"IHVH or YHWH" Tetragrammaton

Terry Lee Reed (tlreed@odin.cmp.ilstu.edu)
Fri, 13 Sep 1996 15:31:07 -0500 (CDT)


Praise the name of JESUS CHRIST,
   I fear that soon many shall be misled by this guess name Yahweh and began
to praise that name more than the fully revealed name of God (Jesus), as
Jehovah witnessess have been misled by the guess name Jehovah.
So I will reveal unto you what I have learned concerning both these names
contrived from mystery Babylon. My resources come from mainly an apostolic
minister whose name is Gary Reckart. I will directly quote from his text
"Praise the Name of JESUS CHRIST". My comments if any will be surrounded by
parenthesis. His footnotes will also be included. Those things emphasised by
him will be preceded by $.
     Ironically, while reading my Hebrew- Greek Key Study Bible (KJV), compiled
and edited by Spiros Zodhiates TH.D, I read in his explanatory notes in
reference to Daniel 2:4-7:28 " This section of Daniel is in Aramaic, a language
related to Hebrew but distinct from it. Aside from Daniel chapters two through
seven, only Ezra 4:8-6:18; 7:12-26, and Jeremiah 10:11 are in aramaic. Other
words and phrases in the older books of the O.T. are said to be Aramaic, but
are more likely an early form of the Canaanite, a common ancestor to both
Hebrew and Greek. It is interesting to note that "LORD" ("YAHWEH" OR
"Jehovah") does not appear in the Aramaic section. Instead expressions like
the "King of Heaven" (Dan 4:37) or "high God" (Dan 4:2, 24) are used in order
to distinguish him from the  gods of the pagans...."
    NOW LETS FIND OUT WHAT REALLY GOES ON!!!! Lets begin with P. Reckarts view
on MODERN BLASPHEMERS:

"A new spirit has challenged the authenticity of the Name of Jesus Christ.
Some of these diverse groups have in common the idea that the word "YAHWEH" is
the lost Name of God rediscovered from the Tetragrammatons "IHVH or YHWH". That
these groups are cults is undisputed. Some leaders such as Yahweh Ben Yahweh
have been convicted of murder. Branch Davidian leader, David Koresh, of Waco,
TX, calls himself Yahweh Koresh. (Koresh means Cyrus) This group was literally
sacrificed by the FBI and ATF in a massive fire.

"All of these groups merge Christianity back into Judaism and Kabbalism for
salvation. They all typically keep the Saturn Day Sabbath, dietary laws, and
believe in unconditional security. It is their doctrine that everyone who does
not receive the Tetragrammaton will be unconditionally eternally lost because
the Name of Jesus is the antichrist mark of the beast system of 666."

(From: Tetragrammaton vs JESUS)

MARTIN'S "PUGIO FIDEI (1278)"(1) quoted in the 14th century, and mystic Catholic
priest, Petrus Galatinus (1518) were the first in history to use the
Tetragrammaton IHVH in arguments  concerning the Name of God being
IEHOVAH...YEHOVAH...JEHOVAH!(2)

(1)- Ency. Brit. 1958, Vol 12, p. 988. Martin (of Troppau) took the oaths
of the order of St. Dominick. He became chaplin to Pope Clement IV and other
Popes. He wrote some sermons and some commentaries on Cannon Law. He was a
chronicler. He created the word "Jehovah" out of the Tetragrammaton he learned
as a member of a secret order then prevailing subsurface in Rome.

(2)- Ency. Brit 1958 Ed. Vol. 12, p.995

GENEBRARDUS (1567) was the first to suggest the spelling of the Divine Name was
not IEHOVAH but "IAHVE" (3) . He came out against the use of IEHOVAH" after
Tyndale used it his translation of the five books of Moses in 1530. The King
James Version of 1611 followed Tyndale and used "IEHOVAH" also. So did all
other Protestant versions up to the eighteenth century.

(3)-Chronographia, Paris, 1567 (ed. Paris, 1600, p.79 seq.

(From p.2)

The word "IEHOVAH"...JEHOVAH, was fabricated using the vowels from the word
"ADONAI" which we are told were inserted into the old Scrolls when the Name of
God was imprisoned from the general population sometime around 300B.C. The
Rotherham Emphasized Bible, 1902, was the first to present the new word
"Yahweh" throughout the Old Testament. There is no proof except fantastic
retro-interpolation, forgery, and conjecture, that anyone knew of a
Tetragrammaton prior to 300A.D.(6)

    "Because the Hebrew language does not employ vowels in its written form,
     the correct pronounciationn of the Ineffable Name of God was lost and
     not rediscovered until about 300c.e. by the Kabbalists who gave it the
     title TETRAGRAMMATON, "the word of four letters," and "the square name,"
     or more simply, "the square." $At that time the Shem-ha-meforash became
     represented by the simple form YHVH.$" (7)

