09/29/2026 – Day 331 – “The Jubilee Man” / “… You see, God is the God of restoration…’
“He was holding a small shofar. “The sign and sound of the Jubilee,” he said, “the year of restoration. What do you remember of it?”
“It was the year in which the land would return to its original owners,” I said, “So if your family had lost its ancestral land, they would return home.”
“Yes,” said the teacher, “now think about it… Two thousand years ago, the Jewish people lost their homeland and their Holy City, Israel and Jerusalem, their ancestral possessions. But it was prophesied that they would return. In other words, it would be a prophetic Jubilee, a restoration to their ancient possession. So could the Jubilee hold the key to the mystery of that restoration?”
He placed the shofar in my hands. “In 1917, in the midst of the First World War, the British Empire issued the Balfour Declaration to give the land of Israel to the Jewish people. So the land would be restored to its original owners. But still missing was the restoration of the Holy City, Jerusalem. The Jubilee comes every fifty years. If we count to the fiftieth year from the first restoration, it brings us to 1967. It was in 1967 that the Holy City , Jerusalem, was restored to the Jewish people, to its original owners… the Jubilee. And in the same moment that Israel was restored to its ancient city, the sign of the Jubilee was manifested – the rabbi who accompanied the soldiers to the Temple Mount sounded the shofar. And do you know what the Temple Mount was when Israel first obtained it three thousand years before? A threshing floor… in Hebrew, a goren. And the man who sounded the shofar there in the day of restoration was named ‘Goren’, Rabbi Goren. And do you know when he was born? In 1917, the year of the first restoration, the first Jubilee. So he who sounded the shofar of Israel’s jubilee, the fiftieth year, was, himself, fifty years old, the living sign of the Jubilee. It had all happened in the exact place at the exact time. You see, God is the God of restoration. And to those who are His, He will restore all things … all that was lost will be found again … in their Jerusalem… and in their appointed time of Jubilee.”
“The Mission: If you belong to Messiah, you have the power of the Jubilee, the power to restore the lost and the broken. Today, live, speak, and use that power.”
Leviticus 25:10-11; Joel 2: 25-27; Zechariah 8: 7-8; Luke 4: 18-19; Acts 1:6
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Soli Deo Gloria!
There are so many fulfillment connections! If you are interested, check out these prior posts in this blog. (*A):
“03/09/2024 – Leviticus – Chapter 25 – Sabbath Years and Jubilee / Miracles behind the Jubilee Years in Recent History”. (Mark Twain is in one as I recall)
“02/18/2025 – Day 219 – Leviticus 25-25, Jubilee year, foreshadowing of a new heaven and a new earth”. This is from the last cycle of our Semikhah7 read through the Bible in a year.
(*A) – Just search on the date and look for the description in case there are a few posts for that particular day.
And a reminder for me, to put Jonathan Cahn’s book: “The Josiah Manifesto: The Ancient Mysteries and the Guide to End Time” in my reading queue.