:19  For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.
Rom 8:20  For the creature was made [Jer 18:4] subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,
Rom 8:21  Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. [At the year of jubilee]
Rom 8:22  For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
Rom 8:23  And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body [at “the resurrection of life” which is the “blessed and holy first resurrection” (Joh 5:29 and Rev 20:4-6)]

No one will “oppress one another” because only those who possess the mind of Christ will be the judges who will be judging angels in the lake of fire which precedes the jubilee. The jubilee signifies the liberty, and the forgiving of every debt and every sin of every repentant sinner who comes up through the “great tribulation” (Rev 7:14) of the lake of fire:

A Great Multitude from Every Nation

Rev 7:9  After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;
Rev 7:10  And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.
Rev 7:11  And all the angels stood round about the throne, and about the elders and the four beasts, and fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God,
Rev 7:12  Saying, Amen: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and might, be unto our God for ever and ever. Amen.
Rev 7:13  And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they?
Rev 7:14  And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation [The lake of fire], and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb [The true jubilee].
Rev 7:15  Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them.
Rev 7:16  They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat.
Rev 7:17  For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes. [The ultimate liberty, forgiveness and freedom from sin for all mankind]

Lev 25:10  And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof [“A great multitude which no man could number”, (Rev 7:9)]: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.
Lev 25:11  A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine undressed.
Lev 25:12  For it is the jubile; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field.
Lev 25:13  In the year of this jubile ye shall return every man unto his possession.

Everything the feast of Pentecost signifies as the Lord’s firstfruits is also signified by the Jubilee as the last fruits “in the year’s end” (Exo 34:22). Pentecost signifies the birth of “the firstfruits unto God and the Lamb” (Rev 14:4). Pentecost is a sabbath which follows seven weekly sabbaths. Not working on Pentecost and not ‘sowing, reaping nor gathering’ in the year of the jubilee both signify ceasing from our own works:

Heb 4:10  For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.

We need to always be aware to whom it is that we are indebted. The symbol of those to whom we are indebted may appear to be our own family or it may be a stranger who dwells among us. The truth is that all of our debt is and all of our sins are against the Lord and against Him only. This is what King David said concerning His sin of adultery with Bathsheba and the subsequent murder of her husband, Uriah:

Psa 51:2  Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
Psa 51:3  For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.
Psa 51:4  Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.

That fact is why our redemption from our debts leading up to the year of the Jubilee can be redeemed only by our “near kinsmen”:

Lev 25:14  And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest ought of thy neighbour’s hand, ye shall not oppress one another:
Lev 25:15  According to the number of years after the jubile thou shalt buy of thy neighbour, and according unto the number of years of the fruits he shall sell unto thee:
Lev 25:16  According to the multitude of years thou shalt increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of years thou shalt diminish the price of it: for according to the number of the years of the fruits doth he sell unto thee.
Lev 25:17  Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God: for I am the LORD your God.

Selling our land amounts to selling our inheritance. No one sells his inheritance unless he has gotten himself deep in debt and he is forced to sell his inheritance. It is just natural to go to the courthouse steps and seek to increase our wealth at another’s expense. Jacob, for example, took advantage of Esau and bought Esau’s birthright for a bowl of pottage. That is a physical example of how we steal our brother’s birthright when we sell him the false doctrines of Babylon which are worth less than a bowl of soup. Esau signifies us while we are in Babylon where we despise our birthright as Saviors, kings and priests. Jacob signifies us as carnal babes in Christ while we are “yet carnal” and still in Babylon (1Co 3:1-4) where we take advantage of and oppress our own brother.

Lev 25:18  Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety.
Lev 25:19  And the land shall yield her fruit, and ye shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety.
Lev 25:20  And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase:
Lev 25:21  Then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years.
Lev 25:22  And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat yet of old fruit until the ninth year; until her fruits come in ye shall eat of the old store.

