Saturday, August 05, 2017

Stand In Fear Of YOUR GOD

"YAHWEH spoke to Moses on Mt. Sinai:
When seven Sabbaths of years have passed, that is, seven times seven years, there shall be the time of the seven weeks of years, that is forty-nine years.  Then on the tenth day of the seventh month sound the trumpet loudly.  On this Day of Atonement sound the trumpet all through the land.  Keep holy the fiftieth year and proclaim freedom for all the inhabitants of the land.  It shall be a jubilation year for you when each one shall recover his property and go back to his family.  In this fiftieth year, your year of Jubilee, you shall neither sow nor reap the aftergrowth, nor gather the grapes from the uncultivated vines.  This Jubilee year shall be holy for you, and you shall eat what the field yields of itself without cultivation.
In this year of Jubilee each of you shall recover his own property.  When you sell something to your neighbor or buy something from him, do not wrong one another.  According to the number of years after the Jubilee, you shall buy it from your neighbor and according to the number of years left for harvesting crops he shall sell to you.  When the years are many the price shall be greater and when the years are few the price shall be less, for it is the number of crops that he is selling to you.  So you shall not wrong one another but you shall fear YOUR GOD, for I AM YAHWEH, YOUR GOD." - Leviticus 25:1, 8-17 

(Every fifty years a Jubilee year is to be celebrated: its value is even more sacred.  The word jubilee does not come from jubilation, but both words come from the Hebrew yobel or ram's horn which was used to proclaim this holy year.  That year, all slaves had to be liberated; all mortgaged fields and houses would return to their owners without payment involved.

The year of the jubilee is, therefore, very holy because it intends to establish a perfect reconciliation, not only among Israelite brothers, but also with GOD.  HE is also invited to cancel the debts.  The holy year celebrated by all the people maintains the hope of a holy year whose cost will be shouldered by GOD HIMSELF, on the way to salvation: see Isaiah 61:1, a text which JESUS applies to HIMSELF [Luke 4:19].

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