# 05 2026 Dev. Lev.24-25. Light, Redemption and Rest! Read all of chapter twenty-three and twenty-five first. We invite you into God’s space, to read His Word, to think on and interact with. This is God’s Story. Do you believe that this may also be part of our story, in our time? All passages are taken from the NIV.
Lev. 23 is all about; The Appointed Feasts: but Ch. 24-25 is about Light, righteousness, unrighteousness and rest. God’s light is righteousness.
Vs.1-4 “The Lord said to Moses, ‘Command the Israelites to bring you clear oil of pressed olives for the light so that the lamps may be kept burning continually.”’ The Minora is one lamp with seven branches. We read in “Rev.1:4-5 Grace and peace to you from him who is, and who was, and who is to come, and from the seven spirits before his throne, and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth.” This light that must burn continually and is God’s presence with Moses and His people.Today, Jesus is the light of the world, Emmanuel; God with us eternally! We thank God!
Vs.5-9 The table and show bread, fresh bread every Sabbath, “on behalf of the Israelites, as a lasting covenant. It belongs to Aaron and his sons, who are to eat it in the sanctuary area, because it is a most holy part of their perpetual share of the food offerings presented to the Lord.” Today, we do communion together, as Jesus instructed His disciples. Some churches practice it once every three months but some churches practice communion every week. “The Reformed understanding of the Lord’s Supper is grounded in an important distinction between the sign and seal (bread and wine) the thing signified (forgiveness though His blood, ‘the blood of the covenant’), and a sacramental union between the two (our Lord’s words ‘this is my body’”).
Vs.10-25. Blasphemers, a serous issue in the day. “Then the Lord said to Moses: ‘Take the blasphemer outside the camp. All those who heard him are to lay their hands on his head, and the entire assembly is to stone him.”’ There is more here: “‘Anyone who takes the life of a human being is to be put to death.” Anyone who injuries a person must suffer the same injury, Today, “You have heard that it was said, ‘Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth. But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also. And if anyone wants to sue you and take your shirt, hand over your coat as well.If anyone forces you to go one mile, go with them two miles. Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you. Mt.5:38-42.” Not retribution, Jesus calls us to love!
Ch. 25. The Sabbath year and the year of Jubilee.
Vs.1-7 The Sabbath Year; “For six years sow your fields, and for six years prune your vineyards and gather their crops. But in the seventh year the land is to have a year of sabbath rest, a sabbath to the Lord. Do not sow your fields or prune your vineyards.” However, you may eat whatever the land produces.
Vs.8-55 The year of Jubilee: “Consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you; each of you is to return to your family property and to your own clan.” There is no evidence that this was ever practiced. But one aspect of it was practiced such as the situation with Naomi, Ruth and Boaz. Boaz was not the nearest relative. But the relative did not want to take Ruth along with Naomi’s land. He ceded the right of redemption to Boaz. God was in the details; Ruth and Boaz’s offspring are in the line of Christ.
The right to redeem was based on the ability of the person redeeming to pay for the house or property. If an Israelite sells himself to a fellow Israelite because of poverty, he and their children are to be released in the year of Jubilee. Vs.54-55 says it all:“‘Even if someone is not redeemed in any of these ways, they and their children are to be released in the Year of Jubilee, for the Israelites belong to me as servants. They are my servants, whom I brought out of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.” This applies to us today, we are the children and the servants of the Lord our God, redeemed in Christ Jesus, praise be to God!
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