blessed peace, what fuller testimony might have been given down the

Jacob.  Should the reader have any leanings toward that line of teaching

which speaks of a 'spiritual Israel' and by that title mean the Church, he

should pause and consider some of the passages which do not use the title

Israel, but Jacob.  Can we speak of a 'spiritual Jacob' and thereby intend

the Church?  Let us see.

David's throne has been spiritualized, but in Luke 1:32,33 we read:

'And the Lord God shall give unto Him the throne of His father David:

and He shall reign over the House of Jacob for ever'.

At the Second Coming 'All Israel shall be saved', and lest we should be

inclined to spiritualize this statement, the apostle continues that 'The

Deliverer shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob' (Rom. 11:26).  Let us

maintain that the gifts and calling of God are without repentance or change

of mind and that such solemn declarations as those of Jeremiah 31:35 -37 must

and shall be fulfilled.  Let God be true, though it make every man a liar.

'Spiritualize' sounds like 'spiritual lies', a play upon words that may

indicate a serious fact.

Jehovah.  For the purpose of this Analysis, the vexed question of the correct

pronunciation of this name of God is not of importance.  The meaning of the

name, its usage and import are the aspects of the subject that matter here.

The Hebrew name, spoken of as the tetragrammaton, 'the four lettered word',

is a composite, made up of portions of the verb 'to become', not as is

sometimes said of the verb 'to be'.  Hayah is translated 'became' in Genesis

2:7; 'It shall come to pass' in Genesis 4:14; 'Let there be' in Genesis 1:3;

the idea of development, unfolding, manifestation being always present.

Riehm takes the name to mean, 'The absolute and unchanging One'.  Delitsch

takes it as meaning, 'The existing, ever -living One'.  De Oehl, 'The One

ever coming into manifestation as the God of Redemption'.  Robertson Smith,

'He will be it, i.e. all that His servants look for'.  As the verb from which

the name, Jehovah, is derived means primarily, 'to become', the name is

prophetic, it looks down the ages to the unfolding of the great redemptive

purpose, and gives assurance that He will not be found wanting.

One way of arriving at the meaning of the sacred Name is to observe the

way in which it is used with or over against the name Elohim, 'God'.  Elohim

is the name of the Creator in Genesis 1:1 to 2:3.  Immediately after, the

name changes to 'The Lord God', Jehovah Elohim (Gen. 2:4), and no other name

appears in that chapter.  The same is true of chapter 3, the only one who

uses the single name 'God' being the serpent.  We see this usage in rather a

marked way in Genesis 7:16:

'And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God

had commanded him: and the Lord shut him in'.

Again, in Psalm 19, 'The

heavens declare the glory

of God' (verse 1), whereas the

law, the testimony, the statutes, the

commandments, the fear and the

judgments in the same Psalm are 'of the Lord'

(verses 7 to 9), Who is called

in verse 14, 'My strength and my Redeemer'.