The Name of Jesus {Yeshua} and the name of God {Elohim} The name of God and the name of Jesus are deeply important issues in the Bible. Both issues are mysteries, to which we should act with humility and prayer to get to understand them. Some of what I write may not be easy to understand, and need the guidance of the Holy Spirit.
The purpose of the name in our Western culture is simply to identify. We use names to distinguish one person from another. Otherwise never would know we're talking about. Many people choose names for their children because they like the sound of the name. On a subconscious level that is probably because they know or admire people with such real or fictitious name. The names John, Michael, Mary, Anna. do not describe those who possess it in any way. They are simply used to distinguish one person from another. Few people know the meaning of the names as they are not substantive but a few Castilian as Grace, Flower, Joy, Victoria Sweet, etc.
In the culture of the Bible, names were chosen for their meanings. The names were simply words or phrases that anyone could understand Hebrew. The names of people sometimes describe the experience of their parents. Moses named his son Gershom - a stranger here. He was an exile in the desert at that time. José significaaumentado. Because his mother Rachel prayed to God that could have more children. Benjamin means son of my right hand. Other names were prophetic. Hosea called his son Lo-ammique means not my people. Isaiah called his son Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz Fast meaning loot, pillage next. Jesus received his name because he would save his people from their sins.
In the spiritual realm names directly describe its possessor. We read in the New Testament demons called Legion, for they are many. There are angels in the Book of Revelation called Death and Apollyon (Abaddon in Hebrew), meaning in Greek Destroyer. The name Satan means adversary or opponent. Some people who have experience in deliverance and exorcism are the demons reveal their names when confronted. They are named as Greed or Lust, etc., Which describe their characteristics.
Names in the Bible then you have two purposes, to describe and identify.
Beyond our cultural difference between the modern use given names and use them in Bible times, there is another problem. God's thoughts are not our thoughts and His ways are not our own, as Isaiah says. Because His ways and thoughts are much higher than ours. Or are ultimately, to an extent to which our mentality has not been reborn. On a positive side of this new measure will have the mind of Christ, on the negative end of Isaiah pessimistic assertion is true in us. We must learn to think in terms of divine rather than in terms of the flesh, if we understand the deep things of God. The mindset of the flesh is enmity with God. The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness to him, and can not understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. We have the light of the Holy Spirit if we hope to understand the mind of God. The meaning of the words we see are only shadows of the deep and immeasurable significance that God has saved them.
God's name
Much has been thought, said and written about the name of God. Then begin with the consideration of this issue. The lessons we learned about the study of God's name may seem somewhat academic, but is transformed into a preparation for a deeper understanding of Jesus' name. A
obvious starting point is Chapter 3 of the book of Exodus where Moses is standing before the burning bush. For our purposes today, we look first at verse 6 where God introduces himself with the words, 'I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. According to the human mind we expect God to say, 'I am the Almighty Creator of the Universe, the smartest, I am all loving and all-knowing, and my name is YHWH. " This is the way a missionary would try to introduce the concept of God animist tribe. God, as we see, does not give a description of himself and no name. The only identification is given in terms of their followers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob-persons otherwise displaying features. This shows the mentality and nature of God. Words, names and descriptions are totally inadequate for him. He is described and identified at once in his village, and more particularly its children. To be understood, it should be seen in human form. He should be manifested in the flesh.
The Old Testament contains many names and titles for God. These include the Lord of Hosts, the God of Heaven, the Most High God, El Shaddai, and others. Have been written good and instructive exhibitions of their meanings, but Jesus did this. Instead, he said, 'Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. " The descriptions are only necessary for what you can not see. London, I can describe to you, but if you want to know what London really, you should better go and see!
describe Jesus did not need God to people. The same was the description. He was and is the name of God. You do not look at the picture of someone when you're in his presence. You have something better.
God commanded Moses to go to Pharaoh and bring out the children of Israel out of Egypt. Moses then had two identity problems: first, 'Who am I to go to Pharaoh? ", the second,' Who are you?".
The God said, 'Look, I'm going to the children of Israel, and tell them' the God of your fathers has sent me to you. " Now they tell me. 'What is your name? " Do you answer them? "
If we understand God's answer, we must first consider the intent of the question of Moses. Moses grew up in a polytheistic culture. The people believed in different gods, each must have a name to identify the (she or it!). You can talk about 'the sun' or 'the moon' because there is only one of each. You can not talk about 'the star' because there are millions of them, each must have a name that can be distinguished from the others. The sun and the moon do not have names because they do not need.
God really have a name? Moses thought he had. Many people today think he has it. Consider the revelation of the Bible.
God's answer in verse 14 is, 'I am who I am. " I think I could paraphrase this as' I am myself. " In other words God is saying to Moses, "Your question is incorrect. I have no name. I alone am God and not need one, and I can not really have a name to distinguish me from other gods, because there is no other. Even a name can be found to adequately describe. " Jesus
mostly priestly prayer said, 'I have manifested thy name "(John 17:6) and' I have made known your name" (John 17:26). These are the only real answers to the question of Moses. Jesus Himself was and is the name of God.
