YHVH is Jesus' Name Too

So let me get right to the sermon itself. I want to say that we heard a very good sermonette, and it will tie right into the sermon, which is much appreciated, tying in so well. We know that God does inspire both messages, so it's very good. Just an excellent sermonette. Thank you very, very much. So today, what I want to cover is something about the name of God, and we must honor and obey God regarding that Third Commandment. And I want to go through some of the statements and prophecies in the Old Testament, and I want to show how they were fulfilled in Christ. And by doing so, we're going to prove that that sacred name Yahweh is Jesus' name too. The sacred name Yahweh is Jesus' name too. Now, both father and son share that name, but they're both God. They're both eternal. They're both ever-living, everlasting. So they both share this wonderful name, Yahweh.

And it's not just the father's name and without having the son's name. They both, our father, father and son, have the name Yahweh. Now, I want to give, first of all, some basic scriptures regarding the family status of father and son. I think I've got about five of them here, and it might be good if you take notes and put notes in the margin of your Bible to write these down, and then put them next to Genesis 1 and verse 1, because a lot of arguments will be stopped by these five verses. A lot of confusion will be stopped by these five verses. Let's turn, first of all, to Proverbs 30 and verse 4. Proverbs chapter 30 and verse 4. Proverbs 30 and verse 4. Who has ascended into heaven or descended? Who has gathered the wind in his fists?

You know, these mighty hurricanes that seem to be getting worse and worse, God could just take his hand and crush it with his fist. Wouldn't mean any problem at all for God to do that. Who has gathered the wind in his fists? Who has bound the waters in a garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? Proverbs 30 and verse 4. What is his name, and what is his son's name, if you know? Here we have in the Old Testament both father and son identified in doing these mighty works. Let's turn to Genesis 1 now and look at verses 1 through 2. Genesis 1. And these are really the most important words of all because it says, in the beginning God. So if there was no God, there'd be no beginning. There'd be no beginning, there'd be no us. So these are very extremely important words. In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void. Darkness was on the face. Of the deep, the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. Now, just how did God create the heavens and the earth? Many scriptures explain how that happened, but I will just turn to 1 and that's Ephesians chapter 3 and verse 9. Ephesians chapter 3 and verse 9. Ephesians 3 verse 9.

And to make all people see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the ages has been hidden in God who created all things through Jesus Christ. It plainly says God created all things through Jesus Christ. Both God the Father and Jesus Christ the Son were involved in the creation of the universe. We're involved in the creation of all things. Now I want to turn to Hebrews 1 and I will admit that as many times as I read this verse over the many many years, I would read right over it. Just read right over it. Miss the obvious. Hebrews 1 verses 1 through 2. God who at various times and in different ways spoke in times passed to the fathers by the prophets has in these last days spoken to us by his Son, whom he has appointed heir of all things through whom also he made the world. So, plainly it says God at various ways, at various times, different ways, God the Father spoke to the fathers, the men of old, Old Testament by the prophets. Again, a very important verse we have here. Now let's go to John chapter 1.

John chapter 1, and this again should be a verse that we should really have memorized.

John 1.1. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. So, way back in the beginning there was the Word of the Son and God the Father, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him nothing was made that was made. And then to remove any doubt as to who the Word is, verse 14, John 1 and verse 14. And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. So, I urge you to keep these five scriptures, one in Proverbs, one in Genesis, one in Ephesians, one in Hebrews, and then these verses here in John. Keep them close to you because they will answer a lot of questions. They will stop if a person is open-minded and just wants to read the Bible, they will stop a lot of arguments as well. We need to be very familiar with these five scriptural references, including John 1 verse 14. Now, I'd like to go to PowerPoint. So, we'll start with the word Yahweh, and also we're going to start there and move forward. But before we move forward, that name applies to both Father and Son, John 10 and verse 30. John 10 and verse 30.

We'll start verse 29. My Father, John 10 29, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of my Father's hand. I and my Father are one.

