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Yahweh
The Name
Above All Names
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When Yahweh gave His 613 Laws to Mosheh to teach to the Children of Israyl, He
vowed an oath saying that those who would truly obey His voice and walk in all
his ways would be a "special treasure"' to Him. He also promised that He would
establish these Law-abiding people as his holy people.
Exodus 19:5-6—
5 Now therefore, if you will truly obey My voice, by keeping My covenant, then
you shall be a special treasure to Me above all people; for all the earth is
Mine.
6 And you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation...
Deuteronomy 28:9-10—
9 Yahweh will establish you as His Holy People unto Himself, as He promised you
on oath, if you will keep the Laws of Yahweh your Father, and walk in all His
ways.
10 Then all the people on the earth will see that you are called by the Name of
Yahweh, and they will fear you.
I Kepha 2:9—
But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar
people; that you would show forth the praises of Him Who has called you out of
darkness into His marvelous light.
These Scriptures show that all the people of the earth will see that Yahweh's
holy people (those who walk in all of Yahweh's Ways) are known by the name of
Yahweh. There has never been an inspired Scripture written in the Torah or by
the prophets telling us that Yahweh's holy people would ever be called (known)
by any other name. In fact, the Prophet Yahyl was inspired to write a wonderful
prophecy concerning everyone who calls with the name of Yahweh.
Yahyl 2:32—
And whoever will call with the Name of Yahweh will be delivered; for in Mount
Zion in Yerusalem there will be deliverance, as Yahweh has said, among the
remnant who has escaped of those whom Yahweh calls.
Acts 2:21—
And it will come to pass that whoever calls on the Name of Yahweh will be
delivered.
Romans 10:13—
For Whoever calls with the Name of Yahweh will be saved.
Why is it that we do not call with the Name Yahweh? Do we not desire blessings?
Do we not desire acceptance from our Father? Holiness? Salvation? Could it be
that we've accepted traditions that our teachers have inherited from their
teachers, and then taught to us as doctrine—doctrine that cannot be supported by
the inspired Scriptures?
The Name Above All Names:
The Name Our Teachers Have Taught Us To Forget
We are not called by the Name of Yahweh, in fact Yahweh's Name is not even
uttered, because we have been taught that it is not acceptable to do so. We are
taught that we must not pronounce the Holy Name of our Creator and Father,
Yahweh, the Name the chosen of Yahweh will be known by, the Name those who are
delivered will call upon! We are instructed by our teachers that Yahweh's Name
is too holy to pronounce; therefore, we are to call Him "Adonai" and "Elohim".
This teaching has been fully ingrained in the minds of nearly all Israylites to
the point that extreme hatred is shown toward anyone who openly speaks or writes
the one and only true Name of the Creator. Remember this, because the holy
prophets both spoke and wrote the true Name. As a result, the Name of Yahweh has
almost been forgotten (in effect, profaned or brought to nothing), and Baal's
name is remembered and proclaimed worldwide.
A Name Remembered In Times Past But Unspoken Today
As we will read from authoritative sources, there was a time when the Name
Yahweh was pronounced by all of Yahweh's people, in prayers, in blessings, and
in greetings. However, by the third century B.C.E., our teachers began teaching
that Yahweh, the true Name of our Creator, was too holy to pronounce. This
teaching is a practice that was not inspired by our Father, but one that
gradually came about due to pagan influence.
At first, the practice was to just pronounce the name Adonai instead of the Name
Yahweh, wherever Yahweh's Name was written in the Holy Scriptures. However, as
time went on, changes were made to the original writings. Vowel points (which
were not originally part of the text) were added to Yahweh's Name, causing the
reader to pronounce the names Adonai and Elohim instead, and in many places
these alternate names were actually written in place of Yahweh's Name
altogether. We'll show you the many sources verifying these facts, but The
Encyclopedia Judaica, Volume 7, pages 680-682, sums it all up rather well, as
you can see for yourself.
YHWH. The personal name of the God of Israel is written in the Hebrew Bible with
the four consonants yhwh and is referred to as the "Tetragrammaton". At least
until the destructions of the First Temple in 586 b.c.e., this name was
regularly pronounced with its proper vowels, as is clear from the *Lachish
Letters, written shortly before that date. But at least by the third century b.c.e., the pronunciation of the name yhwh was avoided, and Adonai, "the Lord",
was substituted for it, as evidenced by the use of the Greek word Kyrios,
"Lord", for yhwh in the Septuagint, the translation of the Hebrew Scriptures
that was begun by Greek-speaking Jews in that century. Where the combined form *Adonai
yhwh occurs in the Bible, this was read as *Adonai *Elohim, "Lord God". In the
early Middle Ages, when the consonantal text of the Bible was supplied with
vowels points to faciliate its correct traditional reading, the vowel points for
'Adonai with one variation - a sheva with the first yod of YHWH instead of the
hataf-patah under the aleph of 'Adonai7 were used for YHWH, thus producing the
form Yehowah. When Christian scholars of Europe first began to study Hebrew,
they did not understand what this really meant, and they introduced the hybrid
name "Jehovah". In order to avoid pronouncing even the sacred name *Adonai for
YHWH, the custom was later introduced of saying simply in Hebrew ha-Shem (or
Aramaic Shemc, "the Name") even in such an expression as "Blessed be he that
cometh in the name of YHWH" (Ps. 118:26).
THE PROHIBITION OF USE OF THE NAMES OF GOD. The prohibition applies both to the
pronunciation of the name of God and its committal to writing, apart from its
use in sacred writings. The prohibition against the pronunciation of the name of
God applies only to the Tetragrammaton, which could be pronounced by the high
priest only once a year on the Day of Atonement in the Holy of Holies (cf.
Mishnah Yoma 6:2), and in the Temple by the priests when they recited the
Priestly Blessings (Sot. 7:6; see also Ch. Albeck (ed.), Seder Nashim (1954),
387). As the Talmud expresses it: "Not as I am written am I pronounced. I am
written yod he vav he, and I am pronounced alef dalet" (nun yod, i.e., Adonai;
Kid. 71a).
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