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JEREMIAH

Bimre Tokics, Principal Contributor

Jeremiah
Our Goal

To read the book of

Jeremiah, is to take a journey,

a spiritual journey that goes
back and forth from the
lowest depths of human
depravity to the heights and
grandeur and majesty of the
Lord
the Lord who, from those

Jeremiah
Contents
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The Prophetic Calling of Jeremiah

The Crisis Within and Without
The Last Five Kings of Judah
Rebuke and Retribution
More Woes for the Prophet
Symbolic Acts
The Crisis Continues
Josiahs Reform
Jeremiahs Yoke
The Destruction of Jerusalem
The Covenant
Back to Egypt
Lessons From Jeremiah

Jeremiah
Jeremiah
Lesson
Lesson 6,
6, November
November 7
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Symbolic

Acts

Symbolic Acts
Key Text

Romans 9:21

Hath not the potter power

over the clay, of the same
lump to make one vessel
unto honour, and another
unto dishonour?

Symbolic Acts
Quick Look

1. The Potters Clay

(Jeremiah 18:1-6)
2. Smashing the Jar
(Jeremiah 19:1-11)
3. The Linen Belt
(Jeremiah

Symbolic Acts
Initial Words

Through the symbolism of

the earthly sanctuary, or the
symbols of prophetic books
and in many other ways, the
Lord has used symbols to
convey truth. Jesus Himself,
with His parables and object
lessons, used symbols to
explain deep truths.

Symbolic Acts
1. The Potters Clay

Jeremiah 18:1-6 NKJV

Go down to the potters

house.... ... There he was
making something at the
wheel. And the vessel...was
marred in the hand of the
potter; so he made it again
into another vessel.... Then the
word of the Lord came...:

1. The Potters Clay

The Lord is In Control

As he watched the potters

hand, he was given an image,

a symbol, of how the Lord
worked with human clay.
It does teach the ultimate
sovereignty of God.
That is, however hopeless the
situation might have seemed
from Jeremiahs perspective,

1. The Potters Clay

The Lord is In Control

him that ultimately, despite

the wrong or even willfully
wrong decisions that people
make, the Lord is in control of
the world.
He is the absolute source of
power and authority, and in
the end He will triumph,
regardless of appearances

1. The Potters Clay

The Lord is In Control

Paul picks up on this Old

Testament image in Romans 9.
We can rest assured that,
despite the reality of human
free will and free choices, in
the end, we can hope in the
absolute sovereignty of our
self-sacrificing God, whose
love is revealed on the cross.

Symbolic Acts
2. The Smashing of the Jar

Jeremiah 19:1-11 NKJV

Go and get a potters

earthen flask, and take some of
the elders of the people
and...of the priests. And go out
to the Valley of the Son of
Hinnom. ... Then you shall
break the flask...and say...:
Thus says the Lord...Even so

2. The Smashing of the Jar

The Degeneration of a Nation

Because they have

forsaken me, and have

estranged this place, and
have burned incense in it
unto other gods...and have
filled this place with the blood
of innocents (Jer. 19:4).
They have built also the high

2. The Smashing of the Jar

The Degeneration of a Nation

The nation was to be holy,

special to the Lord (see Exod.
19:5, 6), something different
and distinct from the nations
around them. But thats not
what happened.
They lost their unique
character, the distinctiveness
that would have made them a

2. The Smashing of the Jar

The Degeneration of a Nation

What a lesson it should be to

us all about how easily we can
become so blinded by the
prevailing culture that we
accept, or even take part in,
practices thatwere we
connected to the Lord and in
tune with His Word as we
should bewe would never

2. The Smashing of the Jar

The Degeneration of a Nation

What good is a smashed clay

jar? If the jar were cracked,
some use might be found for
it, even if not for the original
intent of the jar. But Jeremiah
was to break it, essentially
rendering it useless.
Whats even more frightening
is the apparent finality of the

Symbolic Acts
3. The Linen Belt

Jeremiah 13:1-7 NKJV

Go and get yourself a

linen sash, and put it around
your waist.... Take the
sash...and go to the
Euphrates, and hide it.... Go
to the Euphrates and
take...the sash...which you
hide there. ... And I took the

3. The Linen Belt

Gods Belt

The belt symbolizes both the

houses of Israel and Judah,
pure and unstained at the time
of Gods request.
The man wearing the belt is
God Himself. This shows, just
how closely tied God Himself
was to His people.
The belt was made of linen, the

3. The Linen Belt

Gods Belt

Just as the belt had been

ruined, the pride of the nation
would be too.
As a belt clings to a mans
waist,
these people had once clung to
the Lord and were His source of
praise
and glory. But they had become

Symbolic Acts
Final Words

The image of the potter and

the clay brings up the

important question of how we
seek to understand Gods
actions. The fact is, of we
often dont.
That shouldnt be surprising,
should it? Read Isaiah 55:8. As
human beings, we simply are