OUR FATHER WHOSE WORDS OF WARNING ARE SERIOUS

The book of Ezekiel chapter 6 verse 10 says this;

And they will know that I am the Lord; I did not threaten in vain to bring this calamity on them.

God's people, having engaged in idolatrous practices like maintaining false altars and burning incense to idols, are warned in a prophecy recorded by the prophet Ezekiel, of a coming judgement that would destroy the idols they had fashioned for themselves. 

The judgement would also be a fatal calamity to the people leaving only a remnant of the people alive.

This surviving remnant, having escaped the disaster that had struck them, would then remember the Lord and they would understand how grievous their detestable actions had been towards their God.

This realization would show the remnant that their God was the only true and living God and that His warnings to them were not empty threats.

Amen.

OUR FATHER WHO WILL GATHER HIS OWN  PEOPLE

Isaiah 27 verse 13 says this; 

And in that day a great trumpet will sound. Those who were perishing in Assyria and those who were exiled in Egypt will come and worship the Lord on the holy mountain in Jerusalem.

The prophet Isaiah, speaking of the day of redemption of Israel, describes a great trumpet sounding. 

This event is also captured by the Apostle Paul in the book of 1st Corinthians chapter 15 verses 51 - 53;

Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed— in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality.

The day will come when all those of Israel and those grafted into Israel will be brought out of the world ( represented by Assyria and Egypt ) and they will worship the Lord in the eternal realm. 

Amen.

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OUR FATHER WHO PROVIDED SALVATION FOR THE WHOLE WORLD

The book of Isaiah chapter 55 verse 4 in the Amplified Version says this;

“Listen carefully, I have appointed [b]him [David, representing the Messiah] to be a witness to the nations [regarding salvation],

A leader and commander to the peoples.

The whole of Chapter 55 is a record of the words of the Lord God exhorting Israel (and ultimately the human race) to accept the great salvation that He was going to provide for them.

This specific verse captures the Lord informing Israel that the coming Messiah was going to be in the line of David as a leader and commander of the people and that He was going to hold an office that was global in scope.

Amen.

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OUR FATHER WHO GREATLY LOVES US

Psalm 117 says this;

Praise the Lord, all you nations; extol him, all you peoples.

For great is his love toward us, and the faithfulness of the Lord endures forever.

Praise the Lord.

This passage, which is the entirety of Psalm 117, calls on all people and all nations to praise the Lord and speak of His goodness and greatness.

There are two reasons given why we should all praise the Lord. 

The first is that He loves us greatly and the second is that His faithfulness towards us is evelasting.

Amen.

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OUR FATHER WHO IS HOLY

Psalm 99 verse 3 says this;

Let them praise your great and awesome name— he is holy.

Predicating this verse is a declaration that the Lord Jesus has arisen to absolute rulership over every nation on earth.

So great is His power that all the nations tremble before Him and the whole earth shakes as He sits enthroned in authority.

It is in this context that the verse exhorts the nations to praise the great and awesome name of the Lord for He is Holy.

Amen.

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OUR FATHER TO WHOM WE PRAY 

The book of Isaiah chapter 64 verse 9 says this;

Do not be angry beyond measure, Lord; do not remember our sins forever.

Oh, look on us, we pray, for we are all your people.

This verse speaks of God's people coming to the realization that even though they had seen the unmatched power of their God, they had drifted away from Him and sinned against His ways.

They were steeped in uncleaness and they no longer searched for their God.

In this state, surrounded by the devastation of their nation, they pleaded with God to relent from His anger and to forget their sins.

They pray to remind God that they are His people and as such, they have no other way to be saved.

As Isaiah verse 5 says;

You come to the help of those who gladly do right,  who remember your ways.

But when we continued to sin against them, you were angry. How then can we be saved?

Amen.

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OUR FATHER WHO RESTORES HIS PEOPLE

From Psalm 53;

God looked down from heaven on all mankind

To see if there were any, any who understood

Everyone had turned to go their own way

There were none of us who did good

Oh, that redemption for Israel

Would come out of Zion! Out of Zion!

When God restores His people

Let Israel be glad in our salvation

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 OUR FATHER WHO ESTABLISHES EQUITY

Psalm 99 verse 4 says this;

The King is mighty, he loves justice—you haed ca lotve established equity; in Jacob you have done what is just and right.

This verse establishes the main attributes of God that make the nations quake before Him and make Him worthy of honor and praise.

He is firstly a sovereign King who is exceedingly strong in power.

He also loves justice and undergirds equity by always doing what is just and right.

Amen.

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