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Leviticus Chapter 25, verses 1-34 The Sabbath Rest for the Land God Owns
This whole chapter addresses the Sabbath, principally the 7th and 50th year Sabbaths. These Sabbaths lasted an entire year.
Canaan was a land that God blessed to be a fruitful place for His people to farm and live. Like the Garden of Eden, Canaan was specifically created for His chosen people. God promised to dwell in the land with His people as He did with Adam and Eve in Eden. The difference is that Eden was a lush garden, easily fruitful without much toil. But Canaan existed in a very arid part of the world where it would be desert if not for God's blessing, care, providence, and activity to send rain and cause the land to bring forth a reliable, plentiful harvest each year. The Israelites needed to depend on God for this blessing. They needed to follow His commands and rules for farming the land.
They needed to acknowledge that the LORD owned the land, not them. It was theirs to abide in and control independently of other nations, but it was God who brings them into the land and will take them out of it again when they fall into grave disobedience and idolatry. Verse 23 says that the land shall not be sold permanently because it is His and the Israelites are strangers and sojourners, there only by God's decree.
Verses 1-35 speak of how the Israelites are to keep the 7th and 50th year Sabbaths concerning the land. Verse 18-19 say, "So you shall observe My statutes and keep my judgments, and perform them; and you will dwell in the land in safety. Then the land will yield its fruits, and you will eat your fill, and dwell there safely."
In each of the two types of Sabbaths, no work is to be done in the fields, no pruning, no tilling up of the soil, no planting of seeds, no harvesting, no gleaning of that which "volunteered" through natural seeding and fruits continuing to produce on vines and trees. The poor and the livestock were free to eat in the fields. They did not own land.
This whole chapter addresses the Sabbath, principally the 7th and 50th year Sabbaths. These Sabbaths lasted an entire year.
Canaan was a land that God blessed to be a fruitful place for His people to farm and live. Like the Garden of Eden, Canaan was specifically created for His chosen people. God promised to dwell in the land with His people as He did with Adam and Eve in Eden. The difference is that Eden was a lush garden, easily fruitful without much toil. But Canaan existed in a very arid part of the world where it would be desert if not for God's blessing, care, providence, and activity to send rain and cause the land to bring forth a reliable, plentiful harvest each year. The Israelites needed to depend on God for this blessing. They needed to follow His commands and rules for farming the land.
They needed to acknowledge that the LORD owned the land, not them. It was theirs to abide in and control independently of other nations, but it was God who brings them into the land and will take them out of it again when they fall into grave disobedience and idolatry. Verse 23 says that the land shall not be sold permanently because it is His and the Israelites are strangers and sojourners, there only by God's decree.
Verses 1-35 speak of how the Israelites are to keep the 7th and 50th year Sabbaths concerning the land. Verse 18-19 say, "So you shall observe My statutes and keep my judgments, and perform them; and you will dwell in the land in safety. Then the land will yield its fruits, and you will eat your fill, and dwell there safely."
In each of the two types of Sabbaths, no work is to be done in the fields, no pruning, no tilling up of the soil, no planting of seeds, no harvesting, no gleaning of that which "volunteered" through natural seeding and fruits continuing to produce on vines and trees. The poor and the livestock were free to eat in the fields. They did not own land.
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