Seven-Day Scripture Study · Introduction
Yahuah: The Name Above All Names
Knowing the One Whose Name We Carry — His identity, character, authority, revelation, and the walk that follows.
Who Is Yahuah?
Before examining what it means to carry, declare, or walk in the Name of Yahuah, we must first consider who Scripture reveals Him to be.
Yahuah is the One who speaks, establishes, directs, judges, delivers, and makes Himself known through His Word and His works.
He does not receive His authority from another, nor does His identity depend upon human acknowledgment.
In Shamut (Exodus) 3:14–15, Yahuah speaks to Mashah, declares Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh, and identifies His memorial Name throughout generations.
In Yashayahu (Isaiah) 42:8, He declares His Name and that His esteem belongs to Him.
In Yashayahu 43:10–11, He establishes that no Aluah was formed before Him or shall be after Him, and that apart from Him there is no savior.
These passages establish the foundation of our study.
We are not beginning with a Name detached from the One who bears it.
We are beginning with Yahuah Himself, as He has made Himself known through Scripture.
What Does It Mean to Know His Name?
When Scripture speaks of knowing the Name of Yahuah, we must consider the context in which that knowledge is being discussed.
Sometimes the emphasis concerns identifying who is speaking or whose Name is being declared.
At other times, the emphasis concerns recognizing His authority, understanding His character, experiencing His works, or responding to His instruction.
These meanings should not be flattened into a single explanation.
Knowing the Name can involve recognizing its spoken or written identification, but Scripture also connects the Name to the identity, character, reputation, and authority of the One who bears it.
Therefore, knowing how to pronounce the Name does not, by itself, establish that someone knows Yahuah in the fuller relational sense presented throughout Scripture.
To understand this distinction, we will examine several Scriptural witnesses.
Pharaoh — Hearing the Name Without Recognizing the Authority
Shamut 5:1–2; 7:5; 9:14–16
When Mashah and Aharan approached Pharaoh, they declared the instruction of Yahuah concerning Yisharal.
Pharaoh responded by asking who Yahuah was that he should obey His voice.
He then declared that he did not know Yahuah and would not release Yisharal.
Notice what had already occurred.
Pharaoh had heard the Name.
He had received a command presented under that Name.
Yet he refused to acknowledge the authority of the One who issued it.
Through the judgments that followed, Yahuah made His power and authority known to Mitsrayim.
Pharaoh's encounter demonstrates that hearing the Name and acknowledging the authority behind it are not necessarily the same thing.
It also demonstrates that experiencing Yahuah's power does not automatically produce willing submission to Him.
A person may become aware of Yahuah's authority while continuing to resist His instruction.
Shamual — Hearing the Voice Without Recognizing the Speaker
Shamual Aleph (1 Samuel) 3:1–10
Young Shamual was serving under Ali when Yahuah called to him.
Shamual heard the voice and responded, but he initially believed Ali was calling him.
The passage explains that Shamual did not yet know Yahuah and that the Word of Yahuah had not yet been revealed to him.
This is an important distinction.
Shamual was already serving in the place associated with Yahuah's worship.
He heard the call.
He was willing to respond.
Yet he did not initially recognize the One who was speaking.
Ali eventually understood what was happening and instructed Shamual how to respond when called again.
Unlike Pharaoh, Shamual's initial lack of recognition was not presented as deliberate rebellion.
He needed understanding.
Through instruction, he learned to recognize the Speaker and became receptive to His Word.
Hearing a voice does not necessarily mean recognizing whose voice it is. Recognition may require instruction and revelation.
Abaraham — Continuing to Know the One He Already Followed
Barashiyt (Genesis) 12; 15; 17; 22
Abaraham presents another dimension of knowing Yahuah.
His relationship with Yahuah did not begin on the mountain where he was instructed to offer Yitsahaq.
Long before that event, Abaraham had received Yahuah's direction, followed His instruction, heard His promises, and experienced His faithfulness.
