'The Hebrew may say the Elohim, the true God in opposition to all false

gods; but he never says the Jehovah, for Jehovah is the name of the

true God only.  He speaks of the God of Israel, but never of the

Jehovah of Israel, for there is no other Jehovah ... As the entrance of

sin and suffering was the occasion of this deeper revelation of the

divine nature, Jehovah is eminently the God of redemption ... the

correlative of Elohim is man: the correlative of Jehovah is redeemed

man.  Elohim is God in nature, Jehovah is God in grace.  Elohim is the

God of providence.  Jehovah is the God of promise in prophecy.  "Thus

saith Jehovah" are the words with which the prophet always introduces

his message; never, "Thus saith Elohim"' (Duncan H. Weir, D.D.).

A superficial reading of Exodus 6:2,3 leads to the conclusion that the

name Jehovah was not in use before the time of Moses, but this is a false

deduction.  Long after Exodus 6, Isaiah and Jeremiah speak of Israel at last

knowing the Lord's name (Isa. 52:6; Jer. 16:21), showing that it is not the

mere name, but the meaning of that name that is intended in Exodus 6:2,3.  At

the birth of Cain, his mother, remembering the promise of the Seed Who should

be the Deliverer said, 'I have gotten a man, even Jehovah' (see note in The

Companion Bible).  She was bitterly disappointed, it is true, but even her

mistake cannot alter the idea which is resident in the title.  Abraham

entered into the redemptive character of the name when he called the place of

sacrifice 'Jehovah-jireh' (Gen. 22:14).

The LXX of Exodus 6:3 reads edelosa, 'to make evident'.  The name

Jehovah was prophetic, including all His manifestations until at length fully

realized in the Man Christ Jesus (see The Berean Expositor, vol. 40, One

Lord, article No. 2).

While the title given in the Book of the Revelation:

'The Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty'

(Rev. 1:8),

cannot be taken as a translation of the Hebrew, Jehovah, it most certainly

refers to it, includes it, and interprets it.  Dr. John W. Donaldson gives

the title Jehovah to the Mediator, saying:

'The name Jehovah has reference to the fact, that the God of Revelation

is the God Who Manifests Himself Historically, so that while Elohim is

the Beginning and the End, Jehovah is the Middle, that is, God manifest

in the world, and therefore always in process of being or becoming by

His acts of redemption and creative power' (Varronianus).

Elohim is the beginning and end in the ultimate sense (Gen. 1:1 and 1

Cor. 15:24 -28, 'The end ... that God may be all in all'), but Jehovah is

'Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the ending' in the Mediatorial sense

(Rev. 1:8; 22:13).

Jehovah is the God of time, 'This is My name unto the age, and this is

My memorial unto all generations' (Exod. 3:15).

'Him which Is, and which Was, and which Is To Come' (Rev. 1:4).

'The same Yesterday, and Today, and unto the Ages' (Heb. 13:8).

The Good Shepherd (Psa. 22; John 10:14).