Calling on the NAME...
There are two definitions for the word "call" just as there are two definitions
for the word "born" (but "born" is another matter). The first definition, found
in
Gen 4, is "to ask for; to inquire after; to seek".
In looking at the context for that scripture, we see that man was named
Adam after God had given him authority (we assume that God named the man,
seeing there was no one else to name him): and Adam (by God's delegated
authority) named all the animals, and finally named the woman. Seeing that
everyone and everything either had names or were to be named, Adam must
have assumed that God had a NAME, but was content to call Him the El-ohim,
meaning:
the ONE who has all power and all authority (the ALMIGHTY).
To Moses was first revealed God's NAME: it is
YAH (meaning Savior).
"And I
appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God
Almighty, (El-ohim)
but by my name JE-HOVAH (YAH-weh)
was I not
known to them."
It is accepted that Moses wrote the Pentateuch. Moses wrote it in the same
manner that the Church has believed and received
"...the NAME that is
above every name that is named..."; that is, by REVELATION! Therefore,
the NAME was known to Moses, but NOT to the generation to whom and of
whom, Moses wrote!
The second definition of the word "call" needs no interpretation today, for
it is readily known to all men. It means to "invoke (over); to pronounce; to
proclaim", etc.
Follow the context