Joy in This Season of Jubilee

Remembering as we do the birth of Jesus Christ, we rejoice at the Jubilee year that that birth has brought. The purpose of the coming into our flesh of the Son of God was to give the true Israel of God -- the elect church in all nations -- the year of Jubilee. Jesus Himself announced this. At the beginning of His ministry, He described His work as the fulfillment of the prophecy of Isaiah 61:1, 2. And Isaiah had foretold the mission of the coming Messiah as bringing about the great year of...