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The Gospel Age Jubilee
“Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage” – Gal 5:1
 ven as Jesus Christ is the central Person of all history, the law of Jubilee is the mostfundamental law of all creation. The law of Jubilee is the basis of forgiveness andgrace.
 
 The Jubilee was the
 fiftieth year 
following seven weeks of years, and would occur
once 
at least in the lifetime of every individual who lived out his natural life. See Leviticus25:10-11. At the close of the
Day of Atonement 
, on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the
sabbatical year i.e. the 49 
th 
year 
, the trumpets were blown throughout all the land, announcing the Jubilee, in other words the
Liberty and Freedom 
. The year which follows the sabbatical yeari.e. the fiftieth year was hallowed the “year of Jubilee” or “the year of Liberty”.Br. Russell has penned an elaborate exposition on the Law of Jubilee under the name“Earth’s Great Jubilee” in his second volume chapter 6. He affirms through his calculationsthat the earth’ great jubilee is commenced from
October 1874 A.D
. We quote some linesfrom his writingsHence the 2500th year, which would be the great 50th Jubilee, must be the antitype,the real Jubilee or Restitution. But instead of being a year, as in the type, it will belarger; it will be the beginning of the great thousand-year Jubilee--the Millennium. Just so it has been in the fulfilment of every type in which
time 
was a feature. Thus thePentecostal outpouring of the Holy Spirit came upon the typical day of Pentecost--orfiftieth day. Christ, our Passover sacrifice, died in the same night in which the typicallamb was appointed to be killed--a day before or a day after would not answer. Sohere, not the year after nor the year before the 2500th, or closing of the typical cycle, would do;
but that very year, beginning October, 1874, must have begun theantitype of Restitution times.. . . . . .We have already entered upon the great antitypical Jubilee period, andhave been in it since October, A.D. 1874
*
.
 Most of us give prominence to the writings of prominent preachers and take it for granted whatever they write, but never examine them from the light of the Holy Scriptures todetermine what the Scriptures itself enlighten us on the doctrines which it teaches. Theabove doctrine is one example for it, privileges brings responsibilities and the truth of thiscannot be questioned for a moment, when failed to meet the standards of suchresponsibilities the preacher or the author is forfeited and this will cause to speak ill by many. Every Expositor has to think twice before he could interpret the scriptures andpresent it before the congregation.
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Volume -2 page 181,182 (emphasis added)
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Reasoning The Scriptures
2
 The Law was a shadow of good things which were fulfilled through Christ (Heb10:1) oncethe shadow is fulfilled there is no need of a repeat fulfilment apart from Christ. TheScriptures evidently show us that the typical Law of Jubilee is also fulfilled and accomplishedon Calvary, it is written in the epistle of Paul to Colossians that “Let no man therefore judgeyou in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an
holyday
, or of the
new moon
, or of the
Sabbath days 
 
 Which are a
shadow of things to come; but the body
is 
of Christ
” (Colo2:16,17)Apostle Paul particularly mention as the other festivals of Israel the
Sabbath
alsofinds its fulfilment in Christ. The Scrolls of Moses declares us that the year of Jubilee wasalso
a sabbatical year 
(i.e. a Sabbath which means Rest) in which the children of Israel were togive
rest 
to their Land (Lev 25:11) it appears clearly from the record that the children of Israel got two years of rest once in every 48 years, the 49
th
year as the 7
th
Sabbath year andthe 50
th
as the Jubilee year,
 
