Tag: Isaiah

Yet To Be # 116

The name of Jehovah is a strong tower.

What’s in a name continues..

The Bible introduces God and the Son (Elohim) in Genesis. The Father and the Son were together in time past, coequal, coeternal, and coexistent. Studying the names and titles of God gives us a rich understanding of who he is. The more we learn of him the better we can follow him and please him.
Elohei means “God of” as seen in Genesis 31:53 “ the God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor…”
Elohei Kedem “eternal God” appearing in Deuteronomy 33:27 “The eternal God is thy refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms.”
Eternity has no time.
It changes not and is forever without ending or beginning. God is not a man. He is and was and will always be. Elohei Kedem is a fact, it is who he is and speaks of him as above all.
“Yes, before the day was I am he, (before time was) and there is none that can deliver out of my hand. I will work and who shall let it? Thus saith the Lord your redeemer.” Isaiah 43:13.

Yet To Be #100

What’s in a name.

Day 11 What’s In A Name Part 2

What’s in a name?  

There is much in his name. In his name there is power, there is life, there is love, there is fullness of joy. As the Proverbs of King David wrote so long ago, “the name of the Lord is a strong tower, the righteous run into it and is safe.” 

His name shows the richness of his character, the manifestation of his person, and the greatness of his divine being.  

In the New Testament of the Bible, there are two names given to the son of God aside from his numerous titles. It is these names that announce his salvific properties. The purpose of him coming into the world is to seek and to save those who are lost. These names are Jesus and Emmanuel.

Today, glimpse the beauty of that name Jesus. 

In Matthew 1 verse 2, the angel of the Lord came to Joseph, the earthly father saying, “thou shall call his name Jesus for he shall save his people from their sins. (Salvific attributes) Then to Mary, the earthly mother, the angel said to her, “ thou shall conceive in thy womb and bring forth a son, and shall call his name Jesus. The angel goes on to say, Jesus shall be great and shall be called the son of the Highest…and of his kingdom there shall be no end, echoing the book of the prophet Isaiah in chapter 9 verse 7. Here we are reminded of the fact that the old testament writings are mere shadows of the new testament and the life of the coming King.

The new testament though written in Greek, the name Jesus is the transliteration of the Hebrew name Yeshua into Greek then changed into English. He is the savior so there is a fullness in his name.  

(A transliteration is a conversion of a text from one script to another by swapping of letters of the first text into another similar-sounding text of another alphabet.)