Jehovah and the Angel Jehovah

On this primary and fundamental revelation of this great truth all the subsequent revelations of Scripture are founded. As there is more than one person in the Godhead, we find at once the distinction between Jehovah as the messenger, a mediator, and Jehovah as He who sends, between the Father and the Son, as co-equal, co-eternal persons, which runs through the Bible, with ever-increasing clearness. This is not an arbitrary or unauthorized interpretation of the Old Testament scriptures. In Luke xxiv. 27, it is said of our Lord, that "beginning at Moses, and all the prophets, He expounded unto them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself." Moses therefore did testify of Christ; and we have a sure ground on which to rest in interpreting the passages of the Old Testament, which set forth the person and work of the great deliverer, as referring to Christ.



He who was promised to Adam as the seed of the woman, it was next declared should be the seed of Abraham. That this does not refer to his descendants collectively, but to Christ individually, we know from the direct assertion of the Apostle (Gal. iii. 16), and from the fulfilment of the promise. It is not through the children of Abraham as a nation, but through Christ, that all the nations of the earth are blessed. And the blessing referred to, the promise to Abraham, which, as the Apostle says, has come upon us, is the promise of redemption. Abraham therefore saw the day of Christ and was glad, and as our Lord said, Before Abraham was I am. This proves that the person predicted as the seed of the woman and as the seed of Abraham, through whom
redemption was to be effected, was to be both God and man. He could not be the seed of Abraham unless a man, and he could not be the Saviour of men unless God.



We accordingly find throughout the Old Testament constant mention made of a person distinct from Jehovah, as a person, to whom nevertheless the titles, attributes, and works of Jehovah are ascribed.



He claims divine authority, exercises divine prerogatives, and receives divine homage. If this were a casual matter, if in one or two instances the messenger spoke in the name of him who sent him, we might assume that the person thus designated was an ordinary angel or minister of God. But when this is a pervading representation of the Bible; when we find that these terms are applied, not first to one, and then to another angel indiscriminately, but to one particular angel; that the person so designated is also called the Son of God, the Mighty God; that the work attributed to him is elsewhere attributed to God himself; and that in the New Testament, this manifested Jehovah, who led his people under the Old Testament economy, is declared to be the Son of God, the logos, who was manifested in the flesh, it becomes certain that by the angel of Jehovah in the early books of Scripture, we are to understand a divine person, distinct from the Father. (Hodge v 1 p 484-485)

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1. A long day at work. I left at almost 6 and Kathee worked until 7 and took the bus home
   
   
   
   1. Our engineers finally resolved a network issue at one site that prohibited workstation imaging (reads off the network). This enables us to retire our previous image
      
   2. I authored the image retirement notification
      
   3. Our Acrobat Reader 8 package (uninstalls Reader 7 and installs Reader 8) is in QA. It first shuts down Reader it is open (our last iteration did not and failed when the QA team purposely left Reader open
      
   4. We should get signoff from QA tomorrow and then have open UAT (user acceptance testing) beginning Feb 5th.
      
   
   
2. I stopped at Subway for a 7 grams of fat sandwich. I'm a fan!
   
3. I fed the cats and relaxed a bit then picked up Kathee at 4 Seasons Mall at 7:40
   
4. Now watching Mythbusters
   
5. My Brother had an MRI on his back on Monday and got some results back today. I'm not sure of the specifics but he sees a specialist next Friday (2/2)
   
6. My latest snack food - dried dates. I have three beside my chair now.