ALL ABOUT JESUS CHRIST #2

 

All About Jesus #2

His Divinity and Humanity

by Finis Dake If the body of Jesus was the Son of Jesus, and the inner man of Jesus was the Father of Jesus, then how could the Father say to the body, "I am the Son [body] of God?" If the Father inside was talking to the Son outside, then the body could not be the Son. How could the Son (body) be called "Jesus," as in Matt.1:21; 8:29; Mark 1:1; Acts 8:37; 1 Cor.1:9; 1 John 1:3,7; 3:23; 5:20; 2 John 3, and "Christ," as in Matt.16:16; 22:42; 26:63; Luke 4:4; John 20:31, if these two names have been the names of the Father from all eternity, as some argue. The Son (body) had a beginning in Mary 1900 years ago. These names were not the names of God from all eternity, for they were names given to the Son when He was born about 1900 years ago. Not one time are these names used of either person of the Godhead until Jesus was born and anointed by God the Father. The word "Jesus" was the human name given to the Son of Mary eight days after He was born (Matt.1:16,21; Luke 1:31-35; 2:21). It was and is still a common name like John, James, and other names. Josephus mentions thirteen men who are called Jesus. Several are mentioned in the New Testament (Acts 7:45; 13:6; Col. 4:11; Heb.4:8; Matt.1:21). Several in the Old Testament are called "Joshua" and "Joshua" and hundreds of people throughout history have been called Jesus and Joshua. If the New Testament had been written in Hebrew instead of Greek Jesus would have been called Joshua. The word "Jesus" is not an heavenly or divine name. It is an earthly human name given to the second person of the Godhead when he became a man. Therefore, it is His name as a man and not His name as God. The word "Christ" literally means "anointed" and is a name applied to Jesus when He became the anointed of God. It is like the word "Jesus," a name of his humanity, and of His anointing as a man and not His name as God. It is the same as the Hebrew word translated "Messiah" (Dan.9:24-27; John 1:41; 4:25). Jesus became the anointed of God or Christ thirty years after He was called Jesus. It was predicted in prophecy that God would make Him the "Anointed" (Ps.2:1-12; 143 11-18; Isa.11:1-2; 42:1-5; 61:1-2). History records that the time He became the "Anointed" of God was at His baptism (Matt.3:16-17; 12:15-20; Luke 3:21-22; Acts 10:38). Jesus confirmed the time He became God's "Anointed" (Luke 4:16:21). Jesus was anointed with the Holy Ghost and not with oil. He was anointed because He was the Son of the Father and it proves two persons - the one who anointed Him and the one who was anointed. Passages such as Luke 2:26; Gal.3:17; 1 Pet. 1:11 should be understood in the same sense as we would say that President George Washington was a surveyor. He was not this when he was president, but since he became president we could speak of any event of his life before he became president as what President Washington did. So it is with Christ. Since He became God's Christ we can now speak of Christ doing certain things even before He was anointed. 28. The Bible never speaks of the Father dying, but it does say that the Son died (Rom.5:10; Heb.6:6; John 3:16-18). The Son died in the same sense that other men die ... This proves that the Father and Son were two separate persons. 29. Jesus was "the only begotten of the Father" and "his only begotten Son," and He had to be a separate person from the Father in order to be begotten by the Father, and the Father had to be a separate person from Jesus in order to beget Him (John 1:14, 18; 3:16-18; 31-36; 1 John 5:1). No person can beget himself, or be begotten by himself, and no person can be his own father or son. Neither can any person beget part of himself, or be begotten by part of himself. 30. Many statements in the gospel of John prove that Jesus did not claim to be the Father, but He did say that God was His Father and His God (John 5:8-45; 10:18-36; 14:28; 20:17; Rev. 3:12); that God worked only through Him, and that He COULD DO NOTHING OF HIMSELF (John 5:19,30); that He not only COULD NOT, but that He DID NOT DO ANYTHING OF HIMSELF (John 5:30; 6:38; 8:28; 12:49-50); that He did only the Father's will and lived BY THE FATHER, as men are to do His will and live BY HIM (John 6:57); and that the work of God was to believe on the one whom the Father had sent (John 6:29; 3:2; 5:18; 8:54; 14:1). He said that His doctrine was not His, but it was the Father's (John 7:16-17; 8:26,38; 10:18; 12:49-50; 14:10-11; 17:8,14) and that if anyone would do the will of God he should know that He did not come and SPEAK OF HIMSELF, but that He spoke of the Father who had sent Him (John 7:16-18). He claimed that His message was true because He did not SPEAK OF HIMSELF, but that He spoke of the Father (John 7:18; 5:30-38; 14:10-11), that He spoke only what He had HEARD FROM THE FATHER (John 8:26-28,38-40), that He taught BY THE FATHER and that His teaching was not of Himself (John 8:28), that He did not PLEASE HIMSELF, but He lived to please the Father (John 8:29), that He was the "Son" of the house and not the "Father" of it (John 8:35-36; Heb.3:6), and that He had THE SAME RELATION TO THE FATHER that the Jews had to their father the devil (John 8:16, 3 5-44; 9:4). He taught that He, Himself, honored the Father as all men should (John 8:49); that He did not seek HIS OWN GLORY, but that there was "one" (not Himself, but ANOTHER, the Father) that honored Him and sought His glory (John 8:50,54; 12:26-28; 14:12-15; 17:1-5, 10); that He and the Father knew each other, but they were not each other (John 8:55; 10:15); that the Father loved Him for His unselfishness (it takes two people to love and be loved, John 10:17-18); that He had received commandments from the Father, and they were not His own (John 10:18; 12:49-50; 15:10); and that the Father gave Him His disciples (John 10:29; 17:1-25). He further claimed that he was equal to the Father as to deity and some things, but not equal in other things (Mark 13:32; John 5:17-39; 8:13-19,29-42; 19:18,24-29; Acts 1:7; 1 Cor.11:3; Rev.1:1); that He was not a "Spirit" being like His Father (Luke 24:39); John 4:24; Phil. 3:21); that He and the Father were in each other (united as one) in the same sense He and the believers were one (John 10:38; 14:10-11,23; 17:11,21-23; 2 Cor.5:17); and that He was the only way to the Father (John 14:6). Such simple language as that in all the above listed passages cannot be understood except in connection with two separate persons. 31. Jesus said that if He bore witness "of Himself" and if He was the only one that did bare witness, His testimony would not be true and He would not expect men to believe it any more than civil courts would accept only one witness (John 5:21-23,36; 6:38; 7:16-17,28; 8:13-19,37,42,54; 12:44,49-50; 14:10-11; 17:1-25). God repeatedly said in both Testaments that "in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established" (Num.35:30; Deut.17:6-7; 19:15; Matt.18:16; Luke 24:48; Acts 1:8,22; 2:32; 5:32; 7:58; 10:31; 1 Thess.5:19; Heb.10:28-29; 12:1; Rev.11:5). Would God make a fixed law to establish truth by two or three separate witnesses and then break His own law and expect men to have confidence in Him? He would have no grounds to punish man for rejection of God's witness if God were only one person..... Jesus continued by saying that He had greater proof or witness than John the Baptist who had two witnesses, the Father and the Holy Ghost (John 1:31-34; 5:36). John did not have the miracles to confirm his word as did Jesus, who had the same two witnesses that John had plus the miracles (John 2:11,23; 3:2; 4:54; 5:20, 36; 7:2,26; 7:31; 9:16; 10:25-37,41; 11:42-47; 14:10-12; 15:24). When Jesus said, "I am not alone, but I [one person] and the Father [another person] that sent me" and is with me also bear witness, He simply stated that there were more persons in the Godhead than He, thus fulfilling the Word of God concerning more than one witness to establish a fact. He plainly said that the two witnesses in this testimony were the Father and Himself. "I am one that bears witness of myself, and the Father that sent me [another person] beareth witness of me" (John 8:13-18,29; 16:32). Again, in John 8:29 He said, "The Father bath not left me alone" and in John 16:32, "every man to his own and leave me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me." What could be more clear in proving two distinct persons, called "the Father" and "the Son," both of them equally God? On the other hand, what foolish statements these are if Jesus is the only person in the Godhead. 32. In the following eighty separate statements of Scripture by Jesus Christ, He constantly affirmed that He was not the Father and not the only person in the Godhead. The grammar of these passages will not permit us to believe in only one person as being referred to. Jesus is the speaker, but He is not the one spoken of, as is made clear by reading these statements concerning Him and His Father. If we are not going to believe what God says in His revelation concerning Himself, His Son, and the Holy Spirit, then He is under no further obligation to give another revelation in order to make the subject of God clear to men. If we will not believe one revelation, we would not believe another. If we will believe at all, then let us believe these scriptural facts of human language concerning more than one person in the Godhead. Then we will not have to teach that God is a mystery ... cannot be understood, and the other foolish doctrines as expressed by men who refuse to take the plain language used by God in the Bible revealing the ... separate persons in the Godhead, as seen in Matt.7:21; 10:32-33; 11:27; 15:13; 16:17; 18:10,19,35; 19:17; 20:23; 24:36; 25:34; 26:29,39,42,53; Luke 2:49; John 5:17,43; 6:32,65; 8:19,28,38,49,54; 10:17-18,25,29,30,32,37; 12:26-28; 14:7,12,20,21,28; 15:1,8,10,4,23; 16:23-26; 18:11; 20:17,21; Rev. 1:1; 2:27; 3:5,12; 5:1-7,13; 7:9,15-16; 10:6; 11:15; 12:10; 21:22-23; 22:1-5. 33. Jesus said that His Father was "greater than all" and "greater than I" (John 10:29; 14:28). He then could not be the Father. Paul also stated that the Father was the "head of Christ" (1 Cor.3:23; 11:3). 34. God the Father said of Jesus, "my beloved Son" (Matt. 3:16-17; 17:5; Ps.2:7). Jesus said of Himself, "I am the Son of God" (John 10:38). An angel declared Him to be "the Son of the Highest" and "the Son of God" (Luke 1:32-35 ). Demons said He was "the Son of God" (Mark 3:11) and "Son of the Most High God" (Mark 5:7). Apostles stated repeatedly that Jesus was only "the Son of God" (Matt.14:33; 16:16-17; Mark 1:1; John 11:27; 20:31; Acts 9:20), "the only begotten OF THE FATHER" (John 1:14,18; 3:16-18), "his own Son" (Rom.8:32), "the Son of the Father" (2 John 3), and "his dear Son" by whom God the Father created all things (Col.1:13-18). John said, "the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world" (1 John 4:14); so there must be two separate persons referred to. John the Baptist also bare record "that this was the Son of God" (John 1:31-34). Others confessed that Jesus was "the Son of God" (Mark 15:39; 1 John 1:49; Acts 9:37), but not once did God, angels, demons, or men say that He was the Father. 35. Both the Father and the Son talked to each other in audible voices at the same time and place, and both voices were heard by a number of witnesses; so there had to be two persons who had their own separate bodies, voices, minds, etc., to be able to speak to each other in the same sense other persons do. (Matt.3:16-17; 17:5; John 12:27-30; 2 Pet.1:17). 36. Jesus taught that when men receive Him they also receive the Father, as when men receive Christ's disciples they also receive Christ (Matt.10:39-41). This does not mean that the Father and the Son were the same person any more than it proves that Christ and the disciples become one person when men receive Christ through them. Separate persons are involved in both statements, as is clear. 37. God the Father is called "he" (John 14:16); God the Son is called "he" (John 8:23-25) ... so if personal pronouns are used of each person in making a distinction between them as is done with other persons, there must be ... separate persons. 38. Christ is symbolized by "the vine," and the Father is spoken of as "the husbandman" in John 15:1-16. It is just as intelligent to call any vine its own keeper and both of them one person as to do so here. This figure clearly proves two persons. 39. Jesus taught that He and the Father had the same relationship to each other as did He and His disciples (John 15:10). Such relationship proves more than one person. One person could not have such relationship by Himself as is required of separate persons in this passage. 40. The word "both" means "two" and is used of the Father and the Son, thus proving two persons (John 15:24; 2 John 9). 41. The word "also" is used of the Father and Son, thus proving two separate persons (John 5:19, 27; 8:19; 13:32; 14:1). 42. Jesus again speaks of Himself and the Father as "two" persons: "They have not known the Father [one person] nor me" (another person). Again, "I go my way to him that sent me (John 16:3,5). Then He speaks of Himself and the Spirit ... Jesus did not say that He would come back as the Holy Ghost, but that He would stay in Heaven and "send him unto you," as fulfilled in Acts 2:33-36. If those who believe in only one person in the Godhead are not capable of understanding the most simple human language, then their case is hopeless. 43. Jesus used personal pronouns in referring to Himself and the Father (John 14:23; 17:1-25; etc.) He used the first, second, and third personal pronouns of Himself, the Father, and the Holy Spirit; and not once do we find Him misusing them (John 14:12-17, 23-26; 15:1-26; 16:7-15; 17:1-25). If they were used rightly, then there must be separate persons in the Godhead. John 17 alone has 162 personal pronouns used by Jesus to and of Himself, of the Father, and of His disciples. He repeatedly calls the true God "Father" and calls Himself "thy Son." He prayed for the disciples to be "one" as He and the Father were "one," and this could not refer to "one person" but "one" in unity. Jesus used "I" and "me," first personal pronouns, in referring to Himself, and "thou," "thee," and ,thine," second personal pronouns, in referring to the Father, whom He was addressing. He used "they" and "them" in referring to the disciples for whom He was praying and "we" and "us" when referring to Himself and His Father, proving that He and His Father were more than one person as much as the disciples were. 44. Jesus said, "All power is given unto me in Heaven and in Earth" (Matt.28:18). Somebody had to give Him this power, and He had to be greater than Jesus, or He would not have it to give. The only one Jesus said was "greater than I" is the Father (John 14:28). The apostles later confirmed this fact of the Father being greater than Jesus, for they said that the Father was "the head of Christ" (1 Cor.11:3), that Jesus had been exalted by the Father above everyone else (1 Cor.14:24-28; Eph.1:20-23; Phil. 2:8-11; Heb.1:1-3; 12:2; 1 Pet.3:22), and that the Father had made Jesus both "Lord and Christ" (Acts 2:33-36), the heir of all things (Heb.1:2; Rom.8:17), the medium of approach to God (Heb. 1:4; John 3:16-18; Acts 4:12; 1 John 3:23; 5:13), and the source of redemption to men (1 Cor.1:30). These facts prove the Father to be a separate person from the Son. 45. Jesus said that He was the same that He claimed to be "from the beginning" (John 8:25). Because He always claimed to be only the Son and not the Father, we can rely upon the fact that He could not be the Father. The statement "He that hath seen me hath seen the Father" (John 14:9), does not say that He was the Father. The Greek word for seen is 'horao,' to discern, to experience, perceive, comprehend. Like the English word seen, it means here to truly comprehend and not only to see with the eyes, as it is used in John 1:18; 6:46; 8:38; 1 John 3:6; 2 John 11. No statement in John 14 says that Jesus was the Father in person, but six times this chapter makes it clear that He was not the Father: (1) "Ye believe in God [one person], believe ALSO in me" (John 14:1-2). (2) "In my Father's house [not my house] are many mansions" (John 14:1-2). (3) "No man cometh UNTO THE FATHER, but BY ME" (John 14:6). (4) "If ye had known ME [Jesus], ye should have known MY FATHER [another person] ALSO" (John 14:7). (5) "He that hath seen [comprehended, experienced] ME [one person] hath seen [comprehended, experienced] THE FATHER (another person, John 14:9). In John 1:18 it is stated that no man had "seen" (fully comprehended) the Father save Christ, who came to reveal and declare God to men. If Christ came truly to demonstrate God, then John 14:9 proves He had succeeded in bringing God to men in actual demonstration of Him by His own life. (6) "I [one person] am in the Father [another person] and the Father in me. . . . I speak NOT OF MYSELF; but the Father that dwelleth in me, HE DOETH THE WORKS. I [Jesus] go to the Father," so He could not be the Father (John 14:10-15). "He that hath seen me hath seen the Father" is a statement of true representation of another person (1 John 2:6; 3:3,7; 4:17; 1 Cor.11:1; Phil.4:9; 2 Cor.3:1-3,18; Rom.8:29). One who is truly like Christ as He was like the Father can say, "He that hath seen me hath seen Jesus Christ." VI. THE THEORY OF ETERNAL SONSHIP DISCUSSED .............. TO BE CONTINUED It is only in the last 10 years or so that I have heard about the teaching that "God" or the "Godhead" is just ONE person - One person who can be the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, at any time, or can be all three at any given time, but still remain as ONE person. Now, you go figure that one out. Then it is also within about the last 10 years that I have heard the teaching that God is NO PERSON at all, that God or the Godhead, is simply too much to be confined to a literal "personal being" and so God must not be thought of as any kind of a literal being. So I guess to those people who hold such an idea of God, then God is just a MIGHTY NOTHINGNESS. I have answered this "nothingness God" teaching in another study on this Website. As Finis Dake has shown so far, the Scriptures on this subject of God the Father and Jesus Christ, being TWO SEPARATE PERSONAL BEING is as clear and as plain as the sun shining in a cloudless sky. The truth of the matter is taught to us OVER AND OVER again in the pages of the Bible, especially the New Testament - Keith Hunt.

