WomanLovesTX: I've seen a few objections to referring to Jesus as Yahshua. In response to that, although indirectly, I would like to share with you the very documents mainstream traditional church pastors use that show that His name is not Jesus. My name is Janet. No matter what country I go to and what language is spoken, my name will always be spelled J A N E T. I hope and pray this document will clear up any misconceptions about Yahshua's Hebrew name and the name of our Heavenly Father. Beyond this point, is the writing of Dr. Merrick and not my own writing and this may have to be presented in multiple posts. I've attached the web site so that you can view in pdf. Please hold your comments until "THE END".
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Any reprint or distribution in the original state as producd from the author and publisher with all references and in the exact same phonetic transliteration and translation as to uphold the integrity of the name of YAH and YAHSHUA messiah. Credit must be given to the author and publisher along with the links to the web sites and internet address unaltered. In short, please reprint this document and share it with your friends, family, enemies, and everyone you meet without changing anything.
Any reprint or distribution in the original state as producd from the author and publisher with all references and in the exact same phonetic transliteration and translation as to uphold the integrity of the name of YAH and YAHSHUA messiah. Credit must be given to the author and publisher along with the links to the web sites and internet address unaltered. In short, please reprint this document and share it with your friends, family, enemies, and everyone you meet without changing anything.
Many Christians have asked me why I stress the importance of the original Hebrew name of the Messiah without compromise. I have to tell you, the reader, that it is because of the judgment day that will come. I can not answer my Saviour in honest appeal for my own salvation, in prayer in this life, or in request of the promise of His word, if I do not share the truth as it has been given to me by the Holy Spirit. Some day we will all answer to the Amighty Creator who name is YAH and give account for our service to Him and in seeking that the lost be saved. For that reason I wanted to give you this gift that the Almighty has given me in answer to a young 7 year old boy's question: "What is God's Name".
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.
other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
As a Messianic Jew by Faith today I must tell you that for years many Christians have denied this very Bible verse above, as well as other verses, and never questioned the authorities of the official Church doctrine or their denominations. They tell me that the NAME is not important and that God knows what is in their heart. Yet as a young boy I could not escape the fact that the above verse says ONE NAME REQUIRED to be SAVED.
It became obvious to me that the creator had given a set method to find salvation, receive His Holy Spirit, and show repentance and take on a set of identifying behaviours and titles by which I would show my salvation. For most Christians this is the name of Christ and Jesus. Yet as I grew up something about that began to puzzle me. It was that in my denomination they would say, "we are saved, but not the Jehovah Witnesses". Again and again I would see this in reference to the Mormons, Catholics, and different groups that did not fit into the good protestant norm.
In my young mind if the name was Jesus, and they called on that name for salvation, and then according to the legal requirements of the promise made in the Bible by God, they MUST be saved.
So at the young age of seven I got saved by saying the sinner's prayer with my mother. I felt joy of salvation in that something inside me had changed. Then I began reading the Bible. That is where most Christians did not follow me. Most who say the sinner's prayer, do not read the Bible, they depend on their preacher or priest to read it for them and tell them what to think and what it means. That is just a fact of today. I have seen the studies done by the Christian community it self. Less than 20% read the Bible and even less than that have any books or helps that will define the words, truth, or help them study the Bible in depth.
Acts 10:43 To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name
whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins.
Before you write this off and stop reading this short book, let me encourage you that as a believer in the Messiah, my faith requires that I warn you that what you are about to read is the truth and the only way we can be saved from eternal damnation. So let me share my point of view with you and then you can test what I say against the Bible and see if it is correct. The proofs I have given here are from the books used in Christian seminaries and Bible colleges. All of the references I use in this short book are the same ones in your pastor's library. Now if I use the same books that Christian colleges give their Bible school students, isn't it worth looking at?
The very act of being saved or gaining a seat at the table in Heaven is in the Holy Bible and as you can see in the verse below, is to "Call On The Name". The verse Below is from the YAH BIBLE which is available on Amazon Press and in book stores everywhere. The name of JESUS has been corrected and in this booklet you shall see proof that the name in the verse below is the real name of the Messiah.
Romans 10:13-17 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Master YAHSHUA shall be saved. How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things? So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of Yah.
Now if the name is not Jesus, and is Yahshua, then if I changed it and did not follow the rules of Yah God in doing so, or made an error in teaching you that name rather than Jesus, then I will be required to answer for that before the Almighty God Yahweh. So take a look at the proof below and see if I am right.
First off, let's look at the name of JESUS in the King James Version of the Bible and compare some verses to other translations which give us a clue of why the name Jesus is not the Messiah's name.
Acts 7:45 (KJV)
45 Which also our fathers that came after brought in with Jesus into the possession of the Gentiles, whom God drave out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David;
Hebrews 4:8 (KJV)
8 For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.
Now note the exact same verses taken from the Updated New American Standard Version:
Acts 7:45 (NASB95)
45 And having received it in their turn, our fathers brought in in with Joshua upon dispossessing the nations whom God drove out before our fathers, until the time of David.
Hebrews 4:8 (NASB95)
8 For if Joshua had given them rest, He would not have spoken of another day after that.
Now as we see in the verses above, the name of JESUS was changed into the name JOSHUA in English. That is because the name Jesus from the Greek is that same as the name Joshua from the Hebrew. The King James Version translators made a mistake and put a LATIN word into the text from the GREEK because in HEBREW the name JESUS is not pronounced JESUS, but is pronounced JOSHUA.
Now if this is true, that means that the translators CHANGED THE NAME OF SALVATION by design and intent or by mishap and mistake. Either way, the NASB corrected it in these two verses, but failed to do it in the other places in the Bible where the name JESUS was mistranslated or more correctly MISTRANLITERATED.
To transliterate a word you must take the Alphabet and match phonetically the sound of the word to the new alphabet in the language you are translating to. The rule in translation is to do this with NAMES and PLACES which are called by names. During the King James Version translation process there is some question as to what Hebrew knowledge those who wrote down the words had. So let's take a look at some Christian books that can prove the correct name of the saviour.
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Reference: KING JAMES BIBLE circa 1975 Thompson Chain Reference.
In this book I have included the actual scans of the text referenced so there will be no question as to the validity of the books.

