"Do you know the name of GOD?

I recently read Rabbi Johnathan Cahn's new book "The Book of Mysteries", an excellent book and a wonderful daily guide to the mysteries of GOD and his infinite love for His creation, us. I highly recommend this fine work for it is spirit filled and an additional gift from GOD to all believers. You will be blessed and your heart will be renewed and spirit filled. I have taken the liberty of expounding and connecting a few of the profound ideas Rabbi Cahn has touched upon here in his fine book and may great thanks and blessing find the Rabbi and his family and may blessings be upon the Holy Spirit for conveying these jewels to one whom can so easily transfer these deep things of GOD into simple terms for those of us who understand simple things.

"Do you know the name of GOD?

I have wondered about this subject since I was a boy when I heard "call upon the name of the Lord", my first question was always OK, and what name is that? Assuming, as I did that Howard was not his true name as my cousins tried repeatedly to tell me that we know His name because of the "Our Father" prayer, "Our Father who art in Heaven Horward be thy name,..."

Perhaps a little levity but it is amazing how confused young catholic boys can become when faced with such nonsense and unfortunately that confusion carry's on into adulthood as I can attest. I asked for the true name of God so that I may include His name in my prayers because the Bible says "If you call upon my name". GOD stated to Moses in Genesis 3:4 "
"And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you."

" I AM THAT I AM " in the English vernacular would be hayah. HaYah is a verb but verb of action.

God has included himself in your speech everyday whether you realize this or not, for you say, as an introduction, " I am Paul " I am using God's name prior to my name so God comes first in my life, again, whether you know it or not. YHVH means I AM. His name is woven into the fabric of your life and very existence, you cannot speak of yourselves in a proper way without saying His Name first. I t is rather like a trademark that identify you as a product made by Him. You only exist because of his I AM.

The secret to life is to understand that you live your life for and by HIM, allow yourself to see your actions coming from Him, that the emotions you feel in your heart flow from Him, the words you speak are originally from him. Keep all this in mind before you add to or take away from the things you say and do for a truth heart understand that your being is from God and therefore let God be Preeminent in your life. 

19 September 2016 

The Real Name Has Power

A Jewish friend of mine recently asked me, "If Jesus is our Jewish Messiah, and the whole Old Testament is about Him, how come His name is never mentioned, even once?"

Then one morning while sitting on my back patio and watching the squirrels and birds feed after I put out that morning food I began to think once again, as I often did, that there was just something not right about the use of the transliterated name Jesus. This name came to us as a translation from Hebrew to Greek, the written form of the New Testament Gospels.

   

I knew from my Hebrew language studies that the name Jesus was not of Hebraic origin but was used because it was as close as the scribes could get to conveying the power of the name of the Messiah to the literate world in place at that time and aimed at the Gentiles of the eastern provinces of Rome who spoke Greek.  This was the beginning of my problem because once I began a thorough investigation of the Greek title Iesous Christos the floodgates opened to the waters of confusion because so much of this title was pulled from the Pantheons of Greek mythology which I will leave to the reader to search out and investigate on their own if they truly desire the truth.

    

Now I knew in my heart that the Old Testament includes a Gospel (Good News) pointing to the coming Messiah, as can be found in so many declarations throughout the Old Testament. For in the Old Testament all great characters were given names with a specific and significant meaning.

For example, in Genesis 5:29, Lamech called his son Noah [Comfort], saying, “This same shall comfort us concerning our work and tell of our hands.”  Genesis 10:25, Eber calls his firstborn son, Peleg [Division]; “for in his days was the earth divided.”  Genesis, chapters 29-32 the same is true of Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Jacob (changed to Israel-God's Prince), and all of Jacob's sons. In Exodus 2:10, Pharaoh's daughter called the baby rescued from the Nile, Moses [Drawn-Forth]: “and she said, because I drew him out of the water.”  We can go on and on to show the deep significance of Hebrew names but we no longer have that because the point has been made.

  

But I could not find the bridge I knew must be there to bring the whole picture to light. So I began, that morning while feeding the birds and squirrels, to ask God to show me the answer to this continually contentious and nagging idea that something was wrong about the name Jesus. I was answered with the inspiration to search for my answer among the writings of Jews themselves.  This led me to Jews who asked the same question and from them I was pointed to the Hebrew Bible and there it was,  suddenly and glaringly obvious, the true NAME of Jesus, found in the Old Testament about 100 times all the way from GENESIS to HABAKKUK!  Yes, the very NAME that the angel Gabriel used in Luke 1:31 when he told Mary about the Son she was to have.  

"Where do we find that NAME?" you ask.  Here it is, friend: Every time the Old Testament uses the word SALVATION (especially with the Hebrew suffix meaning "my," thy," or "his"), with very few exceptions (when the word is impersonal), it is the very same word, YESHUA (Jesus), used in Matthew 1:21. Yeshua written Yod-Shin-Vav-Ayin, is a masculine noun that means "He is salvation" or "He saves." Let us remember that the angel who spoke to Mary and the angel who spoke to Joseph in his dream did not speak in English, Latin, or Greek, but in Hebrew; and neither were Mary or Joseph slow to grasp the meaning and significance of the NAME of this divine Son and its relation to His character and His work of salvation.

So now when you read the Old Testament and come to verses like Genesis 49:18, when the great Patriarch Jacob was ready to depart from this world, he by the Holy Spirit was blessing his sons and prophetically foretelling their future experiences in those blessings.  He exclaims, “I have waited for thy salvation, 0 Lord!”   What he really did say and mean was, "To thy YESHUA (Jesus) I am looking, 0 Lord"; or, "In thy YESHUA (Jesus) I am hoping (trusting), Lord!"  That makes much better sense.

Isaiah 62:11 King James Version (KJV)

“Behold, the LORD hath proclaimed unto the end of the world, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation (YESHUA-Jesus) cometh; behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.” This becomes a clear picture of the proclamation of YESHUA-Jesus as our salvation.

Remember, the message of The Teaching of the Messiah is clear and easily understood if you just clear your mind and heart of all the traditions and nonsense taught by men. They have created a mine field of confusion with their interpretations of this and that or summarily stated this or that doesn’t matter, it does matter! Open yourself as a clean slate and only seek the Truth from the One who gave us the Scriptures, the One who’s Word it is and the One where you will find all truth and knowledge, just ask.