Exodus 20:7
“You do not bring the NAME of YHWH your ELOHIM to naught, for YHWH does not leave the one unpunished who brings His NAME to naught.”
Sirach 23:10
“For as a servant that is continually beaten shall not be without a bruise; so he who swears NAMING ELOHIM continually shall not be guiltless.”
Would it shock you to find out that Our Creator Has a personal Name like you do? Right here in the 10 commandments, YHWH tells us that He has a personal Name! So why haven’t believers been taught His Name? Why was His Name removed from His own Book, The Hebrew Scriptures (The Bible)? The world has been taught to replace YHWH’s Name with titles like Lord or God. We as humans get upset when someone won’t call us by our name, just picture someone saying “Hey come here you! Or come here human” that person would feel disrespected! So how does YHWH and His Son feel about it?
Think of it this way, if you were a cashier at a grocery store then that means your title is a “cashier”, cashier does not suddenly become your name. An example of this would be (Johnny the cashier) the same way YHWH is our ELOHIM who is ALL, The Aleph and Taw, The beginning and The End. So, we see YHWH is His Name and His Title is ELOHIM the Creator and Possessor of heaven and earth.
This article will cover the importance of YHWH’s Name, what scripture says about calling upon His Name, and other ways believers are using His Name in vain by being liars and hypocrites.
Names in Hebrew have meaning and function!
Firstly, we can see that through deception YHWH’s Name has been removed from His own Scriptures and have been replaced with generic titles like Lord and God which are not even Names. And for those who like to swear using curse words including the Name of ELOHIM as they do so often in movies are unknowingly or knowingly bringing His Name to naught. The Hebrew Word is “Shav” Strongs #7723 which means: emptiness, vain, deceitful, deception, false, empty, lies, worthless.
Names do not mean anything to us in our modern-day society, they are used to identify someone, but in Hebrew, YHWH’s original language, the pictograph (OTIOT) which means “signs” shows us the importance of names. Names in Hebrew have meaning and function and conveys the real meaning YHWH wanted to get across in His language.
Sirach 1 in the Prologue says:
“Therefore let me plead that you read it with good intent and attention, and to pardon us for where we may seem to come short in some words, which we have labored to interpret. For the same words spoken in HEBREW, AND TRANSLATED In TO ANOTHER TONGUE, DO NOT HAVE THE SAME FORCE IN THEM; and not only this but the Law itself, and the prophets, and the rest of the Books, have GREAT DIFFERENCE, when they are spoken in their own language.”
Jubilees 12:25-27
“And YHWH ELOHIM said, “Open his (Abraham’s) mouth and his ears, that he may hear and speak with his mouth, with the LANGUAGE which has been revealed.” For it had ceased from the mouths of all the children of men from the day of the overthrow (Genesis 11 Tower of Babel). And I (the messenger/angel) opened his mouth, and his ears and his lips, and I began to speak with him in HEBREW in the TONGUE OF THE CREATION.”
Yes, YHWH confounded the languages in Genesis 11, so all the languages are from Him, but I truly believe He wants us to seek Him and speak His language the best we can, because as you see from the Scriptures above, that Hebrew translated into other languages don’t have the same force.
YHWH’s Name (Yod-Hey-Waw-Hey) means He does His work through His Ruach (Spirit), pitching His tent with you, expecting you to pitch your tent with Him in Ruach, not in the flesh. How can you replace His powerful Name and the meaning of it and replace with a title like Lord? YESHUA said in:
John 4:24
“Elohim is Ruach (Spirit) and those worship Him need to worship in spirit and truth.”
YHWH’s Name has power and reveals His power and will for His creation and how He does His work through The Holy Spirit. We know this as Paul writes in
Romans 8:13-14
“For if you live according to the flesh, you are going to die, but if by the Spirit (Ruach) you put to death the deeds of the body, you shall live. For as many as are led by the Ruach (Spirit) of ELOHIM, these are sons of ELOHIM.”
