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LESSON 2 * PART 1 * BOOK 4
NAMES OF DEITY, MOST HIGH
Genesis 14-16
For review, we reached where Abraham and Lot had separated. Lot had pitched his tent toward Sodom. From the area of Jerusalem comes this priest of the Most High God, Melchizedek. Genesis 14:17,18
Then picture an old $5 Big Ben alarm clock. In verse 18 of Chapter 14 that Melchizedek was the priest of Whom? The most High! Go back with me to Genesis Chapter 1. All the way through this Chapter we have the three-letter word, `God.' It's no longer just `God', but The `LORD God.' Beginning back in Chapter 1, the God of that Chapter is known in the Hebrew as `Elohim.' When we were in Genesis 1, we equated El Elohim with the Trinity of God The Father, God The Son, and God The Holy Spirit.
El Elohim is a plural word in the Hebrew. In Chapter 2, the term is no longer just `God.' but `LORD God,' all capitalized. It would still be Elohim, or as Chapter 1 would call Him, `God.' Now, Who is The Lord God? Remember in those earlier chapters when we were in John's Gospel.
"IN the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."
That all refers to God the Son, Who now is fulfilling the role of the plan of redemption, and His name becomes Jehovah. LORD and Jehovah are always synonymous. Throughout the Scripture we find that even though Jehovah is the God of all, we see that Abraham addresses Him as Jehovah, The Most High (even in Genesis, Chapter 14). After Genesis Chapter 2 and God deals with the whole human race in the person of Jehovah, or The Lord, the terminology is always now - The LORD, The LORD. Abraham appears in Genesis Chapter 12, Jehovah then becomes intrinsically the God of Abraham, or the Person of the Godhead Who is particularly dealing with the Nation of Israel. So, when the Bible says, `the God of Abraham,' and `the God of Isaac,' Who is it referring to? Jehovah! Remember, too, He is still God the Son. Continuing in Genesis we find Jehovah becomes everything the Nation of Israel could hope for in all of their physical and spiritual needs.
Turn to Genesis, Chapter 22. We find that Abraham is acquainted with Jehovah with an extra name behind Him. In this case it is Jehovah-Jireh. Jehovah-Jireh was the God who provided the sacrifice when He spared Isaac. You remember the story how God stayed Abraham's hand and kept him from sacrificing Isaac. Study that whole chapter.
As Israel comes out of Egypt under Moses, the first thing God promises them (Israel) is that if they will be obedient He will be their healing. We find that in Exodus, Chapter 15. In Exodus, Chapter 17, we find the term Jehovah-Nissi. As long as Moses held his arms up, the battle went for Israel. When it was over they declared that God was their Jehovah-Nissi. As we continue in Scripture we come to the term Jehovah-Shalom, which in Hebrew is peace. Again, Israel has now come to a point of decline. So Israel began to cry to Jehovah for help. - Hebrew for shepherd. In the Hebrew it is Jehovah-roi; I am your Shepherd. Again, it is an intrinsic need of the Nation of Israel.
God does everything in sevens, doesn't He? Seven distinct needs of Israel all fulfilled by a seven-fold operation of Jehovah:
Jehovah-Jireh Jehovah-ropheka Jehovah-Nissi
Jehovah-shalom Jehovah-tsidkenu Jehovah-roi
Jehovah-shammah
Chapters 21 and 22 are dealing with eternal things. Exodus 3:13,14
"And Moses said unto God, `Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? Moses could anticipate their asking what His name was because in Egypt every god had a name. Turn to John's Gospel Chapter 8. John 8:52-57
Art thou greater than our father Abraham, which is dead? "Then said the Jews unto him, `Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham?'"
Only now instead of LORD God or Elohim, it's The Most High. Israel is not yet on the scene. Non-Jews, or Gentiles. So this term Most High God is always associated in Scripture with the Gentile as opposed to being associated with Israel. Deuteronomy 32:7-9
The constant reference to God in Daniel is The Most High. Daniel 4:17a
Daniel 4:24a
Now come over to Chapter 5.
Daniel 5:18a
"O thou king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father a kingdom (Gentiles)..."
What I want you to understand is that as Jehovah is intrinsically and primarily the name of God with regard to Israel and redemption; this term Most High (which in the Hebrew is El Elyon) is applying to the non-Jew, or the Gentile world.
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