Wednesday, February 16, 2022
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 hast placed upon your Son our sin and given to us
His righteousness. Thank you for being the Lord, my righteousness. AMEN
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