THE USE OF THE DIVINE TITLES
"Why do we have the word 'God' in the 1st of Genesis, and 'Yahweh God' in the 2nd chap, and 'Yahweh' in the 4th chap.; and are these titles used apparently indiscriminately?
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6:13, 19-22)—reference to creation. But when He tells him to take "clean beasts" into the ark by sevens, which had relation to spiritual things and to spiritual worship, we may well understand that it is "Yahweh " who speaks to him and gives the command (7:1-3). And so we find it throughout the Old Testament. In Exodus 6 He says,—"I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob by the name of God Almighty (El- Shaddai), but by My name Yahweh was I not known to them." That has created a great difficulty in the minds of many, but when you understand what the meaning of the word know is, then the difficulty vanishes immediately; it does not mean to have knowledge of, but it means to understand; it does not merely mean to know about a thing, but to know the thing: we may know of a person without knowing him? That is what it is here. The Patriarchs used the word "Yahweh' over and over aga