John 17:3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. John 17:5 And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. John17:24 Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world. John 17:25 O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me. John 17:26 And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.
2006-09-05 16:50:47 · 23 answers · asked by jeni 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
He was THE Archangel Michael (there is ONLY ONE Archangel in the Holy Bible (Jude 9), and it is Michael). Read "Wisdom Personified" (Proverbs 8:22-36) in Psalms, its Michael (pre-existence of Jesus talking) about his creation by God and how everything was then created by him.
At 1 Thessalonians 4:16 it states here he has "the Archangels voice" when it says "16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first; (Mat. 24:30; 1 Cor. 15:52; 15: 23). Since Christ is NOW IN HEAVEN the King of All except God, it would be a "lowering or a downgrade of his position to call him THE Archangel, unless he ALREADY WAS."
Also, other correspondencies establishing that Michael is actually the Son of God are listed. Daniel, after marking the first reference to Michael (Dan. 10:13), recorded a long-range prophecy reaching down to "the time of the end" (Daniel 11:40), and then stated: "And during that TIME MICHAEL WILL STAND UP (Dan. 12:1), that is will take up power or begin to regin as king. (Compare Daniel 8:22, 23; 11:2, 3, 7, 20, 21.) This implies that a peroid of being seated preceded his standing up as king. In agreement there with Hebrews 10:12, 13 says regrarding Christ Jesus: "This man offered one sacrifice for sins perpetually and sat down at the right hand of God, from then on awaiting until his enemies should be placed as a stool for his feet." Michael's stand up was to lead to a "time of distress such as has not been made to occur since there came to be a nation until that time." (Dan. 12:1).
The Book of Revelation (12:7, 10, 12) mentions Michael in connection with the establishment of God's kingdom and links the event with trouble for the earth: "And war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels battled with the dragon, and the dragon and its angels battled. And I heard a loud voice in heaven say: 'Now have come to pass the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ, because the accuser of our brothers has been hurled down, . . . On this account be glad, you heavens and you who reside in them! Woe for the earth and for the sea.' " Jesus Christ is later depicited as leading the heavenly armies in war against the nations of the earth. (Rev. 19:11-16) This would mean a period of distress for them which is to follow Michael's standing up. (Dan. 12:1)
In his prehuman existence Jesus was called "the Word." (John 1:1) He also had the personal Michael. By retaining the name Jesus after his resurrection (Acts 9:5), the "Word" shows that he is identical with the Son of God on earth. His resuming his heavenly name Michael and his title (or, name) "The Word of God" (Rev. 1(:13) ties him with his prehuman existance. The very name Michael, MEANING as it does "Who is like God?," points to the fact that God is WITHOUT LIKE or EQUAL and Michael as his archangel is his greatest Champion or Vindicator, never trying to equal himself to his Father and Creator.
2006-09-05 17:20:57 · answer #1 · answered by AdamKadmon 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
This is really speculating about things that it is impossible for human beings to comprehend. Jesus Christ is fully God and fully man - and as God, He was with the Father eternally (and in fact "pre-eternally" - since eternity is a concept based on time, and Christ's being is outside of time and was before time was created) and was/is co-essential with the Father. The point being that it is unlikely that he had a "name" in the human sense before his Incarnation as a man. A name implies a limit - something that can be defined. Yet as God, He is limitless and indefinable. And as co-essential God, begotten of the Father, He would not really have need of a "name" in the human sense, since He was/is completely known by the Father and completely knows the Father.
In the text you quoted from, the "name" he declared to the world was His own name - Jesus Christ - through his coming into the world. And He Himself is the exact image of the Father, as St. Paul and others tell us.
I don't know if this helps, but I guess the point is that if we are looking for a human name for the Son of God before His Incarnation, we may be searching in vain. When He told His name to Moses, He simply said "I AM" - not that that was a "name" in the human sense, but a description of His nature as God, the One true Being.
2006-09-05 17:03:48 · answer #2 · answered by LDRship 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Jesus is God. In John a million:a million "interior the start became into the word and the word became into with God and the word became into God." Then John a million:14 is going extra to day the "And the word became into made flesh, and dwelt between us, (and we beheld his glory as of the only begotten of the daddy,) full of grace and reality." Jesus is God, manifested interior the flesh. keep in mind that the Angels and different heavenly beings have been created earlier guy and that they have got been there to witness the creation of the earth. while God created us in his image, i think that he created our SPIRITS in his image. in the different case how do you clarify the reality that men and girls folk are different bodily. Our spirits in spite of the undeniable fact that are equivalent. "So God created guy in his very own image, in a lifeless ringer for God created he him; woman and male created he them." Genesis a million:27
2016-12-12 03:23:33 · answer #3 · answered by lacy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Always good to turn to Scripture. Well done, faithful one. John 1: In the beginning was the WORD. OT has such as well...sort of playing amongst the stars as God spoke.
2006-09-05 16:53:57 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The Word......STOP. Say it and i'll do it. Expression of will of the Father. Let there be light? Okay, I will honor my son who I have declared to creation that he will be the first born of my family of creation who will seek to do my will. Jesus still carrys out the will of His Father.
2006-09-06 21:28:02 · answer #5 · answered by frndchps 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Word
2006-09-05 17:25:28 · answer #6 · answered by deed 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
He had no name. He is simply the Word (Logos) of God.
Ignatius of Antioch
"Jesus Christ . . . was with the Father before the beginning of time, and in the end was revealed. . . . Jesus Christ . . . came forth from one Father and is with and has gone to one [Father]. . .. [T]here is one God, who has manifested himself by Jesus Christ his Son, who is his eternal Word, not proceeding forth from silence, and who in all things pleased him that sent him" (Letter to the Magnesians 6-8 [A.D. 110]).
2006-09-05 17:55:14 · answer #7 · answered by Romeo 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I'd have to go with Jesus as well. In the Bible it mentions him as the coming Messiah, Lord or Savior. Not ever by any specific name!
2006-09-05 17:03:25 · answer #8 · answered by Carolyn T 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The word.
John 1:1
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2006-09-05 16:58:06 · answer #9 · answered by Kelly S 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
He has many different names and even appeared to people living during the old testament,,, just cant remember all the names.
2006-09-05 16:57:37 · answer #10 · answered by ncgirl 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