Week 6 - All of Creation
God comes to rescue for the men and women he made in his image, when they are being oppressed and call for help. God invites his people to join him repairing peace and prosperity through restorative events such as the Jubilee, where debts are canceled and slaves are set free.
This week we'll examine the concept of God's restorative justice and protection extending to all of creation - from the land to the animals.
Your love, Lord, reaches to the heavens, your faithfulness to the skies. Your righteousness is like the highest mountains, your justice like the great deep. You, Lord, preserve both people and animals. Psalm 36:5,6
This Week's Justice Reading Plan
- Leviticus 21-27
- Numbers 1-16
- Psalm 37 – 44
Bible Project’s “One Year Reading Plan”
Justice Resources
?Book
"Scripture, Culture, and Agriculture - An Agrarian Reading of the Bible" by Ellen F. Davis (Amazon)
Davis helps us to view scripture from the point-of-view of the original readers of the Bible, who were more farm and land-based, "agrarian" than what a city dweller like me is today. For purposes there are several chapters that mention "justice", but you can skip to chapter 5 , "A Wholesome Materiality: Reading Leviticus".
Some quotes:
"the most detailed scriptural witness regarding how we might live within the intended harmony of God’s creation is to be found especially in...the legal codes of Exodus, Leviticus, and Deuteronomy."
And:
"Leviticus articulates, perhaps more fully than anywhere else in Scripture, a theologically profound vision of the complexity and interdependence of the created order. Further, it grapples with the difficult question of how humans may responsibly participate in that order."
? Website
List of "Creation Justice" ministries. This handy resource includes links to Protestant, Baptist, and Historically Black churches that have active creation justice ministries.
Last Week
In week 5 of Justice Year we learned that hope for jubilee is a recurring theme in the Bible, and a core concept of biblical justice.
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