ALL ABOUT JESUS CHRIST #1

 

All About Jesus #1

His Divinity and Humanity

by Finis Dake (1949) FOREWORD: As I agree with Dake about 99% on this topic of the facts about Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior, I will not try to re-invent the wheel but give you Finis Dakes study. Now Dake did believe that the Holy Sprit was a THIRD bodily person of the Godhead - which I do NOT believe the Scriptures teach, hence I have edited those portion where he so taught. I have used *** in a few places to give emphasis - Keith Hunt. THE TRUTH ABOUT JESUS CHRIST The facts ... about God apply to the Lord Jesus Christ in His preincarnate state as a Spirit Being, for He is one of the ... distinct Spirit Beings making the Deity or Godhead. Until about nineteen hundred years ago the second person of the Deity had the same kind of Spirit body, personal soul, and spirit that the Father ... still have. At that time one of the ... divine persons ... took human form to redeem the world. This is what has made the difference between the members of the Godhead during the last nineteen hundred years. The following study concerns the person of the Lord Jesus Christ as the manifestation of the invisible God among men: 1. THE PRE-EXISTENCE OF JESUS CHRIST The Bible declares that the person we now know as Jesus Christ was one of the ... divine persons of the Deity and that as God He had no beginning. It is this time before He became a man that we refer to as His pre-existence. Technically, there is no such thing as existence before Him as God, but He existed before He became a man. Mic.5:1-2 speaks of Him as existing from all eternity. John speaks of Him as existing in the very beginning with the Father (John 1:1-5). Jesus speaks of Himself as being before Abraham and before the world was created (John 8:5,8; 17: 5,24). Paul speaks of Him as existing before all things and as the Creator and Upholder of all things (Col.1:15-18; Heb.1:1-3, 8; 2:10). God the Father created all things by Him (Eph.3:9) and the Holy Spirit (Gen.1:2). II. THE DEITY OF JESUS CHRIST 1. DIVINE NAMES AND TITLES ARE ASCRIBED TO HIM. The following list of divine names and titles given to Jesus proves that He is by nature divine and a member of the Godhead. He is called God and Immanuel (Matt.1:23; John 1:1; 20:28; Acts 20:28); Lord (Luke 19:34; Acts 2:36); Lord of All (Acts 10:36); Lord of Glory (1 Cor. 2:8); Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace (Isa.9:6-7); Christ the Lord (Luke 2:26); The Son of God (Matt.4:3; 14:33; Luke 22:70; John 1:34; Rom.1:4); His Son (Matt.22:45; John 3:1618); My Son (Matt.3:17); The Only Begotten Son (John 1:18; 3:16-18; 1 John 4:9); The First and the Last, Alpha and Omega, The Beginning and the Ending (Rev.22:12, 13,16); The Lord (Acts 9:17); The Son of the Highest (Luke 1:32; Mark 14:61); The Bread of God (John 6:33); The Holy One of God (Mark 1:24); Thy Holy Child Jesus (Acts 4:30); King of Kings and Lord of Lords (Rev.19:16); Lord and Saviour (2 Pet.3:2); and The Word of God (Rev.19:13). These and many other names and titles in Scripture prove the Deity of Jesus Christ. Some of these are used hundreds of times in Scripture. We must believe in the divinity of Christ if we are going to believe the Bible. 2. DIVINE ATTRIBUTES ARE ASCRIBED TO HIM. This is clear from Phil.2:5-11 where Paul speaks of Christ being in God's form and that He laid aside this form and limited His attributes and powers as God to become a man. Then after His earthly limitation He had these powers given back to Him, as we shall see in Point VIII below. 3. DIVINE OFFICES ARE ASCRIBED TO HIM. HE is called the Creator (John 1:3; Col.1:16; Heb.1:1-3); Mediator (1 Tim.2:4-5; Heb.8:6); Head o f the Church (Eph.1:22; Col.1:16-24); Saviour (2 Pet. 3:2); Judge (2 Tim.4:1); Preserver (Heb.1:1-3); Life Giver (John 10:28; 17:2); Lord and Christ (Acts 2:36); the Resurrection and the Life (John 11:25). These and many other offices and works of Christ prove Him to be divine and one with the Father as part of the Deity. He is called the fellow and equal to God as to divinity (Zech. 13:7; John 5:17-23; 10:30-38; 17:10). 4. DIVINE CHARACTER IS ASCRIBED TO HIM. All ordinary men are sinners by nature (Ps.51:5; Eph.3:1-3; Rom.5:12-21). Christ is holy by birth (Luke 1:35), righteous (Isa.53:11; Heb.1:9), faithful (Isa.11:5; 1 Thess.5:24), true (John 1:14; 14:6), just (John 5:30), guileless (1 Pet.2:22), sinless (2 Cor.5:21), spotless (1 Pet.1:19), innocent (Matt.27:4), harmless (Heb. 7:26), obedient to God (John 15:10; Heb.5:8-10) and to His earthly parents (Luke 2:51), zealous (John 2:17), meek (Matt. 11:29), lowly in heart (Matt.11:29), merciful (Heb.2:17), patient (Isa.53:7), long-suffering (1 Tim.1:16), compassionate (Matt. 15:32), benevolent (Acts 10:38), loving (John 15:13), self-denying (2 Cor.8:9), humble (Phil.2:5-11), resigned (Luke 22:42), and forgiving (Luke 23:34). 5. THE WORKS OF GOD ARE ASCRIBED TO HIM (John 1:3; Col.1:15-18; Heb.1:1-3,10; John 5:19-23; Rev 3:14). 6. DIVINE WORSHIP WAS GIVEN TO HIM (Matt.4:9-10; 14:33; 28:9; Luke 24:52; John 5:23; 14:14; Acts 7:59; Rom.10:9-13; Heb. 1:6; Phil.2:10-11; Rev.5:12-14). Angels and men both worship Him, but they both refuse all such worship for themselves (Acts 10:25-26; Heb.1:6; Rev.22:8-9). 7. HIS NAME IS ASSOCIATED WITH THAT OF THE FATHER AND THE HOLY SPIRIT AS BEING ONE OF ... THE DEITY (Matt.28:19; John 5:19-23; 14:1,23; 17:3; Rom.1:7; 2 Cor.13:14; 1 John 5:7-8; Rev.5:13; 7:10; 20:6). 8. EQUALITY WITH GOD IN DIVINITY IS DEFINITELY STATED (John 5:19-29; Phil.2:5-11). 9. DIVINE CHARACTERISTICS ARE ASCRIBED TO HIM (John 5:19-29; 14:26; Heb.1:9). 10. He is expressly called "God" and "Lord" (John 1:1-3; 20:28; Acts 2:36; 20:28). 111. THE HUMANITY OF JESUS 1. HUMAN NAMES ARE ASCRIBED TO HIM: Rabboni (John 20:16), Messiah or Christ (John 1:41; 4:25; Luke 2:26), Jesus (Matt.1:21), Master (Matt.9:19), Son o f Man (Matt.8:20), Son of Mary (Mark 6:3), and Son of Abraham and David (Matt.1:1), Seed and Offspring of David (Rom.1:3; Rev.5:5; 22:16), The Second Man and The Last Adam (1 Cor.15:45-47), The King of the Jews (Matt.2:2), Lamb of God (John 1:29), and other names which prove His humanity. 2. HE IS CALLED A "BABE," A "CHILD," AND A "MAN" (Luke 2:16; Isa. 9:6; Acts 17:31; 1 Tim.2:4-5; Rom.5:12-21; John 8:40; Acts 2:22; 1 Cor.15:21,45-47). 3. PROPHECY THAT HE WAS TO BE BORN OF A HUMAN MOTHER PROVES HIS HUMANITY (Gen.3:15; Isa.7:14; 9:6-7; 11:1; 53:1-12; Ps.22). 4. HISTORY RECORDING HIS CONCEPTION AND BIRTH OF A WOMAN PROVES HIS HUMANITY (Matt.1:18-25; 2:2; Luke 1:32-35; 2:1-52; Gal.4:4). 5. HE HAD FLESH AND BLOOD LIKE ALL OTHER MEN (John 1:14; Heb. 2:14-15; 1 John 4:1-6; Luke 24:39; John 19:34). 6. HE HAD A HUMAN BODY (FLESH AND BONE - NO BLOOD NEEDED AS HE WAS NOW IMMORTAL - KEITH HUNT) EVEN AFTER THE RESURRECTION (Luke 24:39; John 20:27). 7. HE HAD HUMAN LIMITATIONS AND PASSIONS LIKE MEN: He wept (John 11:35), hungered (Matt.4:1-11), thirsted (John 4:7; 19:28), slept (Matt.8:24), grew weary (John 4:6), sorrowed (Isa. 53:3-4), suffered physical agony (Luke 22:44), craved sympathy (Matt.26:36-40; Luke 22:15-27), was tempted in all points as men (Heb.4:14-16), suffered physical death (John 19:30; 1 Cor.15:3), and endured many human sufferings, as we shall see. 8. HE WAS HUMAN IN ALL THINGS and was subject to physical, mental, and moral conditions of existence as other men (Heb. 2:14-17; 4:14-16). 9. HE LIVED A NORMAL HUMAN LIFE in total dependence upon God in prayer and faith for daily grace for body, soul, and spirit, as all human beings should do (John 5:30-46; 6:57; 7:16; 8:27-29; Heb.5:7-9; Phil.2:5-10). 10. HE WAS LIMITED IN WISDOM, KNOWLEDGE, AND POWER LIKE OTHER MEN AND WAS SUBORDINATE TO THE FATHER, as we shall see in Point VIII below. In fact, His human nature is denied only by antichrists and demons (1 John 2:18-23; 4:1-6). IV. THE UNION OF THE TWO NATURES OF JESUS CHRIST The above-indicated studies on the divinity and humanity of Jesus Christ prove that He was a Divine-human Being. The orthodox theory holds that the two natures of Christ were both complete in themselves yet so organically and indissolubly united that no third nature is formed thereby. It forbids us to divide the person and confound the two natures of Jesus Christ. Being truly divine He is a true representative of God, and being truly human He is a true representative of man. Christ constantly spoke of Himself as a single person and not as two persons in one. There is no interchange of speech between the two natures as between two persons. The attributes and powers of both natures are ascribed to the one person so that they are operated as part of a single individual. There is no double personality, but one single unit of characteristics of both the human and the divine. ***Just as any father and mother impart certain traits to the offspring, making a single person with characteristics of both parents, so the human and the divine were united in the one person of Jesus Christ-with one body, soul, and spirit and with one consciousness and one will.