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(Gen 2:7) And the LORD God formed [1] [the body of] man [Adam,
and through Adam, God formed the bodies of us his children] of the dust
[Heb: clay] of the ground, and [God] breathed into his nostrils the
breath of life [His Holy Spirit]; and man became a living soul [a
container of His Holy Spirit]. [2]
1. formed = Heb: #3335; to squeeze into shape; to
mould into a form: fashion, frame, purpose.
2. (Job 33:4) The Spirit of God hath made me,
and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.
(Isa 64:8) But now, O LORD, thou art our father [our Creator]; we
are the clay, and thou our potter [1]; and we all are the work of thy
hand [Heb: power].
1. potter = Heb: #3335; to squeeze into
shape; to mould into a form: fashion, frame, purpose.
(Isa 29:16) Surely your turning of things upside down [Heb: an
upset, perversity /// overturn] [1] shall be esteemed [Heb: regarded]
as the potter’s clay: for shall the work [i.e., the vessel] say of him
that made it, He made me not? Or shall the thing framed [2] say of him
that framed it, He had no understanding?
1. perversity = Dict: obstinacy, stubbornness,
unreasonableness, contrariness.
2. framed = Heb: from #3335; formed.
(Jer 18:1,2) The word which came to Jeremiah [a type and shadow
of Jesus Christ] from the LORD, saying, Arise, and go down [Heb:
descend] to the potter's house [the potter is a type and shadow of
Father God who “formed man” (Gen 2:7)], and there I will cause thee to
hear my words.
(Jer 18:3,4) Then I went down [fig. from heaven] to the potter's
house [fig. the earth], and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels
[1] [“wheels” are a type and shadow of the Holy Spirit]. And the
vessel [Heb: pot] [container] that he made of clay was marred [Heb:
ruined: corrupt, a waste] in the hand [Heb: power] of the potter: so he
made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.
1. wheels = Heb: a pair of stones consisting alike of
two horizontal disks with a vertical support between. [used for
grinding grain (seeds), like meditation (grinding thoughts) of God’s
Word]
2. Commentary: “so he made it again” = if the potter
represents Father God, and each human is represented by a clay vessel
(container), then this phrase refers to us being “born-again.”
a. (2 Cor 5:17) Therefore if any man be in [Gk:
under] Christ [Gk: the anointing /// to smear of rub with oil], he is a
new creature [“another vessel” (Jer 18:4)]: old things are passed away
[forgiven]; behold, all things are become new.
i. Commentary: Christ the anointing covers us
completely, i.e., we are anointed under new thoughts, under God’s
Thoughts.
GOD SPEAKING DIRECTLY TO EACH OF US
(Jer 18:5,6) Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
O house of Israel [1], cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the
LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand [Heb: power], so are
ye in mine hand [Heb: power], O house of Israel.
1. (Rom 2:28,29) For he is not a Jew, which is
one outwardly; neither is that circumcision [make him a Jew], which is
outward in the flesh: But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and
circumcision is that of the heart [Gk: fig. the thoughts or feelings
(mind)], in the spirit, and not in the letter [not physically, God
judges a person according to an obedient heart]; whose praise is not of
men, but of God.
(Jer 18:7,8) At what instant [Heb: a blink (of the eyes): moment,
suddenly] I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom,
to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it; If that nation,
against whom I have pronounced [Heb: spoken], turn from their evil, I
will repent [think differently] of the evil that I thought to do unto
them.
1. (Jonah 3:8-10) But let man and beast be
covered with sackcloth [uncomfortable prickly goat-skin], and cry
mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and
from the violence that is in their hands. Who can tell if God
will turn and repent [think differently], and turn away from his fierce
anger, that we perish not? And God saw their works, that they
turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had
said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.
(Jer 18:9,10) And at what instant I shall speak concerning a
nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it; If it
do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent
[think differently] of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.
(Jer 18:11) Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and
to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I
frame evil against you, and devise a device [Heb: a plan] [1] against
you: return ye now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and
your doings good.
1. (2 Thess 2:8-12) And then shall that Wicked
[Gk: without law, lawless] be revealed [Gk: to take off the cover,
disclosed], whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth,
and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: Even him,
whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and
lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in
them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that
they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them
strong delusion, that they should believe a lie [Gk: falsehoods, lies]:
That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had
pleasure in unrighteousness.
a. (John 14:6) Jesus saith unto him, I am the
way [to Heaven], the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father
[in Heaven], but by me.