Sunday, July 25, 2010

God's Name - The Tetragrammaton

God's name in Hebrew is referred to as the Tetragrammaton and consists of the Hebrew letters Yod Hey Vav Hey. It is pronounced Yahweh and when spelled out it actually looks like this in English YHWH. Here is what it looks like in Hebrew:




Most people have probably seen it, even if they didn't know what it was, but what most people don't know is that when it is written out vertically rather than horizontally, it actually turns into a very important picture. (Hebrew is always read from the right to the left rather than the English way of reading, from the left to the right.) Vertically the Hebrew characters look like this:




Now when looking at it vertically it becomes a man with a heart in his chest, thus the name of God takes on a new meaning - the heart of man and further expounds the verse of Hebrews 10:16 - This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them. Therefore we know that Yeshua and YHWH are one in the same, because it is written in John 14:9 - he that hath seen me hath seen the Father. Yeshua is the living Law or Torah and He is the Hey or heart in the Tetragrammaton.

The Hey is actually a Dalet and an Aleph joined together. The Aleph symbolizes God and the Dalet symbolizes broken humanity. When joined together to form the Hey they represent God within the human heart. When Abram and Sarai were renamed the Hey were added - thus showing they then had God in their hearts.

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