After the broadcast of the original June 19, 2009 show, “The Cult of the Sacred Name”, more information surfaced that lent greater understanding to the core assertions made in that show regarding the tenets proffered by Sacred Name advocates. One correction is offered and new data is presented:

A key scripture in Jeremiah offers the solution for the usage of a substitute for the Sacred Name (Tetragrammaton, or YHWH):

“Therefore hear ye the word of the LORD, all Judah that dwell in the land of Egypt; Behold, I have sworn by my great name, saith the LORD, that my name shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, The Lord GOD liveth.”-Jeremiah 44:26

Understanding the prophetic language and the legacy of the destruction of Jerusalem in 603 B.C., we are now able to comprehend the wider meaning of “Egypt”—as a type of the world outside the Temple. God’s command to NOT be NAMED by Judah in the land of Egypt, was binding upon the Jews unless, and until, Messiah came. The LXX, or Septuagint, was deliberately scribed to represent this command in the written texts, and Jews even after the Babylonian exile, have continued to obey YHWH in not speaking HIS NAME.

After studying key scriptures carefully and assessing the historical background of the usage of the Ha Shem, I am now convinced that the Sacred Name Cult is guilty of both legalism and presenting a stumbling block to the Jews, who were COMMANDED to no longer speak the NAME (YHWH) of the Lord. Moreover, the defense of the Greek manuscripts used in the scriptures is greatly enhanced when viewed from the proper historical and doctrinal perspective.

Notes: Addendum To The Cult of the Sacred Name

“That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.-Philipians”- 2:10-11

One of the most infectiuous and alluring movements in certain segments of  ”Gentile Christianity” seeks to embrace the accoutrements of Old Judaism in recovering the so-called “Hebrew Roots”. A subset, the “Sacred Name” cult, proposes that the NAME (Ha Shem) of YHWH can only be reckoned by understanding the “pure language” of the Paleo-Hebrew manuscripts.

This show presents the distortions of such practices and demonstrates the doctrinal and  historical errors compounded by usage of aberrant manuscripts such as the George Lamsa translation called the Syriac Peshitta and the dubious claims of Paleo-Hebrew adherents. We also correct the record on the TRUE SACRED NAME—the NAME ABOVE ALL NAMES. And you don’t have to study Hebrew to speak it!

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