Leviticus 25:10
King James Version (KJV)
10And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all 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.
Deuteronomy 15
1At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release.
2And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor that lendeth ought unto his neighbour shall release it; he shall not exact it of his neighbour, or of his brother; because it is called the LORD's release.
.. 4Save when there shall be no poor among you; for the LORD shall greatly bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it:5Only if thou carefully hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all these commandments which I command thee this day.
6For the LORD thy God blesseth thee, as he promised thee: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow; and thou shalt reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over thee.
Reflections of the current OWS movement :
Interestingly, 2012 is the coming Jubilee year.
Well, the Lord had actually instituted the Law of Jubilee and the Law of Debts in the OT for a purpose. This 50th year cycle is to maintain the rich and the poor equilibrium in the society that we are now in. Greed and not obeying the Lord's commands is the issue and the backbone of the OWS movement. Purging is a necessity. To de-cluster our lives. To live simply and back to the basics.
If you are a techo gadget freek, you would know that in many of todays' high tech equipment, there is such a thing called hard reset. That is when all system fails you or corruption had taken place in the data, we activate the "reset' key. That will automatically 'purge' and restore the data , hopefully to the original state. But sometimes, such restoration was not successful due to certain glitch.
In fact in Lev 25, the verse "you shall not oppress one another' had been repeated several times in this chapter along. When the Lord blesses a nation, the key as shown in Deut 15 , exhorts the nation that lends and not borrow.
Oops. What do we get here? OWS movement that is now happening in several countries .Look at what is happening in the PIGS. Nations in bankcruptcy.
Modern world had stopped understand the above 2 chapters.
Food for digestion. Deut 15: 7If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother:
Time for a reset?
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