When God Reveals His Name, What Happens?

When God Reveals His Name, What Happens?

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God Almighty

 

Genesis 35:1-15

35 And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there: and make there an altar unto God, that appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother.

² Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments:
³ And let us arise, and go up to Bethel; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.
⁴ And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in their hand, and all their earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.
⁵ And they journeyed: and the terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob.
⁶ So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, that is, Bethel, he and all the people that were with him.
⁷ And he built there an altar, and called the place Elbethel: because there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother.
⁸ But Deborah, Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried beneath Bethel under an oak: and the name of it was called Allonbachuth.
⁹ And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padanaram, and blessed him.
¹⁰ And God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he called his name Israel.
¹¹ And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins;
¹² And the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land.
¹³ And God went up from him in the place where he talked with him.
¹⁴ And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him, even a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon.
¹⁵ And Jacob called the name of the place where God spake with him, Bethel.

     When we meet folks or even call the ones we love, we do so engaging a name.  When we really ponder the simplicity of a name, and how often we use names, it is amazing how integral they are in communication and every day living.  Consider Beloved the fact that we use names for every object, place, and person we deal with.  I am going to Walmart.  I am going to my wife' job  in the town of Atlanta, Georgia, (fictitious) I am married to the Lord.  I am going to pick up my son Carson at East Jones Elementary School in my Mitsubishi Montero.  Oh wait a moment, its Tuesday, I don't have to go pick Carson up.  I am leading Bible study and prayer meeting at Glade Baptist Church on Wednesday.  So Beloved, in just everyday secular events we use a name. 

     In the Bible, in the Kingdom aspects of God, His character, His nature, Who He is.  Here in Genesis 35, God changes Jacobs name to Israel, and claims covenant ownership of him and his seed.  He establishes the land deed to fulfill the promise to Abraham and Isaac.  He reveals to Israel formerly Jacob the deceiver, His name of El Shaddai, God Almighty.  god who is able to restore Sarah's dead womb, Abraham's dead reproductive system, and God Who gives His Believers a new name that is engraved on His hand, and tattooed on His heart, and as John recorded in prophetical New Testament verses, a new name in Heaven.  Remember Paul says there is ONLY ONE Name we can call on for salvation.  It is Jesus.  Names are necessity.

     When God revealed El Shadaai to Israel, look what transpired.  Israel built an altar, poured out a drink offering, anointed the altar in oil. He worshipped the Most High God!  When we in Spirit and Truth, with clean heart and clean hands as Jacob instructed his family in verses 1-4 we call upon the Name of the Lord, then we worship.  That is what happens when God reveals His Name to us.

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