Names of God - YHWH 'Asah Shamayim Erets - The Maker of Heaven and Earth

 

YHWH 'ASAH SHAMAYIM ERETS

(pronounced yah-way - ah sah shah-MAH-yeem eh'rets)

The Lord, The Maker of Heaven and Earth

Psalm 121:2

My Help comes from The LORD, The Maker of Heaven and Earth. 

MY HELP: My Divine Intervention. My Intercessor. My Rescuer. My Savior. My Interceder. My Alliance. My Restorer of The Covenant. My Wisdom & Navigator. My Source. 

THE LORD: Self-existent, Eternal

Genesis 2:4

These are the generations (the history, the account) of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that The LORD God made the earth and the heavens. 

Psalm 124:8

Our help is in The Name of The LORD, The Maker of heaven and earth. 

    And because our help is in The Name of The LORD, we are so very much aware that our salvation is in The Name of The LORD, too. As Paul wrote in Romans 10:13, "For whosoever shall call upon The Name of The Lord shall be saved." Now we see by Scripture and the knowledge of the holy that, THE LORD IS MY SAVIOR. 

[Exodus 15:2; Psalm 18:2; 27:1; 118:14; Isaiah 12:2; John 2:9; Revelation 7:10] 

THE MAKER: Purposeful Creator, Industrious One, Governor, Accomplisher, Provider, Deliberate Creator, Intentional Artist

Nehemiah 9:6

You alone are The LORD. You created the heavens, the highest heavens with all their host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them. You give life to all things, and the host of heaven worships You.

Psalm 148:1-5

Hallelujah! Praise The LORD from the heavens; praise Him in the highest places.  Praise Him, all His angels; praise Him, all His heavenly hosts. Praise Him, O sun and moon; praise Him, all you shining stars. Praise Him, O highest heavens, and you waters above the skies. Let them praise The Name of the LORD, for He gave the command and they were created. 

John 1:1-3

In the beginning was The Word, and The Word was with God, and The Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. All things were made by Him; and without Him was not any thing made that was made. 

Revelation 1:8

I am Alpha and Omega, The Beginning and The Ending, says The Lord, Who is, and Who was, and Who is to come, The Almighty.

OF HEAVEN AND EARTH: Sky above the earth, celestial bodies above the sky. Dry land, ground, country, domain, firm.

Genesis 1:1

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 

Genesis 1:6, 7

Then God said, “Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.” Thus God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament; and it was so. 

    By The Word of The LORD were the heavens and the earth created. God spoke, with His Breath, all life into existence at the time of creation during the six days He created the earth and the heavens. Psalm 33:6 "By The Word of The LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by The Breath of His mouth."

[Isaiah 45:2; Jeremiah 10:12]

Genesis 1:9, 10

And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called He Seas: and God saw that it was good.

Psalm 104:6-8

You covered it with the deep like a garment; the waters stood above the mountains. At Your rebuke the waters fled; at the sound of Your thunder they hurried away—the mountains rose and the valleys sank to the place You assigned for them.

    And on this earth, God created mankind, male and female, man and woman. Man God created with His Word and His Breath out of the dust, the land, of the Earth. [Genesis 2:7; Genesis 3:19; 1 Corinthians 15:47; Job 33:4; Acts 17:25; John 1:3]. Not primordial soup, neither primates nor rocks, as some would have us to believe, but by The Word of God, The Spirit of God and God Himself we are created beings. And we have a responsibility towards our Creator to return to Him and worship Him. 

    For we have been separated from God through our sin-nature which we have inherited from Adam and Eve, from whom all life has been generated. For when God created them, He told them to 'be fruitful and multiply'; and they did [Genesis 1:28].         But when they sinned against God, all of the lives which came from Adam and Eve were now tainted and separated from God. It wasn't just Adam and Eve who were removed from the garden in Eden: all of their children and grandchildren and so on and so forth also had to leave the garden. The nature of sin is that it taints everyone. 

    But how do we get back to God? How do we return to our Creator, our Maker? In the beginning of returning back to God, it was during the time of Adam and Eve's third son born after the fall--Seth--when mankind turned to God. Genesis 4:26. 

    Perhaps seeing the results of his brother Cain's actions--jealousy, murder and unrepentance--caused the men of Seth and his son Enosh's time to separate themselves from them and call on The Name of The Lord. 

    Still this call goes out: Whosoever shall call upon The Name of The Lord shall be saved. Urgently the call is given: Return to The Lord Your Maker. Repent, and believe.

