Pastor Sullivan's Blog

1)          In Leviticus 25 the Lord institutes every seventh year as a Sabbath year. The ground was to lie fallow and anything that the fields and vines did produce could not be harvested, only eaten directly from the source. The Sabbath year was to allow the land to rest from man’s cultivation and to allow man to rest. The cycle of Sabbath years would continue unbroken until seven Sabbath year cycles were complete. The next year, the fiftieth year, was to be the Jubilee year. The Lord says, “ You shall cause the trumpet of the Jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the Day of Atonement you shall make the trumpet to sound throughout all your land. Y ou shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a Jubilee for you; and each of you shall return to his possession, and each of you shall return to his family. ” ( Leviticus 25:9-10 ) The Jubilee year follo...

1)          In the last chapters of Genesis a famine sweeps across the known world, threatening to take the life of Israel, his eleven sons, and their families. It threatens not only their lives but the entire promise of God. The Lord had promised that the Messiah would arrive through the seed of Abraham, grandfather of Jacob. But in this famine the Lord provides an escape. There is but one place in the world which had an abundance of food. Jacob tells ten of his sons in Genesis 42:2, “ Indeed I have heard that there is grain in Egypt; go down to that place and buy for us there, that we may live and not die. ” By the end of Genesis Israel, His twelve sons and their families are living in the land of Egypt, safe from famine and the messianic line still intact so that Lord’s promises would not fall to the ground unfulfilled. Years later Egypt would enslave Israel. This suffering would last for four hundred years until the Lord called Israel ou...