Jesus and the Kingdom of God

The primary focus of Jesus’s ministry was the announcement and declaration of God’s Kingdom.[1] Jesus came from heaven to earth to show us the way and lead us into His Father’s Kingdom.[2] Jesus called EVERYONE to seek FIRST the Kingdom of God and God’s righteousness, goodness, lovingkindness, truth, faith, and peace above all else.[3] Righteousness, goodness, lovingkindness, truth, faith, and peace describe the living LORD God, and He wants everyone to follow His ways.[4] Furthermore, Jesus called for God’s Kingdom to come and to always seek for God’s will to be done.[5] In God’s Kingdom, we are saved from the evil one.[6] Jesus knew that seeking His Holy Father and His Kingdom FIRST leads to life, peace, resource, and happiness.[7] Likewise, Jesus called His disciples to preach and proclaim the Good News (also known as Gospel) of the Kingdom of God throughout the world.[8] The Apostle Paul was committed to announcing to the world the Gospel of the grace of God and God’s Kingdom.[9]

The Kingdom of God is from everlasting to everlasting and will never be destroyed.[10] God’s Kingdom is the power and glory forever.[11] The living LORD God is the everlasting God and true King of all the heavens and earth.[12] The Kingdom of God means the reign and rule of the living LORD God is present throughout the world.[13] One day the kingdoms of this world will become the Kingdoms of our Lord and His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever.[14]

Jesus is the clearest expression of the reign and rule of the LORD God and His Kingdom. In Jesus’ coming, the Kingdom of God came because the reign and rule of God was present in Jesus’s Person.[15] Jesus’s life, teaching, and deeds revealed the Kingdom of God’s present reality in Him.[16] Everyone in Israel experienced a foretaste of God’s Kingdom through Jesus and His disciples’ teaching, preaching, and healing.[17] Inside God’s Kingdom is healing, salvation, and peace. During His public ministry, Jesus revealed the reign and rule of God’s Kingdom through His authoritative teaching, and His power and authority over sickness, disease, and Satan.[18] Jesus conducted tours throughout Palestine and outlaying cities with His teaching about the Kingdom of God and His healing ministry over sickness, disease, and evil.[19]

In His Father’s Kingdom, Jesus taught we can receive salvation, healing, and peace NOW and for eternity.[20] The living LORD God’s promise to bless and heal all nations through Abraham was fulfilled in Jesus because Jesus makes the blessings of God’s Kingdom available to EVERYONE – Jews and Gentile who places their wholehearted faith in Him.[21]

With Jesus’s coming, the Holy Spirit returned, and the Spirit of God was once again active in Israel.[22] The Spirit of God was active in Israel with Jesus and the prophet John the Baptist as the Spirit worked through Jesus and John the Baptist’s ministries. Jesus brought God’s glory back to earth as predicted by the prophet Ezekiel.[23] In the Old Testament, God’s glory departed Israel and Jerusalem because of the people’s continual sins and wickedness.[24] The fullness of God’s Spirit was seen in John the Baptist – Jesus’s messenger and then in Jesus. The prophet John the Baptist came in the spirit and power of the Old Testament prophet Elijah to announce Jesus’s coming, and John called for EVERYONE to REPENT and produce good deeds and fruit.[25]

The expression Kingdom of God occurs mostly in the Synoptic Gospels – Matthew, Mark, and Luke. The Gospel of John and the letters (epistles) of the New Testament refer to the Kingdom of God but in different language, using phrases such as eternal life or salvation. Jesus’ teaching about the Kingdom of God was often conveyed through parables or comparisons taken from various phases of nature or human life.[26] In the New Testament, the Gospels use the Kingdom of Heaven and the Kingdom of God interchangeably, but both phrases mean the living LORD God’s reign and rule over all the heavens and earth.[27]

The Kingdom of God means the rule and reign of God that is already present throughout the world but also the future Kingdom at Jesus’ second coming at the end of the age.[28] During His teaching ministry, Jesus taught that the Kingdom of God is a future reality at His second coming to earth but also a present reality through our repentance, righteousness, and faith in Him.[29] Jesus’s first coming to earth did not include the triumphal victory so longed for by the Jews.[30] Instead, God’s Kingdom with Jesus’s first coming arrived secretly like leaven, quietly like a mustard seed, like hidden treasure, and as a small pearl of great value concealed in one's pocket.[31] Jesus promised that one day He will return in His Father’s fiery glory on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory with the holy angels of God.[32] As Jesus returned to heaven in God’s glory cloud, God’s holy angels promised Jesus’s disciples that one day Jesus will return in God’s glory cloud with His holy angels.[33] Many people have questioned and asked when will Jesus return to earth. Jesus taught that only His Father knows the day and hour that He will return to earth.[34] Throughout the church’s generations, believers have cried, “Come, Lord Jesus!”[35] Jesus promised His rewards and crown of righteousness who have faithfully obeyed and followed Him as their Lord.[36]

Jesus’s first coming fulfilled many but not all Old Testament’s promises of the prophets.[37] When Jesus returns, ALL the promises of the Old Testament prophets will be fulfilled! The final judgment of evil, the establishment of justice, and the elimination of disease, poverty, and death will find their ultimate fulfillment with Jesus’s return in His glory cloud at His second coming.[38] At His second coming, Jesus taught He will judge the world, and everyone will have to stand before His judgment seat.[39] His Father – the living LORD God – has ordained Jesus to be the Judge of the living and the dead.[40] The Holy Bible promises that workers of sin, darkness, lawlessness, and evildoers will not enter God’s Kingdom.[41] However, Jesus promised the righteous and those who obey His Father’s commandments will see the Kingdom of God.[42] Jesus must rule as King and Judge until He has defeated and destroyed all evil enemies, the last of which is death; and then He will deliver the Kingdom to God the Father.[43]

