Exposing the Erroneous Name Yehovah

[Music] so as you might guess today I want to talk about this name Yehovah as many of you know the name this name Yehovah z' and come on someone common within the Hebrews and a messianic community as a matter of fact with them many of these movements they are rejecting the name of Yahweh for this name Jehovah and you know it's thinking before this message what are the two basic truths that are a cornerstone of what we believe I believe is the name of our Father in heaven in his Sabbath you know if you're gonna define two different beliefs really that define who and what we are is his name and are in his Sabbath whereas we know again many are rejecting this name because of this belief that yoga is the right name now some we're asking why even debate this issue why even a speak about this issue why acknowledge this issue many have the opinion that it does not matter the name we use for our Father in heaven as long as he knows our heart what does it matter you know so today I want to begin by challenging you this one concept that it does not matter which name we use that he knows who were referring to but before that I want to add somewhat of a disclaimer to this message the this message is not a condemnation it's not a condemnation for those using and who may have accepted this name Jehovah you know I realized that many have accepted this name based on whether they believe is evidence to support us so this is not a condemnation now saying that I do believe that there are some people out there using this to deceive so certainly I would not say the same with those who are using this name to deceive is I do believe that Yahweh's name is vitally important if you're disguising that name through some sort of deception which I believe is what is occurring what I just said just forget because I do believe that Yahweh will condemn those who purposely willfully misused and deceive his name but again this is not a condemnation of those who may believe this sincerely based on the evidence which won't look at the evidence and for those who may believe this I would encourage you just to listen evaluate the evidence maybe you'll hear something ever heard before so so stay with us fizz I think you may see see something you haven't seen before so again this going back this notion that the name doesn't matter let's let's look at that I believe we see an example of why it matters for the third commandment Exodus 20 verse 7 here's what it says thou shall not take the name of Yahweh Elohim in vain for Yahweh will not hold him guiltless it takes his name in vain so we're commanded here not to take Yahweh's name in vain many believe this is only referring though to using his name in a maybe in a way of cursing or some other negative way and well I agree we should never use Yahweh's name in this sense obviously we should use Yahweh's name in very reverent way but this word of vain means much more than simply using it in a negative way so let's look at the word vain here or the word vain it comes from the Hebrew Shah and it means in the sense of a desolating in the sense of desolating it says evil as destructive literally ruined or morally especially guile furtively idolatrous false subjective useless Ness as deceptive objective also ad verbally in vain so there's a few key words here I want to point out number one Shaw refers to this concept of a desolation or ruin and also it conveys this a thought of bringing something to useless state that does not matter now how does this relate to the debate between Yahweh and Jehovah or there's no doubt in my mind that yahuwah is bringing yahwah's name to desolation is it bringing Yahweh's name to ruin it's bringing Yahweh's name to a point where it is useless because we were not hearing his name because now it's been counterfeited by a hybrid so the name Jehovah I believe is in direct violation of the third commandment the name Yehovah is in direct violation of this command horses don't take my name in vain now before I show why yo ho vis were nice hybrid I want to again break show and explain what those who advocate Yehovah say why they believe this what evidence they use to support this view so to begin with this important realize that the resurrection of this belief Jehovah is really the result of a one-man cure a Jew who has again resurrected this with another fella he bases this belief on Hebrew Masoretic manuscripts the show and contained foul points for jehovah so i want to say something real quickly there is no dispute by the way that yo hava exists within these Hebrew manuscripts there's no dispute there people will say yeah but there in the Hebrew manuscripts I agree but as well see the question is how did they arise how did this name developed matter of fact recently I've heard that this person is supposedly now found 500 Hebrew manuscripts he's really bragging about the number of Hebrew manuscripts so you know as I said in the past show me a thousand it does not change the debate the debate is how this a name how does name arose and what we'll talk more about that as we go on now another minor note is his person also says that the Hebrew letter law or Wow is actually evolved and should be pronounced as a V he also believes that the W or the wah sound comes from Arabic and you know there's absolutely no evidence for this but we're gonna look at the Via Nevada a while later in this message so if you hope it's not the right name how did this name originate within the Masoretic text how did this happen how did this name evolve or this name come about when the mazarites now the master Jewish scribes added the valence from the Hebrew word Adonai to the tetragrammaton which is by those Greek means four letters in the four letters is Yad here while he so they took about the vet that Val points are mad or nah and we'll see that I'll show you that and they added that to yo D well hey and that is how we have Jehovah today so let me give you some information about these missouri's is so important to realize who these folks are according to scholarship the miseries were somewhere between the 6th and 10th centuries CE E as well almost a thousand years after the Common Era now the main a reason for the vowing and again these are the folks that I had the bow pointing to the text was to preserve the sound of the Hebrew language you know part of the missouri's Hebrew had no vowels now some will point out which correctly so that there were certain letters called vowel consonants that had vowel sounds who could have those sounds but but generally or specifically speaking there wasn't it there were no vowels with in the Hebrew language prior to the Masri semester's added the Val points as we have today now there were three main a location for the Missouri's he had Tiberius which for those who know Jerusalem's or Israel's were it's us right along the you see CE Galatea in the north you had Jerusalem of course and then also Babylonia you know Babylon always had a part in all this it's amazing how much we see Babylon after the exile now the earliest Masoretic text we have today is called the Cairo prophet codex this was a written punctuated by Moses Ben Asher and Tiberius again Tiberius was one of the schools for the Masri's and this was done in 895 C e so 9th century ninth century 895 C E or what this means as a whole was not found within any man just were prior to the ninth it doesn't exist you look and look and look but I can assure you now there's no manuscript not just Hebrew there's no manuscript a Greek Latin Hebrew Babylonian Chaldea does not matter there are no manuscripts with this name Jehovah does not exist it does not exist until the Masri's of missouri's are the ones who added the valence from Adonai again over overlaid them upon the attention grammaton which gave rise again to this concept of Jehovah you