*** The Fatherhood of God and the motherhood of Mary produced a single personality. After all, it must be remembered that God made man with the same bodily parts as He has in His Spirit body, only our bodies are earthly and human and His is spiritual and divine. He made man with the same kind of soul with feelings, emotions, passions, desires, and appetites, capable of the same soul-acts as He Himself was, only our soul is finite and His is infinite. He made man with a spirit with all the attributes and powers that He has, capable of the same acts; only our spirits are finite and His is infinite. In other words, man is endowed with exactly the same traits, characteristics, attributes, powers, feelings, and passions as God, only on a finite scale. With this in mind one can see that the soul and spirit faculties that were born in Jesus Christ by a divine Father and a human mother were exactly the same as in any other being like God; so when Christ acted and used any one attribute or power as a man it was like the exercise of God in the same aspects, only His faculties were perfectly untainted with the fall and its effects. When Christ acted He was like man before the fall and not like sinful man since the fall. Every fallen man when he is re-created in Christ and made a new creature is capable of proper exercise of his faculties in holy and lawful uses.... We may express it this way: man in his unfallen state acted exactly like God in the exercise of his faculties, only his attributes and powers were limited. He was capable of the same powers and acts only on a finite scale. What is finite in man is infinite in God. Holy man when he is energized and acted upon and endued with supernatural powers can exercise his natural attributes and faculties in a supernatural degree or measure, depending upon what extent he is yielded to and energized by the Spirit of God. For example, Christ and the disciples when endued with power from on high were capable of God-action to destroy sin and sickness as much as if God Himself were doing the work without using them as instruments. It must also be remembered that men when born again (begotten again - not yet born - Keith Hunt) become partakers of the divine nature and to the extent to which that nature controls and works in and through their created faculties they live divine lives and do divine works. In such men the created faculties are liberated from evil acts and evil powers and become acts of divine energy through the Holy Spirit. Just as Christ was perfectly helpless in Himself and acted, spoke, worked, lived, and did all things through the anointing of the Holy Spirit, the believer to the extent that he becomes like Christ becomes God-inspired and God-energized and God-operated ... Thus the Christian fully living in the fullness of God lives a divine-human life in the Holy Spirit by the very presence and power of God in the human soul and spirit. If we can understand these things, we certainly can understand how God could become so perfectly human and yet remain so perfectly divine as to be a perfect union - God and man in one personality. Whether the divine attributes and powers of God in Christ were limited and to what extent is a great question in Christian circles. Whether He laid them aside entirely for a time, or whether they were possessed by Him and voluntarily limited will always be a point of controversy. However, this much is settled that He was limited in the days of His flesh, as we shall see in Point VIII below; whether He was limited constitutionally or voluntarily is not the point. It is a fact that if it were done constitutionally it was nevertheless voluntary as stated in John 10:18; Heb.10:5-9. He was not forced to do one thing. Everything was a voluntary action on His part. It matters not whether it was constitutional, or whether He still retained all the divine powers and attributes in His person and chose to limit their use for His time of life on Earth; the fact remains that He was limited as a man, and if His choice was so powerful as to do away with all use of them, what is the difference between laying them aside and still retaining them without power to use them? It was important that He limit Himself as a man to set the right example for man so that he can be inspired to live like God on Earth by the same means Christ used. For all the arguments about His having two personalities, two natures in one personality, human nature without personality, or divine nature without human traits - ***the fact will always remain that He was both human and divine, and if some cannot understand the how of it, the fact of it can be believed and must be if we want harmony of all Scriptures. *** One certainty is that His human nature had no separate existence before its union with the divine and is not in itself a separate personality from the divine person who became incarnated in human flesh.*** It was not only important that He have two natures, human and divine, for the sake of man, but also for the sake of God, to be a true mediator between God and man. His twofold nature gives Him fellowship with both parties and capability of representing both to reconcile both. As God He can uphold the dignity of Deity, and as man He can be truly sympathetic and meet the needs of man. Because He is God His atonement has infinite value and effect. A further discussion of the dual natures will be given under Point VIII below. V. JESUS CHRIST IS NOT THE FATHER OR THE HOLY SPIRIT Many are misled in making Jesus the only person in the Godhead and more than what the Bible says He is and they rob the Father and the Holy Spirit ... and make them less than what the Bible says they are, thus depriving them of their rightful and separate places in the unity of God ... The following Points prove that Jesus Christ is not the Father or the Holy Ghost: 1. The Father was in Heaven all the time that Jesus was on Earth; so the Father could not have been incarnated in Jesus (Matt. 5:16,45,48; 6:1,9; 7:21; 16:17; 18:10; 23:9). 2. Jesus said He would confess men "BEFORE MY FATHER" and " BEFORE THE ANGELS" and this He could not do if He were not a separate person from the Father and the angels (Matt.10:32-33; Luke 12:8-9; Rev.3:2-5). Such language would permit Him to be the angels as much as it would permit Him to be the Father. The word "before" means in the presence of, or face to face with, and requires both the Father and the angels to be distinct persons from Jesus. This word could never be used if only one person were involved, any more than it could be in 1,767 similar expressions in Scripture (Matt.14:6; 17:2; 1 Tim.5:19-20; 6:13; Rev.4:5-6; 5:8; 7:9,11,15; 8:2; etc.). 3. Jesus always prayed to the Father and addressed Him as a separate person from Himself (Matt.11:25; 26:39,42-46; Luke 10:21; 22:42; 23:34; John 11:41; 12:28; 17:1-25). In no place do we read of the Father praying to anyone, but the Son constantly prays to someone else outside of Himself. 4. The Father was OUTSIDE the body of Jesus protecting Him, so could not be incarnated in Jesus, or be all of God INSIDE of Jesus as some teach (Matt.2:12-23; 3:16-17; 17:5; Luke 22:39-46; John 12:27-30). 5. All the Old Testament prophets quoted in the New Testament prove that the Father is a separate person from the Son, for it was the Father who spoke "by the prophets" and "through the Spirit" CONCERNING the Son (Heb.1:1-3; Acts 3:21; Rom.1:1-4; 1 Pet.1:1-16; 2 Pet.1:21). Note THE SPEAKER and the person SPOKEN OF in Matt.2:15,23; 4:6; 12:17-21; 22:41; 27:9-11; Luke 4:16-21; 24:27,44-46; John 18:9; Acts 2:22-34; 3:13-24; 4:25-31; 7:2-50; 8:32-37; 10:34-43; 13:23-41; Heb.2:3-9; 5:5-10). Human language means nothing in the Bible if two ... are not understood in such statements as these passages. 6. Both Jesus and Satan refer to the Father as a separate person from the Son. "HE [one person] shall give HIS angels charge CONCERNING THEE" (Jesus, the Son of the Father, another person, Matt.4:6). 7. Jesus constantly referred to the Father as a separate person from Himself and as being separated bodily from Him as far as the Heaven is above the Earth (Matt.7:21; 10:32-33; 11:27; 15:13; 16:17,27; 18:10-35; 20:23; Mark 12:32; John 5). 8. The New Testament writers called the Father, "The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ," but such could never be if He were the Lord Jesus Christ (Eph.1:3,17; 3:14; 1 Pet.1:3; Matt. 27:46; John 20:17). 9. The phrases "the Son of the Father" (2 John 3), "his Father" (Matt.16:27; Rev.1:6; 14:1), "my Father" (used 57 times, Matt. 7:21; John 15:1; Rev 2:27; 3:5; etc.), "my God" (John 20:17; Rev. 3:12), and other like statements made by Jesus of His Father and by others of God being the Father of Jesus could not be true if Jesus were the Father and the only person called God. If Jesus spoke of God the Father as being His Father and His God, then He either lied or told the truth. Such language demands of us to believe in another person who is the God and Father of Jesus Christ. Not once did Jesus or any Bible writer use such terms as Jesus, the Father, the Father Jesus, spirit-Jesus, Father Jesus, one person in the Godhead, Jesus only, and other unscriptural terms used by some people. 10. Jesus in parables illustrates His relationship to the Father as that of a Son and as a separate person from the Father (Matt. 21:33-46; Luke 20:9-18; John 15:1-10). To believe in only one person as being both the Father and Son in these passages is to make Jesus a plain liar. If He said He was "the vine" and the Father was "the husbandman" (John 15) and if God the Father is compared to "a certain householder" and the Son is compared to "his son" and "heir," then this relationship is the truth and nothing but the truth, thus distinguishing two persons known as "the Father" and "the Son" (Matt.21:33-46; Luke 20:9-18). 