Year of Yahowah 5978

Next Feast Sevens

Begins at twilight on the Sabbath, May 26, 2012

Welcome to the
Bless Yahowah Web Pages!

Religious activities and rituals, even participating with others in worship, are considered an abomination to our Creator.  God hates religion!  It is the expressed purpose of this web site to hammer home the truth of that statement by providing you with absolute proofs which we will find in Yahowah's Torah—His prescriptions for living, not His "law".  It is my fervent desire that those with open minds will come to realize that Yahowah's predictions always come true, that He is always consistent, and that He is consistently intolerant of religious behavior.  Why?  Because God is not the least bit flexible regarding the route we must take to get to know Him.  It is His Way or nothing.  To remain trustworthy and dependable, He must be unwavering and uncompromising.  And He is.

By the way, are you enjoying the blessings of observing and participating in Yahowah's Sabbath from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday?  Yahowah's Sabbath, as Yahowsha' said, was made for us; we were not made for it.  It is the one day every week set aside by our loving Heavenly Father for us to let ourselves rest, to take time to read and recite His Towrah, and to reflect on His Word.  The Sabbath is for all mankind for all time.  Yahowah's Sabbath is not "a Jewish custom".  Nor is His Day a religious ritual to be strictly adhered to according to volumes of rules and regulations.  Those are man's corruptions.  Yahowah's Sabbath is a day He set apart for you and me.  Are you allowing yourself to take part with Yahowah and His Royal Family?

If you are a Christian, let me offer you a personal challenge.  Click here.

My web site has a lot to offer.  Nevertheless, I would encourage you to first download and study the PDF document, "An Introduction to God", by Yada, and to join us in the chat room during his weekday Internet broadcasts at Blog Talk Radio from 11 AM - 12:30 PM EST Monday through Friday.  I have included a few brief excerpts from Yada's "An Introduction to God" at the end this home page.  Click here to jump down to it, then click the [Back] link to return here.

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Please consider, if you will, the following rather curious declaration by the Son of God:

Yahowchanan 17:6a  (see note below)
"I have revealed Your Name to the men whom You gave Me out of the world."

What a strange thing to say!  Why on earth did the Creator's Son find it necessary to reveal our Heavenly Father's Name to His closest apprentices?  Didn't they already know the Name of the God of Abraham, Yitshaq, and Ya'aqob?  Those whom He called to follow Him were devout Yahudym (aka, Jews).  So weren't they hearing the Father's Name from their rabbis and in everyday conversations among their people?  Why, then, did God's Son have to reveal it to them?

Yahowah's Son had to reveal the Father's Name to His followers
because they had never heard it!

According to the oral laws of the rabbis, it was (and still is) forbidden to speak or even write the Creator's Name.  That's why the Son had to reveal it to them:  the religious leaders had deliberately hidden it from the people, just as they continue to do now.  Do they have Scriptural authority for their oral law?  No, they do not.  But those who set themselves up as leaders of religion and politics are viciously arrogant.  That is why they produce their man-made doctrines, commandments, and traditions, and then use them to force their will on those who willingly submit to their self-appointed rulership.

How about you?  Do you know the Creator's one and only Name which He Himself revealed to us in the Scriptures?  Are you thinking it's "the LORD", or "Jehovah", or "God" ?  Are you convinced it's "ha shem" or "Adonay" or "G-d" or one of the other untrue contrivances presented by our adversary's agents for religion?

Here's another question for you.  Have you ever noticed how many things in Judaism and Christianity are done "in the Name of God" or "in the Name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit", instead of simply "In So-and-So's Name"?  The actual Name to which they want us to believe they are referring is never mentioned.  Have you ever wondered why that is?

What in the world is going on here?

Let's face it:  that word "God" is a title, not a name (read more here.).  Even when we capitalize it, it is still not a name.  So what is the Creator's real Name?  Has He ever told us what His Name is?

Names 20:2  (Shemowth / Exodus—see note below)
"I am Yahowah, your God, Who brought you out of the crucible of Egypt, out of the house of bondage."

