02/18/2025 – Day 219 – Leviticus – Chapters 25 – 27 / Lev. 25:10 -the Jubilee year is a foreshadowing of: “… new heavens and a new earth, where righteousness will dwell.” ( 2 Peter 3:13). Whoa!
Let’s follow the “yellow brick road trail” of Scripture:
“You are to consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim freedom in the land for all its inhabitants. It will be your Jubilee, when each of you is to return to his property and each of you to his clan.” (Leviticus 25:10)
And from here, let’s look at the verse commentary from “The Apologetics Study Bible”:
“This verse is inscribed on the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This legislation has contributed to the Western ideal that every family has a right to own property. The Sabbath Year foreshadows the time when creation will be delivered from the bondage of corruption.” (Romans 8:21)
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“that the creation itself will be set free from the bondage of corruption into the glorious freedom of God’s children.” (Romans 8:21)
Now, the same commentary from 8:20 -23:
“Evil in the world resulted from human sin and selfishness (Genesis 3:17). Now the creation struggles in ‘bondage of corruption’ and groans, awaiting its restoration. Christians still corrupted by sin await the redemption of their bodies. Christians value the creation as God’s handiwork and groan with it in eager anticipation of the better days of the new creation (see 2 Peter 3:13 ; Revelation 21:1).”
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“But based on His promise, we wait for new heavens and a new earth, where righteousness will dwell.” (2 Peter 3:13)
“Then I saw a new heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea existed no longer.” (Revelation 21:1)
And now the commentary on Revelation 21: 1 – 6:
“The new heaven and earth, while like the present creation in some ways, will also be very different. For example, whereas water currently covers the majority of the globe, there will be no sea on the new earth. The bride of the Lamb, introduced in 19: 7-9, is now pictured as the holy city coming down out of heaven. All things will be new then, not just the Christian’s new spiritual life (2 Corinthians 5:17). God’s presence will do away with tears, pain, and death. The water of life will always be available without cost, an image of the free grace that offers life to us even now.”
So, yes, I recommend reading 21: 2 through 6, as well.
Question: Why do we refer to the Old Testament as if it were two different books? Early church history shows there was a “dualist” fallacy created by man that believed there were two gods, one the angry god of the Old Testament and then a loving God of the New Testament. (“He gets us!”, Yea, but do we get Him is the key question here!). His Word is infallible, OT and NT connect into one.
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I highly recommend the post of this reading from two cycles ago, dated 12/22/2020, an interview of Jonathan Cahn on the Jubilean Mystery.
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Soli Deo Gloria!