The Call of Two Prophets
Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Before I formed thee in
the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee,
and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold,
I cannot speak: for I am a child. But the LORD said unto me, Say not, I am
a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command
thee thou shalt speak. Be not afraid of their faces: for I am with thee to deliver thee,
saith the LORD. Then the LORD put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. And
the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth.
Jeremiah 1:4f (Spoke 2, Cycle 2)
The similarity in God's commission of Moses and Jeremiah - two of His greatest Prophets - is impossible to
miss. In his commentary on the above passage, Barry L. Bandstra, Professor of Religion at
Hope College  Holland, Michigan,
had this to say (quoted from his online article
The Commission of Jeremiah ):
Of whom does this remind you? An alert student of the Hebrew Bible would have to say
Moses.
Jeremiah expressed the same reluctance as Moses to become a prophet. Jeremiah expressed the same kind
of excuses as Moses, claiming a lack of qualifications. Jeremiah's hesitation concerned the same
problem, his mouth, as did Moses'. And in both cases Yahweh met the "mouth" objection: in
Moses' case by providing Aaron as his "mouthpiece," and in Jeremiah's by placing the
words right on his lips.
Note how Bandstra's observations integrate with the fundamental Spoke 2 theme of the
Word.
Like J. Sidlow Baxter (cf. The Structure of Exodus), Dr. Bandstra's
observations cohere perfectly with the content of Spoke 2 already established in numerous articles on
this site. And also like Baxter, Bandstra is
a completely unbiased witness to the structure of the Wheel since he made these observations
with no knowledge of the geometric correlation of Exodus and Jeremiah.
The depth of correlation is astounding. Here is a sample of some of the linked verses:
| Exodus (vss. 4.10f, 7.1f) |
Jeremiah (vss. 1.7f) |
And Moses said unto the LORD, O my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither
heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I am slow of speech,
and of a slow tongue. And the LORD said unto him, Who hath made man's mouth? or who
maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the LORD? Now therefore
go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say.
And the LORD said unto Moses, See, I have made thee a god to Pharaoh:
and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet. Thou shalt speak all that I command thee:
and Aaron thy brother shall speak unto Pharaoh, that he send the children of Israel out
of his land. |
Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Before I formed thee in
the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee,
and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold,
I cannot speak: for I am a child. But the LORD said unto me, Say not, I am a child:
for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt
speak. Be not afraid of their faces: for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the LORD.
Then the LORD put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. And the LORD said unto me, Behold,
I have put my words in thy mouth. |
 There are many KeyLinks between these passages, too many to list right now.
The most important is found in the specific Hebrew words God used when He called Moses and Jeremiah.
The KeyLink table shows the command as it is written in Exodus 7:2. Note the et-kol
that encompasses God's Word from beginning to end (BW book pg 89).
The same four words appear in Jeremiah 1:7, differing only in the order of one word:
t'dabar (thou shalt speak) appears at the end rather than the beginning of the clause.
But in both cases, God used exactly the same set of words. Furthermore, they appear together nowhere else
in all Scripture; this set is unique to Exodus and Jeremiah! We have therefore a Spoke 2 KeyLink based on
the essential theme of the Word (Davar), the Divine Title of the Second Person of the Trinity.
This is just like the Spoke 1 theme based on the Aleph KeyWord Av (Father, BW book pg 128).
It is easy to check this KeyLink in faithful translations like the KJV (that do not
paraphrase or otherwise monkey with the text), since a search for all occurrences of the set
set (command, speak, send) [Verify] yields exactly the same two verses as above, Exodus 7:2 and Jeremiah 1:7.
We have the KeyLink in both the English KJV and the underlying Hebrew text:
 | KeyLink Set: (Command, Speak, Send) | Exodus Jeremiah |
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