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Does God expect me to say Jesus Christ’s Name in any particular way?
There are a few in various Messianic or Hebrew-Christian roots movements that are pretty emphatic on this subject. They will tell you that you MUST pronounce our Savior’s Name exactly as He pronounced it Himself; that you must say something like, “Yahuah” or “Yahusha” in Hebrew, when addressing God or Christ. Well, as sincere as they might be; without any divine revelation, they will have a very difficult time proving that concept from Scripture!
Likewise, their criticisms of Christians using words which they label as “satanic”; words such as “Bible, Christ, Faith, Grace, Holy, Jesus, and Pastor, et cetera (and other things)”, are without any real academic merit.
Remember, it was God the Father and Jesus Christ, who initially confounded all the earth’s languages at the waterproof tower / city called Babel; a hundred years after the worldwide flood! The different languages that we have today, are all a product of something Divine, started by God Himself, to slow His human kids down a little bit (Genesis 11:1-9)!
We invite you to read our Bible Study on the subject of The Name of God. In it you will learn if God’s Name has ever changed, and what The Bible really says about how we are supposed to pronounce it today! Just go to www.onug.us or click the link below: BIBLE STUDY: The Name Of God
Remember, it was God the Father who allowed Alexander The Great, and later on; Imperial Rome, to dominate Samaria or what would become known as Judea (Daniel 2:1-49). It was God the Father who allowed for a multilingual society to exist in Jerusalem, at the time of Christ (Acts 2:5-11)!
The Four Languages Of Jesus Neighborhood:
1) Ancient Hebrew, sometimes called Mishnaic or Early Rabbinic Hebrew, (the spoken language of prayer, study, and religious texts) which co-existed alongside
2) Aramaic (the language of legal contracts and trade, and was prevalent in the lower class of Jerusalem; but not in the surrounding countryside); while
3) Koine Greek, “the common dialect” (was the language of the government, and along the coastal cities, and among the upper class of Jerusalem), its use allowed for a wider interaction with the known world. This complex melting pot lasted up until 63 B.C., when Rome under Pompey The Great, besieged and conquers Jerusalem; thereby adding
4) Latin, and the Roman Culture to this eclectic mix!
Hebrew ceased to be a spoken language by the end of the Roman Period, or sometime around 200 A.D. From this point on, Hebrew existed only as a literary language until the Byzantine Period of about 400 A.D., when it was almost completely lost in antiquity.
Jerusalem, today, is a mere shadow of her former glory; she is a city that had been fought over during sixteen wars as of 2014 A.D. (and more is in store, according to Scripture)! She has been destroyed twice, besieged 23 times, attacked 52 times, and captured and recaptured 44 times!!!
The modern language we call Hebrew today, fairs far worse than Jerusalem does! At least we can say the city of Jerusalem is in the same place as the old one of antiquity. Modern Hebrew cannot lay hold to the same claim.
The revival of the spoken Hebrew language was a process that took place in both Europe and Palestine toward the end of the 19th and into the 20th centuries. Hebrew went from an ancient, sacred, and written only language; to a modern language that is both spoken and written during daily life in Israel today! How did this happen? Can even surviving languages like Latin or Greek transcend time without evolution, and without any variance? Those who are born and raised, and live in Italy today, speaking fluent Italian; they cannot understand Latin! Has English survived unchanged from William Shakespeare days (26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616)? We know that American English today, is much different now, than it was in 1775 A.D., when America was fighting for her Independence!
Likewise, Modern Hebrew spoken today, is much different than the Judeo-Aramaic language spoken by Jesus Christ and His Apostles – and the First Century Church of God; not to think so is naïve! It is a language resurrected from the dead – with no native speakers. It was therefore necessary from 1904-1914 A.D. (a period known as the Second Aliyah) to form new and uniform linguistic rules, as opposed to the disjointed ones that were used previously; to prepare this new language to be used in all the affairs of life, to formulate rules of pronunciation and grammar; and to create many new words for use by schools and the general public! Modern Hebrew today includes characteristics derived from all known periods of the Hebrew language, as well as from the non-Hebrew languages used by the long established European, North African, and Middle Eastern Jewish communities; with the European variant of Yiddish being predominant! God Bless Israel, and her people, for their new nation and their new language; but Modern Hebrew is not the language of Christ’s Gospel! Jesus Christ, and His Gospel, are just too big to be limited to a new man-made language!
