Saturday: What's it worth to ya?

From Leviticus 25-27:

1. The year of jubilee is a really neat concept. It allows for those who have become poor through circumstances or even through their own poor management to be able to recover the property that was owned by their families. It also ensures that none of the Israelites who end up as indentured servants don't become slaves for multiple generations, unless they make a conscious effort to do this.

2. I wonder what the frequency is that farmers in the countryside here in the US let the land lie fallow. I wonder how closely this every seventh year is correlated to what farmers do in the US. It makes a whole lot of sense. God knew all the problems that they would run into and provided answers to them.

3. In Leviticus 25:21-22, God says that he will provide such abundance in the sixth year that the Israelites will need of nothing until the eighth year harvest. That is so cool!!

4. The Israelites were instructed to not extract interest from their fellow Israelites in Leviticus 25:35-36. I wish we could get the credit card companies to do this for fellow Americans!!!

5. In chapter 26, it talks in depth about the blessings and curses of the covenant that God is making with the Israelites. It is interesting that it is equally terrible for breaking the covenant as it is good for keeping it. It is too bad that mankind is not known for faithfulness. If you don't believe me, look at wedding vows made these days before God.

6. What's it worth to ya? - If Bill Gates was dedicated to God, in God's eyes he is only worth fifty shekels of silver, the same that my wife or I would be worth (See Leviticus 27:3). That really turns the world's value system on its head.