He will dwell with them. . . ” 5
“In the final Jubilee it will be as it was always meant to be, as in the beginning. There were no tears, no pain or sorrow. Now listen to what is written of the end:
God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away.” 6
“So the ultimate land of the Jubilee . . . is Heaven?”
“Yes.”
“And the Promised Land a shadow of Heaven?”
“Yes, of Heaven and Paradise.”
“So the return of the Jewish people to the Promised Land, is it a shadow of entering Paradise, entering Heaven?”
“Yes. It is appointed for every child of God to enter the Promised Land.”
“What then?”
“Then all will be Jubilee. Then the exile will be over. And we’ll be home.”
“So Heaven is our ultimate ancestral land?”
“Heaven,” he replied, “is home.”
“What about Jerusalem?” I asked. “Jerusalem was at the center of all the Jubilean mysteries and at the center of the return. His people always returned to Jerusalem. So does Jerusalem have any place in the final mystery?”
“It does,” said the Oracle. “And so in the very last pages of the Bible, it is written:
And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, having the glory of God. ... The city had no need of the sun or of the moon to shine in it, for the glory of God illuminated it. The Lamb is its light.” 7
“So Jerusalem is also a shadow of Heaven?”
“It is. As the earthly Jubilee centers on an earthly Jerusalem, the final Jubilee centers on the heavenly Jerusalem. And it is written that within that Jerusalem . . .
They shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God. 8
“Who is it in the Jubilee,” he asked, “that everything returns to?”
“The original owner.”
“And who is the original owner of everything?”
“God.”
“So in the last Jubilee everything will return to Him to whom it belongs. ‘They shall be His people. God Himself will. . . be their God.’ In other words, we will be His, and He also will be ours. He will be our possession.”
“So the ultimate mystery of the Jubilee, the ultimate possession, isn’t so much a land or a kingdom . . . it’s God . . . Himself.”
“Yes,” said the Oracle, “the ultimate exile is not to be separated from a land—but to be separated from God. So too the ultimate return is not a return to a land—but to God. The first possession lost will be the final possession restored. In the end our ultimate possession is God Himself. He’s the missing piece, apart from which everything else is empty . . . and without which nothing else has meaning . . . not even life . . . not even Heaven itself.”
“So the ultimate return is the return of God to us and us to God.”
“Yes. Each is the missing possession of the other. And in the Jubilee each shall return to his own possession. We shall be His, and He shall be ours.”
“And what happens after that?”
“Did you see anything in your vision after the seventh door?”
“There was no other door.”
“There was no other door because there is no after that. On the seventh door was a symbol. It was the Hebrew letter ayin. Ayin begins the Hebrew word olam. Olam stands for that which is everlasting, eternal, forever. The last Jubilee is of the olam. It has no end. It has no after that. The last Jubilee is forever.”
“I have a question.”
“Ask.”
“If the Jubilee is the time that each returns to his possession, then if one returns to God now, then the Jubilee can in a sense begin now?”
“Yes,” said the Oracle, “for those who return to God, the Jubilee for them begins here and now.”
“When one returns to God.”
“Not when one returns, but only when a specific one returns to God.”
“What do you mean?”
“Do you know who that particular one is?”
“No.”
“It’s you. That particular one is you. It is only when you return to God that the Jubilee can begin. And do you know the only place that this one can return to God?”
“No.”
“Here.”
“Here?”
“In whatever here that particular one is . . . here, and as you are. That’s the only one and the only place. And do you know the