the two series of sabbatical years in a century is mentioned inIsaiah (37:30). Hence the 50
th
year was also a year of rest i.e. a Sabbath then obviously,according to Paul, the sabbatical year of Jubilee must have also fulfilled in our Lord as it is written that the body of all these is of Christ. It is lawful to say that the body or thesubstance of the Jubilee is also of Christ. Looking beyond the cross of Calvary and fixing dates for the antitypical Jubilee is contrary to the Holy writ. We have presented sufficient scriptural evidence regarding A.D1874 that it is not a reliabledate to corroborate with the Bible prophecy, in our treatise Reasoning the Scriptures series I&II. We will now proceed to show that the earth’ great jubilee or the great antitypical jubileedid not commence in October 1874 but commenced more exactly through the death andresurrection of our Lord.
 The Faux Pass of Br. Russell regarding the Law of Jubilee
In order to know the faux pass of Br Russell regarding the Law of Jubilee we must know on what footing Br Russell predicted about the antitypical jubilee commencing from October1874 and examine them with the light of the Holy Scriptures. It is understood through his writings,
that 
 In all the Jewish ceremonies, God caused no type to be made which will provemeaningless, or pass unfulfilled; and the observance of all types was kept up untiltheir fulfilment
at least began
.
 All types must be continually repeated until their antitypes appear; 
for the keeping of a type is not the fulfilling of it. The fulfilling is reached where the
type ceases
, being displaced by the reality, the antitype
†
.In the aforementioned avowal of Br. Russell an attentive reading reveals that all types in theLaw must be continually repeated until their antitypes appear, to put it in other way, all thetypes of the Law of Old Testament are continually repeated until it is
 fulfilled 
by the antitype. When the Law is fulfilled, then the
type of the Law will also
 
cease
. It is evident from thescriptures that the Law age is replaced by the Gospel age “
The 
law 
and the prophets were until 
†
Studies in the Scriptures, Volume -2, page 174(emphasis added)
 
Reasoning The Scriptures
3
 John: since that time the (gospel)
kingdom of God is preached 
” 
(Luke 16:16) the intendeddivine accomplishment of the Law was of Christ therefore the Law found its fulfilment inChrist regarding this it is written – And he said unto them, These
are 
the words which Ispake unto you, while I was yet with you,
that all things must be fulfilled
, which were written in the
law of Moses
, and
in 
 
the prophets
, and
in 
the
 psalms
, concerning me. (Luke24:44) The champion of the Ephesian era apostle Paul confirms through his writings thatindeed the Law is fulfilled in Christ, he says “
For Christ
is 
the end of the law 
” the Law  was added
till 
the arrival of the promised seed and it was like a school master
till 
it broughtus to Christ (Gal 3:19, 24) compare with – (Mat 5:17, John 1:7, 1:45, Acts 28:23 Rom 7:1-3).To be more appropriate, the offering which Christ offered on Calvary concludes all theforeshadowed type in the Law nailing it on cross and putting an end ( 
Having 
 put an end 
tothe 
handwriting 
of the law 
which was against us,
taking it out 
of the way by 
nailing it to his cross 
Col 2:14 Bible in Basic English
)
in accordance to this our Lord uttered the very apt word while he was on cross “
it is finished 
” i.e. fulfilled. (John 19:30).Thus we can strongly affirm through the ample scriptural verses presented that the Law is fulfilled in Christ.
Can a Shadow cease without a substance?
 According to Br. Russell’s reasoning it seems that the shadow has ceased without the arrivalof the substance (i.e. Christ)
he says 
: When the last typical Jubilee had been observed and had passed away,
the greatcycle began to count
, We have already referred to the method of counting theSabbaths--that the multiplying of the Sabbath or seventh day by seven (7 x 7 = 49)pointed out Pentecost, the Jubilee Day which followed; and the multiplying of theseventh year by seven (7 x 7 = 49) made the cycle which pointed out and led to thefiftieth or Jubilee Year. And the same system carried out would indicate that to reachthe great antitype which we seek we should in like manner square the Jubilee--i.e.,multiply the fiftieth year by fifty. That is to say, the antitypical cycle, by the method of multiplying here taught us, should be reckoned by multiplying the typical Jubilee orfiftieth Sabbath year by fifty, just as in reaching it we multiplied the seventh yearSabbath by seven.
Lev. 25:2-13 
 Following this divinely indicated method of reckoning, wonderful results open beforeus, which assure us that we have the correct key and are using it as was intended by him who formed this treasure-casket. Fifty times fifty years gives the long period of twenty-five hundred years (50 x 50 = 2500), as the length of that great
cycle
, whichbegan to count when Israel's last typical Jubilee ended, and which must culminate inthe great antitypical Jubilee. We know that such a cycle must have
begun to count
 where the
type ceased
; because, if not one jot or tittle of the Law could pass away  without a fulfilment at least commencing, then the Jubilee type, which was far morethan a jot or tittle, indeed a large and important feature of the Law, would not havebeen permitted to pass away until the right time for its antitype to begin. That the
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