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Yahweh spoke the universe into existence. (Genesis 1: 3-28) He could have destroyed Egypt by simply saying the word, but He didn’t. Yahweh wanted to teach this lesson, and He told Moses to write it down as a permanent record. Today most Christians call that record the Books of Moses or the Pentateuch, and Jewish people refer to it as the Torah. The central message of the Torah is this: we have One God, One Savior, and One Redeemer. His Name is Yahweh.

February 8th, 2010

“For here we are not afraid to follow the truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.” (Thomas Jefferson)

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Video: The Aaronic Blessing—This is a beautiful video rendition of The Aaronic Blessing (Numbers 6: 24-26) in Hebrew and English, but notice that the title Adonai is used instead of the Name Yahweh. That is in keeping with a Jewish tradition that dates back to the mid-second century B.C., but you can be certain about this fact. Yahweh’s Name is essential to The Aaronic Blessing and should be there.
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Scripture:

Today I’ll show where Yahweh’s Name belongs in 1 Corinthians 8:

1 Corinthians 8

Now concerning things sacrificed to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge makes arrogant, but love edifies.
If anyone supposes that he knows anything, he has not yet known as he ought to know;
but if anyone loves God, he is known by Him.
Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that there is no such thing as an idol in the world, and that there is no God but one.
For even if there are so-called gods whether in heaven or on earth, as indeed there are many gods and many lords,
yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom are all things and we exist for Him; and one Yahweh, Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we exist through Him.
However not all men have this knowledge; but some, being accustomed to the idol until now, eat food as if it were sacrificed to an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.
But food will not commend us to God; we are neither the worse if we do not eat, nor the better if we do eat.
But take care that this liberty of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak.
For if someone sees you, who have knowledge, dining in an idol’s temple, will not his conscience, if he is weak, be strengthened to eat things sacrificed to idols?
For through your knowledge he who is weak is ruined, the brother for whose sake Christ died.
And so, by sinning against the brethren and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.
Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause my brother to stumble.

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The Ten Plagues

The ten plagues were a ten-part lesson designed to teach Pharaoh, everyone in Egypt including the Israelites, and the rest of the world that Yahweh is the One and only God. Additionally, they demonstrated Yahweh’s power and the utter uselessness of these Egyptian gods:

Plague 1—Hapi (thought to be the spirit of the Nile) and Khnum (thought to be the guardian of the Nile).

Plague 2—Heqt (thought to have the form of a frog) and Hapi.

Plague 3—It’s not clear in this plague which Egyptian god Yahweh is mocking.

Plague 4—Uatchit (a god thought to appear as a fly).

Plague 5—Ptah (thought to be the creator), the Apis bull (thought to be the incarnation of Ptah), and sacred cows in general.

Plague 6—Sekhmet (a goddess thought to have healing powers) and Serapis (another god thought to have healing powers).

Plague 7—Seth (thought to be the protector of crops) and Nut (thought to be the goddess of the sky).

Plague 8—Isis (thought to be the goddess of life) and Seth.

Plague 9—Ra (thought to be the sun god).

Plague 10—Osiris (thought to be the giver of life) and Pharaoh (thought to be god on earth).

(The source for the information above is Ryrie, Charles. Ryrie Study Bible, 1995, p. 101.)

Yahweh spoke the universe into existence. (Genesis 1: 3-28) He could have destroyed Egypt by simply saying the word, but He didn’t. Yahweh wanted to teach this lesson, and He told Moses to write it down as a permanent record. Today most Christians call that record the Books of Moses or the Pentateuch, and Jewish people refer to it as the Torah. The central message of the Torah is this: we have One God, One Savior, and One Redeemer. His Name is Yahweh.

Pharaoh was arrogant and stubborn. He didn’t get it, and the cost of his disobedience was costly. At the end of the lessons, Pharaoh would die. That’s exactly what will happen to anyone who fails to grasp Yahweh’s message, only the death associated with rejecting Yahweh is much worse than physical death.

Yeshua said that after physical death people who reject Him and His message will find themselves in a place where there is “weeping and gnashing of teeth”. Take a look at these verses and see for yourself:

Matthew 8: 12—“but the sons of the kingdom will be cast out into the outer darkness; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
Matthew 13: 42—“and will throw them into the furnace of fire; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
Matthew 13: 50—“and will throw them into the furnace of fire; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
Matthew 22: 13—“Then the king said to the servants, ‘Bind him hand and foot, and throw him into the outer darkness; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’”
Matthew 24: 51—“and will cut him in pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
Matthew 25: 30—“Throw out the worthless slave into the outer darkness; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
Luke 13: 28—“In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but yourselves being thrown out.”

Obviously, this is an important message. In fact, it’s the most important message you will ever hear.

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The oracle concerning Damascus. “Behold, Damascus is about to be removed from being a city and will become a fallen ruin. The cities of Aroer are forsaken; they will be for flocks to lie down in, and there will be no one to frighten them. The fortified city will disappear from Ephraim, and sovereignty from Damascus and the remnant of Aram; they will be like the glory of the sons of Israel,” declares Yahweh Sabaoth. Now in that day the glory of Jacob will fade, and the fatness of his flesh will become lean. It will be even like the reaper gathering the standing grain, as his arm harvests the ears, or it will be like one gleaning ears of grain in the valley of Rephaim. Yet gleanings will be left in it like the shaking of an olive tree, two or three olives on the topmost bough, four or five on the branches of a fruitful tree, declares Yahweh, the God of Israel. In that day man will have regard for his Maker and his eyes will look to the Holy One of Israel. He will not have regard for the altars, the work of his hands, nor will he look to that which his fingers have made, even the Asherim and incense stands. In that day their strong cities will be like forsaken places in the forest, or like branches which they abandoned before the sons of Israel; and the land will be a desolation. For you have forgotten the God of your salvation and have not remembered the rock of your refuge. Therefore you plant delightful plants and set them with vine slips of a strange god. In the day that you plant it you carefully fence it in, and in the morning you bring your seed to blossom; but the harvest will be a heap in a day of sickliness and incurable pain. Alas, the uproar of many peoples who roar like the roaring of the seas, and the rumbling of nations who rush on like the rumbling of mighty waters! The nations rumble on like the rumbling of many waters, but He will rebuke them and they will flee far away, and be chased like chaff in the mountains before the wind, or like whirling dust before a gale. At evening time, behold, there is terror! Before morning they are no more. Such will be the portion of those who plunder us and the lot of those who pillage us. (Isaiah 17: 1-14)

“The burden of the word of Yahweh is against the land of Hadrach, with Damascus as its resting place (for the eyes of men, especially of all the tribes of Israel, are toward Yahweh), and Hamath also, which borders on it; Tyre and Sidon, though they are very wise. For Tyre built herself a fortress and piled up silver like dust, and gold like the mire of the streets. Behold, the Lord will dispossess her and cast her wealth into the sea; and she will be consumed with fire. Ashkelon will see it and be afraid. Gaza too will writhe in great pain; also Ekron, for her expectation has been confounded. Moreover, the king will perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon will not be inhabited. And a mongrel race will dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines. And I will remove their blood from their mouth and their detestable things from between their teeth. Then they also will be a remnant for our God, and be like a clan in Judah, and Ekron like a Jebusite. But I will camp around My house because of an army, because of him who passes by and returns; and no oppressor will pass over them anymore, for now I have seen with My eyes. Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout in triumph, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; He is just and endowed with salvation, humble, and mounted on a donkey, even on a colt, the foal of a donkey. I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim and the horse from Jerusalem; and the bow of war will be cut off. And He will speak peace to the nations; and His dominion will be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.” (Zechariah 9: 1-10)

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Climate Change Update:

Science Editorial #6-2010 (Feb 6, 2010)

By S. Fred Singer, President, Science and Environmental Policy Project

[Note: This is another of a series of mini-editorials on the “junk science” influencing the global warming issue. Other topics will include the UN Environmental Program, and some individuals heavily involved in these matters.]

Junkscience #8: The “warmest year, decade, century” game

A NASA press release claims that “January 2000 to December 2009 was the warmest decade on record,” citing James Hansen and Gavin Schmidt (of NASA-GISS). They are practicing what magicians call “misdirection,” designed to mislead the unsuspecting reader. Let me explain:

Let us grant that the past decade was the “warmest on record.” What exactly does this prove? Since the warming trend started well before the release of substantial amounts of greenhouse gases, the most likely cause is simply a natural recovery of the global climate from the Little Ice Age, which historical records place between around 1400 and 1800 AD. And since we are still well below the temperatures seen during the Medieval Climate Optimum (when Norsemen were able to grow crops and raise cattle in Greenland), we will likely experience even warmer decades during the 21^st century. But this is a pure guess; we still don’t understand what controls millennial climate cycles of warming – and cooling.

However, the data do not support a human influence on climate. Temperatures have not warmed (i.e., shown an upward trend) during the past decade—in spite of sharply rising levels of atmospheric CO2. The confusion comes about when people mix up temperature level (measured in deg C) with temperature trend (measured in deg C per decade). They are entirely different concepts. We currently have a record temperature level but no upward trend—and possibly even a slight cooling.