know boasting from scholarship that the Masri's again took these valance and overlaid them this is very common knowledge now before we look at that why was this done why was this done why did they take the vow points from Adonai and overlay them over the yo-dee-hey while he or the Jews believe that Yahweh's name was too sacred to use it was too sacred to pronounce now this was not always a case by the way many people they believe that's always a case of Jews have never pronouncing him that's not true that's not true for many many years the Jews would pronounce the name so this concept that is too holy and they've never pronounced it simply is not true so this is why they would not pronounce the name that we have now what's the issue really with Jehovah or number one again this concept and in doing what they did with with replacing this name with the valve points of adenine or number one there was nothing in scripture that shows we should not pronounce the name what's amazing in scripture shows time and time and time and time again that we are to pronounced the name that we are to use the name that we are to praise the name we have a really great chart by the way in the third edition of the rest of and study Bible I think is in Hebrews 2 he was chapter 2 but it shows in all the ways were to use the name were to praise the name were to sing to the name weren't on or the name were to reverence the name scripture doesn't show we're a state that we should not use the name scripture shows that were to use the name that were to honor the name we know that Abraham used the name we know that are that all the papers used the name but the other issue with this is that by adding these of a points again to the yhw H of the ODA while he is that they did so to conceal they did this to conceal the name of our Father in heaven now those who support Yeovil will deny everything I just said they will deny the fact that scholarship says that the name Yehovah arose to the Val points of Adonai they will deny that they will deny that all of scholarship is wrong when it comes to this one very important issue and again they will put their trust and reliance in this one man I'm not gonna mention by name but even know who he is they will try to say this and we're gonna see examples I'm gonna show you're gonna you're gonna see so much evidence in my or opinion showing why this is not the case but they will try to make the claim that then Val points of Jehovah and AD and I are different matter of fact I'll show you the two side-by-side and they'll say look these are not the same name or in that's not the case we'll see we'll see why that's not the case or some will argue that the name Yehovah arose through scribal errors or mistakes they will say something like this when the mass race would copy the text they would pronounce and that's what they would they would pronounce the word as they would copy the text to make sure that they had the valid points right they did the word right and sometimes they would invert lay or by mistake they would they would put the bow points for the holy name jehovah supposably and leave the vowel points in there so these instances or actually mistakes from these scribes are from the Nazarene now as a side note you know it's important to realize that yahwah's name or the Tetragrammaton has found six thousand eight and twenty three times in the Hebrew Old Testament and of those times yahuveh generally appears only a handful of times within these Hebrew documents in most cases a yo-dee-hey while he contains no Val points they left it loved it without forth out points because again it was not to be pronounced now for those who believe that the Masri's made a mistake by leaving the correct value Hova within the text they need to consider one thing and that is how meticulous the Jews were these miseries were based on their own writing so I want to share with you two slides and these slides or rules as we find within their tall mood it's kind of small but here I'm gonna read through these this is the scribe must be alert applies true who has undergone special training and certification all materials parchments ink quill must conform to strict specifications to be required specifically for the purpose writing a Torah scroll the scribe must pronounce every word and loud out loud before copying it from the cortex so they say this is how you'll hold a roast they would pronounce the name and they're not thinking about it they would write the vows and they would leave the valence and by doing so they preserve the name well that's not that's not the case okay the scribe may write every one letter into the tour by heart oh I'm sorry the Torah described me not write even one letter into the Torah scroll by heart rather he must have a second kosher open scroll before him at all times the Torah scroll is disqualified if even a single letter is added a Torah scroll is disqualified even if a single letter is deleted every letter must have sufficient white space surrounding it if one letter touches another in any spot it invalidates the entire scroll if a single letter is so marred that it cannot be read at all or resembles another letter whether the defect is in the writing or the result of a whole tear or smudge the entire roll is invalidated each letter must be sufficiently legible so that even an ordinary child school child could distinguish it from another similar letters the scribe must put precise space between words so that one word will not look like two words or two words like look like one word described must not alter the design of the sections and must conform to a particular line line lengths and paragraph configurations a Torah scroll in which in now listen to this one a Torah scroll in which any mistake has been found cannot be used did you hear that a Torah scroll with a new mistake cannot be used it says in a decision regarding his frustration must be made within 30 days or it must be buried so that is how they dealt with scrolls or or manuscripts or codices that had mistakes within them now based on these four-engine see of these rules they honestly believe that Azeri x' would have made so many mistakes with in so many documents as we find today again according to this one person that is propagating this belief 500 plus manuscripts do you really believe that the missouri's for that sloppy that they would have left this number of mistakes within they you know in my mind such a conclusion is really beyond reason it's beyond rationale you-you-you cannot explain so this whole premise that the name Yehovah developed through mistakes made by scribes by the missouri's somebody does not hold up when you understand the stringent stringency that they had to go through to validate their text now I mentioned before that yeah they stopped using the name the Jews they stopped using the name we see evidence for this from the Encyclopedia Britannica here's what it says here in the Encyclopedia Britannica after the Babylonian exile 6th century BC and especially from the third century says so we see two dates here BCE Jews cease to use a name Yahweh for two reasons as Judaism became a universal rather than merely local religion a more common noun Elohim meaning g.od tended to replace Yahweh to demonstrate the universal universal sovereignty of Israel's g.od over all others at the same time the divine name was increasingly regarded as too sacred to be uttered it was thus replaced but vocally in the synagogue ritual but the Hebrew word Adonai my Lord which was rendered as curious Lord in the sub - Agyei in the greek version of the hebrew scriptures so we see here that the jews began avoiding the pronunciation of the divine name when it says it began during the Babylonian exile six century BCE but we also see here for the most part they stopped pronouncing it when they stopped