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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.)