{"id":4419,"date":"2018-02-15T23:58:58","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T23:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baonline.cog7engage.net\/?p=4419"},"modified":"2023-08-29T11:22:19","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T17:22:19","slug":"yahweh-god-shares-his-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baonline.cog7engage.net\/yahweh-god-shares-his-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Yahweh: God Shares His Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Considering our \u201cKnowing God\u201d theme, there is no better word to explore in this first \u201cIn a word\u201d feature than the personal name of God. Found about 6,800 times in the Old Testament, much mystery and meaning surround the Tetragrammaton, a term referring to the four Hebrew consonants <em>yod<\/em>,<em> he<\/em>,<em> waw, he <\/em>that make up The Name: YHWH.<\/p>\n<p>We know God because God has made Himself known. Revealing the name <em>Yahweh<\/em> to Moses prior to the Exodus is one of the best examples of this in Scripture. It links Yahweh with Israel as His special people and His gracious acts on their behalf.<\/p>\n<p>Then Moses said to God, \u201cBehold, I am going to the sons of Israel, and I will say to them, \u2018The God of your fathers has sent me to you.\u2019 Now they may say to me, \u2018What is His name?\u2019 What shall I say to them?\u201d God said to Moses, \u201cI AM WHO I AM\u201d; and He said, \u201cThus you shall say to the sons of Israel, \u2018I AM has sent me to you.\u2019 .\u202f.\u202f. This is My name forever .\u202f.\u202f. to all generations\u201d (Exodus 3:13-15, NASB throughout).<\/p>\n<p><em>Yahweh<\/em> is considered a form of the Hebrew verb <em>hayah<\/em> (\u201cto be\u201d), leading to the common translation \u201cI AM.\u201d YHWH is! And acts! He exists and is the cause of existence. Known first as Israel\u2019s covenant God, He is also the only God and the Creator God (Deuteronomy 27:9; Isaiah 37:16; Genesis 2:1-8).<\/p>\n<p>Prior to this personal revelation, God was known to the Patriarchs by more general Divine titles based on the ancient Semitic appellative for Divinity, <em>El. <\/em>As creatures existing in a world of space, time, and matter, <em>Yahweh<\/em> was thought of as the maximal of each: <em>El Elyon<\/em> (\u201cGod Most High,\u201d Genesis 14:18), <em>El Olam<\/em> (\u201cEverlasting God,\u201d 21:33), and <em>El Shaddai<\/em> (\u201cGod Almighty,\u201d 17:1). Retrospectively, Yahweh was identified with each.<\/p>\n<p>God spoke further to Moses .\u202f.\u202f.\u201cI am the Lord [Yahweh]; and I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as God Almighty, but by My name, Lord [Yahweh], I did not make Myself known to them\u201d (Exodus 6:2, 3).<\/p>\n<p>So precious and sacred was the name <em>Yahweh<\/em> to Israel that over time, they refrained from saying it at all. Instead, through scribal notations, the title <em>Adonai<\/em> (or \u201cLord\u201d) was read in its place. With the Greek equivalent <em>Kyrios<\/em> used in the Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) and later New Testament writings, this replacement practice continues in most translations to this day. Where we see <em>Lord<\/em> capitalized in the Bible, <em>Yahweh<\/em> is being translated and reverentially concealed. Eventually its exact pronunciation was lost, with <em>Yahweh<\/em> becoming the common, if educated, guess.<\/p>\n<p>The revelation of the great I AM reaches its personal climax in the person of Jesus Christ. In Jesus, God\u2019s name is made known, and made flesh, proclaiming the personal God of Israel to the very maximal extent (John 1:14-18; Exodus 34:5-7). In Jesus, Israel\u2019s loving, faithful, and longsuffering God reaches down to the world in a cosmic Exodus of grace and truth and power. This is seen in John\u2019s Gospel, as Jesus is suggestively presented as the great I AM on fourteen different occasions (4:26; 6:20; 8:24, 28, 58; 13:19; 18:5; cf. 6:35; 8:12; 10:7, 11; 11:25; 14:6; 15:1).<\/p>\n<p>The great confessions \u201cThe Lord is our God, the Lord is one!\u201d (Deuteronomy 6:4) and \u201cJesus Christ is Lord\u201d (Philippians 2:11) recognize that <em>Yahweh<\/em> unites the personal God of Israel and our personal Savior Jesus in one (John 1:1; Isaiah 45:22-25).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Considering our \u201cKnowing God\u201d theme, there is no better word to explore in this first \u201cIn a word\u201d feature than the personal name of God. 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