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This Week's Audio, Video, and Teaching Notes Are Posted Here This week’s Audio, Video, and Teaching Notes are posted here. Honest to Moses – Theophory – His Name in Their Name – Class Fourteen (The Names of God and People Related to the Dating of a Text; God Has a Name, Yod-Heh-Vav-Hey The Name of God was Spoken Freely; How do we Pronounce the Name; The Four ;(יהוה) Vowels; Theophoric Names Bearing the Name of God; Why Jehoash Became Joash – Eliminating the “Hey”; Pronouncing the Divine Name Became Forbidden; Examples of the Same Story with Different Names for the Deity – YHVH vs. Elohim; I am YHVH – This is My Name Forever; Theophoric Names are Few During the Patriarchal Period; Moses Changes Hoshea’s Name to Yehoshua / Joshua – The Salvation of YHVH) August 28, 2021 – Ross Nichols Honest to Moses – Theophory – His Name in Their Name – Class Fourteen Audio/Video Links: https://unitedisraelworldunion.com/honest-to-moses-theophory-his-name-in-their- name-class-fourteen/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zbx0e5s6j24 Teaching Notes Link: https://unitedisraelworldunion.com/wp- content/uploads/2021/08/2021.8.28-Honest-to-Moses-Theophory-His-Name-In- Their-Name-Class-Fourteen.pdf TODAY’S INTRODUCTION -Welcome to United Israel World Union, this is our Sabbath morning scripture study coming to you live from the United Israel Center in Saint Francisville, Louisiana. Many of you are in your own place today, alone, Shabbat Shalom and thank you for joining us this morning. We need one another to help us go through what the world is going through today. I pray that all of you and the ones that you care for remain healthy today and throughout the coronavirus. -We have currently moved into a new study called “Honest to Moses”, which began May 8, 2021. This will be a very lengthy, in-depth, seat of the chair teaching that will challenge you. Many of you who have followed these teachings for awhile are quite prepared and equipped for what’s to follow in the text because we are going to be “Honest to Moses”. This series builds upon things that we’ve covered in the past. What I’ve presented to this point has been purposely presented in the order in which it was and in the manner in which it was in order to prepare us for this series. Our previous series on Prophet – “The Servant” will weave together in the biblical text with our new series “Honest to Moses”, a Quest for the Historical Moses. -If you find things in our classes on the quest for the historical Moses are cause for alarm in your spiritual quest, please don’t let it be so. We are looking at the biblical text in a way that few people look at it. Most people follow their traditional views of the text, and they have answers to the questions that are built on their particular theological views. I’m looking at the texts and letting the text speak for itself. I will not apologize for the texts of the bible, but rather present the text as it’s presented. Only then can we get closer to the original intent of the authors. -During the course of this study I want to add in what you might call some of Moses’ Greatest Hits. Where we talk about some of his teachings that we can with a fair degree of certainty trace back to the historical Moses. We have two prongs to our approach, we have the man Moses, and we have the message of Moses, which is primarily available to us through the Pentateuch, the first five books of the bible. Specifically beginning with Exodus 2 through the end of Deuteronomy we are exposed to material about the man and the message. TEACHING NOTES -Today we continue our quest for the historical Moses, and we are on Class 14 in our series called, “Honest to Moses”. Today’s class is called “Theophory – His Name in Their Name”. In our previous classes we get a little bit about Moses family and the family into which he marries, and about the various cultures around him and of the message of Moses. When I talk about the fundamental bedrock teachings of Moses from the Pentateuch, we are trying to discern the teaching of Moses. What is it that we learn from Moses that we can trace back to the historical figure of Moses? -Today I want to take a closer look at the name for the deity. Over the next several classes, I want to get into more of the details about various names or titles for God. Today’s class is the first in a series within a series dealing with God’s name. How is it that the name YHVH occurs as early as Genesis 2:4? 165 times in the Book of Genesis. -Gen 2: 4 These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that YHVH God made the earth and the heavens. -Exo 6: 2 God spoke to Moses and said to him, "I am YHVH. 3 I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty, but by my name YHVH I did not make myself known to them. -Here we read where God says that he was not known by the name YHVH that early. Either the bible is mistaken or that’s a true statement. Today we’ll look at this specific question as well as a few other related questions looking for answers from the text. Today’s class is also be related to the quest for the historical Moses. One of the best clues as to when a text is written has to do with names and can help us to determine the age of a text. Of particular, names of people and names of God; and one of the best clues is when the name of God and the name of people meet. It’s where the human and the divine meet in a name that one can learn the most. We can learn the most about the time of a text, especially when we overlay certain historical data and historically known details that we can look at these names and say, I know when that was written, and I know when that was not written. Part of my class today deals with names for God, and what those names can teach us about the dating of a text and other things as well. We’ll also look at a second point in this class, different but related, and it deals with the names of people in the bible and what those names can teach us about the dating of a text and other things. -I begin today with a problem presented to us within the biblical texts which has to do with the name of God, where we’ll talk about the four Hebrew letters from right to left, For many of us, discovering that God had a name and that our .(יהוה ) yod-hey-vav-hey English bibles would say, LORD, and we realized that behind that was a word that didn’t it ,(יהוה) mean LORD, and that LORD was a substitution for the name, yod-hey-vav-heh changed everything. It was and is and remains to be a vital part of our faith. Many of us know that movements and ministries have been founded and sustained on this. To know God’s name is very important. You know of all the texts that speak about knowing God’s name. It’s a central part of the faith to know God’s name and more importantly, how to properly pronounce the name. Many have said, if you’re not pronouncing the name right, God doesn’t even hear you. Disagreements on the name abound. People have fought over it and whether one should even pronounce it. As such, some have substituted for the name of Adonai, because they believe it’s too holy to pronounce. Yet, when you read the Hebrew scriptures, you know that men and women in the biblical period knew nothing of this rule and the name was spoken freely. In Deuteronomy, we are told to swear by the name. It was commonly used in speech. They didn’t’ walk around and substitute the name for Adonai nor say Hashem in speech, the name was used. -The question is, how was it pronounced. Can we determine how to recover the proper Today’s class is not just ?(יהוה) pronunciation? How do we pronounce yod-hey-vav-heh about my understanding of how to pronounce the name of God, it’s also about a related topic and to the study of the name. These four letters are known, especially in the academic world, as the tetragrammaton, which is a Greek word meaning, four letters. This four-lettered word occurs in the text of the Hebrew Bible more than 6,000 times. -The question again is, how is it pronounced? Some people say Yahweh, Yehovah, Yehowah, and Yewhowah etc. Many people will tell you why they believe their pronunciation is correct and it’s the only correct one. The names range from the ones given here to many more and some are hardly readable. All of these are derived from an Yet the first .(יהוה) attempt to vocalize these four Hebrew letters, yod-hey-vav-heh problem shows up when we say, yod-hey-vav-heh, because some people question / argue whether the third letter is a vav or a waw. Before you can read something you have to know what the letters are and their phonetic value or an approximation before you can get close.
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