Hebrew Voices #99 – How a Yehovah Coin became Official Currency in the United States

Hebrew Voices #99 – How a Yehovah Coin became Official Currency in the United States

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Nehemia: And guys, you won’t believe the story behind this coin and the silver, how it ties into the very fabric of the history of the United States of America. And it’s a fulfilment of Biblical prophecy.

Michael: We have with us, Nehemiah Gordon back with us, and we are searching out some of the greatest treasures that have been hidden, some of these things hidden by God to preserve it for this day and time, and these are the things being revealed. Good to have you back with us this week.

Nehemia: It’s great to be back, Michael. You know, some things are sometimes hidden in plain sight. We were talking last time about this coin that was produced by the King of Denmark. Ironically, his name was Christian the Fourth, and Christian the Fourth of Denmark produced these coins that had Yehovah with the full vowels in Hebrew, produced in the 1640s. And on the coin, he also has the phrase “iustus iudex,” which is a Latin phrase which translates from the Hebrew “shofet tzedek.” And that comes from a verse in the Bible, or a number of verses, but one of them, for example, is Jeremiah 11:20. It says, “VaYehovah Tzevaot shofet tzedek,” “Yehovah of Hosts is the righteous judge.”

And why did this king put Yehovah’s name on a coin? And this has to do with the context that was going on at that time in Europe. This was the time of these great wars that were happening in Europe, these wars between the Protestants and the Catholics. And the Protestants, in particular, wanted to say God’s on our side, and of course, the Catholics said the same thing. And when the Catholics would express that, one of the ways they would do that was through art. And they would say, “Oh, God’s on our side. Let’s make a ceiling with God as an old man with a white beard, you know, who is touching Adam,” right? In other words, they used art, and they were representing Yehovah as a man, because that was their artistic tradition.

And the Protestants said, “Wait a minute, that’s forbidden.” And why is it forbidden? Because it says in Deuteronomy, “You didn’t see a man on the day of the congregation,” meaning the day of the revelation of Sinai. And the Protestant said, “We’re gonna take that literally, and not make an image of the Father.” And so, instead, they represented Yehovah by His name.

And what’s really interesting is, recently a friend went and visited the Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC, and they have there on display a page from the original 1611 King James Version, and I actually want to say it’s from the 1613 reprint. I don’t remember the exact details, but it’s one of the early versions of the King James, and it has this image of the biblical world, essentially. And at the top is in the cloud, Yehovah, with the full vowels. So, you’re seeing this in books, you’re seeing it on coins, you’re seeing it in all kinds of different places, and churches; in a lot of places. We talked about that in the Karaite Files. All over, you’re seeing Yehovah’s name in Europe at this time. And part of the reason is because of this struggle between the Catholics and the Protestants. So, we mentioned this coin made by Christian the Fourth of Denmark, and one of the things I wanted for years is to actually have one of these coins.

When I was younger, Michael, I was kind of a coin nerd. I collected coins. Well, this was well beyond my means, to have a coin like this. But what I decided to do is contact a mint in Utah and have them make a replica of the coin. This is the silver round 1 troy-ounce of silver that I had produced at a mint in Utah, and it was based on these coins from the 1640s. It says, “iustus iudex,” “righteous judge,” referring to Psalm 9:5 and Jeremiah 11:20, and certain verses in the New Testament. And then, in the middle, it says, “Yehovah,” with the full vowels. On the back, it says “My name is great among the nations” in Hebrew and English, Malachi 1:11. I put this out and made this available to people. This actually ties into the history of the United States in an incredible way, which I did not expect when I started looking at this and working on this.

When the United States was founded, we did not have a currency, and the Continental Congress had this crisis. There were dozens of different coins being used throughout the 13 colonies, and they had to make a decision, “Okay, you merchant, do whatever you want. You decide to take the currency from Sweden, and the currency from Holland, and the currency from wherever, and you do what you want.” But the Treasury of the United States has to have a standard of what currency they’ll accept at what values.