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Introduction
B’har [ bhar] = translated as on the mountain
Fifth word in the Parashah (Torah Portion) and 32nd.
weekly Torah portion in the annual cycle of the readings
The Parashah tells us the laws of the Sabbatical year: Shmita- and limits the debt service ration
REST and FREEDOM
Only the FREE can experience True REST
Preparation for the Millennial Shabbat
God desires for us FREEDOM
Freedom comes from observing the Torah
Freedom is not the same as Salvation
Freedom is not the same a redemption
Freedom from what?
Freedom from SIN
SIN is lawlessness - lawlessness = absence of LAW
In the Greek
490 ἀνομία (anomia)
lawlessness, wickedness, lawless deed
James Swanson, Dictionary of Biblical Languages with Semantic Domains: Greek (New Testament) (Oak Harbor: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 1997).
In Hebrew
אָוֶן (ʾā·wěn)
Str 205 evil, wickedness אָוֶן (ʾā·wěn) [aven]
iniquity, i.e., an act.
(of many kinds) which is morally evil and corrupt, and damaging to one’s relationship to God and others, according to a standard
James Swanson, Dictionary of Biblical Languages with Semantic Domains : Hebrew (Old Testament) (Oak Harbor: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 1997).
What does the Lord thinks of those who practice lawlessness?
What were we redeemed for?
(Mt 13:41; 23:28; 24:12; Ro 4:7; 6:19; 2Co 6:14; 2Th 2:3, 7; Tit 2:14; Heb 1:9; 10:17; 1Jn 3:4+; Mk 16:15 v.r.)
Presentation
Why is this Torah portion important?:
No only is there a reference to the giving of the Law (On the Mountain) - including the law of the Shmita year.
The reason the portion starts with the mountain is so that we may know God did not come up with the idea of Shmita later, but at the same time He came up with all the law at Sinai.
In the Hebrew when you see the phrase on the mountain, you actually see the statements in the mountain
In the mountain
בְּ= in
בְּ S1119 TWOT193 GK1198, prep. in
[bet]
Francis Brown, Samuel Rolles Driver, and Charles Augustus Briggs, Enhanced Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1977), 88.
Thunder, lightning flashes - the voice of God sounds like this to the one who is in bondage to sin
Shemitah (Shmita)
Jubilee REST & FREEDOM
Shabbat
SHEMITAH (SHMITA)
Lord gives the Land
Land keeps the Sabbath
Sabbath to the Lord
Rest for the Land
Solemn Rest
Same pattern for the year and for the one thousand years - because for God a day is like a thousand years:
A year of complete test
You are not suppossed to collect and store or sell for profit.
Your can eat of it- the fruit is going to fall from the tree anyway
Everyone has access to it
You’re not supposed to take more than you need
JUBILEE
7x7=49
50 year cycle 50=1
50 and 1 are the same because it is a cycle
50 is a picutere of Shavaout - Pentacost
Jubilee is of 50 years
The Book of Jubilee confirms the cycle is 49 years
The number 7 represents the cycle of completion in Creation.
Therefore the Sabbath day and the Shmita year give testimony that the fullness of creation is God’s
It also points to the 7th millennium
Jubilee = yobel = ram
Trumpet
Cultural speaking understood as the shofar
First mention of Cultural Shofar
Jubilee - yobel = ram
[a yil] means RAM, RULER, Mighty
So when the shofar is sounded at His second coming, at the end of the 6000 years, we will know the Ram, the Ruler, the Mighty is coming to establish His kingdom in Jerusalem
And there will be A day of Jubilee
Yom Kippur - attonment - our sins completely forgiven
Back to be with our Creator
With our Lord
Under His complete ruling
FREEDOM
Jubilee is the celebration because of the redemption
Another translation in Greek says: “to proclaim the year of the Lord acceptable”
Acceptable = dektos in Greek
In the Septuagint: what is pleasing, liking favor.
To take pleasure in; be favourable to someone.
In Hebrew:
רָצוֹן
[ratzon]
רָצוֹן S7522 TWOT2207a GK8356 n.[m.] goodwill, favour, acceptance, will
Leviticus explains it even further:
We own nothing
We eat not from the produce of our labour, but His
His inheritance is to receive us back to Himself
Limits to debt service ratio - debt canceled
Cycle
The right to Redemption
The Lord owns the land
We are just passing by
We are called to redeem our brother
Redeemed in Jubilee
Levites did not get inheritance of land but they would get land withing other tribes
Who is our brother, or our neighbour?
Reemed to be purchased back
When we celebrate the Sabbath we enter into His freedom and Rest
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