I'm intrigued by the observation that so many people continue to say; 'LORD, LORD'. Yahshua said that the people would not see him again until they said: "Blessed is he who comes in the name of YHWH."
My Bible has "in the name of the Lord", but that isn't what Jesus said.
He said; "in the name of éäåä
Is it time to start using his name?
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Have you tried the New King James Version or the New Living Translation? They have it as LORD instead of Lord.
Also, note that Jesus identified Himself as the I AM. John 8:58 Jesus is Jehovah, the only begotten Son of God. Y'shua and the Father are one in essence and nature, along with the Holy Spirit. The triune God.
From one of my posts in the Why I Believe in Y'shua (Jesus) section:
YHVH
LORD
Exodus 3:14-15 - 14 And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you. 15 And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, the LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations.
The exact moment in history when we know for sure when God's name became ONE name...
-One God in Jesus,
-The living water being the baptism of the Spirit,
-God’s name being one name,
Are concepts that point clearly to when it happened.
Pay close attention to “Living waters” and when God’s name became “ONE name" in the fallowing scripture...
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Isaiah 44:1-8
1 "But now listen, O Jacob, my servant, Israel, whom I have chosen. 2 This is what the Lord says-- he who made you, who formed you in the womb, and who will help you: Do not be afraid, O Jacob, my servant, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen. 3 For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and streams on the dry ground; I will pour out my Spirit on your offspring, and my blessing on your descendants. 4 They will spring up like grass in a meadow, like poplar trees by flowing streams. 5 One will say, 'I belong to the Lord'; another will call himself by the name of Jacob; still another will write on his hand, 'The Lord's,' and will take the name Israel. 6 "This is what the Lord says-- Israel's King and Redeemer, the Lord Almighty: I am the first and I am the last; apart from me there is no God. 7 Who then is like me? Let him proclaim it. Let him declare and lay out before me what has happened since I established my ancient people, and what is yet to come-- yes, let him foretell what will come. 8 Do not tremble, do not be afraid. Did I not proclaim this and foretell it long ago? You are my witnesses. Is there any God besides me? No, there is no other Rock; I know not one."
Who would pour out His Spirit?
The ONE and ONLY Holy God would….
John 16:7-12
7 But I tell you the truth: It is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Counselor will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you. 8 When he comes, he will convict the world of guilt in regard to sin and righteousness and judgment: 9 in regard to sin, because men do not believe in me; 10 in regard to righteousness, because I am going to the Father, where you can see me no longer; 11 and in regard to judgment, because the prince of this world now stands condemned. 12 "I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear. 13 But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come.
John 14:15-20
15 "If you love me, you will obey what I command. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever-- 17 the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. 18 I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. 19 Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. 20 On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.
Who would that The ONE and only Holy God be who sends the spirit who send the living water? Jesus of course!
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As for when “The one name” would become one…
Zechariah 14:8-15
8 On that day living water will flow out from Jerusalem, half to the eastern sea and half to the western sea, in summer and in winter. 9 The Lord will be king over the whole earth. On that day there will be one Lord, and his name the only name.
Living water is the baptism of the Spirit…..
John 4:4-26
4 Now he had to go through Samaria. 5 So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6 Jacob's well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour. 7 When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, "Will you give me a drink?" 8 (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.) 9 The Samaritan woman said to him, "You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?" (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.) 10 Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water." 11 "Sir," the woman said, "you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? 12 Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his flocks and herds?" 13 Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life."
John 7:37-44
37 On the last and greatest day of the Feast, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink. 38 Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within him." 39 By this he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were later to receive. Up to that time the Spirit had not been given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified.
Bang! the living water is the Baptism of the Spirit!
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Now throw in when it happened, when that living water was first poured out and you will know when God's name became one name...
Acts 2:1-4
1 When the Day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all with one accord* in one place. 2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. 3 Then there appeared to them divided tongues, as of fire, and one sat upon each of them. 4
And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
Boom...there is tongues....
But what of those religious people in Jesus' day and those of today who refuse it….
Jeremiah 2:9-13
9 "Therefore I bring charges against you again," declares the Lord. "And I will bring charges against your children's children. 10 Cross over to the coasts of Kittim and look, send to Kedar and observe closely; see if there has ever been anything like this: 11 Has a nation ever changed its gods? (Yet they are not gods at all.) But my people have exchanged their Glory for worthless idols. 12 Be appalled at this, O heavens, and shudder with great horror," declares the Lord. 13
"My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water.
Jeremiah 17:12-18
12 A glorious throne, exalted from the beginning, is the place of our sanctuary. 13 O Lord, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you will be put to shame. Those who turn away from you will be written in the dust
because they have forsaken the Lord, the spring of living water.
OUCH! :shock: Things are getting tuff to those who reject the Baptism of the Spirit!
Now, back to the point:
And if God's name was one when the living water was poured out… that Name was "Jesus"… for the living water was the baptism of the Spirit on the day of Pentecost.
Thus…we should fulfill Matt 28:16 as Peter did by Baptizing in that ONE name and that Is in Jesus’ name… because Peter knew that "Jesus" was the only name of God thats why he said this:
Acts 4:10-12
10 let it be known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by
the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by Him this man stands here before you whole. 11 This is the 'stone which was rejected by you builders, which has become the chief cornerstone.' 12 Nor is there salvation in any other,
for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved."
But now you see…. How tightly linked the concept of one God in Jesus Christ, the Baptism of the spirit which is the living water and the timing of His name being one, and how this all fits into Baptism being done in the one true God's single name..."Jesus"!!!
Amazing! 
We are not saved by the name of the Father, for it is the Son who was made flesh and died for us.
We are not saved by the name of the Holy Spirit, for it is the Son who was made flesh and died for us.
Christ is that spring of living water. The Father sent the Son; the Spirit sent by the Father and Christ washes us with Christ and regenerates us. We drink Christ and never thirst.
John 1:14
1 Corinthians 15:3-4
John 7:37-38
John 6:29
John 14:26
John 15:26
Titus 3:5-7
John 4:14
Father in the spiritual sense would work.