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Jesus Is Yahweh (Jehovah) |
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Jesus is Jehovah. Thomas confessed to the resurrected Christ, “My Lord and my God” (John 20:28). Jesus accepted that confession of faith in Him.
“No one can say, ‘Jesus is Lord,’ except by the Holy Spirit” (1 Cor. 12:3). In deed, no one can become a Christian unless he confesses “with his mouth, ‘Jesus is Lord,’ and believes in his heart that God raised Him from the dead” (Rom. 10:9).
In the Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament, the Septuagint (LXX), the word kurios is the regular word used to translate the Hebrew name for God: Yahweh, Jehovah, or LORD. The word Lord (kurios) was the equivalent of the name of God. At least 150 times in the New Testament it is used of God. The Old and New Testaments alike constantly use kurios for God. This is why most of our English Bibles do not use the name Yahweh or Jehovah but have the LORD or Lord instead. The disciples and the early church knew that great name of God and therefore did not hesitate to declare that Jesus is Jehovah, Yahweh or Lord.
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