Yahshua, Jesus or Yeshua? - FCCA-Int

1 yahshua , Jesus OR Yeshua? by Avram , yeshua ,it spronouncedYea-shu-ah,the Yea rhymingwiththe ay in say, althoughmanypronounceitYih shua, (theHe-brew OldTestament )theHebrewnameofMessiahisseenin29places, ,whichistheshortenedformfortheHebrewYeho shua(Joshua).ThenameYeshuawasusedatleast fivehundredyears before Messiah was Jesus thavethe sh (Thefinal s soundisthesigmashowingthatthename is masculine.) So, instead of a possible Yea sue ah it became Yea sue ous ( Yea sous).It sthe sous attheendthattripssomepeopleupintothinkin gthatsomehowMessiah tsay Jesus be-cause the sus in Je sus is very similar to the sound Zeus makes. This thinking is , ,Acts, ,thewritersdidn tsaythenameJesus,andthatYeasousinGreekme ansanothergod,arecontendingwiththeHolySp iritwhoinspiredLuke,PaulandJohn,etc., ,whoinspiredwriters,didn tthinkitwaswrongtouseYeasousasthe Greek name for Messiah yeshua , there s no need for us to think that the name Yeasous is ,todemandthatwedon tsaythenameYeasous(orJesus)becauseitsoun dslikeZeusmayseemreasonablebecauseofthes imilarityofthesounds,butit raisin becauseithastheword sin init,andyes,therearesomewhodon tsay the word raisin because of ,JoshuaandJesus, :17hasYeshua( Jesus )forYehoshua(Joshua).

2 3 Joshua snameinGreekisalsoYeasousandisseenintheS eptuagint( :12;2:11;3:1;4:4,etc.),whichpredatesMess iah ,too,isproofthat YeasoushasnoconnectiontoZeus 4fortheJewish1 DavidTalshir,RabbinicHebrewasReflectedin PersonalNames, (HebrewUniversityinJerusalem:MagnesPress ,1998), TheHebrewnameofthehistoricalJesusisproba blypronounced yeshua , althoughthisisuncertainanddependsonthere constructionofseveralancientHe-brewdiale cts. Talshirwrites, eventhoughGalileanstendedtokeepthetradit ionalspellingfor Yehoshua ..theystillpronouncedthenamesimilarlytoh owtheJudeansdid,as yeshua , whotendedtospellthe name phonetically as . 2 Ezra2:2,2:6,2:36,2:40,3:2,3:8,3:9,3:10,3 :18,4:3,8:33; :19,7:7,7:11,7:39,7:43,8:7,8:17,9:4,9:5, 11:26,12:1,12:7,12:8,12:10,12:24,12:26; :11; :15,andalsoinAra-maic at Ezra 5:2. In Nehemiah 8:17 this name refers to Joshua, son of ,whowrotetheSeptuagint,wouldhavebeenwell awareofthepagangodbythatnameandwouldn thaveusedthoseGreekletterstoformJoshua snameiftheyhadthoughttherewasaconnec-tio ntoit(orto HailZeus!)

3 Assomewronglyinfer).Thesewrongconceptsar etheproductofpeoplewho don t know Hebrew or Yeasous: TheEnglishnameJesusderivesfromtheLateLat innameIesus,whichtransliteratestheKoineG reekname I so ,suchasthewritingsofJosephusandPhiloofAl exandria, I -so orI so sisalsousedtorepresentthenameofJoshua son of Nun in the New Testament passages Acts 7:45 and Hebrews 4:8. 5 DuringthesecondTempleperiod(from538BC 70AD), :11, :15,Ezra,andNehemiahwhereitistranslitera tedinto English as Jeshua. 6 (1066 )theNamewaswrittenasIHS anabbreviationof(the)GreekIHSOYS( Iesous ). 7 Inthe16thcenturytheNamewasIesuorIesusand inWilliamTyndale :1beingwrittenas ThebokeoffthegeneracionoffIhesusChrist, :29as O Iesu the sonne off God. s wasaddedtomakeourfamiliar Jesus . way of saying came in His Father s NameAnotheraspectofMessiah sHebrewnameisthepenchantforso-calledSacr edNameorganizationstowriteitasYahshuaors omederivationwith Yah sname( :43).AsthatnameisgenerallyseentobeYahveh (pronouncedYah-vay),whichtheymispronounc ebysayingYahweh(therebeingno w soundinmodernoran-cientHebrew),orsomefor mthereof,theydeemitnecessary tocorrect howYeshua snameisspelled,hence,thename yahshua .

