Attributes of LORD - Part 1

Introduction

There is just no way to keep this short by any means other than publishing one or two characteristics per post.  Then I will post characteristics of God that are related to those characteristics of LORD.  It will go 2 about LORD, and then 2 about God, and repeat.  Of course there is not necessarily a one-for-one correspondence between them, but I try this.

What you will find in the following is that I have attempted to list those verses which say, "LORD is ...." or "God is ...".  The following is an example of the approach:

I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things. - Isaiah 45:7

Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; - 1 Corinthians 13:5

In one verse is a partial description of charity in which the one having it thinks no evil. In the other verse is the LORD saying that he creates evil. There is room for a lot of confusion, until the reader realizes that God (perfect example of charity) and LORD (in the OT including LORD God) are not the same person.  IF LORD is God then God is a hypocrite.

God does not think evil unless he is a hypocrite (do as I say not as I do) for telling us to think no evil.  Whereas Isaiah 45:7 shows, by the LORD's own testimony, that he creates evil.

The LORD is a man of war -

The LORD is a man of war: the LORD is his name. - Exodus 15:3

The OT presents many places which testify to the accuracy of this statement.

This verse is completely consistent with:

Thy right hand, O LORD, is become glorious in power: thy right hand, O LORD, hath dashed in pieces the enemy. - Exodus 15:6

And they shall be as mighty men, which tread down their enemies in the mire of the streets in the battle: and they shall fight, because the LORD is with them, and the riders on horses shall be confounded. - Zechariah 10:5

The LORD is Jealous

Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; - Exodus 20:5

For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God: - Exodus 34:14

And Joshua said unto the people, Ye cannot serve the LORD: for he is an holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins. - Joshua 24:19

The alternate name of the LORD is Jealous.  What invokes this jealous response of the LORD is to worship another god.  So the term jealous refers to worshiping another god in this context.