My Name
Winifred comes from England. And it's meaning is
quite wonderful . It means "lover of peace". Don't you just
love that? And does it ever fit me. Growing up and into my adult years I had a
lot of drama in my family, as many of us do. When I married all that changed.
My husband was more conservative and quiet. Not much drama going on with him. I
did not grow up with a lot of peace and I truly did not know what it was so I
labeled it "boredom". Then having three sons I , once again,
had plenty of drama and activity....oh for a little boredom. Now ,
in my older years I now know what that boredom was, It was
"Peace" and I have grown to love it. I am a true "lover of
peace" and my name fits me well.
There is something in a Name. Especially when
it's yours. You want people to say it correctly and are usually quick to
correct their pronunciation of it. You want it spelled correctly in letters and
documents of importance, and resent the fact that someone may have
spelled it wrong. Of course, it is of great importance that is be spelled
correctly on your driver license or marriage certificate and any other legal
document and can really be a hassle if you have to go have it changed of fixed
legally. A name is very important.
Another thing about your name. You don't want it
to be drug through the dirt and to become besmirched. You want to have a
good name of reputation, one that is thought of in a positive way. When people
go to name their children they want to name them a name that is doesn't have a
negative history. For instance, you don't hear of too many children being named
Hitler, or Jezebel (Please, don't be offended if that is your name...make it
your goal to strive to change that image.) for obvious reason.
Yes, names are important , especially yours or
mine.
The point being, we have a Creator, and he has a
Name. I will be using the JPS Old Testament (1917) also know as the
Tanakh throughout my blog. Most all of us grew up thinking that His Name LORD,
God, Father, Adonai, El, the Almighty, and others, but all of these words are
not names, they are correct titles for Him. Just like I am a woman, a mother,
an aunt, a grandma, but these are not my name. My name is Winifred. The
name of the Creator was not known until He revealed it to Moses. I like to look
at it this way.
In a court of royalty you would address the king
as "Sire" . Or in a court of law you would call the judge, "Your
Honor". And in business you use Mr. or Mrs.
When Moses came along and the Creator wanted to
call out a people from Egypt to make His own nation He told Moses.
(paraphrasing) " You have known me as Elohim, or God Almighty. Well, I
have a name and you don't have to call me Mr. God, you can call me by my Name.
We will be on a first name basis because we are going to become very close
friends". Actually they became closer than friends but that is
another subject. Let it just be said The Creator revealed His name to Moses for
the first time because He and Israel, Moses' people, were going to become
really thick friends.
Just like my name and most others it has a
meaning. And this meaning describes who He is. He had a way of doing that, when
you read your Bibles you will notice often times the meaning of the name is given
and it represents something about that person. So The Creator told Moses what
His name was and what it meant. This is the famous setting with the burning
bush.
Exodus 3:11And Moses said unto God: 'Who am I,
that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of
Israel out of Egypt?' 12And He said: 'Certainly I will be with thee; and this
shall be the token unto thee, that I have sent thee: when thou hast brought
forth the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain.' 13And
Moses said unto God: 'Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and
shall say unto them: The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they
shall say to me:
What is His name? what shall I say unto them?' 14And God said unto Moses: 'I AM THAT I AM';
and He said: 'Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel: I AM hath sent
me unto you.' 15And God said moreover unto Moses: 'Thus shalt thou say unto the
children of Israel: YHWH, the God of
your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath
sent me unto you; this is My name for ever,
and this is My memorial unto all generations.
Now we have a Name , a forever name, that
identifies out of all the so called gods in the world the one true Creator of
man and He has chosen a man and a nation to identify with on a first name
basis. How important is that Name?
Now why in the world does all our texts from the
Bibles use the word LORD to identify Him. Every time you see the word
" LORD " you should be seeing the Name, YHWH. Why is it missing,
another way to look at it is, Why is it hidden?
Such an important , personal Name, hidden. How
important is it? and why was it hidden? I would like to try to answer
that question.
First , how important is that Name?
Leviticus 22:32 - And ye shall not profane My
holy name; but I will be hallowed among the children of Israel: I am YHWH who
hallows you,
Here is one of the 10 commandments.
Exodus 20:6 - Thou shalt not take the name of
YHWH thy God in vain; for YHWH will not hold him guiltless that taketh His name
in vain.
Leviticus 19:12 - And ye shall not swear by My
name falsely, so that thou profane the name of thy God: I am YHWH
Leviticus 22:32 - And ye shall not profane My
holy name; but I will be hallowed among the children of Israel: I am YHWH who
hallow you,
Here are just a few of the scriptures that refer
to the importance of HIS Name:
1 Chronicles 16:10 - Glory be in His holy
name; let the heart of them rejoice that seek YHWH.
Psalms 8:2 - O YHWH, our YHWH, how glorious is
Thy name in all the earth!
Psalms 9:11 - And they that know Thy name will
put their trust in Thee; for thou, YHWH, hast not forsaken them that seek Thee.
Psalms 29:2 - Ascribe unto YHWH the glory due
unto His name; worship YHWH in the beauty of holiness.