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“I am Yahweh, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from their bondage. I will also redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments. Then I will take you for My people, and I will be your God; and you shall know that I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians. I will bring you to the land which I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and I will give it to you for a permanent possession; I am Yahweh.” (Exodus 6: 6-8)

February 7th, 2010

“For here we are not afraid to follow the truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.” (Thomas Jefferson)

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The Temple Institute
Video: The Aaronic Blessing—This is a beautiful video rendition of The Aaronic Blessing (Numbers 6: 24-26) in Hebrew and English, but notice that the title Adonai is used instead of the Name Yahweh. That is in keeping with a Jewish tradition that dates back to the mid-second century B.C., but you can be certain about this fact. Yahweh’s Name is essential to The Aaronic Blessing and should be there.
Video: He is Yahweh

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Scripture:

Today I’ll show where Yahweh’s Name belongs in 1 Corinthians 7:

1 Corinthians 7

Now concerning the things about which you wrote, it is good for a man not to touch a woman.
But because of immoralities, each man is to have his own wife, and each woman is to have her own husband.
The husband must fulfill his duty to his wife, and likewise also the wife to her husband.
The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; and likewise also the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.
Stop depriving one another, except by agreement for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer, and come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
But this I say by way of concession, not of command.
Yet I wish that all men were even as I myself am. However, each man has his own gift from God, one in this manner, and another in that.
But I say to the unmarried and to widows that it is good for them if they remain even as I.
But if they do not have self-control, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.
But to the married I give instructions, not I, but the Lord, that the wife should not leave her husband
(but if she does leave, she must remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband should not divorce his wife.
But to the rest I say, not the Lord, that if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he must not divorce her.
And a woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he consents to live with her, she must not send her husband away.
For the unbelieving husband is sanctified through his wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified through her believing husband; for otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy.
Yet if the unbelieving one leaves, let him leave; the brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us to peace.
For how do you know, O wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, O husband, whether you will save your wife?
Only, as Yahweh has assigned to each one, as God has called each, in this manner let him walk. And so I direct in all the churches.
Was any man called when he was already circumcised? He is not to become uncircumcised. Has anyone been called in uncircumcision? He is not to be circumcised.
Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but what matters is the keeping of the commandments of God.
Each man must remain in that condition in which he was called.
Were you called while a slave? Do not worry about it; but if you are able also to become free, rather do that.
For he who was called in the Lord while a slave, is the Lord’s freedman; likewise he who was called while free, is Christ’s slave.
You were bought with a price; do not become slaves of men.
Brethren, each one is to remain with God in that condition in which he was called.
Now concerning virgins I have no command of the Lord, but I give an opinion as one who by the mercy of the Lord is trustworthy.
I think then that this is good in view of the present distress, that it is good for a man to remain as he is.
Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be released. Are you released from a wife? Do not seek a wife.
But if you marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have trouble in this life, and I am trying to spare you.
But this I say, brethren, the time has been shortened, so that from now on those who have wives should be as though they had none;
and those who weep, as though they did not weep; and those who rejoice, as though they did not rejoice; and those who buy, as though they did not possess;
and those who use the world, as though they did not make full use of it; for the form of this world is passing away.
But I want you to be free from concern. One who is unmarried is concerned about the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord;
but one who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife,
and his interests are divided. The woman who is unmarried, and the virgin, is concerned about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and spirit; but one who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how she may please her husband.
This I say for your own benefit; not to put a restraint upon you, but to promote what is appropriate and to secure undistracted devotion to the Lord.
But if any man thinks that he is acting unbecomingly toward his virgin daughter, if she is past her youth, and if it must be so, let him do what he wishes, he does not sin; let her marry.
But he who stands firm in his heart, being under no constraint, but has authority over his own will, and has decided this in his own heart, to keep his own virgin daughter, he will do well.
So then both he who gives his own virgin daughter in marriage does well, and he who does not give her in marriage will do better.
A wife is bound as long as her husband lives; but if her husband is dead, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.
But in my opinion she is happier if she remains as she is; and I think that I also have the Spirit of God.

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SnyderTalk® Commentary:

I have left out several footnotes. Please go to the website His Name is Yahweh and download the manuscript. It has all the footnotes, and it’s free.

Moses Goes to Pharaoh

After Moses delivered Yahweh’s message to the Israelites, he went to Pharaoh and told him that Yahweh, “the God of Israel” (Exodus 5: 1), had said to let His people go to serve Him. Pharaoh must have been amused with Moses because he had fled from Egypt 40 years earlier, and now he was back giving orders. The Egyptians believed Pharaoh was god on earth. In his eyes, Moses was nothing and the Children of Israel were less than nothing, except for the fact that he wanted them to continue making bricks.

Pharaoh looked at Moses and arrogantly said, “Who is Yahweh that I should obey His Voice and let Israel go? I do not know Yahweh.” (Exodus 5: 2)

Pharaoh was right. He did not know Yahweh, and that was the problem. If he had known Yahweh, he never would have treated the Hebrew people so harshly, and now he decided to teach Moses a lesson by imposing an even heavier burden on them.

From that moment forward, Pharaoh proudly proclaimed, they would be required to gather the straw used in brick making, but their daily quota would remain the same. Until that time, the Egyptians provided the straw, and the Hebrews made the bricks. Thus, Pharaoh made their backbreaking task even more difficult. He did not realize it, but he was begging Yahweh to teach him a lesson.

The Children of Israel were furious when Pharaoh increased their workload, and they let Moses know it. They blamed him because he was Yahweh’s emissary. He had told them that Yahweh would deliver them, but instead of setting them free, He allowed Pharaoh to punish them severely even though they had done nothing wrong.

Moses was dumbfounded, and he presumptuously told Yahweh, “Ever since I came to Pharaoh to speak in Your Name, he has done harm to this people, and You have not delivered Your people at all.” (Exodus 5: 23)

Yahweh’s response to Moses is revealing. He simply told Moses to give the Children of Israel this explanation:

“I am Yahweh, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from their bondage. I will also redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments. Then I will take you for My people, and I will be your God; and you shall know that I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians. I will bring you to the land which I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and I will give it to you for a permanent possession; I am Yahweh.” (Exodus 6: 6-8)

The essence of Yahweh’s explanation is this: “I am Yahweh.” In truth, “I am Yahweh” says it all! These verses hint at the importance of Yahweh’s Name. In some ways, the significance of His Name is a mystery because most of us don’t place much weight on names, but Yahweh does. He wants us to know that His Name sets Him apart. Yahweh is the Sovereign Lord of the universe—a fact that Pharaoh is about to learn.

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Special Section—Corruption in Congress:

As you think about the coming Congressional elections, you need to delve deeply into the corruption issue. Below I have provided a sampling of the kind of information you need. It’s just that—a sampling, and there are hyperlinks to everything, but you need to do some digging on your own. The information you need is readily available on the Internet. Please take the time to do your job properly, because we need to take our country back. Each one of you should examine the candidates who are seeking your vote. If you find corruption, expose it. I want to emphasize that this is NOT a partisan political appeal on my part. We need to root out corruption period. If we don’t, we deserve what we get.

The 15 Most Corrupt Members of Congress:

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Information You Need to Know:

WAKE UP AMERICA!

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Yahweh’s Name is important. It draws a sharp distinction between Him and every god created by men, and it identifies Him as the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. It also distinguishes between Him and any human being called lord. Yahweh is not a god or a lord. He is the One true God and the Lord and Master of all creation.

February 6th, 2010

“For here we are not afraid to follow the truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.” (Thomas Jefferson)

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Websites you need to see:

Friends of the Israel Defense Forces
Israel: About Israel, The Israel Project, Tourist Information, the Holocaust, Israel map, Israel’s War of Independence, the Six-Day War, the Yom Kippur War, the First Intifada, the Second Intifada, Arab-Israel conflict, and anti-Semitism
The Temple Institute
Video: The Aaronic Blessing—This is a beautiful video rendition of The Aaronic Blessing (Numbers 6: 24-26) in Hebrew and English, but notice that the title Adonai is used instead of the Name Yahweh. That is in keeping with a Jewish tradition that dates back to the mid-second century B.C., but you can be certain about this fact. Yahweh’s Name is essential to The Aaronic Blessing and should be there.
Video: He is Yahweh

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Scripture:

Today I’ll show where Yahweh’s Name belongs in 1 Corinthians 4:

1 Corinthians 4

Let a man regard us in this manner, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.
In this case, moreover, it is required of stewards that one be found trustworthy.
But to me it is a very small thing that I may be examined by you, or by any human court; in fact, I do not even examine myself.
For I am conscious of nothing against myself, yet I am not by this acquitted; but the one who examines me is Yahweh.
Therefore do not go on passing judgment before the time, but wait until Yahweh comes who will both bring to light the things hidden in the darkness and disclose the motives of men’s hearts; and then each man’s praise will come to him from God.
Now these things, brethren, I have figuratively applied to myself and Apollos for your sakes, so that in us you may learn not to exceed what is written, so that no one of you will become arrogant in behalf of one against the other.
For who regards you as superior? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?
You are already filled, you have already become rich, you have become kings without us; and indeed, I wish that you had become kings so that we also might reign with you.
For, I think, God has exhibited us apostles last of all, as men condemned to death; because we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men.
We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are prudent in Christ; we are weak, but you are strong; you are distinguished, but we are without honor.
To this present hour we are both hungry and thirsty, and are poorly clothed, and are roughly treated, and are homeless;
and we toil, working with our own hands; when we are reviled, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure;
when we are slandered, we try to conciliate; we have become as the scum of the world, the dregs of all things, even until now.
I do not write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.
For if you were to have countless tutors in Christ, yet you would not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel.
Therefore I exhort you, be imitators of me.
For this reason I have sent to you Timothy, who is my beloved and faithful child in Yahweh, and he will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, just as I teach everywhere in every church.
Now some have become arrogant, as though I were not coming to you.
But I will come to you soon, if Yahweh wills, and I shall find out, not the words of those who are arrogant but their power.
For the kingdom of God does not consist in words but in power.
What do you desire? Shall I come to you with a rod, or with love and a spirit of gentleness?

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SnyderTalk® Commentary:

I have left out several footnotes. Please go to the website His Name is Yahweh and download the manuscript. It has all the footnotes, and it’s free.

Yahweh Meets Moses on Mount Sinai

Exodus 3: 2 says that the Angel of Yahweh appeared to Moses as a blaze of fire in a bush that was not consumed, and Exodus 3: 4 says that the Angel of Yahweh is Yahweh. Keep this fact in mind because the Angel of Yahweh is the personification and manifestation of Yahweh. Today, we refer to Him as the Messiah.

Moses turned aside to take a close look at the bush. He could have simply looked at it from a distance in amazement, or he could have run away from it since it was such an unusual, and possibly frightening, sight. Instead, he walked right up to the bush, and he got so close to it that Yahweh stopped him and told him to take off his shoes because he was walking on holy ground. (Exodus 3: 4-5) The ground was holy because of Yahweh’s presence.

Yahweh called out to Moses from the burning bush and said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” (Exodus 3: 6)

When he realized who was talking to him, Moses hid his face because he was afraid to gaze at Yahweh. Moses’ mother had probably taught him about God’s awesome power and about His absolute purity. He knew that compared to Yahweh he was a filthy wretch.

