Names of God, Part 5

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We are of course in our names of God study.

Kind of thinking about what it is, we're doing here at the moment, I'm calling this, a Biblical study of all things pertaining to the names of God expressed in scripture quite a remarkable study that were involved in. So, we've been working through some of the very Basics along the way. And today I'm going to take another one of the basics and hand review that and I think it should be

Three interesting. Proverbs 18:10.

The name of the Lord is a strong tower, the name of the Lord is a strong tower, the righteous run to it, and are safe. The righteous run to it and are safe. So we start this evening study by noting that the Middle Eastern concept of a name is even stronger than the concept. Do we have Art Club concept of meme. You would think is pretty solid, right? A name is a name, a person is what they're known by somehow. It seems inconceivable. How can a name be more than a name? Can something be more than it is? Well, yes, in the sense that a name is reflective of a person and we already get that, we have our names, people think of us by name, but conjure up a group of associated thoughts, memories experiences, and facts about us. Someone mentions our name and all of that pops into mine. Maybe you need a visual picture, hey sensation, a Feeling. We specially engender that when it comes to the special people in our lives, the grandparents get the special name Association and they get to be that special person and many cases. Not able to be there all the time. So when you see Grandpa or Grandma, it's a special occurrence. So we have a tendency to build that up. I remember how special it was going down and seeing my mother's parents, exciting, and we drove from here in Medford all the way down to Anaheim and no matter how you slice that, no matter how much they improve, the freeway no matter how much they adjusted the speed limit. 85 down to 55 and up to 65 and 75 and yet they widened and created more Lanes. They put in more thoroughfare, they made it. So you had an easier route going over the Green Springs, Etc, the traffic down through, you know, the Los Angeles, Basin changed, no matter when we left, no matter what it took us, 12 hours to get from Medford to downtown Anaheim where my grandparents live so we can count on it, like the clock you in that. I mean, unless were stopping and we have a casual lunch and dinner at the split pea Anderson restaurant or something like that, then we might change the route but even then it may work out exactly 12 hours but I've always counted on that I think. Okay, well I want to go down there and what am I going to do in my going to blast through or, you know, I have a future. Stops along the way and how long is it going to take me 12 hours, doesn't matter, 12 hours, and Grandpa and Grandma. We're going to be there at the end of it. Then by the time we're done with that 12 hour travel, we were ready to see. And Grandma opens a door and great. Big, hugs and wonderful memories, come flooding in and you walk into your grandparents house and you have the flood.

Strangely of sets. Read hit you, that are familiar. That only can be found at your grandparents house or your aunt's house or uncles or whatever it may be. So we walked into the front den of my grandparents house and we have the smell of Rosewood and sweet orange furniture polish and other perfumes that, I don't know, quite how to put together the scent of they have orange Orchard there on the property, so I can smell orange pollen in the air, which is not allergic to that. So, not a bad smell, smell it, and take it in to. So there's all these different sense and feelings. It's all Associated and tied together, when you mention someone's name, we have that same type of connection like a sent. It just all comes flooding in and there is a bunch that is baked together that is boiled together. The Middle East, the idea of name is quite strong and then name invokes the fullness of that person not just the associations that we might have subjectively. But all of the objective criteria and qualifications of that person who is that person? What are they? Interesting. Because we tend to be relational. When it comes to names. We relation all in a personal sense or in a professional sense. And then we have maybe a political. Since we have the names, we do biotin Trump Etc and we have responses and connections, maybe we run screaming. If we go. Yay, maybe we have one reaction of the other. When it comes to personal relationships though, the vast majority of our relationships, it has to do with our connection, to that person, on a personal level, not so much the case in the Middle East where all of what that person is may be wrapped up.

