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“COMEBEMYFOLLOWER”
A Vital Place in Jehovah’s Purpose
3 First and foremost, approach to God is through Jesus
because Jehovah has seen fit to give his Son the most important
role. The Father has made him the central, or
key, figure in the outworking of all of His purposes.
(2 Corinthians 1:20; Colossians 1:18-20) To understand
the vital role of the Son, we need to consider what happened
in the garden of Eden, where the first human couple
joined Satan in rebelling against Jehovah.—Genesis 2:
16, 17; 3:1-6.
4 The rebellion in Eden raised an issue of universal importance:
Does Jehovah God properly exercise his rulership
over his creatures? To settle this vital issue, Jehovah
determined that a perfect spirit son would have to go to
earth. The mission that this son would carry out could
not have been weightier—giving his life to vindicate Jehovah’s
sovereignty and to serve as a ransom to save humankind.
By remaining faithful to death, the son chosen
would make it possible to solve all the problems raised by
Satan’s rebellion. (Hebrews 2:14, 15; 1 John 3:8) But Jehovah
had millions upon millions of perfect spirit sons.
(Daniel 7:9, 10) Which one did he select to carry out this
most important assignment? Jehovah chose his “onlybegotten
Son,” the one who later came to be known as
Jesus Christ.—John 3:16.
5 Should we be surprised at Jehovah’s choice? By no
means! The Father had the utmost confidence in his only-
So important is the role of the Son that the Bible gives him a
number of prophetic names and titles.—See the box on page 23.
3. Why is approach to God through Jesus?
4. The rebellion in Eden raised what issue, and what did Jehovah determine
to do in order to settle the issue?
5, 6. How did Jehovah demonstrate that he had confidence in his
Son, and upon what was this confidence based?