4 Theirtheologicalreasoningisasvalidasthos ewhowon tsay raisin becauseithas sin inthenameofthePresidentoftheUnitedStates , buttheambassadordoesn taddeitherthe UnitedStates the United States means that the ambassador comes in the authority of the # D. Price, Yehoshua, yeshua or Yeshu; Which one is the name of Jesus in Hebrew?7 See Spotlight at ; the first article on the ,thename yeshua wasapopularnamegiventoJewishbabyboys. yeshua was a common name among Jews of the Second Temple Period. 10 Also, InthecontextofthedocumentaryentitledTheL ostTombofJesus,archeologistAmosKlonersta tedthatthenameYeshuawasthenapopularformo fthenameYehoshua and was one of the common names in the time of the Second Temple. 11 Indiscussingwhetheritwasremarkabletofind atombwiththenameofJesus(theparticulaross uaryinquestionbearstheinscription YehudabarYeshua ),hepointedout that the name had been found 71 times in burial caves from that time period. 12In1stSamuel25:9 DavidsendssomementoseekfoodfromNabal,awe althy,butfoolishsheepowner.

5 It s written, WhenDavid syoungmencametheyspoketoNabalaccordingto allthesewordsinDavid s name. Then they waited. David, oraportionofhisname,intotheirnames?Placi ngtheYahofYahvehintoMessiah snamedoesn says that the so-called Sacred Name groups yahshua cannot be found in the Scriptures: Inourownday, ,TheSonofGod,shouldbeknown,andthatitisYa shuah (orYahshua/h). Thisisfarfromthetruthandcertainlynotinha rmonywiththeHolyScriptures. Nowhere in the Bible, Hebrew or Greek, can one find such a name. 13 BotkinconfirmsthisandwritesthatthenameYa hshuadidn tcomeonthesceneuntil1936,andthat,bypeopl ethatdidn , thereisnosuchnameinHebrew andthatpeople invented the name yahshua to fit their theology. 14 BotkinalsosoundsanoteofwarningaboutsomeS acredNamepublicationsthatarelessthanhone stin quotingsources ,alongwithotherresources,usedthenamesofY ahoshuaandYahshua,butwhenBotkinlookedupt hereferenceshefoundthatnosuch names were ,LexiconofJewishNamesinLateAntiquityPart I:Palestine330 BCE 200CE( bingen, ,2002), ,DavidStern,JewishNew Testament Commentary (Clarksville, Maryland: jewish New Testament Publications, 1992), pp.

6 4 , Ha- chasifa shelqeverYeshu:qiddummkhirot, YediothAhronoth,25 February2007, ,7340,L-3368783, ;RoryMcCarthy,Isthisreallythelastresting placeofJesus,MaryMagdalene andtheirson? The Guardian (27 February 2007) at ,,2022252, ,L Chayim:FindingTheLightofShalom(Thorsby,A L:SabbathHouse,Inc.,1999), New International Encyclopedia, second edition, vol. 12, p. ,authorofFirst Steps in Hebrew Prayers and designed the Living Israeli Hebrew language learning , Inonepopularbookletpublishedbyawell-know nSacredNameorganization,theanonymousauth ormakesthisstatement: MostreferenceworksagreewithKittel sTheologicalDictionaryoftheNTstatementon page284,whichstatesthatthenameYahoshuawa sshortenedaftertheexiletotheshortformYah shua. (It sinVolumeIII.) ThissameSacredNameorganization3It when they say that anyone not saying yahshua isn t saved. This is an extreme heresy: ThosewhofollowSacredNameteachings(suchas theAssembliesofYahweh)be-lievethatitises sentialtosalvationtousethecorrectpronunc iationofthenameofthe one most Christians call Jesus .

7 16 ScholarswhoknowHebrewdisagreewithcalling Messiah yahshua . ThesescholarssaythattheHe-brew name of Messiah is yeshua , not yahshua : Opponents (ofSacredNamegroups) claimthispronunciationof Messiah sName firstcameintouseduringtheearlydaysoftheS acredNamemovementinthe1930s, ,histori-ans,andlinguistsoutsidetheSacre dNamemovementforthemostpartrejecttheterm yahshua in favor of yeshua ( ) as the original pronunciation. 17 SomeSacredNamegroupsgosofarastosaythatMe ssiahisnotGodtheSon(althoughsomegivethei r yahshua sonshipaftertheResurrection).ThisisArian ism, , ,theNewTestament,aswellastheOld, ,theLifeofGodtheSon,wasinHisblood( :11).Alltheanimalsacrificeshadtobeanimal sthatwerewithoutdefectorblemish,19andass uch,symbolizedtheirinnocence, of Messiah yeshua . IfMessiahYeshuawereamanthatwasgiventheHo lySpirittobecometheMessiah,asmanyofthose cultsspeakof, smainleader,alengthysegmentisquotedfroma bookpublishedbyKTAV, ,thisSacredNameauthorfreelyusedYahshua, ,though,anddiscoveredthat yahshua ,Icouldconcludeoneofthreethings:eitherhe deliberatelymisrepresentedthefacts,orhed iditaccidentally,orthebookIgotfromthelib rarywasadifferentversionfromhis, September 1, 1997, and I am still waiting for a reply.

