IT’S TIME TO REST! JUBILEE IS NOW
October 29, 2008
by Jimmie Altman – New Castle, PA, USA
For about two and a half months, the LORD has been stamping my heart with a word, “Jubilee is now!”
It was about two and a half months ago when the LORD began to birth in my spirit the time frame in which we are living in right now. There is so much to be said about “right now,” but specifically, the LORD birthed in me the time of Jubilee. There is so much to be revealed about this time frame, but one of the things I just want to share is that, not only was Jubilee marked by trumpets beginning to sound, but also by the seven Sabbaths that opened up the 50th year which was Jubilee.
The Sabbath day was of rest, and by this we can clearly see that not only was the year of Jubilee a time of freedom and redemption, but that it was also a time of rest and restoration, for the Sabbath day was the day of rest. So what does this mean for you and I?
First, we need to be aware that God has always, and He will always require His people to honor and keep His Sabbath day. Where in scripture does it say that the Sabbath is done away with, for the Apostle Paul said that the Sabbath, amongst many other things, was a shadow of good things to come in Colossians 2:16-17.
The Sabbath day historically would be a day of rest from works. The land would literally be at rest from the work of sowing, pruning, and gathering. When we understand the spiritual dynamics of sowing, pruning, and gathering, we can receive a glorious revelation from the LORD; we can see that this time of rest is a spiritual rest to a people who have sown the seed-word in them, pruned the vines to produce fruit, and have gathered that harvest of fruit in their life. Meaning there has been an increase within them.
I want to explain this in a more extensive manner that we may come to a clearer understanding.
The day of rest has always been after 6 days. Beginning with the Father of Rest, God, In Genesis 2:2 (rested) or translated in Hebrew (Sabbath) after He created the earth and everything in it in 6 days. We know that God created man on the 6th day, and even more apparent, we see that 6 has seems to be used as a symbolic number of PREPARATION in scripture as well.
1.There were 6 days to work before rest
2.There were 6 years to sow and prune before the year of Jubilee
3.Jesus comes to Mary 6 days before the Passover and was anointed,for crucifixion
4.After 6 days, Jesus took Peter, James, and John up a high mountain and was transfigured before them,
5.There are 6 Feasts of the LORD before the final Feast which is the Feast of TABERNACLES. (God fully dwelling in a people!)
So BEFORE the day of rest, and BEFORE, the year of Jubilee, and BEFORE, the feast of passover-Crucifixion, and BEFORE the transfiguration could occur, there was a time of preparation that had to take place first!
Therefore we can clearly see that 6 is a symbolic number of preparation, and we know that 7 is the number for perfection or perfect understanding, and also the day or time of REST. So we see that there is six days of work or preparation that will bring you into a perfect understanding which is REST and I will explain.
The Hebrew word preparation is H3559 in the Strong’s and it is the word Kuwn (koon) this word is spelled from right (kaph) to left (Nun) and it means to establish, to cause to stand, to take root, and to support amongst many other things.
When we understand the Hebrew letters that are used to spell this word, we also will see a greater revelation of the definition itself. The letter Kaph has a pictograph sign of an opened palm, and the letter Nun has a pictograph sign of a seed. The holy spirit brings to life the function of these two letters when put together which means to ” open the seed”
Luke 8:11 Jesus said that the seed is the word (logos)
So when you understand this, it means that the time of preparation is the time of opening up the seed-WORD, and like when a real seed opens up and roots grow and it begins to be a support system for the tree, So does God’s WORD begin to support you, and establish and cause you to stand firm when you open it up and understand whats actually inside of it!
Your work is the process of coming into revelation or perfect understanding by opening up the seed-Word to reveal the meaning. When you get a revelation, or come into perfect understanding, that is the REST. You are resting from your work because you were able to open up the seed and reveal what Dad has just sown in you and now you can produce fruit and have increase.
So the preparation, or the time of opening up the seed-WORD is preparing you to come into a REST. When I say “opening up of the seed-word” what I mean is “coming into understanding.” The word can be planted in you, but if you don’t open it up, then there is no understanding.
Now I see why some people never come into a REST and increase in there life… it is because they never opened up the seed-word that was sown in them. They never began the labor or work or do the necessary pressing in order to open up the seed.
My prayer is that we all come into perfect understanding of what God has sown into us all. My prayer is that we all come into the REST in the time of JUBILEE!
As my wife Pariesa has been recently saying, “May you be completed!”
Jimmie Altman