The Name of God

Good morning, it's good to see you all here, a little earlier than usual. So, since we're recording this earlier, you have to be more awake. I remember when I was teaching, it was always the eight o'clock or the nine o'clock classes, those were the hard ones because everybody's really tired and sleepy.

But today, we have what I think is a very interesting lesson, and I hope you will find it interesting as well. We often talk about God's name, right? Where do we see God's name? Alpha and omega in the heavens, right? Now, the name of God, we often correlate with alpha and omega, and where does that come from? Exactly, Revelation 1. Yes, very good. So, here in Revelation 1, we, let me just bring that up here.

All right, it's not Revelation 1, but we can get there. Okay, in verse 8, who is speaking? Jesus is speaking, and He says, I am alpha and omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is and which was and which is to come, the Almighty. Now, is that His only name? No.

What's another name that He has? Okay, Elohim, Yehovah, Jesus. Yeah, what was it? Emmanuel, yes. And, of course, there are some descriptive, the Lamb, Comforter, you know, various things, and Jesus said, sometimes it can be a little bit confusing, actually, because who are we referring to? Are we referring to the Father, Jesus, the Son, or the Holy Spirit? Sometimes the names are used interchangeably, and Jesus himself, he said, I and my Father are one, right? Another verse that we have looked at comes from the book of Numbers, and let me bring that up.

That's Numbers chapter 6. All right, and God says in verse 23, Numbers chapter 6, verse 23, God said, Speak unto Aaron and unto his son, saying, On this wise ye shall bless the children of Israel, saying unto them, and then here's the blessing, The Lord bless thee and keep thee. The Lord make his face shine upon thee and be gracious unto thee. The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee and give thee peace.

So, and then he finishes, and he says, and they shall put my name upon the children of Israel, and I will bless them. So, what is His name? Okay, in this case, you notice, at least in the English translation, most English translations, they replace the name of the Lord with the words The Lord, and they signify that with these capital letters, and you'll notice every time it says, The Lord bless thee and keep thee, The Lord make his face shine upon thee, The Lord, it's actually his name, and it's not clear exactly how that name is to be pronounced, whether it's Yahweh or Jehovah or other variants, but what we do know is that this is what it looks like in Hebrew, right? Now, in Hebrew, this is four letters, and in Hebrew, they read in the opposite direction, so they read from the right to the left. This is the first letter, this mark is the Yod, and then Hey, and the Vav or Waw, and another Hey, four letters.

A little bit of Hebrew today, but what I want to do is understand how this name, because he says, they shall put my name, and He just said his name three times, right? Three times, yeah. Perhaps we could connect that with the three persons of the Godhead, but I think it's pretty clear that He's talking about, when He says my name, what He just mentioned. Now, surely it fits also, as we have connected it with His new name, which we see in the sign of the Son of Man, but what about his old name? This is His old name from the very beginning of the Bible, Yahweh.

Is that also something we might see in the sign of the Son of Man? That's what we're going to explore today, if we can see His old name also, because it would seem to suggest, from this passage, that we should be able to see His older name as well as His new name with the alpha and the omega. Now, this is modern Hebrew, okay? But if we look at the time when Moses was alive, Hebrew looked very, very different. It was actually, they were little pictures.

Every letter was a little picture, and God's name looks more like this in the ancient cryptograph form. Still the same four letters, the Yad, the Hey, the Waw, and another Hey. Okay, but now you see there's a little bit more meaning there, because rather than just a mark, it is a picture, and a picture is worth a thousand words, right? What is the Yad a picture of? Who can tell me? Well, they're simplistic pictures.

It's a picture of a hand, an arm. That's what the Yad represents. You can imagine it's got somebody's arm there, in a simplistic form.

You can think of, like, grabbing something, whatever. It's, in simple terms, we would say a hand, right? Let's just look at all of them first. Then we have the Hey.

Now, that's a pretty clear picture, I think. A person, yeah? And what is this person doing? He's raising his hand, right? Yes, okay, so that's enough for now. And then the Waw is, some of the letters have changed in their pronunciation also.

For example, in the ancient time, it was a called a Yad, whereas now it's more of a Yod. So, little differences like that. Waw in the ancient Hebrew versus more of a Vav in the modern Hebrew, but that's not our point.

But this letter, what does it look like? Any guesses? A y. And where might you find a Y? Where might a Hebrew person find a Y? Perhaps a fork in the road or a tree branch, yeah? This represents, like, a tent peg. They would anchor their tent down with a stick or a nail, something along those lines. And they would use, like, a Y so that they could wrap the rope around the tent peg in that way.

Okay, so those are the pictures behind the four letters. But now, that's not quite enough to associate that with the sign of the Son of Man. One thing I want to say up front, what we don't want to do is try to look at the star patterns to find the shapes of the letters, because, well, there are a lot of stars, and you can find anything somewhere.

