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Names of God – ANGEL OF THE LORD – 32

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. At this point in our study, we will begin with “A God Merciful and Gracious”, the twenty-third Name of God on my list. 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.

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ANGEL OF THE LORD
 
Gen. 22:11 But the angel of the LORD called to him from heaven and said, Abraham, Abraham!” And he said, Here I am.”
The Angel of the LORD. This Angel is the first angel that I came across in the Old Testament, that I thought might be special, set apart from the others, different.

Only later did I come to understand that others thought so also, and that most (if not all) Bible scholars consider this reference to be associated with Jesus, in what they call a Theophany, or a Christophany. This is the technical term of describing this appearance as being a visitation from God, and not simply from a servant, a flaming minister sent from God.

The Angel of the Lord shows up in unexpected circumstances, but our verse above is instructive in that He arrived at the point where Abraham was going to slay his own son in obedience to God’s message.

Consider that the Angel of the LORD is a pre-Christian appearance of Jesus, and that He
stopped the slaying of Abraham’s son. No one would arrive to stop the slaying of the Son of Man. Yet the Son of Man stopped the slaying of Abraham’s son.

He is a God who treats us better than we deserve, and that is willing to take our punishment, our trials, our troubles, and any that we must go through, we can be assured He is with us, for He promised that He would be with us to the end of the age.

Praise 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!

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