the heavens alone; that spreadeth forth the earth by myself."
Jehovah revealed Himself to Moses as the eternal and self-existent one, under the name I am. Jesus said to the Jews, "Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad. . . Before Abraham was, I am." (John 8:56—58.) Was he not claiming to be the same self-existing being? Certainly no mere human being that ever lived could have made any such statement. He said again, "If ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins." (John 8:24.) In Revelation he says of himself: "I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty." (Rev. 1:8.)
If Jesus was God at all, he must have been in the nature of the case the only God of heaven and earth, for God is one and indivisible. When he had forever put of the infirm humanity assumed from Mary, the temporary limitation indispensable to enable him to reveal himself to men, he said, "ALL power is given unto me in heaven and on earth." (Matt. 28:18.) "All" includes every possibility of power and excludes
