Yahweh: “This is My Name Forever”
Channel: Galen Currah
Date: 2016-09-16

Yahweh: “This is My Name Forever”
A brief history of the Name in 10 points
Bible quotations from the English Standard Version (2001)
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1. In the ancient middle-east, the generic name for God and for gods was El (אל). Malachi 2:10

Variant forms of El include Elim, Eloah, Elohim, Elyon, Illay.
Pagans also believed in lesser gods called “sons of God.”

2. Early in the second millennium BCE, El revealed himself as El Shaddai (אל שדי, God Almighty) to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob. Genesis 17:1

Pagans believed that El dwelt in mountains called Shadu.

3. About 1046 BCE, El Shaddai revealed to the Prophet Moses his personal Name, Yahweh (יהוה, YHWH). Exodus 6:2-3

A short form of the Name, Yah יה)), occurs in compound names, and in the phrase Halleluiah (הללו־יה).

Pagans, however, did not know this name, Yahweh.

4. According to the Torah, Yahweh himself revealed that His Name Yahweh derives from “TO BE.” Exodus 3:14; Proverbs 18:10

The grammatical form y-a-h-w-e-h means “He Is” or “He Exists.”

5. Yahweh (יהוה) remains the Name of the One True God, forever.  Exodus 3:15

The name of Yahweh has been translated into other languages in various ways : the LORD, Jehovah, le Seigneur, l’Éternel, Tuhan, , 耶和华 and many others.

6. Yahweh has promised salvation to those who call upon his Name. Joel 2:32; Zechariah 13:9

7. In ancient times, although invisible, Yahweh sometimes showed himself to men in the form of a powerful angel. Judges 6:12-13; Judges 13:3

8. About the fourth century BCE, Jews ceased pronouncing the Name Yahweh (יהוה), usually employing the name Adonai (אדוני, my LORD) in its stead.

In the third century BCE, when the Hebrew Scriptures were translated into the Greek language, the Name Yahweh (יהוה) was translated as ΚΥΡΙΟΣ (Kurios, Lord).

9. In the first century CE, Yahweh revealed himself in tangible form by being born as a human being, named Yeshua’ (ישוע, Greek: Ιησυς, Jesus). Thus the Greek New Testament of the Holy Bible promises:
 “If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord (ΚΥΡΙΟΣ, Greek for Yahweh) and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.” Romans 10:9

10. When Jesus shall return from heaven to earth, he will fulfill many prophecies about Yahweh. Zechariah 14:3-4