TCR 81, 84 - The Lord Redeemer

TCR 81

By the Lord the Redeemer we mean Jehovah in the Human
for it will be shown in the following pages
that Jehovah Himself descended and assumed the Human
in order to effect our redemption.
He is called the Lord and not Jehovah,
because Jehovah in the Old Testament
is called the Lord in the New,
as is evident from the following passages.
In Moses it is said:

"Hear, O Israel: Jehovah our God is one Jehovah:
And thou shalt love Jehovah God
with all thy heart, and with all thy soul."
(Deuteronomy 6: 4, 5)

 But in Mark it is said:

"The Lord our God is one Lord.
And thou shalt love the Lord thy God
with all thy heart, and with all thy soul."
(Mark 12: 29, 30)

 Then in Isaiah it is said:

"Prepare ye the way of Jehovah,
make straight in the desert a highway for our God."
(Isaiah 40: 3)

 But in Luke it is said:

"Thou shalt go before the face of the Lord
to prepare His ways."
(Luke 1: 76)

. . . since knowledge of the Lord surpasses in excellence
all knowledge in the Church,
and even in heaven,
some revelation of it will now be made
in the following series of articles:

(1) Jehovah the Creator of the universe
descended and assumed the Human,
in order to redeem and save mankind.

(2) He descended as the Divine Truth,
which is the Word;
and yet He did not separate the Divine Good.

(3) He assumed the Human a
according to His own Divine order.

(4) The Human, by which He sent Himself into the world,
is what is called the Son of God.

(5) The Lord, by acts of redemption,
made Himself righteousness.

(6) By the same acts
He united Himself to the Father,
and the Father united Himself to Him,
also according to the Divine order.

(7) Thus God became Man, a
nd Man God, in one Person.

(8) The progress to union was His state of exinanition,*
and the union itself is His state of glorification.

(9) Hereafter no Christian can enter heaven
unless he believes on the Lord God the Savior,
and approaches Him alone.

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* exinanition - a state of humiliation,
during which the maternal heredity was being removed.
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TCR 84

For redemption meant the subjugation of the hells,
the bringing of the heavens into order,
and afterwards the establishment of the Church.
God from His omnipotence
could not accomplish these things
unless by means of the Human,
just as no man can act without an arm;
and indeed His Human is called in the Word
"the arm of JEHOVAH." (Isaiah 60:10; 53:1)