Oct. 4, 2024

Pentecost as the New and Eternal Jubilee (First Words 08)

Pentecost as the New and Eternal Jubilee (First Words 08)

Send us a text Can the concept of Jubilee reshape our modern understanding of economic justice and spiritual liberation? This episode promises to unravel the profound implications of Jesus’ declaration in Luke 4 by tracing its roots to the Old Testament celebration of Jubilee as detailed in Leviticus 25. We'll explore the intricate calendars observed by the Jewish people, including the annual feasts and the 50-year Jubilee cycle, and how these ancient traditions prophesied Jesus’ mission. Jo...

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Can the concept of Jubilee reshape our modern understanding of economic justice and spiritual liberation? This episode promises to unravel the profound implications of Jesus’ declaration in Luke 4 by tracing its roots to the Old Testament celebration of Jubilee as detailed in Leviticus 25. We'll explore the intricate calendars observed by the Jewish people, including the annual feasts and the 50-year Jubilee cycle, and how these ancient traditions prophesied Jesus’ mission.

Join us as we explore the economic dimensions of the Jubilee, a time when debts were canceled, and property was restored to its original owners. This episode dives deep into the transformative impact of these practices, discussing how lending behaviors shifted and drawing parallels to today's financial systems like mortgages and repossessions. We'll also discuss the practice of indentured servitude versus slavery within this ancient context, emphasizing God’s ultimate ownership of the land as part of His covenant with Abraham.

Finally, we explore the enduring value of tangible assets compared to the fleeting nature of electronic money through a biblical lens. This episode will highlight the spiritual implications of the concept of divine repossession, especially through the lens of Pentecost as a Jubilee. Discover how God's reclaiming of His people, symbolized by the Holy Spirit’s indwelling, signifies a new era of spiritual liberation. We’ll reflect on the ultimate union with God, celebrating Pentecost as the New Testament Jubilee that brings everlasting freedom and divine possession through Jesus’ ministry.

00:00 - The Jubilee Year of Liberty

14:11 - Debt Cancellation and Property Restoration

29:45 - Repossession and Divine Ownership

37:42 - The Possession and Freedom of Jubilee

55:18 - The New Testament Jubilee and Pentecost

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Well.

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Praise the Lord, hallelujah.

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Let's turn to Luke, the fourth chapter, and I'm going to take away from what we've been studying about how the Spirit of the Lord raises up a standard, because the Lord dealt with me in this past week about something that I had not brought to your attention when we were talking about last words.

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We were talking about last words shortly after resurrection and Palm Sunday and those weeks, and we ended up in the fourth chapter of the book of Luke.

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Up in the fourth chapter of the book of Luke where Jesus said the spirit of the Lord is upon me, for he has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor, the recovery of sight to the blind, to heal the broken hearted, bind up their wounds.

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Praise God, to heal the brokenhearted, bind up their wounds.

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Praise God, proclaim liberty to the captives and the recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are oppressed, and to preach the acceptable year of the Lord, hallelujah, the acceptable year of the Lord, hallelujah.

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And what I want to emphasize in this verse that the Lord brought to my, brought me to see, is what Jesus did, jesus.

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This scripture was quoted by Jesus shortly after he came back from the River Jordan and being 40 days and 40 nights in the wilderness.

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And he began to preach in Nazareth and he quoted this scripture and I believe he quoted this scripture often as he ministered, but he quoted this at the beginning of his ministry because this was going to be a cornerstone of what his ministry was about.

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Remember what we said about first words.

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First words give a direction to things.

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First words give a basis for things.

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In other words, if you say I'm going to go to this place, well, it sets the direction in which you're going and it implies a purpose, unless you're just one of those people that just gets up and wanders off in some any old direction to any old place.

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If you get up and you move in a specific direction toward a specific place, you probably have a specific purpose in mind.

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Well, you can rest assured that for three and a half years, jesus had such a purpose, and I believe that it is summed up in these words, among others, that he spoke.

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And I believe that in these words there is such a direction and an imprinting of God upon his ministry that Jesus just walked out the steps of his destiny toward an end that had been decreed since before time began.

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And the real key to this is in the last part of this scripture, where it says that he was anointed by God.

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The Spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has anointed by God.

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The Spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has anointed me to proclaim the year the acceptable year of the Lord.

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Now we need to understand what that acceptable year is, and it is a lot of things and a lot of things that could be said about that that are valid, amen.

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But if you really want to understand what the acceptable year of the Lord is and understand what Jesus was talking about by quoting the prophet Isaiah, you have to go back beyond Isaiah.

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Beyond Isaiah, amen.

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Beyond David, beyond Samuel, beyond the judges, beyond Joshua, all the way back to Moses and in the book of Leviticus, the 25th chapter.

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So let's go there, amen.

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Are you ready for this Glory to God?

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Keep your finger there.

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In Luke, we may be going back there, amen, amen.

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Maybe going back there, amen.