Jesus came to earth to invite ALL PEOPLE into God’s Kingdom through repentance (turning from sin) and faith in Him.[44] Through our repentance and faith in Jesus, we can experience the blessings of God’s Kingdom NOW and experience as greater blessing when He returns.[45] Our faith in Jesus fills believers with God’s glory and love NOW so believers can be one and united with God – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit and adopted into God’s family.[46] Everyone experiences spiritual rebirth from heaven and entrance into God’s Kingdom through faith in God’s Son, Jesus.[47] God – the Father, the Son Jesus, and the Holy Spirit – is One, and He wants everyone to be united with Him as One.[48] Christ Jesus died and suffered for our sins to reconcile and bring His sheep safely into His Father’s Kingdom.[49] Our wholehearted obedience and love of the living LORD God and His commandment to humbly love one another as well as seeking goodness and righteousness lead to life and entrance into God’s Kingdom.[50] Jesus taught that we are to ALWAYS depend upon and trust in Him and His Father to enter God’s Kingdom.[51]

In His public ministry, the central focus of Jesus’s ministry was the announcement of God’s Kingdom.[52] Jesus called EVERYONE to REPENT by wholeheartedly turning away from their evildoing and believe His Gospel message to enter God’s Kingdom.[53] Jesus’s message of REPENTANCE (turning) from sins and wholeheartedly turning to the living LORD God with FAITH and OBEDIENCE is the same message of the holy prophets.[54] Remarkedly, one of the key messages of the book of Revelation is REPENTANCE – turning from sin and turning to the living LORD God with faith and obedience.[55] The book of Revelation shows the LORD God’s desire not to inflict His wrath on people, but rather His desire to bring all people to obedience and repentance so they can enter His Kingdom.^[56] Only the living LORD God can save, deliver, and protect us, and not money, any government, nor military force.[57] RETURN TO THE LORD GOD!

In fact, Jesus called for everyone to pray that His Holy Father will keep us from Satan – the evil one.[58] Jesus called EVERYONE out of Satan’s kingdom with his dark and evil deeds into God’s Kingdom which is light, mercy, forgiveness, truth, and goodness.[59] God’s Kingdom is light, and Jesus has called everyone to walk and imitate His light, love, and goodness.[60] Darkness and evildoing leads to death.[61] After Jesus returned to heaven, Jesus’s disciples continued His message of repentance.[62] Jesus’s disciples called EVERYONE to REPENT by turning from sin, wrongdoing, and wickedness and turning to God with all goodness and light to enter the Kingdom of God.[63]

For God’s Kingdom is righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit, and everyone who serves Christ Jesus in righteousness, peace, and joy are acceptable to God and approved by everyone.[64] Without peace, righteousness, and holiness, no one will enter God’s Kingdom and see the LORD.[65] The living LORD God has called ALL PEOPLE to trust in Him with a loyal heart, do good, and walk blameless for His glory.[66] Jesus and His disciples proclaimed that evildoers and sinful will not inherit and enter the Kingdom of God. Everyone that indulges and does sexual sins, fornication, adultery, idolatry, witchcraft, male prostitutes, homosexuality, thieves, greedy, drunkards, cheaters, murders, liars, or abusers will not inherit and enter God’s Kingdom.[67]

During His public ministry, Jesus described those who will enter God’s Kingdom. Amazingly, Jesus’s ancestor King David previously described who the living LORD God welcomes into His Kingdom.[68] According to the Lord Jesus, His Father welcomes those who are humble, merciful, forgiving, peacemakers, righteous, workers of good, and pure in heart inside His Kingdom.[69]

REPENT!

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[1] See e.g., Matthew 4:17; Mark 1:14-15; Luke 4:43; Luke 8:1; Luke 9:11.

[2] See e.g., John 3:16-17; John 5:36, 38; John 6:29, 57; John 8:42; John 17:3; John 14:6.

[3] Matthew 5:6, 20; Matthew 6:33; See also Genesis 17:1; Genesis 18:19; Jeremiah 9:23-24; 1 Timothy 6:11; 2 Timothy 2:22.

[4] See e.g., Numbers 14:18-19; Nehemiah 9:17, 31; Psalm 86:15; Psalm 103:8; Jeremiah 9:23-24; Joel 2:13; Jonah 4:2.

[5] See e.g., Matthew 6:9-10; Luke 11:2.

[6] See e.g., Matthew 6:13; John 17:15; 2 Thessalonians 3:3; 2 Timothy 4:18; 1 John 5:18.

[7] See e.g., Isaiah 26:3-4; Isaiah 55:1-3, 6; Amos 5:4, 6; Matthew 5:6; Matthew 6:11; Luke 11:3; John 3:15-17; John 10:10.

[8] See e.g., Matthew 10:7-8; Matthew 24:14; Matthew 28:18-20; Mark 16:15; Luke 9:2; Luke 10:9-12; John 20:21.

[9] See e.g., Acts 20:24-25; Acts 28:23, 30-31; Romans 1:16-17; 2 Timothy 4:18.

[10] See e.g., Psalm 45:6; Psalm 93:2; Lamentations 5:19; Daniel 2:44; Daniel 6:26-27; 1 Timothy 1:17.

[11] See e.g., 1 Chronicles 29:11-13.

[12] See e.g., Isaiah 40:28; Isaiah 66:1-2; Jeremiah 10:10; Daniel 4:34; 1 Timothy 1:17; Revelation 4:2-3.

[13] See e.g., Exodus 15:18; Psalm 10:16; Psalm 29:10-11; Isaiah 6:5.

[14] See e.g., Revelation 11:15.

[15] See Matthew 4:17, 23; Mark 1:14-15.

[16] See e.g., Matthew 4:23; Matthew 9:35-36; Luke 24:19; John 3:2; Acts 2:22; Acts 10:38.

[17] See e.g., Matthew 4:23-25; Matthew 10:7-8; Matthew 11:5-6; Luke 7:22.

[18] See e.g., Matthew 4:23-25; Matthew 7:28-29; Matthew 11:4-5; Matthew 12:28; Mark 1:14-15, 22-27, 30-34, 39-42; Mark 5:1-20; Luke 4:18-19; John 2:10; John 10:9-11; John 14:30-31.

