Section 10
and became slaves. We lost everything, including our birthright and our status.
A person who has not lost anything would not look forward to the year of jubilee. In fact, to such a one, the jubilee might be a suffering. But the one who has lost everything, including his land and himself, would surely look forward to the year of jubilee. When the year of jubilee came, he would rejoice at being released and re covering the right to his portion of the land.
Every Israelite was allotted a portion of the good land. The good land typifies Christ. There fore, to lose one's right to the good land is to lose the right to enjoy Christ. Every fallen human being has lost the right to enjoy God as the tree of life and the right to enjoy Christ as the good land. Furthermore, every fallen one has sold him self to sin, the world, and Satan. In Romans 7:14 Paul said of himself, "I am fleshly, sold under sin." Even Paul had become a slave to sin.
All fallen people have lost their right to enjoy Christ and have sold themselves to nega tive things. But the year of jubilee indicates that we can be released from bondage and recover the right to enjoy Christ as our portion.
After the Lord Jesus, the Man-Savior, had been tested, He began to minister. At the start of His