Leviticus 25:18–22 (HCSB)

“You are to observe My statutes and ordinances and carefully observe them, so that you may live securely in the land. Then the land will yield its fruit, so that you can eat, be satisfied, and live securely in the land. If you wonder: ‘What will we eat in the seventh year if we don’t sow or gather our produce?’ I will appoint My blessing for you in the sixth year, so that it will produce a crop sufficient for three years. When you sow in the eighth year, you will be eating from the previous harvest. You will be eating this until the ninth year when its harvest comes in.”

Every seventh year was to be a year of jubilee. The land was to remain untilled, unplanted, and unharvested. No work was to be done. The land was to rest.

So how would people eat? God said, “I will provide a harvest in the sixth year that will be sufficient for three years. It will provide food for the seventh and the eighth years and grain to plant your crops.”

That is an amazing supply. However, we have no example of this happening. The reason? The Hebrews never observed the Year of Jubilee. They disobeyed and worked the land every year—for 490 years. Then God sent Nebuchadnezzar. They spent seventy years in Babylon. Do the math. The land received it’s rest.

What if they had obeyed God? The land would have yielded as God said it would.

Whether we obey God or not, God can be relied upon to keep His Word! We will receive from the Lord. We have the choice to determine which we receive—the blessing or the judgment.