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but Yahweh’s existence is underived and promise. It is within this context that He
independent of everything and everyone. emphasizes His name, Yahweh, to Moses.
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Exodus 6 further links this name to His cov-
Yahweh Is Eternal enant relationship with Israel. The LORD is
“The LORD [Yahweh] is the everlast- the faithful, covenant-keeping God.
ing God, the Creator of the whole earth” Yahweh Is Relational
(Isa 40:28). We might read the Lord Jesus’
words in John 8 – “before Abraham was, Exodus 3 is a very personal scene. God is
I AM” – and initially think He is using revealing Himself to the man that He will
strange grammar. Shouldn’t He have said, uniquely speak to and work through for the
“I was”? But the Lord is applying the name next forty years, so He unfolds the name
of Exodus 3 to Himself, emphasizing the through which He relates to His people.
eternality of His existence. To Moses, it Psalm 19 exhibits this well. It’s the glory
is as if God is saying, “I have been long of Elohim that is declared in nature in the
before you, and I will always be.” “I AM opening six verses. But as the subject shifts
WHO I AM.” for the remainder of the psalm to God’s
more intimate and special revelation to
Yahweh Is Constant His servant, His personal name, Yahweh,
Humans are in a constant state of flux; is used. Our God is a personal, relational
new synapses form in our brains, and God, and He wants us to know Him.
cells in our bodies die and are replaced The New Testament leaves us with no
every day. But Yahweh is the unchanging doubt that our God is relational. In the per-
God (Mal 3:6). The fire did not consume son of His Son, He became a Man that we
the bush, yet neither was it weakened might enjoy eternal fellowship with Him. It
or diminished by its own activity. In the also leaves us with no doubt that that Man,
words of Alexander Maclaren, “God lives the Lord Jesus Christ, is Yahweh / Jehovah.
forevermore, a flame that does not burn There is a plethora of evidence for this and
out; therefore his resources are inexhaust- Peter provides one lovely example. Isaiah
ible, his power unwearied … He operates says, “Do not fear what they fear; do not be
unspent; he loves and loves forever. And terrified. You are to regard only the LORD
through the ages, the fire burns on, uncon- [Yahweh] of Armies as holy” (Isa 8:12-13).
sumed and undecayed.” 1 Peter 3:14-15 reads, “Do not fear them or
be intimidated, but in your hearts regard
Yahweh Is Faithful Christ the Lord as holy.” While referencing
God reveals Himself as Yahweh when Isaiah 8, the apostle clearly identifies Jesus
He enters into a covenant with Abraham, Christ as the mighty Yahweh of armies.
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promising him innumerable offspring and Beloved, we have a sufficient and eternal-
the possession of the land (Gen 15). When ly faithful God who has revealed Himself to
He appears to Moses, He is recalling that us, not only with this glorious name but in
covenant. He is the God of Abraham, and “Jesus Christ [who] is the same yesterday,
He has come down to rescue Abraham’s today, and forever” (Heb 13:8).
offspring and bring them to the land of
4 This and other proofs are helpfully noted in
3 This is the aseity of God, a term worth your Brian Reynolds, Jesus Is Jehovah (Beamsville, ON:
further exploration. Believer’s Bookshelf, 2013).

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