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Why do we say
Yahowah and Yahowsha
Why Do We Say Yahowah and Yahowsha?
The prefix YAH is an
abbreviation of Yahowah, the name of Elohim. The Bible
makes great use of this short form. "Sha" means "Saves",
"savior". The whole name signifies "Yahu is salvation"
or that "Yahowah Saves". Miryam and Yoceph spoke Hebrew, not English
or French. They gave Him a Hebrew name, Yahowsha, not Jesus.
There is no J in Hebrew. All English speakers know that there
was no J even in the English language until recently; 400
years, which is why they used to say Iesu. J is from the letter
I. In the 1600's they began to replace I by J at
the beginning of a word. They got their J from
French/German which borrowed it from Latin. It became a standard
replacement for Y. We advise you to consult the many different
encyclopedias. The word Jesus is from the Greek Iesous
(could be the name of a Greek god or where Greek placeholders were
placed too tell the reader to insert and say (Yahowsha). The Latin
speakers first rendered it as Iesus. Aramaic speakers rendered
it Yeshua meaning
"may his name and memory
be obliterated, void of the
Yahu the shorted form of
the name of Yahowah completely missing Yahowah’s point of Yahowah
Saves, Yahowsha.
Yahowah did not give His name to
Moses as Adoni/Lord. Lord is a title, not a name; just like the
word GOD is not a name. There are all kinds of
GODS, and each one has
their own name. This is why Moses said to Him, "Indeed, when I come to
the children of
Israel
and say to them, ‘The Elohim (god) of your fathers has sent me
to you,’ and they say to me, ‘What is His name?’ What shall I say to
them?", for the God of Egypt had a name; the God of the Canaanites had
a name, too. "Which God sent you, Moshe? Ammon, Anubis, Nimrod, Zeus?"
So Elohim spoke to Moses in Hebrew and told him, "You shall tell them
YAHOWAH sent me." (Exod.3:15). For most churchgoers it does not
matter what is what. But I'd say that those who do not care to know
will die in their error.
Many translators, knowing that you
cannot translate only transliterate that blessed name of Elohim have
wisely decided to keep the original name as it was given. No
encyclopedia or dictionary will tell you that the Hebrews called Him
Jehovah (which is purely a Britannic term; HOVAH means
mischief, see Strong Concordance #1953 ), or Lord, the English
translation for Baal and the title of England’s monarchical masters.
Yehshua or Yeshua is a misnomer because there is no such thing as
Yehweh. Many Messianic Jews, however, who are theologically
more in line with traditional Christian thoughts, and who have also
been taught to attribute Hebrew values to Gentiles and Christian
semantics, such as transliterating the Greek Iesous into Iesua or
Yesua, remaining as close as possible to the Latin form Iesus of
Iesous, vouch for Yeshua. This is understandable, for many Messianic
Jewish churches exist, today, as a result of sustained Christian love
and desire to bring Christianity to Jews. The Lutherans and the
Fundamentalist Christians are reputed for that. Above all,
westernization of our thought, and in particular the
germanization of our
tongue has subjected the acculturate Hebrew language into a kind of
morphosis that readily accepts the attribution of other sounds as
legitimate in Hebrew. This is why in completion of our phonics we've
borrowed the V, the sound of the German W, alongside our
Hebrew W, which sounds as
Wa, as in water. Many less informed people simply assume
that V was always there in Hebrew. They do not even know that
the Indo-Europeans got their double V from the sons of Ham, the
Phoenicians.
Yahowah rightly said that, "They
caused the people to forget My name for Baal." Some
disobedient souls hide behind the excuse of "I speak English"; yet
they don't dare translate the name of a Russian president, that of a
French dignitary, a German potentate, or any other important
personality, and to address them by a foreign name when they come over
to visit their country. "Behold, says Yahowsha, I have set before
you an open door and no one can shut it; for you ... have kept My
word, and have not denied My name."(Rev.3:8). Remember, He also
says through Isaiah, "I AM YHWH, this is My Name and a
memorial forever. I will not give My glory to another one." (Is.
42: 8) What has your church done to His name? Your creator says not to
mess up with His memorial. Do you care? We hope you do.