pronouncing it by the 3rd century BCE so 300 years before the Messiah with the exception of a few cases Jews would not pronounce Yahweh's name they would use as we see here the word Adonai or Elohim as a replacement for that you know many ways I understand why the Jews were hesitant who use Yahweh's they may be after the Babylonian exile read a psalm today what Psalms 137 it talks about their time in Babylon how bad it was and how they were persecuted and oppressed I understand that I understand how they were they were apprehensive from using the name based on what they experienced within Babylon but what about the third century what happened in the third century - to cause this this hesitancy to use and pronounce the name peace again this began after the Exile right but it really picked up steam in the 3rd century so what happened or according to a footnote and the Tom mood and youma 39b it says this says a joseph soda or SOTA 38 a suggested the inevitable name could be pronounced only when there was some indication that the Shekinah that was Yahweh's glory Shekinah rested on the sanctuary when Simon the righteous died matter of fact I had this year when Simon the righteous died with many indications that such score was no more enjoyed his brother no more dare to utter the inevitable name so again this is from the Talmud that's Homer this is not the Britannica this is not the Judaica this is not the Catholic Encyclopedia this is a Talmud if anything is going to vote for luck reflect Jewish a thought it's going to be the Talmud this is a Talmud it says here that by the death of assignment the just or Simon the righteous that the Jews stopped using the name Yahweh things they thought that the Shekinah is is that the glory of Yahweh had departed and then that the inevitable name could no longer be pronounced this is again when the Jews would begin using Adonai and this is what lead to them concealing the concealing Yahweh's name through the valve points of Adonai much later you know it's on this single point where those supporting Yehovah disagrees with nearly all of scholarship because again they will say that the Jews never replaced Yahweh's name without an eye the valve points of a door and I never had a part in Jehovah and yet as we're gonna see this is not the case based on scholarship and I'm gonna give you some examples I'm gonna do that now I'm gonna show you from scholarship why this is not the case so this is from the encyclopedia Judaica you know the encyclopedia Judaica by the way is one of the most well known recognized references in the world especially for Jewish thought there's a very few references that I would consider more reputable than the insuk encyclopedia Judaica it is a great great source so here's what this reference says about Jehovah says in the middle early Middle Ages when the constant note text of the Bible was supplied with Val points and again this was done by the Missouri's remember to facilitate his correct a transitional reading and that was to preserve the valves the valid points for out and I with one variation is a Shiva short II with the first wire yo'd of white stowage instead of the atop Pathak short a under the ala Thoth I don't I was used for yhw H thus producing the form Jehovah notice that Jehovah remove the veu by the way meta or W and insert a V what does that say Jehovah Jehovah ya homeland now it's important to realize just real quickly they use Jehovah because you Homa the the Wow is considered to be an older form of the Father and talked much much more about that but the Judi a key here does show that this is when freshman scholars of Europe first began to study Hebrew they did not understand what this really meant and they introduced the hybrid named Jehovah or yahuveh you see they saw these vowels he's these early scholars and they said there it is so they took the vow points as they were and they sounded this word up yeah Hova or Jehovah we know that the G and the the why there were replaced okay moving on the collegiate encyclopedia volume 9 page 5 80s is Jehovah modern form of the Hebrew sacred name of God it says probably originally Yahweh so there does confirm that from a century 3 300 BC the Jews and we already saw that by the way right the the Britannica stated that by the third century the Talmud stated that by the third century here we see the collegiate encyclopedia saying the same thing that by the three hundred b c-- century the jews for motives of piety you see it wasn't by the way out of irreverence the jews did not do this out of a reverence some people they believed that were anti-jewish because we say things like no no we realized that the jews did this because they were very reverent for the name they wanted to honor the name but again yahweh says that were to use his name so whatever the rationale was it's not biblical utter uttered the name of g.od very rarely and eventually not at all the substituted the tayo Adonai there it is meaning Lord the vows of which were written under the constant confidence of Yahweh assess or yhw H yo D well he in the Middle Ages in later the vowels of one word with a Constance of the other worm is misread as Jehovah and keep in mind that yahuveh Jehovah there is no difference there's absolutely no difference between Jehovah and jehovah same word another reference here this is Encyclopedia Brittanica Micra pedia vol 10 under yahwah says a personal name of the says god or geo deity is realizing as arise Jewish biblical scholars of the Middle Ages replace evil signs that had appeared above or beneath the consonants of white wh for the vowel signs of Auto die or if Elohim they would use Elohim by the way we'll talk a little bit more about that I'll show you an example but it wasn't used often most often it was advertised says the C artificial name notice that artificial it's a hybrid it's not real name Jehovah or yo ho y notice that again it uses he the Wow and start of of there with your home why the the W sound which is the older of the two came into being so again we see here from scholarship that Jehovah or yahuwah came about through the vowel points of Adonai and also they used Elohim okay the encyclopedia of the Lutheran Church you know I'm not gonna go on all day believe me I could go on all day long with the references showing this one basic fact I'm not gonna do that but I am gonna give a few here says this isn't from the encyclopedia the Lutheran Church under Yahweh it says there probable pronunciation of the Old Testament four letter word white sheet of each the most profound and sacred of the Hebrew names for Judy is this important absolutely it says it's the most profound name is absolutely important it says the name is interpreted in Exodus 3:14 as I am Who I am the name was held in such high regard that the Jews were forbidden to pronounce it and read the word Adonai or Lord instead when the Jews Hebrew missouri's added the bow points to the constant consonantal text they used the vows of Adonai with the four consonants yhw H this was transliterated in the early versions as Jehovah or Yahweh this form of the word became popular but it should be remembered that such a word never existed never existed why because it's not a word it's not a name again they developed this through the Val point so the a door and I it's not a name that never was never will be okay this is from the book the making of a contemporary translation page 107 it says in the Hebrew Bible the Jews were the consonants of the tetragrammaton again Tetragrammaton Greek meaning forwards as yhw H but out of reverence for the sacred name of Geo D or out of a fear of violating an exodus 20 verse 7 again that commandment there Leviticus 24:16 they vocalized and pronounced it as a deny or occasionally as Elohim so you see a second witness said that they would also use Elohim for the vowel