Study Number 37 JEHOVAH ELOHAY - THE LORD, MY GOD

In the next couple of days we will research three closely related Names. JEHOVAH ELOHAY, The Lord My God; EL-ELOHE-ISRAEL; meaning the “Personal God of Israel”; and the third is JEHOVAH ELOHEENU, meaning “the LORD, our God.”
So today we will look at the first name: JEHOVAH ELOHAY- The LORD, my God. This God is the One on whom we can call when we need a Miracle, and know that He will work on our behalf. M.H.

Elohay Kedem - God of the Beginning: (Deuteronomy 33:27). THE ETERNAL GOD.
Deu 33:27  The eternal God is thy dwelling-place, And underneath are the everlasting arms. And he thrust out the enemy from before thee, And said, Destroy.
Notes: “The eternal God is our hiding place; he carries us in his arms.” he is the One who has been from the beginning from the eternal past, The Creator of all things. He is our Hiding place, our dwelling place, our refuge.
“J.Gill : and he is the refuge of his people, the antitype of the cities of refuge, to whom sinners, under a sense of sin, flee for refuge; and where they are safe from avenging justice, the wrath of God, the condemnation of the law, everlasting ruin and destruction, or the second death; or their "mansion", or "dwelling place" (k); which he has been in all generations, as Moses also says, Psa_90:1”

And underneath are the everlasting arms, (and he carries us in His arms) J. Gill says: “that is, of God, which are the support of his people, and their protection, safety, and security; such as the arms of his everlasting love, which encircle them, and compass them about as a shield; “

Elohay Mishpat - God of Justice: (Isaiah 30:18).

Isa 30:18  The LORD God is waiting to show how kind he is and to have pity on you. The LORD always does right; he blesses those who trust him.

For the Lord is a God of judgment - He will do what is right. He will spare the nation still; and yet establish among them the true religion, and they shall flourish. Despite all their sins He will do what is right.
blessed are all those who wait for him.  Our Justice comes from the LORD who the God of Justice and Judgment.
Barnes “
Blessed are all they that wait for him - This seems to have been recorded to encourage them, when the threatened calamities should come upon them, to put their confidence in God, and to trust that he would yet appear and restore the nation to himself. This verse is the commencement of the annunciation of the blessings which should yet be conferred on them. The description of these blessings is continued to Isa_30:26.”

Applications.
1. The God of the beginning, Elohay Kedem, is our HIDING PLACE. We run into Him and are safe. He supports us and carries us with His everlasting Arms.
2. You can trust the Lord to ALWAYS DO WHAT IS RIGHT. So look to the LORD and wait for Him. If you are going through desperate days then be encouraged and put your trust in Him.

Six Jews escaped via the Ten Boom's Hiding place

Study Number 36 Scriptures concerning JEHOVAH GMOLAH AND His Reward.

Pro 12:14  A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth: and the recompence of a man's hands shall be rendered unto him.
Pro 11:31  Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth: much more the wicked and the sinner.
Jer 32:18  You show loving-kindness unto thousands, and You recompense the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them: the Great, the Mighty God, the LORD of hosts, is His Name,
Jer 32:19  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:

Notes
If we sow tomatoes in our garden we will always get tomatoes not grapes. If we sow kindness and love into our children then we reap kindness and love for a thousand generations.
Put much into your children. It will be worth it in the long run  They are very impressionable and are easily mouldable under your tender care.
Eph 6:4  And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
This means that we should speak the Word of God to them , enroll them in a good Christian school and take them to church and youth group where they are taught the Word of God faithfully.

Many people have problems because their fathers did not nurture them properly. They provoked them to anger. May the Lord give you wisdom on how to love and discipline your child.

Applications
1. According to Proverbs 1214 above, you will be recompensed for your labour on earth. Just expect it and do your best. The Bible says do it with all your might.
2. You will always reap what you sow. Tomatoes come from tomato seeds and respectful godly children come from parents who properly nurture their children.

Study Number 35 - JEHOVAH GMOLAH - THE LORD WHO RECOMPENSES OR REWARDS(CONT.)

The study today is taken the life of Moses and His rewards for His Decision to follow God and suffer with the People of God. Our Key Verses are:

Heb 11:24  By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter;
Heb 11:25  Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;
Heb 11:26  Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward.