11. Jesus taught men to go directly to the Father in all prayer and not pray to Him at all: "YE SHALL ASK ME NOTHING .... Ask the Father IN MY NAME, he will give it you" (John 14:12-15; 15:16; 16:23-28). What could be clearer than that Jesus is not the Father? If men are commanded to "ASK ME NOTHING" but to "ASK THE FATHER" instead, then He is not the Father. ***It is one of the most unreasonable doctrines under the sun to teach that Jesus and His Father are one and the same person and that the body of Jesus is the Son and the inner man of Jesus is the Father.*** It is ridiculous to ask men to pray to one part of a person in the name of another part of the same person, or to call two parts of one person by different names - one part called the Father, or inner part, and another part called the Son, or the body part, one part to be the authority to go to the other part in prayer, or more ridiculous still, as some people do, to ignore the Father part and pray only to the Son, or body part. If the language of Jesus does not refer to two persons, then we have to conclude that He did not know how to use the human language. 12. On certain occasions Jesus thanked the Father, "looking up to Heaven," where the Father dwelled (not looking inside of Himself to a Father that dwelled within (John 11:41; Matt. 26:25-27; Mark 8:6; 14:23). Was Jesus giving thanks to Himself and teaching us by example self-praise and self-worship, or was there a real Father OUTSIDE of Him who dwelled in Heaven as a separate person? 13. Many statements were made concerning the Father that could not have been true of Jesus: the Father was in Heaven while Jesus was on Earth (Matt.5:1, 48); the Father knew things that Jesus did not know (Matt.10:29-31; Mark 13:32; Acts 1:7; Rev.1:1); the Father was "good," but Jesus did not claim any such quality in Himself (Matt.19:17); the Father was on a throne, and Jesus was not (Matt.23:22); Jesus is coming in the glory of the Father and not in His own glory (Matt.16:27); Jesus prayed to the Father and never to Himself (Matt.26:39-42; John 17); Jesus prophesied that He would be exalted at the right hand of the Father (Matt. 26:64), and later the apostles said He was there (Acts 2:33-36; Eph.1:20; Col.3:1; Heb.1:3; 8:1; 12:2; Rom.8:34). Stephen actually saw Jesus with his own eyes on God's right hand (Acts 7:56-59). Jesus committed His spirit to God the Father at death, proving He died, but the Father did not die (Luke 23:46). Others saw Jesus as a separate person from the Father (Dan.7:9-14; Rev. 5:1-7). 14. Jesus claimed that He was SENT BY God, that HE CAME FROM God, and that He WAS GOING BACK TO God (Matt.15:24; John 3:16-18, 34; 5:30,36-37; 6:29-40,44,57; 7:16,28-29; 8:16-18,29,42; 9:4; 10:36; 11:42; 12:45,49; 15:21; 16:5; 17:3,8,21-25; Gal.4:4; 1 John 4:9). These Scriptures would not make sense if only one person were referred to. The sense in which God sent Jesus is the same sense in which Jesus sent His disciples (John 17:18; 20:21) and the same sense in which the Father and the Son sent the Spirit into the world (John 14:16-17,26; 15:26; 16:7-15). Being sent does not make the one sent the same person as the one who sends. If so, then the disciples all became Jesus Christ when they were sent by Him..... 15. Jesus plainly told Peter that His Father in Heaven was not "flesh and blood," and He told the Samaritan woman His Father and His God was "Spirit" (Matt.16:16-17; John 4:24; 19:34). Because Jesus was flesh and blood and did not claim to be "spirit" ... He could not be the Father (Luke 24:39; John 19:34; Rom.8:3). 16. Peter received a revelation from the Father in Heaven of the Sonship of Jesus (Matt.16:17) and also actually heard the Father's voice from Heaven say of the Son on Earth, "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him" (Matt. 17:5). Peter later testified that this voice came from Heaven and that it was not a voice inside of Jesus (through practice of ventriloquism). He said later that it came "FROM GOD the Father . . . FROM the excellent glory . . . FROM Heaven" (2 Pet.1:16-18). John the Baptist also heard this voice FROM Heaven while Jesus was on Earth (Matt.3:16-17). They did not say Jesus was the Father in Heaven speaking, and they never believed such. 17. The Jews never understood that Jesus claimed to be the Father, but that He claimed to be the Son, thus making Himself equal with God (Matt.26:64; 27:40-43; John 5:17-35; 6:45; 8:13-38; 10:34-39; 19:7). If He had claimed to be the Father, the only God, all of God, and the only person of the Godhead, they would have had a just case against Him, for not one of the prophets ever foretold this doctrine, but they did say that God would have a Son as a separate person from Himself. 18. Jesus called the Father "my God" even after the resurrection (John 10:17; Rev.3:12; Ps.22:1-10). He could not be His own Father and His own God. If He were the only person in the Godhead, this would be a false statement. 19. The angel Gabriel, "the angel of the Lord" (whom some sects say was God Himself) did not know that Jesus was the only person in the Godhead, for he spoke of a God still in Heaven and called Jesus only "the Son of God" and "the Son of the Highest" (Matt. 1:18-25; Luke 1:19,27-38; 2:21). 20. All the angels in Heaven were as ignorant as Gabriel, for they praised and gave glory to a "God in the highest," who was outside of the baby Jesus in the manger (Luke 2:8-16). It would not be a sin for us to believe that they, being just from Heaven and having come from the Father in the highest and having more intelligence than any man, knew that there was still a "God in the highest," who was one person, and that Jesus in the manger on Earth was another person. 21. Zechariah, Elizabeth, Mary, and Simeon were also ignorant of the theory that the baby Jesus was the Father and all of God, for they talked TO and PRAISED a "God" outside of the baby Jesus (Luke 1:36-56,67,79; 2:25). 22. The shepherds also belonged to the ignorant class and were deceived by the angels, if some human doctrines are right, for they said, "The Lord hath made known to us" about the baby Jesus. Jesus was a new-born child - and was not big enough to make anything known to the shepherds; so if "the Lord" had made known something to them, then there must be a "Lord" outside of Jesus, who did this (Matt.2:12; Luke 2:8-38). 23. Mary and Joseph acted in utmost ignorance that all of God was in the baby Jesus when they brought Him to the temple "to present him to the Lord" (Luke 2:23). Who was this "Lord," or "Jehovah God," they presented Him to? How could they present the only Lord to Himself? 24. In Luke 2:40-52 we have some senseless expressions if there is only one person in the Godhead. Jesus whom some say is the only God and Father Himself, says, "I must be about MY FATHER'S business." Luke said, "The grace of God was upon him. . . . Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man." What Luke really meant, according to some, was that the grace of Himself was upon Himself and that Jesus the only God and His own Father increased in wisdom and in favor with Himself and with man. Common intelligence rebels against such foolishness. Is it any wonder that the subject of God is so hard to understand if we prefer such nonsense to good sense? 25. Even demons knew that Jesus was not the Father, for they called Him "the Son of God," thus demonstrating sense enough to know there must be a separate person from the Son if there was a Father who had a Son. They also called Him Christ, thus proving they had sense enough to know there had to be someone else to anoint Him and make Him the Christ, or the anointed of God (Luke 4:34,41). 26. John the Baptist knew the Father, but he did not know the Son in the wilderness, for "the word of God," or of a person called God, came to him in the wilderness while Jesus was still at Nazareth and told him how he would know the Son (Luke 3:2; John 1:31-34). Shall we believe that the inner man of Jesus was in the wilderness speaking to John while only the body of Jesus was at Nazareth dead? ... Shall we also believe that the Father God and all of God was in the womb of Mary and yet filled John the Baptist at the same time? If John was filled with the Holy Ghost all these years as is clear from Luke 1:15, if he did not know Jesus, and if he was not filled with Jesus, then Jesus could not be the Holy Ghost. If John knew the Father and not the Son, knew God and not Jesus, then Jesus could not be the Father and the God that John knew. There must have been one person called God that John knew and there must have been another person called Jesus, Who was also Deity, that John did not know, thus proving two persons..... 27. God "gave his only begotten Son," but He Himself remained in Heaven; so there must be two separate persons referred to in John 3:16-18, 31-36; Matt.5:45-48; 18:19; etc. If it is true, as some argue, that God the Father is the inner man of Jesus and the Son was the body of Jesus, that God the Father gave Himself and died Himself, and that the Father inside of Jesus could say of Himself, "I created the body you see. I am the Father and this body is my Son," then the phrase "Son of God" should be understood as 'body of God;' "sons of God" should be 'bodies of God;' "my Son" should be 'My body;' "my sons" should be 'My bodies;' "his Son" should be 'His body;' "his sons" should be 'His bodies;' and "thy sons" should be 'Thy bodies.' It should make sense in every Scripture to substitute "body" for "Son" and "Son" for "body." Try "body" for "Son" in Matt.11:27; John 1:18; 3:16-18,35-36; 5:21,25-26; 10:36; Acts 3:13; 8:3; 9:20; Gal. 2:20; Rom.1:9; 5:10; 8:29; Heb.1:2; 11:17, and see how ridiculous such an idea is. ............... TO BE CONTINUED

