Jon Collins

So you can see a trajectory headed that direction.

Every seventh year, the scaled up annual version of the seventh year was about the forgiveness of debt and the release of slaves, Israelite slaves.

Not non-Israelite slaves, but Israelite slaves.

And then the Jubilee was about forgiveness of debts, release of slaves, and anybody who lost land in the last 49 years gets that returned back to them too, which was often, of course, something that caused people to sell themselves into slavery was they lost their family land.

So I guess what you can say is

Yeah, God didn't work within human history to drop the conviction of what took humans many later generations to own as their own conviction.

He didn't drop that back in history, but he did set... Set it in motion.

He did something in history that set in motion a trajectory, a liberationist trajectory of

that ended in the abolition of the slave trade in certain cultures.

Of course, different forms of different slave trades still exist in the world today.

But...

I just want to acknowledge your point.

Like it's super important.

And that's an important thing to acknowledge that God's timeline for working out his redemptive purpose.

It's back to this cosmic journey.

Much slower than we would prefer.

Yeah.

And that much slower has led to a lot of hurt and abused people and

communities through history.

And that's something each of us has to take up with God on our own journey.