Preparing a Table for Gad
Most people read the words of Yeshahyehu (Isaiah) 65:11 and never realize how alive they still are today. It says, “You are those who prepare a table for Gad.” Few stop to ask what that means. But those words hold a warning for every generation, especially ours.
Gad was not just a name. It was the title of a false deity, the deity of fortune. In ancient times, people set a table for Gad in worship, offering to the deity of luck and prosperity. The word Gad means fortune or luck. The world has not changed much since then. It still prepares the same table, only now under a different name.
Today, nearly every church and religion unknowingly continues the same pattern. They prepare a table for “God,” unaware that this word traces back to Gad, the same deity Isaiah warned about. It is the same Baʿal Gad — the Lord of fortune, the false deity who took the worship that belonged to Yehuwah alone. The name has been blended, hidden, and normalized over centuries until few remember what it replaced.
This is not about language preference. It is about covenant truth. Words carry meaning, and names carry authority. To serve under a false name is to sit at a false table. When the world bows to “Lord God,” it is not the table of Yehuwah they are approaching. It is the same table of Gad, dressed in new words but feeding the same deception.
The world serves fortune. It chases gain, it worships wealth, and it calls it blessing. That is the table of Gad. People trade truth for comfort and call it worship. They sing to the false deity of prosperity and believe they are praising the Creator. But Yehuwah said clearly that He is not served that way.
It is time to step away from that table. To stop calling on names that were never His. To return to the purity of what was given, uncorrupted by empire and translation. Preparing a table for Yehuwah means giving honor to His true Name, not the names men have inserted. It means serving truth over tradition, reverence over ritual.
The table of Gad is full, but the table of Yehuwah is narrow. Few find it, because it costs comfort and reputation to leave what everyone else follows. But the reward is worth it, to sit in the presence of the One whose Name was never Gad, never Lord, never God, but always Yehuwah.
Many still serve at the table of Gad without knowing. But Yehuwah is calling His people to clear the table, restore His Name, and return to the covenant that never changed.
