johnamos:
Here is the Jesus Christ Jehovah's Witnesses believe in! These are the names and titles
the governing body claim for themselves.
"Mighty God" "Everlasting Father"
.... Soon follows the power which will, under him as our head, constitute the whole body of Christ the "Mighty God" (el- powerful one) to rule and bless the nations-and the body with the head, shall share in the work of restoring the life lost in Adam, and therefore be members of that company which as a whole will be the Everlasting Father to the restored race. (Watch Tower Reprints, October/November, 188 1,298).
"Gods". Our high calling is so great, so much above the comprehension of men ... not any longer human, but "partakers of the divine nature." ... We are divine beings-hence all such are Gods .... Thus we have a family of God, Jehovah being our father .... When Jesus said he was a son of God ... he was making himself to be also a God, or of the God family. ... Now we appear like men, and all die naturally like men, but in the resurrection we will rise in our true character as Gods. (Watch Tower Reprints,December, 188 1,301).
"Immanuel" "complete Christ".Ques. Jesus has not yet been called Immanuel (God with us) yet, has he? Does not this name apply to the complete Christ-head and body-when exalted and present with the world? Ans. We think that it is similar to the title-"The Everlasting Father." ... We are members of the body of that "Everlasting Father" or life giver to the world. So also with the title Immanuel. (Watch Tower Reprints, July 1882, 377).
"Great prophet" "Everlasting Father" "Lifegiver".As the body of the great Prophet, Priest and King, the church will be part of the Everlasting Father or Lifegiver to the world.-Isa. 9:6. (Tabernacle Shadows of the Better Sacrifices (1899), 102).
"completed Christ" "Lord" "Agelasting Father".In brief, this completed Christ, having died and lived again, becomes Lord- Rom 14:9; or Agelasting Father of the human family restored, by the "better sacrifice,"-Heb.9:23, to the original condition of sons. (Watch Tower Reprints, January/February, 1882,3 16).
"God manifest in the flesh".Very shortly now, this mystery of God, this company of divinely-begotten sons, will be FINISHED completed: "The church of the first born," of which Jesus is the head, will soon cease to be, God manifest in the flesh. The entire company shall be glorified together, and "shall shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father." (Matt. 13: 43.) They shall arise in power and strength to bless all the families of the earth. (Watch Tower Reprints, July 1882,369).
"the Christ ... in the flesh".So, then, Christ is manifest in your mortal body. (2 Cor 4: 11) When the world sees you it sees a member of the Christ, not in glory. But in the flesh. ... (Watch Tower Reprints, March 1883,455).
"The Christ" "The Christ of God" "The Messiah".To be thus part of "The Seed," "The Christ," we must see to it that we comply with the conditions [suffer death with Him if we would be found in Him] thus making our calling and election sure.(Watch Tower Reprints, September 1880, 134).
Our oneness with Jesus as members of the Christ-anointed body-maybe clearly illustrated by the figure of a pyramid: ... How beautifully this illustrates our position as members of "The Seed," "The Christ." (Watch Tower Reprints, September 1880, 135).
The Christ of God is Jesus and the redeemed Church (1 Cor. 12: 12. ..). (Watch Tower Reprints, May 1885,75 1).This Gospel age is the time in which the Messiah is prepared. The Head of the Messiah, therefore, very properly, is first; and following him the Apostles and all down through the age the various members of the body. This age will end when the full number of the "elect" shall have been found and tested. Then the body will have been completed. When The Messiah is complete, The Christ will be complete. (Watch Tower Reprints, June 15, 19 1 1,484 1).
"Deliverer" "Servant of the Covenant"."There shall come out of Zion [the spiritual church] the Deliverer [this great high priest, the Servant of the Covenant-Jesus, the Head, and the little flock, his body], and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob." (Tabernacle Shadows, 33-34). (brackets in original].
"great Deliverer Class".This great Deliverer Class has been in process first of development then of birth throughout this gospel age. The Head was born more than eighteen centuries ago; and now the body is being brought to the birth in the first resurrection.(Watch Tower, October 1, 1920,292).