When the Creator introduced Himself to the people of Yisra'el, He told them that His Name is Yahowah ( יהוה ).  He reinforced that declaration later through His prophet, Yashayah (aka, Isaiah—Yashayah means "Yah has saved").

Yashayah 42:8a
"I am Yahowah.  That is My Name.  My glory I give to no other; nor my praise to carved idols."

It doesn't get much plainer than that.  "That is My Name."

I want you to notice what Yahowah did not say.  He did not say, "One of My many, many names is Yahowah.  You can call Me whatever you like, though, because I know what's in your heart."  Since Yahowah never does anything without a reason, He must have had a reason for telling us specifically what His Name is, and for not saying it's all right for us to call Him whatever we want to.  I'll let you figure out what that reason is.

Consider this next statement very carefully.  Because Yahowah never gave us permission to call Him by any other name, it is foolish for someone to insist that He has the attitude that it's all right to call Him whatever we want to call Him.  Our Maker has but one Name.  He does not go by a bunch of aliases.  So adamant is He about this that He specifically forbids us to even speak the other names that people want to call Him—The Lord (which is actually the exact English translation of the Hebrew name, ha Ba'al), Allah, Krishna, Jesus, Buddha, etc.

Names 23:13  (Shemowth / Exodus—see note below)
"Pay attention to all that I have said to you, and make no mention of the names of other gods, nor let them be heard on your lips."

To be sure, there are many combinations of His Name paired with other Hebrew words, and they provide us with wonderful descriptions of His beautiful nature and incredible power.  But none of them is His Name.  His Name is Yahowah.

"I am Yahowah.  That is My Name."

So What Happened?  Why Doesn't My Bible Have His Name?

The term "Bible" was derived from the name of an Egyptian goddess.  Also, the Greek word biblos was not used to refer to "Scripture" until the 4th century C.E., when the emperor Constantine formed the Roman Catholic Church.  Up until then, biblon and its plural, biblia, referred to the material upon which something was written.  In other words, they meant simply "parchment".  So you will not find me using "Bible" much at all on my site.

The fact of the matter is that Yahowah's enemies have been hiding His Name from the world for thousands of years.  That is why, in just about every English translation of His Scriptures, you will find His Name (which is written in Hebrew like this—יהוה) translated as "the LORD" instead of transliterated as "Yahowah".  That is why the followers of rabbinic Judaism refer to Him as "ha shem" (generic Hebrew term which literally means "the name"), "Adonay" (Hebrew word which means "lord, master, owner"), and "G-d" (which is just dumb).

Names should never be translated.  Names must be transliterated.  When we transliterate a name, we sound it out using letters from our own language (which in my case is American English).  So my Heavenly Father's Name, which in Hebrew is spelled yod-heh-wah-heh, would be spelled Yahowah in English and pronounced, YAH-oh-wah.  It's just that simple.

One does not have to know how to read Hebrew to learn how to say our Father's Name.

What does all this mean?  It means that for centuries Yahowah's Name ( יהוה ) has been replaced with one of the adversary's titles, while His real Name has been kept hidden.  It means that people are referring to Yahowah, our God, by His worst enemy's title all the time.  It means that Christians and rabbinic Jews alike are disrespecting the very One they claim to love all the time.  It means that Yahowsha's prophetic declaration will most certainly come to pass:  "Get away from Me!  I never knew you!"

How can I say that?  Well, how many folks do you call friend or brother or Dad who don't even know—or who refuse to use—your proper name?  Do you see my point?

And that is why I am revealing His one and only Name to you—maybe for the first time ever—today.

Our Creator's Name is Yahowah.

Yahowah is not His "Jewish Covenant name", as though He would agree to go by a different name for every group of people and religion.  Yahowah is His Name.  Yahowah is His only Name.  And now you know that.  (By the way, your Christian pastor/priest or Jewish rabbi might already know this.  But the personal cost to their finances, position, and reputation is probably too great in their eyes to motivate them to renounce their false teaching and to begin to preach and follow the truth.  An excellent example may be found [here].)

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Father and Friend, not Lord and Master

Yahowah wants to be our father and friend, not our lord and master.  He wants us to enjoy an engaged yet relaxed, personal, conversational, upright, and familial relationship with Him.

