God: Who is God?
God the Creator:
As we look at the attributes of God, we first discussed that God is the “Creator” of everything in heaven above and earth below. We looked at many verses in the Scriptures to verify this position. In these verses, we see that in the beginning God created the Heavens and the Earth (1:1), He created all the creatures according to their kind. In 2:4, we see that this is the history of the Heavens and the Earth “when they were created.” In the book of genealogy of Adam, we found that God had created Adam in the likeness of God. He had created them male and female blessing them and called them mankind “in the day they were created” We find Moses referring to God in days past. He makes references to the days before they were created ”since the day that God created man on the earth.”
Isaiah 40:26, Isaiah 43:1,
Isaiah 45:18
We find in Isaiah 40:25 God asking the question “to whom will you liken Me, or to whom shall I be equal? Says the Holy One.” God is asking the question because we have the tendency to believe we have the ability to be like God. God created these things and there is no equal. In 43:1 we see God has created Jacob, God has created Israel the person and God has created Israel the nation. God says “fear not for I have redeemed you: I have called you by your name; you are Mine.” God is making it clear that He not only created them but since the beginning, He has redeemed them as He has us. We have been called by our name by God the Creator. In verse 18 we have this from God that He says “for thus says the Lord who created the Heavens, who is God, who formed the earth and made it, who has established it, who did not create it in vain, who formed it to be inhabited: I am the Lord, and there is no other.” God does not allow us any doubt as to who the Creator is.
Malachi 2:10
In Malachi 2:10 we have the prophet asking this question, “Have we not all one Father? Has not one God created us?” This being the last book of the old covenant and the last word we hear from the Lord for their benefit identifying who is the Creator whom created them.
Ephesians 3:9, Colossians
1:16
Paul helps us to identify God as the Creator. In Ephesians, 3:9 we see that Paul is preaching to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ. ”And to make all see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the ages has been hidden in God who created all things through Christ Jesus.” Paul is teaching that these mysteries that were revealed to us have been made known to us through Jesus Christ who was there at the beginning, the same beginning we see in Genesis 1:1. We find in Colossians 1:16 that “by Him (Jesus) all things were created that are in Heaven, that are on Earth, visible and invisible, where the thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.” In verse 19, we find that it pleased the Father that in Him all the fullness should dwell. So, Jesus, who is God, was there at the beginning is one with the Father and the Holy Spirit and through Him, we find that all things were created.
Revelation 4:11, Revelation
10:6
We find in Revelation 4:11, the 24 elders falling down before Him (Jesus) worshipping and claiming that He lives forever and ever as they cast their crowns before the thrown saying “You are worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power; for You created all things, and by your will they exist and were created.” In chapter 5:1, we see Jesus seated at the right hand of God receiving this worship as God. The elders make it clear to us in John’s writing who the Creator is. In chapter 10, we find an angel telling John to seal up the things, which the seven thunders uttered. This angel whom John sees standing on the sea and on the land raised up his hand to Heaven and swears by Him (Jesus, God) “who lives forever and ever, who created Heaven and the things that are in it, the Earth and the things that are in it, and the sea and the things that are in it, that there should be delay no longer, but in the days of the sounding of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound, the mystery of God would be finished, as He declared to His servants the prophets.” We are left with no doubt who the Creator is as identified by Moses, by the prophets, by the apostles, by angels, by Jesus Himself and by God.
If you do a search through the Scriptures to see how many times God has used the word “created” you will find it 46 times in 40 verses from Genesis to Revelation. Here is a list of those verses:
Genesis 1:1, 1:21, 1:27, 2:3,
2:4, 5:1, 5:2, 6:7, Deuteronomy 4:32, Psalm 89:12, 89:47, 102:18, 104:30,
148:5, Isaiah 40:26, 41:20, 42:5, 43:1, 43:7, 48:5, 45:12, 45:18, 48;7,
54:16, Jeremiah 31:22, Ezekiel 21:30, 28:13, 28:15, Malachi 2:10, 13:19,
Romans 8:39, 1 Corinthians 11:9, Ephesians 2:10, 3:9, 4:23, Colossians 1:16,
3:10, 1 Timothy 4:3, Revelation 4:11, 10:6.