There is something about that name “Jesus,” a name that has only historically existed since the 17th century c.e., and this name may have its origin in Hesus, the name of a pagan god among the Druids. Christ’s name was originally revealed as YAHSHUA (with the unique Hebrew meaning “YAH Saves,” but was later changed by humanity, the church, and by the clueless via an evolutionary linguistic process starting from Yeshua (Aramaic) to Iesous (Greek) to Iesus (Latin), and with the influence of the Druid religion of Western Europe, who worshiped Hesus. Esus, Hesus, a Gaulish god known from two monumental statues and a line in Lucan's Bellum civile (CIL. (XIII, 03026). De Bello Civili (Latin for On the Civil War), more commonly referred to as the Pharsalia, which is a Roman epic poem written by the poet Lucan, detailing the civil war between Julius Caesar and the forces of the Roman Senate led by Pompey the Great.
A well-known section in Lucan's Bellum civile(61–65 CE) refers to gory sacrifices offered to a triad god of the Celtics: Teutates, Hesus (an aspirated form of Esus), and Taranis. Variant spellings, or readings, of the name Esus in the manuscripts of Lucan include Hesus, the pronunciation with an aspirated form is defined as (of a sound) pronounced with an exhalation of breath. Among a pair of later commentators on Lucan's work, one identifies Teutates with Mercury and Esus with Mars. According to the Berne Commentary on Lucan, human victims were sacrificed to Esus by being tied to a tree and flogged to death (Olmsted, Garrett S., The gods of the Celts and the Indo-Europeans, University of Innsbruck, 1994, p. 321).
T. F. O'Rahilly derives the name Esus, from the Indo-European root eis-, which he glosses as "well-being, energy, and passion" (T. F. O'Rahilly, 1946, "Ir. Aobh, Aoibheall, Gaul. “Esus" Royal Irish Academy 14: 1–6). The 18th century Druidic revivalist Iolo Morganwg identified Esus with Jesus on the strength of the similarity of their names, which were no doubt originally identical with the HEUS of Lactantius, and the HESUS of Lucan, described as gods of the Gauls. The similarity of the last name to IESU [Welsh: Jesus] is obvious and striking (Iolo Morganwg 1862, ed. J. Williams Ab Ithel; The Barddas of Iolo Morganwg, Vol. I).
Since it is historically and linguistically apparent that the name of Jesus was never revealed from Heaven, that is the God of the Bible, how can we find the true name of salvation; for even the gospel is clear, we must know and not reject this one name given under heaven. For many Christians the gospel is summed up in John 3:16, however, with the added component of the exclusivity of the revealed name of Christ, we have John 3:16-18,
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son,
that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world,
but that the world through Him might be saved.
He who believes in Him is not condemned;
but he who does not believe is condemned already,
because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
Clearly there is no other name, and the name Jesus is not that name. So how do we find the one name given under heaven by which we must be saved? The apostle Paul gives us a clue: “Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name...” (Philippians 2:9-11). What is “the name which is above every name”? To find the answer, we must look to Moses, who asked for the Lord’s name. Because that would have to be the name which is above every name, and the name which is above every name is known from the expression “HALLELUYAH,” which means, “Praise YAH!” Therefore YAH is the essential name that is above every name, and we will see this in the following:
The Lord appeared to Moses, “And God spoke to Moses and said to him: ‘I am the Lord (YAH). I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as EL SHADDAI (God Almighty), but by My name YAHAWAH I was not known to them” (Exodus 6:2-3). YAH means I AM, and hawah means in Hebrew “to be, to breathe, to exist.” God’s essential name means, “I AM Ever to be” (Strong’s Dictionary of Bible Words, 2001, no. 1933 and no. 1934, p. 425)
Moses originally asked for God’s name. Then Moses said to God, “Indeed, when I come to the children of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they say to me, ‘What is His name?’ what shall I say to them?”And God said to Moses, (“HAYAH ASHAR HAYAH”)“I AM WHO I AM.” And He said, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, ‘I AM (YAH) has sent me to you.’ Moreover, God said to Moses, ‘Thus you shall say to the children of Israel: ‘The Lord (yhwh) God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This (I AM, as in YAH) is My name forever, and this is My memorial to all generations” (Exodus 3:13-15).
