Secrets of the
“Sacred Name” Cult
Bruce R. Booker
Bruce R. Booker
Copyright © 2014 Bruce R. Booker
All rights reserved.
ISBN-13: 978-1500170011
ISBN-10: 1500170011
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DEDICATION
I dedicate this book to my wife Patricia who has stuck it out with me for
30 years! Thank you, Trish!
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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The Use of Names in Scripture
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Pronouncing the Name
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The “Conspiracy”
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A List of “Sacred Name” Scriptures
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The “Name” and the Messianic Reign of Yeshua
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Salvation in “the Name”
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WWJD???
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Beware of Divisive Men and Their False Doctrines
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I wish to thank all those who have gone on before me,
on whose shoulders I stand.
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CHAPTER 1 - INTRODUCTION
I have been blessed to have been in the “Messianic
Movement” as it is called for over 20 years and have seen
much good in it, particularly where it comes to outreach
to Jewish people with the Gospel of the Messiah.
Having said that, I have also seen some of the craziest
people and theologies come into the “Movement”
(“Messy-anic”) as well.
Somehow, we seem to attract folks that are outside of the
Mainstream Church – which, admittedly, we are too. We
attract strange “prophets” and “apostles.” We also attract
people who attempt to change us into something more
suited to their own vision of what the “Messianic
Movement” should be; at least in their eyes.
Some come into the Messianic Congregation and say
we’re “too Jewish.” Others: “Not Jewish enough.”
Some say, “Not enough of the ‘Spirit’.” Others say,
“Too much.”
Some say, “Too many Messianic and
Jewish songs” and want us to bring a lot more of the
Christian songs into our services.
Whatever we’re doing, there’s always something that
should be changed to make it “More Biblical” – again, at
least in their eyes.
If we were to change something every time someone
comes into the Congregation and criticizes or suggests,
we would be changing weekly for every passerby who
seeks to make us “in their own image.”
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It’s when they begin to “shove” their particular viewpoint
down our throats that I take exception to the individual
making the complaint. No doubt we can all disagree on
some point of Scripture and still be accepting of each
other as brothers and sisters in the Lord, focusing on the
many things we DO agree with.
Yet, when it comes this certain group of people who
avidly and it seems too often, rabidly, proselytize from
among established Messianic Congregations to create
their own particular brand of “Messianic” congregation
that I take exception: particularly when their brand of
“Messianic” has little or no Scriptural or historical
backing to it and especially when it causes such
divisiveness among the brethren.
Such is the case of the “Sacred Name” groups often
found among “Messianics” and “non-Messianics” today.
In case you don’t know what a “Sacred Name” group is,
let me introduce it to you from Wikipedia:
The Sacred Name Movement (SNM) is a
movement in Christianity that seeks to
conform Christianity to its roots in Judaism
in practice, belief and worship. The best
known distinction of the SNM is its belief in
the use of a proper name for the God of
Israel (YHVH/Yahweh) based upon the
Tetragrammaton and the use of the Hebrew
name of Jesus (Yahshua). SNM believers
also generally keep many of the Old
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Testament laws and ceremonies such as the
Torah festivals and keeping kosher food
laws. However, not every 'Sacred Name'
Group adheres to Old Testament festivals,
dietary laws and other mitzvot.
The Sacred Name Movement arose in the
early 20th century out of the Adventist
movement. C.O. Dodd, a member of the
Church of God (Seventh Day), began
keeping the Jewish festivals (including
Passover) in 1928 and adopted sacred name
doctrines in the late 1930s. Dodd also came
into contact with Herbert W. Armstrong,
who accepted many of Dodd's teachings.
Dodd began publishing The Faith magazine
starting in 1937 to promote his views. It is
currently freely distributed by the Assembly
of Yahweh, the oldest and largest Sacred
Name Assembly.
Angelo Traina, a disciple of Dodd,
undertook the writing of a Sacred Name
edition of the Bible, publishing the Holy
Name New Testament in 1950 (see
Tetragrammaton in the New Testament) and
the Holy Name Bible in 1962, both based
upon the King James Version but replacing
"God" with "Elohim", "LORD" with
"Yahweh" and "Jesus" with "Yahshua". A
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student of Traina, Jacob O. Meyer, founded
the Assemblies of Yahweh in 1969.1
Names of God and Christ
Sacred Name believers teach that "God" and
"Lord" are mere titles that cannot properly
carry the meaning of His name, and that
many titles ascribed to God are tainted by
pagan ancestry. They believe that it is
necessary to salvation that one use the
correct name of God, which in the Hebrew
Bible is the tetragrammaton (usually
rendered as Yahweh, but some variants used
by SNM groups include 'Yahveh, Yahvah,
Yaohu-Ul, Yahovah and the older
transliteration Jehovah).
The SNM accepts the New Testament and
Jesus as the Messiah. However, the name
spelled "Jesus" is seen as either a badly
corrupted transliteration of the Messiah's
true name or a pagan-influenced name.
SNM groups refer to him most often as
Yahshua, but sometimes as Yeshua,
Yahushua, Yahoshua, Yaohushua, Y'shua or
Yahshuah. The title Christ is also seen as
pagan, replaced with "the Messiah" or "the
Anointed".
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_Name_Movement
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This distinctive emphasis on sacred names
has led to the production of several different
Sacred name Bible translations that use
Hebrew-based names. These include
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible, Restoration
of Original Sacred Name Bible, Angelo
Traina's Holy Name Bible, Sacred Name
King James Bible, Sacred Scriptures,
Family of Yah Edition, The Word of
Yahweh, The Scriptures. However, they do
not all agree on how to spell these names.2
There seems to be a common denominator among these
groups: as noted in the above Wikipedia article they all
seem to emanate from the Adventist (as did the Branch
Davidian – David Koresh, Wako, Texas group), or
remnants of the Armstrong/Church of God, or from the
Christian Identity movements here in the United States.
None of these “Sacred Name” groups are Jewish, but
feign to be “true Jews” and “true Israel” as opposed to
those who are genetically descended from Abraham,
Isaac and Jacob. Many of these adopt Hebrew-sounding
names, as if to establish some sort of credential as a
legitimate part of Israel.
The revelations they receive from God, whether it be the
true “Sacred Name” of God, or the true Sabbath are
“whispered words” in the ears of their founders from the
Most High – however He pronounces His Name – which
even the “Sacred Namers” admittedly cannot agree upon
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_Name_Movement
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among themselves! Among the “Sacred Name” groups,
there are well over 13 pronunciations of the “Name” of
God and His Son:
YHVH, YHWH, Yahweh, Yahveh, Yaveh, Yaweh,
Jehova, Jehovah, Jahova, Jahovah, Yahova, Yahovah,
Yahowah, Jahowa, Jahowah, Yahavah, Jahavah,
Yahowe, Yahoweh, Jahaveh, Jahaweh, Yahaveh,
Yahaweh, Jahuweh, Yahuweh, Jahuwah, Yahuwah,
Yahuah Yah, Jah, Yahu, Yahoo, Yaohu, Jahu, Yahvah,
Jahvah, Jahve, Jahveh, Yahve, Yahwe, Yauhu, Yawhu,
Iahu, Iahou, Iahoo, Iahueh
Jeshua, Yeshua, Yeshuah, Yehshua, Yehshuah,
Yeshouah, Y'shua, Y'shuah, Jeshu, Yeshu, Yehoshua,
Yehoshuah, YHVHShua, YHVHShuah, Yhvhshua,
Yhwhshua, YHWHShua, YHWHShuah, Yhvhshuah,
Yhwhshuah, Yahvehshua, Yahwehshua, Yahvehshuah,
Yahwehshuah,
Yawhushua,Yahawshua,
Jahshua,
Jahshuah, Jahshuwah, Jahoshua, Jahoshuah, Jashua,
Jashuah, Jehoshua, Jehoshuah, Yashua, Yashuah,
Yahshua,
Yahshuah,
Yahushua,
Yahushuah,
Yahuahshua, Yahuahshuah, Yahoshua, Yahoshuah,
Yaohushua, Yaohushuah,
Yauhushua, Iahoshua,
Iahoshuah, Iahushua, Iahushuah, YAHO-hoshu-WAH.3
As many variations as there are in these Sacred Name
groups, by their own admission, if God is truly
whispering His true Sacred Name into their ears, it
would seem that He cannot remember His own Name!
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http://www.revelations.org.za/NotesS-Name.htm
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I had a “prophetess” come into my congregation about a
year ago. As we were in the Praise & Worship time I
could tell that she was agitated. Somehow, I could tell
that she was unhappy about something we were doing or
saying and I expected to hear about it after services were
over.
As it turned out, I was right and after services she came
to me and asked why we didn’t use God’s true Name in
our songs and prayers? Didn’t I know that when I used
the words “Lord” and “God” that I was praying to a false
god? And that when I used the Name “Yeshua” (Jesus’
Hebrew Name) that it meant “May his name be blotted
out?”
Finally, she asked me if I knew how “The Father’s”
Name was truly pronounced? I replied that no one
knows how the Name is pronounced since the original
Hebrew has no vowel points and that the last group that
actually knew how it was pronounced was the priests of
Israel!
She informed me that “The Father” told her many years
ago how it was pronounced and that it was pronounced
“Yahveh.”
I replied that’s not how another Sacred Name person
received it. Two doors down from us at the time (see my
book, Lunacy of the Lunar Sabbath) was a “Sacred
Name/Lunar Sabbath/Patriarchal Marriage” adherent
who was told by God it was “Yahuwah.”
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I then said that since “The Father” told you one way to
pronounce His Name and told him another way it is
evident that one of you is wrong! Perhaps, I said, maybe
“The Father” doesn’t remember His own Name? Or,
perhaps, He is telling one person one Name and another
person another Name to confuse and divide us?
She looked at me frustrated and offered to lay hands on
me and pray for me. I said, “No thank you. I don’t let
anyone lay hands and pray for me unless I know them”
and from what I knew of her already, I didn’t want her to
even touch me.
There is a divisive spirit associated with this Sacred
Name movement and I would suggest you not even
tolerate it in your congregation.
To prove how divisive this issue is, certain Sacred Name
groups pronounce “anathema” against other Sacred
Name groups that don’t pronounce the Sacred Name in
the same way as they do! I guess they think that He
didn’t whisper it properly to the others and they are going
to Hell…
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CHAPTER 2 –THE USE OF NAMES IN
SCRIPTURE
In the ancient world of the Bible, names had meaning.
Some names depicted the wish of parents (or of God) for
a child to fulfill a certain destiny. Or a name could
describe a child's hoped-for character. Or if in later life
he did not live up to his character name, he might be
renamed.
Sometimes God renamed people. We have
Abram/Abraham, Yakob/Israel, Yedidiah/Solomon.
God’s Names Have Meaning to Them As Well!
 Adonai (Lord, Master) – used 439 times in the
Bible.
 Elohim (God) – first revelation of God about
Himself.
 El (God)
 El Shaddai (Lord God Almighty)
 El Elyon (The Most High God)
 El Olam (The Everlasting God)
 Yahweh - I AM (Will be) Who I AM (Will Be) –
Exodus 3:15; aka “Jehovah” (No such word in Hebrew
since there is NO “J” sound) [Yahweh is a “best Guess”
pronunciation, since No One Knows how the Name is
pronounced at this time. More about that later.]
 Yahweh Rapha (The Lord That Heals)
 Yahweh Shammah (The Lord Is There)
 Yahweh Tzidkenu (The Lord Our
Righteousness)
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 Yahweh Mekoddishkem (The Lord Who
Sanctifies You)
 Yahweh Yireh (The Lord Will Provide)
 Yahweh Shalom (The Lord Is Peace)
 Yahweh Sabaoth (The Lord of Hosts)
 Yahweh Nissi (The Lord My Banner)
 Yahweh-Raah (The Lord My Shepherd)
In ancient times, it was thought that to control the god
you wished to beseech for favor, you had to know the
name of the god.
A common concept in history is that
knowing the name of something or someone
gives one power over that thing or person.
This concept occurs in many different
forms, in numerous cultures—in ancient and
primitive tribes, as well as in Islamic,
Jewish, Egyptian, Vedic, Hindu, and
Christian traditions. The strength of this
belief varies, and there are certainly
exceptions to it. Nonetheless, the persistence
and historical continuity of the linking of
naming and power are unmistakable.4
God's name is not a magic amulet that must be
pronounced correctly in order to conjure Him or to
persuade Him to hear one's prayers. His name
conveys His character, the essence of His person.
4
The Power of Names: Religion & Mathematics, Loren Graham, MIT and
Harvard University, November 11, 2009,
http://philoctetes.org/news/the_power_of_names_religion_mathematics
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It says something about who He is. When God explains
His name to Moses on Mount Sinai, He doesn't expound
on Hebrew grammar but reveals character.
YHVH passed by in front of him and proclaimed Exodus
34:6-7:
 YHVH, YHVH — a God compassionate and
gracious, slow to anger,
 abounding in unchanging love and faithfulness,
 who guards unchanging love for thousands,
 who forgives iniquity, rebellion, and sin;
 yet who will not leave the guilty unpunished.
God's self-revealed Name is here woven into the
covenant which he made with Israel.
A true name is a name of a thing or being
that expresses, or is somehow identical with
its’ true nature.
The notion that language, or some specific
sacred language, refers to things by their
true names has been central to philosophical
and grammatical study as well as various
traditions of magic, religious invocation and
mysticism (mantras) since antiquity.5
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_name
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Here are some Scriptural examples:
Genesis 32: Ya’akov and “the Man”
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He took them and sent them across the
stream, then sent his possessions across; 24
and Ya'akov was left alone. Then some man
wrestled with him until daybreak. 25 When
he saw that he did not defeat Ya'akov, he
struck Ya'akov's hip socket, so that his hip
was dislocated while wrestling with him. 26
The man said, "Let me go, because it's
daybreak." But Ya'akov replied, "I won't let
you go unless you bless me."
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The man asked, "What is your name?" and
he answered, "Ya'akov." 28 Then the man
said, "From now on, you will no longer be
called Ya'akov, but Isra'el; because you have
shown your strength to both God and men
and have prevailed." 29 Ya'akov asked him,
"Please tell me your name." But he
answered, "Why are you asking about my
name?" and blessed him there. 30 Ya'akov
called the place P'ni-El [face of God],
"Because I have seen God face to face, yet
my life is spared.
