The LAND that each Israelite would be given (once they had conquered Canaan) was to remain in his possession perpetually. It was a tribal (family) inheritance. Yes, that held true for every Tribe but the Levites, who belonged to God and needed no land. (As the priestly tribe and the tribe who cared for the tabernacle and its accessories.)

Of course there were times when a Jewish man (due to what we’d call “bankruptcy” or some similar term) “lost” his land, or under duress “sold” his inheritance due to poverty!. (As did Elimelech in the Book of Ruth. Well, he actually moved away from his land, due to temporary famine. Allowing someone else to “claim” it. A sad situation indeed!

But even then … every fifty years … no matter who then lived on that land … it reverted to its original owner!

Bible Proof: “That (LAND) which is sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it UNTIL THE YEAR OF JUBILE: and in the jubile it shall go out, and he (the original ‘owner’) SHALL RETURN UNTO HIS POSSESSION.” Leviticus 25:28

God legislating the real estate market!

And what gives God the “Authority” to do that?

Well, He is Almighty God. None is over Him! He is absolutely supreme! Plus this too …

Leviticus 25:23 … “The land shall not be sold (only temporarily forfeited, lost due to poverty) for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.” God just said THE LAND IS MINE!

No wonder we call it “the Holy Land!”

And the precious Jews living there even today … are merely “leasees” of their property. Merely “strangers and sojourners” with the Lord being the true Proprietor!

The True land-LORD! (Smile, please.)

They argue (and fight) politically and regionally to this day … over whose land that is. A little Plot which on the map is marked “Israel.”

Answer: it is God’s property!

“FOR THE LAND IS MINE,” He thunders!

If the political bodies of the world would only read Leviticus 25! And believe it. And obey it, act on it.

— Dr. Mike Bagwell

One could also make the case that God owns the whole earth! After all, He is the Creator! “The EARTH is the LORD’S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.” Psalm 24:1

We are just “guests!”

Peter may have had this Leviticus 25 idea in mind when he penned … “Dearly beloved, I beseech you as STRANGERS and PILGRIMS, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.” 1 Peter 2:11

Wow!

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