LOTS MORE ABOUT GOD #31—- GOD AS PRESERVER

 

Understanding God as PRESERVER #1

Many General Statements

UNDERSTANDING GOD AS PRESERVER #1 Gen. 14:20. Blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. Gen. 28:15. I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of. Gen. 31: 3,13. Gen. 48:15. And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day, 16. The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads. Gen. 49:24. But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; I (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:) 25. Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb. Ex. 6:6. I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments: 7. And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God: and ye shall know that I aM the LORD your God, which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians. Ex. 3:17. Ex. 8:22. I will sever in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there; v. 23; Ex. 11:7. Ex. 9:26. Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, was there no hail. Ex. 11:7. But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue, against man or beast: that ye may know how that the LORD hath put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel. Ex. 12:13. And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt. 17. And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever. 23. When he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you. Ex. 13:21. The LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light: to go by day and night. 22. He took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, from before the people. Ex. 14:29. But the children of Israel walked upon dry land in the midst of the sea; and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left. 30. Thus the LORD saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea shore. Ex. 15:2. The LORD is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: 13. Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the people which thou hast redeemed: thou bast guided them in thy strength unto thy holy habitation. 16. Fear and dread shall fall upon them; by the greatness of thine arm, they shall be as still as a stone; till thy people pass over, O LORD, till the people pass over, which thou hast purchased. 17. Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance, in the place, O LORD, which thou bast made for tbee to dwell in, in the sanctuary, O Lord, which thy hands have established. Ex. 16:15. And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the LORD bath given you to eat. Ex. 19:4. I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself. Ex. 23:20. I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared. Ex. 34:24. I will cast out the nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders: neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou shalt go up to appear before the LORD thy God three times in the year. Num. 10:33. The ark of the covenant of the LORD went before them in the three days journey, to search out a resting place for them. Num. 23:23. Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there any divination against Israel: according to this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What hath God wrought. Deut. 1:30. The LORD your God which goeth before you, he shall fight for you, according to all that he did for you, before your eyes. 31. And in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the LORD thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place. Deut. 7:21. The LORD thy God is among you, a mighty God and terrible. 22. The LORD thy God will put out those nations before thee by little and little. Deut. 9:3. The LORD thy God is he which goeth over before thee; as a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down before thy face: so shalt thou drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the LORD hath said unto thee. Dent. 11:25. There shall no man be able to stand before you: for the LORD your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon all the land that ye shall tread upon. Dent. 23:14. The LORD thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to give up thine enemies before thee. Deut. 30:4. If any of thine be driven out unto the outmost parts of heaven, from thence will the LORD thy God gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee. 20. He is thy life, and the length of thy days. Deut. 31:3. The LORD thy God, he will go over before thee, and he will destroy these nations from before thee, and thou shalt possess them: and Joshua, he shall go over before thee, as the LORD hath said. Deut. 32:10. He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. Deut. 33:12. The beloved of the LORD shall dwell in safety by him; and the LORD shall cover him all the day long, and he shall dwell between his shoulders. 25. Thy shoes shall be iron and brass; and as thy days, so shall thy strength be. 26. There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun, who rideth upon the heaven in tby help, and in his excellency on the sky. 27. The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee; and shall say, destroy them. 28. Israel then shall dwell in safety alone: the fountain of Jacob shall be upon a land of corn and wine; also his heavens shall drop down dew. Josh. 23:10. One man of you shall chase a thousand: for the LORD your God, he it is that fighteth for you, as he hath promised you. 1 Sam. 2:6. The LORD killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up. 9. He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail. 1 Sam. 9:16. That he may save my people out of the hand of the Philistines: for I have looked upon my people, because their cry is come unto me. 2 Sam. 22:28. The afflicted people thou wilt save. 2 Kin. 20:6. I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake. 2 Chr. 16:9. The eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. 2 Chr. 20:15. Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God's. 17. Ye shall not need to fight in this battle: set yourselves, stand ye still, and see the salvation of the LORD with you, O Judah and Jerusalem: fear not, nor be dismayed; tomorrow go out against them: for the LORD will be with you. Ezra 8:22. For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way because we had spoken unto the king, saying, The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek him; but his power and his wrath is against all them that forsake him. 23. So we fasted and besought our God for this: and he was entreated of us. Neh. 9:6. Thou, even thou, art LORD alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all. Job 1:10. Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? Job I:7. Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off. Job 5:11. To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety. 18. He maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole. 19. He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee. 20. In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword. 21. Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh. Job 10:12. Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit. Job 11:18. And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope; yea, thou shalt dig about thee, and thou shalt take thy rest in safety. 19. Also thou shalt he down, and none shall make thee afraid. Job 22:25. The Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou shalt have plenty of silver. Job 27:3. All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils; 4. My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit. Job 33:18. He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword. Job 36:7. He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous. but with kings are they on the throne; yea, he doth establish them for ever, and they are exalted. 16. Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table should be full of fatness. Psa. 1:6. The LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish. Psa. 3:3. But thou, O LORD, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head. Psa. 9:9. The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble. Psa. 10:17. LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear: 18. To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress. Psa. 12:7. Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever. Psa. 14:5. There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous. 6. Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge. Psa. 17:7. Show thy marvellous lovingkindness, O thou that savest by thy right hand them which put their trust in thee from those that rise up against them. Psa. 18:17. He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me. 27. Thou wilt save the afflicted people. Psa. 19:14. Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer. Psa. 25:8 Good and upright is the LORD therefore will he teach sinners in the way. 9. The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his way. 12. What man is he that feareth the LORD? him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose. Psa. 31:20. Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pa- vilion from the strife of tongues. 23. O love the LORD, all ye his saints: for the LORD preserveth the faithful. Psa. 32:6. Surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him. 8. I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye. Psa. 34:15. The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry. 17. The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles. 19. Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all. 20. He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken. vs. 21,22. Psa. 37:17. The LORD upholdeth the righteous. 23. The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way. 24. Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholdeth him with his hand. 28. The LORD loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever. 32. The wicked watcheth the righteous and seeketh to slay him. 33. The LORD will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged. Psa. 41:1. Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble. 2. The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed upon the earth; and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies. 3. The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness. Psa. 46:1. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. 5. God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved God shall help her, and that right early. 7. The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Psa. 48:3. God is known in her palaces for a refuge. Psa. 50:15. Call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me. Psa. 61:3. For thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy. 6. Thou wilt prolong the king's life: and his years as many generations. Psa. 68:6. God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: 22. I will bring my people again from the depths of the sea. Psa. 72:14. He shall redeem their souls' from deceit and violence: and precious shall their blood be in his sight. Psa. 73:23. Nevertheless I am continually with thee: thou hast holden me by my right hand. Psa. 80:1. Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock. Psa. 84:11. The LORD God is a sword and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory with haste, no good thing will he withhold from them before that walk uprightly. Psa. 87:5. And of Zion it shall be said... the highest himself shall establish her. Psa. 91:1. He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. 3. Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence. 4. He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler. 7. A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee. 9. Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation. 10. There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. 14. Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name. 15. He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him. (WE MUST REMEMBER MANY OF THESE VERSES ARE "GENERAL STATEMENTS" [see the study on this websited called "An important key - General Statements] AS THEY DO NOT APPLY IN EVERY SITUATION. WE MUST READ ALL THE BIBLE. HENCE WE READ HEBREWS 11 AND REMEMBER THE LIFE OF PAUL, THOUGH DELIVERED MANY TIMES FROM DEATH, HE DID FINALLY HAVE TO DIE FOR THE FAITH - Keith Hunt) Psa. 94:13. That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity. Psa. 97:10. He preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked. Psa. 102:19. From heaven did the LORD behold the earth. 20. To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death. Psa. 103:2. Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: 3. Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases; 4. Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with loving kindness and tender mercies. 5. Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's. Psa. 107:9. He satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness. 10. Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron. Psa. 112:4. Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness: he is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous. Psa. 115:10. O house of Aaron, trust in the LORD: he is their help and their shield. Psa. 116:6. The LORD preserveth the simple: I was brought low, and he helped me. Psa. 118:13. Thou hast thrust sword at me that I might fall: but the LORD helped me. Psa. 121:3. He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber. 4. Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. 7. The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul. 8. The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time fort, and even for evermore. Psa. 124:1. If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, now may Israel say. 2. If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us. 3. Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us: 4. Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul. 5. Then the proud waters had gone over our soul. 6. Blessed be the Loin, who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth. 7. Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped. 8. Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth. Psa. 125:1. They that trust in the LORD shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever. 2. As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever. 3. For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous. Psa. 127:1. Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain. Psa. 145:14. The LORD upholdeth all that fall, and raiseth up all those that be bowed down. 19. He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him: he also will hear their cry, and will save them. 20. The LORD preserveth all them that love him: Prov. 22:12. Psa. 146:7. The LORD looseth the prisoners: 8. The LORD openeth the eyes of the blind: the LORD raiseth them that are bowed down. Psa. 147:2. The LORD doth build up Jerusalem: he gathereth together the outcasts of Israel. 