29TH NOVEMBER, 2022
PASTOR OLUBI JOHNSON
THE MAJESTY OF GOD
Psalm 115:16 (KJV)
The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD’s: but the earth hath he given to the children of men.
That original form of God is astronomically bigger and more powerful than any thing we can imagine in this physical realm.
What is God’s form and how big is God?
Man was made in the image and likeness of God. Each person of the Godhead has a definite image, likeness and shape (Gen. 1:26; John 5:37).
However, in God’s form, the size of God’s spiritual body is astronomically larger than that of man and we get an insight in to this in Isa. 40:12-17.
In this passage of Scripture, the Lord gives us a clue as to just how big He is relative to the things he has created. For example, in verse 12, the Scripture says that the measure of the heavenlies; the first heavens (the earth’s atmosphere and outer space) and the second and third heavens, relative to God are no more than the distance between the tip of His thumb and the tip of His little finger of the same hand, when the palm is splayed out!
Therefore God’s ‘nine inches’, so to speak, is the distance between the earth’s atmosphere through the second heavens where Satan’s kingdom operates and into the third heavenlies where divine activity takes place!
In verse 15 of the passage also, the Scripture says that all the nations of the world, all the peoples and kindred and tongues, all their achievements – all are a single drop of water in a bucket relative to the ‘bigness’ of God! Furthermore, all the continents of the world (the isles) are considered as a ‘very little thing’ compared to God’s size!
The passage continues by speaking against those who make and bow down to graven idols as their gods. Such people are insulting the greatness of the only true God. This is why one of the Ten Commandments delivered to Israel forbad the making of graven images. There is nothing that any man can fashion that can remotely begin to compare to Whom God is!
The Bible says in Psalm 19 that the heavens declare the glory of God: they give us an indication of how big, wise and powerful God is:
Psalm 19:1 (KJV)
The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork
The Lord gave us a personal revelation of the degree of orders of magnitude of the planet earth relative to Himself. To God, the planet earth is no bigger than an electron is to us! So to God, our planet is revolving around a nucleus, which is the sun in our particular solar system. Our solar system, with all its planets and stars, He said, is to Him like one atom is to us, in His creation called the universe, made up of many other galaxies.
Now, the created universe is not just physical. At the lowest level is the universe which man has been able to perceive by sending out spacecraft and space probes and from which man has received signals. All of this is merely the first heavens.
There is also the second heaven which surrounds the first heavens as another spherical region; and then there is the third heavens, another spherical region which surrounds the first and second heavens. It is this third heavens that is of the order of magnitude of God Himself (2Cor. 12:2).
This understanding will now give us faith in God’s sovereign power and wisdom: knowing that there is nothing too hard for the Lord (Gen. 18:14)!
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