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In Leviticus, the 25th chapter is the defining chapter about the celebration of Jubilee.

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Now let me just refresh your memories a little bit.

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The Jewish calendar was an annual calendar and in that calendar there were seven feasts were there not?

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There was the feast of Passover, there was the feast of unleavened bread, there was the feast of first fruits, there was the feast of Pentecost Amen.

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There was the feast of during the time of the day of atonement, there was the Feast of Tabernacles.

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There were things that happened throughout the year amen, and happened on an annual basis, and the men of Israel were expected to go to Jerusalem during one of the primary feasts, which was Passover, pentecost or Tabernacles, amen.

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Passover, pentecost or Tabernacles, amen.

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And we've all heard a thousand different messages about the significance of all those things.

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But then there was another calendar.

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Okay, there was the weekly calendar Count six days, and on the seventh day you rested.

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That was from sunset on Friday to sunset on Saturday, and on that day the people of God were to rest.

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This was in commemoration of what God did in creation and also having to do with how he brought them through the wilderness and took care of them with the manna and all of that, all right.

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So there was a six days of work, a seventh day of rest.

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That pattern happened.

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And then there were, through the year, there were other special feasts, but then there was another calendar.

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That calendar was a calendar of seven years.

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Hello, for six years the people of God worked.

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In the sixth year God would give them enough increase to last for three years.

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You think it's just a double year, but it's actually three years.

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Because it had to be the current year, it had to be the Sabbath year and had to be the first year of the next period of time, because they weren't allowed to sow until the beginning of the eighth year or the first year of the next seven-year cycle.

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Okay, so every seven years they had to repeat this cycle.

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They had to let the ground rest.

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They couldn't plant, they couldn't reap, they couldn't do anything.

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They had to trust God to provide, in the sixth year, enough to last them the sixth year, seventh year and eighth year.

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They repeated this every seven years.

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But then there was another calendar, and that's what we're going to read about in the 25th chapter of the book of Leviticus.

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That calendar was a 50 year calendar and it says in verse 8, and you shall count seven Sabbaths of years for yourself.

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Seven times seven years, how many is that?

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That's 49 years and the time of seven.

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See, the Lord didn't trust.

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He could just.

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He could just see people going.

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He said I'll take care of that.

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The time of seven Sabbaths of years shall be to you 49 years.

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So he had this period of seven Sabbaths of years made 49 years.

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Then, on the day of atonement of that 49th year, you shall cause the trumpet of the Jubilee to sound.

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On the 10th day of the seventh month, on the day of atonement, you shall make the trumpet to sound throughout all your land.

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Verse 10 says and you shall consecrate the 50th year and proclaim liberty throughout all the land to its inhabitants.

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Right there, proclaim liberty throughout all the land to all its inhabitants, is inscribed upon the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, pennsylvania.

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That's just a freebie.

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It shall be a Jubilee for you and each of you shall return to his family.

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This 50th year is a remarkable year because in this year God decreed how his people and his kingdom would be administered.

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Now let me just give you an example.

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Let's just say I borrowed money and let's just say well, the law says I couldn't.

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If I was the lender I couldn't charge interest.

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But you know, people did.

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And let's say the paying back of the loan was onerous and I couldn't really take care of it.

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So what's going to happen If I pass or, if I become unresponsible, my children are going to have to pick up the responsibility of that debt.

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Now, not only have I encumbered myself and my generation with debt, but I have encumbered subsequent generations with debt.

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What do you think they're going to do?

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They're going to go borrow money to pay for the debt.

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Don't look at me like you're so righteous.

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You would never do that.

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I mean, people borrow money to pay off credit cards all the time, usually by opening up another credit card which says there will be no interest charged on what do they call it?

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Transfers To pay off an existing credit card, but go buy something and you're going to pay 30%.

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What would they do?

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Hallelujah, what am I saying?

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If you don't, if something isn't done about debt, if something isn't done about debt, if something isn't done about debt in our culture, in our world, we're in big trouble.

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We are in more credit card debt right now than we've ever been.

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The nation is in this worst economic situation that it's ever been.

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There's only been one other time, and this was during World War two, when the nation actually borrowed more money than it produced.

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There's a number for that, you know the total debt versus the total GNP gross national product.

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When the debt exceeds what?

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When the country's debt exceeds what it's able to produce, you're in trouble.

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You can't pay back Amen.

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You can't sell enough stuff to pay back the loan.

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We haven't been in that situation since World War II, but we're in it now.

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Amen.

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Debt is a limiting thing.

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It stifles growth, it keeps you in poverty, it keeps you in bondage.

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Amen, and God knows this, but people don't Amen.

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So God said since this is not your kingdom, this is my kingdom and you are my people.

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Amen, I get to make the rules.

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And here's the rules Amen.

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Every 50 years, debts are canceled.

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This had such a profound effect.

