The Owner

"Indeed heaven and the highest heavens belong to the Lord your God, also the earth with all that is in it." (1)

"For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality nor takes a bribe. He administers justice for the fatherless and the widow and loves the stranger, giving him food and clothing. Therefore love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt." (2)

The great God, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality nor takes a bribe is the God of all mankind, not just of the children of Israel to whom this verse was addressed. He is the God of "heaven, and the highest heavens", and "also the earth with all that is in it."

"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth... God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them." (3) "Have you not known? Have you not heard? The everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth neither faints nor is weary." (4)

"By Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible." (5) "All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made." (6) "You are worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power; for You created all things, and by Your will they exist and were created." (7) "The angel whom I saw standing on the sea and on the land raised up his hand to heaven and swore by Him who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and the things that are in it, the earth and the things that are in it, and the sea and the things that are in it." (8)

From Genesis to Revelation, the Bible consistently proclaims God as the Creator of all the heavens and the earth. As Creator of the heavens and the earth, they belong to Him. However, a rebellion broke out in heaven which was transferred to this earth (9), a lamentation and prophecy regarding Lucifer, "You were the anointed cherub who covers; I established you; I established you; You were on the holy mountain of God; You walked back and forth in the midst of fiery stones. You were perfect in your ways from the day you were created, till iniquity was found in you." (10).

It is God's purpose that the universe, heaven and earth, be brought back into unity in and through Jesus Christ, our Creator. (11)

1. Deuteronomy 10:14.
2. Deuteronomy 10:17-19.
3. Genesis 1:1, 27.
4. Isaiah 40:28.
5. Colossians 1 16.
6. John 1:3.
7. Revelation 4:11.
8. Revelation 10:5, 6.
9. Ezekiel 28:11-19.
10. Ezekiel 28:14, 15.
11. See John 3:16, 17 and Ephesians 1:9, 10.