There are many other names of God that describe Him in the Old Testament:
You know the next one quite well.
Jehovah Ro’i: The Lord is my Shepherd – from Psalm 23.
Judges 6:24. Gideon was afraid before God. Verse 22: “When Gideon realized that it was the angel of the Lord, he exclaimed, “Ah, Sovereign Lord! I have seen the angel of the Lord face to face!”
But the Lord said to him, ‘Peace! Do not be afraid, You are not going to die.’
So Gideon built an altar to the Lord there and called it ‘The Lord is Peace’”
Jehovah Shalom. The Lord is Peace.
There are many more examples
El HaNe'eman - The Faithful God: (Deuteronomy 7:9).
El HaGadol - The Great God: (Deuteronomy 10:17).
El HaKadosh - The Holy God: (Isaiah 5:16).
El Yisrael - The God Of Israel: (Psalm 68:35).
El HaShamayim - The God Of The Heavens: (Psalm 136:26).
El De'ot - The God Of Knowledge: (1 Samuel 2:3).
El Emet - The God Of Truth: (Psalm 31:6).
El Yeshuati - The God Of My Salvation: (Isaiah 12:2).
El Echad - The One God: (Malachi 2:10).
And the one name of God that comes forward into the New Testament in the form of a child.
From Isaiah 7:14.
“Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son and will call him Immanuel.”
When Matthew retells the story in Matthew 1, vs. 23 – he finishes the sentence for us.
The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son and will call him Immanuel – God with us.
Many of God’s different personalities had been revealed to His people throughout the centuries. I believe that He wants us to learn these character traits and know God through them. But, then one day, the prophecy from Isaiah came to pass. God lived among us again.
Immanu … el. “God with us”.
Of all of the characteristics that God showed to His people and of all of the names that God was named by, this is the name that changed the world forever.
Immanuel – God with us.
God became like us and lived among us. He communicated with us at our level. And things were never the same again. From a tightly-structured Hebrew community to spreading His good news throughout the whole world, God with us describes all that He wants.
God wants to be with us. He wants to be all sufficient for us – El Shaddai, to be our provision – Jehovah Jireh, to be the commander of all of the hosts of the universe and to lead those hosts in battle for us – Yahweh Sabaoth, to be the means of our victory, our banner – Jehovah Nissi, Jehovah Roeh – our shepherd, Jehovah Shalom – our peace.
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