By Kingsley Baehr
The month of January in the Roman calendar as well as ours, was named for the Roman god Janus, the two-faced god. He was considered to be the keeper of the universe.
Jehovah, the God of the Bible IS the Keeper of the universe.
Isaiah 40:18 – To whom then will you liken God? or what likeness will you compare to Him?
Isaiah 40:21,22 – Have you not known? Have you not heard? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth? It is He who sits on the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are as grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens as a curtain and spreads them out as a tent to live in.
Isaiah 40:25,26 – “To whom then will you compare Me, or shall I be equal?” says the Holy One. “Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who has created these things, who brings out their host by number; He calls them all by names by the greatness of His might, for He is strong in power; not one fails.
Isaiah 40:28 – Have you not known? Have you not heard that the everlasting God, Jehovah, the Creator of the ends of the earth, does not faint, neither is weary? There is no searching out His understanding.
Janus was considered to be the god of beginnings.
Isaiah 40:21,22 – Have you not known? Have you not heard? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth? It is He who sits on the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are as grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens as a curtain and spreads them out as a tent to live in.
Isaiah 40:25,26 – “To whom then will you compare Me, or shall I be equal?” says the Holy One. “Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who has created these things, who brings out their host by number; He calls them all by names by the greatness of His might, for He is strong in power; not one fails.
Isaiah 40:28 – Have you not known? Have you not heard that the everlasting God, Jehovah, the Creator of the ends of the earth, does not faint, neither is weary? There is no searching out His understanding.
Janus was considered to be the god of beginnings.
Jehovah IS the God of beginnings.
Genesis 1:1 – In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
John 1:1,2,14 – In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him and without Him, nothing was made that was made... And the Word became a human being and lived among us...
John 1:1,2,14 – In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him and without Him, nothing was made that was made... And the Word became a human being and lived among us...
Janus was considered to have been a great king before he became a god.
Jehovah IS AND ALWAYS HAS BEEN the King of Kings and Lord of Lords.
1 Timothy 6:15b,16 – He is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light... to whom be honor and everlasting power. Amen.
If a Roman began an endeavor with prayers to Janus, he hoped that he would be ensured a good conclusion.
If you will begin the rest of your life by addressing to Jehovah prayers of: confession, repentance, and pleas for forgiveness, He will deliver you from the bondage of sin, send His Spirit to indwell you, and guarantee
to you the best conclusion of all: ETERNITY AT HOME WITH HIM IN HEAVEN.
Romans 10:9,10 – If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes for righteousness, and with the mouth,
confession is made for salvation.
John 14:16,17 – [Jesus said to His disciples] “I will pray to the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever, even the Spirit of Truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you.”
John 5:24 – [Jesus said] “He who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.”
John 14:16,17 – [Jesus said to His disciples] “I will pray to the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever, even the Spirit of Truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you.”
John 5:24 – [Jesus said] “He who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.”
In which are you trusting: your own “Janus”, or the true God, Jehovah?