In Jeremiah 17:5 we read “Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his strength, and whose heart departeth from the Lord.” In scripture we are shown a curse several times, and also in many different ways. I would like to explore this curse that was issued from the beginning and would run even unto the time when there shall be no more curse. This thread is a little long, and is a bit deep spiritually, but some may find it interesting as I did when putting it together.
I want to begin this study at the beginning with man. Genesis 2:7 “And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.” What I want you to notice here is the word “dust” strongs # H6083 The KJV translates Strongs H6083 in the following manner: dust (93x), earth (7x), powder (3x), rubbish (2x), ashes (2x), morter (2x), ground (1x).
Make note of those words because we will be making some connections later with some of those words as we go along. Also by scripture we know in Genesis 2:19 “And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air;…” So by scripture we know man and beast were formed out of the ground.
Now onto the curse…Genesis 3:14-15 “And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:[SUP]15 [/SUP]And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.”
First notice the curse, and then notice what the serpent was to eat (dust) which is what man was also formed of (dust of the ground) Also note the “enmity” between the 2 seeds, which is the enmity between the mind of flesh and Spirit. (man also is flesh) Genesis 6:3 “And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.”
And man who is of his father the devil desires the lusts of the flesh (flesh and blood is formed from the dust) Serpents seed desires the same John 8:44 “Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do.” So now let’s see another sign of this curse but shown with man (Adam) in Genesis 3:17 “And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;” And again remember man was formed from the dust of the ground.
Now onto another similitude of the curse shown in the Exodus story while Moses was in the mount the children of Israel corrupted themselves when they took the gold from their ears and made a molten calf.
And notice what Moses does with the golden calf in Deuteronomy 9:21 “And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount.”
The word dust there is the same word as we saw above in man being formed from the dust of the ground (dust H6083).
And now here is what Moses later said of the “cursed thing” in Deuteronomy 7:25-26 “The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therin: for it is an abomination to the Lord thy God. [SUP]26 [/SUP]Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.” So coveting the cursed thing could make you a cursed thing. Yikes!
Ok, now another sign of the cursed thing making one accursed in Joshua 6:18 “And ye, in any wise keep yourselves from the accursed thing, lest ye make yourselves accursed, when ye take of the accursed thing, and make the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble it.” And then again we see a similitude of the accursed thing in Joshua 7:21 “When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.”
And again we see the judgement in Joshua 7:24-25 “And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had: and they brought them unto the valley of Achor.[SUP]25 [/SUP]And Joshua said, Why hast thou troubled us? the Lord shall trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones.”
So again like with Moses we see the judgment by fire, and what is left after a fire? That’s right, ashes; and that is one of the key words we saw above in the word dust. Kinda like ashes to ashes dust to dust huh? J Alright we’re picking up some good key words here in the cursed thing like “ABOMINATION” and “Babylonish”…ya’ll know where I’m going with this don’t cha? But not yet!
First let’s look at another sign in the ashes shown in the burning of the red heifer for purification of sin in Numbers 19:17 “And for an unclean person they shall take of the ashes of the burnt heifer of purification for sin, and running water shall be put thereto in a vessel:” Notice the adding of water there, as did with Moses and the ashes of the molten calf mixed in with the waters that descended from the mount.
This sign is also shown again in the bitter waters that brings forth the curse, when a wife was thought to have slept with another man and played the “Harlot”(clue…wink, wink). And so a test was given by the Priest when there were no witnesses to the act of fornication. This test was given by making her to drink the bitter waters. Notice what was added to the holy waters in Numbers 5:17 “And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is in the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put it into the water:”
And there’s the sign again of the curse in eating the “dust”. (man = flesh and blood formed from the dust of the ground). By the way Adam also means “earthy, red.”
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I want to begin this study at the beginning with man. Genesis 2:7 “And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.” What I want you to notice here is the word “dust” strongs # H6083 The KJV translates Strongs H6083 in the following manner: dust (93x), earth (7x), powder (3x), rubbish (2x), ashes (2x), morter (2x), ground (1x).
Make note of those words because we will be making some connections later with some of those words as we go along. Also by scripture we know in Genesis 2:19 “And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air;…” So by scripture we know man and beast were formed out of the ground.
Now onto the curse…Genesis 3:14-15 “And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:[SUP]15 [/SUP]And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.”
First notice the curse, and then notice what the serpent was to eat (dust) which is what man was also formed of (dust of the ground) Also note the “enmity” between the 2 seeds, which is the enmity between the mind of flesh and Spirit. (man also is flesh) Genesis 6:3 “And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.”
And man who is of his father the devil desires the lusts of the flesh (flesh and blood is formed from the dust) Serpents seed desires the same John 8:44 “Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do.” So now let’s see another sign of this curse but shown with man (Adam) in Genesis 3:17 “And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;” And again remember man was formed from the dust of the ground.
Now onto another similitude of the curse shown in the Exodus story while Moses was in the mount the children of Israel corrupted themselves when they took the gold from their ears and made a molten calf.
And notice what Moses does with the golden calf in Deuteronomy 9:21 “And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount.”
The word dust there is the same word as we saw above in man being formed from the dust of the ground (dust H6083).
And now here is what Moses later said of the “cursed thing” in Deuteronomy 7:25-26 “The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therin: for it is an abomination to the Lord thy God. [SUP]26 [/SUP]Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.” So coveting the cursed thing could make you a cursed thing. Yikes!
Ok, now another sign of the cursed thing making one accursed in Joshua 6:18 “And ye, in any wise keep yourselves from the accursed thing, lest ye make yourselves accursed, when ye take of the accursed thing, and make the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble it.” And then again we see a similitude of the accursed thing in Joshua 7:21 “When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.”
And again we see the judgement in Joshua 7:24-25 “And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had: and they brought them unto the valley of Achor.[SUP]25 [/SUP]And Joshua said, Why hast thou troubled us? the Lord shall trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones.”
So again like with Moses we see the judgment by fire, and what is left after a fire? That’s right, ashes; and that is one of the key words we saw above in the word dust. Kinda like ashes to ashes dust to dust huh? J Alright we’re picking up some good key words here in the cursed thing like “ABOMINATION” and “Babylonish”…ya’ll know where I’m going with this don’t cha? But not yet!
First let’s look at another sign in the ashes shown in the burning of the red heifer for purification of sin in Numbers 19:17 “And for an unclean person they shall take of the ashes of the burnt heifer of purification for sin, and running water shall be put thereto in a vessel:” Notice the adding of water there, as did with Moses and the ashes of the molten calf mixed in with the waters that descended from the mount.
This sign is also shown again in the bitter waters that brings forth the curse, when a wife was thought to have slept with another man and played the “Harlot”(clue…wink, wink). And so a test was given by the Priest when there were no witnesses to the act of fornication. This test was given by making her to drink the bitter waters. Notice what was added to the holy waters in Numbers 5:17 “And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is in the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put it into the water:”
And there’s the sign again of the curse in eating the “dust”. (man = flesh and blood formed from the dust of the ground). By the way Adam also means “earthy, red.”
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