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Da war ein Mensch, von Gott gesandt, sein Name Johannes.
Apocalypse Revealed #81
81. "'And have labored for My name's sake and have not become weary.'" This symbolizes their effort and work in acquiring for themselves and also teaching the constituents of religion and its accompanying doctrine.
The name of Jehovah or the Lord in the Word does not mean His name, but everything by which He is worshiped. And because He is worshiped in accordance with doctrine in the church, His name means everything pertaining to doctrine, and in the broadest sense, everything pertaining to religion.
These are the meanings of the name of Jehovah, and the reason is that in heaven the only names found are ones that reflect a person's character, and God's character includes everything by which He is worshiped.
One who is not aware of this symbolic meaning of a name in the Word can understand it only as a name; and in this alone there is nothing pertaining to worship and religion.
[2] Someone who keeps in mind, therefore, this symbolic meaning of "the name of Jehovah" when it is mentioned in the Word, will of himself understand its symbolic meaning in the following passages:
In that day you will say: "Confess to Jehovah, call upon His name." (Isaiah 12:4)
...O Jehovah, we have waited for You; the desire of our soul is for Your name... ...by You we make mention of Your name. (Isaiah 26:8, 13)
From the rising of the sun My name shall be called on. (Isaiah 41:25)
...from the rising of the sun, even to its going down, My name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered to My name...; for My name shall be great among the nations... ...you profane (My name) when you say, "The table of Jehovah is defiled...." But you sneer at (My name)..., when you bring the stolen, the lame, and the sick. (Malachi 1:11-13)
...all peoples walk in the name of their god, but we will walk in the name of Jehovah our God... (Micah 4:5)
Everyone who is called by My name, for My glory I have created him, I have formed him... (Isaiah 43:7)
You shall not take the name of Jehovah your God in vain; ...Jehovah will not hold him innocent who takes His name in vain. (Deuteronomy 5:11)
They were to worship Jehovah in one place, where He should put His name (Deuteronomy 12:5, 11, 13-14, 18; 16:2, 6, 11, 15-16). And so on in many other places. Who does not see that the name in them does not mean simply a name?
[3] It is the same with the name of the Lord in the New Testament, as in the following places:
(Jesus said,) "You will be hated by all because of My name. (Matthew 10:22; cf. 24:9-10)
...where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them. (Matthew 18:20)
Everyone who has left houses, brothers, sisters... for My name's sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and... eternal life. (Matthew 19:29)
As many as received Him, to them He gave the power to become children of God, to those who believe in His name. (John 1:12)
...many believed in His name... (John 2:23)
He who does not believe is judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. (John 3:17-18)
...believing (they will) have life in His name. (John 20:31)
Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord! (Matthew 21:9; 23:39; Luke 13:35, cf. 19:38)
[4] In respect to His humanity the Lord is the name of the Father, as witness the following:
Father, glorify Your name. (John 12:28)
Hallowed be Your name (and) Your kingdom come. (Matthew 6:9-10)
See also Exodus 23:20-21. 3
"Name" in the case of other people refers to a quality of worship, as in the following:
(A shepherd) calls his own sheep by (their) name... (John 10:3)
You have a few names in Sardis... (Revelation 3:4)
I will write on him the name of My God and the name of the city of My God, the New Jerusalem..., and My new name. (Revelation 3:12)
And the like elsewhere.
It can be seen from this now that the statement, "You have labored for My name's sake and have not become weary," symbolizes their effort and work in acquiring for themselves and also teaching the constituents of religion and its accompanying doctrine.
Luke 19
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He entered and was passing through Jericho.
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There was a man named Zacchaeus. He was a chief tax collector, and he was rich.
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He was trying to see who Jesus was, and couldn't because of the crowd, because he was short.
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He ran on ahead, and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, for he was to pass that way.
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When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and saw him, and said to him, "Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, for today I must stay at your house."
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He hurried, came down, and received him joyfully.
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When they saw it, they all murmured, saying, "He has gone in to lodge with a man who is a sinner."
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Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, "Behold, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor. If I have wrongfully exacted anything of anyone, I restore four times as much."
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Jesus said to him, "Today, salvation has come to this house, because he also is a son of Abraham.
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For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost."
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As they heard these things, he went on and told a parable, because he was near Jerusalem, and they supposed that the Kingdom of God would be revealed immediately.
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He said therefore, "A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.
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He called ten servants of his, and gave them ten mina coins, and told them, 'Conduct business until I come.'
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But his citizens hated him, and sent an envoy after him, saying, 'We don't want this man to reign over us.'
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"It happened when he had come back again, having received the kingdom, that he commanded these servants, to whom he had given the money, to be called to him, that he might know what they had gained by conducting business.
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The first came before him, saying, 'Lord, your mina has made ten more minas.'
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"He said to him, 'Well done, you good servant! Because you were found faithful with very little, you shall have authority over ten cities.'
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"The second came, saying, 'Your mina, Lord, has made five minas.'
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"So he said to him, 'And you are to be over five cities.'
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Another came, saying, 'Lord, behold, your mina, which I kept laid away in a handkerchief,
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for I feared you, because you are an exacting man. You take up that which you didn't lay down, and reap that which you didn't sow.'
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"He said to him, 'Out of your own mouth will I judge you, you wicked servant! You knew that I am an exacting man, taking up that which I didn't lay down, and reaping that which I didn't sow.
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Then why didn't you deposit my money in the bank, and at my coming, I might have earned interest on it?'
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He said to those who stood by, 'Take the mina away from him, and give it to him who has the ten minas.'
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"They said to him, 'Lord, he has ten minas!'
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'For I tell you that to everyone who has, will more be given; but from him who doesn't have, even that which he has will be taken away from him.
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But bring those enemies of mine who didn't want me to reign over them here, and kill them before me.'"
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Having said these things, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem.
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It happened, when he drew near to Bethsphage and Bethany, at the mountain that is called Olivet, he sent two of his disciples,
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saying, "Go your way into the village on the other side, in which, as you enter, you will find a colt tied, whereon no man ever yet sat. Untie it, and bring it.
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If anyone asks you, 'Why are you untying it?' say to him: 'The Lord needs it.'"
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Those who were sent went away, and found things just as he had told them.
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As they were untying the colt, its owners said to them, "Why are you untying the colt?"
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They said, "The Lord needs it."
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They brought it to Jesus. They threw their cloaks on the colt, and set Jesus on them.
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As he went, they spread their cloaks in the way.
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As he was now getting near, at the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works which they had seen,
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saying, "Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven, and glory in the highest!"
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Some of the Pharisees from the multitude said to him, "Teacher, rebuke your disciples!"
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He answered them, "I tell you that if these were silent, the stones would cry out."
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When he drew near, he saw the city and wept over it,
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saying, "If you, even you, had known today the things which belong to your peace! But now, they are hidden from your eyes.
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For the days will come on you, when your enemies will throw up a barricade against you, surround you, hem you in on every side,
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and will dash you and your children within you to the ground. They will not leave in you one stone on another, because you didn't know the time of your visitation."
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He entered into the temple, and began to drive out those who bought and sold in it,
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saying to them, "It is written, 'My house is a house of prayer,' but you have made it a 'den of robbers'!"
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He was teaching daily in the temple, but the chief priests and the scribes and the leading men among the people sought to destroy him.
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They couldn't find what they might do, for all the people hung on to every word that he said.
