RR Psalm 54:8,9 Part 4

Shalom,

Psalm 54:8 I will sacrifice a freewill offering to You. I will praise Your name, Adonai, for it is good. 9 For He has delivered me from all trouble, and my eye has gazed upon my enemies.

The rabbis consider it ineffable, meaning “never to be spoken.”  What a work of the enemy, to separate God’s name from God’s people.  Even “Adonai” (in the singular, Lord, “Adon”), much like Elohim is also a plural form.  God’s name is known as the tetragrammaton, the “Yud-Hay-Vav-Hay.”  Anyone who knows Hebrew, knows how to pronounce it.  (It is a fable that we can’t know because we don’t have vowels.  All of Hebrew did not have vowels until the Masoretes invented them in the sixth century AD.)   So we sing….

Psalm 92:2 It is good to praise Adonai (Yehovah) and to make music to Your Name, Elyon (moat high God).  

God’s name appears throughout the Scriptures.  Exodus 6:3 I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob, as El Shaddai. Yet by My Name, Adonai, (Yehovah) I was not known to them?  (Rabbi’s note: the TLV has it wrong.  The Hebrew clearly says “not known.”). Those four Hebrew letters, “Yud-Hay-Vav-Hay” are the first letter of each Hebrew word in the sentence “He will be (Yi’yeh), He is (Hoveh), And (V’), He was (Hayah).”  Interesting that God sees Himself beginning from the future first (what He will be, or is being revealed).  From that future reality, God works backward from our way of thinking to the present and then finally God sees Himself in the past.

In fact, future, present and past isn’t God’s way of thinking at all.  He thinks of what is completely done (past), what is being done right now in the moment (present) and what is incomplete, or still remaining to be done (but not yet), in our limited perspective (future).

The Book of Isaiah has 66 chapters corresponding to the 66 Books of the Christian Bible.  They match, for instance, Isaiah chapter 1 corresponds to Genesis, and so forth.  Isaiah 40 then corresponds to Matthew.  Isaiah 40:28 Have you not known? Have you not heard? Adonai (Yehovah) is the eternal God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not grow tired or weary. His understanding is unsearchable.  Then in Matthew we find this… Matthew 19:26  And looking, Yeshua said to them, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”  Yehovah, the Self-Existent One.  Shalom shalom.

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