In this calculation it should seem that the year of jubilee was the nine and fortieth year; and that then the trumpet was sounded. But what a joy must it have been to every poor bond-servant, and especially to him that was under a rigorous master. I have no doubt in my own mind, but that there was a peculiarity in the sound, which though very few in the camp of Israel, if any, by reason of the distance of time from one to another in forty-nine years being between, had ever heard before; yet all perfectly well understood. The cruel tyrant over his poor servant, certainly understood by it, that his oppression was over: and the wretched captive felt in it the mercy of the LORD'S voice. But, Reader! what a faint image is this of that sweet jubilee trumpet, which sounds everlasting redemption through JESUS. John 8:36. If the Reader feels himself interested, as he ought, in this place, to enquire further concerning this trumpet of jubilee, and wherein it differed from others in its sound and signification; he may soon discover that this must have been the case, from other trumpets which were in use in the camp. There was the Fast trumpet. Joel 2:1. The War trumpets and the calling of the Assemblies. Numbers 10:2-10. And what the Psalmist calls the joyful sound. Psalms 89:15. But, Reader! what joyful sound in the camp of Israel, could equal that which the gospel brings of ransom to poor captive sinners, in the complete redemption by the LORD JESUS? Is it not now that the jubilee trumpet is sounded in the day (which is a continued day in all its saving effects) of his atonement? And is not the same trumpet forever sounding the acceptable year of the LORD. Isaiah 61:2, with Luke 4:18-19. Pause, my soul, and ask thyself, whether thou hast heard this joyful sound, now in the present day of grace; by which alone thou wilt be looking forward, with a pleasing hope of hearing that trumpet sound in the day of judgment; when all that are in their graves shall come forth. John 5:28-29.
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Leviticus 25:8-9
8 And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years.
9 Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubileb to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.