3. He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds. Prov. 2:7. He is a buckler to them that walk uprightly. 8. He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints. Prov. 3:6. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. 23. Then shalt thou walk in thy way safely, and thy foot shall not stumble. 24. When, thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid. thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall sweet. Prov. 10:3. The LORD will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish. 30. The righteous shall never be removed. Prov. 11:8. The righteous is delivered out of trouble. Prov. 12:3. The root of the righteous shall not be moved. 21. There shall no evil happen to the just. (AGAIN REMEMBER YOU ARE READING "GENERAL STATEMENTS - FOR EVIL DOES AT TIMES HAPPEN TO THE JUST" - Keith Hunt) Prov. 14:26. In the fear of the LORD is strong confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge. Prov. 15:19. The way of the righteous is made plain. Prov. 16:9. A man's heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps. 33. The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the LORD. Pro.. 19:23. The fear of the LORD tendeth to life: and he that hath it shall abide satisfied; he shall not be visited with evil. Prov. 20:22. Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee. 24. Man's goings are of the LORD. Prov. 21:31. The horse is prepared against the day of battle: but safety is of the LORD. Prov. 24:16. A just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again. .......... To be continued Understanding God as PRESERVER #2 Mighty and Glorious! Promises that are sure! UNDERSTANDING GOD AS PRESERVER #2 Continued from previous page: Isa. 4:5. The LORD will create upon every dwelling place in mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defence. 6. And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain. Isa.10:27. His burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck. Isa. 14:3. The LORD shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wert made to serve. Isa. 26:7. Thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the Just. Isa. 27:3. I the LORD do keep it, I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day. Isa. 30:21. Thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left. 26. The light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound. Isa. 31:4; So shall the LORD of hosts come down to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof. 5. As birds flying, so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it. 9. His princes shall be afraid of the ensign saith the LORD, whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem. Isa. 32:2. A man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land. 18. My people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places. Isa. 33:16. He shall dwell on high: his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks. 20. Thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken. Isa. 35:9. No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk there. Isa. 37:32. Out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion., the zeal of the LORD of hosts shall do this. 35. I will defend this city to save it for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake. Isa. 40:11. He shall feed his flock like a shepherd - he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young. 29. He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. 31. They that wait upon The LORD shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. Isa. 42:13. The LORD shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall stir up jealousy like a man of war: he shall cry, yea, roar; he shall prevail against his enemies. 16. I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them. IM 43:2. When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee. Isa. 452. I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron. Isa. 46:4. And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you. I have made, and I will bear, even I will carry, and will deliver you. Isa. 48:17. I am the LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go. Isa. 49:9. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in all high places. 10. They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them. 17. Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee. 25. Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children. Isa. 61:9. Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. 10. Art thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over? 22. Thus saith thy Lord the LORD, and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more drink it again. Isa. 52:12. Ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the LORD will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rereward. Isa. 54:14. In righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be far from oppression; for thou shalt not fear: and from terror; for it shall not come near thee. 15. Behold, they shall surely gather together, but not by me: whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall for thy sake. 17. No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD. Isa. 57:14. Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take up the stumblingblock out of the way of my people. Isa. 58:11. The LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not. Isa. 59:19. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him. Isa. 63:9. In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old. (WHAT YOU HAVE READ IS MAINLY PROPHECY PRESERVATION FOR THE LAST DAYS, WHEN ISRAEL AND JUDAH WILL BE DELIVERED FROM THEIR ENEMIES AND ESTABLISHED AGAIN UNDER THE KINGDOM OF GOD ON EARTH - Keith Hunt) Jer. 2:3. Israel was holiness unto the LORD, and the firstfruits of his increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them, saith the LORD. 6. The LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt. 20. For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands. Jer. 3:4. Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou art the guide of my youth? Jer. 11:4. I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace. Jer. 30:7. It is even the time of Jacob's trouble, but he shall be saved out of it. 8. I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him. 11. I am with thee, saith the LORD, to save thee though I make a full end of all nations whiter I have scattered thee, yet will I not make a full end of thee. Jer. 31:9. They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn. 10. He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock. 28. Like as I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and to destroy, and to afflict; so will I watch over them, to build, and to plant, saith the LORD. (AGAIN MORE PROPHECY VERSES FOR THE BEGINNING OF THE AGE TO COME, WHEN ISRAEL AND JUDAH SHALL BE UNITED AND RE-BUILT UNDER THE MESSIAH - Keith Hunt) Ezek. 9:4. And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof. 6. But come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Ezek. 11:16. Thus saith the Lord GOD ... although I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the countries where they shall come. Ezek. 34:11. Behold, I, even I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out. 12. As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my, sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day. 15. I will feed my flock, and I will cause them to lie down, saith the Lord GOD. 16. I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: 22. Therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey, and I will judge between cattle and cattle. 31. And ye my flock, the flock of my pasture, are men, and I am your God, saith the Lord GOD. (MORE END TIME PROPHECY FOR ALL THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL WHEN THE MESSIAH COMES TO BRING THEM FORTH FROM THE LANDS OF THEIR ENEMIES - Keith Hunt) Dan. 3:27. And the princes ... saw these men, upon whose bodies the fire had no power, nor was an hair of their head singed, neither were their coats changed, nor the smell of fire had passed on them. 28. Nebuchadnezzar spake, and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants that trusted in him. Dan. 12:1. There shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book. Hos. 2:18. In that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely. Hos.13:10. I will be thy king: where is any other that may save thee in all thy cities? Joel 2:18. Then will the LORD be jealous for his land, and pity his people. Amos 5:8. The LORD is his name: 9. That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress. Amos 9:9. I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth. Mic. 2:13. Their king shall pass before them, and the LORD on the head of them. Nah. 1:12. Though I have afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no more. Zeph. 3:13. They shall feed and lie down, and none shall make them afraid. 15. The LORD hath taken away thy judgments, he hath cast out thine enemy: the king of Israel, even the LORD, is in the midst of thee, thou shalt not see evil any more. 17. The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing. 19. At that time I will undo all that afflict thee: and I will save her that halteth, and gather her that was driven out; and I will get them praise and fame in every land where they have been put to shame. Zech. 2:5. I, saith the LORD, will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the midst of her. 8. He that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye. Zech. 4:6. Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, with the LORD of hosts. 7. Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shall become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it. 10. Who hath despised the day of small things? for they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven; they are the eyes of the LORD, which run to and fro through the whole earth. Zech. 9:S. I will encamp about mine house because of the army, because of him that passeth by, and because, of him that returneth: and no oppressor shall pass through them any more: for now have I seen with mine eyes. 14. The LORD shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning: and the Lord GOD shall blow the trumpet, and shall go with whirlwinds of the south. 15. The LORD of hosts shall defend them. 16. The LORD their God shall save them in that day as the flock of his people: for they shall be as the stones of a crown, lifted up as an ensign upon his land. Zech. 12:8. In that day shall the LORD defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David shall be as God, as the angel of the LORD before them. (SOME OF THE ABOVE VERSES ARE PROPHECY PROMISES FOR THE END OF THIS AGE AND THE RETURN OF THE MESSIAH - Keith Hunt) Matt. 4:6. If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone. Matt. 10:29. Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. 30. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. 31. Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows. Luke 12. 6,7. Matt. 24:22. For the elect's sake those days shall be shortened. 31. He shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, and from one end of heaven to the other. Mark 13:20. Luke 18.7. Shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them? 8. I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Luke 21:18. There shall not an hair of your head perish. Acts 17:28. In him we live, and move, and have our being. Rom. 8:28. We know that all things work togetherfor good to them that love God. 1 Cor. 10:13. God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it. 2 Thess. 3:3. The Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil. Heb. 1:14. Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation? Jas. 4:15. Ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that. 1 Pet. 3:12. The eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers. 13. Who is he that will harm you, if ye be followers of that which is good? 2 Pet. 2:9. The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptation. Rev, 3:10. I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth. (THE ABOVE VERSE IN REVELATION APPLIES TO ***SOME*** OF THE CHILDREN OF GOD - OTHERS WILL NEED TO DIE FOR THE FAITH ONCE DELIVERED TO THE SAINTS, AS WE SEE IN REVELATION 12, AND AS IT HAS BEEN FROM THE BEGINNING - Keith Hunt) Rev. 7:3. Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads. Rev. 12:6. The woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days. HIS PRESERVING CARE EXEMPLIFIED: To Noah and his family, at the time of the flood, Gen. 6:8,13-21; 7; 8:1,15,16. To Abraham and Sarah, in Egypt, Gen. 12:17; in Gerar, Gen. 20:3. To Lot, when Sodom was destroyed, Gen. 19. To Hagar,when Abraham cast her out, Gen. 21:17,19. To Jacob, when he, fled from Laban, his father-in-law, Gen. 3124,29; when he met Esau, Gen. 33:3-10; as he journeyed in the land of Canaan, Gen. 35:5. To Joseph, in Egypt, Gen. 39:2.21. To Moses, in his infancy, Ex. 2:1-10. To the Israelites, in bringing about their deliverance from bondage, Ex. 1:9-12; 2:23-25; 3:7-9; in exempting the land of Goshen from the plague of flies, Ex. 8:22; in preserving their cattle from the plague of murrain, Ex. 9:4-7; in exempting the land of Goshen from the plague of darkness, Ex. 10:21-23; in saving the firstborn, when the plague of death destroyed the firstborn of Egypt, Ex. 12:13,23; deliverance from Egypt, Ex.13:3,17-22; 14; 19:4; Lev. 26:13; in the wilderness, Ex. 40:36-38; Num. 9.17-23; 10:33; 22.12; 23:8; Deut. 1:31; 23:5. Victories over the Canaanites under Joshua, Josh. chapters 6-11; 24:11-13; under Othniel, Judg. 3:9-11; under Ehud, Judg. 3:15-30; under Shamgar, Judg. 3:31; under Deborah, Judg. 4:5; under Gideon, Judg. 7; 8:1-23; under Jephthah, Judg. 11:29-40; on account of Samuel's intercession, 1 Sam. 7:7-10; under David, 1 Sam. 17:45-49; Ahab, 1 Kin. 20. Delivering the kingdom of Israel from Syria, 2 Sam. 8; delivering Israel by Jeroboam 1I., 2 Kin. 14:26,27; by Abijah, 2 Chr.13:4-18; in delivering from the oppressions of the king of Syria, 2 Kin, 13:2-5. To the kingdom of Judah: In delivering from Egypt, 2 Chr. 12:2-12; the Ethiopian host, 2 Chr. 14:11-14; in giving peace with other nations, 2 Chr.17; delivering them from the army of the Assyrians. 2 Kin. 19. To David, 2 Sam. 7; 1 Chr. 11:13,14; Hezekiah, 2 Kin. 19; Job 1:9-12; 2:6; Jeremiah and Baruch, Jer. 36:26; Daniel and the three Hebrew captives. Dan. 2:18-23; 3:27; 6. Jonah, Jonah 1:17; the wise men of the east, Matt. 2:12; Jesus and his parents, Matt. 2:13, 19-22; Peter, Acts 12:3-17; Paul and Silas, Acts 16:26-39; Paul, Acts 27:24; 28:5,6, with Mark 16:18. ....................

