NAMES
OF GOD
His glorious NAMES,
designated Titles and divine Office.
The English word: God
is translated from the Hebrew word, Elohim—which is a noun implying more than
One in unity.
One God composed of
more than One divine Person.
The Name Of The Lord
is a strong tower:
the righteous runneth
into it, and is safe.
Proverbs 18:10 KJV
Jehovah Adonai
My Sovereign God
Seen in The LORD's Covenant Promise to Abram in
Genesis 15.
After this, The Word of The Lord came to Abram in a vision:
"Do not be afraid, Abram.
I am your Shield,
your very Great Reward."
Gen. 15:1 NIV
He also said to him, "I am The Lord, Who brought you out of
Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to take possession of it."
But Abram said, "O Sovereign Lord, how can I know that I
will gain possession of it?"
So The Lord said to him, "Bring Me a heifer, a goat and a
ram, each three years old, along with a dove and a young pigeon."
Abram brought all these to Him, cut them in two and arranged the
halves opposite each other; the birds, however, he did not cut in half. Then
birds of prey came down on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away.
As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and a
thick and dreadful darkness came over him. Then The Lord said to him,
"Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a country not
their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years. But I
will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will come out
with great possessions. You, however, will go to your fathers in peace and be
buried at a good old age. In the fourth generation your descendants will come
back here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its full
measure."
When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, a smoking firepot
with a blazing torch appeared and passed between the pieces. On that day The Lord made a covenant with
Abram and said, "To your descendants I give this land, from the river of
Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates —
the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, Hittites, Perizzites,
Rephaites, Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites and Jebusites."
Gen 15:7-21 NIV
Adonai signifies "my director, basis, supporter,
pillar, or stay"; and scarcely a more appropriate Name can be given to our
God Who is the Framer and Director of every righteous Word and Action; the Basis
or Foundation on which every rational hope rests; the Supporter of the souls
and bodies of men, as well as of the universe in general.
[Four hundred years] when it began, when Ishmael,
son of Hagar, mocked and persecuted Isaac, Gen 21:9; Gal 4:29; which fell out
thirty years after the Promise, Gen 12:3; which Promise was 430 years before
the Law, Gal 3:17, and four hundred and thirty years after that Promise came Israel
out of Egypt, Ex 12:41.
The Lord made a Covenant with Abram which was
signified by ‘a covenant sacrifice’; for as no Covenant was made without one.
The Covenant made between God and Abram was on
behalf of all the families of the earth, and this Covenant is ratified by a
sacrifice. By this covenant man is bound to God, and God graciously binds Himself
to man—as this Covenant referred to the incarnation of Christ. Abram, both as
to himself and posterity, was to partake of the benefits of it by faith, hence,
faith, not works, is the only condition on which God, through Christ, forgives
sins, and brings to the promised spiritual inheritance. This covenant still
stands open; all the successive generations of men are parties on the one side,
and Jesus is at once the sacrifice and Mediator of it. As therefore the
covenant still stands open, and Jesus is still The Lamb slain before the Throne,
every human soul must ratify the Covenant for himself; and no man does so but
he who, conscious of his guilt, accepts the sacrifice which God has provided
for him.
Reader, have you done so?
And with a heart unto God’s Righteousness continue
to believe on The Son Of God. How merciful is God Almighty, Who has given to us
the only Way of Salvation by providing a Savior—The One Who is The Way, The
Truth And The Life. He is The Only Way of Salvation suitable to miserable,
fallen, sinful man! One Who is Holy, harmless, undefiled, and separate from
sinners; and Who, being higher than the heavens, raises up His faithful followers
to the Throne of His Own Eternal Glory!
Dear Reader, give God the praise and avail yourself
of the sin-offering which is at the door of your heart.