Jehovah Witnesses, did you know that Christ is called Yahweh?

clint

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Moses asked God on Mount Sanai, '"Behold, I am going to the sons of Israel, and I will say to them, 'The God of your fathers has sent me to you.' Now they may say to me, 'What is His name?' What shall I say to them?" In reply, God said to Moses, "'I AM WHO I AM'; and He said, 'Thus you shall say to the sons of Israel, 'I AM has sent me to you.'" The tetragrammaton for 'I AM' is YHWH (Yahweh), and it is a name used interchangeably between Father, Son, and Spirit. It is the name of the Godhead, not of one exclusive Person. For example (and I know this is a bad example), are you, your mother, and dad not all three distinct persons, yet, one family (and possess one last name)? Further, is there not subordination within your family? Your father being the lead of the household, and your mother subordinate to he, and you subordinate to both? That is how the Trinity is viewed. Three Persons, yet residing in One Being (not body, but think of it as, family), all share the name 'Jehovah,' and the Father being the head, Christ being His subordinate, and the Spirit being subordinate to both.

In Isaiah 6:5, when Isaiah saw his vision of heaven, with the LORD high and lifted up, he said, "Woe is me, for I am ruined! Because I am a man of unclean lips, And I live among a people of unclean lips; For my eyes have seen the King, the LORD [Yahweh] of hosts." Yet the apostle John, referring to this same incident, writes that Isaiah saw Christ's glory, "and he spoke of Him" (Jn. 12:41).

And in Jeremiah 23:5-6, which is a Messianic prophecy, and a very crucial text for the doctrine of justification by faith. This verse introduces a new name for God, Yahweh Tsidkenu, "Yahweh our righteousness." Notice to whom it is applied: "Behold, the days are coming," declares [Yahweh], "When I shall raise up for David a righteous Branch; and He will reign as king and act wisely And do justice and righteousness in the land. In His days Judah will be saved, And Israel will dwell securely; and this is His name by which He will be called, '[Yahweh] our righteousness'" (Jer. 23:5-6)

See also Zechariah 2:8-11, and Zechariah 14 (C.f. with Isaiah 29, and Revelation 19).
 
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