Our Maker does not want us to fear Him.  He does not like for us to bow down to Him.  And He never demands that we worship Him.  Those acts belong to the dogmas of religion; they have no place in a healthy Father-child relationship.  Yahowah, Creator of Heaven and Earth, despises religions—all of them.  Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Mormonism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Seventh Day Adventism, Jehovah's Witnesses, Socialist Secular Humanism, patriotism, nationalism, miltarism, 12-Stepism, you name it—they are all filthy abominations to Him.  They are not pleasing to Him.  Every one of them disgusts Him, and those who actively engage in promoting any of them make themselves His enemies.  All of this will be proved in the articles and links provided here—if you take the time to thoroughly investigate, conclusively verify, and carefully consider what you're shown here.

On the other hand, Yahowah just adores relationships!  He sacrificed everything except His integrity to achieve a personal, One-on-one relationship with you, and with me, and with "whosoever will."

Yahowah wants us to stand up and walk with Him.  Satan (see note below) wants us to bow down and worship him.

Yahowah wants us to understand and follow His prescriptions for successful and righteous living:  His Towrah (see note below).  Did you know that towrah is a Hebrew word meaning "prescriptions for living, written instruction, teaching, direction, and guidance"?  It's true.  And as long as you allow yourself to think of Yahowah's Towrah as a set of do-or-die laws (like Paul and his Christian followers characterize it), there is no way you're going to be able to consider Him in terms of being your Father.  The two just don't go together.  Think about it.  The Towrah is not Yahowah's "Law".  The Towrah is Yahowah's love letter to mankind, His gift to show us how to get to know Him.

In Psalm 119, Doad—which is David's real name, rhymes with "load", and means "love"—reveals to us how he came to know and trust Yahowah through the Towrah, exclaiming in what we call verse 97, "Oh!  How I love Your Towrah!"  Doesn't sound to me like he was referring to a set of cold, hard, "You had better do these to the letter, or I'll burn your sorry soul forever!" laws.  Nor is it reasonable to think that we could ever love One Who would say such a thing to us.

Like I said, the Towrah is Yahowah's love letter to mankind, His gift to show us how to get to know Him.  Doad viewed it as such and he absolutely loved it.

Religion, on the other hand, is stuffed to the gills with rules and traditions.  Its leaders want us to figuratively and literally prostrate ourselves in unquestioning submission to their unauthorized traditions and Towrah-rejecting commandments of men.

Our Creator wants us to be real and honest with Him.  The adversary revealed what he really wants:

Mattanyah 4:8-9 (aka, Matthew)
Again, the false accuser took Him up on a very high mountain, and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory, and said to Him, "All these I will give to You if You fall down and worship me."

We never find Yahowah making that demand of us, ever.  Search the Scriptures.  It just isn't there.  Yahowah wants us to walk with Him, as a Father with His child, hand in hand, talking and hanging out together in a spirit of love and cooperation.  He is not interested in standing over us while we grovel at His feet blubbering in a deadly confusion of fear and "respect" about how great He is.

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Yahowsha is the real Name of Yahowah's Son.  It means "Yah is salvation".  On the other hand—you might want to hold onto your seat cushion here—

1. Jesus is a made-up name.
2. Jesus appears nowhere in the original manuscripts.
3. Jesus has no heavenly power whatsoever.
4. Jesus means absolutely nothing.

Those statements are 100% true, 100% correct, cannot be disproved, and cannot even be debated intelligently.  Jesus is not the Name of the Son of Yahowah, the Creator of the heavens and earth.  And faith in the name of Jesus, rather than saving you, will instead cause you to be annihilated by the very One you believe you are revering.

If you are engaged in promoting your religion (inviting people to "church", "sharing the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ", etc.), it will be even worse for you:  you will find yourself being cast into the abyss with the adversary and the rest of his agents.  Do not allow yourself to be deceived into thinking otherwise.

How can I say stuff like this?!  Well, here:  let me show you.  Now, your "Holy Bible" probably presents Exodus 20:7 as follows:  "You shall not take the Name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His Name in vain."  According to traditional Christian teaching, Yahowah went out of His way to command that we never ever say, "God damn."  They would have you believe that saying, "Goddammit", is somehow a grave affront to the Creator, or that He just cannot get past it if we use His Name frivolously.  That is utter nonsense.

