The Messenger
Christ's first advent mission was to gather the ones His Father gave to Him "I
revealed Your name to the men whom You gave to Me out of the world..." (John 17:6)
and to lead them out of this sinful world to His Father's kingdom "Then is the end,
when He delivers the kingdom to God, even the Father; when He makes to cease all
rule and all authority and power." (1 Corinthians 15:24). We are to follow Christ
to this kingdom's entrance, using the Book Christ gave to all, by His inspiration
to the many Bible writers. Christ personally unlocked the Heavenly gate by paying
the price for our repented sins, for those written in the Book of life. With His
inspired words and from His own lips, Jesus delivers messages from His Father, declaring
the sovereign authority of His Father, God Jehovah. "Jesus said unto her, Do not
touch Me, for I have not ascended to My Father, but go to My brothers and say to
them, I am ascending to My Father and your Father, My God and your God." (John 20:17)
read John 10:29, John 11:40 and John 14:28, it was God's sovereignty that gave Christ
His authority, "And coming up Jesus talked with them saying, All authority in heaven
(KJV) and earth was given to Me." (Matthew 28:18), "Behold, My Child whom I chose,
My beloved, in whom My soul has delighted! I will put My Spirit on Him and He will
declare judgment to the nations." (Matthew 12:18), this was taken from, "Behold My
servant, I will uphold Him; My elect in whom My soul delights! I have put My Spirit
on Him; He shall bring forth justice to the nations." (Isaiah 42:1), also read Matthew
19:17. God Jehovah's authority was established at creation and was cemented within
the Ten Commandments by God's own finger, stated in the fourth Commandment "For in
six days Jehovah made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all which is in them,
and He rested on the seventh day; on account of this, Jehovah blessed the sabbath
day and sanctified it." (Exodus 20:11), "But now please ask the animals, and they
will teach you; and the birds of the heavens and they will tell you; or speak to
the earth and it will teach you; and the fish of the sea will account to you; who
of all these does not know that Jehovah's hand has done this?" (Job 12:7-
Jesus, the predicted Messiah, arrived on time bearing messages from His Father and confirming, Jehovah as our God, "Answering at that time, Jesus said, I praise You Father, Lord of Heaven and earth." (Matthew 11:25), Jesus was also quoting Abram, "...I have lifted my hand to Jehovah, the most high God, the possessor of Heaven and earth." (Genesis 14:22), "know today and lay it in your heart, that Jehovah, He is God in the heavens above and on the earth beneath; there is no other." (Deuteronomy 4:39). Christ asks us to pray to our Father, "Our Father who is in Heaven, let be sanctified Your name...for Yours is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory to forever, Amen." (Matthew 6:13)(Luke 11:2). Jesus directs us to pray to His Father in His name,"...that whatever you should ask the Father in My name, He may give to you." (John 15:16).
Christ is now our Mediator to the Father and He came to us in the name of His Father, as God's representative, "And the crowd, the ones going before and the ones following were crying out saying, Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is the One coming in the name (authority or character) of the Lord." (Matthew 21:9, Mark 11:9, Luke 19:38 & John 12:13) and the name of the "Lord" is "Jehovah", "And let them know, Your name is Jehovah, that You alone are the most high over all the earth." (Psalm 83:18), and the One coming in this name, with God's authority is the Stone that the builders rejected, "Blessed is He who comes in the name (honor, authority and character) of Jehovah; we blessed You from the house of Jehovah." (Psalm 118:26) and (John 7:28,29)(Matthew 23:39)(Luke 13:35). Jesus came in the name of the Father just as we pray to the Father in the name of Jesus, as our Mediator. I need to point out that, at some point after Christ's first advent, God's name "Jehovah" was replaced in the common Bibles with "Lord" or "God" 6743 times in the Old Testament (KJV), which can be proven by the Hebrew text in a Bible that displays the "Tetragrammaton". You can also prove this by looking up "Lord" and "God" in the Strong's Concordance and you will see that over 80 percent is the Strong's number #3068, then go to the dictionary part of Strong's and look at meaning to #3068 "Yehovah". During Christ earthly walk, He consistently gave credit to His Father, "... the Son is not able to do anything for Himself, except what He may see the Father doing..." (John 5:19), "Jesus answered them, I showed you many good works from My Father. For which work of them do you stone Me?" (John 10:32), and not only His works but His words, "...The words I speak to you, I do not speak from Myself, but the Father who abides in Me, He does the works." (John 14:10) "...but the One sending Me is true, and what I heard from Him, these things I say to the world." (John 8:26), "I have given them Your word and the world hated them because they are not of the world, as I am not of the world." (John 17:14). There are other such verses in all of God's word, if you care to look.
