"God’s Personal Name - Yahovah" by Jim Croft, Founding Minister of Gold Coast Christian Church of Boca Raton, Florida

 God’s Personal Name - Yahovah

This is about the personal name of the Father.  Which is also the corporate name of the ever existent God of the Universe Who flows as One in functional harmony as the Triune Godhead; Father, Son & Holy Spirit. His name is Yehovah, pronounced phonetically as Yah-Ho-VAH, accent on the ‘VAH’.

Who started messing with the Holy Name(s)?

Babylonian Talmudic Jewish rabbis concocted two traditions.  God’s name was only to be spoken on the Day of Atonement. And, the myth that its correct pronunciation had been lost. Then, throughout the centuries their scribes busied themselves expunging the name, with its added pronunciation vowels, from every manuscript of the entire Torah/Tanach that they could find that gave the authentic name and pronunciation. Other names/phrases/symbols were inserted; Adonai, Elohim, Yahweh, the tetragrammaton YHVW & the like.

As time progressed, the Romans added to the deception. They craved unity in their Empire and realized that a common disruptive force was impassioned feuds over superiority’s of religion (ie Our god is the real and most powerful god and his name is this or that deity). Their solution was to outlaw the use of any personal name for a deity. All but the generic name for God was forbidden. That way feuds and wars didn’t ensue as the claim was: ‘We all worship the same God. We just have different names for him.’ As a result of this prohibition, a 2nd Century rabbi was burned at the stake for using the God of Creation’s personal name of Yahovah. The Lord has a habit of catching men in their own devices fouling their plans of deceptions about Him.

Yahovah raised up an Orthodox Jewish scholar, of the Karaite sect of Judaism, Nehemia Gordon. Karaites don’t accept many of the assertions of Talmudic writ and traditions. They only accept what can be proven by thorough investigation of all Torah/Tanach manuscripts. Gordon’s passion has been to uncover the conspiracy to wipe out the true name, Yahovah.

Nehemia’s team has discovered over 2,000 ancient manuscripts including the Dead Sea Scrolls that contain thousands of references to the spelling of Yahovah. All found had the vowel jots in place. These were missed by Talmudic scribes and thus revealed that a terrible and blasphemous lie has been in play. He strongly advocates that the Holy Name is Yahovah’s gift to the Chosen Jews and Gentiles as well. It’s to be spoken in reverent joy in prayers, blessings, private and public worship and thanksgiving. Look up and examine the Strong numbers after words such as ‘Lord’, ‘God’ et al in modern online texts. Also, please note the context in the following passages - Jeremiah 16:19-21; Psalms 148:12-13; Numbers 6:22-27.

Now consider this: Jesus came to declare the Name of His Father, John 17:26. He also promised to prophetically declare/sing His attributes, praises & name in congregations as believers are inspired to prophesy, Hebrews 2:12. Think now; if you were required to cite your father’s name on an employment application, you wouldn’t fill it in with ‘father’, would you? No! You’d write in his given name. In our context the name declared and extolled would be the personal name that Father has given Himself, Yahovah. Amen.

Jim Croft, Founding Minister at Gold Coast Christian Church of Boca Raton