Homework Assignment? (Names of Christ)

So I know I only have one other post on this blog and this is technically considered my mission blog but I'm taking an online New Testament class to save my spot at school before I leave and one of the assignment options was to write a blog post. I figured hey I might as well use my mission blog to post about the gospel, right? It's my blog anyways so I'll do what I want :P The assignment I chose was to research some of the names of Christ. I actually found it very interesting and it was super cool to me that his names truly point to his calling here on earth. I never really thought about what they meant, they were just the way they were. Here are my findings and I hope you find them interesting like I did. (Most definitions come from the Bible Dictionary)

1. Christ is the Greek version of the Hebrew name Messiah, which also means “the anointed.”

2. Messiah is an Aramaic word for “anointed,” which is also used as the title of an office. I think that’s really cool because to me it points to the mantle of responsibility Christ carried. 

3. Jehovah is considered to be the “proper” or “covenant” name for the God of Israel.

4. Immanuel (or Emmanuel) in the Bible Dictionary says to mean “God with us.” I think that is extremely appropriate for the time that Christ spent here on earth because he was literally God with us in the flesh.

5. The Word. God is called the word because he has the gospel with him. The words he spoke and continues to speak to us now are the tools we need to obtain eternal life. (JST John 1:1)