By the Scripture’s Own Writers
Jehovah God
Definition
Greatest Personality in the universe, distinguished by that exclusive Name. The Great Theocrat, the Unfailing Purposer, the True and Living God, Creator and Supreme Sovereign of the universe. Not a triune god, which false doctrine would deny His almighty supremacy. A translation of God’s Name in Hebrew.
His Name
Exodus 6:3 “And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, as God Almighty; but by My name Jehovah I was not known to them.”
Psalm 83:18 “That they may know that You alone, whose name is Jehovah, are the Most High over all the earth.”
Isaiah 42:8 “I am Jehovah, that is My Name; and My glory will I not give to another, neither My praise unto graven images.”
Principal Attributes
Love
1 John 4:8 “God is love.”
Wisdom
Job 12:13 “With God is wisdom and might.”
Romans 11:33 “Oh the depth of God’s riches and wisdom and knowledge!”
Justice
Psalm 97:2 “Righteousness and justice are the foundation of His throne.”
Power
Psalm 62:11 “Power belongs unto God.”
Job 37:23 “The Almighty,… He is excellent in power.”
The Happy God
1 Timothy 1:11 “According to the glorious good news of the happy God.”
Without Beginning or End of Existence
Psalm 90:2 “From everlasting to everlasting, You are God.”
Psalm 93:2 “Your throne is established of old: You are from everlasting.”
1 Timothy 1:17 “Now to the King of eternity, incorruptible, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory for ever and ever.”
Jeremiah 10:10 “But Jehovah is the true God; He is the living God, and an everlasting King.”
Job 36:26 “Behold, God is great, and we know Him not; the number of His years is unsearchable.”
Is One Person
John 8:17, 18 “The witness of two men is true. I am one that bears witness about Myself and the Father who sent Me bears witness about Me.”
Hebrews 10:38 “But My righteous one will live by reason of faith,… if he shrinks back, My soul has no pleasure in him.”
Deuteronomy 6:4 “Hear, O Israel: Jehovah our God is one Jehovah.”
Has an Incorruptible Body, with Qualities of Sight, Hearing, etc.
Isaiah 45:9 “Shall the clay say to him that fashions it, What do you make? or your work, He has no hands?”
Psalm 94:9 “He that planted the ear, shall He not hear? He that formed the eye, shall He not see?”
1 Corinthians 15:44 “If there is a physical body, there is also a spiritual one.”
2 Chronicles 16:9 “The eyes of Jehovah run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show Himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward Him.”
1 Timothy 1:17 “Now to the King of eternity, incorruptible, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory for ever and ever. Amen.”
Supreme Sovereign of the Universe
Acts 4:24 “Sovereign Lord, you are the One who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all the things in them.”
1 Peter 5:11 “To Him be the might forever. Amen.”
1 Corinthians 15:28 “When all things will have been subjected to Him, then the Son Himself will also subject Himself to the One who subjected all things to Him, that God may be all things to everyone.”
Isaiah 33:22 “Jehovah is our Judge, Jehovah is our Lawgiver, Jehovah is our King; He will save us.”
Impossible to Be Seen with Human Eyes
1 John 4:12 “At no time has anyone beheld God.”
Exodus 33:20 “He said, You cannot see My face; for man shall not see Me and live.”
1 John 3:2, 3 “Beloved ones, now we are children of God, but as yet it has not been made manifest what we shall be. We do know that whenever He is made manifest we shall be like Him, because we shall see Him just as He is.”
1 Timothy 1:17 “Now to the King of eternity, incorruptible, invisible, … be honor.”
Has Made Manifestations of His Existence by Means of Angels or Visions
Isaiah 6:5 “Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, Jehovah of hosts.”
Exodus 33:11, 22, 23 “Jehovah spoke unto Moses face to face, as a man speaks unto his friend. And it shall come to pass, while My glory passes by, that I will put you in a cleft of the rock, and will cover you with My hand until I have passed by: and I will take away My hand, and you shall see My back; but My face shall not be seen.”
Exodus 24:10, 11 “They saw the God of Israel; and there was under His feet as it were a paved work of sapphire stone, and as it were the very heaven for clearness. And upon the nobles of the children of Israel He laid not his hand: and they beheld God, and did eat and drink.”
Isaiah 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.”
Galatians 3:19 “Why, then, the Law? It was added to make transgressions manifest, until the seed should arrive to whom the promise had been made, and it was transmitted through angels by the hand of a mediator.”
