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Originally Posted by zeek
That raises a few questions. If bad things happen during Shemitah and non-Shemitah years, what's the difference? Do worse things happen during Shemitah years? Do the bad things that happen effect everybody or just some people? Are the people who are effected by the bad things only the people who have sinned or everybody in general? If people repent will bad things not happen to them or will everybody in the country have to repent in order to avoid God's judgment? Or, is there some quantum of people in the country who have to repent to avoid God's judgment? ...
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The word shemitah is most often translated as “the release” or “the remission.” The English word remission is defined as “the cancellation or reduction of a debt or penalty.”
The shemitah of ancient Israel refers not only to the releasing of the land but also to the nullification of debt and credit ordained by God and performed on a massive nationwide scale.”
The Shemitah is all about the land resting every 7 years, then there is the cancellation of debt. To distinguish "bad things" from the Shemitah "bad things" in general, look in the Bible. It's clear what is the Sabbath rest. Seven days; seven years. "on the 7th day God rested." It started there.
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Originally Posted by zeek
Do good things happen during Shemitah years?
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“But the Shemitah has two edges. To a nation that by and large upholds the way of God, it comes as a blessing. But to a nation that has once known the ways of God but now rejects and defies them, the Shemitah comes not as a blessing but a judgment---and brings not a rising but a fall.” p. 206, The Mystery of the Shemitah by Jonathan Cahn.