YAHWEH

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Comunicación y Gerencia

• YAHWEH
• Trust ye in the LORD forever for in the LORD
  JEHOVAH is everlasting strength. Isaiah264

The Names of God (Part 2)
The Names of God
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The Names of God

• Those who know Your name, will put their trust
  in You. Psalm 910
• God has many names.
• Jehovah or Yahweh (Ex. 63)
• Elohim
• Many other names are given in conjunction with
  these two.

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Yahweh

• Exodus 313-15
• What is His name? (v 13)
• I AM WHO I AM.
• Related to His name YAHWEH, derived from the
  Hebrew verb Hayah, to be.
• Malachi 36, I do not change.

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Yahweh

• Exodus 313-15
• The I Am The One who Is.
• Not, the one who was.
• Not, the one who will be.
• Jehovahs name speaks of His eternal nature, no
  beginning, no end! The Self-Existent One!

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Yahweh

• The name Yahweh occurs 6,823 times in the Old
  Testament.
• Most of our translations substitute the word LORD
  (all capital letters) for Jehovah.
• They used Adonai (Lord or Master) because Yahweh
  was so sacred! (Exodus 207)

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Yahweh

• In fact, in the old Hebrew, it was simply YHWH
  (no vowels).
• We really dont know the vowels in between.
• The 70 rabbis translating the Septuagint,
  rendered it YaHWeH.
• The rabbis translating the masoretic text
  rendered it JeHoWaH.

300 B.C.
Catholic Bibles
500s A.D.
Protestant Bibles
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Yahweh

• Exodus 31-15
• No ordinary bush, no ordinary God! (v 2)
• A Holy God! (v 5)
• A God who...Sees, Hears, Knows, and CARES!!! (v
  7-9)
• He is REAL! He is ALIVE!

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Yahweh

• God is the I AM.
• Jesus described similarly!
• Before Abraham was, I AM. (John 856-58)
• See also John 824, 28.
• Jesus is also the Self-Existent One!
• John 11, 14

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Yahweh

• Jesus...I AM... (in the Gospel of John)
• the bread of life (635)
• the light of the world (812)
• the door (109)
• the good shepherd (1011)
• the resurrection the life (1125)
• the way, the truth and the life (146)
• the true vine (151)