WARNING: Some wearers of gift jewelry may be offended by today's study tip. Notice that Jesus chooses to emphasize whose God He is. In this conversation, God identified Himself by emphasizing whose God He is. Fortunately, God understood the problem Moses was having, and He identified Himself specifically: "I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." God could have named Abraham's brother and father and Melchizedek as well. Osirus, Horus, Isis, and others were known to the Hebrews in Egypt, and Paul saw many of the Greek and Roman gods in Athens, although none of these are named in the Bible. We even know a lot of their names: Molech, Astoreth, Chemosh, Milcom, Baal, Dagon, and Diana all appear in the Bible (they get bad press, though). There were dozens of gods when God called Moses to the burning bush. Whom shall I say has sent me?" The voice says, " GOD." And the guy says, "Which god?" A voice from the cactus says, "I want you to go to Washington and straighten everything out." The guy says, "OK. So this guy is walking along the arroyo, see, and a voice says, "Hey, come over here!" So the guy goes over, and there's this cactus. It is used many, many times as a combining form in names, usually in the form "-iah" or "J-." For example, Zedekiah means God is Righteous, and Joshua means God Saves. Yah is used as an independent word mainly in the Psalms. Unfortunately, most of us didn't learn that in Sunday School, so we end up using "Hallelujah!" to mean "I'm sure glad about that!" It is probably a form of our old friend, "I am." Halelu is Hebrew for "Y'all praise!" "Alleluia" is one Greek or English word that is transliterated from the two Hebrew words therefore it means exactly what the Hebrew means. ![]() I bow and bless the sacred name forever blest.īut wait! There's more! Hallelujah contains another name! Yah is a strange little word that is one of God's names. Jehovah, great I AM! by earth and heaven confessed
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