Consider, of the three languages that Pontius Pilate used to post his infamous decree on Jesus’ cross; only the Latin and Greek languages are still spoken fluently today, and they still carry the Gospel message of the Risen and soon coming Messiah to the world at large!
The recently revived Hebrew has been silent for nearly two thousand years, and today, a newcomer to our modern world; it still only serves about 9 million people - most of whom still deny Christ as Messiah! This hopefully will change in the years ahead; but for now, the English and Spanish languages actually enable many hundreds of millions more - to hear the Gospel preached, to believe, to be baptized, and to be saved (Mark 16:15-20)!!!
God is called by many names in the Bible – so is His Son! Learn to follow and obey His Word and His Voice; don't get wrapped up in how you pronounce the Name of our Father God, or our Christ! Jesus is who He is (Exodus 3:14)!!! He is NOT how His Name "Sounds", in your particular language! Remember, Jesus Christ is going to give YOU a new name at His Return (Revelation 2:17)! Jesus will then write upon YOU, the very Name of God The Father, the name of the very city in which YOU will live, and then Jesus Christ will actually write upon YOU, His New Name (Revelation 3:11-13)!!! One day very soon now, we will all SPEAK the Name of God, just as our Father speaks it – if we can hear, follow, and simply obey His Voice!!! Amen!
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Oh yeah
In France a skinny man
Died of a big disease with a little name
By chance his girlfriend came across a needle
And soon she did the same
At home there are seventeen-year-old boys
And their idea of fun
Is being in a gang called The Disciples
High on crack, totin a machine gun
Time, time
Hurricane Annie ripped the ceiling of a church
And killed everyone inside
U turn on the telly and every other story
Is tellin' u somebody died
Sister killed her baby cuz she couldn’t afford 2 feed it
And we're sending people 2 the moon
In September my cousin tried Reefer 4 the very first time
Now He’s doing Horse, it’s June
Times, times
It’s silly, no?
When a rocket ship explodes
And everybody still wants 2 fly
Some say a man ain’t happy
Unless a man truly dies
Oh why
Time, time
Baby make a speech, star wars fly
Neighbors just shine it on
But if a night falls and a bomb falls
Will anybody see the dawn
Time, times
Its silly, no?
When a rocket blows
And everybody still wants 2 fly
Some say a man ain’t happy, truly
Until a man truly dies
Oh why, oh why, sign o the times
Time, time
Sign o the times mess with your mind
Hurry before it’s 2 late
Let’s fall in love, get married, have a baby
We’ll call him Nate... if it’s a boy
Time, time
Time, time
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“Even from the days of your fathers, ye have gone away from Mine Ordinances and have not kept them. Return unto Me, and I will return unto you,” saith the Lord of hosts. “But ye said, ‘In what manner shall we return?’" (Malachi 3:7)
Our Heavenly Father gave Jesus Christ an Awesome Blue Print on how any individual, or any nation, can return to the Fellowship and Blessings of a Merciful and Loving God.
God calls us back to Him; then He even shows us The Way, step by step (John 14:6)!!! How Cool is that? :o)
If you have ever wondered how Jesus Christ and the First Century Church of God really worshiped the Father, in Spirit and in Truth; or how some pretty twisted people got themselves right with God, and washed away some pretty nasty sins; we'd like to show you!
The Disciples, Church of Saint Elias, Bucharest Romania.
"Jesus sent forth seventy students at one time, but only eleven left a desirable historic record. Tradition credits him with two or three hundred other disciples who have left no name. "Many are called, but few are chosen." They fell away from grace because they never truly understood their Master's instruction."
Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures 27:22
by Mary Baker Eddy