10_05 Another Gospel II

Document #10_05 is called Another Gospel II. Satan is desperately trying to sidetrack our MESSAGE. Have you heard of the offshoot groups who are
advocating we should call God by His Hebrew (“holy language”) name? They say, “Now that we know God’s holy name, shouldn’t we be addressing Him by that holy name? Aren’t we even offending Him by failing to reform the church regarding this?” A new version of the Bible has been produced too. The Holy Name Bible.

We are not to do this, for the same reason as we are not to keep the Feast days. Moreover (beyond that reason) they have applied the “holy name” to the wrong person of the God-head! Who is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob? What is the meaning of the statement by God;
“I am that I am?” Is that His name?

Scripture: Galatians 1:6,7

Title: Another Gospel II

This is the second message concerning the problem of offshoot groups who advocate a new doctrine that attempts to take the place of the Three Angel’s Messages as the Message for our time in history. By the Three Angel’s Messages, we are brought to the final reformation back to Bible religion started by the
Reformation. We are to proclaim the true Everlasting Gospel, and the warnings of Jesus against the falsehoods of the “beast,” his “image,” and his “mark.” Do we need to also reform back to exclusively using “the Holy name of God?” Those who are advocating its use are saying we fail to reverence our God by failing to use His “Holy name.” They are even saying that we may be saved or lost according to our use or rejection of the “true” Biblical name of God.
Most Seventh-day Adventists are seeking to be very close to our God, in a personal relationship. And, we do very much want to reverence our three-person God. Most are easily convinced that God the Father is YAHWEH, Jesus, His Son, is Yahshua, and perhaps we should not refer to “the Holy Spirit,” but rather we
should address the Third Member of the God-head directly as, “Holy Spirit.” He is, after all, a separate person in the God-head.

Where do we get the Biblical names for the God-head? We all have no trouble remembering that Jesus gave us Holy Spirit to be our “Comforter” and teacher in His place when He returned to His Father in heaven. John chapter 14, verse 26 is our clear choice:

“But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost (better translated as Holy Spirit) Whom the Father will send in my name, He shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.”

The correct Hebrew name of Jesus is a little more difficult to discover. Of course, we only find the name Jesus in the New Testament Scriptures, which are written in the Greek language.
The Hebrew parents of the Son of God would certainly not name their son Jesus, which is a Greek name, most likely derived from the two words Ea and Sous (Zeus). Ea, as best as can be found, seems to have been the name of a Greek “god of healing.” Zeus, is the name of the greatest of the gods of the Greeks. I too am
amazed that the writers of the Greek New Testament, who were Jews, probably in Alexandria in Africa, would use such a Greek name for our Saviour. We must remember that by then, the gospel was going mainly to the Gentiles, and Hellenism, the spread of Grecian culture and language throughout the Roman Empire, caused this Grecianizing of the name of our Saviour.

God has, however, through inspiration of the writer of the book of Hebrews, helped us out. Please turn with me to the book of Hebrews, chapter four. Actually, for the context, we will drop back to chapter 3, verses 17 and 18. “But with whom was he grieved forty years? Was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness? And to whom sware He that they should not enter into His rest, but to them that believed not?” (The context is the exodus, after the Israelites refused to go in to the Promised Land because of unbelief.) In that context, chapter 4, verse 8, refers to Joshua, who led their children, when they had grown and their fathers had died in the wilderness: Joshua led them finally into the
Promised Land. But what does it say in verse 8 of chapter 4? The English translation says, “For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.” It is obvious that the translators were translating a Hebrew word with a very similar sound to the English name Joshua. A Bible Dictionary tells us that Joshua’s Hebrew name would have been written Yehoshua,
meaning “Yahweh is salvation.”

The fact that the translators of the book of Hebrews used the name “Jesus,” here instead of “Joshua,” when they meant Joshua, not the Saviour, has led many to believe that the Hebrew name given to the Saviour had the same sound to the English translators as the name for Joshua!

