In ch.18 we had a vessel in the making; now we have a vessel hardened beyond changing! Fit only to be smashed!
In ch.18 – He went down to the Potters house & watched a vessel in the making; ch.19 he takes a completed vessel & breaks it down at the garbage sight.
Worse than being “unworkable” is when it has “set up”.
Vs.2– What a fitting place – at the gate of broken pottery, the rubbishgate; the dung gate, located at the so. end of the city.
Where they practiced their Idolatry, where is symbolic of Ghenna.
Vs.9– A terrible prediction – During the Babylonian siege, foodbecame so scarce that people became cannibals, even eating their own children.
Vs.15- “stiff necks” –They didn’t have doubts about God, but pure 100% “unbelief”.
“Doubt is can't believe; unbelief is won't believe. Doubt is honesty; unbelief is obstinacy. Doubt islooking for light; unbelief is content with darkness.” (John Drummond (1851-1897))
End:
He is the Potter, he controls the wheel, he molds the clay. Trials are the furnaces (as we know the vessel is no good w/o going thru the furnace.)
When the time was right, God left His potters wheel & climbed into the clay!
Is.64:8 “But now, O LORD, You are our Father; We are the clay, and You our potter; And all we are the work of Your hand.”
In ch.18 we had a vessel in the making; now we have a vessel hardened beyond changing! Fit only to be smashed!
In ch.18 – He went down to the Potters house & watched a vessel in the making; ch.19 he takes a completed vessel & breaks it down at the garbage sight.
Worse than being “unworkable” is when it has “set up”.
Vs.2– What a fitting place – at the gate of broken pottery, the rubbishgate; the dung gate, located at the so. end of the city.
Where they practiced their Idolatry, where is symbolic of Ghenna.
Vs.9– A terrible prediction – During the Babylonian siege, foodbecame so scarce that people became cannibals, even eating their own children.
Vs.15- “stiff necks” –They didn’t have doubts about God, but pure 100% “unbelief”.
“Doubt is can't believe; unbelief is won't believe. Doubt is honesty; unbelief is obstinacy. Doubt islooking for light; unbelief is content with darkness.” (John Drummond (1851-1897))
End:
He is the Potter, he controls the wheel, he molds the clay. Trials are the furnaces (as we know the vessel is no good w/o going thru the furnace.)
When the time was right, God left His potters wheel & climbed into the clay!
Is.64:8 “But now, O LORD, You are our Father; We are the clay, and You our potter; And all we are the work of Your hand.”
Verses 1-15
Verses 1-15