So you may know Joe and Joe maybe just a great guy. He's a neighbor. Who's your neighbor you like him? He keeps his yard nicely Mo food and manicured and he's out there fighting around. Always friendly. Comes to the aid of others as needed. You know, we'll share tools is a good person. If he were to borrow something he brings it back. Just one of those kinds of people, his wife will always bring something over a baked goods at certain times of the year and you know, they're always say that we got this extra whatever would you guys like it? If not, we're going to take it down to the Goodwill and you know just nice people. The thought that he is a physicist doesn't really impact your thinking in understanding of who he is. You don't think this is a brilliant individual. One of the top 3% of intelligent people on the planet, you don't think that You don't think that this guy has mathematical abilities and has abilities to solve problems that are staggering to the average mind. He's just a person, he's just a neighbor. He's a person. Next door, the Middle Eastern concept of the name, incorporates the fullness of who they are, including being a physicist, including being top, 3% of the nation, so, or the world or, or whatever it may be. So there is a little bit of a difference. There is more of an object Evander standing of who that person is that is wrapped up in this concept of a name.

so, if I go to some remote town,

you know, I tell all the people that they must give 1/10 of their free, wealth of their money, their food, their crops, and I stand there with no sword in here and they would rightly ask me or scarf and ask. By what Authority should we do this thing? You ask, what Authority do you have that? You would come and told me to give you this stuff or maybe they were just say no.

But if they do ask him say Well by what Authority, I might calmly reply by the authority of the king and display. The communique that was sent to them. That I'm not holding it with the Signet imprint of the king embossed on it for all to see, it was a directive in an order that comes from the King himself. In the name, carries with it a Thora t. Title prestige. The most importantly names, reflects standing. Give me spiritual realm and in the Heavenly places. Part of what we're looking at tonight. You might think we'll big deal.

And yet it is a big deal. example, if you turn to Daniel, we have a story that illustrates

Daniel chapter 10.

Verses 1 through 14 will read through the narrative here. In the third year of Cyrus King of Persia a message was revealed. So Daniel, whose name was called belt to Sharp goldfish. As are things, you may not be aware of is different cultures, different nations and languages have different names and when you have a king, who is a king over, a multi-national realm, he may have different names, he may have his family name that he was named to grow up with you, may take a new name in honor of his standing as a, then the ruling Nations, which he is over. May Grant him another names, you can have various names that are reflective, you're standing your position. We have many may have significance, Daniel is his Hebrew name. But belteshazzar is his name for the medo-persian or pure Persian, what we think of today as Iranian Empire. Okay, the message was true, it says, but the appointed time was long and he understood the message and had understanding of the vision, First to in those days, I Daniel was morning 3.

Give me.

Cyrus belteshazzar is Cyrus's. Name not Daniels me and I'm not trying to confuse you. I'm just confused. So, his name is Cyrus.

We're getting that, right? That's the thing about this now.

Fast forward. Those days, I Daniel verse 2 was mourning. Three full weeks. So Daniel is in a state of mourning verse 3 in food, no meat, or wine came into my mouth. Nor did I appoint myself at all till three whole weeks was fulfilled.

First, war known the 24th. Day of the first month is always by the side of the Great River. That is the Tigris. So the Tigris river is all the way over dividing what we know think of as Iraq between Iraq and and Iran Gana Stan, we had the Tigris River that is running down. And verse 5 says, I lifted my eyes and looked and behold a certain Man Clothing women whose waste was girded with gold of you guys. So he has a golden girdle 46. His body was like Barrel which is a goldish color. I'm in his face like the appearance of lightning his eyes like torches of fire his arms and feet like burnished bronze and color and the sound of his words like the voice of a multitude. First Southern tonight. Daniel alone. Saw the vision for the man who were with me. Did not see the vision but a great Terror fell upon them, so that they fled to hide themselves. We have multiple things on the traveling here in magnificent. Little stretch of scripture here, thus, making us aware of the spiritual realm. Number one, it is unseen, spiritual realm, is unseen. We may not see in fact, we don't we know the angels that are amongst us, those that are engaged to walk into the spiritual warfare with surrounds us. We tend to have that rational thinking that comes from the people of the Renaissance who considered themselves reformers from irrationality into them. This idea of biblical truth was irrational. So anything they could not see touch or smell. Ruled it out that we have that same type of prejudiced today. You see, how do we know what is true? Cuz what we're finding is science rolls along, quicker, and quicker and quicker. But everything we think we know we're learning, we don't know that one of the problems we're having right now is people in the medical establishment for a practicing medicine after 20 years or in many ways unqualified to practice medicine They still hold their license but they know next to nothing compared to what they should know. Now if they are practicing, that is actively engaging rolling, with the new information staying plugged in had involved in recertifications, ETC. Going to that greater education part of research, then they will be doing much better. But I talked to many doctors myself and I bring up various ideas and Concepts that I've been reading about for the last 15 years. And they'll say what, what's up? I need to know what that is, right? Real talk to someone. Who's right out of graduate, right? Out of medical school. Know to like, hit me like a little shake their head there like yet. We're trying to teach there were trying to teach the people that were coming in to work with and help them stay at the speed. But we have a lot of unawareness of what wasn't covered because the loops of knowledge or going faster and faster, things are changing quicker and quicker.

