Post by Natalie on Feb 6, 2022 17:24:33 GMT -6
Just as a disclaimer of sorts – You can go down lots of rabbit holes on this one. 
There are lots of opinions out there when it comes to God's name. But to paraphrase something I read, it's not a salvation issue, and He is so much more than just one name could express. But the following is something that I thought was kind of cool.
I was watching a video (the Proximity Conference with Jack Hibbs, Amir Tsarfati, and others), and at one point they were talking about the Hebrew verb “be” and its different forms. God's name (the tetragrammaton YHVH) is a form of the verb “be”. In Exodus, He tells Moses “I am who I am”, and He calls Himself simply “I Am”.
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There are lots of opinions out there when it comes to God's name. But to paraphrase something I read, it's not a salvation issue, and He is so much more than just one name could express. But the following is something that I thought was kind of cool. I was watching a video (the Proximity Conference with Jack Hibbs, Amir Tsarfati, and others), and at one point they were talking about the Hebrew verb “be” and its different forms. God's name (the tetragrammaton YHVH) is a form of the verb “be”. In Exodus, He tells Moses “I am who I am”, and He calls Himself simply “I Am”.
When we look at the other forms of “be”, it's cool to see that God's name also reflects “was”, “is”, and “will be”. I found a couple of sources that say that the rabbis of old also noted that the letters of YHVH are used to form the phrase “He was, He is, He will be.” And that is exactly the way He describes Himself in Revelation 1:8.
Hopefully you can tell the colors - the last letter in "was" is the last in YHVH, the first two in "is" are the middle two in YHVH, and the first letter in "will be" is the first in YHVH (Hebrew being read from right to left).