I and my Father are one. Now, have you ever tried, as you read the Old Testament, to say, okay, here we have the Father speaking, and here we have the Son speaking, and that was going to be one of my goals. I was going to list all the Scriptures, and so this has got to be only the Father, and this has got to be only the Son, and I began to realize, well, now wait a minute, maybe maybe I got it mixed up, or maybe it's speaking of both.

Maybe they're acting like the Bible, who really says they are, as one. And so I didn't get very far, although you can, you know, you can read some of them as far as this has to refer to the Father, or that has to refer to the Son. Yes, you can do that, but all thousands and thousands of these references to Yahweh, I haven't come up with all, you know, precisely parsing each one out.

Okay, let's go to the next slide. Yahweh is but one of many names used for God in the Old Testament, and its exact meaning, its exact precise meaning. Now we can get really, really close, but the precise meaning, like exact pronunciation, has been lost. Okay, we'll go to the next one. Normally, the church pronounces His holy name as Yahweh or Yahweh. That's how we pronounce it today. Yahweh or Yahweh. Okay, next slide, please. It is one of the names of God, and originally there were no vowels in the original Hebrew. What was written were these four letters, YHVH, or again, this would be pretty good in English, or YHWH.

And then the Hebrew vowels were added centuries later. But initially, there were no vowels in the original Hebrew, and that's what you had was just the consonants. Okay, next slide, please. The Divine, and this is, you can see the reference, if you want to get the reference, I've got it in the bottom here.

The Divine name Yahweh is usually translated Lord in English versions of the Bible, and I'm just quoting this from that reference, because it became a practice in late Old Testament Judaism not to pronounce the sacred name Yahweh, but to say instead, my Lord Adonai, and apparently that is still a practice used today in the synagogue. They were so afraid of taking the name of the Eternal in vain, they said, let's be on the safe side. We won't even try to pronounce it.

We'll use Adonai. Well, Adonai is still a name for God, so I don't know what they were thinking, but that was what they tried. At least you can say they reverented the name of God. Okay, next one, please. Now, this is interesting. When the vowels of Adonai were attached to the consonants Yahweh in the Middle medieval period, the word Jehovah resulted. Somehow, they combined Yahweh with Adonai, and the word Jehovah resulted. Today, many Christians use the word Yahweh, the more original pronunciation, not hesitating to name the divine name, since Jesus taught believers to speak in a familiar way to God.

So, it's okay to just speak English, God, Jesus, Christ. It's okay to speak in our language as we pray to God. We don't need to speak in some kind of sacred name, so-called sacred name. So, let's go to the next one. I did not... well, I just... you've got to help me out, reverse myself a little bit here. I was speaking two weeks ago, and two weeks ago in Troy, I did not mention Jehovah, but here is one comment regarding Jehovah. Jehovah is, according to Webster's dictionary, an erroneous rendering of the ineffable, inexpressible... what was that name? I'll get it later from that Mr.

Lassaya used. It's an erroneous rendering of the ineffable, inexpressible name JHVH or YHVH in the Hebrew Scriptures. So, that's a little bit of history of Jehovah. Okay, next one. What does JHVH mean? And from our Who is God booklet, if you have not taken the time to read it and study it, I would recommend that you, say in the next year, read Who is God, that booklet. And what does it mean? I am. It means the Eternal, the self-inherent existence. Nobody has created God. God didn't have a beginning. And so, that's what JHVH means. I am.

Eternal, self-inherent existence. No one has created God. Okay, next slide, please. And what does JHVH mean? This is from Jesus Christ, the real story. Another wonderful and doctrinal book. The Eternal One, the one who always exists. The one who was and is and always will be. The one who was, is, and always will be. It's one of those names you just think about.

The Eternal has always been, always, way, way back. The Eternal is now. The Eternal is now. And the Eternal always will be. And you got to think about it. Just what that does that mean? Because we're finite. We think of, well, last week and we could before, but can we comprehend, can we fully comprehend the one who always was, is today, and always will be. Okay, next slide.

