Friday, July 10, 2015

God Almighty


God has existed in eternity past. The word of God is eternal because it is a spoken revelation of God that is outside of time. These creative words cannot be divided. These words are tied together with a string line so that one word is the spirit of all the words. We can be implanted with the word of salvation in the sense that the entire knowledge of the bible is in that implantation.

IN this sense as we learn the concepts of the bible we actually understand the entire spirit of the bible even tho we do not have a comprehensive knowledge. So these words are more than ideas that we begin to comprehend but they are the communication of the Trinity in designing and upholding all things. God never changes. 

This is why the names of God that are used in the OT Hebrew are carried over into the Greek language of the NT. Because God has established His word...that being His design from the beginning of time to the end of time ...in eternity past. Every revealed word of God then is tied to His creation. In that creation He has designed, determined quality and span of the life of, and put the object into a perfect order to bring glory to Himself. The evidence of Gods design is a reflection of God Himself even tho it is His description in words. To have a correct interpretation of the bible we must understand who has spoken these words because God has many names to describe how He works in creation and re creation. 

When God established the Nation of Israel He gave them the law, decrees, statutes , and covenants. Israel would rule over the earth as God was successful in upholding His laws and showing forth His covenant faithfulness. But Gods design for Israel was to spread His salvation to the ends of the earth. God ruled from the mount Zion as the Lord Almighty. 

The Lord Almighty was the Lord of Glory who established the nation by fighting Israels wars for them. The ot pictures the display of Gods glory as the God who ruled from the mountain. The official government of God was described in the procession of people that were ascending to the hill after God had saved them in the war. This is the ot picture of God ordering all things in His creative word to fall out so that He would be praised in the most extravagant way by Israel defeating their enemies and as they proceeded to the mountain where the glory was, the nations around them would give glory to God. The Lord Almighty was the God who upheld His covenant by establishing Israel in overcoming all of their enemies by His power and strength. He showed Himself worthy in the official arena in parading that power so that He could be seen as the ruler of the earth. 

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