Section 2
We have seen that yobel refers specifically to the blasting of a silver trumpet. In typology silver signifies redemption. Hence, the blasting of a silver trumpet indicates the trumpeting of God's redemption.
The basic thought concerning the jubilee is that it is the sounding out of God's redemption. The blasting of the silver trumpet was a procla mation of redemption. It was a proclamation based on God's redemption and also a sounding out of this redemption.
THE RELEASE OF PEOPLE
AND POSSESSIONS
This sounding out, this proclamation, of God's redemption was not the proclaiming of any com mandment or requirement. On the contrary, it was a proclamation of freedom, of release. Levit icus 25:10 says, "And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family." Here we see that the proc lamation of release or liberty was related to peo ple and to their possessions.