im shall the blest Name divine,
And my new name be graven;
And the City's name, Jerusalem,
That cometh down from heaven."

The Wonderful.

Isaiah ix:6.

HIS name shall be called "Wonderful" (Isaiah ix:6). And long before
Isaiah had uttered this divine prediction the angel of the Lord had
announced his name to be Wonderful. As such He appeared to Manoah.
And Manoah said unto the angel of Jehovah, What is thy name, that
when thy sayings come to pass we may do thee honor. And the angel of
Jehovah said unto Him "why askest thou thus after my name, seeing it
is Wonderful" (margin, Judges xiii:17-18). This angel of Jehovah,
the Person who appeared repeatedly in Old Testament history is an
uncreated angel. Of this Being we read that He is the Redeemer, for
Jacob speaks of Him "the angel which redeemed me from all evil"
(Genesis xlviii:15). He is the angel whose voice must be obeyed, who
has power to pardon transgressions, in whom the name of God is
(Exodus xxiii:20-23). He is the angel of His Presence who saved them
(Isaiah lxiii:9) and Exodus xxxiii:14 must refer to this Being "My
presence shall go with thee and I will give thee rest." This angel
of Jehovah speaks in the Book of Judges and declared, "I made you to
go up out of Egypt, and have brought you into the land which I sware
unto your fathers; and I said I will never break my covenant with
you" (Judges ii:1). He appeared unto Moses in a flame of fire out of
the midst of the bush and He spoke to Moses as the I am! (Ex. iii.)
The same One appeared before Joshua and he worshipped in His
presence. With Him Jacob wrestled, with Jehovah, the God of hosts
(Hosea xii:4-6). Malachi iii:1 shows that the Lord Himself is this
Angel, the Angel of the Covenant, who also visited Abraham in the
form of Man (Genesis xviii).

And after all these manifestations, seven hundred years after Isaiah
had announced Him, as the Wonderful, He appeared in human form in
the midst of His people. And now we know by divine Revelation in the
completed Word of God that He is wonderful in His Person and in his
work; but no mind can fathom, no heart can grasp, no pen can
describe, how wonderful He is.

He is wonderful if we think of Him as the Only Begotten of the
Father. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God,
and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All
things were made by Him; and without Him was not anything made that
was made" (J