17 Sep 2009 07:27 PM

The "TRUE" name of our Creator!

MISHLE/PROVERBS 30:4 4 Who has gone up to the heavens and come down? Who has gathered the wind in His fists? Who has bound the waters in a garment? Who established all the ends of the earth? WHAT IS HIS NAME, AND WHAT IS HIS SON’S NAME , p If you know it?

This is taken from “The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of Greek Scriptures.” In it, it writes in reference to the New World Translation of Scripture from which the Jehovah’s Witnesses use: “Therefore, the foremost feature of this translation is the restoration of the divine name to its rightful place in the English text. It has been done, using the commonly accepted English form "Jehovah" 6,973 times in the Hebrews Scriptures and 237 times in the Christian Greek Scriptures.” We then further read, “By determining where the inspired Christian writers have quoted from the Hebrew Scriptures. Then he must refer back to the original to locate whether the divine name appears there. This way he can determine the identity to give to ky'ri . os and the . os' and he can then clothe them with personality. Realizing that this is the time and place for it, we have followed this course in rendering our version of the Christian Greek Scriptures.” ( “The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures,” 1969, Pages 18-19 )

There are presently 5,686 Greek manuscripts in existence today concerning the New Testament. ( “ Unshakeable Foundations,” Norman Geisler/Peter Bocchino , Page 256 ) Let us see where this statement takes us and continue on.

I will be the last person to opinionate and state that these Greek Manuscripts are merely copies or the originals; nor will I rule out that we simply haven’t found the original manuscripts written in the Hebraic form. Either way we can see just how sound our Scriptures are regardless of the latter. It would however be foolish not to state that the disciples and Yahushua were of Hebrew decent. In fact let us read MATTITHYAHU 1:1 “The book of the genealogy of Yahushua Messiah, Son of Dawid, Son of Abraham:” By this alone we can see that He was a Yahudi/Jew; along with the fact that He was also the Sovereign/King of the Yahudim, MATTITHYAHU 2:2 2 saying, “Where is He who has been born Sovereign of the Yahudim? For we saw His star in the East and have come to do reverence to Him.” From Scripture we also read that Abraham was told by Yahuah in BERESHITH/GENEIS 17:5, “I shall make you a father of many nations.” In this context we know that Abraham was the father of the Yahudim; he was the beginning of the Yahudim whom Yahuah chose to make His covenant with. Continuing on, although Yahushua was born in Beyth Lehem/Bethlehem (MATTITHYAHU/MATTHEW 2:1, MIKAH/MICAH 5:2), Yahushua was raised in Natsareth/Nazareth (LUKE 2:39-40). Both were Yahudish/Jewish towns at the time. Beyth Lehem is just south of Yerushalayim/Jerusalem while Nazareth is north, close to Galilee. Both of Yahushua’s parents were from Natsareth (LUKE 1:26-27, 2:4; 2:39) and they returned there with Yahushua when they had done everything according to the Law of Yahuah; all that His birth required (LUKE 2:39). His aunt and uncle were also Torah observant Yahudim (LUKE1:6). Yahushua also taught in the Set-Apart Place, that being the Yahudish/Jewish Temple (LUKE 21:37) . If Yahushua were not a Yahudi, then Him going into the Temple would not have been allowed as we can see what happened in ACTS 21:28-30 when Greeks came into one such Set-Apart Temple. It would seem that by this, it is far fetched that the Yisra’elite Disciples that were with Yahushua and whom also wrote many of the Manuscripts would have written it in a language other than there own. It is known that they spoke Hebrew. Also by MATTITHYAHU/MATTHEW 27:46 we can see that Chaldean was also spoken. Abraham also came from none other than Ur of Chaldeans (BERESHITH/GENESIS 11:27-28) by which this language of Chaldean was spoken. Research shows as fact, that all of these languages; Hebrew, Aramaic, Chaldean, Arabic, etc. come from the Semetic or Shemitic family of origins. These languages are known to have stemmed from Shem, one of the sons of Noah. The other two groups of languages include the Hamitic origin deriving from Ham (Egyptian); whom is another of Noah’s sons. The other form, which is non-semitic, deriving from what scholars believe to come from the Scythians and others in that area; stemming from Noah’s other son Japheth. ( Merrill F. Unger, "Tower of Babel," Unger's B-ble Dictionary, 1977 ed. Page 115; J.I. Packer, Merril C. Tenney, William White, Jr., Nelson's Illustrated Encyclopedia of B-ble Facts (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1995) Page 337; Madelene S. Miller and J. Lane Miller, "Sumer," Harper's Bible Dictionary, 1973 Ed. Page 710) 