Now, it is easy to spot the JHVH references in the Bible. So, we'll be looking for them. You can use the Strong Concordance, or there's an easier way. If Lord is capitalized, the Hebrew is JHVH. Okay, let's see Exodus 4.22. Next slide. So, again, I copy this off of Esaured. Esaured is very handy, free, by the way, Bible study program. And it has, you have a little feature where you can click onto the, this would be the King James, and the Strong's words are right next to it. So, when you see the Lord capital letters, you can probably see H, that would be Hebrew, 3068. And I put in parentheses, Yahweh. Okay, so whenever you see the Lord capitalized, then it comes from Yahweh. Now, there's a possibility that there's an alternative word to that, but I'll get to that, I think, in just a moment. But when you read through the Bible, and if you see Lord in small letters, capital L and then small case, that's a different Hebrew word. But if you see capital L-O-R-D, that's from Strong's concordance, 3068. And it is from Yahweh. So it's pretty easy. When you read through it, Exodus 4.22, you'll be reading through that pretty soon because we'll be studying, you know, through the Book of Exodus, the first half, first 14 or 15 chapters of Exodus in preparation for Passover. Okay, so very important there. Let's go on to the next slide. Now, a variant reading of Yahweh, which Strong's picks up on, is number 3069. And we have 3068 Yahweh, but Strong says 3069 Yahov-e. Now, how the Hebrews distinguished it, I don't know, but Strong distinguishes it, okay? And this great name is very similar to Yahweh, only they pronounced it Yahov-e. And it occurs, they say, 302 times in the Old Testament. And it's easy to spot this one, too. It is often, and I put always in question, I just went through a few of the verses. It is translated as capital G-O-D. Capital G-O-D, as in, next slide, and he said, Lord God, now, Lord, we'll get to it in a little bit. That's Hebrews 1.36, we'll get to that in a little bit. Lord God, Yahov-e, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it? This is Abraham asking God, how do I know I will inherit all this land that you're telling me about? Yahov-e, okay?

Next slide, please. There's another and a very, very important variant reading of Yahweh, and I'll just use this in like, I'm not a Hebrew scholar, so it looks like they shortened Yahweh and simply say, Yah, Yah, and we see that in Strongs number 3050, and it is a very, very, it's a shorter form of it, but it is a very important word. It's an alternative, a Yahweh, it occurs say 40, 49 or 50 times, and its meaning is the same as Yahweh, eternal self-inherent existence. Okay, next slide, please. So this word, Yah, this holy, sacred name Yah, is combined with another Hebrew word to form, perhaps the most important word for humanity. If you can find a more important word for humanity than this, please tell me.

Please tell me what's more important than the word hallelujah. Now, halal means to praise, okay, means to praise. Hallelujah, next slide, means praise Yah. Praise Yah.

Now, sadly, hallelujah has been used in bad jokes, and I must admit I've been guilty of using it in bad jokes before I realized how holy this name is. Bad jokes, it has been repeated in vain, and yet the entire purpose of humanity is that we spend eternity in the praise of God. Hallelujah.

Praise of God. That's what we're supposed to be doing. Okay, next slide, please. Let's notice Psalm 111. Psalm 111. And we'll look at verse 1.

Psalm 111. And praise the Lord. Maybe you have a footnote or a marginal note which simply says hallelujah. That's what that means. Praise God. Praise the Eternal. Psalm 112, verse 1. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. Psalm 113, verse 1. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. Again, I can't think of a more important name, or more important command in all of the human language. Well, human language starts out in Hebrew for mankind than the word command to praise God. Before we move to the next slide, let me just read to you Isaiah 12 and verse 2. Isaiah 12. 2. Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust and not be afraid for YAH, Y-A-H. The Lord is my strength and my song. He has also become my salvation.

So that's just one of the examples there.

