Chapter 3: Is Christ God?

In many places in the Bible Christ is called God.  The Psalmist says, "The mighty God, even the Lord [Jehovah], hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.  Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.  Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence; a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about Him.  He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that He may judge His people.  Gather My saints together unto Me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.  And the heavens shall declare His righteousness; for God is judge Himself.”  Psalms 50:1-6  

That this passage has reference to Christ may be known 1) by the fact already learned, that all judgment is committed to the Son, and 2) by the fact that it is at the second coming of Christ that He sends His angels to gather together His elect from the four winds.  Matthew 24:31.  "Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence."  No.  For when the Lord Himself descends from heaven, it will be "with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God."  1 Thessalonians 4:16.  This shout will be the voice of the Son of God, which will be heard by all that are in their graves and which will cause them to come forth.  John 5:28, 29.  With the living righteous they will be caught up to meet the Lord in the air, ever more to be with Him, and this will constitute "our gathering together unto Him.”  2 Thessalonians 2:1.  Compare Psalms 50:5; Matthew 24:31, and 1 Thessalonians 4:16

"A fire shall devour before Him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about Him" for when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with His mighty angels, it will be "in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that   obey not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ."  2 Thessalonians 1:8.  So we know that Psalms 50:1-6 is a vivid description of the second coming of Christ for the salvation of His people.  When He comes it will be as "the mighty God."  Compare Habakkuk 3

This is one of His rightful titles.  Long before Christ's first advent, the prophet Isaiah spoke these words of comfort to   Israel, "For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given; and the government shall be upon His shoulder; and His name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, the mighty God, the everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace."  Isaiah 9:6