II Samuel 22:50 "Therefore I give thanks to You, O YAHUAH, among nations, And I sing praise to Your Name."... I Kings 8:41 "Also, concerning a foreigner, who is not of Your people Yisra'el, but has come from a far land for Your Name's sake- 42. since they hear of Your great Name and Your strong hand and Your outstretched arm- and he shall come and pray toward this House, 43. hear in the heavens Your dwelling place, and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to You, so that all peoples of the earth know your Name and fear You, as do Your people Yisra'el, and know that this House which I have built is called by Your Name." I Kings 8:35 "When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain because they sin against You, when they pray toward this place and confess Your Name, and turn from their sin because You afflict them, 36. then hear in the heavens, and forgive the sin of Your servants, Your people Yisra'el - for You teach them the good way in which they should walk - and shall give rain on Your land which You have given to Your people as an inheritance." Wouldn't it be wonderful to walk in the fullness of His word, just to call on His Name, the real Name of the Most High and Mighty One of Yisra'el? There are those who refer to Him as the names of pagan deities, ie. "LORD", "GOD", or His son, "Jesus", "Christ", and there are those who just refer to "Ha Shem", (The Name) in Hebrew. All of these are denying the REAL and TRUE Name of our Heavenly Father. YAHUAH is His Name. Now we need to look further. There are many more references to the Father's Name and the importance thereof. However, time and space would be prohibitive to try to list them all. Let's take a look at the Name of Messiah, our Saviour. John 5:43 "I have come in My Father's Name and you do not receive Me, if another comes in his own name, him you would receive." If Messiah came in His Father's Name, and He was also Hebrew and would have a Hebrew name, His Name would carry; 1) His Father's Name and 2) it would be Hebrew. The Name that Moses knew The Father by was YAHUAH. The Hebrew suffix, SHUA , means salvation. Together it means YAHUAH IS SALVATION. Thus we have the verse in Exodus 14:13 "And Moses said to the people, "Do not be afraid. Stand still, and see the "salvation" deliverance of YAHUAH, which He does for you today. For the "Egyptians" Mitsrites whom you see today, you are never, never to see again. 14. YAHUAH does fight for you, and you keep still." That is it freinds, YAHUAH fights our spiritual battles. All of them and we need to learn to be still and know that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him. Sorry for the divergence. The Name of Messiah is very important. We are to believe on His Name, pray in His Name, be immersed "baptized"in His Name, we are healed in His name and we find comfort and deliverance in His 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." Isn't it obvious, that the correct and proper name of the Messiah is of crucial importance? Did you know that the majority of miracles stopped around the third century when the REAL Name of Messiah was all but put completely out of use, and was exchanged, by the deciever, with a false name? The names of pagan deities have been added to, or exchanged for, the true Names of the Father and the son. Did you know that there were NO J's in the English language till less than five hundred (500) years ago? Isn't it easy to understand then, that His Name could NOT have started with a J? The Father's Name likewise, could NOT sart with a J, as in "Jehovah", could it? I want you to KNOW that I am not here to criticize you or condemn you but to send you the message, to come out of her My people, Rev18:4. The following quote is from the book, THE FINAL REFORMATION by: C. J. Koster , now renamed COME OUT OF HER MY PEOPLE. page 137 " We are to obey the Messiah in all things, even His final command to us in regard to our participation in the sins of Babylon: "COME OUT OF HER MY PEOPLE, LEST YOU TAKE PART IN HER SINS, LEST YOU SHARE IN HER PLAGUES," Rev. 18:4 RSV (capitals mine). "Coming out of her" requires of us to stop taking part in her sins, particularly the 24 components of Sun - worship, or the worship of the host of heaven, which were inherited by the Church. These components are not acceptable to Yahuweh, just as little as Israel's golden calf was acceptable to Him. Although Israel attempted to use the golden calf to honor Yahuweh with (Exod. 32:5), our Elohim's "wrath burns hot" against such practice. The"wicked abominations", as He had labelled Sun - worship customs which are mixed with the True Worship (Eze. 8:9-16), are not acceptable to Him. If we are to "overcome", we are to repudiate these 24 components of Sun-worship, as well as to repent of keeping the Seventh - day of the week according to the ways of Satur, and to return to Yahuweh through His Son YAHUSHUA. By accepting Yahushua as Saviour, and then as our only Teacher, He teaches us, He opens our eyes, He opens our understanding - as we have already stressed. We must abide in His Word. He said in Jn. 8:31-34 NASB, "If you abide in My Word, then you are truly disciples of mine; and you shall know the Truth and the Truth shall make you free"-- free from sin, free from being a slave of sin, verse 34." The Scriptures quoted earlier in the text were from: THE SCRIPTURES, Published by, INSTITUTE FOR SCRIPTURE RESEARCH (PTY) LTD SOUTH AFRICA INSTITUTE FOR SCRIPTURE RESEARCH 545 Newport Avenue, #151 Pawtucket, R.I. 02861 United