Very significantly the last line of Isaiah read by Jesus says: “to proclaim the Lord’s year of favour” (Lk 4,19; Is 61,2), and immediately afterwards, Jesus’ message was a declaration that precisely “this text” was being fulfilled on that day. The expression of Isaiah 61,2 “year of the Lord’s favour” clearly refers to the prescriptons in the Book of Leviticus on the jubilee year (Lev 25,10-13). Therefore at Nazareth Jesus was proclaiming a Jubilee year.
Jesus was restoring the Jubilee that was abolished before he was born. This got everyone’s attention because most of the world was under the yoke of Roman Slavery. Rome’s army would conquer a people, then send in one of their specialist priests who would assume the head of the folk religion and alter it to suit the gods and the rule of Rome. All mention of LIBERTY was rubbed out. Paul was such a priest, hired by Rome and the Herodians to rub-out all mention of the Jubliee. Paul bids his followers to remain slaves.
Here is a very good article on the Liberation mentioned in Luke. I am going to publish the whole thing because articles like this have a way of disappearing.
There are many sects having an argument over how to deal with ISIS, the new slave masters. I know Pope Francis is in much pain because of the…
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