Does His Name Matter?
Does His Name Matter
Names do MatterYaHshua or Jesus?
Part 2
email: dan@servantsofyahshua.com
Let’s cut right to the bone -- No long diatribes or complicated research, just straight and simple, right from your own Bible. Open your bible and read the following verses, verse written during the time of the greatest understanding, and that would be the last and latest writings from the Apostle John: Revelation 2:3; 3:5; 3:8; 3:12 --- ESV – or any other translation, where we find no great interpretations are needed -- the Book says what it says.
Approximate Date written and circulating among the ecclesia (church) -- 90 to 96 AD
(Rev 2:3)I know you are enduring patiently and bearing up for My name's sake, and you have not grown weary.(Rev 3:5)The one who conquers will be clothed thus in white garments, and I will never blot his name (your name here) out of the book of life. I will confess his name (your name here) before my Father and before His angels.(Rev 3:8)"'I know your works. Behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one is able to shut. I know that you have but little power, and yet you have kept My word and have not denied My Name. (He was named a Name some 60 years prior - Luke 1:30-31)(1Jn 2:12) I am writing to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven for His Name's sake. (Who’s Name? Ex 3:13 and Pro 30:4)(1Jn 4:2-3) By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that YaHshua the Christ (The Anointed) has come in the flesh is from God (the Father), and every spirit that does not confess YaHshua is not from God (The Father). This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already. (YaHshua is the Name delivered to Name Him - Luke 1:30-31)
If we restore His Name, the Name the Apostles preached and others in the Faith died for, we understand its importance and how much it matters, simply by restoring it to the text. With a little understanding, we can clearly see that the name "Jesus" is a deception. A deception that began around 300 years after His crucifixion and evolved into the false name we see and hear today. So, the name most, if not all, professing Christians confess and are baptized into turns out not to be His Name; then what? We are to confess no one else, in no other name but His Birth Name, YaHshua, a name delivered to Mary and Joseph to name Him (Luke 1:30-31) – the name YaHshua has been around for thousands of years, first appearing in Exodus 17:9, the name of a man that was to lead the Children of God into the Kingdom – sound familiar? The Old English transliteration of this Name is seen as JOSHUA. The name JESUS is not equivalent, not even close, and is pronounced completely differently. To top it off, this false name, JESUS, is only about 400 years old, a modern creation. John warned us that, even in his day, he saw a shift away from our Savior’s birth name.
I should not have to go any further, not really -- you either accept it or you don’t – these words from the Book of Revelation are the final word, and as the New Church grew in knowledge, we come to the Book of Revelation. In these last words in the Book of Revelation, we see another "book" mentioned, one kept in Heaven, and your name, my name, everyone's name, is in it and is subject to "removal" or being forever "sealed" into eternity. These verses are not speaking figuratively – They are plain and by these verses it is made plain that your name means something, as does the Name of our Savior and the Name of our Heavenly Father. The following verses are only a taste of what the Apostles of YaHshua revealed, and in many cases, they understood it as common knowledge, not seeing what would become of our Lord's birth Name. Our Lord YaHshua saw it -- (John 5:43) I am come in my Father's name, and you receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him you will receive.
Rev 3:5 - He who overcomes will, like them, be dressed in white. I will never blot out his name from the book of life, but will acknowledge his name before my Father and his angels. NIVLuke 10:20 - However, do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven." NIVLuke 10:22 - All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and no one knows who the Father is except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him -- Mat 11:27. NIVAct 2:21 - And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.'Rom 10:13 - "...for, "Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved."
The Father's Name and the Name of His Son is first and foremost, our names being secondary. Being the self-centered beings that we are it really is no surprise that we would relegate the personal identity of the Creator to a secondary position while seeing our own identity, in this world, as something important, something special. We then dare to suggest the Holy Identity of our Savior is subject to change and even substitution, being replaced by whatever men imagine it to be – we disrespect His Identity, profaning His name, which is to make it useless by not using it, by refusing to restore His Name in favor of “another” name. The Name of our Heavenly Father is obscured to the point of nonexistence -- and men see it as no big deal when challenged: "Names don't matter", is what they say. They respond when pushed into this corner, being faced with the fact that the name "Jesus" is not the Name of our Savior – Oh, they continue to repeat that names don’t matter, their final defense, that is not defense at all. It is difficult to admit the error, to accept the fact that you have been hoodwinked, fooled, and deceived. Your name matters and His Name matters all the more.
