Richard Neal said:
"Jehovah" is a Latin name invented for God (Hebrew = Yahweh) by the Masoretes in the 11th century A.D. Consequently I fail to understand why some Christians insist on using it?...
I'll tell you the same thing I told another Christian brother the other day - I agree with you, no Christian wants or demands a 3rd Jewish Temple in Jerusalem. With that being said, however, you insist on looking at Scripture through Christian eyes as if there are no other religious groups who will play a part in eschatological events. Looking at things through a Christian prism only causes you - and so many others - to misinterpret so many eschatological prophecies....The whole point of the drama we know as end time events is that two heretical groups - Rabbinic Judaism and Islam - force the whole world into Armageddon. The Jews, because of their rejection of Christ, demand a 3rd Temple, and they will get it. The muslims, because of Muhammad's hatred for the Jews, will try to annihilate the Jewish nation...The Antichrist will be empowered by the heretical Christologies of Gnosticism, which Islam is the most dominate form of Gnosticism the world has ever known...So these two heresies, for various reasons, will build a 3rd Temple and will perform the "abomination that causes desolation" act, and, in the process, force all the world - including Christians, into the worst time humanity has ever known (The Great Tribulation Period) and, as a result, Armageddon...Learn to look at prophecy, not just through the eyes of a Christian, but through the eyes of others as well. Doing so will help you better understand the end time paradigm Scripture is trying to give you...
Jehovah is Latin as is Jesus as is all the rest of the names in the Bible. In fact, the name Jesus means "Jehovah is Salvation", for the first two letters Je are derived from Jehovah. If Jehovah is to be cast aside, then so should the name Jesus as well as all other Latin names.
Many of the names of the Hebrew Scriptures that we are familiar with, Joseph, Jeremiah, Joshua, etc are Latin. For example, what would you do with all the names that have an attachment to Jehovah ? For example,
(1) Jehoiachin means "Jehovah Has Firmly Established",
(2) his father
Jehoiakim possibly meaning "Jehovah Raises Up", or
(3) Jehoram meaning "Jehovah is High [Exalted] ", or
(4) Jehoshaphat meaning "Jehovah is Judge", with the first four letters being
Jeho, the first four letters of Jehovah, that literally means "He Causes to Become" and that was expressed as "I Shall Prove to Be What I Shall Prove to Be" at Exodus 3:14 by Jehovah himself, and that comes from the root word
hawah meaning "to become".
Since certainty of pronunciation is not now attainable, there seems to be no reason for abandoning in English the well-known form “Jehovah” in favor of some other suggested pronunciation. If such a change were made, then, to be consistent, changes should be made in the spelling and pronunciation of a host of other names found in the Scriptures: Jeremiah would be changed to
Yir·meyah´, Isaiah would become
Yesha‛·ya´hu, and Jesus would be either
Yehoh·shu´a‛ (as in Hebrew) or
I·e·sous´ (as in Greek). The purpose of words is to transmit thoughts; in English the name Jehovah identifies the true God, transmitting this thought more satisfactorily today than any of the suggested substitutes.
The name Jehovah is an established name just as Jesus is. Would it be prudent to remove Jesus name just because it has attachment to Jehovah and just call him "lord" ? Or Jehoshaphat or Jehoram ? These have become established names in the Bible and there is no need to exchange them for another name just because you are in disfavor of Jehovah. And who are you to say whether or not it is accurate ? Because it is not possible to firmly establish how God's name was written or pronounced, can a person rightly remove Jehovah and replace it with titles "Lord" or "God" and still follow Jesus model prayer that teaches us to pray: "Let your
name (not title) be sanctified" ?
The Tetragrammaton (
YHWH, which is a rendering into English characters from the Hebrew יהוה) is in the Bible over 7000 times, more times than the combined titles Lord and God that apply to him. He wants us to know and use his name, of which genuine Christians will continue to do so.
veteran said:
Regardless who one thinks it's 'backed' by, it's Bible prophecy from The LORD, and that's what matters. Some can speculate all the way up to the event of why God would allow it, but they won't be any closer to understanding His warnings about it in relation to the coming false messiah that's to sit in it. For His servants in the lands of Jerusalem for that time He said to flee it, and for those of the countries to not enter in.
Where does the Bible say that the temple is to be rebuilt in literal Jerusalem ? The nation of natural Israel was rejected by Jehovah God, for you can read at Matthew 21, whereby Jesus said to Jewish religious leaders: "Did you never read in the Scriptures (at Ps 118:22), ' The stone that the builders rejected is the one that has become the chief cornerstone. From Jehovah this has come to be, and it is marvelous in our eyes' ? This is why I say to you, The kingdom of God will be
taken from you and be given to a nation producing its fruits."(Matt 21:42, 43)
Thus, natural Israel has been cast aside in favor another "nation" that produces the "fruits" of the kingdom, spiritual Israel.(Gal 6:16) The apostle Paul wrote to the Romans: "For
not all who spring from Israel are really "Israel". Neither because they are Abraham's seed are they all children......That is, the children in the flesh are
not really the children of God, but the children by the promise are counted as the seed."(Rom 9:6-8)
Natural Israel has been replaced with a "nation" that truly follows Jehovah's laws, for Jeremiah wrote: "For this is the covenant that I shall conclude with the house of Israel after those days, " is the utterance of Jehovah. "I will put my law
within them, and in
their heart I shall write it. And I will become their God, and they themselves will become
my people."(Jer 31:33)
Concerning the Jews, of which Paul was one, he wrote: "For I bear them (natural Jews) witness that they have a zeal for God, but
not according to accurate knowledge; for because of not knowing the righteousness of God, but seeking to establish
their own, they did
not subject themselves to the righteousness of God."(Rom 10:2, 3)
Jesus further told the Jewish religious leaders: "Serpents, offspring of vipers, how are you to flee from the judgment of Gehenna ? " Jesus then places the blood of all the righteous prophets as well all the righteous men from Abel to Zechariah at their feet.(Matt 23:33-35) The nation proved to be wicked, deserving of destruction, and which occurred in 70 C.E. when General Titus came against Jerusalem, destroying it over the course of April 3-August 30.