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There was a very old tradition that the name Yahweh be erased out of Scripture due to reverence to that sacred name. \u201cBeloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.\u201d 1 Jn 4:4 \u201cI am Yahweh, that is My name; I will not give My glory to another, nor My praise to graven images. Is 42:8 Yahweh personally gave His profound divinity name to be remembered forever! Yahweh was the most prominent name freely glorified and praised throughout Old Testament 6,828 times from Genesis to Malachi. Not once did God forbid the glory and honor due to His name. In facts He commanded for it. \u201cScripture is the final authority in all rules of faith and practice.\u201d God did not endorse that tradition which was unfounded and counter Scripture. And they murdered His name Yahweh in the spirit of reverence to it? That\u2019s evil and satanic. What to expect when one followed the Yahweh\/Messiah\/Christ denier instead of Yahweh? One got nothing but LORD to blind him from seeing Yahweh. LORD was the opposite of Yahweh. How they desired we never know Yahweh. \u201cAnd God said to Moses, \u201cI AM WHO I AM<\/strong>\u201d; and He said, \u201cThus you shall say to the sons of Israel, \u2018I AM<\/strong> has sent me to you.\u2019\u201d And God furthermore said to Moses, \u201cThus you shall say to the sons of Israel, \u201cYahweh<\/strong>, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.\u2019 This is My name forever, and this is My memorial-name from generation to generation.\u201d Ex 3:14, 15 It was astounding to realize that it was Christ who said it. \u201cFor nothing is hidden that will not become evident, nor anything secret that will not be known and come to light.\u201d Lk 12:2 We need to oust this lie to reclaim Yahweh and Christ. First the need to get Yahweh instead of LORD to see the truth. The angel of Yahweh was Yahweh and God Ex 3:2- 4. His name was willfully concealed in the LORD. The high priests willfully misinterpreted His 3rd Commandment to deceive His believers, and unilaterally changed His unique name Yahweh to a nameless title Adona<\/em>i translated LORD which was neither Yahweh in spirit or truth. He twisted His truth into a lie. \u201cYou shall not take the name of Yahweh your God in vain, for Yahweh will not leave him unpunished who takes His name in vain!\u201d Ex 20:7, Dt 5:11 It was the 3rd commandment, to honor and remember His name, forbidding its misuse. The high priests slyly misinterpreted this to mean that the name Yahweh was too sacred to be pronounced, least His name be taken in vain, and forbidden the pronunciation and written Yahweh against His explicit commands. There were evil motivations and crime to it. God didn\u2019t introduce His name to be forbidden for us to use it. They cunningly erased His name Yahweh from Scripture totally. That tradition was a lie and fraud. And we followed that liar instead of obeying God? \u201cWe are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming.\u201d Eph 4:14 Erased His name was exactly taken His name in vain. Remembered Yahweh was the point. \u201cBlessed is the man who trusts in Yahweh and whose trust is Yahweh.\u201d Jeremiah 17:7. \u201cJesus answered and said to them, \u201cWhy do you yourselves transgress the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition?\u201d \u201cBut in vain do they worship Me, teaching as doctrines the commands of men.\u201d Mt 15:3 & 9 \u201cAnd their fear of Me is in the command of men learned by rote. Is 29:13 They edited and changed the name Yahweh to Adonia<\/em> in their manuscripts, translated to LORD into every English Bibles whenever the corrupted Masoretic Text\u2019s Adona<\/em>i was used in the translations. \u201cBut we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness or adulterating the word of God, but by the manifestation of truth commending ourselves to every man\u2019s conscience in the sight of God.\u201d 2 Cor 4:2 The name YHWH not Adonia <\/em>was written in the Holy Scripture. Enjoy the faithfully translated Yahweh forever, and flee from the lie and false LORD. \u201cThe end of the matter, all that has been heard: fear God and keep His commandments, because this is the end of the matter for all mankind.\u201d Ecc 12:13 Greek translated YHWH to Lord too. Lord in Greek referred to Jesus exclusively. Lord was Christ but there was no Christ in the LORD. The tradition of replacing YHWH with Adona<\/em>i began after the Babylonian Exile (600BCE) and was strictly enforced during Jesus\u2019s time by the Jewish authority. \u201cJesus said to them, \u201cTruly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.\u201d Therefore they picked up stones to throw at Him, but Jesus hid Himself and went out of the temple.\u201d Jn 8:58,59. The Pharisees understood that Jesus referred Himself as Yahweh in Exodus 3:14 and stoned Him for blasphemy. It was understandable that Greek translated YHWH as Lord under those restrictions where the pronunciation and written Yahweh were forbidden, punishable with stoning and death. The translators unlike the inspired writers were under the Jewish authority. Recall Stephen\u2019s trial before the Sanhedrin Act 6:12. The Pharisees did not deny that YHWH was written in the Hebrew Scripture, but they unilaterally ruled that Yahweh could not be pronounced or written; against God\u2019s commands. While the Jews were the custodians of the Holy Scripture, they had broken trust entrusted to them, and lost the original Scripture. Their later1000 AD old Masoretic Text\u2019s Adonai <\/em>was uncalled for. Never call Yahweh as LORD. Was that an unforgiveable sin against the Holy Spirit?