The Whole World Will Know

1 Samuel 17:46 – This day the Lord will deliver you into my hands, and I’ll strike you down and cut off your head. This very day I will give the carcasses of the Philistine army to the birds and the wild animals, and the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel.

Joshua 4:24 – He did this so that all the peoples of the earth might know that the hand of the Lord is powerful and so that you might always fear the Lord your God.”

Exodus 9:16 – But I have raised you up for this very purpose, that I might show you my power and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.

Deuteronomy 4:35 – You were shown these things so that you might know that the Lord is God; besides him there is no other.

2 Kings 5:15 – Then Naaman and all his attendants went back to the man of God. He stood before him and said, “Now I know that there is no God in all the world except in Israel. So please accept a gift from your servant.”

Application:

• ·         The Lord’s revelation of His power to the Israelites was a public event that all the Canaanites heard about, just as they had heard of the crossing of the “Red Sea” and the defeat of Sihon and Og.
• ·         God is sovereign.
• ·         Moses insisted that there is only one God.
• ·         Naaman’s confession put to shame the Israelites who continued to waver in their opinion on whether Baal and the Lord were both gods or whether Yahweh alone was God.

All Scripture verses taken from NIV