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How to be a dependable part of Heaven’s rescue mission to Earth (Leviticus 25)
What is a genuine kinsman-redeemer?
“‘If a fellow countryman of yours becomes so poor he has to sell part of his property, then his nearest kinsman is to come and buy back what his relative has sold. ‘Or in case a man has no kinsman, but so recovers his means as to find sufficient for its redemption, then he shall calculate the years since its sale and refund the balance to the man to whom he sold it, and so return to his property.” (Leviticus 25:25–27 NASB)
The overall lesson of the kinsman-redeemer from the the Torah reading בְּהַר Behar (“on mount” [Sinai]; Leviticus 25) and elsewhere in the Bible is this: As long as it’s in your means to help someone, you should help them. But if you go in to debt, borrowing money to help your kinsman, you are not really helping them, or yourself. You are just transferring debt from them to yourself.
It’s like being a lifeguard. If you have no training in water rescue and you impulsively put yourself in danger to help a drowning person, both of you could die. If you go into the water without a plan or without a real understanding of how to bring the other person safely out of their predicament, you might make things worse because now there are two people who need to be saved, not just one.
If you jump in the water to help someone and they try to drown you, you have to push them away and reorient yourself so you can save them from the water and yourself too. If you start to drown, who will help you at that point? You should not presume that someone else will help you.
“Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends. You are My friends if you do what I command you.” (John 15:13–14 NASB)
We belong to God, and although we may rent ourselves out to an employer to earn a living, God is our permanent owner and redeemer.
How to build up a family to live with forever
As we studied in the Torah reading Emor, Shavuot and Sukkot are more closely related to the Jubilee cycle than any other Feasts.
* Shavuot is seven weeks plus one day = eight days* Sukkot is seven days plus one day = eight days* Shemitah is seven years plus one year = eight years
This cycle of 7 + 1 = 8 must be very important considering how often God repeats this cycle throughout the Biblical calendar.
After First Fruits, we started counting something called the “Omer” leading up to Shavuot. In the Gospels, we are told the First Fruit was the Messiah Himself and the counting starts from the Resurrection to Pentecost. The First Fruits of wheat grains is wheat sheaves. The First Fruits of sheep are lambs. The First Fruits of human beings are babies. Wheat produces wheat, sheep produce sheep and human beings produce human beings. People do not produce wheat and sheep, we harvest them.
* Shavuot: Counting People* Sukkot: Gathering Nations* Schmittah/Yobel: How you treat people; Living in Eternal Life
In Acts 2, at the first Shavuot after the resurrection of Messiah Yeshua (Christ Jesus), the Spirit was given from God in special measure to His disciples who had gathered in the Temple on that day. Whoever, God places His Spirit upon are our brothers and sisters, regardless of genealogy or biology. God’s spirit can’t inhabit a cherry, a mouse or a tree. These things have life but they don’t have spirit. He didn’t have to put His Spirit in mankind, but He chose to do so.
Counting the Omer is not primarily about counting wheat or sheep.
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By Hallel FellowshipWhat is a genuine kinsman-redeemer?
“‘If a fellow countryman of yours becomes so poor he has to sell part of his property, then his nearest kinsman is to come and buy back what his relative has sold. ‘Or in case a man has no kinsman, but so recovers his means as to find sufficient for its redemption, then he shall calculate the years since its sale and refund the balance to the man to whom he sold it, and so return to his property.” (Leviticus 25:25–27 NASB)
The overall lesson of the kinsman-redeemer from the the Torah reading בְּהַר Behar (“on mount” [Sinai]; Leviticus 25) and elsewhere in the Bible is this: As long as it’s in your means to help someone, you should help them. But if you go in to debt, borrowing money to help your kinsman, you are not really helping them, or yourself. You are just transferring debt from them to yourself.
It’s like being a lifeguard. If you have no training in water rescue and you impulsively put yourself in danger to help a drowning person, both of you could die. If you go into the water without a plan or without a real understanding of how to bring the other person safely out of their predicament, you might make things worse because now there are two people who need to be saved, not just one.
If you jump in the water to help someone and they try to drown you, you have to push them away and reorient yourself so you can save them from the water and yourself too. If you start to drown, who will help you at that point? You should not presume that someone else will help you.
“Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends. You are My friends if you do what I command you.” (John 15:13–14 NASB)
We belong to God, and although we may rent ourselves out to an employer to earn a living, God is our permanent owner and redeemer.
How to build up a family to live with forever
As we studied in the Torah reading Emor, Shavuot and Sukkot are more closely related to the Jubilee cycle than any other Feasts.
* Shavuot is seven weeks plus one day = eight days* Sukkot is seven days plus one day = eight days* Shemitah is seven years plus one year = eight years
This cycle of 7 + 1 = 8 must be very important considering how often God repeats this cycle throughout the Biblical calendar.
After First Fruits, we started counting something called the “Omer” leading up to Shavuot. In the Gospels, we are told the First Fruit was the Messiah Himself and the counting starts from the Resurrection to Pentecost. The First Fruits of wheat grains is wheat sheaves. The First Fruits of sheep are lambs. The First Fruits of human beings are babies. Wheat produces wheat, sheep produce sheep and human beings produce human beings. People do not produce wheat and sheep, we harvest them.
* Shavuot: Counting People* Sukkot: Gathering Nations* Schmittah/Yobel: How you treat people; Living in Eternal Life
In Acts 2, at the first Shavuot after the resurrection of Messiah Yeshua (Christ Jesus), the Spirit was given from God in special measure to His disciples who had gathered in the Temple on that day. Whoever, God places His Spirit upon are our brothers and sisters, regardless of genealogy or biology. God’s spirit can’t inhabit a cherry, a mouse or a tree. These things have life but they don’t have spirit. He didn’t have to put His Spirit in mankind, but He chose to do so.
Counting the Omer is not primarily about counting wheat or sheep.