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In this episode of Hebrew Voices #193 - Global Outpouring "The Name of Our Father", Nehemia is interviewed by Philip and Sharon Buss from Global Outpouring where he shares his fascinating perspective on the deep things of the Hebrew Scriptures and how he has put decades of study into finding and confirming the correct pronunciation of the Name “Yehovah.” He shares with the Busses just a few of his many discoveries, the fascinating history of how and why God’s name, Yehovah, became forbidden to say, and why it’s important for Christians and Jews to understand it’s meaning.

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Nehemia: The Romans said, “If we can get people to just use God, we know that God is Zeus and Jupiter, and they don’t know that yet, but they’ll eventually get it.” But if, instead of God you say Yehovah… well, no, Yehovah is not the same as Zeus and Jupiter. So, for me it’s important that if he says, “This is My name forever. This is My mention for generation to generation”, I should take that seriously.

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Philip: God promises in Joel 2:28 to pour out His spirit on all humanity. Welcome to Global Outpouring, where we contend for that promised outpouring. We equip for that outpouring so that we may engage in that very outpouring. I’m Phillip Buss.

Sharon: And I’m Sharon Buss. Welcome to the podcast today. We have with us a very, very special guest that I’ve been longing for a long time to have with us. His name is Dr. Nehemia Gordon, and he is an author, and he is a scholar of the deep things of the manuscripts of the Hebrew Bible. And he’s going to share with us some things that we need to know about the name of our Father.

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So, today we have with us Dr. Nehemia Gordon, and I need to tell you some of the backstory for this episode. If you want to understand the Bible, you have to get back to the Hebrew first. The scriptures that the writers of the New Testament referred to are the Hebrew Bible, what we call the Old Testament. Paul, writing to Timothy, said, “All scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.” He said that in 2 Timothy 3:16 . So, what he’s referring to is the Hebrew Bible. There was no canon of New Testament scripture in those days.

And then he wrote in Romans chapter 3, verses 1 and 2. Verse 1 says, “What advantage has the Jew?” Or “What is the superiority of the Jew?” Depending on what translation you read. And then in verse 2 it says, “Much in every way. For first, indeed they were entrusted with the oracles of God, the very words or the utterances of God.” And the contemporary English Version says, “First of all, God’s messages were spoken to the Jews.” So, that’s why we should go back to the Jews to find out the nitty gritty of the Hebrew language.

So, I’ve been following Nehemia Gordon on YouTube for years, and I’ve read two of his books. He’s an expert in the Hebrew language because he’s Jewish and he has studied it all of his life. He comes from a long line of rabbis, so he has a great teaching gift in his DNA. He’s not a Christian. He’s a Karaite Jew, a scripturalist not following the Rabbinic additions to the Bible, but just going by the Hebrew Bible itself without adding or taking away like the Pharisees of old did, and those who follow the Rabbinic sages of a thousand years ago.

Dr. Gordon’s first impression of Jesus was that he was a Karaite, a scripturalist, somebody who’s really just paying attention to what the word says. So, as I learned from Dr. Gordon about the correct pronunciation of the name of our Father, I became passionate to share this information. And if you listen to many of our podcasts, you often hear me pronounce the name “Yehovah” instead of reading the word “LORD”, that’s written all in caps. That is really just hiding the name and saying “Lord” instead of saying what the name is; Yehovah.

So, a few months ago I was hearing in my spirit the words from the Lord’s Prayer, “Hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come.” And so, this thought came to me, so I wrote it like this in my journal: “Lord, I never saw this connection before, that the sanctification of Your name, Yehovah, immediately precedes Your kingdom coming.” Let that sink in for a second. I went on to write, “I have longed to participate in shedding light on the truth of Your name.” And then I heard in my spirit… I heard the Lord say, “My child, I have longed for this as you have. Now is the time.”

So, long story short, we connecte