Hey everybody, this is Tim Mackey at the Bible Project.

And welcome to the Bible Project Podcast.

We are in the final stretches of this series we've been doing on the theme of the seventh

day rest in the Bible.

And today we're going to move into the New Testament and the story of Jesus, especially

as it's presented in the Gospel according to Luke.

And what we're going to find is that Jesus' mission to announce the Kingdom of God connects

directly into the theme of the seventh day rest in the story of the Bible.

When most of us think about the story of Jesus, you might remember these famous moments

of like feeding of the 5,000 hungry people or walking on water, of course, his crucifixion

and resurrection.

What's really interesting is that in the Gospel of Luke, the first story about Jesus going

public with his mission and what he's all about is found in chapter 4.

He goes to synagogue on the Sabbath and he ends up reading aloud from the Isaiah scroll

a section of text that we call Isaiah 61 and guess what?

It's all about the seven times seventh year of the Jubilee.

Now if you remember from earlier episodes about the book of Leviticus, your favorite

book of the Bible, in the Torah God told the people of Israel every seven times seventh

year to perform this year of Jubilee where all debts would be forgiven, all slaves would

be set free and anybody who lost their family land would have it restored back to them.

It was like this total Eden reset for everybody in Israel.

What John and I paid attention to was the prophets of the Hebrew Bible begin to use that

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