YaHshua or YaHWeH
His Name
YaHshua or YaHWeH
YaHshua – YaHWeH – Yeshua
By Your servant, Dan L Baxley
www.servantsofyahshua.com
email: dan@servantsofyahshua.com
The Mystery of the Missing H is revealed in this article and you will be amazed
So much information is available on the internet that it can make your head swim. But the nuggets are there, and even though we find a lot of garbage, it can be worth the search so long as you make sure you use your Bible as your source of final truth. When miners go for the gold, they have to remove a lot of trash first, and so does the Bible student when looking for the truth. When a diamond is examined for purity, a loupe is used -- our Bible is our loupe, or magnifying glass, we use to examine what may appear bright and beautiful for the flaw, for the crack that reveals it as false.
To anyone with half a mind to research whether the Name of our Savior has been changed or not, and replaced in the translations we have today, the reward is in uncovering this truth and seeing how the Holy Bible is revitalized by this discovery can be enormous. Once you know this to be true, then you will be confronted with those within the so-called Sacred Names Movement, presenting His Name in different forms – which of these is right? Now that you have come to this knowledge of deception and you want to correct the error and begin using our Savior’s birth name, it suddenly seems to become so confusing? But, wait, it does not have to be, not at all. I have debated this issue with those supporting this version or that, of His Name in Hebrew, Aramaic, Jewish, Orthodox Jewish, Christians, and Sacred Names peoples and articles on this subject and the one constant, the one common denominator is the Name as YaHshua, our savior revealed it and as it is found throughout the Scriptures, but for some reason, the argument and arguments all seem to turn on the middle or the last part of The Name. The fact is, the last part, and parts of the Name (The Shem), is the definition, or the explanation, if you will, of what the Name is about, or about to do – not the Name itself but the “authority” of the power behind the Name. Let’s start with the common element, the common denominator, upon which nearly all who, with the understanding that the name JESUS is false, use and understand – sort of.
Common Denominator
There is a common thread that is not so common in actual use: the name YaH (YH). All too often this Name has been referred to as the “short form” of the Tetragrammaton (Four letters representing the Hebrew God’s Name) – originating from the Greek and Latin – tetragrammatos). When we see that this is not a short form, but the Name of the God of all creation, the One who sustains all things and the Salvation of mankind – our Savior – then things begin to fall into place, and the “Word” is able to speak to us more clearly.
Some will go off the deep end when hearing this. I ask that you consider it, that you think about it, that you pray about it. Our Creator, or Heavenly Father and our Savior, intended that we use Their Name in a personal and intimate way. Not as some power source, or some magical formula but as the Name of our personal friend and Savior, the identity of our only hope. He tells us He will not give His Name to another (Isa 42:8, Ex 23:13, John 5:43), but this is what has happened among men – His Name has been covered, hidden and the name of our Savior changed, causing many to accept “another name”. Our Creator and Savior’s Name declares who they are, and what they can and do accomplish. The first part of the Name, or the God of Abraham and Isaac is indefinable, referring only to the person of the One and Only God. The last part identifies who He is and what He can do, or will do.
Some will go off the deep end when they hear this. I ask that you consider it, think about it, and pray about it. Our Creator, or Heavenly Father, and our Savior intended that we use Their Name in a personal and intimate way. Not as some power source or magical formula, but as the Name of our personal friend and Savior, the identity of our only hope. He tells us He will not give His Name to another (Isa 42:8, Ex 23:13, John 5:43), yet this is what has happened among men – His Name has been covered and hidden, and the name of our Savior has been changed, causing many to accept “another name.” Our Creator and Savior’s Name declares who they are and what they can and do accomplish. The first part of the Name, or the God of Abraham and Isaac, is indefinable, referring only to the person of the One and Only God. The last part identifies who He is and what He can do, or will do
One more thing: the accepted English lettering is YHWH. This lettering, while a lot more up to date, has a troubling letter, the W. Say that letter and you say, "double U", not "double Vee". This W (double U), when understood, changes how many people have discovered a better pronunciation or His Name as the God of Israel. A better pronunciation -- YaHuaH, or YaHUaH. One looks better than the other and one thing is certain: you do not pronounce His Name as YaHWay, as so many do pronounce His Name. How important is this? Important, but not since our Lord has taken, or given the Name YaHushua.
When you go through the Hebrew Scriptures in Hebrew or English, you will see over and over again His Name declared, and declaring His attributes. Just as YaHshua or YaHoshua declares our Savior and/or our Salvation, something only He can do. Who do you suppose raised our Savior back to life? And let us not forget, our Savior told us He came in His Father’s Name (John 5:43) – if He came in His Father’s Name, He most certainly came in the power and “authority” of His Father too. Some try to argue this verse did not really mean He, YaH Shua, came literally in His Name, which is very odd and makes sense to the world in rejecting His Name and it denies the plain interpretation of this verse.
Once we establish the consistency of His Name and this Name associated with descriptive clauses, we begin to see the correct pattern and the abuses His Name Has suffered at the hands of the experts. Go to the article “Shouting His Name”, and you will see example after example of His Holy Name being used over and over in descriptive declarations.
