Does Jesus have a name at His second coming?
Yes, He does! In fact, He will have FOUR NAMES. Let’s read about these in Revelation 19:11-16 which is a detailed account of His Second Coming and then I will offer brief comments on each of them.
“Now I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse. And He who sat on him was CALLED FAITHFUL AND TRUE, and in righteousness He judges and makes war. His eyes were like a flame of fire, and on His head were many crowns. He had A NAME WRITTEN THAT NO ONE KNEW except Himself. He was clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and HIS NAME IS CALLED THE WORD OF GOD. And the armies in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, followed Him on white horses. Now out of His mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it He should strike the nations. And He Himself will rule them with a rod of iron. He Himself treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. And He has on His robe and on His thigh a NAME WRITTEN: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.”
1) CALLED Faithful and True. This is not simply a title but a name (see Revelation 3:14). Any of the names of God describe His CHARACTER and this name surely describes the only Man who was always FAITHFUL to God in everything He did and said and thus he is called the “Faithful Witness” in Revelation 1:5. He was also TRUE to His Word (Revelation 3:7) and thus He could say, in John 14:6, “I am the way, THE TRUTH, and the life.”
2) A NAME written no one knew except Himself. This “name” will never be made known to us for His “eternal glory” as the Son of God is so great that we will never come to know everything about Him. In Matthew 11:27 we read, “No one knows the Son except the Father.” Our human minds cannot fully comprehend His glorious Person, even throughout all eternity.
3) His Name is called the Word of God. We know this was His name before the world was created for we read in John 1:1, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” Yet He was the one (in the holy Trinity) who became a Man to “reveal God to us” as we see in John 1:14, “The Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.” A “word” is spoken to reveal our thoughts; God the Father sent His Son (the Word) to reveal Himself to us and thus we read in John 1:18, “No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him.” When Jesus returns at His Second Coming it is, as we have seen, to “judge and make war,” so at that time The Word is “revealing God’s righteous judgment” upon ungodly sinners.
4) A Name written: King of kings and Lord of lords. If we were to read on in Revelation 19:17-20:6 we would see that Jesus will reign supremely over all the earth for 1,000 years. Everyone will be made to submit to Him! Isaiah 9:6-7 will then be fulfilled: “Unto us a Son is given; and the government will be upon His shoulder. And His NAME is called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of His government and peace there will be no end, upon the throne of David and over His kingdom, to order it and establish it with judgment and justice from that time forward, even forever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform it.”
Did you notice in that last passage there will be “other NAMES given to Jesus?” I will close with one more. In Philippians 2:9-11 we read, “Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and GIVEN HIM A NAME WHICH IS ABOVE EVERY NAME, that at THE NAME OF JESUS every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth. and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” Here we learn that Jesus will “retain His earthly NAME of Jesus” and that every being will bow down before Him and acknowledge Him as Lord! Even the unsaved (those “under the earth”) who despised His name while they lived on earth will have to own that He is their Lord. They won’t be doing this willingly with hearts that love Him, but they will be brought into complete subjection to Him from their eternal prison in Hell. Those of us who are saved and love Him, will do so with adoring hearts and we will be glad to bow our knees and joyfully own Him as Lord! (DO) (705.5)