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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Prophet</strong> <strong>Jeremiah</strong><br />
Part 3
Brought to you by<br />
www.<strong>Yeshuat</strong><strong>Yisrael</strong>.com<br />
Rabbi Ken Gibbs<br />
Franklin, Tennessee
<strong>Jeremiah</strong> 18 – <strong>The</strong> Potter and the Clay
Matthew 27:9<br />
9<br />
<strong>The</strong>n was fulfilled what was spoken by<br />
<strong>Jeremiah</strong> the prophet, saying, “And they took<br />
the thirty pieces of silver, the value of Him who<br />
was priced, whom they of the children of Israel<br />
priced, 10 and gave them for the potter’s field,<br />
as the Lord directed me.”
<strong>The</strong> Potter and the Clay<br />
<strong>Jeremiah</strong> 18<br />
<strong>The</strong> word which came to <strong>Jeremiah</strong> from the Lord,<br />
saying: 2 “Arise and go down to the potter’s<br />
house, and there I will cause you to hear My<br />
words.” 3 <strong>The</strong>n I went down to the potter’s house,<br />
and there he was, making something at the wheel<br />
4<br />
And the vessel that he made of clay was marred<br />
in the hand of the potter; so he made it again into<br />
another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to<br />
make.
<strong>Jeremiah</strong> 18:5<br />
5<br />
<strong>The</strong>n the word of the Lord came to me, saying:<br />
6<br />
“O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this<br />
potter” says the Lord.<br />
“Look, as the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are<br />
you in My hand, O house of Israel! 7 <strong>The</strong> instant I<br />
speak concerning a nation and concerning a<br />
kingdom, to pluck up, to pull down, and to destroy<br />
it, 8 if that nation against whom I have spoken<br />
turns from its evil, I will relent of the disaster that<br />
I thought to bring upon it.
<strong>Jeremiah</strong> 18:9<br />
9<br />
And the instant I speak concerning a nation and<br />
concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it, 10 if<br />
it does evil in My sight so that it does not obey My<br />
voice, then I will relent concerning the good with<br />
which I said I would benefit it.
<strong>Jeremiah</strong> 18:11<br />
11<br />
“Now therefore, speak to the men of Judah and<br />
to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying,<br />
‘Thus says the Lord: “Behold, I am fashioning a<br />
disaster and devising a plan against you.<br />
Return now every one from his evil way, and make<br />
your ways and your doings good.” ’ ”
<strong>Jeremiah</strong> 18:12<br />
God’s Warning Rejected<br />
12<br />
And they said, “That is hopeless! So we will walk<br />
according to our own plans, and we will every one<br />
obey the dictates of his evil heart.”<br />
13<br />
<strong>The</strong>refore thus says the Lord:<br />
“Ask now among the Gentiles,<br />
Who has heard such things<br />
<strong>The</strong> virgin of Israel has done a very<br />
horrible thing……
<strong>Jeremiah</strong> 18:15<br />
15<br />
“Because My people have forgotten Me,<br />
<strong>The</strong>y have burned incense to worthless idols.<br />
And they have caused themselves to stumble<br />
in their ways,<br />
17<br />
I will scatter them as with an east wind<br />
before the enemy;<br />
I will show them the back and not the face<br />
In the day of their calamity.”
Romans 9:18-19<br />
18<br />
<strong>The</strong>refore He has mercy on whom He wills, and<br />
whom He wills He hardens.<br />
19<br />
You will say to me then, “Why does He still find<br />
fault For who has resisted His will” 20 But<br />
indeed, O man, who are you to reply against<br />
God Will the thing formed say to him who<br />
formed it, “Why have you made me like this” 21<br />
Does not the potter have power over the clay,<br />
from the same lump to make one vessel for<br />
honor and another for dishonor
2 Timothy 2:20<br />
Good workers and bad workers<br />
20<br />
But in a great house there are not only vessels<br />
of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay,<br />
some for honor and some for dishonor.<br />
21<br />
<strong>The</strong>refore if anyone cleanses himself from the<br />
latter, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified<br />
and useful for the Master, prepared for every<br />
good work. 22 Flee also youthful lusts; but pursue<br />
righteousness, faith, love, peace with those who<br />
call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
<strong>The</strong> Sign of the Broken Flask<br />
<strong>Jeremiah</strong> 19<br />
Thus says the Lord:<br />
“Go and get a potter’s earthen flask, and take<br />
some of the elders of the people and some of the<br />
elders of the priests.<br />
2<br />
And go out to the Valley of the Son of Hinnom,<br />
which is by the entry of the Potsherd Gate; and<br />
proclaim there the words that I will tell you, 3 and<br />
say, ‘Hear the word of the Lord, O kings of Judah<br />
and inhabitants of Jerusalem. Thus says the Lord<br />
of hosts, the God of Israel:<br />
“Behold, I will bring such a catastrophe on this<br />
place, that whoever hears of it, his ears will tingle.