YESHUA’s Name in Hebrew means SALVATION!
Mathew 1:21
“And she shall give birth to a Son, and you shall call His Name YESHUA for He shall save His people from their sins.”
YESHUA saved the world from sin and death so that we would die to sin and live eternally with Him. Have you ever wondered why all the Hebrew names were changed? YESHUA became Jesus (The original King James 1611 spells Jesus as (Iesus pronounced Yay-soos), Yeshayau became Isaiah, Yirmeyahu became Jeremiah, but Nebuchadnezzar, Balak, Balaam, and Og King of Bashan all stayed the same? So once their Names were removed for titles or changed to a completely different Name, then it changes the meaning bringing it to naught.
Is this nitpicking or is it part of what we need to know for our Salvation?
Revelation 14:1
“And I looked and saw a Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with Him one hundred and forty-four thousand, having His Father’s NAME written upon their foreheads.”
How can our Father’s Name be written on your forehead if you never knew what His Name was?
Revelation 22:4
“And they shall see His face, and His Name be upon their foreheads.”
Revelation 9:4
“And it was said to them that they shall not harm the grass of the earth, or anything green, or any tree, but only those men who do not have the seal of YHWH upon their foreheads.” The seal upon the foreheads as we see is His Name.
Exodus 28:36-38
“And you shall make a plate of clean gold and engrave on it, like the engraving of a signet: HOLINESS TO YHWH. “And you shall put it on a blue cord, and it shall be on the turban-it is to be on the front of the turban. “And it shall be on the FOREHEAD of Aaron…”
As we can see in Exodus, YHWH was already showing a foreshadow of His Name being on the foreheads of the High Priests and in Exodus 19:5-6, we are called to be a reign of priests and a holy nation and YESHUA is the Mediator of the New Covenant and He returns we will serve Him as kings and priests (Revelation 1:6, Revelation 5:10, Revelation 20:6).
Exodus 19:5-6
“And now, if you diligently obey My voice, and shall guard My Covenant, then you shall be My treasured possession above all the peoples-for all the earth is Mine-and you shall be to Me a reign of priests and a holy nation.” These are the words which you are to speak to the children of Yisra’el.”
Isaiah 56:6
“Also the sons of the foreigner who join themselves to YHWH, to serve Him, and to LOVE THE NAME OF YHWH, to be His servants, all who guard the Sabbath, and not profane it, and hold fast to My Covenant…”
So part of joining yourself to YHWH is loving His Name, NOT profaning the Sabbath, and holding fast to His Covenant through the blood of YESHUA.
So the Name of YHWH is His mark on our foreheads and we must love the Name of YHWH. Plus the Sabbath Day is His Sign between He and His people (Exodus 31:13 and Ezekiel 20:12.) Both of these are very important as the world has learned to reject them both! Trust me, Satan does not want you to know the Only Name that can save you, yes His Name and His Sabbath’s are that important!
Acts 4:12
“Neither is there salvation in any other; for there is none other NAME under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.”
Notice Acts 4:12 says there is no other Name (singular) and not Names? This again shows the importance of His Name.
YHWH is patient but wants us to come to the truth!
Acts 17:30
“Truly, then, having overlooked these times of ignorance, Elohim now commands ALL men everywhere to repent…”
Firstly, I would like to say that The Most High YHWH knows what is in the hearts of those who are truly seeking Him, knows that we love Him, and He hears when we pray to Him, even though we may not know His Name initially. We all, myself included came to know Him as Jesus; however, He led me to call Him by the Name He was born with.
He wants us to continue to learn and dig for the truth and to come out of Babylon and her ways. Hosea 4:6 says “My people perish for their lack of knowledge.” The saying goes “once you know better you do better.” Do not continue in tradition, especially after seeing the truth. There is a lot of deception as Satan attempts to divert us off the path of truth.
Revelation 12:9 says
“And the great dragon was thrown out, that serpent of old, called The Devil and Satan, who leads all the world astray. He was thrown to earth, and his messengers were thrown out with him.”
