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The Hebrew word translated Jubilee or Jubile (KJV) means trumpet or ram’s horn. The blowing of the trumpet on the forty-ninth year on the tenth day of the seventh month on the revealed calendar signaled a time of liberty and restoration with the fiftieth year:

You shall number seven sabbaths [weeks] of years to you, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths [weeks] of years shall be to you forty-nine years. Then you shall cause the trumpet of the Jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement (YOM KIPPUR) shall you make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.

And you shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land to all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto you; and you shall return every man to his possession, and you shall return every man to his family.

A jubilee shall that fiftieth year be to you. You shall not sow, neither reap that which grows of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of your vine undressed. For it is the jubilee; it shall be holy [set-apart] to you: you shall eat the increase thereof out of the field. From Leviticus 25

The following are examples of how the Jubilee years played out in nations and people, when the conditions are right. …

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