Thus said Jehovah, the King of Israel, and its Redeemer, Jehovah
Sabaoth:“I am the First and the Last, and there is no God except me.”
(Isaiah 44 : 6 )
You, Jehovah,are our Father; our Redeemerfrom everlasting is your
name. (Isaiah 63 : 16 )
“With the compassion of eternity I will have mercy.” So says your
Redeemer, Jehovah.(Isaiah 54 : 8 )
You have redeemedme, Jehovah of truth.(Psalms 31 : 6 )
Israel should hope in Jehovah,because with Jehovahthere is compas-
sion; with him there is the most redemption.He will redeemIsrael from
all its forms of wickedness. (Psalms 130 : 7 – 8 )
Jehovah Godand your Redeemer,the Holy One of Israel, will be called
God of all the earth.(Isaiah 54 : 5 )
From these passages and very many others, all who have eyes and open
minds can see that God, who is one, came down and became human
for the purpose of redeeming people. Anyone who pays attention to
the divine sayings just quoted can see this as clearly as something in the
morning light.
There are people, though, who are in the dark of night because they
have convinced themselves that there was another god, eternally begot-
ten, who came down and redeemed humankind. These people close their
eyes to these divine sayings, and consider with eyes shut how to twist the
sayings and apply them to their false beliefs.84 God could not have redeemed people, that is, rescued them from
damnation and hell, without first taking on a human manifestation.
There are many reasons for this; they will be disclosed step by step in what
follows. Redemption was a matter of gaining control of the hells, restruc-
turing the heavens, and then establishing a church. Despite his omnipo-
tence, God could not accomplish these things except through his human
manifestation, as one cannot do work without arms. In fact, in the Word
his human manifestation is called the arm of Jehovah (Isaiah 40 : 10 ; 53 : 1 ).
By analogy, one cannot attack a fortified city and destroy the temples of
idols there without powerful means.
The Word as well makes it clear that having a human manifestation
gave God the omnipotence to do this divine work. God is in the inmost
and purest realms. There was no other way he could cross over to the
lowest levels where the hells exist and where people were at that time, just