“Astray” is defined as: away from the correct path or direction; into wrongdoing, into error, into sin, into iniquity, away from the straight and narrow, or away from the path of righteousness.
The world has started to pull The Creator of Heaven and earth down to their level instead of climbing to get to His. We cannot forget that we serve a Holy Elohim who is worthy of praise and His mercy endures forever. We can start our personal relationship Him by knowing His Name.
Remember Deuteronomy 12:32 says
“All the Words I am commanding you, guard to do it-do not add to it nor take from it.”
Revelation 22:18-19
“For I witness to everyone hearing the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, YHWH shall add to him the plagues that are written in this book, and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, YHWH shall take away his part from the Book of Life, and out of the holy city, which are written in this Book.”
As we know many take away from The Scriptures daily, and my focus here is that many unknowingly are following in the tradition they have been taught by those who have taken AWAY from His Word, which YHWH commanded the world not to do in Deuteronomy and YESHUA in Revelation, including Their Names!
The Hebrew language has power!
Genesis 11:1
“And it came to be, all the earth had one language and one speech.”
This passage is overlooked and emphasizes something very important. The whole world was speaking the same language and that language was what YHWH, YESHUA, and The Ruach ha’kodesh (Holy Spirit) used to speak the world into existence. That language would be Hebrew, the Lashone ha’kodesh (pronounced La-shown, ha-ko-desh, which means The Holy Tongue). Therefore, when Enosh called upon the Name of YHWH, he would have said His real actual Name which is YHWH (YAHWEH).
Genesis 4:26 says
“And to Seth, to him also a son was born. And he called his name Enosh. Then it was begun to CALL UPON THE NAME OF YHWH.”
Jubilees 12:25-27
“And YHWH ELOHIM said, “Open his (Abraham’s) mouth and his ears, that he may hear and speak with his mouth, with the LANGUAGE which has been revealed.” For it had ceased from the mouths of all the children of men from the day of the overthrow (Genesis 11 Tower of Babel). And I (the messenger/angel) opened his mouth, and his ears and his lips, and I began to speak with him in HEBREW in the TONGUE OF THE CREATION.”
Genesis 12:8
“And from there he (Abraham) moved to the mountain east of Beyth El, and he pitched his tent, with Beyth El on the west and Ai on the east. And he built there an altar to YHWH, and CALLED ON THE NAME OF YHWH.”
Genesis 13:4
“To the place of the altar which he (Abraham) had made there at first. And there Abram CALLED ON THE NAME OF YHWH.”
Satan is hoping and banking on the fact that believers will not dig around in ELOHIM’s original language to really find out what our Father was saying to us, but rely on watered down translations which eventually loses its meaning altogether. For example the KJV Bible leads all of YHWH’s Appointed Times as Feasts, when in actuality all of them are not feasts. Because the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) is a day of fasting so you would not be eating. The Hebrew says Appointed Times as days He wants to meet with us and not all of them require eating.
Zephaniah 3:9 saying:
“For then I shall turn unto the peoples A CLEAN LIP (PURE LANGUAGE), so that they all call on the Name of YHWH, to serve Him with one shoulder.”
The pure language He spoke was Hebrew to create the world just as the Book of Jubilees says, the same language that was spoken by the entire world before He confused the languages in Genesis 11. We will serve Him with one shoulder meaning that we will all be one people in His eyes as they days of old. So I feel that it is important that we get back to the our Hebraic roots of our faith, walk in the ancient paths, and learn His Holy Language to the best of our ability to get the real meaning of The Names and Scripture and His Laws.
YAHWEH’S Name removed 7,000 times?
Jeremiah 23:26-27
“Till when shall it be in the heart of the prophets?-the prophets of falsehood and prophets of the deceit of their own heart, who try to make My people forget My Name by their dreams which everyone relates to his neighbor, as their fathers FORGOT My Name for Ba’al.”
