Revelation

I write too much about how I'm feeling about things and not enough about the absolute, un-changing, steadfast things- or rather, thing- in life. God is 100% absolute always, never changes, and is infinity times more dependable than the feelings and whims of man.

Okay so, God goes by SOOOOO many different names in Scripture and that has totally been blowing my mind lately. I learned some of these in my ninth grade Bible class but I don't think I really understood how awesome this is until now. See, God has all these different characteristics and in the Bible when people were talking about God, they would reference Him as the one with the particular characteristic that they needed... Just take a look and see what I mean. When I read through this, I'm not even gonna lie, I cried a little bit because God is just so dang big and amazing. :)
(all the info here came from this website: http://ldolphin.org/Names.html)

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Old Testament (The Hebrew Scriptures, or Tanach)

EL: God ("mighty, strong, prominent") used 250 times in the OT
ELOHIM: God (a plural noun, more than two, used with singular verbs); Elohim occurs 2,570 times in the OT
EL SHADDAI: God Almighty or "God All Sufficient." 48 times in the OT
ADONAI: Lord in our English Bibles, "Master'' or "Lord" 300 times in the OT
JEHOVAH: LORD in our English Bibles (all capitals).
Yahweh is the covenant name of God. Occurs 6823 times in the OT, "The Self-Existent One," "I AM WHO I AM" or 'I WILL BE WHO I WILL BE" as revealed to Moses at the burning bush
JEHOVAH-JIREH: "The Lord will Provide." God always provides, adequate when the times come.
JEHOVAH-ROPHE: "The Lord Who Heals", God heals body, soul and spirit; all levels of man's being.
JEHOVAH-NISSI: "The Lord Our Banner." Ex. 17:15. God on the battlefield, from word which means "to glisten," "to lift up," See Psalm 4:6.
JEHOVAH-M'KADDESH: "The Lord Who Sanctifies"
JEHOVAH-SHALOM: "The Lord Our Peace" Judges 6:24. "Shalom" translated "peace" 170 times means "whole," "finished," "fulfilled," "perfected." Related to "well," welfare." Deut. 27:6; Dan. 5:26; I Kings 9:25 8:61; Gen. 15:16; Ex. 21:34, 22:5, 6; Lev. 7:11-21. Shalom means that kind of peace that results from being a whole person in right relationship to God and to one's fellow man.
SHEPHERD
JUDGE
JEHOVAH ELOHIM: "LORD God"
JEHOVAH-TSIDKENU: "The Lord Our Righteousness"
JEHOVAH-ROHI: "The Lord Our Shepherd"
JEHOVAH-SHAMMAH: "The Lord is There"
JEHOVAH-SABAOTH: "The Lord of Hosts" The commander of the angelic host and the armies of God.
EL ELYON: 'Most High"
ABHIR: 'Mighty One', ("to be strong")
BRANCH
KADOSH: "Holy One"
SHAPHAT: "Judge"
EL ROI: "God of Seeing" Hagar in Gen. 16:13. The God Who opens our eyes.
KANNA: "Jealous" (zealous). Ex. 20:5, 34:14; Deut. 5:9; Isa. 9:7; Zech. 1:14, 8:2.
PALET: "Deliverer"
YESHUA: "Savior"
GAOL: "Redeemer" (to buy back by paying a price).
MAGEN: "Shield"
STONE
EYALUTH: "Strength"
TSADDIQ: "Righteous One"
EL-OLAM: "Everlasting God"
EL-BERITH: "God of the Covenant"
EL-GIBHOR: Mighty God
ZUR: "God our Rock"
Malachi calls Messiah "The Sun of Righteousness" (Malachi 4:2).
Isaiah calls Messiah "Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God (El Gibhor), Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace" (Isa. 9:6).
'Attiq Yomin (Aramaic): "Ancient of Days,"
MELEKH: "King"
"The Angel of the Lord: " Gen. 16:7ff, 21:17, 22:11, 15ff, 18:1-19:1, 24:7, 40, 31:11-13, 32:24-30; Ex. 3:6, 13:21, Ezek. 1:10-13. Seen in the theophanies, or pre-incarnate appearances of the Son of God in the OT (See I Cor. 10:3 NT).
FATHER

THE FIRST AND LAST

New Testament Scriptures (Greek):

KURIOS: "Lord" Found some 600 times in the NT.
DESPOTES: "Lord" 5 times: Lu. 2:29; Acts 4:24; 2 Pet. 2:1; Jude 4; Rev. 6:10.
THEOS: "God" (equivalent to the Hebrew Elohim), 1,000 times in the NT. In the NT all the persons of the trinity are called "God" at one time or another.
I AM: Jesus upset his generation especially when He said, "Before Abraham was, I AM," John 8:58. Note also his claim to be Jehovah in such phrases as "I AM the Light of the world," "the bread of life," living water," "the Resurrection and the Life," "the Way, Truth and the Life" in John's Gospel. From the Hebrew OT verb "to be" signifying a Living, Intelligent, Personal Being.
THEOTES: "Godhead"

HUPSISTOS: "Highest"

SOTER: "Savior"

WORD: (logos)

ALMIGHTY: (pantokrator)

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Seriously. Whoa. God is so cool.