Tell them ‘I AM’ has sent you

by Anamcari

Ex 3 :14-15 God said to Moses ”Ehyah Asher, Ehyah”, and added, “Here is what to say to the people of Israel: ‘Ehyah has sent you to me.’ God said further to Moses, “Say this to the people of Israel: ‘Yud-Hey-Vav-Hey, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.’ This is my name forever; this is how I am to be remembered generation after generation.”

Ehyah is the phrase that God uses to describe Himself to Moses. In Hebrew it means state of being. Translated it means: to be, to become, to exist, to happen, to come into being, to appear, to be established, to remain, to continue, to accompany, to be finished.

Look at the phrase from Exodus again: God said to Moses, “Ehyah (I am or will be, or God), Asher (who or what), I am or will be or God)” and added, “Here is what to say to the people of Israel: “Ehyah (I am or will be or God) has sent me to you.” This can also be said as: “I am who I will be”, “I will be what I am”, or “I am and will be God” God is saying He is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow.

Yod-Hey-Vav-Hey(YHVH) is known as the tetragrammaton, or the unpronounceable name. When reading the Torah, Adonai is substituted. Jehovah is a representation of the constinents from YHVH with the vowels from Adonai. There is no basis for its use as a name for God. Lord should be used in its place. The Jews do not pronounce the name of God because they do not want to use it improperly. They don’t want to blaspheme God accidentally. They use Ha Shem which means the name, as a substitute. On the Sabbath they use the name of God.

Le 24:16 ‘Moreover, the one who blasphemes the name of the Lord shall surely be put to death; all the congregation shall certainly stone him. The alien as well as the native, when he blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death.

In Hebrew there are two names for God: Elohim and Adonai. Adonai comes from the root of Ehyah and represents the essential and eternal being of God, the Messiah and the Holy Spirit. It means the existing one, or Creator. Adonai is always faithful to His promises and is unchangable. The word God comes from the Saxon word for good, because without God there can be no good. Lord also comes from Saxon, meaning giver of bread.

Elohim is the total majesty of God or all the powers of God. Elohim is the plural of El or God Almighty. Elohim is never applied to any other being, except the Angel-Adonai, who appears in the New Testament as “God in the flesh”. He appears in several places in the Old Testament. For example He appeared to Abraham before the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. No other being would be able to negotiate with Abraham for the towns. The Angel-Adonai lead Moses and the Israelites through the wilderness. El-Shaddai is God as creator, sustainer and governor of the world.

The Holy Spirit is Ruach haKodesh and appears as the still small voice, also known as bat kol, or daughter of a voice.