My hope is that this series will offer my readers a chance to consider the names, characteristics and descriptions of our God in the Word.
The remaining Names of God in this series might be considered descriptors, or characteristics of the Lord. We have reviewed the three primary Names of God, along with nineteen compound Names of God in our previous posts. As we venture through these descriptors of our God, I hope we will recognize all the many characteristics of our God that we tend to take for granted.
The Word is truly rich with descriptions of the Living God, and this effort of searching in the Word was quite illuminating. He truly is the ultimate subject of the Word, and His revelation of self-descriptions, or the accolades offered Him by His priests, prophets, kings apostles and faithful truly is a blessing.
May the Name of the Lord be praised, and by thinking on His name, may you have a blessed day.
| 30 |
| ANGEL OF GOD |
| Judges 13:6 Then the woman came and told her husband, “A man of God came to me, and his appearance was like the appearance of the angel of God, very awesome. I did not ask him where he was from, and he did not tell me his name, |
| This is the first of four names within our list that includes the term “angel”, with the most popular, or should I say the most familiar being the Angel of the Lord. For this post we will consider the Angel of God. For the Name of God we are considering today, some may reject this suggestion as referring to Jesus, since it implies He is simply a messenger of God and not God Himself. In my mind, that strikes at the very heart of the Godhead, for the very nature of the Godhead, as we see in the life of Christ, is to serve. Some also may reject this name for Jesus, yet would accept “the Angel of the LORD” as designating the Son. This distinction seems arbitrary and simply incorrect, for the Angel of God in this passage is described as the Angel of the Lord just three verses earlier. The Angel of God is the Angel of the LORD. The difference in the name is simply that Manoah’s wife described Jesus as the Angel of God to her husband, when recounting the Angel’s visit. The background to this passage is the birth of Samson, a very special man – a man chosen from birth to be a Nazarite, a man that would save Israel from the hand of the Philistines. I am tempted to discuss Samson, for certain aspects of his life reflect the Son of Man, but I will save that for the Jesus in the Old Testament series. Jesus, as the Angel of God, took on the appearance of an angel in order to bring specific messages to certain people in the Old Testament. Consider the explosion of information provided for us as the Son of Man delivered His message to the entire world, to all generations, throughout time for all to hear. His designation of Angel of God symbolized a microcosm of what was in store for those of us in the future! Note also that His appearance was as an angel, yet as we focus on the Old Testament in these Names, we need to remember that He did not take on the appearance of a man when He came to rescue us, to deliver us from ourselves and our sin, but that He took on the likeness of men, and was found in the form of a human. He appeared as the Angel of God, but He became the Son of Man. He is truly the Servant of God we do not deserve, that we cannot comprehend, that we thank to little, and that we will forever praise. Praise the Name of God. |
I would love to hear of your favorite name, characteristic or description of the Living God. Please leave me a comment, and I will include it in the list!
Thanks again for coming to visit. I hope you found something of interest in this post and would appreciate a comment, to begin a discussion. If you know someone this blog may bless (or challenge), send them a link, so they may join us in our discussion.
Come join us at Considering the Bible
Considering the Bible 