Return of Property
13In this Year of Jubilee, each of you shall return to his own property.
14If you make a sale to your neighbor or a purchase from him, you must not take advantage of each other. 15You are to buy from your neighbor according to the number of years since the last Jubilee; he is to sell to you according to the number of harvest years remaining. 16You shall increase the price in proportion to a greater number of years, or decrease it in proportion to a lesser number of years; for he is selling you a given number of harvests.
17Do not take advantage of each other, but fear your God; for I am the LORD your God.
The promised land was to be divided up to the tribes of Israel, their inheritance was permanent. Each family received their portion and these were the assignments returned to each Year of Jubilee.
“The jubilee was a wonderful institution, and was of very great service to the religion, freedom, and independenceof the Jewish people.” (Clarke)
“Debts were to be remitted, slaves emancipated, and so the mountains of wealth and the valleys of poverty were to be somewhat levelled, and the nation carried back to its original framework of a simple agricultural community of small owners, each ‘sitting under his own vine and fig-tree.’” (Maclaren)
“each of you shall return to his own property.”
Each of you shall return to his possession.
Ephesians 1:14 who is the pledge of our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession, to the praise of His glory.
Those of us in Christ are God’s possession!
Philippians 3: 20But our citizenship is in heaven, and we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,
I look forward to my home in heaven, “A Jubilee” fulfilled to the maximum! We will be free of the shackles of our sinful human bodies, no more pain and we will shout with joy!
Holy, holy, holy is the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
Do you look forward to returning to your home in heaven?
Blessings, David
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