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The Biblical Overview of the Plan of God, Part 11

The Year of Jubilee and The All in All

[Study Aired October 26, 2025]

Exo 15:2  The LORD is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father’s God, and I will exalt him.

The Father’s ultimate “habitation” is to be “all in all” (1Co 15:28), and that goal is signified to us in “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.

‘The year of the jubilee’ will not happen tomorrow, nor next year, but it is coming, and those in whom Christ dwells will patiently wait for it.

Luk 8:15  But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.

Rom 8:25  But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.

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

Joh 15:1  I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.

Jas 5:7  Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.

Introduction

We have arrived at the final part of the biblical overview of the plan of God for mankind. We have now come to God’s goal for all men of all time. That goal is the destruction of death and for God to “be all in all.”

1Co 15:25  For he [Christ] must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet.
1Co 15:26  The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
1Co 15:27  For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him.
1Co 15:28  And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.

The holy spirit inspired Paul to express the appreciation which we should have for the honor which has been bestowed upon us.

Eph 1:3  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:
Eph 1:4  According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
Eph 1:5  Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
Eph 1:6  To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.

It is through Christ that His Father works, and it is through Christ that we are given to be the first to be accepted by His Father:

Eph 1:7  In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;
Eph 1:8  Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence;
Eph 1:9  Having made known unto us the mystery of his will [the overview of His plan for all men of all time], according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself: 
Eph 1:10  That in the dispensation of the fulness of times [The jubilee] he might gather together in one all things in [the] Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him: 
Eph 1:11  In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated [to be “the firstfruits unto God and the Lamb”, (Rev 14:4)] according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will: 
Eph 1:12  That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ. 

In this series on the overview of the plan of God we have learned that the steps to arriving at the goal of that plan of God is revealed to us in the symbolism of the rituals of the seven festivals which God gave to ancient Israel. We have learned that those seven festivals complete the revelation of God’s work with mankind while we are yet in vessels of clay. We have also seen in Part six of this series of studies that there is a process of judgment involved in the revelation of this overview of what God is doing with mankind, and this process of judgment is revealed by the three seasons of the year in which all these festivals take place.

These annual festivals, with their attendant rituals, were designed by God to reveal to us all He is doing with mankind while we are still in these sinful garments of clay. The last step of God’s work with mankind in these clay vessels took us only to the “little season” which follows the thousand year reign of Christ and His Christ, and we have been told clearly that the thousand years is the time when Christ, through His elect, will rule over the kingdoms of this world:

Luk 22:29  And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me;

Rev 2:26  And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations:
Rev 2:27  And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.

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.

A summary of the spiritual significance of the holy days

We have seen that the Passover, in the spring of the year, typifies the beginning of the work of God with mankind as He passes over our sinful bodies and comes to us to begin taking up His rightful abode within us, even while we are yet in sinful bodies of flesh and blood.

Eph 2:4  But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
Eph 2:5  Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)

The days which immediately follow and are attached to the Passover, are called “the days of unleavened bread.” “The days of unleavened bread” symbolize and signify the work which God immediately begins to perform within us after He first begins dragging us to Himself as He begins to convict us of our sins and we strive to purge the leavening of the Pharisees and the Sadducees out of our lives.

Joh 6:44  No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw [G1670: ‘helkuo’, drag] him: and I will raise him up at the last day.

At this ‘passover’ stage we are still spiritually called “carnal… babes in Christ” (1Co 3:1-4).

1Co 2:1  And I, brethren, when I [first] came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God.
1Co 2:2  For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

1Co 3:1  And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.
1Co 3:2  I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.
1Co 3:3  For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
1Co 3:4  For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal?

Our conversion, just like all the apostles of Christ, does not come until our ‘Pentecost’, which is the very next holy day:

Lev 23:15  And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath [during the days of unleavened bread], from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete:

The next step in our spiritual walk follows seven sabbaths “until the morrow after the seventh sabbath”, at which time we are to offer up the only offering with leaven in all of the offerings made by fire unto God. It consisted of two loaves of finely ground flower.

Lev 23:16  Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the LORD.
Lev 23:17  Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; they are the firstfruits unto the LORD.

James verifies our “firstfruit” status:

Jas 1:18  Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

The leaven in this sacrifice has both a positive and a negative application. It symbolizes two very different things. First it symbolizes our present station being yet in these sinful earthen vessels, but after that these two leavened loaves symbolize the leaven in this verse:

Mat 13:33  Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.

“Till the whole was leavened” in this verse ultimately means until “God shall be all in all’, which as we shall see, will be accomplished through “the firstfruits unto God and the Lamb” (Rev 14:4). These two leavened loaves which are offered on the day of Pentecost, symbolize the work of God through His Son’s anointed, “the Lord and… His Christ” (Act 4:26), who are given the gift of the holy spirit on that very day. Then, and not until then, do we begin to become converted and begin to be prepared to blow the seven trumpets of judgment upon the kingdom of our old man. The festival of trumpets takes place on the first day of the seventh month, in the fall of the year, signifying “the ends of the age”:

1Co 10:11  Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world [G165, ‘aion’, age] are come.

The feast of trumpet signifies “the seven trumpets” blown by the “seven angels” of Revelation 8-11.  Those ‘seven angels’ are also typified by the seven priests who blew the seven trumpets in Joshua 6, where Israel compassed the walls of Jericho for seven days.

Jos 6:3  And ye shall compass the city, all ye men of war, and go round about the city once. Thus shalt thou do six days.
Jos 6:4  And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams’ horns: and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the trumpets.
Jos 6:5  And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, and when ye hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall ascend up every man straight before him.

