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ONE of the Bible writers asked: "Who has gathered the wind in the hollow of both hands? Who has wrapped up the waters in a mantle? Who has made all the ends of the earth to rise? Whatishisname and what the name of his son, in case you know?" (Proverbs 30:4) How can we find out what God’s name is? That is an important question. The creation is a powerful proof that God must exist, but it does not tell us his name. (Romans 1:20) In fact, we could never know God’s name unlesstheCreatorhimselftoldus. And he has done that in his own Book, the Holy Bible.

On one celebrated occasion, God pronounced his own name, repeating it in the hearing of Moses. Moses wrote an account of that event that has been preserved in the Bible down to our day. (Exodus 34:5) God even wrote his name with his own "finger." When he had given Moses what we today call the Ten Commandments, God miraculously wrote them down. The record says: "Now as soon as [God] had finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai he proceeded to give Moses two tablets of the Testimony, tablets of stone written on by God’s finger." (Exodus 31:18) God’s name appears eight times in the original Ten Commandments. (Exodus 20:1-17) Thus God himself has revealed his name to man both verbally and in writing. So, what is that name?

In the Hebrew language it is written ????. These four letters, called the Tetragrammaton, are read from right to left in Hebrew and can be represented in many modern languages as YHWH or JHVH. God’s name, represented by these four consonants, appears almost 7,000 times in the original "Old Testament," or Hebrew Scriptures.

The name is a form of a Hebrew verb ha·wah´ (???), meaning "to become," and actually signifies "He Causes to Become." Thus, God’s name identifies him as the One who progressively fulfills his promises and unfailingly realizes his purposes. Only the true God could bear such a meaningful name.

Do you remember the different ways that God’s name appeared in Psalm 83:18, as set out in the previous section (page 5)? Two of those translations had mere titles ("the LORD," the "Eternal") as substitutes for God’s name. But in two of them, Yahweh and Jehovah, you can see the four letters of God’s name. However, the pronunciation is different. Why?

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IsGod’sNamePronounced?

The truth is, nobody knows for sure how the name of God was originally pronounced. Why not? Well, the first language used in writing the Bible was Hebrew, and when the Hebrew language was written down, the writers wrote only consonants—not vowels. Hence, when the inspired writers wrote God’s name, they naturally did the same thing and wrote only the consonants.

While ancient Hebrew was an everyday spoken language, this presented no problem. The pronunciation of the Name was familiar to the Israelites and when they saw it in writing they supplied the vowels without thinking (just as, for an English reader, the abbreviation "Ltd." represents "Limited" and "bldg." represents "building").

Two things happened to change this situation. First, a superstitious idea arose among the Jews that it was wrong to say the divine name out loud; so when they came to it in their Bible reading they uttered the Hebrew word ’Adho·nai´ ("Sovereign Lord"). Further, as time went by, the ancient Hebrew language itself ceased to be spoken in everyday conversation, and in this way the original Hebrew pronunciation of God’s name was eventually forgotten.

In order to ensure that the pronunciation of the Hebrew language as a whole would not be lost, Jewish scholars of the second half of the first millennium C.E. invented a system of points to represent the missing vowels, and they placed these around the consonants in the Hebrew Bible. Thus, both vowels and consonants were written down, and the pronunciation as it was at that time was preserved.

When it came to God’s name, instead of putting the proper vowel signs around it, in most cases they put other vowel signs to remind the reader that he should say ’Adho·nai´. From this came the spelling Iehouah, and, eventually, Jehovah became the accepted pronunciation of the divine name in English. This retains the essential elements of God’s name from the Hebrew original.

Yes!

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Their citizenship was in heaven

by Rooster in

*** sj p. 7 our view of the future ***.

separatefromtheworld.

as one might expect, this view of the future also had a significant effect on the first christians.

Rooster

*** sj p. 7 Our View of the Future ***

SeparateFromtheWorld
As one might expect, this view of the future also had a significant effect on the first Christians. It caused them to be a distinctive people, separate from the world. As historian E. G. Hardy noted in his book ChristianityandtheRomanGovernment:"The Christians were strangers and pilgrims in the world around them; their citizenship was in heaven; the kingdom to which they looked was not of this world. The consequent want of interest in public affairs came thus from the outset to be a noticeable feature in Christianity."
Jesus made it clear that their separateness would be an outstanding characteristic of his disciples. "They are no part of the world," he said. (John 17:16; 15:19) In keeping with this principle, Jehovah’s Witnesses try to be "no part of the world." That does not mean, of course, that we advocate becoming hermits, shutting ourselves off from the world. We are sincerely interested in the welfare of others in the community and in the schools. Our young ones want to contribute to class activities in a helpful way.
At the same time, however, we believe the Bible makes it clear that "the whole world is lying in the power of the wicked one." (1 John 5:19; John 12:31; 2 Corinthians 4:4) As a result, we are concerned about the adverse effect that the world’s influence can have on our children. Often the world glamorizes life-styles that we believe to be unwholesome. And the schools are affected. So, to the extent possible, Jehovah’s Witnesses want their children to avoid such harmful influences.

So exactly when did Jesus say this hope would expire? 1935?

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The Golden Age editor admits being demon possessed!!

by Lady Liberty in

some newbies and or lurkers may benefit from this.. sincerely,.

lady liberty.

http://www.geocities.com/heartland/2919/wood.html.

Rooster

The privilege of sleep may be taken away for days at a stretch. All this with the object of forcing the unfortunate into at least a temporary insanity.... the mind may be flooded with thoughts that are vile beyond description.

Wow. This guy must be as great as Russel himself. or maybe "JUDGE Rutherford."

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The earth can hold only 9 billion persons at the most

by cultswatter in

*** public address by district overseer bro.

charles sunutko in spring 1967 in sheboygan, wisconsin[recording of this talk available in realaudio format, 2,745kb, approx 22 minute recording].

"serving with everlasting life in view"............. "the watchtower 1964, page 722, paragraph 24, and listen to this: "tens of billions will be back".. how many are tens of billions?

Rooster

Jehovah will just make everyone really small... except the elders they'll stay the same size, and if you get out of line they'll dig you in your tiny chest with a big pencil like on Land Of The Giants.

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Over 1,000 Books Free Online

by DebbieLopez in

multiple ways to download them.. http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/meta/titles.html.

Rooster

Thank you,

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The earth can hold only 9 billion persons at the most

by cultswatter in

*** public address by district overseer bro.

charles sunutko in spring 1967 in sheboygan, wisconsin[recording of this talk available in realaudio format, 2,745kb, approx 22 minute recording].

"serving with everlasting life in view"............. "the watchtower 1964, page 722, paragraph 24, and listen to this: "tens of billions will be back".. how many are tens of billions?

Rooster

Well what if God draws the waters back up and opens up more land. Sunrays have an adverse affect on the human body so this must be the plan. Yes I am sure it's the plan I just checked with the "Governing Body!"