February 2006
Dear
Chaciyd
(Saints),
This is
an hour of biyn (understanding), and YAHUAH
is bringing biyn (understanding) to HIS people.
We should not be afraid of the changes we have to make
because we are after the
EMETH
(TRUTH). The whole reason why we assemble is because we
want to know the EMETH (TRUTH). When we begin to
call on YAHUAH’s
shem
(name), there will be those that will not walk with
us. Now, we must allow the
qadash
ruah of YAHUAH to teach
us HIS name and its pronunciation.
Let’s remember the message from the
convocation where I said, “When YAHUAH brings us
into emeth (truth), we will walk in the emeth
(truth). What I perceive or think to be true today
may not be true tomorrow when YAHUAH brings
biyn (understanding) to it. I will always seek
emeth (truth).” When you are able to make
statements such as this one YAHUAH really knows
your heart. One of the most difficult things for man to
do is to admit his mistakes. The natural man wants to
resist the truth and finds it difficult to say that they
were walking in error or say to the congregation what I
thought was right is not right. We are a people who do
not want to confess our faults. We must learn to say I
was wrong, YAHUAH, help me to know the emeth
(truth) and make the necessary adjustments. So, we must
learn to go against our upbringing when confessing the
emeth (truth). Man wants to lie. It is in man
not to face the emeth (truth). We must learn to
admit that we were in error and deceived.
Now we
are beginning to see that we were wrong concerning
YAHUAH’s shem (name). It is one thing to be
deceived, but it is a different thing to be bewitched.
Let it be said that we have been deceived, but not
bewitched which means that once the emeth (truth)
is revealed we would not reject the emeth
(truth). If you choose to reject or ignore them
(truths), then you are bewitched.
YAHUAH is the everlasting name and that name will
never change. This study will take some time in order
for us to discover all of the TRUTHS. Upon studying
history and scripture, it has been revealed that
Yahweh is not the qadash name of ABI, the Father.
Yahweh, also is a hybrid name, meaning it is a name
that was made up just like Lord, God, Jesus Christ,
Jehovah, etc. Just like Yahweh is a hybrid word,
haleluyah also is a hybrid word. The word that is
similar to it is the Greek word, alleluia.
Alleluia means praise Yah in the Greek. This term was
derived from two Hebrew words, the word halal and
the word yah.
Halal means
to be clear, to shine; hence to make a show, to boast,
to celebrate, to sing, to be praise worthy, and worthy
of praise. Yah has direct bearing on YAHUAH’s
name. So, halal yah means praise Yah. We
should avoid saying haleluyah (alleluia) because “lu”
means if, which leads one to believe there is a level of
uncertainty concerning who deserves to be praised.
Since we know whom we are praising, we should say
Halal Yah. Just like we have dissected the word
haleluyah and alleluia, we will dissect everything else.
In the
Watchtower, they ask the question, “How Is God’s Name
Pronounced.” Let us
zakar (remember)
that YAHUAH NEVER referred to Himself as a god
because all gods are dogs, “created”, but YAHUAH
creates. The magazine states, “The truth is, nobody
knows for sure how the name of God was originally
pronounced.” Now, no one knows how not to pronounce the
name of his or her god, but there might be some
discrepancy in how to pronounce YAHUAH’s name.
It continues to say, 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 wrote only the
consonants.
According to Josephus (Wars of the Jews,
5.556) as well as by Hebrew grammars, all of the
Tetragrammton was vowels, which is completely different
from our previous understanding that the Tetragrammaton
was all consonants. Bagster’s help to Bible study also
says these are vowel letters in the sacred Name, ‘as
having been originally used to represent vowels, and
they still frequently serve as vowels in combination
with the points.” Bagster says the Waw represents the
letters O or U (From Yahweh’s Restoration Ministry).
“While ancient
Hebrew was an everyday spoken language, this presented
no problem. The pronunciation of the Name was
familiar to
Yashar'YAH
(Yisraelites) and when they saw it in writing [they
knew what it said]” According to history, there was a
time when the language was not spoken for about 100
years. Then, another time the language was not spoken
[ancient Hebrew] for 1600 years. Just as recent as the
late 19th and early 20th century,
Hebrew was revised as a spoken language. This is one
reason why the meaning of words are unknown, thus making
it difficult for the modern scholar to rely solely on
the Hebrew versions as the last authority. So, what if
we stop writing and speaking our language for that
amount of time? We also would forget the language.