[19] See e.g., Matthew 4:17, 23-25; Mark 1:38-39; Mark 6:6; Luke 4:18-19, 40-44; Luke 8:1; Mark 6:55-56.

[20] See e.g., John 10:10; John 16:33.

[21] See e.g., Matthew 9:20-22, 35; Luke 9:56; John 3:3-8, 14-18, 36; John 6:47; John 10:10; John 12:47.

[22] See e.g., Matthew 3:11-12, 16-17; Luke 1:31-35, 41-42.

[23] John 1:14; John 12:41; see also Ezekiel 43:1-5.

[24] See e.g., Ezekiel 11:2, 6, 12, 22-23.

[25] See e.g., Isaiah 40:3; Malachi 3:1; Malachi 4:5-6; Matthew 3:1-2, 8, 11; Matthew 11:13-14; Matthew 17:10-13; Mark 1:4; Luke 1:17; Luke 3:3, 8; Acts 19:4.

[26] See e.g., Matthew 13:3, 34-35; Mark 4:33-34; John 16:25, 29.

[27] See e.g., Isaiah 66:1-2; Jeremiah 10:6-7; Jeremiah 51:15-19.

[28] See e.g., Psalm 10:16-18; Psalm 29:10; Matthew 24:1-51; Mark 14:25; Acts 1:6-8.

[29] Matthew 4:17; Matthew 24:29-31; Matthew 25:31-32; Luke 11:20; Luke 13:28-29; Luke 17:20-21; see also 1 Thessalonians 4:16.

[30] See e.g., Luke 24:18-21.

[31] See e.g., Matthew 13:31-33, 37-46; Luke 13:20-21.

[32] See e.g., Daniel 7:13-14; Matthew 16:27-28; Matthew 25:31; Matthew 26:64; Mark 8:38; Mark 13:24-27; Mark 14:61-62; Acts 1:11; Revelation 1:7-8; Revelation 22:7, 12, 20.

[33] See e.g., Luke 24:51; Acts 1:9-11.

[34] See e.g., Matthew 24:36; Matthew 25:13; Acts 1:7; 1 Thessalonians 5:1-2; 2 Peter 3:10-11.

[35] See 1 Corinthians 16:22; Revelation 22:20. This prayer asking the Lord Jesus to come is a prayer of the Aramaic-speaking church and means “maranatha” for “Our Lord, come!”

[36] See e.g., Matthew 24:46-47; 2 Timothy 4:8.

[37] See e.g., Matthew 4:13-17; Luke 4:17-21; Acts 13:27-29.

[38] See e.g., Matthew 13:41-43; Matthew 25:31-46; Mark 14:61-62; Revelation 21:1-22:5.

[39] See e.g., Matthew 13:47-50; Matthew 25:31-46; Romans 2:16; Romans 14:10-11; 2 Corinthians 5:10; 2 Timothy 4:1, 8, 18.  Remarkably, Matthew 25:31-46 is the New Testament’s only picture of judgment day.

[40] See e.g., Matthew 28:18; John 5:22, 27; Acts 10:42; Acts 17:31.

[41] See e.g., Psalm 15:1-5; Psalm 24:3-5; Matthew 7:21-23; Matthew 25:41; Luke 13:27; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10; Galatians 5:19-21; Revelation 21:7-8; Revelation 22:15.

[42] See e.g., Matthew 5:3-12; Matthew 19:17-19; Luke 6:20-23; Revelation 22:14.

[43] See 1 Corinthians 15:24-27.

[44] See e.g., Matthew 4:17; Mark 1:14-15.

[45] See e.g., Matthew 4:23-25; John 10:10; Colossians 1:12-13; 2 Peter 1:10-11.

[46] See e.g., Luke 9:26; John 1:12-13; John 14:20; John 17:1-3, 21-26; 2 Corinthians 5:17-18; Galatians 3:26; Colossians 1:19-20; 1 Peter 5:4.

[47] See e.g., John 3:3, 5; 15-18, 34, 36.

[48] See e.g., Deuteronomy 6:4-6; John 17:2-3, 21-23.

[49] See e.g., Romans 4:25; 2 Corinthians 5:15, 17-19; 1 Peter 3:18.

[50] See e.g., Leviticus 19:18; Deuteronomy 6:5; Deuteronomy 10:12; Deuteronomy 30:6; Matthew 5:3, 10; Matthew 22:37-40; Mark 12:28-34; Luke 6:32, 35; John 13:34-35; John 15:10-12.

[51] See e.g., Habakkuk 2:2-4; Luke 6:20; Romans 1:16-17.

[52] See e.g., Matthew 4:17; Mark 1:14-15; Luke 5:32.

[53] See e.g., Matthew 4:17; Mark 1:14-15; Luke 13:3-5; Luke 15:7, 10; Luke 24:46-47; John 5:14; John 8:11; Acts 3:25-26.

[54] See e.g., Psalm 51:17; Isaiah 55:1-3, 6-7; Jeremiah 4:1; Ezekiel 18:30-32; Hosea 14:1-2; Joel 2:12-13; Matthew 3:2, 8; Mark 1:4; Luke 3:3, 8.

[55] See e.g., Revelation 9:20-21.

[56] See e.g., Revelation 2:5, 16, 22; Revelation 3:3, 19.

[57] See e.g., Psalm 33:8-12, 16-17; Psalm 44:4-6; Proverbs 10:27, 29-30; Proverbs 21:31; Hosea 14:3, 7, 9.

[58] See e.g., Matthew 6:13; John 17:15

[59] Matthew 5:7-8, 14-16, 23-24; 48; Luke 6:27, 35-36; see also Romans 13:10.

[60] See Ephesians 5:1-2.

[61] See e.g., Romans 6:23.

[62] See e.g., Acts 2:36-38; Acts 3:19; Acts 20:21; 2 Peter 3:9.

[63] See e.g., Matthew 3:3, 8; Acts 17:30; Acts 26:20.

