Beit Yahuwah: Journal of the Charismatic Church

This Journal aims to increase the prostration to and service of Yahuwah, God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit in all the earth, to bring glory to the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Through the encouragement here contained the Church may rise up to her calling to govern and judge the world in Christ Jesus.

Saturday, August 27, 2005

The Day Yahuwah got Married!

The Marriage of the redeemer, Shem Yahwah
I pondered the question
What does it mean to be called by the name of Yahwah? I called Yahwah for understanding of this most important idea. In the mouth of Yahwah’s prophets, Israel as a people are called by Yahwah’s name, Jerusalem is the city called by his name and Amos goes as far as to say there are a group of Goim or Gentiles or nations called by his name.
So I pondered this question. I thought well the name Israel contains El which is one of the names of God but not really his specific name. The name Yehudah again includes the shortened version of his name "Yah" and yes he is exalted by his name Yah but Yehudah doesn’t contain all of Israel. So even this didn’t seem to cover the case.
Then I pondered well may be the Name of Yahwah is a person? And this person is the one who calls people to repentance and salvation. So if one is part of the people who are called by the Name of Yahwah then it is as though that person called "The Name of Yahwah", identified in the early Nazarene faith as the Mashiach Yeshua. To be called by the Name of Yahwah is to be called to repentance and the Kingdom of God by Yeshua the Nazarene. To be called by the Name of Yahwah into his glorious light. To be called by The "Name of Yahwah’s" voice in the mouth of his apostles and prophets.
Could the Name of Yahwah be a person?
"Behold the Name of Yahwah comes from a distance;
Burning is His anger and heaviness is his uplifting (dense is his smoke);
His lips are filled with indignation
And his tongue is like a consuming fire
And his breath is like an overflowing torrent
Which reaches to the neck
To shake the nations back and forth like a sieve
And to put in the jaws of the peoples the bridle
Which leads to ruin"
Isaiah 30 tells us the Name of Yahwah comes he has anger, indignation a language or a tongue and breath. Like the living and true God, Yahwah, his Name lives.
He comes from afar and what does he come to do? He comes to shake the Goim back and forth like a sieve or in another translation he comes "To sift the nations with the sieve of vanity"
And secondly he comes to "lead the peoples to ruin" by putting a bridle in the jaws of the peoples.
So the Name of Yahwah at the time of Isaiah 30 was abiding in a remote place. At a specified time he would go forth from that place and come to take actions on the Goim (nations) and the Amim (peoples). One group he would sift and the other lead to ruin.
He would appear in this passage to be most definitely a person. He being called "Shem Yahwah". His number being 366.
We can understand why Shem Yahwah would want to sift the nations. He would look for the righteous among mankind.
However why would the name of Yahwah want to lead the peoples to ruin?
The context of the passage may help us. The verses preceding and following the introduction of Shem Yahwah indicate it is a time of redemption, healing and deliverance of the people in Zion, inhabitants of Jerusalem. We need remember that Jerusalem is the city called by his name (Shem).
It is said in verse 18 "Therefore Yahwah waits on high to have compassion on you" On high is clearly a great distance from the earth. It is said of the servant of Yahwah " He will be high and lifted up and very high"(Is 52). In the Talmud, tractate Sanhedrin this servant is identified as Mashiach. This is also in agreement with the New Covenant (Brit Chadasha).
And in another place it is written of the Mashiach, David’s Lord "Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstall for your feet" So Yahwah sits on high and there is a servant of Yahwah who is seated with him in this high place.
The earlier verses state that Yahwah is a God of Mishphat (justice) and how blessed are they who wait for him. So with patience those who wait for the justice of the God of Justice will see it done. And when we see the action of Shem Yahwah when he goes forth we see justice being acted on the Goim and the Amim the nations and the peoples. He sifts to sort the just from the unjust and he leads the unjust to ruin. The follower of Messiah prays every day "Lead us not into testing deliver us from evil" However the first petition of the disciples (talmidim) of the Mashiach is "Our Father in Heaven thy name be sanctified". So they are showing a respect and a desire for the name of Yahwah to be set apart as Holy on earth.
We see from the earlier verses that the Shem Yahwah is coming as a deliverer to the people of Zion.
Verse 20: O people of Zion, inhabitant in Jerusalem, you will weep no longer. He will surely be gracious to you at the sound of your cry; when he hears it he will answer you". We know from earlier on in Isaiah that "The Torah will go forth from Zion, and the word of Yahwah from Jerusalem". So immediately we can begin to see that the people of Zion are the people of the Torah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem are linked with the word of Yahwah. This idea of Yahwah seeing their tears and hearing their cry reminds us of the previous redemption under Moses. "And Yahwah said I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Mitzraim and have given heed to their cry because of their taskmasters, for I am aware of their sufferings" (Ex 3) These cries gave birth to the redemption under Moses. "So I have come down to deliver them from the power of the Egyptians and to bring them up from that land to a good and spacious land, to a land flowing with milk and honey". So we see that the process for the sons of Israel was through suffering to glory, this was planned by Yahwah in the first place when he said to Abraham "Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs , where they will be enslaved and oppressed…But I will also judge the nation whom they will serve and afterwards they will come out with many possessions" Then he says "To your seed I will give this land" This seed who were to be enslaved and oppressed are the same seed which Yahwah spoke of saying "In you will all the families of the earth be blessed" "And in your seed all the Goim shall be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice" So we see that the pattern of Yahwah was through the suffering of the seed to the glory of the seed, through privation to prosperity. From slavery in a foreign land to freedom in a land of their own Canaan. So Shem Yahwah comes to deliver the sons of Zion from affliction.

Now this pattern is repeated and is also seen as the pattern for the Mashiach. We see in the case of Joseph that he first enters service of a man and then the suffering of prison and finally his glory as being the ruler of all Egypt. Abraham left his country and kindred and fathers house to come to Canaan. But what did he find when he got there? A famine, so he too went down into Egypt. However again when he left Egypt he left wealthy. The Mashiach Yeshua suffered at the hands of his brethren and was crucified by the nations, he then entered his glory in the heavens. However he has yet to come in the glory of the Father and his angels to the earth in the future. At that time he will come as Shem Yahwah mentioned above in Isaiah 30. So to be called by his name is to be married through the New Covenant to Shem Yahwah the Mashiach.

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