The Name of God that spoke to me during the
past weeks devotional God Is… study was Jehovah Sabaoth, The Lord of Hosts;
traditionally translated Jehovah Tsabaoth from old Hebrew. This special name
for our Lord can be found in Isaiah 6:1 - In the year of King Uzziah’s death I
saw the Lord sitting on a throne, lofty and exalted, with the train of His robe
filling the temple. 2 - Seraphim stood above Him, each having six wings: with
two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he
flew. 3 - And one called out to another and said, “Holy, Holy, Holy, is the
LORD of hosts, The whole earth is full of His glory.”
What may be an eye opener to some is how
often we have read or heard the phrase “Lord of hosts” without truly
understanding the significance of this names. Curiosity prompted me to look up
the Biblehub.com commentaries
and found: “…
Tsabaoth, hosts or armies. JEHOVAH SABAOTH is the Lord of Hosts; and we are to
understand the word hosts in the most comprehensive sense, as including the
host of heaven, the angels and minister of the Lord; the stars and planets,
which, as an army ranged in battle array, perform the will of God; the armies
of earth, whose conflicts his providence overrules to the accomplishment of his
own wise designs; the hordes of inferior creatures, as the locusts that plagued
Egypt, the quails that fed Israel, and "the canker-worm and the
palmer-worm, his great army," Joel 2:15; and lastly, the
people of the Lord, both of the old and new covenants, a truly great army, of
which God is the general and commander, 2 Samuel 6:2Psalm 24:10 Romans 9:29 James 5:4.” - http://biblehub.com/topical/s/
From this commentary, began to realize
that the word Host represents not only legions of waring angels but Host also
includes us, His army of Christian solders. God leads us into battle alongside
His angles. Another reference for
“Jehovah Sabaoth” can be found in 2 Kings 6, where this event happens: 17 - And
Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray you, open his eyes, that he may see. And
the LORD opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the
mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha. What
Elisha said to his servant is what God wants all of us to understand: when He
has us engaged in holy warfare, we should ask for our eyes to be opened, to see
the unconquerable army in which we are marching, with nothing to fear because
are God is … Jehovah Sabaoth.
--Larry Russell
