Yes — God is present everywhere; there is no place where He is not near.
Acts 17:27 says God is “not far from every one of us,” and Les Feldick teaches that God knows every thought and every place we go because He is present. Scripture also says God does not dwell in temples made with hands, and He will ultimately dwell with His people in the new creation.
Acts 17:24-27 — This passage directly states that God is not far from every one of us, answering the question of whether God is present in every place.
Revelation 21:3 — Shows God's presence ultimately dwelling with His people in eternity.
The Bible reveals that God made the world and everything in it, and that He is Lord of heaven and earth. He does not live in temples made with human hands, and He gives to all people life and breath and all things (Acts 17:24-25). The same passage says God determined the times and places of every nation so that people “should seek the Lord... though he be not far from every one of us” (Acts 17:26-27). Revelation 21:3 looks ahead to eternity and says, “Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.” God's presence is therefore true now, in every place, and in the eternity to come.
Les builds his teaching on God's character by emphasizing that God is sovereign, immutable, and omniscient. He knows everything there is to know and never has to search for information (Clip 0). When teaching from the New Testament, Les draws attention to the truth that God is Lord of heaven and earth and “not far from any one of us” (Clip 2). He also makes the personal application practical: God knows our thoughts and every place we go because He is here (Clip 5). Les then applies God's presence to the believer. Just as the Shekinah glory filled Solomon's temple, the Holy Spirit comes to live in every person God saves (Clip 5). And in the age to come, God will no longer be an unseen God taken by faith from a distance; He will be personally present with every one of His people (Clip 7).
Scripture is clear that God does not dwell in temples made with hands, because He is Lord of heaven and earth (Acts 17:24). Les points out that when Solomon's temple was dedicated, the Shekinah glory of God came down and dwelt there — but that was only a foreview of this age, when the Holy Spirit comes to live inside every believer (Clip 5).
Les says God knows every thought and every place we go, because He is here (Clip 5). God's knowledge is total; He is omniscient and does not have to look anything up (Clip 0).
Les teaches that in eternity God will be in the very present, not someone far off we take by faith. There will be billions of inhabitants, but each one will know God as personally as they know their own parent (Clip 7). This matches Revelation 21:3, where God Himself dwells with His people.
The Omniscient God
Les teaches that God has complete knowledge and never has to look anything up, showing that nothing in any place escapes His awareness.
Hagar, Ishmael & The Everlasting God: Genesis 21 Bible Study
Now the everlasting God then, as it's used in Genesis, is speaking of more than the God from eternity past. Out here before Genesis 1 even came. And we take eternity past all the way to the end of our timeline to eternity future. Now that's everlasting to everlasting, isn't it? That's the God of creation. He is the everlasting God.
God Is Not Far From Us
Les reads that God is Lord of heaven and earth and is “not far from any one of us” — the Bible's direct statement that God's presence reaches every person everywhere.
What Happens After Hell? The Great White Throne Explained
We've got Hades, or hell, or however you want to call it, but Abraham defines it as a place with a great gulf fixed. Now on one side was torment, no doubt about it, but on the other side was paradise. All right, now we know that before the cross, all the way from Adam, men lived and died, and even the believers, with the two exceptions, and you know I'm always pointing out that God is God, and He …
What Happens After Hell? The Great White Throne Explained
Present with the Lord. We don't go down into the innermost parts of the earth, we go immediately up into the presence of the Lord, because that's where paradise is now located. But hell, now the Old Testament tells us, the place of torment was enlarged. In other words, after paradise was removed, that whole area has now become then totally the place of torment.
God's Presence With the Believer
Les explains that God knows our thoughts and every place we go because He is here, and he compares the Shekinah glory in Solomon's temple to the Holy Spirit dwelling in believers today.
Hagar, Ishmael & The Everlasting God: Genesis 21 Bible Study
Now this may sound at this point in time rather gobbledygook, but I'm trying to build my case. The everlasting God to everlasting is also the God who is the God of intrinsic time. And He is also, since He's sovereign, totally capable of either revealing everything within time or He can keep it secret.
God's Presence in the New Creation
Les teaches that in eternity God Himself will be present with His people, personally known as a parent, rather than a distant God taken by faith.
Acts 17:24: God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;
Shows God is Lord over all creation and is not confined to human-built structures.
Acts 17:27: That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:
This is the Bible's most direct statement that God is near to every person in every place.
Revelation 21:3: And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
Reveals that God's presence will be fully realized when He dwells with His people in eternity.
Les teaches that God knows every thought and every place we go because He is here. He also points to Acts 17:27, which says God is not far from any one of us, and he compares the Shekinah glory in Solomon's temple to the Holy Spirit dwelling in believers today (Clip 5).
Yes. Les explains that when God saves an individual, that person immediately becomes a temple — a dwelling place for God. Just as the Shekinah glory came into Solomon's temple, the Holy Spirit comes into the believer (Clip 5).
Les teaches that in eternity God will be in the very present, not someone far off we take by faith. He says each of the billions of inhabitants will know God as personally as they know their own parent (Clip 7).
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