so what's important when I when I speaking to hear is that the awareness of Truth is not based on knowledge or ignorance truth is. And if you don't know about it, it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. If we don't see it, it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. And who is the authority on? What is true? What actually is, what does exist. God is the sole Authority. So when it comes to the spiritual unseen realm, then we should pause and take note. So that means we need to be Angel sniffers Looking for Angels. Everywhere we go. When arresting, because we are admonished in the New Testament, to make sure that we are practicing Hospitality because you never know, when you might be entertaining an angel, That's not a made-up idea. That's not a fantasy. That's not something. You have a sophs tables tables, that is actually a true that a real thing. I've heard a few occasions over the years. I've heard of them where people have that picked up a hitchhiker going along. And then may let out the hitchhiker, they look in the rearview mirror and there's no one there. And they were talking about various things in the people were just going to be encouraging them or whatever. I did a few occasions where I wondered about that a few occasions, where I wonder if the person wasn't in the opposite side of the Angelic realm demonic. We have no evidence of that event of demons being amongst us and people form, but we are too old to be aware here. Daniel is saying I can see, but those were with me, cannot see the great Terror fell upon them so they fled to her. Themselves. First, therefore, I was left alone when I saw this great vision and no strength remained in me. For my Vigor was turned to Frailty in me and I retained no strength. This means the strength in the Vitality just brains out.

Sometimes we have a capacity. Sometimes our stamina is not what we think it is and we reach the end where we think we're doing good. And suddenly we have gone over the cliff and we need to sit down Quickly or we're going to be falling over. Sometimes we don't have the strength to do. What we need to do. Like we did before. Things have changed, it isn't where it was when we were younger or different or whatever first nine. Yet I heard the sound of his words and while I heard the sound of his words, I was in a deep sleep on my face with my face to the ground. So he had no strength, he fell down passed out basically. And yeah, it was totally aware and able to hear what was spoken to him, first 10, suddenly a hand touched me, which made me tremble on my knees and on the palms of my hands and he said to me. Oh Daniel man, greatly beloved.

When you love to hear that knowing is coming from the messenger of the Lord.

Greatly beloved. Just should actually be hearing it because it is absolutely true. We are the Beloved of the Lord. Understand the words he says that I speak to you and stand upright for I have now been sent to you. Then while he was speaking this word to me, I stood from least, we got to put his hands and knees, trembling stood up crumbly first 12. And then you said to me, do not fear Daniel. For from the first day that you said your heart to understand. And to humble yourself before, God, your words were heard, and I have come because of your words. So what is this scenario here? The stereo is this God prophesied? That Israel would be taken into captivity out of the land and they were taken into captivity by Syria in the northern kingdom in by Babylon in the southern Kingdom. And so we have all of Israel. Ultimately, the cross. The two kingdoms over a. Of time taking off into captivity. And yet we have a clock that is running from the very first day that they are pulled out of captivity. And Daniel is looking at the calendar, saying the clock has run out because the scripture says that for every year that you missed, and you did not let them Play follow on the 7th year. You will be in captivity and so he goes back to me measures that time and he's looking forward me saying today's, the day this is the day. And so he falls down in prayer to the Lord saying Ward. We need to be released and you need to restore us to the land. That your name might be lifted up and glorified because you promised therefore, for you to be faithful. And to be the guy that keeps his promise you need to do this thing now. So Daniel, is there interceding on behalf of the name of the Lord on behalf of the nation of Israel, on behalf of those people who can be restored to the land and the blessings of God again, he is interceding and praying. That's what's Happening Here. And it says, here that I have come because of your words and though it's been taking all these days. The very moment you started to pray, I was said verse 13, but the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me.

