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This would preserve familial and tribal heritage as well as prevent the wealthy from being able to incur large masses of land, thus keeping certain families in extreme poverty. It gives all Israelites their liberty, as well as treats them all as equals, as the land would be regenerated every fifty years. "The chief point was that there should never be a build-up of power by a few to control the land and the people; therefore, there was redistribution of the land as it had been divided in the beginning."
Each family or tribe is given the opportunity to return to his or her land, and be renewed. "Those that were sold into other families, thereby became strangers to their own; but in the year of redemption they were to return."
It is of importance to therefore note, that some of these individuals could have been enslaved for up to at least forty-nine if not fifty years. "People will experience economic freedom by returning to their land and to their families."
The Jubilee would announce their release and return to their land, but more importantly, to their familial system. With that backdrop, there are four different types of promises offered in the verses of Isaiah 61:4-9. There are promises of a new and rebuilt city, promises of justice, promises of a new identity, and promises of hope for all people.
The first was a promise of a new and rebuilt city, which would bring a stability to the once exiled and nomadic people of God. Their present state would be altered in this promise thus bringing recovery and restoration to a nation in turmoil, and nothing was more hoped for than this. The would become a prevailing people once again, both in their physical and spiritual reality. Secondly, there were promises of justice. While the language of V.5 might sound vengeful, it is the hope of the nation that it would come to pass that once again they were empowered and entrusted to be a light to the nations around them. When V.5 states, "Strangers shall stand and feed your flocks…" the Hebrews understood that they were to be a good stewards, and a good landowner as the Jubilee were to be realized. The Gentiles were aliens and strangers to the covenant of God, but could benefit from the justice of a good King. This justice would allow foreigners to work alongside the members of the nation of Israel in a peaceful community. Next, there were promises of a new identity. In verse six, Isaiah re-establishes who the people of God are and where they come from. They shall be called priest of the Lord, ministers of God, experience the wealth of nations, and be returned to the glory they once enjoyed. Having lost much, the nation needed to be reminded once again who they were, and whose they were, and Isaiah delivered the message that brought the promise of a new identity in the new kingdom. Finally, there were promises of hope for all people. Verses seven through nine reveal the hope of a community for all nations and all people that the Lord would establish through them. There would be a payment for wrong, but redemption, there would be a love for justice with a hatred for robbery and wrongdoing, and a recompense for all that has happened. Because God is holy, he required his people to treat each others justly including the nations of Israel and Judah in the midst of their faithless immorality. For the faithful, there would be an everlasting covenant, their descendants would be known, and the Lord would bless them. "It would be difficult to overstate the importance of Isaiah for the Christology of the church."
This four-fold promise of God was delivered as the culmination to hope the Messiah would bring as the Year of Jubilee was ushered in.
Isaiah 61:10-11
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