Jesus, the God of Israel
“And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under His feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in His clearness.
And upon the nobles of the children of Israel He laid not His hand: also they saw God, and did eat and drink.” (Ex. 24:10, 11).
Jesus, the God of Israel, hovered over the paved work of sapphire because gravity cannot bind Him. As the Anointed One, it took no work to be suspended above the other-worldly, gem-like pavement, a lucid piece of heaven brought to corporeal Earth. Similarly, He effortlessly walked on the raging waters of the Galilean lake, as it were a sea of glass, because He was the same God of Israel who the 70 elders had witnessed, the Creator of the heavens and the Earth.
Untiringly, truth and grace flow from Him; He breathes righteousness and peace. It takes no work for Him, the Word of God, to communicate and enunciate His Father’s Law. In His earthly ministry, the people hung on His every word for days in the desolate wilderness. He didn’t need to stop teaching except for their bodies’ sake.
“Happy are thy men, happy are these thy servants, which stand continually before thee, and that hear thy wisdom”—the perfect picture of the multitudes following Jesus, the God of Israel, as well as of the angelic hosts which have forever stood before Him and who sing His praises. “Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing.” “Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto Him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.” (1Ki. 10:8;Rev. 5:12,13).
The God of Israel is the God of rest, a God at rest. Nothing ever bothers Him nor worries Him. He knows no anxiety or care. Why should He be stressed when He perfectly adheres to the architecture of the Great King of the universe, who prospers everything done by His Prince? The God of Israel, the Messiah, knows no time and space. He is suspended from their limitations and control because time and space are His creations through His Father, the King. Because His soul is so intimately united with His Father, nothing is too hard for Him. Propelled by infinite love, the government He shoulders is easy and light.
He dwells in a perpetual Sabbath; in His presence is peace and rest and “fulness of joy.” (Ps. 16:11). So He has commanded a Sabbath for us. One day in seven we get to forget the mundane and dwell in His presence of peace, hovering with Him above, and oblivious to, the needs of space and time.
“Let them make Me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.” (Ex. 25:8). Let them prepare their hearts, cost what it may, so that I may bring My peace and power, and abide in them and they in Me.
Over us He roars jealously, “Intreat Me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be My people, and thy God My God: Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the Lord do so to Me, and more also, if ought but death part thee and Me.” (Ruth 1:16, 17).
And upon the nobles of the children of Israel He laid not His hand: also they saw God, and did eat and drink.” (Ex. 24:10, 11).
Jesus, the God of Israel, hovered over the paved work of sapphire because gravity cannot bind Him. As the Anointed One, it took no work to be suspended above the other-worldly, gem-like pavement, a lucid piece of heaven brought to corporeal Earth. Similarly, He effortlessly walked on the raging waters of the Galilean lake, as it were a sea of glass, because He was the same God of Israel who the 70 elders had witnessed, the Creator of the heavens and the Earth.
Untiringly, truth and grace flow from Him; He breathes righteousness and peace. It takes no work for Him, the Word of God, to communicate and enunciate His Father’s Law. In His earthly ministry, the people hung on His every word for days in the desolate wilderness. He didn’t need to stop teaching except for their bodies’ sake.
“Happy are thy men, happy are these thy servants, which stand continually before thee, and that hear thy wisdom”—the perfect picture of the multitudes following Jesus, the God of Israel, as well as of the angelic hosts which have forever stood before Him and who sing His praises. “Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing.” “Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto Him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.” (1Ki. 10:8;Rev. 5:12,13).
The God of Israel is the God of rest, a God at rest. Nothing ever bothers Him nor worries Him. He knows no anxiety or care. Why should He be stressed when He perfectly adheres to the architecture of the Great King of the universe, who prospers everything done by His Prince? The God of Israel, the Messiah, knows no time and space. He is suspended from their limitations and control because time and space are His creations through His Father, the King. Because His soul is so intimately united with His Father, nothing is too hard for Him. Propelled by infinite love, the government He shoulders is easy and light.
He dwells in a perpetual Sabbath; in His presence is peace and rest and “fulness of joy.” (Ps. 16:11). So He has commanded a Sabbath for us. One day in seven we get to forget the mundane and dwell in His presence of peace, hovering with Him above, and oblivious to, the needs of space and time.
“Let them make Me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.” (Ex. 25:8). Let them prepare their hearts, cost what it may, so that I may bring My peace and power, and abide in them and they in Me.
Over us He roars jealously, “Intreat Me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be My people, and thy God My God: Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the Lord do so to Me, and more also, if ought but death part thee and Me.” (Ruth 1:16, 17).
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