Bible Talk
It is more than a rhetorical question the title above, God asks because He anticipates the correct answer from each of us, especially in this day and age after some two-thousand years of reflecting and thinking about our manifest Visitation by very God in the person of His Son here referenced. And please notice, He poses the question against the backdrop of His Wisdom instructions no less, in His Proverbs (Proverbs 30:4). Solomon is God’s mouthpiece in the Proverbs, himself further informed by God through his father David. And besides Isaiah, hardly did any other inspired writer of the Christian Bible have such deep insights into the nature and person of God’s Son than did David. (Psalms 2:1-3, 4-9, 110:1, Matthew 22:42-46—David knew the Son’s Name!) So, what is the Son’s Name, surely you know? Let’s talk about it a bit.
Discussion
Wisdom-speak asks wise questions. What is the Son of God’s name is a wise question. Why? Here is why—one cannot “kiss” one whom one does not know, Psalms 2:10-12. But O my, how long indeed before and after this question was posed before we knew with certainty that God even had a Son… Solomon lived and wrote roughly one-thousand years before God’s Son visited us, some three-thousand years ago in toto. How could Solomon have known; how possibly could he have been informed about this very special Son? Obviously, since no one knew that God even had a Son, let alone such rich detail about Him as we read in the Proverbs and especially in the Psalms, he must have gotten his information from outside the Jehovah God-ignorant mundane, from the triune God Jehovah Himself. And what about Messiah—that tradition is fundamental to ancient Israel and Judah, but who would have imagined that Messiah would turn out to be God’s Son—nobody did, except David and Isaiah and possibly a few of the other Jewish prophets. David, the sweet psalmist of Israel, was God’s man, and God spoke through him prolifically—about His Son (2Samuel 23:1-2).
We are going to continue our discussion of our (name of God’s Son) subject through the vehicle of Scripture. In the following list please consider who is speaking to or about whom. We think that Father God (brownish) is talking to or about, His Son Jesus (red). Let’s look at that list one by one and further consider: How could I possibly not know who God’s Son is given all this heads-up? Take the “jump” link to jump to a discussion for a given passage.
1.) …no one has ascended to heaven but He who came down from heaven, [that is], the Son of Man who is in heaven (John 3:13, cf. Ephesians 4:8-10). (jump)
2.) …the LORD said to my Lord (Psalms 110:1, cf. Matthew 22:42-46). (jump)
3.) …the LORD’s Anointed (Psalms 2:2, Isaiah 61:1, Luke 4:16-21, John 3:34, Acts 10:38). (jump)
4.) …I have installed my King upon Zion (Psalms 2:6, cf. Psalms 45:6, Psalms 89:27, 36-37, Isaiah 9:6-7, Daniel 7:13-14, Matthew 28:18, Philippians 2:9-11). (jump)
5.) …the decree of the LORD: He said to Me, You are My Son, Today I have begotten (fathered so some) You (Psalms 2:7). (jump)
6.) …therefore God, Your God, has anointed You (Psalms 45:7). (jump)
7.) … Who has ascended into heaven, or descended? Who has gathered the wind in His fists? Who has bound the waters in a garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What [is] His name, and what [is] His Son’s name, if you know? (Proverbs 30:4, cf. Genesis 1:1ff, John 1:1-5). (jump)
1.) Here Jesus, very Son of God, is speaking two thousand years ago—lots of heads-up for everyone who has lived since then. He identifies Himself as the Son of Man, not the Son of God, but nevertheless, as a Son (Fig. 1). He came down from heaven as the Son of God—it could be no other way what with His coming from heaven—but whilst down here, He identified with humankind—born of a woman, very much a Son of Man indeed. And in Him all us sons and daughters of humankind who believe can become sons and daughters of God.
2.) Anyone who has ever read this verse and missed the clear, easy message of Jesus’ deity resounding loudly in it missed it on purpose and a few other not so nice purposeful things. (Even the fool demons “get it” (Matthew 8:29.) Of necessity, Jesus must be deity for any claim of Him being the Son of God to hold, and not least here we have it plain as can be (this is just one such place, there are bunches of others—Jesus, Amen is fraught with examples in virtually all the categories of this site).
3.) The ORD’S Anointed is none other than Messiah. Yeshua Mashiach, or Jesus Christ. The connection between the Son of God and Messiah—Redeemer, Deliverer—is profound, and there is no way to make that connection without revelatory information coming from God. Son of God, fine, understandable; Messiah, fine understandable; Son of God as Messiah, or Messiah as Son of God, not so understandable by Jewish tradition or otherwise without outside enlightenment, and there it is, in Scripture, available for millennia since this grand Son’s Visitation. (Peter got the message, and straightaway put the pieces together no problem, but without the message, no way, Matthew 16:16-17).
4.) O my, another great name of this Son, even King ( O! that Name).
5.) There it is black on white—super-duper heads-up, a decree even, something etched in stone, and published, that any who balk at this decree be found without excuse. Reject this Son to your own peril dear reader (please do not reject Him friend “A Letter of Invitation”).
6.) Therefore God, Your God…How clear is that as to the deity of the Son, even Jesus? One must really want to miss all this heads-up to not “get it.” (It is called the “ostrich effect”—forward head and brain down in the sand, rearward brain up high and lofty, i.e., the wrong head’s up and missing all the salvific heads-up.) The a priori (prophetic) and post priori (fulfilled in Jesus) evidence about Jesus, His deity, His Sonship, is overwhelming.
7.) If one cannot get past the first book of the Bible, even Genesis, because of unbelief, one cannot possibly know that Name, the name of the Son of God.
Praised be your Name in all the earth my Lord, even Son, Blessed Son, Blessed Son of very God. how exceedingly good it is that we have you. Amen.
illustrations and Tables
Figure 1. The Son of God, His Name is Jesus.
Works Cited and References
“A Letter of Invitation.”
Jesus, Amen.
< https://development.jesusamen.org/a-letter-of-invitation-2 >
“O, That Name!
Jesus, Amen.