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If you read the rest of the chapter, there are specific instructions in there about what happens if you need to borrow money or lend money and it's five years into the new Jubilee period or it's five years from the end of the Jubilee period terminating.

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You know, if you're close to the end of the Jubilee, people aren't going to want to lend money because what?

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In five years it's all going to be canceled.

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So they're not going to lend much money.

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They'll be more likely to lend it over here at the beginning, but it doesn't matter.

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Every 50 years, all debts are canceled.

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50 years, all debts are canceled.

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If you happened to mortgage your property during the 50 year period amen and you defaulted on your loan, what would happen today if that happened?

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If you went out and borrowed money to buy a house and you quit making your house payments, what would happen?

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The bank would come and repossess your property.

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You do understand this about loans, right?

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That when you borrow money, even though the house in the property in the.

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If you haven't figured this game out yet, I'm going to help you out.

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Okay, if you borrow money to buy, buy a house, okay, the only place that you own this house is on the tax records and that's so that they can tax you for living in the place that you're paying rent for, so that the banks don't have to pay the taxes because they actually own the house.

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Oh, you don't believe me.

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Try not paying your house payment and you're going to get a notice to what repossess.

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You can't repossess something that you do not own and they own that house all the way up to the day you pay it off.

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Hallelujah, now, in this country not every country, but in this country if you default at a certain period of time in the loan.

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Then the courts get involved and they decide how much equity you have in the property and they will repay you that amount, but not if I'm financing the loan.

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You won't Amen, because you can put a clause in your contract amen, that that doesn't happen.

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Amen.

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And in a lot of countries that's exactly what happens If you don't pay, you're out and you don't get a nickel Hallelujah.

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So all of these things, do you not?

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Do you not know that?

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God knows all these things?

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God knows all these things, amen.

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And he said every 50 years, we're going to wipe the deck, slate the clean.

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I am going to restore every property to its rightful owner.

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Every 50 years, doesn't matter, I've already canceled the debt.

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So since the debt is canceled amen you can't hold it over him that he can't pay.

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And since you can't hold it over him that he can't pay, I.

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And since you can't hold it over him that he can't pay, I'm going to take it away from you and give it to him.

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So, basically, in Israel's economy, instead of the bank owning the property and loaning money to cover the payments amen the owner of the property is renting the property or, reverse, renting the property to the bank.

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He's letting the bank use the property for whatever reason and at the end of the 50 years I'm going to get it back.

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This was because listen to me very carefully, I'm getting ahead of myself, but I'm going to go.

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I'll get back to that.

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Carefully.

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I'm getting ahead of myself, but I'm gonna.

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I'm gonna go, I'm gonna get, I'll get back to that.

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This had that not only to do with property.

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That had to do with things in our.

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In our case, what's the next biggest loan that you take out for a car?

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So at the, if you borrowed money on a car and you owe money on the car at the end of Jubilee, you get the car back.

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You get the car debt free, amen.

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And if it got repossessed, somehow, you get it back.

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Glory to God.

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This was true.

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You can hock your plow, you can hock the horses, you can do whatever you wanted to, but at the end of the Jubilee, all of these things had to be returned back to their rightful owner.

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This was especially important about property and possessions.

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Amen, because God looked at it this way.

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This land is not your land.

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I mean, you can sing the song as much as you want to.

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You know, this land is your land.

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You know this land is mine.

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No, it's not.

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Not in God's economy, it wasn't.

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This land is my land.

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Actually, it's mine and Abraham's land and the implications of that go way off the charts if you start to think about it.

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But it's because he made covenant with Abraham.

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He said go ahead, look as far as you can see.

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Hallelujah, praise God.

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Now one more thing and then we're going to get to some more interesting information.

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The other third major thing that happened was that if you had a servant or an indentured servant not a paid servant, but an indenture you want.

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An indentured servant is an indentured servant is how this country in the north got around slavery.

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They did not import slaves the way the south did.

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They imported indentured servants and they brought them over from Ireland, from England, from other places in Europe and they put them in contracts for 15, 20 years and they basically got no money.

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They got very little money and they got very little other than, you know, a place to sleep, some bare necessities to eat.

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But at the end of a certain period of time, contract was up and they were allowed to go free.

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Now do you not know that people who had people as indentured servants, would abuse them and they would do things like well, your contract never included all the food that you ate.

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So at the end of 15 years, when your contract is up, you still owe me another five years because of all the food you ate during the first 15 years, or something like that.

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Just some excuse to keep them in that situation.

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There would be big problems with that.

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There's all kinds of court cases and stuff that happen.

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But at least in the North at least in the North they had a system whereby people could walk away from it.

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That was not the case in the South.

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But the South made the case that the North was doing the same thing that the South was doing, with the exception of the end of contract leasing.

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They were buying and selling people.

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They would sell contracts.

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If I have a shoemaker and he's under contract and I want to sell his contract to another shoemaker, I can do that.

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Well, what is that?

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Amen.

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Anyway, in the Jewish economy they could do that.

