3875 — The Sabbath of the Land
By Editor
A friend says Lev. 25:4 is still binding. Is it, and should our land lie idle?
C. L. No, Lev. 25:4 is not binding. All the Jewish national laws expired by limitation when our Lord Himself died upon the cross. That nation then was no longer God's special people. The laws regarding the jubilee were wholly and solely national laws, for the nation of the Jews and their land. Of course one could observe such a law for himself if he wished, but the Scripture law is not binding upon any one. The only laws that are binding are laws which in the very nature of the case apply to all men under all conditions. The seventh-day Sabbath is a law of that kind. It is an essential part of the Decalogue, a law which, in the nature of the case, is eternal; but these other laws, which enjoined duty for a time, passed away when our Lord came, expired by limitation.