“Glory to the Precious name of our Lord Jesus Christ”

Nahum 1: 15 Behold, on the mountains the feet of him who brings good tidings, who proclaims peace! O Judah, keep your appointed feasts, perform your vows. For the wicked one shall no more pass through you; He is utterly cut off.

May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen

Hallelujah 

We, the bride, the church must safeguard ourselves carefully so that our land, which is our soul is not sold to the stranger

My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, in the portion of the Bible that we meditated upon in the past days, we meditated regarding in the year of Jubilee, which is the day of Pentecost; how the bride, the church which is our soul dwells in safety and prospers.

Next the things what we are going to meditate upon are Leviticus 25: 20 – 38 ‘And if you say, “What shall we eat in the seventh year, since we shall not sow nor gather in our produce?” 

Then I will command My blessing on you in the sixth year, and it will bring forth produce enough for three years. 

And you shall sow in the eighth year and eat old produce until the ninth year; until its produce comes in, you shall eat of the old harvest.

‘The land shall not be sold permanently, for the land is Mine; for you are strangers and sojourners with Me. 

And in all the land of your possession you shall grant redemption of the land.

‘If one of your brethren becomes poor, and has sold some of his possession, and if his redeeming relative comes to redeem it, then he may redeem what his brother sold. 

Or if the man has no one to redeem it, but he himself becomes able to redeem it, 

then let him count the years since its sale and restore the remainder to the man to whom he sold it, that he may return to his possession. 

But if he is not able to have it restored to himself, then what was sold shall remain in the hand of him who bought it until the Year of Jubilee; and in the Jubilee it shall be released, and he shall return to his possession.

‘If a man sells a house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; within a full year he may redeem it. 

But if it is not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house in the walled city shall belong permanently to him who bought it, throughout his generations. It shall not be released in the Jubilee. 

However, the houses of villages which have no wall around them shall be counted as the fields of the country. They may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the Jubilee. 

Nevertheless, the cities of the Levites, and the houses in the cities of their possession, the Levites may redeem at any time. 

And if a man purchases a house from the Levites, then the house that was sold in the city of his possession shall be released in the Jubilee; for the houses in the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel. 

But the field of the common land of their cities may not be sold, for it is their perpetual possession.

‘If one of your brethren becomes poor, and falls into poverty among you, then you shall help him, like a stranger or a sojourner, that he may live with you. 

Take no usury or interest from him; but fear your God, that your brother may live with you. 

You shall not lend him your money for usury, nor lend him your food at a profit. 

I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan and to be your God.

What these verses are saying is that because God had said not to sow seeds in the seventh year and rest if we think in our mind regarding what we will eat, God says that I will command My blessing on you in the sixth year, and it will bring forth produce enough for three years. The reason God is showing this as a pattern is that the seed, which is the word of God if a servant of God continuously works for six years, then in the seventh year God is made holy and rests within us. Before that happens, in the sixth year it will give the produce enough for three years says the Lord.  

But you shall sow in the eighth year and eat old produce until the ninth year. God is showing this as a pattern to the produce of our soul. Therefore, because we belong to God, he is saying that our lands (soul) should not be sold permanently to others.  We must safeguard ourselves so that we do not stuck in the hands of the enemy. Because we do not submit ourselves completely to God, the Lord is saying that you are strangers and sojourners with Me.

Therefore, God is purchasing us as his own land by his precious blood. But if we do not offer ourselves completely as a burnt offering to God we will be sold into the hands of the enemy. Therefore, God is telling in Isaiah 52: 4, 5 For thus says the Lord God: “My people went down at first into Egypt to dwell there; Then the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.

Now therefore, what have I here,” says the Lord, “That My people are taken away for nothing? Those who rule over them make them wail,” says the Lord, “And My name is blasphemed continually every day.

In the above-mentioned verses it tells us how we are being sold and how we must be delivered is that Isaiah 52: 1- 3 Awake, awake! Put on your strength, O Zion; Put on your beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city! For the uncircumcised and the unclean shall no longer come to you.

Shake yourself from the dust, arise; sit down, O Jerusalem! Loose yourself from the bonds of your neck, O captive daughter of Zion!

For thus says the Lord: “You have sold yourselves for nothing, and you shall be redeemed without money.”

Isaiah 52: 6 – 10 Therefore My people shall know My name; Therefore, they shall know in that day that I am He who speaks: ‘Behold, it is I.’”

How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who proclaims peace, who brings glad tidings of good things, who proclaims salvation, who says to Zion, “Your God reigns!”

Your watchmen shall lift up their voices, with their voices they shall sing together; For they shall see eye to eye when the Lord brings back Zion.

Break forth into joy, sing together, you waste places of Jerusalem! For the Lord has comforted His people, he has redeemed Jerusalem.

The Lord has made bare His holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.

In these verses, he is redeeming our soul and God is comforting Jerusalem and later in Isaiah 52: 11 – 13 Depart! Depart! Go out from there, touch no unclean thing; Go out from the midst of her, be clean, you who bear the vessels of the Lord.

For you shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight; For the Lord will go before you, and the God of Israel will be your rear guard.

Behold, My Servant shall deal prudently; He shall be exalted and extolled and be very high.

These verses are written regarding how we, who are redeemed must cleanse ourselves and carry on the journey of our faith. The journey of faith, not us, but he who is in us will walk with wisdom and in everything in our lives he will be exalted, and he alone will be extolled and be very high. Regarding this, it is written that in all the land of your possession you shall grant redemption of the land.

My dear people, each one of us must know that if truly a soul is being redeemed it will burn itself completely. It will not lift itself in any place. But many people tell me, me and for us and keep lifting themselves up. We must know that such kind of soul has not been redeemed. 

My dear people who are reading this, we must never lift ourselves up and we must safeguard our souls. Only if we humble ourselves in this manner, God gives us his grace. That grace is only the decoration that does not perish forever which is eternal life. But if we do not humble ourselves, God will not give us the harvest of grace and we will lose the grace and we will become poor. In this manner, many become poor and because they sell their possession, which is the land to the stranger, God is telling the church, the brethren to buy that land.

Surely, we must know these things that is, if anyone gets stuck in the hands of the stranger in this manner that land, that church, which is our relative should redeem what he has sold by the word of God. That is, he must proclaim peace as the gospel. Let us submit ourselves to receive such kind of blessings and live.

Let us pray. May the Lord bless you all abundantly.

- To be continued