<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cHear, O Israel: The LORD our God\u00a0is\u00a0one LORD\u201d KJV. \u201cHear, O Israel! Yahweh is our God, Yahweh is one!\u201d Deut 6:4 LSB \u201cOne\u201d\u00a0Echad\u00a0was a unity of essence in three person Father, Son, Holy Spirit, not a singularity; the verse affirmed God\u2019s singular divine nature one Trinity, whereas Judaism rejected Trinity and insisted on monotheism, one LORD devoid of Christ. Yahweh was God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, Trinity. Whereas LORD was indivisible absolutely one LORD, no Christ and antichrist. This hardcore antichrist rejected Yahweh\/Christ in the Old Testament as well as the New Testament because of Christ. There was simply no Christ in them. \u201cThe LORD our God is one LORD\u201d defined Judaism and not Christian. \u201cYahweh is our God, Yahweh is one!\u201d is Christian and not Judaism\u2019s proudest central declaration of faith. Indeed, Yahweh and LORD are opposite each other as Heaven and Earth. Don\u2019t be fooled by the LORD. There is no Christ in the LORD. \u201cAnd it will be that everyone who calls on the name of Yahweh will be delivered. Joel 2:32 \u201cFor \u2018Whoever calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.\u2019\u201d Ro 10:13 Yahweh in the Old Testament is Lord Christ Jesus in the New Testament. Contrast that with \u201cThat whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered.\u201d LORD had no Christ and no salvation. Jesus said to him, \u201cI am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father but through Me.\u201d Jn 14:6 \u201c 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.\u201d Acts 4:12 \u201cFor there is one God, and one mediator also between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.\u201d 1 Timothy 2:5 LORD is only antichrist and unscriptural. A very old lie turned tradition to deceive the true worship of God. Let\u2019s reiterate the doctrine Trinity from the beginning which showed LORD was not Christian. \u201cIn the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. And the earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the\u00a0Spirit of God\u00a0was hovering over the surface of the waters.\u201d Ge 1:1 & 2 \u201cIn the beginning was the Word, and the\u00a0Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God.\u201d Jn 1:1 \u201cAnd the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, glory as of the only\u00a0begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth.\u201d Jn 1:14. In the beginning was God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit\u2013 Trinity. See Yahweh see Christ and enjoy Scripture as it was given to us and the excellence of His word. \u201cAnd the Angel of the\u00a0Lord\u00a0appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed. And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt. \u00a0And when the\u00a0Lord\u00a0saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, here am I.\u201d Ex 3:2-4 KJV Who was the Angel of the LORD? It was taught that the Angel of the LORD was a Theophany, a shadowy manifestation of gods rooted in Greek mythology. The Creator was far above that, and Scripture expresses it accurately and clearly. Exodus 3:1-15 LSB: 1 Now Moses was pasturing the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian; and he led the flock to the west side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.2 And the angel of Yahweh appeared to him in a blazing fire from the midst of the bush; and he looked, and behold, the bush was burning with fire, yet the bush was not consumed.3 So Moses said, \u201cI must turn aside now and see this marvelous sight. Why is the bush not burned up?\u201d4 And Yahweh saw that he turned aside to look, so God called to him from the midst of the bush and said, \u201cMoses, Moses!\u201d And he said, \u201cHere I am.\u201d5 Then He said, \u201cDo not come near here. Remove your sandals from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.\u201d6 He said also, \u201cI am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.\u201d Then Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.7 And Yahweh said, \u201cI have surely seen the affliction of My people who are in Egypt, and I have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sufferings.8 So I have come down to deliver them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up from that land to a good and spacious land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite.9 So now, behold, the cry of the sons of Israel has come to Me; and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians are oppressing them.10 So now, come and I will send you to Pharaoh, and so you shall bring My people, the sons of Israel, out of Egypt.\u201d<\/span>11 But Moses said to God, \u201cWho am I, that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring the sons of Israel out of Egypt?\u201d12 And He said, \u201cCertainly I will be with you, and this shall be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you: when you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God at this mountain.