LOTS MORE ABOUT GOD #30—- PRESENCE OF GOD

 

Understanding the PRESENCE of God

by

Keith Hunt

UNDERSTANDING THE PRESENCE OF GOD Gen. 16:13. And she called the name of the LORD that spake unto her, Thou God seest me: for she said, Have I also here looked after him that seeth me? Gen. 23:16. Surely the LORD is in this place; and I knew it not. Ex. 20:24. In all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee. Deut. 4:34. Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD; your God did for you in Egypt before your eves? 35. Unto thee it was showed, that thou mightest know that the LORD he is God; there is none else beside him. 36. Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee: and upon earth he showed thee his great fire; and thou heardest his words out of the midst of the fire. 39. Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the LORD he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: Josh. 2:11. 1 Kin. 8:27. Will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee: how much less this house that I have builded? 2 Chr. 2:6; Acts 7:48,49. Psa. 139:3. Thou compassest my path, and my lying down, 5. Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me. 7. Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence? 8. If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. 9. If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; 10. Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me. Isa. 57:15. Thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy, I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit. Isa. 66:1. The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest? Jer. 23:23. Am I a God at hand, saith the LoRD, and not a God afar off? 24. Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD. Jer. 32:13. The Great, the Mighty God, the LORD of hosts is his name. 19. Great in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings. Jonah 1:3. Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD, and went down to Joppa ; and he found a ship going to Tarshish. 4. But the LORD sent out a great wind into the sea. Acts 17:24. God that made the world, and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands; 27. That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us. 28. For in him we live, and move. and have our being. 1 Cor. 12:6. There are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all. Eph. 1:23. Him that filleth all in all. ..........

LOTS MORE ABOUT GOD #29 —— THE POWER OF GOD!

