Saturday, April 16, 2005

April 16 Readings

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Today's Reading Leviticus 25; Revelation 3

King James Version with Web Encyclopedia links: <Leviticus 25; Revelation 3

Leviticus 25 speaks of the Sabbath Year (Lev 25.1-7),
the Year of the Jubilee (Lev 25.8-38; Deu 15.1-11)
Free Servants and Cancelling Debt (Lev 25.39.55-55; Exo 21.2-11; Deu 15.12-19)
The Israelites could farm and maintain their vineyards for six years but the seventh year, The Sabbath Year, the land is to have a sabbath of rest. If the land produces food on its own without the labor of vineyards, the Israelites could consume it. The purpose of this was rest for the land. That's a concept I have never thought of with all this high-tech fertilzers and pesticides, who knows what God has in mind.

The Year of the Jubilee occurs every fify years (7X7+1 seven Sabbath Year) The purpose of this was help the poor and make soceity more stable. This was done by liberating slaves and indentured servants and return land to the original owners and cancel debts. Could you imagine this happeniing in our soceity which is so materialistic. This would be unheard of today!




Leviticus 25 with Commentaries, verse by verse

ISBE Sabbatical Year
ISBE Jubilee Year
Sabbatical Year and Jubilee

Other Links
Deffinbaugh on Leviticus 25.1-34
Deffinbaugh on Leviticus 25.35-55
Stedman: Leviticus 25

Peter Pett Commentary on Leviticus


Links to Commentaries and other References - Old Testament

Revelation 2 with Commentaries, verse by verse

Revelation 3
The churches to which the letters were written to were Sardis (3.1-6); Philadelphia, (v. 7-14); Laodicea, (v. 14-21). The church is Sardis was a dead church, although they have a few people who were faitful to the Lord, Philadlphia was a faithful church, and Jesus commended that church.


Revelation 3:20
Revelation 3:20 and the Offer of Salvation

The church in Laodicea was a compromising church, it was a lukewarm church.

The Seven Churches
The Letters to the Seven Churches of Asia by W. M. Ramsay
Seven Church Ages


Guzik on Revelation 3
Series in Revelation by J, Hampton Keathley III
Stedman on Revelation
Precept Austin on Revelation

Links to Commentaries and other References - Revelation

Bible Study Tools
Jesus Saves
How to Become a Christian

This Posting is NOT a commentary of the passages read today but it is a devotional. Please send a comment if something spoke to you today from the passages, links or thoughts that I have shared with you.

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