We rejoice in the name of YAH, for:
“Behold, God is my salvation, I will trust and not be afraid; ‘For Yah, the Lord, is my strength and song; He also has become my salvation’” (Isaiah 12:2 NKJV).
“Sing to God, sing praises to His name; Extol Him who rides on the clouds, By His name YAH, And rejoice before Him” (Psalm 68:4 NKJV).
“YAH” is the name which is above every name, and as originally stated by the apostle Paul, “Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, that at the name of YAHSHUA every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that YAHSHUA the Messiah is LORD, to the glory of God the Father” (Philippians 2:9-11).
“Because he has set his love upon Me, therefore I will deliver him; I will set him on high, because he has known My name. He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him and honor him. With long life I will satisfy him, And show him My salvation” (Psalm 91:14-16).
The Bible is very clear, to know the Savior, you must seek to know His true revealed name (YAHSHUA) from His God and Father. Also, both the Greek Diaglott and Exegesis Bible confirm the pronunciation “Yahshua:”
“Jesus, [a savior,] the Son of God, the Messiah, the savior of the world. This name is composed of YAH, I shall be and Shua, salvation...” (Diaglott, appendix under Jesus, emphasis added, 1942).
“YAH SHUA transliterated name {3091 yahshua}... Yah Saveth; the name of Moshe’s successor, the name of the Messiah, and the name of other persons” (ExeGeses Bible, lexicon under Yahshua).
Another indicator for the short form “YAH” within the Messiah’s Name comes from Akkadian cuneiform tablets. Within these tablets are many Jewish names with the prefix “Yah” and “Yahu” dating to 572-477 BCE. Akkadian is a language cognate to Hebrew. Examples of such names include: Yahadil, Yahitu, Yahmuzu, Yahuazar, Yahuazza, and Yahuhin. Interested party contacted several professors through email inquiring about these names and received the following responses. Professor Ran Zadok from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem who specializes in Mesopotamian, Iranian and Judaic Studies, confirmed, “It seems to me that the cuneiform spellings render approximately *Ya(h)w.”
Professor Martin Worthingtonfrom Cambridge who specializes in Babylonian and Assyrian grammar, Mesopotamian literature, Mesopotamian medicine, Quantitative methods and the study of ancient languages, states, “…scholarly consensus has it that Yahwistic names are well attested in first-millennium Babylonia. There is a strong tendency (though not an absolute rule) for the form to be yahu at the beginning of the name, and yama at the end of the name (though yama is actually yawa, since in this period intervocalic m is usually pronounced w). The cuneiform script does include vowels. The sign IA is a bit of a special case, since it can represent ia, ii, iu or ie. But in this case we also have spellings such as ia-a-hu, showing that the vowel is indeed ‘a’.”
The evidence for “Yah” in the prefixes of Jewish names within the Akkadian may suggest a possible shift between “Yah” to “Ye” between the Neo-Babylonian and Achaemenid (572-477 BCE) and the Masoretic (6-10 century CE) periods.
So how did the name “Yeshua” develop? Some theorize that it developed through a linguistic process called dissimilation, or forced concealment. The online Oxford Dictionarydefines Dissimilation as, “Change (a sound or sounds in a word) to another when the word originally had identical sounds near each other...”
Another theory that may explain the development of “Yeshua” is a deliberate manipulation of the Hebrew text. It is well documented that the Masoretes (Jewish scribes) suppressed the true Name Yah out of a fear of pronouncing the ineffable Name (since the Babylonian invasion of Judea). In Hebrew, Jewish scribes inserted a vowel point, shewa (:) instead of the proper qamets (T), thus changing the sound “ah” in “Yah” to “eh.” The Encyclopedia Judaicafurther explains, “In the early Middle Ages, when the consonantal text of the Bible was supplied with vowel points to facilitate its correct traditional reading, the vowel points of ELOAH with one variation – a sheva (short ‘e’) with the first letter yod [Y] of YHWH instead of the hataf-patah (short ‘a’) – was used for YHWH, thus producing the form Yehovah instead of YaHaWaH. When Christian scholars of Europe first began to study Hebrew they did not understand what this really meant, and they introduced the hybrid name ‘Jehovah’” (vol. 7, p. 680).
