God's Self-Revelation

What God tells about Himself

The Elohim Hashem Jehovah, or the Most High God, has revealed Himself by His Own Word.

The Divine Creator used His Voice to create but also to give breath and life to man. The same He gave His Words to be notated down so that later generations could come to read what happened with those God allowed to exist. All those scrolls were put together in one library or in a https://broedersinchristus.wordpress.com/tag/book-of-books/, that became the Bestseller of all times.

What has this Book of God's Words to tell us about God?

This information is not scanty -- it is abundant. It commences in the first page of the Bible and is maintained right through to the last, that is to say, all through the Law, the Psalms and the Prophets of the Old Testament, and then through the Gospels and Epistles of the New Testament. But this picture of God is not complicated or confused, for there emerges one outstanding Personality with His own decisive character, closely concerned with the career of the human race and the future of the world. He cannot be relegated to the fringes of human concerns, nor pushed away "somewhere" in the distant heavens, to be conveniently ignored. If men and women do that, the consequences for themselves will be disastrous.

The commonest description in the Bible of the nature of God is "everlasting". Consider these examples:

"Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting thou art God" (Psalm 90:2).

"Hast thou not known? Hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding" (Isaiah 40:28).

"The LORD is the true God; he is the living God, and an everlasting King ... " (Jeremiah 10:10).

Here is a quality of existence entirely outside our experience. Indeed God indicates so Himself through His prophet:

"The Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit" (Isaiah 31:3).

Here there is an obvious contrast between "men/flesh" and "God/spirit". God's nature is "Spirit", and forms therefore an absolute contrast with human nature, which is limited in mind, weak in character, and perishing in death.

God is Eternal

The most explicit descriptions in the New Testament are from the Apostle Paul:

"Now unto the King eternal, incorruptible, invisible, the only God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen" (1 Timothy 1:17, R.V.).

"The blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords: who only hath immortality, dwelling in light unapproachable; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power eternal. Amen" (1 Timothy 6:16, R.V.).

It is remarkable that in these descriptions the two most explicit terms about God's nature are expressed as negatives. He is "incorruptible" (not corrupting) and "immortal" (not dying). God has a "nature" the direct opposite of "human flesh". So He is "eternal", literally "of the ages" (R.V. margin). It is significant that Paul uses this term three times in one verse: "... to the King eternal (of the ages) ... be glory for ever and ever" (unto the ages of the ages -- R.V. margin). How impressed he must have been with the thought of the everlasting nature of God.

God's Self-Revelation

God's Self-Revelation

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