利二五11　第五十年要作为你们的禧年；这年不可耕种，地中自长的不可收割，没有修剪的葡萄树也不可摘取葡萄。

　　赛四九8　耶和华如此说，在悦纳的时候，我应允了你；在拯救的日子，我济助了你；我要保护你，使你作众民的约，复兴遍地，使人承受荒凉之地为业。
　　禧年在第五十年（利二五10~11），表征满足神一切要求的完全责任（由五十这数字所预表）已经履行了，所以人不需要担负什么责任。五十年也表征堕落人生的整个过程。因此，禧年，第五十年，表征我们堕落人生的结束。
　　禧年乃是主悦纳人的年，就是以赛亚六十一章一至二节所预言，并由路加四章十六至二十二节主的来临所应验的。在旧约的预表里，禧年持续一年之久，其应验却是指整个新约时代，恩典时代，这是神悦纳归回的罪囚的时候（赛四九8，路十五17~24，林后六2），也是那些在罪的捆绑下受压制的人享受神救恩之释放的时候（罗七14~八2）。信徒在恩典时代对禧年的享受，就是享受基督作为神给他们的恩典，这享受要带进千年国里对禧年完满的享受，以及在新天新地新耶路撒冷里最完满的享受（圣经恢复本，利二五10注1）。

　　Lev. 25:11 The fiftieth year shall be a jubilee for you; you shall not sow nor reap its aftergrowth nor gather from its unpruned vines.

　　Isa. 49:8 ... In an acceptable time I have answered You,...in a day of salvation I have helped You;...I will preserve You and give You for a covenant of the people, to restore the land, to apportion the desolate inheritances.

　　That the jubilee was in the fiftieth year (Lev. 25:10-11) signifies that the full responsibility (typified by the number fifty) to meet all the requirements of God has been fulfilled so that man does not need to bear any responsibility. Fifty years also signifies the entire course of fallen human life. Thus, the year of jubilee, the fiftieth year, signifies the conclusion of our fallen human life.

　　The year of jubilee is the acceptable year of the Lord prophesied in Isaiah 61:1-2 and fulfilled by the Lord's coming in Luke 4:16-22. In the Old Testament type the jubilee lasted for one year, but in the fulfillment it refers to the entire New Testament age, the age of grace, as the time when God accepts the returned captives of sin (Isa. 49:8; Luke 15:17-24; 2 Cor. 6:2) and when those oppressed under the bondage of sin enjoy the release of God's salvation (Rom. 7:14—8:2). The believers' enjoyment of the jubilee in the age of grace, that is, their enjoyment of Christ as God's grace to them, will issue in the full enjoyment of the jubilee in the millennium and in the fullest enjoyment in the New Jerusalem in the new heaven and new earth. (Lev. 25:10, footnote 1)

　　神创造人，目的是要人作盛装祂的器皿，以彰显祂自己。因此，人被造之后，神接着就要将祂自己赐给人，作人的产业。……神所给我们的产业就是神自己。……圣经里所说的产业，就是叫一切信入祂的人与圣徒一同承受的产业（徒二六18）。这产业乃是指神说的。我们是一同承受神作产业。神创造亚当之后，并没有告诉亚当别的事；祂乃是要亚当接受祂自己。神自己才是人真正的产业。但是人堕落了，离弃了神，……失去了神作他的产业，并且堕落到埃及—世界去。于是人不仅卖了地，也卖了身。
　　以弗所二章十二节说，今天的人活在世上没有神，没有指望。无论贫富、贵贱、野蛮、文明的人都是一样，都没有神，都没有指望。不仅如此，今天人堕落到一个地步，把自己卖给了罪，把自己卖给了撒但。……基本的问题是我们卖了身，失去了神，所以我们就完全丧失自由，丧失产业，成了奴隶。不要说不信的人，连我们信的人，好多人仍没有完全脱离法老的奴役。正如保罗在罗马七章十四节所说的：“我是属肉的，是已经卖给罪了。”
　　禧年有这两项主要的福分，就是得回失去的产业，以及从奴役得着释放。……你若要得着真正的自由，并且享受神作你的产业，你就必须接受主耶稣在你里面作你真正的禧年。你得着了祂，你的产业就得回了，你的自身也自由了。主耶稣释放了你，使你有神作你的产业，并且使你脱离罪和撒但的辖制，你就有了真正的自由。我们每一个经历主救恩的人，都能作这个见证：得救以前，我们是没有自由的，是不能作主的。现在我们得救了，主在我们里面释放了我们，使我们不再作奴隶；我们不是为奴的，乃是自主的。不仅如此，我们也得回神作我们的产业。……我们不再是劳苦担重担的，乃是得释放、享安息的，正如主耶稣在马太十一章二十八节所说的：“凡劳苦担重担的，可以到我这里来，我必使你们得安息。”不仅如此，我们也不再是贫穷的，乃是有神作我们的产业（徒二六18，弗一14，西一12）。这就是禧年（禧年，九至一一页）。
　　参读：利未记生命读经，第五十七至五十八篇。

　　God created man with the purpose that man would be a vessel to contain Him for His expression. Hence, immediately after man was created, God gave Himself to man to be man's possession. The inheritance that God has given to us is God Himself....The inheritance spoken of in the Bible is the inheritance among the saints to be received by all those who believe into the Lord (Acts 26:18). This is

　　God Himself. We are those who inherit God. Therefore, after God created Adam, He did not say much to him; He simply indicated that He wanted Adam to receive Him to be his real possession. However, due to his fall, man forsook God, lost God as his possession, and fell into the world. Consequently, man sold not only his own possession but also himself.

　　Ephesians 2:12 says that people living in the world today have no hope and are without God. Whether rich or poor, noble or base, civilized or barbaric, everyone is the same; all have no hope and are without God. Not only so, people today have fallen to such an extent that they have sold themselves to sin and Satan....The basic problem is that man has sold himself and lost God; thus, he has completely lost his freedom and his own possession and has become a slave. Paul says in Romans 7:14, "But I am fleshy, sold under sin." Not only the unbelievers but even many who are believers are still not wholly delivered from the slavery under Pharaoh.

　　In the year of jubilee there are two main blessings: the returning of every man to his lost possession and the liberation from slavery. If we want to be truly free and able to enjoy God as our possession, we must receive the Lord Jesus as the real jubilee in us. If we have Him, our possession is recovered and our freedom is returned to us. The Lord Jesus has released us so that we may have God as our possession and be delivered from the bondage of sin and Satan in order that we may have real freedom. Every one of us who has experienced the grace of the Lord can testify that before we were saved, we had no freedom and no control over ourselves. Now that we have been saved, the Lord has released us from within so that we are no longer slaves. Not only so, we have been brought back to God as our possession. The Lord Jesus said in Matthew 11:28, "Come to Me all who toil and are burdened, and I will give you rest." We are no longer those who toil and are burdened; we are those who have freedom and enjoy rest. Furthermore, we are no longer poor; instead, we have God as our inheritance (Acts 26:18; Eph. 1:14; Col. 1:12). This is the meaning of the year of jubilee. (CWWL, 1984, vol. 4, "The Jubilee," pp. 8-9)

　　Further Reading: Life-study of Leviticus, msgs. 57-58