the truth about Jubilee part 1

Jubilee! Jubilee! It’s a shout that is being proclaimed in Kenya a nation in east Africa celebrates 50 years since attaining independence from her British colonial rulers this year. It’s a phenomenon that has erupted into waves of jubilation and excitement because we are deemed to have entered the jubilee.

The religious circles have done more than enough to add logs of wood to the fire which was already burning. The question although is what is jubilee. What is the excitement that iss the talk of the day all about. The presidential elections happening in march 4^th 2013 has been centered in the great jubilee talk. This is deemed to be the year of jubilee when stolen public property will be returned to the state, where the poor will receive justice.

What is the meaning of jubilee?

Jubilee is the year at the end of seven cycle years of seven years. This cycle which is also known as sabbatical years was deemed to be completed  after 49 years after which the year was deemed to be the jubilee.

Lev 25:8-12-"You shall count seven weeks of years, seven times seven years, so that the time of the seven weeks of years shall give you forty-nine years. 9 Then you shall sound the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month. On the Day of Atonement you shall sound the trumpet throughout all your land. 10 And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you, when each of you shall return to his property and each of you shall return to his clan. 11 That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee for you; in it you shall neither sow nor reap what grows of itself nor gather the grapes from the undressed vines. 12 For it is a jubilee. It shall be holy to you. You may eat the produce of the field”

Its important to take note that this was an ancient practice among the jews some of who continue to observe this practice. This year was deemed as sacred and hence called  for a celebration in the whole nation of Israel. This was the year of freedom when everybody was eligible to a restitution of property lost, where slaves were freed and re united with their families, land was returned to their rightful heirs etc.

The term jubilee is derived from an Hebrew word yobel which denotes a trumpet shout made  from a rams horn. Yobel actually means a ram. These celebrations were made by trumpet shouts made from these horns.

The jubilee talks in Kenya

The church in Kenya has been invigorated with the idea that this is a jubilee season not only in Kenya but in the whole of east Africa region. Its rumored that God will move in this region like we have never seen before. These views insinuate a restoration similar like the one we see in the biblical days. Kenya is deemed to return to her place of inheritance. Public land that was stolen is to be restored. Generally this season has been rumored to have been reserved to a special favor to sweep across this region.

A lot of enterprising views based on numbers and years contune to rock the years of the church. I even read somewhere that Kenya holds the keys to revival of this region and Africa. Having had her jubilee as the last in the three nations of east Africa namely Kenya , Uganda and Tanzania, Kenya is deemed to suddenly sprint as we see waves of revival and awakening.

These statistics delve into cringes of revelation that when Kenya enterd  into the jubilee in 12^th of December 2012. that was te beginning of another fresh year of divine governance because the number 12 symbolises divine governance. The revelation of these statistics are tantalizing and tend to inject a spiritual upward inclinement.

The authenticity of these statistics may be true. Prayer movements have been established to mobilize the multitudes to pray towards repentance, plea for justice and restitution, a plea for us to return to our place of nheritance of this nation, I tell you the spiritual barometre has sky rocketed.

Its completely alarming and shocking how we have been caught up in some wow moments and completely forgotten the centrality of Christ. In all these sites talking about the jubilee, none has focused to bring us to Christ who is the apex of jubilee, Christ is actually our jubilee. We seem to have been carried away with some other sweet agendas outside of Christ in the name of prayer movements , prophecies and declarations (not that these things are bad) and completely miss out on the person of christ and the revelation of what Christ has already accomplished at the cross.

Christ is our jubilee

I appreciate numbers statistics and dates but honestly God lives and operates outside time. God enters in time to reveal his eternal purpose which he did it through Christ.

Isn’t Christ the word which was from the beginning ,that was made flesh and dwelt amongst us?

God did not go in a slumber and woke up to the realization that Kenya needs her jubilee. All these confusion arise from a shambolic dividing of scripture when we fail to discern Christ in the scriptures and get confused on how God used to operate in the old testament and how he operates in the new testament.

Every scripture ought to be interpreted in the light of Christ. Everything in the law and prophets including regulations about jubilee points to Christ.(read luke 24, gal 3) The law was a shadow of the better things to come but the substance is Christ.

Col 2:16-17 Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath. 17 These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ.

Stop chasing shadows! One message to the body of Christ, his beloved church is to cease from the wow moments. Christ is our substance our jubilee. He is our restitution our return to inheritance, our justice, our answered prayer. He is our climax, the sole good news awaited by the nations not some other agendas built around him; everything revolves from the depths of Christ.

he is the passover lamb, the lamb who was slain that Jon saw at te centre of the throne in the bok of revelation. He is the ram(yobel) in whom we blow the trumpet proclaiming a jubilee that extends to the entirety of mankind. Halleluyah