We are in the second conversation about the theme of redemption in the story of the Bible.

Redemption at its core is a way to talk about the transfer of possession.

So if something belongs to me but is not in my possession and I take it back, that transfer,

that's a redemption.

Now in the Bible, you can redeem land that belongs to you.

You could redeem a family member out of slavery, but the most important redemption in the Bible

is a cosmic redemption.

It's about how all of humanity belongs to God, but has fallen into possession to sin and death.

And so, for God to snatch us from death and bring us into life, that is God redeeming us.

We want to continue to explore how this idea of redemption works in the Hebrew Bible.

And so we're going to look at two places in the Torah where the word redeem becomes a central idea.

The first is in the laws of the Sabbath year, where we let the land rest and we forgive financial debts of our neighbors.

Somehow, these actions are redemptions.

It's Yahweh saying, I'll let you sustain your little economic fictions about you owning land and owning each other for a little while.

But remember, ultimately the land is mine.

Yahweh is restoring things to rightful possession.

We'll also look at the night of Passover, a night when death comes to take what it thinks belongs to it.

But on that night, God protects Israel from death by letting them paint the doorframe of their

house with the blood of an innocent lamb. And this night is thought of as a redemption.

And then I do this symbol, surrender this life, and I'm theoretically changed by that experience.

That's all on today's episode as we continue to explore the theme of redemption.

Thanks for joining us. Here we go.

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