The symbolism is that by shaking off the dust from their feet, they are showing that those in that town didn’t receive the message of the kingdom of heaven and that makes them unworthy. Truly, I say to you, it will be more bearable on the day of judgment for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah than for that town” (Matt 10:13b-15). And if anyone will not receive you or listen to your words, shake off the dust from your feet when you leave that house or town. Jesus gives a stern warning for those who didn’t receive the apostles that He sent because He already said that whoever doesn’t receive them, doesn’t receive the One Who had sent them which is why He said “but if it is not worthy, let your peace return to you. But what happens if they don’t receive the apostles or anyone else sent by Christ? It’s time to shake the dust off their feet! Jesus would later say “Whoever receives you receives me, and whoever receives me receives him who sent me”(Matt 10:40), however the other side of this is “Whoever listens to you listens to me whoever rejects you rejects me but whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me” (Luke 10:16). If someone takes them into their home, let the peace of God come upon them in their home but only if “the house is worthy.” In other words, if they accept the message and they are made worthy…really, if they believe the message they are worthy to receive those who Jesus sent. This is the key to the context of these verses preach the kingdom of heaven, take no provisions but depend on God to supply their needs, and then find a place willing to accept them and stay there until they’re ready to depart. And if the house is worthy, let your peace come upon it” (Matt 10:11-13a). They were to take no provisions with them, possibly so that they could learn to depend on God for their needs which is why Jesus said “Acquire no gold or silver or copper for your belts, no bag for your journey, or two tunics or sandals or a staff, for the laborer deserves his food” (Matt 10:9-10) and then “whatever town or village you enter, find out who is worthy in it and stay there until you depart. You received without paying give without pay” (Matt 10:8). They were given the authority to “Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, cast out demons.
Jesus sent out the twelve apostles to go out and preach the kingdom of heaven telling them to “Go nowhere among the Gentiles and enter no town of the Samaritans, but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel” (Matt 10:5-6) but only to Israel because later, Jesus would send Saul-turned-Paul to go to the Gentiles (Acts 9).
Maybe that’s why the phrase that Jesus used that we must sometimes “shake off the dust from your feet”(Matt 10:14b) may have significant meaning and I hope to show that. Even in the psalms it is written “For he knows our frame he remembers that we are dust” (Psalm 103:14) so the point in all this is that dust is close to the idea of humanity and fallen humanity at that.
#Stomp your feet skin
The Hebrew word for man, “’adam” means “to be red” referring to the ruddy color of the human skin but something very interesting is the fact that the Hebrew word for “earth” is “adamah” which is strikingly similar to Adam. In Genesis 2:7 it is written that “the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature” but after the sinful fall of mankind God said “By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken for you are dust, and to dust you shall return” (Gen 3:19). Google+: google.The Bible mentions the phrase “shaking the dust off your feet.” What does this mean? How does it apply to Christians? Made of the Dust Visit our store! CD’s, CD Downloads, DVD’s, Tee shirts & more: … ❤ STAY IN TOUCH WITH US ❤
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