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They could have servants that were bond servants.

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They could have other Jewish people that were in bondage to them through a work commitment.

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They were not allowed to enslave other Jews.

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They were not allowed to enslave other Jews, but they could enslave other people that they conquested or that they had interactions with, for example.

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Well, that doesn't apply.

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The law wasn't given.

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Anyway, joseph's brothers could sell him into slavery because the law wasn't given yet, amen.

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But normally you couldn't sell a Jew into slavery, you couldn't buy a Jew into slavery, but you could do that with other people.

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So you could have this situation where if you had enough money and you were rich, you could have slaves and you could have indentured servants.

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But at the end of Jubilee, slaves and you could have indentured servants, but at the end of Jubilee, every 50 years listen to this every 50 years, every slave and every indentured servant was set free.

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Can you imagine how much work got done in the last year before Jubilee?

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I mean that would be zero.

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I mean the guys would be sleeping out in the fields.

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I mean you can just imagine they.

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Not one lick of work was getting done, but that's alright.

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God had a plan to set and that's why it says proclaim liberty throughout all the land, to all of its inhabitants, because everybody that was in bondage was going to be set free.

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So you've got these three main things that happen at the year of Jubilee.

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Debts are canceled, possessions are restored and liberty is proclaimed and also restored, so there's freedom from all kinds of servitude.

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Now, there was a reason for this, and the reason for this is that God saw Israel as His people and he saw Canaan as His land.

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And he saw that when he restored Israel to Canaan, he allotted to them the properties, the sections that belong to each tribe, and then, within the tribes, those places were partitioned out to families and those families had a right to that land forever.

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Amen, because that was the way God did it.

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He said Ephraim, you're going to be here.

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Judah, you're going to be here.

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Benjamin, you're going to be here.

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Simon, you're going to be here.

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Reuben, you're going to be here.

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Dan, you're going to be here.

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Issachar, you're going to be here.

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Reuben, you're going to be here.

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Dan, you're going to be here.

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Issachar, you're going to be here.

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Do you remember all those?

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I mean, you've seen the maps.

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They were all divided out and within each section then each family had property.

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So since God had this property, it was important to him to maintain the allotments.

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It was important to him that somebody from Issachar didn't come up and buy up a third of Ephraim.

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Amen, this has happened.

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You can have guys from Georgia, men from Georgia, this has happened.

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You can have guys from Georgia, men from Georgia, this has happened.

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I'm not going to name names, but this has happened.

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Men from Georgia have gone to Montana and bought up hundreds of thousands of, not acres, but square miles, big chunks, I mean big chunks.

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They've got private airports, they've got you know, they just bought it up.

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Well, god didn't want that to happen, and so what he did?

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When he restored property to its rightful owner, he restored the boundaries and the subdivisions of each allotment to each tribe, so that, at the end of 50 years, ephraim possessed his possessions, dan possessed his possessions, manasseh possessed his possessions, judah possessed his possessions.

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Manasseh possessed his possessions, judah possessed his possessions.

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Are you hearing me?

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Amen.

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And at the end of 50 years, god would possess his possessions and it would all be restored back to the way it was when he gave it to them when they came across the River Jordan.

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Amen, after the end of their 40 years in the wilderness.

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Hallelujah, hallelujah.

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By canceling debts, he would make it so that no one could get super rich over generations, that no one could get super rich over generations and no one would become institutionally poor over generations.

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You know what I mean by that.

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If I'm allowed to loan money in perpetuity, amen, I'm going to get rich, amen.

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If I'm allowed to loan money with interest and people, and people trust me for that, I am going to make a lot of money, amen.

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And you know what, for every one person that gets that makes a lot of money, there's going to be a whole lot more people that become poorer and poorer and poorer.

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Because if you're listen to me, in this culture and in any culture I wish I could preach this Lord In any culture if you're not producing real wealth.

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Real wealth, real wealth, consists of earth and the things that are in the earth Gold and silver.

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What did God say?

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The hills are mine and the gold and the silver in the hills are mine.

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You know, you think, well, that's just a quaint way of talking about how things were back then.

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No, that's how real things is.

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You know, if you want to own something real, you think, well, that's just a quaint way of talking about how things were back then.

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No, that's how real things is.

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You know, if you want to own something real, you own gold, you own silver, you own some kind of a precious metal or you own dirt.

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You know, back in back in the day, when, when, when, people that had money did not trust banks Amen, banks, amen.

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They would bury their gold and silver in the dirt, or they would take the gold and silver and buy more dirt, because property was considered to be an asset and it was considered to be valuable.

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Amen, it was real.

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I mean, you could go out and put your hands in it and you know this stuff that we worry so much about, amen, it's just floating electrons.

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I could sit here all day long and talk to you about quantum physics and tell you that you can't possibly know where an electron is, amen.

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So if you want to go put your hands on all these electrons that you work and sweat over, amen, you can't do it, because wherever you reach out and put your hands, they're going to be someplace else.

