Akwa Ibom State based Pastor, and Founder of Solid Rock Kingdom Church, Apostle Dr. John Okoriko, renowned for his boldness in propagating the gospel of Christ in an unconventional way has said that Jehovah and other names used by Christians were never revealed by Jesus Christ to the church as the names of God.

Apostle Okoriko said this last Sunday during his usual monthly first Sunday interactive service held at Solid Rock Kingdom Church, Headstone Tabernacle in Uyo.

The Interactive session was titled "What is the current REDEMPTIVE name of God in the church dispensation?".

Apostle Okoriko in his revelation referenced the books of Exodus and Leviticus to explain that the name Jehovah was Proposed by the Greek scholars who were looking for how to make meaning of God's unpronounceable letters YHWH that was seen for the first time after Jesus died. He revealed that after the dead of Jesus there was three hours of darkness and the temple was broken and scholars for the first time had access to the Temple, entering into the holy of holies. They saw the four letters that was regarded as the name of God. The letters is called tetragrammaton by bible scholars. The letters were YHWH.

According to him, "In those days, the culture of the Jews was that you can't even call your own father or any elder by his name. Not to talk of calling the name of God. It was such a big sin. Only the high priest would go into the holy of holies once in a year to pray on behalf of everybody and the high priest was the only one that saw, knew and called the name of God whenever he goes to pray in the holy of holies. As he goes into the temple, the other priests would tie a rope in his waist because if he had any dent of sin and calls the name of God with it, the high priest might die and other priests would have to draw him out through the rope.

"Then Jesus came, and served in the world and when he died, the temple curtain was torn and for the first time scholars saw the holy of holies. They saw the name of God written as YHWH. No one could pronounce YHWH. It was the Jewish scholars added other vowels or letters according to their language to make it YAHWEH while the Gracias, because they do not have Y and W in their own alphabets turned the YHWH to JHVH, and later added E, O, A to make it JEHOVAH".

Apostle Okoriko continued by querying, that "If Jesus is the only begotten son of God then he is the one that knows the most authentic name of God. So has Jesus ever ever used the name Jehovah, nor told any session of the church or disciples through out his stay on Earth that his father's name is Jehovah? The answer is NO".

Apostle Okoriko revealed that in the book of Acts 4: 12, that Jesus Christ revealed the name God when he said ✝ Acts 4:12

"Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is no other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved".

On why churches keep using names like Jehovah, Yahweh, etc, he remarked that some bible scholars or Pastors know the history behind the names Jehovah and others, and challenged anyone that can point to any Bible verse where Jesus referenced or even prayed in the name of Jehovah to speak up.

He concluded that such is the reason that the only name permitted for use in Solid Rock Kingdom Church is the name of Jesus Christ.

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The name of God is so sacred that the Hebrews used the words YHWH to refer to him. During translations vowels were added to YHWH to make it pronouncable as yahweh. Jehovah, artificial Latinized rendering of the name of the God of Israel. The name arose among Christians in the Middle Ages through the combination of the consonants YHWH (JHVH) with the vowels of Adonai (“My Lord”).