The year of jubilee followed the seventh times seven year of rest for the land. That meant there would be two sabbatical years in a row. Believing the Lord would bless the sixth year with enough to live on the fruit of that year for two more years requires a certain amount of faith in the Lord. This explains why there is no historical evidence of Israel ever observing a year of jubilee. Living for three years on the fruit of one year requires a certain amount of faith in God, and faith was sorely lacking in Old Testament times.

Gal 3:11  But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.
Gal 3:12  And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.
Gal 3:13  Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:
Gal 3:14  That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

If we have indeed entered Christ’s rest, and have ceased from our own works, then every day is a spiritual sabbath, and every year is a year of rest from the dominion of sin.

Heb 4:10  For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.

If we have ‘ceased from [our] own works’ then we will never oppress or take advantage of our brother by extorting unscriptural ‘tithes and offering’ from him. Neither Christ, nor any of His apostles, ever once ‘passed the plate’ or told anyone to send them their tithes and offerings.

To the contrary we should be seeking to redeem our poor brother and be looking for a opportunity to redeem our brother:

Lev 25:47  And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee, and thy brother that dwelleth by him wax poor, and sell himself unto the stranger or sojourner by thee, or to the stock of the stranger’s family:
Lev 25:48  After that he is sold he may be redeemed again; one of his brethren may redeem him:
Lev 25:49  Either his uncle, or his uncle’s son, may redeem him, or any that is nigh of kin unto him of his family may redeem him; or if he be able, he may redeem himself.

Notice that it is only someone who is “nigh of kin of his family” who is eligible to be his redeemer. In other words only Christ and His Christ are redeemers because we are all brothers and sisters in Christ who are “filling up in [our] bodies that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ for His body’s sake which is the church” (Col 1:24). When we sin against Christ we are also sinning against our brothers in Christ and it is Christ to whom we are indebted for the stripes which our sins have placed upon Him (Psa 51:4 ; Isa 53:5 and 1Pe 2:24).

“That which is behind” (G5303, ‘husterema’), is defined in this way:

– Definition:

1. deficiency, that which is lacking
2. in reference to property and resources, poverty, want, destitution

That definition is the very purpose for the year of the jubilee. What is “behind of the afflictions of Christ” is what we “fill up in [our] bodies for His body’s sake which is the church.” We accomplish this redeeming work as the scapegoat which was offered as a living sacrifice, which is what we do as we “fill up what is behind of the afflictions of Christ” (Col 1:24):

Rom 12:1  I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice [The scapegoat of Leviticus 16:20-31], holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

Oba 1:21  And saviours shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the LORD’S.

Col 1:20  And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself [Jubilee]; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven. [The 144,000 firstfruits at the first resurrection, and then a great multitude which no man could number at the second resurrection of the great white throne judgment/lake of fire/second death, the fruit of which is the Jubilee].
Col 1:21  And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled
Col 1:22  In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:
Col 1:23  If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached [Aorist tense] to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;

Our ministry to the church and to all men

Col 1:24  Who now rejoice [present tense] in my sufferings for you, and fill up [present tense] that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is [present tense] the church:

Both Christ and John inform us that “as He is so are we in this world”. The way Christ put this concept is “As ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brothers you have done it unto Me” (Mat 25:40 and 45) and “I am Jesus of Nazareth whom thou persecutes” (Acts 22:8).

1Jn 4:17  Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment [which is now on the house of God, 1Pe 4:17]: because as he is, so are we in this world.

It is only Christ who can bring liberty to those who are in bondage. Only He can set the captives free. That Truth applies to the firstfruits and to those who are part of the great multitude which no man could number who come up through the great tribulation of the lake of fire.

We must pause our study of our calling with Christ to bring liberty to all men. In our next study we will learn that the principle of the year of jubilee is that we as the occupants of the land are not owners of the land. The land belongs to the Lord:

Lev 25:23  The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.

We will also seek to understand why a house in a walled city if not redeemed in the first year does not go out in the jubilee while houses in unwalled cities do return to their original owners.

Lev 25:29  And if a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; within a full year may he redeem it.
Lev 25:30  And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be established for ever to him that bought it throughout his generations: it shall not go out in the jubile.
Lev 25:31  But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be counted as the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubile.

That is our study for today.