Daily Bread JUL/8/14 Isaiah 65:16 - He who blesses himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of Amen, and he who makes an oath in the earth shall swear by the God of Amen; because their former troubles are forgotten and hidden from my eyes. The Almighty is the Amen God! He is the One who has made covenants and promises that He has sworn to keep. He is also the One who has vowed Himself to perform those things which He has promised (Romans 4:21). As the One who is the Amen, He is the faithful and true witness (Revelation 3:14). To swear in the Old Testament was to give ones sacred unbreakable word. God allowed Israel to make vows in His name in order to enforce the value of their vows (Deuteronomy 6:13; Isaiah 19:18; 1 Kings 1:36). God Himself made an oath to Abraham in order to assure him that what He had promised would surely come to pass (Genesis 22:16; Hebrews 6:13). The Amen God is the one who vows to keep His covenants and promises. He also demands that His people vow themselves to His covenant and promises (Deuteronomy 27:15-16; Numbers 5:22). Thus both the blessing and the oath are coupled with the one who is the Amen. Amen is a Semitic equivalent to both pistos (faithful) and alethinos (true), borne out by the way that the Septuagint translates it. It is also used as a word of praise, being paired with Hallelujah (1 Chronicles 16:36; Nehemiah 5:13, 8:6; Revelation 19:4, 7:12). It may be used as a statement of acknowledging that what was spoken was directly from God, or a faithful transmission of what God had said (1 Corinthians 4:16). It can be used as a declaration of divine authority, as in 1 Kings 1:36; Jeremiah 28:6. But most of all, it is a declaration that God is faithful and true concerning everything that He has spoken (2 Corinthians 1:20; Rev 5:14).
Posted on: Tue, 08 Jul 2014 15:01:10 +0000
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