Editor’s Note: This article was written by George Gabler of kahalyahweh.net who granted his kind permission for us to reprint it here.
The name Yah'shua comes from Hoshea.
Numbers 13:16 These are the names of the men which Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Oshea [Hoshea (Deu 32:44)] the son of Nun Jehoshua [Heb:יהושוע - same as Yah'shua -יהושע].
That means that Yah'shua is an expansion of the name Hoshea, which means "salvation" [re H#1954], from the root word "yasha" [H# 3467]. Making the meaning of Yah'shua [Yah-saves] the salvation of Yah. It is not a contraction of anything!
Why the extrapolation of His prophetic human name, as either a contraction or an expansion, is in error.
The name "Yah'shua" is the prophetic human name givien 5x for Messiah in Zechariah 3:1-9, plus 1x in Zechariah 6:11-13. The number five is associated with 'grace' [re Bullinger's notes on numbers], plus 1 time signifying 'unity', together equaling 6, the number of man. There is one truth: Yahweh Saves! Just as there is one Mikveh, one Faith, and one Kahal [congregation/Body], revealing that grace and truth are brought by Messiah [Jn 1:17].
Zechariah 14:9 And YAHWEH shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be united YAHWEH, and his name united.
Note: Y'shua/Yeshua cannot be the prophetic human name of Messiah, because:
1. Y'shua [ישוע] Anglicized as Jeshua, is generic meaning “he is saved”, and is only used about 30 times in the entirety of the Hebrew scriptures, 28 of which are exclusive to the exile books of Ezra-Nehemiah, written nearly 900 years after the Exodus [13th century BCE]!
"Most scholars date the work [Ezra-Nehemiah] to the fourth century BCE." [Hindy Najman (2014) "Ezra" in Adele Berlin and Marc Zvi Brettler (eds.) The Jewish Study Bible (second edition). New York: Oxford University Press.][taken from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Ezra]
2. Y'shua [ישוע] cannot be directly transliterated into Greek as it becomes ISOU, ISOUS, or ISON, all of which are the Greek words for 'equal'. Which is ironic, because it isn't!
3. Y'shua [ישוע], which does not contain any linguistic link to The Father’s name, is not used in the prophetic passages of Zechariah which give us Messiah's name, [יהושע] Yah'shua.
4. Yeshua is used in the LXX Greek [Iesou] but is not a transliteration of Yah'shua. [see LXX Nu 26:28]
5. [ιεσου] Iesou (see #4) is not used anywhere in the N.T. Greek.
Why Messiah's prophetic human name cannot be the name of salvation:
1. Yahweh put all sin and iniquity on Messiah when He was crucified on the tree [xulon].
Isaiah 53:6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and YAHWEH hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. ... 10-12 Yet it pleased YAHWEH to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin....for he shall bear their iniquities... because he hath poured out his soul unto death....
2. He was defiled with (our) sin -- and He died IN (our) sin!
John 19:33 But when they came to Yah'shua, and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs: 34 But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water.
3. He became sin!
2 Corinthians 5:21 For he hath made him [to be] sin for us, who knew no sin....
Literally: 2 Corinthians 5:21
(YLT) for him who did not know sin, in our behalf He did make sin....
[Youngs Literal Translation]
(DRB) Him, who knew no sin, he hath made sin for us: ....
[1899 Douay-Rheims Version]
The Greek text has no corresponding words in this verse for "to be"'. The addition of which weakens the force of the expressed intent: Messiah was made sin!
4. His blood was poured out [Jn 19:33; Isa 53:12] while He was still hanging on the tree, so not subject to resurrection because:
1 Corinthians 15:50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of Yahweh; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
When Messiah was resurrected He could manifest Himself as flesh and bones, but no blood.
Luke 24:39 Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.
Therefore, His prophetic human name was the name of flesh and blood, which was lower than the angels.
Psalm 8:5 For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. [+Heb 2:7]
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Hebrews 2:9 But we see Yah'shua, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death….
5. He paid the full penalty of sin - not just death, but also that His name was blotted out of the book of life!
Deuteronomy 29:20 YAHWEH will not spare him, but then the anger of YAHWEH and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and YAHWEH shall blot out his name from under heaven.
That's TORAH!
Messiah's human name was blotted out of the book of life! There is no salvation in any human name!
Understand! Extrapolation of His prophetic human name "Yah'shua" to YahwehShua reduces the name YahwehShua to a human name, which is totally unscriptural, completely negating the sin offering – because putting sin on the name insures that it would be blotted out of the book of life! How can the name Life be blotted out of the book of life? That's insane! Yet that is the insanity that is religion!
For thousands of years the name of salvation was YAHWEH! Who has the authority to elevate the blotted-out name to be greater that the name of Eternity? No one!
Was Messiah ever called "YahwehShua" while He was flesh and blood?
No, but as the only-begotten son, and heir of the Father, He had the authority to USE Yahweh's name:
1. Because He is the "only begotten".
John 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
2. He had the direct command of The Father.
John 10:18 No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.
Messiah had the authority to speak the name Yahweh, which would condemn Him to death for blasphemy, and He had the authority be resurrected in the name Yahweh!
Yet it is the rejection of His resurrected name by the Pharisees that caused the alteration in the New Testament, which is exactly what happened!
