There is no other name for God except yod-hey-vav-hey given to Moses. So, what about Jehovah? The name Jehovah has an interesting history apart from it being the Latin, then the Anglicized version of Adonai. It begins with the Tetragrammaton, yod-hey-vav-hey or YHVH in our modern alphabet. YHVH Hebrew does not have vowels. Vowels were…
Out of Egypt
Carolyn Hyde And there she will sing as in the days of her youth As in the days she came out of Egypt So will I draw her, I will lead her into the dessert I will speak to her gently, I will open a door of hope I will betroth you, And act out…
When was Jesus born?
Most Christians acknowledge that Jesus was not born on December 25 in the middle of winter. Yet few realize that his birth is outlined in the Bible if they could unravel some of the clues given to them in the gospels that refer back to the Hebrew Scriptures. The account of the ‘reason for the season’ begins in the book of Luke chapter 1 when Zechariah was in the Temple burning incense to God. The time of his Temple service is the key to understanding when of the birth of his son, John, took place as well as the birth of Jesus (Yeshua).
Io Saturnalia!
What is wrong with us? Why are we so fanatical? Why don’t we celebrate Christmas? Why do we not see the whole pagan history as some crazy myth? Years ago while researching the roots of Christmas, we stumbled across the following poem. It deeply affected us because we wanted no part in keeping alive a pagan god’s festival. The Spirit of Elohim convicted us of any further participation in the holiday and the season. To those who would scoff, the very next year we received our first Saturnalia card.