Okay. Next slide, please. And so here we have David promising. I will extol you, O my God, O King. I will bless your name forever and ever. Every day I will bless you. I will praise your name forever and ever. Praising God forever and ever is our goal in life. Next slide, please. Now, what if you read Lord in capital L, but then small case O-R-D. What if you read there? And we'll go to Psalm 110. Psalm 110, where we have the Father, clearly the Father here, talking to who will become Jesus Christ. The Lord Yahweh said to my Lord Adan, Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool. So you have Yahweh, in this case, the Father speaking to Adan to my Lord. We see this also in verse four. The Lord has sworn you will not relent. You are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek. So once again, Yahweh, Father Yahweh, is talking to Jesus Christ, the one who was according to the order of Melchizedek. So can we turn to the next slide? So we see here again, the Lord, that's H-O-Pardon me, H-3-O-6-8, the eternal, said to my Lord, that's H-1-1-3, which is Adan, Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool. Okay, next slide, please.

So Lord is from the Hebrew Adan or Adonai. I think we're more familiar with Adonai, but there's two forms, Adon, Adonai, and it simply means sovereign, controller, Lord, master, owner.

So another name for God. Okay, do we have another slide or is that the end of it here? Maybe we'll try one more. And oh yeah, now too, well we won't worry about that. I'm piggybacking from last or this morning where I had another, I had my show my famous pyramid again, just there it is, there, there, there. So that's what I covered last week, but you can now turn it off. So I want to continue with the sermon, and in this case I want to show the many, not the many, I can't do it all, but some of the references in the Old Testament where Yahweh or other names similar to that refer to Jesus Christ, refer to Jesus Christ. Let's go to, first of all, Exodus 3, and again we will be studying and reading through this chapter. We have a mini Bible reading program, suggested, some of you got it in your email, the countdown to Passover, 32 days of some, not more than two chapters, some of them much less than that, or quite a bit less. And hopefully if you, if we take the time to read those, we'll get our minds on Passover. Exodus 3 and verse 13, and so Moses is wondering, Moses is really trying to get out of this, being the leader, leading people out of Israel. In verse 13 of this chapter, verse chapter 3, then Moses said to God, Indeed, when I come to the children of Israel and say to them, the God of your fathers has sent me to you, and they say to me, what is his name? What shall I say to them? And God said to Moses, verse 14, I am who I am. And he said, Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, I am has sent me to you. I am has sent me to you. And probably in your translation, you probably have that all capitalized, and that's very good. They, it should be capitalized because Jesus Christ is the I am. Now we see this in the New Testament, the fulfillment of it, the explanation of it, John 8 and verse 58.

John 8 and verse 58. We'll start in verse 57, John 8. Then the Jews said to him, You are not yet fifty years old, and yet you have seen Abraham. And Jesus said to them, Most assuredly I say to you, before Abraham was, I am. He identified himself as the great I am. And they took up stones to throw at him because they knew what he was referring to. They knew he was referring back to Exodus 3. But Jesus hid himself and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them and so passed by. But they wanted to kill him because they didn't like him using the word I am, which that's what he was. That's what he is. Now I want to read from the booklet, Jesus Christ, the Real Story. I am is related to the personal name for God in the Old Testament, the Hebrew name Yahweh. When this name appears in our English Bibles, it is commonly rendered using the capital letters L-O-R-D. And if you want to look at it very carefully, it's capital L, capital O-R-D, and the capital O-R-D is little smaller capital letters. It is translated as Jehovah in some Bible versions. When Jesus made this startling statement, the Jews knew exactly what he meant. They picked up stones to kill him because they thought he was guilty of blasphemy. I am and the related Yahweh are the names of God that infer absolute, timeless existence. Although impossible to translate accurately and directly into English, Yahweh contains meanings or conveys meanings of the eternal one, as we covered before. The one who always exists, the one who was, is, and always will be. These distinctions can only apply to God, whose existence is eternal and everlasting. Now, let me give some Old Testament examples of Yahweh, of the Old Testament, and then, clearly, Jesus Christ in the New Testament. And these are not scriptures that can be argued against. This is what they say. They actually say these things, and there's just no way you can... somebody can say, well, they don't mean that, or they don't say that. They say what they say. So, let's look at these. We're going to see Yahweh in the Old Testament, and we're going to see that apply to Jesus Christ in the New Testament. Exodus 17. Exodus 17 and verse 5. Exodus 17 and verse 5.

