What is His Name, Do You Know?
(Pro 30:4) “… what is
his name, and what is his son's name, if thou
canst tell?
By Your servant Dan
Baxley
Let’s
cut right to the bone of the matter, no long diatribes or complicated research,
just straight and simple, right from your own bible. So, open your bible and
read the following verses:
(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 (your) name out of the book of life. I will confess his (your) name 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.
(Rev 3:12) The one who conquers, I (YaHshua) will make him a pillar in the temple of my God. Never shall he go out of it, and I will write on him the name of my God (the Father), and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down from my God out of heaven, and my own new name.
(John 1:12) But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, to them that believe on His Name:
(Rom 10:13) For whosoever shall call upon the Name of the Lord shall be saved.
How
about that, our Savior is going to have a New Name (Rev 3:12) and He is
going to put it on those that are His, along with our Heavenly Father’s Name,
which does not change, and the name of the New Jerusalem, and look, to those
who believe in His Name will be called the "sons of God".
I
should not have to go any further, not really you either accept this or you
don’t. There is a "book" and your name is in it, and your name is
subject to "removal" or being "sealed" forever. 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
of our Heavenly Father.
Actually
that is a backward statement -- 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. We then dare to suggest the Holy Identity
of our Savior is subject to change and even substitution being replaced by
whatever men imagine. The Name of our Heavenly Father is obscured to the point
of nonexistence -- and this may seem as no big deal when challenged,
"Names don't matter", they say when pushed into that corner, when
facing the fact that the name "Jesus" is not the Name or our Savior.
It is difficult to admit the error, to accept the fact you have been
hood-winked, fooled, and deceived. Seeing how your name matters, as found in
the book of Life, then how much more His Name?
Under
the inspiration of 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 and the following verses say it all --
(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.
(Php 2:9-11) Therefore God has highly exalted Him
and bestowed on Him the NAME that is above every name, so that at the name of
YaHshua every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and
every tongue confess that YaHshua the Christ is Lord, to
the glory of God the Father.
After
reading these verses who would dare say His Name is not important and that we
can replace His Birth Name with another, different name? Who? Well, it seems
just about everyone, from the translators to the preachers and teachers to the
approval of the lay members. I have taken the liberty to remove the false,
bogus name, Jesus, and replace it with His given birth name, a name that has
been available for use from the beginning. Still there will be those who claim
otherwise and will refuse His birth Name for a Name that never existed till
about 400 years ago. The other alternate name, IESVUS, can be traced back
further than that, this being the name used in the original 1611 King James
Version, that people erroneously call the “Authorized Version”.
What
happens is that the His Birth Name does not become important to those that have
for so many years been praying to, calling on and listening to sermon after
sermon in the false name, JESUS. Of course this bogus name is important, and
some claim, inspired, but when the real truth is unveiled the vast majority
suddenly decide it is not that important, while others begin cursing those who
would dare uncover this deception.
Names
Matter
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 (Gen 2:19). Prophets of old were
named and given names that either described their mission or the time they
lived in.
It
was a popular custom for people to give names that were connected to the god,
or gods, they worshiped, or to apply names that were connected to some major
event. The Israelites were no different, this was a common practice.
Reading
the book of the Kings 1 & 2 you see names of individuals directly connected
to the name of the God of Israel, YHWH (Greek –iah). Especially of note are the
last few chapters of the second book of Kings -- a time of religious fervor an
open demonstration of the peoples love for their gods. These religious people
had fallen so far away from the knowledge of the one true God, YaHWeH, that
even though many of them carried His name within their own they did not know
who He was.
Recapping
an Historical Event
They
had placed idols upon every hill and they had filled the Temple with every kind
of iconic representations of false gods possible – accepting all gods as equal,
but the God of all creation, the God of Abraham had gotten so far pushed to the
background He had been forgotten. How did this all start? Solomon grew older
and weary of his nagging wives, whom he loved, he continued to give in to their
demands for religious representation – he turned Israel into a religious
paradise, by the standards of the world. And how do we know this?
(1Ki 11:1) Now King Solomon loved many
foreign women, along with the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite,
Sidonian, and Hittite women,
(1Ki 11:2) from the nations concerning which the
LORD had said to the people of Israel, "You shall not enter into marriage
with them, neither shall they with you, for surely they will turn away your
heart after their gods." Solomon clung
to these in love.
(1Ki 11:3) He had 700 wives,
princesses, and 300 concubines. And his wives turned away his heart.