Judges 13: Manoach and “the Angel”
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The angel of Adonai said to Manoach,
“Even if I do stay, I won’t eat your food;
and if you prepare a burnt offering, you
must offer it to Adonai.” For Manoach did
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not know that he was the angel of Adonai. 17
Manoach said to the angel of Adonai, “Tell
us your name, so that when your words
come true we can honor you.” 18 The angel
of Adonai answered him, “Why are you
asking about my name? It is wonderful.”
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But the angel of Adonai did not appear
again to Manoach or his wife. Then
Manoach realized it had been the angel of
Adonai. 22 Manoach said to his wife, “We
will surely die, because we have seen God!”
Acts 19: The Seven Sons of Skeva
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Then some of the Jewish exorcists who
traveled from place to place tried to make
use of the name of the Lord Yeshua in
connection with people who had evil spirits.
They would say, “I exorcise you by the
Yeshua that Sha’ul is proclaiming!”
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One time, seven sons of a Jewish cohen
gadol named Skeva were doing this; 15 and
the evil spirit answered them. It said,
“Yeshua I know. And Sha’ul I recognize.
But you? Who are you?” 16 Then the man
with the evil spirit fell upon them,
overpowered them and gave them such a
beating that they ran from the house, naked
and bleeding.
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Folklore and Fantasy
According to practices in folklore,
knowledge of a true name allows one to
affect another person or being magically. It
is stated that knowing someone's, or
something's, true name therefore gives the
person (who knows the true name) power
over them. This effect is used in many tales,
such as in the German fairytale of
Rumpelstiltskin - within Rumpelstiltskin
and all its variants, the girl can free herself
from the power of a supernatural helper who
demands her child by learning its name.6
Dungeons & Dragons7
In the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing
game, certain spells are more powerful if the
target's true name is known.8
The “Name” and the Jewish People
Instead of using any pronunciation of “the Name” The
Jewish people use circumlocutions -ambiguous or
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_name
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Dungeons & Dragons (abbreviated as D&D or DnD) is a fantasy tabletop roleplaying game (RPG) originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, and
first published in 1974 by Tactical Studies Rules, Inc. (TSR). The game has been
published by Wizards of the Coast since 1997.
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roundabout figures of speech - such as “Adonai (Lord),”
“haShem (the Name),” “AdoShem (contraction of Lord
and Name).
There ARE Several Reasons for This. Most important,
they don’t want to violate the Commandment (Exodus
20:7):
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,
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:
Strong’s #7723
shawv, shav - emptiness, vanity, falsehood
a. emptiness, nothingness, vanity
b. emptiness of speech, lying
c. worthlessness (of conduct)
1) Don’t Want to Make the Name into Nothing or
to Destroy IT - When written or printed, God's
Hebrew name (and many of the “stand in names”
used to refer to God) cannot be erased or destroyed
(made nothing). Because of this, many Jews
substitute "God” with “G-d” so that they can erase
or dispose of the writing without showing
disrespect to God. This is why Scrolls with
Hebrew are given a respectful burial, as would a
human body, instead of being thrown away or
destroyed by fire or other method.
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2) Reverencing and Respecting the Name of God The custom of substituting the word "God" with
“G-d” or “Lord” with “L-rd” in English is based
on the traditional practice in Jewish law of giving
God's Hebrew name a high degree of respect and
reverence. There is no prohibition in Jewish law
against writing out or erasing the word "God" in
English. However, many Jews have afforded the
word "God" with the same level of respect as the
Hebrew equivalents.
3) Don’t Want The Name to Become “Common”
or “Worthless” 4) Don’t Want to Give the Name to the Gentiles to
Be Desecrated Among Them “Emptiness of
Speech” - One does NOT have to live very long in
this world to hear God’s Name (in whatever
language) taken in vain and blasphemed. It is
human sin nature to curse God regardless the
language.
5)
No One Knows How the Name is Pronounced
Today – We’ll deal with that in the next chapter.
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CHAPTER 3 – PRONOUNCING THE
“NAME”
You Can ONLY Learn to pronounce a Word (any word,
including the Sacred Name of God) correctly by hearing
it spoken, NOT by Reading it!
As I noted earlier, if God were truly pronouncing His
holy Name into the ears of the “Sacred Namers” there
would be no discrepancy among them, since there is only
One God, only One Spirit, only One Messiah and only
One pronunciation of His Name! ALL other noises
attempting to vocalize the Name by anyone are just vain
imaginations. Period.
The fact that there are so many different pronunciations
of His Name amongst Sacred Namers is evidence that:
1) God doesn’t know his own Name.
2) God is a liar (or is deceitful) in that He gives one
pronunciation of the Name to one and another
pronunciation to someone else.
3) Someone else is whispering a name into the ear
of the recipient (i.e. Satan – the author of all
lies).
4) The person has wishful thinking (or a sense of
pride) in that they feel that God is whispering His
Name into their own ears.
None of the above is good.
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Learning to Pronounce Words
Generally speaking, most children learn how to
pronounce words in their own language by hearing those
words pronounced or spoken long before they can read
those words. That includes you!
Let me give you an example of a word in English (it is a
real word):
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
According to the Oxford English Dictionary:
This is "a word invented in imitation of
polysyllabic medical terms, alleged to mean
‘a lung disease caused by the inhalation of
very fine sand and ash dust (mostly volcanic
silica ash dust)’ but occurring only as an
instance of a very long word.”9
Here you DO have vowels to help you pronounce the
word and most North American English-speaking people
will STILL have difficulty pronouncing it!!
BUT, this is NOT true of the Biblical Hebrew words!
They do NOT have Vowels!
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http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/english/pneumonoultramicr
oscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
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The Biblical Hebrew Language
The Hebrew Bible was originally written only in
consonants.
Until the Massoretes10, (Jewish scribes - 895-1000 A.D.)
there were NO vowel points added to the Hebrew to help
with the pronunciation of Hebrew words.
These Jewish scribes as all scribes were meticulous in
their copying of the text. The texts they had were all in
capital letters, and there was no punctuation or
paragraphs.
The Masoretic text
The Masoretic text has a system of dots and dashes called
“pointing” (nikudot - these are vowel pronunciations)
which had been added to the consonants in order to aid in
the words pronunciation.
The Masoretic text is the standard text used today for all
Bible translations. Without these aids we would have
no idea how to pronounce certain words.
Nikudot – Vowel Points
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The Massoretes were a group of Scribes/Scholars headquartered mostly in
Tiberius and Jerusalem, who devised a system of pronunciation and
grammatical guides to preserve the proper pronunciations of God’s Word.
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Without Vowels…Even in our own language it would be
difficult to figure out what the word exactly is or how to
accurately pronounce it.
For example when we take away the vowels in our
English language we may not know how to pronounce a
word -for example:
Love- lv, weather-wthr, redemption would
look like rdmptn, or Rsrrctn (resurrection).
How Much Less in a Language that is NOT Our
Native Language: Hebrew!
Even with the aids there is no absolute assurance of
certain words spoken correctly the way the originally
were, case in point God's name represented without the
vowels YHWH.
“Ya Gotta HEAR It to Know it!”
You need to know how it sounds (someone HAS GOT to
Pronounce it to you)! You cannot just read it!
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The “Tetragrammaton” (Four Letters - YHVH)
In the Hebrew Bible God's personal name YHVH - is the
most often used noun. It occurs 6,823 times.
In Hebrew texts it is spelled only with consonants: Y-HV-H, and it is called the "Four-Letter" name or
Tetragrammaton in Greek.
Strong’s Exhaustive #3068
Lord – YHVH
From the word hayah “(the) Self-Existent or Eternal
One” - Used OVER 6000 Times in the Older Testament
God Revealed His Personal Name YHVH to Moshe in
Exodus 3:14
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And God said unto Moses: 'I AM THAT I AM'; and
He said: 'Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel: I
AM hath sent me unto you.'
Exodus 3:15
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‫תֹּאמַ ר‬-‫ כֹּה‬,‫מ ֶֹּשה‬-‫ֹלהים אֶ ל‬
ִ ֱ‫וַ יֹּאמֶ ר עוֹּד א‬
‫ יְּ הוָ ה אֱ ֹלהֵ י אֲ בֹּתֵ יכֶם‬,‫בְּ נֵי יִ ְּש ָראֵ ל‬-‫אֶ ל‬
,‫אֱ ֹלהֵ י ַאבְּ ָרהָ ם אֱ ֹלהֵ י יִ ְּצחָ ק וֵ אֹלהֵ י ַי ֲעקֹּב‬
‫ וְּ זֶ ה‬,‫ ְּש ִמי לְּ ֹּעלָם‬-‫ְּשלָחַ נִי אֲ לֵיכֶם; זֶ ה‬
And God said moreover unto Moses: 'Thus shalt thou
say unto the children
of‫ד‬Israel:
The
LORD,
the God of
.‫ֹּר‬
‫ֹּר‬
‫ד‬
ְּ‫ל‬
‫י‬
‫ר‬
ִ
ְּ‫כ‬
ִ‫ז‬
your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and
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the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you; this is My name
for ever, and this is My memorial unto all generations.
According to God in Exodus 6:
2 God spoke to Moshe; he said to him, "I am ADONAI.
3 I appeared to Avraham, Yitz'chak and Ya'akov as El
Shaddai, although I did not make myself known to them
by my name, Yud-Heh-Vav-Heh [ADONAI]. 4 Also
with them I established my covenant to give them the
land of Kena'an, the land where they wandered about and
lived as foreigners. 5 Moreover, I have heard the
groaning of the people of Isra'el, whom the Egyptians are
keeping in slavery; and I have remembered my covenant.
However, we find the word YHVH written in the
Scripture BEFORE God revealed the Name to Moshe in
Exodus 3!
Genesis 2:5 No shrub of the field was yet in the earth,
and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for the LORD
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God (
) had not caused it to rain upon the
earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.
Yet, by all outward appearances it would appear that
Abraham KNEW the Name of the Lord!
‫עָ ָשה‬-‫ אֲ ֶשר‬, ַ‫ הַ ִמזְּ בֵ ח‬,‫ ְּמקוֹּם‬-‫אֶ ל‬
,‫שנָה; וַ יִ ְּק ָרא ָשם ַאבְּ ָרם‬
ֹּ ‫ בָ ִרא‬,‫ָשם‬
.‫בְּ ֵשם יְּ הוָ ה‬
Genesis 13:4 …unto the place of the altar, which he had
made there at the first; and Abram called there on the
name of the LORD.
The Massoretes and the NAME - Tetragrammaton
By the time the Massoretes began to copy these texts –
the Jews were beginning to embrace the belief that THE
NAME (“haShem”) was too sacred to utter.
So the Massoretes came up with an ingenious plan:
Where YHVH’s Name was written they would use the
vowels from the word Adonai.
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The Bottom Line: You Cannot KNOW How a Word
(any Word – including the Sacred Name of God) is
pronounced UNLESS You HEAR IT!
So, who last KNEW EXACTLY HOW to pronounce the
Sacred Name of God? Definitely NOT the present-day
Sacred Namers!
The last group of men on Earth who actually knew the
Sacred Name and how it was pronounced – (AND they
had to hear it) were the Cohanim (priests) in the Temple
service (until 70 CE).
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The pronounced the NAME over the people during the
Aaronic benediction of Numbers 6.
After that, because there was no more Temple, there was
no more Temple service and evidently the passing on of
the Name from father to son ceased amongst the
cohanim!
Now, even they don’t know how to pronounce the
NAME!
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CHAPTER 4 – THE “CONSPIRACY”
A common thread of thought in any of these groups is
that there is a “conspiracy” by Jewish rabbis and
Mainstream Christians to eliminate the Sacred Name
from the Scriptures and from use among God’s people.
Examples of this can easily be found on their websites:
RESTORATION
NAME11
OF
THE
SACRED
Why were the Sacred Names removed
from the Scriptures? - 7000 times in the
Old Testament and 1000 times in the New
Testament? The Restoration thereof is
flooding the world - You can share in it
also!
There are some who believe that the
Messiah only referred to Yahweh as "The
Father" or believe that Yahushua also
followed the doctrine that states Yahweh's
name is too holy to pronounce. But this was
one of many false teachings coming out of
that era. Yahushua flatly condemned those
who would rather do things according to the
"tradition of the elders" rather than the way
Yahweh wanted them done. It should be
obvious to anyone that when Yahweh does
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something nearly 7,000 times…that is the
way He wants it to be done. He doesn't want
us to come in later and change the way He
has done things. Yet Yahweh placed His
name in scripture nearly 7,000 times and the
"tradition of the elders" is to replace His
name each one of those 7,000 times with a
title of man's own choosing (e.g. LORD,
GOD, Adonai, HaShem, etc). 12
To the “Sacred Namers,” to say any Name (other than
their pronunciation) of the Sacred Name of God, means
praying to another god, and thus incurs the wrath of the
Almighty and the loss of salvation!
Hence, the
conspiracy to take out the true, Sacred Name of God is
by Satan and his earthly servants so that people will “not
call upon the Name of the Lord” and be saved!
This is why the issue is so important to them and why
they make such a huge proselytizing effort among
mainstream Messianic congregations.
Hell
Classical Sacred Name theology does not teach an
everlasting, burning hell for the wicked or those who
never heard the Glad Tidings. Most Sacred Namers
expect everyone, past or future will have at least one
bona fide chance to hear the Glad Tidings and to respond
to them. For those who missed out in this life, some
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process of universal judgment for all is expected to playout in the time of the Second Resurrection.
Though the Second Resurrection is never called such in
The Scriptures, mention made of the "First Resurrection"
in Revelation 20:5-6, coupled with the judgment
described briefly in Revelation 20:12, is interpreted to
point to such a "Second Resurrection" process. Upon
acceptance of salvation, the sacrifice of Yahshua is
applied to all who accept it at that time, and they are
given a period of time to manifest the good works by
which they are judged.
It is believed that many incorrigible wicked will not
choose eternal life, even under these ideal circumstances.
The concepts of Universal reconciliation and hellfire for
innocent babies who never heard the Glad Tidings are
equally repugnant to Sacred Name theology.13
I personally know one Sacred Namer who once attended
our congregation for a short time that believes that even
Adolf Hitler will not go to Hell, and even perhaps not
Satan!
