08/11/2023
The Name of the LORD Y H V H (Yud Heh Vav Heh), What does it mean?
The Scriptures tell us to fear the LORD and think about His Name. Let’s begin by reading a unique promise that has been made to those that take the time and make the effort to think about the name of the LORD.
In Malachi 3:16 we read the following:
Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name.
What does the Ancient Prophetic Text, the Scriptures that we refer to as the Old Testament tell us to do with the name of the LORD? The title LORD, capital L O R D, is displayed almost 7000 times in the Old Testament. As we read the Scriptures, we notice that there are scores of themes that just kept reoccurring that are directly connected to the name of the LORD. There is not a name of a place or any other person’s name that shows up more often in the English translation of the Bible then the title LORD. There are hundred verses that could be used to demonstrate the importance of His Name. The Scriptures are packed with verses that instruct us in the ways we are use His NAME. Below are a few samples for you to consider in order that we might answer this simple question.
How are we to treat the Name of the LORD?
We are not to take the name of the LORD in Vain. In the literal Hebrew what we know as the third commandment actually informs Israel that His name is meant to bring about atonement and salvation and life. To misuse His name is the same as mischaracterizing the person represented by the name and by so doing to undue His purposes.
This is why the LORD is Jealous of His name as we are told in. Isaiah 42:8
The Scriptures tell us to DECLARE the name of the LORD throughout the earth. Exodus 9:16
The Scriptures tell us that His NAME is to be PUBLISHED. Deuteronomy 32:3
His NAME is to be GLORIFIED. 1 Chronicles 16:8-10
We are to give THANKS to the LORD. Psalms 92:1
We are to come against our Enemies in the name of the LORD. 1 Samuel 17:45
We are to PRAISE the name of the LORD Psalms 113:3
In Isaiah 47:4 and in dozens of Scriptures we discover that The LORD is our Salvation and our Redeemer.
There are hundreds of other verses that bare witness to the Praise, Honor, and Glory due His Name. There are scores of verses that instruct us to lift us His Name and to Publish it and to declare it throughout the earth. There is even a special promise made to those that fear the LORD and meditate upon the meaning of HIS Name.
But do you know what there is NOT?
There is no place in the bible where we are told to HIDE his Name, to keep HIS NAME a secret or to substitute HIS NAME for another name. His name is written in the original Hebrew Scriptures almost 7000 times; no other name even comes close. There is nothing so important as HIS NAME!
So here is the Big Question: WHAT IS HIS NAME?
If his name brings life then as a poor sinner seeking life don’t you want to know HIS NAME? Have you ever wondered WHY His Name is not found in the Greek and English translations of the Scriptures? Is HIS name being purposely hidden? Many Christians do not realize that the English word “LORD” that is Capital LORD is simply a title, LORD is not a name. The title LORD appears nearly 7000 times in the ancient prophetic Hebrew Scriptures that Christians call the Old Testament. Almost 7000 times the true Name of the one who is given the title LORD is covered up and hidden from our view.
So WHAT IS HIS NAME and What does it mean?
The answer is found in the original Hebrew Scriptures that we call the Old Testament. Those sacred Scriptures declare that HIS name is YHVH. Did YHVH ever instruct us to hide his name or substitute another name for His name? The answer is NO. YHVH wants his name declared to the entire world. It is true that His name is sacred but it is also a name He wanted to be declared and published. Do you know why? The answer is that four letters in the name YHVH reveal a mysterious and glorious message. In fact His Name heralds the most amazing message to ever be revealed to mankind. The Name YHVH is a Prophetic harbinger that we are meant to understand.
Throughout the Old Testament the name of YHVH declares that something is coming, something amazing to behold! When the mystery is revealed and you look for it and behold it, I mean actually see it, then Salvation has come to Israel and the entire world. Unless of course you’re blind and full of unbelief. Or unless the prophecy has been hidden from you and you have no idea what it means. The key that unlocks the mystery of the meaning of the name YHVH is hidden in the very letters that are also in the original Hebrew–both pictures and numbers.
This picture and number language that was embedded in the text from the very beginning declares the prophetic meaning of YHVH. To those that interested in how to pronounce his name but have no idea what the name means I would ask the following question:
Have you ever considered that YHVH may not be interested in revealing how His name is pronounced since He has not given us the means to figure it out, but rather He want us to understand what His name means?
The simple truth is that YHVH is a BLAZING PROPHECY and trying to figure out how to pronounce His name was simply not His purpose in disclosing His Name. We are meant to know what His name means, and we should be spending out time meditating on the message for it is the greatest revelation to ever be disclosed to mankind. Could it be that the name is purposely unpronounceable because YHVH wants you to discover the mystery of Redemption and Salvation declared by each letter of His revealed name? If YHVH contains a message, then let’s discover what it means.
You don’t have to be a Hebrew language scholar, or a Rabbi, or a man of letters to see the message hidden in plain sight in the four letters YHVH. His name was deliberately written so that a small child could see it and at the precise moment in time the Seeing becomes Understanding. Our Heavenly Father delights in playing hide and seek with his children. And His most profound revelation has been openly declared in the conventional Hebrew language. It was also hidden in plain sight to be discovered at precisely the right time. Is this the time? The lifting of the blindness and the unveiling of the truth is happening around the world in these last days. Could the revelation of the meaning of YHVH be the centerpiece of the unveiling that is sweeping the world?
It is my great privilege to reveal to you what the name YHVH actually means in the pictures and numbers of the Hebrew language. Again, let me remind you that the Hebrew language is a pictographic language and it is also a numeric language. This is not something that has been added to the language, it was present at the very moment it was given as a gift to Adam in the Garden of Eden. The language we call Hebrew, the Language that God calls the Pure Language, is the language of the Garden of Eden, which has been preserved by God supernaturally in order to communicate His message of Salvation and Redemption to Mankind.