States of America Internet Web Pages - http://www.messianic.co.za or http://www.isr-messianic.org To obtain a copy of ; THE SCRIPTURES or COME OUT OF HER MY PEOPLE by C.J. Koster click on the LINK to the left. Most of the pagan names have been removed from THE SCRIPTURES . It adds clarity and is refreshing to the soul. The following is quoted from "The Final Reformation" by C.J. Koster 17. THE NON-ORIGINAL, SUBSTITUTE NAME "JESUS", TRACES BACK TO SUN-WORSHIP TOO There is not a single authoritative reference source which gives the name Jesus or Iesous as the original name of Yahushúa. All of them admit that the original form of the Name was Jehoshua or Yehoshua to Jesus? Many Hebrew names of the Old Testament prophets have been "Hellenised" when these names were rewritten in the Greek New Testament. Thus, Isaiah became Isaias, Elisha became Elissaios or Elisseus (Eliseus),and Elijah became Helias in the Greek New Testament. The King James Version ahs retained some of these Hellenised names. Since the King James Version was published, the newer English versions have ignored these Hellenised names of the Greek New Testament, and have preferred , quite correctly, to render them as they are found in the Hebrew Old Testament, namely: Isaiah, Elisha and Elijah. Incidentally, the similarity between the Hellenised Helias (instead of Elijah) and the Greek Sun-deity Helios, gave rise to the well-known assimilation of these two by the Church. Dr. A.B. Cook, in his book, Zeus - A Study in Ancient Religion, vol. I p. 178 - 179, elaborates on this, quoting the comments of a 5th century Christian poet and others, on this. Imagine it, Elijah identified with Helios, the Greek Sun-deity! Returning to our discussion on the reluctance of the translators to persist with all of the Hellenised names in the Greek of the New Testament, one could very well ask: But why did they persist with the Hellenised Iesous of Yahushúa's Name, and its further Latinised form Iesus? It is accepted by all that His Hebrew name was Yahushúa. So why did the translators of the scriptures not restore it, as they did with the names of the Hebrew prophets? It is generally agreed that our successor to Moses, Joshua. But "Joshua" was not the name of the man who led Israel into the Promised Land. The Greeks substituted the Old Testament "Yehoshua" with Iesous, the same word they used for Yahushúa in the New Testament. Subsequently the Latins came and substituted it with Josue (Iosue) in the Old Testament (which became Josua in German and Joshua in English), but used Iesus in the New Testament. In the Hebrew Scriptures we do not find the word "Joshua". In every place it is written: Yehoshua. However, after the Babylonian captivity we find the shortened form "Yeshua" in a few places -shortened, because they then omitted the second and third letters, namely: . Everyone who sees the names Yehoshua and Iesous will agree: there is no resemblance between the names Yehoshua and Iesous or Iesus. Before we continue with our study of the word Iesous and Iesus, we would like to point out that we have been led to believe that the correct Name is Yahushúa. He said in John 5:43, "I have come in My Father's Name". Again, in John 17:11 He prayed to His Father, "... keep them through Your Name which You have given Me" -according to the Nestle-Aland Greek New Testament, the United Bible Societies' Third Edition, and the Majority Text - all of which are over-whelmingly accepted today as being far more reliable than the Textus Receptus. Therefore, in John 17:11 Yahushúa states that His Father's Name had been given to Him. Again He repeats this irrefutable fact in the next verse, John 17:12, "...in you Name which You gave Me. And I guarded them (or it)." See the footnote on these two verses in teh Revised Authorised Version. Read also John 17:11-12 in any of the modern English versions. So, we have Yahushúa's clear words, in three tests, that His Father's name was given to Him. Paul also testifies to this in Ephesians 3:14-15. What then is His Father's Name? Although most scholars accept "Yahúweh " and many still cling to the older form "Yehowah" (or Jehovah), we are convinced that the correct form is Yahúweh.1,6 Two factors contributed greatly to the substitution and distortion of Yahushúa's Name. The first was the un-Scriptural superstitious teaching of the Jews that the Father's Name is not to be uttered, that it is ineffable, that others will profane it when they use it, and that the Name must be "disguised" outside of the temple of Jerusalem.182 Because of the Father's name being in His Son's Name, this same disastrous suppression of the Name resulted in them (? the Greeks) giving a Hellenised, in fact a surrogate name for Yahushúa. he did warn us in John 5:43, "I have come in My Father's Name ... if another comes in his own name, him you will receive." The second factor was the strong anti-Judaism that prevailed amongst the Gentiles, as we have already pointed out. The Gentiles wanted a saviour, but not a Jewish one. They loathed the Jews, they even loathed the The Mighty One of the Old Testament. Thus, a Hellenised Saviour was preferred. The Hellenised theological school at Alexandria, led by the syncretising, allegorising, philosophying, Gnostic-indoctrinated Clement and Origen, was the place where everything started to become distorted and adapted to suit the Gentiles. The Messianic Faith, and its Saviour, had to become Hellenised to be acceptable to the Gentiles. Where did Iesous and Iesus come from? In Bux