That's probably not going to be the way to find the significance and the true meaning of where God's name could be found. But we have these pictures, and in heaven we also have pictures, and some of those we can, when we understand how the ancient people understood these things, then it becomes clearer, you will see, where they are represented in the sign. So, a hand.

What does a hand or an arm, what would it represent for an ancient Hebrew person? Strength? Deliverance? An oath, perhaps, in certain circumstances? Good. Any, yes, the right hand referring to his strength and things that, what is your hand for? Creating, for example, you do things with your hand. Work, it represents all of those things together.

That's, in one letter, that's all encompassed there. It's the hand, the strength, doing something, and, of course, this is about the Lord. This is His name, so it's about what He does.

And what is the Lord's work? Well, let's go to Deuteronomy, chapter 5, and verse 15. Deuteronomy, chapter 5, verse 15. And remember that thou was a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand, and by a stretched-out arm.

So, that's the symbolism of the yod or the yad. Therefore, the Lord thy God commanded thee to keep the Sabbath day. We'll come back to that.

So, God associates His strength, His right hand, or His mighty hand and His stretched-out arm with what? With deliverance. Okay? Where would you connect that with in the sign? Exactly. We've seen already, we had a whole series where we saw the deliverance of Israel traced out on the path of the comet K2, marked in blue.

And you notice it said, He said, therefore, the Lord thy God commanded thee to keep the Sabbath day. And we have seen the commandments in the sign, and where is the Sabbath? At the Horologium. So, our attention is over here for the hand, because that's where the Sabbath commandment is, and that's where the deliverance begins.

But the deliverance is a process, right? Work is a process. So, the Sabbath is the memorial of what? Okay, of creation and what else? And redemption, that work, that process of deliverance. The Sabbath is the memorial for that deliverance.

But the deliverance itself is a process. Sure, six days of the process, and then one day to remember, something like that. Okay.

But what I want to emphasize is that the stationary part is the memorial. The Horologium is the memorial. It points to the Sabbath, whereas the process is what? The path of the comet.

That's the part that's moving, right? Okay, you might imagine it like a hand, but we have connected this comet K2 with which of the two witnesses? Horologium or Orion? With Orion. Why? Because that's where it ends. It starts over here, and then it comes, and it ends with Orion.

Not far. If we continue that out, we would find it crosses very near his hand. So, that's the first letter right there in this comet, okay? Yes, exactly.

We could even look at this in our Bible reading. We open to Isaiah chapter 62, and verse 3 stood out to me, because he says, Thou shalt also be a crown of glory. He's speaking to His people.

Israel shall be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God. So, we're talking about the hand and the crown. Where do you put a crown? On the head, right? So, yeah, exactly, but it even points to where the crown would go, and points to it with the hand, the Yod, right? So, K2, that comet, corresponds to the Yod.

Okay, now let's look at, if I can get to the right screen here, there we go. Okay, let me skip over the hey first, and look at the tent peg. Now, this is perhaps a little bit strange.

What does a tent peg have to do with anything we might see in the sign of the Son of Man? The tent peg was used to anchor the tent, right? And it's also used as a nail. It's the same symbolism. And, for example, there is a verse, a story in the Bible.

You remember Cicera? Judges chapter 4 tells the story of Cicera and all that, he was the king against Israel. He went out, Balak went out to fight, and he wanted to take the prophetess, and anyway, I just wanted to point out, he went into the tent of who he thought, one who he thought was a friend, and she let him rest, and what did she do? In verse 21, then Jael, Heber's wife, took a nail of the tent, it's that same symbolism, and took a hammer in her hand, it's kind of gory, but went softly to him and smote the nail into his temples, fastened it into the ground, all right? So, this was probably an iron nail, and I just want to use that to bring to mind other uses for this same tent peg nail thing. Yeah, okay.

What else were nails used for? Jesus, of course. We know Jesus had nails in His hands and in His feet, right? Where do we see that? In Orion? Orion is, this is a little bit tricky also, a little bit, but we just have to keep it straight in our mind, and then it's clear. How was Jesus crucified? Let me ask that first.

How was Jesus crucified? He had his arms stretched out, and feet on top of each other, right? Is that what we see in Orion? No. It always puzzled me for a while in the beginning when we were studying Orion, because it's not a cross. In Orion, His feet are apart.

So, what's that? Okay, this, Orion represents Jesus in His priestly role. He's ministering, and what does he do? He points, if you will, to His hands. He says, My blood, My blood.

He pleads His blood on behalf of sinners. So, the stars of Orion, they don't represent Jesus, Jesus on the cross. They represent what? His wounds.