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But it's not like that with dirt.

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You can go out there and get your hands and get it under your fingernails.

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You can carry it with you.

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It's all over your clothes and your shoes.

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Hallelujah, you know.

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You can say well, I can do that with paper money.

00:30:36.190 --> 00:30:36.811
No, you can't.

00:30:36.811 --> 00:30:45.126
Paper money is not redeemable on demand for gold or silver, like it was when I was a kid.

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I used to get dollar bills that said that you can't find, you can't get those anymore.

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What way to God, are you hearing anything I'm saying?

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And finally, if you can't hold people in perpetual poverty and you don't have the right to keep them in perpetual servanthood, then God can't equalize things every 50 years.

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Now, does that mean that in the next jubilee, there's not going to be people that are making money.

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There's not going to be people that are buying and selling into servanthood.

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There's not going to be people that are, that are buying and selling into service servitude.

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There's not going to be.

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Yes, sure, there are, but there's going to be an end to that.

00:31:29.143 --> 00:31:30.807
There's going to be a restoration.

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There's going to be a balancing.

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You don't have that kind of a balancing in a man-made system.

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Amen.

00:31:37.993 --> 00:31:44.755
Men are not interested in doing that and men can't figure out how to do it equitably.

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And so God took over the responsibility and just said okay, every 50 years, this is how it's going to be, amen.

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And you wonder what in the world does this have to do with Luke 4 and 18?

00:31:57.431 --> 00:32:04.929
I'm going to reread 4 and 18 to you.

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You can hear some of the.

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He has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor.

00:32:11.891 --> 00:32:17.633
He has anointed me to heal the broken in spirit.

00:32:17.633 --> 00:32:23.220
He has anointed me to proclaim liberty to the captive.

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He has anointed me to proclaim liberty to the captive.

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He has anointed me to preach the recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are oppressed.

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So two out of the four are specific wordings out of what Jubilee is all about.

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And so the final thing is that he was anointed to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.

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What year do you think that might be?

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It is the year of Jubilee.

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It is the year that is acceptable to the Lord, because he puts everything back to right, back to the way it was Okay.

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Now we don't have a 50-year period in the New Testament called Jubilee, but we do have a 50-day period, and just like there were seven Sabbaths of years, there are seven Sabbaths of weeks following resurrection, and the 50th day is Pentecost.

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What God showed me is this that just as I repossessed my possessions in the year of Jubilee, in the day of Pentecost I repossessed my possessions.

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Oh, you didn't hear me.

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I repossessed my possessions.

00:34:19.010 --> 00:34:21.860
What did God do on the day of Pentecost.

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See, we get all fascinated that everybody spoke with other tongues and, and because of that, that's about all we we encourage people to do.

00:34:31.746 --> 00:34:57.106
But the fact of the matter is that on Pentecost, god repossessed his possessions when he sent your spirit here, amen, and you were confronted with Adam's sin and became disillusioned, deceived and dispossessed.

00:34:57.106 --> 00:35:11.809
God had to bring you, had to lead you, had to draw you to your Pentecost Amen, so that he could repossess you the way he had possessed you before.

00:35:11.809 --> 00:35:18.219
Hallelujah, god possessed his possessions.

00:35:18.219 --> 00:35:23.693
In the book of Obadiah it says that Jacob will possess his possession.

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I'm telling you what that God, on the day of Pentecost, started a process where he has begun to repossess those spirits that belonged to him, and he has brought them.

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See, we tend listen to me very careful, I am going gonna make this work.

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Jesus, when he came up out of the River Jordan, started a three and a half year March and and if I asked you where he was going in that March, you would say he was going to Calvary, amen.

00:36:03.088 --> 00:36:04.070
And indeed he was going to Calvary, amen.

00:36:04.070 --> 00:36:24.371
And indeed he was going to Calvary, but his march didn't stop at Calvary, amen, and it didn't stop at the resurrection and it didn't stop at the ascension, Because the ascension is only 40 days.

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There's nothing in your Bible about 40 days except sacrifice and fasting and floods, but there is something about 50 that has to do with a foretelling, a prophecy, in time and in Israel, of what God was going to do with his people.

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On the 50th day, on Pentecost, glory to God.

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What God possessed before time began.

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On that first Pentecost, he began the process of repossession.

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He repossessed his possessions.

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He repossessed his possessions Exactly what happened on the original Jubilees.

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He repossessed his possessions.

00:37:20.545 --> 00:37:35.005
He told Israel every 50 years I'm going to allow you to repossess your possessions and in doing that, because you are my people, I am repossessing what I originally gave you.

00:37:35.005 --> 00:37:37.681
God is doing the same thing with you.

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God is doing the same thing with every believer that he has filled with the Holy Ghost.

00:37:43.521 --> 00:37:44.646
Amen.

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He is repossessing what he previously possessed.

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Amen.