[64] Romans 14:17-19; see also Romans 12:18.

[65] See e.g., Psalm 34:14; Matthew 5:8-10; Hebrews 12:14.

[66] See e.g., Genesis 17:1; Genesis 18:19; Deuteronomy 18:13; Psalm 37:3-5; Isaiah 56:1-2; Hosea 12:6; Habakkuk 2:2-4; Micah 6:6-8; Romans 12:9-10; Galatians 6:9; Ephesians 2:10; Hebrews 13:16.

[67] See e.g., Luke 12:15; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10, 17-20; Galatians 5:19-21; Ephesians 5:3-5; Revelation 21:8; Revelation 22:15.

[68] See Psalm 15:1-5; Psalm 24:3-6; Psalm 51:17.

[69] Matthew 5:3-10, 14-16, 20; see also Psalm 15:1-5; Psalm 24:3-5.

Jesus Is Lord

One of the clear messages of the Holy Bible is the declaration that Jesus is Lord of all.[1] The Lord Jesus is King of kings and Lord of lords like His Holy Father – the living LORD God of heaven and earth.[2] The New Testament announced that Jesus is both God and Lord, and He has always existed as King.[3] The early believers of Jesus declared that Jesus is Lord, and they call for others to worship and honor Jesus as Lord in our hearts.[4] Jesus’s title as Lord revealed His sovereignty over the church and all the earth, like His Holy Father.[5] The living LORD God has given His Son Jesus all power and authority on heaven, all the earth, and all nature.[6] Even more, the living LORD God has exalted His Son Jesus and given Jesus the Name which is above every name so that EVERYONE should confess that Christ Jesus is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.[7]

 

Our declaration and confession of Christ Jesus as Lord is the ONLY way to God’s salvation (life, healing, restoration, peace, and redemption).[8] Importantly, our confession that Jesus is Lord also means we must OBEY Jesus and His teaching.[9] Jesus’s teaching comes from His Holy Father, and Jesus fully obeyed His Father’s commandments.[10] Jesus taught that doing and wholehearted obedience to His Holy Father and His commandments lead to life, salvation, and blessings.[11] Obedience to the living LORD God and His commandments mean changing our ways and turning away from lies, hate, envy, prejudice, obscenity, wickedness, and evil doing – which are all actions of Satan.[12] The living LORD God has called everyone to REPENT and TURN from Satan’s dark deeds, wrongdoing, dishonesty, division, and wickedness and TURN to His goodness, light, love, truth, and faithfulness.[13] God’s wrath comes upon the disobedient and those who carry out and follow the evil deeds, lawlessness, and the pathways of Satan.[14] Jesus declared that not everyone that calls Him “Lord, Lord” will enter into God’s Kingdom but only those who does and obeys the will of His Holy Father in heaven and does not practice lawlessness, evildoing, and sin.[15] As we obey and follow the living LORD God and His Son Jesus, the Holy Spirit comes into believers’ lives and hearts to help believers obey and the Holy Spirit cleanses, strengthens, and sanctifies our hearts and lead us into truth.[16]

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[1] See e.g., Luke 1:43; Luke 2:11; Acts 2:36; Acts 10:36; Romans 10:9; Romans 14:9; 2 Corinthians 4:5.

[2] See e.g., Deuteronomy 10:17; Matthew 2:2; 1 Timothy 6:15; Revelation 17:14; Revelation 19:16.

[3] See e.g., Luke 2:10-11; John 1:1-3, 14, 18; John 12:13; John 14:9-11; John 17:5; John 20:28; Romans 9:5; 2 Corinthians 4:4; Philippians 2:6; Titus 2:13; Hebrews 1:8; 1 John 5:20.

[4] See e.g., John 20:28; Acts 2:36; Romans 10:9-13; 1 Corinthians 8:6; 1 Corinthians 12:3; Philippians 2:11; 1 Peter 3:15.

[5] See e.g., Psalm 45:6, 11; Psalm 110:1-2; Isaiah 45:21-25; Acts 10:36; Romans 8:38-39; Ephesians 1:21-23; Philippians 2:9-10; Hebrews 2:7.

[6] See e.g., Matthew 28:18; Mark 4:41; John 3:35-36; Acts 5:31; Romans 14:9; Hebrews 1:2-3, 6-12; Revelation 17:14; Revelation 19:16.

[7] See e.g., John 13:13; Romans 10:9; Romans 14:9; 1 Corinthians 12:3; Philippians 2:9, 11.

[8] See e.g., John 13:13; John 14:6, 27; John 16:33; Acts 16:30-31; Romans 10:9, 13; 1 Corinthians 8:6.

[9] See e.g., John 14:15, 21, 23.

[10] See e.g., John 12:49-50; John 14:10, 24, 31; John 15:10.

[11] Deuteronomy 28:1-14; Deuteronomy 30:15-20; see also Leviticus 26:3-13; Proverbs 2:3-5; Proverbs 3:1-2, 7-10; Ecclesiastes 12:13-14; Matthew 19:17-19; Luke 8:11-12, 15, 21; Luke 10:25-28; John 6:28; John 14:15, 21, 23-24; John 15:9-10, 14; 1 Corinthians 7:19; James 1:21-22; 1 John 2:3-5; 1 John 3:22-24; 1 John 5:3; 2 John 1:6; Revelation 22:14.

[12] See e.g., Acts 26:15-20; 2 Corinthians 7:1, 9-13; Ephesians 5:3-5; Colossians 3:5-9.

[13] See e.g., Proverbs 3:3-7, Ephesians 5:1-2, 8-12; 1 Thessalonians 5:4-6.

[14] See e.g., Matthew 7:13-14; Luke 13:24; Romans 1:18; Ephesians 2:2-3; Ephesians 5:6; Colossians 3:6.

[15] See e.g., Matthew 7:21-27; Luke 6:47-49; Luke 13:24-27; Romans 12:1-2; 1 John 3:4-8.

[16] See e.g., John 14:15-21, 23-24, 26. 

