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MY NAME IS IN HIM

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Aug 19, 1880

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 6, No. 31.

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MY NAME IS IN HIM.

By James White

THE Old Testament teaches in the plainest terms that the Son of God represents his Father. "I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him," says the Father of the Son. Deut. 18:18. The New Testament repeats the same sentiment. Christ says, "I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things." See John 7:16; 8:28; 12:49; 14:7-11; 10:30.
Christ represents the father when speaking of himself in these words: "Behold I [the Father] send an angel [Christ] before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into a place which I have prepared. Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he [Christ] will not pardon your transgressions; for my [the Father's] name is in him." Ex. 23:20, 21.
It has been shown that He who went with the Hebrews to deliver them from the house of bondage was Christ. He, then, is the angel whom the Father sent before the Hebrews. The Father put his name in the Son, who represents the mind and will of God in that wonderful deliverance. The expression, "He will not pardon your transgressions," implies that he had the power to forgive sins. None but the Father and the Son can do this. J. W.