The Name of the Son
Luke 1:27-33 Our Lord’s name in Hebrew is Yahshua; in Greek, Iesous; and in English, Jesus. “Yah” represents Yahweh in songs and some compound words. Shua is from the Hebrew, which means salvation.
“Hallelujah” means praise Yah; Adonijah, Yah is my Lord; Abijah means Yah is my Father; Isaiah [Yeshayah] means salvation of Yah; and Jeremiah [Yirmyah], Yah has appointed.
Genesis 49:18 18 “For your salvation [shua] I wait, O LORD [Yahweh].”
Exodus 14:13 Moses said to the people, “Do not fear! Stand by and see the salvation [shua] of the LORD [Yahweh] which He will accomplish for you today; for the Egyptians whom you have seen today, you will never see them again forever.
“Yahshua” means Yahweh is salvation. In the 6th century, the masoretic priest changed the tetragrammaton [YHWH] to Jehovah, which also resulted in changing Yah to Yeh, which affected the spelling of Yahshua to Yehshua.
The Encyclopedia Americana contains the following quote on the letter J: “The form of ‘J’ was unknown in any alphabet until the 14th century. Either symbol (J, I) used initially generally had the consonantal sound of Y as in year. Gradually, the two symbols (J, l) were differentiated, the J usually acquiring consonantal force and thus becoming regarded as a consonant, and the I becoming a vowel.
It was not until 1630 that the differentiation became general in England.” Note in the original 1611 version of the King James Version of the Bible there was no “J” letter in this Bible for because it did not exist. Jesus was spelled Iesous.
The Relationship of God and Jesus
Throughout the Old Testament, a definite and often reiterate emphasis is placed on Yahweh as the one true God. Although prophecy regarding the Messiah is also common, comparatively it receives much less emphasis. In the New Testament, Yahweh is still central, but much more emphasis is placed upon His son as the progression of the Bible reveals God’s purpose for the ages which includes redemption for mankind through the sacrifice of the perfect man.
Ephesians 1:1 and 2 – In the New Testament because of the work of the Son, Yahweh is most frequently referred to as Father. We have two separate and distinct beings to relate to: God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
1:3 – For Jesus, Yahweh is both his God and Father. Notice the very specific wording used in this chapter:
3) – Who [God] has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in Christ
4) – He [God] chose us in him [Jesus]…that we would be holy and blameless before Him [God]
5) – He [God] predestined us to adoption through Jesus Christ to Himself [God] according to the kind intention of His [God’s] will
6) – Praise of the glory of His [God’s] grace which He [God] freely bestowed on us in the beloved [Jesus Christ]
7 – In him [Jesus] we have redemption through His [Jesus’] blood…according to the riches of His [God’s] grace.
8) – Which He [God] lavished on us.
9) – He [God] made known to us the mystery of His [God’s] will, according to His [God’s] kind intention which He [God] purposed in him [Jesus]
10) – The summing up of all things in Christ, things in the heavens and things on the earth.
11) – In him [Jesus] also we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to His purpose who works all things after the counsel of His [God’s] will
12) – To the end that we who were the first to hope in Christ would be to the praise of His [God’s] glory.
13) – In Him [Christ] you also…were sealed in him [Jesus Christ] with the holy spirit of promise,
14) – Who [which] is given as a pledge of our inheritance, with a view to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of His [God] glory
Set forth with simplicity and precision, God the Father gives blessings to believers through the Son, Jesus Christ. The holy spirit is an entirely different thing that serves God’s purposes.
15) – Faith in the Lord Jesus progresses in the epistle.
16 and 17) – The prayers are directed to the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory
18 and 19) – His [God’s] calling, His [God’s] inheritance, His [God’s] power
20) – Which He brought about in Christ when He [God] raised him [Christ] from the dead and seated him [Christ] at His [God’s] right hand in the heavenly
21-23) – God placed Jesus in this authoritative and powerful place at His right hand above all in the spiritual realm and the church. “Which is his [Christ’s] body, the fullness of Him [God] who fills all in all.” God accomplished what He wanted for now and the age to come through Jesus. Until the fulfillment of all things, Jesus remains at God’s right hand as the head of the church; therefore, his lordship becomes our primary concern.
2:1-6 We were hopeless, but God being rich in mercy because of His great love made us alive in Christ. We are connected with Christ.
7) – In the age to come, God will show His surpassing riches to us in Christ Jesus.
13) – …were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.
Ephesians 2:18, 19 – For through him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father. Now therefore you are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God…. In whom you also are built together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.
The things that separated man from Yahweh were taken out of the way in Christ Jesus thereby creating a new relationship that had never before existed. We have access to God through Jesus in an unparalleled way. God now abides in us.
Ephesians 3:9-12 – And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world has been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ: To the intent that now to the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God, According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord: In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him.
Paul refers to himself as the prisoner of Christ Jesus [3:2] and the prisoner of the Lord [4:1], which gives us some insight as to how we should view ourselves in relation to Jesus Christ.
In chapter 4, the emphasis begins to swing toward the lordship of Christ.
