For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself; And hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man”(Joh 5:26,27).
Dominion Given To The Son of Man
Jesus said, “The Father hath given Him (the Son) authority…because He is the Son of Man” (Jn. 5:26-27). One might think it should have read, “because He is the Son of God,” but it doesn’t say that. The awesome and universal authority of Christ is rooted in the fact that He is the Son of Man. Why was it necessary for Jesus to be the “Son of man” to have authority on earth? That man should bear the image of God and have dominion over all things is the first announcement of God’s intention regarding man and the first announcement of His purpose.
God, in His great purpose of redemption and restoration, is raising up a Man, the corporate Man made up of Christ the Head and His Body. He is preparing a channel through which to rule, deliver and fix creation’s problems. When God decided to redeem and save humanity, He could not do it as God. He had to do it as man. That is why God took on flesh and dwelt among us. This is because God had totally given the dominion over the earth to man and anything that is done in a governmental way on this earth, must be done through man.
Daniel’s Vision
“I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before Him.
And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: and his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed” (Dan. 7:13-14).
Daniel saw one like unto the Son of man. There was given unto Him dominion, glory, and a kingdom by the Ancient of Days. These were given Him for the purpose that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve Him. It describes His dominion as an enduring dominion, an invincible dominion that shall not pass away and a kingdom that cannot be overthrown. The Son became the Anointed One, anointed both for priesthood and kingship. And His king-priest ministry is forever. “For He is a priest forever, after the order of Melchisedek”.
He preached Deliverance to the Captives
The Son of man is the anointed King and anointed Deliverer, who has been given the dominion. He broke the yoke of oppression and set all the captives held by His defeated adversary free since He is the Anointed Conqueror. He is the Emancipator that opens the prison house and let the prisoners go free.
The Sabbath embodies the gospel message. Central to this message is the revelation of the grace of God. Through grace, God gave. Man didn’t earn what he received. Man deserved punishment and death. But God forgave and offered him a gift of eternal life. It doesn’t depend on man’s moral strength or religious effort but through faith in the work of Christ. God freely gave His only Son to save us from the devil and from sin; for “it is not by power nor by might, but by my Spirit” says the Lord.
The natural Israelite understands the Sabbath as a literal day. This is the seventh day of the week, which corresponds to our Saturday. On that day, they strictly refrained from all work. This was a sign and covenant between them and Jehovah. The ordinance applies not only to the seventh day of the week, but also to the seven festivals of Israel’s calendar and to periods of seven years and seven-times-seven years.
“Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it”(Exo 20:9).
The seventh day was set apart and special, the seventh month was set apart and special, and so was the seventh year. It was a sabbatical year; for the LORD said to Moses on Mount Sinai, “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘When you enter the land I am going to give you, the land itself must observe a sabbath to the LORD. For six years sow your fields, and for six years prune your vineyards and gather their crops. But in the seventh year the land is to have a Sabbath of rest, a Sabbath to the LORD” (Lev25:1-4).
This leads us to the subject of this subsection, the Sabbath of Sabbaths, the special year ordained by God to bring divine grace, unmerited pardon, and deliverance to His people. The twenty-fifth chapter of Leviticus describes the trumpet that announces this special year as commanded by the Lord in verse 8 saying:
“And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years. Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the Jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land. And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a Jubilee unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family” (Lev 25:8-10).
The year of jubilee is a Sabbath of Sabbaths of years and its climax was the great Day of Atonement on the fiftieth year. On this day the long loud blast of the trumpets were sounded throughout the land of Israel and all slaves were set free and all land returned to their original owner or owner’s family. The blowing of the trumpet of Jubilee begins from the temple mount and it is resounded throughout the land.
On that day, as the trumpets begin to sound throughout the land, there is unspeakable joy among the people. The blowing of the physical trumpet of Jubilee is a proclamation of liberty for all throughout the land of Israel. It’s an EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION. It is the sounding forth of the message of deliverance, of liberation, of release and of restoration and rest; this proclamation is to all the inhabitants of the earth. For “you shall hallow the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof” (Lev 25:10).
The slaves become freemen; they can return to their family. Debts are pardoned and seized properties used as debt collateral are returned to their original owners. There’s total rest, peace, and plenty in the land. The people of God were to rest in their God and celebrate under their vine and under their fig tree.
Under the Old Covenant the Israelites blew the literal, physical trumpets to proclaim liberty throughout the land. In the New Covenant the year of Jubilee is proclaimed and sounded with spiritual trumpets which are sounded with the power of the Spirit of God through His Anointed.
The first sound of the trumpet of our Jubilee was heard 2000yrs ago when the Lord Jesus appeared in the Synagogue. He was sent by God the Father to bring deliverance to the human race who had been in slavery under the devil for more than 4000 years. “God anointed Jesus Christ of Nazareth with the HOLY GHOST and POWER, who went about healing and setting free all that were oppressed of the devil”. No one could break loose from under the chains and shackles of the devil, the oppressor and taskmaster, before JESUS the Anointed One came and sounded the trumpet of Jubilee.
The Lord Jesus Christ, the Anointed One, started His ministry in the year of Jubilee, and on the Sabbath day as He entered the temple, they delivered unto him the book of the prophet Isaiah. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written,
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord” (Isa 61:1).
And he closed the book, and gave it again to the minister, and sat down; The eyes of all those that were in the synagogue were fastened on him. And he began to say unto them, “This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.”
Dear Saints, that was the Trumpet of our Jubilee. The Lord Jesus, our CHRIST, the Anointed One blew the trumpet on that great day. From then on, the sound of it began to be heard through all the land. The sick began to be healed, the demon-possessed began to be delivered, blind eyes began to see, the dumb began to speak, the dead were being raised, and house of Jacob began to possess their possessions.
After our Lord Jesus proclaimed, trumpeted, and demonstrated the year of Jubilee, the year of Release, and the year of Liberty, the apostles of the Lamb then carried on the proclamation after His ascension.
Your Jubilee trumpet has sounded. Can’t you hear the sound of the trumpet? You are free! CHRIST, the Anointed One, has blown your Jubilee trumpet and set you free: “if the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.”
Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!” For he hath broken the gates of brass and cut the bars of iron in sunder” (Psa 107:15-16).
Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron; Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the Most High: Therefore he brought down their heart with labor; they fell down, and there was none to help.
Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses. He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder” (Psa 107:11-14).