Tag: jubilee year

What happens when we take Heaven’s mercy for granted (Jeremiah 16–17)

Post author By Jeff
Post date May 13, 2023
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“It’s good to be king!” Except when invaders are about to conquer your kingdom because of your predecessors forgot Who put the crown on their heads and Who gave them the Land they ruled. The closing chapters of the Bible book of Vayiqra (Leviticus) foretell of Israel’s dystopian future, but it didn’t have to be that way. The companion passage to the Torah reading בְּהַר Behar / בְּחֻקֹּתַי Bechukotai (“on the mountain” / “in My statutes,” Leviticus 25–27), shows a moment just before that horror arrived when a king tried to reverse centuries of oppression in the Promised Land, Heaven’s mercy for Israel and the world.

Tags bondservant, exile, Hezekiah, Jeremiah 16, Jeremiah 17, jubilee year, Manasseh, Parashat Bechukotai, Parashat Behar, Parashat Behar-Bechukotai, shmittah - release or remission - Strong's 8059, slavery

Discussions Torah

Genesis 7: Being ‘left behind’ was a good thing in the days of Noach

Post author By Richard
Post date October 27, 2012
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A number of Bible teachers as well as some popular movies and books teach that believers in Yeshua the Messiah will be “taken away” in the prophesied time of trouble preceding the Day of the LORD. Yet based on the teaching of the Messiah on the “days of Noah,” believers should pray that they aren’t “taken away.”

Tags days of Noah, dor - generation - Strong's H1755, El Shaddai, gabar - to be strong/mighty - Strong's H1396, Genesis, Genesis 07, jubilee year, Parashat Noach, rapture, taken and left behind, toledah - generation/era - Strong's H8435, yovel - jubilee - Strong's H3104

Apostolic Writings Discussions

Luke 4:14-44 — Yeshua proclaims His mission from Scripture in a synagogue

Post author By Jeff
Post date March 26, 2011
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Yeshua proclaims from the Scriptures that He is the fulfillment of messianic prophecy in Isa. 61:1-2. Yet the people of His hometown demand more signs and reject His proclamation.

A medieval polemic against Christianity faulted Luke for a “garbled,” deceptively shortened quotation of Isaiah 61. How valid is that claim?

Tags Bible errors - criticism, blindness, freedom, Gospel of Luke, jubilee year, prophet, sabbatical year

Discussions Torah

Leviticus 25 — Shabbat and jubilee years

Post author By Richard
Post date February 5, 2011
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Keeping the jubilee year with both crops and servants were an act of faith on the part of the people of Israel. It is difficult to live in freedom of liberty and it is so easy to fall into bondage and slavery. God set up a safety net to protect the people from permanent bondage and slavery and to protect the land from being over consumed and dried up.