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THE LITERAL MEANING

God's Name is Yahweh. The literal meaning of "Yahweh" is:

The God that is 'He Who is He Who is He Who is' -

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'the Mighty Right Now God'

or,

'the God of the Present Moment'

or,

the Great 'I AM'!

Yahweh is not a 'has been' god, though most people live too much in the past. Nor is He a 'maybe', or 'someday', 'perhaps', or, 'iff-y' god, though too many people live way off in the future. The Bible makes it clear that Daddy Yahweh has no greater gift that He can give us than our enjoyment of Him to the maximum in the present moment. There is no greater thing that we can do - than to do His will and pleasure and leading in each present moment. The greatest preparation we can make for any future moment, is to please Yahweh in each present moment, each 'NOW'!  Yahweh wants to be our mighty Right Now God!!!

HALLELUJAH!

Actually, we all use the proper Name for God already, but we do so, without realizing it, every time we say the word 'Hallelujah'. The literal meaning of 'hallelujah' is hallel which means to praise with giddy, glorious, excited, jumping up and down - spinning round and round - kind of praise with joyful - all our heart - kind of praise - and, then, the second half of the word - YAH, which is the shortened form of Yahweh. We also use the shortened form of Yahweh, when we use words like:, Isa + YAH, Jeremi + Yah, Obadi + Yah, Zephani + Yah, Jonathan or, my name, John, which is the New Testament form of Jonathan, means, = Yah + Nathan, or "Yahweh is gracious" or, "Gracious gift of Yahweh"!  Then there is Joel = Yah + El, or "Yahweh is God"!, while Eli-jah meals that "El (or God) is Yahweh", etc. Please remember that the English 'J' absolutely did not exist, until several centuries ago, but was the letter 'i', which was substituted for 'y'. That is why, to this day, we pronounce the 'j' in Hallelujah as a 'y' or an 'i'