God continues by saying, 'Tell the children of Israel,' I am 'has sent me to you'. This does not sound very good in Castilian and not much better in Hebrew. The lack of clarity of this shows that God could not give a direct answer to the question of Moses.
In the next verse God says, 'Say to the children of Israel,' YHWH, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you ' . That is my name forever and he'll be relied on from generation to generation. "
As I see it, God is saying, 'I have no name. Human terminology can never describe. I must first be seen in flesh and blood, and then be known in spirit. Do not even need a name to distinguish me from other gods, because there is no other. However for this consent to their limited understanding, and give them something they can use temporarily as a name. You can be like other peoples around them, each of which has a god. Can be used to identify the word YHWH. " The nature of our God, the only God, come down to us so that he can rise to it.
Moses must have learned from the experience of Jacob. The story of Jacob wrestling with the angel is remembered at the end of Genesis chapter 32. Jacob fought with a man, who finally asks her name. 'Jacob,' he answered. 'Your name shall no more Jacob, but Israel, because you have striven with God and with men and have prevailed, "said the angel. Jacob now has a new identity and description. We, like Jacob, we have a new name. Jacob then said, 'Please tell me your name. " The angel's reply was just an evasion, 'Why is it that you ask my name? ". Like Moses, he did the wrong question. He wanted to reduce the divine essence in something human.
Manoah, Samson's father, was visited by an angel who told him that his wife would bear a son who would be a Nazarene. After listening to the instructions for the upbringing of the child. Manoah asked the angel his name. He received the same kind of response that Jacob had received: 'Because I ask my name, seeing it is incomprehensible? "
Name History
Not long after finding God in the burning bush, Moses found himself back at Mount Sinai and received the Ten Commandments. The third was' Do not take the name of YHWH your God in vain. Return on the significance of this later, but first consider the effect this had on the Jewish commandments. At face value there is a way of never saying the name of YHWH, and any other name, in vain, and this is not to say never. It still stands today. Whenever Jews read the Bible where it says YHWH, they read as meaning Lord or Adonai ha-shem meaning the name.
is a strange 'coincidence' that originally were written in Hebrew without vowels. This means that, as the name of YHWH could not be ruled could not be fully written, no one could know its original pronunciation. The word Jehovah was formed by taking the vowels from Adonai and YHWH placed inside. First appears in a manuscript of the fourteenth century and certainly does not have an ancient origin.
After the first dispersion of the Jews to Babylon and Egypt, they felt the need to translate the Old Testament into Greek. The result was the Septuagint version, translated by seventy scholars in Egypt in the third century BC We should expect that this version of the Greek gives us a clue about how we should pronounce YHWH. Alas, the reverence for the name prevents this. Other names are transliterated from Hebrew into Greek, but YHWH is always replaced Kurios, Greek for Lord. When the New Testament quotes the Old Testament generally uses the Septuagint. This means that we find instead of YHWH Kurios here too. Many translations of the Bible into Castilian continue this tradition of translating YHWH as LORD in capital letters.
is interesting to note that Greek has no equivalent for the Hebrew letters H and W (or V). And only the first letter of YHWH can be transliterated into Greek (by iota). This makes it impossible to write the name in Greek.
must add to this to say that God gave the name YHWH to Moses as a temporary measure. When he fulfilled his purpose, he erased his memory in three stages. 1) He allowed the Jews to have a spurious reverence him, that did not dare to pronounce it. 2) He caused to be written in Hebrew without the vowels, so it can not be fully remembered, and 3) did not permit that could be transliterated into Greek or any other language as their pronunciation is known.
The third commandment
We return now to Third Commandment. 'Do not take the name of YHWH your God in vain. Almost everyone interprets this commandment as meaning 'no swearing'. This interpretation has many centuries of tradition behind it, but I would suggest that the latter is not its primary meaning. The Ten Commandments begin with the statement. 'I am YHWH your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. " What does 'make a name'? The Hebrew word means primarily nasa take, carry or hold. Just as the children take the surname of their fathers. The Israelites were taken and carried the name of their God, the God who adopted them, and out of the land of Egypt. They would be their representatives and holders of its name. They should not do this for nothing.
Jesus suffered and died because he tried to lead us out of the spiritual land of Egypt. Now wants to give his name. Perhaps this is because we often use it in vain, why the world often as blasphemous.
The name of Jesus
That honor was when God the great Creator and Lord of the universe, the infinite Being that is beyond description, made a name in human language by which he may be known . Highest honor followed. In the fullness of time he became flesh. Instructions were given specific in a dream to Joseph and Mary by the angel Gabriel: 'I shall call his name Jesus. " The New Testament never once mentions the name of YHWH, but gives great importance to the name of Jesus.
