Every Seven Years

JUBILEE YEAR JEFF IN 54-1003E

49 And these Scriptures tonight that we read in Here, are fulfilled again in the days of the Gentiles. "They have eyes but they can't see. They have ears but they can't hear." And God is doing miracles and signs and wonders, and people are just simply closing their eyes to it, because the prophecy has said it would be that way.

Now, Jesus was prophesied by the--Isaiah to preach the acceptable year. That's what we want to deal on tonight. Now, now, the acceptable year was this, that, in during the time, between so many years... "Acceptable year" is the year called, in the Old Writings, "the year of jubilee." They come every... I believe it was either... Every seven years was a jubilee year.

And every seven years they let the ground rest. They growed no fruit on it, or no... planted no crops. They let their crops, in the field, rest, every seven years, and at that time was a jubilee.

JUBILEE YEAR JEFF IN 54-1003E

55 Now, they would sell a slave. Then this--this girl here, now, she can go out and be a wife, or she can be a handsmaid. They sell her, look at her teeth, see how strong she is, whether she can work or not, or if she's a virgin or not, and so forth. And you can buy them, get as many as you want, many as you can take care of, many as you can pay for.

And now, the same thing was in the days of the law, when they took a slave and sold it. Then, every seven years there was a jubilee year come by. Now, this was a great time, and it has a great significance to the people of today: Great time.

JUBILEE YEAR JEFF IN 54-1003E

57 Now, the slaves would be in the field, or wherever they was, at work, and then maybe bent down under the load of the taskmaster, the owner. And he was full lord and master over them, because he had a legal paper that showed that this slave belonged to him. He would treat it like a horse, or whatever he wanted to. It was his slave.

But then, every seven years, it was the law of God, that there was a jubilee year. And when this jubilee year come by, then the priest rode the land, sounding the trumpet, and every slave that had been bought with a price and become a servant, was given the privilege to be made free, go back home again, back to his loved ones. He was redeemed back by grace. He didn't have to pay anything. His loved ones didn't have to pay anything. It was an act of God. What a beautiful illustration.

Today that men and women, in our country and everywhere else, has sold theirself out to sin, drinking, gambling, carousing, doing things that they ought not to do, and become slaves to the devil. Some...

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E-20 Now, if somehow or other the individual lost their inheritance that was given to them by God, there come a year called the jubilee year. And that was... Every seven years they had a--a rest, a sabbath. Every seven days they had a sabbath, every seven years they had a sabbath. And seven sabbaths was forty-nine years, and the fiftieth year was jubilee.

And in this jubilee every man that had lost his inheritance by some means... If he was a free born and a true blooded Israelite, no matter who held the possession, it had to go back to him free. He didn't have to pay a thing; he didn't have to do a thing, but just stop what he was doing and go back to his inheritance.

Oh, my. He had a right to it. It was a God given right. Because he, by grace, had inherited it, and it would--been given to his fathers and handed down year after year. No matter what had taken place, if he lost it, it must go free. It meant grace is way provided for each individual to return to their rightful inheritance.

What a picture it gives us tonight of the church in this last days. You see what man can do and then you see what God does. What man does is failing, and will fail, has failed, and always will fail. But what God does is eternal and must forever remain. Nothing can ever take it away. God give it; it's His free gift, and by sovereign foresight saw it and placed it, and there's nothing can ever move it. It's there eternally. And at jubilee was God's manner of expressing grace to His people for restoring or be brought back to their rightful position.

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2-4 And now, Edith is just changing of--of the--of the seven years... Every seven years your life changes, so the seven times seven (You see?), it's--and it's--makes it's kinda hard. That's a complete change, and it--it bothers the women. Men usually get a--kind of funny carrying-on during that time and sometimes leave their wives. But women are--are unfertile after that. And we all go through that. We must remember that it's things that we must bear with one another and understand those things.

ON THE WINGS OF A DOVE SHP LA 65-1128E

137 I've been a neurotic all my life. As a little boy there was something struck me, that scare me, about every seven years it would happen to me. Brother Jack remembers when I first started, come off the field for a year; something just happened.

I remember the day that Juanita Hemphill... I think her name's Juanita Kelly now; she married Brother Kelly after the death of her husband. Anna Jeanne, I've got their pictures and things, they were such... And her... And them two girls and Sister Moore had a--a little trio. They sang that song that I never forget: "Looking Beyond the Sunset." Brother Jack, you remember, I guess, coming up from Florida. What fine little girls.

ON THE WINGS OF A DOVE SHP LA 65-1128E

143 And you don't know what I've suffered; just mental oppression. Every seven years it's come, all my life. That's where I'm at now, seven eights.

So I was--I was so distressed; I cried, I begged, I pleaded. And I remember when I finally thought I had enough money to go to Mayo's for an examination; they said, "They'll find what your trouble is." Wife and I, and Becky back there... Sarah was a little, bitty fellow. I had just entered my healing ministry. And we took off to Mayo's.

I went through the clinic. And the night before I'd find--had my finals the next morning, I just woke up and was setting there on the bed looking around. And I looked out in front of me, and there was a little boy, looked just like me, about seven years old; and looked at it, and it was me. And he was standing by an old snag tree. And on that tree...