Christ was sent by the Father because of Jehovah's love for us, we are His creation,
"And Jehovah God formed the man out of the dust of the ground and blew into his nostrils
the breath of life; and man became a living soul." (Genesis 2:7), sending His Son
was the ultimate sacrifice, our salvation was that important to Him, "For God so
loved the world that He gave His only-
And Jesus worked His miracles by faith in His Father, because he was lowered during His first advent, "You made Him a little less then the angels; You crowned Him with glory and honor; and You set Him over the works of Your hands." (Hebrews 2:7), "For I have come down out of Heaven, not that I should do My will, but the will of Him who sent Me." (John 6:38), "so that the crowd marveled, seeing the dumb speaking, the maimed sound, the lame walking and the blind seeing. And they glorified the God of Israel." (Matthew 15:31) and the God of Israel is, "...So says Jehovah the God of Israel, Send away My people, and they shall feast to Me in the wilderness." (Exodus 5:1). Christ gave credit to His Father for the miracles He performed, "And He laid hand on her. And instantly she was made erect and glorified God." (Luke 13:13), "And one of them, seeing that he was cured, returned glorifying God with a loud voice." (Luke 17:15). Again, there is only one God, the Father, Jehovah. "one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all and in all." (Ephesians 4:5,6).
Christ warns us, "...the one rejecting Me, also rejects the One having sent Me." (Luke 10:16), "The one who does not love Me does not keep My words, and the word which you hear is not Mine, but the Father who sent Me." (John 14:24). And He also commands us, "So let your light shine before men, so that they may see your good works, and may glorify your Father in Heaven." (Matthew 5:16), "But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness..." (Matthew 6:33), "Not everyone who says to Me, Lord, Lord, will enter the kingdom of Heaven, but the ones who do the will of My Father in Heaven." (Matthew 7:21), "And Jesus said to him, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind." (Matthew 22:37, Mark 12:30 & Luke 10:27) (Matthew 12:50) these verses quote from, "And you shall love Jehovah your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might." (Deut. 6:5), "And answering Jesus said to them, Have faith in God." (Mark 11:22), "Truly, truly, I say to you, The one who hears My word and believes the One who sent Me, has everlasting life..." (John 5:24).
Jesus' last act as a man was dying on the cross for man, establishing the salvation made available to us for our repented sins, "I desire mercy and not sacrifice, for I did not come to call righteous ones, but sinner to repentance." (Matthew 9:13, Mark 2:17 & Luke 5:32), and God Jehovah gave His Son this commission to establish His salvation for the world "And it shall be that everyone who shall call on the name of the Lord will be saved." (Acts 2:21) and this is a direct quote from the Old Testament, "For it shall be, all who call on the name of Jehovah shall be saved..." (Joel 2:32), "and I saw and beheld, the Lamb standing on Mount Zion! And with Him were a 144,000, with the name of His Father having been written on their foreheads." (Revelation 14:1). Without Christ's willful act to die for our sins at Calvary, salvation would not be possible, no matter how perfect we could be, we would be lost to the second death, but Jesus became our Savior, after His Father initiated salvation, "and my spirit exulted in God my Savior." (Luke 1:47) a reference to, "For I am Jehovah your God, the holy One of Israel, your Savior..." (Isaiah 43:3). Here is a list of Old Testament verses that present Jehovah, God as our Savior: 2 Samuel 22:3, Psalm 6:21, Isaiah 43:3, 11, 45:15,21, 49:26, 60:16, 63:8,9, Jeremiah 14:7,8, Hosea 13:4. And the New Testament verses stating God as Savior: "Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ according to a command of God our Savior and the Lord Jesus Christ, our hope." (1Timothy 1:1), "and all flesh shall see the salvation of God." (Luke 3:6), also, 1Timothy 2:3, 4:10 and Luke 1:47, Titus 1:3, 2:10, 3:4 and Jude 1:25. Here are some New Testament verses stating Jesus as our Savior: "because today a Savior, who is Christ the Lord, was born to you in the city of David." (Luke 2:11) and John 4:42, 2Timothy 1:10, Titus 1:4, 2:13, 3:6, 2Peter 1:1,11, 2:20, 3:2,18. "God has exulted this One as a Ruler and Savior to His right hand, to give to Israel repentance and forgiveness of sins." (Acts 5:31) also, "And we have beheld and bear witness that the Father has sent the Son as Savior of the world." (1John 4:14). According to all these verses, it shows that Jehovah is the one who originated Salvation for His world, then, He sent His Son to establish Jehovah's salvation for Him, making Christ the Savior along with His Sender, God Almighty.
