We are walking in today: The Details In The Name
Witness Yahweh, God of my salvation throughout the Bible: H3468 yesha`
deliverance, salvation, rescue, safety, welfare, prosperity
Micah 7:7; Habakkuk 3:18; Psalm 18:46, 25:5, 27:9, 51:4, 88:1
Do we really know the name of the Most High One? Could our Savior when He walked the earth answer to a Greek name? Is God a personal name? These are questions that we must consider, Fiveamprayer. The naming of people in those days, in that culture are distant from how children are named now. Our current selection of the name based on how it sounds, or familial history--for example, would be strange back then. In the time of Yeshua and the Hebraic culture, the naming of a child was with meaning or intent for their lives. We cannot accept the changing of spelling to make the name sound similar in another language and yet divorce the meaning found in the original name! But God is love, it does not matter what we call Him. Yet if we are called by the wrong name we are highly likely to correct that person. Why would Almighty God permit His name to be confused or unknown? Was it to be sought out? Was it to be revealed at His appointed time?
When a witness is in court and the attorney asks the witness if the person who committed the crime is in the courtroom and the answer is yes; the next question is for the witness to point out that person. Once the defendant has been visually identified the attorney will ask for the court record to reflect that the witness pointed to the defendant and includes the name of the defendant. Why so many steps to show that the defendant has been identified and their name recorded in the courts written records? There is to be no question, who the witness is referring to! In the instances where a nickname is used they will underscore that answer with a clarifying question that would show what the legal name of the defendant is. Now this is just in our court system, that the name of the person is very important. Would we be able to do the same with the name Jesus when we study scriptures from a Hebraic mindset? With an understanding of the language, the letters and meanings of the words will better assist us this task. The name Jesus is not translatable into Hebrew--looks like we have a problem with our Messiah who was born of Jewish parents, who spoke Hebrew but have a son with Greek name.
When a witness is in court and the attorney asks the witness if the person who committed the crime is in the courtroom and the answer is yes; the next question is for the witness to point out that person. Once the defendant has been visually identified the attorney will ask for the court record to reflect that the witness pointed to the defendant and includes the name of the defendant. Why so many steps to show that the defendant has been identified and their name recorded in the courts written records? There is to be no question, who the witness is referring to! In the instances where a nickname is used they will underscore that answer with a clarifying question that would show what the legal name of the defendant is. Now this is just in our court system, that the name of the person is very important. Would we be able to do the same with the name Jesus when we study scriptures from a Hebraic mindset? With an understanding of the language, the letters and meanings of the words will better assist us this task. The name Jesus is not translatable into Hebrew--looks like we have a problem with our Messiah who was born of Jewish parents, who spoke Hebrew but have a son with Greek name.
The importance of names is also seen in the Bible and is denoted when Yahweh tells what the child shall be called before they are born. The name selection is not to be determined by the parents but was set forth by Yahweh according to His purposes. With Yosef and Miriam the Hebrew names for Mary and Joseph--who spoke Hebrew as the rest of their community did, would have said and spoken Miriam's first son as Yeshua. We can not alter the name that is above all names. The spelling can vary due to the Hebrew letters may not have exact equivalent to letters in English. The focus that we have had in reading our Bibles for so many years is from the perspective of us today, 21st century America. The real context of our questions should be, 'how were things for them back then?' What they would find common place or out of the ordinary? Once we have the correct surroundings of culture, economy and common practices we are better suited to understand scripture. Only then can we find modern day similarities. Without this first step and only taking the scriptures in their current state--lacking in Hebraic culture and language we are already off course from the very start! Often times in translation from one language to another is based on meaning but, this is not necessarily carried over in translating a person's name. This must be reviewed, in Hebrew, the name has a meaning and usually becomes a part of their personality or what they accomplish in their lives. Exodus 2:10 (NKJV) And the child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. So she called his name Moses, saying, “Because I drew him out of the water.” Genesis 17:19 (NKJV) Then God said: “No, Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac; I will establish My covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his descendants after him. To hear more of this teaching click here. https://www.freeconferencecallhd.com/playback.html?n=RvxYy/jKYIG
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