How well do you know Jesus? Did you know that “J” is a new letter and sound?
In the year 1524, Italian Gian Giorgio Trissino was the first to use J as a letter.
Late in the 16th century, Frenchman Pierre Ramous separated the I from J.
In the 17th century, the use of the letter J became more common in English.
Hence, reading an older “King James” bible you’ll see the letter I, instead of J.
The sound for the letter J became “dg” — as in edge, or hedge.
Words that were invented later in history—such as Jesus, or Jehovah—use the typical J sound.
But with other words, such as hallelujah, the J is pronounced the same as a Y because the word existed before the letter J was even used—so even though the spelling has changed over time, the word maintains its pronunciation.
If Jesus is not the pronunciation of the real name of Christ the Messiah, what is?
Flavius Josephus was a Jewish priest, scholar, and historian of the first century famous for “History of the Jewish War” (75-79), alternately called “The War of the Jews”, and “The Antiquities of the Jews” (93).
Josephus tells us of “a golden crown, in which was engraven the sacred name [of God]: it consists of four vowels.”
In the early Hebrew language, the letters YHWH were all vowels:
It is known from antiquity the Tetragrammaton letters yod, heh, and waw are vowels.
Hebrew vowels are spoken with the open mouth.
[But] the letter “v” is a consonant, not a vowel, and is spoken with the upper teeth and lower lip together.
YHWH, Yehowah, Y’shua
YHWH (יהוה transliterated) is the tetragrammaton—the four-letter Hebrew theonym—the personal name of God, and is from a verb that means “to be”, “to exist”, “to cause to become”, or “to come to pass”.
With vowels derived from other theophoric names, we know “Yeho-W-ah.”
For example, think of the name of Johan Sebastian Bach… Johan means John in English, a shortened form of Jonathan.
The name is from Hebrew Yonatan or Yehonatan, meaning “YHWH has given.”
Yehonatan is itself also shortened from a longer form of the theophoric name.
“Yeho-” is the portion of this personal name that references God’s own name.
Next, from the ending of the theophoric names of the prophets such as Jeremiah, Isaiah, and Micah, is the final vowel of the tetragrammaton, YHWH.
Isaiah, or Hebrew Yeshayah, means “YHWH saves.”
Yeho-W-ah is shortened in the Psalms of King David as Yah, an elision.
Elisions occur when writers remove letters from words.
These letters are replaced by apostrophes to note their absence and ensure that the reader pronounces the words correctly.In most cases, the removed sound or syllable is unstressed. This means that the bulk of the word remains the same.
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In the case of Y’ah, the letters “eho[w]” are dropped, as demonstrated in the example of the shortening of the name Yehonathan to Johan.
Or as with the etymology of Isaiah (Ysha’yah) where “yesha” means salvation, and “Yah” is an elision which represents the full name of God, which we abbreviate as the tetragrammaton, YHWH.
With the Psalms of David, we find this transliteration and pronunciation of God’s name fit the meter and rhythm, as the composition of his poetry requires a three-syllable name.
The popular name “Yahweh” does not fit to fulfill David’s songs—Yehowah does.
In Hebrew, Christ, and the old testament prophet, share the same name, Yeshua.
The examples of Joshua and Isaiah demonstrate varying etymologies, or evolution of a word, or one name over time, as both share the same meaning as the name of the Son of God, also known as the Messiah, Christ, or the Son of Man—Yeshua:
- Joshua as a transliteration maintains the Y and O from Yeho-W-ah.
- Isaiah as a transliteration maintains the Y and ah from Yeho-W-ah.
- Yeshua as a transliteration maintains the Y and E from Yeho-W-ah.
“I have come in my Father’s name,
and you have not received me
—but if someone else comes
in his own name,
you will receive him.”
Christ warned, saying,
“I have come in my Father’s name, and you have not received me—
—Christ, John 5:43
but if someone else comes in his own name, you will receive him.”
Is it possible Christ was speaking of Jesus, coming in his own name?
Though new, the name “Jesus” is now more popular than ever in world history.
As is the name Jehovah—reported to be “the most high god over all the earth,” according to the worldwide religious organization known as the Watchtower of Jehovah’s Witnesses.
In Revelation, we are told of a king:
…the angel of the abyss.
His name in Hebrew is Abaddón,
Revelation 9:11
and in the Greek, he has the name Apollyon.
In the Hebrew scriptures, Abaddon is “destruction or ruin,” and in Greek Apollyón, the angel of the abyss is “a destroyer.”