God of the Holy Bible

One of the main themes of the Holy Bible is the lordship, authority, and sovereignty of the Almighty God – El-Shaddai.[1] The LORD God Almighty is sovereign, and He rules and reigns over the heavens and all the earth.[2] All the earth belongs to the LORD.[3] The Holy Bible states that the Almighty God is LORD of creation as He is the CREATOR, KING, SUSTAINER, and JUDGE of both heaven and earth.[4] The Holy Bible declares that the LORD God Almighty is from everlasting to everlasting.[5] The LORD God Almighty is an awesome God, and He is the LORD of lords, God of gods, and King of the universe.[6] The living LORD God is glorious and holy, and the whole earth is filled with His glory.[7]

 

One of the clear messages of the entire Holy Bible is that the LORD is the only true God of heaven and earth. There are no other gods besides the LORD God Almighty because He is the LORD.[8] The LORD God is the only God that is to be worshipped, and He demands our exclusive loyalty and allegiance FIRST.[9] The living LORD God deserves all our wholehearted love, devotion, obedience, affection, allegiance, and worship above all.[10] The Holy Bible proclaims the LORD God Almighty requires everyone’s wholehearted love, trust, worship, praise, and obedience to Him and His good commands.[11]

 

Furthermore, the Holy Bible is clear that we must NEVER worship or serve any other gods, lords, idols, nor kings except the LORD God Almighty as only He deserves ALL our wholehearted praise, trust, love, allegiance, and worship.[12] The LORD God Almighty is a jealous God and consuming fire, and He demands our wholehearted love, obedience, affection, trust, and praise for Him as our God and Provider FIRST.[13] In fact, the LORD God Almighty’s Name is Jealous as He is a Jealous God.[14] The living LORD God must be worshipped with our whole hearts, souls, minds, and strength.[15]

 

The Holy Bible declare that the LORD God can do ALL things.[16] For the LORD God Almighty created the mountains, the stars, turns the light of the dawn into darkness, and only He stirs the winds and rains.[17] For the whole earth is the LORD's and all the earth’s fullness.[18] The LORD God Almighty is supreme, and He rules and reigns over the heavens, universe, and all the earth.[19] Many true servants of God had the privilege of seeing the ruling Judge and King – the living LORD God Almighty.[20]

 

The living LORD God is King over all the earth, and only He protects and saves His people from harm and danger.[21] The Holy Bible teaches that the LORD God Almighty is all-powerful (omnipotent), all-knowing (omniscient), transcendent (supreme), and unchanging (immutable) as He is filled with love, faithfulness, holiness, goodness, and truth.[22] The LORD God gives His heavenly shield of protection, salvation, and peace as we trust, rely, and depend upon Him.[23] The Holy Bible is clear: the living LORD God is the Savior of all people, and He is our salvation.[24] Moreover, the Holy Bible teaches EVERYONE must seek and love the LORD God to find true life, grace, and peace and flee from the worship and trust of idols, human efforts, and other gods.[25] The living LORD God Almighty is a shield of protection and reward to those who are faithful and obedient to Him.[26] The LORD God comes to those who humbly and wholeheartedly seek Him and repent by turning from sins and Satan’s evil ways.[27]

 

The LORD’s divine love runs like a golden thread through the entire Holy Bible.[28] The LORD God Almighty is a good and glorious God, and His mercy and goodness endures for forever.[29] Moreover, the LORD God is forgiving, fair, merciful, good, and abounding in love to all who call to Him in faith and obedience.[30] The LORD God is not a man, and He cannot lie.[31]

 

In addition, the LORD God Almighty requires ALL PEOPLE to live holy, good, and blameless lives with wholehearted obedience and trust for Him and His commands.[32] From the beginning of human history, the LORD God Almighty called ALL PEOPLE to humbly obey and walk with Him and to DO what is good, kind, merciful, fair, and right to prevent living a life of sin that leads to destruction and death.[33] The LORD God Almighty will not tolerate but He punishes sin, wickedness, and disobedience in hopes of leading those who sin to repentance.[34] The Holy Bible teaches that love and obedience to God and His commandments bring His blessings, peace, and life.[35] In fact, Jesus taught that when we obey His commandments by loving His Father the LORD God and loving one another then the Presence of He and His Father through the Holy Spirit come to dwell and live with us.[36] However, the LORD God’s wrath and punishment comes to those who reject Him and refuse to turn from Satan’s evildoing.[37] Therefore, let everyone stop serving other gods and being stubborn and love, cling, know, and obey the living LORD God Almighty and His Son, Christ Jesus.[38] Furthermore in all things, whether eating, drinking, or working, or whatever you do, let us do all for God’s glory.[39] 

 

The living LORD God Almighty works in mysterious ways, and He has no rivals.[40] His works are always perfect and fair as He does no wrong.[41] The LORD God Almighty creates the light and make the darkness, and He sends the good times and bad times – both peace and calamity.[42] The Holy Scriptures calls everyone to love and trust the LORD God Almighty, even during times of testing and suffering, knowing that He works everything for good for those that love and honor Him.[43] Several examples are included in the Holy Bible such as Joseph, Job, and most importantly Jesus who were tempted and suffered, but they never lost their faith and obedience to the LORD God Almighty.[44] Because of their faithfulness, these individuals were blessed and honored by the LORD God Almighty beyond measure.[45] These biblical examples – Joseph, Job, and Jesus – realized that they must ALWAYS trust in God’s sovereignty and love, and obey Him amid their troubles.[46]

 

What is God’s name? The Holy Bible is filled with different names for God. The LORD of the entire heavens and earth is God Almighty and is translated in Hebrew meaning “El Shaddai” (shuh-DYE).[47] The covenant name of God is Yahweh.[48] The LORD is a transliteration or conversion of the proper name YHWH that is sometimes rendered “Jehovah” or “Yahweh.”[49] Yahweh is a translation of the Hebrew letters YHWH, traditionally translated the LORD. In some older English translations, YHWH is rendered “Jehovah,” a form derived from combining the vowel sounds for ʾAdonai with the consonants for YHWH.

