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Note: Please feel free to downloaded and/or print this article for personal, educational, or missionary purposes.                    MORE EVIDENCE THAT JESUS IS JEHOVAH                         Michael T. Griffith                                1999                        @All Rights Reserved The Mormon Church teaches that Christ was and is Jehovah.  This view is powerfully supported by _script_ure. There are very few verses that actually contradict the view that Christ is Jehovah, while there are a number of passages that plainly teach he is Jehovah.  One of them is 1 Corinthians 10:1-4, where Paul says Christ was Israel's Rock.  I don't know how much plainer _script_ure can be.  Christ was Israel's Rock, and the Old Testament (OT) repeatedly says Jehovah was Israel's Rock. Consider a few of the many things that the Bible says about Jehovah that apply only to the Savior: Jehovah is the one and only Savior.  Christ is the one and only Savior. Jehovah will judge us.  Christ will judge us. Jehovah will return and the Jews will see his wounds, including the wounds in his hands, and he will tell them he received the wounds in the house of his friends (Zechariah 12:10; 13:6).  The only being this could possibly fit is Christ, who was pierced in his hands and in his feet and in his side, and who showed his wounds to Thomas after the resurrection. The identity of the wounded being in Zechariah is quite plain.  Jehovah is speaking in Zech. 12:10, unless one is going to argue that some other being is capable of pouring out the spirit of grace and supplications upon the people:       And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants       of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and supplication: AND THEY SHALL       LOOK UPON ME WHOM THEY HAVE PIERCED, and they shall mourn for him,       as one mourneth for his only son. . . . Some have argued that switching back and forth between the third and first person somehow means the identity of the pierced being should be in dispute. But such switching of pronouns occurs repeatedly in the OT.  For example, in Isaiah 45:11-18 we see the Lord switch back and forth between the first and third person, ending in verse 18:       For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that       formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it       not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and       there is none else. (Isa. 45:18) Examples of this switching back and forth between the first and third person abound in the Bible.  Another example is Jeremiah 48:12-47.  A well-known example of such usage in the New Testament is Christ's referring to himself in the third person as the Son of Man. The most important fact to keep in mind about Zech. 12:10 is that the verse makes it clear that Jehovah will be the one whom they have pierced. Plainly and clearly, this alone identifies Jehovah and Christ as the same being