Christ spoke of His learning and doing what He sees the Father doing, "...and
from Myself I do nothing; but as My Father taught Me, these things I speak." (John
8:28). "I speak what I have seen with My Father..." (John 8:38). Saying this indicated
that at some point Christ watched and learned from His Father. The only time mentioned
in the Bible that this took place was during the Old Testament period. Not only was
Christ inspiring the writers, according to (John 1:1), but also He was with His Father
as Jehovah did His work, Christ was learning while at His Father's side, "then I
(Christ) was at His side (Jehovah) like a (one brought up KJV) and I was His delight
day by day, rejoicing before Him at every time." (Proverbs 8:30, according to the
JP Green Interlinear Bible). The Hebrew word translated for #525 "amown" prob. in
the sense of training; skilled, i.e. an architect (like 542); one brought up. The
translators seem to have ignored the in training part of #525, the I-
At times in the OT, angels (messengers) of Jehovah appeared to men, but only twice Gabriel was named in the OT and twice in the NT. Michael, the Archangel was also named in the NT. An angel of the Lord is mentioned about 65 times but most of these are stated as "the Angel of Jehovah", and an angel of God is mentioned about 13 times, according to the KJV Bible. They could all be the same angel or all different angels, but at certain times, some translators chose to note the "Angel of the Lord" as to be Jesus, by capitalizing "A". I question their authority to make this judgment call. "And the Angel of Jehovah appeared to him in a flame in the middle of a thorn bush...And Jehovah saw that he turned aside to see, and God called to him and said...do not come near here, pull off your sandals from your feet, for the place in which you are standing is holy ground." (Exodus 3:2,4 & 5). Paying close attention to the language in this verse, The "Angel of the Jehovah" was visible in the midst of the fire but He made no declaration, Jehovah God Himself, spoke from the burning bush to Moses. The one speaking was not the Angel of Jehovah because it says God (there is only one God) spoke and we know that angels are not God, but messengers of God. Since Jehovah God was present speaking, the ground was declared holy. If the Angel of Jehovah was Michael (Jesus), as most Bibles indicate by its capitalization, then Jesus was with the Father Jehovah in appearance only. According to this verse and others, Jehovah spoke for Himself throughout the OT and He spoke three times in the NT, and He spoke only, because man cannot view Jehovah God in our, now degraded state. We can understand that the Son of God was with Jehovah in the OT, learning and working with His Father, plus inspiring the Bible writers. If I can use logic, Christ received this training because He was to be given the commission and authority to gather and bring home to God's kingdom, the ones His Father was to give to Him, "My Father who has given them to Me is greater then all, and no one is able to pluck out of My Fathers hand." (John 10:20).
Jesus directs us to do the will of His Father and our Father "For whoever does the will of God, this one is my brother, and my sister and my mother." (Mark 3:35). Most all Christ's messages listed were to reveal the Father, plus His Father's name to man "And I made Your name known to them and I will make it known, that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them." (John 17:26), "...but I will reveal the Father plainly to you." (John 16:25). The apostles must have clearly received this message, "who gave Himself for our sins, so that He might deliver us out of the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, to whom be the glory forever and ever, Amen." (Galatians 1:4,5) "And every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of the Father." (1Philippians 2:11). And His Son is making sure we give His Father the glory that He justly deserves by recording God's words. "I am Jehovah, that is My name; and I will not give My glory to another..." (Isaiah 42:8). We are His glory, along with all of Jehovah's creations, including the system Jehovah designed that balances all things. However, we are the exception to this balance; we are given free will to choose obedience by keeping Jehovah's covenant and doing His will and His commands, because we learned and understand His ways and have love for His ways because of our personal understanding, which we have gained by often reading all His words and desiring to do them.
