JEHOVAH
– TSIDKENU!
The name Jehovah-Tsidkenu means
Jehovah our righteousness. It appears in Jeremiah's prophecy of a
"righteous Branch" and a "King" who is to appear; "and
this is his name whereby he shall be called, Jehovah our Righteousness" (Jer
23:5,6).
Jer
23:5-6
5
Behold,
the days come, saith the Lord , that I will raise unto David a righteous
Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and
justice in the earth.
6
In
his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his
name whereby he shall be called, THE Lord OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
When Jeremiah uttered this prophecy, the kingdom
of Judah was hastening to its fall. More than a hundred years before, the
ten tribes of the kingdom of Israel had been taken captive never to return. But
apparently Judah had learned nothing from this lesson, and it sinned perhaps
even more grievously than its sister kingdom in the north. Jeremiah's ministry
began during the reign of the good king Josiah. Till this time good kings and
bad kings, reformations and counterreformations had succeeded each other, a sad
reflection upon the unstable spiritual condition of the people and their
rulers, and revealing a downward moral and spiritual trend which could only end
in disaster. The history of the period of the Judges appears to repeat itself
here. Jehovah in His goodness and patience raised up pious and devout kings to
succeed unrighteous, wicked kings, but it failed to arrest their downward
trend.
(from
Names of God, Copyright 1944 by The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago.)
There is a striking and significant
similarity
between the name of this Righteous Branch and King of Jeremiah's prophecy and
the name of Judah's last king—"Zedekiah ," which means the
righteousness of Jehovah. His name had originally been Mattaniah,
which means the gift of Jehovah. Strange to say, his name had been changed to
Zedekiah by the king of Babylon.
The word tsidkenu is derived
from tsedek—righteousness . It meant
originally to be stiff or straight. There is certainly no more significant word
in the Old Testament. The Hebrew word cannot be adequately translated by any
one English word. It signifies God's dealings with men under the ideas of
righteousness, justification, and acquittal. (from Names of God, Copyright 1944
by The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago.)
Phil
3:8-9
8
Yea
doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge
of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and
do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,
9
And
be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but
that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by
faith:
Gen
18:25
Shall
not the Judge of all the earth do right?
Dear
Righteous One, Thou hast made a horrible trade with man. Thou has taken upon
your Son our sin and given to us His righteousness. Thank you for being the
Lord, my righteousness. AMEN
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