Who Is Jesus Christ?

Jesus Christ - the only name under heaven!

Taken from the Hebrew Yeshua, Jesus is a masculine personal name meaning Jehovah is salvation (or deliverance), and it was chosen and revealed as the personal name of our Lord.

31 And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS. (Luke 1:31.)  

12 Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. (Acts 4:12)

It is clear that no other name could be better suited for “the Word made flesh”. This name - also found as Jeshua, Joshua, and Jehoshua - was very common among the ancient Jews. Variations of the name include Hosea, Hoshea, and Oshea - all meaning deliverance.

Even though it was a common name anciently, its use by the Lord God Omnipotent as his personal name has given it a sacred connotation for all succeeding generations.

Accordingly, its profane and repetitious use is not in keeping with the true spirit of reverence and worship.

14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. (Isaiah 7:14)

Immanuel means God with us, signifying that Jehovah condescended to earth to be with, and save mankind. Therefore, even though we have no evidence that Jesus bore the name Immanuel on earth, yet he did, since it is almost synonymous with the meaning of Jesus; God with us – Jehovah is salvation.

35 And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God. (St Luke 1:35)

13 And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven. (John 3:16)

The Christ – The Messiah.

36 Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ. (Acts 2:36)

The Christ (Greek Khris-tos), is the same word as the Hebrew Messiah, and it means the Anointed One.

To have been anointed means to have gone through a ceremony where a certain oil (usually olive-oil), particularly set apart for the purpose, was applied to the head, and other parts of the body, as a symbolic preparation and endowment of power to perform in sacred duties. Kings and High Priests are typical officers that would have been anointed.

Jesus Christ was not only Chief High Priest of the Kingdom of God on the Earth, but he was also King of Kings. When the actual anointing of Jesus took place, to be King of Kings and Chief High Priest, has not been revealed, nor has it been revealed who it was who actually performed these anointings. But it seems likely that it was done by someone who had greater or equal authority, which could only be one individual in the entire universe. What an emotional occasion that would have been, God the Father anointing his Only Begotten Son, to the greatest mission ever to be performed, dwarfing every other.

Jesus Christ is the Son, but he is also correctly called Father for two reasons. The first reason why we might correctly call him father is that he is the Creator, the Maker, the Organizer of the heavens and of the earth, and all things that in them are. The second reason why we might call him Father is that he is the Father of all those who are born again, who are begotten sons and daughters unto God through his atoning Sacrifice, who are spiritually begotten through faith, thus becoming his sons and his daughters.

6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. (Isaiah 9:6)

The fact that we rightly call Jesus Christ Father, does not in any way imply that Jesus is the one and the same individual as God the Father. It is not so. God the Father is the father of Jesus Christ, and is as distinctly separated from him physically as you and I are from our fathers. But they are one in purpose. The Father being a separate being, in total unity with his son, Jesus, is made quite clear at the baptism of Jesus, when the voice of the Father, coming from Heaven, reaching his son on earth, saying; “You are my beloved son in whom I am well pleased”.