The Planter: Day Two

Prayerful Request

We ask for wisdom, guidance, and understanding. That we have eyes to see and ears to hear no more, nor no less than as is Your will. Thank you, Father. We ask this in Yeshua’s precious name. Amen.

The word planter is only used in the Bible one time, and it is used in the plural form. I find that significant, because that means that there is not a single planter, as there is only one shepherd, one savior, one father, one light; you get my point. Broken down, plant is used forty-two times, plantation is used once, planted is used thirty-nine times, plantedst twice, planters ones, planteth five, planting two, and plantings one.

Of course, that may be nothing more than a mere coincidence, but I think it is worth noting. Of all the times he speaks of planting seeds, and the fact that he made the man of Genesis 2:6-7 to fulfill the need of Gensis 2:5. There are many planters, but only once is a plantation mentioned.

So, let’s go there. Open your bibles to Jeremiah 31:5: “They shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria: the planters shall plant, and shall eat them as common things.” Plant here, if you take it back to the Hebrew is pronounced naw-tah’ and, according to the Strong’s Concordance, is a primitive root  prop to strike or fix; specific to plant (literally or figuratively). The attached words here being fastened and plant(er). What kind of a seed planter for god would you be if you weren’t firmly planted in His Word?

Now what is He talking about when he mentions eating them as common things? Well, we’ll have to go to His Word to find out. Let’s back up to the beginning of the chapter. Actually, let’s back up even further, as chapters thirty and thirty-one are both concerned with restoration of the people. The thirtieth chapter of Jeremiah ends with a highly important bit of knowledge: “The fierce anger of the LORD shall not return, until He have done it, and until He have performed the intents of His heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it.” Consider here means, “understand.” So, take the final verses of Chapter 30 and compare them to Jeremiah 23:19-20. Keep reading, and see what He has to tell us. In verse 22, He tells us that if “they had stood in My counsel, and had caused My People to hear My words, then they should have turned from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.” What is His counsel? What is His word? It’s His letter to you. It’s your Bible. That is what His planters are to be striking or fixing in—His word; His Counsel.

As that takes us back into thirty-first chapter, and He tells us in Verse 3, “Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.” What does that mean, exactly, that He has drawn us? Let’s look to the Hebrew word from which it was translated: mậshak, meaning to sow, to develop, forbear. If it is with lovingkindness which with he sows us, then are we not His tools, just as he spoke of a need for in Genesis 2:5 and fulfilled in Genesis 2:6-7? I don’t know. What do you think, friend? Pray on it. Let it ruminate and we’ll come back to it again tomorrow.

Study

Jeremiah chapter thirty is all about the people’s restoration. Take a look at 30:18-22. Who do you believe he is referring to? Pay special attention to the twenty-first verse.

Devotional: What was Jeremiah’s mission? Remembering back to the devotional of yesterday, read for yourselves Jeremiah 26: 2-6.