1Then the LORD said to Moses on Mount Sinai, 2“Speak to the Israelites and say to them: When you enter the land that I am giving you, the land itself must observe a Sabbath to the LORD.
3For six years you may sow your field and prune your vineyard and gather its crops. 4But in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of complete rest for the land—a Sabbath to the LORD.
You are not to sow your field or prune your vineyard. 5You are not to reap the aftergrowth of your harvest or gather the grapes of your untended vines. The land must have a year of complete rest. 6Whatever the land yields during the Sabbath year shall be food for you—for yourself, your manservant and maidservant, the hired hand or foreigner who stays with you, 7and for your livestock and the wild animals in your land. All its growth may serve as food.
“During the sabbatical year there must be no systematic harvesting of self-seeding crops, or such fruits as figs and grapes. Anything of this nature that the land produces without human aid is the property of all, and people are to obtain food wherever they can find it, just as the Israelites did in their wilderness wanderings.” (Harrison)
Todays observant Jews found a way to work around these verses. They would sell their land for a year to a gentile and continue to work it and after a year buy it back.
In this way they could claim they didn’t own the property and didn’t have to follow the sabbatical year.
Failure to keep this law determined their captivity!
Leviticus 26: 34Then the land shall enjoy its Sabbaths all the days it lies desolate, while you are in the land of your enemies. At that time the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths.
What were the reasons for the land to have a sabbatical year?
There was basically two, Faith in the Lord that He will provide and Ecology, to allow nutrients to be absorbed back into the soil.
Have faith that He is in control.
As the human race runs towards destruction the lingering question is, how many souls will He reap before Jesus returns?
Do you have faith?
Blessings, David
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