Notice the margin reference above in verse 45. It clearly says that the name here was in fact JOSHUA in the "JESUS or JOSHUA". We now know that the name of JESUS is the same as the name of JOSHUA in Hebrew and that tells me that someone REPLACED the name from the PHONETIC HEBREW SOUND of the name to the name JESUS. In Hebrew there is no letter "J" and the letter is in fact "Y" equivalent for the English "J". In Hebrew it is the letter YOD and is taken from the name of the son of nun who was his father. Joshua was the successor of Moses and his name and the Messiah's name are the same in Hebrew and sound the same when spoken.
So let me ask you one quick question, does JESUS (GEE ZEUS) sound the same as the name JOSHUA (JAH SHOE AH) in English? Now look at the sound of the name in Hebrew YAH SHOE AHH. In English some Messianic Jews write it YESHUA (means saviour) or YAHSHUA (means Yah's Salvation).

The Modern Hebrew Alphabet above show there is no letter J in it.

As yoyu can see the actual scans from Unger's Bible Dictionary page 681 which is enlarged below:

Since we already know that there is no J in Hebrew, the correct meaning of the name JOSHUA is YAH O WAH is SALVATION or literally YAH SAVES. Below is the scans of the book page 713 for the name Joshua:


Phonetically the name JOSHUA is YAH SHOE AH and is written Yahshua. Each word in the Bible has been given a designation numbering so that pastors and scholars can study the words and have insight into the meaning and the way they are pronounced. For example, in Greek the number for JESUS is G2424 and in Hebrew the correct name of YAHSHUA is H3467. In Strong's below we can look at the numbers and information on the name of JESUS AND JOSHUA remembering that the name in Hebrew is YAHSHUA.
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