Understanding the name of God

Apostle Guillermo Maldonado preaches powerfully about the meaning of God’s name. Elohim = “God” (plural) as in the Creator: In the beginning God (Elohim) created the heaven and the earth. “God Almighty” or “God the All-Sufficient One”; the entomology is so ancient that Biblical scholars do not agree on the meaning of this name: I AM El Shaddai.

Yahweh = found in Scripture as the consonants YHWH, known as the “Tetragramaton” is God’s holy Covenant name.  The letters  form a word or words from the verb “to be” and most scholars translate it as “I AM who I AM” or “I will be who I will be”, or “the Self-Existent One: Moses said to God, ‘Look, if I go to the Israelites and say to them, The God of your ancestors has sent me to you, and they say to me, ‘What is His name?’ what am I to tell them?’  God said to Moses, ‘I AM He who is.  Tell them that I AM who I am sent you

Adonai = “Lord” (Note: LORD, all in capital letters is a substitution out of reverence for God’s covenant name “Yahweh”): Then Moses said to the LORD, ‘Please Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither recently nor in time past, nor since you have spoken to  your servant; for I am slow of speech and slow of tongue. And the LORD said to him, ‘Who has made men’s mouth?  Or who make him dumb or deaf, or seeing or blind?  Is it not I, the LORD?’

Yahweh-jireh = “Yahweh will provide” or “I AM will provide”: But the angel of the LORD called to him from heaven and said, ‘Abraham, Abraham!’  And he said, ‘Here I am.’  And he said, ‘Do not stretch out your hand against the lad, and do nothing to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, form Me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bxiYX3oKKc

Yahweh-raah = “Yahweh My Shepherd”: The LORD [Yahweh raah] is my shepherd; I shall not want