The Bible Study Podcast, episode 222. Today, the Bible Study podcast continues a study of freedom.

Welcome to the Bible Study podcast. I'm your host, Chris Christensen. As we jump back into this study of freedom, I want to jump

back into the Levitical Law. Now, that may seem to you to be completely the wrong direction to go to

if we want to talk about freedom. Because remember, we talked last time about the very first thing

that God did when he brought these people out of Egypt,

these Israelite people, and went to make them a nation, is he gave them laws.

Well, laws doesn't seem to us to have anything to do with freedom.

And yet what he was intending is that these are the laws that would protect them in the sense that

these are the laws that would tell them how to behave towards one another, how to get along

with God and with each other.

But it's interesting to note, because even if you think that law is the opposite of freedom,

that in the Levitical law, in Leviticus 25, is an interesting passage. And that's the passage

that has to do with the sabbatical year and the year of Jubilee. The sabbatical year was

intended to be every seventh year and the year of Jubilee every seven-seventh. And the sabbatical year was intended to be

a year of rest, a year of rest for the land as well as for the people to let the land go fallow

in the sense to give the land and allow it a chance to restore itself. But the year of Jubilee

that talks about in Libyicus 25, starting in verse 8,

says this. Count off seven sabbatical years, seven times seven years, so that the seventh

sabbatical years amount to a period of 49 years. Then have the trumpet sounded everywhere on the

tenth day of the seventh month. On the day of

atonement, sound the trumpet throughout the land. Consecrate the 50th year and proclaim liberty

throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a year of Jubilee for you. Each of you is to

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