Cloud9 wrote:It's called bankruptcy.
We call it bankruptcy but they called it forgiveness and God intended it to work in the context of landed family lines. Every family upon entering the Holy Land was given an allotment that had to be returned to the heirs during Jubiliee. The Jews never actually honored even on year of Jubilee that I am aware of though. The Jews were also forbidden to lend money at interest to their kinsmen. This did not apply to the Gentiles and they have shown themselves very shrewd in understanding this fact.
The difficult thing for some of us gentiles to get is that whether objective or self-imposed the history of the Jewish nation is inseparable from the history and fate of the world.
Jubilee works just fine in the context of families recieving again the land from which they can make a living. But you see having a plot from which to grow leeks and onions is not really enough for fallen humanity. We crave Egypt and the chance to cozy up to Pharoah or we just aren't happy. Keith Green understood the implications of linking faith to capitalism, it was not long after telling his Christian business associates about it that he died.
In the end the Jewish nation will again be a light to the nations. the Olive Tree will stand with it's many branches and be a blessing, serving the Lord in Jerusalem, and from there the healing of the nations will spring forth. They will see their Messiah as he is when he returns to stand on the Mount of Olives and to trounce the collective forces of the world under the messiah they have chosen. He will give big bad mankind a taste of what real power is. Afterward the world will be at peace for the first time since that uncomfortable incident with Adam.
Let the year of Jubiliee come!