Aunty Jane
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Yes on all counts! Jesus has many names and titles, but Jehovah (YAHWEH) has only one. (Psalm 83:18)Alright. I apologize.
Ref rev 3.14. "The Faithful and true witness"
In rev 19 again states that this is Jesus. "The word of God.
11 And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. 12 His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself. 13 And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.
Jesus has always been “the Word of God” in that he always spoke what his Father taught him. He never taught from himself or his own ideas. (John 7:18)
Heb 1:1-4...KJV.
“God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,
2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
4 Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.”
As “the Word made flesh” God was now offering something more that what his people had in the past....this last prophet was his own “firstborn son”. He is appointed “heir of all things”...so, what did he inherit, and why did God give this to him?
He was “the express image” of his God and Father, (whom he described as “the only true God” in John 17:3).....meaning that he was so like him, that if you saw Jesus, you knew what his Father was like in all respects. On his return to heaven though, how can it be said that was “made better than the angels and by inheritance obtained a name more excellent than they”?
If he was God incarnate and returned to heaven as the “God” he was before his mission, how come he obtains an inheritance (since all things belong to God anyway) and a name more excellent than the angels? Wasn’t his name always more excellent than any angel?
Those who do not believe in the God of the Jews (Deut 6:4) will never understand his relationship with his firstborn son, and how Abraham was used to illustrate how difficult it was for him to have to sacrifice his own precious son, because God required it? (Heb 11:17-19)
Unless we have the big picture....we will struggle with groups of isolated pixels, unable to join them up to form that big picture. What was God’s first purpose for mankind.....what went wrong and why?.....then how did God plan to get back what Adam lost for his children? It all fits into the big picture.....do you have one?