The Lord Is God

You were shown these things so that you might know that the Lord is God; besides him there is no other. (Deut 4:35)

For all their history the Jews have remembered their great deliverance from Egypt and the miraculous way God brought them through the desert and into the promised land. They repeated the story over and over. (See Acts 7.) It defined them as a people. It was no accident that God established the nation of Israel with such signs and wonders (v34). He did it to establish beyond any doubt that he is God and there is no other – and Israel is his chosen people. It is also worth noting that even though earlier in this chapter Moses refers to “other gods,” in this verse he clearly states that there is only one true God. Some people read these early Old Testament references to "other gods" and conclude that monotheism was a later invention, but verses like this make clear that it was not. From their earliest days the Jews have proclaimed that God is One.