Where is Daniel? He's in Persia. He is there. He has been raised up to a place and position of power and authority serving, the King of Persia Cyrus, Cyrus the Great. He is serving him and it is that angel over Persia, which is what he means here by the prince of the kingdom of Persia understand. It'll be clear in a second. If you don't see it, withstood me. 21 days. That is for 3 weeks, he was held back. He was restrained. He was kept from coming to answer Daniels prayers that he was sent to answer the moment that Daniel started praying and he's been held up for 21 days. You see, isn't it interesting, how funny. We so often think it's all about us. What about our timing and how we want it when we want it, according to how we expect it to be? In fact, even when it comes to the things of God, we have a tendency to look at it and say God you said, therefore I expect What's going on? The question is, are we trusting God and are we relying on him or not? Daniel did. Behold. He says, Michael one of the chief princes. That means one of the chief of the Angels Came to help me. For I have been left alone there with the kings of Persia. That is those Angelic entities. Those forces that were there are they were preserving the nation of Persia were at hand. Did you know that we have Angels involved in? What we understand to be the United States, you know, that there is a war going on event Jellick proportions that is happening. We're blind to it. We haven't been asked to intercede and pray for Angels. We Have been asked to intercede and pray for those on our side.

Who built, Lord of weird, Angel talking theology, this come out and we should just ignore all of that. But one thing is we can be aware that there is a lot more going on than we see. There are dark Forces and dark entities that are at work, that are part of the restraining, the keeping the releasing of information. You think it's about a legal docket, but it can't be released. You think it's about the Department of Justice. They won't let something come out. Let me tell you. There are Angelic forces that are at war that are involved, in this whole process that we see, we should be praying for our country. For those who are in authority, over us, that they might be protected, but they might be enabled, but they might have Grace, that they might have strengths, that they might have sustenance to wait, and hold on. As Lords will is slowly. And sometimes it turns ever so slowly, Waiting for that to be unveiled. First 14. But now I have come to make you understand what will happen to your people in the latter days for the vision, refers to many days yet to come. So he has a vision and he's seeking to understand what it's all about. You wanted to be interpreted Gabriel was sent down to be involved to give him this information, then Gabriel was held up until Michael comes along, and let's let some go. No interesting few things about Michael. You may not know, He is the only. Arcangel. Bed has been my mentioned by name. We have multiple archangels. And yet he is the only one.

The name has been given to. Linda in the story here. We have a numerated, a couple of the Angelic beings that is Gabriel and Michael who stand in the very presence of God. They are involved in the administration of all things from God's throne and they are part of that Administration notably Gabriel will appear to Mary and Joseph Elizabeth and Zacharias Giving them the good news of the Gospel. Now not every passage says that it's Gabriel. Some of the passages. Do some dope. And then we have Michael who is the prince of Israel. He is the only name Dark Angel and he is one who we are, told in Jude single-handedly, opposed Satan and speaks the Lord's judgment. He would not rebuke Satan, but said, the Lord rebuke you. That is the Lord's judgment Prevail. He wasn't even putting himself in that place. He says, the Lord is the one who judges you, you stand under his court and his judgment. And he will deal with you appropriately and yet he's the one that wrangled so that the body of Moses might be able to be buried. Satan tried to pull it up. Why we don't know? Maybe to turn it into a relic. Maybe to turn it into a money, he was from Egypt after all, but the try to do something that would destroy the progression of revealed doctrine of which Moses was the story. Quite right in the first five books of the Bible. So we think it was a direct attack on biblical truth and biblical Revelation, but it's slightly mention so old, that is at the best. Speculation scripture doesn't fill in the blanks for us. Do we find out that Michael? And from my other places later on and Daniel and we're going to see that Michael is he who comes to the rescue? And he who fights, he is the deliverer of Israel. So it appears Michael is the name of the Angel who serves to protect and guard over Israel. Gabriel is he who has a messenger to Israel of those things and interesting. Every time he shows up, even when he's speaking to Mary and to Elizabeth and Zacharias, he is speaking. About the Fulfillment of the Messiah of Israel. So he's communicating on the things of this real, so we don't get to call upon her and go cane Joel's, but knowing their names does give us the ability to begin to delineates and clarify doctrinal tenant who know who they are, or what they do things about them, and their names are significant. Don't want to take us back to our passage and proverbs 18:10.

