SnyderTalk Editorial: How Did This Tradition Begin?: an Excerpt from His Name is Yahweh

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Jeremiah 12: 14-17

Thus says Yahweh concerning all My wicked neighbors who strike at the inheritance with which I have endowed My people Israel, “Behold I am about to uproot them from their land and will uproot the house of Judah from among them. And it will come about that after I have uprooted them, I will again have compassion on them; and I will bring them back, each one to his inheritance and each one to his land. Then if they will really learn the ways of My people, to swear by My name, ‘As Yahweh lives,’ even as they taught My people to swear by Baal, they will be built up in the midst of My people. But if they will not listen, then I will uproot that nation, uproot and destroy it,” declares Yahweh.

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Thomas Jefferson

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Jeremiah 22: 6-7

For thus says Yahweh concerning the house of the king of Judah: “You are like Gilead to Me, like the summit of Lebanon; yet most assuredly I will make you like a wilderness, like cities which are not inhabited. For I will set apart destroyers against you, each with his weapons; and they will cut down your choicest cedars and throw them on the fire.”

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How Did This Tradition Begin?: an Excerpt from His Name is Yahweh

Yahweh’s Name was used extensively in Israel until the mid-second century B.C., but during the reign of the Seleucid king Antiochus Epiphanes (175-164 B.C.) its use was abandoned. Epiphanes ruled the Syrian empire (or the Seleucid empire) that included Israel, and he tried to Hellenize the Jewish people (i.e., he tried to turn them into good Greeks) against their will. As a part of his Hellenization program, Epiphanes compelled the Jews under penalty of death to abandon Yahweh’s Law. Additionally, he renamed the Temple of Yahweh and called it Zeus Olympius. Prostitution was commonplace inside the Temple during his reign.

Epiphanes’ actions led to the Maccabean (or Hasmonaean) revolt and that led to the rise to prominence of three Jewish religious sects: the Pharisees, the Sadducees, and the Essenes. With the emergence of these three groups, new religious philosophies began to take hold. The Pharisee sect is the one most responsible for today’s Rabbinic or Talmudic Judaism.

The Pharisees were justifiably appalled by the persecution of Law-abiding Jews and by the attempts of Hellenizers to profane anything having to do with Yahweh and His Law. They decided to build “a wall around the Torah” to keep people from violating God’s decrees. By this I mean they forbade things Yahweh did not prohibit in order to keep Jewish people from even coming close to breaking one of Yahweh’s commands.

One of the so-called “walls” they constructed was the prohibition against saying the Name “Yahweh.” To keep people from blaspheming God’s Name or from using it in vain, the rabbis simply forbade its use except on special occasions—and then only by highly educated, religious Jews. Thus, Yahweh’s Name never was lost. There have been people who knew the correct pronunciation of God’s Name all along, but over time His Name was lost for most people.

The rabbis in the mid-second century B.C. believed their actions were reasonable and justifiable. The Mishnah explains their rationale:

“In times of emergency it may be right to set aside or amend the commandments of God enjoined in His Law: the Law may best be served by breaking it.” (Mishnah Ber., 9: 5 as translated by Herbert Danby, p. 10, n. 13.)

While their motives may have been pure, their ruling made illegal something Yahweh requires and had far-reaching consequences. It prevented people from using God’s Name at all—the Name He commanded us to declare openly and loudly throughout the world and the Name in which we have salvation. They were not the first people to do this. The false prophets of Jeremiah’s day did something similar, and this is what Yahweh said about them:

“How long are there to be those among the prophets who prophesy lies and are in fact prophets of their own delusions? They are doing their best, by means of the dreams that they keep telling each other, to make My people forget My Name, just as their ancestors forgot My Name in favour of Baal. Let the prophet who has had a dream tell it for a dream! And let him who receives a Word from Me, deliver My Word accurately!”( Jeremiah 23: 26-28 from The New Jerusalem Bible)

Clearly, Yahweh was not pleased with the false prophets of Jeremiah’s day, and He certainly did not condone the actions of the rabbis who took it upon themselves about 300 years later to remove His Name from circulation. Their ruling caused most people to forget God’s Name, and some very knowledgeable Bible scholars have argued that it locked away the key to properly understanding the Scriptures. Some of them even suggest that Jesus was addressing this very problem when He said,

“But woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you shut off the kingdom of heaven from people; for you do not enter yourselves, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in.”( Matthew 23: 13)

In Luke’s Gospel, Jesus’ statement reads this way:

“Woe to you lawyers! For you have taken away the key of knowledge; you yourselves did not enter, and you hindered those who were entering.” (Luke 11: 52)

According to the Mishnah, “The blasphemer is not considered culpable unless he exactly pronounces the Name,” (Sanhedrin 7: 5) and violating the ban against saying the Name “Yahweh” was considered a capital offense—i.e., punishable by death. The prescribed manner of death for people committing “blasphemy” was a combination of stoning and being hung on a tree. (Sanhedrin 7: 5) As you will see later, the Bible reveals that Jesus was crucified for violating this prohibition or for simply saying the Name “Yahweh.”

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Hosea 4: 6

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.

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Joel 3: 17-21

Then you will know that I am Yahweh your God, dwelling in Zion, My holy mountain. So Jerusalem will be holy, and strangers will pass through it no more. And in that day the mountains will drip with sweet wine, and the hills will flow with milk, and all the brooks of Judah will flow with water; and a spring will go out from the house of Yahweh to water the valley of Shittim. Egypt will become a waste, and Edom will become a desolate wilderness, because of the violence done to the sons of Judah, in whose land they have shed innocent blood. But Judah will be inhabited forever and Jerusalem for all generations. And I will avenge their blood which I have not avenged, for Yahweh dwells in Zion.

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