There's a Crack in Your Armor Perry Stone

17:40), and “instrument” (Isa. 54:16). Vessels were acquired to store and transport such resources as water, oil, grains, or fruit. Vessels could be found in local homes, on farms, and near wells of water and were necessary on a daily basis. At the beginning of Creation God is depicted as a potter forming man from the clay of the earth into a human vessel made in God’s image (Gen. 2:7). Throughout the Old Testament the inspired writers would allude to God as the Master Potter, molding Israel, the Hebrew people, and the nations for His divine purposes (Isa. 29:16; 64:8; Jer. 18:1–6). As God is shaping the pottery in its early stages on His potter’s wheel, at times it becomes marred or flawed, and the Master Potter must crush the wet clay and begin all over. And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter; so he made it again into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to make. —JEREMIAH 18:4 Throughout the Bible there are seven different types of vessels, and all seven paint the imagery of the seven types of individuals that God deals with. The seven types of vessels mentioned in the Bible are: 1. The earthen vessel But the earthen vessel in which it is boiled shall be broken. And if it is boiled in a bronze pot, it shall be both scoured and rinsed in water.