This brings us to the often-argued Arabic name, Yeshua. I say Arabic because that is what it is. Everyone says it is Aramaic, but the language of the Arab people is a Semitic language, not Hebrew, not Jewish, and not the same language spoken by our Savior and the Apostles of the first century. You will notice right off that the name is not in this “name”. When you go to the Hebrew for this term, you find it means “salvation”. Look up the word for “salvation” and you will see this is true. Those pushing the term “Yeshua” as our Savior’s name are actually trying to turn a declarative term into a name. Read Isaiah (Isa YaH) 52:10, “…all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation (yeshua) of our God”, and Isaiah 12:2, “…behold God is my salvation (yeshua)”.
Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary, H3444yeshu^?a^h
yesh-oo'-aw
Feminine passive participle of H3467; something saved, that is, (abstractly) deliverance; hence aid, victory, prosperity: - deliverance, health, help (-ing), salvation, save, saving (health), welfare.
This is the term they want you to use as a name (When I say, "they", I mean just about everyone from Jewish scholars to Christian Scholars and Bible teachers all). This is the same reasoning those say “Lord” is His Name, or “God” is His name. These are terms that demand you answer the question, “Which God is your God, which Lord is your Lord”? In the case of the term “salvation” this does not work so good, “salvation” is from someone, or “yeshua” is from someone, it is not someone. YaHshua is to say, YaH is my yeshua, but we are more comfortable saying, YaH is my Salvation. Not to belabor the point, but all the same, YaHshua means, YaH is Salvation, but yeshua means only salvation. You could write, YaH is “yeshua” and be correct because that is what He is.
You will notice in the Name Scroll in the Title of this article, both the Name YaHWeH and YaHushua are presented together. Some, including me and a few others I know, believe that YaHWeH and YaHshua are one and the same. YaHshua in His previous Glory was known as YaHWeH. We can all agree that YaHWeH is the God of the Old Covenant or Testament, which the Jewish people and the Israeli people lived under as the Covenant people. What if we can prove that YaHshua was the author of the Old Covenant, or Testament and that it we He who entered into this Covenant. Well, here is that proof, from your own Christian Bible --
(Heb 9:13) For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled, sanctify to the cleanness of the flesh:
(Heb 9:14) how much more will the blood of the messiah, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to the FATHER, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living the FATHER?(Heb 9:15) For this reason He is the Mediator of a New Covenant, since a death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the First Covenant, that those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.
Heb 9:16 For where a last Will and Testament is, there must of necessity be the death of Him who made it.Heb 9:17 For a will (Testament) is in force where there has been death, for it is never in force while he who made it lives.
Hebrews, Chapter 9, should be read and reread, as it explains the transition from the Old or First Covenant to the Second, called the New Covenant or New Testament. It is called a Will, a Last Will and Testament, which is how the First Covenant is being compared, and we are told that the ONE WHO MADE would have to die in order to bring it to an end and replace it with a New Covenant, a New Testament, containing the Promise of Eternal life. Notice, the One who made it must die to end the one and start or enter into the other. Who was it that died? YaHshua, the author of the First Covenant -- in other words, the God of Israel and Judah, YaHWeH, who came to us in the flesh to reveal the Father -- Matthew 11:27.
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In the following article, you will see examples of this faulty reasoning based on a faulty premise that Yeshua is the correct name and all others are wrong. The author of what follows is actually attempting to show that the Aramaic inherited from the time of Mohammad is in error, and the complete article (I will post later) goes on to argue that the bogus name JESUS is actually correct as a result of language evolution. For now I want to present this material as a visual. The flip side of the coin, you might say, and a very detailed coin it is, but I would like for you to notice, in every example given by the article below, it is just as I have said; the complete Name in Hebrew contains His Name YaH (YH), while the Arab Aramaic does not. That is the argument for using “Yeshua” that it is the Aramaic of our Savior’s Name and this is the language the Apostles spoke. We find in Acts 21:40 Paul addresses his people in Hebrew and in Acts 26:14 our Savior addressed Paul in the Hebrew tongue – what happened to the Aramaic? Also, the Aramaic of then is not the Arabic Aramaic of now. YaHshua identified Himself to Paul as YaHshua, or perhaps YaHoshua, but not as “yeshua”. I hope you find what follows interesting and informative
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This example above is not my study. I found it really interesting and I hope you do too. You can visualize the Hebrew lettering, reading from right to left; you see the Y and the H in the Hebrew characters plainly. Keep in mind the letters “e” and “a” are vowels to aid in the pronunciation and are not part of the Name (The Shem). In the example above the author uses the “e” vowel and what most do not realize is this “e” is a “long e”, or “ee” in pronunciation (phonetically) is nearly identical to the same phonetic sound as the “a”. Technically, those using the “e” should present it as “ee”, called the "long e", but that looks too weird so they let the reader think it is the “short e”, or they just do not know. Now, for the clincher -- The "long e", is the Greek replacement for the Hebrew H. From IH to Ie, and the Name begins it change. Original Latine IHS to Ies -- later, ous is added. Proof? This is a very important find --
The Bible in the British Museum, Interpreting the Evidence, T.C. Mitcuell -- Page 96, fourth paragraph, last line:
"The second extract (II) begins with the leper addressing Jesus with the words didaskale ie (sou), ‘Master Jesus’, a combination not found in the New Testament. The abbreviated spelling of the name of Jesus IH, ie, may be seen in the twelfth surviving line of the second side of the first fragment. This is shorter form of the abbreviation IHS, the first three letters of the names Iesous, which is so often seen in modern church decoration. (For H in the Greek long e, ….)"