So what was the whole point of the past information? Well one point is that, as the Jehovah’s witness state, they follow by that of the Greek language stating as seen on the last slide; “rendering our version of the Christian Greek Scriptures.” (ibid, Page 19) As we have seen by Scripture, it is Hebrew in origin and so was Yahushua and the Disciples. So why would the name of Yahuah be Greek, when the original found in the Torah and all of the Old Covenant/Testament was written in Paleo (Ancient) Hebrew. Jesus is also derived from Greek; however when looking at ANY Lexicon, it will state that Yahushua’s name if translated should have been translated as Joshua if we were to translate it at all. This is simply because Yahushua is the same name as Yahushua, the son of Nun of the Old Covenant/Testament. (One of these Lexicons for the true name of Yahushua is “A GREEK LEXICON OF THE NEW TESTAMENT AND OTHER EARLY CHRISTIAN LITERATURE,” 3 rd Edition, Frederick William Danker Published 2000, Pages 471-472) The second point is that if we’re to have true worship, we must become citizens of Yisra’el; this is even proven in the New Covenant/Testament, EPHESIANS 2:11-12 “ 11 Therefore remember that you, once gentiles g   in the flesh, who are called ‘the uncircumcision’ by what is called ‘the circumcision’ made in the flesh by hands, 12 that at that time you were without Messiah, EXCLUDED FROM THE CITIZENSHIP OF YISRA’EL AND STRANGERS FROM THE COVENANTS OF PROMISE, having no expectation and without Elohim in the world.” It can now easily be seen that if we become citizens under the covenant of Abraham than we will not be using another society (Greek) as our set practice of language in whom we call on nor the new false made up Greek traditions that derive from purely pagan ideologies. We must stop worshipping by falsities and begin worshipping Yahuah our Elohim in a way that adheres to Scripture, not this man made tradition that is specifically warned about throughout all of Scripture. Of course Greek is what we have for our New Covenant/Testament and there is no problem with that; however it becomes a problem when we distort the name and form of worship that completely contradicts what Scripture very plainly teaches us. Not only has our forefathers changed the name of our Creator, they have also added new traditions that are Non-Scriptural while getting rid of the Traditions and Ceremonies we are all Commanded to keep. When Yahuah states that it’s a LAW FOREVER, it doesn’t change; Yahushua  reaffirms this in the New Testament, yet it’s so falsely taught by the mainstream money hungry false teachers that we’ve lost anything that resembles true worship in society today. According to many of these false teachers we’re to simply skip over verses such as these: MATTITHYAHU/MATTHEW 5:18 “ 18 “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 Torah till all be done. p” LUKE 16:17 “ 17 “And it is easier for the heaven and the earth to pass away than for one tittle of the Torah to fall. d” REVELATION 22:14-15 “ 14 “Blessed are those doing m  His commands, n  so that the authority shall be theirs unto the tree of life, and to enter through the gates into the city. 15 “But outside are the dogs and those who enchant with drugs, and those who whore, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and all who love and do falsehood. o

Getting back to the names, let us now get to some more evidence, this evidence is precise and by all means factual and irrefutable, yet it is not at all something that very many people know. For this we look at both the names Jehovah and Jesus. I’d like to start with the well known letter of the “J.” 

Let us first begin with the letter J. When did this letter come into the alphabet? Anyone will be surprised that in the original 1611 King James Version of the Scriptures the letter J will not be found. Why is this? It was written in Greek as “ Ιησους .”                    