Differences from Messianic Judaism
The “Messianic Movement” at large is a wide gathering
of diverse people. Even within the mainstream of the
Movement, to which the Sacred Namers do not belong,
there is wide expression of flavors: some are more
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liturgical, some less, some are more Torah submissive,
others not.
Yet, even with these flavors, the Messianic Movement as
a whole holds to certain commonalities of belief, in
contra-distinction to the Sacred Name groups:
Messianic Judaism began as a movement for
and by ethnic Jews, while the Sacred Name
movement emerged among Christians.
Messianic Judaism is therefore more likely
to accept the views of traditional Judaism,
such
as
not
pronouncing
the
Tetragrammaton and keeping the Hillel II
calculated calendar instead of sighting the
New Moon.14
Conclusion
Several points I wish to conclude with before leaving this
chapter:
1) Sacred Name groups are not generally united
even among themselves! They are a divisive
group and these divisions are quite evident
within their own.
2) Sacred Namers are not in the same camp
theologically or in orientation to Messianic
Judaism.
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3) Some Sacred Namer groups are part of the
White Supremacist Movement and by no means
are part of the Messianic Jewish Movement.
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CHAPTER 5 – A LIST OF “SACRED NAME”
SCRIPTURES
Sacred Namers base their practice on the many
Scripture passages that indicate that people will be
calling upon the Name (i.e. “Sacred Name”) of
God to be saved.
To give a complete Scriptural picture, we shall
begin in the Torah, the first Five Books of the
Bible.
TORAH (Teaching, Instruction)
To Seth, to him also a son was born; and he called
his name Enosh. Then {men} began to call upon
the name of the LORD. (Genesis 4:26)
Then he proceeded from there to the mountain on
the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, with Bethel
on the west and Ai on the east; and there he built
an altar to the LORD and called upon the name of
the LORD. (Genesis 12:8)
…to the place of the altar which he had made there
formerly; and there Abram called on the name of
the LORD. (Genesis 13:4)
Then she called the name of the LORD who spoke to
her, "You are a God who sees"; for she said, "Have I
even remained alive here after seeing Him?" (Genesis
16:13)
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{Abraham} planted a tamarisk tree at Beersheba, and
there he called on the name of the LORD, the
Everlasting God. (Genesis 21:33)
So he built an altar there and called upon the name of the
LORD, and pitched his tent there; and there Isaac's
servants dug a well. (Genesis 26:25)
Then Jacob asked him and said, "Please tell me your
name." But he said, "Why is it that you ask my name?"
And he blessed him there. (Genesis 32:29)
Then Moses said to God, "Behold, I am going to the sons
of Israel, and I will say to them, 'The God of your fathers
has sent me to you.' Now they may say to me, 'What is
His name?' What shall I say to them?" (Exodus 3:13)
God, furthermore, said to Moses, "Thus you shall say to
the sons of Israel, 'The LORD, the God of your fathers,
the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of
Jacob, has sent me to you.' This is My name forever, and
this is My memorial-name to all generations. (Exodus
3:15)
"Ever since I came to Pharaoh to speak in Your name, he
has done harm to this people, and You have not delivered
Your people at all." (Exodus 5:23)
“…and I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as God
Almighty, but {by} My name, LORD, I did not make
Myself known to them.” (Exodus 6:3)
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"But, indeed, for this reason I have allowed you to
remain, in order to show you My power and in order to
proclaim My name through all the earth.” (Exodus 9:16)
"The LORD is a warrior; The LORD is His name.”
(Exodus 15:3)
"You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in
vain, for the LORD will not leave him unpunished who
takes His name in vain.” (Exodus 20:7)
'You shall make an altar of earth for Me, and you shall
sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace
offerings, your sheep and your oxen; in every place
where I cause My name to be remembered, I will come
to you and bless you.’ (Exodus 20:24)
"Now concerning everything which I have said to you, be
on your guard; and do not mention the name of other
gods, nor let {them} be heard from your mouth.”
(Exodus 23:13)
"Be on your guard before him and obey his voice; do not
be rebellious toward him, for he will not pardon your
transgression, since My name is in him.” (Exodus 23:21)
And He said, "I Myself will make all My goodness pass
before you, and will proclaim the name of the LORD
before you; and I will be gracious to whom I will be
gracious, and will show compassion on whom I will
show compassion." (Exodus 33:19)
The LORD descended in the cloud and stood there with
him as he called upon the name of the LORD. (Exodus
34:5)
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--for you shall not worship any other god, for the LORD,
whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God-- (Exodus
34:14)
'You shall not give any of your offspring to offer them to
Molech, nor shall you profane the name of your God; I
am the LORD.’ (Leviticus 18:21)
'You shall not swear falsely by My name, so as to
profane the name of your God; I am the LORD.’
(Leviticus 19:12)
'I will also set My face against that man and will cut him
off from among his people, because he has given some of
his offspring to Molech, so as to defile My sanctuary and
to profane My holy name.’ (Leviticus 20:3)
'They shall be holy to their God and not profane the
name of their God, for they present the offerings by fire
to the LORD, the food of their God; so they shall be
holy.’ (Leviticus 21:6)
"Tell Aaron and his sons to be careful with the holy
{gifts} of the sons of Israel, which they dedicate to Me,
so as not to profane My holy name; I am the LORD.”
(Leviticus 22:2)
"You shall not profane My holy name, but I will be
sanctified among the sons of Israel; I am the LORD who
sanctifies you…” (Leviticus 22:32)
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The son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name
and cursed. So they brought him to Moses. (Now his
mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of
the tribe of Dan.) (Leviticus 24:11)
'Moreover, the one who blasphemes the name of the
LORD shall surely be put to death; all the congregation
shall certainly stone him. The alien as well as the native,
when he blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death.’
(Leviticus 24:16)
"So they shall invoke My name on the sons of Israel, and
I {then} will bless them." (Numbers 6:27)
'You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in
vain, for the LORD will not leave him unpunished who
takes His name in vain.” (Deuteronomy 5:11)
"You shall fear {only} the LORD your God; and you
shall worship Him and swear by His name.”
(Deuteronomy 6:13)
At that time the LORD set apart the tribe of Levi to carry
the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the
LORD to serve Him and to bless in His name until this
day. (Deuteronomy 10:8)
"You shall fear the LORD your God; you shall serve Him
and cling to Him, and you shall swear by His name.”
(Deuteronomy 10:20)
"But you shall seek {the L{ORD}} at the place which
the LORD your God will choose from all your tribes, to
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establish His name there for His dwelling, and there you
shall come.” (Deuteronomy 12:5)
“…then it shall come about that the place in which the
LORD your God will choose for His name to dwell,
there you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt
offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the
contribution of your hand, and all your choice votive
offerings which you will vow to the LORD.”
(Deuteronomy 12:11)
"If the place which the LORD your God chooses to put
His name is too far from you, then you may slaughter of
your herd and flock which the LORD has given you, as I
have commanded you; and you may eat within your gates
whatever you desire.” (Deuteronomy 12:21)
"You shall eat in the presence of the LORD your God, at
the place where He chooses to establish His name, the
tithe of your grain, your new wine, your oil, and the
firstborn of your herd and your flock, so that you may
learn to fear the LORD your God always.” (Deuteronomy
14:23)
"If the distance is so great for you that you are not able to
bring {the tithe,} since the place where the LORD your
God chooses to set His name is too far away from you
when the LORD your God blesses you…” (Deuteronomy
14:24)
"You shall sacrifice the Passover to the LORD your God
from the flock and the herd, in the place where the
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LORD chooses to establish His name.” (Deuteronomy
16:2)
“…but at the place where the LORD your God chooses
to establish His name, you shall sacrifice the Passover in
the evening at sunset, at the time that you came out of
Egypt.” (Deuteronomy 16:6)
“…and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you
and your son and your daughter and your male and
female servants and the Levite who is in your town, and
the stranger and the orphan and the widow who are in
your midst, in the place where the LORD your God
chooses to establish His name.” (Deuteronomy 16:11)
"For the LORD your God has chosen him and his sons
from all your tribes, to stand and serve in the name of the
LORD forever.” (Deuteronomy 18:5)
“…then he shall serve in the name of the LORD his God,
like all his fellow Levites who stand there before the
LORD.” (Deuteronomy 18:7)
'It shall come about that whoever will not listen to My
words which he shall speak in My name, I Myself will
require {it} of him.’ (Deuteronomy 18:19)
'But the prophet who speaks a word presumptuously in
My name which I have not commanded him to speak, or
which he speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet
shall die.' (Deuteronomy 18:20)
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"When a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, if the
thing does not come about or come true, that is the thing
which the LORD has not spoken. The prophet has spoken
it presumptuously; you shall not be afraid of him.”
(Deuteronomy 18:22)
"Then the priests, the sons of Levi, shall come near, for
the LORD your God has chosen them to serve Him and
to bless in the name of the LORD; and every dispute and
every assault shall be settled by them.” (Deuteronomy
21:5)
“…that you shall take some of the first of all the produce
of the ground which you bring in from your land that the
LORD your God gives you, and you shall put {it} in a
basket and go to the place where the LORD your God
chooses to establish His name.” (Deuteronomy 26:2)
"So all the peoples of the earth will see that you
are called by the name of the LORD, and they will
be afraid of you.” (Deuteronomy 28:10)
"If you are not careful to observe all the words of
this law which are written in this book, to fear this
honored and awesome name, the LORD your
God…” (Deuteronomy 28:58)
"For I proclaim the name of the LORD; Ascribe
greatness to our God!” (Deuteronomy 32:3)
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NEVIIM (Prophets)
"For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the
land will hear of it, and they will surround us and
cut off our name from the earth. And what will
You do for Your great name?" (Joshua 7:9)
“…so that you will not associate with these
nations, these which remain among you, or
mention the name of their gods, or make {anyone}
swear {by them,} or serve them, or bow down to
them.” (Joshua 23:7)
Then the woman came and told her husband,
saying, "A man of God came to me and his
appearance was like the appearance of the angel of
God, very awesome. And I did not ask him where
he {came} from, nor did he tell me his name.”
(Judges 13:6)
Manoah said to the angel of the LORD, "What is your
name, so that when your words come {to pass,} we may
honor you?" (Judges 13:17)
But the angel of the LORD said to him, "Why do you ask
my name, seeing it is wonderful?" (Judges 13:18)
"For the LORD will not abandon His people on account
of His great name, because the LORD has been pleased
to make you a people for Himself.” (1 Samuel 12:22)
Then David said to the Philistine, "You come to me with
a sword, a spear, and a javelin, but I come to you in the
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name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of
Israel, whom you have taunted.” (1 Samuel 17:45)
Jonathan said to David, "Go in safety, inasmuch as we
have sworn to each other in the name of the LORD,
saying, 'The LORD will be between me and you, and
between my descendants and your descendants forever.'
"Then he rose and departed, while Jonathan went into the
city. (1 Samuel 20:42)
And David arose and went with all the people who were
with him to Baale-judah, to bring up from there the ark of
God which is called by the Name, the very name of the
LORD of hosts who is enthroned {above} the cherubim.
(2 Samuel 6:2)
When David had finished offering the burnt offering and
the peace offering, he blessed the people in the name of
the LORD of hosts. (2 Samuel 6:18)
"He shall build a house for My name, and I will establish
the throne of his kingdom forever.” (2 Samuel 7:13)
"And what one nation on the earth is like Your people
Israel, whom God went to redeem for Himself as a
people and to make a name for Himself, and to do a great
thing for You and awesome things for Your land, before
Your people whom You have redeemed for Yourself
from Egypt, {from} nations and their gods?” (2 Samuel
7:23)
“…that Your name may be magnified forever, by saying,
'The LORD of hosts is God over Israel'; and may the
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house of Your servant David be established before You.”
(2 Samuel 7:26)
"Therefore I will give thanks to You, O LORD, among
the nations, And I will sing praises to Your name.” (2
Samuel 22:50)
The people were still sacrificing on the high places,
because there was no house built for the name of the
LORD until those days. (1 Kings 3:2)
"You know that David my father was unable to build a
house for the name of the LORD his God because of the
wars which surrounded him, until the LORD put them
under the soles of his feet.” (1 Kings 5:3)
"Behold, I intend to build a house for the name of the
LORD my God, as the LORD spoke to David my father,
saying, 'Your son, whom I will set on your throne in your
place, he will build the house for My name.'” (1 Kings
5:5)
'Since the day that I brought My people Israel from
Egypt, I did not choose a city out of all the tribes of Israel
{in which} to build a house that My name might be
there, but I chose David to be over My people Israel.' (1
Kings 8:16)
"Now it was in the heart of my father David to build a
house for the name of the LORD, the God of Israel.” (1
Kings 8:17)
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"But the LORD said to my father David, 'Because it was
in your heart to build a house for My name, you did well
that it was in your heart.’” (1 Kings 8:18)
'Nevertheless you shall not build the house, but your son
who will be born to you, he will build the house for My
name.'’ (1 Kings 8:19)
"Now the LORD has fulfilled His word which He spoke;
for I have risen in place of my father David and sit on the
throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and have built
the house for the name of the LORD, the God of Israel.”
