God Loves Me Part VIII

(Thank you to Andrew Jukes, Types in Genesis, for insight into the names of God.)

2. Lord = Jehovah – Genesis 2:5
a. One who is who He is
b. Truth
c. Justice
d. Righteous

Beginning in Genesis 2:5 we find the second name of God, Jehovah or LORD. Jehovah or LORD is the Expression of His Being. Jehovah is One, who, being Love, is righteous (right standing with and within Himself) also, and must therefore judge evil, wherever it exists, and at whatever cost, whether to the creature or to the Creator. Love (Being) must show itself in truth and righteousness (Expression of Being). What would God who is Love be if He is not truth and righteousness? In this Expression of Being we see how variously it acts, and changes, or seems to change, in virtue of certain qualities or conduct in the loved one. Expression of Being shows that parents must deal at times with evil in a child or it says I condone evil. It is very painful for the parent. Jehovah, the Expression of Being (Love), shows that God, who is perfect love, is and must be a “God of Truth” (Is 65:16) and that in all truest love there must be righteousness. Jehovah is the Hebrew word “Hovah” which means “to be” or One who is what He is. “I AM THAT I AM” is God’s expression of what God is or Expression of His Being. Because He is true being, though He is love, He must be just and holy also, for evil is not true being, but the negation or deviation of it. Jehovah is One who, being what He is, loves righteousness and hates iniquity (Ps 45:7) and finds in all evil, if it exists, something antagonistic to His nature, which, because it is not true, must be opposed and judged. In the Garden God warns that disobedience must surely bring judgment. Man disobeys and God judges by sending him out of Eden, yet not without hope. (Gen 3:15) Not only is He the God who requires righteousness; not only is He Himself affected by the destructions which sin has brought upon His creature; but still more, blessed be His name, His righteousness is not fully declared until He makes His creatures righteous with His own righteousness. What we first see in Him is law, and that, because He is righteous, He must condemn evil. But we should greatly err if we therefore conclude that this could be the end, for the new covenant of grace is His also. It is Jehovah who says… (Jer 31:31-34) Righteousness is not complete, if it only judges and condemns; for the devil also can condemn. The highest righteousness, while it judges sin, can never rest until it also makes the sinner righteous. (Ps 119:75, 143: 11, 89:15-16) (Rom 3:24-25, Rom 5:21, Lk 18:1) In a word, “He is just, and (therefore) the justifer.” (Rom 3:20)

In summary, the Lord, that is Jehovah, is our truth, righteousness and justice. (Jer 23:6 and James 5:11) Revelations about God are progressive. In Gen 2&3 when Jehovah is first revealed, Elohim is added except for Eve & the serpent conversation. Every act and work is of Jehovah Elohim; to show that, though He is all that Jehovah express, One who is righteous and must judge sin, He never ceases to be “Elohim” also, who loves unforsakingly, because He loves in virtue of relationship; that therefore to the very end, even if man falls, there is hope for him in God. (Ps 3:2, 40:11, 89:15 & 16, Is 45:21 & 25, Ex 33:18, 34:6 & 7)