All titles,capital lettering,peroids,commas etc.., are extremely important if we are to understand that which God is trying to communicate unto us as Christians,consider the prayer that Jesus prayed in the garden unto the Father before the cross.
I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. / Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour. Father, glorify thy name, Then came a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again. The people therefore, that stood by, and heard it, said that it thundered: others said, An angel spake to him. Jesus answered and said, This voice came not because of me, but for your sakes. Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out. John:17:4-5;12:27-31
God speaking from heaven stated "I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again"
this pretaining to the advent of the cross, the "have" glorified name was that name which Christ had with the Father before coming to the earth - and the "will" glorify it is a time after the cross, the time between "have and will" is the time of Jesus
humanity which he had to have to die on the cross, so you might have something like
have-cross/death-will. Now that Christ has gone to the cross and died for our sins there should be a place where we can see the glorified name of Christ wouldn't we? And there is in John 20:13,18,20,25,28, in which the name of Jesus is now referred to
as: LORD.
And they say unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? She saith unto them, Because they have taken away my LORD, and I know not where they have laid him. - And Thomas answered and said unto him, My LORD and my God. (John 20:13&28 see also:18,20,25)
Now why is this important? First it relates which word of God is the one we should study as other versions do not have the capitalization of the LORD. Second it identifies the name of the LORD that Israel is looking toward and found in the old testament to which Jesus alluded to in Matthew 23:38-39 -
Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.
And that of the prophecy of John the Baptist which exclaimed:
I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire: Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire. Matthew 3:11-12
For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire. For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many. Isaiah 66:15-16
Thus saith the LORD GOD; Because the Philistines have dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance with a despiteful heart, to destroy it for the old hatred; Therefore thus saith the LORD GOD; Behold, I will stretch out mine hand upon the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethims and destroy the remnant of the sea coast. And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them. Ezekiel 25:15-17 (verse
17 was used in the movie PULP FICTION a note for Matthew 11:16-17)
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