and Schone, Worterbuch der Antike, under "Jesus", we read, "JESUS: really named Jehoshua. Iesous (Greek), Iesus (Latin) is adapted from the Greek,, possibly from the name of a Greek healing goddess Ieso (Iaso)." Like all authoritative sources, this dictionary admits to the real true name of Yahushúa: Jehoshua (more precisely: Yahushúa). It then states, as most others, that the commonly known substitute, non-original, non-real name "Jesus" was adapted from the Greek. We must remember that Yahushúa was born from a Hebrew virgin, not from a Greek one. His stepfather, His half-brothers and half-sisters, in fact all His people, were Hebrews, Jews. Furthermore, this dictionary then traces the substitute name back to the Latin Iesus, and the Greek Iesous. It then traces the origin of the name Iesous back as being possibly adapted from the Greek healing goddess Ieso (Iaso). To the uniformed I would like to point out that Iaso is the usual Greek form, while Ieso is from the Ionic dialect of the Greeks. This startling discovery, the connection between Ieso (Iaso) and Iesous, is also revealed to us by the large unabridged edition of Liddell and Scott, Greek-English Lexicon, p. 816, under "Iaso". The third witness comes to us in a very scholarly article by Hans Lamer in Philologische Wochenschrift, No. 25, 21 June 1930, pp. 763-765. In this article the author recalls the fact of Ieso being the Ionic Greek goddess of healing. Hans Lamer then postulates, because of all the evidence, that "they changed Ieso into a regular masculine Iesous. This was even more welcome to the Greeks who converted to Christianity." He then continues, "If the above is true, then the name of our Lord which we commonly use goes back to a long lost form of the name of a Greek goddess of healing. But to Greeks who venerated a healing goddess Ieso, a saviour Iesous must have been most acceptable. The Hellenisation was thus rather clever." This then is the evidence of three sourced who, like us, do not hide the fact of the Greek name Iesous being related to the Greek goddess of healing. The Hellenisation of Yahushúa's Name was indeed most cleverly done. To repeat Yahushúa's words of warning in John 5:43, "I have come in My Father's Name and you do not receive Me; if another comes in his own name, him you will receive." There is no resemblance or identifiability between the Name, Yahushúa, and the Greek substitute for it, Iesous. The Father's Name, Yah- or Yahu-, cannot be seen in the Greek Iesous or in the Latin Iesus, neither in the German Jesus, nor in the English Jesus. President Reagan's name remains the same in all languages. Hitler's name remains the same in all languages. Even Satan has seen to it that all nations know him by his name: Satan. Satan has seen to it that his own name has been left unmolested! However, let us further investigate the names Ieso (Iaso) and Iesous. According to ancient Greek religion, Apollo, their great Sun-deity, had a son by t he name of Asclepius, the deity of healing, but also identified with the Sun. This Asclepius had daughters, and one of them was Iaso (Ieso),183 the Greek goddess of healing. Because of her father's and grandfather's identities as Sun-deities, she too is in the same family of Sun-deities. Therefor, the name Iesous, which is possibly derived from Ieso, can be traced back to Sun-worship. We find other related names, all of them variants of the same name, Iasus, Iasion, Iasius, in ancient Greek religion, as being sons of Zeus.184 Even in India we find a similar name Issa or Issi, as surnames for their deity Shiva.185 Quite a few scholars have remarked on the similarity between the names of the Indian Issa or Issi, the Egyptian Isis and the Greek Iaso.186 In our research on the deity Isis we made two startling discoveries. The one was that the son of Isis was called Isu187 by some. However, the second discovery yielded even further light: The learned scholar of Egyptian religion, Hans Bonnet, reveals to us in his Reallexikon der Agyptischen Religionsgeschichte, p. 326, that the name of Isis appears in the hieroglyphic inscriptions as ESU or ES. No wonder it has been remarked, "Between Isis and Jesus as names confusion could arise."187 This Isis also had a child, which was called Isu by some.187 This Isu and Esu sound exactly like the "Jesu" that we find the Saviour called in the translated Scriptures of many languages, e.g. many African languages. Rev. Alexander Hislop, The Two Babylons, p. 164, also remarked on the similarity of Jesus and Isis, "IHS - Iesus Hominum Salvator - But let a Roman worshipper of Isis (for in the age of the emperors there were innumerable worshippers of Isis in Rome) cast his eyes upon them, and how will he read them, or course, according to his won well-known system of idolatry: Isis, Horus, Seb." He then continues with a similar example of "skilful planning" by "the very same spirit, that converted the festival of the Pagan Oannes is not the feast of the Christians Joannes." (The Hebrew name of the baptizer, and that of the apostle as well, was Yochanan or Yehochanan). Thus, by supplanting the Name of Yahushúa with that of the Hellenised Iesous (in capitals: IHSOUS), which became the Latinised Iesus, it was easy to make the pagans feel welcome - those pagans who worshipped the Greek Ieso (Iaso), of which he masculine counterpart is Iesous (in capitals: IHSOUS), as well as those who worshipped the Egyptian Esu (Isis). further evidence of syncretism withe the Isis-system is found in A. Kircher, Oedipus