Why does a rule about offering the firstborn of the herds follow rules about mitigating poverty? The firstborn tithes are peace offerings, intended to be community feasts shared by rich, poor, landed, and indigent. They help to provide for the poor and to give opportunties for rich and poor to fellowship together without distinction.
Deuteronomy 15:19-23
It's uncomfortable to admit, but slavery is part of God's cure for poverty. There's nothing inherently sinful about slavery if it's done according to the guidelines God gave us in #torah. It can be the last, best hope for the rehabilitation of people who are very slow to learn.
No slave may be severely beaten, and all Hebrew slaves must be released at the end of the sixth year. When released, a Hebrew slave must be sent out with generous gifts: food, wine, and animals sufficient to support him until he is able to sow and reap his own crops. No Hebrew may own another Hebrew outright. All Hebrews belong to God and authority over them can only be partially delegated.
Deuteronomy 15:12-18
Small Straws by Marsha Burns
You are still in a very dry time spiritually as you finish up what you started awhile ago. You have to get through this stretch of time before you can move into the fresh anointing provided for the new season. Do not get ahead of yourself. Take one step at a time and deal with one thing at a time as you make your way through this tedious place. It will require patience and perseverance, but I will give you the strength to endure, says the Lord. Proverbs 3:5-6 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on you own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.
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The most common objection to wearing fringes today as a Christian is "That's what the Holy Spirit is for". However, there is no Scripture that says the Holy Spirit took the place of what these fringes represent. When we look at the instance of when the command for fringes was given, it was to remind the Israelites to obey God's commands. This is WITH a physical manifestation of God leading them around the wilderness as a pillar of smoke by day and fire by night. They've had first hand witness to the awesome and terrifying things God can do, yet God still saw a need to tell them to put something on their clothes to remind them of keeping the commands.
Something else to think about, as Paul warns (1 Thess. 5:19, Ephesians 4), you can ignore what the Holy Spirit is telling you. If you ignore something long enough, you won't hear it anymore. If you are tying something to your clothes every day, to where you see them, that is a conscious choice to do so. You aren't ignoring. It puts you in a mindset of "Yes, I am walking the way God wants me to".
When we look at the Acts account when the Holy Spirit came on the upper room, there is no mention of the disciples ripping/cutting off these fringes. The only place in the New Testament I can find a reference to these fringes is when the woman with the issue of blood touches Jesus' hem of his robe, the hem would have these fringes according to the commandment. We know Jesus and the disciples wore these. We are trying to imitate their lives. Why wouldn't we?
The last thing I would bring up with this argument is: when was the last time you were somewhere that the people didn't know you, and you let yourself not be Christlike? A waiter spilling your drink? Being rowdy at a sports game? Etc... Something that you might feel bad for afterward, but don't really pay too much attention to it, because after all, no one knew you were a Christian? Having fringes on the outside of your clothing is showing the world "My actions, my words, my self, is representing God, the Most High!".
Something to think about.
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"It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting, because this is the end of all men: and the living shall lay it to his heart."
Ec 7
Jerret, a Gobline kobold prep-hatchling of Sepeto, with the egg it hatched from.
(The different look is because I had to use my camera because our scanner isn't working.)
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