The people were grumbling, complaining, no water to drink.

Chapter 17 verse 1. No water to drink. They murmured against Moses, and so on. And the Lord said to Moses, Exodus 17.5, Go on before the people, and take with you some of the elders of Israel, and taking your hand your rod, with which you struck the river, and go. Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock in Horeb, and you shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.

And he called the name of the place Masah in Meribah, because it means tempted and contention, because of the contention of the children of Israel, because they tempted the Lord, saying, is the Lord among us or not? They always found a way to complain, the Israelites did, to their ruin and to their detriment. But we see here that we see the word Lord in verse 5, and notice it's those capital letters. So the Lord is speaking, and then Moses is going to strike the rock, which he does in verse 6. And now we see the fulfillment of that in 1 Corinthians 10 and verse 4. 1 Corinthians 10 and verse 4, "...And all drank that same spiritual drink, for they drank of that spiritual rock that followed them, and that rock was Christ." Again, an indisputable statement here. The rock that they drank from, the rock that they drank from was Christ, the Lord of Exodus chapter 17.

A clear reference to the involvement of Christ as to who he was, he was the rock that they drank from.

I want to give a couple more scriptures as to who the people of Israel were dealing with in the Old Testament times, at this time in their history. Hebrews chapter 11.

Hebrews chapter 11. And we will look at verse 23.

"...By faith Moses, when he was born, was hidden three months by his parents, because they saw he was a beautiful child," Hebrews 11.23, "...and they were not afraid of the king's command. By faith Moses, when he became of age, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, choosing rather to suffer affliction," verse 25, "...with the people of God, than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin, esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt. For he looked to the reward." He had a choice of these great riches of Egypt. And Mr. Osborn, and about a year or so ago, Tom Robinson, we went to the museum over here, and they had the King Tut's treasures. And by the way, they're aluminum painted with gold, real stuffs in Egypt, which I think it's a good idea. They don't want to fly that stuff across the ocean. But this Pharaoh was wrapped as a mummy, and then he put them in a tomb, a crown first, and then a gold tomb, and then they put that gold tomb in a little bit bigger gold tomb, and then that gold tomb. And I think it was like four, three or four anyway, gold tombs. And then they put that in a stone box, what do you call that thing, sarcophagus. And they put that stone box in a little bit bigger stone box, and then another one, and then I think another one, three or four of those. And the riches of King Tut were just astonishing. Again, they were all aluminum painted with gold, but the real gold is in Egypt, and it was just incredible. The riches of King Tut's Egypt were incredible, and Moses said no to that, and Moses said yes to the reproach of Christ. He said yes to the reproach of Christ. Now what does reproach mean? Reproach means reviling, disgrace, public spectacle to insults and persecutions. This is what Moses faced to Pharaoh, to Pharaoh's leading Egyptians, and to the people of Israel. They scorned, they laughed, and certainly Pharaoh and all of his cohorts laughed Moses to scorn for a while, for a while, and then things turned.

But again, it is quite obvious that it says it. The reproach of Christ is what Moses was facing and dealing with. Now to another scripture in the New Testament, showing the involvement and the inspiration of Jesus Christ in the Old Testament, and that's 1 Peter 1 starting in verse 9.

1 Peter 1 and verse 9, receiving the end of your faith, and end means purpose or outcome, the end of your faith, which is the salvation of our souls, of this salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that would come to you, searching what or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ who was in them, was indicating when he testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ and the glories that would follow. So it was the Spirit of Christ in Isaiah who explained what the sufferings of Christ were going to be like, and it was the Spirit of Christ in the other prophets that laid out the prophecies.

