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"The God of gods"
CHAPTER ONE
and my fathers have done unto all the people of other lands? were the
gods of the nations of those lands any ways able to deliver their lands
out of mine hand? (2 Chronicles 32:13). The idols can do nothing.
They are impotent. They cannot walk or talk. They are made of wood
or stone and can do nothing. But the LORD is the true God, he is the
living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble,
and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation (Jeremiah
10:10). Paul also rehearsed this truth in his letter to the Thessalonians.
For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto
you, and how ye tuned to God from idols to serve the living and true
God (1 Thess.1:9).
God is alive and powerful. He is able to do all that is in His will. But
my point here is to make men know that God is the only one of His
kind. He is the only God; and there are no others. He is One.
Now we also know God is a Spirit. Therefore, if there are any other
real gods, they, too, must be spirit. Having scoured the Old Testament,
we see clearly God never acknowledged anyone or anything man
produced as God. However, the interesting thing is that as far back as
the writings of Moses we see something peculiar.
Moses:
Deuteronomy 10:16-17
16 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more
stiffnecked.
17 For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a
great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor
taketh reward:
Daniel:
Daniel 2:47
The king answered unto Daniel, and said, Of a truth it is, that your
God is a God of gods, and a Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets,
seeing thou couldest reveal this secret.
David:
Psalm 136:2
O give thanks unto the God of gods: for his mercy endureth for ever.
How can this be? He said there are no other gods. He is the only
true and living God. But here, through three of His prophets, He