Proverbs 18:10.

Can I have the added, some inserted, some text here, some of the Hebrew. Play boobs, 1810 that we began the teaching with says the name of the Lord is a strong tower, the righteous run to it and are safe. That's the new King James version but I wanted to insert a little bit of the Hebrew. The name is sham. So it's a word that we've already reviewed and looked at a bit sham is name. And when we are studying the names of God, we are studying the shame of God. Whatever means the totality of Shem is what we are trying to understand cuz we go through the study on the names of God and it is the Sham of Yahweh. What we call your way.

Yhwh, and the name of the Lord. Porsche of Yahweh is a strong tower. And strong tower. Here is migdol Oz, migdol Oz MacDonald means Tower, it is a fortress. You think Petra where the Jews held out and they were able to hold out for years beyond the conferring of Jerusalem and all the rest of Israel and AD 79, I believe, it wasn't until a d73 or so, that Petra finally fell, after they were under siege for quite some time. That's the idea. A strong tower one that is impenetrable.

In the righteous. We are told run to it and are safe. No, I wanted to show this to you and the Hebrew just so you can see the order of things. Because the way we say it in English is different than the order that we have in Hebrew. So, in Hebrew, we have McDowell.

Oats. Macdoel oats, that is Tower Place of Refuge, strong amygdala. A strong tower. That's the first word actually, or the first portion that we have in this purse. McDonald's, Strong Tower funny because an English, we always get it the other way around. We say the name of the Lord is a strong tower but here it says McDonald's or Strong Tower Strong Tower is the first thing I'd heard the first part of the sentence to be understood Strong Tower and then quite interesting Lee we have sham.

Do with you here. Sham

Your way should come your way. Or as we say, when we reading flight ly,

Which is just substituting lowered the term Lord for the name of the Lord. So we're not violating the Jewish legalistic concept of, not speaking out loud. The name of the Lord, even if you're getting it wrong even if you aren't getting the valves correct you don't want to say it. So we have something interesting. This happening here we have too many oz that are tied together. We have strong tower. name a Bloor and we are set side-by-side and there is no verb. Will be going on verbal clause. We don't have nonverbal Claus is in English full, except for maybe some of our action heroes. You may hear something uttered by a Yoda or Arnie as the Terminator. We're putting a couple of nouns together without a verb. That's okay, that's acceptable, but we know it's not, right? Grammar or good, English and Hebrew. It is good. Then when you do it in Hebrew, what it does, is this creating an illusion or a widening of these two concepts side to side, that is even tighter because the verb has been pulled out to emphasize the connection Hightower name of God. The concepts go together. It is one concept, Hightower we say is because that's how we put the little equal sign. But what's his connect? What's on one side of the equation, what's on the other side of the equation? But we don't need a bourbon Hebrew. So we have without an is, but we actually are equating these together. So Hightower equates to the name of God. Okay? That's what we have Happening Here.

This is there in about a pertinent. Doctrinal fact. That is relative to our spiritual life and walk.

The Hightower is Shem. Yahweh. and the second phrase then,

Who says the righteous run to it and are safe. The righteous is the Hebrew sadoc tzadok, if you want it easy. Okay? Saddle Rock. The righteous are mushy girl, nashego. Which is n a s h i g o v n a s h. I g o v. The idea of master master is not just safe.

It's safe.

Protected.