Aegypticus, wherein the name of the son of Isis is revealed to us as "Iessus, which signifies Issa, whom they also called Christ in Greek." Another pagan group of worshippers could also be made to feel at home with the introduction of this surrogate name Iesous (IHSOUS) or Iesus, namely the worshippers of Esus. Jan de Vries hold that Esus was a Gallic deity comparable to the Scandinavian Odin.188 Odin, of course, was the Scandinavian Sky-deity. This Gallic or Celtic deity, Esus, has also been identified189 with Mars, and by others with Mercury, and was regarded to by the special deity of Paris.189 Just as Iaso, Ieso, Iesous are derived fro m the Greek word for healing, iasis, we similarly find Isis (more correctly: Esu) and her son Horus (more correctly: Her), regarded as deities of healing as well as cosmic deities,190 or Sun-deities, by others. The most disturbing evidence is yet to follow. The abbreviated form of the name Iesous is: Ies or in capitals: IHS, or in Greek the capital for "e" id "H". This is to be found on many inscriptions made by the Church during the dark Middle Ages. This fact is also well documented and is generally admitted by scholarly sources and ordinary English dictionaries.191 These dictionaries bear witness to the fact if IHS (Ies) being an abbreviated form of IHSOUS (Iesous). Furthermore, the shocking fact has also been recorded for us that IHS was a mystery surname of Bacchus, and was afterwards taken as initials for Iesous, capitals: IHSOUS.192 We discovered this in a dictionary of mythology and in an encyclopaedia of religion.192 This revelation was confirmed by a third witness, Dr. E.W. Bullinger, The Apocalypse, footnote p. 396, "Whatever meanings of ... IHS may be given, the fact remains that it was part of the name of Bacchus ..." We then realised, most painfully, that our beloved Messiah was identified with the Greek deity Bacchus, by giving Yahushúa the surname or other name of Bacchus, namely: IHS or Ies! Bacchus was well known to be a Sun-deity. Bacchus was also a commonly known name for Tammuz among classical writers.193 Tammuz, as you will remember, was known to be the young returning Sun-deity,194 returning in spring. Bacchus, also known as Dionysus, was expressly identified with the Egyptian Osiris,195 the well-known Egyptian Sun-deity. Bacchus was also called Ichthus, the Fish.196 So, yet another group, the worshippers of Bacchus, the Sun-deity, alias Ies (IHS), were conciliated, were made welcome, with the foreign-to-the-Hebrew name of Iesous (IHSOUS) or Iesus. This most appalling revelation startled us, indeed. After being enlightened about the solar origin of the word IHS and its fuller form IHSOUS (Iesous), we are no longer surprised to find the ecclesiastical emblem, IHS, encircled by sunrays, commonly displayed on church windows: No wonder that we read the testimony of the learned Christian advocate, M. Turretin, in describing the state of Christianity in the 4th century, saying "that it was not so much the (Roman) Empire that was brought over to the Faith, as the Faith that was brought over to the Empire; not the Pagans who were converted to Christianity, but Christianity that was converted to Paganism."197 A further witness to this paganisation of the Messianic Faith is that of emperor Hadrian, who, in a letter to the Consul Servianus, wrote, "There are there (in Egypt) Christians who worship Serapis; and devoted to Serapis are those who call themselves 'Bishops of Christ.'"198 Another testimony comes to us from the letter of Faustus, writing to Augustine, "You have substituted your love-feasts for the sacrifices of the Pagans; for their idols your martyrs, whom you serve with the very same honours. You appease the shades of the dead with wine and feasts; you celebrate the solemn festivals of the Gentiles, their calends, and their solstices; and as to their manners, those you have retained without any alteration. Nothing distinguishes you from the Pagans, except that you hold your assemblies apart from them."199 Yahushúa, in His final message to us, the book of Revelation, has warned us of this in Rev. 17, Rev. 18, Rev. 19, and also in Rev. 13, Rev. 14, and Rev. 16 -Babylon, Mystery Babylon. The Great Harlot has made "the inhabitants of the earth drunk with the wine of her fornication," out of the "golden cup" in her hand, "full of abominations and the filthiness of her fornication," Rev. 17:1-5. The is also described as "sitting on a scarlet beast, full of name s of blasphemy," verse 3. Tammuz, alias Bacchus, had a surname: Ies or IHS. He was also known as the fish (Ichthus), and had the Tau, the cross, as his sign. These three things have survived, and are still with us! In Acts 4:12 we read, "Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved." This verse clearly tell us that there is only one Name whereby we can be saved - there is none other. It cannot be Yahushúa as well as Jesus, Iesous, Iesus, or Ies (Bacchus). There is no resemblance between the names of Yahushúa and Jesus. The one is correct and the other one a substitute. The one contains our Father's Name and the other one not. Yahushúa has said that He came in His Father's name, John 5:43. In the newer translations of the Scriptures, we read in two places, John 17:11 and 12, that Yahushúa said that His Father's Name was given to Him. If we believe the Scriptures, if we believe our Messiah, if we believe what Peter said in Acts 4:12, we cannot be satisfied with any substitute name. We must believe, accept, and be baptized into the only