Since Yahweh is the Supreme Being of the universe, it is only fitting that there be a page dedicated to the discussion of His power and glory.

According to the bible, Yahweh's power and glory is so intense that we humans cannot look upon His face and continue living (Exodus 33:17-23). If this is true, then how is it that Moses returned from speaking to Yahweh and told the people that he spoke to Yahweh face to face (Exodus 33:11)? Especially since Yahweh Himself states later (in verses 17-23) that no man can see His face and yet live? Yahweh actually had to shield Moses from the intensity of His glory when He passed in front of Moses (Exodus 33:21-23). Apparently it is to mean that Moses actually stood in the direct presence of God. This is different than what the other Israelites experienced, because they only saw Yahweh's glory from a distance. No one else actually stood right in front of God like Moses did. Moses was also not allowed to go into the tabernacle when Yahweh's glory filled it due to its intensity (Exodus 40:34). The scriptures describe Yahweh's glory as appearing like a raging fire (Exodus 24:16-17).

Yahweh also has enormous power, and this includes the power to manipulate the physical world in any way that suits His plan. This make sense because He is the one that made the physical world. Some examples of His doing this in the bible are:

1 - Creation (Genesis chapters 1-2). The very act of creating everything existing is an awesome act of His power! Yahweh created everything: Sun, moon, stars, planets, land, air, ocean, plants, animals, people...everything! Not person that has ever lived has been able to truly create anything. Sure, we can take raw materials and make things, and sure we can get the knowledge of scientific matters and such. But can we actually create the raw materials, manipulate the elements at will, change the laws of physics? Of course not! (Job chapters 38-39). Only God can do and know these things! THAT is power!

2 - The Ten Plagues (Exodus 7:1 - 12:33). Yahweh sent Moses to tell pharoah to let the Israelite slaves go. Pharoah refused. So God sent horrible plagues to punish the Egyptians. In the end Yahweh won, and the Israelites were allowed to go free. These plagues included things such as: turning the land's main water supply to blood, plagues of insect swarms, contagious boils, rains of fiery hail, and death to all the firstborns of man and beast. These were things no one could stop or hide from! These plagues showed the magnitude of God's power to all the people of the land!

3 - The parting of the Red Sea (Exodus 14:5-31). The Israelites were freed from Egypt, yet the Egyptians changed their minds and wanted the Israelite slaves returned. Because of this, they went in hot pursuit of the Israelites who were traveling to a place God was leading them too. As the Egyptians closed in on them the Israelites' escape route was blocked off by the Red Sea. As the Egyptians approached, God sent His angel to create a pillar of fire to block the Egyptians. Meanwhile, God parted the waters of the Red Sea so the Israelites could walk through (on a dry sea bed no less!) and escape. Once they were through, God removed the pillar of fire from the Egyptians. When the Egyptians took pursuit into the dry sea bed God ceased parting the Red Sea, effectively drowning the enemy!

4 - Strengthening our bodies. Yahweh has shown that He has the power to strengthen our bodies beyond our normal limitations. One example of this is a man named Samson (Judges 13:5,24). Samson was given extra strength from God, so that he could overpower lions (Judges 14:5), Another example occurred to a man named Elijah (1 Kings 17:1). Elijah needed to run to a place called Jezreel, and Yahweh gave him to power of extra speed and endurance (1 Kings 18:45-46). God can also make a small amount of food energize us for long periods of time (1 Kings 19: 5-8). Who among us can claim this ability?!

5 - The powerlessness of other gods. This was not only shown by the plagues He smote Egypt with in Exodus chapters 7-12, but he showed it to other people as well. One example is the Philistine god, Dagon. (1 Samuel 5:1-5). The Philistines managed to steal the Ark of Yahweh's covenant from the Israelites and placed it next to their god Dagon in Dagon's temple. The next day, the Philistines see the statue of Dagon is on its face in front of the Ark, as if it were bowing to the Ark! The men returned the statue in its proper place. Then the next morning, they look again, and see...Dagon again on his face before the Ark, only this time his hands and head were cut off!
A second example deals with the false god, Baal. (1 Kings 18:17-39). In this situation, Elijah was weary of the people worshipping Baal instead of Yahweh. So he proposed a contest: Baal worshippers build an altar to their god, and he would build an altar to Yahweh. Each would put a slaughtered animal on their altar. Then, whichever was the true God would send fire to burn up the sacrifice. The Baal worshippers went first, and spent hours pleading and praying for Baal to answer their request for fire. When they finally gave up, Elijah first had the men totally drench his altar so that even a large trench of water formed at the base of it. Then, with just one prayer, the fire from Yahweh came down from heaven and consumed the sacrifice so thoroughly that the water and even the stones were gone! How magnificent that sight must have been!

6 - Direct communication with animals. This is different than what a human animal trainer does. Trainers use signals and rewards to direct an animal. Yahweh, on the other hand, has the ability to give an animal the inherent knowledge to do something. For example, furthering the story on the situation listed above, when the Philistines stole the Ark of the Covenant, Yahweh plagued them for it. (1 Samuel 5:6-12). When the Philistines finally had enough of the plagues, they sent the Ark away on a wagon pulled by two cows. Yahweh caused the cows to know to travel to the Israelites (1 Samuel 6: 7-14). Another example involves the prophet Elijah. Elijah was told by God to dwell near a certain stream due to a drought (1 Kings 17:1-6). Yahweh informed Elijah that He would send ravens to feed him bread and meat twice a day, and it came to be so.

7 - Manipulation of celestial bodies. (Joshua 10:1-14). In this situation, Joshua was an Israelite whose army was fighting several other armies that collected together against him. Yahweh was with Joshua and his army. During the fighting, the sun was setting. Meanwhile, Yahweh caused great hailstones to fall from the sky to kill the enemy with. The impending sunset alarmed Joshua because he didn't want the enemy to get away in the dark. So Joshua called out for the sun and the moon to remain motionless in the sky, and Yahweh actually listened to him and caused it to happen! The sun and moon stayed motionless for nearly an entire day's worth of time! Think about that...how much power it would take to stop the earth from rotating, and yet keep our gravitational pull intact!

These are but a scant few examples of Yahweh's display of power throughout the bible. Who of us can even begin to compete with such magnificence, power, and glory?! Even the greatest among us is nothing but a mere speck compared to Yahweh's awesome mightiness. Surely this is a very humbling thought.