Throughout His dealings with mankind, Elohim has always given reasons for changing the names of any people He had dealings with. And so, when He changed the name Abram to Abraham, He gave very good reasons why; just as when he changed Sarai to Sarah, and Jacob to Israel.
The name, Abram, which means ?high father?, was changed by the Most High One to Abraham, meaning ?father of a multitude?, just to suit His plans and make manifest to mankind His wisdom, will, and power.
As all who dealt with Abraham on a daily basis addressed him by the name ?Abraham?, but never by ?father of a multitude? (which is the English translation of Abraham), ?Abraham? resonated in the Throne Room in Heaven, and it was not long before Abraham indeed got manifested as the ?father of a multitude?.
Elohim?s change of the name ?Sarai?, which means ?contentious?, to ?Sarah?, meaning ?princess?, was also done to bring about similar results. As the Most High One kept His ears on the earth?s ground, while seated on His throne in Heaven, He constantly heard the people of the earth calling out (or were they rather confessing and professing?) the name ?Sarah? on a daily basis, and so He deemed the people of the earth were desiring a manifestation of/to that name. It was, thus, not long when by the power and will of Elohim, Sarah manifested as ?princess? before the inhabitants of the earth.
When the Most High One made the change in name for His servant from ?Jacob?, which means ?supplanter?, to ?Israel?, meaning ?soldier of Elohim?, this man was to live to the reality of that name as being the only man revealed in the Holy Scriptures who ever wrestled with an angel of the Most High One (Genesis 32:24-32).
In these situations where Elohim changed the names of people, all of which were of Hebrew origin, these people were never called by any translated versions or by the meanings of their new names when they were addressed. That is to say Abraham was neither addressed as ?Father of a Multitude?, nor Sarah as ?Princess?, nor Israel as ?Soldier of Elohim?. This is the same reason why no Israelites ever addressed the Savior by ?Salvation? but by YESHUA, which means ?Salvation?.
The question is: Did the Most High One ever change the name of His son from YESHUA to JESUS? No, He never did. Did He authorize translators of His Holy Scriptures to effect a name change for His son? No, and never. So then, who brought about the name JESUS into the mind set of salvation seekers of bible persuasion in particular, and all mankind, all this long while?
The enemy of the Most High One did. For what purpose did Elohim?s enemy do this? So that he would produce a counterfeit product, tares, to the genuine one, wheat, sown only by the Most High One (cf. Matthew 13:24-30).
Wheat, are those people who, are truly saved by exercising genuine faith in YESHUA and his sacrifice and have been baptized into this name by any genuine servants of the Most High One. These are those people who will be delivered by the Most High One from a doom soon to come upon the earth, and who, by His Grace, are living holy lives even in a corrupted earth, while waiting to be ushered into His presence some day and to forever live in gold-finished mansions which He has prepared for them in His Kingdom. Hallelujah.
Tares, on the other hand, are all those many people who have been tricked to believe in the man-made, or rather, Satan-made name, JESUS CHRIST, and made to have great confidence in this name, supposing that by it, they will enter into the salvation of the Most High One! Beware that all tares, even though they look very much like wheat, are ordained for destruction in an unquenchable fire. Oh! What disappointment and destruction await those salvation seekers who have zeal without knowledge! (Hosea 4:6). How sad.
My dear reader, I am come to warn you that nobody who has led you to believe in the name JESUS CHRIST for salvation will ever tell you he made a mistake or that he misled you from the truth and salvation of the Most High One.
Do not expect such a one to apologize to you and help put you onto the right pathway to Heaven. Just be wise in your own efforts and believe this teaching that I have been commanded by the Most High One to give to you.
Most of today?s preacher-men know for sure that it was YESHUA HaMashiach who was crucified at Calvary for the redemption of mankind and not JESUS CHRIST. They know this because of the obvious evidence that all Israelites of the time of the Savior?s crucifixion bore testimony to this name and no one Jew gave testimony to the name JESUS CHRIST as being the name of the one who was crucified on Calvary for mankind?s redemption.
Today?s leaders of Christianity also know that none of the apostles of the Savior either knew the name JESUS CHRIST to exercise faith in for his own salvation, or ever preached the good news for mankind?s salvation in this name, or baptized even a single soul into or in this name; and yet these same leaders of Christianity would want their followers to believe this name, which belongs to some being that was never begotten in a human birth, for Elohim?s salvation!
Are these Christian preachers just ignorant of the true name, given by the Most High One, by which mankind under Heaven must exercise faith in to enter His salvation, or is it that they are simply being mischievous and wicked? In any case, who, would one suppose called these Christian preachers to do what work they do? My dear reader, may I advise you to be wary of these ignorant preachers and wise up to reality of the Holy Scriptures in order to avoid the effect of their yeast of deception.
Shalom, shalom.
The writer is an author and a bible expositor. Website: http://sbpra.com/ChrisBapuohyele.
