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COMMENT: Because churches cannot accept this concept, they try to get
around it by wrongly saying it means that YEHOVAH God knew what a person
was going to do ahead of time, applying this to all races.

The Word “WORKS”

1. Read, again Psalm 139:15 KJV.

COMMENT: The particular word used is about YEHOVAH’s sovereign pur-
poses and activity in a created world. The difference shown between Genesis
One and Two, where “bara” (created) is about the initiation of an undertaking,
and “asa” (formed) is about the fashioning of something. This particular word
for “works” is about the ethical obligation and response to the thing created,
so here it is about YEHOVAH God’s obligation to what he has formed. The
meaning of the word “marvelous” tells us that the works of YEHOVAH God
are extraordinary and difficult beyond our understanding. Here we get a
glimpse that there is this great difference between those “created” and the
Adamic man who is “made” for the Potter’s purpose.

The Word “SUBSTANCE”

1. Go, now, to verse 16.

This is a little-used word in the Hebrew that has been translated as “might,”
“substance,” and “strong.”

2. How is it used in Deuteronomy 8:17?

COMMENT: Here it is translated as “might.”

3. What about Job 30:21?

COMMENT: It is translated as “substance in this verse. The translation from
the LXX (Septuagint) is given as, “Thou hast put me to grief and cast me away
from safety”. These are somewhat different in translation and do not seem to
match, but we can see from them that it seemed to Job that YEHOVAH God
had taken something precious from him. Putting it all together we can get the
feel of what this is about. What YEHOVAH has given His people is something
intrinsic or built in. Where did this happen? It was before the “foundation of
the earth” and it had happened in the mother’s womb, in their DNA. This
is far from the churches, “choose Jesus” concept.

The Word “FASHIONED”

1. How is the Hebrew word for “fashioned” rendered in 2 Kings 19:25?

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