(1 Kings 8:20)
“…that Your eyes may be open toward this house night
and day, toward the place of which You have said, 'My
name shall be there,' to listen to the prayer which Your
servant shall pray toward this place.” (1 Kings 8:29)
"When Your people Israel are defeated before an enemy,
because they have sinned against You, if they turn to You
again and confess Your name and pray and make
supplication to You in this house…” (1 Kings 8:33)
"When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain,
because they have sinned against You, and they pray
toward this place and confess Your name and turn from
their sin when You afflict them…” (1 Kings 8:35)
"Also concerning the foreigner who is not of Your people
Israel, when he comes from a far country for Your
name's sake…” (1 Kings 8:41)
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“…(for they will hear of Your great name and Your
mighty hand, and of Your outstretched arm); when he
comes and prays toward this house…” (1 Kings 8:42)
“…hear in heaven Your dwelling place, and do according
to all for which the foreigner calls to You, in order that
all the peoples of the earth may know Your name, to fear
You, as {do} Your people Israel, and that they may know
that this house which I have built is called by Your
name.” (1 Kings 8:43)
"When Your people go out to battle against their enemy,
by whatever way You shall send them, and they pray to
the LORD toward the city which You have chosen and
the house which I have built for Your name…” (1 Kings
8:44)
“…if they return to You with all their heart and with all
their soul in the land of their enemies who have taken
them captive, and pray to You toward their land which
You have given to their fathers, the city which You have
chosen, and the house which I have built for Your
name…” (1 Kings 8:48)
The LORD said to him, "I have heard your prayer and
your supplication, which you have made before Me; I
have consecrated this house which you have built by
putting My name there forever, and My eyes and My
heart will be there perpetually.” (1 Kings 9:3)
“…then I will cut off Israel from the land which I have
given them, and the house which I have consecrated for
My name, I will cast out of My sight. So Israel will
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become a proverb and a byword among all peoples.” (1
Kings 9:7)
Now when the queen of Sheba heard about the fame of
Solomon concerning the name of the LORD, she came to
test him with difficult questions. (1 Kings 10:1)
'But to his son I will give one tribe, that My servant
David may have a lamp always before Me in Jerusalem,
the city where I have chosen for Myself to put My name.
(1 Kings 11:36)
"Then you call on the name of your god, and I will call
on the name of the LORD, and the God who answers by
fire, He is God." And all the people said, "That is a good
idea." (1 Kings 18:24)
So Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, "Choose one ox
for yourselves and prepare it first for you are many, and
call on the name of your god, but put no fire {under it.}"
(1 Kings 18:25)
Then they took the ox which was given them and they
prepared it and called on the name of Baal from morning
until noon saying, "O Baal, answer us." But there was no
voice and no one answered. And they leaped about the
altar which they made. (1 Kings 18:26)
So with the stones he built an altar in the name of the
LORD, and he made a trench around the altar, large
enough to hold two measures of seed. (1 Kings 18:32)
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Then the king said to him, "How many times must I
adjure you to speak to me nothing but the truth in the
name of the LORD?" (1 Kings 22:16)
But Naaman was furious and went away and said,
"Behold, I thought, 'He will surely come out to me and
stand and call on the name of the LORD his God, and
wave his hand over the place and cure the leper.'” (2
Kings 5:11)
He built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the
LORD had said, "In Jerusalem I will put My name." (2
Kings 21:4)
Then he set the carved image of Asherah that he had
made, in the house of which the LORD said to David and
to his son Solomon, "In this house and in Jerusalem,
which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel, I will
put My name forever.” (2 Kings 21:7)
The LORD said, "I will remove Judah also from My
sight, as I have removed Israel. And I will cast off
Jerusalem, this city which I have chosen, and the temple
of which I said, 'My name shall be there.' " (2 Kings
23:27)
"Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign:
Behold, a virgin will be with child and bear a son, and
she will call His name Immanuel.” (Isaiah 7:14)
For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us;
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name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
Eternal Father, Prince of Peace. (Isaiah 9:6)
And in that day you will say, "Give thanks to the LORD,
call on His name. Make known His deeds among the
peoples; Make {them} remember that His name is
exalted." (Isaiah 12:4)
At that time a gift of homage will be brought to the
LORD of hosts From a people tall and smooth, Even
from a people feared far and wide, A powerful and
oppressive nation, Whose land the rivers divide-- To the
place of the name of the LORD of hosts, {even} Mount
Zion. (Isaiah 18:7)
Therefore glorify the LORD in the east, The name of the
LORD, the God of Israel, In the coastlands of the sea.
(Isaiah 24:15)
O LORD, You are my God; I will exalt You, I will give
thanks to Your name; For You have worked wonders,
Plans {formed} long ago, with perfect faithfulness.
(Isaiah 25:1)
Indeed, {while following} the way of Your judgments, O
LORD, We have waited for You eagerly; Your name,
even Your memory, is the desire of {our} souls. (Isaiah
26:8)
O LORD our God, other masters besides You have ruled
us; {But} through You alone we confess Your name.
(Isaiah 26:13)
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But when he sees his children, the work of My hands, in
his midst, They will sanctify My name; Indeed, they will
sanctify the Holy One of Jacob And will stand in awe of
the God of Israel. (Isaiah 29:23)
Behold, the name of the LORD comes from a remote
place; Burning is His anger and dense is {His} smoke;
His lips are filled with indignation And His tongue is like
a consuming fire; (Isaiah 30:27)
"I have aroused one from the north, and he has come;
From the rising of the sun he will call on My name; And
he will come upon rulers as {upon} mortar, Even as the
potter treads clay." (Isaiah 41:25)
"I am the LORD, that is My name; I will not give My
glory to another, Nor My praise to graven images.”
(Isaiah 42:8)
Everyone who is called by My name, And whom I have
created for My glory, Whom I have formed, even whom I
have made." (Isaiah 43:7)
Our Redeemer, the LORD of hosts is His name, The
Holy One of Israel. (Isaiah 47:4)
"Hear this, O house of Jacob, who are named Israel And
who came forth from the loins of Judah, Who swear by
the name of the LORD And invoke the God of Israel,
{But} not in truth nor in righteousness. (Isaiah 48:1)
"For they call themselves after the holy city And lean on
the God of Israel; The LORD of hosts is His name.”
(Isaiah 48:2)
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"For the sake of My name I delay My wrath, And {for}
My praise I restrain {it} for you, In order not to cut you
off.” (Isaiah 48:9)
"For My own sake, for My own sake, I will act; For how
can {My name} be profaned? And My glory I will not
give to another. (Isaiah 48:11)
Who is among you that fears the LORD, That obeys the
voice of His servant, That walks in darkness and has no
light? Let him trust in the name of the LORD and rely on
his God. (Isaiah 50:10)
"For I am the LORD your God, who stirs up the sea and
its waves roar (the LORD of hosts is His name).” (Isaiah
51:15)
"Now therefore, what do I have here," declares the
LORD, "seeing that My people have been taken away
without cause?" {Again} the LORD declares, "Those
who rule over them howl, and My name is continually
blasphemed all day long. “ (Isaiah 52:5)
"Therefore My people shall know My name; therefore in
that day I am the one who is speaking, 'Here I am.'
(Isaiah 52:6)
"For your husband is your Maker, Whose name is the
LORD of hosts; And your Redeemer is the Holy One of
Israel, Who is called the God of all the earth.” (Isaiah
54:5)
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"Also the foreigners who join themselves to the LORD,
To minister to Him, and to love the name of the LORD,
To be His servants, every one who keeps from profaning
the sabbath And holds fast My covenant…” (Isaiah 56:6)
For thus says the high and exalted One Who lives
forever, whose name is Holy, "I dwell {on} a high and
holy place, And {also} with the contrite and lowly of
spirit In order to revive the spirit of the lowly And to
revive the heart of the contrite. “ (Isaiah 57:15)
So they will fear the name of the LORD from the west
And His glory from the rising of the sun, For He will
come like a rushing stream Which the wind of the LORD
drives. (Isaiah 59:19)
"Surely the coastlands will wait for Me; And the ships of
Tarshish {will come} first, To bring your sons from afar,
Their silver and their gold with them, For the name of
the LORD your God, And for the Holy One of Israel
because He has glorified you.” (Isaiah 60:9)
Who caused His glorious arm to go at the right hand of
Moses, Who divided the waters before them to make for
Himself an everlasting name…(Isaiah 63:12)
As the cattle which go down into the valley, The Spirit of
the LORD gave them rest. So You led Your people, To
make for Yourself a glorious name. (Isaiah 63:14)
For You are our Father, though Abraham does not know
us And Israel does not recognize us. You, O LORD, are
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our Father, Our Redeemer from of old is Your name.
(Isaiah 63:16)
We have become {like} those over whom You have
never ruled, {Like} those who were not called by Your
name. (Isaiah 63:19)
As fire kindles the brushwood, {as} fire causes water to
boil-- To make Your name known to Your adversaries,
{That} the nations may tremble at Your presence!
(Isaiah 64:2)
There is no one who calls on Your name, Who arouses
himself to take hold of You; For You have hidden Your
face from us And have delivered us into the power of our
iniquities. (Isaiah 64:7)
"I permitted Myself to be sought by those who did not
ask {for Me;} I permitted Myself to be found by those
who did not seek Me. I said, 'Here am I, here am I,' To a
nation which did not call on My name.” (Isaiah 65:1)
Hear the word of the LORD, you who tremble at His
word: "Your brothers who hate you, who exclude you for
My name's sake, Have said, 'Let the LORD be glorified,
that we may see your joy.' But they will be put to
shame.” (Isaiah 66:5)
"At that time they will call Jerusalem 'The Throne of the
LORD,' and all the nations will be gathered to it, to
Jerusalem, for the name of the LORD; nor will they walk
anymore after the stubbornness of their evil heart.”
(Jeremiah 3:17)
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“…then come and stand before Me in this house, which
is called by My name, and say, 'We are delivered!'--that
you may do all these abominations?” (Jeremiah 7:10)
"Has this house, which is called by My name, become a
den of robbers in your sight? Behold, I, even I, have seen
{it,}" declares the LORD. (Jeremiah 7:11)
"But go now to My place which was in Shiloh, where I
made My name dwell at the first, and see what I did to it
because of the wickedness of My people Israel. “
(Jeremiah 7:12)
“…therefore, I will do to the house which is called by
My name, in which you trust, and to the place which I
gave you and your fathers, as I did to Shiloh.” (Jeremiah
7:14)
"For the sons of Judah have done that which is evil in My
sight," declares the LORD, "they have set their detestable
things in the house which is called by My name, to defile
it.” (Jeremiah 7:30)
There is none like You, O LORD; You are great, and
great is Your name in might. (Jeremiah 10:6)
The portion of Jacob is not like these; For the Maker of
all is He, And Israel is the tribe of His inheritance; The
LORD of hosts is His name. (Jeremiah 10:16)
Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not know You
And on the families that do not call Your name; For they
have devoured Jacob; They have devoured him and
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consumed him And have laid waste his habitation.
(Jeremiah 10:25)
Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the men of
Anathoth, who seek your life, saying, "Do not prophesy
in the name of the LORD, so that you will not die at our
hand"; (Jeremiah 11:21)
"Then if they will really learn the ways of My people, to
swear by My name, 'As the LORD lives,' even as they
taught My people to swear by Baal, they will be built up
in the midst of My people.” (Jeremiah 12:16)
Although our iniquities testify against us, O LORD, act
for Your name's sake! Truly our apostasies have been
many, We have sinned against You. (Jeremiah 14:7)
"Why are You like a man dismayed, Like a mighty man
who cannot save? Yet You are in our midst, O LORD,
And we are called by Your name; Do not forsake us!”
(Jeremiah 14:9)
Then the LORD said to me, "The prophets are
prophesying falsehood in My name. I have neither sent
them nor commanded them nor spoken to them; they are
prophesying to you a false vision, divination, futility and
the deception of their own minds.” (Jeremiah 14:14)
"Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the prophets
who are prophesying in My name, although it was not I
who sent them--yet they keep saying, 'There will be no
sword or famine in this land'--by sword and famine those
prophets shall meet their end!” (Jeremiah 14:15)
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Do not despise {us,} for Your own name's sake; Do not
disgrace the throne of Your glory; Remember {and} do
not annul Your covenant with us. (Jeremiah 14:21)
Your words were found and I ate them, And Your words
became for me a joy and the delight of my heart; For I
have been called by Your name, O LORD God of hosts.
(Jeremiah 15:16)
"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 the LORD."
(Jeremiah 16:21)
But if I say, "I will not remember Him Or speak anymore
in His name," Then in my heart it becomes like a burning
fire Shut up in my bones; And I am weary of holding {it}
in, And I cannot endure {it.} (Jeremiah 20:9)
"In His days Judah will be saved, And Israel will dwell
securely; And this is His name by which He will be
called, 'The LORD our righteousness.' (Jeremiah 23:6)
"I have heard what the prophets have said who prophesy
falsely in My name, saying, 'I had a dream, I had a
dream!'” (Jeremiah 23:25)
“…who intend to make My people forget My name by
their dreams which they relate to one another, just as
their fathers forgot My name because of Baal?”
(Jeremiah 23:27)
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"For behold, I am beginning to work calamity in {this}
city which is called by My name, and shall you be
completely free from punishment? You will not be free
from punishment; for I am summoning a sword against
all the inhabitants of the earth," declares the LORD of
hosts.'” (Jeremiah 25:29)
"Why have you prophesied in the name of the LORD
saying, 'This house will be like Shiloh and this city will
be desolate, without inhabitant'?" And all the people
gathered about Jeremiah in the house of the LORD.
(Jeremiah 26:9)
Then the officials and all the people said to the priests
and to the prophets, "No death sentence for this man! For
he has spoken to us in the name of the LORD our God."
(Jeremiah 26:16)
Indeed, there was also a man who prophesied in the
name of the LORD, Uriah the son of Shemaiah from
Kiriath-jearim; and he prophesied against this city and
against this land words similar to all those of Jeremiah.
(Jeremiah 26:20)
“…for I have not sent them," declares the LORD, "but
they prophesy falsely in My name, in order that I may
drive you out and that you may perish, you and the
prophets who prophesy to you." (Jeremiah 27:15)
'For they prophesy falsely to you in My name; I have not
sent them,' declares the LORD. (Jeremiah 29:9)
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“Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel,
concerning Ahab the son of Kolaiah and concerning
Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, who are prophesying to
you falsely in My name, 'Behold, I will deliver them into
the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he will
slay them before your eyes.” (Jeremiah 29:21)
“…because they have acted foolishly in Israel, and have
committed adultery with their neighbors' wives and have
spoken words in My name falsely, which I did not
command them; and I am He who knows and am a
witness," declares the LORD.' (Jeremiah 29:23)
Thus says the LORD, Who gives the sun for light by day
And the fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by
night, Who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar; The
LORD of hosts is His name: (Jeremiah 31:35)
“…who shows lovingkindness to thousands, but repays
the iniquity of fathers into the bosom of their children
after them, O great and mighty God. The LORD of hosts
is His name…” (Jeremiah 32:18)
“…who has set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt,
{and} even to this day both in Israel and among
mankind; and You have made a name for Yourself, as at
this day.” (Jeremiah 32:20)
"But they put their detestable things in the house which is
called by My name, to defile it.” (Jeremiah 32:34)
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"Thus says the LORD who made {the earth,} the LORD
who formed it to establish it, the LORD is His name…”
(Jeremiah 33:2)
'It will be to Me a name of joy, praise and glory before
all the nations of the earth which will hear of all the good
that I do for them, and they will fear and tremble because
of all the good and all the peace that I make for it.'
