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Leviticus 25:3-4
Excerpted from: The Year of Release

Remember the connection before. The land Sabbath occurs every seven years, just like the weekly Sabbath occurs every seven days. The land Sabbath is a type of the weekly Sabbath. The weekly Sabbath reminds us of God every week. The land Sabbath reminds us of God in a slightly different aspect every seven years.

. . . even as we rest on the Sabbath because we stop working. Every seventh year, the land is given a rest. It stops working, as it were. I think you can begin to see that God is doing this, in a sense, as an act of kindness both to the land, almost as if it was a living thing, as well as to the farmer who was farming the land. It's a gift to him to give that land rest. In both cases, it's an act of kindness because if he keeps on farming the land year after year after year, he wears it out. And then, the land stops producing wealth, as we are seeing all over the United States now.

Leviticus 25:1-4
Excerpted from: Deuteronomy, Land Sabbaths, Atonement, and Third Tithe

Now when we think about the Sabbath and rest, we typically think about the weekly Sabbath that occurs on Saturday, the seventh day of the week. Here, God is outlining a Sabbath and a rest for the land. This is important.

So we see here that in punishing Israel, God ensured that the land received the rest He had required, something it had not received in years past due to disobedience.

And then my third bullet is God's green movement, again, better than any green movement of this world. The sabbatical year allows for the soil to rest and rejuvenate the minerals it needs to host a fruitful crop.

Leviticus 25:1-7
Excerpted from: Deuteronomy, Land Sabbaths, Atonement, and Third Tithe

Now when we think about the Sabbath and rest, we typically think about the weekly Sabbath that occurs on Saturday, the seventh day of the week. Here, God is outlining a Sabbath and a rest for the land. This is important.

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