Hebrews 2:2 “The word spoken through angels became certain of execution, and every transgression and disobedient act received a retribution in harmony with justice.”
Daniel 7:7, 9, 13 “I saw in the night-visions, . . . and one that was ancient of days did sit: his raiment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool; his throne was fiery flames, and the wheels thereof burning fire. I saw in the night-visions, and, behold, there came with the clouds of heaven one like unto a son of man, and he came even to the ancient of days.”
Revelation 4:2, 3 “A throne was in its position in heaven, and there is one seated upon the throne. And the one seated is, in appearance, like a jasper stone.”
Impossible to Make Likeness or Comparison to Him
Isaiah 40:18, 25 “To whom then will you liken God? or what likeness will you compare unto Him? To whom then will you liken Me, that I should be equal to him? says the Holy One.”
Deuteronomy 4:15, 16 “Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for you saw no manner of form on the day that Jehovah spoke unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire; lest you corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image in the form of any figure.”
Numbers 4:5, 6 “When the camp sets forward, Aaron shall go in, and his sons, and they shall take down the veil of the screen, and cover the ark of the testimony with it, and shall put thereon a covering of sealskin, and shall spread over it a cloth all of blue.”
Knows Everything About His Creation
Hebrews 4:13 “There is not a creation that is not manifest to His sight, but all things are naked and openly exposed to the eyes of Him with whom we have an accounting.”
Romans 14:12 “Each of us will render an account for himself to God.”
God of the Free and the Only Liberator
2 Corinthians 3:17 “Now Jehovah is the spirit; and where the spirit of Jehovah is, there is freedom.”
John 8:31-38 “Jesus went on to say to the Jews that had believed Him: ‘If you remain in My word, you are really My disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free..,. Therefore if the Son sets you free, you will be actually free…. What things I have seen with My Father I speak.’ “
Romans 8:21 “The creation itself also will be set free from enslavement to corruption and have the glorious freedom of the children of God.”
James 1:25 “He who peers into the perfect law that belongs to freedom and who persists in it, this man … will be happy.”
Isaiah 58:6 “Is not this the fast that I have chosen: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?”
Isaiah 61:1-3 “The spirit of the Lord Jehovah is upon me; because Jehovah has anointed me .. . He has sent me … to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound.”
Also: Luke 4:18.
Isaiah 49:9 “Say to the prisoners, Go forth.”
Isaiah 42:7 “To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison-house.”
Obedience the Governing Principle of His Organization
Romans 13:1 “Let every soul be in subjection to the superior authorities, for there is no authority except by God; the existing authorities stand placed in their relative positions by God.”
Acts 3:23 “Indeed, any soul that does not listen to that Prophet will be completely destroyed from among the people.”
1 Samuel 15:22, 23 “Has Jehovah as great delight in burnt-offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of Jehovah? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams. For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim.”
Acts 5:29 “Peter and the other apostles said: ‘We must obey God as ruler rather than men.’ “
2 Thessalonians 1:8 “He [Jesus] brings due punishment upon those who do not know God and those who do not obey the good news about our Lord Jesus.”
1 Peter 4:17, 18 “What will the complete end be of those who are not obedient… if the righteous man is being saved with difficulty, where will the ungodly man and the sinner make a showing?”
Does Not Gain from His Creatures
Acts 17:24, 25 “The God that made the world and all the things in it… does not dwell in handmade temples, neither is He attended to by human hands as if He needed anything, because He Himself gives to all persons life and breath and all things.”
Job 41:11 “Who has first given unto Me, that I should repay him? Whatsoever is under the whole heaven is Mine.”
Isaiah 40:15-17 “Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are accounted as the small dust of the balance: … And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt-offering. All the nations are as nothing before Him; they are accounted by Him as less than nothing, and vanity.”
Romans 11:35 “Who has first given to Him, so that it must be repaid to him?”
Life Comes by Knowing, Praising Him
John 17:3 “This means everlasting life, their taking in knowledge of You, the only true God, and of the one whom You sent forth, Jesus Christ.”
Romans 6:23 “The wages sin pays is death, but the gift God gives is everlasting life by Christ Jesus our Lord.”
John 6:57, 63 “I live because of the Father…. The sayings that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.”
Philippians 2:10, 11 “So that in the name of Jesus every knee should bend of those in heaven and those on earth and those under the ground, and every tongue should openly confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father.”
