Clay means sin and death
(11) Clay means sin and death 『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. 』(Genesis 2:7) In the Bible, soil, clay or dust are represented by repentance, suffering, death, pit, and curse. Isaiah, and the Psalms express that human beings are imprisoned, the blind. The Bible says that man is a sinner from birth. The spirit is trapped in clay and was died. You must realize the secret before the creation in order to know why the spirit is trapped in clay.『And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.』(Jude 1:6) So human beings are trapped in the clay jail.『It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.』(John 6:63) It is also linked with repentance and clay.『When Mordecai perceived a...