pointings it is unfortunate then that the name was transliterated into German and ultimately into English as Jehovah Jehovah again this came through by the vowel points of Adonai says which is he the way of saying it represented in the American Standard Version of 1901 for this conflate four form represents the thousand Adonai superimposed on the consequence of Yahweh and it was never intended by the Jews to be read as yahuwah notice that again it gives us your whole one you know these scholars they know they know that it's not your ova they know that you know your whole was much closer in the sense that he uses again the the old Yemen eyed Sephardic to biblical the Wow as we find within Hebrew not the Ashkenazi Bob which we'll talk about more okay so they still one more reference here says the scribes are reasoned that if they did not point the name Yahweh then it could not be treated lightly since the name could would not really be known here it is they did this why so that the name would not be known why so that would not be blaspheme this is a reason why they used the valence and again these people that support yova they refuse to recognize this evidence isn't that amazing and believe me from testimony from first-hand witness they have no other rough they have one man that they were referred to as support for Yehovah there's no serious scholar who would ever agree with this goes on to saying exodus 20 verse 7 the name the Lord is written in capital letters according to the convention and signifying the name Yahweh but the name as it appears in the Hebrew text is white stevia halwa again there they recognize the law and which appears he consonants from the name Yahweh in the valves from the word Lord it says proof for the fabricated nature of this word are the two vowels which appear in the Wow an impossibility in Hebrew notice that it can't be that can't happen it goes against Hebrew scholarship this is however until the revival of the Hebrew language in Western Europe scholars read the constants yhw H Germans would read them as a jhw V that's what they would use they substitute the Y for the J and and the W for the V J hvh that's where Jehovah comes from a so dramatic with a vows of Adonai thereby originating originating the incorrect form Jehovah or yoga this word was introduced into English by William Tyndale and was and was continued by the King James Version you know based on what we see based on all the evidence we find from the Judaica from the fruit Annika and all the other references we find here the Lutheran's and those who study these ancient manuscripts there is no dispute there is no debate on this word Jehovah or yahuveh or Yehovah however you want to pronounce it there is absolutely no debate this is an erroneous hybrid that came about when the Missouri's added the valence from Adonai to the Tetragrammaton and again as we see saw through these references they would also use the word or the vowel points from Elohim to accomplish this go and again keep in mind that this is only a very small subset of evidence we've from scholarship believe me I could go on all day long quoting scholar after scholar after scholar showing confirming validating that the name of Jehovah is an erroneous hybrid it is not hard to find it is not in dispute it is not in debate it is a consensus amongst scholars today so how do we know that they share the valence I want to show you a graphic say exactly how this happened so we see here this is Yahweh yo yo D well hate then we have the word Adam neither I don't I and the Adonai is Aleph dalip noon and Yoda and we see the Hebrew for these terms and also the valve pointing then for the Hebrew word Adonai now we also see below that the word Jehovah Jehovah let me show that this this here is Jehovah that is Jehovah based on the doubt points of I don't know so I don't know Jehovah so this shows graphically you can see the valve points same valence bonds now some though will say this some will say that they are not the same word some will say if you look close enough you'll notice the devout points that differ and they do differ they do differ they're not quite the same but this is not because Jehovah does not derive from it Adonai this is simply because of Hebrew grammar this is how Hebrew grammar works I have a few slides I want to share some information showing and explaining why this is why this is based on biblical scholarship Biblical Hebrew and Biblical grammar and and not that this is not the same word so let's do that so by the way here this is called the compound schwa compound schwa and this is called a vector schwa so those are the difference that that's the difference between Adonai and Jehovah one has a compound of schwa the other has a Rutger schwa so the first graphic here just sort of shows the it says a Hebrew grammar rules require that the compound choise what that's the symbol right here does he come casual under the Aleph so this is Alice of Adonai to revert to a schwa under the yo-yoed of yhw H or the tetragrammaton Yahweh's name guttural such as Aleph cannot have a vocal schwa cannot have a vocal so it has to do again with Hebrew grammar or another explanation here is this from wikipedia says vocalizations Jehovah and Adonai are not identical so there it is acknowledges as fact this is a chuan yhw H and then had Tov Pathak and I don't I appears differently the vocalization can be attributed to Biblical Hebrew phonology where the antifa Pathak is grammatically identical to the schwa always replacing every SWANA under a guttural letter since the first letter of Adonai is a gutter or a letter of all the first letter of Yahweh or Jehovah I should say based on the pal-14 is not they had Tov Pathak under the guttural Aleph refers to Rutgers schwa under the non guttural yo D so basically is this yo D is a non guttural Aleph is a guttural sound based on Biblical Hebrew The Aleph prefers the compound of schwa as said that's how you and every Hebrews father would recognize this fact I believe those even this person who's propagating this really probably knows us he probably now just in case I know this is from Wikipedia I'm not a real big fan of Wikipedia so what I did is I sent this information this explanation to a professor Stephen fast bird PhD I went talk a little bit more about him later but he teaches at the he University of Jerusalem Biblical Hebrew in the biblical in the Hebrew language Department so this guy is the cream of the crop when it comes to professors I sent this to me says yes that is right based on Biblical Hebrew this explanation so there's there's the second witness to this explanation it has to do with guttural versus a non guttural in a compound schwa versus a Rutger SWA it's the same word does the same value a video so about five minutes this person is dr. William Bart he teaches or taught he's semi-retired now but he taught at the Masters of seminary and he taught Hebrew and introduction to Hebrew one into an extra Jesus and some other courses so anyway I want to show a very small clip is about four to five minutes and he explains where a grammatical standpoint why and how the word Jehovah or Jehovah rose so bear with me and I'm gonna start that now but what happened was they said okay instead of pronouncing the name Yahweh and that Yahweh is probably the best I'd say 75% or more of Hebrew scholars whether they're Jewish or whether they're Christian whether they're Christian in name only or whether they're truly born again would agree that Yahweh is the pro the correct pronunciation of the title but they decide that they would pronounce it with the name add the NIE add the nine means Lord literally it means mine Lord but it the mine is no longer really considered a part of it's kind of like a fossilized part of it and it's literally my Lords it's a majestic plural a plural of majesty and