To avoid offending the Jews and their proscription against even the short form YAH, this same pattern may have also been used in other names that contained the first half of the theophoric element, including the Name of the Messiah, YAHSHUA. Christ acknowledged that He was YAH when He told the Jews this “Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM” (I AM = YAH in Hebrew, John 8:58)
JEHOVAH IS THIS THE NAME OF GOD?
Jehovah...It is widely used. It is considered by many to be hallowed, and it is also endeared by many a beautiful hymn, however, this name was never revealed by God. The name of “Jehovah” is a concoction of man. Therefore, it is a “mongrel,” a “hybrid;” and it is “fantastic” and “monstrous.” The facts have only to be known to justify this verdict. What are the facts? The Jews’ have a strong penchant for hiding the name of God from the Gentiles. The Catholic Church in the Middle Ages were known to raid synagogues, take gold and the Hebrew Scriptures, and persecute Jews. The pronunciation Jehovah was widely unknown until 1520, when introduced by Peter Galatinus, Confessor to Pope Leo X, who noted in the stolen Hebrew Scriptures the Hebrew vowels placed onto the four consonants of God’s name, YHWH. Peter Galatinus (1450-1540) did not know of the Jewish practice, and created the name Jehovah whichis merely a combination of the Tetragrammaton (the four consonants: YHWH) and the vowels from another Hebrew word for God (Eloah) arbitrarily placed onto the Tetragrammaton to remind the Jewish reader not to attempt to say the name of God, but to say, “Adonay,” instead. It should be noted that words in the Hebrew Scriptures contain consonants only, no vowels, so when the Jewish reader would come upon YHWH, God’s name, he would inadvertently attempt to pronounce the name. Therefore vowels were added to remind the reader to say Adonay instead of the name. Noted Bible scholar J. B. Rotherham, stated, To give… YHWH (Latin: IHVH {Iehovah} later JHVH {Jehovah} due to the later addition of the letter J in the seventeenth century) the vowels of the word (Eloah) to remind the Jewish reader to say, “Adonay,” and later to pronounce it “Jehovah,’ is about as hybrid a combination as it would be to spell the name of Germany with the vowels of Portugal-viz., Gormuna.” Jehovah in its present form has only existed since the seventeenth century. Fact: God’s essential name is YAH, andBible scholars acknowledge YAHWEH (for YAH, see Strong’s #3050), as in “Praise YAH,” in Hebrew: “Halleluyah.” YAH is the name above every name (Philippians 2:9). YAH is from the root word of HAYAH (I AM). The Savior identified Himself as the I AM (John 8:58). Je-hovah, “hovah” in Hebrew means “RUIN and MISCHIEF,” and “Calamity” (see Strong’s #1943). “Jehovah” is a monstrous name that means “Ruin and Mischief.” Besides the vowels of Eloah, the Jews also at times used the vowels of Elohim, “Yehovih” (see Strong’s Dictionary of Bible Words, #3069), which was done to remind the Jewish reader in the synagogues to say, “Adonay” instead of speaking the name of God. The Jewish Encyclopedia, states, “This name is commonly represented in modern translations by the form Jehovah, which, however, is a philological impossibility” (p. 160). The Jehovah’s Witnesses admittedly make reference that the name Jehovah is inferior (in the Book: Let Your Name be Sanctified (p. 16). The name Jehovah is not the name of God! Consequently, the name Jesus is not Christ’s name either. The name of God is so important and lost, that the LORD must restore it. The LORD said, “For then I will restore to the peoples a pure language, that they all may call on the name of the LORD” (Zephaniah 3:9). To those who reject the true revealed name of given to our Savior {YAHSHUA}, there is this warning: “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God” (John 3:16). To use a false name not revealed by God as God’s name is tantamount to idolatry.
IN HIS TRUTH, Halleluyah, Praise YAH, Praise YAHSHUA!