Psalms 34:4 - O magnify YHWH with me, and let us
exalt His name together.
Psalms 83:17 - Fill their faces with shame; that
they may seek Thy name, O YHWH.
Psalms 86:9 - All nations whom Thou hast made
shall come and prostrate themselves before Thee, O YHWH; and they shall glorify
Thy name.
Psalms 102:16 - So the nations will fear the name
of YHWH, and all the kings of the earth Thy glory;
Psalms 105:3 - Glory ye in His holy name; let the
heart of them rejoice that seek YHWH.
Psalms 118:26 - Blessed be he that cometh in the
name of YHWH; we bless you out of the house of YHWH.
Psalms 124:8 - Our help is in the name of YHWH,
who made heaven and earth.
Psalms 148:13 - Let them praise the name of YHWH,
for His name alone is exalted;
Isaiah 42:8 - I am YHWH, that is My name; and My
glory will I not give to another, neither My praise to graven images.
Isaiah 47:4 - Our Redeemer, YHWH of hosts is His
name, The Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 51:15 - For I am YHWH thy God, who
stirreth up the sea, that the waves thereof roar; YHWH of hosts is His name.
Isaiah 63:16 - For Thou art our Father; for
Abraham knoweth us not, and Israel doth not acknowledge us; Thou, OYHWH, art
our Father, our Redeemer from everlasting is Thy name.
Jeremiah 10:6 - There is none like unto Thee, O
YHWH; Thou art great, and Thy name is great in might.
Jeremiah 16:21 - Therefore, behold, I will cause
them to know, this once will I cause them to know My hand and My might; and
they shall know that My name is YHWH.
Jeremiah 31:34 - Thus saith YHWH, Who giveth the
sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a
light by night, who stirreth up the sea, that the waves thereof roar, YHWH of
hosts is His name:
Amos 4:13 - For, lo, He that formeth the
mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought,
that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the
earth; YHWH, the God of hosts, is His name.
Amos 5:8 - Him that maketh the Pleiades and
Orion, and bringeth on the shadow of death in the morning, and darkeneth the
day into night; that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out
upon the face of the earth; YHWH is His name;
Zephaniah 3:12 - And I will leave in the midst of
thee an afflicted and poor people, and they shall take refuge in the name of
YHWH.
Zechariah 13:9 - And I will bring the third part
through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them
as gold is tried; they shall call on My name, and I will answer them; I will
say: 'It is My people', and they shall say: 'YHWH is my God.'
Zechariah 14:9 - And YHWH shall be King over all
the earth; in that day shall YHWH be One, and His name one.
Zechariah 14:9 - And YHWH shall be King over all
the earth; in that day shall YHWH be One, and His name one.
Malachi 3:16 - Then they that feared YHWH spoke
one with another; and YHWH hearkened, and heard, and a book of remembrance was
written before Him, for them that feared YHWH, and that thought upon His name.
After reading these scriptures and see their
importance, I must ask you something.
And this is between you and your god, only. How
many times have you called on the name of YHWH?
If you have never called on His Name and have
called on another name then you have missed the point. Only His name is
referring to God, the Creator and Father.
All other names are in vain. As sincere as
you may be you must call on Him, seek Him and He will answer you. He is the one
that can give you peace, answers, joy and salvation.
Yes, I know that the name has been hidden or
lost, but we should be looking for it once we know that it is missing. If we
read the old scripture and the new ones we should be aware that the foundation
is the old. It came first. If you look for the Creator then obviously you are
aware that He is referred to several times in the old scriptures for us all to
see. Now you know that LORD is just a title and not His Name. This if
made very clear on the day that he spoke to Moses at the burning bush.
There is also only one that saves and no other.
2 Samuel 22:47 - YHWH liveth, and blessed be
my Rock; and exalted be the God, my Rock of salvation;
Psalms 68:20 - Blessed be YHWH, day by day He
beareth our burden, even the God who is our salvation. Selah
Isaiah 12:2 - Behold, God is my salvation; I will
trust, and will not be afraid; for YHWH is my strength and song; and He
is become my salvation.'
Hosea 13:4 - Yet I am YHWH thy God from the land
of Egypt; and thou knowest no God but Me, and beside Me there is no saviour.
Isaiah 43:11 - I, even I, am YHWH; and beside Me
there is no saviour.
Isaiah 45:21 - Declare ye, and bring them near,
yea, let them take counsel together: Who hath announced this from ancient time,
and declared it of old? Have not I YHWH? And there is no God beside Me, a just
God and a Saviour; there is none beside Me.
YHWH is the Rock of our Salvation.
Have you been seeking another rock? There is no
other Rock.
Even Moses tells us that others will seek another
"rock" but there is none.
Deuteronomy 32:31 - For their rock is not as our
Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.
And they seek another vine.
Deuteronomy 32:32 - For their vine is of the vine
of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah; their grapes are grapes of gall, their
clusters are bitter;
If you are not seeking the rock or vine named
YHWH again your search is in vain.
Why have you not known His Name?
Jeremiah 23:27 - That think to cause My people to
forget My name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour, as
their fathers forgot My name for Baal.
