The Jubilee

Many have puzzled over the Jubilee every fiftieth year (Lev. 25:8-11) which will be fulfilled in anti-type when the Messiah comes to restore the complete and full tenancy of the land of Israel promised to Abraham's descendants. "The land shall not be sold forever: for the land is Mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with Me." Lev. 25:23. We have felt that somewhere there was a key to God's ways with Israel closely connected with the Jubilee.
The Jubilee, the year of restoration to inheritance, is a type or foreshadowing of Israel's national restoration to their inheritance of the land as unconditionally promised to Abraham and to his seed. Responsible Israel rejected their Messiah at His birth. The year 2000 will be forty, fifty-year periods—or forty Jubilees if they had been observed—and as a nation they are still in unbelief.
Remembering the significance of the number forty, complete probation to bring to light good or evil, it seems very significant that their long period of testing must be nearing its end. The gospel of God's grace to sinners has gone out world-wide in recent years as never before through every kind of media. Israel as a nation abides in unbelief except for individuals. Their testing time according to God's past ways is almost over.
Fifty is the number connected with the giving of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost on the fiftieth day after the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. The trumpet of the Jubilee was to be sounded on the tenth day of the seventh month, on the Day of Atonement, once every fifty years. On that day all possessions returned to their original owners, with certain exceptions, and Hebrew bond servants were set free. (See Lev. 25.)
Israel has lost their land to strangers because of transgressions, but on that glad day when they have repented, the type of the Jubilee will be fulfilled at the coming again of their Kinsman Redeemer Messiah. All of the land that was promised to Abraham's seed will be restored, and the bond servants set free, no matter how powerful those who hold them may be.
The type of the Day of Atonement was fulfilled at Calvary's cross. (See Isa. 53; Psa. 22; John 19.)