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Biblical Overview of the Plan of God, Part 9:  The Jubilee

[Study Aired October 17, 2025]

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.

Pentecost is preceded by seven weeks, seven weekly sabbaths, seven weekly days of rest.

Exo 31:15  Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD: whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.

The year of jubilee is preceded by seven sabbath years when the land was to be given rest. If we hope to know the meaning of these two sabbaths… Pentecost after seven weekly sabbaths of rest, and Jubilee after seven sabbath years of rest for the land, it will help greatly to understand the significance of the words ‘sabbath of rest’.

Hebrews four provides us with that bit of information, but before we look at the fourth chapter let’s first see what the introductory words ‘Let us therefore’ are referring to. Here are the last three verses of chapter three:

Heb 3:17  But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
Heb 3:18  And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?
Heb 3:19  So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

Now Paul is going to give us the spiritual significance of the words “sabbath of rest” of Exodus 31:15:

Heb 4:1  Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.
Heb 4:2  For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.
Heb 4:3  For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
Heb 4:4  For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works.
Heb 4:5  And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest.
Heb 4:6  Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:
Heb 4:7  Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
Heb 4:8  For if Jesus [Greek: ‘Joshua’] had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.
Heb 4:9  There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.
Heb 4:10  For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.
Heb 4:11  Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.

That is the spiritual significance of “a sabbath of rest.” Our ‘rest’ is the gift of the spirit of God and His grace which is setting us free from our own beastly carnal mind and sins which have reigned over our lives:

Eph 2:8  For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

Rom 6:14  For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

Being made free from the dominion of sin in our lives necessitates that we must therefore become slaves to righteousness:

Rom 6:15  What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
Rom 6:16  Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
Rom 6:17  But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.
Rom 6:18  Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants [G1402: ‘douloo’, slave] of righteousness.

Now we should begin to see that a “sabbath of rest” whether it be the weekly sabbath, the seven weekly sabbaths from the days of unleavened bread until Pentecost, or the seven sabbath years which bring us to the jubilee, the only heirs of that rest will be believers who come up through great tribulation and wash their robes white in the blood of the Lamb:

Mat 10:21  And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.
Mat 10:22  And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.

Rev 7:9  After this [After being shown the 144,000 “firstfruits unto God and the Lamb”, (Rev 7:1-8)] 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 7:13  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 “lake of fire”], and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
Rev 17:14  These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful [“to the end”].

Those who ‘endure to the end’ in this present time are the bride of Christ. It is Christ’s bride who are signified by seven weekly sabbaths culminating in the feast of Pentecost, the day on which the Lord’s bride was born through the giving of the holy spirit in Acts 2. We are those who are numbered as 144,000, “firstfruits unto God and The Lamb… the Bride The Lamb’s wife… Jerusalem above, the mother of us all”.

Gal 4:26  But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

Rev 14:1  And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father’s name written in their foreheads.
Rev 14:2  And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps:
Rev 14:3  And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.
Rev 14:4  These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb.

There is another group which cannot be numbered. They, too, must “come up through great tribulation and wash their robes white in the blood of The Lamb” (Rev 7:14). These are the fruit of the womb of the bride of Christ. The great multitude which no man could number are signified by the fiftieth year. The Jubilee year which follow 7 sabbath years.

Lev 25:1  And the LORD spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying,
Lev 25:2  Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the LORD.
Lev 25:3  Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof;
Lev 25:4  But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the LORD: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.
Lev 25:5  That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: for it is a year of rest unto the land.
Lev 25:6  And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you; for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for thy stranger that sojourneth with thee,
Lev 25:7  And for thy cattle, and for the beast that are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be meat.

The Lord’s jubilee comes on the fiftieth year, the year after seven  sabbath years.

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.
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.

This series of studies has been entitled The Biblical Overview of the Plan of God as Revealed in the Holy Days. I did not include the words ‘As Revealed In The Holy Days’ in the title of this study simply because this part of the plan of God, His year of the jubilee, is not in the purview of the holy days which the Lord gave to ancient Israel. The seven weeks leading up to Pentecost and the birth of the New Testament church, who are signified by the number 144,000, the firstfruit elect of God, are called the bride of His Son, Christ. Christ’s bride is a precursor to the salvation of all the rest of mankind as the fruit of “the marriage supper of the Lamb. The fruit of that marriage between Christ and His bride is the jubilee harvest which signifies the great multitude which no man could number who will also come up through great tribulation and wash their robes white in the blood of the Lamb as the children of Christ’s bride. This event is not featured in the seven holy days which end with the eighth day, the last great day. The last great day of the feast signifies the short season of rebellion against the ‘camp of the saints’. That rebellion gives the Lord the ‘occasion’ He is seeking to destroy the nations in the four quarters of the earth and thereby begin the process of destroying death via the great white throne judgment/lake of fire/ second death. The lake of fire is the “great tribulation” which must try all who are given to be that part of the plan of God which is revealed by the holy days brings us to the very beginning of the judgment of the nations in the great white throne judgment.