Yahweh told Moses that He was sending him as His emissary to the Children of Israel and to Pharaoh. He also told Moses that He would deliver the Israelites from bondage in Egypt personally and take them to the land He promised to give Abraham and his descendants.

At first Moses was reluctant to assume this responsibility perhaps because he had tried to help his Hebrew relatives 40 years earlier, and they had asked Him, “Who made you a prince or a judge over us?” (Exodus 2: 14) When they asked him this question, Moses did not know how to respond.

In all likelihood, Yahweh had been working in Moses’ life at that point, and he understood what he was supposed to do. However, he did not understand the details. He did not know who was giving him the job or when he was supposed to do it. Forty years later on Mount Sinai speaking from a burning bush, Yahweh told Moses about the role he would play in the redemption of the Children of Israel.

Yahweh Gives Moses His Orders and Reveals His Name

God ordered Moses to return to Egypt and tell the Children of Israel, “Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.” (Exodus 3: 15)

Once the Children of Israel knew who had sent him, Yahweh assured Moses they would respond positively to his message. Then He said, “…this (Yahweh) is My Name forever, the Name by which I am to be remembered from generation to generation.” (Exodus 3: 15 in the New International Version )

The first command Yahweh gave Moses was to tell the Children of Israel His Name. Obviously, He never intended for us to forget it because forever means “without end.” God certainly did not want us to conceal His Name in the Scriptures by substituting the titles “LORD” and “GOD” in its place. People did that on their own initiative, and as I said before, Satan must have inspired them to do it.

At that moment, Yahweh could have instructed Moses to tell the Children of Israel not to say His Name, and if saying His Name had been a problem, He would have. He must have known how they would respond when they learned that Moses had come in His Name and that Yahweh was going to rescue them. His Name was about to spread through their community faster than a brush fire in the desert.

Yahweh’s Name is important. It draws a sharp distinction between Him and every god created by men, and it identifies Him as the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. It also distinguishes between Him and any human being called lord. Yahweh is not a god or a lord. He is the One true God and the Lord and Master of all creation.

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The primary purpose of the Exodus was to tell the world who Yahweh is by Name. It was no coincidence that He chose Egypt as the country from which to deliver His people. At that time, Egypt was the lone superpower; pharaoh was the most powerful person in the world; and Egypt’s many gods were recognized throughout the known world. Yahweh wanted to establish a written record about Him and His sovereignty. During the Exodus, He was going to make it clear that nations, leaders of nations, so-called “gods,” viruses, bacteria, insects, and even the forces of nature are subservient to Him. Jewish people call that written record the Torah and Christians refer to it as the Pentateuch, or the five books of Moses: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.

February 5th, 2010

“For here we are not afraid to follow the truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.” (Thomas Jefferson)

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The Temple Institute
Video: The Aaronic Blessing—This is a beautiful video rendition of The Aaronic Blessing (Numbers 6: 24-26) in Hebrew and English, but notice that the title Adonai is used instead of the Name Yahweh. That is in keeping with a Jewish tradition that dates back to the mid-second century B.C., but you can be certain about this fact. Yahweh’s Name is essential to The Aaronic Blessing and should be there.
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Scripture:

Today I’ll show where Yahweh’s Name belongs in 1 Corinthians 3:

1 Corinthians 3

And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual men, but as to men of flesh, as to infants in Christ.
I gave you milk to drink, not solid food; for you were not yet able to receive it. Indeed, even now you are not yet able,
for you are still fleshly. For since there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not fleshly, and are you not walking like mere men?
For when one says, “I am of Paul,” and another, “I am of Apollos,” are you not mere men?
What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, even as Yahweh gave opportunity to each one.
I planted, Apollos watered, but God was causing the growth.
So then neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but God who causes the growth.
Now he who plants and he who waters are one; but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.
For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building.
According to the grace of God which was given to me, like a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another is building on it. But each man must be careful how he builds on it.
For no man can lay a foundation other than the one which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
Now if any man builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw,
each man’s work will become evident; for the day will show it because it is to be revealed with fire, and the fire itself will test the quality of each man’s work.
If any man’s work which he has built on it remains, he will receive a reward.
If any man’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire.
Do you not know that you are a temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
If any man destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him, for the temple of God is holy, and that is what you are.
Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you thinks that he is wise in this age, he must become foolish, so that he may become wise.
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness before God. For it is written, “He is THE ONE WHO CATCHES THE WISE IN THEIR CRAFTINESS”;
and again, “YAHWEH KNOWS THE REASONINGS of the wise, THAT THEY ARE USELESS.”
So then let no one boast in men. For all things belong to you,
whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or things present or things to come; all things belong to you,
and you belong to Christ; and Christ belongs to God.

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I have left out several footnotes. Please go to the website His Name is Yahweh and download the manuscript. It has all the footnotes, and it’s free.

Yahweh Declares Himself to the World

The primary purpose of the Exodus was to tell the world who Yahweh is by Name. It was no coincidence that He chose Egypt as the country from which to deliver His people. At that time, Egypt was the lone superpower; pharaoh was the most powerful person in the world; and Egypt’s many gods were recognized throughout the known world. Yahweh wanted to establish a written record about Him and His sovereignty. During the Exodus, He was going to make it clear that nations, leaders of nations, so-called “gods,” viruses, bacteria, insects, and even the forces of nature are subservient to Him. Jewish people call that written record the Torah and Christians refer to it as the Pentateuch, or the five books of Moses: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.

The Exodus also illustrates Yahweh’s salvation or deliverance. By delivering His people from bondage in Egypt, Yahweh demonstrated His power to save under the most adverse conditions imaginable. Literally, He can reach down and pluck His people out of danger and then inflict punishment on His enemies with laser-guided precision. Nothing is impossible for Him.

The Exodus Begins

As the book of Genesis comes to an end, the Children of Israel are moving to Egypt because of a famine in the Promised Land. Joseph had been brought to Egypt as a slave, and eventually he became viceroy or prime minister, a position that was second only to Pharaoh. In that capacity, he was able to provide for the Children of Israel, and they were treated well and prospered while Joseph was alive.

According to Rabbi Phillip Sigal, the pharaoh in Egypt at the time of Joseph’s arrival was probably from the Hyksos line, and many Hyksos were Semites—as were the Children of Israel. Sigal says,

“It is conceivable that the pharaoh of Joseph’s period welcomed the Hebrews to his kingdom because he was one of the Hyksos and a Semite like themselves. When the Hyksos were overthrown, the new Egyptian monarch, regarding the Hebrews as consorts of the Hyksos, and therefore enemies, proceeded to enslave them.” (Sigal, Rabbi Phillip. Judaism: The Evolution of a Faith, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1988, p. 7)

Yahweh Initiates the Exodus

The events described in the book of Exodus take place about 300 years after Joseph’s death. As Exodus begins, a pharaoh had come to power in Egypt who had not known Joseph. He was concerned because he thought the Hebrews, who had grown in number to several million people, could turn against Egypt if enemies invaded the country and possibly could help to bring about her defeat. Thus, he decided to enslave the Children of Israel, and he put them to work making bricks to build cities and temples that were needed as Egypt grew and prospered.

The Hebrew people continued to increase rapidly in number despite their difficult circumstances. Thus, Pharaoh decided to kill their male children at birth. Moses was born during this time. Pharaoh’s daughter spared his life when she found him floating in a basket in the Nile River. She brought him into Pharaoh’s house and raised him as her own son.

Yahweh protected Moses, and He arranged things so that his real mother became his wet nurse. She must have taught Moses about his true identity as an Israelite because when he was 40 years old, Moses decided to forego the life of luxury that he could have lived as the son of pharaoh’s daughter, and he attempted to rescue his Hebrew relatives.

One day he got involved in a dispute between an Egyptian taskmaster and a Hebrew slave, and he killed the taskmaster. When news of the incident reached pharaoh, he ordered Moses’ execution. Thus, Moses fled to the Land of Midian which is known today as Saudi Arabia. While living in Midian, Moses married the daughter of the priest of Midian and began raising a family. He worked for his father-in-law (Jethro) as a shepherd of his flocks. Moses spent long hours in the barren wilderness alone grazing sheep. When he was 80 years old, Moses met Yahweh on Mount Sinai.

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Misguided tradition concealed Yahweh’s Name from us for centuries, but it was right in front of us all the time shrouded by titles that Yahweh never intended as substitutes for His Name. The Bible is explicit. We are supposed to know Yahweh’s Name, to call Yahweh by His Name, and to tell others about Yahweh by Name. The Scriptures are clear. Yahweh condemns anything that contradicts His Word. Therefore, not using Yahweh’s Name is one tradition we should abandon—and the sooner the better. I’ll go even farther. Since the Bible says repeatedly that “everyone who calls on the Name of Yahweh will be saved” (Joel 2: 32—Joel 3: 5 in the Tanach, Acts 2: 21, and Romans 10: 13) and that “there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4: 12), ignoring this message is foolish and dangerous.

February 4th, 2010

“For here we are not afraid to follow the truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.” (Thomas Jefferson)

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The Temple Institute
Video: The Aaronic Blessing—This is a beautiful video rendition of The Aaronic Blessing (Numbers 6: 24-26) in Hebrew and English, but notice that the title Adonai is used instead of the Name Yahweh. That is in keeping with a Jewish tradition that dates back to the mid-second century B.C., but you can be certain about this fact. Yahweh’s Name is essential to The Aaronic Blessing and should be there.
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Scripture:

Today I’ll show where Yahweh’s Name belongs in 1 Corinthians 2:

1 Corinthians 2

And when I came to you, brethren, I did not come with superiority of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God.
For I determined to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and Him crucified.
I was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling,
and my message and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,
so that your faith would not rest on the wisdom of men, but on the power of God.
Yet we do speak wisdom among those who are mature; a wisdom, however, not of this age nor of the rulers of this age, who are passing away;
but we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God predestined before the ages to our glory;
the wisdom which none of the rulers of this age has understood; for if they had understood it they would not have crucified the Lord of glory;
but just as it is written, “THINGS WHICH EYE HAS NOT SEEN AND EAR HAS NOT HEARD, AND which HAVE NOT ENTERED THE HEART OF MAN, ALL THAT GOD HAS PREPARED FOR THOSE WHO LOVE HIM.”
For to us God revealed them through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God.
For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so the thoughts of God no one knows except the Spirit of God.
Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things freely given to us by God,
which things we also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, combining spiritual thoughts with spiritual words.
But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised.
But he who is spiritual appraises all things, yet he himself is appraised by no one.
For WHO HAS KNOWN THE MIND OF YAHWEH, THAT HE WILL INSTRUCT HIM? But we have the mind of Christ.