(Jeremiah 33:9)
'In those days Judah will be saved and Jerusalem will
dwell in safety; and this is {the name} by which she will
be called: the LORD is our righteousness.'’ (Jeremiah
33:16)
"Although recently you {had} turned and done what is
right in My sight, each man proclaiming release to his
neighbor, and you had made a covenant before Me in the
house which is called by My name.” (Jeremiah 34:15)
“Yet you turned and profaned My name, and each man
took back his male servant and each man his female
servant whom you had set free according to their desire,
and you brought them into subjection to be your male
servants and female servants.'" (Jeremiah 34:16)
"As for the message that you have spoken to us in the
name of the LORD, we are not going to listen to you!”
(Jeremiah 44:16)
"Nevertheless hear the word of the LORD, all Judah who
are living in the land of Egypt, 'Behold, I have sworn by
My great name,' says the LORD, 'never shall My name
be invoked again by the mouth of any man of Judah in all
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the land of Egypt, saying, "As the Lord GOD lives."
(Jeremiah 44:26)
"As I live," declares the King Whose name is the LORD
of hosts, "Surely one shall come {who looms up} like
Tabor among the mountains, Or like Carmel by the sea.”
(Jeremiah 46:18)
"Moab has been destroyed and men have gone up to his
cities; His choicest young men have also gone down to
the slaughter," Declares the King, whose name is the
LORD of hosts.” (Jeremiah 48:15)
"Their Redeemer is strong, the LORD of hosts is His
name; He will vigorously plead their case So that He
may bring rest to the earth, But turmoil to the inhabitants
of Babylon.” (Jeremiah 50:34)
The portion of Jacob is not like these; For the Maker of
all is He, And of the tribe of His inheritance; The LORD
of hosts is His name. (Jeremiah 51:19)
"I will make her princes and her wise men drunk, Her
governors, her prefects and her mighty men, That they
may sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake up," Declares
the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.” (Jeremiah
51:57)
"But I acted for the sake of My name, that it should not
be profaned in the sight of the nations among whom they
{lived,} in whose sight I made Myself known to them by
bringing them out of the land of Egypt.” (Ezekiel 20:9)
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"But I acted for the sake of My name, that it should not
be profaned in the sight of the nations, before whose
sight I had brought them out.” (Ezekiel 20:14)
"But I withdrew My hand and acted for the sake of My
name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the
nations in whose sight I had brought them out.” (Ezekiel
20:22)
"As for you, O house of Israel," thus says the Lord GOD,
"Go, serve everyone his idols; but later you will surely
listen to Me, and My holy name you will profane no
longer with your gifts and with your idols.” (Ezekiel
20:39)
"Then you will know that I am the LORD when I have
dealt with you for My name's sake, not according to your
evil ways or according to your corrupt deeds, O house of
Israel," declares the Lord GOD.' " (Ezekiel 20:44)
"When they came to the nations where they went, they
profaned My holy name, because it was said of them,
'These are the people of the LORD; yet they have come
out of His land.'” (Ezekiel 36:20)
"But I had concern for My holy name, which the house
of Israel had profaned among the nations where they
went.” (Ezekiel 36:21)
"Therefore say to the house of Israel, 'Thus says the Lord
GOD, "It is not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am
about to act, but for My holy name, which you have
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profaned among the nations where you went.” (Ezekiel
36:22)
"I will vindicate the holiness of My great name which
has been profaned among the nations, which you have
profaned in their midst. Then the nations will know that I
am the LORD," declares the Lord GOD, "when I prove
Myself holy among you in their sight.” (Ezekiel 36:23)
"My holy name I will make known in the midst of My
people Israel; and I will not let My holy name be
profaned anymore. And the nations will know that I am
the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.” (Ezekiel 39:7)
Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, "Now I will restore
the fortunes of Jacob and have mercy on the whole house
of Israel; and I will be jealous for My holy name.
(Ezekiel 39:25)
He said to me, "Son of man, {this is} the place of My
throne and the place of the soles of My feet, where I will
dwell among the sons of Israel forever. And the house of
Israel will not again defile My holy name, neither they
nor their kings, by their harlotry and by the corpses of
their kings when they die…” (Ezekiel 43:7)
“…by setting their threshold by My threshold and their
door post beside My door post, with {only} the wall
between Me and them. And they have defiled My holy
name by their abominations which they have committed.
So I have consumed them in My anger.” (Ezekiel 43:8)
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Even the LORD, the God of hosts, The LORD is His
name. (Hosea 12:5)
"You will have plenty to eat and be satisfied And praise
the name of the LORD your God, Who has dealt
wondrously with you; Then My people will never be put
to shame.” (Joel 2:26)
"And it will come about that whoever calls on the name
of the LORD Will be delivered; For on Mount Zion and
in Jerusalem There will be those who escape, As the
LORD has said, Even among the survivors whom the
LORD calls.” (Joel 2:32)
"These who pant after the {very} dust of the earth on the
head of the helpless Also turn aside the way of the
humble; And a man and his father resort to the same girl
In order to profane My holy name.” (Amos 2:7)
For behold, He who forms mountains and creates the
wind And declares to man what are His thoughts, He who
makes dawn into darkness And treads on the high places
of the earth, The LORD God of hosts is His name.
(Amos 4:13)
He who made the Pleiades and Orion And changes deep
darkness into morning, Who also darkens day {into}
night, Who calls for the waters of the sea And pours them
out on the surface of the earth, The LORD is His name.
(Amos 5:18)
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"Therefore, I will make you go into exile beyond
Damascus," says the LORD, whose name is the God of
hosts. (Amos 5:27)
Then one's uncle, or his undertaker, will lift him up to
carry out {his} bones from the house, and he will say to
the one who is in the innermost part of the house, "Is
anyone else with you?" And that one will say, "No one."
Then he will answer, "Keep quiet. For the name of the
LORD is not to be mentioned." (Amos 6:10)
The One who builds His upper chambers in the heavens
And has founded His vaulted dome over the earth, He
who calls for the waters of the sea And pours them out on
the face of the earth, The LORD is His name. (Amos
9:6)
That they may possess the remnant of Edom And all the
nations who are called by My name," Declares the
LORD who does this. (Amos 9:12)
Though all the peoples walk Each in the name of his
god, As for us, we will walk In the name of the LORD
our God forever and ever. (Micah 4:5)
And He will arise and shepherd {His flock} In the
strength of the LORD, In the majesty of the name of the
LORD His God. And they will remain, Because at that
time He will be great To the ends of the earth. (Micah
5:4)
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The voice of the LORD will call to the city-- And it is
sound wisdom to fear Your name: "Hear, O tribe. Who
has appointed its time? (Micah 6:9)
"For then I will give to the peoples purified lips, That all
of them may call on the name of the LORD, To serve
Him shoulder to shoulder. (Zephaniah 3:9)
"But I will leave among you A humble and lowly people,
And they will take refuge in the name of the LORD.”
(Zephaniah 3:12)
"I will make it go forth," declares the LORD of hosts,
"and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of
the one who swears falsely by My name; and it will
spend the night within that house and consume it with its
timber and stones." (Zechariah 5:4)
"And I will strengthen them in the LORD, And in His
name they will walk," declares the LORD. (Zechariah
10:12)
"And if anyone still prophesies, then his father and
mother who gave birth to him will say to him, 'You shall
not live, for you have spoken falsely in the name of the
LORD'; and his father and mother who gave birth to him
will pierce him through when he prophesies.” (Zechariah
13:3)
"And I will bring the third part through the fire, Refine
them as silver is refined, And test them as gold is tested.
They will call on My name, And I will answer them; I
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will say, 'They are My people,' And they will say, 'The
LORD is my God.' " (Zechariah 13:9)
And the LORD will be king over all the earth; in that day
the LORD will be {the only} one, and His name {the
only} one. (Zechariah 14:9)
" 'A son honors {his} father, and a servant his master.
Then if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a
master, where is My respect?' says the LORD of hosts to
you, O priests who despise My name. But you say, 'How
have we despised Your name?' (Malachi 1:6)
"For from the rising of the sun even to its setting, My
name {will be} great among the nations, and in every
place incense is going to be offered to My name, and a
grain offering {that is} pure; for My name {will be}
great among the nations," says the LORD of hosts.”
(Malachi 1:11)
"But cursed be the swindler who has a male in his flock
and vows it, but sacrifices a blemished animal to the
Lord, for I am a great King," says the LORD of hosts,
"and My name is feared among the nations." (Malachi
1:14)
"If you do not listen, and if you do not take it to heart to
give honor to My name," says the LORD of hosts, "then
I will send the curse upon you and I will curse your
blessings; and indeed, I have cursed them {already,}
because you are not taking {it} to heart.” (Malachi 2:2)
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"My covenant with him was {one of} life and peace, and
I gave them to him {as an object of} reverence; so he
revered Me and stood in awe of My name.” (Malachi
2:5)
Then those who feared the LORD spoke to one another,
and the LORD gave attention and heard {it,} and a book
of remembrance was written before Him for those who
fear the LORD and who esteem His name. (Malachi
3:16)
But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness
will rise with healing in its wings; and you will go forth
and skip about like calves from the stall. (Malachi 4:2)
Kethuvim (Writings)
But let all who take refuge in You be glad, Let them ever
sing for joy; And may You shelter them, That those who
love Your name may exult in You. (Psalm 5:11)
I will give thanks to the LORD according to His
righteousness And will sing praise to the name of the
LORD Most High. (Psalm 7:17)
O LORD, our Lord, How majestic is Your name in all
the earth, Who have displayed Your splendor above the
heavens! (Psalm 8:1)
O LORD, our Lord, How majestic is Your name in all
the earth! (Psalm 8:9)
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I will be glad and exult in You; I will sing praise to Your
name, O Most High. (Psalm 9:2)
And those who know Your name will put their trust in
You, For You, O LORD, have not forsaken those who
seek You. (Psalm 9:10)
Therefore I will give thanks to You among the nations, O
LORD, And I will sing praises to Your name. (Psalm
18:49)
May the LORD answer you in the day of trouble! May
the name of the God of Jacob set you {securely} on
high! (Psalm 20:1)
We will sing for joy over your victory, And in the name
of our God we will set up our banners. May the LORD
fulfill all your petitions. (Psalm 20:5)
Some {boast} in chariots and some in horses, But we will
boast in the name of the LORD, our God. (Psalm 20:7)
I will tell of Your name to my brethren; In the midst of
the assembly I will praise You. (Psalm 22:22)
He restores my soul; He guides me in the paths of
righteousness For His name's sake. (Psalm 23:3)
For Your name's sake, O LORD, Pardon my iniquity, for
it is great. (Psalm 25:11)
Ascribe to the LORD the glory due to His name;
Worship the LORD in holy array. (Psalm 29:2)
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Sing praise to the LORD, you His godly ones, And give
thanks to His holy name. (Psalm 30:4)
For You are my rock and my fortress; For Your name's
sake You will lead me and guide me. (Psalm 31:3)
For our heart rejoices in Him, Because we trust in His
holy name. (Psalm 33:21)
O magnify the LORD with me, And let us exalt His
name together. (Psalm 34:3)
Through You we will push back our adversaries;
Through Your name we will trample down those who
rise up against us. (Psalm 44:5)
In God we have boasted all day long, And we will give
thanks to Your name forever. Selah. (Psalm 44:8)
If we had forgotten the name of our God Or extended our
hands to a strange god… (Psalm 44:20)
I will cause Your name to be remembered in all
generations; Therefore the peoples will give You thanks
forever and ever. (Psalm 45:17)
As is Your name, O God, So is Your praise to the ends
of the earth; Your right hand is full of righteousness.
(Psalm 48:10)
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I will give You thanks forever, because You have done
{it,} And I will wait on Your name, for {it is} good, in
the presence of Your godly ones. (Psalm 52:9)
Save me, O God, by Your name, And vindicate me by
Your power. (Psalm 54:1)
Willingly I will sacrifice to You; I will give thanks to
Your name, O LORD, for it is good. (Psalm 54:6)
For You have heard my vows, O God; You have given
{me} the inheritance of those who fear Your name.
(Psalm 61:5)
So I will sing praise to Your name forever, That I may
pay my vows day by day. (Psalm 61:8)
So I will bless You as long as I live; I will lift up my
hands in Your name. (Psalm 63:4)
Sing the glory of His name; Make His praise glorious.
(Psalm 66:2)
"All the earth will worship You, And will sing praises to
You; They will sing praises to Your name." Selah.
(Psalm 66:4)
Sing to God, sing praises to His name; Lift up {a song}
for Him who rides through the deserts, Whose name is
the LORD, and exult before Him. (Psalm 68:4)
I will praise the name of God with song And magnify
Him with thanksgiving. (Psalm 69:30)
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The descendants of His servants will inherit it, And those
who love His name will dwell in it. (Psalm 69:36)
May his name endure forever; May his name increase as
long as the sun {shines;} And let {men} bless themselves
by him; Let all nations call him blessed. (Psalm 72:17)
And blessed be His glorious name forever; And may the
whole earth be filled with His glory. Amen, and Amen.
(Psalm 72:19)
They have burned Your sanctuary to the ground; They
have defiled the dwelling place of Your name. (Psalm
74:7)
How long, O God, will the adversary revile, {And} the
enemy spurn Your name forever? (Psalm 74:10)
Remember this, O LORD, that the enemy has reviled,
And a foolish people has spurned Your name. (Psalm
74:18)
Let not the oppressed return dishonored; Let the afflicted
and needy praise Your name. (Psalm 74:21)
We give thanks to You, O God, we give thanks, For Your
name is near; Men declare Your wondrous works.
(Psalm 75:1)
God is known in Judah; His name is great in Israel.