M. Hickey says, “Moses encountered JEHOVAH GMOLAH, although He didn’t call God by this Name. He had been adopted by Hatshepsut, the daughter of Pharoah. She apparently was brilliant  but wasn’t allowed to reign because she was a women. Her half brother, who was practically mentally handicapped, would be the next Pharoah, simply because he was a male. To ensure strong leadership during the next generation, Pharoah arranged a marriage between Hatshepsut and her half brother.
Apparently she absolutely hated him, and had him poisoned.
Then In Exodus 2:6 she found this baby floating in the Nile in a Basket. She named him Moses. She started to groom him for leadership in Egypt. He would one day be the Next Pharoah in Egypt - the most advanced civilisation at that time.

Moses found by Pharoah's Daughter

Would He follow his adopted mother’s wishes or would he choose  God  and deliver the Israelites from slavery.  He had some weighty choices to make, just as we do today.
Heb 11:25  Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;
Heb 11:26  Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward. 

Moses a Prince in Egypt

• John Wesley “11:26 The reproach of Christ - That which he bore for believing in the Messiah to come, and acting accordingly. For he looked off - From all those perishing treasures, and beyond all those temporal hardships Unto the recompence of reward - Not to an inheritance in Canaan; he had no warrant from God to look for this, nor did he ever attain it; but what his believing ancestors looked for, - a future state of happiness in heaven.”

Look at these Scriptures Heb_11:6, Heb_2:2, Heb_10:35; Rth_2:12; Pro_11:18, Pro_23:18; Mat_5:12, Mat_6:1, Mat_10:41; Luk_14:14

Applications.
1. We have to make a similar Decision now. Whether we will live for sin and pleasure which is fleeting and soon will pass away or whether we will choose to suffer reproach with the People of God now and live forever, through all eternity, blessed by God and with God. The choice is the passing, the temporal self gratification against suffering now and being rewarded for Eternity.

Heb 11:6  But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

Study Number 34 JEHOVAH GMOLAH - THE LORD WHO RECOMPENSES OR REWARDS

We all make choices every day which have consequences. Some are insignificant such as when to bath and what to wear. Others have huge consequences and set the direction of our lives like who we marry and what our job will be.

The Meaning of JEHOVAH GMOLAH
To recompense means “to repay or to reward or to compensate”  The word Gmolah or recompense means to give one his just deserts or payback. This name indicates that God will repay evil for evil and good for good.
By way of Illustration, all my life I have paid my tithes to the House of the LORD. In Malachi chapter 3 its says,:8 “Will a mere mortal rob God? Yet you rob me. “But you ask, ‘How are we robbing you?’
“In tithes and offerings. 9 You are under a curse—your whole nation—because you are robbing me. 10 Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the Lord Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it. 11 I will prevent pests from devouring your crops, and the vines in your fields will not drop their fruit before it is ripe,” says the Lord Almighty.12 “Then all the nations will call you blessed, for yours will be a delightful land,” says the Lord Almighty.

The LORD has richly rewarded my family all our days. We have never lacked and now in old age we have an abundance. He surely is Jehovah Gmolah .

The first Biblical reference to this name is Jeremiah 51: 56 "A destroyer will come against Babylon;     her warriors will be captured,  and their bows will be broken.For the Lord is a God of retribution;     he will repay in full."NIV

The Lord promises the Babylonians they would reap whatever they sowed in the Destruction of Jerusalem.  Approximately 70 years later they were recompensed when the Medes and Persians took over Babylon and captured the city in one night. This is Jehovah Gmolah at work.

Applications
1. Have you been faithfully paying your tithes year after year. Then according to God’s Word you will see how amazingly you will be looked after. God’s blessings will come flooding into your lives.
2. Even if it takes time God will make sure that you reap what you have sown. God repays in full.

STUDY NUMBER 33 Jehovah Makkeh - The LORD who smites. (cont.)

The sacking of Jerusalem by Babylonians

We are considering the discipline or chastisement of the Lord in our lives. The results of His discipline in our lives is to our advantage so as to produce holiness and fruitfullness in us.
Correction never is pleasant but the fruits of peace and righteousness are surely worth it.

In Ezekiel 9 the prophet Ezekiel had a vision of God smiting Jerusalem
Eze 9:5  And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity:
Eze 9:6  Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house.  

