Soul and Body
We got this question in today so I will address it for the masses to gain understanding on.
Question: I need some clarification.... I still am like the remaining Sunday goers on this issue of body and soul and I have come across a few scriptures that further bring questions to my mind. However today's scripture is in Isaiah 10:18.
Hope you can shed some light.
Isaiah 10 v18
18And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standard-bearer fainteth.
So let us gain understanding on this scripture. Let's began in the book of Micah…
Micah 3 v9 says
9Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity
Okay without explanation let's move over to first Chronicles chapter 16 and read it
1st Chronicles 16 v13-14 says
13O ye seed of Israel his servant, ye children of Jacob, his chosen ones. 14He is the LORD our God; his judgments are in all the earth.
Now let's move over to Exodus chapter 19 and read it…
Exodus 19 v3 says
3And Moses went up unto God, and the LORD called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel;
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Now what does each of these scriptures say. They categorize the house of Jacob and the House of Israel and two different entities. It says the Children of Jacob and the children of Israel. The house of Jacob and the children of Israel are one of the same.
So, my point is that we have to pick up on how the Lord speaks. When He says Ephraim, we know He is still talking about Israel. When He speaks of Jacob, He is still speaking of Israel. So could it be when He says soul He is speaking body as well?
So now let's go to Genesis 2 v7 and it says
7And 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.
Man became a living soul and entity; so he is it. Now his body can be part of the entity but it is still part of the same. Before he was a "living soul" man was a dead soul.
So now let's read Isaiah 10 v18 agains, it says,
18And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standard-bearer fainteth.
Both children of Israel and house of Jacob, both soul and body speaking of the same to BE SURE that the reader understands however way they want to view it; I'm going to destroy the soul or if you call it body, the body.
Tell the children of Israel, and for those that don't think they are Israel, tell the children of Jacob. The Lord covered the bases for those that believe they are not Israelites but instead think they are children of Jacob or children of Ephraim and so forth.
The Lord in this scripture covers thoses that think body and not soul or think soul and not body. Isaiah 10 only tells how He will destroy them.
Remember the original, the Lord gave Moses everything face-to-face
Exodus 33 v11
11And the LORD spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend.
Moses didn't dream this stuff; he got it like how I give it to you; like a man speaks to his friend. So if it says man became a living soul, man is the soul. His body is just the form he is in. We have flesh and blood bodies, God has a soul, and his body is a spirit body.
Isaiah 1 v14 says
14Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.
The Lord's soul hated what Israel was doing. Everyone has a soul and everyone has a body, your body determines what kind of being you are; human being or spirit being. Soul and body are one in the same. Please let me know if this was helpful or edifying. Peace and grace in the name of Jesus.
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