Sabbath 6/10/37/120

Dear Friends,

This Sabbath we will look at the Book of Amos and make an addition to the comments dealing with a fact in the Hebrew of the original text.

The prophets Jeremiah and Ezekiel used the name of God Yahovih (SHD 3069) which refers to the One True God Eloah as Ha Elohim.  It is read by the Rabbis as Elohim and not Adonai. Strong makes this important observation in his Exhaustive Concordance in reference to 3068 Yahovah and 3069 Yahovih.  They are two or more beings.
 
Amos continues this important naming whereas the others of the twelve prophets only use 3069 in Micah 1:2; Zephaniah 1:7 and Zechariah 9:14.  In the works of the prophet Zechariah the term Yahovah Sabaioth is used 44 times in chapters 1-8 and nine times in chapters 9-14 where it is Yahovah Sabaioth that speaks and is characteristic of the prophecies in Zechariah.

In Amos the word Yahovih for the One True God is used  22  times: at Amos 1:8; 3:7,8,11,13; 4:2,5; 5:3; 6:8; 7:1,2,4,4,5,6; 8:1,3,9,11; 9:5,8,15.  Other instances use elohim for the God of Hosts and for elohim in general. 

The use of Yahovih 22 times is the number of completion and refers only to the One True God and is a stamp of the prophecy taking the sequence to the Last Days. Elohim is used only 11 times, indicating the sequence of incompleteness regarding the elohim and the creation of God, whereas the prophecy is complete and finished in the sequence to the Last Days. For comparison: the use of elohim 11 times and translated God and SHD 410 only once occurs in Micah and Yahovih is used only once. Yahovah is used 37 times in that sequence and translated Lord. SHD 136 is used twice with the other words for the Lord of the Temple and Lord God and SHD 113 is used once for Lord of the Whole earth.

Yahovah 3068 is used in Amos 60 times and translated as Lord.  This is the number of the plan of creation multiplied as a sequence. 

SHD 136 occurs 25 times and is coupled with and as Lord God or God of Hosts the Lord.

These number sequences are stamps of authority and differentiate the beings and prophecies and are a verification of the authority of the texts.

It also shows that the translators knew that SHD 3069 Yahovih was the One True God and translated it that way and rendered Yahovah as according to its prefixes.

This shows the insanity of referring to God simply as Yahweh as the term does not exist in Hebrew and has no meaning aside from the specific words of the texts.

We will examine the other aspect in Hosea and Micah.

Pray for the brethren and their health and encouragement.

Wade Cox
Coordinator General.