Romans 10:13

For whosoever shall call upon The Name of The Lord shall be saved.

John 20:31

But these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is The Christ, The Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in His Name.

John 1:12, 13

But to all who did receive Him, to those who believed in His Name, He gave the right to become children of God—children born not of blood, nor of the desire or will of man, but born of God.

    Mere lineage cannot bring us into the presence of The Eternal Living Holy God. We must be born again through belief that Jesus Christ is God's Only Begotten Son, Who died on the cross for our sins, conquered death/hell/the grave and walked out of the tomb in which He had been laid into a glorified body, a resurrected body and is seated now at the right hand of God, interceding on behalf of His people. 

    We who believe are not only of the lineage of Adam and Eve, we are of the seed of Abraham, who believed God when circumstances always said otherwise. He obeyed God and journeyed to a place he'd never been before, never seen nor even heard of. He brought his son Isaac to the top of the mountain to sacrifice him as God had commanded. But God provided a different sacrifice. Abraham did not have to sacrifice his beloved son.

    But God chose to sacrifice His Beloved Son, so that the sins which dragged us down to hell, the sins which separated us from God, would be broken from off of us, through the shedding of His own blood. God allowed His Word, wrapped in flesh, to be tortured, beaten and nailed to a cross: for us. 

    Now it is possible to return to God, for the ultimate sin-offering has been made and the veil that separated us from God's Holy presence has been torn permanently. Now, we can return to our Creator. Now, we can call on The Name of The Lord God for our salvation. Now, The Maker of Heaven and Earth is The Maker of our New Life in Christ Jesus. Now, our Maker is remaking us daily into His image in a different way than He made us in His image in the garden. 

    Come, let us worship and bow down before The Lord Our Maker. Let us call on His Name for our salvation. Let our repentance be real and pure, that we might remain His people. If we are truly of Christ, then we will live for Christ and die to self. 

The Maker: March 9-14

March 9

The Lord Is Our Help

March 10

My Eyes To the Hills

March 11

The Maker's Residence

March 12

The Maker Gives Life & Breath

March 13
The Maker of Our Soul

March 14

The Maker Makes Everything

Connectivity

Nobody knows everything, but everybody knows something. This premise applies to every person and field of study. Some sciences study theories. 
For instance,  the existence of our planet and how it came to be is constantly being studied and debated on every academia level, and in other fields of study. Creationism versus Evolution. Creation by God is not a theory; evolution is. 
String theory, which studies whether or not everything is connected, is still being studied by physicists, who will not be able to prove this theory. Why not? Because we are not connected in that way.
We are all connected by The Word of God whether we believe it or not. Genesis 1:1 "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." and John 1:1-3 "In the beginning was The Word, and The Word was with God, and The Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him; and without Him was not anything made that was made."
The Word of God worked with God and The Holy Spirit to create everything that has ever been created, made, brought into being. It is this which connects all of us, not string, not evolution. 

Inside The Nucleus-Redemption Is Curricular

God is THE GOD OF EVERYTHING.

God is The God of science. He is Jehovah-Bara, Creator God.

He created the universe and everything in it in 3 days: Genesis 1:1-8, 14-19. In between those 3 days He took the time to create land and seas, separating the seas below from the waters above. Check Genesis 1:9-13 for verification. On that day God also spoke into existence grasses, herbs, fruit trees and gave them all the ability to reproduce themselves.

He created in the seas upon the earth and called into existence life within them. He created skies and called the birds of the air to take flight into the skies. Each of these was also given the ability to reproduce its own kind. In one day this was done.

God created all species of land animals: the beasts, the cattle, the creepers. And each of these was called to multiply and reproduce itself.

Then God created man and set him in this beautiful place which He had created with the help of His Son and The Holy Spirit (Genesis 1:1-2, 26; 2:1). After this, God rested, for He had done much work in such a short period of time. And, also, to show us that after we have worked we need to rest in Him. We are given an example by Him to rest in His presence, that our energies may be restored. How sweet our God is!

Science is a simple word that covers a multitude of categories, some of which are: astronomy, biology, radiology, chemistry, agriculture, animal husbandry, pharmacology, botany, and mathematics. Which brings us to the next statement: GOD is The God of Mathematics. He created the atom and all the subatomic particles, which are protons, electrons and neutrons. God tells us what things are and shows us what things are made of. But does He get the glory for this? Seldom, if ever, is the right answer. Many times men and women of science and mathematics and any category we could name, take credit for the knowledge they have received through their perseverance and endurance to determine what is and what is not. But God Is Omniscient. He knows EVERYTHING. And He shares what He knows with us, especially if said knowledge serves His purpose.

