#Christadelphianvideo #Bibletruthandprophecy #christadelphianstalk #Christadelphians #Christadelphian This year (September 2014 to September 2015) is Israel’s shmita; the year when many Jewish farmers allow their land to lie fallow, in obedience to the commandment in the Law of Moses.
Hello. This is Nick Barnes, with this week’s Bible in the News.
We read in Exo 23:10-11
And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof: But the seventh [year] thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, [and] with thy oliveyard.
However, the Israelites were not always obedient to this commandment, as they were also guilty of adultery, murder, theft, idolatry and many other evils, and God warned them that such disobedience would lead to punishment and expulsion from God’s land. But in addition we read in Lev 26:31
31 And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours. 32 And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it.
Not only were they to be removed from the land, the land itself was to be come waste and desolate; and its desolation was to be an astonishment to the nations that subsequently lived there.