Under inspiration from the Holy Spirit of the Father and the Son, Peter said --
Acts 4:12 "Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other NAME under heaven given to men by which we must be saved." NIV
But wait, there is more -- the following verses say it all -- names do matter, a lot, more than a lot --
(Rom 10:13) ... for, "Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved." NIV(Rom 10:13) For whosoever shall call upon the Name of the Lord shall be saved. KJV(Act 2:21) And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the Name of the Lord shall be saved.(Joel 2:32) And everyone who calls on the name of the YHWH will be saved; for on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be deliverance, as the YHWH has said, among the survivors whom the YHWH calls. KJVNote: Peter stood up at Pentecost and quoted from Joel and if for not other reason we too should listen to what Joel had to say.(Psa 79:6-7) Pour out your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge you, on the kingdoms that do not call on your Name; for they have devoured Jacob and destroyed his homeland. KJV
After reading these verses who would dare say His Name is not important? Some in the Jewish community, of the Ultra-Orthodox branch insist it is not their duty to make their God known to the world, to share His Name. They, like many others, desire to remain in their ignorance. In their superior knowledge they live in the dark and the Scripture reveals why –
(Hos 4:5-6) You stumble day and night, and the prophets (teachers) stumble with you. So I will destroy your mother -- my people are destroyed from lack of knowledge. "Because you have rejected knowledge, I also reject you as my priests; because you have ignored the law of your God, I also will ignore your children.
Names Matters
From the very beginning, names have had meaning and they still do. The Creator named his first creation and then allow created man, made from the elements of this Earth, to name the animals of that creation -- second chapter of Genesis gives an account of this (Gen 2:19). Prophets of old were named and given names that either described their mission or the time they lived in. It had been a popular custom for people to give names that were connected to the god, or gods, they worshipped, or to apply names that were connected to some event and in the case of the Israelis, this was also a common practice.
Read the books of the Kings 1 & 2 and you see names of individuals directly connected to the name of the God of Israel, especially of note are the last few chapters of the second book of Kings, a time of religious fervor and open demonstration of the people's love for their gods. These religious people had fallen so far away from the true God that even though many of them carried His name, they did not know who He was. They had placed idols upon every hill; they had filled the temple with every kind of idol, representations of false gods; then one day, during a work project at the temple, a book was found -- Book of the Law. Amazing, they had forgotten all about the Book of the Law and, I think, while repairing and remodeling the Temple to allow the placement of more false gods, they uncovered the long-forgotten Book of the Law. Read it for yourself, and ask yourself whether it reminds you of anyone else. (2 Kings 22:8-13; 23:4-8)
Remember the verse I quoted, Acts 4:12? Good, now ask yourself: what name had been given to the Messiah at birth? The Messiah (YaH’s Messenger, or the Anointed) was given a Name that would be found among men, not among angels, not in heaven. That name would be a Name "found among" men, a name commanded to be given to Him, our Savior, a declaration from the Father and a label of identification for His Son. Read Matthew 1:21 -- Mary did not come up with a name to name our Savior; Joseph did not dream up a name but was given, commanded, what to name Him. The messenger angel Gabriel told them the Name the Father wanted Him to be named. That Name was not Jesus. Your, a Latin, Greek and English mixture, led the Christian world away from His actual birth name YaHshua. This name was very popular among the people of Israel, dating back to the time of Moses. And it is believed by me, that it is not mistake that this OT Joshua, or YaHshua, is the One who led the chosen people into the Promised Land. This makes what Peter in Acts 4:12, stand out. Looking at these words in a couple of translations, you can see that no interpretation is needed, it says what it says.
NIV -“Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.”RVS -“And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”KJV -“Neither is there salvation in any other; for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.”
A name found “among men, by which we must be saved” -- not might, not maybe and not perhaps, but “must”. When that was written, the bogus name “Jesus" did not exist. We see the modern twisting of the "Old English" presentation of His Name in the OT portion of the Bible as “Joshua,” which, when properly pronounced, is “Yahshua”, and not Joshua, or Yoshua -- still, the obvious is that this is a variation of His Birth Name, YaHshua, or YaHushua, while the other name, JESUS. Pronounced by many as Geezus, and others as He-Zeus (The Zeus?), nothing close to His Birth Name, but a completely different name.