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SnyderTalk® Commentary:

I have left out several footnotes. Please go to the website His Name is Yahweh and download the manuscript. It has all the footnotes, and it’s free.

Other Names for Yahweh

Below I have listed several Names for Yahweh and their meanings. Each Name reveals an attribute of His character. For example, He is Elohim (God), Adonai (Lord), and El Shaddai (God Almighty). But His Name is Yahweh.

Elohim—Strong One. It is used when referring to Yahweh or to a pagan god. When it refers to Yahweh, it is translated as “God,” and when it refers to a pagan god it is translated as “god.” Elohim is a plural word that suggests majesty.
Adonai—Lord or Master. It is used when referring to Yahweh, to false gods, or to men. When it refers to Yahweh, it is translated as “Lord”. When it refers to men or to false gods it is translated as “lord.” Adonai suggests a master-servant relationship.
El Gibbor—Mighty God. A powerful Warrior God who protects and defends His people.
El Elyon—God Most High or strongest Strong One.
El Roi—the Strong One who sees.
El Shaddai—Almighty God. It means sufficient or enough and refers to God as the One who sets constraints or limits in the universe.
El Olam—Everlasting God.
Yahweh Yireh—Yahweh will provide.
Yahweh Nissi—Yahweh our Banner.
Yahweh Shalom—Yahweh our Peace.
Yahweh Sabaoth—This Name is translated in most Bibles as “LORD of hosts,” and it refers to Yahweh as the Leader of a great army. The Tanach interprets this Name as “HASHEM Master of Legions.”
Yahweh Maccaddeshcem—Yahweh our Sanctifier.
Yahweh Raah—Yahweh our Shepherd.
Yahweh Tsidkenu—Yahweh our Righteousness.
Yahweh El Gmolah—Yahweh God of Recompense or Yahweh our Reward.
Yahweh Shammah—Yahweh who is present.
Yahweh Raphah—Yahweh our Healer. A literal translation of this Name is Yahweh our doctor.

(Most of these Names for Yahweh are listed in the Ryrie Study Bible Expanded Edition, Moody Press, Chicago, 1995, pp. 2057-2058.)

Yahweh will share the title “god” with anything—even a piece of wood or a rock. He will share the title “lord” with anyone. Some of the most evil people in the history of the world were called “lord.” But Yahweh will not share His Divine Name with anyone. In due course, the importance of distinguishing between Yahweh and any so-called “god” will become obvious to everyone. There is only One true God, and His Name is Yahweh.

Are You Ready to Embrace Yahweh’s Clear Instructions?

Misguided tradition concealed Yahweh’s Name from us for centuries, but it was right in front of us all the time shrouded by titles that Yahweh never intended as substitutes for His Name. The Bible is explicit. We are supposed to know Yahweh’s Name, to call Yahweh by His Name, and to tell others about Yahweh by Name. The Scriptures are clear. Yahweh condemns anything that contradicts His Word. Therefore, not using Yahweh’s Name is one tradition we should abandon—and the sooner the better. I’ll go even farther. Since the Bible says repeatedly that “everyone who calls on the Name of Yahweh will be saved” (Joel 2: 32—Joel 3: 5 in the Tanach, Acts 2: 21, and Romans 10: 13) and that “there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4: 12), ignoring this message is foolish and dangerous.

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News Items of Interest:

Commonsense: I’m glad Mr. Holder came clean. Problem is he was more than a month late. Is that what passes for courage in our government these days? You would have to be woefully uninformed not to know that Mr. Holder made the decision to read the Underwear Bomber his rights after the heads of various intelligence agencies and the Director of the FBI testified before Congress the other day that they were not consulted about the decision and that they had no idea who made it. That’s scandalous. On top of everything else, Rahm Emanuel’s description of liberal democrats in Congress was inexcusable. He called them “f—ing retards”. I would not have used such offensive language, but candidly, I must confess that I share his sentiment. I refer to them as babbling nincompoops. They may be intelligent and they talk incessantly, but they don’t make much sense. We live in perilous times, and our government is putting our lives and our country’s financial well-being at risk. I’m not naïve about the free spending ways of the Republican Congress in the first 6 years of the Bush administration, and I am mindful of the fact that President Bush didn’t veto a single spending bill until after the Democrats took control of Congress in 2006. These are not partisan political statements. They are legitimate concerns. Remember, November 2010 is right around the corner. It’s time for change we can believe in and hope for a better tomorrow.

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If you haven’t seen it yet, you should take a look at the Page in the column on the right titled “Yahweh Declares His Name in the Book of Exodus”. Putting Yahweh’s Name where it belongs makes a huge difference. That should come as no surprise. The primary purpose of the Bible is to tell us who Yahweh is and who we are in Him. After you finish reading what Yahweh said about Himself in Exodus, take a look at the Page titled “Yahweh’s Promises Concerning the Promised Land”. It will shed a new light on the importance of the so-called “peace talks” in Israel that we hear so much about today. While you’re at it, take a look at the Page titled “Yahweh’s Name in the New Testament”. You’ll be glad you did.

February 3rd, 2010

“For here we are not afraid to follow the truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.” (Thomas Jefferson)

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Websites you need to see:

Friends of the Israel Defense Forces
Israel: About Israel, The Israel Project, Tourist Information, the Holocaust, Israel map, Israel’s War of Independence, the Six-Day War, the Yom Kippur War, the First Intifada, the Second Intifada, Arab-Israel conflict, and anti-Semitism
The Temple Institute
Video: The Aaronic Blessing—This is a beautiful video rendition of The Aaronic Blessing (Numbers 6: 24-26) in Hebrew and English, but notice that the title Adonai is used instead of the Name Yahweh. That is in keeping with a Jewish tradition that dates back to the mid-second century B.C., but you can be certain about this fact. Yahweh’s Name is essential to The Aaronic Blessing and should be there.
Video: He is Yahweh

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Scripture:

Today I’ll show where Yahweh’s Name belongs in 1 Corinthians 1:

1 Corinthians 1

Paul, called as an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother,
To the church of God which is at Corinth, to those who have been sanctified in Christ Jesus, saints by calling, with all who in every place call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours:
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
I thank my God always concerning you for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus,
that in everything you were enriched in Him, in all speech and all knowledge,
even as the testimony concerning Christ was confirmed in you,
so that you are not lacking in any gift, awaiting eagerly the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ,
who will also confirm you to the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
God is faithful, through whom you were called into fellowship with His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
Now I exhort you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all agree and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be made complete in the same mind and in the same judgment.
For I have been informed concerning you, my brethren, by Chloe’s people, that there are quarrels among you.
Now I mean this, that each one of you is saying, “I am of Paul,” and “I of Apollos,” and “I of Cephas,” and “I of Christ.”
Has Christ been divided? Paul was not crucified for you, was he? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?
I thank God that I baptized none of you except Crispus and Gaius,
so that no one would say you were baptized in my name.
Now I did baptize also the household of Stephanas; beyond that, I do not know whether I baptized any other.
For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not in cleverness of speech, so that the cross of Christ would not be made void.
For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
For it is written, “I WILL DESTROY THE WISDOM OF THE WISE, AND THE CLEVERNESS OF THE CLEVER I WILL SET ASIDE.”
Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not come to know God, God was well-pleased through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe.
For indeed Jews ask for signs and Greeks search for wisdom;
but we preach Christ crucified, to Jews a stumbling block and to Gentiles foolishness,
but to those who are the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
For consider your calling, brethren, that there were not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble;
but God has chosen the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to shame the things which are strong,
and the base things of the world and the despised God has chosen, the things that are not, so that He may nullify the things that are,
so that no man may boast before God.
But by His doing you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption,
so that, just as it is written, “LET HIM WHO BOASTS,BOAST IN YAHWEH.”

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A New Page in the Column on the Right—“Yahweh’s Name in the New Testament”

Yahweh’s Name in the New Testament:

According to Charles Ryrie, author of Ryrie Study Bible, Yahweh’s Name appears in Hebrew manuscripts of the Old Testament exactly 6,823 times. (Ryrie, Charles. Ryrie Study Bible Expanded Edition, Moody, 1995, p. 6.) That number probably seems large to you, and I hope it raises questions in your mind about why you haven’t heard a lot about Yahweh’s Name in church. And we know this, too. The New Testament is loaded with direct quotes and paraphrased passages from the Old Testament and many times those Old Testament verses contain the words “LORD” and “GOD” in capital letters. The Name “Yahweh” belongs there, but it’s not always easy to identify where Yahweh’s Name should be in the New Testament because most Bible translations don’t pay enough attention to the case of the letters brought from the Old Testament to the New Testament.

This website shows where Yahweh’s Name should appear in the New Testament: The Divine Name in the New Testament

The Peshitta:

The Peshitta is the Aramaic New Testament. Contrary to popular belief and theories about Bible origins that are taught in most seminaries, the original New Testament manuscripts were not written in Greek. They were written in Aramaic and translated into Greek for wide scale distribution. Due to translation errors and structural problems associated with translating from Aramaic to Greek, the Bibles most people rely on today are not as accurate as they should be. I won’t go into detail about this because Andrew Gabriel Roth has dealt with it extensively in a book titled Ruach Qadim. I strongly suggest that you purchase a copy. You’ll be glad you did because it proves beyond any reasonable doubt that the source documents for Bible scholars who wrote the Greek New Testament manuscripts were the original Aramaic texts.

You should also get a copy of the Peshitta. Andrew Gabriel Roth has written the best and most up-to-date version of the Peshitta available on the market today. It’s titled Aramaic English New Testament. I’ve read it, and it’s better than the King James Version, the New American Standard Bible, the New International Version, and every other Bible translation that is based on Greek New Testament source material. Please take the time to read the introductory material and the appendices. You’ll be glad you did.