Archaeology has since helped us to know that the name given to Jesus was indeed Yahshua, a slightly shorter name than Yehoshua, meaning “Saviour sent from God (Yah).” Yahshua was a name commonly given to Jewish boys which expressed the parents’ faith in God and in His promise of One who would bring salvation to
Israel.
Today, the language has been slightly modified, and the name “Yahshua,” in the Hebrew, has become “Yeshua.” About the year 2000, in Toronto, Ontario, a Jewish man who died was refused burial in a Jewish cemetery because he was a Messianic Jew, a believer in “Yeshua.” That very word was used by the reporter on the 6 o’clock news, but without explanation! I really felt that he failed his duty to inform the public! That Jewish man believed that Jesus was the Messiah, and Jesus’ name, translated back into the Hebrew of our day, is “Yeshua!” Jews are taught to hate the name of our Saviour, and vehemently reject belief that He was the Messiah, so they refused to bury a Jew in their cemetery who believed in “Yeshua!” I believe that God used that event, which seems so insignificant, to reveal that truth, that Jesus is the Messiah, to both Jew and Gentile of today!

Now: we have identified Holy Spirit (even from the old English,”Holy Ghost,”) and, the Hebrew name for Jesus, “Yahshua.”

How about the Father’s Hebrew name? Where do we find His Hebrew name? (YAHWEH). Exodus, chapter 3, verses 13 to 16. Please turn to Exodus, chapter 3, in your Bible. Exodus, chapter 3, verses 13 to 16. (read carefully). Now you may have a version other than the King James Version in your hand. You must realize that most of the newer versions are from manuscripts other than the one used by the translators of the KJV, almost always including extensive use of the Vulgate, the Latin translation made by Jerome in the 4th century A.D.- the text used by Catholic scholars to develop the Roman Catholic Bible.

There are so very many changes of words in all other versions of the Bible other than the King James Version, that the Bible Study Method given by Holy Spirit Himself, through Isaiah the prophet, in Isaiah 28, verses 9 and 10, “line upon line, here a little, there a little,” won’t work perfectly in any other version! This Bible study method is the great pillar upon which the Seventh-day Adventist church
was built, after William Miller discovered it in the King James Bible, the Bible that GOD Provided for the Great Awakening. If you have the NIV in your hand, be aware that Adventists would never have been able to find out what the “cleansing” of the Sanctuary was, if they had only that version! In the NIV, Daniel 8:14 ends with, “…the Sanctuary will be reconsecrated.” That word is used only that once in the NIV, according to a Concordance to that version. The key-word “cleanse,” in the same text in the KJV, leads you to Leviticus 16:30 and its context (by use of a Concordance).
My point is, use your KJV for your study Bible. It is by far the most correct, as further revealed by comparison to the Dead Sea Scrolls, which pre-date all other manuscripts by hundreds of years!

Now: let’s read Exodus 3, verses 13 and 14 again, as it is in the KJV. We will see its sensible wording in its clarity. (read verses 13 and 14).

Now I want you to notice that verses 15 and 16 have repetition of the term “the God of your fathers.” As I have emphasized before, the writers of the original Scriptures didn’t have underlining, or italics, to emphasize a point. So they used
repetition. Let’s read verses 15 and 16. (read carefully, remembering that repetition is emphasis!)

I wish they could have underlined the word “that” in the name “I AM that I AM” so that you would see the point without my having to point it out to you. The point is there. It’s so simple!
I AM is the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob! He is that I AM! At the end of verse 14 it is made clear: “I AM hath sent me unto you!”

YAH is I AM – not a short form of YAHWEH, as they claim. YAHWEH is I AM THAT I AM, THE GOD OF YOUR FATHERS!

So there we have all three of the God-head: Holy Spirit; Jesus, or Yahshua; and the Father, Yah, or, in English, the great I AM.

Wrong. That’s what I said; “Wrong!” The text we just studied, Exodus, chapter 3, verses 13 to 16, does not tell us the Hebrew name of the Father! It is the Hebrew name of Jesus, not the Father! Before the incarnation, Jesus was the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob!