so a benign means Lord this is this way in our English Bibles this is translated this way with capital letters it sounds the same well that started with the Alexandrian Jews in Egypt who then translated the Septuagint which is the Greek translation of the Old Testament from the Hebrew to Greek about 250 years before Christ and they used for this title they used the Greek kurios and so this came across into Christian circles the same way this is why in the New Testament even when the Old Testament is being quoted and the name Yahweh is in the original Hebrew text the New Testament because in 80% of the cases where the in the New Testament is quoting the old its quoting from the Greek Septuagint you'll see Koryo shooters and so it's Lord so this was used so how did they signal this well they said okay let's take this vowel here and put it here let's put this vowel up here and let's put this vowel here now if we do that number one this is a violation isn't it why does this have a compound schwa three rules the generals refuses Dudley prefers compound choise prefers a class vowels and the olive prefers a compound schwa well with the yodh the Yotes not a guttural so that's not needed all right so it switches down to a schwa now pronounce this yeah hola Jehovah Jehovah that's where the title or name Jehovah comes from Jehovah is a name that does not exist he was never known as Jehovah all that is is a title that is made up by combining the vowels of Adonai with the letters for Yahweh and those vowels are put there so it would so that adds and I would be said rather than Yahweh and so someone has then decided to create a Nima that pronounce it ignoring the whole purpose of this the way it's written and you'll see in our text here on on the screen that the Holum has dropped out why because they began to recognize if you put a vowel with every one of the consonants that it no longer is taken by some who don't have the learning as being a name or a word to be pronounced that way that's how Jehovah came arose and so they take off the Holum so that all you have is two of the three vowels as a clue to say Adonai rather than to say Yahweh okay so that's why up here you have Yahweh pointed with a schwa under the yode and the comments under the Wow and that's the signal to pronounce the rather as Adonai and today modern Jews will use hash shame instead because they don't like this confusion in what's called any more than we like it and so they use hash shame what's hash a mean the name the name it's the reference to Yahweh the name all right they'll just say I saw Hashem Hashem I'm and so it's not pronounced now we will pronounce it okay I don't know about you but I really found that video enlightening the way he explained the valentyn he showed how this name occurs so again how well what was the difference yeah if he guttural non guttural right The Aleph within our own eyes a guttural the node within yahweh's a non guttural you have a compound Valdez that's what Gunnar was required The Aleph under the word Adonai and then you have a rudder schwa under the Tetragrammaton under the Yoda but again this is because of Hebrew grammar this does not prove this does not prove that they are two different words this does not prove that Yahweh or I should say Jehovah did not come from Adonai once you understand the Hebrew grammar and how that works you realize how again this name arose and why we see differences between the valve wines has nothing to do with the fact that there are two different words nothing to do with this lie this deception that Jehovah is not formed through the vows of Adonai this is how Hebrew works so those who propagate Jehovah or either doing so because they don't understand the Hebrew language or they understand it and they're trying to mislead and believe me I think there are people out there that certainly understand that again there's a difference in a guttural and a non guttural and there's a difference in vowed a star here grammar for this reason but they choose to deceive because they rather push this Jehovah to conceal the name of our Father in heaven you know this is an example by the way why so important we study and prove these things out so important we look into these matters you know again if not for understanding that there's a difference in vouchers we would not understand why Jehovah looks different from Adonai they're very close but again there is a slight difference with a bow pointing but again that's explained through the grammar and that's the way Hebrew works now another issue with Ujala this is a major major issue is that we find different pronunciations within these codices within these ancient hebrew documents i want to share with two examples with you today the first one is from the leningrad codex leningrad codex faced about 1,000 800 thousand years by the way after the Dead Sea Scrolls thousand years and within the Leningrad codex and I verified there's fact similarly you can go online and you can see the actual text to the Leningrad same thing with the Aleppo and you can actually see the difference in foul so I validated this already and if you don't believe me go go out online look for the Leningrad codex look at these passages and you'll see the vows are different so let me show you an example here so this is variations of the Tetragrammaton within the Leningrad codex so you can see here may be hard to see from the audience but there's different vowel points here now based on those different vowels see approximate transliteration so renderings would be this yellow ah Yahoo ba Yahoo yeah whoo why Yahoo Yahoo we yell we I'm sure I had some of there's a little bit off but you can see us it's not the same right there's distinctions and the Spelling's oh we just lost my powerpoint there's distinctions in Spelling's between these these instances of the tetragrammaton and notice also we had a passage or so if you want to take a photo of this go online do a search for leningrad codex and then look at each one of these this is their Sanh line and you're going to see this and by the way so the first two examples here based on the evidence is like from Adonai the others are likely from the word Elohim the third and fourth are for sure from the Hebrew word Elohim so you can see instances of where they would use Elohim and and also a John I within these within these instances okay there's one more example here this is you know oh there it is this is the aleppo codex and the aleppo codex stays to about 930 C II so again about thousand years remember that the ninth century is the is the oldest manuscripts we have from the Nazareth's and this is by the way the aleppo clinics for those who advocate jehovah this is the the holy grail if you will this is the best manuscript according to the rest of us but even here we see different pronunciations based on the value a facsimile this is a facsimile and this is of judges 16 verse 28 is what we see here you can see these two circles you see that those circles represent the yo-dee-hey Wow hey of Yahweh's name now based on the valley the approximant rendering the best I can come up with anyways yah yah whoa and Jehovah so that is the rendering that the transliteration if you will if we would take this into English and we also see here again that the one first one yellow is from a door now you can see the valve points of Adonai there and the second one it looks like is from the word Elohim the vowel points from Elohim so here's two different spellings based on the vows with in the prize the beloved aleppo codex showing that Jehovah is not the only spelling we find based on these Mesmer attic foul points as I said Elohim is also used and and by the way is used most often when I don't I and Yahweh appear either side by side or very close together that way it doesn't read something like I don't I don't I