Christ Is God: According To Revelation [Updated 9/12/24]

   

  I previously went over Christ as the First and the Last, and many of the verses here are from that article, but there will be a few more that were not in that article. 

• Isaiah 41:4 Part I

    4 Who has acted and done this, Summoning the generations from the beginning? I, Jehovah, am the First One; And with the last ones I am the same."

• Isaiah 44:6 Part II

    6 This is what Jehovah says, The King of Israel and his Repurchaser, Jehovah of armies: "I am the first and I am the last. There is no God but me."

• Isaiah 48:12 Part III

    12 Listen to me, O Jacob and Israel, whom I have called. I am the same One. I am the first; I am also the last.-"

• Revelation 1:8 Part IV

    8 "I am the Alpha and the Omega," says Jehovah God, "the One who is and who was and who is coming, the Almighty." 

    So clearly it is Jehovah, God the Father who is the First and the Last, it seems Revelation has kept faithful to what the Old Testament said. That is according to the Jehovah witnesses' New World Translation 2013 . You see, the word Jehovah, in Revelation has never been there until they made their translation. Not a single Greek manuscript of the New Testament has the divine name in it. The Society added the divine name 237 times into the New Testaments by replacing the term "Lord" and "God" in certain verses, specifically in verses about Christ that shows that He is God.  Let's quickly jump back a few verses here in Revelation 1 to see who is actually speaking here.

• Revelation 1:5-7 Part V 

    5 and from Jesus Christ, "the Faithful Witness," "the firstborn from the dead," and "the Ruler of the kings of the earth." To him who loves us and who set us free from our sins by means of his own blood 6 and he made us to be a kingdom, priests to his God and Father yes, to him be the glory and the might forever. Amen. 7 Look! He is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, and those who pierced him; and all the tribes of earth will beat themselves in grief because of him. Yes, Amen.

    So Christ is the Faithful Witness and the firstborn from the dead. Got it, then He set us free from sin by His own blood. Got it, then verse 6 says "his God" yet older, more reliable and accurate translations just say "God." Then verse 7 says Christ is coming with the clouds and every eye will see Him, even those who pierced Him.

Example 1A. (The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures jw.org)

Example 1B.  (biblehub.com)

    Strong's Concordance says that pierce is used like pierced deeply. So tell me when Jehovah the Father was ever pierced deeply? Christ was pierced deeply in John 19:34 besides that I do not know of a verse to back up the Father being pierced. And these are not the only verses in Revelation that prove Christ deity is not just human but God,

• Revelation 1:13-15 Part I

    13 and in the midst of the lampstands someone like a son of man, clothed in a garment that reached down to the feet and wearing a golden sash around his chest. 14 Moreover, his head and his hair were white as white wool, as snow, and his eyes were like fiery flame, 15 and his feet were like fine copper when glowing in a furnace, and his voice was like the sound of many waters.

• Revelation 1:17-18 Part II

    17 When I saw him, I fell as dead at his feet. And he laid his right hand on me and said: "Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last, 18 and the living one, and I became dead, but Look! I am living forever and ever, I have the keys of death and of the Grave.-"

• Revelation 2:8 Part III

    8 "And to the angel of the congregation of Smyrna write: These are the things that he says, 'the First and the Last,' who became dead and came to life again-"

• Revelation 2:18 Part IV

    18 "To the angel of the congregation of Thyatira write" These are the things that the Son of God says, the one who has eyes like a fiery flame and whose feet are like fine copper:-"

    Back in chapter 1, John gives us a description of Christ in verses 13-15 then in verses 17-18 John falls at His feet, and Christ puts His hand on John and then calls Himself the First and the Last who was dead. Showing the First and the Last is not the Father. Chapter 2 verse 8 and verse 18 confirm that it is Christ John saw in chapter 1 verse 13-15. 

    Then the Book of Revelation ends with this message:

• Revelation 22:20

    20 "The one who bears witness of these things says, 'Yes, I am coming quickly.'" "Amen! Come, Lord Jesus."

    Scholars have found that in the New Testament, the writers of each book do this thing called "Bookends" or Inclusio, which is a literary device that repeats a certain message or topic that was at the beginning of the book, at the end too. At the beginning of Revelation, Christ was called the witness and then here it says Christ is coming quickly, and back in the beginning Christ said he was the One coming. 

    Next we find that Christ is talked about in 2 ways that refer to Him being God.

• Revelation 4:9-11 

   9 Whenever the living creatures give glory and honor and thanksgiving to the One seated on the throne, the One who lives forever and ever, 10 the 24 elders fall down before the One seated on the throne and worship the One who lives forever and ever, and they cast their crowns before the throne saying, 11 "You are worthy, Jehovah our God, to receive the glory and the honor and the power, because you created all things, and because of your will they came into existence and were created."

    Here in Revelation we are told that Christ is seated on the throne along with His Father, and both are called Jehovah God. We know this because they mention how Jehovah created all things. Christ is the Creator of the Heavens and Earth and all people. (Which will be coming in a later article) (The Article)*

• Isaiah 63:2-5 Part I

    2 Why is your clothing red, And why are your garments like those of one treading the winepress? 3 "I have trodden the wine trough alone. no one from the peoples was with me. I kept treading them in my anger, And I kept trampling them in my wrath. My garments were spattered with their blood, And I have stained all my clothing. 4 For the day of vengeance is in my heart, And the year of my repurchased ones has come. 5 I looked, but there was no one to help; I was appalled that no one offered support. So my arm brought me salvation, And my own wrath supported me. 

• Revelation 19:11-15 Part II

    11 I saw heaven opened, and look! a white horse. And the one seated on it is called Faithful and True, and he judges and carries on war in righteousness. 12 His eyes are a fiery flame, and on his head are many diadems. He has a name written that no one knows but he himself, 13 and he is clothed with an outer garment stained with blood, and he is called by the name The Word of God. 14 Also, the armies in heaven were following him on white horses, and they were clothed in white, clean, fine linen. 15 And out of his mouth protrudes a sharp, long sword with which to strike the nations, and he will shepherd them with a rod of iron. Moreover, he treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty. 

    John sees heaven open up and he sees Christ coming down with the army of heaven and on Christ is a name that no one knows but Christ himself. The Greek word is (eidó) which means perceive. So Christ has a name no one can perceive. Then John said that Christ was wearing a robe dipped in blood and then says that Christ treads the winepress of God. But back in Isaiah, God treaded the winepress, so Jesus is the God who treads the winepress? Jehovah? 

"The LORD bless you

and keep you;

the LORD make His face shine upon you

and be gracious to you;

the LORD turn His face toward you 

and give you peace." ☦