Valley of Blood<br />
<strong>Jeremiah</strong> 19:4<br />
4 “Because they have<br />
forsaken Me and made this an alien place,<br />
because they have burned incense in it to other<br />
gods whom neither they, their fathers, nor the<br />
kings of Judah have known, and have filled this<br />
place with the blood of the innocents 5 (they have<br />
also built the high places of Baal, to burn their<br />
sons with fire for burnt offerings to Baal, which I<br />
did not command or speak, nor did it come into<br />
My mind), 6 therefore behold, the days are<br />
coming,” says the Lord, “that this place shall no<br />
more be called Tophet or the Valley of the Son<br />
of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter.
µNœhiA÷b, ayg«B]<br />
Gay (ben)Hinnom<br />
Valley of Hinnom<br />
gevennan<br />
Gehenna<br />
In English translated as Hell-Fire
Valley of<br />
Hinnom
Mt. Of Olives<br />
Valley of<br />
Hinnom
Matthew 27:3<br />
3<br />
<strong>The</strong>n Judas, His betrayer, seeing that He had<br />
been condemned, was remorseful and brought<br />
back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests<br />
and elders, 4 saying, “I have sinned by betraying<br />
innocent blood.”<br />
And they said, “What is that to us You see to it!”<br />
5<br />
<strong>The</strong>n he threw down the pieces of silver in the<br />
temple and departed, and went and hanged<br />
himself.
Matthew 27:3<br />
6<br />
But the chief priests took the silver pieces and<br />
said, “It is not lawful to put them into the<br />
treasury, because they are the price of blood.” 7<br />
And they consulted together and bought with<br />
them the potter’s field, to bury strangers in. 8<br />
<strong>The</strong>refore that field has been called the Field of<br />
Blood to this day.<br />
9<br />
<strong>The</strong>n was fulfilled what was spoken by<br />
<strong>Jeremiah</strong> the prophet, saying, “And they took<br />
the thirty pieces of silver, the value of Him who<br />
was priced, whom they of the children of Israel<br />
priced, 10 and gave them for the potter’s field, as<br />
the Lord directed me.”
Zechariah 11:9<br />
12<br />
<strong>The</strong>n I said to them,<br />
“If it is agreeable to you, give me my<br />
wages; and if not, refrain.” So they<br />
weighed out for my wages thirty<br />
pieces of silver.<br />
13<br />
And the Lord said to me, “Throw it<br />
to the potter”—that princely price they<br />
set on me. So I took the thirty pieces<br />
of silver and threw them into the<br />
house of the Lord for the potter.”
<strong>The</strong> Sign of the Broken Flask<br />
<strong>Jeremiah</strong> 19:10<br />
10<br />
“<strong>The</strong>n you shall break the flask in the sight of<br />
the men who go with you, 11 and say to them,<br />
‘Thus says the Lord of hosts: “Even so I will<br />
break this people and this city, as one breaks a<br />
potter’s vessel, which cannot be made whole<br />
again; and they shall bury them in Tophet till<br />
there is no place to bury. 12 Thus I will do to this<br />
place,” says the Lord, “and to its inhabitants, and<br />
make this city like Tophet.
Jerusalem is doomed for destruction.<br />
<strong>Jeremiah</strong> 19:14<br />
14<br />
<strong>The</strong>n <strong>Jeremiah</strong> came from Tophet, where the<br />
Lord had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in<br />
the court of the Lord’s house and said to all the<br />
people, 15 “Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God<br />
of Israel:<br />
‘Behold, I will bring on this city and on<br />
all her towns all the doom that I have<br />
pronounced against it, because they<br />
have stiffened their necks that they<br />
might not hear My words.’ ”
<strong>The</strong> Ninth of Av<br />
586 B.C. and 70 A.D
Psalm 2:7-9<br />
7<br />
“I will declare the decree:<br />
<strong>The</strong> Lord has said to Me,<br />
‘You are My Son,<br />
Today I have begotten You.<br />
8<br />
Ask of Me, and I will give You<br />
<strong>The</strong> nations for Your inheritance,<br />
And the ends of the earth for Your<br />
possession.<br />
9<br />
You shall break them with a rod of<br />
iron;<br />
You shall dash them to pieces like a<br />
potter’s vessel.’ ”
Isaiah 64:8<br />
But now, O Lord,<br />
You are our Father;<br />
We are the clay, and You our potter;<br />
And all we are the work of Your hand.
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