When you "invoke" a name you are putting that name up "in place" of your own, or others, and relying on the name to do something. So, if you are pulled over by a local law enforcement officer and you "invoke" the name of his chief, you are putting that name out there and expecting that name to trump your issue. To invoke the 5th is to allow a measure of the constitution to protect you. With this understanding, read below:
Numbers 6:27
So they shall invoke My name on the sons of Israel, and I then will bless them.”
Aaron, the priest, and his sons were given the special privilege of saying a "blessing" over the nation. The "blessing" was designed as a formal way to "invoke" God's name over the nation. The blessing would place God's name "in place" of any other name as the sovereign ruler of the people. The blessing was tied to the invoking. You don't get the blessing without placing the name in the proper position. You can't ask for God's blessing without all His name to be the sovereign ruler over you heart and head. Too many people what God's blessing without God's rule. The two are one and the same in God's world. He doesn't bless where He doesn't rule. If you are lacking God's blessing it may mean because you are lacking God's rule.
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