(Psalm 76:1)
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Pour out Your wrath upon the nations which do not know
You, And upon the kingdoms which do not call upon
Your name. (Psalm 79:6)
Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of Your
name; And deliver us and forgive our sins for Your
name's sake. (Psalm 79:9)
Then we shall not turn back from You; Revive us, and
we will call upon Your name. (Psalm 80:18)
Fill their faces with dishonor, That they may seek Your
name, O LORD. (Psalm 83:16)
That they may know that You alone, whose name is the
LORD, Are the Most High over all the earth. (Psalm
83:18)
All nations whom You have made shall come and
worship before You, O Lord, And they shall glorify Your
name. (Psalm 86:9)
Teach me Your way, O LORD; I will walk in Your truth;
Unite my heart to fear Your name. (Psalm 86:11)
I will give thanks to You, O Lord my God, with all my
heart, And will glorify Your name forever. (Psalm
86:12)
The north and the south, You have created them; Tabor
and Hermon shout for joy at Your name. (Psalm 89:12)
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In Your name they rejoice all the day, And by Your
righteousness they are exalted. (Psalm 89:16)
"My faithfulness and My lovingkindness will be with
him, And in My name his horn will be exalted. (Psalm
89:24)
"Because he has loved Me, therefore I will deliver him; I
will set him {securely} on high, because he has known
My name.” (Psalm 91:14)
It is good to give thanks to the LORD And to sing praises
to Your name, O Most High; (Psalm 92:1)
Sing to the LORD, bless His name; Proclaim good
tidings of His salvation from day to day. (Psalm 96:2)
Ascribe to the LORD the glory of His name; Bring an
offering and come into His courts. (Psalm 96:8)
Be glad in the LORD, you righteous ones, And give
thanks to His holy name. (Psalm 97:12)
Let them praise Your great and awesome name; Holy is
He. (Psalm 99:3)
Moses and Aaron were among His priests, And Samuel
was among those who called on His name; They called
upon the LORD and He answered them. (Psalm 99:6)
Enter His gates with thanksgiving {And} His courts with
praise. Give thanks to Him, bless His name. (Psalm
100:4)
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But You, O LORD, abide forever, And Your name to all
generations. (Psalm 102:12)
So the nations will fear the name of the LORD And all
the kings of the earth Your glory. (Psalm 102:15)
That {men} may tell of the name of the LORD in Zion
And His praise in Jerusalem… (Psalm 102:21)
Bless the LORD, O my soul, And all that is within me,
{bless} His holy name. (Psalm 103:1)
Oh give thanks to the LORD, call upon His name; Make
known His deeds among the peoples. (Psalm 105:1)
Glory in His holy name; Let the heart of those who seek
the LORD be glad. (Psalm 105:3)
Nevertheless He saved them for the sake of His name,
That He might make His power known. (Psalm 106:8)
Save us, O LORD our God, And gather us from among
the nations, To give thanks to Your holy name And glory
in Your praise. (Psalm 106:47)
But You, O GOD, the Lord, deal {kindly} with me for
Your name's sake; Because Your lovingkindness is good,
deliver me… (Psalm 109:21)
He has sent redemption to His people; He has ordained
His covenant forever; Holy and awesome is His name.
(Psalm 111:9)
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Praise the LORD! Praise, O servants of the LORD, Praise
the name of the LORD. (Psalm 113:1)
Blessed be the name of the LORD From this time forth
and forever. (Psalm 113:2)
From the rising of the sun to its setting The name of the
LORD is to be praised. (Psalm 113:3)
Not to us, O LORD, not to us, But to Your name give
glory Because of Your lovingkindness, because of Your
truth. (Psalm 115:1)
Then I called upon the name of the LORD: "O LORD, I
beseech You, save my life!" (Psalm 116:4)
I shall lift up the cup of salvation And call upon the
name of the LORD. (Psalm 116:13)
To You I shall offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving, And call
upon the name of the LORD. (Psalm 116:17)
All nations surrounded me; In the name of the LORD I
will surely cut them off. (Psalm 118:10)
They surrounded me, yes, they surrounded me; In the
name of the LORD I will surely cut them off. (Psalm
118:11)
They surrounded me like bees; They were extinguished
as a fire of thorns; In the name of the LORD I will surely
cut them off. (Psalm 118:12)
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Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the LORD;
We have blessed you from the house of the LORD.
(Psalm 118:26)
O LORD, I remember Your name in the night, And keep
Your law. (Psalm 119:55)
Turn to me and be gracious to me, After Your manner
with those who love Your name. (Psalm 119:32)
To which the tribes go up, even the tribes of the LORD-An ordinance for Israel-- To give thanks to the name of
the LORD. (Psalm 122:4)
Our help is in the name of the LORD, Who made heaven
and earth. (Psalm 124:8)
Nor do those who pass by say, "The blessing of the
LORD be upon you; We bless you in the name of the
LORD." (Psalm 129:8)
Praise the LORD! Praise the name of the LORD; Praise
{Him,} O servants of the LORD, (Psalm 135:1)
Praise the LORD, for the LORD is good; Sing praises to
His name, for it is lovely. (Psalm 135:3)
Your name, O LORD, is everlasting, Your remembrance,
O LORD, throughout all generations. (Psalm 135:13)
I will bow down toward Your holy temple And give
thanks to Your name for Your lovingkindness and Your
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truth; For You have magnified Your word according to
all Your name. (Psalm 138:2)
For they speak against You wickedly, And Your enemies
take {Your name} in vain. (Psalm 139:20)
Surely the righteous will give thanks to Your name; The
upright will dwell in Your presence. (Psalm 140:13)
"Bring my soul out of prison, So that I may give thanks
to Your name; The righteous will surround me, For You
will deal bountifully with me." (Psalm 142:7)
For the sake of Your name, O LORD, revive me. In
Your righteousness bring my soul out of trouble. (Psalm
143:11)
I will extol You, my God, O King, And I will bless Your
name forever and ever. (Psalm 145:1)
Every day I will bless You, And I will praise Your name
forever and ever. (Psalm 145:2)
My mouth will speak the praise of the LORD, And all
flesh will bless His holy name forever and ever. (Psalm
145:21)
Let them praise the name of the LORD, For He
commanded and they were created. (Psalm 148:5)
Let them praise the name of the LORD, For His name
alone is exalted; His glory is above earth and heaven.
(Psalm 148:13)
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Let them praise His name with dancing; Let them sing
praises to Him with timbrel and lyre. (Psalm 149:3)
The name of the LORD is a strong tower; The righteous
runs into it and is safe. (Proverbs 18:10)
Who has ascended into heaven and descended? Who has
gathered the wind in His fists? Who has wrapped the
waters in His garment? Who has established all the ends
of the earth? What is His name or His son's name?
Surely you know! (Proverbs 30:4)
That I not be full and deny {You} and say, "Who is the
LORD?" Or that I not be in want and steal, And profane
the name of my God. (Proverbs 30:9)
"Your oils have a pleasing fragrance, Your name is
{like} purified oil; Therefore the maidens love you.
(Song of Solomon 1:3)
I called on Your name, O LORD, Out of the lowest pit.
(Lamentations 3:55)
He said, "Naked I came from my mother's womb, And
naked I shall return there. The LORD gave and the
LORD has taken away. Blessed be the name of the
LORD." (Job 1:21)
Daniel said, "Let the name of God be blessed forever and
ever, For wisdom and power belong to Him.” (Daniel
2:20)
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"And now, O Lord our God, who have brought Your
people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand and
have made a name for Yourself, as it is this day--we
have sinned, we have been wicked.” (Daniel 9:15)
"O my God, incline Your ear and hear! Open Your eyes
and see our desolations and the city which is called by
Your name; for we are not presenting our supplications
before You on account of any merits of our own, but on
account of Your great compassion.” (Daniel 9:18)
"O Lord, hear! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, listen and take
action! For Your own sake, O my God, do not delay,
because Your city and Your people are called by Your
name." (Daniel 9:19)
When the prophets, Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the
son of Iddo, prophesied to the Jews who were in Judah
and Jerusalem in the name of the God of Israel, who was
over them… (Ezra 5:1)
"May the God who has caused His name to dwell there
overthrow any king or people who attempts to change
{it,} so as to destroy this house of God in Jerusalem. I,
Darius, have issued {this} decree, let {it} be carried out
with all diligence!" (Ezra 6:12)
“…but {if} you return to Me and keep My
commandments and do them, though those of you who
have been scattered were in the most remote part of the
heavens, I will gather them from there and will bring
them to the place where I have chosen to cause My name
to dwell.' (Nehemiah 1:9)
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"O Lord, I beseech You, may Your ear be attentive to the
prayer of Your servant and the prayer of Your servants
who delight to revere Your name, and make Your
servant successful today and grant him compassion
before this man." Now I was the cupbearer to the king.
(Nehemiah 1:11)
Then the Levites, Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah,
Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah {and} Pethahiah, said,
"Arise, bless the LORD your God forever and ever! O
may Your glorious name be blessed And exalted above
all blessing and praise! (Nehemiah 9:5)
"Then You performed signs and wonders against
Pharaoh, Against all his servants and all the people of his
land; For You knew that they acted arrogantly toward
them, And made a name for Yourself as {it is} this day.”
(Nehemiah 9:10)
David and all Israel went up to Baalah, {that is,} to
Kiriath-jearim, which belongs to Judah, to bring up from
there the ark of God, the LORD who is enthroned
{above} the cherubim, where His name is called. (1
Chronicles 13:6)
When David had finished offering the burnt offering and
the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of
the LORD. (1 Chronicles 16:2)
Oh give thanks to the LORD, call upon His name; Make
known His deeds among the peoples. (1 Chronicles
16:8)
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Glory in His holy name; Let the heart of those who seek
the LORD be glad. (1 Chronicles 16:10)
Ascribe to the LORD the glory due His name; Bring an
offering, and come before Him; Worship the LORD in
holy array. (1 Chronicles 16:29)
Then say, "Save us, O God of our salvation, And gather
us and deliver us from the nations, To give thanks to
Your holy name, And glory in Your praise." (1
Chronicles 16:35)
"Let Your name be established and magnified forever,
saying, 'The LORD of hosts is the God of Israel, {even}
a God to Israel; and the house of David Your servant is
established before You.' (1 Chronicles 17:24)
So David went up at the word of Gad, which he spoke in
the name of the LORD. (1 Chronicles 21:19)
David said to Solomon, "My son, I had intended to build
a house to the name of the LORD my God.” (1
Chronicles 22:7)
"But the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 'You
have shed much blood and have waged great wars; you
shall not build a house to My name, because you have
shed {so} much blood on the earth before Me.” (1
Chronicles 22:8)
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'He shall build a house for My name, and he shall be My
son and I will be his father; and I will establish the throne
of his kingdom over Israel forever.' (1 Chronicles 22:10)
"Now set your heart and your soul to seek the LORD
your God; arise, therefore, and build the sanctuary of the
LORD God, so that you may bring the ark of the
covenant of the LORD and the holy vessels of God into
the house that is to be built for the name of the LORD."
