Then the land will enjoy its sabbath years all the time it lies desolate and you are in the country of your enemies; then the land will rest and enjoy its sabbaths. All the time that it lies desolate, the land will have the rest it did not have during the sabbaths you lived in it.
For the land will be deserted by them and will enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them. They will pay for their sins because they rejected My laws and abhorred My decrees. Yet in spite of this, when they're in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them or abhor them so as to destroy them completely, breaking My covenant with them. I am the Lord their God.
God is saying that when they don't follow the Lord's statutes, and they will carried off to their enemies' lands, their own good land, the Promised Land, will get their sabbaths, that they didn't observe while they were in the land.
And since they will be in Babylon (and scattered into all the Nations) for 70 years; then the land will have it's 70 sabbaths, that it didn't have the 490 years the people lived there.
Why is it so hard to just take God at His Word? He says what He means, and He means what He says.
Now only God knows who His 10 "lost tribes" are.
But He will always have a remnant of Hebrew people, because He made promises to them, and He always keeps His promises.
The Good News today is that Jesus fulfilled that first sacrifice in Leviticus, the personal sacrifice, and anyone anywhere (not just those who can trace their genealogy back to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob) can admit that they deserve death (because the paycheck for sin is death) and let Him take their place in death for them; then God will place His own Holy Spirit into their spirit, making it alive. And this new life you will have is so much better than the old one. You'll still have the old one, too, but you'll have a truly free choice now. That's what I experienced, and you can, too.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
And since they will be in Babylon (and scattered into all the Nations) for 70 years; then the land will have it's 70 sabbaths, that it didn't have the 490 years the people lived there.
Why is it so hard to just take God at His Word? He says what He means, and He means what He says.
Now only God knows who His 10 "lost tribes" are.
But He will always have a remnant of Hebrew people, because He made promises to them, and He always keeps His promises.
The Good News today is that Jesus fulfilled that first sacrifice in Leviticus, the personal sacrifice, and anyone anywhere (not just those who can trace their genealogy back to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob) can admit that they deserve death (because the paycheck for sin is death) and let Him take their place in death for them; then God will place His own Holy Spirit into their spirit, making it alive. And this new life you will have is so much better than the old one. You'll still have the old one, too, but you'll have a truly free choice now. That's what I experienced, and you can, too.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
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