LEVITICUS 26-27:Yesterday we heard about the Sabbath year and the year of Restoration/Jubilee. Before the Year of Restoration, property could be bought back//redeemed. In the Restoration year property was returned to the original owners and poor people who had become enslaved were set free. I suspect these laws were never done in all of Israel's history. If they were, perhaps only once— fifty years after Israel entered the land of Canaan.

PSALM 24:This Psalm is one of the most majestic psalms! This ends with the song for welcoming the triumphant Messiah into Jerusalem.

LUKE 17a:Yesterday in chapter 16 we heard two longer parables— both very insightful: The parable of the shrewd manager, and the one about the rich man and Lazarus. Both of them show this lesson:

Use your worldly resources to benefit others and make friends. Then, when your earthly possessions are gone, they (those friends) will welcome you to an eternal home.

NLT Translation notes:Luk. 17: 3 So watch yourselves! "If your fellow believer sins, rebuke [him//that person] ; then if [he repents//there is repentance], forgive [him/0].[I don't mind some gender sensitivity, but NLT goes overboard here.]5 The apostles said to the Lord, "Show us how to increase our [our level of believing in God//faith]."6 The Lord answered, "If your [belief in him is tiny, just as tiny as// had faith even as small] as a mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, 'May you be uprooted and thrown into the sea,' and it would obey you!15 One of them, when he saw that he was healed, came back to Jesus, shouting [over and over again//0], "Praise God!" 19 And Jesus said to the man, "[You may stand//Stand] up and go [now/0]. [It is because you believe fully in Me that you have been healed.//Your faith has healed you.]"24 For as the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one end to the other, so it will be on the day when [I—] the Son of Man [come/comes]. 26 "When [I return as//0] the Son of Man [0/returns], it will be like it was in Noah's day.30 Yes, it will be 'business as usual' right up to the day when [I—/0] the Son of Man[, am//is] revealed.37 "Where will this happen, Lord?"i the disciples asked.Jesus replied, "Just as the gathering of vultures shows [clearly that//there is] a carcass [is somewhere//0] nearby, so [the signs that indicate the end will be obvious//so these signs indicate that the end is near]."

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NL-Day066 Leviticus 26-27; Psalm 24; Luke 17:1-21