Sunday, September 21, 2014

YHWH- I AM

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YHWH  This Name of God is called the tetragrammaton.  Tetragrammaton is a Greek word meaning 4 letters.  In the Bible sometimes YHWH is pronounced, spelled, Jehovah, sometimes Yahweh.  Chuck Missler uses the Rabinnical rendering of saying the Hebrew letters: Yodh He Waw He.  This is the Hebrew unpronouncable Name of God, meaning I Am that I Am, meaning the self existent One.  Including the One Who has existence in Himself, Who gives existence to everything else in the cosmos.  The Living One through Whom all things owe their existence.  As Scripture says: In Him we live and move and have our being. That's how Paul explained the great Self  Existent One in Acts.  I call Him, the power generator of the universe. He pulses, emanating His  life giving Spirit flowing from the center of the Cosmos to the ends of eternity.   That's how John saw the Lord as the One Who sits upon the throne in the center of the universe from Whom the 7 Spirits of God flow throughout His entire creation, bringing life to each nanoparticle.  (Revelation 4) Of course, He is the Creator God too.  
Nobody knows exactly how to pronounce YHWH.  In the Hebrew Bible and most translations the word LORD is used.  Although I have read some of the more literal or fundamental translations that call God Jehovah, Yahweh when they translate the tetragrammaton.  
Jesus Himself, our Lord and Savior declares He is the great I Am God. He said "I and the Father are One." (Gospels) He also said: I Am in the Father,and the Father is in Me. (Gospels) I love how mystical the Epistles are in explaining this mystery of Messiah.  For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities-- all things have been created through Him and for Him.  He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together. (Col. 1:17) The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. Heb. 1:3a
Jesus declared Himself YHWH in John 8:58: "Very truly I tell you," Jesus answered, "before Abraham was born, I Am!"

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