saving Name: Yahushúa. In the end-time, according to Joel 2:32, calling on the Name of Yahúweh will be necessary for salvation and deliverance. By believing on, calling on, and being baptized in the Name of Yahushúa, we do "call on the Name of Yahúweh " , through His Son, "Who had His Father's Name given to Him, by His Father. "I have come in My Father's Name, and you do not receive Me; if another comes in his own name, him you will receive," John 5:43. The writer of Proverbs challenges us in Prov. 30:4, "What is His Name, and what is His Son's Name, if thou canst tell?" KJV. a very interesting alternate rendering for Psalm 72:17 is given to us in the centre column of the Reference Kin James Version, speaking about he promised Messiah, "His Name shall be as a Son to continue His Father's Name for ever." As I have stated, there is no resemblance between the Name Yahushúa and the name Jesus. neither is there any resemblance between their meanings. Yahushúa means: "the Salvation of Yah or Yahu." "Jesus" is derived from Iesus, derived from Iesous (IHSOUS) derived, most probably, from the Greek goddess of healing, Ieso or Iaso. her name was derived from iasis ,which means "healing". Further, the short form, or original source of the name Iesous (IHSOUS) is Ies (IHS), the very surname of Bacchus, the Sun-deity. Therefore, the two names differ completely in their origin, and in their meaning. And more important: Yahushúa's name contains the Name of His Father, which the substitute name does not. Further proof of the Father's Name being in the Son's Name is found in Eph. 3:14-15, "For this reason I bow my knees to the Father ... from Whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named." Surely, if His family received His Name, His only begotten Son will also have His Name. Another proof is Rev. 14:1, but this should be read in the newer translations, because the King James Version and the Revised Authorised Version have it both wrong. Rev. 14:1-5, in the NASB reads, "And I looked, and behold, the Lamb was standing on Mount Zion, and with Him one hundred and forty-four thousand, having His Name and the Name of His Father written on their foreheads ... These are the ones who have not been defiled ... These are the ones who follow the Lamb where ever He goes. These have been purchased ... as firstfruits ... And no lie was found in their mouth; they are blameless." The translators of the King James version must have realised the meaning of this passage in Rev. 14:1, namely, the similarity between the Lamb's Name and His Father's Name. Therefore they took the liberty , even if wrongfully, to omit the words "His Name and". The King James Version therefore only speaks about the Father's Name, while the Greek Text reads, "having His Name and the Name of His Father written on their foreheads." Do we wish to be part of this first fruit company? Then we are to make quite certain that we have the Father's Name and the Lamb's Name on (or in) our Foreheads. The similarity between their Names is obvious. Whether it will be just one Name, Yah, or whether it will be both Yahúweh and Yahushúa, is not clearly indicated, and is less important - as long as we have the essential part of the Name, Yah, which transmits its etymological concept of life, everlasting life. Verses 4-5 warn us against defilement, spiritual defilement - the lies that we have inherited, including the lies about the Names. "O Yahúweh , ... the Gentile shall come to You from the ends of the earth and say, 'Surely our fathers have inherited lies ...' Therefore behold, I will this once cause them to know ... ; and they shall know My Name is Yahúweh ," Jer. 16:19-21, a prophecy for the end-time. "Therefore My people shall know My Name," Isa. 52:6. "I will bring the one-third through the fire, will refine them as silver is refined, and test them as gold is tested. They will call on My Name, and I will answer them. I will say, 'This is My people'; and each one will say, 'Yahúweh is my Mighty One,'" Zech. 13:9. "For then will I restore to the peoples a pure language, that they all may call on the Name of Yahúweh , to serve Him with one accord," Zeph. 3:9. "And Yahúweh shall be King over all the earth. In that day it shall be - 'Yahúweh is one,' and His Name one," Zech. 14:9. he will no longer be called by all those hundreds of names, by which He is known today. His Name will be "one". And His son, in Whose Name the Father's Name is contained, will subject himself to his Father in that day, 1 Cor. 15:28. |
Another problem we run into with Paul's writings is stated by Peter, (KEPHA) , in 2nd Peter 3:16. He states that Paul's writings are "hard to understand, which those who are unlearned and unstable wrest to their own destruction, as they do also the other Scriptures." The word translated wrest means to twist. They TWIST his writings as they do also the other Scriptures. If you will go back to the home page and click on the GRACE link it will take you to a subject that is entirely misunderstood due to translation and twisting of the Scriptures. This has all been preliminary to the subject of the THIRD COMMANDMENT. Exodus 20:7 " You do not bring the Name of YAHUAH your Mighty One to naught, for YAHUAH does not leave the one unpunished who brings His Name to naught." In all actuality, to pray to "God", one would also be breaking the first commandment as the name "God", comes from the Syrian or Canaanite deity of fortune or luck. This would clearly, be having another mighty one before the only true and