 

The LORD is the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, and He revealed His Name to Moses.[50] Importantly, the LORD is His eternal Name to remember for all generations, and His Name must be remembered and worshipped for all generations.[51] The Holy Bible is clear that the wonderful and awesome Name of the LORD God must ALWAYS be respected, feared, honored, worshiped, and loved and NEVER cursed nor taken in vain.[52] The living LORD God (Yahweh) repeatedly sent His messengers to proclaim to the people that He was the ONLY true God and everlasting King of heaven and earth, and He alone is to be worshipped and obeyed.[53] The Most High God is the LORD of Israel, and there is no god like Him in heaven above or on earth as He alone is the only true God.[54] The LORD is El, the infinitely strong One, and He is the Sovereign LORD of heaven and earth. “Elohim” is a plural term and the most frequent Hebrew word for God in the Holy Scriptures.

 

The LORD revealed His Name and character to Moses at the burning bush as the Great I AM.[55] Moreover, the living LORD God proclaimed His covenant name and character to Moses at Exodus 34, and this declaration became a central confessional passage. At Exodus 34, the living LORD God descended in His glory cloud and stood with Moses and proclaimed the Name of the LORD. The living LORD God passed before Moses and proclaimed His name, “The LORD, the LORD, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and patient, and overflowing with committed love and faithfulness, keeping committed love for thousands, forgiving evil and wrongdoings and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty.” The LORD’s covenant name is proclaimed again at Numbers 14:18-19; Nehemiah 9:17, 31; Psalm 86:15; Psalm 103:8; Joel 2:13; Jonah 4:2. The LORD God’s covenant name is mercy, grace, patience, love, truth, justice, and faithfulness.[56] The LORD God is good.[57] The LORD God’s goodness and grace is the core of His character and nature.[58] Even more, the LORD God’s covenant name is all His glory, His way, His goodness, and His Presence.[59] The very Name and essence of the living LORD is compassion, mercy, patience, grace, unending love, and faithfulness, but the LORD is also just and fair to everyone.[60]

The LORD God Almighty is Spirit and invisible as He has no body, no physical nor measurable form.[61] His Spirit is everywhere and omnipresent because He fills the heavens and earth with His glory.[62] The LORD God Almighty is the God of all the earth.[63] He reveals Himself through the natural world.[64] More importantly, the LORD God Almighty became visible in human form and revealed Himself through His Son Jesus.[65]

 

Importantly, the living LORD God Almighty is One with this Son, Christ Jesus.[66] Jesus is part of the Godhead.[67] The living LORD God was in Christ Jesus reconciling the world to Himself.[68] Jesus is the image of the invisible God and the glory of God.[69] During His public ministry, Jesus revealed His Father and proclaimed to His disciples that anyone who has seen Him had seen His Father.[70] The Presence and Glory of the living LORD God of heaven came to earth and lived (tabernacle) inside His Son, Jesus.[71] Jesus shared His Heavenly Father’s glory before the world began.[72] As God incarnate, Jesus is all-knowing (omniscient) and universal (omnipresent), and He knows what is really inside a person’s heart and mind.[73]

 

In the New Testament, Jesus came from heaven to earth to reveal His Father – the living LORD God to the world.[74] One of the ministries of Jesus was to make known His Holy Father in the world as the Great I AM incarnate – human flesh.[75] While on earth, Christ Jesus revealed His Father and His Father’s Name and Nature to the world.[76] Jesus demonstrated His Righteous Father’s compassion, kindness, grace, truth, and justice during His public ministry.[77] Jesus was filled with compassion, humility, courage, and most important sinlessness.[78] The good works and good teaching of Jesus testified about His Father’s Name and Nature.[79] Jesus revealed and proclaimed His Holy Father’s Name and Glory by completing the work His Heavenly Father gave Him to accomplish.[80]

 

Opposite of the LORD God’s name is Satan’s name. Satan’s name and character are the very opposite of the LORD God’s covenant name and Satan is against the LORD God’s covenant. Satan’s name and character is murderer, adulterer, liar, theft, deceiver, lawless, sinful, and envious.[81] Everyone who commits sins become a slave of Satan and lives outside God’s Kingdom.[82]

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[1] See e.g., Genesis 35:11; Exodus 6:2-3; Psalm 83:18.

[2] See e.g., Deuteronomy 10:14; Nehemiah 9:6; Isaiah 40:28; Acts 17:24-29; Revelation 14:7.

[3] See e.g., Exodus 9:29; Exodus 19:5; Psalm 24:1; 1 Corinthians 10:26, 31.

[4] See e.g., Genesis 1:1-2:25; Psalm 10:16; Psalm 33:6-7; Psalm 47:2; Psalm 134:3; Isaiah 66:1-2; Jeremiah 32:17-19; Acts 14:15; Acts 17:24; 1 Timothy 6:13; Hebrews 11:3.

[5] See e.g., Genesis 21:33; Deuteronomy 33:27; Psalm 10:16; Psalm 29:10; Isaiah 40:28.

[6] See e.g., Exodus 15:11; Deuteronomy 7:9, 21; Deuteronomy 10:17.

[7] See e.g., Leviticus 11:44-45; Isaiah 6:3; 1 Peter 1:15-16; Revelation 4:8.

[8] See e.g., Deuteronomy 4:35, 39; Joshua 2:11; 1 Samuel 2:2; Psalm 83:18; Isaiah 44:6, 8; Isaiah 45:5, 18, 22-23; Mark 12:29, 32.

[9] See e.g., Exodus 20:3; Exodus 22:20; Exodus 23:13, 24; Deuteronomy 4:35, 39; Deuteronomy 5:7; Deuteronomy 6:4-6, 13-15; Matthew 6:33; Matthew 22:37; 1 Corinthians 8:4-6

[10] See e.g., Deuteronomy 6:4-6; 1 Samuel 15:22-23; Matthew 6:33; Matthew 22:37.

