If you look at the tetragrammaton in the Hebrew text יְהוָה, I am beginning to question the practice of not reading the Name. The Jews, for example, would not pronounce the Name but would replace it with the word Adonai, which means, "My Great Lord."
I have no firm convictions yet and I would not like some who say, "God spoke to me about this," but we need to see how the Name appears in the Hebrew text.
For example, לַיהוָה (appears 580 times in the entire Tanakh. Examples: Gen 12:8, 13:18) and בַּיהוָה (appears 107 times in the Old Testament. Examples: Micah 7:7). The Name is used along with a preposition!
Would this not raise an eyebrow when a preposition can be attached to the Most Holy Name? This is not from any book but from the Word of God itself!
If you think about it, the Talmudic Jews' tradition would never have allowed this to happen. They would not even mention the Name Yehovah or Yahweh, but how can we attach a preposition to the Most Holy Name?
Could it be -- and I don't know for now -- that the tradition of the Talmudic Jews is overdone by the Talmudic Jews themselves?
We also see in Exodus 3:14 that even God did not give Moses His Name, because there is no Name that can fully represent who He is. That's why He merely told Moses, "I AM WHO I AM."
Let's give this more thoughts and stay faithful to the Hebrew text. For now, I think we are following a Talmudic tradition that is, in fact, alien to the teachings of the Bible. Throughout the New Testament, our Lord describes God as 'Our Heavenly Father.' To the Jews, this would be an absolute blasphemy, too!
Not everything that the Jew practices is from God's Word. That's a fact! Even Nehemia Gordon in this interview explains his own observations about the red strings tied around someone's hands.
If you listen to the lecture by Dr Bill Barrick of Masterskill Seminary, you will see that I have someone who shares the same view:
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