     "The seventy-two syllable name of God [shem ha-meforash] is made up of 216
     letters. The source of the  the Shem ha meforash, according to tradition,
     are verses 19-21 of Exodus 14, each of these verses containing seventy two
     Hebrew letters The letters of verse 19 were written down in separated form
     and in correct order; the letters of verse 20, also in separate form, were
     written down in reverse order, and the letters of verse 21 were written
     down in correct order. Reading from above down, one obtains seventy-two
     three letter names, all of which combine to make one. To these
     three-lettered names were added either AL or IH to form the names of the
     seventy-two angels of Jacob's ladder."(8)

6-Charles Ponce, Kabbalah, Quest, 1973, p.175
7-Ibid
8-Ibid pp. 174-175

IHVH became a substitute creation for this long and unpronounceable name. This
was done in Babylon.( T vs. J p.3)

(from " Yahweh Is Not A Hebrew Name" p.12)

The Tetragrammaton IHVH and YHWH are pregnant with a dark Babylonian mystery...
It i swell documented that "YAHWEH" was derived from the Arabic verb
 "H A W A H" from which was borrowed the three consonant letters "H W H." Which
when adding the "Y" forming "YHVH," has been declared to be the unimpeachable
root and pronunciation of this new word(18)

The pronunciation of the word "YAHWEH" was then partially concocted from the
Arabic root "HAWAH"! Picking a causative Arabic verb at random to describe
God's Ineffable Fiat and subtracting the consonants to help guess a Name for
Him is cunning craftiness. Here is the bold confession quoted verbatim:

    "This hypothesis is not intrisincally improbable- and in Aramaic, a
    be noted that language closely related to Hebrew, "to be" avtually is hawa-
    but it should be noted that in adopting it we admit that, using the name
    Hebrew in the historical sense, Yahweh is not a Hebrew name."(19)

    The causative theme of hayah is found in no Semitic language, except late
    Syriac, but it is replaced by that of some other root. Those, therefore,
    who still regard it as causative refer it to hawah, found once in Hebrew
    in the form hawa, "fell"; they interpret this as "he who causes to fall,"
    sc. the rain (Robertson Smith; cf. Arab. "haway", "fell". (Ency Brit. 1958
    Ed. Vol. 12, p. 996)

18-Ency. Brit 11th Ed. Vol 15 p 321.
19-Ency.Brit. 1958 Ed. Vol 12, p.996

Comments: I hope what I've brought to everyone's attention so far has not
discouraged, but has enlightened them. Nor do we hope to discourage the use of
the KJV bible nor does P. Reckart discourage the use. I use the King James V.
myself and its the only one I will use, unless someone can  prove that there is
more accurate version. The KJV is still valid, but words like Jehovah and
Yahweh should be removed from its text in the opinion of P. Reckart,  and the
true name of God in the old covenant put back in its place "EHYEH" and "EHYEH
asher EHYEH" (I AM  that I AM).

P. Reckart also points also points out in one section of his book from p.84
titled "Is "Yah" A Pagan Name"
    "There is great evidence that prior to Moses and going back to Babylon
there was a female god anciently worshiped by the name of "YAA-VE or YA-VM"!

on p.85 he points out

"In the land of Moab there was a town called YAHAZ or JAHAZ. Here is proof that
"YAH-JAH" was used by pagans to even name there towns after their god. no one
in their right mind would say God gave these pagans the Divine Name before he
gave it to Moses in Exodus 3:14."

There is more that P. Reckart has exposed about this "YAHWEH- ADONAI" doctrine
that P. Reckart has exposed, but for now I will just give a listing of his
table of contents, and whoever would like to know more can just e-mail, and I
will put up what's contained in that section.

Tetragrammaton vs. JESUS
Great Deceptions
Yahweh Is Not A Hebrew Name
Hallelujeh
Approximate Dates Divine Names Revealed
The Name of JESUS
More on The Name Of JESUS
Antichrist Bigotry Against JESUS
Blaspheming The Name of JESUS
Blaspheming The Name CHRIST
Must Christians Speak Aramaic To Be saved
Language Charts
Did Moses Hide The Name
Dispensationalist View Of Two Wives
Biblical/Historical View Of One Elect People Of God
The Moabite Stone And Other Frauds
Why Revealing Antichrist IS Not Anti-Semitism
Mystery Babylon Moves To Jerusalem
I AM (EHYEH) Is The Covenant Name
The Zeus- Dionysus Blasphemy Exposed
Is "Yah" A Pagan Name
The "J" Document Conspiracy
What Are The facts

P.Reckart can be found on American Online in the Apostolic reference. Where I
am not sure. But If you would like to know more, or maybe its possibility you
can get a hold of his booklet this is his address:
    Pastor G. Reckart Sr.
    P.O. BOX 7333
    Tampa, Florida 33673



Let it be known that God only had three old covenant names.
They were El or Elohim (God), El Shaddai (God Alimghty), and Ehyeh (The I AM)