We are living during a time when Yahweh is revealing things about Himself, His Name, and His Word that have been hidden for millennia. Let me be perfectly clear about this fact. This is not “new material”. It’s ancient material that has been obscured by well-intentioned people who made critical errors. The Holy Spirit permitted it, I can’t explain why, but you can be certain that Satan was behind it. It’s time for us to know the truth. Please take the time to examine these two books and see for yourself. Thankfully, we live during a time when this information is readily available to anyone with an open mind and a sincere desire to know Yahweh’s Word.

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SnyderTalk® Commentary:

I have left out several footnotes. Please go to the website His Name is Yahweh and download the manuscript. It has all the footnotes, and it’s free.

Excuses People Use to Justify Not Calling Yahweh by His Name

Reducing the risk of using Yahweh’s Name in vain or blaspheming His Name are the two most logical reasons advanced for not saying it or writing it. However, over the centuries people have come up with many more so-called “justifications” for not using His Name. They include the following:

It is too sacred.
We are not required to use it.
It has no real value.
Yahweh is a Hebrew Name, and people who do not speak Hebrew are not required to use it.
Only Jews are required to use the Name “Yahweh.”
Jesus and His disciples did not use the Name “Yahweh” so we are not required to use it either.
The correct pronunciation of God’s Name has been lost over time.
Jehovah is the Name for God most commonly used today, and it is sufficient and appropriate.
God knows when we are addressing Him so the name we use is unimportant.
God has not convicted me personally about the importance of using the Name “Yahweh.”
I was brought to salvation in the name Jesus and that’s good enough for me.
Moses was the first person to use the Name “Yahweh” so the Name itself is not eternal.

(Most of these rationalizations are discussed in The Sacred Name Volume I Third Edition by R. Clover, Qadesh La Yahweh Press, Garden Grove, California, 2002, pp. xv-xvi.)

These are just a few of the many excuses people have come up with to defend their practice of not using Yahweh’s Name, and none of them stand up under careful scrutiny. For instance, while it is true that Moses took Yahweh’s Name to the Children of Israel while they were in bondage in Egypt, Enosh—Seth’s son and Adam’s grandson—invoked His Name shortly after the creation. As you know if you read SnyderTalk regularly, Yeshua and His disciples used Yahweh’s Name a lot, and the Psalms talk repeatedly about the importance of declaring His Name.

No one should require Yahweh to convict him personally about the importance of obeying each explicit command in the Scriptures. We should obey Yahweh because we love Him. In fact, there is no good excuse for disobeying Him, and He commanded us to declare His Name to the world. That much is certain.

Note: If you haven’t seen it yet, you should take a look at the Page in the column on the right titled “Yahweh Declares His Name in the Book of Exodus”. Putting Yahweh’s Name where it belongs makes a huge difference. That should come as no surprise. The primary purpose of the Bible is to tell us who Yahweh is and who we are in Him. After you finish reading what Yahweh said about Himself in Exodus, take a look at the Page titled “Yahweh’s Promises Concerning the Promised Land”. It will shed a new light on the importance of the so-called “peace talks” in Israel that we hear so much about today. While you’re at it, take a look at the Page titled “Yahweh’s Name in the New Testament”. You’ll be glad you did.

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The prohibition against saying or writing Yahweh’s Name is a man-made tradition that has been handed down through the generations for more than 2000 years ostensibly to show honor and respect for His Name. It is NOT a directive from Yahweh, and you can be certain about this fact. It is not respectful to ignore Yahweh’s Word, and it is dangerous, reckless, and foolish to impose an injunction against something Yahweh explicitly commands us to do. To believe otherwise makes no sense.

February 2nd, 2010

“For here we are not afraid to follow the truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.” (Thomas Jefferson)

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Video: The Aaronic Blessing—This is a beautiful video rendition of The Aaronic Blessing (Numbers 6: 24-26) in Hebrew and English, but notice that the title Adonai is used instead of the Name Yahweh. That is in keeping with a Jewish tradition that dates back to the mid-second century B.C., but you can be certain about this fact. Yahweh’s Name is essential to The Aaronic Blessing and should be there.
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Scripture:

Today I’ll show where Yahweh’s Name belongs in Romans chapter 15:

Romans 15

Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of those without strength and not just please ourselves.
Each of us is to please his neighbor for his good, to his edification.
For even Christ did not please Himself; but as it is written, “THE REPROACHES OF THOSE WHO REPROACHED YOU FELL ON ME.”
For whatever was written in earlier times was written for our instruction, so that through perseverance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
Now may the God who gives perseverance and encouragement grant you to be of the same mind with one another according to Christ Jesus,
so that with one accord you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Therefore, accept one another, just as Christ also accepted us to the glory of God.
For I say that Christ has become a servant to the circumcision on behalf of the truth of God to confirm the promises given to the fathers,
and for the Gentiles to glorify God for His mercy; as it is written, “THEREFORE I WILL GIVE PRAISE TO YOU AMONG THE GENTILES,
AND I WILL SING TO YOUR NAME.”
Again he says, “REJOICE, O GENTILES, WITH HIS PEOPLE.”
And again, “PRAISE YAHWEH ALL YOU GENTILES, AND LET ALL THE PEOPLES PRAISE HIM.”
Again Isaiah says, “THERE SHALL COME THE ROOT OF JESSE, AND HE WHO ARISES TO RULE OVER THE GENTILES, IN HIM SHALL THE GENTILES HOPE.”
Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you will abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
And concerning you, my brethren, I myself also am convinced that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge and able also to admonish one another.
But I have written very boldly to you on some points so as to remind you again, because of the grace that was given me from God,
to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, ministering as a priest the gospel of God, so that my offering of the Gentiles may become acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
Therefore in Christ Jesus I have found reason for boasting in things pertaining to God.
For I will not presume to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me, resulting in the obedience of the Gentiles by word and deed,
in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Spirit; so that from Jerusalem and round about as far as Illyricum I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.
And thus I aspired to preach the gospel, not where Christ was already named, so that I would not build on another man’s foundation;
but as it is written, “THEY WHO HAD NO NEWS OF HIM SHALL SEE, AND THEY WHO HAVE NOT HEARD SHALL UNDERSTAND.”
For this reason I have often been prevented from coming to you;
but now, with no further place for me in these regions, and since I have had for many years a longing to come to you
whenever I go to Spain—for I hope to see you in passing, and to be helped on my way there by you, when I have first enjoyed your company for a while—
but now, I am going to Jerusalem serving the saints.
For Macedonia and Achaia have been pleased to make a contribution for the poor among the saints in Jerusalem.
Yes, they were pleased to do so, and they are indebted to them. For if the Gentiles have shared in their spiritual things, they are indebted to minister to them also in material things.
Therefore, when I have finished this, and have put my seal on this fruit of theirs, I will go on by way of you to Spain.
I know that when I come to you, I will come in the fullness of the blessing of Christ.
Now I urge you, brethren, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in your prayers to God for me,
that I may be rescued from those who are disobedient in Judea, and that my service for Jerusalem may prove acceptable to the saints;
so that I may come to you in joy by the will of God and find refreshing rest in your company.
Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.

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Prohibiting the Use of Yahweh’s Name is Wrong

As you now know, the prohibition against saying or writing Yahweh’s Name is a man-made tradition that has been handed down through the generations for more than 2000 years ostensibly to show honor and respect for His Name. It is NOT a directive from Yahweh, and you can be certain about this fact. It is not respectful to ignore Yahweh’s Word, and it is dangerous, reckless, and foolish to impose an injunction against something Yahweh explicitly commands us to do. To believe otherwise makes no sense.

Even so, many people believe that saying or writing Yahweh’s Name puts a person at risk of violating the third Commandment. Exodus 20: 7 says, “You shall not take the Name of Yahweh your God in vain, for Yahweh will not leave him unpunished who takes His Name in vain.”

The Hebrew word translated as “vain” in this verse is shav (shawv). It means to use Yahweh’s Name in a destructive, deceptive, or false manner. It can also mean to misuse His Name. This is not a prohibition against saying it or writing it. It simply means that we must be careful and honest when using the Name “Yahweh.” Additionally, Leviticus 24: 11 says that the penalty for blaspheming His Name is death. The Hebrew word translated as “blaspheme” in this verse is naqab (naw-kab’). It means to curse Yahweh’s Name or to use it in a way that is incomplete, dishonest, or deceptive. These two verses tell us that even though Yahweh bestowed upon us the great privilege of sharing His Name with the world, we must do it properly.

Tradition is a Huge Obstacle

I have talked with many Jewish people about Yahweh. With few exceptions, those who recognize His Name refuse to say it because of tradition, and they are not shy about admitting that tradition is the only reason they refrain from using Yahweh’s Name.

For most Jewish people, tradition is bigger, bolder, and more important than Yahweh’s Word. They ignore Yahweh’s commands and hold fast to tradition apparently without giving the consequences any consideration at all.

The notion that tradition plays a more important part in the daily lives of Jewish people than the Tanach is deeply embedded in the Mishnah. It contains the Talmudic laws that govern every aspect of Jewish life, and this is what the Mishnah says about this question:

“Greater stringency applies to the words of the Scribes than to the Torah. If a man said, ‘There is no obligation to wear phylacteries,’ so that he transgresses the word of the Torah, he is not culpable; but if he said, ‘There should be in them five partitions,’ so that he adds to the words of the Scribes, he is culpable.” (Sanhedrin 11: 3)

According to Bible scholar Herbert Danby,

“The Mishnah, in other words, maintains that the authority of those rules, customs, and interpretations which had accumulated around the Jewish system of life and religion was equal to the authority of the Written Law itself, even though they found no place in the Written Law. This, again, is but an assertion…that side by side with the written code there exists a living tradition with power to interpret the written code, to add to it, and even at times to modify it or ignore it as might be needed in changed circumstances, and to do this authoritatively. Inevitably the inference follows that the living tradition…is more important than the Written Law, since the ‘tradition of the elders,’ besides claiming an authority and continuity equal to that of the Written Law, claims also to be its authentic and living interpretation and its essential complement.” (Danby, Herbert, trans. Mishnah. Oxford University Press, 1974, p. xvii.)