Most people are ashamed to call on the Father’s name and be saved,
because their so-called church doesn’t like the name Yahowah. They’d
rather use Baal, Lord. Judaists have
simply replace It by Adonai, from the word
Adon, meaning Master. They have also taught all
other Jews to use the heathen term LORD, just like the rest of
the Gentiles do.
We cannot discuss the entire
history of the names of the Father and the Son in these few pages. We
do not want to engage in battle over Yeshua. We do not prevent
fellowship based on that difference. We do have a duty to point out
all the facts to you, including the following.
It was in the 5th century A.D. that
a group of Rabbinical Massoretes (from Hebrew
Massorah ) decided to do something most profane with the
Father’s name.
According to the Oxford Bible,
"Christian writers between A.D. 150 and A. D. 450 have
Yaouai... in Greek characters, and early magical texts have Yhbyh
(Yahveh) in Aramaic characters, all pointing to Yahowah as the
original pronunciation. The Massoretes, however, never vocalized the
divine name as Yahowah; instead, to the consonants YHWH they added the
vowels of adonai, ‘my Lord’ (replacing a by e as required by Hebrew
phonetic law)." YHWH are three of the five vowels in Hebrew.
The Revised Standard Version argues
that, "...it is almost quite certain that the name was originally
pronounced "Yahowah". The question for us is why did the 5th century
Rabbis add vowel signs to their four consonants of the name YHWH? The
scholars say that the name Yahowah "had come to be regarded as too
sacred to be pronounced..." (RSV) Everybody, including Rabbis, testify
to the same fact that, "the name was regarded as ineffable, too sacred
to be pronounced. The Massoretes, therefore, wrote in the vowel signs
to alter- native words adonai (lord) or elohim (god) to warn readers
to use one of these in its place." The other scheme is to use ‘Hashem’
which means ‘the name’. Keep in mind that the
word god is not etymologically from
the word elohim. It really means Mighty ONE or Mighty ONEs.
Very simply, let those who are
intelligent ask themselves this, "If the name was too "ineffable" to
be pronounced, why did Yahowah say to Moshe, ‘Tell them, My name is
Yahowah. This is My name forever, and this is My memorial to all
generations?" (Ex. 3:15). In Chapter 6 He further appeared to
Moshe and said, "I am Yahowah. I appeared to Abraham,
Isaac and Jacob, as Elohim Shaddai, but by My name
Yahowah I was not known to them," (or was I not known to
them). And why in Numbers 6: 22-27, He told Moshe to tell Aaron and
his sons to always bless the children of Israel in this way, " ’Yahowah
bless you and keep you; Yahowah makes His face shines upon you,
and be gracious to you; Yahowah lift up His countenance upon
you, and give you peace. ‘ So they shall put My name on the
children of Israel,
and I will bless them. “Isn’t that amazing? Today’s priests
refuse to put Yahowah’s name on
Israel. No wonder our people are
being overrun by enemies on all sides. "Shema, O Israel
Yahowah Eloheinu Yahowah Echad." There is no god, but Yahowah.
You are the light to the Gentiles.
Those rebellious Rabbis having laid
aside Yahowah’s Commandments that they may keep their own tradition
(Mark 7:8-9), have endeavored to replace the reading of the Torah and
the Prophets by the Midrash, the Mishna, and the Talmuds, which they
teach to the people instead of Yahowah’s word, which everyone could
understand, so that the people may perpetually depend on their
expertise for complicated, non-sense Yeshiva explanations. They had
been trying to do that, way before Yahowsha came. This is why the
prophet warned them, "Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, who
write misfortune, which they have prescribed to rob the needy of
justice, and to take what is right from the poor of My people, that
widow may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless."
The Gentiles have not called their gods by the name of Yahowah
the elohim of Israel, but Israel has called their elohim
(god) by the name of all the gods of the nations they have played the
harlot with. Those who believe in Messiah must come out (Rev. 18).
Yahowah rejected those titles in the past, so must we; "You shall no
longer call me Baali (Lord),"
says Yahowah (Hosea
2:16). "I am Yahowah that is My name. I will not give
My glory to another one." (Is.42:8) There is definitely something
powerful in His name, The Name that is above every other Name.
You will no longer call me
LORD
Do
YOU Know
My Name
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