Kinsman Redeemer
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This morning, we discussed the scroll in that ended in the hands of Jesus Christ. We concluded that this scroll was the title deed to be able to redeem, or “buy back” the earth back under the possession and control of Jesus Christ and His saints.
We looked this morning at some of the Kinsman Redeemer but I believe we can get a deeper more fulfilled understanding in other places in the Old Testament.
There were three things in the Old Testament that can be redeemed.
The Kinsman Redeemer of a Servant or Slave.
The Kinsman Redeemer of a Servant or Slave.
in Leviticus 25:48-49
48 After that he is sold he may be redeemed again; one of his brethren may redeem him:
49 Either his uncle, or his uncle’s son, may redeem him, or any that is nigh of kin unto him of his family may redeem him; or if he be able, he may redeem himself.
The idea of this is that a servant could sell himself to work for a master because of his debt and now becomes a slave in bondage to his master.
The Law stated that if he had a kinsman willing and able to pay the price, the kinsman could come to the Master and pay the redemptive price to free him from bondage.
The servant who is redeemed by the Kinsman-Redeemer represents every lost sinner who has accepted Christ and come to God in repentance and faith.
When Jesus died, He died for all the sins of the world. He tasted total and complete judgment of Almighty God at Calvary in order to pay fully the price of redemption - a debt that you and I, nor any man could pay.
In Revelation 4-5 we see the raptured / redeemed children of God praising our Kinsman Redeemer in heaven - redeemed and glorified, returned to the position of rulership of this earth.
The Kinsman Redeemer of a Woman:
The Kinsman Redeemer of a Woman:
5 If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband’s brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband’s brother unto her.
6 And it shall be, that the firstborn which she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not put out of Israel.
The idea of this is that a woman who was married to a Jewish man and he died and she became a widow without children, by law, a Kinsman Redeemer (husband’s brother, or nearest kinsman, could redeem her, marry her and bear children to carry on her husband’s name.
This is what Boaz did for Ruth.
4 And I thought to advertise thee, saying, Buy it before the inhabitants, and before the elders of my people. If thou wilt redeem it, redeem it: but if thou wilt not redeem it, then tell me, that I may know: for there is none to redeem it beside thee; and I am after thee. And he said, I will redeem it.
Not only did Jesus redeem us from the slavery of sin and Satan, but Ruth is representative of the Bride of Christ, the church, that has been true and faithful to Jesus.
28 Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
In Revelation 4-5, we have the church redeemed and glorified by the Kinsman Redeemer.
However, there is one possession of the Kinsman Redeemer that still has not yet been redeemed that we don’t see in Revelation 4-5.
Again, this is another reason that I believe the rapture will happen before the tribulation period begins.
The Kinsman Redeemer of Land:
The Kinsman Redeemer of Land:
Turn with me to Jeremiah chapter 32.
Now remember that many of the symbols in the Book of the Revelation are explained and understood by knowing the Old Testament.
And in Jeremiah chapter 32, we find something very interesting. Jeremiah was a prophet, and he was interested in prophecy. And God told Jeremiah that the Babylonians were going to come unto Nebuchadnezzar, and they were going to carry away the people of Israel, and that they were going to place them in captivity, and they were going to spend the 70 years in Babylonian concentration camps.
11 And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
12 And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the Lord, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations.
10 For thus saith the Lord, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.
This promise is what prompted Daniel to seek
1 In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, which was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans;
2 In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.
Daniel then begins confessing the sins of Israel and seeking forgiveness and we come to Daniel 9:20-23
20 And whiles I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the Lord my God for the holy mountain of my God;
21 Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation.
22 And he informed me, and talked with me, and said, O Daniel, I am now come forth to give thee skill and understanding.
23 At the beginning of thy supplications the commandment came forth, and I am come to shew thee; for thou art greatly beloved: therefore understand the matter, and consider the vision.
24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
Then in Daniel 12:4
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
Now that we understand the background, context, and connection between Jeremiah, Daniel, and John in Revelation, we come to chapter 32.
1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar.
2 For then the king of Babylon’s army besieged Jerusalem: and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which was in the king of Judah’s house.
3 For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, Wherefore dost thou prophesy, and say, Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it;
4 And Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans, but shall surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, and shall speak with him mouth to mouth, and his eyes shall behold his eyes;
5 And he shall lead Zedekiah to Babylon, and there shall he be until I visit him, saith the Lord: though ye fight with the Chaldeans, ye shall not prosper?
6 And Jeremiah said, The word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
7 Behold, Hanameel the son of Shallum thine uncle shall come unto thee, saying, Buy thee my field that is in Anathoth: for the right of redemption is thine to buy it.
8 So Hanameel mine uncle’s son came to me in the court of the prison according to the word of the Lord, and said unto me, Buy my field, I pray thee, that is in Anathoth, which is in the country of Benjamin: for the right of inheritance is thine, and the redemption is thine; buy it for thyself. Then I knew that this was the word of the Lord.
God told Jeremiah,
“Jeremiah, after 70 years in exile, the people are going to return to the land. Now Jeremiah, because you believe this, and as a symbolic act, I would like for you to buy a piece of property. And when you buy that piece of property, it will be your way of saying, ‘Even though we’re leaving, I know that we’re coming back.’ ” And so he found a piece of property. It was the property that belonged to Hanameel, his cousin; and Jeremiah bought that piece of property.
And I want you to read here, in chapter 32, beginning in verse 9; and you’ll get something of the circumstances—and, he says,
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.
Now notice—when he says, “I subscribed the evidence,” that means, “I wrote it down.”
A scribe is a person who writes it. “I wrote the evidence down. I had a legal document that said, ‘I owned this property.’ ” And not only was it written, not only was the purchase price paid, not only were there witnesses to attest to it, but it was also sealed, that there would be no tampering with it.
And then, the Bible says in
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:
—now, there were two parts—one was open, a public matter for others to come and look upon; and there was a sealed scroll. And he says
12 And I gave the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, in the sight of Hanameel mine uncle’s son, and in the presence of the witnesses that subscribed the book of the purchase, before all the Jews that sat in the court of the prison.
13 And I charged Baruch before them, saying,
14 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Take these evidences, this evidence of the purchase, both which is sealed, and this evidence which is open; and put them in an earthen vessel, that they may continue many days.
15 For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Houses and fields and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land.
This is exactly the last redemption that we find in Revelation 5, The Christ, the Kinsman Redeemer holding the title deed to the earth in His hand!
The land (earth and all creation) is going to be redeemed as God purges and judges the earth for seven years (Tribulation period).
Then, Jesus will return to earth with 10,000’s of His saints and angels to a judged and purged earth, through the opening of the seals of judgment, and will say, “I am the owner, I hold the title deed.”
That brings us full circle back to Adam who sinned against God, and caused sin to enter in the world. Adam forfeited that fellowship, the glory, and the dominion over the world.
Remember the curse placed upon man and woman in the Garden after their sin.
Genesis 3:14-19
14 And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
16 Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
17 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;
19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
But praise God, on the cross, Jesus broke the bonds of slavery of sin and Satan and redeemed and restored us back to the image and confirmation of His son.
At the Rapture, Jesus will redeem His bride from the world.
And after the Tribulation period, Jesus will redeem the earth.
The question becomes, “Are you redeemed by the blood of Jesus Christ?”
He is more than willing to buy you back.
He is more than capable of buying you back.
You just have repent and accept His redemption and make Him Lord of your life.
