“This is what the Sovereign Lord says: If the prince gives a gift of land to one of his sons as his inheritance, it will belong to him and his descendants forever.
But if the prince gives a gift of land from his inheritance to one of his servants, the servant may keep it only until the Year of Jubilee, which comes every fiftieth year. At that time the land will return to the prince.
But when the prince gives gifts to his sons, those gifts will be permanent.
However, He has given each one of us a special gift through the generosity of Christ. That is why the Scriptures say, When He ascended to the heights, He led a crowd of captives and gave gifts to His people.
See how very much our Father loves us, for He calls us His children, and that is what we are! But the people who belong to this world don’t recognize that we are God’s children because they don’t know Him.
Dear friends, we are already God’s children, but He has not yet shown us what we will be like when Christ appears. But we do know that we will be like Him, for we will see Him as He really is. And all who have this eager expectation will keep themselves pure, just as He is pure.”
{Ezekiel 46:16-17; Ephesians 4:7-8; 1 John 3:1-3}