禧年
利未记二十五章1至10节
1耶和华在西乃山对摩西说：
2你晓谕以色列人说：你们到了我所赐你们那地的时候，地就要向耶和华守安息。
3六年要耕种田地，也要修理葡萄园，收藏地的出产。
4第七年，地要守圣安息，就是向耶和华守的安息，不可耕种田地，也不可修理葡萄园。
5遗落自长的庄稼不可收割；没有修理的葡萄树也不可摘取葡萄。这年，地要守圣安息。
6地在安息年所出的，要给你和你的仆人、婢女、雇工人，并寄居的外人当食物。
7这年的土产也要给你的牲畜和你地上的走兽当食物。
8你要计算七个安息年，就是七七年。这便为你成了七个安息年，共是四十九年。
9当年七月初十日，你要大发角声；这日就是赎罪日，要在遍地发出角声。
10第五十年，你们要当作圣年，在遍地给一切的居民宣告自由。这年必为你们的禧年，各人要归自己的产业，各归本家。
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因此，安息年不单是让土地休养生息，更是为了百姓本身的好处而设立。神的旨意并非叫百姓呆坐一年，而是希望他们用更多时间去认识神的话语。
此外，神也希望百姓能操练信心。请看第20至22节。百姓若听从神的吩咐，神便会在第六年赐给他们丰收，足够他们在第七年、甚至第八年享用。百姓能够倚靠这位丰厚仁爱的神，实在是太幸福了！
然后，每五十年便有一禧年。它是以赎罪日作为开始，突显这年是以喜乐和赎罪为基础。
当以色列人听到角声吹响的那刻，一定是非常振奋、快乐和充满期待的。这是一个重新检视人生和各归本家的时刻，也是休息和复兴的日子；神会将预定的祝福丰富地降给祂的百姓(参18、22节)
以色列人如果遵守神的律例，便能经历这禧年的祝福。从某个角度而言，每个以色列人都可以在禧年之始，揭开人生的新一页。
对于我们今天的信徒来说，安息年和禧年又有何意义呢？希伯来书指出，神为每个属祂的人预备了「安息」。每个信徒都可以凭着信心得享这「安息」──相信耶稣基督已为我们作成了一切，心灵因此而得着平安。我们不再仗倚自己，或不断争取和挣扎，反之，却因着信靠祂会保守我们在祂的爱里，信靠祂必顾念我们，因而在祂里面得着真正的安息。
我们只要每天信靠祂的看顾和带领，便能经历这真正的安息。
THE YEAR OF JUBILEE
Leviticus 25:1-10
1 And the Lord spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying,
2 “Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘When you come into the land which I give you, then the land shall keep a sabbath to the Lord.
3 Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard, and gather its fruit;
4 but in the seventh year there shall be a sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a sabbath to the Lord. You shall neither sow your field nor prune your vineyard.
5 What grows of its own accord of your harvest you shall not reap, nor gather the grapes of your untended vine, for it is a year of rest for the land.
6 And the sabbath produce of the land shall be food for you: for you, your male and female servants, your hired man, and the stranger who dwells with you,
7 for your livestock and the beasts that are in your land—all its produce shall be for food.
8 ‘And you shall count seven sabbaths of years for yourself, seven times seven years; and the time of the seven sabbaths of years shall be to you forty-nine years.
9 Then you shall cause the trumpet of the Jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the Day of Atonement you shall make the trumpet to sound throughout all your land.
10 And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a Jubilee for you; and each of you shall return to his possession, and each of you shall return to his family.
Message
This year then was not only for the benefit of the land, but for the people as well. God's intention was not that the people should be idle for a whole year but that extra time should be given to the reading and studying of God's Word.
It also meant the exercise of faith. Look at verses 20-22. If the people obeyed the Lord, he would give them such an abundant harvest each sixth year that they would have sufficient to carry them through the seventh and on into the eighth year. Isn't it wonderful to have a God who can count?
The Jubilee year came every 50 years. It began with the Day of Atonement, which emphasised the basis of their year of rejoicing and redemption.
What a wonderful sound that Jubilee trumpet must have been to all the Children of Israel! Can you imagine the scene -the thrill, the expectancy, the laughter, the rejoicing.
It was a time of review, of return, of going back to the old home. It was a time of rest and a time of revival, when God commanded blessing on his people (see v. 18, 22).
If only Israel had obeyed these beautiful provisions what a blessing they might have known. In one sense, life for Israel would have begun again every fifty years.
What are the lessons these years have for us? The book of Hebrews speaks of the 'rest' that God has planned for his people. It is a rest of faith which is available for every believer. A peace of mind and heart is ours because of what Christ has done for us. There is a resting in him, not trusting in ourselves or working or striving to keep ourselves in his love and care.
It is a day by day acceptance of what we have in Christ and by faith leaving our lives in his hands.