When Christ cried out on the  last great day that anyone who was thirsty should come to Him, believe on Him and become a well of living waters for others:

Joh 7:37  In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.
Joh 7:38  He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
Joh 7:39  (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)

 It will be through us, through spiritual Israel, through “they that believe on Him… by the church”, that the “all in all” goal of the plan of God for all men will be accomplished, even as all of the holy days of the three seasons of the year are also being fulfilled in and through “Christ and Christ in [us]” (Col 1:27):

Eph 1:18 The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance [which is] in the saints,
Eph 1:19 And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,
Eph 1:20 Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,
Eph 1:21 Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world [G165: ‘aion’, age], but also in that which is to come:
Eph 1:22 And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,
Eph 1:23 Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.

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,

“The church which is His body [is], the fulness of Him that fills all in all.” It is a rare person who is even given to understand that this is so, because Christ’s “inheritance [is] in the saints”. (Eph 1:18)

It is even fewer who realize that this “all in all” goal is not typified by the holy days. It is typified for us outside of the seven festivals of the three seasons of the year. The goal of the plan of God, God being all in all, is outside the scope of this earthly vessel of clay. Therefore it is represented, not in a day which follows seven sevens of weeks, but in a year which follows seven sevens of years which we are given in the Old Testament law of the year of the jubilee:

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.

You will notice that the trumpet of the jubilee is sounded on the day of atonement. It is also on the day of atonement that the scapegoat was offered for the iniquities of Israel. While it is not specifically stated in Revelation 20 that it will be the saints who will judge every man according to His works, it is specifically stated that Christ is the judge of all men:

Rom 2:16  In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.

2Ti 4:1  I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;

Exactly who is “Jesus of Nazareth?”

Act 22:8  And I [Self-righteous Saul of Tarsus, signifying you and me] answered, Who art thou, Lord? And he said unto me, I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom thou persecutest.

Christ’s Father will “judge the quick and the dead… by Jesus Christ” (Rom 2:16; 2Ti 4:1].

What will that ‘judgment’ produce?

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.

That is what the fiery judgments of God will produce, whether it is the first judgment which is now on the house of God or the later ‘great white throne… judgment’ when the great multitude which no man could number will be resurrected from the dead and judged as spiritual sons of their father the devil:

Joh 8:43  Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.
Joh 8:44  Ye [All men before being judged] are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
Joh 8:45  And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.
Joh 8:46  Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me?
Joh 8:47  He that is of God heareth God’s words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.

Christ makes this incredible statement concerning us as His Christ:

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

We just read in Romans 2:16 and 2Timothy 4:1 that “God will judge the living and them by Jesus Christ.” Here we have Christ telling us, “As My Father hath sent me, even so send I you.”

Is there a second witness in scripture which states that we will judge spiritual sons of the Devil? Indeed there is just such a verse:

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 [In the lake of fire at the white throne judgment]? how much more things that pertain to this life?

For whom is the lake of fire prepared?

Mat 25:41  Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting [G166: ‘aionios’, age lasting] fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:

All the words of Christ and all the words of His apostles are addressed primarily to His elect firstfruits who are also called “the bride, The Lamb’s wife”. It is to us that He makes these admonitions:

Mat 5:29  And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
Mat 5:30  And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

Mat 18:8  Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and cast them from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire.
Mat 18:9  And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire.

The “everlasting fire” of Matthew 18:8 is the same “everlasting fire” of Matthew 25:41 where we are told this fire is “prepared for the devil and his angels”. The very next verse here in Matthew 18 refers to this “everlasting fire” as “hell fire” and the word ‘hell’ is G1067, ‘Genna’ or ‘Gehenna’, which refers to the valley of the sons of Hinnom just south of Jerusalem which was used as the city dump where fires were kept burning to devour the waste of the city. Christ used this term to refer to the lake of fire where the great white throne judgment will take place and death and the refuge of all flesh will be devoured and destroyed.

We must never confuse the process with the product. The lake of fire is the process of judgment which we patiently endure:

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.

God’s judgments, which He works through His saints, produces righteousness in “all men”. That “righteousness of Christ”, that “mind of Christ” is the “God… all in all” for which the Lord is working in and through us, “the church”.

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,

Rom 11:32  For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.
Rom 11:33  O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
Rom 11:34  For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor?
Rom 11:35  Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?
Rom 11:36  For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.

This is Paul’s prayer for the Ephesians and it should be our prayer for each other:

Eph 1:17  That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:
Eph 1:18  The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
Eph 1:19  And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,
Eph 1:20  Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,
Eph 1:21  Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:
Eph 1:22  And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,
Eph 1:23  Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.

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