Title: [Land] Faith in the Bible
Biblical [land] faith
Leviticus 25:23-28
Washington is the capital of the United States. But it was all covered with fireflies. At night, rain would come and go, and after that, tens of thousands of fireflies would perform a group dance. It was almost as if I had entered the fairy land. The forest was like a primeval forest, and grass was growing between the trees, between the roads and between the roads, and between the houses. I really tried to find the bare ground, but I couldn't find it. But paradoxically, the United States is the country that does not do the best garbage collection in the world. The country that uses the most disposable products is the United States. Still, I wondered how the land was preserved and what their ideals were.
Then in Old Testament class, I was given two homework assignments. One was to write a sermon based on the Old Testament as the main text, and the other was to write an essay in the vein of the Old Testament. So I wrote [the 'land' faith of the Bible as seen from American soil] as a sermon. Today's sermon is based on that.
The Israelites settle in Canaan and establish a special nation. It was called an 'equal society' in the ancient society. They desperately needed an 'equal society' for those who experienced slavery in Egypt. Their 'equal society' ideology started with the basic concept of land. The first priority in Israel's confession of faith begins with the confession that 'God has given us the land'. That means that their faith is related to the land God has given them.
Look at the story of Naboth's vineyard in 1 Kings 21.
Ahab was the most vicious king of Israel. It was only in his time that the central rite of the state was given to the god Baal. All the prophets of Yahweh were put to death. Elijah is alone