Immune from Attack. And maybe a familiar word to some of you darrison.

Garrison.

So it's saying here that the name of God is a high tower in the righteous who run to it. It is subjunctive, meaning that if they do this, the righteous run to, it will be Garrison.

The name of God is a Hightower who, what do they Hightower do to you do for you? If you are outside of it, if you were inside of the Hightower, you are protected. If you're outside of it, you are not protected. This has to do with our spiritual life, who's has to do with the protocol plan that God has design for Spiritual Living. If you have not learned to confess your sin, if you have not learned to be Grace oriented, if you have not learned to be Bible Doctrine oriented, that is coming to scripture as the litmus case for all Truth for all thinking, if you have not begin to learn the very basics of understanding who you are based on what scripture has to say,

Then we have a number of others that we move forward with. But if you haven't learned these things, these basic Christianity 101. When you're not running to the name of God, you are being on your own by yourself outside of the Tower of God, because I'm coming to the name of God. You're coming to understand who he is, there for your place and relationship with him. And you're right. Place and relationship with him is to be inside the tower protected by him. But that's funny because we have a parallel passage in the New Testament. We've mentioned it. It's a important one in the book of Philippians and it talks about how we are not to be anxious. That is we are not thinking through our problems from our human Viewpoint perspective, trying to solve them and figure them out on our own depending on our own strength. But instead, It says start. In fact, the Greek is stop being anxious, which you are being. But instead, my prayer, Supplication and Thanksgiving three separate different activities. Prayer is Ark. Communication with God. Supplication is are coming before God and calling upon him, not just talkin with him, not just have any personal relationship, but calling upon him to intervene to move to work. And then we have Thanksgiving which has to do with a right orientation to our mentality is our mentality. Such that we are a complainer a greiper you see the biggest solution I have found to make it to beti to complaining to seeing things pessimistically

There's to be a thankful person to give. Thanks. And that's what Philippians says, prayer. Supplication and Thanksgiving.

And then it says your heart, your mind, your soul will be in, there is a unique Greek word there, which means garrisoned, your soul will be garrisoned with the peace of God. The peace of God will surround you and Garrison, you and create a shield around you. Why? Because you have run to the Lord. So here we have this idea. The lord of the name of the Lord is a high tower. The righteous man run to it and are safe. So how do we approach this name of God?

Let's see how this word for approaching the name of God is used in all, just call up just because there were some great examples in front of me, the book of Samuel. So it will look What is this? Run to it. And are safe well for Samuel 8. Verse 11 and he said this will be the behavior of the king. Who will reign over you, he will take your son's and appoint them for his own chariots and to be his Horsemen and some will run before his chariots. So what kind of activities do you see that to be when someone is keeping ahead of someone who's riding along and chariots with horses? You see that as a casual walk, a stroll know that is a run, it's going to take a bit of effort to stay in front of this, Carriage drawn by horses were keeping ahead not falling behind stain. It is a protocol. When there is a king there is rigor, you stay ahead and you stay ahead in line and you keep Pace with the people were ahead of you and keep ahead of that which is behind you with your supposed to be a head up. When you get tired, what do you do? You keep on running you keep on going. Next, we have first Samuel, chapter 17 verse 17, then Jesse said to his son, David take me off of your brothers and he fought this. Dried brain and these 10 Loaves and run to your brother's at the camp. He says they're hungry. They haven't gotten their food yet.

take a casual stroll as long as you would like it when you get there your brothers aren't going to beat the tar out of you know he ran To get the food there. For his brothers, is the idea who they command from his father, to take this and with alacrity with speed, check this out first, Samuel chapter 20 verse 36 Beyond him. So we have this situation going on between Jonathan and David and the communication that's going on you seeing if everything says here and if it's not safe to his basically servant,

Amanda shoots the arrow out past him.

