ORDAINED BLESSING

“If you ask, ‘If we aren’t allowed to sow seed or harvest what our land produces, what are we going to eat the seventh year?’ then I will order my blessing on you during the sixth year, so that the land brings forth enough produce for all three years.”
Leviticus 25:20-21

In reading Leviticus 25, we start out with the details concerning the Sabbatical years. I made notice last time that the Jubilee can only come after the seven Sabbatical years. I say this again so that we can see the importance of Adonai’s order. In this order we learned that seven Sabbatical years were to be had before Jubilee, but also to remind us that in the seventh year no work was to be done in the land. It is for this fact that Adonai spoke His next truth; His part of the deal. If His people obeyed He was going to ordain a blessing in the sixth year that would be so massive that it would carry on into the ninth year.
This term of ‘order’ or ‘ordained’ is the Hebrew word TSIVVAH. The word carries a double meaning. It relates to something being commanded, but also to something being sent. Adonai was stating that He would command nature to give up its bounty while still sending bounty to the Isra’elites. Adonai ordered the Hebrews to cease working, but He did not order the land to cease producing.
I wonder if this practice is not practical for today as well. In obeying Adonai, will He not reward us? In keeping His mitzvoth, will He not see to it that we are ordained in our blessing? Adonai commands us to obey, yet all the while rewards us greatly when we do. Remember this, as the Isra’elites did, that refusing to obey His law results in the breaking of covenant, and the breaking of covenant brings forth a curse. I am sure you will then agree with me when I say I would rather walk in His ordained blessing.

Leviticus 25:19-28