The biblical Hebrew word hovah similarly means (to become) “a ruin or disaster” from avah meaning something “amiss.”
Now concerning the coming of our Lord Yeshua Christ and our being gathered together to him, we ask you, brothers, not to be easily disconcerted or alarmed by any spirit or message or letter seeming to be from us, alleging that the Day of the Lord has already come.
Let no one deceive you in any way, for it will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness—the son of destruction—is revealed.
He will oppose and exalt himself above every so-called god or object of worship. So he will seat himself in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.
2 Thessalonians 2:1-4
Jehovah opposes and is exalted, by Jehovah’s Witnesses, above every so-called god or object of worship, (Psalms 83:18, NWT) and further they have said that their worldwide headquarters known as Bethel is itself the temple of God, proclaiming Jehovah to be God.
They also teach that Jesus is Jehovah’s son.
This brings us full circle where Christ foretold someone who would come in his own name, and be received, where we are waiting on the “son of destruction.”
In other words, the son of Hovah, and his father come, before God and his son.
When we consider the etymology of Jehovah we find Jeh, the last character.
Hovah is used three times in scripture, at Isaiah 47:11, and Ezekiel 7:26:
So now hear this,
O lover of luxury who sits securely, who says to herself,
‘I am, and there is none besides me.
I will never be a widow or know the loss of children.’These two things will overtake you in a moment,
in a single day: loss of children, and widowhood.They will come upon you in full measure,
in spite of your many sorceries
and the potency of your spells.You were secure in your wickedness—
you said, ‘No one sees me.’Your wisdom and knowledge led you astray—
you told yourself, ‘I am, and there is none besides me.’But disaster will come upon you—
you will not know how to charm it away.A calamity will befall you that you will be unable to ward off.
Devastation will happen to you suddenly and unexpectedly.
Isaiah 47:8-11
In Isaiah’s prophecy, we find a parallel to a mystery woman in Revelation,
Upon her forehead a name was written,
Babylon the Great, the mother of the prostitutes,
and of the abominations of the earth.…
Then I heard another voice from heaven say:
“Come out of her, My people,
so that you will not share in her sins
or contract any of her plagues.For her sins are piled up to heaven,
and God has remembered her iniquities.Give back to her as she has done to others—
pay her back double for what she has done—
mix her a double portion in her own cup.As much as she has glorified herself and lived in luxury,
give her the same measure of torment and grief.In her heart she says, ‘I sit as queen—
I am not a widow and will never see grief.’Therefore her plagues will come in one day—
death and grief and famine—and she will be consumed by fire,
Revelation
for mighty is the Lord God who judges her.”
She sits as a queen, and co-ops God’s quote, while ruling over the world,
Remember what happened long ago,
Isaiah 46:9, obible.org, with “GOD” to represent elohim, god plural, vs el (singular).
for I am God, and there is no other—
I am GOD, and there is none like Me.
We are warned, “Come out of her, my people.”
Jeh is the Middle Persian rendition of an older Avestan word, jahi or jahika, which, due to its context, is usually translated in a pejorative sense to mean “whore,” although its etymology remains uncertain. Jahika appears frequently in the early Zoroastrian texts.
So here we have Jeh, the mother, Hovah, the father, and the son of destruction.
Disaster upon disaster will come, and rumor after rumor.
Then they will seek a vision from a prophet,
but instruction from the priests will perish,
as will counsel from the elders.…Then they will know that I am YHWH.
Ezekiel 7:26,27
So we were warned, “Let no one deceive you in any way, for [coming of our Lord Yeshua Christ and our being gathered together to Him] will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness—the son of destruction—is revealed…”
Do you not remember that I told you these things while I was still with you? …and you know what is now restraining him, so that he may be revealed at the proper time.
For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work, but the one who now restrains it will continue until he is taken out of the way.
And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will slay with the breath of His mouth and annihilate by the majesty of His arrival.
The coming of the lawless one will be accompanied by the working of Satan, with every kind of power, sign, and false wonder, and with every wicked deception directed against those who are perishing, because they refused the Love of the Truth that would have saved them. For this reason God will send them a powerful delusion so that they believe the lie, in order that judgment may come upon all who have disbelieved the Truth and delighted in wickedness.
God is love, and his son is the Truth, who came in the name of his Father.
But first, we await the mystery of lawlessness, and the son of destruction—coming in his own name, “and you will receive him.”
Therefore I ask, is Jeh, Hovah, and Jesus, a family masquerading as GOD?
How well do you really know Jesus?
Photo The Son of God, portrayed by actor Jonathan Roumie of The Chosen
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