God is thus a God of generosity and blessing, not a God of power, control and manipulation. It implies release from domination and manipulation, and freedom for fullness of expression, creativity, and respect. God owns the land, we are the stewards, and people cannot be enslaved in any way. Jubilee calls us to liberate God, that is, give up narrow and distorted understandings of God. Today we may think of bondage that applies to nations, societies, cultures, and to individuals in their ordinary lives.
Many nations experience economic slavery with respect to Western banks.
Others experience political slavery from invasion, insurrection, war, occupation by another nation, military threat, dictatorship, rigged elections, unjust and corrupt governments. Jubilee also proclaims release from physical, social, and emotional abuse in homes, the workplace, and the Church. The Jubilee theme proclaims that persons are meant to live in right relationship with God, other persons, and the rest of creation. It raises up and enables the possibility for the end to violence, of a liberating kind of forgiving and forgetting, of getting on with life. This final Jubilee theme is both communal and individual, and emphasizes the note of joy and good news.