June 25, 2012—SnyderTalk Editorial: Yahweh Did Prohibit One Group From Using His Name—As Punishment; Plus Read About the New Egyptian President

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Yahweh Did Prohibit One Group From Using His Name—As Punishment

Although Yahweh commanded us to declare His Name to the world, there was a time when He forbade the use of His Name by the Jewish refugees in Egypt following the Babylonian captivity in 597 B.C.[i]  But He intended this prohibition as punishment.

When Nebuchadnezzar conquered Judah, he allowed some of the poorer Jewish people to remain in the Promised Land rather than deporting them to Babylon.[ii]  He also appointed Gedaliah as governor,[iii] but in a short while Baalis, the Ammonite king, sent Ishmael son of Nethaniah to murder Gedaliah.[iv]  Fearful that Nebuchadnezzar would retaliate by annihilating the Jewish people remaining in the land, they thought about fleeing to Egypt, but instead they asked Jeremiah to intercede with Yahweh on their behalf.[v]

Jeremiah did as they asked, and this is what Yahweh said:

“If you will only stay in this country, I shall build you and not overthrow you; I shall plant you and not uproot you, for I am sorry about the disaster I have inflicted on you.  Do not be afraid of the king of Babylon, whom you fear now; do not fear him, Yahweh declares, for I am with you to save you and rescue you from his clutches.  I shall take pity on you, so that he pities you and lets you return to your native soil.

But if you say: ‘We will not stay in this country;’ if you disobey the voice of Yahweh your God, and say: ‘No, Egypt is where we shall go, where we shall not see war or hear the trumpet-call or go short of food; that is where we want to live;’ in that case, remnant of Judah, listen to Yahweh’s word: Yahweh Sabaoth, God of Israel, says this: If you are determined to go to Egypt, and if you do go and settle there, the sword you fear will overtake you there in Egypt, and there you will die.”[vi]

When Jeremiah gave them Yahweh’s reply, they accused him of lying[vii] and set off for Egypt, taking Jeremiah with them.  In Egypt, they worshiped false gods thinking that they were prosperous in Israel while they venerated idols.[viii]  They did not realize that Yahweh inflicted the Babylonian disaster on them for worshipping false gods, among other things.

Jeremiah confronted them in Egypt and warned them to abandon this vile practice, but they were stubborn and refused to listen.  Thus, Yahweh said,

“I swear by My great Name…that My Name will no longer be uttered by any man of Judah throughout Egypt; no one will say: ‘As Lord Yahweh lives.’”[ix]

As you can see, Yahweh prohibited a specific group of people from using His Name for a particular time.  He was punishing them for disobeying Him, for worshipping false gods, and for profaning His Name.  Eventually, most of the Jewish people who fled to Egypt for safety were killed in Egypt by Nebuchadnezzar’s army, just as Yahweh foretold.  It should be clear that God will not tolerate our willful disobedience or our profaning His great Name—Yahweh.

With this information as background, consider this perspective on the prohibition against writing or saying Yahweh.  The writers of the “Talmudic and Rabbinic sources” referred to by Rabbi Scherman institutionalized a punishment Yahweh imposed on an idolatrous group of Jewish people who were violating His Word and His specific commands delivered to them by His prophet Jeremiah.  Read Yahweh’s Word and search for even a hint that He intended for them to do that.  If you do, you will not find it because it does not exist.  Whether or not their motives were pure, they dishonored, distorted, and defiled God’s Word by incorporating as an integral part of their tradition a punishment from Yahweh intended for a specific group for a particular time.  What’s more, virtually every modern English Bible translation on the market today has repeated this dreadful error.

This is an excerpt from His Name is Yahweh.  It explains why the Name of God, Yahweh, is so important.  It’s a book that you need to read and share.  It’s available in eBook format and in paperback.

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[i] Evans, Michael D.  Beyond Iraq: The Next Move: Ancient Prophecy and Modern Day Conspiracy Collide, White Stone Books, Lakeland, Florida, 2003, p. 119.

[ii] Jeremiah 39: 10.

[iii] Jeremiah 40: 7.

[iv] Jeremiah 40: 14.

[v] Jeremiah 42: 2.

[vi] Jeremiah 42: 10-16 from The New Jerusalem Bible.

[vii] Jeremiah 43: 2.

[viii] Jeremiah 44: 16-19.

[ix] Jeremiah 44: 26 from The New Jerusalem Bible.

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Ezekiel 3: 22-27

The hand of Yahweh was on me there, and He said to me, “Get up, go out to the plain, and there I will speak to you.”  So I got up and went out to the plain; and behold, the glory of Yahweh was standing there, like the glory which I saw by the river Chebar, and I fell on my face.  The Spirit then entered me and made me stand on my feet, and He spoke with me and said to me, “Go, shut yourself up in your house.  “As for you, son of man, they will put ropes on you and bind you with them so that you cannot go out among them.  “Moreover, I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth so that you will be mute and cannot be a man who rebukes them, for they are a rebellious house.  “But when I speak to you, I will open your mouth and you will say to them, ‘Thus says the Adonai Yahweh.’ He who hears, let him hear; and he who refuses, let him refuse; for they are a rebellious house.”

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His Name is Yahweh explains why the Name of God, Yahweh, is so important.  It’s available in eBook format and in paperback.

  • God also said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘Yahweh, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.’ This [Yahweh] is my name forever, the name by which I am to be remembered from generation to generation.” (Exodus 3: 15)
  • “Therefore behold, I am going to make them know—this time I will make them know My power and My might; and they shall know that My name is Yahweh.” (Jeremiah 16: 21)
  • “Behold, the days are coming,” declares Yahweh, “when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch; and He will reign as king and act wisely and do justice and righteousness in the land.  In His days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely; and this is His name by which He will be called, ‘Yahweh our righteousness.’” (Jeremiah 23: 5-6)

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My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.

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