Ezekiel saw God telling the angel to smite all the idolaters but to spare those godly people who had the Lord’s mark on them.  These were people who prayed and sighed for Judah and interceded for them.
God sent the Nebuchadnezzar and the Babylonians to take Judah into captivity. All those who were not killed by the sword had to flee for their very lives. They were contrite of heart.

Psa_34:18  The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.
Psa_51:17  The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
Isa_57:15  For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
Isa_66:2  For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.

God will defend and protect anyone who is humble and contrite before Him.

Applications
1. THe LORD, JEHOVAH MAKKEH smote Judah for its idolatry and carried them away into Captivity in Babylon. Every nation that forgets God and turns to idols will be and certainly punished.
2. God is looking for the Humble and CONTRITE of heart. The sighing and praying of real believers is a sign of true faith.

Study Number 32 JEHOVAH MAKKEH - THE LORD WHO SMITES (disciplines us)

"I will turn my eyes away and show no pity. I will repay you for all your detestable sins. Then you will know that it is I, the Lord, who is striking the blow (The Lord Who Smites)." Ezekiel 7:9

The LORD is not just a God of Love and Grace. When we first get saved and commit our lives to Him then he begins to shape us and change is into the Likeness of His Son. This He does by His Word and by the pressing circumstances of our lives. Do you know that God is disciplining you when you go through trials.

Heb 1210 For they (our fathers) verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but He for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.

But he for our profit (ὁ δὲ ἐπὶ τὸ συμφέρον)

The contrast is with what is implied in as seemed good to them. The human parent may not have dealt with us to our profit. Συμφέρειν means to bring together: to collect or contribute in order to help: hence, to help or be profitable. Often impersonally, συμφέρει it is expedient, as Matthew 5:29; Matthew 18:6; John 11:50. The neuter participle, as here, advantage, profit, 1 Corinthians 12:7; 2 Corinthians 12:1. There is a backward reference to live,Hebrews 12:9, the result of subjection to the Father of spirits; and this is expanded and defined in the final clause, namely:

That we might be partakers of his holiness (εἰς το μεταλαβεῖν τῆς ἁγιότητος αὐτοῦ)

Lit. unto the partaking of his holiness. Ἑις marks the final purpose of chastening. Holiness is life. Shall we not be subject to the Father of spirits and live? For, in contrast with the temporary, faultful chastening of the human parent, which, at best, prepares for work and success in time and in worldly things, his chastening results in holiness and eternal life. VWS

New International Version (©1984)
No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it. Hebrews 12 :11

The big misunderstanding here is when people think that God's punishment is just to get back at us for our sin (revenge). Ultimately, Jehovah Makkeh is all about grace. God created us to know Him, walk with Him, delight in Him... and He knows that unless we turn from the sin that separates us from Him, we will not experience true life in its fullest.

He disciplines so that we have a chance to receive healing. He disciplines so that our pride doesn't destroy us. He disciplines so that our addiction doesn't overcome us. He disciplines so that we will stay on the path of LIFE. P. Santos.

The Word “DISCIPLINE”or "Chastening" the Bible means:

1. Training for obedience, whether physical, mental, or moral.

2. (n.) Training to act in accordance with established rules; accustoming to systematic and regular action; drill.

3. (n.) Subjection to rule; submissiveness to order and control; habit of obedience.

4. (n.) Severe training, corrective of faults; instruction by means of misfortune, suffering, punishment, etc.

5. (n.) Correction; chastisement; punishment inflicted by way of correction and training.

6. (n.) The subject matter of instruction; a branch of knowledge.

7. (n.) The enforcement of methods of correction against one guilty of ecclesiastical offences; reformatory or penal action toward a church member. Noah Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language

Applications.
1.  Remember God is shaping your life into something very beautiful. It will take time and often it will , but it will not harm you.
2. JEHOVAH MAKKEH is the One who is you like a football or tennis coach. Sometimes He takes us through difficult things to shape our thinking and our lives. He plans for Holiness. Separation from the world, the flesh (sinful nature) and the Devil.

