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proclaim release to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind, to send away in release those who are oppressed, to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord" (Luke 4:18-19). Then He de clared, "Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your ears" (v. 21). By reading that portion of the Scripture the Lord sounded the trumpet; He proclaimed the jubilee.
Do you know what the preaching of the gos pel is? The preaching of the gospel is the sound ing of the jubilee, the trumpeting of the jubilee. The preaching of the gospel is the proclamation of our release. Actually, this release is not the release of our possession to us; it is the release of us to our possession and to our family. Once we were in the wrong family, the family of slavery. The sounding of the jubilee tells us to return to our own family, to the family of God.
Now we can understand what the jubilee is. The jubilee is the proclaiming of a wonderful release—a release of our possession to us and the release of ourselves so that we may return to God, to our family, and to our possession.
THE SOUNDING OF THE TRUMPET
ON THE DAY OF ATONEMENT
According to Leviticus 25:8-10, the jubilee