[11] See e.g., Deuteronomy 5:6-21, 33; Deuteronomy 10:12-13, 20; Deuteronomy 11:1; Psalm 128:1; Jeremiah 7:22-23; Micah 6:8; Mark 12:29-30; John 14:15, 21, 23-24; Romans 7:12; 1 John 2:3-5; 1 John 5:2-3.

[12] See e.g., Exodus 20:2-6; Deuteronomy 5:6-10; Deuteronomy 6:4-6, 13-15; Deuteronomy 10:20-21; Jeremiah 25:6; Matthew 4:10; Luke 4:8.

[13] See e.g., Exodus 20:5; Deuteronomy 4:24; Deuteronomy 5:4-5; Deuteronomy 6:1-6, 13-18; Deuteronomy 8:6-10, 18; Deuteronomy 30:6; 1 Samuel 15:22-23; 2 Chronicles 7:1-3; Matthew 4:10; Matthew 6:33; Matthew 22:37-38; 1 John 5:21; Revelation 14:7; Revelation 20:9.

[14] See e.g., Exodus 20:5; Exodus 34:14.

[15] See e.g., Deuteronomy 6:4-6; Psalm 86:10; Isaiah 43:10; Isaiah 44:6-8; Matthew 22:37; Luke 10:27.

[16] See e.g., Job 42:2; Proverbs 3:5-6; Matthew 19:26.

[17] See Amos 4:13; Amos 5:8; Amos 9:6

[18] See e.g., Psalm 24:1; 1 Corinthians 10:26, 28.

[19] See e.g., Deuteronomy 10:14; Nehemiah 9:6; Isaiah 40:28; Acts 17:24-29; Revelation 14:7.

[20] See e.g., Exodus 24:9-11; Numbers 12:6-8; 1 Kings 22:19; Psalm 82:1; Isaiah 6:1-5; Jeremiah 48:15; Jeremiah 51:57; Ezekiel 1:26-28; Daniel 7:9-14; 2 Corinthians 12:1-4; 1 Peter 4:5; Revelation 4:1-11.

[21] See e.g., Exodus 14:13-14; Psalm 24:1, 7-10; Psalm 44:4; Psalm 74:12; Zephaniah 3:15.

[22] See e.g., Genesis 17:1; Genesis 18:14; Leviticus 11:44-45; Leviticus 19:2; Leviticus 20:7; Deuteronomy 4:39; 1 Samuel 2:2-3; 1 Chronicles 29:12; 2 Chronicles 20:6-7, 21; Isaiah 6:1-5; Isaiah 49:7; Daniel 4:17; Nahum 1:7; 1 Corinthians 1:9; 1 Peter 1:15-16; Hebrews 1:12; Hebrews 13:8.

[23] See e.g., Isaiah 26:3-4; Isaiah 54:17.

[24] See e.g., Exodus 15:2; Psalm 18:46; Psalm 27:1; Isaiah 12:2; Habakkuk 3:18-19; Luke 1:47; 1 Timothy 4:10.

[25] See e.g., Psalm 34:10; Isaiah 55:3, 6-7; Hosea 14:1-2; Amos 5:4; Matthew 6:33; Matthew 22:37; 1 John 5:21.

[26] See e.g., Genesis 15:1; Deuteronomy 33:29; Psalm 115:9.

[27] See e.g., Psalm 34:18; Psalm 50:16-20; Proverbs 28:13; Isaiah 66:2; Daniel 9:7, 9; Amos 5:4, 6; 1 John 1:9.

[28] See e.g., 1 Samuel 2:2; Psalm 145:9; John 3:16; 1 John 4:8.

[29] See e.g., 2 Chronicles 5:13; 2 Chronicles 7:3; Psalm 106:1; Psalm 136:1-3.

[30] See e.g., Exodus 34:6-7; Deuteronomy 7:9-10; Deuteronomy 32:4; Nehemiah 9:17; Psalm 34:10-15, 18; Psalm 86:5-7; Psalm 103:12-13; Lamentation 3:22-25; Jonah 4:2; 1 Timothy 1:17.

[31] See e.g., Numbers 23:19; Malachi 3:6.

[32] See e.g., Genesis 17:1; Leviticus 11:44-45; Leviticus 19:2; Leviticus 20:7-8, 26; Deuteronomy 10:12-13; Deuteronomy 18:13; Exodus 19:5-6; Joshua 22:5; Ezekiel 11:20; Micah 6:6-8; Matthew 7:21; Mark 3:35; Ephesians 4:23-32; 2 Timothy 1:9; Titus 2:11-12; 1 Peter 1:15-16.

[33] See e.g., Genesis 2:16-17; Genesis 4:7-8; Genesis 5:22; Genesis 17:1; Exodus 19:5-6; Deuteronomy 10:12-13; Psalm 15:1-5; Hosea 6:6; Micah 6:6-8; Matthew 5:3-10; Acts 10:35; Galatians 5:22-23; Ephesians 2:10; James 1:27.

[34] See e.g., Genesis 18:20-21; Genesis 19:13; 1 Samuel 15:22-23; Romans 2:1-11.

[35] See e.g., Deuteronomy 11:9, 29; Deuteronomy 30:16; Psalm 34:8-10; Psalm 145:20; Matthew 12:50; Mark 4:20.

[36] See e.g., John 14:15-17, 21; John 15:1-6.

[37] See e.g., Exodus 20:5-6; Leviticus 26:14-39; Deuteronomy 28:15-68; Psalm 34:16.

[38] See e.g., Deuteronomy 10:16; Deuteronomy 11:22, 32; Deuteronomy 30:20; John 17:3.

[39] See e.g., 1 Corinthians 10:31; Colossians 3:17, 23; 1 Peter 4:11.

[40] See e.g., Isaiah 45:5, 15; Isaiah 55:8-9.

[41] See e.g., Deuteronomy 32:4; 2 Samuel 22:31.

