Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Seeking Yahweh Elohim

I do not know how to put this title into Hebrew, but it might spell Yod Heh Vav Heh – Lamed Gimel Heh so someone can do that for me later. Perhaps it should read Lahag YHWH I stand corrected. I first considered a title like Yahweh–ology as in Theo-ology and YHWH- Darash but having perused the meanings I thought YHWH Lahag was more appropriate because this is what we wanted to achieve, in relations to Yahweh our Elohim “to study, studying, devotion to study with eagerness”.

We are a small study group over here in the Fiji Islands and we were discussing the Holy Name of the Elohim of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob last Sabbath and I thought that it was a shame that the one true Elohim and Creator of everything has to be studied along with the rest of the deities of this world in what is called theology. There was a need to correct this, and to begin the correction process I am launching this Blog.

We need a separate study of our Elohim to fulfill one of his commands which reads “And you shall seek me and find me. And when you shall search for me with all your heart, and I will be found by you” says Yahweh; and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you says Yahweh; and I will bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive.” (Jeremiah 29:13-14 - WOY).

What are we going to study?

Well there are millions plus one item that we need to know about Yahweh and all those who are reading this who can contribute fruitfully in the development of this body of knowledge is cordially invited to do so. We can begin with His Holy Name and then move on to what makes Him happy or angry and of course cover the warnings that he had authorised his prophets to pass down to us. Of course the study of Yahweh will not be complete if we did not cover his creation - physical or spiritual. Then there is the all important understanding of how we should relate to Him. Then there is the compulsory need to understand everything about His Holy Messiah, prophets and the angels. What about his heavenly abode and His plans relating to the future of humanity?

The Holy Scriptures will have to be the basic source of our information. We currently use the Words of Yahweh produced by the Assembly of Yahweh in Eaton Rapids. But we also have access to some translations of the Eastern Text of the Aramaic Peshitta, in particular the Lamsa Bible and translation by Etheridge and Murdock in respect of the Syriac Peshitta.

Our aim is to gather and collate information logically and duly disseminate and made available to one and all to help individuals who are searching for Yahweh our Elohim, to find Him, the Eternal and Ever-living who created us all.

Can I make myself clear that this Blog is about Yahweh our Elohim. Not God – please understand. For far too long we see and hear people pointing fingers at the established “Christian” religions that they were approaching the worship of “God Almighty” wrongly even falsely. We do these at our own expenses (money, time and respect) don’t we? We have to understand that we cannot change anything because Christianity is well established and what they choose to do, is of their choice. The basic point is simple though, we do NOT have any business with Christianity, so leave them at peace, ours is with Yahweh our Elohim.

We need to get on with our own business of getting to know Yahweh for this is His call to us, “And you shall seek me and find me. And when you shall search for me with all your heart …. I will be found by you.