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The e, a long e, is the Greek replacement for the Hebrew H. Get it? Think about it, this is an astounding reveal -- the H is dropped out of His Name in exchange for the little letter "e". Talk about doing violence to our Creator's Holy Name, this is it. Now, restore the H and drop the "e" -- if you retain the "e" it should be in the long form and then it would sound like the "a" vowel -- thus, YaH. Of course there is the Leading letter, J, a letter that used to be the Greek, I, replacing the Hebrew Y. Getting the picture? See how the changes came -- one at a time, not all at once, and over several centuries. And, as the letters changed, so did their pronunciation, until the Christian world ends up with a name like JESUS, instead of His Birth Name YaH-shua.
Okay, the “e” out of the way (joking), we see the article is dealing with how His Name is used in Aramaic and how they screw it up. Armed with your thinking cap and guided by the Spirit I do pray you can see this clearly – the arguments among the Sacred Names groups and some Hebrew/Jewish groups is not really over His Name, that seems to be hidden from them in plain sight, but they argue over letters not even found in His Name and over letters added and in one outstanding case, a letter of His Name removed, as in the name, Y’shua, or Yeshua, or Yeshu.
As more and more Christians wake up to this truth and begin to look for His birth name, we see the popularity of His Name written as Yeshua coming into vogue. Many times the believer will hear a teacher, preacher or prophet using both the name JESUS and Yeshua interchangeably. While this is so much better and moves you and others toward the truth, completely replacing the bogus name JESUS is still a problem for the truth seeker, and the name Yeshua falls short too (pun intended). Some say this form, Yeshua, is the short form – not!
Yeshua is only part of the name -- a major letter has been dropped, effectively cutting the Name of our Creator God in half. In the title of this article, you will notice the two primary Names for the God of the Old Testament and the God of the New Testament both contain the transliteration from the Hebrew letter to the English “H”, while the Judaized and Christianized Yeshua, or Y’shua, have dropped the “H” completely. I have read nearly every argument there is about why we should be using the name Yeshua, instead of YaHshua, and always come away with a bad taste, longing for the day we will be given a pure language, putting an end to all of this nonsense (Zep 3:9). Oh, and then there are those who claim YaHshua should be spelled YaHushua.
Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary and Baker’s Complete Word Study -- when looking up the Old English transliteration Joshua -- have it as Yahoshua. It seems the “o” and the “u” are to be pronounced the same? They say you cannot find the name YaHshua in the OT, so we should use Yeshua? Yes, use the name Yeshua, with both a missing H and the mission O letters? What is the logic behind this? Sounds like some kind of conspiracy to me. Their faulty logic stems from being unable to connect the false name JESUS to any Scriptural reference, so these scholars need to find something in the Old Covenant writings they can connect to, even if it means telling a lie. You see, the name Yeshua is found in the Old Testament, as a name, some 30 times and as the term salvation some 90 times. Then they have to make the leap, saying that Yeshua is the same as the Greek JESUS. The crazy thing is that the bogus name JESUS is not Greek. Also, if they are really serious about this, then why not replace every occurrence of the fake name JESUS with the more correct, according to them, Yeshua? If we have this Name, Yeshua, then why are they continuing to use the name that has only existed for about 400 years? That is, if Yeshua is His Name? Yeshua is correct, but YaHshua is not? Look at the examples in the above presentation. You will find no letter or character for the “u” or the “o.” These are supplied by the translators, whoever that may be, or the reader, whoever that may be. It would be a matter of choice, and not part of His Name. The translators have chosen to put this letter in, just as they use vowels, all letters that are not part of His Name but only used as aids to pronounce. This must be understood. Just because a translator inserts a letter does not make a new name..
Clearly, if the name they claim, Yeshua, is the Aramaic (Arabic) form and has dropped the “H” character, as has the Jewish version of this same, shortened name, then neither is correct; they are all wrong. Yeshua is not correct and is not fully His Birth Name -- even so, Christians replace even this name with another, completely different name. If you want a short version, then go with Yehu or YaHu, as seen in some personal names such as Netanyahu, the current Prime Minister of Israel. YaH is also called the short form of YaHWeh, and this Name is found in the Bible -- Ps 68:4. No U and not O, and it is absolutely a form that is correct to use, and it has nothing in common with the bogus name JESUS. I pray this has helped you; I know it has me.
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