Do you know God’s name? He knows yours. What is the first thing you learn about a person when you first meet him or her? Their name! Have you ever wondered what is God’s name? Have you ever asked Him the question, “What is your name?” I had always wondered because He is called a lot of names in the Bible, and we refer to him as “God.” But His name is not God. His name is “Yah.” God is the noun we use to describe the highest of all gods. The only true God. That’s why we capitalize the name.
God is, more than anything, LOVE. And He wants a relationship with each one of us. His name is Yah. And Yah means “love,” and it also means “the one who saves.” Let’s study other names we use to describe and to worship God.
The Only God
Isaiah 43:10 “But you are my witnesses, O Israel!” says the Lord. “You are my servant. You have been chosen to know me, believe in me, and understand that I alone am God. There is no other God—there never has been, and there never will be.”
The Lord, the Almighty
Revelation 4:8 Each of these living beings had six wings, and their wings were covered all over with eyes, inside and out. Day after day and night after night they keep on saying, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty—the one who always was, who is, and who is still to come.”
The First and the Last
Isaiah 48:12 “Listen to me, O family of Jacob, Israel my chosen one! I alone am God, the First and the Last.”
Isaiah 41: 4 Who has done such mighty deeds, summoning each new generation from the beginning of time? It is I, the Lord, the First and the Last. I alone am he.”
Revelation 2:8 (Jesus is talking to John) “Write this letter to the angel of the church in Smyrna. This is the message from the one who is the First and the Last, who was dead but is now alive…”
The Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End
Revelation 1:8 “I am the Alpha and the Omega—the beginning and the end,” says the Lord God. “I am the one who is, who always was, and who is still to come—the Almighty One.”
Revelation 22:13 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.”
Yah (or Jah), Yahwe, Yahova (Jehovah)
The “Lord” means Yah which means salvation in Hebrew.
Exodos 6:2 And God said to Moses, “I am Yahweh—‘the Lord.’
The phrase "hallelujah" translates to "praise Jah/Yah." The word “halel” in Hebrew means “a joyous praise in song, to boast in God.” The second part, Yah, is a shortened form of his name "God, Jah, or Jehovah".
Father
When Jesus was being punished for our sins on the cross, in Luke 23:34 Jesus said, “Father, forgive these people, because they don’t know what they are doing.”
As Jesus was dying on the cross, in Luke 23:46, Then Jesus shouted, “Father, I entrust my spirit into your hands!”
Jesus is waiting for us. John 14:2 “There are many rooms in my Father’s home, and I am going to prepare a place for you.”
Jesus taught us how to pray to our Father. Matthew 6:9-13: This, then, is how you should pray:
“Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name,
your kingdom come, your will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us today our daily bread.
And forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from the evil one.”
Jesus is God
Revelation 1:17-18 (John speaking) When I saw him, I fell at his feet as if I were dead. But he laid his right hand on me and said, “Don’t be afraid! I am the First and the Last. I am the living one. I died, but look—I am alive forever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and the grave.
So we established that there is only One who is the Lord, Yah (short for Yahwe), the Beginning and the End, the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Almighty. And it is clear too that He is the One who died and is now alive. Jesus is therefore God!
Yah knows your name. And He knows everything about you too because He created you. And He loved you since the moment of conception in your mother’s womb. David said in Psalm 71: 6 “Yes, you have been with me from birth; from my mother’s womb you have cared for me. No wonder I am always praising you!” and in Psalm 139:13 “You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb.” God told Jeremiah in Jeremiah 1:5 “I knew you before I formed you in your mother’s womb. Before you were born I set you apart and appointed you as my prophet to the nations.”
So today I want to introduce you to my Father, my friend, the One who saved me by sacrificing His own Son, Jesus, my God… “Yah.” He wants to and yearns to have a relationship with you too.