 

Understanding the POWER of God #1

It's Greatness!

by

Keith Hunt

UNDERSTANDING THE POWER OF GOD: Ex. 15:3. The LORD is a man of war: the LORD is his name. 6. Thy right hand, O LORD, is become glorious in power: thy right hand, O LORD, hath dashed in pieces the enemy. 7. And in the greatness of thine excellency thou hast overthrown them that rose up against thee. 11. Who is like unto thee, O LORD, among the gods? who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders? 12. Thou stretchedst out thy right hand, the earth swallowed them. Num. 11:23. Is the LORD's hand waxed short? thou shalt see now whether my word shall come to pass unto thee or not. Deut. 11:2. Num. 23:20. I have received commandment to bless: and he hath blessed; and I cannot reverse it. Deut. 3:24. O Lord GOD, thou bast begun to shew thy servant thy greatness, and thy mighty hand: for what God is there in heaven or in earth, that can do according to thy works, and according to thy might? Deut. 7:21. The LORD thy God is among yon, a mighty God and terrible. Deut. 32:.39. I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand. Job 10:7. Deut. 33:26. There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun; who rideth upon the heaven in thy help, and in his excellency on the sky. 27. The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms Josh. 4:24. That all the people of the earth might know the hand of the LORD, that it is mighty. 1 Sam: 2:6. The LORD killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up, 7. The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up. 10. The adversaries of the LORD shall be broken to pieces; out of heaven shall he thunder upon them. 1 Sam, 14:6. There is no restraint to the LORD to save by many or by few. 2 Sam. 22:13. Through the brightness before him were coals of fire kindled. 16. And the channels of the sea appeared, the foun- dations of the world were discovered, at the rebuking of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils. Psa. 18. 1 Chr. 29:11. Thine, O LORD, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: 12. In thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all. 2 Chr. 14:11. And Asa cried unto the LORD his God, and said, LORD, it is nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power. 2 Chr.16:9. The eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. 2 Chr. 20:6. In thine hand is there not power and might, so that none is able to withstand thee? 2 Chr. 25:8. God hath power to help, and to cast down. 9. The LORD is able to give thee much more than this. Ezra 8:22. The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek him; but his power and his wrath is against all them that forsake him. Neh. 1:10. Whom thou hast redeemed by thy great power, and by thy strong hand. Job 9:4. He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered? 5. Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger. 6. Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble. 7. Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars. 10. Which doeth great things past finding out, yea, and wonders without number. 12. He taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What doett thou? 13. If God will not with-draw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him. 19. If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: Job 5:9. Job 11:10. If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him? Job 12:14. He breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening. 16. With him is strength and wisdom: v. 15. Job 14:20. Thou prevailest forever against him, and he passeth thou changest his couptenance, an sendest him away. Job 23:13. He is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth. 14. For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me. Job 26:11. The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof. 14. The thunder of his power who can understand? v. 12. Job 34:14. If he set his heart upon man, if he gather unto Himself his spirit and his breath; 15. All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust. Job 36:5. God is mighty, and depiseth not any: he is mighty in strength an d wisdom. 22. Behold, God exalteth by his power: vs. 27-33. Job 37:23. Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out: he is excellentin power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice: he will not afflict. (A "general statement" verse, as so many verses are in the Bible - for God does allow affliction, even on His own children, at times - see the life of the apostle Paul - Keith Hunt) Job 38:8. Who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, 11. And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed? Job 40:9. Hast thou an arm like God? or canst thou thunder with a voice like him? Job 41:10. None is so fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me? 11. Who hath prevented me, that I should repay him. Job 42:2. I know that thou canst do every thing. Psa. 21:13. Be thou exalted, LORD, in thine own strength: so will we sing and praise thy power. Psa. 29:3. The voice of the LORD is upon the waters: the God, of glory thundereth, the LORD is upon many waters. 4. The voice of the LORD is powerful; the voice of the LORD is full of majesty. 5. The voice of the LORD breaketh the cedars; vs. 6-9. Psa. 33:9. He spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast. Psa.46:6. The heathen raged: the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted. Psa. 62:11. God hath spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power belongeth unto God. Psa. 65:6. Which by his strength setteth fast the mountains; being girded with power 7. Which stilleth the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves, and the tumult of the people. Psa. 66:3. How terrible art thou in thy works! through the greatness of thy power shall thine enemies submit themselves unto thee. 7. He ruleth by his power for ever. Psa. 68:33. Him that rideth upon the heavens of heavens, which were of old; lo, he doth send out his voice, and that a mighty voice. vs. 34.35. Psa. 74:13. Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the beads of the dragons in the waters. 15. Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers. Psa. 76:6. At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep. 7. Who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry? Psa. 77:14. Thou art the God that doest wonders: thou hast declared thy strength among the people. 16. The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they were afraid: the depths also were troubled: 18. The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook. Psa. 78:26. He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven; and by his power he brought in the south wind. vs. 12-16,43-51. Psa. 79:11. According to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die. Psa. 89:8. O LORD God of hosts, who is a strong LORD like unto thee? 9. Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves there of arise, thou stillest them. 13. Thou hast a mighty arm: strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand. Psa. 90:3. Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest. Return, ye children of men. Psa. 93:1. The LORD is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself 4. The LORD on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea. Psa. 97:3. A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies roundabout. 4. His lightnings enlightened the world: the earth saw, and trembled. 5. The hills melted like wax at the presence of the LORD. Psa. 104:7. At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they basted away. 9. Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth. 29. Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust. 30. Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created and thou renewest the face of the earth. 32. He looketh on the earth, and it trembleth, he toucheth the hills, and they smoke. Psa. 105; 114:3-8; 135:8-12; 136:10-22. Psa. 106:8. He saved them for his name's sake, that he might make his mighty power to be known. Psa. 107:25. He commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof. 29. He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still. Psa. 111:6. He hath showed his people the power of his works. Psa. 114:7. Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob; 8. Which turned the rock into a standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters. Psa. 115:3. Our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased. Psa. 118:16. The right hand of the LORD is exalted: the right hand of the LORD does valiantly. Psa. 135:6. Whatsoever the LORD pleased, that did he in heaven, and in earth, in the seas, and all deep places. Psa. 144:5. Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke. Psa. 145:6. Men shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts: and I will declare thy greatness. 16. Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of, every living thing. Psa. 147:5. Great is our Lord, and of great power. 16. He giveth snow like wool: he scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes. 18. He sendeth out his word, and melteth them: he causeth his wind to blow, and the waters flow. Psa. 148:5. He commanded, and they were created. 8, Fire, and hail; snow, and vapours; stormy wind fulfilling his word. Prov. 21:30. There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD. Prov. 30:4. Who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? .......... To be continued Understanding the POWER of God #2 Mighty and Glorious! UNDERSTANDING THE POWER OF GOD - Continued Isa. 14:24. Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand: 27. The LORD of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back? Isa. 17:13. The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind. Psa. 2:4,5. Isa. 19:1. The idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it. Isa. 23:11. He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms. Isa. 26:4. In the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength. Isa. 27:4. Who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together. Isa. 31:3. When the LORD shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall fall, and he that is holpen shall fall down, and they all shall fail together. Isa. 33:3. At the noise of the tumult the people fled; at the lifting up of thyself the nations were scattered. 13. Hear, ye that are far off, what I have done; and, ye that are near, acknowledge my might. Isa. 40:12. Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance? 22. He that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in: 24. He shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble. 26. Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth. 28. Hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? Isa. 43:13. There is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it? 16. The LORD, which maketh away in the sea, and a path in the mighty waders; 17. Which bringeth forth the chariot and horse, the army and the power. Isa. 44:27. That saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers. Isa. 46:10. My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure: 11. I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will. also do it. Isa. 48:13. Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spanned the heavens: when I call unto them, they stand up together. Isa. 50:2. Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: 3. I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering. Isa. 51:10. Art thou not it which bath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way, for the ransomed to pass over? Isa. 52:10. The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations. Isa. 59:1. The LORD's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save: neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear. Isa. 60:16. Thou shalt know that I the LORD am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob. Isa. 63:12. With his glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to make himself an everlasting name? Jer. 5:22. Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand, for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail, though they roar, yet can they not pass over it? Jer. 10:6. There is none like unto thee, 0 LORD; thou art great, and thy name is great in might. 12. He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion. [chapter 51:15.] 13. When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures. Jer. 20:11. The LORD is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail. Jer. 27:5. I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are upon the ground, by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and have given it unto whom it seemed meet unto me. Jer. 32:17. Thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee. 27. I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard for me? Jer. 50:44. Who is like me? and who will; appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me? Dan. 2:20. Wisdom and might are his. Dan. 3:17. Our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnave and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king. Dan. 4:35. He doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou? Dan. 6:27. He delivereth and rescueth, and he worketh signs and wonders in heaven and in earth. Joel 2:11. The LORD shall utter his voice before his army: for his camp is very great: for he is strong that executeth his word: for the day of the LORD is great and very terrible; and who can abide it? Joel 3:16. The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake Amos 1:2. Amos 4:13. He that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, The LORD, The God of hosts, is his name. Amos 9:5. He that toucheth the land, and it shall melt; 6. It is he that buildeth his stories in the heaven, and hath founded his troop in the earth; he that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth. Mic. 1:3. The LORD cometh forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth. 4. And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place. Nah. 1:3: The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, the Lord hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet. 4. He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers. 5. The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein. Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him. Hab. 3:6. He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: 9. Thy bow was made quite naked.... Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers. 10. The mountains saw thee, and they trembled: the overflowing of the water passed by: the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands on high. 11. The sun and moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrows they went, and at the shining of thy glittering spear. 15. Thou didst walk through the sea with thine horses, through the heap of great waters. Zech. 9:14. The Lord shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning: and the Lord GOD shall blow the trumpet, and shall go with whirlwinds of the south. Matt. 3:9. And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham. Matt. 6:13. Matt. 10:28. Fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. Matt. 19:26. With God all things are possible. Mark 10:27: Luke 18:27. Matt. 22:29. Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God. Mark 14:36. Father, all things are possible unto thee. Luke 1:37. With God nothing shall be impossible. 49. He that is mighty hath done to me great things; 51. He bath shewed strength with his arm, he bath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts. (R. V. For no word from God shall be void of power) Luke 11:20. If I with the finger of God cast out devils, no doubt the kingdom of God is come upon you. Rom. 1:20. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead. Rom. 4:21. What he had promised, he was able also to perform. 1 Cor. 6:14. God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power. 2 Cor. 13:4. Though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. Eph. 1:19. What is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, 20. Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead. Eph. 3:20. Unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us. 21. Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Heb. 1:3. Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high. Heb. 12:26. Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. 29. Our God is a consuming fire. Jas. 4:12. One lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. 1 Pet. 1:5. Kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time. Rev. 4:11. Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: Rev. 5:13. Rev. 11:17. Thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned. Rev. 19:1. I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saving, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our God: 6. The Lord God omnipotent reigneth. ...........