Also: Psalm 148.
Always Reasonable, Cannot Lie
Isaiah 1:18 “Come now, and let us reason together, says Jehovah.”
James 3:17 “The wisdom from above is first of all chaste, then peaceable, reasonable, ready to obey, full of mercy and good fruits, not making partial distinctions, not hypocritical.”
Hebrews 6:18 “It is impossible for God to lie.”
Titus 1:2 “God, who cannot lie.”
Not Omnipresent, but Power Extends Everywhere
Matthew 23:9, 22 “One is your Father, the heavenly one. And he that swears by heaven is swearing by the throne of God and by Him that is sitting on it.”
1 Kings 8:30 “When they shall pray toward this place: yea, hear You in heaven Your dwelling-place.”
Job 22:12 “Is not God in the height of heaven?”
Psalm 102:19 “He has looked down from the height of His sanctuary; from heaven did Jehovah behold the earth.”
Psalm 11:4 “Jehovah is in His holy temple; Jehovah, His throne is in heaven.”
Psalm 14:2 “Jehovah looked down from heaven upon the children of men.”
Amos 9:2 “Though they dig into sheol, thence shall My hand take them; and though they climb up to heaven, from there will I bring them down.”
Isaiah 43:13 “Yea, since the day was, I am He; and there is none that can deliver out of My hand: I will work, and who can hinder it?”
Isaiah 50:2, 3 “Is My hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? … I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.”
Isaiah 59:1 “Behold, Jehovah’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither His ear heavy, that it cannot hear.”
Can Never Be Fully Searched Out
Romans 11:33, 34 “Oh the depth of God’s riches and wisdom and knowledge! How unsearchable His judgments are and past tracing out His ways are! For ‘who has come to know Jehovah’s mind, or who has become His counselor?’ “
Isaiah 40:28 “There is no searching of His understanding.”
Job 36:26 “Behold, God is great, and we know Him not.”
Job 37:23 “Touching the Almighty, we cannot find Him out.”
Christ His Intimate
Matthew 11:27 “All things have been delivered to Me by My Father, and no one fully knows the Son but the Father, neither does anyone fully know the Father but the Son and anyone to whom the Son is willing to reveal Him.”
Cannot Be Blocked in His Purposes
Matthew 19:26 “With God all things are possible.”
Isaiah 46:11 “I have spoken, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed, I will also do it.”
Isaiah 55:11 “So shall My Word be that goes forth out of My mouth: it shall not return unto Me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.”
Job 41:10 “Who then is he that can stand before Me?”
Does Not Tempt Anyone to Sin or Create Wickedness
James1:13, 14 “When under trial, let no one say: ‘I am being tried by God.’ No; for with evil things God cannot be tried nor does He Himself try anyone. But each one is tried by being drawn out and enticed by his own desire.”
Deuteronomy 32:4, 5 “All His ways are justice: a God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and right is He.”
Habakkuk 1:13 “You that are of purer eyes than to behold evil, and that cannot look on perverseness.”
Ezekiel 28:12-15 “You seal up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. You were in Eden, the garden of God…. You were the anointed cherub that covers: and I set you, so that you were upon the holy mountain of God…. You were perfect in your ways from the day that you were created, till unrighteousness was found in you.”
His Vindication the Most Important Thing
Romans 3:4 “As it is written: ‘That You [God] might be vindicated in Your words and might win when You are being judged.’ “
See: Psalm 51:4.
Matthew 6:9 “Our Father in the heavens, let Your Name be sanctified.”
Romans 9:17 “For the Scripture says to Pharaoh: ‘For this very purpose I have let you remain, that in connection with you I may demonstrate My power and that My Name may be published throughout all the earth.’ “
Also: Exodus 9:16.
Proverbs 27:11 “My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproaches me.”
Job 32:2 “Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu … against Job … because he justified himself rather than God.”
Isaiah 63:12-14 “That caused His glorious arm to go at the right hand of Moses? … to make Himself an everlasting name? … so did You lead Your people, to make Yourself a glorious name.”
Psalm 111:9 “Holy and reverend is His Name.”
Now Rules as King Through Christ
Revelation 19:6 “Praise Jah, you people, because Jehovah our God, the Almighty, has begun to rule as king.”
Revelation 11:15 “Loud voices occurred in heaven saying: ‘The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ, and He will rule as king for ever and ever.’ “
See: Matthew 24 and Revelation 6.
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