Do you think your servant is told to Sunter here to walk, jog know? This is run and if this is a football Super Bowl, what type of maneuver cut to the right? Head on down and then blast it run as fast as you can. And when you get the ball out, what do you do? You run you hold on to it and run as fast as you can. That's the idea that we have here. 2nd Samuel, 15:1 been fifty men to one before him same ideas. We started out with the idea of fifty people running ahead of to show the authority of Absalom is, he's coming in and trying to take over the Kingdom of Israel. This right before the Lord takes him out and divine discipline 2nd, Samuel Samuel chapter 18 verses 19 through 26. And then vacuum or as the son of zadok said let me run now and take the news to the king. How the Lord has Avenged him of his enemies? Let me run. Now he said let me be the messenger. What do messenger do? They hightail it?

When you're taking the news to the king, you want to be the fastest best runner possible. And that's what we have spoken of here.

The idea continues on here so we have a number of versus here in this. Passage verse 20 and joab said to him, you shall not take the usual, check the news another day but today you shall take no news because the King's son is dead. Verse 21 and joab said to the cushite, go tell the king what you have seen. So the cushite bound himself to joab and ran First 22. He has a son of zadok said again to job, but whatever happens. Please, let me also run after the cushite. So job says, why will you run my son since you have no news ready, first, 23, but whatever happens he says let me run so he said to him run the plane and outrun the cushite. So he could get there first and give the news personally to be the one who delivers the news. First 24, know, David was sitting between the two gates in the Watchmen, went up to the roof, over the gates, to the wall, lifted his eyes, and what, and there was a man running alone. First 25 in the Watchmen cried out and told the king and the King said, he had fuse alone. There is news in his mouth and he came rapidly and roomier 426 than the Watchman saw. Another man running to the Watchman, call to the gay. People said, there's another man running this idea of running has to do with getting from here to there quickly with speed. That is the meaning. Just one last one to throw in there for us for by you. I can run against a troop by my God, I can leap over a wall. Here we have an idea being spoken with the Lord's strength. We can run against the truth. That is out. Run a troop run, further, run faster. Even leaping over walls going cross-country, if you will.

So what does it mean when when it says?

Put the lord's name is a high tower and the righteous who run to him will be Garrison, will be protected.

I was working to make sure it was a simple as possible. We put effort into it and we run, we hightail. It is not a only think about the perilous situation. Kids are in trouble. Not sure what's going on here. Let me start walking towards. The name of the person, the work of God. No, the idea here is absolutely hightail. It turn yourself quickly. What does that mean to us? Practically? Means confesarse and make sure that you're in Fellowship. Name any unknown sin 1st. John 1:9, if we confess our sin, he is faithful and just to forgive us and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

So we named and sidewalk will, we're up with his interfere with our relationship or communion our spiritual functioning with God and he realized he resolves all of it. He absorbs all of that issue and we enter immediately into a faithful place of having Fellowship, guidance, Supernatural, empowerment, and you're not going to feel any different. You're not going to get fuzzies. You're not going to fall down on the ground and speak in tongues or anything like that. you may not notice a thing, but if you confess your sin, we are told he, let his God is faithful and just We confessed, he does the work which restores US gives us fellowships of the very first thing we do. If I need to run to God, the first thing is confess my sin and then I enter into that place of Prayer. Supplication and Thanksgiving do not leave out the Thanksgiving because it's part of accessing an awareness of the name and the character of God, which we are prone to leave out. Not understand, not pick up and completely forget we don't get what's going on with God and his character. So we are easily able to pray. We easily able to supplication. God knew this guy do that guy do that. We're going to come to Thanksgiving or like what? What what

You have a lot to be thankful for in the more, you know, about God his character and his name's, the more of his name's, you know. The more you will be able to give thanks for him. So that's why I work under this truck right now to both teach you about the concept of the names of God and then teach you some of them. So I want to end tonight then by I'll just take the time to give you one

the God who sees this only occurs once in the Old Testament, Genesis 16:13 Genesis 16 verse 30,

This is a difficult situation.