Pay careful attention. Yahweh will not condone our willful disobedience and our attempts to edit His Word to make it comply with our personal preferences and traditions. To believe otherwise is foolish! And make no mistake about this fact. Removing Yahweh’s Name from the Scriptures and substituting titles in its place are just as wrong. So be careful before criticizing Jewish people for their disobedience in this regard because Christians are just as guilty as they are, and neither group has a good excuse.

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News Items of Interest:

Commonsense: It comes as no surprise that the Obama administration has been working surreptitiously to arm Persian Gulf states in preparation for a nuclear Iran. It is shocking, however, that so little of substance has been done to avert what will inevitably become a major disaster. Iranian leaders have made it perfectly clear that they intend “to wipe Israel off the map”. Those are their words, not mine. The Obama administration has left Israel in a vulnerable position from which she must extricate herself. Our only real friend in the Middle East, Israel, is being left to defend herself against hostile enemies. Any action she takes, offensive or defensive, could trigger a full-scale war involving most if not all of the countries in the region. This is a diplomatic and national security failure of the highest magnitude. Make no mistake. Israel’s enemies are our enemies. Again, those are not my words. That’s exactly what radical Islamist terrorists in the Middle East have been saying for decades. A nuclear Iran will embolden them to do things that we have heretofore believed were unimaginable. You had better get used to thinking about the possibility that Iran will supply nuclear material and/or nuclear weapons to individuals and rogue states seeking to do us harm.

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Listen up readers, and let this sink in. The head of the PA is much more afraid of his own people than he is of the Israelis. For 62 years, so-called “Palestinians” have been taught that Israel and Jewish people in general are their enemies. They learned it in school, at home, and at the local mosque. Virtually every so-called “Palestinian” alive today has been thoroughly indoctrinated. In their minds, anyone who signs a peace treaty with Israel is a traitor. To them, the act of signing a peace deal with Israel is an act of treason, and the punishment is death. That’s why I coined the phrase “The Palestinian Two-Step”. It’s a little dance Palestinian leaders do as they pretend to want peace while sowing the seeds of war. In other words, no deal. FYI, it’s the same dance Hitler did prior to World War II, only then it was “The Nazi Two-Step”. That should tell you something. In case you are wondering who really owns the Promised Land, take a look at the Page in the column on the right titled “Yahweh’s Promises Concerning the Promised Land”.

February 1st, 2010

“For here we are not afraid to follow the truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.” (Thomas Jefferson)

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The Temple Institute
Video: The Aaronic Blessing—This is a beautiful video rendition of The Aaronic Blessing (Numbers 6: 24-26) in Hebrew and English, but notice that the title Adonai is used instead of the Name Yahweh. That is in keeping with a Jewish tradition that dates back to the mid-second century B.C., but you can be certain about this fact. Yahweh’s Name is essential to The Aaronic Blessing and should be there.
Video: He is Yahweh

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Scripture:

Today I’ll show where Yahweh’s Name belongs in Romans chapter 14:

Romans 14

Now accept the one who is weak in faith, but not for the purpose of passing judgment on his opinions.
One person has faith that he may eat all things, but he who is weak eats vegetables only.
The one who eats is not to regard with contempt the one who does not eat, and the one who does not eat is not to judge the one who eats, for God has accepted him.
Who are you to judge the servant of another? To his own master he stands or falls; and he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand.
One person regards one day above another, another regards every day alike. Each person must be fully convinced in his own mind.
He who observes the day, observes it for the Lord, and he who eats, does so for the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and he who eats not, for the Lord he does not eat, and gives thanks to God.
For not one of us lives for himself, and not one dies for himself;
for if we live, we live for the Lord, or if we die, we die for the Lord; therefore whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s.
For to this end Christ died and lived again, that He might be Yahweh both of the dead and of the living.
But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you regard your brother with contempt? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God.
For it is written, “AS I LIVE, SAYS YAHWEH, EVERY KNEE SHALL BOW TO ME, AND EVERY TONGUE SHALL GIVE PRAISE TO GOD.”
So then each one of us will give an account of himself to God.
Therefore let us not judge one another anymore, but rather determine this—not to put an obstacle or a stumbling block in a brother’s way.
I know and am convinced in Yahweh Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself; but to him who thinks anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
For if because of food your brother is hurt, you are no longer walking according to love. Do not destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.
Therefore do not let what is for you a good thing be spoken of as evil;
for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
For he who in this way serves Christ is acceptable to God and approved by men.
So then we pursue the things which make for peace and the building up of one another.
Do not tear down the work of God for the sake of food. All things indeed are clean, but they are evil for the man who eats and gives offense.
It is good not to eat meat or to drink wine, or to do anything by which your brother stumbles.
The faith which you have, have as your own conviction before God. Happy is he who does not condemn himself in what he approves.
But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because his eating is not from faith; and whatever is not from faith is sin.

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Yahweh Did Prohibit One Group From Using His Name—As Punishment!

Although Yahweh commanded us to declare His Name to the world, there was a time when He forbade the use of His Name by the Jewish refugees in Egypt following the Babylonian captivity in 597 B.C. But He intended this prohibition as punishment.

When Nebuchadnezzar conquered Judah, he allowed some of the poorer Jewish people to remain in the Promised Land rather than deporting them to Babylon. (Jeremiah 39: 10) He also appointed Gedaliah as governor (Jeremiah 40: 7), but in a short while Baalis, the Ammonite king, sent Ishmael son of Nethaniah to murder Gedaliah. (Jeremiah 40: 14) Fearful that Nebuchadnezzar would retaliate by annihilating the Jewish people remaining in the land, they thought about fleeing to Egypt, but instead they asked Jeremiah to intercede with Yahweh on their behalf. (Jeremiah 42: 2)

Jeremiah did as they asked, and this is what Yahweh said:

“If you will only stay in this country, I shall build you and not overthrow you; I shall plant you and not uproot you, for I am sorry about the disaster I have inflicted on you. Do not be afraid of the king of Babylon, whom you fear now; do not fear him, Yahweh declares, for I am with you to save you and rescue you from his clutches. I shall take pity on you, so that he pities you and lets you return to your native soil.

But if you say: ‘We will not stay in this country;’ if you disobey the voice of Yahweh your God, and say: ‘No, Egypt is where we shall go, where we shall not see war or hear the trumpet-call or go short of food; that is where we want to live;’ in that case, remnant of Judah, listen to Yahweh’s word: Yahweh Sabaoth, God of Israel, says this: If you are determined to go to Egypt, and if you do go and settle there, the sword you fear will overtake you there in Egypt, and there you will die.” (Jeremiah 42: 10-16 from The New Jerusalem Bible )

When Jeremiah gave them Yahweh’s reply, they accused him of lying (Jeremiah 43: 2) and set off for Egypt, taking Jeremiah with them. In Egypt, they worshiped false gods thinking that they were prosperous in Israel while they venerated idols. (Jeremiah 44: 16-19) They did not realize that Yahweh inflicted the Babylonian disaster on them for worshipping false gods, among other things.

Jeremiah confronted them in Egypt and warned them to abandon this vile practice, but they were stubborn and refused to listen. Thus, Yahweh said,

“I swear by My great Name…that My Name will no longer be uttered by any man of Judah throughout Egypt; no one will say: ‘As Lord Yahweh lives.’” (Jeremiah 44: 26 from The New Jerusalem Bible )

As you can see, Yahweh prohibited a specific group of people from using His Name for a particular time. He was punishing them for disobeying Him, for worshipping false gods, and for profaning His Name. Eventually, most of the Jewish people who fled to Egypt for safety were killed in Egypt by Nebuchadnezzar’s army, just as Yahweh said. It should be clear that Yahweh will not tolerate our willful disobedience or our profaning His great Name.

With this information as background, consider this perspective on the prohibition against writing or saying Yahweh. The writers of the “Talmudic and Rabbinic sources” referred to by Rabbi Scherman (refer back to the SnyderTalk post for January 29, 2010 for details) institutionalized a punishment Yahweh imposed on an idolatrous group of Jewish people who were violating His Word and His specific commands delivered to them by His prophet Jeremiah. Read Yahweh’s Word and search for even a hint that He intended for them to do that. If you do, you will not find it because it does not exist. Their motives may have been pure, but they dishonored, distorted, and defiled Yahweh’s Word by incorporating as an integral part of their tradition a punishment from Yahweh intended for a specific group of people for a particular time. What’s more, virtually every modern English Bible translation on the market today has repeated this dreadful error.

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News Items of Interest:

Commonsense: Flashback to 2000—Bill Clinton is the US president; Ehud Barak is PM of Israel; and Yasser Arafat is President of the Palestinian Authority. It’s the Camp David meeting that was supposed to seal the peace deal and make Bill Clinton a Nobel Laureate. Clinton persuaded Barak to concede everything Arafat wanted…including a huge chunk of Jerusalem. After what can only be described as a strained attempt to appear to be serious, Arafat turned the offer down. That prompted Clinton to publically reprimand Arafat and to expose him as the recalcitrant party in the “peace talks”. To save face, Arafat staged a demonstration and declared another Intifada after granting Ariel Sharon permission to visit the Temple Mount.

Back to the present—this is the problem. Bill Clinton did not understand then and Barack Obama does not understand now that the Palestinians don’t want peace. They only want to appear to want peace. Why? There are many reasons. I’ll list a few:

When a peace deal is signed and Palestinian nationhood is declared, world leaders will expect the people running the fledgling state to behave like adults, to keep their word, and to deal with the corruption that is so prevalent among PA higher-ups. In other words, no deal.
World leaders will expect the nascent state to set up an economy of some kind to support its citizens. Right now, Abbas and other PA leaders raise money by running around the world like globetrotting beggars taking donations from anyone with a couple of nickels to rub together. A new state will be required to produce more than hate talk and empty jargon. In other words, no deal.
There are many more reasons why the PA will not sign a peace treaty, but I’ll close with this one. Whoever signs the deal for the PA is a dead man.