These are the scars, the wounds in His hands and in His feet. So, He's not on the cross. This is after the cross, but what were those wounds made from? They were made from the nails, right? Where do we see the cross? In the Horologium, and I can show you that in a different picture.

Here, I've put a cross on top of it to show, because we can see that because of the time, it points to Jesus' crucifixion. Three o'clock, that's the ninth hour when He was crucified. So, it points to the time, points to Jesus' crucifixion, and so we see in its form a cross, also pointing to the hours of the day that were relevant, that are mentioned in the Bible in connection with His crucifixion.

Nine o'clock, midday, noon, three o'clock in His death, and in the evening, six o'clock, His burial. So, where are the nails? All right, we saw that K2 represented the action or the act of the Lord, His act of deliverance, right? E3, the other comet, it's associated with which witness? To the Horologium. K2 comes to Orion, E3 goes to the Horologium, and that's where we see the cross.

So, we have, just like in the Horologium, we saw that the Sabbath, or the Horologium, is a memorial for the deliverance. In Orion, we have a memorial for what? It represents His work as High Priest, but it's a memorial of His sacrifice, and we said the stars point to His wounds. They're a memorial, the stars themselves are memorials of His wounds.

Exactly, there's also the blood represented there, you could look at the other, the minor star for the wound in His head, wound in His side, the spear wound, but the four outer stars represent the wounds from what? From the nails, and where did the nails go? Into the cross. The nail is the comet E3, and it goes to the cross, all right? It even comes here, right, more or less at the hand. So, you see how it works? We have the process of deliverance, the act of God, His hand, He brought the people out with a mighty hand, and the Horologium is the memorial of that action.

The other comet shows His crucifixion, the nail being put into the cross, and Orion is the memorial of that, of those wounds that Jesus took for us. So far, so good? Amen. So, back to the Hebrew name of God, we've looked now at the hand and the nail.

What about the person? What does that represent? Witnesses, we've got two of them, that's good, I'm sorry? The man in the river, here in the sign, let me get this one, the man in the river, yeah? Okay, he doesn't have raised hands, but what does it represent? It's the oath of Daniel 12, also, the man over the river, but it represents a baptism, burial, in symbolic terms at least, it points to Jesus' crucifixion, his death. Right? But it's more directly connected with His burial. That was His baptism.

His baptism was a baptism into the sacrifice of the cross. So, here, now, we see in the sign the crucifixion, His death, His burial, and what do we have here? His resurrection, now He's alive. Sure, but it points very much to the three days, His death, burial, and resurrection.

So, what about the man, in the name? Well, the picture represents a man, yes, but it's one who is saying, look, behold, it's about revealing something. This is what the people who study this say, that that letter represents those things, beholding, revealing, and it's kind of funny because to connect that with the picture, they say it's like you're looking at something and, you know, behold, but I have to question that because normally, if you look at something, how do you identify it? Like, if you say, oh, look, what do you do? What hand motion do you do? Look, right? You don't say, oh, look, or, oh, look. When would you look at something with both hands? Exactly, it's look up, that's what it's really saying, look up, and another aspect in it is it's about breath because it's an expression and it includes breath and it's the precursor to our letter H, which is the ha, the breath sound, and where in the sign do we see that? In Columba, that's the Spirit, breath, and so we see that same relationship because that's connected with the man in the river through the baptism of Jesus, and where is the dove looking? Looking at Jesus, looking at His death, His burial, if you will, the result of the nail, the process of His deliverance, the act of His deliverance was at the cross, and that is where the looking is directed to.

Yes, it's the central part. Now, why in the name are there two of them? In the sign, there's only one, but in the name, there are two. Sure, that's true.

I hadn't thought about that. That's nice. Both the Spirit came down like a dove and the Father spoke also and even said, I need to see the words on that.

Did He say behold or, because I think He may have. What verse? Matthew 3:17. And lo, a voice from heaven saying, this is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased.

I thought there was one that, yeah, the transfiguration. Yeah, I know that one. All right.

In Matthew chapter 17, while He had spake, behold, that's Jesus speaking, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and behold, a voice out of the cloud which said, this is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased. Hear ye him. Okay.

So, yes. In the sign, of course, we have seen the hearing aspect like we have here. Hear what the spirit says to the churches, for example.

Hear him, the Son, My beloved Son. And in this case, we have behold. He says this.

You can see Him pointing, if you will, to His Son and the work that He's doing. Hear Him. Look at Him.

But I think there's another reason why there are two times the symbol for the Spirit in His name. How does this sign form? They're from two comets that one comes and then the other one? At the same time. So, we have the two comets are coming together, and then they meet here more or less at the same time within a short time frame.

This one makes this path while this one is a little bit slower, and they meet there at the same time. So, if we follow the path of beginning with the hand, the first letter, that would be K2. It starts here, the yod, and then it comes to the center part where there's the Spirit, the Spirit looking at Jesus' sacrifice.

