via: Don Brown
This is a question that is often asked. Why should an English speaking person call on the Hebrew names of Yahweh and Yahushua?
The answer is actually quite simple. Personal names do not translate across languages. For instance, Vladimir Putin is still Vladimir Putin in any country or language. Personal names do not translate, they transliterate.
To transliterate is to retain the original pronunciation as much as possible. Have you ever listened to a news broadcast in a foreign language? You’ll hear a bunch of unintelligible words until they bring up names like “George Bush.” This is because names transliterate, not translate.
Even so, “The LORD” is not even a translation of the name “Yahweh”, it is a direct replacement.
Put simply, the translators admit they substituted Yahweh’s name for a title. All for the sake of an tradition. Yahweh’s name is in scripture nearly 7000 times. And nearly 7000 times they replaced it (not translated it) with “the LORD”, or “GOD”. Imagine that? They took His name out of His own book!
I wouldn’t want someone to change my name unless it was Yahweh, and it is clear that according to the third commandment Yahweh doesn’t want anyone to change or falsify His name either.
Think about this for a moment. What makes man think he has the authority to change the name of the one who created him, and who created all things? We don’t have that right! For instance, in the scriptures we see that one who changes the name of another is always in authority over them. The Messiah renamed Simon. Yahweh renamed Abram to Abraham. He renamed Jacob to Israel. Adam named the animals. Even we name our children, not the other way around. Yahweh, our Heavenly Father, named His Son ‘Yahushua’ in .
– “And she will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name Yahushua [a name meaning, “Yahweh saves”], for He will save His people from their sins.”
Yahweh named His son after Himself. Every time we use His original name we are declaring that “Yahweh saves” us. The name “Jesus” has no such meaning.
The bottom line is we have no authority to rename or alter the Messiah’s name, or the name of Yahweh the Father. We need to leave things just as He inspired it.
For any who might say, “Well I don’t speak Hebrew so I’ll use an English name” consider this: If you don’t speak Hebrew then you can’t say Abraham, Isaac, Isaiah, Ezekiel, Obadiah, Zechariah, Michael or a long list of other Hebrew names! Why was Yahweh’s name the only one changed? And why was Yahushua’s Name the only name in our modern bibles that is vastly different from the Old Testament to the New Testament? In the Old Testament, it’s “Joshua” but in the New Testament it’s “Jesus”.
The answer is simple: Tradition.
Does it matter? Yes, because truth always matters to a believer. The apostles were preaching and teaching and baptizing and doing all things in the name Yahushua. This is what He is called in heaven, never “Jesus.”
Yahweh’s Name IS truth. Yahushua’s Name IS truth. Substitutions and alterations are not truth. Yahweh is seeking those who worship Him in spirit and in truth. When call upon His true name, we are worshipping Him in truth.
So if we know that “the Lord” and “Jesus” are not truth, why would we continue in error?? Aren’t we supposed to love the truth?
But maybe you are thinking, “Okay so do you have any scriptures that show that Gentiles should be calling on His name?” I am glad you asked….
Malachi 1:11 For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen (Heb. Gentiles), saith Yahweh of hosts.
Acts 9:15 But the Master said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel:
Acts 15:14 Simeon hath declared how Elohim at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.
Hello im a chilean but my fathers biological are europeans
Actually you have begun with a false premis. My name is James in English, Diago in Spanish, Jauqes in French, Yakov in Russian, and Giacomo in Italian, Jaime in Portuguese, and Séamus in Gaelic.
Second, if you believe that God’s word has been altered by the Edomites then are you going to trust them to tell you the truth?
Third, John 13:13
Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am.
Fourth, Yahweh is not the name of the Father, Yahweh comes from the tetragrammaton when God spoke to Moses at the burning bush, it was Christ who spoke with Moses and not the Father.
Fifth, Christ will have a new name Rev 3:12
Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.
Sixth, Isaiah 9:6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
Seventh, The pentagrammaton Yahshuah has no support in archeological findings and was originally found in the works of Athanasius Kirchner who was a Jesuit.
In closing I have a question. Why do the Edomite Jews hate the name of Jesus and curse his name, yet they have no problem with Yahweh and Yahshuah? Many years ago Voy Wilks of the assembly of Yahweh hired someone to go and teach against the deity of Christ, they were sent to our church and our pastor confronted them and asked them to leave, later he received a letter from them stating that they had repented and they told in the letter of Voy’s actions. Matthew 7:20
Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
However, Aramaic was the main language at the time. Hebrew was almost a dead language during Jesus’ time. Most people spoke Greek. So, what was His name in Aramaic?
Issa In Aramaic. Means the son of miriam
The Lord has no name.
A name is an identifier.
To identify means to have 2 elements:
– one YOU ALREADY KNOW,
– and the second being so, so similar to make you identify it like the original.
You are destroying the One-ness, the uniqueness.
You can not create and/or identify the One. never to be seen by a human being.
You are eliminating the all-mighty-ness.
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He is above any kind of identification a man may think is appropriate; is not.
The Lord’s being, power, knowledge, love, …. whatever humans can conceive can be described only to have an understanding, not the physical picture.
Naming the Lord makes a limited one – one god within the cohort of many other gods. Nest replacement of the naming is The Lord of the gods but still, He is the Creators of such gods so, is not a better god, either.
This is the big problem of the cultural Christians – loosing the right, divine spirituality, creating images and defining as measurable the one they follow.
This is the origin of the fall of the Western Civilization, inventing own god and growing arrogant and selfish.
Every time we use His original name we are declaring that “Yahweh saves” us.
The name “Jesus” has no such meaning.
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Not Jesus is the “factor”; Christ is important- meaning the Messiah.
People were waiting for Messiah, they can pray and thank to the Lord without incorporating this in a name.
We have Gabriel, Emmanuel, Daniel, Ezekiel… and other with connection to ‘L – the unnamed most powerful god, the Lord.
Jesus is called Emmanuel, … for the Lord is with us… to help and – eventually – save us, not for kidding, is it?
Your somewhat contradicting yourself, The word gentile means nations nearly 99% of the time, while you’re using it wily nilly as gentiles. Gen 25;23 says two nations are in your womb. Same in the new testament.. Robert
You need to do a little more “homework” and discover that Hebrew translation is from the Esau/Edomite perverting the true Word. Refer back to the Septuagint written in 285 B,C, in Alexandria, Egypt for a true meaning and BTW, the scripture used by Jesus, the disciples and early church. This was written in Greek. Hebrew didn’t have an alphabet developed until the century before Christ. Phoenician, or Paleo Hebrew, was the language spoken by our early forefathers of the old testament. Hebrew language came about as a mongrel mixture of Phoenician and Assyrian (Aramaic)from the captivity of Israel.