Section 9
was sounded in the forty-ninth year on the day of atonement, which was on the tenth day of the seventh month. It was necessary for the trumpet of the jubilee to be sounded on the day of atone ment because the jubilee is based on redemption. Without redemption there cannot be the jubilee. Therefore, the proclamation of the jubilee must be from the time of redemption.
The day of atonement typifies the time of re demption. The fact that the trumpet of the jubi lee was sounded on the day of atonement and that the fiftieth year was sanctified and liberty was proclaimed throughout the land indicates that it was necessary first for Christ to die and then for there to be the proclamation of the release of the people. In other words, first Christ died, and then there was the genuine preaching of the gos pel. The gospel could not be preached unless Christ had already died. Therefore, the procla mation, the preaching, of the gospel is based on the death of Christ. The sounding out of the gos pel depends on Christ's redemption. Without the redemption of Christ, there would be no basis for the proclamation of the jubilee.
According to Leviticus 25, the sounding of the trumpet of the jubilee took place six months before the actual beginning of the year of jubilee.