The Oxford Dictionary defines the word God as follows: God: The Creator and Ruler of the universe in Christian, Jewish and Muslim teaching... That is what the English speaking world means when it uses the word God; and that is what A Voice In The Wilderness - Canada - means when I use the word. Anyone who assumes that when English-speaking people say God they mean a pagan idol is out of touch with the English language. In my article, Sacred Names ... Part 1 you will see that I am fully aware that the Almighty's name is Jehovah or Yahweh, After you read that article do remember what the Saviour said about identifying true believers: “Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?”
Zephaniah 3: | 8: “Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the LORD, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation, even all my fierce anger: for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy. 9: For then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the LORD, to serve him with one consent.” |
Exodus 34: | 1: “And the LORD said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest. 2: And be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning unto mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me in the top of the mount. 3: And no man shall come up with thee, neither let any man be seen throughout all the mount; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that mount. 4: And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tables of stone. 5: And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD. 6: And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, 7: Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation. 8: And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped.” |
Notice how the Almighty's character was proclaimed when His name/title LORD (Yahovah) was pronounced. In the following verse this expression of the divine character rather than the name itself is even more evident:
Exodus 34: | 14: “For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.” |
Who in his right mind would address the Most High as Almighty Jealous! No one; because that word jealous simply describes a single trait of the Almighty's character. He is a jealous God. In other words, the Almighty's name goes far beyond the actual sound of a noun however correctly it is spoken. And that is what we in A Voice In The Wilderness - Canada try to keep in focus: The Almighty’s name is His character. That is the fact I wish to experience in my own life and proclaim to others. Correct Hebrew spellings and pronunciations of the various nouns will come in His time. As far as I am concerned, only those who reflect Yahweh’s character really know his name. Consequently I treat with utmost caution those who profess to know the Almighty's Name. To be sure they may think they know how to pronounce or spell it, some can even write it in the Hebrew language: but alas! of those we have met, many are strangers to His Holy Spirit. They do not really know Him or His Son. They have a strange spirit that motivates them. Consequently I hesitate to write off the rest of Christendom simply because it does not know or use the sacred names. On the great Day of Judgment I am sure I will discover that many Christians I have dismissed as semi-pagans knowing little or nothing of Scripture, are in fact a lot more spiritually minded and productive than I have been! So let us all tread with care: and if I may offer a line of advice it would be this: Endeavour to demonstrate in your own life - (by your own character) that you really know the Name of the Almighty: that is, that you know Him! whom to know is life eternal.