after thousands of years He kept His word. He restored them. So what was hopeless to the world was not hopeless to God.
“The answer to your question is no. There is no one so far away that His arms aren’t longer still, no sin so great that His love isn’t stronger still, and no life so hopeless that His redemption isn’t greater still. And if He didn’t forget His ancient people, neither will He forget you. And if He didn’t give up on them, neither will He give up on you. And if He kept His word to them, so too will He keep His word to you. ‘For with God nothing will be impossible.’” 2
“So how do you return?”
“It’s all in the mystery,” he said. “In Hebrew to return is to repent, and to repent is to return. So how do you return? You repent. You turn to God. You come back. You open your heart to His love and His forgiveness, and you come home.”
“But how?”
“It can begin with a simple prayer. You ask for mercy, for cleansing and forgiveness, for redemption and restoration. And you find it in the love, the hope, the sacrifice, and the name of Messiah.”
“So the Messiah is the doorway to the Jubilee.”
“Messiah is the Jubilee.”
“And then what?” I asked.
“Then you live it.”
“And what does that mean?”
“Then you live in the power of the Jubilee, the power of restoration.”
“And the power of the Jubilee is . . . ?”
“The power to leave the darkness, and the ways of separation, and the life you were never meant to live . . . and the person you were never meant to be. It’s the power to break free of the past and of every chain of bondage. It’s the power of new beginnings . . . the power to walk in newness and to become the person you were created to become . . . a beloved child . . . of Heaven. And it is the power to regain your inheritance and the blessings you were born to know.”
“How?”
“The same way you would regain inheritance in the year of Jubilee. You stand in the authority of your redemption and you enter it. You dispossess the darkness. For in the power of the Jubilee the darkness has no more authority over your life, no sin, no fear, no bondage, no addiction, no failure, no shame, nor any other darkness. Every dominion is broken. By the power of Jubilee you dispossess it and enter your inheritance.”
“And yet,” said the Oracle, “there is more.”
“More?”
“One last revelation.”
“What is it?”
“The final one.”
“I thought what happened at the end of the age was the final revelation.”
“That was only the end. But the final revelation is what takes place after the end.”
“What takes place after the end?”
“The final Jubilean mystery, the final return, and the final restoration. The final mystery is revealed in the very last pages of the very last book of the Bible, the Book of Revelation. There, at the very end, everything returns to the beginning.”
“To the beginning of the age?”
“To the beginning before the beginning of the age, to the beginning of the beginning. You see, in the final Jubilee, at the very end, all things return to the very beginning. To before the fall, before the darkness, before the entrance of evil . . . and sorrow, before the separation from God . . . to the way it was in the beginning . . . to Paradise.”
“Paradise—is that the ultimate ancestral possession?”
“Yes, our original possession . . . and the long lost inheritance. The final Jubilean mystery is the return to Paradise. Do you know what Messiah said while dying on the cross? He said,
I say to you, today you will be with Me in Paradise.3
“And what was it that was lost in Paradise? The Tree of Life, the embodiment of eternal life. Now listen to what reappears in the very last pages of the Scriptures:
And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding from the throne of God and of the Lamb. In the middle of its street, and on either side of the river, was the tree of life. . . 4
“What is it that the Jubilee ends?”
“The separation, the exile.”
“And in the beginning there was no separation. God and man dwelt together. So of the end it is written:
And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, “Behold, the dwelling of God is with men, and