living Mighty One, YAHUAH. His name, is provably NOT "God". Likewise, to pray to "Jesus" which is the cmbination of two pagan deity names, ea and Zeus, is also praying in the name of a pagan deity. It is also said to possibly come from Isis but that is questionable. Either way, Messiah was Hebrew and had a Hebrew name. The best we can figure, it was and is YAHUAHSHUA. NOT ONLY IS IT A PROBLEM THAT WE CALL ON THE WRONG NAMES, BUT THAT THEY ARE SPECIFICALLY THE NAMES OF PAGAN DEITIES. We are told in Joshua 23:7b "And make no mention of the name of their mighty ones, nor swear by them, nor serve them, nor bow down to them." Isn't it clear, that we are not to make mention of pagan deities or let their names come out of our mouths? We are not to say them. We are not to worship them or bow down to them. Let's look at some verses here. Exodus 3:15b "Thus you are to say to the children of Yisra'el, (Yod Hey Vav Hey)YAHUAH, Mighty One of your fathers, the Mighty One of Abraham, the Mighty One of Yitshaq, and the Mighty One of Ya'aqob, has sent me to you. This is MY NAME forever, and this is My rememberance to all generations." Exodus 9:16 "And for this reason I have raised you up, in order to show you My power, and in order to declare MY NAME in all the earth." Exodus 20:2 "I am (Yod Hey Vav Hey) YAHUAH your Mighty One, who brought you out of the land of "Egypt", Mitsrayim, out of the house of slavery." We already covered Exodus 20:7 the Third Commandment. Exodus 23:13 "And in all that I have said to you take heed. And make NO MENTION of the name of other mighty ones,"gods", let it not be heard from your mouth."... Exodus 34:14 " for you do not bow yourselves to another mighty one, "god", for YAHUAH, whose Name is jealous, is a jealous Mighty One"-- Leviticus 18:21b "And do not profane the Name of your Mighty One. I am (Yod Hey Vav Hey) YAHUAH." Leviticus 19:12 " And do not swear falsely by My Name and so profane the Name of your Mighty One. I AM (Yod Hey Vav Hey) YAHUAH." Leviticus 19: 14,16 and 18 " I AM YAHUAH " is how each verse is ended. His Name is there in the Hebrew. (Yod Hey Vav Hey) Leviticus 22:32,33 "And do not profane my set-apart Name, and I shall be set-apart among the children of Yisra'el. I am YAHUAH, who sets you apart, 33. who brought you out of the land of "Egypt" Mitsrayim, to be your Mighty One. I am YAHUAH." Leviticus 24:16 ..."And he who blasphemes the Name of YAHUAH shall certainly be put to death, and all the congregation certainly stone him, the stranger as well as the native. When he blasphemes the Name, he is put to death." Isn't it easily seen here, that it is no small matter regarding the Name of the Most High ? His people are called by His Name. Numbers 6:27 "Thus they shall put My Name on the children of Yisra'el, and I Myself shall bless them." This is where the name of Yahudah "Judah" came from. It is translated Jews in most English translations, NOT a correct transliteration either. Deuteronomy 5:11 "You do not bring the Name of (Yod Hey Vav Hey) YAHUAH your Mighty One to naught, for YAHUAH (Yod Hey Vav Hey) does not leave him unpunished who brings His Name to naught." Deuteronomy 18:20 "But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in My Name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other mighty ones, even that prophet shall die." Doesn't it sound very, VERY serious, who's NAME we use and speak in? Deuteronomy 28:10 "And all the peoples of the earth shall see that the Name of YAHUAH is called upon you, and they shall be afraid of you..." Deuteronomy 28:58, 59. "If you do not guard to do all the Words of this teaching that are written in this book, to fear this esteemed and awsome Name, YAHUAH your Mighty One, 59. then YAHUAH shall bring upon you and your descendents extraordinary plagues, great and lasting plagues, and grievous and lasting sickness." |
Come Out Of Her My People |
Rev. 18:4 |
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FINAL REFORMATION link for study of pagan diety names and the influence of paganism on "Christianity". |
The main purposes of this page are to reveal the truth about the law, the Ten Commandments or Ten words, and to reveal the truth about the NAMES of our Heavenly Father and Messiah. Notice first that there are TEN, NOT nine or eight. Actually the main emphasis on this particular page, will be one of the TEN, the third Commandment, which has been terribly mistranslated and therefore terribly misunderstood. This in conjunction with the deliberate concealment of the true name of our Heavenly Father, has spawned complete ignorance of the truth. One point is paramount to understanding the truth. They are called the TEN COMMANDMENTS, NOT , the ten suggestions. If we would only look at the book of Revelations 12:17 , we can see that the guarding or keeping of the COMMANDMENTS of our Heavenly Father AND having the testimony of Messiah, are, were and shall be, the measure of who the remnant of her seed is. There is a parallel verse in Revelation 14:12. We can see that having the belief in the Messiah alone, is not all there is to it, but ALSO keeping the COMMANDMENTS of our Heavenly Father. When we are taught in today's churches that the law is done away with, it is in ignorance that we are taught, and in ignorance that we believe. The only part of the Law that could be done away with is the ceremonial, sacrificial law. That part of the Law was fulfilled when Messiah was impaled on the stake. Other than that, in Matt.5:18,19 He said,"For truly, I say to you, till the heaven and the earth pass away, one jot or one tittle shall by no means pass from the law till all be done. 19. Whoever, then, breaks the least of these commands, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the reign of the heavens; but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the reign of the heavens." Now let's consider whose words these are. They are the words of Messiah Himself. There is no mistake about His intent here. Isn't it clear that we are to do and teach to keep the COMMANDMENTS, ALL TEN of the COMMANDMENTS? Of course it is. You may say Paul wrote thus and so. Well, is Paul greater than the saviour himself? |