Just as in the days of Jeremiah the world has removed or forgotten the Name of YHWH for Ba’al which translated into English means Lord. Tell me that isn’t true today? I hear many say “Call upon the Name of Lord”, so what is His Name?
Now if scripture tells us that Satan has deceived the whole world, then how deep does this deception go? Let us examine a few things, YHWH’s own name was removed from His own Book over 7,000 times for sinister reasons and that is because Satan does not want us to know His Name because he knows that there is power in His Name.
So wherever you see LORD in all caps is where YHWH’s name belongs. Satan knows that calling on YHWH and YESHUA is important, but the question is, do we? As I always say, is that Satan knows what is in Scripture as he tried to use it against YESHUA in the wilderness. But, how did YESHUA respond? With Scripture by saying “It is written” because He is the written Word that became Living Flesh. We must understand His Word in order to combat the enemy.
Some in Judaism will even say that His Name is too holy to say and that tradition of men is not found in the Bible at all! They replaced YHWH with Adonai (AH-DOE-NIGH) which is a TITLE that means “My Master” and “Hashem” which literally means “The Name”! So how can “The Name” be His Name?
The proper way to use “Adonai” is by saying Adonai YHWH which means “My Master YHWH.”
This practice was learned by the Jews while they were in Babylonian exile. The pagan nation of Babylon had a practice of not saying the name of their “gods” because they felt their names were too holy and that tradition was passed down to tell people that the pronunciation of the Name YHWH was lost or His Name is too holy to say! Yet interestingly enough, the calendar used in Judaism for the name of the months like Tammuz are the names of pagan deities. So they will say the names of foreign deities, but not YHWH. YHWH told us to call on His Name and not do as the pagan nations.
What does scripture say about calling on His name?
The Name of The Father YHWH and His Son YESHUA are important as They are ONE!
Genesis 4:26
“To Seth, to him also a son was born; and he called his name Enosh, then men began to call upon the NAME of YHWH.”
Genesis 12:8
“And from there he (Abraham) moved to the mountain east of Beyth El, and he pitched his tent, with Beyth El on the west and Ai on the east. And he built there an altar to YHWH, and CALLED ON THE NAME OF YHWH.”
Genesis 26:25
“So he built an altar there and called upon the NAME of YHWH, and pitched his tent there; 'and there Isaac’s servants dug a well.”
Psalm 105:1 and 1 Chronicles 16:8
“Oh give thanks to YHWH, call upon His NAME; make known His deeds among the peoples.”
Exodus 3:15
“And Elohim said moreover unto Moses, thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, YHWH Elohim, of your ancestors, The Elohim of Abraham, The Elohim of Isaac, and The Elohim of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is my NAME for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations.” Notice He didn’t say “this is my title unto all generations.”
Acts 4:12
“Neither is there salvation in any other; for there is none other NAME under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.” What name is that?
Philippians 2:8-11 says
“And having been found in fashion as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient unto death, death even of a stake. YHWH, therefore, has highly exalted Him and given Him the Name which is above every name, that at the NAME of YESHUA every knee should bow, of those in the heaven and those on the earth and of those under the earth, and every tongue should confess that YESHUA ha’ Maschiach is Master, to the esteem of YHWH the Father.”
Proverbs 30:4
“Who has gone up to the heavens and come down? Who has gathered the wind in His fists? Who has bound the waters in a garment? Who established all the ends of the earth? What is His NAME, and what is the NAME of His Son?” YHWH and His Son’s Name is YESHUA! This is a challenge for those who don’t know His Name! Remember YHWH’s Name is His mark on your foreheads, will you use His Name?
Psalm 79:6
“Pour out Your wrath upon the nations which do not know You, And upon the kingdoms which do NOT call upon Your NAME.” This scripture is very telling! For those who do NOT call upon His Name, should that be you?
Psalm 44:5
“Through You we push our enemies; Through Your NAME we tread down those who rise up against us.”
