Thank you, everybody...
what prompted me to mention all this to her was her statement the other day that she was using Strong's:
"Studying the Word with Dr Strong this morning:) ~ Lord I will trust in Thee.~ trust OT:982
batach (baw-takh'); a primitive root; properly, to hie for refuge [but not so precipitately as OT:2620]; figuratively, to trust, be confident or sure:
(Biblesoft's New Exhaustive Strong's Numbers and Concordance with Expanded Greek-Hebrew Dictionary. Copyright © 1994, 2003 Biblesoft, Inc."
So, I posted (thanks to y'all):
Jeremiah 23 : 27
“I have heard what the prophets have said who prophesy lies in My name, saying, ‘I have dreamed, I have dreamed!’
How long will this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies? Indeed they are prophets of the deceit of their
own heart, who try to make My people forget My name by their dreams which everyone tells his neighbor, as their
fathers forgot My name for Baal."
No matter how Christians try to sugar coat "Lord", read and understand that Yahowah is His Name. Call Him that!
He never once introduced Himself as "Lord", not ever. It is a title He never claimed for Himself, never asked for,
never initiated. Why should you or anyone else be asked to "prove" He doesn't want to be called something He
never asked to be called? When Moseh asked in Exodus 3:13 "And Moseh said to Elohim, "See when I come to
the children of Yisra'el and say to them, The Elohim of your fathers has sent me to you, and they say to me,
"What is His Name? what shall I say to them?"
Isaiah 42:8
"I am Yahowah, that is My Name, and My esteem I do not give to another, nor My praise to idols"
And Elohim said to Mosheh, "I am that which I am". And He said, Thus you shall say to the children
of Yisra'el, "I am has sent me to you. And Elohim said FURTHER to Mosheh, Thus you are to say to
the children of Yisra'el, Yahowah Elohim of your fathers, the Elohim of Abraham, the Elohim of Yitsha,
and the Elohim of Ya'aqob has sent me to you. This is My Name forever, and this is My remembrance to all generations."
It's Baal that wants to LORD over. God gave us free will to enter into a family relationship with Him. No parent
wants to LORD over their child. Understanding the original Hebrew is paramount to knowing Yahowah!
Hos 2:16 “And it shall be, in that day,” declares יהוה, “that you call Me ‘My Husband,’ and no longer call Me ‘My Baʽal. (My Lord)’
I thought maybe she'd like to dig deep but she replied:
"Dear Vic,
HE also calls Himself “adonay” in passages like: Ezek 13:9
And mine hand shall be upon the prophets that see vanity, and that divine
lies: they shall not be in the assembly of my people, neither shall they be
written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither shall they enter into the
land of Israel; and ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
The root of that word literally means ,” Lord Master Owner.”
"Jesus said why do you call Me Lord Lord and do not so what I say.
He longs for sons who will lovingly choose to make Him Lord.
He longs for us to yeild lovingly to His Lordship.
Not to force us to follow Him...but for us to willingly follow and obey..."
I replied:
There are two reasons that these Divine Placeholders were universally presented
on every codex written by Yahowsha‘s Disciples dating to the first- through third-century.
Names like Yahowah and Yahowsha‘ cannot be transliterated using the Greek alphabet.
And God‘s titles are meaningful in the original language— wherethe words themselves convey important instructions
She replied:
"He is so amazing !He never forces Himself...He lovingly offers an invitation ....
It's up to us to choose...to make Him The Lord over us!
As for me and my house~ we will worship~ we will follow~ we will bow down~ we will love and adore Him forever!"
So, that was my first attempt to talk with an old family friend (and now, married to a Pastor) about Yahowah.
After that last statement of hers, I figured it's best left for the pros. Little steps for little understanding...