Jubilee as threat

Saturday January 27th, Luke 4: 19 to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor." 20 Then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fastened on him, 21 and he began by saying to them, "Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing." The year of the Lord’s favor was to be the year of the Jubilee according to Jewish law (Leviticus 25:8-12). It was to happen every fifty years. In that year, all property went back to the family of origin, prisoners and slaves were set free, and debts were canceled and the wealth that had been accumulated would be redistributed. Imagine the implications for those who had become wealthy by confiscating the property of others—imagine, too, the implications for the Donald Trumps and Ted Turners of today if such a jubilee were practiced in our time. It was to be the great economic leveling of society. It never happened. Read on from verse 21 and you will see that the people even tried to kill Jesus for mentioning it. Perhaps something like it is the only thing that can save our world.