Another problem we run into with Paul's writings is stated by Peter, (KEPHA) , in 2nd Peter 3:16. He states that Paul's writings are "hard to understand, which those who are unlearned and unstable wrest to their own destruction, as they do also the other Scriptures." The word translated wrest means to twist. They TWIST his writings as they do also the other Scriptures. If you will go back to the home page and click on the GRACE link it will take you to a subject that is entirely misunderstood due to translation and twisting of the Scriptures. This has all been preliminary to the subject of the THIRD COMMANDMENT. Exodus 20:7 " You do not bring the Name of YAHUAH your Mighty One to naught, for YAHUAH does not leave the one unpunished who brings His Name to naught." In all actuality, to pray to "God", one would also be breaking the first commandment as the name "God", comes from the Syrian or Canaanite deity of fortune or luck. This would clearly, be having another mighty one before the only true and living Mighty One, YAHUAH. His name, is provably NOT "God". Likewise, to pray to "Jesus" which is the cmbination of two pagan deity names, ea and Zeus, is also praying in the name of a pagan deity. It is also said to possibly come from Isis but that is questionable. Either way, Messiah was Hebrew and had a Hebrew name. The best we can figure, it was and is YAHUAHSHUA. NOT ONLY IS IT A PROBLEM THAT WE CALL ON THE WRONG NAMES, BUT THAT THEY ARE SPECIFICALLY THE NAMES OF PAGAN DEITIES. We are told in Joshua 23:7b "And make no mention of the name of their mighty ones, nor swear by them, nor serve them, nor bow down to them." Isn't it clear, that we are not to make mention of pagan deities or let their names come out of our mouths? We are not to say them. We are not to worship them or bow down to them. Let's look at some verses here. Exodus 3:15b "Thus you are to say to the children of Yisra'el, (Yod Hey Vav Hey)YAHUAH, Mighty One of your fathers, the Mighty One of Abraham, the Mighty One of Yitshaq, and the Mighty One of Ya'aqob, has sent me to you. This is MY NAME forever, and this is My rememberance to all generations." Exodus 9:16 "And for this reason I have raised you up, in order to show you My power, and in order to declare MY NAME in all the earth." Exodus 20:2 "I am (Yod Hey Vav Hey) YAHUAH your Mighty One, who brought you out of the land of "Egypt", Mitsrayim, out of the house of slavery." We already covered Exodus 20:7 the Third Commandment. Exodus 23:13 "And in all that I have said to you take heed. And make NO MENTION of the name of other mighty ones,"gods", let it not be heard from your mouth."... Exodus 34:14 " for you do not bow yourselves to another mighty one, "god", for YAHUAH, whose Name is jealous, is a jealous Mighty One"-- Leviticus 18:21b "And do not profane the Name of your Mighty One. I am (Yod Hey Vav Hey) YAHUAH." Leviticus 19:12 " And do not swear falsely by My Name and so profane the Name of your Mighty One. I AM (Yod Hey Vav Hey) YAHUAH." Leviticus 19: 14,16 and 18 " I AM YAHUAH " is how each verse is ended. His Name is there in the Hebrew. (Yod Hey Vav Hey) Leviticus 22:32,33 "And do not profane my set-apart Name, and I shall be set-apart among the children of Yisra'el. I am YAHUAH, who sets you apart, 33. who brought you out of the land of "Egypt" Mitsrayim, to be your Mighty One. I am YAHUAH." Leviticus 24:16 ..."And he who blasphemes the Name of YAHUAH shall certainly be put to death, and all the congregation certainly stone him, the stranger as well as the native. When he blasphemes the Name, he is put to death." Isn't it easily seen here, that it is no small matter regarding the Name of the Most High ? His people are called by His Name. Numbers 6:27 "Thus they shall put My Name on the children of Yisra'el, and I Myself shall bless them." This is where the name of Yahudah "Judah" came from. It is translated Jews in most English translations, NOT a correct transliteration either. Deuteronomy 5:11 "You do not bring the Name of (Yod Hey Vav Hey) YAHUAH your Mighty One to naught, for YAHUAH (Yod Hey Vav Hey) does not leave him unpunished who brings His Name to naught." Deuteronomy 18:20 "But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in My Name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other mighty ones, even that prophet shall die." Doesn't it sound very, VERY serious, who's NAME we use and speak in? Deuteronomy 28:10 "And all the peoples of the earth shall see that the Name of YAHUAH is called upon you, and they shall be afraid of you..." Deuteronomy 28:58, 59. "If you do not guard to do all the Words of this teaching that are written in this book, to fear this esteemed and awsome Name, YAHUAH your Mighty One, 59. then YAHUAH shall bring upon you and your descendents extraordinary plagues, great and lasting plagues, and grievous and lasting sickness." |
