good and evil, but its actual meaning comes from the purpose of making candles. When a person would take the string that goes into the candle, they would twist it, or make it wicked. Hence the term a wick of the candle. The evil one does this also, he twists what is the truth and makes it wicked. We want to make sure that there is no confusion in what we teach and some of the terminology we use may not be familiar to you, so we want to clarify our uses of the Hebrew words that are found in the Scriptures and from our mouths. When we refer to the person "Jesus", we will say Yeshua. When we refer to the title "God", we will say Elohim. When we refer to the Title "LORD" we prefer to say Yahweh or Yahuah as His proper name instead of using it as a title. LORD is Not His proper name, it is a title, one of which means "Ba'al" and if you look it up in any dictionary, you can discover this for yourself, not to mention the fact that he commands us not to refer to Him as other gods or mighty ones, it is an abomination to Him. Exo 23:13 (ASV) And in all things that I have said unto you take ye heed: and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth. If you are unsure how to say His proper name or unsure if we should at all, it is always a safe bet to refer to Him as the Father or one could just say, "B'nai HaShem", or "Followers of the Name". You may hear us refer to the Fathers name as; "Yode Hey Vav Hey", and this comes from YHVH יהוה in the Hebrew language which is His proper name with the vowels removed, it's just the consonants of His name. This came to be because of some who felt it was to holy of a name to say or even spell, so they remove the vowels so no one could profane His name. When you hear us greet you and one another or depart from you and we say "Shalom", what this means is peace be with you or may the Fathers peace go with you. |