(1Ki 11:4) For when Solomon
was old his wives turned away his heart after other gods, and his
heart was not wholly true to the LORD (YHWH) his God, as was the heart of David
his father. (David was no less a sinner, but his attitude, his mind was in a
state of repentance, or sorrow for sins he committed. He struggled to
stay right with YaHWeH, but, apparently, Solomon did not)
(1Ki 11:5-6) For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the
goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites. So
Solomon did what was evil in the sight of the LORD (YHWH) and did not wholly
follow the LORD (YHWH), as David his father had done.
(1Ki 11:7-8) Then Solomon built a high place for
Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Molech the abomination of the
Ammonites, on the mountain east of Jerusalem. And so he did
for all his foreign wives, who made offerings and sacrificed to their gods. ESV
Many
years after Solomon is buried and one King after another follows in his
footsteps, continuing the tolerance in religion something happens -- One day
during a work project at the Temple, a book was found – the Book of the Law,
the Torah. The Temple of YaHWeH had become a center of
religious tolerance, filled with the statues of every god for every person all
thanks to King Solomon and his 700 foreign wives. Amazingly the people of all
Israel had forgotten all about the Book of Law containing the covenant made
with YaHWeH.
Apparently
while renovating the existing Temple to accommodate more images of other gods a
wall or partition had been removed exposing a scroll that had been tucked away,
perhaps for safe keeping by some forgotten priest.
(2Ki 22:8) And Hilkiah the high priest
said to Shaphan the secretary, "I have found the Book of the Law in the
house of the LORD(YHWH)." And Hilkiah gave the
book to Shaphan, and he read it.
(2Ki 22:9) And Shaphan the secretary
came to the king, and reported to the king, "Your servants have emptied
out the money that was found in the house and have delivered it into the hand of
the workmen who have the oversight of the house of YaHWeH."
(2Ki 22:10) Then Shaphan the secretary told the
king, "Hilkiah the priest has given me a book." And Shaphan read it
before the king.
(2Ki 22:11) When the king
heard the words of the Book of the Law, he tore his clothes.
(2Ki 22:12) And the king commanded Hilkiah the
priest, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Achbor the son of Micaiah, and
Shaphan the secretary, and Asaiah the king's servant, saying,
(2Ki 22:13) "Go, inquire of the LORD (YHWH)
for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning
the words of this book that has been found. For great is
the wrath of the LORD (YHWH) that is kindled against us, because our fathers
have not obeyed the words of this book, to do according to all that is written
concerning us."
The
Book of the Law was lost and now is found and brought to this young Kings
attention and when it was read to him he acted. He realized how far they had
slide and he believed the words he read and set about correcting thing. What
did he do?
(2Ki 23:4) And the king commanded
Hilkiah the high priest and the priests of the second order and the keepers of
the threshold to bring out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels made for
Baal, for Asherah, and for all the host of heaven. He burned them outside
Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron and carried their ashes to Bethel.
(2Ki 23:5) And he deposed the priests
whom the kings of Judah had ordained to make offerings in the high places at
the cities of Judah and around Jerusalem; those also who burned incense to
Baal, to the sun and the moon and the constellations and all the host of the
heavens.
(2Ki 23:6) And he brought out the Asherah from the
house of the LORD, outside Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the
brook Kidron and beat it to dust and cast the dust of it upon the graves of the
common people. (Kidron is the Valley of Hinnom -- Gehenna)
(2Ki 23:7) And he broke down the houses of the
male cult prostitutes who were in the house of the LORD, where the women wove
hangings for the Asherah.
(2Ki 23:8) And he brought all the priests out of
the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had made
offerings, from Geba to Beersheba. And he broke down the high places of the
gates that were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua (YaHshua) the governor of
the city, which were on one's left at the gate of the city.
(2Ki 23:9) However, the priests of the high places
did not come up to the altar of the LORD (YHWH) in Jerusalem, but they ate
unleavened bread among their brothers.
(2Ki 23:10) And he defiled Topheth, which is in
the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, that no one might burn his son
or his daughter as an offering to Molech. (child sacrifice)
(2Ki 23:11) And he removed the horses that the
kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun, at the entrance to the house of the
LORD (YHWH), by the chamber of Nathan-melech the chamberlain, which was in the
precincts. And he burned the chariots of the sun with fire.
(2Ki 23:12) And the altars on the roof of the
upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars that
Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, he pulled down
and broke in pieces and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.
(2Ki 23:13) And the king defiled the high places
that were east of Jerusalem, to the south of the mount of corruption, which
Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the
Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the
abomination of the Ammonites.
(2Ki 23:14) And he broke in pieces the pillars and
cut down the Asherim and filled their places with the bones of men.
(2Ki 23:15) Moreover, the altar at Bethel, the
high place erected by Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, that
altar with the high place he pulled down and burned, reducing it to dust. He
also burned the Asherah.
