Does God's name reveal his plans? His name is composed of four Hebrew letters: yud, heh, vav, heh. The yud is a picture of a hand. Can you picture God's hand reaching out?
Then there are two heh's with a vav in the middle. The heh is a picture of wind or spirit. Can you hear the spirit in the breathy sound? The vav is a picture of a nail or tent stake. It's a letter that is used to connect things together. So, there are two spirits that are connected.
Can you see it? God's hand is reaching out and it's connecting spirit to spirit. There is unity--brothers and sisters in Messiah, husband and wife, Jews and Gentiles, and ultimately God's spirit having fellowship with our spirit.
Each Hebrew letter corresponds to a number. The yud is a ten. Think of God's Ten Commandments. It's a picture of law, order, and completeness.
The heh is the number five. Scholars often associate five as representing God's grace.
So, we have two heh's surrounding a vav. The vav is the number six. Man was created on the sixth day. Six is associated with man. Man is seen as having grace on either side.
So, the numbers are interesting. The name starts with a picture of God's law, order, and completeness. The name ends with grace on both sides of man.
The total numerical value of his name is twenty-six. Twenty-six is thirteen plus thirteen. The Hebrew word "echad", which means one, equals thirteen. The Hebrew word "ahavah", which means love, equals thirteen. So, God could be viewed as: unity plus love, unity plus unity, or love plus love.
In summary, viewed pictorially, there's a hand reaching out joining spirit to spirit. Viewed numerically as separate letters, things begin with God's order and law and end with grace surrounding man. Viewed numerically as a total value, there's a combination of unity and love.
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