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"And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty",
the Hebrew reads B'El Shaddai literally "in God Almighty". Just as to the Patriarchs,
God had appeared to them "in God Almighty", so to their descendants the same God
appeared "in Son".
In Isa. 45: 18-23 we read:
"God Himself . . . . . none else . . . . . no God else beside Me . . . . . I have sworn by
Myself . . . . . that unto Me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear."
This the Apostle Paul, by race and upbringing a rigid upholder of the fact that there is
"One God", refers to the Lord Jesus Christ (Phil. 2: 10, 11).
The same prophet Isaiah saw the Seraphim and heard their cry:
"Holy, Holy, Holy, is Jehovah of Hosts" (Isa. 6: 3),
and John declares that Isaiah saw the glory of Christ, and spoke of Him (John 12: 41).
Yet again, Isaiah says:
"The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make
straight in the desert a highway for our God" (Isa. 40: 3).
The Gospels reveal that this was fulfilled by John the Baptist the Forerunner of the
Lord Jesus Christ.
When Israel tempted the Lord, Psa. 78: 56 declares "They tempted and provoked
the Most High God", yet I Cor. 10: 9 says they tempted Christ! The epistle to Titus
declares that our hope is directly associated with the glorious appearing of "our great God
and Saviour Jesus Christ" (Titus 2: 13). Here in the Scriptures we have cited we find
such titles as "God Himself; Jehovah of Hosts; The God; The Lord . . . . . our God;
The Most High God; The great God", each and every one finding their full expression in
one Person, the Lord Jesus Christ, Who is, as I Tim. iii.16 declares, "God manifest in
the flesh". These mighty Scriptures are a sufficient justification for seeking further
evidence of what God is like in the Person of Christ. Here are a few that doubtless come
to the mind of every reader.
"The light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ" (II Cor. 4: 6).
W shall see later that there is a transfiguring power in that "face" (II Cor. 3: 18) but
this we must leave for the moment.
"Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known Me, Philip? he that
hath seen Me hath seen the Father" (John 14: 9).
"Ye have neither heard His voice at any time, nor seen His shape . . . . . for Whom He
hath sent, Him ye believe not" (John 5: 37, 38).