Jesus and His God

Zechariah 3:1-2 - And he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of Jehovah, and Satan standing at his right hand to be his adversary.[2] And Jehovah said unto Satan, Jehovah rebuke thee, O Satan; yea, Jehovah that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee: is not this a brand plucked out of the fire? -- American Standard Version .  Deuteronomy 6:4 - Hear, O Israel: Jehovah our God is one Jehovah. -- American Standard Version. Zechariah 3:2 is sometimes quoted as proof that Jesus is called "Jehovah" and therefore it is claimed that Jesus is a person of the trinitarian concept of three persons in God. Of course, there is nothing all here that presents any concept that the one Jehovah is more than one person, or that He is three persons, etc. Such concepts have to imagined, assumed, added to, and read into what is stated. As it reads in the translation above, it would appear that there are two different Jehovahs, one Jehovah who speaks of another Jehovah, ...

(In this study, God's Holy Name is most often rendered as "Jehovah" regardless of how it appears in the translation being quoted) It is often claimed that there is only one "angel of the Lord" in the Bible and that "angel of the Lord is Jesus as the alleged second person of the Holy Trinity.  Strictly speaking, there is no "angel of the Lord" in the Old Testament. The Bible does refer to angels of Jehovah and angels of God, but it never says "angel of the Lord." The extant Greek New Testament manuscripts do several times have the expression that could be rendered as "angel of Lord," but it should be evident that in each instance a form of the Greek word often transliterated as KURIOS (meaning, lord) is used to replace the Holy Name of God. The only angel of Jehovah that is identified by name is Gabriel. -- Luke 1:11,19. However, we believe that the correct reasoning related to any angel of Jehovah is that the angel often ...

By Ronald R. Day (I need to update this; many links may not work; I intend to add more references.) The claim is often presented that the idea that Jesus is Michael the Archangel originated with Charles Taze Russell. An author on one  site claims: "Not only was the very idea unheard of before Charles Taze Russell (the founder of the WTS), but the Bible explicitly rejects the possibility of it." We believe that we have shown below that this statement is false on all points. The idea was definitely not unheard before Charles Taze Russell, as we will show that many before him believed that Michael is Jesus. Regarding the idea that "the Bible explicitly rejects, the possibility of it," we believe that we have elsewhere shown that the Bible does support that Jesus is the archangel, Michael. Some others falsely claim that the idea originated from the Seventh Day Adventists, and that. Charles Taze Russell got this idea from the Seventh Day Adventists.  By what we presen...

All scriptures are quoted from the American Standard Version of the Bible unless otherwise stated.  And Jehovah appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto Jehovah, who appeared unto him. - (Genesis 12:7) And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, Jehovah appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be thou perfect. - (Genesis 17:1) And Jehovah appeared unto him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day; - (Genesis 18:1) And Jehovah appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt. Dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of. - (Genesis 26:2) And Jehovah appeared unto him the same night, and said, I am the God of Abraham thy father. Fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham's sake. - (Genesis 26:24) And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Beth-el, and dwell there: and make there an a...