Study Number 3 JEHOVAH

This Divine Name is derived from chavah, which means ” to live”. The name JEHOVAH is literally full of life. In the KJV it is written LORD and it means “ to be” or “being”. This name reveals Him in a very personal way and it is the very essence of the present tense. M.H.  He is the ever present Eternally Existing One.

Has God ever Spoken to you? He often speaks to you through a divine impression in your spirit. JEHOVAH is the revealing God as He longs to be with us as our personal God. He walks with you. He will never leave you nor forsake you. The more you grow in this relationship the more of Himself will He reveal to you.

Jehovah also denotes the Unchangeableness or Immutability of God.

James 1:17 “... with whom there is no variableness neither shadow of turning.” And Psalm 102:27 SAYS “ But You are the same, and your years shall have no end.” Jehovah is the One Who is now and always has been. 

Moses and the Burning Bush

As Moses spent  forty Years in the backside of the desert learning how to survive, God revealed Himself to him. Exodus chapter 3 tells us the story of the Burning Bush. Moses said to God who was sending him to deliver the Israelites from Egypt, “ The Children of Israel will ask me Your Name – and I don’t even know it.”

God replied,  “You tell them the I AM sent you”. Who is “I AM”? He is JEHOVAH, the One who revealed Himself to the Children of Israel and who revealed His plan to them to deliver them from Egypt. He is the One who would bring them to the Promised Land. Ex 3:14

God revealed Himself as JEHOVAH – the One who is the same yesterday, today, and forever! He was saying I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob, and I am Your God too! I never change.

Moses and the Burning Bush

JEHOVAH answered all of Moses excuses. God told him to throw down the rod that was in his hand. When he did the rod became a snake. Moses tried to run away; but God said, “Pick it up again, Moses.” It then became a rod again.

Although God had told Moses, “I will give you a sign to the elders and to Pharoah,” Moses still did not believe. He just could accept that God would use him as a deliver after he had botched it the first attempt.

Then God gave him another sign.  Exo 4:6  And Jehovah said to him again, Now put your hand in your bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom. And when he took it out, behold, his hand was as leprous as snow. Exo 4:7  And He said, Put your hand into your bosom again. And he put his hand into his bosom again. And he brought it out of his bosom, and behold, it was turned again like his other flesh. Exo 4:8  And it will be, if they will not believe you, neither listen to the voice of the first sign, then they will believe the voice of the latter sign.

This time when Moses would go forth to deliver Israel then signs would follow Him as the Deliver of Israel.

Applications.

1.      Jehovah is the personal God and He seeks to reveal Himself to us. He will never leave us nor forsake us in all our life.

2.      Jehovah is the God who never changes. He is the same yesterday today and for ever. What He was he will be for ever.

3.      He is the One who brings the signs that show who He is. He is the Amazing Jehovah God.