Names matter – Oh, yes they do!

Dan Baxley 

Let’s cut right to the bone of the matter, no long diatribes or complicated research, just straight and simple, right from your own bible.  So, open you bible and read the following verses:

Revelation 2:3; 3:5; 3:9; 3:12

I should not have to go any further, not really, you either accept it or you don’t.  There is a "book" and your name is in it and it is subject to being "removed" or being "sealed" in it forever.  These verses are not speaking figuratively – They are plain and by these verses it is made plain that your name means something, as does the name of our Savior and of our Heavenly Father.  Actually that is a backward statement -- The Father's name and the name of His Son is first and foremost, our names being secondary.  Being the self-centered beings that we are it really is no surprise that we would relegate the name, the identity, the personal identity of the Creator to a secondary position.  All the while seeing our identity in this world as something important we dare to suggest the Holy Identity of our Savior is subject to change and the name of our Heavenly Father is obscured to the point of nonexistence.

Under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit of the Father and the Son, Peter said, "Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12 NIV

From the very beginning names have had meaning and they still do.  The Creator named his first creation and then allow created man to name the animals of that creation -- first chapters of Genesis give an account of this.  Prophets of old were named and given names that either described their mission or the time they lived in -- follow this link for an eye opening look at this fact.  It had been a popular custom for people to give names that were connected to the god, or gods, they worshiped, or to apply names that were connected to some event and in the case of the Israelites this was too a common practice.  Read the book of the Kings 1 & 2 and you see names of individuals directly connected to the name of the God of Israel, especially of note is the last few chapters of the second book of Kings, a time of religious fervor and open demonstration of the peoples love for their gods.  These religious people had fallen so far away from the the true God that even though many of them carried His name they did not know who He was.  They had placed idols upon every hill, they had filled the temple with every kind of idol representations of false gods, then one day, during a work project at the temple, a book was found -- Book of the Law.  Amazing, they had forgotten all about the Book of the Law and, I think, while repairing and remodeling the Temple to allow the placement of more false gods, they uncovered the long forgotten Book of the Law.  Read it for yourself and ask yourself if this reminds you of any other people?  (2 Kings 22:8-13; 23:4-8) 

Remember the verse I quoted from the book of Acts earlier?  Good, now ask yourself, what name had been given to the Messiah at birth?  The Messiah (YaH’s Messenger, or the Anointed) was given a name that would be found among men, not angels, and that name would declare the Father and label His Son.  Read Matthew 1:21 -- Mary nor Joseph named the Messiah.  They were told what to name him and that name was not Jesus, a Latin, Greek and English mixture leading the Christian world away from His actual birth name of YaHshua.  This name was a very popular name found among the people and this makes what Peter said so important in Acts 4:12. 

“Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.” NIV 

“And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.” RVS

“Neither is there salvation in any other; for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.” KJV

A name “among men, by which we must be saved”, not might, not maybe and not perhaps, but “must”.  When that was written the bogus name “Jesus" did not exist.  We see the modern twisting of the name in the Bible as “Joshua” which, when properly pronounced is “Yahshua”.  This name "Joshua" is found in the Old Testament, one of the books carries that name but it is never used in reference to the Messiah in the New Testament even though this would be a more accurate, or at least honest attempt at preserving the only name "found among men by which we must be saved".  Even then the pronunciation of the name "Joshua" has been perverted by the misuse of the letter "j".  It is only the English and American speaking tongues that twist the pronunciation with the perverted “J” and this all began with the King James Version of the bible.  Anyone that tries to convince you that the KJV Bible is the only authorized, Holy Spirit sanctioned writings, are out of their minds.  It is the KJV Bible backed by a corrupt king and fifty plus hand picked scholars of languages plagiarizing most of William Tyndale's work leading to one of the biggest cover-ups in the history of publishing. 

Names do mean something and do have meaning,  This being a fact, a truth, we should be able to see how true when we consider the importance we place on our own personal identity.  You name says a lot, it puts you in a certain family and marks which member of that family you are and it is by this name you have that you draw a pay check or collect on Social Security, or put on a marriage license, etc., etc..

See the list of names I have presented in “Shouting His Name” for a revealing look into how the name of the Living God and of our Savior has been twisted but not hidden totally.  Satan would love to keep this a secret and he has his agents out there trying to keep the cover-up going.  In the end, however, the Creator Himself will make His name known and it will one day be great among the gentile nations

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