00:37:51.434 --> 00:37:55.342
It's not that you were lost, it's not that you know he didn't know where you were.

00:37:55.342 --> 00:37:57.702
It's just you didn't know who you were.

00:37:57.702 --> 00:38:00.800
You didn't know.

00:38:00.800 --> 00:38:09.342
You bought the lie that Adam's crew tried to sell you that you're just an accident of birth.

00:38:09.342 --> 00:38:10.780
You just showed up.

00:38:10.780 --> 00:38:21.547
You were lost and undone without God and his son, amen, and God found you, or you found God, or however the denominational spin is on that.

00:38:21.547 --> 00:38:25.831
Amen, and you just kind of slipped into the kingdom by the skin of your teeth.

00:38:25.851 --> 00:38:31.373
Amen, and you just kind of slipped into the kingdom by the skin of your teeth.

00:38:31.373 --> 00:38:38.224
The fact of the matter is that you have always been part of the kingdom and he has always possessed you and you were always his.

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He just sent you here, amen, to do his destiny here by walking in your flesh, just the way he walked in Jesus' flesh, hallelujah.

00:38:54.108 --> 00:38:58.780
Since Jesus did it that way, you have to do it that way.

00:38:58.780 --> 00:39:04.340
You don't get to make the decision Well, I'd rather stay in heaven.

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You don't get to stay in heaven.

00:39:06.288 --> 00:39:06.793
You don't get to make it.

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Stay in heaven.

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You get to come here.

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You get to get repossessed, amen.

00:39:13.190 --> 00:39:34.887
And you get to walk through the joy of knowing oh glory to God, hallelujah that he loves you so much that he never wants to be separated from you, not even by the membrane of skin.

00:39:34.887 --> 00:39:38.923
That's too much of a barrier.

00:39:38.923 --> 00:39:46.568
See, that's the problem with people who claim a Holy Ghost that is with them.

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I'm here to tell you today that that's too much of a barrier, that's too far.

00:39:52.023 --> 00:39:53.869
He doesn't want to be with you.

00:39:53.869 --> 00:39:55.072
He wants to be in you.

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He doesn't want to whisper suggestions in your ear.

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He wants to give commands and directions amen, that he executes in you.

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He doesn't oh, he shot up, he.

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He doesn't want to have the separation even of one thought.

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He wants to totally possess you.

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I want to be known by everybody.

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I want the devil to know it.

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I want to be possessed by a spirit.

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Just so happens that it's the spirit of the living God, amen, and not one of your cheap imitations.

00:40:29.103 --> 00:40:32.244
I want to be possessed by God.

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I want God to possess this possession.

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I want God to take over and take control, amen, amen.

00:40:40.126 --> 00:40:46.668
I want a perpetual jubilee going on in this temple, hallelujah.

00:40:46.668 --> 00:40:55.775
I want the trumpet to be proclaiming liberty from the top to the bottom of this country, this temple, this vessel, hallelujah.

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And I want him to possess this vessel to such a degree that no other spirit will even entertain molesting this spirit.

00:41:10.422 --> 00:41:13.987
Hallelujah.

00:41:15.349 --> 00:41:28.222
See, we want a lot of Christianity, wants to believe that we're going to go back to Eden, that we're going to live in, that God's going to restore this planet to Eden level and we're all going to live in Eden as the new heaven.

00:41:28.222 --> 00:41:28.965
And I said what?

00:41:28.965 --> 00:41:29.445
Where do you?

00:41:29.445 --> 00:41:30.157
Where is that?

00:41:30.157 --> 00:41:31.623
Possibly in your Bible?

00:41:31.623 --> 00:41:44.650
The last time I checked, he put an angel at the gate and said no trespassing Amen, because he's not.

00:41:44.650 --> 00:41:52.621
He has not recreated you and set you free in this New Testament jubilee called Pentecost.

00:41:53.322 --> 00:41:56.208
Amen To go back to Eden, amen.

00:41:56.208 --> 00:41:57.429
Oh glory to God.

00:41:57.429 --> 00:42:03.266
He created what he created in Eden, in Adam.

00:42:03.266 --> 00:42:07.286
He has now recreated in Christ, in him.

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We're not going to Eden, we're going to him, amen.

00:42:11.905 --> 00:42:12.728
I got news for you.

00:42:12.728 --> 00:42:20.485
You're probably not even going to heaven, you're going to him, and you don't want it to be any other way.

00:42:20.485 --> 00:42:27.706
If you're going to be in him forever, why would you want to be someplace else that he created?

00:42:27.706 --> 00:42:31.722
Heaven is a created place.

00:42:31.722 --> 00:42:42.699
See, I think the purpose of heaven is not so much so that you can live there, it's so that earth can be transformed by its presence.

00:42:42.699 --> 00:42:53.282
The Bible says that the heavenly Jerusalem is coming down and it is going to transform this earth into that image.

00:42:53.282 --> 00:43:08.090
Now we may be in that place, but only if that place is in Him, because I guarantee you that you can check it out.

