The Greatest Mystery of All
The greatest mystery of all is God Himself and the greatest revelation He has ever given to mankind is His name! Before creation was unfurled like a scroll for all to read there was God… and that is the greatest mystery of all! How is it possible that God had no beginning? How can it be that He has always been? This is so far beyond our understanding that our minds cannot even begin to grasp it.
God’s Name is a Revelation of His Being
God’s very name points us toward the mystery of His eternal being. He declared to Moses that His name is “I AM THAT I AM” (Exodus 3:14) How fitting that God’s name is the first-person singular form of the verb “to be”. He is, after all, the Supreme Being, the self-existent One.
There is One… and Only One God
The God of the Bible leaves no doubt that He alone is God and beside Him there is no other! This was the fundamental truth bestowed upon the descendants of Abraham. “Hear O Israel! The Lord our God is one!” (Deuteronomy 6:4) Did you notice that God said “I AM”? He could have said “WE ARE” and declared plurality, but He did not. He declared His singularity. The coming of the promised Messiah did not change this fundamental truth! God did not become three with the birth of His Son.
The Name of God and the Name of His Son
God wants us to know Him! We should at least know His name… and His Son’s name too. The writer of Proverbs declared “What is His name and what is His Son’s name if you can tell?” (Proverbs 30:4) Jesus declared, “This is life eternal, that they would know thee, the only true God and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.” (John 17:3) Thankfully, both God’s name and His Son’s name have been revealed! These are among “the things that have been revealed” and they “belong to us and to our children forever.” (Deuteronomy 29:29) We may not know everything but at least we can know God’s name, and His Son’s name too.
What Is God’s Name?
What exactly is God’s name? Scripture calls Him the Father but what is His name? The divine name is YHWH (There are no vowels in Hebrew and these four letters are called the tetragrammaton). Today we can only guess at the correct way to pronounce it. The same religious authorities that wanted to kill Jesus made it a crime punishable by death to even say God’s name out loud! Go figure! They should have been shouting it from the rooftops. If you insert the vowels from Adonai and Elohim into YHWH it becomes YAHWEH. Then, if you Anglicize YAHWEH it becomes Jehovah even though there are no J’s in Hebrew. What is His Son’s name? Yeshua in Hebrew, but in English speaking countries we call him Jesus.
Now You Know the Name of God! 
God wants you to know His name and His Son’s name… and now you do. These are straightforward and Biblical truths that introduce us to the mystery and revelation of God. Scholars and theologians may complicate things but this is a biblical and understandable foundation. Is there more we can say about all this? Of course there is! We’ll visit this topic again in coming posts. In the meantime, we hope this short summary has blessed you and helped you put a few things into focus.
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I do not think that “I am that I am” was ever intended to be a name for God. It was an expression of His nature. The self-existing one. As such He does not even need a name, but gave us a name for Him because of the limitations of our understanding. For us, names are not just self-ID’s. Names are used to differentiate between different people. God is unique. He does not need that. But having a name makes it clear to us that we are referring to the real God, not any of the false ones.
Dear Lois,
Thanks for stopping by our website and for your comment in regard to “I am that I am” as the name of God. No one doubts that the tetragrammaton (YHWH) we see in our bibles as LORD refers to God’s self-existent nature. Somehow it pleased Him to reveal YHWH to us as His name though His reasons for doing so are known only to Him. We don’t presume to know His motives or reasons. Please take a look at Exodus 3:15. In this passage God Himself clearly states that YHWH “is my name forever” and we are content with that.