II Samuel 22:50 "Therefore I give thanks to You, O YAHUAH, among nations, And I sing praise to Your Name."... I Kings 8:41 "Also, concerning a foreigner, who is not of Your people Yisra'el, but has come from a far land for Your Name's sake- 42. since they hear of Your great Name and Your strong hand and Your outstretched arm- and he shall come and pray toward this House, 43. hear in the heavens Your dwelling place, and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to You, so that all peoples of the earth know your Name and fear You, as do Your people Yisra'el, and know that this House which I have built is called by Your Name." I Kings 8:35 "When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain because they sin against You, when they pray toward this place and confess Your Name, and turn from their sin because You afflict them, 36. then hear in the heavens, and forgive the sin of Your servants, Your people Yisra'el - for You teach them the good way in which they should walk - and shall give rain on Your land which You have given to Your people as an inheritance." Wouldn't it be wonderful to walk in the fullness of His word, just to call on His Name, the real Name of the Most High and Mighty One of Yisra'el? There are those who refer to Him as the names of pagan deities, ie. "LORD", "GOD", or His son, "Jesus", "Christ", and there are those who just refer to "Ha Shem", (The Name) in Hebrew. All of these are denying the REAL and TRUE Name of our Heavenly Father. YAHUAH is His Name. Now we need to look further. There are many more references to the Father's Name and the importance thereof. However, time and space would be prohibitive to try to list them all. Let's take a look at the Name of Messiah, our Saviour. John 5:43 "I have come in My Father's Name and you do not receive Me, if another comes in his own name, him you would receive." If Messiah came in His Father's Name, and He was also Hebrew and would have a Hebrew name, His Name would carry; 1) His Father's Name and 2) it would be Hebrew. The Name that Moses knew The Father by was YAHUAH. The Hebrew suffix, SHUA , means salvation. Together it means YAHUAH IS SALVATION. Thus we have the verse in Exodus 14:13 "And Moses said to the people, "Do not be afraid. Stand still, and see the "salvation" deliverance of YAHUAH, which He does for you today. For the "Egyptians" Mitsrites whom you see today, you are never, never to see again. 14. YAHUAH does fight for you, and you keep still." That is it freinds, YAHUAH fights our spiritual battles. All of them and we need to learn to be still and know that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him. Sorry for the divergence. The Name of Messiah is very important. We are to believe on His Name, pray in His Name, be immersed "baptized"in His Name, we are healed in His name and we find comfort and deliverance in His 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." Isn't it obvious, that the correct and proper name of the Messiah is of crucial importance? Did you know that the majority of miracles stopped around the third century when the REAL Name of Messiah was all but put completely out of use, and was exchanged, by the deciever, with a false name? The names of pagan deities have been added to, or exchanged for, the true Names of the Father and the son. Did you know that there were NO J's in the English language till less than five hundred (500) years ago? Isn't it easy to understand then, that His Name could NOT have started with a J? The Father's Name likewise, could NOT sart with a J, as in "Jehovah", could it? I want you to KNOW that I am not here to criticize you or condemn you but to send you the message, to come out of her My people, Rev18:4. The following quote is from the book, THE FINAL REFORMATION by: C. J. Koster , now renamed COME OUT OF HER MY PEOPLE. page 137 " We are to obey the Messiah in all things, even His final command to us in regard to our participation in the sins of Babylon: "COME OUT OF HER MY PEOPLE, LEST YOU TAKE PART IN HER SINS, LEST YOU SHARE IN HER PLAGUES," Rev. 18:4 RSV (capitals mine). "Coming out of her" requires of us to stop taking part in her sins, particularly the 24 components of Sun - worship, or the worship of the host of heaven, which were inherited by the Church. These components are not acceptable to Yahuweh, just as little as Israel's golden calf was acceptable to Him. Although Israel attempted to use the golden calf to honor Yahuweh with (Exod. 32:5), our Elohim's "wrath burns hot" against such practice. The"wicked abominations", as He had labelled Sun - worship customs which are mixed with the True Worship (Eze. 8:9-16), are not acceptable to Him. If we are to "overcome", we are to repudiate these 24 components of Sun-worship, as well as to repent of keeping the Seventh - day of the week according to the ways of Satur, and to return to Yahuweh through His Son YAHUSHUA. By accepting Yahushua as Saviour, and then as our only Teacher, He teaches us, He opens our eyes, He opens our understanding - as we have already stressed. We must abide in His Word. He said in Jn. 8:31-34 NASB, "If you abide in My Word, then you are truly disciples of mine; and you shall know the Truth and the Truth shall make you free"-- free from sin, free from being a slave of sin, verse 34." The Scriptures quoted earlier in the text were from: THE SCRIPTURES, Published by, INSTITUTE FOR SCRIPTURE RESEARCH (PTY) LTD SOUTH AFRICA INSTITUTE FOR SCRIPTURE RESEARCH 545 Newport Avenue, #151 Pawtucket, R.I. 02861 United States of America |