My Daily Devotion (Book 1)

Hallowed Be Thy Name

LEVITICUS CHAPTER 22

Memory Verse

   You shall not profane My holy name, but I will be hallowed among the children of Israel. I am the Lord who sanctifies you,
Leviticus 22:32 NKJV

God's Word

   Hallowed
   : holy or blessed
   : highly respected

      Our God is Holy and He is Worthy. He deserves our great respect for He is Highly Respected.
      We shall not use the Name of the Lord in vain, but rather we must bless His Holy Name and always be lifted up in our lives.
      At the Old Testament, the Name of the LORD cannot be pronounced by anyone, "YHWH". 
     The YHWH, also known by scholars as Tetragrammaton doesn't know how to pronounce for there are no vowels will be found in it. In an article of Got Questions, it is their revelation.

   The ancient Hebrew language that the Old Testament was written in did not have vowels in its alphabet. In written form, ancient Hebrew was a consonant-only language. In the original Hebrew, God’s name transliterates to YHWH (sometimes written in the older style, as YHVH). This is known as the tetragrammaton (meaning “four letters”). Because of the lack of vowels, Bible scholars debate how the tetragrammatonYHWH was pronounced.

The tetragrammaton consists of four Hebrew letters: yodh, he, waw, and then he repeated. Some versions of the Bible translate the tetragrammaton as “Yahweh” or “Jehovah”; most translate it as “LORD” (all capital letters).

Contrary to what some Christians believe (and at least one cult),Jehovah is not the Divine Name revealed to Israel. The name Jehovahis a product of mixing different words and different alphabets of different languages. Due to a fear of accidentally taking God’s name in vain (Leviticus 24:16), the Jews basically quit saying it out loud altogether. Instead, when reading Scripture aloud, the Jews substituted the tetragrammaton YHWH with the word Adonai (“Lord”). Even in the Septuagint (the Greek translation of the Old Testament), the translators substituted Kurios (“Lord”) for the Divine Name. Eventually, the vowels from Adonai (“Lord”) or Elohim(“God”) found their way in between the consonants of YHWH, thus forming YaHWeH. But this interpolation of vowels does not mean that was how God’s name was originally pronounced. In fact, we aren’t entirely sure if YHWH should have two syllables or three.

Any number of vowel sounds can be inserted within YHWH, and Jewish scholars are as uncertain of the real pronunciation as Christian scholars are. Jehovah is actually a much later (probably 16th-century) variant. The word Jehovah comes from a three-syllable version of YHWH, YeHoWeH. The Y was replaced with a J (although Hebrew does not even have a Jsound) and the W with a V, plus the extra vowel in the middle, resulting in JeHoVaH. These vowels are the abbreviated forms of the imperfect tense, the participial form, and the perfect tense of the Hebrew being verb (English is)—thus the meaning of Jehovah could be understood as “He who will be, is, and has been.”

So, what is God’s Name, and what does it mean? The most likely choice for how the tetragrammaton was pronounced is “YAH-way,” “YAH-weh,” or something similar. The name Yahweh refers to God’s self-existence. Yahweh is linked to how God described Himself in Exodus 3:14, “God said to Moses, ‘I AM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: “I AM has sent me to you.”’” God’s name is a reflection of His being. God is the only self-existent or self-sufficient Being. Only God has life in and of Himself. That is the essential meaning of the tetragrammaton, YHWH.

    For us to call upon our living God, there's One Name that had given by the Father and must be lifted up.

    Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Philippians 2:9‭-‬11 NKJV

    To give a highly respect to God is to give a highly respect in the Name of Jesus. Jesus is Lord, the Name above all names.

     And if we truly respect God, then we shall be submitted and obedient to His Words.

God's Character

   He is Highly Respected

God's Promises

   He will bless me

Life Application

   I will give a high respect in the Name of my Lord Jesus Christ by submitting and being obedient

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