Session 5
Jehovah-Sabaoth
Jehovah-Shalom
Schedule:
Week / Date / Name(s)1 / July 14 / El and Elohim
2 / July 21 / El Shaddai, El Elyon, El Olam
3 / July 28 / Jehovah & YWH
4 / Aug 4 / Nisi, Jireh, Rapha
Aug 11 / Missionary Speaking- All church
5 / Aug 18 / Saboath, Shalom,
6 / Aug 25 / Immanuel, Adonai
Review
El – God - Strong and Powerful
Elohim – God = Creator and Covenant Maker
El Shaddai – All Mighty, bountiful provider
El Elyon – the Most High who rules over all kingdoms
El Olam – the Everlasting, Eternal God
Jehovah – the Self Existing One, the Great I Am
Jehovah – Jireh – The God who sees and provides
Jehovah-Nissi – The God by Banner
Jehovah-Raphi – The God that Heals
Jehovah-Sabaoth
Meaning – Lord of Hosts
First used:
In the time of Joshua…what is going on with Israel during his life? And in that book?
Background….Israel began with Abraham as the God who provides
As the patriarch’s grow they experience God as El Shadai
At the Exodus they see God as the self Existent one
During the Wandering they see God who heals them
Moses is dead….
Joshua has to lead the people into battle against armies
Joshua 5:13-15 – Meeting Joshua
1 Samuel 17:45 – David and Goliath
- Lord of Angelic hosts
1 Kings 22:19 – all the hosts of heaven around Him
Psalm 103:21 – all the hosts do His will
Psalm 148:2 – angels and hosts praise him (angels are hosts)
Neh 9:6 – made all the hosts
Psalm 68:17 – thousands of chariots
Mat 26:53 – God could have sent 12 legions of angels
Acts 12 Angel sent to Peter to save him
Elisha – saw the hosts of fiery ring
2 Kings 19:34– One killed 185k
2. Lord of all stellar Hosts
Gen 1:16 – Created the Sun, moon and stars
Gen 2:1 – heaven and earth and all the hosts….
Isaiah 40:26 – look up at skies and see who created the hosts
Judges 5:20 – Stars fight against Sisera (unreasonable rain)
Josh 10:12-13 – Sun stood still
Isaiah 38:8 – Sun/Shadow of Hezekiah
Matthew 2:2 – Star of Bethlehem
3. Lord of All the Animal hosts
Daniel in the Lion’s Den
Balaam’s Donkey
Isaiah 11:6 – the Lamb and the Lion will lay down
4. Lord of all Human Hosts
Daniel 4:17
Isaiah 40:15
5. Lord of all Satanic hosts:
Job – Satan required God’s permission
Jesus – triumphing over the Devil
Therefore:
Did we in our own strength confide,
our striving would be losing,
were not the right man on our side,
the man of God's own choosing.
Dost ask who that may be?
Christ Jesus, it is he;
Lord Sabaoth, his name,
from age to age the same,
and he must win the battle
And like Peter we can have peace….
Jehovah-Shalom
Mainly a greeting…
Meaning– The Lord is Peace
Welfare - Genesis 43:27
Good Health - Genesis 43:28
All is well, safe - 2 Samuel 18:28,29
Prosperity - Psalm 35:27
Rest - Psalm 38:3
Whole – Deut 27:6
Restitution or repay, well or welfare – Exodus 22:5-6
If the word can be translated thusly…what REALLY does it mean?
First used:
Background – Judges cycle of sin, attack, repent, saving
Judges 6:23-24 – Gideon hiding
Isaiah 45:7 – Peace from the Father
Eph 2: 15 – Peace secured by the Son
Romans 14:17 – Applied by the Holy Spirit
Therefore:
Acts 12:7 – Peter sleeping Peace in trusting the Lord of Hosts
2 Kings 6 – Elisha and the horses…Elisha has peace because God sent the armies
Conclusion:
- Jehovah-Sabaoth –
- Jehovah-Shalom –
- We can have peace in salvation and all things because God is in command of all things
Bibliography:
Stone, Nathan; Names of God
Juke, Andrew The Names of God
Lockyer, Herbert; All the Divine Names and Titles in the Bible Zondervan 1975
Rose Publishing The Names of God:21 names and their meanings
For Next Week
Adonai
Psalm 8
Isaiah 40:3-5
Ezekiel 16:8
Habakkuk 3:19
Immanuel
Isaiah 7:14
Isaiah 8:8-10
Matthew 1:23
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