instead it would read adonai elohim she's redundant says that's the only reason that you really uses and by the way you know we find many many more discrepancies and other codices besides a Yelena grad and the eleven we probably turn the lights on by the way so we find many many examples beyond these two codices with this same with these same discrepancies now let me ask you if you base your pronunciation of Yahweh's name where the tetragrammaton based on the Masoretic text how do you reconcile these discrepancies how do you reconcile the how do you reconcile the fact that we don't see one rendering of the Tetragrammaton but we find many many different renderings of the Tetragrammaton based again on the Masoretic text you know as we already saw we we saw as we saw in the alone oh god codex we have yah wah Yahoo Yahoo whee Yahoo whee and yet we so how do you choose how do you choose between those six and let's throw it throw in jehovah in there how do you choose or let me tell you you can't you can't choose since there's multiple pronunciations or just with no way of knowing which pronunciation is right based solely on the resurrects manuscripts and again the problem is there's no scholarship beyond these Manzarek texts you know what's amazing if you ask those who support you Hova please show me one scholarly reference PhD encyclopedia did something forming this same conclusion based on the same evidence you will get no answer because there is no answer but again what do you do when you have multiple spellings based on these Mazarin space based on these Mezrich text you can't use them as huerta text to determine and decipher the name we find many many examples of different spellings for the holy name for the sacred name for the divining you cannot use the Masoretic text to uncover the pronunciation of the name is simply doesn't work you know there's another issue with you hava and that is the V now we know that V within your overcome from the six letter of the Hebrew alphabet this is known as the vow this modern-day Ashkenazi Hebrew now according to Hebrew linguist Hebrew scholars they say the bob was originally a Wow oh wow and pronounced as a W for example here's what we find from a Edward Horowitz in his book how the Hebrew language grows as the sound of wah oh wow a long time ago was involved at all but W and W is we the Yemenite Jews of Arabia have retained an ancient correct and pure pronunciation of Hebrew still pronounce the word that the Wow as W as does Arabic and closest or language closest from language of Hebrew so according to what we see here the Bob is originally a what it was originally a Wow and a Wow was originally pronounced how it was pronounced as a soft W a soft W he also confirms here that the Yemenite Jews of Arabia have retained a more correct and purer form of Hebrew you know I think I've shared with this with many of you but well in Israel this last time our archaeologist tour guide he was with you is really in Tiffany's authority and upper still was actually and and a graduate of Hebrew University of Jerusalem very smart man or we were talking we were on a Mount Carmel and I asked I said the way we pronounced the name I said would you mind if I at you know is that the right pronunciation says yes he said that's how you your to Europe Ranson and Yahweh we didn't say Yahweh's is how you pronounce you he says not only that and this blew me away he said not only that he said this is how my Yemenite wife would say the name and he explained that the Yemenites have a closer form of Hebrew to Biblical Hebrew than the Ashkenazi or modern Hebrew matter of fact he said because modern Hebrew does not have a W Santa's not about wasa it doesn't have that he says his heart for him and many other Jews to actually make a W sound they don't have a W sound it's a V sound but his wife being Yemenite she has retained that W sound so he says not only as right Yahweh and again this guy he's an archaeologist he's a graduate from the Hebrew University of Georgia he is he's been in Israel for decades I think he was in his 60s or something but he's been in Israel since a child and he says his Yahweh and he says is Yahweh also because of how my human at white would pronounce this name again I was just blown away number one that he would actually admit that but also go on to say what he said about his wife and we also find evidence for the for the W or the the Wow versus evolved from the Ashkenazi versus Sephardic Hebrew for example here's what we find from a man named man-mana heme Mansoor and his book Biblical Hebrew so he says there are generally speaking two main pronunciations and there's others but these are the main two pronunciations yashka na z of german or german originated by central and eastern european jews and carried all countries to which those jews have emerged Western Europe America cetera and the safari of Sephardic or Jewish used by the Jews of Spanish report retort Portugal stock in Europe and American also like Jews form Oriental countries in all universities and throughout Israel the Safari or a Sephardic pronunciation has been adopted since it has generally believed that this is the pronunciation nearest to the original so we see here two forms of Hebrew one is Sephardic or Safari one is Ashkenazi again this man at Mansoor says that the Safari is closer to the biblical hebrew now again as we see here the Ashkenazi they settled in Central and Eastern Europe and the Safari representing the Jews then who settled in the Mediterranean mainly as I understand in Spain and Portugal so these are the two groups and where they were and how they were influenced or not influenced desert as it would be so as we know Safari or a Sephardic Hebrew uses the Wow it uses it up you look it up Safari Hebrew uses awhile Ashkenazi or a modern Hebrew is modern Hebrews based when Ashkenazi Hebrew you evolve or the V so there's a difference and this is another indication that it was a day a well not a bob this is not a V but a W and this is also why Ahava is not possible and again remember we were looking at all those references how would it pronounced it yeah whole life yeah whole way you see the scholars know the scholars know when you pronounce it in Biblical Hebrew they know not to use the V only those who don't understand the Hebrew language would ever say that Jehovah is the correct pronunciation or those trying to deceive one of the two they either don't understand or they're purposely willfully trying to deceive I want to share with you a correspondence now I was really impressed with with his correspondence obviously with us we emailed I don't know 20 professors I think so Harvard Stanford and also the Hebrew University of Jerusalem I think I got one or two responses back from Stanford they didn't say much they said they didn't really know I got three or four responses back from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and one man who responded his name is professor Stephen fast Burt and I you know for my for my impression he's sort of the go-to guy when it comes to ancient Biblical Hebrew I'll explain that in just a moment why that is but I want to I want to share with you my correspondence and in his reply but before that they give you just a sense of who this man is his his academic credentials I want to share some of that information with you so I received this a B in 1978 as PhD from Harvard currently teaches at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem so PhD from Harvard professor of the Hebrew University he's a member of the Academy the Hebrew language Jerusalem he's an associate editor for the historical diction of the Hebrew language project and also the encyclopedia of Hebrew language and linguistics he served as chair for the department of Hebrew language from 1998 through 2001 and also from 2006 through 2009 he was a