The Holy Bible and Meditation
SILENCE
Ps:35:22: This thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me.
Ps:50:3: Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.
Ps:50:21: These things hast thou done, and I kept silence;
Ps:83:1: Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.
Ps:94:17: Unless the LORD had been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence.
Ps:115:17: The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence.
Eccl:3:7: A time to mend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
sa:41:1: Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment.
Isa:62:6: ye that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence,
Jer:8:14: Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.
Lam:2:10: The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence
Lam:3:28: He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.
Amos:5:13: Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.
Amos:8:3: And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord GOD: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence.
REST
By invoking and calling on the Name of God in meditation the mind becomes still.
Meditation on the Word brings rest to both the physical body and to the mind.
Heb. 4: 10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his. Let us labor therefore to enter into thy rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
Psalm 116: 7 Return unto thy rest, O my soul; for the Lord hath dwelt bountifully with thee.
HOLY WORD IS is YHWH [Yahweh]
In modern times the bible is referred to as “the Holy Word” or “the Word of God.” In actual fact the Greek bible came into existence about the fourth century. Clearly the following quotations, written and uttered long before the canon of the Bible came into existence, do not refer to the bible itself as the Holy Word. Therefore, a logical conclusion can be drawn that those passages which mention the “Word” actually refer to the Name of God, and most likely to the practice of praying, calling on and meditating on the Name of God..
Sacred Name Doctrine holds that it is almost certain that the holy word YHWH, referred to as the tetragrammaton, was the revealed name of the Creator and is to be rendered as Yahweh. According to some sources Jews began to suppress the use of the tetragrammaton in mundane usage, as the word had come to be regarded as too sacred to be pronounced. The combined total of all of the instances that the word Yahweh appears in the original Hebrew version of the Bible is just over 7,000 times. These do not appear in the King James version of the Bible, and earlier translations of the Bible indicated that in the place of YHWH should be read the Hebrew word "Adonai" meaning "Lord" (or "Elohim" meaning God). The ancient Greek translators substituted the word "Kyrios" (Lord) for the name. TheVulgate edition of the Bible used the Latin word
"Dominus." In regard to the divine name YHWH modern editions of the Bible adopted the device used in most English versions of rendering the name as "Lord."
Psalm 83:18 That men may know that thou, whose name alone is Yahweh, art the Most High over all the earth.
1 Peter 2:7 A stone which the builders rejected, the same has become the head of the corner, a stumbling stone and a rock and a scandal to those who stumble at the word who do not believe.
James 1: 21-22 Receive the ingrafted word, which is able to save your souls. But be ye
doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
Heb 10:44 The Holy Ghost fell on all them which heard the Word
Heb 4: 12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
John 17:14 I have given them thy Word, and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
Acts 6:4 But we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the Word.
Acts 20:32 And now brethren I commend you to God and to the Word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you inheritance among all them which are sanctified.
Heb. 11:3 By faith we understand that the world was fashioned by the Word of God, and thus things visible were made out of things invisible.
1 Peter 1:23-25 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth forever.
Mt:13:20,22: But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it. . . .He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.
Mt:13:23: But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an
hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
Lk:8:5,11: A sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the way side; and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it. Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.
1Pt:1:23: Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.