WHO IS THE GOD
OF THE OLD TESTAMENT?
IS IT CHRIST OR IS IT THE FATHER?
Jesus Christ is
God. The bible teaches this, we believe this. He
is second in charge of
everything under His Father. He is the Son of
God.
Most people in
the church feel that the God of the Old Testament was
Christ.
We will show you that the God of the Old Testament was
in fact God the
Father.
We have already
seen that, in the Old Testament, the word Lord which
is the word used for God the
Father, who is Jehovah, has the number
in Strong’s Concordance
3068, this can refer to God the Father
only. With this in mind let’s
press on to see new truth about the Father.
God the Father
was the one who spoke to Adam in the garden.
Gen
2:16 And
the LORD God commanded the man,
saying, "Of every tree of the garden you may freely
eat;
No doubt God
had quite a lengthy conversation with Adam at this
point.
It was the Father
who brought on the flood.
Gen
6:7 So
the LORD said, "I will destroy
man whom I have created from the face of the earth,
both man and beast,
creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry
that I have made
them."
The Father spoke
to Noah.
Gen 7:1 Then the
LORD said to Noah, "Come into
the ark, you and all your household, because I have
seen that
you are righteous before Me in this
generation.
God spoke to
Abraham.
Gen 17:1 When Abram
was ninety-nine years old, the
LORD appeared to Abram and said to him, "I am Almighty God; walk before Me and
be blameless.
Gen
17:2 And
I will make My covenant between
Me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly."
Gen
17:3 Then
Abram fell on his face, and
God talked with him, saying:
The following
verse is very interesting indeed, here we see the
Father appeared to Abraham,
then three men came. Two were angels. We can
identify who these men were
very simply. Firstly Moses bows to them and
addresses one as My
Lord. This is H136 {in Strong’s Concordance}
which is Adony, which can
mean, Jesus or God the Father. In this case it
was Christ because He was
seen by Moses. The other two were angels, they
went into
Gen 18:1 Then the
LORD appeared to him by the
terebinth trees of Mamre, as he was sitting in the
tent door in the heat of the
day.
Gen
18:2 So
he lifted his eyes and looked,
and behold, three men were standing by him; and when
he saw them,
he ran from the tent door to
meet them, and bowed himself to the ground,
Gen
18:3 and
said, "My Lord, if I have
now found favor in Your sight, do not pass on by
Your servant.
God the Father
can be heard, but He cannot be looked upon. When
God the Father appears
to people, He does so in six different ways, they are:
in a vision, invisible,
in a whirlwind, in a fire, in a dream, and in a cloud.
Mat
3:17 And
suddenly a voice came
from heaven, saying, "This
is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased."
There are a
number of scriptures which prove that the Father can
be heard, I have included
the most obvious scripture for your reference, in your
private study, look up
the others for yourselves, back to Moses and the
three men.
This next verse
shows that the two men were angels.
Gen 19:1 Now the
two angels came to
The Father spoke
to Moses in the burning bush.
Exo
3:4 So
when the LORD saw that he turned
aside to look, God called to him from the midst of
the bush and said,
"Moses, Moses!" And he said, "Here I am."
Exo
3:5 Then
He said, "Do not draw near
this place. Take your sandals off your feet, for the
place where you stand is holy
ground."
The following
verses are interesting. God here says that
He is I AM, this
means I exist. He is showing Moses that He is the self
existent One. He
then proves this in the next verse. The Lord God is
Jehovah, the self existent
One. Here God the Father reveals who He
is.
Exo
3:14 And
God said to Moses, "I AM
WHO I AM." And He said, "Thus you shall say to the
children of
Exo
3:15 Moreover
God said to Moses,
"Thus you shall say to the children of Israel: 'The
LORD God of your
fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and
the God of Jacob, has sent
me to you. This is My
name
forever, and this is My
memorial to all generations.'
The Father is
here showing that He is to be called the Lord
God. He confirms by this
name that He is Jehovah, the self existent one.
He is the One True
God.
ABRAHAM DID NOT
HAVE THIS KNOWLEDGE.
The next verses
show that Abraham did not know that the Father was
Jehovah, the self existent
one.
These verses are
extremely important for us today, because the majority
of us would not have
known till now that the Father was the one true God,
that He is Jehovah.
This is the proper name for the One True God.
Abraham did not know this, and the church does not
know this at the present
time. The disciples knew it and the New
Testament church knew it, but
that knowledge has been lost, and must be restored in
this end time
Church.
PLEASE WRITE THIS
VERSE DOWN AND LATER LOOK IT UP AND READ IT OVER AND
OVER UNTIL YOU UNDERSTAND
WHAT IT IS SAYING.
Exo
6:2 And
God spoke to Moses and said to
him: "I am
the LORD.
Exo
6:3 I
appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and
to Jacob, as God Almighty, but by
My name JEHOVAH
I was not known
to them.
Also please note
very carefully that this I AM has no connection with
the I AM which Christ
spoke in the New Testament.
Joh
8:58 Jesus said to
them, "Most assuredly, I
say to you, before
Abraham was, I AM."
This means that
Christ existed before Abraham was alive. That is
all that verse
means. Nothing more.
This is exciting
knowledge for us. God the Father is the God of
the Old Testament.
It was the Father
who brought the Israelites up out of
Exo
4:31 So
the people believed; and when
they heard that the LORD had visited the children of
Israel and that He had
looked on their affliction, then they bowed their
heads and worshiped.
The Father
brought the Israelites out of
Jesus Christ would not have said this, He is second in
charge to the
Father.
Exo 20:1 And God
spoke all these words, saying:
Exo
20:2 "I
am the LORD your God, who brought
you out of the
Exo
20:3 "You
shall have no other gods
before Me.
Joh 14:28 You have heard Me say to you, 'I
am going away and coming back
to you.' If you loved Me, you
would rejoice because I said, 'I am going to the
Father,' for My Father is
greater than I.
We will find out
why
Christ led the Israelites throughout the wilderness in
another articles at this
site.
The God who said
the following verse can only be the Father, He is the
one in charge, there is
no one above Him.
Exo 20:1 And God
spoke all these words, saying:
Exo
20:2 "I
am the LORD your God, who brought
you out of the
Exo
20:3 "You
shall have no other gods
before Me.
This may be
astounding to most who read this article, but the
Father has visited the earth
and returned to heaven many times in the past, look at
this amazing
scripture.
Pro
30:4 Who
has ascended into heaven, or
descended? Who has gathered the wind in His fists?
Who has bound the waters in
a garment? Who has established all the ends of the
earth? What is His
name, and what is His
Son's name, If you know?
We must continue
to learn more knowledge about our heavenly Father and
His Son Jesus Christ,
because this is eternal life.
Joh
17:3 And
this is eternal life, that they may know You, the
only true God, and Jesus
Christ whom You have sent.
Let us seek out
this knowledge with our whole hearts and minds and
continue to grow as God
would want us to.