Now I really need some proof of that one, don’t I? We only need to consider Jacob for the answer. In Jacob’s night of wrestling with the “angel” before he was to meet his brother Esau, he was wrestling with Jesus!
Patriarchs and Prophets, p. 197, middle of the page, “It was Christ, ‘the Angel of the covenant,’ who had revealed Himself to Jacob.” Near the bottom of the page, a cross-reference to Hosea 12 isgiven. Hosea 12, verses 4 and 5 are illuminating. “Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed, he wept, and made supplication unto Him: He [Jesus] found him in Bethel, and there He spake with us; Even the Lord God of hosts; the Lord is His memorial.” Look at the last phrase. Do you remember it? Exodus 3, verse 15, “This is my name for ever, and this is my memorial.”
YAHWEH, I AM that I AM is the Lord God of hosts. In the next phrase, the translators replaced YAHWEH with “Lord” (done throughout the Bible). YAHWEH, meaning I AM the God of Your Fathers, is His memorial. Hosea 12, verse 5 (above).

When Moses met God at the burning bush, he was told, (Patriarchs and Prophets, p. 251, bottom), “Put off thy shoes from off thy feet; for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.
I am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” “It was He who, as the Angel of the covenant, had revealed Himself to the fathers in ages past.” We read just above, from p. 197, “It was Christ, ‘the Angel of the covenant,’ who had revealed Himself to Jacob.”

John 1:18: “No man hath seen God [the Father – same verse] at any time.” Jacob could not have wrestled with the Father! It is not the Father who is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. It is Jesus! It is Jesus who is YAHWEH.

Now follow my reasoning closely. This part is difficult. Both the Father, and Jesus, the Son, have the name I AM. Do you get that? Both have ever been, from the beginning, according to John, chapter 1. Isn’t that so? But Jesus is I AM, the One who is THAT I AM, the god of their fathers.
Now: this is important to our deliberation. How do you figure out which is being spoken of as Lord, throughout the Bible?

The holy name that these offshoot groups claim is the name of the Father, they have misunderstood! Let me read it to you directly from their materials.

Quoting from Mt. 28, verse 19, they say, “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father [Yahweh] and of the Son [Yahshua] and of the Holy Spirit.” (-their brackets).

Where do they put the name Yahweh in their Holy Name Bible, as referring to the Father? Hundreds of places that are really referring to Jesus! When people see this mistake, this becomes divisive. The groups of Holy Name believers become confused, and divided over the accuracy of the very Bible they espouse! I have one of their Holy Name Bibles. It is not even based on the King James Version. It is not accurate. It is inconsistent. It causes confusion and becomes divisive. Acts, chapter 15, verse 24, again states the problem with divisive doctrines (of devils): “Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls” (to subvert means “to undermine your faith”) and, from Galatians 1, verse 7, in the same context, “…but there be some that trouble you (see the connection?) and would pervert (to pervert means ‘to lead astray from’) the gospel of Christ.”

Why did God not correct the name of Jesus, at least, to Yahshua? It is because words, in any language, have meaning. “Run!” means pick up your feet and put them down in a hurry, isn’t that right?
Names, especially in the Bible, all have meanings. That is what God is emphasizing, not the words themselves! Elijah means “El is my Yah.” The Mighty One is my Yah, my “I AM.”
YAHWEH means “I AM THAT I AM,” the God of your fathers. Michael means, “One who is like God.” Jesus, which is only probably YAHSHUA, has meaning. “He will save His people from their sins!” Mt. 1:21.

People, Hebrew is a language. It evolved from another language. It had evolved into a language different enough to be called another name, “Aramaic,” by the time of Jesus. Much of the Hebrew language had been lost! It is not a “heavenly language” or something like that! What counts to God is the meaning of words!

Friends, offshoot groups “went out from us” to bring back to us doctrines of devils, divisive doctrines, to turn you away from learning your true Message. Your true Message is the Everlasting Gospel and the warnings of Jesus against being deceived into worship of the “beast” and his “image” and against the receiving of his “mark.”- Revelation 14, the Three Angel’s Messages. With passion I exhort you to turn away from hearing divisive doctrines.

When you find out that such things are divisive, beware, even if something has some merit for our learning. Don’t let anything else absorb your attention, and take you away from learning and knowing your true Message for this Judgment hour, the Three Angel’s Messages.
From the book Evangelism, pp.119, 120, we read these words about our Message: I suggest that you memorize them! “There is no other work of so great importance. They are to allow nothing else to absorb their attention.”

May God help you, with copies of this material from this teaching seminar, to bring people back into your fellowship who have been deceived by Satan through these divisive doctrines.

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