The New Name - The Holy Spirit Incarnate (Part 2) by Danilo T. Nacua

Paul wrote to his brothers in 1 Corinthians 10:4 that their ancestors who followed Moses “drank from the spiritual rock that went with them; and that rock was Christ himself.” However, in order for the Son’s foundation title not to be confused with that of the Father’s (Rock), it was further characterized as a ‘cornerstone’ as was furnished in the prophecy of Isaiah 28:16 that says “I am placing in Zion, a foundation that is firm and strong. In it I am putting a solid cornerstone...” Paul then finally distinguished the foundation title of the Son upon knowing the provision mentioned above that “you, too, are built upon the foundation laid by the apostles and prophets, the cornerstone being Jesus Christ himself” in Ephesians 2:20. Was Christ the fulfillment of the ‘stone with seven eyes’ cited above? Yes. Revelation 5:6(TEV) speaks of a “lamb standing in the center of the throne...it had seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God that have been sent throughout the world”.

We all know that the Lamb of God is Jesus Christ according to John 1:29(TEV). Therefore, Jesus Christ was the fulfillment of the name written or engraved on the ‘stone with seven eyes’. Was it written literally? Of course not; now you know that when the Bible speaks of engraving or writing of a name on a stone, it does not mean that the actual name is written on a stone itself, but it is speaking metaphorically. The ‘name written on the stone’ merely means that the person who bears the name is titled as such, e.g., like a stone. So, when a prophecy states that ‘a name is written on a stone’, it actually means that a person (with a name, of course) will bear that title ‘stone’.

When the era of Jesus Christ came, and he was proven to be the fulfillment of the ‘cornerstone’ to follow the era of the Father, who was preached as the core of the Good News? Was it the Father’s name still? No. It was Jesus Christ who was preached everywhere to the whole known world at that time (Colossians 1:27-28). The apostles dared not preached the name of the Father nor the name of the Holy Spirit at that time because they knew already that the preaching of the name of the Father has reached its limit in time and it was not yet also the era of the Holy Spirit, so, the boundary set by God for them in their ministry was the preaching of the name of Christ only (2 Corinthians 10:13-14-TEV). Paul in his letter to the Hebrews (8:7-12 –TEV), defending their stand as to why they preached only the name of Jesus Christ and not the Father’s, reiterated that the preaching of the name of the Lord Jehovah was limited only to the time before the arrival of the ‘cornerstone’ which was fulfilled in Jesus Christ. He went on to cite the prophecy in Jeremiah 31:31-34 to support their contention.

Now, that was the way with regards to the transition plot from the Father to the Son. How about the transition from the Son to the Holy Spirit? If the passing of one era to another was backed by transitory prophecies to link that era, likewise, so it is with respect to era of the Holy Spirit.