(2Ki 23:16) And as Josiah (yoshiYaH – founded of YaH)
turned, he saw the tombs there on the mount. And he sent and took the bones out
of the tombs and burned them on the altar and defiled it, according to the word
of the LORD (YHWH) that the man of God proclaimed, who had predicted these
things.
–
This happened in a period of time that the people of Israel were at the height
of their religious fervor, their religious glory. They were very religious,
having accepted all the religions around them and then some. We find ourselves
in a similar world today. Some think everyone is looking to god in different
ways and different names, but as we read the biblical record we see this is an
attitude of the world not of our Creator.
(Exodus 20:4) Thou shalt not make unto
thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or
that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
(Exodus 20:5-6) Thou shalt not bow down thyself to
them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the
iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation
of them that hate me; and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me,
and keep my commandments.
(Exodus 34:14) For thou shalt worship no other
god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:
(Joshua 24:19) And Joshua (YaHshua) said to the
people, You cannot serve the LORD (YaHWeH): for he is
an holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions nor
your sins. KJV
(Nah 1:2) The LORD (YaHWeH) is a jealous and
avenging God; the LORD (YaHWeH) is avenging and wrathful; the LORD (YaHWeH)
takes vengeance on his adversaries and keeps wrath for his enemies. ESV
From
these few verses we can see that the God of Israel, YaHWeH, does not take
kindly to the abuse of His Name, and is not so tolerant of those that would run
to other gods or apply His attributes to another gods – dead gods, fake gods,
gods of wood and stone, gods of the mind, fake gods, fake and false names. Our
God is the God of Israel, YaHshua, having come in the flesh. When He returns it
will not be with tolerance toward all religions, accepting the names of false
gods for His Holy Name. He is a Jealous God – imagine – the Creator of ALL
THINGS is JEALOUS of His Name and how it is used and does not like it when false
gods are given credit for what HE alone has done and can do.
Remember
the verse I quoted earlier? Acts 4:12, “…there
is no other Name found among men by which we must be save”? Good,
now ask your-self, what name was given to our 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, but among men. A Name Mary and Joseph were commanded to
name Him. This Name would be a declaration of who He is, where He is from and
who His Father is, by a Name from His Heavenly Father identifying His Son. Read
Matthew 1:21 -- Mary did not come up with a name for our Savior, Joseph did not
dream up a name, no, they were given a name to name Him, they were commanded,
what to name Him. The messenger angel Gabriel told them the Name the Father
wanted Him to be Named. The Name delivered to Joseph
and Mary was not “Jesus”. This false name, Jesus, finds its origins in the
Latin twisting of the Greek followed by the English twisting of the Latin
leading the Christian world away from the birth name of YaHshua.
YaHshua,
replaced in the New Testament by the bogus name, Jesus, can be seen in the Old
Testament of the English bibles as Joshua, which is, or should be pronounced as
Yoshua, or more correctly, YaHshua – the point being – the bible translators
have always had His correct Name but used a replacement instead. The Name
Joshua is the Old English transliteration of His Hebrew/Jewish name and this
name has never been lost. The modern pronunciation for the Old English Joshua
would be YaHshua – oh, have I already said that, well, how many times it too
many? This name, YaHshua, was a very popular name found among the people of the
first century and makes what Peter said stand out all the more when we read
Acts 4:12 – again --
“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
“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.” RVS
“Neither is there salvation in any
other; for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we
must be saved.” KJV
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." ISV
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. “Joshua” is
YaHshua and when properly pronounced is still “Yahshua”. The name Jesus,
however, is never pronounced YaHshua and the name from which the false name
Jesus comes from, IESVS, is not ever pronounced as YaHshua either. The bogus
name JESUS is a replacement name that can be and is pronounced in most of the
Latin and Spanish countries as Hey-Zeus.
Joshua
This
name "Joshua", is a pretty good attempt at a
transliteration of the Name given to our Savior at birth and is found 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 even an honest
attempt at preserving the only name "by
which we must be saved". His Name has been changed and the
inquiring mind should be asking, why?
Even
then the pronunciation of the name "Joshua" has been perverted in the
English by the misuse of the letter "j". It is only the English and
American speaking tongues that twist the pronunciation with the perverting of
the “J” from its original pronunciation of the “Y” sound as in Yod. Many
European and Spanish speaking and parts of European countries correctly pronounce
"Joshua" as "Yahshua" but when it comes to the New
Testament the Name is strangely changed to Jesus and then pronounced as
Hey-zeus.
