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year of the Lord. One day the Lord Jesus entered into the synagogue and read from Isaiah 61 re garding the acceptable year of the Lord. The acceptable year is the jubilee of Jehovah.
THE LENGTH OF THE FALLEN HUMAN LIFE
A half century signifies the length of the fallen human life. Fifty years is the length of the entire life of a fallen person. In Psalm 90:10 Moses said that the days of our years are three score years and ten, and by reason of strength they may be fourscore years. According to Moses, the length of human life is seventy years. If some one is strong, he may live to the age of eighty. According to the Bible, in one sense a person's life may be regarded as beginning at the age of thirty, the age at which a priest began to func tion. Even the Lord Jesus was thirty years old when He began to minister (Luke 3:23). Thirty plus fifty equals eighty. Hence, a half century, fifty years, signifies the length of a person's life in the fallen nature. As the fiftieth year, the year of jubilee is the conclusion of our entire fallen life.
What happened to us in our fallen life? We lost our birthright, sold ourselves into captivity,