The so-called fourth commandment, when properly translated, actually reads:

Shemowth 20:7 (see note below)
"You shall not lift up, support, or advance, forgive or dignify, respect or tolerate, through the Name or reputation of Yahowah, your God, lifeless and worthless deceptions or devastating and destructive falsehoods [e.g., religions].  For indeed, Yahowah, your God, will not forgive or leave unpunished those who deceive, beguile, or delude, using clever trickery to mislead in association with His Name, to promote vain and ineffectual lies which lead to lifelessness and destruction, or devastating deceptions which nullify our existence, leading to emptiness."

Please read that passage until you understand what is being said.  It took me several attempts before the impact of its message dawned on me.  When you're ready, continue reading this page.  There is no hurry, so take your time and make sure you've got it.

As you can see, Yahowah is warning us against religion, any religion, each and every religion.  He tells us not to dignify them and not to tolerate them.  And He makes it clear that He will not forgive anyone who deceives others with religion, anyone who claims to be speaking for Him while actually promoting a religious lie.  So, like I said, if you are evangelizing for your religion, you're heading for certain judgment.  And since Yahowah is not going to judge His children, the fact that you have an appointment in the Court of the Almighty to stand naked before The Judge and all of His attendants and Family ought to tell you something really important.

Those are strong words.  Perhaps they sound too unflexible to you.  If that is the case, then let me encourage you to think it through.  History proves beyond any shadow of a doubt that "Jesus" is not the real name of Yahowah's Son.  Because of that indisputable fact, for one to claim otherwise is to deliberately and with complete foreknowledge tell a lie.  To continue to call Yahowsha "Jesus" for whatever reason is to knowingly participate in promoting a premeditated lie.  If, then, one were to choose to keep on using the word "Jesus" to refer to Yahowsha, that person would be choosing to announce to the heavens and earth that they prefer a lie to the truth.  So what do you think will be the fate of that person when they come eye to eye with Him Whom they have openly spurned and misrepresented?  You see, then, the seriousness of this matter about names.  Names matter.  And there will most certainly come a moment when there will be no more putting off that one-on-One, face-to-Face meeting with Yahowsha as He sits in His Father's throne judging the world.

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Come!  Let us reason together!

According to Yashayah 1:18, Yahowah says to each one of us, "Come!  Let us reason together!"  Conversely, our adversary and his servants, religious leaders, threaten anyone who would question them, anyone who would seek to apply reason to any of their religious doctrines.

Yahowah offers joyous freedom; the rebellious one offers harsh enslavement to man's religious and political systems.

Yahowah offers life everlasting.  The adversary, a condemned being, doesn't have the authority to offer life or death.  But he does want every one of us to share in the punishment he has brought on himself through his presumptuous rebellion.  And he would really like it if he can get us to worship him as the Most High while we're trudging to our own destruction under the weight of his religious rules and regulations.  Sadly, he really is the god of every religion in the world, and he has cunningly deceived his followers, blinding them, keeping them from discerning his true identity.

Those who serve Yahowah's chief enemy as religious leaders swell themselves up, spread wide their arms, and declare importantly, "I bring you the Word of God!  Bow down and worship Him, for He is worthy of our worship.  We are but filth in His sight!  Follow our rules and perform the rituals we command you to perform, for they are written in the-religious-document-of-your-choice-goes-here.  And give us for our support this % of the money you have earned, for God commands you to support us.  We have been ordained to this ministry by God and/or His authorized representatives!  And remember:  you can't outgive God!  God will bless you if you give sacrificially!"  "God" in this case could refer to that nameless god of Judaism and Christianity, or to Allah, or Buddha, or Krishna, or to this cow, or that monkey, or whatever.  The please-everybody-no-matter-what evangelists for the religion of Alcoholics Anonymous (and their 12-stepping offshoots) will even tell you that your own personal God—or higher power—can be a door knob, a distant star, your AA home group, or whatever you want it/him/her to be.  They will tell you, in effect, "Whatever makes you happy, God is cool with it.  He doesn't care, really.  He doesn't sweat the details."