The
changing of His birth Name had already begun shortly after the fall of the
Jewish Christians and the rise of the Gentile Christians. The
Latin Church becoming the most notable. From the Greek twisting of His
Name to IESous, pronounced Yesous, similar to some in the Messianic movement of
“Yeshua”. Then the Latin’s twisting the Greek more to their likening, IESVS,
the IESUS, becoming pronounced as Hey-Zeus. From this came the Church of
England breaking away from the Mother Church of Rome and daring to produce an
English version of the bible. Being “authorized” by the government this English
version is then authorized by King James – thus the name, the King James
Version, not the version of YaHWeH, not the God Version, unless you think the
King of England is or was God.
The
original 1611 version of the King James Bible printed the Name of our Savior as
"iesvs", then in later revisions changed it
to "jesus", apparently not wanting to follow the Latin form. At about
this time, also, the pronunciation of the letter “ I “
was changing. The “j” was actually the small letter for the “I” but began to
take on a life of its own, eventually claiming a spot in the alphabet with a
different sound – from the “I” to the “J”, replacing the “I” in the original
twisting of His Name. Those claiming the Original Greek as inspired are off
base pronouncing Iesous as Hey-sow-us, again, nowhere near our Savior’s actual
birth name. There are a couple of other variant spellings, none approaching the
Name given to our Savior, YaHshua (OT, Joshua).
Anyone
that tries to convince you that the KJV Bible is the only authorized version
or that it is the only Holy Spirit sanctioned writings, and that all others are
of Satan, are out of their minds or have been fooled by years of clever
teaching just like most the Christian community. In fact, it is not the book,
not the letters, it is the thought that produced the
first words representing those thoughts that were inspired by the Holy
Spirit. We have a Bible that gives us
the record of that INSPIRATION. Too many
have placed the book or record of those inspired events as the focus of Holy
Spirit inspiration. I don’t know how
else to say it, it is not the record on paper, passed down to us, it is the
thought, the lesson the message that was inspired and we have the opportunity
to read about it and take it to heart, to apply what is conveyed to our own
lives.
The
most famous translation of all time, perhaps, is the KJV Bible that was backed
by a corrupt King and fifty plus handpicked scholars of languages. They
plagiarized much of their work, when it came to translating the New Testament,
taking from William Tyndale's previous work and copied from other translators
and translations before them which led to one of the biggest cover-ups in the
history of publishing – replacing our Savior’s Name with a completely new and
different name -- denying our Savior’s Name, the only Name by which we MUST be
saved –
(Act 4:12)
Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name
under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. KJV
This verse is a
witness against the KJV and every other version that has followed in its
footsteps by replacing our Savior’s birth Name with a fabricated, made up name
that never existed before the King James Version came into being. The message is there but the DOOR to
Salvation, our rightly identified Savior has been closed to many by pointing to
another Savior, another name –
(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.
(John 10:1)
Verily, verily, I say to you, He that enters not
by the door into the sheepfold, but climbs up some other way, the same is a
thief and a robber.
(John 10:9)
I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.
By accepting another
name, by calling on another name for salvation is the same as going into a
different house by a different door.
YaHshua says He is the Door by which we must enter. If we want Him to recognize us we must
recognize Him –
(John 5:44)
How can you believe if you accept praise from one another, yet make no
effort to obtain the praise that comes from the only God?
Names
Have Meaning
Names
do mean something and do have meaning. This is a fact, a truth, we see how true
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.
It is by this name you draw a pay check, collect on Social Security, or put on
a marriage license, etc., etc. History is founded upon names, the names of
Kings set the time lines, names of the villains as well as the heroes mark
chapters in the record of men. To suggest names are not that important is to
ignore history and to ignore our Creator and our Savior. Every knee will bow
one day, like it or not – every knee.
(Rom 14:11)
for it is written, "As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to
me, and every tongue shall confess to God."
And
it is written:
(Isa 45:23) By Myself I have sworn;
from My mouth has gone out in righteousness a word that shall
not return: 'To me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall
swear allegiance.'
Wow,
can you hear that, can you take that in? Does this impact you the way it does
me? Even the wicked before they are thrown into the lake of fire will bow to
Him and they will swear the truth, that YaHshua is the Messiah and Savior, Son
of the Living God, whose Name He came in. This is
powerful stuff and the translators of the Words have been carless in this one
most important thing, the identification of the Creator and Savior of all
things.
See
the list of names I have presented in “Shouting His Name” for a
revealing look into how the name of our Creator and Savior has been hidden --
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, it will one
day be great among the nations
(Mal 1:11) For from the rising of the
sun to its setting My Name will be great
among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to My Name, and a pure
offering. For My Name will be great among the nations, says YaHWeH
(LORD) of hosts. ESV
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 on the
heathen that have not known you, and upon the kingdoms that have
not called upon your Name.
(1Co 1:2) Unto the church of God which
is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in the Christ 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
hath 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. 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
email: dan@servantsofyahshua.com
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