13. Jehovah-Jesus Commands the Creatures

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Not only did Jehovah-Jesus have complete control over the elements, but He also was the LORD (Jehovah) of Psalm 104. Let us note the parallel.
“O LORD [Jehovah], how manifold are Thy works! in wisdom hast Thou made them all: the earth is full of Thy riches. So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts” (Psa. 104:24-25).
“He said unto Simon, Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught. And Simon answering said unto Him, Master, we have toiled all the night, and have taken nothing: nevertheless at Thy word I will let down the net. And when they had this done, they inclosed a great multitude of fishes: and their net brake” (Luke 5:46).
See also the case of Jonah.
“The LORD [Jehovah] had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights. Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD [Jehovah] his God out of the fish’s belly...And the LORD [Jehovah] spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land” (Jonah 1:17; 2:1,10).
“Jesus saith unto them, Children, have ye any meat? They answered Him, No. And He said unto them, Cast the net on the right side of the ship, and ye shall find. They cast therefore, and now they were not able to draw it for the multitude of fishes” (John 21:56).
Here we append a note from the pen of another:
“In other days, the God of Israel had commanded the creatures of the great deep, and a ‘great fish’ was prepared to swallow up Jonah and give him a burying place for the appointed time. And so in His day, Jesus approved Himself the Lord of the fullness of ‘this great and wide sea,’ summoning a host of  ‘small  .  .  . beasts’ thereof into the net of Peter (Psa. 104:2525So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts. (Psalm 104:25); Luke 5:46). ‘Both small and great beasts,’ that find their pastime therein, thus earlier and later days owned the word of Jehovah-Jesus.”1
How precious this testimony that Jesus is Jehovah.
 
1. J. G. Bellett, The Son of God, The Bible Truth Press, New York, p. 25