God is God. His heart is to see all mankind saved. His will is to see all mankind saved. Once saved, we undergo a sanctification process via The Holy Spirit. While we undergo this refining and purification, we begin to change into the person God sees us as. It is the holiness process. For God has said to us, “Be holy for I am holy”; knowing that without holiness no one can see The Lord God. So begins the change in us, transforming us from unrighteousness to righteousness. No longer are we the servants of sin, but now we are the servants of God. His purpose is being fulfilled in us, as it could be in you.

You see us and wonder why we don't behave like you do. You question our habits and our faithfulness to the things of God. What God has cleansed us of, we no longer have a desire for. It is not that we can't do the things we used to do, we just don't want to do them any more. The stronger our desire is for God and the ways of God, the less we want to be like the world around us. We do not wish to conform to the norm: we stand out from the crowds because we are Christians. We are Christ-like because this holiness process is also making us more like Jesus: more loving, more forgiving, more bold, more gentle, more pure and self-sacrificing.

What makes a Christian tick is the unconditional love of God through Jesus Christ into this world. We are called by God to be different but not alone, to be strange but not creepy, to be humble but not weak, to be bold but not aggressive. God calls us to holiness but not self-righteousness. For it is the selfishness of the heart that separates a person from God. It is self-centeredness thinking that ignores God's voice calling a person to repentance and salvation. Selfishness and self-centeredness is what turned Lucifer, God's beautiful musical angel, against God, thereby causing war in heaven.  

The result of that was that God threw him out of heaven down to earth, where he became the prince of the air, the ruler of the darkness of night, spiritual wickedness in high places. What he could not accomplish in heaven he is trying to succeed in here. He still has the abilities he was created with. He can make music and use it to lure people away from God's Word. He knows the Scriptures better than many of us and attempts to use them against us. He twists God's Word for his own purpose: to capture more souls and take them into hell with him for eternity.

Satan is a master of deception: what you see is not what you get. Not everything is as it appears to be. It is not what it is, but it is what it is not. Though this angel was created beautiful, his beauty is marred by his evil. He is a caricature of the creature God created him to be. His light is dark, but by manipulating what God has created he is able to draw people to him, where he captures them and binds them with sinful activities, which could be anything from gaming to murder; from lying to robbery; from casual sex to a whoring heart. Satan knows how to please people and entertain them long enough to get them hooked on the bait, before he reveals his true self when it is nearly too late. Alas, for some it has already been too late.

But Jesus death and resurrection breaks the bonds of sin which the devil, Satan/Lucifer, ties people down with. Jesus died to save a wretch like me. Grace is amazing, isn't it? God's plan of salvation began in Genesis 1:1 and ended in John 19:30 when Jesus said, “It is finished”. While the plan of salvation is finished, the purpose of salvation is not. You and you and you and you and yes, you, need Jesus as The Lord and Savior of your life and your soul.

The phrase “You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free” is not from Hollywood; it is God's Word to us, as written in John 8:32. Jesus is Truth: John 14:6. He makes us free: Isaiah 61:1 revealed in Luke 4:18-21; 2 Corinthians 3:17.

We do not make ourselves free of the desires to sin. We can try self-help programs to get away from the sinful activities, but only Jesus Christ can remove the desire to sin from the heart of the sinner.

The first step is to admit you are a sinner, that you have sinned against God and God's Word.

The second is to repent of your sins against God to God. Repent means to confess and to turn away from.

The third step is to receive Jesus Christ, God's only begotten Son, into your heart.

--These steps are done together, sometimes simultaneously depending on the person's decision to believe--

The fourth step, after surrendering your heart to Christ, is to submit yourself to God and make yourself available to His service, which of course begins with the holiness process, as stated above.

The fifth step is to continue and not give up; to endure without complaint; to go through and not turn back to the sinful nature you left behind.

The sixth step is to cross the finish line.

Perhaps there are other steps in-between the 4^th and the 6^th, but I just simplified it somewhat. God's plan of salvation is a success. God's purposes, however, are still being revealed, still being fulfilled. There is much more to this than we know, or even could presume to know. However, I will still believe that God is on the throne, that He is Supreme over all others, that He knows what He is doing and that He will succeed in His purposes for this world. I trust Him to know what is best for me. Do you trust Him with your heart? With your life? I do.