1Co 15:51  Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
1Co 15:52  In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

1Th 4:16  For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
1Th 4:17  Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
1Th 4:18  Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

Rev 8:6  And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.

Rev 11:15  And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.

For those who have the eyes to see it, it is we who are called priests in this verse of scripture:

Rev 5:10  And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth. 

The feast of trumpets was followed nine days later with the day of atonement, on the tenth day of the seventh month, in which we are instructed to “afflict [our] souls” by fasting and to offer “the Lord’s goat… and the scapegoat” for a sin offering. The day of atonement, just nine days after the feast of trumpets, signifies the afflictions of the Lord’s Christ which come upon them as a result of sounding the trumpet as they are commanded:

Isa 58:1  Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.

When this day is lived internally, we, too, afflict those who ‘tell us of our transgressions and our sins’. This takes place outwardly also, and it will certainly take place in a dispensational way at the end of this age as the days approach when “the kingdoms of the world… [will] become the kingdoms of our Lord and His Christ” (Rev 11:15).

This step in the work of God where the kingdoms of this world become the kingdoms of our Lord and His Christ, is typified by the festival of tabernacles at the end of the annual growing season. This festival symbolizes the thousand-year reign of Christ:

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. 

The final step in the plan of God for mankind while yet in these vessels of clay is the “little season” which immediately follows the millennium just as “the last great day” immediately follows the feast of tabernacles.

Rev 20:1  And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.
Rev 20:2  And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,
Rev 20:3  And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.

Rev 20:7  And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,

This “little season [after] when the thousand years are expired” is the time when “the nations in the four quarters of the earth” rise up in rebellion against “the camp of the saints”, and attempt to destroy their divine rulers, giving God the occasion He is seeking to destroy all flesh and thereby to destroy His last enemy which is death:

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.

Physical death is destroyed in the lake of fire of which we are told:

Rev 20:14  And death and hell [hades, the grave] 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 was cast into the lake of fire.

The scriptures teach very plainly:

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

So “all in Adam”, must be made alive, “even as… all in Adam” must die. Therefore these are the preceding verses of Rev 20:14-15:

Rev 20:10  And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
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. [By those whose names were written in the book of life]

The dead, small and great, are raised up to be judged “according to their works”. This is the resurrection that follows the thousand-year reign. Christ had earlier called this resurrection “the resurrection of damnation” [G2920: ‘krisis’, judgment, the great white throne judgment].

Joh 5:29  And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life [“The resurrection of the just”, Luk 14:4]; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation [G2920: ‘krisis’, judgment, the great white throne judgment].

The first resurrection at the beginning of the thousand-year reign is contrasted with “the resurrection of damnation” and is called “the resurrection of life, [and] the resurrection of the just”.

Luk 14:14  And thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.

When Christ speaks of God being the God of the living and the dead, He is not conceding the loss of any in Adam because:

Luk 20:38  For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him.

Dan 12:2  And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting [Hebrew: olawm, age] life, and some to shame and everlasting [olawm, age] contempt.

There is nothing “everlasting” about the Hebrew word ‘olawm’. It is a period of time with a beginning and an end, and it is translated in the New Testament with the Greek word ‘aion’ in its noun form and as ‘aionios’ in its adjective form.

What we need to understand is that with any judgment, whether it be the judgment which is now on the house of God (1Pe 4:17) or the “great white throne… judgment”, this is what all ‘judgment’ produces:

1Co 11:32  But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.

“When we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord” is just as true of the “great white throne… judgment” as it is of the judgment we are enduring at this time (1Pe 4:17).  All judgment is “chastening of the Lord” for a very good and worthy purpose:

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. 

Raised a spiritual body

“The resurrection of damnation” and those who are “condemned with the world” are both “in Adam”, and all those multitudes of people will be raised up in this “great white throne… judgment” to be “chastened of the Lord [and to] learn righteousness” after the destruction of physical death via the destruction of all flesh. What that means is that all who are raised from the dead, whether at the first resurrection or that the great white throne resurrection, are “raised a spiritual body” and are not therefore typified by any of the annual holy days, which deal only with the overview of the plan of God for mankind while he is still in a physical “earthen vessel”.

1Co 15:44  It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
1Co 15:45  And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
1Co 15:46  Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.
1Co 15:47  The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.
1Co 15:48  As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.
1Co 15:49  And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
1Co 15:50  Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. 

If indeed there is a work of God with His creatures which is outside this physical realm, we should find an Old Testament type and shadow as a second witness to this event. That final work of God with His creatures is the very goal of this entire plan of God for all of mankind of all time. The Old Testament type and shadow of this final work of God with His ‘creatures’, His children is signified in the Old Testament by “the year of Jubilee” when all debts are forgiven and every man returns to his inheritance:

Lev 25:39  And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant:
Lev 25:40  But as an hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the year of jubile:
Lev 25:41  And then shall he depart from thee, both he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return.

The forgiving of all debts signifies how the Lord has forgiven all our sins:

Mat 6:12  And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.

Matthew says ‘debts’ and Luke tells us what the ‘debt’ is:

Luk 11:4  And forgive us our sins; for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil.

“The year of Jubilee” signifies the forgiveness of all debts and sins of all time “and God shall be all in all”:

1Co 15:26  The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
1Co 15:27  For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him.
1Co 15:28  And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.

We will pause our study at this point, and we will continue to examine the scriptures concerning the execution of this final work of God in our next study.