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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 the Bible is consistent from Genesis to Revelation, the Name to which this verse refers must be Yahweh, and no other name. This assertion contradicts nothing God 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, and 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 the Name “Yahweh” 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.[i]
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.” Thus, for the first time many of you will see what Yahweh told us in the Bible about His Name, and it will be an eye-opening experience.
How Did This Tradition Begin?
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.[ii] 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.[iii]
The Pharisees were justifiably appalled by the 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 God’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 God’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 God’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.”[iv]
While their motives may have been pure, their ruling made illegal something Yahweh requires and had far-reaching consequences. It prevented people from using God’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!”[v]
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 God’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 Jesus 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.”[vi]
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.”[vii]
According to the Mishnah, “The blasphemer is not considered culpable unless he exactly pronounces the Name,”[viii] 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.[ix] As you will see later, the Bible reveals that Jesus was crucified for violating this prohibition or for simply saying the Name “Yahweh.”
This is an excerpt from His Name is Yahweh. It explains why the Name of God, Yahweh, is so important. It’s a book that you need to read and share. It’s available in eBook format and in paperback.
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[i] Although The New Jerusalem Bible translates Yahweh’s personal Name correctly when it appears unaccompanied by the title Adonai, it follows the editorial tradition of translating Adonai Yahweh as “the Lord GOD.”
[ii] Clover, R. The Sacred Name Volume I Third Edition, Qadesh La Yahweh Press, Garden Grove, California, 2002, p. 142.
[iii] Until the destruction of the Temple of Yahweh in 70 A.D., these three groups competed with one another for dominance in Judaism. The Pharisees and the Sadducees were more prominent than the Essenes because they separated themselves from everyday life by retreating to the Dead Sea area to a village called Qumran. Following the Temple’s destruction, the Pharisee sect took control of Judaism.
[iv] Mishnah Ber., 9: 5 as translated by Herbert Danby, p. 10, n. 13.
[v] Jeremiah 23: 26-28 from The New Jerusalem Bible.
[vi] Matthew 23: 13.
[vii] Luke 11: 52.
[viii] Sanhedrin 7: 5.
[ix] Sanhedrin 7: 5.
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Ezekiel 3: 16-21
At the end of seven days the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, “Son of man, I have appointed you a watchman to the house of Israel; whenever you hear a word from My mouth, warn them from Me. “When I say to the wicked, ‘You will surely die,’ and you do not warn him or speak out to warn the wicked from his wicked way that he may live, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at your hand. “Yet if you have warned the wicked and he does not turn from his wickedness or from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered yourself. “Again, when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I place an obstacle before him, he will die; since you have not warned him, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood I will require at your hand. “However, if you have warned the righteous man that the righteous should not sin and he does not sin, he shall surely live because he took warning; and you have delivered yourself.”
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His Name is Yahweh explains why the Name of God, Yahweh, is so important. It’s available in eBook format and in paperback.
- God also said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘Yahweh, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.’ This [Yahweh] is my name forever, the name by which I am to be remembered from generation to generation.” (Exodus 3: 15)
- “Therefore behold, I am going to make them know—this time I will make them know My power and My might; and they shall know that My name is Yahweh.” (Jeremiah 16: 21)
- “Behold, the days are coming,” declares Yahweh, “when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch; and He will reign as king and act wisely and do justice and righteousness in the land. In His days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely; and this is His name by which He will be called, ‘Yahweh our righteousness.’” (Jeremiah 23: 5-6)
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