Issues Facing Missions Today: 40 Naming God in the Face of Suffering and Tribulation Introduction: Islam speaks of the 99 names for God. Names in many cultures have meaning. They reveal something about the person—the day of his or her birth, an event, something significant about the child, and so forth. So, too, our naming of God. Moses famously asked after God’s name in Exodus 3 and was told by God, ‘I AM has sent you’ (3.14). [1] The following study concerns naming God in the context of tribulation. This is a deeply personal concern, but it is also missiological: the revealing of God in an evil world full of suffering and persecution—as the two witnesses prophesying in sackcloth in Revelation 11. For this study, Revelation 15 and 16 will be the focus texts as they provide significant depth to our understanding as Christians about naming God when there is suffering and evil. We are not only interested in knowing what to call God. We are interested in knowing how to n