This is the point at which after Sarah has made, Hagar had been given to Abraham and she bore a son for him. God said mail that child will not have any part in the promise that I have designed, it will be for the child to Faith. I will cause regeneration to the sexual function, not just of you Abraham what she did, and he was able to bury child with Hagar, but also with you Sara by whose name is later. Changed to Sarah. And she was able to be brought back from having a dust blown womb. If you will dried and useless, not capable of reproduction in God restored, reproductive capabilities, and Abraham and Sarah were able to have a child in the lineage of the promises of God came down through Isaac. Meanwhile Abraham is created this problem restored but not waiting for the restoration of his wife. Sarah, not fully waiting for the promise of God. He tried to reinterpret the promise of God to be what he wanted in large part aided and abetted by his wife who was at that point without faith, a bitter woman, we are told. And in her bitterness, she says, I'm not going to be able to do this. My womb is dry. So Tay. My maid.

Is the situation that we have? No that's very foreign to us through world for that was a common practice. Today we have, I guess more frequently. We have the idea of women who are carrying children to birth for other couples who make me not be able to do it. So they will take that fertilized egg implanted or maybe be involved in donating the the the ovum itself. So it can be fertilized, various situations happen and then they going to a surrogacy so this is an old-fashioned type of surrogacy so not as foreign as we might think but is typically done through maidservants in those people who are in the household who are able to be drawn in as opposed to going out in hiring someone and got someone that you've already and so that's kind of the way that it works out. So here we have Hagar, she's been kicked out of the house with her son, Esau, the fruit of Abraham, and her self, and the Lord notices her. So, here we have in verse 13, that she called the name of the Lord who spoke to her. They reached their own out of heaven and spoke to her. When she thought no one could see, when she thought no one was aware when she thought this God of Abraham, and Sarah's was absolutely nothing. And yet, here she is in the wilderness thinking, she's going to die. And God reaches down. And says, I'm going to bless you. I will make a nation out of your child. There will be Millions will come forth. And there have been.

Info here, she's replying. She called the name of the Lord. Spoke to her. You are The God Who SEALS or Elroy, elroi the God who sees For she said, have I also here? Seen him who sees me?

I didn't even know that he saw me. I didn't even know he existed. And yet, he saw me and was gracious to me. And in his graciousness, I am preserve. And so, she made him the God who sees, because she didn't know what else to call him. Currently, she lived in that Family in that Tent City because Abraham and Sarah were very, very wealthy. Live there. Yes, you did not pick up an understanding of the God who they served, but at least she has enough here. So she says Elroy, she knows that he is a God who sees her even though she wasn't seeing him. Almost a it is a Going to be staggering concept here. That when we are faithless he is faithful until we have one of the names of God El Roi.

He who sees me? So that's all I give you for tonight cuz we run out of time. We'll pick it up next week. Again, with the class number 6, on the names of God.

In the what's the closing prayer? Literally father, we recognize But you are our Hightower in the names of God.

The Sham and awareness of who you are. What you are, what your title and Status. What you're standing is in relationship to us, for example, in that you see us when we think, no one else sees, no one else knows what's going on. You absolutely see us and you are mindful of us and you care about us and you are compassionate to us. And yet we find we live in a life, we're frequently, we need to be those who run with speed with alacrity and turn and come running to you change our direction, to the direction of calling, upon the name of the Lord calling upon Shem your way. And in calling upon you, we are calling upon the high tower of all existence of all of creation. You alone are the Hightower that Shields us. You alone are the Hightower. That Shields those who we love you alone are capable of protecting. The situation is more complex than we think. There is more going on in spiritual Realms and we are aware and we are incredibly ignorant, woefully unaware. And yet you are gracious and faithful. And you tell us that when we run to you, but we are Garrison that we are protected. The man in the New Testament, you told us that it's going to be an anxious and out of Fellowship. We are rather to be those who function in our spiritual life with prayer, Thanksgiving and supplication from that. As we are involved in that you will Garrison or guard, our soul with peace. Funny, how peace is the opposite of what we have when we're on our own? Peace is what we have when we're in the middle of the Hightower. It is you alone who provide that Lord. So we are thankful Your joyful Lord, we praise you for another understanding. Just one more aspect of the name of God, We Praise You Elroy. We exalt in your name. We prayed in the Blessed name of our Lord and savior Christ Jesus. Amen.