In Barashiyt 12, he was called to leave his country and go where Yahuah directed.
In Barashiyt 15, he received reassurance concerning Yahuah's promises and believed Him.
In Barashiyt 17, Yahuah instructed him to walk before Him and be tamim.
Then, in Barashiyt 22, Abaraham encountered a test involving Yitsahaq.
When Yitsahaq asked about the lamb for the offering, Abaraham expressed confidence that Aluah would provide.
After Yahuah intervened and a ram was provided, Abaraham named the place Yahuah Yireh, commonly understood as “Yahuah will provide” or “Yahuah will see to it.”
Notice that Abaraham expressed confidence in Yahuah's provision before he saw how that provision would come.
The experience did not introduce him to Yahuah for the first time.
Rather, it became another occasion in which his trust, obedience, and understanding were expressed and tested.
And in Barashiyt 22:12, the messenger declares that Abaraham's fear of Aluah has now been demonstrated through his willingness to obey.
This account connects knowing, trusting, and acting.
A person may genuinely know Yahuah while continuing to learn more about His character, instruction, and faithfulness through an ongoing relationship.
Knowing Him does not mean there is nothing more to understand.
Knowing Yahuah: Recognition, Relationship, and Conduct
Yiramiyahu (Jeremiah) 9:23–24; Yahuhanan Aleph (1 John) 2:3–6
The accounts of Pharaoh, Shamual, and Abaraham demonstrate that Scripture presents different circumstances in which knowing Yahuah becomes necessary.
One hears the Name but rejects its authority.
Another hears the voice without initially recognizing the Speaker.
Another already knows Yahuah and continues learning through an established relationship.
These accounts should not be treated as identical situations.
However, together they demonstrate why knowing Yahuah cannot be reduced to pronunciation, familiarity, experience, or a single outward response.
In Yiramiyahu 9:23–24, Yahuah connects knowing and understanding Him with His lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness.
He also declares that He delights in these things.
Therefore, knowing Yahuah involves learning what He values, how He acts, and what pleases Him.
In Yahuhanan Aleph 2:3–6, knowing Him is connected with keeping His commandments, remaining in Him, and walking as Yahusha walked.
These are not unrelated accomplishments.
Recognition informs relationship.
Relationship involves hearing and receiving instruction.
Obedience gives expression to what has been received.
Conduct makes visible what a person professes to know.
And as the walk continues, understanding can be examined, corrected, and deepened.
This does not mean that someone who knows Yahuah will never stumble, misunderstand, or require correction.
Rather, knowing Him involves remaining willing to receive correction, return when necessary, and continue walking under His authority.
Knowing Yahuah is not demonstrated by pronunciation alone, nor by profession alone, but through a continuing relationship in which His instruction is received and increasingly made evident in conduct.
Knowing the Father and Doing His Will
Matatiyahu (Matthew) 7:15–27
In Matatiyahu 7, Yahusha presents a connected series of teachings concerning recognition, profession, obedience, and conduct.
In verses 15–20, He warns about false prophets and teaches that they are recognized by their fruit.
In verses 21–23, He distinguishes between those who call Him Master and those who do the will of His Father.
The individuals described appeal to works they claim to have performed in His Name.
Yet Yahusha declares that He never knew them and identifies their practice as lawlessness.
This establishes an important distinction.
Claiming the Name, professing His authority, or pointing to impressive works does not automatically demonstrate that a person is walking according to the Father's will.
Yahusha does not identify the problem as insufficient pronunciation or a lack of outwardly impressive activity.
He identifies lawlessness.
And immediately afterward, in verses 24–27, He gives the illustration of two builders.
Both hear His words.
But one acts upon them, while the other does not.
The wise builder hears and does.
The foolish builder hears but does not do.
The difference becomes evident when their foundations are tested.
The progression of the passage is significant:
- Fruit reveals something about the person.
