Sunday, 5 November 2023

Tetragrammaton YHWH and Jesus

This is a tetragrammaton. The first letter of every word of the signboard (hebrew) that was fixed above the cross on which Jesus was crucified spells the name YHWH, which in 15th to 17th centuries AD or a little earlier by adding the vowels YHWH was pronounced "Yehowah", and in English we call Him "Jehovah". The vowels are supplied from another adoration word "Adonay". "Adon" literally means "my Lord". We can see this tetragrammaton in Exodus 6:2, "I am the LORD (Yehowah)". This is one beautiful example which equates Jesus with His Father. Jesus said that "I and my Father are one.. the Father is in Me, and I in Him", in John 10:30, 38. When Philip asked Jesus to show them the Father, Jesus said, "He that hath seen Me hath seen the Father", (John 14:8,9) and says again in v10 and 11, that "I am in the Father, and the Father in Me". When Jesus has come to know that the time for His crucifixion has come, Jesus said, "Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again". The people therefore, that stood by and heard it, said that it thundered: others said, An angel spake to him. (John 12:28,29). We can see a similar thing happening at Jesus baptism in Gospel of Matthew, Mark, and Luke, the witnessing of the Father from heaven, "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased", (Matt 3:17; Mk 1:11; Lk 3:22). There are still more instances of equating Jesus with the Father in the Holy Bible. 

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