Given the state of the economy would a Jubilee help? A Jubilee wipes the slate clean of debts every fifty years. What do you think? Is a Jubilee and option for turning around an economy? I doubt it would ever be considered but it does not hurt to imagine a new start! Here is what Leviticus says...
" 'Count off seven sabbaths of years—seven times seven years—so that the seven sabbaths of years amount to a period of forty-nine years. Then have the trumpet sounded everywhere on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the Day of Atonement sound the trumpet throughout your land. Consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you"
What do you think about a Jubilee?
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Jubilee was supposed to remind the people that everyhing belonged to God. The problem was they didn't observe it. Probably because of greed!
ReplyDeleteA friend of mine once pointed out that the economy seems to go in roughly seven-year cycles - we tend to have a downturn/recession of some kind about every seven years. This sort of coincides with how the Israelites were supposed to observe a Sabbath for the land every 7th year. Not sure how you interpret that, but it seems that every so often we have a 'pause'- a time of consolidation to remember what is truly important, whether we take it like we're supposed to, or it comes in through other means - like our own excessive greed.