8 16 : Weaffirmthatitisnecessaryandmostimportan ttooursalvationthatweaccepttherevealed,p ersonalNameofour Heavenly Father YAHWEH and the Name of His Son, our Savior yahshua the MESSIAH. TheHouseofYahweh(adifferentSacredNamegro upthantheAssembliesofYahweh) : AlongwithotherSacredNameGroups, , ,suchasGod(El,Elohim,Theos,Deus,etc.),Lo rd(Ba al,Adonai,Kyrios,Dominus,etc.),JesusandC hristarenamesortitlesofpaganbeingsthatwe reforcedontothetrue MightyOne. Hawkins (thefounderofthecult) refusestoevencallYahwehagod,teachingthat ScripturereferstoSatan,notYahweh,as thegodofthis world. The use of the names Yahweh and yahshua are believed to be essential to salvation. 17 Tal Ilan, Lexicon of jewish Names in Late Antiquity Part I: Palestine 330 BCE-200 CE, p. :7;Micah5:2; :16;17:1-2,5;26:63-64; :61-61; :32,35;3:22;4:3; :1-3,32-34;5:22-23; 8:58-59; 9:35-38; 19:7, 12:5; 29:1; Lev. 1:3, 10; 3:1, 6, swhytheFathersentHisSon,soYeshuacoulddie inourplace(astheanimalsdiedintheplaceofs infulHebrews).

9 Thesacrificeofanimals,ordainedbytheGodof Israel,offeredforgivenessofsins( :1-35),buttheshedbloodofGodtheSonoffersf orgivenessofsins,anewnature and eternal life (Heb. 5:5-10; 9:12-14; 10:11-14; 1st Peter 1:1:3-5; etc.).20 SanfordHowardgoesontosaythattheSoncoming inthe name oftheFathermeantthatastheFa-therhasnames thatpointtoHisroleinsavingHispeople,soth eSonwould, (partofsalvation), isacontractionofYehoshua. 21 RichardWeymouthfurtherexplainsthatthenam eJesus comes from Joshua and speaks of Yahveh as Savior: TheGreekformof Joshua ,whichlater(like Joram 2ndKings9:14for Jehoram 2ndKings9:15; Joash 2ndKings12:20for Jehoash 2ndKings12:1;and Jonathan mostcommonlyforthe Jehonathan whichwefindintheHebrewin1stSam.),iscontr actedfrom Jehoshua orrather Yehoshua. 22 Thefullsignificanceofthename Jesus isseenintheoriginal Yeho shua, 23whichmeansYahvehisSavioror Yahveh ,inseeing thename oftheFather intheSon asafunctionofwhattheSonwoulddowritesthat when the Messiah came to Earth and took upon Himself human flesh, theFathersentHisangeltodeclaretheMessiah sname, yeshua ( :21).

10 SinceYeshuameans SalvationofYahveh, wecannowunderstandwhattheMessiahmeantwhe nHesaid, IamcomeinMyFather sname ;andwhattheFathermeantwhen He said, My name is in Him. 24 TheSoncomingintheFather snamespeaksoftheauthoritythattheSonhadin displayingredemp-tion sent Him (Jn. 14:8-10). It doesn t mean that Messiah s name has to have Yah in inthename :34isoneplaceofmanythat presents this:John4:34: Yeshuasaidtothem, MyfoodistodothewillofHimwhosentMeandto finish His work. YeshuahadtheauthorityoftheOnewhosentHim( :15-18; :8-10). ,too,cameintheNameofYahveh( :13-16f.),butthatdidn tchangehisnametoYah moses,26unless,ofcourse,one snameisRockyBalboa: Yo! Moses! 20 FormoreontheMosaicsacrificialsysteminrel ationtothesacrificeofYeshuaseeTheMosaicS acrificesand the Blood of Jesus , and Sacrifice in the New Testament at ,L Chayim:FindingTheLightofShalom, ,secondedition,vol. 12, p. , p. 256. The New Testament in Modern Speech, 4th edition, p. 4, The Pilgrim , p.