In Leviticus 25, God is prohibiting the land that He was giving them from ever being permanently sold. This was true throughout the land, except for houses built in walled cities. Those houses did not revert back to the original owners during the Year of Jubilee, which was a year, once every fifty years, that was set apart by God for slaves to be set free and for debts to be forgiven.<\/p>\n
There is interesting imagery behind the Jubilee celebration. It was to represent salvation and redemption, which would later be completed by the Savior, Jesus Christ. Here in verse 23 of Leviticus, God said the land \u201cshall not be sold permanently\u201d and the reason given was because His people were \u201csojourners\u201d with Him. Land was in a sense leased by the Israelites, but it was not allowed to remain in their possession.<\/p>\n
Before they came into the Promised Land, the danger was that some might settle down along the way while the rest of God\u2019s people moved on. The ones who settled somewhere would then be alienated from the God who dwelt among His people. Those who settled down would in this sense lose their relationship with God. Jesus warned us in Matthew 6:19 of the same problem cropping up in our own lives today. He said, “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also\u201d (Matt. 6:19\u201321). We are all sojourners or wanderers in life. We dare not become too settled. We all need the Redeemer to buy us out of poverty; to buy us out of the slavery to sin we sold ourselves into.<\/p>\n
“LORD, redeem our lives today and use us for Your purpose.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n =============================================================<\/p>\n\n\n\n Leviticus 25 KJV<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1<\/sup>\u00a0And the\u00a0LORD\u00a0spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying,\u00a02<\/sup>\u00a0Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the\u00a0LORD.\u00a0\u00a03<\/sup>\u00a0Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof;\u00a04<\/sup>\u00a0But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the\u00a0LORD: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.\u00a05<\/sup>\u00a0That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed:\u00a0for\u00a0<\/em>it is a year of rest unto the land.\u00a0\u00a06<\/sup>\u00a0And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you; for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for thy stranger that sojourneth with thee,\u00a07<\/sup>\u00a0And for thy cattle, and for the beast that\u00a0are\u00a0<\/em>in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be meat. 8<\/sup>\u00a0And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years.\u00a09<\/sup>\u00a0Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth\u00a0day\u00a0<\/em>of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.\u00a0\u00a010<\/sup>\u00a0And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout\u00a0all\u00a0<\/em>the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.\u00a011<\/sup>\u00a0A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather\u00a0the grapes\u00a0<\/em>in it of thy vine undressed.\u00a012<\/sup>\u00a0For it\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>the jubile; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field.\u00a013<\/sup>\u00a0In the year of this jubile ye shall return every man unto his possession.\u00a014<\/sup>\u00a0And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest\u00a0ought\u00a0<\/em>of thy neighbour\u2019s hand, ye shall not oppress one another: 15<\/sup>\u00a0According to the number of years after the jubile thou shalt buy of thy neighbour,\u00a0and\u00a0<\/em>according unto the number of years of the fruits he shall sell unto thee:\u00a016<\/sup>\u00a0According to the multitude of years thou shalt increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of years thou shalt diminish the price of it: for\u00a0according\u00a0<\/em>to the number\u00a0of the years\u00a0<\/em>of the fruits doth he sell unto thee.\u00a017<\/sup>\u00a0Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God: for I\u00a0am\u00a0<\/em>the\u00a0LORD\u00a0your God. 18<\/sup>\u00a0Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety.\u00a019<\/sup>\u00a0And the land shall yield her fruit, and ye shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety.\u00a020<\/sup>\u00a0And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase:\u00a021<\/sup>\u00a0Then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years.\u00a022<\/sup>\u00a0And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat\u00a0yet\u00a0<\/em>of old fruit until the ninth year; until her fruits come in ye shall eat\u00a0of\u00a0<\/em>the old\u00a0store\u00a0<\/em>. 23<\/sup> The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>mine; for ye\u00a0are\u00a0<\/em>strangers and sojourners with me.\u00a0 24<\/sup>\u00a0And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land. 25<\/sup>\u00a0If thy brother be waxen poor, and hath sold away\u00a0some\u00a0<\/em>of his possession, and if any of his kin come to redeem it, then shall he redeem that which his brother sold.