The Christadelphian Bible Journal
Jun 2004 Volume 2 Number 18
The name by which the Deity wills to be known is neither God nor Lord, but YAHWEH or YAH, commonly pronounced Jehovah and Jah,--"Extol him that rideth upon the heavens by His name Yah" (Psa. 68:4). He was not known to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob by this name; they knew him by the name, AIL SHADDAI--the strength of the powerful ones. The memorial He ordained as the basis of His name is Ehyeh asher Ehyer. I WILL BE who I WILL BE; not as in the English version, "I am that I am;" I who speak to thee, Moses, WILL BE manifested in the seed or nature of Abraham. When the Eternal Creator should be thus manifested, the flesh-manifestation would be the Christ, Messiah, or YAHWEH-NAME. This name was incipiently manifested four years before the Vulgar Era, and was called by divine command, by the Hebrew name YASHUA, he who shall be, the Saviour, rendered into Greek Yai-sous, or Jesus. This incipient manifestation of Elohim, was "perfected" on the third day after crucifixion, and taken up again into glory forty days after being "made perfect." The proximate manifestation of the YAHWEH-NAME is the development, during the times of the Gentiles, of "a people for the name" by the "obedience of faith," and the perfecting of this doctrinal and ecclesial manifestation, in the subjects thereof, being made like to what Jesus Christ now after their emergence from their graves: "the manifestation of the sons of the Deity," at the near and thief -like advent of CHRIST THE KING. These all constitute the one YAHWEH ELOHIM, or Christ and his brethren, "the Saints;" as saith Moses, "Hear, O Israel, YAHWEH (He who shall be) our ELOHIM (Mighty ones) is ONE YAHWEH." The ultimate, complete, and final manifestation of the YAHWEH-NAME is the development, during the thousand years ensuing upon the end of the times of the Gentiles, of an intelligent, faithful and righteous multitude, which shall attain to perfection at the end thereof--"the Deity, the Father of all, over all, through all, and in all men." "The name of Jesus Christ" is a phrase summarily expressive of the things which make up the Scripture character styled JESUS. "The name of Yahweh, saith Isaiah, "cometh from afar." The prophetic and apostolic testimony concerning the Christ, or Messiah (in English, the ANOINTED ONE) is the exposition of this name, because Christ is "Deity manifested in flesh." To "believe on his name" is to believe intelligently that testimony concerning the Christ, and that Jesus is he. "The blood of Jesus Christ, Son of God, cleanseth from all sin;" and he is the covering for sins, through faith in his blood, for the remission of sins that are past. This sin-cleansing quality makes the name of Jesus the Christ purifying to all the believers of the gospel of the kingdom upon whom it is Scripturally named. Proof: Exod. 3:13-15; 6:2-3; Isa. 7:14; 9:6-7; 30:27-28; Jer. 23:6; Luke 1:31; 13:32; John 20:17; Heb. 2:10; 5:9; John 17:5, 24; Acts 1:3, 11; 1 Tim. 3:16; Acts 15:14; John 5:29; Rom. 1:5; 8:19, 14:10, 12; 1 Cor. 15:49, 52; Phil. 3:20, 21; 1 John 3:2; Luke 20:36; Deut. 6:4; 1 Cor. 15:28; Eph. 4:6; Rev. 21:3; Rom. 3:25; 1 John 1:7; 2:2.
Brother John Thomas 1869