Jehovah-Shammah: The Lord Who Is There
The last of God’s names appears in Ezekiel 48, the very last verse. Ezekiel’s prophecy was similar to Jeremiah’s, except he prophesied from Babylon where he had been taken in 597 b.c. He was given visions of the glory of God gradually departing from Jerusalem and Judah, and he phrophesied about the coming destruction of Jerusalem in 586 b.c. But he was also shown a vision of a new Jerusalem that God would build, a magnificent city that dwarfed the original—“and the name of the city from that day shall be: THE LORD IS THERE” (verse35).
To keep Ezekiel from despairing over the future of Jerusalem, God showed him a new name that meant God would once again reign in Jerusalem: Jehovah-Shammah or “The Lord Who Is There.”
In Babylon, Ezekiel celebrated the Lord who would again be there among His people.
In closing, look how the names of God coincide with Psalm 23:
“The Lord is my shepherd”—Jehovah-Rohi
“I shall not want”—Jehovah-Jireh
“He makes me to lie down”—Jehovah-Shalom
“He restores my soul”—Jehovah-Rophe
“He leads me in the paths of righteousness”—Jehovah-
“For You are with me”—Jehovah-Shammah
“In the presence of my enemies”—Jehovah-Nissi
“You anoint my head with oil”—Jehovah-M’kaddish
Psalm 23 is a shepherd’s celebration of the Shepherd of his soul. I pray that you have come to know better the God whom you worship through this series and that your worship will become a daily celebration of who He is and what He has done in your life.
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