“Rather, you are to keep my regulations and rulings and act accordingly. If you do, you will live securely in the land. The land will yield its produce, you will eat until you have enough, and you will live there securely.  ‘If you ask, “If we aren’t allowed to sow seed or harvest what our […]

As we get deep into the thick of Leviticus chapter 25, I want to encourage you to resist the urge to mentally wander off which is what happens to 99% of all Bible readers once they get into Leviticus. STAY ALERT! This chapter goes into two very important principles the New Testament FULLY EXPECTS ITS […]

“Of all the lands there are for dismal scenery Palestine must be the prince. The hills barren and dull, the valleys unsightly deserts [inhabited by] swarms of beggars with ghastly sores and malformations. Palestine sits in sackcloth and ashes.  This is a desolate country whose soil is rich enough but is given over wholly to […]

“If you sell anything to your neighbor or buy anything from him, neither of you is to exploit the other.  Rather, you are to take into account the number of years after the yovel when you buy land from your neighbor, and he is to sell to you according to the number of years crops will be […]

At this point in our study of how property ownership operated under the Law of Moses, it should now be clear that the maximum amount of time somebody who acquired a piece of land from its original owner could hold on to it is 49 years.  Once the Jubilee year swung around, that land had […]