Yahweh, Yahve, Yave, Jahve y Jehovah.

by Alejandro Roque Glez.

“Sing to Yahweh, all the earth… declare his glory… his marvelous works among all nations…. the world also shall be stable, that it be not moved… let the earth rejoice: and let men say among the nations: The Lord Yahweh reigns. Let the sea roar, and the fullness thereof: let the fields rejoice, and all that is therein…. because he comes to judge the earth.”

(1 Chronicles 16:23-24, 28-33)

This is a prophetic song of king David; who––besides being king––was also a musician, military man, and in occasions prophet of God (2 Sam 23:2). In this prophecy he goes back to the End of Time; that is, more than 3000 years later since his time, when the Son of God shall begins his Millenarian Kingdom (1 Cor 15:23-25).

The name of God comes from the Tetragrammaton YHWH. The pronunciation of Yahweh, Yahve or Jehovah, arises from the fact that unless they added vowels to these consonants it is impossible to pronounce them. Over the years the Jews lost, under fear of using God’s name in vain, the sound and right pronunciation. Jehovah specifically comes from the use of Adonai––which means Lord––and those vowels added to the consonants YHVH produce the sound closer to Jehovah, originally initiated in 1518 by Pedro Galatino, the confessor of Pope Leo X; albeit modern and rabbinical research agree that such pronunciation should be approached more to: Yahweh, Yahvé, Yavé, o Jahvé. In this book we use the pronunciation Yahweh, which is the English version, because in turn it includes the four consonants YHWH, and hence more informative considering also that the English language is a sort of international. The consonants of the Tetragrammaton YHWH or YHVH––God’s revealed name––means “I am who I am” (Ex 3:14).

In the Bible––and contrary to what many think––we see that such mention of God’s name (Yahweh, Yavé or Jehovah) do not necessarily mean the appearance of the Holy Father in person; sometimes it is given to a carrier, to a angel who speaks for God, as when Yahweh gives his laws to the people of God, but not without first clarifying: “Behold, I send an Angel before you, to keep you in the way… and obey his voice… for my name is in him” (Ex 23:20-21; Zac 3:1-2); other times it referred to Jesus Christ, the divine Son of the Most High.

The prophet Isaiah tells us, through the Holy Spirit, that Jesus Christ would be called the Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace (Is 9:6, 11:1-2, 40:9-11); in short, Divinity is not so interested in discussion about characters, but in getting the message of the true God without confusion or substitution by false gods product of human creation; or extinct political and religious leaders, who once dead they were beatified as worthy of divine worship; something clearly and emphatically condemned in the Holy Scriptures.

That is why Moses’ body was never recovered. However, the devil had to be reprimanded by the archangel Michael (Jude 9) when he wanted the body of Moses to be found, perhaps hoping to have him remained to this day as an object of divine worship, and thus diverting God’s people from worshiping the true God.

In this page we analyze it points to Jesus Christ, the Messiah of God, who will come in power and glory to judge the known world (Mt 13:41, 16:27),and to establish his Millennial Kingdom (Rev 20:4-6). These prophecies about the future coming of the Savior and Redeemer, we will continue analyzing and seeing them over and other times in the Psalms (Ps2), same as in each book of the Major and Minor Prophets. It is important to note how God cares in announcing the day of human redemption by the Son of God throughout all the centuries, using for it his prophets and followers, even from the very Creation (Gn 3:15). Coincidences? He has never ceased to recall such close appointment: “Behold, it is come, and it is done, said the Lord Yahweh; this is the day whereof I have spoken” (Ez 39:8).

(What will life be on our planet once the Lord fulfills the promise of his coming? If interested, you can read it in the form of a literary narrative, recreated in the author's book entitled: 'The King Victorino').

[These and other Old Testament prophecies are explicatively compiled in the author's book entitled: 'Minor Prophets of the Old Testament;' in print and digital editions]

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