So we see again that the that the Yahweh of Exodus refers to Jesus Christ. Let's move on to another one. Isaiah speaks of preparing the way for Yahweh. Isaiah speaks of preparing the way for Yahweh. Let's turn to the Old Testament, Isaiah 40.

And brethren, we do have to get, you know, the balance on this. We can't say that Jesus Christ was so heavily involved that the Father did nothing for 4,000 years. We don't say that because we just read Hebrews 1. And then we can't say, well, now the Father did everything and Christ did nothing. We can't say that either. There is that balance. Isaiah 40 and verse 3. Isaiah 40 and verse 3, the voice of one crying in the wilderness, prepare the way of Yahweh. Prepare the way of Yahweh. Look at that. Capital L, capital O, R, D. Make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Now, who was that one crying in the wilderness? Who was that one prophesied to cry in the wilderness? Let's turn to Matthew chapter 3. Matthew chapter 3, and we'll look at verse 1. John was six months older than his cousin. I'm sure they grew up together. They played together. They just had fun together. And then John reached a certain age and he began preaching. In those days, John the Baptist, this is almost word for word from what we just read. John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Judea and saying, Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. For this is he who was spoken by the prophet Isaiah, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. John the Baptist was fulfilling the prophecy of Yahweh, and Christ comes to fulfill that prophecy of Yahweh by being the Jesus Christ of the New Testament. Let's move on to another point. Yahweh, Christ, is the stone of stumbling that is referred to in Isaiah 8.

Yahweh, or Christ, is the stone of stumbling as referred to in Isaiah 8. So we go to Isaiah 8 in verse 13. Isaiah chapter 8 in verse 13.

The Lord of hosts him you shall hallow. And again, Lord, Yahweh. Let him be your fear and let him be your dread. He will be as a sanctuary, but as a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense to both the houses of Israel. And as a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

And many among them shall stumble, and they shall fall and be broken, be snared and taken.

Now let's look at the New Testament fulfillment of this. We'll turn to two scriptures. 1 Peter 2 verse 7. We'll see how Christ fulfills this.

1 Peter 2, 7. Therefore to you who believe he is precious, but to those who are disobedient, the stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone and a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense, they stumble being disobedient to the word to which they also were appointed. Now, Christ is our rock. We read that. And Christ told us in Matthew 7, build your house upon a rock. Build your spiritual life upon a rock, that rock being Jesus Christ. So we are either regarding this stone, we're either going to fall upon this stone and for protection and for help and for security and stability, we're going to fall upon that stone, or we're going to be disobedient and trip over the words of Christ and fall over Christ and his words and it will become to us an offense. We will actually end up really offending ourselves and hurting ourselves. Acts 4, verse 10. Acts 4 and verse 10.

Peter saying, Let it be known to you all and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by him this man stands before you whole. This is the stone which was rejected by you builders and has become the chief cornerstone. Has become the chief cornerstone.

Let's move on to another example. The Yahweh of the Old Testament gives light.

The Yahweh of the Old Testament gives light. Let's go to Isaiah 60 and verse 19.

Isaiah 60 and verse 19. The sun shall no longer be your light by day, nor for brightness shall the moon give light to you, but the Lord will be to you an everlasting light and your God your glory. Now, remember I said that earlier I was going to figure out, these Yahweh references only God and these Yahweh, only Christ. And yet, when you look at this, the sun shall no longer be your light by day nor the moon and so on. And then you turn to Revelation 21. Let's turn back to Revelation 21 and look at verse 22. We'll start in verse 22 of Revelation 21. But I saw no temple in it for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.

The city had no need of the sun or of the moon to shine in it, for the glory of God illuminates it, and the Lamb is its light. Again, both Father and Son working together. Now, what really galled the audience that Christ was facing was what he said here. And hopefully some people I'd like to believe responded positively to his simple statement, John 8 and verse 12. John 8 and verse 12. And Jesus spoke to them again saying, again fulfilling, fulfilling Isaiah chapter 60, I am the light of the world. He who follows me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life. And they accused him of not speaking the truth.

