Description

The Word God – An Exhaustive King James Bible Study of the Name God is one of the largest and most detailed Bible study projects produced by VerseQuest Ministries. Spanning 1,506 pages and 200 full-length essays, this massive downloadable PDF follows the English word God through the King James Bible from the opening declaration of Genesis 1:1 — “In the beginning God” — all the way to the final occurrence in Revelation 22:19. Rather than building a doctrine of God from a handful of familiar proof texts, this study was constructed from a working concordance arrangement containing 4,444 occurrences of the word God, with those occurrences organized, classified, compared, rightly divided, and developed throughout the complete 200-essay series.

The result is far more than a concordance or ordinary word study. Every major biblical setting involving the word God is examined in context. The series follows God through creation, Eden, the Fall, the Flood, the patriarchs, Exodus, Sinai, Israel’s covenant history, the Psalms, Job, wisdom literature, the prophets, the four Gospels, Acts, Paul’s epistles, the general epistles, and Revelation. Along the way, the reader encounters the living God, the true God, the Almighty God, the everlasting God, the faithful God, the jealous God, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of Israel, the God of heaven and earth, the God of glory, the God of peace, the God of all grace, God our Father, and ultimately the throne of God and of the Lamb.

A major emphasis throughout the book is allowing the King James Bible to define its own terminology. The study carefully distinguishes God, GOD, god, and gods, including false gods, strange gods, graven gods, molten gods, human rulers described as gods in limited contexts, Satan as “the god of this world,” and men “whose God is their belly.” Rather than assuming every use of the word belongs in the same doctrinal category, each occurrence is examined according to context, speaker, audience, historical setting, grammatical construction, doctrinal meaning, and dispensational location.

The deity of the Lord Jesus Christ becomes one of the strongest themes in the entire work. The study follows the biblical testimony from “the Word was God” to Emmanuel, “God with us”; from the Child called “The mighty God” to Thomas confessing “My Lord and my God”; from “God was manifest in the flesh” to the church of God purchased “with his own blood”; and finally to Revelation, where God and the Lamb share worship, glory, light, temple identity, throne, and eternal government. The cumulative testimony leaves no room for reducing Jesus Christ to a created being, religious teacher, lesser deity, or exalted angel.

The book also maintains careful rightly divided distinctions throughout. Israel is not confused with the body of Christ. The law is not confused with grace. The prophetic kingdom program is not confused with Paul’s mystery revelation. Acts is treated as a transitional book. Israel’s national covenants and future restoration are preserved rather than reassigned to the church. The present gospel of the grace of God is explained through Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection, justification by faith, the righteousness of God, the indwelling Spirit, adoption, eternal life, and the believer’s security in Christ.

Yet this study does not present only the attributes modern Christianity finds comfortable. The same Bible that says “God is love” also says “our God is a consuming fire.” The God who saves also judges. The God who gives also takes away. The God who heals also wounds. The God who remembers His covenant also remembers Babylon’s iniquities. The God who wipes away all tears is also the God before whose great white throne the dead are judged. A complete study of God must allow God to retain every action, attribute, warning, promise, judgment, and title the Bible assigns Him.

The final lessons bring the entire study together in Revelation. God sits upon the throne. The wrath of God is poured out. Babylon is remembered. The Lord God omnipotent reigns. The tabernacle of God is with men. The Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of New Jerusalem. The glory of God lightens the city, and the Lamb is its light. God wipes away all tears. Finally, Revelation 22 warns men not to take away from the words of the Book.

The Word God is designed for serious Bible readers, pastors, teachers, homeschool families, sermon preparation, personal study, doctrine classes, apologetics, and anyone who wants to trace one of the most important words in the entire King James Bible from beginning to end.

After 1,506 pages and 200 studies, the conclusion is not that the reader has mastered God.

The conclusion is that the word God has searched, corrected, instructed, humbled, and mastered the reader.

The final response remains the only sane one: Worship God.

6. Study Notes

The Word God may be studied straight through as a complete Genesis-to-Revelation journey or used as a topical reference work. The 200 essays are organized into twenty major divisions that follow the biblical progression of the word God, beginning with the name that opens the Book and moving through creation, man and sin, the patriarchs, Exodus, covenant Israel, Israel’s history, Job, Psalms, wisdom and prophecy, the Gospels, Acts, Paul’s gospel, the body of Christ, the general epistles, the great phrase families, Revelation, and the final testimony of the word God.

Readers should keep a King James Bible open while using this resource. The essays are designed to explain Scripture rather than replace it. Particular attention is given to exact KJV wording, contextual distinctions, doctrinal development, the deity of Christ, Israel and the church, law and grace, prophecy and mystery, salvation, judgment, false gods, divine titles, and the final kingdom and eternal state. The included 200-Essay Series Master Chart provides a visual overview of the entire study and can be used as a teaching aid, reference guide, or quick-review companion to the book.