I did a study on this concept from the OT 10 years ago or so. It took me a fair amount of time as ended up with 200+ texts in both OT and NT. I wish I still had that study but when the hackers bricked my old laptop I lost it all.
The concept is a law given by God so that if an Israelite/Jew went bankrupt he couldn't lose his land forever. The concept is found as Strong's Hebrew #1350
and there are multiple3 variations of it also translated as redeem/redeemer/redeemed. Eighteen times in the OT ga'al is translated as redeemer and all eighteen are pointing to Jesus as the Messiah. This concept is ted to the redemption price every Israelite/Jew as to pay every year.
It is also tied to the concept of dominion which Adam lost over the earth when he sinned. Jesus came as a human so he could be our near of kin and pay our debt so He could redeem us.
The best example of this law is the book of Ruth and how Boaz redeems her mother-jn-law's land and then marries Ruth.
In the NT the word redeem is found only once and that was on the walk to Emmaus by the two disciples and it is translated from a Greek word meaning to purchase. Paul uses this idea often but his most easily spotted time is when he speaks of being sold under sin. John uses the same concept in Revelation when he speaks of those redeemed from the earth. The Greek word there means purchased.
This is only a very short synopsis of this concept but I think it is really interesting because it shows how much God loves us.
An onteresting sidelifgt is that the financial system God set up with the Israelites is the capitalist system as it is based on the private ownership of everything. He knew it would be abused by greedy people so He set up a safety net so no one could lose their way of making a living for the rest of their lives, and neither could their posterity.
The concept is a law given by God so that if an Israelite/Jew went bankrupt he couldn't lose his land forever. The concept is found as Strong's Hebrew #1350
and there are multiple3 variations of it also translated as redeem/redeemer/redeemed. Eighteen times in the OT ga'al is translated as redeemer and all eighteen are pointing to Jesus as the Messiah. This concept is ted to the redemption price every Israelite/Jew as to pay every year.
It is also tied to the concept of dominion which Adam lost over the earth when he sinned. Jesus came as a human so he could be our near of kin and pay our debt so He could redeem us.
The best example of this law is the book of Ruth and how Boaz redeems her mother-jn-law's land and then marries Ruth.
In the NT the word redeem is found only once and that was on the walk to Emmaus by the two disciples and it is translated from a Greek word meaning to purchase. Paul uses this idea often but his most easily spotted time is when he speaks of being sold under sin. John uses the same concept in Revelation when he speaks of those redeemed from the earth. The Greek word there means purchased.
This is only a very short synopsis of this concept but I think it is really interesting because it shows how much God loves us.
An onteresting sidelifgt is that the financial system God set up with the Israelites is the capitalist system as it is based on the private ownership of everything. He knew it would be abused by greedy people so He set up a safety net so no one could lose their way of making a living for the rest of their lives, and neither could their posterity.