00:43:08.090 --> 00:43:13.885
I mean, we are going to be in him forever, hallelujah.

00:43:13.885 --> 00:43:16.730
Why?

00:43:16.730 --> 00:43:17.090
Why?

00:43:17.090 --> 00:43:17.731
Why be?

00:43:17.731 --> 00:43:18.393
Why?

00:43:18.393 --> 00:43:21.518
Because he has possessed his possession.

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He's not going to give it up.

00:43:24.182 --> 00:43:29.309
The baptism in the Holy Ghost was all about God repossessing what was His.

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And if he's going to repossess what is His, he is not going to let it go.

00:43:35.420 --> 00:43:41.702
Hebrews 13 and 5 says that I'll never leave you, I'll never forsake you, I'll never release my grip on you.

00:43:41.702 --> 00:43:43.601
I can't do it and I won't do it.

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That's just not happening, glory to God.

00:43:49.742 --> 00:43:50.704
Aren't you glad for that?

00:43:50.704 --> 00:43:51.568
I'm glad for that.

00:43:51.568 --> 00:44:04.306
If there was physical liberty at Pentecost, the slaves went free, the servants went free, debts went free.

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If there was physical liberty in Jubilee, how much more is there real liberty in Pentecost?

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Where the Spirit of the Lord is?

00:44:19.405 --> 00:44:23.163
Now you got two scriptures.

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We're going to tie them together, okay.

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2 Corinthians 3.17 and Luke 4 and 19.

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4 and 18.

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The Spirit of the Lord is how this and the other verse says where the Spirit of the Lord is.

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Luke 4 and 18 says the Spirit of the Lord is no, that's 4 and 18.

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Where the Spirit of the Lord yeah.

00:44:59.175 --> 00:45:02.842
4 and 18 says the Spirit of the Lord is upon me.

00:45:02.842 --> 00:45:11.737
And where the Spirit of the Lord is there is what Liberty.

00:45:11.737 --> 00:45:13.242
Where is the Spirit of the Lord?

00:45:13.242 --> 00:45:14.125
Is there is what Liberty?

00:45:14.125 --> 00:45:14.786
Where is the Spirit of the Lord?

00:45:14.786 --> 00:45:15.108
He's upon Jesus.

00:45:15.108 --> 00:45:19.280
Where has Jesus sent the Spirit of the Lord to be here?

00:45:19.280 --> 00:45:22.630
Who is the Spirit of the Lord, the Spirit of Jesus?

00:45:22.630 --> 00:45:26.467
Where the Spirit of the Lord is, where is the Spirit of the Lord is.

00:45:26.467 --> 00:45:27.211
Where is the Spirit of the Lord?

00:45:27.211 --> 00:45:28.338
It's on Jesus, it's in Jesus.

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It is Jesus, amen.

00:45:31.260 --> 00:45:32.679
What is that Spirit of the Lord doing?

00:45:32.679 --> 00:45:35.481
He's proclaiming liberty, and where is he proclaiming it?

00:45:35.481 --> 00:45:38.619
In the possession that he repossessed.

00:45:38.619 --> 00:45:41.782
You need to hear me and you need to hear me clearly.

00:45:41.782 --> 00:45:44.257
God is shouting from the rooftops.

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He is shouting as loud as he can.

00:45:46.597 --> 00:45:47.842
You are free.

00:45:47.842 --> 00:45:52.099
You are free to be me.

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You are free to do what I do.

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You are free to do exactly what I say to do and exactly how I do it.

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You are free because I have made you, remade you, my possession in my very image.

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Glory to God.

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We have shortchanged Pentecost and dumbed it down to the point where people don't even know why they get filled with God.

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I don't even think they know they've been filled with God.

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I think all they care about is a little you know, talking in tongues a little bit of different life and go over to God.

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We need to wake up the picture of the picture, and what God wanted me to to see and wanted me to share with you is this that the picture that he created for Jubilee over a 50 year period, he has shrunk down prophetically so that you can see exactly what's happening in Pentecost.

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Pentecost is the New Testament Jubilee and the connecting thing is the 50.

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Hallelujah, praise God.

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Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

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Liberty from the law of sin and death, liberty from darkness and confusion and blindness.

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He said I've come to bring eyesight to the blind, the recovery of sight to the blind From the futility of works.

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Glory to God.

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How long have I been teaching you this?

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That in the Lord, in this perfect law of liberty, you are free from results.

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You are only required to obey If he tells you go, lay hands on this person that they might recover.

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If they recover or don't recover is not your responsibility.

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You could never have healed them in the first place.

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It is the responsibility of the greater one that lives in you and who has repossessed you.

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He has repossessed you so that you can experience what he experiences when he lays hands on the sick and they recover.

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You're free from responsibility, it's not.

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You can't do it anyway.

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The only thing you can do is stretch forth his hand, and religion wants him to stretch forth his hand while we watch, and God doesn't want that.

