Promises (and warnings) about proclaiming liberty in the new year
While this commentary is addressed mostly to believers in God and His Son, we think it appropriate for all readers regardless of their faith. To all who love liberty!
Yesterday, we quoted twice (gasp!) from the Tanakh (the Old Testament) and today we will add to those.
In Leviticus 25:10, YHWH spoke to Moses, giving him the Torah – the Law: “And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants.” It was 250 years ago, in 1775, that was done in thirteen British colonies in North America. Although we date the Anno Libertatus (Years of Liberty and of American Independence) to the next year, the proclamation of liberty really got going then.
In Isaiah 61:1, God’s prophet Isaiah spoke of the coming of the Messiah, stating what He would do, and not just for the people of Judea, Israel, or Zion:
The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me,
because the Lord has anointed me
to bring good news to the poor;
he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,
to proclaim liberty to the captives,
and the opening of the prison to those who are bound;
2 to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor,
and the day of vengeance of our God;
to comfort all who mourn;
But there are more passages:
Jeremiah, another prophet of God and often considered to be a dour speaker of doom, wrote this as a warning to the people of Judah – to Israel both old and new: (34:15-17):
“You recently repented and did what was right in my eyes by proclaiming liberty, each to his neighbor, and you made a covenant before me in the house that is called by my name, but then you turned around and profaned my name when each of you took back his male and female slaves, whom you had set free according to their desire, and you brought them into subjection to be your slaves. Therefore, thus says the Lord: You have not obeyed me by proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother and to his neighbor; behold, I proclaim to you liberty to the sword, to pestilence, and to famine, declares the Lord. I will make you a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.”
Will Americans in 2025 heed this warning, which could easily be seen as applying to us? There are many kinds of slavery.
In Luke 4:16-19, the Messiah Himself repeated the words of Isaiah:
And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. And as was his custom, he went to the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and he stood up to read. And the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written,
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,
because he has anointed me
to proclaim good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives
and recovering of sight to the blind,
to set at liberty those who are oppressed,
to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”
Too many people today (and for the past two thousand years!) have not understood or have forgotten that the Messiah, Christ, the Anointed One, did not come to make us slaves to priests and pastors and religious (or non-religious!) fanatics, but to give us liberty. God’s people are not to be slaves to other humans, nor to enslave. In any way. We are still to be under law, but not human law.
James wrote of this later in his letter to christians:
James 1:25 But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.
James 2:12 So speak and so act as those who are to be judged under the law of liberty.
These are not a “collective liberty” given to “the church” or “the state” or any sort of human organization but to individuals. To you and I, and every human. As Paul pointed out in his first letter to the christians who assembled in Corinth. (1st Corinthians 10:29b) “For why should my liberty be determined by someone else’s conscience?”
We here at The Price of Liberty are lovers of liberty – libertarians – because we are followers of God, Whom we believe gave all people liberty. We know that there are many lovers of liberty who do not believe in the Creator and while we respect that, we disagree strongly. But as christians, as libertarians, we do not ever seek to force someone to do something against their will, as long as they let us (and others) mind our own business.
That will be the case as much in 2025 as it was and is now and in the past. To all our readers, we pray that the year of our Lord 2025 will be better and that you will enjoy (and use) more liberty each and every day.
And encourage you and pray that you too will join with us in proclaiming liberty through the land to all its inhabitants. Every land, every inhabitant.
Source: https://freedombunker.com/2024/12/31/promises-and-warnings-about-proclaiming-liberty-in-the-new-year/
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