Future generations would have no knowledge of it. When
a language is not spoken, the people lose it.
Different
scholars have different ideas about how the name YHWH
was originally pronounced. According to Dr. M. Resiel,
author of The Mysterious Name of Y.H.W.H. pg. 74, the
“vocalization of the Tetragrammaton must originally have
been YeHuáH or YahHuáH.” Cannan D.D.
Williams of Cambridge held that the ‘evidence indicates,
nay almost proves, that Jahweh [Yahweh] was not the
true pronunciation of the Tetragrammaton. . . The
Name itself was probably JAHOH [YAHOH].’
In the
Paleo, the V was not apart of the language. They took
two V’s and put them together to get the W. It was also
written with two U’s joined together, which is why they
say W (double U). Notice the placement of these letters
in the English alphabet, “U, V, W.” They are all
connected. These letters was not always apart of the
alphabet. Just like the letter J, they just recently
added. Most Semitic scholars transliterate Waw as a “W”
or a “U,” depending on school and pronunciation. Vav
and the use of V did not originate till later. In the
early texts of the English Bibles, they spell Dawiyd
(David) as Dauid, which is the same way the Septuagint
writers wrote it in Greek. Arabic’s Waw is a W/U, just
as in the older Hebrew and Samaritan Hebrew. They, like
Greek, do not have vav.
The Romans gave the letter its capital V
shape about 114CE. Medieval scribes wrote two VV’s
together about 1000CE. VV was also written UU and the
letter came to be known as the “double U; written as W.”
Medieval scribes used the V for a consonant and used the
U for a vowel. The development of W and U was very
similar to the development of I and J. The letter J did
not exist in the early alphabets. First, you have
Proto- Canaanite script and from that descended the
paleo-Arabic, paleo-Aramaic, paleo-Hebrew, and the paleo-Phoenician.
The Arabic Greek descends from the Phoenician, and the
Latin descends from the Greek. The Greek made the
letter a single, vertical stroke about 600 BCE. They
named the letter Iota. It makes the same Y sound of Yod,
as a consonant, but also makes an I sounds, as in
index. The Roman gave the “I” its capital form about
114CE. When “I” was the initial letter in a word, they
began making an ornamental descending stroke to the
left. This began in the 1200’s and became popular in
the 1500’s. Generally the initial sound of I was a
consonant. Eventually, the letter J came to denote the
Y sound and the I sound. The letter J became
different from the I in 1630, in England. With the
development of the letter J and the European use of the
letter V for Waw, the corrupted spelling of Iehowah
(YAHUAH) became Jehovah.
Tehilim
(Psalms 44: 20-21) If we have forgotten the name of our
YAHUAH (The Almighty One of Oaths, The Shalat
Creator), or stretched out our hands to a strange god
(mighty one); 21 Shall not YAHUAH search this
out? for He knoweth the secrets of the heart.
This scripture teaches us if we have
forgotten or was cause to forget YAHUAH’s shem
or spread out our hands to strange (foreigner,
prostitute, harlot) god, He shall search (examine,
investigate, explore) this out, for He
yada (knoweth, perceive,
discern, distinguish, consider, acquainted with,
skillful in, have knowledge of and is instructed in) the
secrets (hidden things) of the heart (mind, will,
conscience). YAHUAH knows what is in us, why it is
in us, and how it got in us, and who put it in us. This
is why we must not fight against the EMETH (TRUTH) when
it is revealed. We must drop the lie and run with the
EMETH (TRUTH).
Mattithyahu(Matthew) 24: 20-26 But palal
(pray) ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither
on the Shabbath day: 21 For then there shall be great
tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the
world to this time, no, nor shall ever be. 22 And
except those days should be shortened there should no
flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days
shall be shortened. 23 Then if any man shall say unto
you, Lo, here is
MashaYAH, or there believe it not. 24
For there shall arise false MashaYAHs, and false
prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders;
insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive
the very elect. 25 Behold, I have told you before. 26
Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, He is in
the desert; go not forth: behold, He is in the secret
chambers; believe it not.
YAHUAH is going to make Himself
known to us. Man has told us for centuries what to
think and believe. Now, it is time for us to let the
Ruah of YAHUAH tell us what to believe. That
is what we are seeking.
In the
Yachal
(Hope) of YAHUSHA MashaYAH,