"The Servant of Jehovah (God)" "Servant" "The Christ".Seeing then that The Servant of Jehovah is The Christ, and that The Christ is composed of Jesus and the faithful members of his body, we find it proper to apply the term "Servant" to Jesus Christ alone or to Jesus Christ and the members of his body collectively as one; and sometimes it is applied only to the members of the body yet on earth .... The Christ collectively is The Servant of Jehovah God, and the body members are a part of that Servant; they are also the servants of Christ himself, who is their Head. (Watch Tower, February 15, 1927,53).
"great Shepherd".And other Scriptures show us that all of the flock thus faithful, in following the Shepherd even "unto death," are counted as members of the body of the Shepherd. Thus the entire Gospel age has been the period of suffering with Christ, of dying daily, of laying down our lives for the brethren; and not until this sacrifice is complete in the close of this age will the New Covenant by thrown open in the largest sense of the word to the world of mankind in general, and the great Shepherd be complete-Head and body. (Watch Tower Reprints, February 15, 1899,2442).
"one great Messiah" "great Messiah" "Messiah".Assuredly this is the thought then, that from God's standpoint there is the one great Messiah, the elect Head and the elect members of his body. These, as one loaf, constitute from God's standpoint the bread of everlasting life for the world.,.. (Watch Tower Reprints, October 15, 1906, 3880).Messiah's kingdom once established, Jesus and his glorified church constituting the great Messiah, shall minister the blessings to the people they have so long desired and hoped for and prayed might come. (Rutherford, Millions Now Living Will Never Die [1920], 88)....
The Messiah-Jesus the head and the church his body. (Watch Tower,February 15,1920,54).
"Messiah" "Mediator".Bear in mind that our covenant, the original one [with Abraham], had no mediator..,.A mediator is necessary, and the Messiah, Head and members, will be the Mediator in whose hands of control the entire world will be placed during the Millennium, so that even the willing and obedient will not be directly introduced to the Father until the end of that Mediatorial reign. (Watch Tower Reprints, January 1, 1909,43 10).
"Mediator of the New Covenant" "Great Mediator" "The Christ".From the time of Jesus down, the Mediator of the New Covenant has been in process of selection, and the "better sacrifices," as the basis for the New Covenant have been in process of offering. During this Gospel age Jesus has not exercised his office as Mediator for the world; and the world has no relationship with God, but still lies in the wicked one.
The Mediator himself has been in the process of development .... No mediating can be done until the Mediator of "many members" has qualified for the office. His qualification consists of his sacrificing, according to his covenant of sacrifice.
The Christ, Head and body, are, therefore, the Mediator for the world in a prospective sense-in the same sense as Jesus, the Babe, could be spoken of as the Savior and the King.
He is only now becoming the King and has yet saved only a few of his people .... The Great Mediator between God and man-The Christ of glory-will fill his mediatorial office for a thousand years and complete it only by the end of that time, when he will deliver over to the Father, fully reconciled, all who can be brought into harmony with the divine arrangement. (Watch Tower Reprints, July 15, 1916,5928).
"saviours". [Comment on Revelation 5: 101 And to open the seals thereof.-Disclose the wonderful method by which the Father will develop the saviors of the world.-Obad. 21 (The Finished Mystery, [1917], 101).The saints who are to be associated with Jesus during his reign are likewise called "saviours." (Obadiah 21) (Watch Tower, December 15, 1927,38 1).
"Prophet like unto Moses".The Prophet like unto Moses, the great Law-giver, the great King, the great Mediator, will be the foretold "seed of Abraham," in whom all the families of the earth shall be blessed .... And this seed of Abraham, as we have already seen, as the Apostle has most clearly set forth, consists of our Lord Jesus, as the Head, the chief, and all of his faithful elect church as members-as his body .... (Watch Tower Reprints, August 15, 1901,2859).
It is significant that in the Watch Tower Publications Index (1930-1985) under the "CONGREGATION OF GOD listing, the reader is referred to almost two dozen other entries covering the subject, but not one of the above designations or names appears.
See: The Four Presidents Of The Watch Tower Society/Edmond C. Gruss.
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