What a sad shame that was. But anyway, the Yahweh of the Old Testament gives light. That's the point I'm making. Now, the next point I'm making is the goat for the sin offering on the day of atonement represents Jesus Christ. And we see here Jesus Christ is the Yahweh of this passage in Leviticus 16. Leviticus 16 and verse 9.

Leviticus 16 and verse 9.

Now, I'm giving this sermon because, you know, we may be tested on this. We may have to face people saying, well, Yahweh only means the Father or Yahweh only means the Son. We better know our Bibles. So we look at Leviticus 16 and verse 9, and Aaron shall bring the goat on which the Lord's Lot fell, on which Yahweh's Lot fell, and offer it as a sin offering. And then in verse 15, then he shall kill the goat of a sin offering which is for the people and bring his blood inside the veil, meaning the Holy of Holies in the Old Testament time. The blood inside the veil do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bull and sprinkle it on the mercy seat and before the mercy seat. And so he shall make atonement for the holy place because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel and because of all their transgressions and for all their sins. So the Lord's Lot, the eternal Yahweh's Lot fell upon a certain goat and it was offered as a sin offering and we see this fulfilled in Christ in the New Testament. Hebrews chapter 9 and verse 28. Hebrews chapter 9 and verse 28. We see this fulfilled in the New Testament.

For Christ, Hebrews 9 and 28, was offered once to bear the sins of many.

Every year they killed the goat. Every year they killed the goat on the atonement.

Many other sacrifices as well, but just on that atonement, over and over again. Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many and to those who eagerly wait for him he will appear a second time apart from sin for salvation. That's chapter 9 verse 28. And now let's go to verse 11 of this chapter. But Christ came as high priest of the good things who come with greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands that is not of this creation, not with the blood of goats and calves, but with his own blood he entered the most holy place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption. And thought continues in verse 4. This is the picture of heaven and this is the picture of Christ coming to the Father after he was resurrected and bringing his sacrifice with him. Verse 24, for Christ has not entered the holy place made with hands which are copies of the true but into heaven itself now to appear in the presence of God for us. Christ ascended to the Father on that day after he was resurrected. He came to the Father. He brought his sacrifice, his sin offering to the Father. And again, I can't think of a more dramatic ceremony than Christ bringing himself. Christ bringing his offering for you, for me, to the Father and the Father accepting it. He didn't bring the blood of goats. He didn't bring the blood of calves. The Scripture says, with his own blood, he entered the most holy place once and for all, having obtained eternal redemption. That's verse again, verse 12. I cannot think of a more dramatic and wonderful ceremony than that. Let's continue on. Jesus Christ is the one referred to in Isaiah 45 as the one to whom every knee shall bow. He is the one referred to in Isaiah 45 as the one, as the as the Yaveh, to whom every knee will bow. Isaiah 45 21, Isaiah 45 and verse 21.

45 21.

Tell and bring forth your case and let them counsel, let them take counsel together who has declared this from ancient time, who has told it from that time. Have not I the Lord and beside me no other God. There is no other God beside me, a just God and Savior, and there is none beside me. And then to continue on, dropping down to verse 23. I have sworn by myself, again this is the Lord speaking, Yahweh, I have sworn by myself the word has gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, that to me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall take an oath, and he shall say surely in the Lord I have righteousness and strength.

So Yahweh is saying every knee will bow to me. And we see this in many places in the New Testament. I'll just refer you to a couple of them. You don't need to turn to them, but we have the Magi, Matthew 2 11. The Magi, when they came into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother and fell down and worshiped him. They knew he was gone. They knew he was gone. They fell down and worshiped him, and when they opened up their treasures, they presented gifts to him, gold, frankincense, and myrrh. Matthew 14 33. This was the case where Christ walked on water, Peter walked on water for a while. Christ calmed the storm, and then they landed, and those who were in the boat came and worshiped him, saying, truly, you are the Son of God. And let's go now to Philippians chapter 2. Now, again, we just read here in Isaiah, Yahweh. That's what we read, Yahweh. Philippians 2 verse 10. Philippians chapter 2 and verse 10.

