Subject: What is God's name? |
Bible Note: Genesis 15:1 After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward. Genesis 26:24 And the LORD appeared unto him the same night, and said, I am the God of Abraham thy father: fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham's sake. Exodus 6:6 Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments: Exodus 6:3 And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them. Exodus 3:13-14 And 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? And 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. The Truth is that God does not go by just one proper name like Tom, Joe, or Harry. He Gives Covenant Personality Names as the answer to the question What is your name. God is GOD, He is the I AM. I AM what? Whatever you need God to be in your life to make you perfect and to equip you to be in the image of Christ, He is that to you. Do you need Health? He is the I AM YOUR HEALTH, Do you need Faith.. He is the I AM YOUR FAITH.. Do you need to be able to speak boldly to do his will as Moses needed to.. He is I AM YOUR MOUTH AND TONGUE. If people would grasp that about God they would Call Him by his real name, which is a Faith expression of your heart that you beleive HE provides for you all that You need to be made more like Him, and they would leave off the senseless haggling over the proper spelling of Hebrew words used prior to the structure of vowels assigned long after the scrptures were written. The original Hebrew scriptures did not use vowels in writing, therefore there are questions about how the words were pronounced. Later Hebrew scholars restructered the Hebrew language and added vowels. However when you understand that God is not a man and is not limited to a "proper" name, you understand that it does not matter exactly how YHWH was originally pronounced, what is important is that we understand Who God is to Us. Are we having Faith that He is our Holiness? If not, then do we really think God is going to pat us one the back for pronouncing the word YHWH correctly? Of course not. This obsession with the correct name of God has produced more than one cult and I am sure more are trying to form even as we speak. It is just another way for those that want a precept to follow rather than intimacy with God. So they have precept upong precept, line upon line, that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken. |