Thought for the day- walking in the name of Jehovah

[Emma Rose]

Thought for the day:

Jehovah is God's name.  It was originally in the Bible in over 7,000 places but has been removed by various bodies due to superstition etc.  Micah 4:5 For all the people will walk, each in the name of it's god, But we will walk in the name of Jehovah our God forever and ever.

[Emma Rose]

Psalm 83:18 "May people know that you, whose name is Jehovah, you alone are the Most High over all the earth"

The online King James Bible has retained the name Jehovah in this verse.  

The name Jehovah is represented by four Hebrew consonants known as the Tetragrammaton.

Jehovah means "He causes to become"

[TrueTomHarley]

My favorite is one of those Hollywood blockbusters of decades past—I think ‘The Ten Commandments.’ 

Early on the distressed Israelites complain that they don’t even know their God’s name.

Later on they are as happy as pigs in mud. They have learned it. It is ‘The LORD.’

 

[Emma Rose]

4 minutes ago, TrueTomHarley said:

My favorite is one of those Hollywood blockbusters of decades past—I think ‘The Ten Commandments.’ 

Early on the distressed Israelites complain that they don’t even know their God’s name.

Later on they are as happy as pigs in mud. They have learned it. It is ‘The LORD.’

 

That's one of my favourites too, it is a fantastic film.  I also have Samson and Delilah with Victor Mature and Hedy Lamarr.

[Emma Rose]

There would be catastrophic confusion if we were all called Mister or Miss  

[TrueTomHarley]

6 minutes ago, Emma Rose said:

There would be catastrophic confusion if we were all called Mister or Miss  

Yes, but it would be partly offset by the fact that anyone coming close could be described as a Near Miss.

[Emma Rose]

14 minutes ago, TrueTomHarley said:

Yes, but it would be partly offset by the fact that anyone coming close could be described as a Near Miss.

😄😄👍

[Emma Rose]

Isa 42:8 I am Jehovah.  That is my name; I give my glory to no one else, nor my praise to graven images.

Descriptive titles are: 

God, Sovereign Lord, Creator, Father, the Almighty and the Most High.

[Emma Rose]

There arose a superstition on the part of the Jews, concerning the utterance of Jehovah's name.  I have experienced this whilst on the ministry.  I knocked at a door and two men answered, I began to talk to them about the Bible and one of them asked who we were, I replied, "Jehovah's Witnesses", completely unaware of the small Mezuzah attached to the doorframe, he then put his finger to his mouth as if to say hush and closed the door.  For me, that meant he recognised God's name, Jehovah.

Now I say, I worship the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

[TrueTomHarley]

5 hours ago, Emma Rose said:

he then put his finger to his mouth as if to say hush and closed the door.  For me, that meant he recognised God's name, Jehovah.

I had my own experience of 30 years ago recounted to me by the one who was my companion at the time:

During one of the early pioneer schools, testing out what we had learned, we had been paired together. Upon my ringing the bell, the householder asked: “Are you Jehovah?”

”Oh, no,” I modestly replied. “I would never presume to call myself by the name of the Most High God. I am but a lowly servant of his, trying in my own imperfect way to serve him.” Thirty years later I ran across that companion again and she recounted how every time she reviewed it in her head, she was so impressed at my abject humility.

It never happened! She had reworked it in her head. Never trust urban legends.

What I had said when the good-natured woman asked “Are you Jehovah?,“ through the screen door, from the far-removed kitchen, for she was distracted in cooking, was: “Well—no, actually, I am not.” Whereupon she realized just what she had absent-mindedly said, and laughed uproariously at the joke. 

We did end up having a pretty good discussion, and maybe it is from that circumstance that my companion elevated me to near sainthood. I’m not really all that deserving of it.

 

[Emma Rose]

1 hour ago, TrueTomHarley said:

I had my own experience of 30 years ago recounted to me by the one who was my companion at the time:

During one of the early pioneer schools, testing out what we had learned, we had been paired together. Upon my ringing the bell, the householder asked: “Are you Jehovah?”

”Oh, no,” I modestly replied. “I would never presume to call myself by the name of the Most High God. I am but a lowly servant of his, trying in my own imperfect way to serve him.” Thirty years later I ran across that companion again and she recounted how every time she reviewed it in her head, she was so impressed at my abject humility.

It never happened! She had reworked it in her head. Never trust urban legends.

What I had said when the good-natured woman asked “Are you Jehovah?,“ through the screen door, from the far-removed kitchen, for she was distracted in cooking, was: “Well—no, actually, I am not.” Whereupon she realized just what she had absent-mindedly said, and laughed uproariously at the joke. 

We did end up having a pretty good discussion, and maybe it is from that circumstance that my companion elevated me to near sainthood. I’m not really all that deserving of it.

 

I wonder if that's what your companion was thinking they'd say  

[Emma Rose]

Exodus 9:16 But for this very reason I have kept you in existence: to show you my power and to have my name declared in all the earth.

It's quite possible that the Jews were concerned about non-Jews misusing Jehovah's name and so tried to keep it under wraps.  As we can see from the scripture noted above, Jehovah is going to make His name known in all the earth.  Isaiah 64:2 As when a fire ignites the brushwood, and the fire makes the water boil, Then your name would be known to your adversaries, And the nations would tremble before you!

Clearly, Jehovah's name would be known throughout the earth.