The Lord of All the Earth: Adon

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This title of God, consisting of six words, and setting forth His wide dominion, only occurs three times in the Old Testament, twice in Josh. 3:1111Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth passeth over before you into Jordan. (Joshua 3:11) and 13, and again in Zech. 6:55And the angel answered and said unto me, These are the four spirits of the heavens, which go forth from standing before the Lord of all the earth. (Zechariah 6:5). The former Scripture brings before us the striking scene of the Ark (typical of Christ in resurrection) being carried over the river Jordan by the priests, thus preparing the way for the Israelites to pass over to take possession of the land of Canaan. How cheering to them that the Lord of All the Earth should give them a possession, where they could live, surely prophetic of the time when the Son of Man shall take possession of the whole earth, and "The earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea." (Hab. 2:1414For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea. (Habakkuk 2:14)).
The last Scripture brings before us the fact that the Lord of All the Earth has agencies everywhere, ready to carry out His will in relation to mankind. We read, "These are the four spirits of the heavens, which go forth from standing before THE LORD OF ALL THE EARTH." (Zech. 6:55And the angel answered and said unto me, These are the four spirits of the heavens, which go forth from standing before the Lord of all the earth. (Zechariah 6:5)). The vision here is to teach that behind all man's apparent arranging and planning, God is directing earthly affairs for His own wise purposes and glory in the government of this world. In these four spirits is seen prophetically the rise and fall of the four great world-empires, first indicated in Nebuchadnezzar's dream of the great image made of gold, silver, brass and iron—the Babylonian, the Medo-Persian, the Grecian, the Roman. The revival of this last we wait for in these closing days.