Exodus chapter 6 verses 2 and
3 says, And God spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I am the Lord. And I appeared unto Abraham,
unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty. But
by my name Jehovah was I not known to them. Any sane, reasonable
person can understand this, but it's a matter of the spirit and
not of the intellect. Jesus is Jehovah God. God is speaking to Moses here,
and we're told that Jesus is God. Isaiah 9.6 says Jesus is
the mighty God. Isaiah 7.14 tells us the Messiah
would be born of a virgin, and his name shall be called Emmanuel.
And then in Matthew 1.23, it confirms that this is not a proper
name, but that his name, the name of Jesus, will be called
Emmanuel because that means God with us. Jesus is God. John 1.1 tells us that Jesus
is the word and the word was God. 1 Timothy 3.16, only in
your King James Bible, the new versions of Rip this out, but
in your King James first Timothy 316 speaks of Jesus when it says
God was manifest in the flesh on and on we could go as Scripture
tells us over and over that Jesus is God and when God appears in
human form it's Jesus and God spake unto Moses and who Jesus
spake. Jesus, who is the image of the
invisible God, according to Colossians 115, is speaking to Moses. And
Jesus, God, said, by my name, Jehovah, was I not known to them? Of course, at this time, he was
still not known to them as Jesus either. And according to the
book of Revelation, we are sort of in the same boat, so to speak,
Why? Because we're told that after
Jesus returns, he will have a new name, but none of us know what
that is yet. Revelation 19.12 says, speaking
of the future second coming of Christ, that his eyes were as
a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns, and he had
a name written that no man knew but he himself. So here, in Exodus,
he's speaking to Moses, but no one knew him as Jehovah or Jesus,
or by that future name that we don't know yet. But it's still
him. And Jesus identifies himself
saying, by my name Jehovah was I not known to them. We covered
some of this in our 109th About Jesus devotional, Exodus 3.14,
titled, Jesus the I Am. The I Am is Jehovah God, and
Jesus is the I Am. Jesus is Jehovah. I Am is from
the Hebrew Yahweh, which is transliterated as Jehovah. Yahweh and Jehovah
is called the Tetragrammaton, but that's just a fancy word
that means there's four letters. The vowels were added in the
Masoretic text, which is then translated in our King James
Bible as Jehovah. And God spake unto Moses and
said unto him, I am the Lord. But Deuteronomy 6.4 says, Hear,
O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord. Jesus is speaking here
and referring to himself as Lord in Exodus 6. Isaiah 26.4 says,
Trust ye in the Lord forever, for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting
strength. Jesus is the Lord. And the Apostle
Paul said in 1 Corinthians 12.3, No man can say that Jesus is
the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost. It's a matter of the spirit,
not the intellect. Calling Jesus the Lord is calling
him Jehovah. Some are ignorant of that fact,
but it's a fact nonetheless. Jesus is the Lord Jehovah, who
is also our Savior. Isaiah 12.2 says, Behold, God
is my salvation. I will trust and not be afraid,
for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song. He also has become
my salvation. And of course, 1 Thessalonians
5.9 says, for God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation
by our Lord Jesus Christ. We look for Jesus, Jehovah God
then, to return for his children and rapture us into his presence,
as Titus 2.13 says, looking for that blessed hope and the glorious
appearing of the great God and our Savior, Jesus Christ. There
is one Lord Jehovah, and his name is Jesus. Jesus is Jehovah
God, and we worship Him, praise Him, adore Him, and thank Him
for His free salvation, and we'll praise Him forever and ever and
ever and ever.