\u00a026<\/sup>\u00a0And if the man have none to redeem it, and himself be able to redeem it;\u00a0\u00a027<\/sup>Then let him count the years of the sale thereof, and restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; that he may return unto his possession.\u00a028<\/sup>\u00a0But if he be not able to restore\u00a0it\u00a0<\/em>to him, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until the year of jubile: and in the jubile it shall go out, and he shall return unto his possession.\u00a029<\/sup>\u00a0And if a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold;\u00a0within\u00a0<\/em>a full year may he redeem it.\u00a030<\/sup>\u00a0And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>in the walled city shall be established for ever to him that bought it throughout his generations: it shall not go out in the jubile.\u00a031<\/sup>\u00a0But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be counted as the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubile.\u00a0 32<\/sup>Notwithstanding the cities of the Levites,\u00a0and\u00a0<\/em>the houses of the cities of their possession, may the Levites redeem at any time.\u00a033<\/sup>\u00a0And if a man purchase of the Levites, then the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, shall go out in\u00a0the year of\u00a0<\/em>jubile: for the houses of the cities of the Levites\u00a0are\u00a0<\/em>their possession among the children of Israel.\u00a0\u00a034<\/sup>\u00a0But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold; for it\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>their perpetual possession. 35<\/sup> And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him:\u00a0yea, though he be\u00a0<\/em>a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a036<\/sup>\u00a0Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee.\u00a037<\/sup>\u00a0Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase.\u00a038<\/sup>\u00a0I\u00a0am\u00a0<\/em>the\u00a0LORD\u00a0your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan,\u00a0and\u00a0<\/em>to be your God. 39<\/sup>\u00a0And if thy brother\u00a0that dwelleth\u00a0<\/em>by thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant:\u00a0\u00a040<\/sup>\u00a0But\u00a0<\/em>as an hired servant,\u00a0and\u00a0<\/em>as a sojourner, he shall be with thee,\u00a0and\u00a0<\/em>shall serve thee unto the year of jubile:\u00a041<\/sup>\u00a0And\u00a0then\u00a0<\/em>shall he depart from thee,\u00a0both\u00a0<\/em>he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return. 42<\/sup>For they\u00a0are\u00a0<\/em>my servants, which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen.\u00a0\u00a043<\/sup>\u00a0Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour; but shalt fear thy God.\u00a044<\/sup>\u00a0Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have,\u00a0shall be\u00a0<\/em>of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids.\u00a045<\/sup>\u00a0Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that\u00a0are\u00a0<\/em>with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession.\u00a046<\/sup>\u00a0And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit\u00a0them for\u00a0<\/em>a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour.\u00a0 47<\/sup>\u00a0And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee, and thy brother\u00a0that dwelleth<\/em>by him wax poor, and sell himself unto the stranger\u00a0or\u00a0<\/em>sojourner by thee, or to the stock of the stranger\u2019s family:\u00a0\u00a048<\/sup>\u00a0After that he is sold he may be redeemed again; one of his brethren may redeem him:\u00a049<\/sup>\u00a0Either his uncle, or his uncle\u2019s son, may redeem him, or\u00a0any\u00a0<\/em>that is nigh of kin unto him of his family may redeem him; or if he be able, he may redeem himself.\u00a050<\/sup>\u00a0And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was sold to him unto the year of jubile: and the price of his sale shall be according unto the number of years, according to the time of an hired servant shall it be with him.\u00a051<\/sup>\u00a0If\u00a0there be\u00a0<\/em>yet many years\u00a0behind\u00a0<\/em>, according unto them he shall give again the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.\u00a052<\/sup>\u00a0And if there remain but few years unto the year of jubile, then he shall count with him,\u00a0and\u00a0<\/em>according unto his years shall he give him again the price of his redemption.\u00a053<\/sup>\u00a0And\u00a0<\/em>as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him:\u00a0and the other\u00a0<\/em>shall not rule with rigour over him in thy sight.\u00a054<\/sup>\u00a0And if he be not redeemed in these\u00a0years<\/em>, then he shall go out in the year of jubile,\u00a0both\u00a0<\/em>he, and his children with him.\u00a0 55<\/sup>For unto me the children of Israel\u00a0are\u00a0<\/em>servants; 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