WRONG!  Yahowah most certainly does "sweat the details."  Consider the DNA strand.  Take careful notice of the Periodic Table of Elements.  There are innumerable details to which Yahowah pays strict attention, and the single path to Him is one of them.  What good will it do you to gain total sobriety if you lose our own soul in the process?  WAKE UP!

Yahowah, unlike politicians and religious leaders, reaches out harmlessly, smiling warmly, without guile, and says with unearthly gentleness, "Take My hand and walk with Me.  We will be walking away from the religious and political systems of your fathers.  Place My yoke upon yourself, and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly of heart.  You will find My yoke to be easy and My burden to be light.  Walk with me, and you will find rest for your soul, and I will give you life that never ends.  I will adopt you as My own and give you my Family Name."

Hard choice, huh.

"Come!  Let us reason together!"  Seems reasonable to me to talk all this over with my Creator.  How about you?  You have an open invitation from Yahowah Himself to find Him through His Word.  Will you accept that invitation and engage with Him on His terms?

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How Great A Love!

1 Yahowchanan 3:1-2  (see note below)
See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we would be called children of Yahowah!  And such we are.  For this reason the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.

Yahowchanan tells us that the world does not know us because it does not know Yahowah.  The world does not know Him.  Let the full impact of that truth sink into your consciousness.  Yahowsha tells us about His Way which leads to Life, "Few there be that find it."  The millions and billions of religious people are more than a few:  and Yahowsha says they're not going to find it.  Instead, they will hear, "Depart from me, you workers of Towrahlessness.  I never knew you."

We can most certainly get to know Him, though, if we are willing to invest the time and effort to dig out the truth.  That truth is buried within crusted layers of religious deception and corruption.  It's there; we just have to care enough about Yahowah and His Word to actually dig it out and clean it up.  And that is just how Yahowah wants it to be.

Mattanyah 7:7
"Ask, and it will be given to you;
    seek, and you will find;
        knock, and it will be opened to you."

We've got to want it.

Yirmeyah 20:13
"You will search for Me,
    and you will find Me,
when you search for Me
    with all your heart."

We will find Him when we search for Him with all our hearts.  It's all or nothing.

If we don't care enough about Him to get to know Him through His Word,
then He won't care enough about us to adopt us into His Family.
 
And that is totally fair and appropriate.

Would you adopt a convicted juvenile delinquent whose behavior and attitude make it clear they don't care about you, who insists that they don't have to obey your house rules, who refuses to acknowledge or use your name, and whose every action declares their view that you only exist to satisfy their wants?  Of course not!  And neither will Yahowah.  Do not let yourself be deceived into believing otherwise.

Do you want to know Him enough to turn off your electronics and look for Him in His Scriptures?  Are you willing to engage with Him one-on-One, eye-to-Eye?  He has invited us to approach Him, and He said nothing about waiting until we consider ourselves cleaned up enough to be worthy.  So we know that He isn't going to take offense at our boldness.  He is going to welcome us.  Will you come to Him?

Where does one start?

Personally, I was stumbling along and pretty much tripped and fell backwards into the truth.  I was looking the other way, in the direction of my Christian religion.  Somebody once called me "a walking King James Version" because I could quote book, chapter, and verse for just about anything I was asked.  So how did that work out for me?  Well, it didn't, not at all, because Christianity is a lie and its teachings and traditions have no power from on high.  Even so, Yahowah somehow managed to guide even the likes of me to those places He wanted me to find.  And He began to unveil before my very eyes the great deception of Paul's religion of Christianity, with its lies about Yahowah's Towrah and about the true work of His Son, His Useful and Beneficial Implement, Yahowsha of Nazareth, the diminished corporeal manifestation of Yahowah Himself.  Then He showed me how every religion in the world is evil and opposes Him and His ways.  His truth has turned my life around and freed me from the bondage of religion and man's political systems.

