Secrets of the Name

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A friend from church recently was explaining to me the significance of the name Yeshua (Jesus), which is Hebrew for "Salvation" (The name Jesus in English has no intrinsic meaning, but was transliterated from Yeshua for Western Culture. Click here for article). He began to explain how Yeshua, the person most of us know as Jesus, is connected, along with his name, to the name of YHVH, the name God gives to Moses at the burning bush experience, which means roughly "I am what I am".

One of the Ten Commandments given to the people of Isreal is "Do not take the LORD's name in vain." That name LORD, which is in all caps in most Western translated versions, is in fact YHVH. To do the name ultimate justice, the priests of Israel back then decided to just never say the name aloud, and to remove the vowels from it all together when written. Most scholars have concluded that the complete name must have been "YAHVEH" or as most pronounce it, "YAHWEH".

Either way, what the Israelites did seems to be somehow connected with the Messiah.

For one, depending on your interpretation that is, you can look at the letters of YHVH and determine alot of connections to the man Yeshua.

1. Y- the yod in Hebrew, means "hand" or "arm" and is also the 10th letter of the Hebrew language, signifying completion.
2. H- the Hey in Hebrew, means "look! or "behold", representing God's salvation and deliverance. The symbol itself looks like a half open door.
3. V- the vav in Hebrew, means "hook" or "nail". It is the sixth letter, the number of man. It represents the hooking of heaven and earth together.
4. H- once again the hey, a second "look" or "behold" God's great salvation and deliverance.

(For more advanced information regarding all this visit www.Hebrew4Christians.com; they have a good article on the Names for God here)

Ok. So what does all this mean? YHVH. The hand of God. The provision of God. The hook from heaven to earth. A Second look at provision.
From the hand of God, comes the provision of God. The Israelites salvation, and through the prophesied Mashiach (Messiah), not only theirs, but the whole world's.

But what about the hook? What connects heaven and earth? Ultimately it would have to be a man. Vav, the hook, is the sixth letter after all, the number of man. So by way of the Messiah being killed, we would be redeemed with God in heaven, as it is fortold in Isaiah 53:5, "He was pierced through for our transgressions."

Therefore, YHVH: from the pierced hand of God comes the provision, comes salvation and deliverance.

Now lets look at Yeshua.

You've always seen those little crucifixes with INRI above them haven't you? If you haven't that's alright. When Jesus was crucified, the Romans wrote over him on the cross, "Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews". INRI is simply the Greek translation of each word, taking the first letter of each to make an acronym.

But they not only wrote it in Greek, as we mostly see symbolized today, but also in Hebrew, the Jews' own language.

"Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews" written in Hebrew is "Yeshua Hanetzeret V’melech Hayehudim". Notice the acronym here: YHVH.

No wonder the Jews then grumbled at Pilate and the Romans writing that above him!

I realize that this is so alot of information to take in at once, and that still for some this does not solve all their problems with the Bible and what they've been taught or brought up into. Even for those of you who are Jewish, I'm sure this is hard to swallow. I'm sure also you have a better grasp on the Torah and the Hebrew language than I have. So I encourage everyone who might stumble across this to research it more and study it for themselves.

Here are some great sites that have expounded all this for me:

Secrets of The Name, from www.lionlamb.net

The Hebrew Name for God, from www.hebrew4christians.com
The Letter Yod
The Letter Hey
The Letter Vav