FROM: SUNDAY’S OPEN Q & A In Deuteronomy and Leviticus, God commands that wages be paid to the hired servant before sundown. Thus, in applying the parable of the hired workers of Matthew 20 to the end of the world-- Are not all of the hiring, working, and paying (saving) to be done before the night comes, when no man can work? So once it is night, nobody is getting saved/paid, nor are they going to? Deuteronomy 24:14 Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates: 15 At his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto the LORD, and it be sin unto thee. Leviticus 19:13 Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob him: the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning. ANSWER I dont like modern translations, but most all of them tend to phrase it more clearly relative to the sunset, like so: You shall give him his wages on the same day, before the sun sets Thank you. That is interesting. It is establishing a principle (payment must be made to workers before sundown) that God Himself would follow.
Posted on: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 12:03:25 +0000