THE LORD OF HOSTS IS HIS NAME
"For thy Maker is thine husband; the L ORD of hosts is H is name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; t he God of the whole earth shall H e be called." -I SAIAH 54:5 [KJV] As in the marriage union man and wife become one flesh, and, God having joined them together, no man may put them asunder, so when the Lord Jesus Christ, in "the everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and sure," betrothed the Church unto Himself, they became before the face of heaven one in indissoluble ties. As He undertook in "the fulness of time" to be "made of a woman," she became one with Him in body by virtue of a common nature; and becomes one with H im in spirit when, as each individual member comes forth into a time state, the blessed Spirit unites it to h im by regenerating grace . Such is the testimony of the word of truth. "We are members of H is body, of H is flesh, and of H is bones;" "He that is joined to the Lord is o...