Listen up readers, and let this sink in. The head of the PA is much more afraid of his own people than he is of the Israelis. For 62 years, so-called “Palestinians” have been taught that Israel and Jewish people in general are their enemies. They learned it in school, at home, and at the local mosque. Virtually every so-called “Palestinian” alive today has been thoroughly indoctrinated. In their minds, anyone who signs a peace treaty with Israel is a traitor. To them, the act of signing a peace deal with Israel is an act of treason, and the punishment is death. That’s why I coined the phrase “The Palestinian Two-Step”. It’s a little dance Palestinian leaders do as they pretend to want peace while sowing the seeds of war. In other words, no deal. FYI, it’s the same dance Hitler did prior to World War II, only then it was “The Nazi Two-Step”. That should tell you something. In case you are wondering who really owns the Promised Land, take a look at the Page in the column on the right titled “Yahweh’s Promises Concerning the Promised Land”.

Commonsense: The only people who are surprised by Fahmi Shabaneh’s belief that he will be assassinated for revealing corruption and sexual abuse in the Palestinian Authority are the woefully ignorant or uninformed and leftist liberal progressives. A few years ago, a research report revealed that roughly 86% of the money flowing into the PA’s coffers simply disappeared or was misused. Many on the left feigned surprise when it was revealed that Yasser Arafat had a net worth of about $700 million when he died from complications associated with AIDS—a disease he contracted according to reliable reports while engaging in sexual acts with young Arab boys. Since Arafat never held a real job and he was not a financier, there is no way he could have accumulated that wealth honestly. It is common knowledge in Israel that the PA has told its “citizens” they will be killed if they sell land to a Jewish person. I could go on ad nauseam because there are so many examples of fraud, abuse, and sexual misdeeds among the higher-ups in the PA, but I won’t. Let it suffice to say, and I am repeating myself to emphasize my point, the only people who are surprised by these revelations are the hopelessly ignorant or uninformed and leftist liberal progressives who will believe anything so long as they don’t have to rethink their basic assumptions which in many instances defy logic and basic commonsense.

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The Pharisees were justifiably appalled by Epiphanes’ persecution of Law-abiding Jews and by the attempts of Hellenizers to profane anything having to do with Yahweh and His Law. They decided to build “a wall around the Torah” to keep people from violating Yahweh’s decrees. By this I mean they forbade things Yahweh did not prohibit in order to keep Jewish people from even coming close to breaking one of Yahweh’s commands. One of the so-called “walls” they constructed was the prohibition against saying the Name “Yahweh.” To keep people from blaspheming Yahweh’s Name or from using it in vain, the rabbis simply forbade its use except on special occasions—and then only by highly educated, religious Jews. Thus, Yahweh’s Name never was lost. There have been people who knew the correct pronunciation of Yahweh’s Name all along, but over time His Name was lost for most people.

January 31st, 2010

“For here we are not afraid to follow the truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.” (Thomas Jefferson)

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Friends of the Israel Defense Forces
Israel: About Israel, The Israel Project, Tourist Information, the Holocaust, Israel map, Israel’s War of Independence, the Six-Day War, the Yom Kippur War, the First Intifada, the Second Intifada, Arab-Israel conflict, and anti-Semitism
The Temple Institute
Video: The Aaronic Blessing—This is a beautiful video rendition of The Aaronic Blessing (Numbers 6: 24-26) in Hebrew and English, but notice that the title Adonai is used instead of the Name Yahweh. That is in keeping with a Jewish tradition that dates back to the mid-second century B.C., but you can be certain about this fact. Yahweh’s Name is essential to The Aaronic Blessing and should be there.
Video: He is Yahweh

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Scripture:

Today I’ll show where Yahweh’s Name belongs in Romans chapter 11:

Romans 11

I say then, God has not rejected His people, has He? May it never be! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
God has not rejected His people whom He foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says in the passage about Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel?
“Lord, THEY HAVE KILLED YOUR PROPHETS, THEY HAVE TORN DOWN YOUR ALTARS, AND I ALONE AM LEFT, AND THEY ARE SEEKING MY LIFE.”
But what is the divine response to him? “I HAVE KEPT for Myself SEVEN THOUSAND MEN WHO HAVE NOT BOWED THE KNEE TO BAAL.”
In the same way then, there has also come to be at the present time a remnant according to God’s gracious choice.
But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works, otherwise grace is no longer grace.
What then? What Israel is seeking, it has not obtained, but those who were chosen obtained it, and the rest were hardened;
just as it is written, “GOD GAVE THEM A SPIRIT OF STUPOR, EYES TO SEE NOT AND EARS TO HEAR NOT, DOWN TO THIS VERY DAY.”
And David says, “LET THEIR TABLE BECOME A SNARE AND A TRAP, AND A STUMBLING BLOCK AND A RETRIBUTION TO THEM.
“LET THEIR EYES BE DARKENED TO SEE NOT, AND BEND THEIR BACKS FOREVER.”
I say then, they did not stumble so as to fall, did they? May it never be! But by their transgression salvation has come to the Gentiles, to make them jealous.
Now if their transgression is riches for the world and their failure is riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their fulfillment be!
But I am speaking to you who are Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle of Gentiles, I magnify my ministry,
if somehow I might move to jealousy my fellow countrymen and save some of them.
For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?
If the first piece of dough is holy, the lump is also; and if the root is holy, the branches are too.
But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them and became partaker with them of the rich root of the olive tree,
do not be arrogant toward the branches; but if you are arrogant, remember that it is not you who supports the root, but the root supports you.
You will say then, “Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.”
Quite right, they were broken off for their unbelief, but you stand by your faith. Do not be conceited, but fear;
for if God did not spare the natural branches, He will not spare you, either.
Behold then the kindness and severity of God; to those who fell, severity, but to you, God’s kindness, if you continue in His kindness; otherwise you also will be cut off.
And they also, if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.
For if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these who are the natural branches be grafted into their own olive tree?
For I do not want you, brethren, to be uninformed of this mystery—so that you will not be wise in your own estimation—that a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in;
and so all Israel will be saved; just as it is written, “THE DELIVERER WILL COME FROM ZION, HE WILL REMOVE UNGODLINESS FROM JACOB.”
“THIS IS MY COVENANT WITH THEM, WHEN I TAKE AWAY THEIR SINS.”
From the standpoint of the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but from the standpoint of God’s choice they are beloved for the sake of the fathers;
for the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.
For just as you once were disobedient to God, but now have been shown mercy because of their disobedience,
so these also now have been disobedient, that because of the mercy shown to you they also may now be shown mercy.
For God has shut up all in disobedience so that He may show mercy to all.
Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and unfathomable His ways!
For WHO HAS KNOWN THE MIND OF YAHWEH, OR WHO BECAME HIS COUNSELOR?
Or WHO HAS FIRST GIVEN TO HIM THAT IT MIGHT BE PAID BACK TO HIM AGAIN?
For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever. Amen.

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We Have Salvation in Yahweh’s Name…BUT We Stripped His Name Out of the Bible

Yahweh’s Name was used extensively in Israel until the mid-second century B.C., but during the reign of the Seleucid king Antiochus Epiphanes (175-164 B.C.) its use was abandoned. Epiphanes ruled the Syrian empire (or the Seleucid empire) that included Israel, and he tried to Hellenize the Jewish people (i.e., he tried to turn them into good Greeks) against their will. As a part of his Hellenization program, Epiphanes compelled the Jews under penalty of death to abandon Yahweh’s Law. Additionally, he renamed the Temple of Yahweh and called it Zeus Olympius. Prostitution was commonplace inside the Temple during his reign.

Epiphanes’ actions led to the Maccabean (or Hasmonaean) revolt and that led to the rise to prominence of three Jewish religious sects: the Pharisees, the Sadducees, and the Essenes. With the emergence of these three groups, new religious philosophies began to take hold. The Pharisee sect is the one most responsible for today’s Rabbinic or Talmudic Judaism.

The Pharisees were justifiably appalled by Epiphanes’ persecution of Law-abiding Jews and by the attempts of Hellenizers to profane anything having to do with Yahweh and His Law. They decided to build “a wall around the Torah” to keep people from violating Yahweh’s decrees. By this I mean they forbade things Yahweh did not prohibit in order to keep Jewish people from even coming close to breaking one of Yahweh’s commands. One of the so-called “walls” they constructed was the prohibition against saying the Name “Yahweh.” To keep people from blaspheming Yahweh’s Name or from using it in vain, the rabbis simply forbade its use except on special occasions—and then only by highly educated, religious Jews. Thus, Yahweh’s Name never was lost. There have been people who knew the correct pronunciation of Yahweh’s Name all along, but over time His Name was lost for most people.

The rabbis in the mid-second century B.C. believed their actions were reasonable and justifiable. The Mishnah explains their rationale:

“In times of emergency it may be right to set aside or amend the commandments of God enjoined in His Law: the Law may best be served by breaking it.” (Mishnah Ber., 9: 5 as translated by Herbert Danby, p. 10, n. 13)

While their motives may have been pure, their ruling made illegal something Yahweh requires and had far-reaching consequences. It prevented people from using Yahweh’s Name at all—the Name He commanded us to declare openly and loudly throughout the world and the Name in which we have salvation. They were not the first people to do this. The false prophets of Jeremiah’s day did something similar, and this is what Yahweh said about them:

“How long are there to be those among the prophets who prophesy lies and are in fact prophets of their own delusions? They are doing their best, by means of the dreams that they keep telling each other, to make My people forget My Name, just as their ancestors forgot My Name in favour of Baal. Let the prophet who has had a dream tell it for a dream! And let him who receives a Word from Me, deliver My Word accurately!” (Jeremiah 23: 26-28 from The New Jerusalem Bible )

Clearly, Yahweh was not pleased with the false prophets of Jeremiah’s day, and He certainly did not condone the actions of the rabbis who took it upon themselves about 300 years later to remove His Name from circulation. Their ruling caused most people to forget Yahweh’s Name, and some very knowledgeable Bible scholars have argued that it locked away the key to properly understanding the Scriptures. Some of them even suggest that Yeshua was addressing this very problem when He said,

“But woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you shut off the kingdom of heaven from people; for you do not enter yourselves, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in.” (Matthew 23: 13)

In Luke’s Gospel, Jesus’ statement reads this way:

“Woe to you lawyers! For you have taken away the key of knowledge; you yourselves did not enter, and you hindered those who were entering.” (Luke 11: 52)

According to the Mishnah, “The blasphemer is not considered culpable unless he exactly pronounces the Name,” (Sanhedrin 7: 5) and violating the ban against saying the Name “Yahweh” was considered a capital offense—i.e., punishable by death. The prescribed manner of death for people committing “blasphemy” was a combination of stoning and being hung on a tree. (Sanhedrin 7: 5) As you will see later, the Bible reveals that Yeshua was crucified for violating this prohibition or for simply saying the Name “Yahweh.”

