The Name

I found a great teaching on YHWH`s name, it is long but very good. The link to the complete teaching is below.

According to Yahweh, his name is to be declared, not banned, nor outlawed or hidden. The Rabbinical precept that the Name should be “hidden” and “kept secret,” as taught by Talmudic tradition (cf. Pesach 50a; Kiddushin 71a) is braced against the Torah precept that the Name should be “proclaimed through all the earth.”

The Great Assembly and, later the Sanhedrin, produced a tradition of reading euphemisms in place of the name Yahweh when reading the Bible. The text was even altered in places. For example, the four-letter name YHWH was changed in the Hebrew Masoretic text to Adonai 134 times. These deliberate alterations of the biblical text were recorded in the Masorah (cf. 107:15, C. D. Gingsburg edition).

The Great Assembly, and later, the Sanhedrin assumed unlawful authority over the Bible—that is, they put in place an injunction against Yahweh’s own word. In advance, Moses, who received the Torah, warned Israel about adding and taking away from the Torah:

“You shall not add to the word which I am commanding you,
nor take away from it, that you may keep the commandments
of Yahweh your God which I command you.”
(Deuteronomy 4:2)

“Whatever I command you, you shall be careful to do. You shall
not add to nor take away from it [the Torah].
(Deuteronomy 12:32)

What did the Prophets teach about speaking the Name of God? Isaiah proclaimed the words of Yahweh: “My people shall know my name” (Isaiah 52:6). No euphemism was implied, no substitute name desired by Him. He not only seeks to dwell among his people so that they may be his people and He their God, but He desires his people to know Him by his name.

The prophet Jeremiah, likewise, declared the word of Yahweh to Israel: “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).

Jeremiah, further, prophesied the day that the people of Israel would be under powerful influence and illusion to forget the name Yahweh. In Jeremiah 23:21-27, Yahweh speaks about this turn of events:

I did not send [these] prophets, but they ran. I did
not speak to them, but they prophesied. But if they had stood
in my council, then they would have announced my words to
my people, and would have turned them back from their evil
way and from the evil of their deeds … Is there [anything]
in the hearts of the prophets who prophesy falsehood, even
[these] prophets of the deception of their own heart
who intend to make my people forget my name …?

Zephaniah anticipated a future day where the name of Yahweh would be called upon by the people of God because of the words Yahweh spoke to him: “For then I will give to the peoples purified lips that all of them may call on the name of Yahweh” (Zephaniah 3:9).

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A Highway

Isaiah 35

8 And a highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but is shall be for the redeemed: the wayfaring men, yea fools, shall not err therein.



9 No lion shall be there, nor shall any ravenous beast go up thereon; they shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk there:



10 and the ransomed of Yahweh shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads: they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

O give Thanks

Psalms 107

1

O give thanks unto Yahweh; For he is good; For his lovingkindness endureth for ever.

2

Let the redeemed of Yahweh say so, Whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the adversary,

3

And gathered out of the lands, From the east and from the west, From the north and from the south.

4

They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way; They found no city of habitation.

5

Hungry and thirsty, Their soul fainted in them.

6

Then they cried unto Yahweh in their trouble, And he delivered them out of their distresses,

7

He led them also by a straight way, That they might go to a city of habitation.

8

Oh that men would praise Yahweh for his lovingkindness, And for his wonderful works to the children of men!

9

For he satisfieth the longing soul, And the hungry soul he filleth with good.

10

Such as sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, Being bound in affliction and iron,

11

Because they rebelled against the words of El, And contemned the counsel of the Most High:

12

Therefore he brought down their heart with labor; They fell down, and there was none to help.

13

Then they cried unto Yahweh in their trouble, And he saved them out of their distresses.

14

He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, And brake their bonds in sunder.

15

Oh that men would praise Yahweh for his lovingkindness, And for his wonderful works to the children of men!

16

For he hath broken the gates of brass, And cut the bars of iron in sunder.

17

Fools because of their transgression, And because of their iniquities, are afflicted.

18

Their soul abhorreth all manner of food; And they draw near unto the gates of death.

19

Then they cry unto Yahweh in their trouble, And he saveth them out of their distresses.

20

He sendeth his word, and healeth them, And delivereth them from their destructions.

21

Oh that men would praise Yahweh for his lovingkindness, And for his wonderful works to the children of men!

22

And let them offer the sacrifices of thanksgiving, And declare his works with singing.

23

They that go down to the sea in ships, That do business in great waters;

24

These see the works of Yahweh, And his wonders in the deep.

25

For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, Which lifteth up the waves thereof.

26

They mount up to the heavens, they go down again to the depths: Their soul melteth away because of trouble.

27

They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, And are at their wits' end.

28

Then they cry unto Yahweh in their trouble, And he bringeth them out of their distresses.

29

He maketh the storm a calm, So that the waves thereof are still.

30

Then are they glad because they are quiet; So he bringeth them unto their desired haven.

31

Oh that men would praise Yahweh for his lovingkindness, And for his wonderful works to the children of men!

32

Let them exalt him also in the assembly of the people, And praise him in the seat of the elders.

33

He turneth rivers into a wilderness, And watersprings into a thirsty ground;

34

A fruitful land into a salt desert, For the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

35

He turneth a wilderness into a pool of water, And a dry land into watersprings.

36

And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, That they may prepare a city of habitation,

37

And sow fields, and plant vineyards, And get them fruits of increase.

38

He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; And he suffereth not their cattle to decrease.

39

Again, they are diminished and bowed down Through oppression, trouble, and sorrow.

40

He poureth contempt upon princes, And causeth them to wander in the waste, where there is no way.

41

Yet setteth he the needy on high from affliction, And maketh him families like a flock.

42

The upright shall see it, and be glad; And all iniquity shall stop her mouth.

43

Whoso is wise will give heed to these things; And they will consider the lovingkindnesses of Yahweh.