Day 30: October 7, 2025 – Leviticus 24-27 and Psalm 17 and 19

We close Leviticus with a reminder of how important the year of jubilee was for the people of Israel. Keep in mind that this concept of Jubilee completely flies in the face of our societal bent to capitalism. You can’t have jubilee to capitalism, complete chaos would break out. The concept of Jubilee is that after a certain period, 7 years or 50 years depending on the reading, that which was bought return back to the original owner. Can you imagine if I bought a house and then after 7 years, or even after 50 years it returned back to the original owner? That was true of property, of people, and of land, and of basically anything that remained after that period of time. One cannot follow the concept of jubilee and live within the same kind of economic system that we have within our own society. It just doesn’t work and complete chaos would ensue. This then requires a decision. We have made the decision and it is to not live within economic framework as described in Scripture.

The Psalms are also memorable ones, including the last words of Psalm 19. See if this sounds familiar: “Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to you, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer.” Yes, those are the words that I pray before I being preaching. This entire psalm is given over to the glory of God as creation spring forth from the speech of God, from the Word of God as we see in Genesis when we read: And God said, let there be light…etc. God begins every act of creation with a Word, God said, and then what follows is God creating.