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937. Bible Study: YHWH (the personal Name of God!) · Faith by annm2705

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  There is one more very significant detail that I want
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  to point out that I just discovered and I want to share.
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  I don't know how many people know this, but this is so cool.
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  You know, I've been interested in the name of God, the personal
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  name, and we know that that name is YHWH and it's the sacred four
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  letter Hebrew name of God known as the Tetra Grammaton.
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  In classical Hebrew theology, the letters represent the
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  eternal self existent nature of God, meaning I am or he who
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  causes to be. Now names have meaning and when
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  God gives people new names it tells us something about them
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  and it is symbolic. Their names are meaningful.
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  And again, we don't know how the word is pronounced because it
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  was only four letters and there were not vowels, so we don't
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  really know how it's said. And the Jewish people respect
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  this and they never say it because they don't want to
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  misuse it. So instead they will say Hashem
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  or Adonai. And but the name is so
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  significant because if you do sound out those letters, it's
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  almost like a breath and God is spirit.
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  So it, the name does have meaning in that sense.
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  But there's another sense of the meaning of the name which I just
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  learned today and it's really cool.
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  So I wanted to share this. So in ancient Hebrew
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  pictographic writing, each letter was a symbol with a
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  literal physical meaning. When combined, these symbols
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  spell out a powerful traditional and prophetic message.
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  So the first letter is Yod, our symbol, and that means a hand,
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  the hand. So it's the symbolic meaning is
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  a hand, arm or closed fist. It represents work, power,
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  action or a deed done. Then the next letter or symbol
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  is hey and that is the window or behold.
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  The symbolic meaning a person with arms raised looking at
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  something striking. It translates to behold, reveal,
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  or look. And then the vav symbol that is
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  the tent, peg or nail symbolic meaning a tent, peg, hook, or
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  nail. It represents something that
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  secures, binds, or connects things together.
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  And then there's the 4th letter hey, which is the same as the
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  second letter. And so again, it says the
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  symbolic meaning of that is repeated again to emphasize
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  revelation breath. I didn't even read this first or
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  paying close attention to what has been revealed.
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  So his name is like the breath. So the symbolic combination,
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  when you read the ancient pictographs in sequence, they
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  form the phrase hand behold, nail, behold.
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  So after reading Psalm 22, think about how David was talking
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  about his pierced hands and feet.
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  And here is the name of the Lord, the personal name of the
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  Lord saying hand behold, nail behold.
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  Isn't that amazing and symbolic? And doesn't that give us more
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  revelation about who God is? It's amazing.
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  So I hope you found this as interesting as I did and that it
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  blesses you.