JANUARY 20TH, 1936

JANUARY 20TH, 1936

MY DEAR BROTHER, — With regard to your question, it seems to me that it would help very much if believers would consider that the Father is the blessed Name of grace and love by which God is made known to men through the presence here on earth of the Son. This is an immense advance on how He was known in Old Testament times, whether as Creator, the Almighty, or as Jehovah. The Names by which God has been pleased to be known by men are relative to His ways with men. I think this should be obvious to any intelligent reader of Scripture. What a marvellous unfolding of love’s purpose with regard to men came out in the Son’s prayer to the Father in John 17! There are references in that prayer to relations which subsisted between divine Persons before the world was, but they are evidently spoken of from the standpoint of the Son as here on earth having made known the Father’s Name. That is to say, they are referred to because they stand in some relation to the mediatorial system which was even then in divine purpose. If this were seen clearly I do not think there would be much difficulty as to the remarks in my little pamphlet to which you refer....

Yours affectionately in the Lord,

January 20th, 1936.