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God is known by many Names throughout the Bible:  Elohim-Creator, YHVW-The unpronounceable Tetragrammaton, which always appears in all upiper case letters: LORD. Google them sometime. There are more than 100! No doubt, you’ll see some of your personal favorites; Rapha-healer; Nissi-provider; Shaddai-Almighty; Shepherd; Comforter. It’s a very long list.

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In Genesis 6, the name translated, “God,” the One Who commanded all the animals to come to Noah, is “Elohim: Creator.” But the One Who shut the door of the ark in chapter 7, was “Yahweh: the Covenant-Keeping One.”  You could say the hand of God brought the animals to Noah but the heart of God shut the door.

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Where was God while the flood was happening?  Was He far away, siting on His throne as the waters of judgment washed over the earth, like some absentee Landlord?  The answer may surprise you!  To read all about it, follow the link below:

https://emmausroadministries.wordpress.com/2016/04/13/come-into-the-ark-flood-series-part-2/

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More Names Of God.

In Genesis 14, we first learn another of His Names: Elyon, the Most High. In Chapter 17, He revealed to us, “El Shaddai: Almighty God.” For more on this topic and one of God’s wonderful hidden messages to us in Psalm 91, please follow the link below:

https://emmausroadministries.wordpress.com/2016/06/26/psalm-91-part-1-of-7-of-7-the-secret-place/

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The first time the most awesome NAME, “YHVH,” is mentioned is in the opening verse, Genesis 2:4.  Though “God” is mentioned in the very beginning it is not “YHVH,” but “Elohim: Creator.”

YHVH is The “Covenant-Keeping One.”  It is always written in English as “LORD,” in all upper case letters.  It did not appear in until chapter 2 because, until man was created, there was no one with whom to make a Covenant.

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The Jewish people have a reverential fear of saying this particular Name of God for fear of blaspheming Him.  They will often spell it in English like this:  “G-D.”  You and I, however, as sons and daughters of God because of Jesus, have no such slavish fear.

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Among all those Names in the Old Testament, however, NOWHERE do you find His favorite Name.  This is the one by which He desperately wanted to be known but could not be.  One of the many reasons Jesus came to earth was to reveal that very Name.

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The reason you won’t find it ANYWHERE in the Old is because He could not be known by that Name…..YET!  You see, He had to conceal His plan back then in order to shield it from the many, varied and unrelenting efforts of the devil both to discover and stop it.

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(For more on this topic, follow the link below:  https://emmausroadministries.wordpress.com/2016/04/14/as-it-was-in-the-days-of-noah-flood-series-part-7-of-8/)

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Pure Love.

God, above all, is Pure Love. He loved us SO MUCH, in fact, that He willingly sent His beloved Son to earth to be born as one of us, to live among us and die as one of us so that every sin, which separated us from Him, could be done away with PERMANENTLY!

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Pure love, however, cannot rest and be satisfied without the company of the ones He loves: US!  He couldn’t wait rip the veil that separated us from Him.  You see, He was just as much a prisoner as we were.

He was desperate to be able to allow us to come and sit on His lap, to hug us to Himself with His strong, protecting, loving arms and hear us call Him by His favorite Name………

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Father: ABBA-DADDY  [אב]!!!  Yep!  That is God’s FAVORITE NAME!