(1 Chronicles 22:19)
The sons of Amram were Aaron and Moses. And Aaron
was set apart to sanctify him as most holy, he and his
sons forever, to burn incense before the LORD, to
minister to Him and to bless in His name forever. (1
Chronicles 23:13)
"But God said to me, 'You shall not build a house for My
name because you are a man of war and have shed
blood.' (1 Chronicles 28:3)
"Now therefore, our God, we thank You, and praise Your
glorious name.” (1 Chronicles 29:13)
"O LORD our God, all this abundance that we have
provided to build You a house for Your holy name, it is
from Your hand, and all is Yours.” (1 Chronicles 29:16)
Now Solomon decided to build a house for the name of
the LORD and a royal palace for himself. (2 Chronicles
2:1)
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"Behold, I am about to build a house for the name of the
LORD my God, dedicating it to Him, to burn fragrant
incense before Him and {to set out} the showbread
continually, and to offer burnt offerings morning and
evening, on sabbaths and on new moons and on the
appointed feasts of the LORD our God, this {being
required} forever in Israel.” (2 Chronicles 2:4)
'Since the day that I brought My people from the land of
Egypt, I did not choose a city out of all the tribes of Israel
{in which} to build a house that My name might be
there, nor did I choose any man for a leader over My
people Israel…’ (2 Chronicles 6:5)
‘…but I have chosen Jerusalem that My name might be
there, and I have chosen David to be over My people
Israel.' (2 Chronicles 6:6)
"Now it was in the heart of my father David to build a
house for the name of the LORD, the God of Israel.” (2
Chronicles 6:7)
"But the LORD said to my father David, 'Because it was
in your heart to build a house for My name, you did well
that it was in your heart.’” (2 Chronicles 6:8)
'Nevertheless you shall not build the house, but your son
who will be born to you, he shall build the house for My
name.'’ (2 Chronicles 6:9)
"Now the LORD has fulfilled His word which He spoke;
for I have risen in the place of my father David and sit on
the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and have
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built the house for the name of the LORD, the God of
Israel.” (2 Chronicles 6:10)
“…that Your eye may be open toward this house day and
night, toward the place of which You have said that {You
would} put Your name there, to listen to the prayer
which Your servant shall pray toward this place.” (2
Chronicles 6:20)
"If Your people Israel are defeated before an enemy
because they have sinned against You, and they return
{to You} and confess Your name, and pray and make
supplication before You in this house…” (2 Chronicles
6:24)
"When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain
because they have sinned against You, and they pray
toward this place and confess Your name, and turn from
their sin when You afflict them…” (2 Chronicles 6:26)
"Also concerning the foreigner who is not from Your
people Israel, when he comes from a far country for Your
great name's sake and Your mighty hand and Your
outstretched arm, when they come and pray toward this
house…” (2 Chronicles 6:32)
“…then hear from heaven, from Your dwelling place,
and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to
You, in order that all the peoples of the earth may know
Your name, and fear You as {do} Your people Israel,
and that they may know that this house which I have built
is called by Your name.” (2 Chronicles 6:33)
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"When Your people go out to battle against their
enemies, by whatever way You shall send them, and they
pray to You toward this city which You have chosen and
the house which I have built for Your name…” (2
Chronicles 6:34)
“…if they return to You with all their heart and with all
their soul in the land of their captivity, where they have
been taken captive, and pray toward their land which
You have given to their fathers and the city which You
have chosen, and toward the house which I have built for
Your name…” (2 Chronicles 6:38)
“…and My people who are called by My name humble
themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from
their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, will
forgive their sin and will heal their land.” (2 Chronicles
7:14)
"For now I have chosen and consecrated this house that
My name may be there forever, and My eyes and My
heart will be there perpetually.” (2 Chronicles 7:16)
“…then I will uproot you from My land which I have
given you, and this house which I have consecrated for
My name I will cast out of My sight and I will make it a
proverb and a byword among all peoples.” (2 Chronicles
7:20)
So King Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem
and reigned. Now Rehoboam was forty-one years old
when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years
in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD had chosen from
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all the tribes of Israel, to put His name there. And his
mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess. (2
Chronicles 12:13)
Then Asa called to the LORD his God and said, "LORD,
there is no one besides You to help {in the battle}
between the powerful and those who have no strength; so
help us, O LORD our God, for we trust in You, and in
Your name have come against this multitude. O LORD,
You are our God; let not man prevail against You." (2
Chronicles 14:11)
Then the king said to him, "How many times must I
adjure you to speak to me nothing but the truth in the
name of the LORD?" (2 Chronicles 18:15)
"They have lived in it, and have built You a sanctuary
there for Your name, saying…” (2 Chronicles 20:8)
'Should evil come upon us, the sword, {or} judgment, or
pestilence, or famine, we will stand before this house and
before You (for Your name is in this house) and cry to
You in our distress, and You will hear and deliver {us.}'
(2 Chronicles 20:9)
He built altars in the house of the LORD of which the
LORD had said, "My name shall be in Jerusalem
forever." (2 Chronicles 33:4)
Then he put the carved image of the idol which he had
made in the house of God, of which God had said to
David and to Solomon his son, "In this house and in
Jerusalem, which I have chosen from all the tribes of
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Israel, I will put My name forever…” (2 Chronicles
33:7)
Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh even his prayer to
his God, and the words of the seers who spoke to him in
the name of the LORD God of Israel, behold, they are
among the records of the kings of Israel (2 Chronicles
33:18)
B’rit Chadasha (Apostolic Writings)
The crowds going ahead of Him, and those who
followed, were shouting, "Hosanna to the Son of David;
BLESSED IS HE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF
THE LORD; Hosanna in the highest!" (Matthew 21:9)
"For I say to you, from now on you will not see Me until
you say, 'BLESSED IS HE WHO COMES IN THE
NAME OF THE LORD!' " (Matthew 23:39)
Those who went in front and those who followed were
shouting: "Hosanna! BLESSED IS HE WHO COMES
IN THE NAME OF THE LORD…” (Mark 11:9)
"For the Mighty One has done great things for me; And
holy is His name.” (Luke 1:49)
And He said to them, "When you pray, say: 'Father,
hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come…’” (Luke
11:2)
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"Behold, your house is left to you {desolate;} and I say to
you, you will not see Me until {the time} comes when
you say, 'BLESSED IS HE WHO COMES IN THE
NAME OF THE LORD!' " (Luke 13:35)
“…shouting: "BLESSED IS THE KING WHO COMES
IN THE NAME OF THE LORD; Peace in heaven and
glory in the highest!" (Luke 19:38)
"I have come in My Father's name, and you do not
receive Me; if another comes in his own name, you will
receive him.” (John 5:43)
Jesus answered them, "I told you, and you do not believe;
the works that I do in My Father's name, these testify of
Me.” (John 10:25)
took the branches of the palm trees and went out to meet
Him, and {began} to shout, "Hosanna! BLESSED IS HE
WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD, even
the King of Israel." (John 12:13)
"Father, glorify Your name." Then a voice came out of
heaven: "I have both glorified it, and will glorify it
again." (John 12:28)
"Whatever you ask in My name, that will I do, so that the
Father may be glorified in the Son.” (John 14:13)
"If you ask Me anything in My name, I will do {it.}”
(John 14:14)
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"But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will
send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring
to your remembrance all that I said to you.” (John 14:26)
"You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed
you that you would go and bear fruit, and {that} your
fruit would remain, so that whatever you ask of the
Father in My name He may give to you.” (John 15:16)
"In that day you will not question Me about anything.
Truly, truly, I say to you, if you ask the Father for
anything in My name, He will give it to you.” (John
16:23)
"Until now you have asked for nothing in My name; ask
and you will receive, so that your joy may be made full.”
(John 16:24)
"In that day you will ask in My name, and I do not say to
you that I will request of the Father on your behalf…”
(John 16:26)
"I have manifested Your name to the men whom You
gave Me out of the world; they were Yours and You gave
them to Me, and they have kept Your word.” (John 17:6)
"I am no longer in the world; and {yet} they themselves
are in the world, and I come to You. Holy Father, keep
them in Your name, {the name} which You have given
Me, that they may be one even as We {are.}” (John
17:11)
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"While I was with them, I was keeping them in Your
name which You have given Me; and I guarded them
and not one of them perished but the son of perdition, so
that the Scripture would be fulfilled.” (John 17:12)
“…and I have made Your name known to them, and will
make it known, so that the love with which You loved
Me may be in them, and I in them." (John 17:26)
“…but these have been written so that you may believe
that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that
believing you may have life in His name.” (John 20:31)
'AND IT SHALL BE THAT EVERYONE WHO
CALLS ON THE NAME OF THE LORD WILL BE
SAVED.' (Acts 2:21)
Peter {said} to them, "Repent, and each of you be
baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness
of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy
Spirit.” (Acts 2:38)
But Peter said, "I do not possess silver and gold, but what
I do have I give to you: In the name of Jesus Christ the
Nazarene--walk!" (Acts 3:6)
And on the basis of faith in His name, {it is} the name
of Jesus which has strengthened this man whom you see
and know; and the faith which {comes} through Him has
given him this perfect health in the presence of you all.
(Acts 3:16)
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When they had placed them in the center, they {began
to} inquire, "By what power, or in what name, have you
done this?" (Acts 4:7)
“…let it be known to all of you and to all the people of
Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene,
whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead--by
this {name} this man stands here before you in good
health.” (Acts 4:10)
"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." (Acts 4:12)
"But so that it will not spread any further among the
people, let us warn them to speak no longer to any man in
this name." (Acts 4:17)
And when they had summoned them, they commanded
them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus.
(Acts 4:18)
“…while You extend Your hand to heal, and signs and
wonders take place through the name of Your holy
servant Jesus." (Acts 4:30)
“…saying, "We gave you strict orders not to continue
teaching in this name, and yet, you have filled Jerusalem
with your teaching and intend to bring this man's blood
upon us." (Acts 5:28)
They took his advice; and after calling the apostles in,
they flogged them and ordered them not to speak in the
name of Jesus, and {then} released them. (Acts 5:40)
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So they went on their way from the presence of the
Council, rejoicing that they had been considered worthy
to suffer shame for {His} name. (Acts 5:41)
But when they believed Philip preaching the good news
about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ,
they were being baptized, men and women alike. (Acts
8:12)
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CHAPTER 6 – “THE NAME” AND THE
MESSIANIC REIGN OF YESHUA
When Yeshua Returns – Revelation 19 We ALL
Will Know the Name
11 Next I saw heaven opened, and there
before me was a white horse. Sitting on it
was the one called Faithful and True, and it
is in righteousness that he passes judgment
and goes to battle. 12 His eyes were like a
fiery flame, and on his head were many
royal crowns. And he had a name written
which no one knew but himself.
Prophetic scripture pointing toward a “Last Days”
or, as the phraseology goes, “In that day” in the
majority of cases actually points to the 1,000 year
messianic reign of Yeshua on earth.
Since He literally has the Name that “no one
knows except Himself” written upon Him, we
must conclude that He brings the pronunciation of
the True and Sacred Name with Him!
It will be then, and only then, that “men will call
upon the Name of the Lord” and be saved.”
There will be no vain imaginations by proponents
of “the Name” as there is today. No one will have
had the Name secretly spoken to them, as the
Sacred Name only proponents like to say.
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Yeshua’s coming will be quite public! The whole
world will know it! He will bring the Name with
Him and the pronunciation of the Name will be
available to everyone!
Divisive men will have their mouths silenced and
rebelliousness will be dealt with quickly.
For 1,000 years Satan will be held in bondage and
so too will be his servants.
Men and women will freely call upon the Name of
the Lord and be saved, for God’s Salvation,
Yeshua will rule and reign.
Until then, we have Satan working hard to divide
the brethren. If he can get us to argue and fight
and divide from one another, he knows that we
won’t be going against him as a united Body of
Messiah.
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CHAPTER 7 – SALVATION IN “THE
NAME”
What “Name” Are We Talking About with This Issue
of Salvation?
According to Sacred Name groups unless one uses the
Hebrew name and only the Hebrew name for God that
person will be eternally damned.
They base this upon the Scripture, “All Those who call
upon the Name of the Lord will be saved.” Joel 2:32
cf. Acts 2:16-21.
Then What about Abraham, Isaac & Jacob?
Are they damned because they didn’t know the Sacred
Name?
Did they NOT have a relationship with God because they
did NOT know the Sacred Name?
As mentioned earlier, up Until the Time of Moshe NO
ONE KNEW the Sacred Name as revealed in Exodus 3!
Not EVEN Abraham (Exodus 6)!
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God spoke to Moshe; he said to him, “I am Adonai. 3 I
appeared to Avraham, Yitz’chak and Ya‘akov as El
Shaddai, although I did not make myself known to
them by my name, Yud-Heh-Vav-Heh [Adonai]. 4
Also with them I established my covenant to give them
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the land of Kena‘an, the land where they wandered about
and lived as foreigners.
The P'shat of the parsha means just that – “I did not
make myself known to them by my name, Yud-HehVav-Heh [Adonai]” the P'shat being the plain and
simple meaning of a Scripture passage.
What About the Apparent Contradiction?
"Well then how could Abraham (Genesis 12:8) call upon
the Name Yud-Heh-Vav-Heh if he didn't know the
Name?"
Genesis 12:7, 8
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ADONAI appeared to Avram and said, "To your
descendants I will give this land." So he built an altar
there to ADONAI, who had appeared to him. 8 He left
that place, went to the hill east of Beit-El and pitched his
tent. With Beit-El to the west and 'Ai to the east, he built
an altar there and called on the name of ADONAI.
The earliest Scriptural use of the YHVH is in Genesis
2:4, so does that mean that in Genesis 4:26 when men
began to call upon the Name of the Lord that they
actually used the Name YHVH?
Doesn’t that Violate the P’shat of Exodus 6:2-3?
Or could it mean that Moses, now knowing Who (now
past tense to Moses’ revelation in Exodus 3) they were
calling upon, AND under the inspiration wrote in the
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Name YHVH to show that they were calling upon the
true God, as opposed to the false ones?
Let me give you one such example from Genesis 10:5:
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From these the islands of the nations
were divided [past tense] into their lands,
each according to its language, according
to their families, in their nations. 20 These
were the descendants of Ham, according to
their families and languages, in their lands
and in their nations… 31 These were the
descendants of Shem, according to their
families and languages, in their lands and
in their nations.
BUT Languages do NOT come into being until the next
chapter of Genesis!
Genesis 11 tells us:
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The whole earth used the same language, the same
words. 2 It came about that as they traveled from the east,
they found a plain in the land of Shin‘ar and lived there. 3
They said to one another, “Come, let’s make bricks and
bake them in the fire.” So they had bricks for buildingstone and clay for mortar.
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Then they said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city with
a tower that has its top reaching up into heaven, so that
we can make a name for ourselves and not be scattered
all over the earth.” 5 Adonai came down to see the city
and the tower the people were building. 6 Adonai said,
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“Look, the people are united, they all have a single
language, and see what they’re starting to do! At this
rate, nothing they set out to accomplish will be
impossible for them!
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Come, let’s go down and confuse their language, so
that they won’t understand each other’s speech.” 8 So
from there Adonai scattered them all over the earth, and
they stopped building the city. 9 For this reason it is
called Bavel [confusion] — because there Adonai
confused the language of the whole earth, and from
there Adonai scattered them all over the earth.
Let’s make this perfectly clear:
In Genesis 10 where it talks about the Lord separating the
nations by language, this could not possibly have
happened until after the Lord confused their languages.
I previous passage talks in the present tense (Genesis 10)
about something that won’t happen until the future
(future tense – Genesis 11).
The same thing goes with the Sacred Name. It was
revealed to Moshe in Exodus 3 (present tense to him), but
the Torah was NOT written by Moses until Israel was in
the Wilderness (a future event Deuteronomy 31:9 - to
Exodus 3)! Did Moses KNOW the NAME when he
wrote the words of Torah? Most certainly! Could he
have placed the NAME in Torah where appropriate as he
was writing the words? Absolutely!
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This means that Abraham, Isaac and Jacob did NOT
know God’s Sacred Name – yet, they called upon the
Name of the Lord!
Let me wrap this up with one more point:
It IS possible that the phrase “called upon the Name of
the Lord” is an idiom and NOT a literalism!
In other words, that phrase conveys an idea, NOT a
literally calling upon the Name YHVH!
It is a fact that Biblical Hebrew is rich in Hebrew idioms,
metaphors, Anthropomorphisms and other figures of
speech.
Let me give you an example found in Deuteronomy 29
KJV:
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Lest there should be among you man, or
woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart
turneth away this day from the LORD our
God, to go and serve the gods of these
nations; lest there should be among you a
root that beareth gall and wormwood; 19 And
it come to pass, when he heareth the words
of this curse, that he bless himself in his
heart, saying , I shall have peace, though I
walk in the imagination of mine heart, to
add drunkenness to thirst…
Does this Hebraic Idiom Make Sense to Us? Why
Not???
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1. Comes from another world-view.
2. Comes from another language.
3. Even if we were dealing from the same language –
comes from another time (anachronism).
If we were going to try and make sense of it – what
would we have to do???
1. Place it back into its original language.
2. Place that language back into its proper time.
3. Place the idiom back into the world-view of its
recipients.
If we did that, then Deuteronomy 29 would make more
sense:
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So let there not be among you a man,
woman, family or tribe whose heart turns
away today from ADONAI our God to go
and serve the gods of those nations. Let
there not be among you a root bearing such
bitter poison and wormwood. 19 If there is
such a person, when he hears the words of
this curse, he will bless himself secretly,
saying to himself, 'I will be all right, even
though I will stubbornly keep doing
whatever I feel like doing; so that I,
although "dry," [sinful,] will be added to
the "watered" [righteous].'