The ‘I’ in Ιησους has a Y sound to it. Furthermore, it is a stated fact that the letter J did not even exist until about five hundred years ago, nor did the name Jehovah. Let us read one such statement, “The pronunciation Jehovah was unknown until 1520, when it was introduced by Galatinus; but was contested by Le Mercier, J. Drusius, and L. Capellus, as against grammatical and historical propriety.” (“ Gensenius' Hebrew Grammar,” Emil Kautzsch, 1909, Page 218) Almost the exact statement was made by Dr. J.B. Rotherham, “The pronunciation Jehovah was unknown until 1520, when it was introduced by Galatinus; but was contested by Le Mercier, J. Drusius, and L. Capellus, as against grammatical and historical propriety.” ( “Emphasized B-ble,” James Byrant Rotherham, The Standard Publishing Company: Pages 24-25) A startling statement was also made in a book condoned by the Jehovah’s Witnesses themselves and one sentence reads, “The wrong spelling Jehovah occurs since about 1100' and then it OFFERS its arguments in favor of Yahweh as the correct and original pronunciation.” (“Let Your Name Be Sanctified” 1961, Page 20) This comes from a well used, but out of print book that many Jehovah’s Witnesses use. This isn’t to condemn them by any means; however when we are taught by our teachers that though something’s wrong we should do it anyway because of tradition, than what kind of messages are we truly sending? Secondly, with something as sacred as the name by which we’re told to call upon, it is imperative that we study and learn the truth to such things. His name is Yahuah, yet let us look at some interesting information that still throws many off today. 

Definition From “WEBSTER’S COMPREHENSIVE ENCYCLOPEDIA” Copyright 2005 By Standard Educational Corporation (Book IJ, Page 1)

J: The 10th letter of the English alphabet.  It originated in the ancient Semitic consonant Yod.  Yod became the Greek vowel iota , or I.  When the Romans adopted the alphabet, their letter I kept the Greek vowel sounds and in addition represented the consonant Y in early Latin.  Later, in England, the letter I was given the additional sound of J.  Coming most often at the beginning of a word, where the letter commonly extended blow the line, the J sound be came identified with the lengthened form of I. It was not until about the 16 TH CENTURY, however, that J was established as a separate letter. 

So if in fact, as these facts have presented themselves, the name Jesus could not have been our Messiahs name simply based upon the fact that He was alive well before this letter was even established or considered a letter. Let us now look at the letter W/V. Many will find it surprising that our V stemmed essentially from this; uu, the double U. 

Definition From “WEBSTER’S COMPREHENSIVE ENCYCLOPEDIA” Copyright 2005 By Standard Educational Corporation (Book WXYZ, Page 1)

W: The 23rd letter of the English alphabet.  Like F, U, V, and Y it is an outgrowth of the ancient Semitic letter Waw , which had the sound of W, as in "well".  It had several forms; A Phoenician (Which is Hebrew as will be seen later) version resembling Y is shown in the illustration.   Waw was used in early forms of Greek for several sound, including U, F, and W.   Later Greeks dropped the W sound from their language, so Waw lost this sound.  The Romans needed a symbol for the W sound in writing Latin, and used a V symbol to represent both this sound and the vowel sound U.  As the pronunciation of Latin changed, the W sound disappeared.  The Anglo-Saxons adopted the Latin alphabet to write their own language, adding a character from the runic alphabet to represent the W sound.  Around the 11th Century scribes created a new letter for the Latin alphabet, W, called "double U" (Like W but written as double V) for this sound.