- Profession alone does not establish obedience.
- Hearing instruction is not the same as doing it.
- A stable foundation is demonstrated through acting upon what has been heard.
This connects directly to what Scripture teaches about knowing Yahuah.
To do the Father's will, we must learn what He instructs, what He values, and what pleases Him.
And that understanding must become evident in how we live.
The question is not merely whether we know His Name, but whether our conduct demonstrates that we are receiving His instruction.
Yahuah Revealed Through Yahusha — The Word Made Flesh
Yahuhanan (John) 1:1–14; 12:49–50; 14:7–10
As we continue examining the Name, we must also consider how Yahuah reveals Himself through Yahusha.
Yahuhanan 1 identifies the Word as being with Aluah and as Aluah, then declares that the Word became flesh.
In Yahuhanan 14:7–9, Yahusha tells His disciples that knowing Him means knowing the Father, and that whoever has seen Him has seen the Father.
In Yahuhanan 12:49–50, He explains that He does not speak independently of the Father who sent Him.
In Yahuhanan 14:10, He connects His words and works to the Father dwelling in Him.
These witnesses establish the inseparable relationship between Yahusha's revelation and the Father's Word, works, and authority.
Read together with the broader Scriptural witness, they support the understanding developed in this study that Yahusha is Yahuah manifested in flesh, with Father and Son distinguished in function rather than as separate sources of divine identity and authority.
This understanding is a conclusion drawn from the combined passages, not a phrase that each individual passage states in those exact words.
And it carries a practical implication.
When Yahusha speaks of doing the Father's will in Matatiyahu 7:21 and then speaks of hearing and doing His own words in verse 24, He does not present two competing authorities.
His instruction reveals the Father's will.
His conduct makes visible the character He reveals.
His works bear witness to the authority under which He acts.
Therefore, recognizing Yahuah through Yahusha cannot reasonably end with identifying who Yahusha is.
It must also involve receiving what He teaches and learning to walk as He walked.
The Word made flesh did not merely communicate instruction. Yahusha demonstrated the instruction through His life and conduct.
The Purpose of This Seven-Day Study
This study follows the Scriptural witness concerning the Name of Yahuah, from the Ta’anak into the Bariyt Hadash.
We will examine how the Name is carried, how authority is expressed through the one sent, how Yahuah identifies Himself as Savior, how the coming One is revealed, and how Yahusha makes the Father's Name known and visible.
We will also examine what it means to receive that revelation.
Our purpose is not to force every passage into a predetermined explanation.
We will allow the context of each passage to establish what it says, then examine how the witnesses relate to one another.
Where Scripture makes a direct declaration, we will identify it.
Where a conclusion is drawn from multiple passages, we will explain how that conclusion is reached.
And where the context permits more than one reasonable understanding, we will not pretend that the text has said more than it has established.
Most importantly, we will not separate knowing the Name from knowing the One who bears it.
Because recognition, relationship, instruction, obedience, and conduct belong together.
Before You Begin
Move slowly.
Read the passages before settling on an explanation.
Pay attention to who is speaking, who is being addressed, and what is happening in the surrounding context.
Allow the earlier Scriptural witnesses to establish their own patterns before examining the later accounts.
Be willing to reconsider an assumption when the evidence requires it.
And remember that understanding is not complete merely because information has been acquired.
What we learn must also be considered in relation to how we live.
The study is not complete when the Name is identified. Recognition must begin to govern the walk.
The Seven-Day Witness
Follow the Scriptural witness from the Name carried to the Name received in a governed walk.
Yahusha comes in His Father's Name.
The Ta’anak establishes the authority carried by the one sent.
The Scriptural witness concerning the source of salvation.
The prophetic witness concerning the One who comes with reign and rule.
Yahusha makes the Father's Name known.
Yahusha reveals Yahuah through His manifestation in flesh.
Recognition, submission, obedience, and alignment.