God promises His people great things IF they obey the laws He has just given them. SO many blessings await! When God gave Israel His laws He used the carrot and the stick. We are looking at the carrot today; the promises of good. He started out with the conditions first. Then He moved onto […]
The last time we were together we looked at how a “brother” or “neighbor” should treat one another who had financial issues. We will now look at strangers too. When we were reading about how a poor person could sell himself to his fellow Israelite we saw that this person could not be treated as […]
God calls for kindness to a fellow Israelite when he falls on hard times. I wish that God had forbidden slavery of all men at this time but He didn’t. There were a few reasons most people wound up in slavery. The first is if they were conquered by and invading army. The losers of […]
God is watchful over the property HE gives to Israel. It doesn’t “belong” to them but to Him. And He has rules regarding its sale. We touched on this the last time we were together when we discussed the year of Jubilee. We saw that the property sold between Jubilee years reverted back to the […]
God calls for a rebalancing every 50 years. The slates are cleared and the people return to their allotments in the Promised Land that God has prepared. The year of Jubilee would become very important to the people of Israel. First was the fact that, even if you lost your house due to circumstances beyond […]