Notice that even this particular encyclopedia (like almost all others) state it is an outgrowth from the ancient Semitic letter Waw. More information is presented about this W from Brother Lew White, “The letter double-U (or just "dub") doesn't have a great deal of history to it.  There are some who have strained to imagine this letter to have begun during the 7th century CE, when it first appeared by writers of Old English as a pairing of the letter U, (uu).  The word "witch" was originally spelled uuitch.  The use of the double-u certainly didn't begin to become popularized until the 13th century in any other languages.  Slowly, a diphthong (dipping of the tongue) evolved in words using the combination eu (or ew ), so other languages began to adopt it by writing it as vv (two v shapes).  Still, the shape of "v" was pronounced as a "u" in English, but Germanic influences began to exert pressures, so this spawned the modern letter "v" that we all know and love.”  Brother Lew than continues with information about the W in Paleo/Ancient Hebrew (known as Phoenician by many), “The sixth letter of the Hebrew alef-beth is best rendered as a long "o" or long "u" sound.  It can be heard in the phrase, "hallel u Yah" (spelled hay-lamed-lamed-uau-yod-hay).  If we are to be consistent, from now on we should render the name of the Hebrew letter UAU instead of WAW.  If you perform personal research on a number of Hebrew words which use this letter (uau), you will come to a fuller understanding of how it is to sound.  To use a modern letter to transliterate ancient Hebrew is corrupting, and misleading. This information is not intended to judge or bash anyone's personal beliefs, and hopefully any reader who may be disturbed by it will be challenged to do further research on the subject.  The distortions of this Hebrew letter over the centuries has caused most of the world to lose an accurate understanding of how to pronounce the Name of the Creator, and the Mashiach (Messiah) of Israel.” Now that I’ve added this statement I must now back it up with fact. So as Brother Lew has stated, “The sixth letter of the Hebrew alef-beth is best rendered as a long "o" or long "u" sound. How do we know this Hebrew letter so widely known as Waw or Vav. One word was already given, “HalleluYah.” The U in HalleluYah is what is known by many as a waw. Furthermore, notice the U’s in these next few words is what many know as a Waw; Yahushua/Yahusha (Joshua, also our Messiah’s name), Chuah (She is widely known as Eve, from Adam and Eve), Yahudah (referred to in English as Judah), Yahudim (referred to in English as Jews), etc. I could go on and on, but we can obviously see that these words have no rendering of the W because it wasn’t present in Paleo/Ancient Hebrew. On to the V in Jehovah.  

Definition From “WEBSTER’S COMPREHENSIVE ENCYCLOPEDIA” Copyright 2005 By Standard Educational Corporation (Book UV, Page 1)

V: The 22nd letter of the English alphabet. It was originally the Latin form of the letter U, which had developed from the Semitic waw and the Greek upsilon  .  The Romans changed the form of the letter to V and gave it 2 sounds-the vowel U and the consonant W.  As the alphabet spread to other countries, the letter also acquired two forms-the original pointed V and rounded U.  In the Anglo-Saxon alphabet, the consonant sound was V.  The two forms of the letter were used interchangeably for the two sounds over a period of several hundred years.  About the 10 TH CENTURY the capital letters were differentiated-U for the vowel sound and V for the consonant.  The small letters, however, were used interchangeably into the 15 TH CENTURY, and in dictionaries U and V were treated as a single letter until the end of the 18 TH CENTURY. 

So as we can see by this, it wasn’t its own complete separate letter until the 18 th Century and wasn’t even considered part of a letter until the 10 th Century. This also takes the V out of having any rendering for the name of our Creator. Again, let me reiterate one last time that I’m not judging nor condemning anyone. No one can learn, if no one teaches. As I have been taught, I’m simply passing the information on. Again, this is imperative to know for true worship because it has to do with whom we call upon in prayer. It must also be known by stating that we whom use a pagan name in reference to our Creator are not the only ones that do such. Information discovered by Lew White shows that in the Polish translation of the Scriptures, Pan Bog was and still is used as the rendering for Yahuah. This is interesting because both Pan and Bog were both two separate pagan deities. In South Africa we see the same thing; Modimo, uNkulunkulu, and uTixo were brought into the translations from three different languages. These too, are all previous pagan deity’s that were worshipped before these transliterations occurred. More of these abominable acts have occurred in other translations, such as in Venezuela where the name Wanaari is used for the most Sacred Name. What does Wanaari mean? In the United B-ble Societies publication openly admits that Wanaari is the “lyingest cheatingest immoral character,” their pagan “cultural hero,” and their mythological figure.

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