Study Number 31 JEHOVAH TSEBOATH - The Lord of the Armies of Israel. The LORD of HOSTS

Ps 68:17 The chariots of God are tens of thousands   and thousands of thousands;     the Lord has come from Sinai into his sanctuary.NIV


Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible Ps 68:17
The chariots of God are twenty thousand,.... By which are meant the angels, as the following clause shows; called "chariots", because they have appeared in such a form,2 Kings 2:11; and because, like chariots of war, they are the strength and protection of the Lord's people; and because of their swiftness in doing his work; and because they are for his honour and glory: they are the chariots of God, in which he rides about the world doing his will; they are the chariots in which Christ ascended up to heaven, and in which he will descend at the last day; and in which he now fetches the souls of his people to him at death, and will make use of them at the resurrection to gather them to him, when their bodies are raised by him: their number is very great, and in other places is mentioned as greater,Daniel 7:10; Christ speaks of twelve legions of them, Matthew 26:53; there is a multitude of them, and they are said to be even innumerable,Luke 2:13; which is observed, both for the glory of God, and for the safety of his people:

Deuteronomy 33:2 He said: "The LORD came from Sinai and dawned over them from Seir; he shone forth from Mount Paran. He came with myriads of holy ones from the south, from his mountain slopes.

2 Kings 6:17 And Elisha prayed, "O LORD, open his eyes so he may see." Then the LORD opened the servant's eyes, and he looked and saw the hills full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.


Notes on v. 17. Elisha prayed, and said, Lord, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see—The invisible guard of angels that encompass and defend us (Ps 34:7). The opening of the eyes, which Elisha prayed for, were those of the Spirit, not of the body—the eye of faith sees the reality of the divine presence and protection where all is vacancy or darkness to the ordinary eye. The horses and chariots were symbols of the divine power (see on [331]2Ki 2:12); and their fiery nature denoted their supernatural origin; for fire, the most ethereal of earthly elements, is the most appropriate symbol of the Godhead [Keil].  JFB

Daniel 7:10 A river of fire was flowing, coming out from before him. Thousands upon thousands attended him; ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him. The court was seated, and the books were opened.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible on Daniel 7:10
A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him - Streams of fire seemed to burst forth from his throne. Representations of this kind abound in the Scriptures to illustrate the majesty and glory of God. Compare Revelation 4:5, "And out of the throne proceeded lightnings, and thunderings, and voices."Exodus 19:16; Habakkuk 3:4;Psalm 18:8.
Thousand thousands ministered unto him - "A thousand of thousands;" that is, thousands multiplied a thousand times. The mind is struck with the fact that there are thousands present - and then the number seems as great as if those thousands were multiplied a thousand times. The idea is that there was an immense - a countless host. The reference here is to the angels, and God is often represented as attended with great numbers of these celestial beings when he comes down to our world.Deuteronomy 33:2, "he came with ten thousands of saints;" that is, of holy ones. Psalm 68:17, "the chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels." Compare Jde 1:14. The word "ministered" means that they attended on him.
And ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him - An innumerable host
Applications
1. The LORD is accompanied by Legions of angels. He is a Mighty Conqueror and He is powerful.
2. The Lord can open the eyes of our understanding till we see and realise that more are they who are for us than they who are against us. Greater is He who is in us than he who is in the world.

Study Number 31 JEHOVAH TSEBOATH - THE GOD OF HOSTS - ARMIES (CONT)

Deborah and the God of the Armies of Israel.
In Judges 4 King Jabin, the Canaanite, was harassing Israel because they did evil in the eyes of the Lord.
Jabin’s commander, Sisera, was a military genius. He commanded an army with 900 chariots. This was a huge army for that day. It would be like having 900 tanks today.

But Sisera did not take into consideration the God of Deborah, the only female Judge ever to rule over Israel. She understood and had a Revelation of JEHOVAH TSEBOATH. The LORD commanded the heavenly host and would fight for His people if they cried out to Him.

The NIV for Judges 4: 4-7 says,”Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, was leadinga Israel at that time. 5She held court under the Palm of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, and the Israelites came to her to have their disputes decided. 6She sent for Barak son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali and said to him, “The Lord, the God of Israel, commands you: ‘Go, take with you ten thousand men of Naphtali and Zebulun and lead the way to Mount Tabor. 7I will lure Sisera, the commander of Jabin’s army, with his chariots and his troops to the Kishon River and give him into your hands.’”
Deborah and Barak and their army on Mount Tabor
Barak didn’t have a single chariot to his name. He didn’t even have a big army either. All he had was a woman telling him, “You can do it.” Deborah was a bold woman with great confidence in God, THe LORD of the Armies of Israel.
Across the valley at the Brook Kishon was Sisera and his 900 chariots. They looked out and saw Deborah and Barak’s pathetic little army on Mount Tabor.
Then Sisera commanded his men to attack in the valley which was flat and good for his chariof Hostsots.