Another word for Baal is Lord.....they have
forgotten name for a Lord.
Let me tell you what happened...the Israeli
priesthood hid the name. They would not allow it to be spoken or written.
They separated the people from their El, their God.
http://www.biblestudy.org/maturart/what-is-the-real-name-of-god.html
Was the TRUE Pronunciation of YAHWEH Lost?
Now we should investigate the Hebrew names for God more closely. The
name of God that gets the most attention in this teaching is "Yahweh"
or "Jehovah," which is more traditionally translated
"YHWH." This name comes from the four consonant letters
"YHWH" in Hebrew, and is so called the Tetragammaton. Because
ancient Hebrew was written only in consonants and a few semi-vowels, those who
read it aloud had to supply the missing vowel sounds. The Jews after
returning from the Babylonian
captivity under Ezra and Nehemiah (c. 450 b.c.) began to reverence
the name "Yahweh" so greatly they outlawed the very use of it, first
for the common people, later for the priests. Finally, only the high
priest, and then only on the Day of Atonement,
was allowed to say it. When Simon (300 to 270 b.c.) died, who was the
last high priest permitted to use it, a total prohibition against saying the
Name came into force among the Jews. They would substitute the word
"Adonay"--"Lord," or sometimes
"Elohim"--"God," for the YHWH whenever they encountered it
when reading aloud the scriptures. The medieval Jewish scribes who
preserved the Hebrew Old Testament, the Masoretes, around the sixth or seventh
century A.D. devised a system of using dots and other small marks to symbolize
what vowels came between the originally inspired consonants. However, the
pronunciation of "Yahweh" was not preserved by them. Whenever
YHWH appeared in the next, they put in the vowel points for Adonay or
sometimes, as appropriate, Elohim, in order to avoid saying "Lord"
twice in a row. This clued the oral reader to say the substitute name for
Yahweh.
Why did the Jews stop saying YHWH?
The Jews came to have this misconception against saying "Yahweh"
due to a misinterpretation of Leviticus 24:11, 16. The Hebrew word
translated "blaspheme" in these texts--nachav--can also be
translated "to say clearly" or "to declare
distinctly." If we translate nachav this way in Leviticus
24:16, a total prohibition against saying "Yahweh" results:
"'And whoever [declares distinctly] the name of [Yahweh] shall
surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him
. . . (NKJV throughout, unless otherwise noted).'"
Since the Jews over the centuries made the oral
tradition of interpreting the law a hedge or fence around the actual written
law of the Torah to help ensure the latter wasn't violated, the same practice
was adopted here. To play it safe, they decided never to say the
Name--YHWH--even though the inspired scriptures contain this name time and time
again, demonstrating the falsity of this tradition.
There are numerous scriptures that tell us to
call on His Name, and should make this old tradition null and void.
1 Chronicles 16:8 - Give thanks unto
YHWH, call upon his name, make known his deeds among the people.
Psalms 72:17 - His name shall endure for
ever: his name shall be continued as long as the sun: and men shall be blessed
in him: all nations shall call him blessed.
Psalms 80:18 - So will not we go back from
thee: quicken us, and we will call upon thy name.
Psalms 105:1 - O give thanks unto YHWH;
call upon his name: make known his deeds among the people.
Psalms 116:13 - I will take the cup of
salvation, and call upon the name of YHWH.
Isaiah 12:4 - And in that day shall ye say,
Praise YHWH, call upon his name, declare his doings among the people, make
mention that his name is exalted.
Isaiah 45:3 - And I will give thee the
treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest
know that I, YHWH, which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel.
Zephaniah 3:9 - For then will I turn to the
people a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of YHWH, to serve
him with one consent.
Zechariah 13:9 - And I will bring the third
part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try
them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will
say, It is my people: and they shall say, YHWH is my God.
And for those that don't call on Him.
Jeremiah 10:25 - Pour out thy fury upon the
heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name:
for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made
his habitation desolate.
Eliezar Ben Yehuda (1858-1922) began promoting
the use of Hebrew at home and in schools. The Hebrew language was considered a
"dead language" . And after the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in
the early 1900's the Name of the ancient God was revealed for all to see. At
that time we begin to see a resurgent in seeking out this Almighty God , YHWH,
that had been lost.
Another personal question for you to only answer
to yourself. Now that you know the Name are you going to begin seeking more
about that great Creator, YHWH?
I personally, had to go back and reread the old
scriptures when I discovered this and every time I ran across the words
"the LORD" I had to replace it in my mind the holy name of YHWH. Now
I don't even see that word anymore or even like to say it. It has been replaced
in my mind. Also, when reading scripture in this new way, a whole new paradigm
opens up. You are no longer thinking of the god/man that is referred to in the
new writings. I hope I have proven to you that he is not YHWH.
One last scripture that I think is of vital
importance, and on it, I will close. I hope YHWH will give you new eyes to see.
Joel 2:32 - [3:5] And it
shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of YHWH shall be
delivered; for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be those that escape,
as YHWH hath said, and among the remnant those whom YHWH shall call.
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