Tirian
Puritan Board Sophomore
Growing uneasy about the usage either LORD, or Jehovah or YAHWEH in place of YHWH when we should want to "praise the name of YHWH" as per Psalm 148:5
I've always accepted that we just have to add consonants into YHWH because otherwise how do you pronounce it, but lately I've been wondering if the pronunciation of YHWH being lost isn't an accident.
Phillipians 2:9 Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, 10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, 11 and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
So, our hearts naturally want to praise the name, per Psalm 148 but how can we do that unless we first know what the name is? We have YHWH in the old dispensation, but clearly we have been given Jesus in the new. Therefore if I want to praise the name, per Psalm 148 am I right to think that the completed canon of scripture suggests that I do so by praising specifically the articulated name of Jesus?
As such, do we need LORD/Jehovah/Yahweh at all in places where the covenantal name of God is used in the OT and should we just leave it as YHWH in our translations & thought life?
I've always accepted that we just have to add consonants into YHWH because otherwise how do you pronounce it, but lately I've been wondering if the pronunciation of YHWH being lost isn't an accident.
Phillipians 2:9 Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, 10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, 11 and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
So, our hearts naturally want to praise the name, per Psalm 148 but how can we do that unless we first know what the name is? We have YHWH in the old dispensation, but clearly we have been given Jesus in the new. Therefore if I want to praise the name, per Psalm 148 am I right to think that the completed canon of scripture suggests that I do so by praising specifically the articulated name of Jesus?
As such, do we need LORD/Jehovah/Yahweh at all in places where the covenantal name of God is used in the OT and should we just leave it as YHWH in our translations & thought life?