Myth #2: Jubilee involves a redistribution of wealth (land) ...
The year of Jubilee is interesting, and mysterious . Not much evidence of it being implemented because it would affect the wealthy, the concentration of wealth.
The concentration of wealth and power is dangerous. The US is the major experiment and only here can one move up and down the wealth/social/power ladder. Any way that is the way it used to be.
I have said I am against big business and have been called anti capitalist. But big business and big government go hand in hand. libs are against big business, conservatives against big government.
If man won’t implement the year of jubilee, the Invisible Hand does, but not always on a regular basis.
However, the main purpose of Jubilee seems to be not “forgiveness of debt” or “redistribution of land” or “income equality” but the preservation of the prosperity in the Promised Land that God had promised His people.
Lev 25:10 Set this year apart as holy, a time to proclaim freedom throughout the land for all who live there. It will be a jubilee year for you, when each of you may return to the land that belonged to your ancestors and return to your own clan.
There are some key words there that eyes can go to. What words did the reader key in on?
freedom, jubilee, return to land, ancestors.
Did anyone’s eyes stop at the word holy? Right there is the reason for the jubilee. Holy is one of those words we can only begin to understand but never fully understand, but yet worthy of much thinking.