Redemption is drawing near!

When Jesus described the signs of the days leading to His return, He said, "But when these things begin to take place, straighten up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near" (Luke 21:28). There is a day of redemption that is drawing near. By the inspiration of the Holy Spirit Paul wrote; "Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption" (Ephesians 4:30).

I have discovered that there are three redemptions. First, through the cross Jesus redeemed our souls. The Psalmist said, "No man can by any means redeem his brother, or give to God a ransom for him -- For the redemption of his soul is costly, and he should cease trying forever--" (Psalm 49:7-8). We learn here that no mere man can redeem his own soul or that of his brother, the price is costly. Peter said, we have not been redeemed with perishable things like gold or silver, but with the imperishable blood of Jesus. We learn in Acts 20:28 that this imperishable blood was God's own blood. The Psalmist confirms that it is only God who can redeem us. "But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol; For He will receive me. Selah" (Psalm 49:15). God did this in the person of God the Son, Jesus Christ, the infinite God-Man.

Secondly, our bodies are redeemed. Paul wrote to the Romans, "We ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our body" (Romans 8:23). This takes place at the secret coming or rapture of the church. In a moment, in a twinkling of an eye, at the sound of the last trumpet, when we are changed from perishable to imperishable, from mortal to immortal (1 Corinthians 15:52-53).

Lastly, our lands are redeemed, the earth itself. The Levitical Law of Jubilee states that "in the year of jubilee the field shall return... to whom the possession of the land belongs" (Leviticus 27:24). The year of Jubilee is completely about the restoration of all things; not only lands but also property, slaves. "On the year of jubilee each of you shall return to his own property" (Leviticus 25:13). The Lord commands that "you are to provide for the redemption of the land" (Leviticus 25:24). This explains why our redeemer needed to be both God and Man. Our souls could only be redeemed by God, but a man who is poor and loses his property, possessions, or land, finds himself in need of a kinsman redeemer. "One of his blood relatives from his family may redeem him" (Leviticus 25:49).

Jesus to redeem our souls, needed to be God, per Psalm 49:15. But to redeem our land, our inheritance of the earth, and our bodies we were in need of a kinsman redeemer. Jesus is our relative per the geneology of Mary provided in the Gospel of Luke (Luke 3:23-38). Jesus was fathered by the Holy Spirit giving Him the right to redeem our soul and at the same time Jesus was man mothered by Mary. God and man fussed together, the ultimate redeemer.

Peter after explaining Jesus our ultimate redeemer in his second sermon said, "Repent therefore and return, that your sins my be wiped away in order that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord; and that He may send Jesus, the Christ appointed for you, whom heaven must receive until the period of restoration of all things about which God spoke by the mouth of His holy prophets from ancient time" (Acts 3:19-21).

So when you see all these signs you know that your redemption is drawing near. Your Jubilee year redemption! Jesus is to remain in heaven until the Jubilee redemption of all things. And we are sealed by the Holy Spirit, until the day of redemption.

Waiting and Watching for His Jubilee Redemption!