Yahowah did not show me the truth through revelation or some mystical out-of-body experience.  He showed it to me right there in His Towrah, Prophets, and Psalms.  It's there, but it has been hidden by evil men and women throughout the millenia.  He has lovingly provided to us others who have blazed the trail before us, and who have shared their discoveries with the world.  I took advantage of their research and had my eyes opened.

He will show you, too, what is true and what is not true.  "Let us reason together."  He will guide you into all truth.  That is why He brought you here today.  This is a good place to start your treasure hunt, your earnest digging for the truth.  Be ready to get your hands dirty!

For a list of helpful resources to use in your search for the truth, click [here].

A common kneejerk reaction to this unfamiliar message—especially among Christians—is to immediately lean back, scowling, with the exclamation of "Cult!" ready to burst through the lips like the howl of a werewolf.  That's okay.  Skepticism is a good thing in these matters.  However, let me encourage you to throw down your fears and other protective crutches, and let yourself explore freely with your mind.  Yahowah gave us brains to think with, and He will not take offense when we take courage and carefully and critically scrutinize the things we have been told, holding them up to the searching Light of His Word.  Unlike the false envoy Paul, and unlike politicians and religious leaders worldwide, Yahowah has nothing to fear from full exposure.  So have at it!  Start living in His Word, and as Yahowsha promised,

Yahowchanon 8:31,32
"If you continue in My word, then you are truly disciples of Mine; and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free."

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There are works at this site which are not my own.  Every one is used with the permission of its author.  However, some of the authors have adamantly stated that they do not wish to be identified in association with their work, and I do my best to honor their desires to remain anonymous.

It is my hope that my own particular style of writing will be easily distinguishable from the writing styles of others.  Yet the truth of the matter is that it isn't important who wrote something if they wrote it for Yahowah.  What is important is that His Word gets out here and that it gets out here accurately translated.

Thank you again for visiting our little web site.  May Yahowah be with you as you explore my articles and enjoy the photographs my wife and I have taken of His beautiful creation.  If you would, kindly email me with your comments.  If you like our site, please tell others about it.  In that way, you'll be helping us get the Word out!

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Here are a couple of paragraphs from the chapter called "Teaching" of "An Introduction to God", by "Yada":
 
If you want to know God’s plan and understand His timing, you have to do what Dany’el did:  closely examine Yahowah’s written testimony.  And when you do, you will find what Dany’el found:  every meaningful aspect of God’s plan and timing revolves around seven, the shabat, and Yah’s sworn oath to mankind.
 
Failing to understand this, Christians remain prophetically clueless, believing that no one knows any of the important dates on God’s calendar.  Begging to differ, Dany’el figured it out.  But then again, Dany’el and Christians have a very different perspective and approach.  So I would ask Christians, if Dany’el, someone with whom Yahowah had direct conversations, someone whom Yahowah used to scribe Scripture, had to read Scripture to understand it, what prompts them to believe that “relying upon the Holy Spirit for guidance” is sufficient?
 
That's an excellent question.  But wait!  Don't answer!  There's more!
 
... Also interesting is taphilah, the Hebrew word most often translated “prayer.”  Surprisingly, it isn’t found a single time in the Towrah.  Therefore, prayer is not a requirement for participation in the Covenant.  Prayer is not needed for salvation.  Prayer was not only omitted from Yah’s stone tablets, it cannot be found anywhere in His “towrah – teaching.”  That is stunningly profound.  The most religious of acts isn’t something Yahowah encourages.
 
Paul’s “pray without ceasing” is therefore in complete discord with Yahowah’s instructions.  The evangelical “sinner’s prayer” which is said to serve as the basis of one’s salvation, isn’t endorsed by God.  There is no Divine mandate for beginning or ending a meeting or gathering with prayer. ...
 
Even in this context, the traditional concept of prayer does not fit.  Dany’el could not have “baqash – sought and requested, searched for or secured” prayer.  He was free to speak to God any time he wanted.  He didn’t need to obtain permission to “pray.”  But it was reasonable for Dany’el to seek God’s intervention while he was meditating upon His communication.  Because in this way, Dany’el, like Dowd before him, is seeking Yahowah’s assistance.  While he is studying God’s Word, he wants God to teach him.
 