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Climate Change Update:

SEPP SCIENCE EDITORIAL #5-2010 (Jan 30, 2010)

By S. Fred Singer, President, Science and Environmental Policy Project

The Global Mean Surface Temperature (GMST) is largely determined by the Sea Surface Temperature (SST)—since oceans cover 71% of the earth’s surface. So even if the land data are manipulated to show a major warming (as the ClimateGate e-mails suggest), this should not affect the SST data—one would think. Unfortunately, SST has problems of its own: (1) Scarcity of data; and (2) Lack of compatibility of different methods of collecting data.

For much of the twentieth century, data came only from shipping routes—and large parts of the world’s oceans were not contributing data. Data collection came from samples gathered with buckets from sailing ships, first wooden buckets and later canvas ones (which required substantial corrections). After the advent of steamers, temperatures were measured at the inlets for engine cooling water (inlet temperature).

Around 1980, satellites produced major changes: (1) Infrared emission from the sea surface was thought to measure temperature directly, but the method worked only in the absence of clouds and haze, and it responded to ‘skin’ temperature rather than the bulk of the sea surface (as inlet temperatures). (2) The introduction of buoys, first ‘drifters’ and then diving buoys, expanded geographic coverage. But this introduced a new problem: as I have discussed (see also NIPCC 2008 Fig 20), drifters measure temperatures in the upper 50cm, which are usually warmer than the ‘inlet temperatures.’ It is easily shown that the increasing fraction of data from drifters leads to an artificial warming trend.

But don’t the measurements of ocean heat content show a warming? What better authority than the flawed paper by Hansen et al. [Science 308:1431-35 (2005)] that had proudly claimed to be the “smoking gun” for AGW. Its Fig 2 shows hardly any increase in observed stored heat between 1992 and 1996; Fig 3 shows a cooling of the upper layers in the equatorial region. There is poor correspondence to model runs (which strongly disagree with each other).

These are all problems that require detailed corrections before one can accept the published SST results—and therefrom the IPCC’s global surface warming trends. By comparison, the MSU (satellite) data show good agreement between tropospheric temperature over land and ocean (see NIPCC 2008 Fig 13), with little warming over land and even slightly less over oceans.

To sum up: Both the land data and SST data tell us that the claimed rise of global surface temperature between 1979 and 1997, shown by IPCC, is probably much smaller or may even be non-existent.

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News Items of Interest:

Commonsense: The same is true in the US. The good ideas the left does have are dwarfed by the colossal errors they make on just about every front. Leftists (i.e., liberals and progressives) in the Western world are notorious for having tried desperately to appease Hitler while there was still time to stop him, but they wouldn’t be convinced that Hitler was a problem—until it was too late that is. The price we paid for their thoughtlessness was a devastating world war. Will they ever learn? Probably not. I’m focusing so much attention on climate change because leftists are using a lie about global warming right now to try and destroy the global economy. Their pretenses are global equity and saving the planet, but in reality it’s all about control. Al Gore should be proud that Osama bin Laden is now solidly in his camp. It’s not news that bin Laden wants to destroy Western economies. The surprise is that he joined ranks with Al Gore and his breed on climate change, or better yet that Al Gore and his cronies are falling into line with Islamist crazies. What does that tell you? If you’re interested in the truth about climate change, read the articles in the “Climate Change” Page in the column on the right.

Commonsense: It’s true that the Israeli people and Jewish people around the world keep a watchful eye on anti-Semitism. They should. They have first-hand experience with its effects, and they see clearly what’s happening right now. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad isn’t the only demented imbecile out there who wants Israel and the Jewish people destroyed. Just follow what the leaders of Hamas, Fatah, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, etc., etc., etc. are saying and you’ll be concerned too. Problem is most leftists don’t want to bother with the truth. It’s as if they are saying, “To hell with the facts. I have an opinion—not a thoughtful opinion, but an opinion nonetheless.”

Commonsense: Following Scott Brown’s election victory in Massachusetts, it is more likely that voter discontent in New York turned the tide.

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Shabbat shalom. “And there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved.” Since Yahweh’s Word is consistent from Genesis to Revelation, the Name to which Acts 4: 12 refers must be Yahweh. It can’t be another name. This assertion isn’t conjecture on my part, and it contradicts nothing Yahweh said in the Old Testament or the New Testament. In fact, as you read this book you will realize that both the Old and New Testaments make this point again and again. Due to its unparalleled importance, this is the most redundant message in the Scriptures.

January 30th, 2010

“For here we are not afraid to follow the truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.” (Thomas Jefferson)

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Websites you need to see:

Friends of the Israel Defense Forces
Israel: About Israel, The Israel Project, Tourist Information, the Holocaust, Israel map, Israel’s War of Independence, the Six-Day War, the Yom Kippur War, the First Intifada, the Second Intifada, Arab-Israel conflict, and anti-Semitism
The Temple Institute
Video: The Aaronic Blessing—This is a beautiful video rendition of The Aaronic Blessing (Numbers 6: 24-26) in Hebrew and English, but notice that the title Adonai is used instead of the Name Yahweh. That is in keeping with a Jewish tradition that dates back to the mid-second century B.C., but you can be certain about this fact. Yahweh’s Name is essential to The Aaronic Blessing and should be there.
Video: He is Yahweh

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Scripture:

Today I’ll show where Yahweh’s Name belongs in Romans chapter 10:

Romans 10

Brethren, my heart’s desire and my prayer to God for them is for their salvation.
For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not in accordance with knowledge.
For not knowing about God’s righteousness and seeking to establish their own, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God.
For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.
For Moses writes that the man who practices the righteousness which is based on law shall live by that righteousness.
But the righteousness based on faith speaks as follows: “DO NOT SAY IN YOUR HEART, ‘WHO WILL ASCEND INTO HEAVEN?’ (that is, to bring Christ down),
or ‘WHO WILL DESCEND INTO THE ABYSS?’ (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).”
But what does it say? “THE WORD IS NEAR YOU, IN YOUR MOUTH AND IN YOUR HEART”—that is, the word of faith which we are preaching,
that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved;
for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation.
For the Scripture says, “WHOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED.”
For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Yahweh is Lord of all, abounding in riches for all who call on Him;
for “WHOEVER WILL CALL ON THE NAME OF YAHWEH WILL BE SAVED.”
How then will they call on Him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in Him whom they have not heard? And how will they hear without a preacher?
How will they preach unless they are sent? Just as it is written, “HOW BEAUTIFUL ARE THE FEET OF THOSE WHO BRING GOOD NEWS OF GOOD THINGS!”
However, they did not all heed the good news; for Isaiah says, “LORD, WHO HAS BELIEVED OUR REPORT?”
So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.
But I say, surely they have never heard, have they? Indeed they have; “THEIR VOICE HAS GONE OUT INTO ALL THE EARTH, AND THEIR WORDS TO THE ENDS OF THE WORLD.”
But I say, surely Israel did not know, did they? First Moses says, “I WILL MAKE YOU JEALOUS BY THAT WHICH IS NOT A NATION, BY A NATION WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING WILL I ANGER YOU.”
And Isaiah is very bold and says, “I WAS FOUND BY THOSE WHO DID NOT SEEK ME, I BECAME MANIFEST TO THOSE WHO DID NOT ASK FOR ME.”
But as for Israel He says, “ALL THE DAY LONG I HAVE STRETCHED OUT MY HANDS TO A DISOBEDIENT AND OBSTINATE PEOPLE.”

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SnyderTalk® Commentary:

I have left out several footnotes. Please go to the website His Name is Yahweh and download the manuscript. It has all the footnotes, and it’s free.

We Have Salvation in Yahweh’s Name

Throughout the Scriptures, Yahweh made it clear that we have salvation in His Name. For example, consider these verses:

Isaiah 12: 2—“Behold, God is my salvation, I will trust and not be afraid; for Adonai Yahweh is my strength and song, and He has become my salvation.”
Isaiah 43: 3—“For I am Yahweh your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior.”
Isaiah 43:11—“I, even I, am Yahweh, and there is no savior besides Me.”
Proverbs 18: 10—“The Name of Yahweh is a strong tower; the righteous runs into it and is safe.”
Joel 2: 32, Acts 2: 21, and Romans 10: 13—“And it will come about that whoever calls on the Name of Yahweh will be saved.”

As you can see, in the Bible we are told repeatedly that we have salvation in Yahweh’s Name. Now consider Acts 4: 12:

“And there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved.”

Since Yahweh’s Word is consistent from Genesis to Revelation, the Name to which Acts 4: 12 refers must be Yahweh. It can’t be another name. This assertion isn’t conjecture on my part, and it contradicts nothing Yahweh said in the Old Testament or the New Testament. In fact, as you read this book you will realize that both the Old and New Testaments make this point again and again. Due to its unparalleled importance, this is the most redundant message in the Scriptures.

Misguided Editorial Tradition Concealed Yahweh’s Name in the Scriptures

You already know that Yahweh’s Name has been edited out of most English Bible translations and that the titles “LORD” and “GOD” have been substituted where the Name “Yahweh” belongs. This misguided tradition prevents us from understanding the true meaning of many important Bible passages. The New Jerusalem Bible is a rare exception because it uses Yahweh’s Name correctly most of the time. The Aramaic English New Testament uses Yahweh’s Name correctly as well.

In this book, I have abandoned the practice of substituting “the LORD” for “Yahweh,” “the Lord GOD” for “Lord Yahweh,” and “LORD of hosts” for “Yahweh Master of legions” or “Yahweh Sabaoth”. Thus, for the first time many of you will see what Yahweh told us in the Bible about His Name. It will be an eye-opening experience.

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