Barak and his meager band charged down into the valley with their clubs and primitive weapons. They put their trust in JEHOVAH TSEBOATH. Suddenly, it began to rain. It bucketed down and flooded very quickly. The chariots of Sisera were soon bogged to the axles. Sisera ran from the Battle field. Barak had won. Deborah sang a song of Poetic Revelation.
In the Middle of the Battle always put your confidence in JEHOVAH TSEBOATH.

Study Number 30 JEHOVAH TSEBAOTH - THE LORD OF ARMIES , HOSTS.

The names Yhwh and Elohim frequently occur with the word Ẓeba'ot ("hosts"), as Yhwh Elohe Ẓeba'ot ("Yhwh God of Hosts") or "God of Hosts"; or, most frequently, "Yhwh of Hosts." To this last Adonai is often prefixed, making the title "Lord Yhwh of Hosts." This compound divine name occurs chiefly in the prophetic literature and does not appear at all in the Pentateuch or in Joshua or Judges.

Because we are intimately acquainted with JEHOVAH TSEBAOTH, the LORD of Hosts, we will see that we are distinctive. We have an elite quality - a unique position and a crown of righteousness which distinguishes us from the world. M.H.

We are not merely led by our five senses. We have been appointed to walk in the realm of the Spirit where we hold the status and rank of a member of the Army of the LORD, JEHOVAH TSEBOATH. M.H.

The Meaning of TSEBOATH (Zeba'ot)
It comes from the root word, tsaba, which can be used as either as verb or a noun. As a verb it means "to wage war" and also has a broader meaning "to render service to God. This  latter shows a service of total dedication and careful regimentation associated  with spiritual warfare and worship.
As a noun "tsaba" means "armies, hosts, or multitudess It expresses myriads - a vast array of varying ranks and individuals under God's command.

The Hosts of Israel

. The original meaning of Ẓeba'ot is probably to be found in I Sam. xvii. 45, where "Yhwh Ẓeba'ot" is interpreted as denoting "the God of the armies of Israel" (comp. Josh. v. 13-15; Isa. xiii. 4). The word, apart from this special use, always means armies or hosts of men, as, for example, in Ex. vi. 26, vii. 4, xii. 41, while the singular "ẓaba" is used to designate the heavenly host.
With reference to the stars.
Psalm 147:1:4 He keeps track of the number<tally> of stars, assigning names to all of them. ISV.
C.p.Genesis 2:1"Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them."

Isaiah 45:12 It is I who made the earth and created mankind upon it. My own hands stretched out the heavens; I marshalled their starry hosts. NIV

Orion

 Later, and especially in prophetic usage, the word was transferred to the heavenly hosts, or rather the heavenly were added to the earthly hosts. For this idea of heavenly hosts joining their forces with those of God's people, or fighting on behalf of God's servants, compare Judges v. 20; II Kings vi. 16, 17; Ps. xxxiv. 7, lxviii. 17.The heavenly Host

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Study Number 29 EL ELYON - Our Secret Hiding Place.

Psa 91:1  He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

Psa 91:2  I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.

Psa 91:3  Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.

Psa 91:4  He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.

Psa 91:5  Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day;

Psa 91:6  Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.

Psa 91:7  A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.

Psa 91:8  Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked.

Psa 91:9  Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation;

Notes: In Verse 1 ‘dwelleth’ comes from the participle of the root verb: to sit. So we could translate this verse, “Sitting in the Secret place of EL ELYON”. So God is the place where our soul rests and settles.

The Secret Place of the Most High. Psa 27:5  For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion [tent]: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.

Barnes : In the most retired and private part of His dwelling. He would not merely admit him to His premises; not only to the vestibule of His house; not only to the open court, or to the parts of His house frequented by the rest of His family; but he would admit him to the private apartments - the place to which He Himself withdrew to be alone, and where no stranger, and not even one of the family, would venture to intrude. Nothing could more certainly denote friendship; nothing could more certainly make protection sure, than thus to be taken into the private apartment where the master of a family was accustomed himself to withdraw, that he might be alone; and nothing, therefore, can more beautifully describe the protection which God will give to His friends than the idea of thus admitting them to the secret apartments of His own dwelling-place.

