Mar 1, 2026
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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