The sad matter remains: it is largely believed that no one actually kept the Jubilee command in its totality. Certainly, elements of it may have been attempted from time to time, but there is no evidence the Jubilee year ever actually happened. Such a dramatic societal shift would have literally turned the world upside down. So radical, ideal, and different in its scope would it have been that any economy that gave preference to the rich over the poor would have most likely crumbled at its very core if Jubilee were established. And I think God would have been okay with it. What kind of God
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