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God wants you to stretch forth his hand while we watch, and God doesn't want that.

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God wants you to stretch out his hand so that he can be right there with you, and then his power will be released.

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Glory to God.

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We're free from the burden of responsibility In the sense that we are no longer responsible for outcomes.

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You're responsible to pray.

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Now, if you take credit, Listen to me, if you're ever foolish enough to take credit for the outcome of that, well, that's because we prayed.

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Oh, really, it would be much better.

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Said that.

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That's because God moves, you know.

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Don't take any credit for it.

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Refuse to take the credit, refuse to take the responsibility.

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I didn't have a responsibility in here except to do what he told me to do, which, 99.9% of the time, is get out the way, let me pray, let me way, let me pray, let me heal, let me preach, let me teach, let me witness.

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Glory to God, jesus.

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Now here's how this all ties together.

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Jesus proclaimed the acceptable year of the Lord, which is the Lord's Jubilee, which is the New Testament Jubilee, which is Pentecost.

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He proclaimed that acceptable year every day of his three and a half year year ministry.

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His ministry was a set of measured steps, steps of destiny, from John's baptism to Pentecost.

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From John's baptism to Pentecost Every step proclaiming the new acceptable year.

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Now, see, the Jews understood this talk when they said to set at liberty them that are bruised or oppressed, to proclaim liberty to the captive.

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They understood that.

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Well, that's Jubilee.

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What's he doing talking about Jubilee?

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Well, it's Jubilee.

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That's what.

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What's he doing talking about Jubilee?

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Well, everything he preached about was about God in you doing the works that no one else had ever seen.

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It was the acceptable year of the Lord.

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See, listen, you can't imagine what it was like.

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There was no one in Israel that wanted to set the captives free.

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They didn't want to set the slaves free.

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They didn't want to set the servants free.

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They didn't want to restore debts.

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The only people that wanted that were people that were going to benefit.

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Nobody wanted to give them that freedom, but God did so.

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You know what the Jews did, you know.

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You just forgot.

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You know what they did.

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They quit celebrating the Sabbath of years, which was every seventh year, and if they quit celebrating them, then they quit counting.

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And if they quit counting, they couldn't count Jubilees.

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They quit having Jubilees.

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But you know who kept count, the one who could multiply in the first place.

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It said seven times seven years, in case all of you didn't go to school, that's 49 years.

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That's the Lord talking here.

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I can't believe God.

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You know what happened.

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They had to go into bondage to Babylon for 70 years because they had failed to observe 490 years of Sabbaths.

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That's in your Bible.

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Daniel said.

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Daniel said that I had reckoned by the years that were written in the scriptures, that the time was at hand for the people of Israel to go free.

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And I started to fast and I started to pray and the archangel Michael came to him and said your prayers, daniel, were heard on the very first day, but I was resisted from coming to the people, israel.

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But your prayers are heard.

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And listen to this.

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If you don't think these numbers mean something, and listen to this.

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He said if you don't think these numbers mean something, from the going forth back to, from the proclamation, to go back to Jerusalem, to the rising up of the temple shall be what?

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49 years.

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And then he goes on and on, in multiples of seven, multiples of 49, till we get to Palm Sunday, when Jesus is announced as the Messiah.

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In other words, god reversed the curse.

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From the time they went back to Israel from Babylon it was almost exactly 490 years to when Jesus came down the Mount of Olives.

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Good, I'd have a hash, a type.

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You don't think God.

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And how many times are you expected to forgive hallelujah?

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And where does that put you?

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It puts you into Hallelujah.

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And where does that put you?

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It puts you into Pentecost.

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The whole thing about Pentecost is that it's the day.

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It is the day when God possesses His possession.

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You, we have all had our own Pentecost, just like we've had our own road to Damascus experience.

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But Paul had his own Pentecost.

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He didn't have to wait 50 days Amen, because the Spirit had already been given and Jesus had already been glorified.

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Real liberty in the Spirit was proclaimed, not just physical liberty, but real liberty.

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It is the Lord, it is God who works in me, that does these great things that you see.

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It is God working in you to both to will and to do His good pleasure.

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Amen, praise God, hallelujah the acceptable just get this if you don't get anything else.

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The acceptable year of the Lord is the New Testament Jubilee, which is Pentecost.

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Amen and Jesus.

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The whole emphasis of Luke 4 and 18 was to say to Israel a new Jubilee is being proclaimed in this land.

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It is not the way, it is, only foreshadowed by the way it was before.

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But I'm here to tell you that my ministry is going to define the new Jubilee and the new Jubilee you will have a testimony to when the new Jubilee comes, when God possesses his possessions that he possessed before time began.

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Hallelujah, praise God.

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And we who are still here and walking in that Pentecost are still living proof that the Jubilee of the New Testament is still happening.

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Glory to God, praise the name of the Lord, hallelujah to God.

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Thanks be to Jesus, amen, let's stand.