This is not to say that we should not talk to God.  Moseh did, as did Adam, Noah, Abraham, Dowd, and all of the prophets.  But we ought to listen to God first.  And we do this the same way Dany’el did:  we closely examine His Word.
 
Now here are some excerpts from the "Prelude" chapter of "An Introduction to God", by "Yada":
 
Yahweh, which is more precisely transliterated, Yahowah (pronounced using His "Towrah - Teaching" for guidance), is the Creator's one and only name.  Based upon the Hebrew verb "hayah - to exist," God's personal and proper name explains our past, present, and future existence.  His name serves to answer the most fundamental of questions:  does God exist?  And as we shall discover, by using prophecy Yahowah actually proves His existence beyond any doubt.  He can be known.  Faith, therefore, will be a liability.
 
Now that we have been properly introduced, since God often uses the nickname, "Yah," you should feel comfortable using it as well.  Just don't call Him "Lord," "Allah," "Jesus" or "Christ," as these names and titles are either offensive or hold no meaning to Him whatsoever.
 
"Yada' " means "to know in a relational sense, to recognize, to acknowledge, and then to understand."  Therefore, the goal of this Introduction to God is to "yada' - know" Yahowah as He revealed Himself, and then strive to "yada' - understand" what He had to say about the seven subjects most important to Him - and therefore to us:  His "Dabar - Word," His "Shem - Name," His "Towrah - Teaching," His "Beryth - Covenant," His "Mitswah - Terms," His "Miqra'ey - Invitations," and His "Derek - Way."
 
So who is Yah, and what does He want?  Is there a reliable path to God, and should one exist, what might we expect once we get there?  Is it possible that conflicting religions actually lead to the same place?  Or do they all present different paths away from Him?  Is it possible that the object of every religion - God - is actually opposed to every religion?
 
To answer these questions, we have a lot of ground to cover.  In order to appreciate what Yahowah had to say about Himself and the relationship He desires with us, countless religious beliefs will actually have to be discarded, and new, fertile ground will need to be plowed.  Therefore, in the pages which follow, we will pull the weeds of heresy.  We will lay fallow false terminology, replacing it with God's testimony.  Through careful husbandry, we will cultivate an appreciation for God's Word, and reveal the proper names and titles our Creator selected, careful to explain how these were designed to be known and shared.  We will expose the sordid history of today's bible translations and examine the tools which can be used to correctly convey what God actually revealed.
 
In this Introduction to God, we will closely observe Yah's Towrah (usually transliterated "Torah") teaching (not "Law"), collectively comprised of "Bare'syth - In the Beginning (misnamed Genesis)," "Shemowth - Names (misnamed Exodus)," "Qara' - Called-Out (misnamed Leviticus)," "BaMidbar - In the Wilderness (misnamed Numbers)," "Dabarym - Words (misnamed Deuteronomy)," and as a surprise to many, "Yahowsha' - Yah Saves (misnamed Joshua)," carefully examining and thoughtfully considering the revealed text.  We will ponder the implications of God's most important words and teachings, consider the terms for participating in His covenant, observe His instructions and invitations, and evaluate His way as it was foretold in the prophecies pertaining to our salvation.
 
In this light, I would be remiss if I did not tell you that properly translated, the first words of the first six books reveal:  "In the beginning God conceived" "these names for the children of those who engage and endure with God," "and Yahowah called out to Moseh" "and spoke the Word to Moseh in the wilderness of words" to convey "these words" "which speak of Yahowah providing salvation."
 
Further on in this same chapter, "Yada" writes:
 
I'd like to pierce a stubborn myth.  You may be surprised to learn that "Torah" does not mean "Law," and that Yah never once asks us "to obey" Him or it.  Instead, He asks us to "shamar - be observant," which is to "closely examine and carefully consider" His "towrah - teachings" so that we choose to respond appropriately to the guidance He has provided.
 
Want to see more?  Click here to download the PDF file.  You will need Adobe's Acrobat Reader or some other application capable of displaying a PDF file (such as Ocular for those of you who use one of the Linux distros).  As one of Yahowah's people, I will never ask you to pay for what I have to offer.  In fact, I do not accept donations of any kind, period.  I do not do this for money.
 
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