[42] See e.g., Genesis 1:3-5, 17-18; Psalm 8:3; Ecclesiastes 3:1-8; Isaiah 45:6-7; Jeremiah 31:35; Amos 3:6-7; Amos 4:13; James 1:17.

[43] See e.g., Genesis 50:20; Job 2:10; Psalm 103:11; Romans 8:28.

[44] See e.g., Genesis 37:18-36; Genesis 39:19-23; Job 1:1-2:10; Luke 4:1-13.

[45] See e.g., Genesis 41:41-46; Job 42:7-16; Matthew 28:18; Mark 16:19.

[46] See e.g., Job 42:1-6; Matthew 4:10; Luke 22:41-44.

[47] See e.g., Genesis 17:1; Exodus 6:3.

[48] See e.g., Exodus 3:13-16.

[49] See e.g., Exodus 20:7; Leviticus 24:16.

[50] See e.g., Exodus 3:6; Exodus 6:2-4; Exodus 34:5-7; Matthew 22:32-33.

[51] See e.g., Genesis 4:26; Genesis 14:22; Genesis 26:22; Exodus 3:14-15; Exodus 20:2-3, 5; Exodus 34:14; Deuteronomy 6:4-6; 2 Kings 17:35; Zephaniah 3:9; Matthew 6:33; Matthew 22:37.

[52] See e.g., Exodus 6:2-3; Exodus 20:7; Deuteronomy 5:11; Deuteronomy 28:58; Deuteronomy 32:3.

[53] See e.g., Deuteronomy 6:4-6; Jeremiah 10:10; Jeremiah 7:25-28; Matthew 6:33; Matthew 22:37.

[54] See e.g., Exodus 6:2-8; Exodus 8:10; Deuteronomy 10:14; Nehemiah 9:5-6; 1 Kings 8:23, 60; Daniel 2:47; Daniel 3:28-29; Daniel 4:34-35; Daniel 6:26-27; Revelation 14:6-7.

[55] See Exodus 3:6, 13-16; Exodus 6:2-3.

[56] See e.g., Exodus 3:14-15; Exodus 34:5-7; Nehemiah 9:17; 1 John 4:7-8.

[57] See e.g., 2 Chronicles 5:13-14; Lamentations 3:25.

[58] See Exodus 34:6-7; Psalm 34:8; Psalm 86:5; Joel 2:13.

[59] See Exodus 33:13, 18-19, 22.

[60] See e.g., Exodus 34:5-7, Numbers 14:18; 2 Chronicles 30:9; Nehemiah 9:17; Psalm 86:15; Psalm 103:8; Jeremiah 9:24; Joel 2:13; Jonah 4:2; James 5:11.

[61] See e.g., John 4:24; 2 Corinthians 3:17; 1 Timothy 1:17; 1 Timothy 6:16.

[62] See e.g., 1 Kings 8:27; Psalm 72:19; Psalm 139:7-12; Isaiah 6:3; Jeremiah 23:23-25; Amos 9:2-4; Acts 7:48-50; Revelation 1:8.

[63] See e.g., Deuteronomy 4:35, 39; Deuteronomy 6:4-5; Isaiah 41:4, Isaiah 44:6-7, 24; Isaiah 45:5-6, 15, 18-19, 21-23; Isaiah 66:1-2; Mark 12:32; Acts 14:15; Acts 17:24.

[64] See e.g., Psalm 19:1-6; Acts 14:17; Romans 1:19-20.

[65] See e.g., Matthew 1:23; John 1:1-3, 14, 18, 34, 49-51; John 14:9-11; 1 Corinthians 8:4-6; 1 John 4:9-10.

[66] See e.g., Exodus 3:6, 13-15; Matthew 3:16-17; John 10:30, 38; John 12:45; John 14:9-11, 20; John 16:32; John 17:11, 21; Acts 7:32-33; 1 Corinthians 8:4, 6.

[67] See e.g., Matthew 28:19; 2 Corinthians 13:14.

[68] See e.g., 2 Corinthians 5:19.

[69] See e.g., John 1:14, 18; John 12:45; Colossians 1:15; Hebrews 1:3.

[70] See e.g., Isaiah 9:6; John 1:1-3, 14, 18; John 6:38, 42; John 12:45-46; John 13:1, 3; John 14:9-11; 2 Corinthians 4:4; Philippians 2:6; Colossian 1:15; Hebrews 1:3.

[71] See e.g., John 1:1-3, 14; John 10:30, 38; John 12:45; John 14:9-11, 20; John 17:11, 21; 2 Corinthians 5:19; Colossians 1:15, 19; Colossians 2:9-10.

[72] See e.g., Proverbs 8:23; John 1:1-2; John 16:28; John 8:28; John 17:5, 24; Philippians 2:6; Hebrews 1:1-3.

[73] See e.g., see 2 Chronicles 6:30; Jeremiah 17:10; Ezekiel 11:5; Matthew 9:4; John 2:24-25; John 13:11; Revelation 2:23.

[74] See e.g., John 1:1-5, 14, 18; John 6:38; John 13:3.

[75] See e.g., John 1:14, 18; John 6:35; John 8:12; John 10:11; John 14:6.

[76] See John 17:6, 26.

[77] See e.g., Exodus 34:5-7; Matthew 9:36; Matthew 14:14; Matthew 15:32; Mark 6:34; Mark 8:2-3; John 1:14, 16-17; John 14:6.

[78] See e.g., Matthew 4:23-25; Matthew 9:36; Matthew 14:14; Mark 6:34.

[79] See e.g., John 5:36; John 10:25, 38.

[80] See e.g., John 1:14, 18; John 4:34; John 5:36; John 17:1, 4.

[81] See e.g., John 8:41, 44; John 10:10; 2 Thessalonians 2:9-10; 1 John 3:4, 8, 12.

[82] See e.g., Psalm 15:1-5; Psalm 24:3-5; Matthew 7:21-23; Matthew 25:41; Luke 13:27; John 8:34-35; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10; Galatians 5:19-21; Revelation 21:7-8; Revelation 22:15.