Title: Omnipresence

Topic: Trinity

Summary: We look at what Scripture says about God's omnipresence and how it is that God can be everywhere, and yet seem absent or distant.

Use the reference links below to follow along in the Bible as you watch.

References:
Psalms 46; 139:8, 10
Jeremiah 1:4; 23:23-24
Amos 9:1-2
Acts of the Apostles 17:27-28
Ephesians 4:9-10
John 8:58; 12:37, 39
Psalms 5:6-8
Leviticus 26:11-12
Ezekiel 34:20, 25, 30
John 12:26; 14:1
2 Corinthians 6:16
1 John 4:16
Revelation 21:3
Jonah 1:1, 15, 17; 2:9-10, 3

96. The implications of the statement that Jehovah God 'breathed into his nostrils' are as follows: In ancient times, and in the Word, the nostrils meant something that was pleasing by virtue of its odour, which means perception Consequently one reads many times of Jehovah 'smelling an odour of rest' from burnt offerings and from the things which represented Him and His kingdom. And since matters of love and faith are most pleasing to Him, it is said that He breathed the breath of life' through his nostrils. This is why Jehovah's Anointed, who is the Lord, is called 'the-Breath-of-nostrils', Lamentations 4:20. And this was what the Lord Himself meant by breathing on His disciples, in John,

He breathed and said, Receive the Holy Spirit. John 10:22.