Sun.’s Devo - Redemption

Read: Leviticus 27:14- Numbers 1:54; Mark 11:1-26; Psalm 461-11; Proverbs 10:23 If a person has given his possession to the Lord, when the Jubilee Year arrives, he has the option to buy it back by adding 20 percent to the price that the priest had valued the land. The land is accessed by how much grain that can be planted in it. If the land is dedicated to the Lord in the Year of Jubilee, then the price is the highest because it is accessed for the years until the next Jubilee. If he chooses not to buy it back his land in the Year of Jubilee then the person who does buy it will be the new owner. At the next Jubilee, the land would go to the priests. *** All first born cattle are the Lord’s but can be bought back with an additional 20 percent. But a person, animal or family property that was given as a vow must never be sold or bought back. It is set apart as holy and belongs to the Lord. If a person was condemned to die, he could not be bought back. *** These people that were vowed to the Lord for a devoted gift or for destruction are final. This has to do with judgment. Salvation is final but so is condemnation. The saved will be given eternal life and the unholy will be condemned to eternal death. *** The tithe is always the Lord’s and cannot be bought back. *** On the first day of the second month of the year Israel left Egypt the warriors from the different tribes were recorded and written down. Tribal leaders were appointed by the tribes. The number of the men were recorded according to tribes but the Levites were not recorded. Their job was to tend to the Tabernacle and all its components. *** Each tribe had its own banner and camped under its banner. The Levites camped around the Tabernacle to protect the community from the Lord’s anger. *** In Mark, Jesus sent his disciples ahead of him to Jerusalem and told them exactly what they would find, what they were to do and say. It happened just as he said and since they obeyed, all went according to plan. They brought back the young donkey and Jesus rode it into the city. It was prophesied in Zechariah 9: 9, “Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; righteous and having salvation is he, humble and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.” *** Many of the people spread their coats down for the donkey to walk on and other spread their leafy branches they were carrying and shouted praised to Jesus and the coming Kingdom of David. They were singing the hallel that they sang on the way to Jerusalem every year. *** Jesus went to the Temple and assessed what was going on then left. *** The next day he passed the fig tree that had no figs and cursed it. It stood for Jerusalem. He said, “May no one ever eat your fruit again.” He had assessed that the priesthood had no good fruit. *** He went back to Jerusalem and drove out the money changers and rebuked them for making the Temple a market place and a den of thieves, instead of a house of prayer for all nations. *** When the leading priests and teachers of the law heard what Jesus had done, they began plotting how to kill him. *** Jesus and his disciples left that evening and passed by the fig tree. It was withered from the roots. Peter remembered what Jesus had said that morning and mentioned it to Jesus. He said to have faith in God. They could root up mountains and throw them into the sea with faith. But first they had to forgive in their hearts. *** The mountain he was referring to was the religious system of the day. It could be rooted up but it had to be done with a pure heart and with faith. We are watching this happen in our day. Glory to God! **** Lord, thank you for your promises. Help us to understand the meaning of your laws and apply them to our lives. Thank you that you redeemed us with the price of your blood and we are forever saved.