4/1/2023 0 Comments Lord of hosts![]() His hosts are the natural forces of thunder, rain, and hail: And behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha (2 Kings 6:17). His hosts are the angels He sends to protect His servants:Īnd Elisha prayed, and said, ‘Lord, I pray, open his eyes that he may see.’ Then the Lord opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw. Then Micaiah said, ‘Therefore hear the word of the Lord: I saw the Lord sitting on His throne, and all the host of heaven standing by, on His right hand and on His left’ (1 Kings 22:19). His hosts are the angels which surround His throne: The Lord is the Commander of the hosts (Warren Wiersbe). This is the ‘military’ name of God, for ‘hosts’ comes from a Hebrew word which means ‘to wage war’. Who are the hosts over whom the Lord has authority? Indeed the wages of the labourers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth (James 5:4). It is found only twice in the New Testament:Īnd as Isaiah said before: ‘Unless the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we would have become like Sodom, and we would have been made like Gomorrah’ (Romans 9:29). It appears nearly 80 times in Jeremiah, 14 times in the two short chapters of Haggai, nearly 50 times in Zechariah, and 25 times in Malachi. ![]() The LORD of hosts occurs mostly in the Prophets, especially those speaking about the failure of Israel. But I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied’ (1 Samuel 17:45). Then David said to the Philistine, ‘You come to me with a sword, with a spear, and with a javelin. It is in this name that the young David took up Goliath’s arrogant challenge: Then she made a vow and said, ‘O Lord of hosts, if You will indeed look on the affliction of Your maidservant and remember me, and not forget Your maidservant, but will give Your maidservant a male child, then I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life, and no razor shall come upon his head’ (1 Samuel 1:11). This is how the desolate, childless Hannah addressed God in her prayer for a son: Lord of HostsĪbsent from the books of Moses, ‘the LORD of hosts’ is found first in 1 Samuel. God revealed Himself as the self-existent, self-subsisting ever-being One. This name contains each tense of the verb ‘to be’, and could be translated, ‘I was, I am, I shall always continue to be’. It was not until God spoke to Moses that the meaning of the name is recorded:Īnd God said to Moses, ‘I AM WHO I AM.’ And He said, ‘Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, “I AM has sent me to you”’ (Exodus 3:6). These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens (Genesis 2:4)Īlthough the patriarchs were acquainted with God's name of Jehovah, they did not seem to have a clear understanding of what it stood for. The first record of the use of Jehovah is as part of the compound name, Jehovah Elohim:
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