\u201d<\/span>13 Then Moses said to God, \u201cBehold, I am about to come to the sons of Israel, and I will say to them, \u2018The God of your fathers has sent me to you.\u2019 And they will say to me, \u2018What is His name?\u2019 What shall I say to them?\u201d14 And God said to Moses, \u201cI AM WHO I AM\u201d; and He said, \u201cThus you shall say to the sons of Israel, \u2018I AM has sent me to you.\u2019\u201d15 And God furthermore said to Moses, \u201cThus you shall say to the sons of Israel, \u2018Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.\u2019 This is My name forever, and this is My memorial-name from generation to generation.<\/span> Scripture was explicit and specific that the angel of Yahweh was Yahweh and God verses 2-4. The angel of Yahweh was the sent and second Yahweh, Christ. Only Christ spoke with Moses in the Burning Bush. His speeches 6, 7-10, 12, 14 and 15 were in Red and Scripture attested it. \u201cYahweh said to my Lord (Christ): \u2018Sit at My right hand until I put Your enemies as a footstool for Your feet.\u2019\u201d Ps 110:1 \u201cYahweh has sworn and will not change His mind, \u2018You (Christ) are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.\u201d Psalm 110:4 \u201c And every priest stands daily ministering and offering time after time the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins; but He (Christ), having offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, sat down at the right hand of God, waiting from that time until His enemies are put as a footstool for His feet. Heb 10:11-13 \u201cAnd Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine; now he was a priest of God Most High. Then he blessed him and said, \u2018blessed be Abram of God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth; and blessed be God Most High. Who has delivered your enemies into your hand.\u2019 Then he gave him a tenth of all. Ge 14:18-20. Abraham was glad he saw Melchizedek\/Christ. \u201cBut the angel of Yahweh called to him from heaven and said, \u201cAbraham, Abraham!\u201d And he said, \u201cHere I am.\u201d And He said, \u201cDo not stretch out your hand against the boy, and do nothing to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only one, from Me.\u201d Ge 22:11,12 Isaac saw the angel of Yahweh. \u201cThen he said, \u201cYour name shall no longer be Jacob, but Israel; for you have striven with God and with men and have prevailed.\u201d Ge 32:28 \u201cIn the womb he took his brother by the heel, and in his maturity he wrestled with God. Indeed, he wrestled with the angel and prevailed; he wept and sought His favor. he found Him at Bethel, and there He spoke with us.\u201d Hosea 12 :3,4 \u201cAnd he blessed Joseph and said, \u201cMay the God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has been my shepherd throughout my life to this day, the angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless these boys; and may my name live on in them, and the names of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and may they grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.\u201d Jacob saw Christ as his shepherd throughout his life and the angel who redeemed him. Martyr Stephen in his dying words identified the angel in the flaming fire in Burning Bush as the Lord (Christ) who was: IAM THE GOD OF YOUR FATHERS, THE GOD OF ABAHAM, THE GOD OF ISAAC AND JACOB. Acts 7:32 \u201cBut by a prophet Yahweh<\/strong> brought Israel up from Egypt, and by a prophet he was kept.\u201d Hosea 12:13 The prophet Yahweh Christ kept Jacob and brought Israel up from Egypt. These more than fulfilled verse 6<\/strong>. Again, what Hosea just quoted also confirmed that Christ delivered Israel up from Egypt as in verses 7-10<\/strong>. Jude 5 said the same thing. Certainly, prophet Yahweh was Christ Jesus and much more enlightening than the nothing and deceiving LORD. \u201cAnd all drank the same spiritual drink, for they were drinking from a spiritual rock which followed them, and the rock was Christ. 1Cor 10:4 Paul testified Christ followed them as in verse 12<\/strong>. Jesus Christ was the great I AM in Ex 3:14,15<\/strong>. He said He was the I am Yahweh 8 times in the Gospel of John: \u201cTruly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was I am.\u201d Jn 8:58 \u201cI am the bread of life.\u201d 6:35 I am the Light of the world.\u201d 8:12 \u201cI am the door.\u201d 10:9 \u201cI am the good shepherd.\u201d 10:11 \u201cI am the resurrection and the life.\u201d 11:25. \u201cI am the way, and the truth, and the life.\u201d 14:6 \u201cI am the true vine.\u201d 15:1.I am Yahweh, that is My name. Christ Jesus is true to all He said in Exodus 3. \u201cBut an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers. God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.\u201d Jn 4:23,24 Yahweh is the truth and there are much much more to regain from knowing him than to continue to lost HIM. The more one reads about Yahweh, the closer is one\u2019s personal relationship is with Him. \u201cThe chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy him forever.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
All quotations are taken from the Legacy Standard Bible (LSB) except noted. \u201cIt\u2019s the best English translation I have ever read.\u201d Rev. John MacArthur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n