Acts 4:16 Saying, What shall we do to these men? for that indeed a notable miracle hath been done by them is manifest to all them that dwell in Jerusalem; and we cannot deny it.
17 But that it spread no further among the people, let us straitly threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in this name. 18 And they called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of YahwehShua.
It is clear that the carnal minded religious establishment could not distinguish the difference between Messiah's resurrected name and His prophetic human name -
Peter and John refused to compromise!
Acts 4:19 But Peter and John answered and said unto them, Whether it be right in the sight of Elohiym to hearken unto you more than unto Elohiym, judge ye. 20 For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.
21 So when they [the religious establishment] had further threatened them, they let them go, finding nothing how they might punish them, because of the people: for all men glorified Elohiym [Yahweh] for that which was done.
The carnal minded religious establishment didn't give up, but kept trying to silence Messiah's resurrected name.
Acts 5:28 Saying, Did not we straitly command you that ye should not teach in this name? and, behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this man's blood upon us.
The truth is that Messiah's resurrected is not the name of flesh and blood, so not a man's name.
Modern religion is exactly like the religious establishment of Messiah's day! They are against His resurrected name - YahwehShua!
So we have to ask: if His prophetic human name was so great, why does Torah say that it was to be blotted out? Who's blood atoned for sin?
The truth is that the blood-sacrifice cannot be identified without His name! And that means that His human name could not be the name of salvation! Many deny Torah [Deu 29:20] when they say that His human name is the name of salvation! Why? Because it is the name that is defiled with (our) sins and iniquities. He had to have a NEW NAME!
YahwehShua
His resurrected name is the Name of Inheritance!
Hebrews 1:4 Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent namethan they.
"By inheritance" means through death!
Hebrews 9: 16 For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. 17 For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.
So the name of salvation could not be his birth name!
YAHWEH is the excellent name!
Psalm 148:13 Let them praise the name of YAHWEH: for his name alone is excellent; his glory is above the earth and heaven. [+Ps 8:9]
Messiah was raised in YAHWEH'S Name!
Psalm 89:24 But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him: and in my name [Yahweh] shall his horn[power] be exalted [raised/resurrected].
The Apostle Paul confirms:
Romans 1:4 And declared to be the Son of Yahweh with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:
"By the resurrection from the dead"! Not His human birth!
Eph 1:19 And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, 20 Which he wrought in Messiah, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, 21 Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:
He is Yahweh our Savior: YahwehShua!
Romans 14:11 For it is written, As I live, saith Yahweh, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to Yahweh.
Isaiah 45:21 Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it from that time? have not I YAHWEH? and there is no MightyOne else beside me; a just MightyOne and a Saviour; there is none beside me. 22 Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am (the) MightyOne, and there is none else. 23 I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.
So Paul writes to the Philippians:
Phi 2:9 Wherefore Yahweh also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: 10 That at the name of YahwehShua every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; 11 And that every tongue should confess that YahwehShua Messiah is Sovereign, to the glory of Yahweh the Father.
"That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him." -John 5:23
In addition, we should keep in mind that Messiah said that no man has ever seen or heard The Father, which means the Yahweh of the Hebrew scriptures is the same One that emptied Himself of His inherent power and headship to become our Redeemer and Savior!
That is His resurrected name that He INHERITED - YahwehShua!
And that makes His resurrected name the name of FAITH!
Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Why? Because it was removed from scripture:
Jeremiah 11:19 But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
His prophetic human name, Yah'shua [Ihsou-] was ALWAYS in the scripture [translations, notwithstanding!].
What name was removed? His resurrected name!
How so?
YahwehShua has 7 letters [יהוהשוע]
Yah'shua has six letters [יהו שוע]
The removal of a single letter, the second [ה] from [יהוהשוע] YahwehShua changes it and becomes [יהו שוע] Yah'shua, the name of the blood-sacrifice, the blotted-out name!
This is where the confusion comes in. Deleting the 2nd [ה] "hey" from the name YahwehShua is the only way Jeremiah 11:19 could be fulfilled while letting the name "Yah'shua" remain in the texts, so there would be absolutely no distinction between His resurrected name and His prophetic human name. That would subsequently be transliterated as His prophetic human name [Yah'shua/Ihsou] throughout the texts, then corrupted even further by the Latin IESOU which was used as the English base for Jesus/Yeshua. So Satan has deceived the whole world into believing that salvation is in the name of a man!
New Testament Usage of the name in mikveh [immersion] shows that there was only one name, the name of The Son, which also contained the full name of The Father.
Acts 19:5 When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Sovereign YahwehShua.
Now look at this powerful statement:
Acts 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.
Many men had "Yah" as part of their name [Abiah, Aphiah, Jeremiah, Isaiah, Yah'shua (son of Nun) etc.], but none ever incorporated the full tetragram! However, Peter declares that the name of the resurrected Son is absolutely unique! "None other name under heaven"! No man ever bore the full tetragram [יהוה], the name YAHWEH, except Messiah at His resurrection! This also reveals that "Yah" is not the name of salvation. Only the full name, [יהוה] Yahweh applies! Plus, it is a requirement for the High Priest! [http://kahalyahweh.net/Articles/HighPriest-Name.htm]
Do you want to be in the 1st resurrection? If you do, then isn’t it time to do mikveh [immersion] into YahwehShua Messiah?
You will be hated for His name’s sake! Do you have the courage?
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