利未記二十五章是論到禧年的一章。然而，這章不是開始於禧年，乃是開始於安息年。我們對安息日很熟悉，對安息年卻不一定知道得很多。
二至七節，十八至二十二節說到安息年。這安息年不是一日的安息，乃是一年的安息。安息年的安息不僅是為著人，也是為著地。
神是安息的神。祂工作，但工作後祂就休息。在創世記，神不是獨自安息，乃是與人一同安息。神工作之後，與人一同享受安息。因此在第七日，神和人都安息了。
要有禧年，神的子民必須守安息年。每七年有一安息年，乃是神、人和地都安息的一年。
安息日是指基督，安息年也是指基督。基督不僅是我們一日的安息，更是我們一整年的安息。因此，安息年是指基督在祂的豐滿裡作我們的安息。我們不僅需要享受祂作我們的安息日，也需要享受祂作我們的安息年；也就是說，祂不僅是我們部分的安息，祂乃是我們完滿的安息。安息年給我們完滿的享受基督作我們與神的安息。我們若記住這點，就會更多的享受基督。
『你們到了我們所賜給你們那地的時候，那地要向耶和華守安息。六年你要種田，六年你要修整葡萄園，收藏出產；但第七年地要有嚴整休息的安息，就是向著耶和華的安息。』（2～4上）安息日是為著人，每周一日；安息年是為著地，每七年有一整年，表徵基督是完全安息的範圍，使我們可以完滿的享受祂作我們的安息。
Leviticus 25, a well-known chapter on the jubilee. However, this chapter begins not with the jubilee but with the sabbath year. We all are familiar with the sabbath day, but we may not know very much about the sabbath year.
Leviticus 25:2-7, 18-22 speak of the sabbath year.This sabbath was not a day of rest but a year of rest. The sabbath year was a rest not only for man but also for the land. God is a God of rest. He worked, but after He worked He rested. In Genesis God rested not by Himself but with man. After His work, God enjoyed rest with man. Therefore, on the seventh day both God and man were at rest.
In order for there to be a jubilee, it was necessary for God’s people to have the practice of observing the sabbath year. Every seventh year was to be a sabbath, and that year was to be a rest for man and also for the land. It was a year of rest for God, for man, and for the land.
The sabbath day refers to Christ, and the sabbath year also refers to Christ. Christ is our sabbath not merely for one day but for a full year. Hence, the sabbath year denotes Christ in His fullness as our rest. We need to enjoy Him not only as our sabbath day but also as our sabbath year, that is, not only as our rest in part but as our rest in full. The sabbath year is for us to enjoy Christ in full as our rest with God. If we keep this in mind, we shall enjoy much more of Christ.
「When you enter into the land which I give you, the land shall keep a sabbath to Jehovah. Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in its produce; but in the seventh year the land shall have a sabbath of solemn rest, a sabbath to Jehovah」 (vv. 2-4a). The sabbath day being for man, one day out of every week, and the sabbath year being for the land, one whole year out of every seven years, signify that Christ is the realm of the full rest that we may enjoy Him as our rest to the fullest.