director of the Orion Center for the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and associated literature from 2006 through 2009 and he also contributed to countless articles and believe me when I say countless articles countless articles it's amazing you look at this Celeste's man's file and you can do it go online look for a professor Stephen fast burg and you can find his his his biography is his profile and it will show all the articles and all the references I think he wrote or contributed to the Aramaic section within the encyclopedia Judaica I mean that's amazing think about it one of the premier references and this man contributed to that along with a hundred others I don't know about a hundred but the list is rather long okay so that's who this man is I want to now show you my correspondence so that you understand the context to which he responded and then we'll look at his response so I wrote professor if Asperger I'm in the process of researching the Hebrew tetragram attendant have noticed some using the formula can you confirm yet whether you have as proper correct based on the Hebrew letters you today while he watched uh beach also can you confirm the origins of the Hebrew letter Voth and the V sound within the Hebrew language is this letter and sound found in ancient Hebrew or later and does a predate the Hebrew Wow several sources say that the V sound was influenced from the Germanic language and was not present in Biblical Hebrew Koine Greek or Phoenician does scholarship confirm this conclusion that was October 30th 2017 is when that email was sent so a few days later he responds with this so as a pronunciation you mentioned and that was your OVA is a mistake isn't that amazing do you remember this man's credentials he says it's a mistake he says a Hebrew context is why HWH say no one really knows how this was pronounced in Old Testament times which by the way did not surprise me he responded with that being a professor he says at a later date a latter half of the second millennium CE mazarites added vowel signs to the constant text whenever the Tetragrammaton was written they added the vowel signs of the word Adonai which means my lord there were there was a taboo on pronouncing the Divine Name and one was supposed to read the word Adonai my lord much later now listen to this I love this listen to what he says here he says much later some started reading the vowel signs together with yhw agent came up with you nonsensical word Jehovah Irrational's what that means none sensible rationally is a hybrid is fake or he goes on to say this he there is no doubt that the original sound was W naught V some time during the history of the Hebrew language there was a shift from W to V and pronunciation probably already during the mission iakh period so what are some of the takeaway points from this professor fast burg for number one well he doesn't confirm the name yawen I wasn't assuming you would truthfully he unequivocally here states that you hope is a what he says Jehovah is a mistake and nonsensical irrational he also explains here that you over to whoever came about from the Missouri sat at the Val points for Matt and I to the Tetragrammaton he also verifies here that when the Jews saw these dial points they were to read what they were to read the Hebrew word Adonai Adonai he goes on to say only much later did some actually begin pronouncing the points of a door and I with the yhw WH which gave rise to Jehovah or Yahweh prior to so listen it was never the intent of the Jews that they would pronounce the vowels with yhw H so not only is you over wrong the people pushing this don't understand the old tradition they're not even following their own tradition right now again keep in mind this man's credentials not only does he have a PhD from Harvard not only is he one of the leading professors within the Hebrew University of Jerusalem but he has contributed to so many references you know considering but we've already heard from scholarship and now what we see here confirmed through this professor fast for you know so amazing how people can still deny this how people can still deny this and then point to one man who is neither a scholar in my mind nor believer in the Messiah and yet they do they do by their burrows they just follow this man like nothing I've ever seen before it's just amazing now in addition to confirming that you hope as a mistake and developed now points of adonai we also see here the professor fast burg acknowledged is another important truth and that is that the the Wow predates the Bob in other words the W predates the V according to fast burg there's no evidence for the V or the valve until the Mushnik period of the Mushnik period corresponds to about the 1st and 3rd century see I always say about 1st century is a mush niak period so before this before the Common Era there there was no V says there's no evidence for the anyway the time where we see the V with in Hebrew is in the Masonic period not before not according to professor fast burg and not from anything else I've seen most nearly all scholars say that Biblical Hebrew again had the Wow had the W based on the Safari Sephardic based on the Yemenite Hebrew so this claim that the Hoff previously that the Wow and or the the w is is came from Arabic it's just wrong there's absolutely nothing from a scholarly stance that would give credence to such a such an idea there's no evidence to support it I want to move on now and talk about why we believe and I know I'm going along I do apologize for that I knew I would I should have warned you beforehand so I want to talk a little bit about why we believe Yahweh's the right pronunciation I'm not gonna dwell on this is that this message really is focused on Jehovah or Jehovah but I'm gonna read a few references showing the evidence for this so I'm gonna go through this a little bit quicker this is forming encyclopedia Judaica says the true pronunciation of the name wiht Beach was never lost several early Greek writers that the Christian Church testified that the name was pronounced Yahweh so there's evidence from the Judaica again one of the most premier sources within Judaism today and it says that the name is pronounced Yahweh the Encyclopedia Britannica 15th edition volume 10 pages 786 says early Greek writers such as clement of alexandria in the 2nd century now keep in mind 2nd century that's like seven years before the earliest Masoretic text isn't that amazing it says Alexandra in the second century had used the form Yahweh thusis pronounced pronunciation of the tetragrammaton was never really lost Greek transcriptions also indicated that ygi BH should be pronounced Yahweh so there it is based on the Greek based on documents 1800 years ago they're saying it's Yahweh the pronunciation of Yahweh this is from Erdogan's Bible dictionary the pronunciation Yahweh is indicated by transliterated shape literation of the name and a Greek an early Greek Christian literature in the form of IAO u e clement of alexandria or IAB e theodore by the time greek now it says b had the pronunciation of v course we know that v was more of a w strictly speaking yahweh is the only name of judy in Genesis where ever they word shim or name is associated with the divine being that name is Yahweh so here in the Greek real quickly we have the iota Alpha Omicron epsilon and Epsilon these form the name yahoo when the when you sound them on Yahweh Yahweh so if you send them out you get yahweh according to scholarship and according to hey you know we can even look at the sounds ourselves we have the greek letters that's all we need we have the Greek letters we know how to break sounds we can sound the sound now there's another section of evidence I think is important to recognize and that is nog Hammadi or these Gnostic writings this is from a dr. Martha