Here’s another biblical Hebraic idiom (Ezekiel 8:17):
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“Is it too light a thing for the house of Judah
to commit the abominations that they
commit here, that they should fill the land
with violence and provoke me still further to
anger? Behold, they put the branch to their
nose.”
As the verses before this talk about how the Hebrews are
mixing neighboring religions with true worship
(mourning for Tammuz, idols in the temple courtyard,
sun worship):
1. This is an act of syncretism--the mixing of
elements from several religions.
2. They don't mean it.
One more verse (Matthew 6) to demonstrate the use of
Hebraic idioms:
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"Do not store up for yourselves wealth here on earth,
where moths and rust destroy, and burglars break in and
steal. 20 Instead, store up for yourselves wealth in heaven,
where neither moth nor rust destroys, and burglars do not
break in or steal. 21 For where your wealth is, there your
heart will be also. 22 `The eye is the lamp of the body.' So
if you have a `good eye' [that is, if you are generous]
your whole body will be full of light; 23 but if you have
an `evil eye' [if you are stingy] your whole body will be
full of darkness.
Idioms are “figures of speech” and are NOT meant to be
taken literally!
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A figure of speech is the use of a word or a
phrase, which transcends its literal
interpretation. It can be a special repetition,
arrangement or omission of words with
literal meaning, or a phrase with a
specialized meaning not based on the literal
meaning of the words in it.
We have idioms in English as well:
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pick your brains
say grace
I'm not kidding
Look who's talking!
stir into
train of thought
wide of the mark
mean no offense
go a long way
leave word for
rocket into
as old as the hills
call on
speak the same language
light on
go postal
a load off my mind
sink to such depths
get an even break
conform with
name in lights
put on an act
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There are many, many more.
If one takes idioms, metaphors and anthropomorphisms
as literalisms, then we will have a definite
misunderstanding of the Scripture!
Here is where we have to be very careful in our biblical
hermeneutic. We must be careful not to eisegete, rather
we must exegete. This is particularly true when we
come up with biblical doctrine!
One more thing: Don’t Anachronize!
Anachronize - Definition:
To refer to, or put into, a wrong time biblical passages in the light of our present
day thinking is dangerous and BAD
Hermeneutic, in that we are superimposing
our own present-day concepts upon ancient
ones, as if they were the same thing.
So, when the Bible says that men or that when Abraham
"called upon the Name of the Lord" it does not mean that
they actually knew or literally pronounced the Name
(Exodus 3)!
Hebraically and Biblically it meant that they stirred
themselves to take hold of Him.
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In Isaiah 64:7- A repeated grammatical structure sets
two thoughts as parallel: And there is none
a. that calleth upon thy name,
a. that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee:
for thou
b. hast hid thy face from us, and
b. hast consumed us,
because of our iniquities
With this beautiful use of synonymous parallelism God
emphasizes that to call upon the Name of the LORD
means to stir oneself up to take hold of Him.
According to the P’shat of the Passage in Exodus 6:
Though Abraham DIDN’T Know God’s Name (YHVH)!
God STILL made a COVENANT with him!
In Fact: God Says of Abraham
Isaiah 41:8:
"But you, Israel, My servant, Jacob whom I have chosen,
Descendant of Abraham My friend…”
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CHAPTER 8 – WWJD???
What appropriate names CAN WE USE regarding
our addressing God without resorting to a variant
of the Sacred Name?
The biblical pattern of the First Century Messianic
synagogue:
You don’t see the non-Messianic (or Messianic)
synagogues using “The Name” in their service, or in fact,
their verbal communications!
More importantly, we need to ask ourselves: WWJD???
Or WWYD???
What Would Jesus Do???
or
What Would Yeshua Do???
Though He used many I am statements “I am the way,
the truth and the Life…” “I am the light of the world…”
“I am the bread of life” they did not have the same
impact as the claim to Deity as found in the following:
John 8:21 Again he told them, "I am going
away, and you will look for me, but you will
die in your sin -- where I am going, you
cannot come." 22 The Judeans said, "Is he
going to commit suicide? Is that what he
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means when he says, `Where I am going,
you cannot come'?" 23 Yeshua said to them,
"You are from below, I am from above; you
are of this world, I am not of this world. 24
This is why I said to you that you will die in
your sins; for if you do not trust that I AM
[who I say I am], you will die in your sins."
John 8:58 Yeshua said to them, "Most
assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham
was, I AM."
If you notice the reaction by the religious leaders
of His day, you will know exactly what He is
alluding to: The Jewish leaders wanted to kill him
because He said God was his Father, making
himself equal with God (in nature.)
This meant a special relationship that excludes
anyone else is able to have.
Similarly: In John 5:18 and in John10:30:
Yeshua claimed “I and my Father are one.”
In V.33 the Jewish leaders pick up stones
because they understood this as blasphemy
in v.36 Yeshua interprets what He meant by
saying, “because I said, I am the Son of
God.”
What Yeshua is saying is that He was God!
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As God, then, He had the authority to teach His
disciples how to address God as YHVH, should He
have thought that was important enough for them
to be saved by, yet, that’s NOT what He taught in
the Lord’s prayer of Matthew 6:9-13. He taught
them to say Avinu (Our Father):
“Our Father, which art in heaven…”
Here’s another word that Yeshua taught His
disciples to call God: “Abba.”
Abba is Equivalent to our English word “daddy.”
We Could ALSO Address Him as “Adonai”
The TANAKH uses this word 439 times in the
Bible and can be rendered either as “my Lord” or
simply as “Lord.”
We can conclude that Yeshua did not routinely use
the Sacred Name, nor did He demand that His
disciples use it to insure their salvation.
Finally, citing the Apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians 8,
we can even use non-Hebrew terms for Lord, God
(in reference to the true Lord and God) and lord
and god (in reference to the false gods) in the
contemporary languages of the day – in this case
Paul was using Koine Greek:
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For even if there are so-called “gods,”
either in heaven or on earth — as in fact
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there are “gods” and “lords” galore — 6 yet
for us there is one God, the Father, from
whom all things come and for whom we
exist; and one Lord, Yeshua the Messiah,
through whom were created all things and
through whom we have our being.
What I am really saying to the Sacred Namers is
this: God KNOWS who you are addressing when
you address Him in ANY Language. You DON’T
have to call out to Him in the Hebrew language
and precisely the absolute correct pronunciation in
order for Him to hear you and know to Whom you
are addressing.
King David wrote in Psalm 139:
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For the leader. A psalm of David:
ADONAI, you have probed me, and you
know me. 2 You know when I sit and when I
stand up, you discern my inclinations from
afar, 3 you scrutinize my daily activities.
You are so familiar with all my ways 4 that
before I speak even a word, ADONAI,
you know all about it already.
He doesn’t have to wait for your saying His
Sacred NAME before He knows that you are
addressing Him. He knew that you were about to
address or call upon Him before you even did!
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FINAL CHAPTER – BEWARE OF DIVISIVE
MEN AND THEIR FALSE DOCTRINES!
Regarding Divisiveness
Not ALL divisiveness is Wrong!
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God DIVIDED the Light from the Darkness
God DIVIDED the Waters from the Earth
God DIVIDED the Waters from the Heavens
God DIVIDED the Woman from the Man
YESHUA, Truth Incarnate DIVIDED People
John 14:6
Yeshua said, "I AM the Way -- and the Truth and the
Life; no one comes to the Father except through me.
Matthew 10:34 - "Do not think that I came to bring
peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a
sword. 35 "For I have come to 'set a man against his
father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-inlaw against her mother-in-law'; 36 "and 'a man's enemies
will be those of his own household.'
So, if we were dealing with ABSOLUTE TRUTH on
the Sacred Name Issue, then it CAN and SHOULD
DIVIDE!
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BUT, We are NOT Dealing with Absolute Truth with the
Sacred Name as it is Being Used by ANY of the Sacred
Name Groups or by the Church!
In my teaching on the Sacred Name in our congregation
I used a white board and placed many Yud Hay Vav
Hays on the board then randomly inserted the Nikudot
(Vowel Points).
By simply changing the Nikudot, I could make the
pronunciation different – in fact, to well over thirteen
different pronunciations. [One can come up with over
200 variants of pronunciation of the Sacred Name by
simply changing the Nikudot. Remember: Biblical
Hebrew had NO Vowels or Vowel Points (Nikudot) until
the Massoretes!]
This means one thing for certain: In the “Sacred Name
Movement” alone there many variations of how
individual groups pronounce the Name.
Thus, 99.9% of them are WRONG about the Name!
No one KNOWs which one of the variants are correct!
That’s one of the “secrets” of the Sacred Name Cult!
Even THEY DO NOT KNOW the “Name”!
They would like to tell you that God personally
“whispered” His Name in their ear, but again, with all the
variants of the Name in Sacred Name groups, that
evidence ALONE points to the fact!
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The next secret is this:
Satan can and does use good (but misguided), sincere
people who think they are doing the will of God.
One
can
be
sincere,
yet
sincerely
WRONG!
We can use the example of Peter in Matthew 16:13-23:
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When Yeshua came into the territory around Caesarea
Philippi, he asked his talmidim, "Who are people saying
the Son of Man is?" 14 They said, "Well, some say
Yochanan the Immerser, others Eliyahu, still others
Yirmeyahu or one of the prophets." 15 "But you," he said
to them, "who do you say I am?" 16 Shim`on Kefa
answered, "You are the Mashiach, the Son of the living
God." 17 "Shim`on Bar-Yochanan," Yeshua said to him,
"how blessed you are! For no human being revealed
this to you, no, it was my Father in heaven.”
In his response to Yeshua’s question, Peter’s words were
only from the Father in Heaven.
Let’s move on in this same passage:
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From that time on, Yeshua began making it clear to his
talmidim that he had to go to Yerushalayim and endure
much suffering at the hands of the elders, the head
cohanim and the Torah-teachers; and that he had to be
put to death; but that on the third day, he had to be raised
to life. 22 Kefa took him aside and began rebuking him,
"Heaven be merciful, Lord! By no means will this
happen to you!" 23 But Yeshua turned his back on Kefa,
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saying, "Get behind me, Satan! You are an obstacle in
my path, because your thinking is from a human
perspective, not from God's perspective!"
In his second response, Peter’s words came straight from
the pit of Hell, Satan himself!
One sincere person (Peter), one mouth, but TWO sources
of revelation: one from the Father in Heaven and one
from the father of lies in Hell!
Satan will use good believing people to divide God’s
people!
A good sincere and believing person is one thing and
correcting them will be received by them – as was the
case with Peter!
James 5
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“My brothers, if anyone among you wanders
from the truth and someone brings him back, 20
let him know that whoever brings back a
sinner from his wandering will save his soul
from death and will cover a multitude of sins.”
Galatians 6:1
“Brothers, if anyone is caught in any
transgression, you who are spiritual should
restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep
watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted.”
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True believers in Yeshua/Jesus will humbly receive
correction from a brother when they stray.
But there is yet another kind of person out there who
does NOT receive correction. They come into
congregations to DIVIDE congregations.
They are the wolves. Remember, Yeshua (Jesus) said,
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"For false Christs and false prophets will arise
and will show great signs and wonders, so as to
mislead, if possible, even the elect. (Matthew 24)”
and 15 "Beware of the false prophets, who come to
you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are
ravenous wolves. 16 "You will know them by their
fruits. Grapes are not gathered from thorn bushes
nor figs from thistles, are they? 17 "So every good
tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad
fruit. 18 "A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, nor
can a bad tree produce good fruit. 19 "Every tree
that does not bear good fruit is cut down and
thrown into the fire. 20 "So then, you will know
them by their fruits. (Matthew 7)”
Proverbs 26:21 says of these:
{Like} charcoal to hot embers and wood to fire,
So is a contentious man to kindle strife.
As predators, they do not always play fair. Sometimes
they choose their victims based on physical condition,
preferring young, old, sick or injured prey.
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BUT wolves (and other predators) do NOT always prey
on the weak – though that is easier for them! If they can,
and are hungry enough, they will take down the strong!
Therefore, if a wolf or other predator comes into the
“flock” the best solution is to show them the door and
warn the people NOT to associate with them!
Romans 16:17 - “I appeal to you, brothers, to
watch out for those who cause divisions and
create obstacles contrary to the doctrine that you
have been taught; avoid them.”
Titus 3:10 – “Warn a divisive person once, then a
second time; and after that, have nothing more to
do with him.”
If you don’t get rid of the contentious man, you may well
be losing your congregation!
Shaul writes to Titus:
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But avoid foolish controversies and genealogies
and strife and disputes about the Law, for they are
unprofitable and worthless. 10 Reject a factious man
after a first and second warning, 11 knowing that
such a man is perverted and is sinning, being selfcondemned.
Suffice it to say, should you be dealing with this in your
congregation or fellowship now, that you are dealing
with some pretty divisive issues and you should – if you
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still want to have a congregation – get rid of the
offenders quickly by showing them the door.
“By their fruits you shall know them…”
Warn them and if they do not repent, show them the
exit and let the people know that these men are
contentious and to have nothing to do with them.
It is hoped that this book helps to shed a little light on the
subject. It is not meant to be a conclusive book by any
means, but gives just enough information to give you
insight as to the issue.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Bruce R. Booker is the congregation leader of Beth
Yeshua Messianic Fellowship in Priest River, Idaho and
was s'micha'd (ordained) in October, 1989. He has been
involved in Messianic Ministry since 1988 and has led
several Messianic congregations and fellowships, including
Beth Shalom Messianic Congregation , formerly located
in Colton, CA (now in Rancho Cucamonga, CA), Aytz
Chaim Messianic Fellowship in Scranton, PA, and Beth
Shalom Messianic Congregation formerly located in
Sandpoint, ID (now in Coeur D'Alene, ID).
He is the author of several books, including: "A Call to
Holiness - A Call to the Church to Leave Harlot Babylon", "The
Lie - The Satanic Origins of Anti-Semitism", "The Feasts of the
Lord (Moedim) and their Fulfillment in Messiah Yeshua", and
"What IF??? - How DID We EVER Get to the Way We Are
Now?"
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