And then it meets with the other comet, the comet representing the nail, and then the nail comes and passes by that same area with the Spirit. You follow? And that's exactly the sequence of the letters. First, K2, the hand comes to the Spirit, passes through that area, then the nail comet goes and passes through that area.

Yod, if I were to do it that way, yod passes through the Hey area, and then the K2 passes through there. So, yod, hey, vav, hey. There in the sign of the Son of Man, we have also the original name for the Lord. Why? The beginning and the end, the old and the new, if you will.

Not just His new name is there, but also His old name. Amen. So, when we see the sign, we can recognize that it's pointing in every way to the crucifixion of Jesus.

It's showing, remember, in the Hebrew mind, the name was not just a label. The name had meaning. The name represented the character.

And so, when we see the name of the Father in the sign of the Son of Man, it's pointing to His character. His character is about the hand and the nail in the hand. That's what we see, the hand and the nail, the memorial of His act and the memorial of the nail scars.

And then the looking is at His burial. And what was special about His burial? It was on the Sabbath. Was it just any Sabbath? It was a High Sabbath.

John 19:31 talks about, it mentions, and this was a high Sabbath day. It says that Sabbath was a high day, meaning it was a weekly Sabbath and a ceremonial Sabbath. And what comes, what study comes from that understanding of the high Sabbath? It's the study of the gene of life, Christ's spiritual DNA, if you will.

And that's what we see also represented in the river. It's the river of His blood from the wounds in His side, the water and the blood. And in the blood is His DNA.

So, that's what we see in the high Sabbath, His DNA, His blood. And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony. By the way, this is the word of Christ's testimony, right? That's His sacrifice.

And this is what we see there is His testimony. That's the word, the name of His testimony. Amen.

The sign of the Son of Man, because He came to the earth, He gave His life on the cross, He gave His blood. And then now where the comet is pointing to is in Orion where we see His resurrection. That's the resurrection that is memorialized in Orion, and that's why that's the end of the sign, the end of the deliverance aspect of the sign, because that's the resurrection, the life that He gave for us in this process of deliverance.

Amen. Amen. I, if I be lifted up on the cross, I will draw all men to myself.

We see that directly in the sign, being lifted up on the cross, drawing all men through that process of deliverance to Himself, represented in Orion. And we're raised in the newness of His life because of His resurrection. Amen.

That's His name, and that's how we put His name, even Yahweh, on the children of Israel, as it says in Numbers. Amen. Just as we saw before, that deliverance from Egypt is a process, but it's all illustrated in His death, burial, and resurrection.

It's all a process of sacrifice. We also reflect that same process, yes, take up your cross and follow me, then you will be raised in the newness of life, passing through the burial, the resurrection, receiving the blood of Christ. It's all there.

It's all in the sign. Yes, exactly. Exactly.

It's very visual. Put My name on the children of Israel. There it is, the children of Israel.

We have the two comets representing His name as they pass through. You know, the Spirit is everywhere. The nail and the work of God on the earth, those are limited to the paths of the comets, but the Spirit is the whole body, is in the people.

The Spirit is in the people. There's a lot that we can learn from that. Yes.

For me, that's the best part, is look, look up, because you would only say look with two hands if you're looking up. You never say, oh, look. Anything earthly, you look with one hand, but when you're looking up, it's so much greater, so much bigger, you have to spread your hands, and that's the picture that is shown, and God wants us to look up to see His name, to put His name on the children of Israel, which is we also.

We are grafted into that tree. So, amen. Let's close with the word of prayer.

Dear Heavenly Father, once again, we thank you for your word, the word of life, and you know, Jesus said that his words are Spirit, they are life, and we see how true that is, that even in the word, in your name, we see so much meaning and depth, especially when we heed the counsel of that name, to look at the nail, to look at your work and what you have done, the hand and the nail, to behold those in the heavens. That's what we see here in the sign of the Son of Man, and we just praise you for your work. It's so much more than just an ordinary act or even just an ordinary sacrifice, but you gave your Son to die for us, that we might live and receive life from you as we look to the Savior lifted up in the heavens.

So, we thank you for this revelation, for the understanding that you impart in the heavens through your word. We praise you, and we thank you, we love you, and we ask that you will be with us always until we see you and you take us in your hands as a crown and a diadem of glory. We are unworthy for such an honor, but you've never needed us to be worthy.

You always acted on your own, and it's just a response of love that we return to you, and we praise you for all of your mighty acts in every way, and we ask your blessing that many may receive the gift from heaven that you have given in your Son and in your creation. We pray these things in the name of our Lord that we see in the heavens. Amen.

All right, we'll see you next week.