By WILLIAM L. PETTINGILl
by the word of his power” (Heb. 1:3). He revealed Himself to Moses in the burning bush as the eternal “I AM” (Ex. 3:14); and in John 8:58 He said: “Before Abraham was, I am.” And again He revealed Himself to Moses in Exodus 6 as JEHOVAH, This mysterious name, occurring more than seven thousand times in the Old Testa ment, is preserved for us in the com monly used King James Version only seven times, the word being generally rendered LORD or GOD, in capital letters. Its probable meaning is “He that shall come” (Of. Matt. 11:3; Heb. 10:37). So in His second manifestation to Moses, the eternal I AM revealed Himself as THE COMING ONE. Finally He came. “With us is God.” “Hail, all hail, Immanuel!” He is frequently called God in the Old Testament and also in the New. In Psalm 45:6, 7, the Father addresses Him as God, as is proved by the quo tation of these verses in Hebrews 1:8, 9: “Unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is fo r ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom. Thou hast loved righteous ness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.” [•Continued on Page 425]
A T ^ H E PREDICTION hete referred to in Matthew 1:18-25, “which JL was spoken by the Lord through the prophet,” Is recorded in Isaiah 7:14. The prophet had offered the apostate King Ahaz “a sign of the Lord thy God... either in the depth, or in the height above,” and when the king re fused tO ask for the sign, the prophet gave a sign, not for the king, but through him for the house of David. And this was the sign: “Behold, a vir gin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his hame Immanuel.” There was the sign, and there it stood for seven and a half centuries before it was fulfilled. “ Immanuel” means “With us is God.” "Jesus” is “Jehovah the Saviour.” Apart from Him, “No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him” - (John 1:18). All the Old Testament appear ings of God are preincamate appear ings of the E t e r n a l Son. “ In him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily” (Col. 2:9). “All things Were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made” (John 1:3). "By him were all things created . . . all things were created by him, and for him . . . and in him all things hold together” (Col. 1:16, 17, R. V. Marg.). He upholdeth “all things
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