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Lesson 37 Hope of Israel Ministries BIBLE Correspondence Course 11

LEASE. The longest term would be fifty years our refusal to keep the law that would eradicate
with all leases EXPIRING in the Jubilee year. these evils! Leviticus 25:14, 17 and James 2:6.
The PRICE OF THE LEASE would be in accord COMMENT: We DISOBEY YEHO-
with the number of years left to run before the VAH God by penalizing, through TAXATION,
Jubille or proclamation of liberty and resto- those who should inherit the land!
ration.
If this law were kept, the people would Property Distinction
not oppress one another yet there would be
liberty of trade and even the sale of property YEHOVAH God places HIGH VALUE
within these set bounds. If a man is poor and sells on COUNTRY property. It is from the land that
his inheritance it could be REDEEMED before the family’s support really comes, and in the
the Jubilee, either by a relative or by the man protection of the FAMILY He assures them a
himself, by paying to the purchaser the value of CONTINUED possession or inheritance in the
the use of the property for the years yet land. This FACT will become evident as
remaining to the Jubilee. If the owner or his industry turns more and more to the products of
relatives are unable to redeem the land, it reverts the farm for furnishing raw material for
back to him or his family as a matter of law at the manufacturing purposes.
Jubilee. 1. Land marks or boundary markers are
YEHOVAH God thus ensures CON- FORBIDDEN to be removed so there might not
TINUED POSSESSION OF THE LAND by His be any confusion as to a man’s possessions.
people and through the operation of the law Deuteronomy 19:14 and 27:17.
prevents a man from squandering his inheritance 2. It is interesting to note that YEHO-
so that the family could not redeem it, or finally VAH does not place the same value on city
come into possession of it in the year of property as he places on country property.
rejoicing. Leviticus 25:29-30.
COMMENT: If a house in the city is
Land Free from Taxation sold, it can be redeemed within a year. After that
it is unredeemable and does NOT return in the
1. It is impossible to dispossess men of Jubilee. It becomes the property of the new
their inheritance under YEHOVAH’s law since owner forever.
NO TAXES WERE LEVIED AGAINST 3. Houses in the country and villages are
LAND! Leviticus 25:23-28. to be treated as the land -- redeemable at any
COMMENT: Regardless of a man’s time and to be returned to the ORIGINAL
personal commitments he will NOT disinherit owner. Leviticus 25:31.
his family by being dispossessed of his land 4. The only exception to the rule regard-
forever. Millions of people today have no ing city property was in the case of property
inheritance in the land and are pauperized in a belonging to the Levites. Leviticus 25:32-33.
country where hundreds of thousands of acres of COMMENT: The Levites were the
land lie idle and unused. Because, in our system, administrators in the nation and could redeem
taxes are levied against the land -- instead of their property in the city at any time and it
being levied against the INCREASE from that returned to them in the Jubilee.
land -- men cannot affors to own land.
2. Through a system of debt that Protection of Property Rights
incorporates taxation and usury that IMPOVER-
ISHES the many and ENRICHES the few, the Following are a few of the judgments
tendency has been to dispossess the MANY in establishing property rights, with compensation

Management, Labor and Property Rights Under YEHOVAH’s Law