~~~~~Lesson: Leviticus: Chapters 24-25 (reading after lesson)
The Jubilee year, as you read, happened every 49 years...during that year, all property reverted back to the family who originally owned it. Do you think this rule could be applied to our society (the land being divided up, and reverting to the original owning family every fifty years)? Do you think it would work? Why or why not? I'm going to copy the entire section here (24:17-22) "Whoever takes the life of any human being shall be put to death; whoever takes the life of an animal shall make restitution of another animal. A life for a life! Anyone who inflicts an injury on his neighbor shall receive the same in return. Limb for limb, eye for eye, tooth for tooth! The same injury that a man gives another shall be inflicted on him in return. Whoever slays an animal shall make restitution, but whoever slays a man shall be put to death. You shall have but one rule, for alien and native alike. I, the Lord, am your God." This is a very heated debate in our society today: abortion and capital punishment. Now we know that Jesus redeemed us from all sin and gave us salvation. This freed us from following the Law of the Old Testament. I'm sure we'll all be nice, but I would like a good discussion: What is your view on abortion....Does it agree or disagree with the Old Testament? Does it agree or disagree with the New Testament? What is your view on capital punishment (the death penalty)...Does it agree or disagree with the Old Testament? Does it agree or disagree with the New Testament? ~Reading: Leviticus: Chapters 24-25 Chapter 24:17-22 "Whoever takes the life of any human being shall be put to death; whoever takes the life of an animal shall make restitution of another animal. A life for a life! Anyone who inflicts an injury on his neighbor shall receive the same in return. Limb for limb, eye for eye, tooth for tooth! The same injury that a man gives another shall be inflicted on him in return. Whoever slays an animal shall make restitution, but whoever slays a man shall be put to death. You shall have but one rule, for alien and native alike. I, the Lord, am your God." Chapter 25: 3-4, 8-10 (3-4) "For six years you may sow your field, and for six years prune your vineyard, gathering in their produce. But during the seventh year the land shall have a complete rest, a Sabbath for the Lord, when you may neither sow your field nor prune your vineyard." (8-10)"Seven weeks of years shall you count- seven times seven years- so that the seven cycles amount to forty-nine years. Then, on the tenth day of the seventh month let the trumpet resound; on this, the Day of Atonement, the trumpet blast shall re-echo throughout your land. This fiftieth year you shall make sacred by proclaiming liberty in the land for all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you, when every one of you shall return to his own property, every one to his own family estate."
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