A Child Is Born: The Everlasting Father (Isaiah 9:6)
2022-12-03
The next name of our Lord in Isaiah 9:6 is “The everlasting Father.” Again, we see the eternality of our Lord (“everlasting”). We also see Him as “Father.” Many modalists and those that deny Trinity will use this to say that Jesus is God the Father. The problem with this is that a multitude of verses in the Bible show the distinction between the Father and the Son. Jesus prayed to the Father, “thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world” (John 17:24). The Son was distinct from the Father from all eternity.
How, then, is Jesus the “everlasting Father”? First, He created all things. He “is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: And he is before all things, and by him all things consist” (Colossians 1:15-17).
Also, compare Jesus with Adam, the head and father of the human race, as we see in Romans 5:12-21. Death and the sin nature passed to all humankind because of Adam, our first father. Being born again, we are born into a new family, and to a new head of a new race. The father of this race is Jesus Christ. Unlike Adam, He is everlasting. We once were “in Adam”; now we are “in Christ.” For us, “old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new” (2 Corinthians 5:17).
Because Jesus is everlasting, as a father, He passed on His everlasting nature to His children. We have everlasting life in Him.