nog kamati scriptures secret book of John it says Elohim and Yahweh two names of G OD in the Hebrew Scriptures Yahweh's a name of TOD based on the Tetragrammaton the inevitable four-letter name so this is gnostic and this gnostic source by the way goes back to the time of Irenaeus which goes back to about 2nd century ce e so very very old document same thing with same timeframe as a clement of alexandria now we may see evidence and I say maybes you know I can only find it once I like to find things more than once but I will share it Haley's a viable handbook says it says say so now in state e98 that he had discovered on three separate tablets in the British Museum of the time of Hammurabi 18th century BCE by the way eighteen hundred years before Yahshua came this is a words Jawa or job way is God or Tod JA way or how do you think that was pronounced Jah we know that J there doesn't exist right there's no J in Hebrew so we know it's not J is why Yahweh Yahweh isn't that amazing eighteen hundred years before the Messiah came we find evidence from these tablets and then British Museum according to Haley's handbook confirming that the pronunciation is Yahweh Yahweh now I want to look at one more reference here this doesn't have the full name but it's really interesting this is a manuscript from the Dead Sea scroll collection it's actually some two inch in fragment going back to the first century and you can actually see now remember remember prior to the ninth century there are no vowels so the Hebrew documents per hour to this Dead Sea Scrolls there's no valid points I know some of these people are saying or look you're gonna find your Hovind Dead Sea Scrolls that's nonsense that's nonsensical as professor fast Berg would say there's no evidence in the Dead Sea Scrolls for Yehovah there's no eval points there's nothing to validate such a such a conclusion but here these are great and guess what Greek does Greek Greek maintains and preserves the vowels so we know so here we have an iota Alpha and Omega that pronounces yah or Yahoo maybe yeah first century first century so we see here evidence when we see evidence from the second century from both Christian sources and also Gnostic sources and let me say this real quickly about these two references some people say oh you could never use Gnostic references Gnostics were heretics say they actually believed Yahweh was as cruel and mean mighty when they reject him as evil so these guys they had nothing in common but you know the fact that they disagreed the fact that the Christian fathers opposed the gnostics and yet they both agree on this one point tells me that this was widely known because listen they would never the Gnostics would never support church fathers and church fathers would never support Gnostics unless the information was so well understood that neither one could deny it it's like saying that truck is blue or I don't care who you want if you look at a blue truck it's a blue truck it's the same thing here they were no friends and yet they both recognized based on Greek inscriptions by the way which preserved the valence that the name was Yahweh 1800 years ago we also see here tablets from the time of Hammurabi 1800 years before the Common Era job way or Yahweh confirming this name we also see evidence again from the Dead Sea scroll collection the Septuagint first century documents and the Greek confirming yah how could it be jehovah if we have evidence in greek from the Dead Sea Scrolls that the first syllable is yah let's not even hit and we also had the again Iranians and and Clement and and Theodore and others the supposedly heard these things this name from the Jews and the Samaritans you know here recently we compiled a list of scholarly references confirming the name Yahweh I'm not gonna read these by the way I promise but I did want to go through the list real quickly just a titles you can look this up go to our better work and search for literary support for Yahweh's name literary support for Yahweh's name and you can find the quotes no I'm just going to read the references and this is to give you an idea of just how many references there are they confirm the name Yahweh so inside on the scriptures by the way inside of the scriptures this is a Jehovah's Witness reference and they say within that reference that while English is preferred Hebrew scholars prefer Yahweh Jehovah's Witness a book of in the Bible Wycliffe Bible Dictionary the Oxford Companion of Bible admins Bible dictionary the journey from text to translation understanding the Old Testament the new English Bible again they all support the name Yahweh Revised Standard Version preface the interpreters diction of the Bible the Zondervan pictorial encyclopedia the Bible the International Standard Bible encyclopedia the encyclopedia of the Lutheran Church 20th century encyclopedia of religious knowledge the emphasized Bible in the word English Bible and all these references by the way state that the name is either or likely or is pronounced as Yahweh does not say yhw H this is Yahweh we purposely sought references that stated and confirmed that the name was Yahweh so again you can see the URL yrm.org / literary - support - Yahweh's - name if you want to look at that reference now keep in mind that there's many many other scholars confirming this I mean I get again going all day long showing evidence for Yahweh's name from scholarship now the same cannot be said though about Jehovah and I challenged I've challenged some of these folks who believe in you hope I said show me one scholarly reference PhD paper research paper encyclopedia dictionary I have yet I have yet to receive any other reference besides to this one correct Jew but they refer to for all evidence not a single other questions the other areas I don't consider this person's not other scholar I cannot find one scholar to look at the evidence these Hebrew manuscripts these codices with these mounts and come to the same conclusion as they're coming up with why because scholarship disagrees scholarship doesn't agree with us scholarship shows across the board that Jehovah Jehovah Jehovah came about through the valence of Adonai and as we've already seen you know I believe that this is a third or a violation of the third commandment yowzers don't take my name in vain but it can also mean to bring it to nothing to bring it to ruin to bring it to destruction we're not to bring Yahweh's name to destruction and when we replace Yahweh's name with a known hybrid with an erroneous hybrid we are bringing that name to destruction so is this worth the debate yes it is this is absolutely worth the debate this is worth defending Yahweh's name again there are two important truths that I see one is Yahweh's name and one is a Sabbath and they're both worth defending especially against a counterfeit a hybrid that you can prove the scholarship existed for the sole purpose to hide and to conceal the name of our Creator so I will not apologize for that and I pray that this message has been a blessing for you and I really hope more than anything that has helped you understand Yehovah Jehovah Jehovah they understand how this developed and if someone comes and says or where evidence or what about these vowels or what about these 500 manuscripts where we see the name Jehovah that you can explain this and if not I would encourage you to go back and listen the specimen is it solid eres is it there you know Yahweh's name again you know we see in Scripture he says to honor his name to praise His name to sing to his name to exalt his name his name is critically important and I for one will not stand back and allow a counterfeiting known counterfeit to disguise the most important name in this universe may Allah bless you [Music] you

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Published: Tue Dec 05 2017