Revelation 1:8, Jesus said: I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.
Isaiah 9:6 says the Son's name would be called both the Mighty God and the Everlasting Father.
Jesus accepted worship, which no angel or righteous man ever did or ever will do. Only God, deceived individuals, and demonic powers ever receive worship. I'll let you decide which one describes Him...
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I ask you to think about this a bit further. Keypurr is absolutely correct to say that Jesus Christ HAS a God, and that is the Father. The Father is Supreme. (Psalm 83:18, KJV)
Revelation 1:8 refers to the Father, not Jesus. Both Jesus and God (the Father) are being spoken about in chapter one. It is perfectly reasonable to say that verse 8 is about the Father. Indeed, verse 9 refers to Jesus
AND God. John said that he was on the island of Patmos because he was "speaking about
God and bearing witness to Jesus." It is only the Father, God, who is "Almighty."
That leads us into your second reference, at Isaiah 9:6. Most versions of the Bible simply go along with the King James Version there, which is OK, but the
Holy Bible from the Aramaic of the Peshitta renders it this way:
"For unto us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government will be upon his shoulder: and his name is called 'wonderful counsellor, the mighty one, the everlasting god, the prince of peace.'"
So much for "Everlasting Father." But that can be explained too, if we insist on the KJV. Anyway, we of course know that there are
no capital letters in Hebrew/Aramaic, or even in Greek. Jesus is referred to as "god" in perhaps two places in the Bible, but
never Almighty God (in upper-case OR lower-case). The "god" that Jesus is is from the Hebrew
El Gibbohr, which means "mighty god," NOT Almighty God.
Only Jehovah is referred to as
El Shaddai, which is Almighty God.
So the prophecy in Isaiah refers to the Messiah to come, but not Almighty God. He is a "mighty god," meaning that he will be a powerful, important, highly regarded individual. That is what "god" meant to the Jewish audience of Isaiah's day and also in the Apostle John's day. Gods were distinguished from one another by certain titles, such as "El Gibbohr" and "El Shaddai," or, as in John's day,
definite articles.
It is interesting that the Jewish Publication Society's
Tanakh renders Isaiah 9:6 like this: "He has been named 'the Mighty God is planning grace; the Eternal Father, a peaceable ruler.'" We already know that "Mighty God" just means a powerful person, and only the Father, Jehovah, is Almighty. It could even be referring to Jehovah, as He is called BOTH "mighty" and "almighty." But the Messiah is also called "Eternal Father" here. That must be in the sense that he has given life to someone, as Jesus did when he died for our salvation so that we could live forever. (Even Paul considered himself a spiritual "father" to his believing "children," though he had no fleshly children.)
Jesus never accepted worship as God Almighty. He accepted "worship" in the sense of being
respected. Only his Father deserved worship as the Almighty. Jesus always pointed to the Father as the Most High, and
his God. (John 17:3; John 20:17)