Roles of the Kinsman Redeemer #2

Buy Land Back

Another role of the Kinsman Redeemer was to
buy the land back and keep it in the family’s inheritance.

Leviticus 25

• Land was/is so important to God. He not only gave His people rest every six days, but gave the land a whole year of rest every six years. (The people also got rest because they didn’t have to work the land that year).
  
• God promised Abraham, Isaac & Jacob the Promised Land in Genesis. After God led his people out of Egypt, while Israel was still in the wilderness, God told them He would give them land as their inheritance.


• The land was to stay in the family, in the tribe, and never be permanently sold.
  If land was sold, the kinsman could buy it back or it will revert back to original owner in 50th year-Year of Jubilee

Additional information on the the land

• Numbers 27:8-11-If a man had no sons, the land was to be kept in the family and divided in this order: daughter, brothers, uncles, nearest kinsman


• Numbers 36:7-9-Girls were to marry within their father’s tribe to keep the land/inheritance in the tribe


• Joshua 13-17-Promised Land divided among the tribes

Jesus Christ also redeems the land for His people.

A. The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof. However, it fell under the power of the evil one because sin entered the world through Adam and Eve.

• Genesis 1: 26-31-Adam and Eve were to subdue the earth, fill it and have dominion over it-entrusted as God’s vice-regents over it
  
• Genesis 3- Sin entered the world


• I John 5: 19-The whole world lies in the power of the evil one


• Ephesians 2: 1-7-We formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air

B. Jesus Christ came to earth as a man, died and rescued us from the kingdom of darkness.

• Colossians 1: 11-14-Jesus Christ rescued us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sin

C. Jesus Christ will come back again for the second time and cast out Satan, the ruler of this world. Jesus Christ alone will be worthy to open the title deed to the earth. He will give the dominion of the earth back to the saints, the rightful ruler

• John 12: 31-33-Judgment is upon the world-now the ruler of this world will be cast out
• Jeremiah 32: 1-19- During the OT God used His prophets as living, breathing object lessons. During the days when Babylon was attacking the southern kingdom of Judah, just before Israel’s capitol, Jerusalem, was finally taken captive, the prophet Jeremiah was told to buy his cousin’s field and bury 2 scrolls in the ground of that land. God was revealing to His people that even though their land was about to be taken away because of their sin, God would one day buy back the land for Israel. One of the scrolls of Jeremiah was sealed, one was unsealed. The sealed scroll is thought to represent the title deed to the earth seen in Revelation 5.
  
• Revelation 5-In Heaven there was a scroll sealed with seven seals; no one in heaven and earth was worthy to open the book until there came a Lamb from the tribe of Judah, the Root of David who purchased men with His own blood.
  
• Daniel 7:27 –The sovereignty, the dominion and the greatness of all the kingdoms will be given to the people of the saints of the Highest One; His kingdom will be an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions will serve and obey Him.