Joshua = YaHshua
This name, "Joshua", a pretty good transliteration of the Name given to our Savior at birth, appears in the Old Testament; one whole book carries this Name found among men: the Book of Joshua, properly pronounced YaHshua. However, it is never used in reference to the Messiah in the King James New Testament, even though this would be far more accurate than the false name "Jesus" -- it is not an honest attempt at preserving the only name "by which we must be saved". The name has been changed and the inquiring mind should be asking, Why?
Even then, the pronunciation of the name "Joshua" has been perverted in English by the misuse of the letter "j". Only English and American English twist the pronunciation by perverting the “J” from its original pronunciation. Many European and Spanish-speaking countries correctly pronounce "Joshua" as Yoshua, or Yahshua, but in the New Testament, the Name is strangely changed to Jesus and pronounced Hey-Zeus, that is, Zeus.
This all began with the King James Version of the bible. The original 1611 version of the King James bible printed the Name of our Savior as "iesus" then in later revisions changed it to "jesus", apparently not wanting to follow the Latin form. Even the Greek, whom they all claim to have received the Name by which all must be saved, is off base and seen in print as Iesous (there are a couple of other variant spellings) and pronounced as "Hey-sow-us" and is nothing approaching the Name given to our Savior, YaHshua (Old English, OT -- Joshua).
Anyone that tries to convince you that the KJV Bible is the only authorized version, the only Holy Spirit sanctioned writings and all others are of Satan are out of their minds. It is the KJV Bible, backed by a corrupt King and fifty-plus handpicked scholars of languages plagiarizing most of their work from William Tyndale's translation and leading to one of the biggest cover-ups in the history of publishing -- the KJV was never translated directly from original Greek Manuscripts -- there are no original manuscripts in the hands of the original author in existence today, much less in 1600 AD. And guess what, the original copies of the KJV translation are missing too. How convenient, the record of the KJV version, tracking back to its origin, is missing - burned up in a fire, they say, but no one really knows. If the original copy of the translator's work could be examined many might be shocked at how similar it is to the Bishop's Bible and Tyndale's versions as opposed to being an all new translations from the first-century Greek letters, which no long exist now or then. All those buying into the KJV only Holy Bible are being hoodwinked to perpetuate a few false doctrines based on the Old English language.
Names Have Meaning
Names do mean something. This is a fact, a truth; we see how true it is when we consider our own personal identity. Your name says a lot, it puts you in a certain family and marks which member of that family you are and it is by this name you draw a paycheck, collect on Social Security, or put on a marriage license, etc., etc. History is founded upon names, the names of Kings set the timelines, names of the villains as well as the heroes mark chapters in the record of men
See the list of names presented in “Shouting His Name” for a revealing look into how the name of the our Creator and Savior has been not hidden been hidden but people have trouble seeing it. Satan would love to keep this a secret and he has his agents trying to keep the cover-up going. In the end, however, the Creator Himself will make His name known and it will one day be great among the nations (Mal 1:11). Believe it or not, many of the agents of Satan and his crew, do not realize that they too are blind and being used -- themselves, deceived and being deceive --
Paul communicating with his pupil, Timothy:
2Ti 3:12 Yes, and all that will live godly in the Anointed YaHshua shall suffer persecution.2Ti 3:13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.2Ti 3:14 But continue you in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing of whom you have learned them; KJV
Serious Business
That is not all, there is still more that can be said but let's turn again to the Written Word --
(Psa 79:6) Pour out your wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy Name.(1Co 1:2) Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in the Anointed YaHshua, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of YaHshua the Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours:(John 3:18) He that believes on him is not condemned: but he that believes not is condemned already, because he has not believed in the Name of the only begotten Son of God.
This, my friends, is serious business and I hope this small article has helped further the resolve of those having found this truth and taken it to heart and I pray this article may even be of use in opening the eyes of those being called to be saints. Peace to you, your servant, Dan
Further Study:
http://www.behindthename.com/articles/1.php -- Names and Behavior
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_are_names_important?#slide=1 – Why Names are important