Psa 91:9  Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation.

Seeing thou hast taken Jehovah, the Most High, for thy portion and thy refuge, no evil shall come nigh thy dwelling; thou shalt be safe in thy soul, body, household, and property, Psa_91:10. Every godly man may expect such protection from his God and Father. A.C.

How was Jesus lifted up?

Php 2:5  Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:

Php 2:6  Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:

Php 2:7  But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:

Php 2:8  And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

Php 2:9  Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:

Php 2:10  That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;

Php 2:11  And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Notes: These verses show us that Jesus was with EL ELYON and originally equal with HIM. He had the status and supremacy of The Most High God. But He humbled Himself to become low as a man and as a servant of men that He might die in our place. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:

God has seated Jesus at His own right hand far above all.

Eph 1:20  Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,

Eph 1:21  Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:

Eph 1:22  And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,

Eph 1:23  Which is his body, the fullness of him that fills all in all.

Jesus is above every authority or power and every circumstance. Every demon principality is far under the feet of our El ELYON, our Lord Jesus Christ.

Applications.

1.      We have found our ‘Hiding Place’. The Blessed Rock of ages who was cleft for me. This is where we need to sit and rest under His Protection.

2.      Jesus now has been Highly Exalted back to where He was. He humbled Himself and we need to have the same mind and attitude. Now He is far above all.

Study Number 28 EL ELYON – The LORD who gives us the Victory.

Psa 18:13  The LORD thundered in the heavens. The Most High made his voice heard with hailstones and lightning.

Psa 18:14  He shot his arrows and scattered them. He flashed streaks of lightning and threw them into confusion.

Psa 18:15  Then the ocean floor could be seen. The foundations of the earth were laid bare at your stern warning, O LORD, at the blast of the breath from your nostrils.

Psa 18:16  He reached down from high above and took hold of me. He pulled me out of the raging water.

Psa 18:17  He rescued me from my strong enemy and from those who hated me, because they were too strong for me.

Psa 18:18  On the day when I faced disaster, they confronted me, but the LORD came to my defense.

Our Security and our Stability are dependent upon our LORD Most High.

Psa 21:7  Indeed, the king trusts the LORD, and through the mercy of the Most High, he will not be moved.

And through the mercy of the Most High - The favour of Him who is exalted above all; the most exalted Being in the universe. The word “mercy” here is equivalent to “favour.” He had already experienced God’s favor; he looked for a continuance of it; and through that favour he was confident that he would never be shaken in his purposes, and that he would never be disappointed.

 He shall not be moved - He shall be firmly established. Barnes Notes

He accomplishes all things on our behalf.

Psa 57:2  I call to God Most High, to the God who does everything for me.

Psa 57:3  He sends his help from heaven and saves me.

I will cry unto God most high - The idea is - God is exalted above all creatures; all events are “under” him, and he can control them. The appeal was not to man, however exalted; not to an angel, however far he may be above man; it was an appeal made at once to the Supreme Being, the God to whom all worlds and all creatures are subject, and under whose protection, therefore, he must be safe.

Unto God that performs all things for me - The word used here, and rendered “performs” - גמר  gâmar - means properly to bring to an end; to complete; to perfect. The idea here is, that it is the character of God, that he “completes” or “perfects,” or brings to a happy issue all his plans.

The Most High is called the Redeemer.

El Elyon and Jesus are one and the same Person. M.H.

Psa 78:35  And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their Redeemer.

And the high God their Redeemer - The God who is exalted over all; the true and living God. The truth was brought to their recollection that it was He who had delivered them from bondage in Egypt, and who had brought them out into freedom. On the word “Redeemer,” see the notes at Isa_41:14. Compare Isa_43:14; Isa_44:6, Isa_44:24; Isa_47:4; Isa_59:20; Psa_25:22; Job_5:20. Barnes notes

Applications.

1.      God will rescue you and give you the Victory in every circumstance of life. He is El Elyon the Most High God.

2.      He is the one who is the stability of our times. When all the world seems to be falling apart around remember that EL ELYON gives you safety and stability.

3.      He is our Redeemer. The Lord Jesus Christ came to rescue us and Deliver us from the world , the flesh and the devil. He is our Redeemer.