Therefore God, verse 10 here, that at the name of Jesus, every knee should bow. That was Yahweh in Isaiah 45. At the name of Jesus, every knee should bow, those in heaven, those on the earth, and those under the earth. And every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father. So here we see a fulfillment that to Yahweh, every knee will bow. And every knee will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of the Father.

Yahweh is going to return. The Old Testament says, Yahweh will return. And I'll just read this verse to you, if you want to make a note of it. Jeremiah 12 verses 14 and 15. Thus says the Lord, thus says Yahweh, then it shall be, after I pluck them out, that I will return, I will return, and have compassion on them, and bring them back, everyone to his heritage, to his land. And then the New Testament counterpart of that, Acts 15 verses 16 through 17. After this, I will return and rebuild the tabernacle of David, which has fallen down. Yahweh will return. Jesus Christ will return.

Let's take a look at Jesus Christ is the coming King, Zachariah chapter 14 in verse 9.

Zachariah 14 in verse 9.

We read this especially around the Feast of Trumpets.

And the Lord shall be king over all the earth. In that day it shall be the Lord Yahweh is one, and his name one. And then dropping down to verse 16. It shall come to pass that everyone who is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall go up every year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. And we see this fulfilled by Jesus Christ. He is identified as this Lord, as this Yahweh. He's identified in Revelation 17 in verse 14. Revelation 17 in verse 14.

These will make war with the Lamb. So we know who the Lamb is. In this case, there's only one Lamb, capital L-A-N-B, and that is Jesus Christ. There's only one. There are false Christs, but there's only one true Lamb. And the Lamb will overcome him, overcome them. For he is Lord of lords and King of kings. Those who are with him are called and chosen and faithful.

Revelation 19, 16. He has, I'll just read this, He has on His robe and on His thigh a name written, King of kings, Lord of lords.

Obviously, Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God, is being spoken of here as well.

Maybe we can just go back to one more and begin to wrap this up.

Let's go back to Zechariah the 14th chapter again. Zechariah 14 and verse 5.

Then you shall flee through the mountain valley, Zechariah 14, 5.

For the mountain valley shall reach to Azal, and you shall flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Ziah, King of Judah. Thus the Lord my God will come, and all the saints with you. So the saints are included as coming with Yahweh. And we see this very same Scripture we found again in the New Testament, 1 Thessalonians 3, 1 Thessalonians 3 and verse 13. 1 That he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints. Again, another reference to the Lord Yahweh coming with its saints. Well, I have several more references, several more examples. I'm going to skip through them and come to the last one here. And if you want more references, I have them. But we'll conclude here with something that's so very, very important. And I'm building it from last week's sermon as well, so this will be a good review for us. Yahweh, Jesus, is our intercessor. Yahweh, Jesus, is our intercessor. Let's look at Isaiah 51.

Yahweh is Jesus' name, too, and it cannot be argued against. 51 and verse 22. Isaiah 51 and verse 22. Thus says your Lord, the Lord, and in this case, three different names for God are mentioned here. Lord Adon, Lord Yahweh, and God Elohim, who pleads the cause of his people.

Who is the one who pleads the cause of his people? Jeremiah 50 and verse 34.

Jeremiah 50 and verse 34. Isaiah 54. Their Redeemer, we know who our Redeemer is. Their Redeemer is strong. The Lord of hosts is his name. He will thoroughly plead their case. And he may give rest to the land and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon. Who is the one who will thoroughly plead our case? Let's turn to Romans chapter 8 and verse 34. Romans chapter 8 and verse 34. Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.

Yahweh Christ sits at the right hand of our Father God and makes intercession for us.

And because Jesus Christ is our intercessor, we can come to the Passover in faith, knowing that our sins are washed away by his blood. So, in conclusion, brethren, it is provable that the Old Testament Scriptures quoted in reference to Yahweh do find their fulfillment in Jesus Christ. Yahweh is Jesus' name too.