Psalm 44:20
“If we have forgotten the NAME of our Elohim, or stretched out our hands to a foreign mighty one, would Elohim not search this out?” YHWH knows if you are not calling upon His Name or calling on a false one. Korah is saying YHWH would have known this and not approved of it.
Acts 8:37
“And Phillip said, “If you believe with all your heart, it is permitted.” And he answering, said, “I believe that YESHUA ha’Mashiach is the Son of YHWH.”
This response came from a eunuch from Kush with great authority who came to Jerusalem to worship. The point is he was from another country and said the Name of YESHUA.
Psalms 68:4
“Sing to Elohim, sing praises to His NAME. Raise up a highway for Him who rides through the deserts, by His NAME YAH, and exult before Him”
Isaiah 42:8
“I am YHWH, that is My NAME, and My esteem I do not give to another, nor My praise to idols.”
John 17:26 YESHUA says
“And I have made Your NAME known to them, and shall make it known, so that the love with which You loved Me might be in them, and I in them.”
Psalms 22:22
“I make known Your NAME to My brothers”
Lamentations 3:55
“I called on your NAME, O YHWH, out of the lowest pit.”
In the 10 Commandments YHWH says in Exodus 20:7
“You do not bring the NAME of YHWH your Elohim to naught, for YHWH does not leave the one unpunished who brings His Name to naught.” Those who brought His Name to nothing by replacing it with titles, or misrepresenting YHWH by not being a light, but claiming that you follow Him qualifies as well.
Even when we pray at night we say “Our Father who are in heaven, hallowed be thy NAME”
Other ways of using His Name in vain
If you are claiming to be a follower of YESHUA and someone says they are going to do something and don’t do it, then that person is not a person of their word, it makes one a liar.
Mathew 5:37
“But let your word ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes,’ and your ‘No’ be ‘No.’ And what goes beyond these is from the wicked one.”
If you aren’t loving all people, or every other word is a filthy curse word, or being a hypocrite, a false teacher leading people astray, or saying you will pray for someone but you never do it, then you are using His Name in vain! Because we are representatives of YESHUA on earth, so people should see Him in us in all that we do.
Many of people have been turned away from coming to know YESHUA because of family members and churches being the biggest hypocrites, greedy for gain, and gossipers more than those who do not know YESHUA! This turns them away from the faith and in the end bringing His Name to naught as ELOHIM’s representative on earth. Also, those in churches saying don’t commit adultery, but having affairs, others say don’t fornicate, yet they getting drunk, and feel like they can be evil 6 days out of the week and repent on 1. This is not how things work with our ELOHIM!
Romans 2:22-24
“You who say, “Do not commit adultery,” do you commit adultery? You who abominate idols, do you rob temples? You who make your boast in the Torah, through the transgression of the Torah do you disrespect ELOHIM? For “The Name of YHWH is blasphemed among the gentiles because of you,” as it has been written.
Sirach 1:29
“Do not be a hypocrite in the sight of men, and take heed what you speak.”
Sirach 32:15
“He who seeks the Law shall be filled with it; but the hypocrite shall stumble over it.”
Sirach 33:2
“A wise man does not hate the Law; but he who is a hypocrite in it, is like a ship in a storm.”
Mathew 5:16
“Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and esteem your Father which is in heaven.:
If a believer is not letting their light shine, but is bringing His Name to naught by being a liar or hypocrite, then others will begin to think all believers are the same; therefore, you are not being a light to the world so that they will praise YHWH. Instead the exact opposite will happen that Paul spoke of in Romans 2:22-24 and they will blaspheme His Name.
All praises be to Our Father YHWH and His Son YESHUA! YESHUA died for us so that we may live and not burn forever! He set us free from the law of sin and death by breaking the chains of Satan at the execution stake and redeeming us by His blood to our Father YHWH. Now that we know His NAME, let us pray in His NAME and strengthen our relationship with Him even further, HalleluYAH!