Making His Name Known - Exodus 6:2-4

Making His Name Known

Christ will give His name to those who have entered the New Jerusalem that will descend from heaven. 

Exodus 6:2-4

God spoke to Moses and said to him, “I am the Lord. I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty, but by my name the Lord I did not make myself known to them. I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they lived as sojourners.

God revealed Himself as “God Almighty” in the Old Testament. He appeared to the fathers of Israel in this fashion which is consistent with a covenant based on Law and is land based: the promised land. 

God reveals Himself as our Father in the New Testament. He appears to each believer in the form of the Holy Spirit who begins to form us into His image. 

Knowing someone’s name implies an intimacy and the power of relationship. This took place when Jesus, the Son of Man came among us. God does not speak to us from a distant mountaintop, but from Spirit to spirit within the heart of man. 

We will know His because it will be ours. 

Revelation says we will receive His name and a new name. 

Revelation 2:17 ESV 

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, with a new name written on the stone that no one knows except the one who receives it.’

Revelation 3:12 ESV 

The one who conquers, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God. Never shall he go out of it, and I will write on him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down from my God out of heaven, and my own new name.