We considered the name YHWH, and the reverence that is given today to a name that no one knows how to pronounce it. We found a striking parallel with the name of Jesus. Each language pronounces his name differently. None of the five letters of his name in the languages \u200b\u200bof Latin origin has a consistent pronunciation in different European languages. The J has at least 4 different pronunciations including Y and CH. The E may have the phoneme E or I. The S can be S, SH or Z. The U.S. has less variation. The final S may be present or absent. Indeed the Hebrew name Yeshua and Castilian Jesus have no common phonetic sounds.
We all know that means when we say Jesus? Historically speaking, if we know. Jesus means the person described in the New Testament who lived two thousand years ago and founded the Christian faith. Spiritually speaking is a different matter. Actually we all speak the same person? For three quarters of the world's population Jesus, if known by all, is the founder of a strange religion. In the Western world for Jesus minority is the Son of man, the Son of God, the Savior, Healer, Lord and Friend. For the rest, everyone has a different idea according to tradition, bias and prejudice.
Jesus was a common name. The people named Jesus of Nazareth to clarify who they were talking.
Where is all this leading? What is actually the name of the Son of God? The answer, I believe, is like the answer to our first question, 'What is the name of God? Jesus was the name, description and identity of God to all who met him when he walked on earth, as it is for us his people today. Arrive to be the name, description and identity of Jesus to the world. Jesus reveals God to his people. His people must reveal to him the world. We must be the expression or the name of Jesus to the world, as Jesus is the manifestation or the name of God to his people.
This concept is probably new and difficult to understand. We think that we are familiar with the body of Christ or the temple of the Holy Spirit. These ideas are explicitly stated in the Bible. Our familiarity with the words of Scripture, there is!, Often accept the profound truths of God very slightly
The idea that we should be the name of Jesus is not clearly established in the New Testament, but agrees and throws light on many passages, which will now consider.
baptized into his name
The phrase 'being baptized into the name' appears several times in the New Testament. (Many versions translate it as 'in' your name). We also read of 'being baptized into his body. " These two sentences are perfectly now. His body is his sanctified people. His name is his sanctified people. Your name and your body are the same. Both sentences speak of a deep immersion in the Father and the Son. The real baptism in the eyes of God is not a ceremony that man can see not even a dramatic experience in the supernatural. Rather it is a continuous immersion in God through which we become one with it, we can be called his body and name.
Hallowed be thy name
Jesus taught his disciples the prayer, 'Our Father, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come. " Millions of people recite this prayer daily, but few understand. Now maybe we can see its meaning more clearly. The name will be blessed or sanctified was Jesus himself and those he calls. In John chapter 17 records Jesus' last prayer in Gethsemane before his arrest. Prayed for his disciples, saying, 'Sanctify them in truth, your word is truth "(verse 17) and' And for their sake I consecrate myself, that they also may be sanctified in truth" (verse 19). Both sentences are perfectly in keeping with the prayer for the sanctification of himself and his people.
So when Jesus prayed the prayer recited daily million, its first plea, 'hallowed be thy name' was a prayer for the separation of his people in holiness. Only on this basis the second petition, 'Thy kingdom come, you'll find its complement. When his people be holy, His kingdom come.
Names, places, buildings and days can never be truly sanctified. These things in nature can not be holy. They serve a purpose and have some time, and are only shadows of reality. Only people can be holy. The Holy Spirit descended on the people and set aside for God.
Exaltation of his name
Chapter 2 of Philippians speaks of Jesus going to humiliation and death to resurrection and exaltation. "Therefore God exalted him and gave him the name which is above every name, that the name of Jesus every knee should bow." Can your name in this context be his people?
Chapter 1 of Revelation, John shows a view of the head and body of Christ glorified in their entirety. His voice is not the simple voice of Jesus, but it's like the sound of many waters. This is not only Jesus' head, but the whole body of Christ. John fell prostrate at his feet as dead. There comes a time when the head is Jesus receive the full body. This body is the name before which every knee will bow.
Other scriptures indicate that the people prostrate themselves before the body of Christ. In Revelation 3:9 we read 'I'm going to deliver some of the Synagogue of Satan ..... I will make will bow before your feet. " Isaiah 45:14 says "before you bow down and beg you," Isaiah 49:23 and 60:14 are similar.
This is not like when Muslims kneel in mosques and prostrate physically. Rather be a kneel in spirit as people come face to face with God incarnate. When the Queen of Sheba met King Solomon, and heard his wisdom, and saw all his wealth, we read that gasped. She was completely full of wonder, respect, admiration and love. Conclusion
As we contemplate the high purpose for which God has called us, we can only know that we are far from their designs. We are completely inadequate and unworthy to be his name, nature and its representation in the earth and truly in heaven too.
God sees and knows this much more clearly than we do, and the plan provides the necessary path. Change and transformation is not our job but yours. Do not be surprised when he begins a deeper and more radical than any previous experience working in us. This work will separate us from men, in order to unite in the spirit of God. Before you can be their true representative, he must deal with our total carnal nature.
will enter in the death and resurrection of our Savior. We will be participating in their suffering and humiliation. After suffering with it will be ready to reign with him. Haste, like Paul to this high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
BLESSINGS IN THE NAME OF YESHUA {Jesus}
