Jeremiah 32 Taking possession of the earth – Title deed Jeremiah 32: 9] And I bought the field of Hanameel my uncle’s son, that [was] in Anathoth, and weighed him the money, [even] seventeen shekels of silver. 10] And I subscribed the evidence, and sealed [it], and took witnesses, and weighed [him] the money in the balances. 11] So I took the evidence of the purchase, [both] that which was sealed [according] to the law and custom, and that which was open: There were two copies of the deed and one copy was sealed, put in an earthen jar. The other one was open and it will give the requirements needed to open the seal and this was all looking toward a day, Jeremiah knows, he is not going to be able to take possession of the land. He is in prison now and he knows the Babylonians are going to take over the land and take them into captivity for seventy years. Jeremiah will not live another seventy years so Jeremiah’s descendants will have the location of where this jar is hidden with the deed in it, sealed, and they will have this open copy which will explain where the land is and what requirements there will be to redeem it. They will show up some day with evidence that they are the kinsmen and they are able to perform and they will execute the requirements on the deed, break the seals and posses that which was theirs by right. This is the only account of a purchase of this kind in the Scripture and the Holy Spirit has a specific reason to go through this. Title Deed to the Earth Leviticus 25—the basic legal perspective, and another example of an account in Ruth 4. In Revelation 5:1-10—the sealed title deed to the earth. A title deed not for the land of Israel, but a title deed of the earth. Its dominion was originally given to Adam and Adam forfeited it by yielding to Satan. So the earth is under the jurisdiction of a usurper. The Bible speaks of the god of this world. Jesus Christ is not the God of this world. This world belongs to Satan. In the temptations Satan is offering Jesus a shortcut instead of the Cross. Jesus Christ purchased the world, remember the parables of Matthew 13, the field and the treasure. He didn’t want the field, He wanted the treasure that was in it. The field was the world and the treasure was within it. Jesus purchased everything on the cross. That gave Him title, not possession. He has not taken possession yet. He is not seated on His throne, He is seated at the right hand of the Father. We talked about the Fullness of the Gentiles. God’s people are numbered, they are not infinite. The Lord Jesus is waiting for the Father to tell the Son when that number is complete. Among the things that happen that Revelation describes, there will be this seven-sealed book, that is the title deed and it has to be taken by a kinsman, and He has to be pure and righteous and has to be able to perform. He is, and that is why there is this incredible adoration by all of creation and the four super cherubim around the throne, the twenty-four elders. The amazing thing is not that God became man, the amazing thing is that there is now a man at the throne of God. When you really understand what righteousness demands there are, the concept that there is a man at the throne of God. Don’t think of Jesus Christ as being a man for 33 years, think of Him of being a man forever. As such, Jesus is qualified to be our Kinsman Redeemer. Revelation 4-19 is His taking possession of that which He purchased. It involves dispossessing the land of the usurpers. If you want to understand this in smaller model terms, go to the book of Joshua, where Jeshua dispossess the land of the usurpers and conquered it with his chosen people, in that case it was Israel taking the land of Canaan, dispossessing the Canaanites, the seven tribes that remained, three were put down and there were seven left and the seven tribes were the subject under the conquest of Joshua but actually under Jesus Christ if you read Joshua 5 carefully. It becomes a model of the book of Revelation. The point is that this concept that we have introduced in Jeremiah, the title deed, the purchasing of this land is the Holy Spirit’s way of alerting you about title insurance, alerting you to the idea of a title deed and to fill out the model in Jeremiah 32 you have to visualize after the captivity when Jeremiah’s kinsman redeemer will show up and perform the requirements on the deed, break the seals and take possession of the land that was purchased at Anathoth. This is a small microcosm example of what is going to happen when Jesus Christ will take the title deed, break the seals and take possession of that which he purchased so long ago to be our inheritance, not just the land of Israel. There is nothing local about the book of Revelation; it is very Jewish on one hand but very global in its idioms.
Posted on: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 22:22:07 +0000
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