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"Whosoever call on the name of the Lord shall be saved" (Joel 2:32). (Read also Acts 4:12.) His name is from everlasting (Isaiah 63:16). "But unto you thatfear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall" (Malachi 4:2).
D The Kingship and Lordship of God
The Almighty God is declared to be King of kings and Lord oflords, from everlasting to everlasting over all His creation. From the Prophet Isaiah, through whom He declared, "Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of Hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside methereisnoGod"(Isaiah44:6). TotheprophetMalachi,Hesays,"...Iam a great King saith the LORD of hosts, and my name is dreadful among the heathen" (Malachi 1:14). Many are the records in the Old Testament estab lishing forever His kingship over all the earth: He is the only supreme ruler over all generations of men: "Who hath wrought and done it, calling the
generations from the beginning? I the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am he"(Isaiah41:4). (SeealsoIsaiah43:15;Isaiah45:22-23;Isaiah33:22).
King David, exalts the God of Israel saying "Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever..., and ...the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods" (Psalm 45:6; 95:3; 29:10). For the Psalmist, the Lord is the, "...King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth" (Psalm 74:12). David, the
prophet, foretells, "...all kings shall fall down before Him: all nations shall serve Him" (Psalm 72:11). For David, the Lord is the "King of Clorf to whom belong "the earth and the fullness there of, the world, and they that dwell therein" (Psalm 24:1-10). Prophetically, he states the "everlasting gates" shall respond by being "lifted up" so that the King of Glory shall comein.
The great prophet Daniel declared in his days that "the most high God ruled in the kingdom of men, and that he appointeth over itwhomsoever he will (Daniel 5:21). Daniel in giving the interpretation of the heathen king s dream spoke about the kingdom that the God of heaven shall set up (Daniel 2:44). The Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar, blessing the God who miracu lously delivered the three Hebrew brothers from the fiery furnace, exclaimed: "How great are his signs! and how mighty are his wonders! his kingdom is an everlasting Kingdom, and his dominion is from generation to
generation" (Daniel 4:3). (See also Daniel 2:47; 4:34-37; 7:14,27).
The prophet Zechariah saw that, in the appointed day, "the LORD shaU be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his nanae one" (Zechariah 14:9). In the New Testament:
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