Zech.     14      :1          Yahweh has a Day...

                    14 :9       “Yahweh will be king over the whole world.  On that day

                                    Yahweh will be ONE and His Name One”.

Joel   2   :27     “Then you will know that I am  in Israel, that I am

                                    Yahweh your Elohim, and that there is NO OTHER.”

Does Israel currently “know” that Adonai, their God, is in their midst?  No.  Therefore Yom Yahweh, the very theme of Joel, has not come - or else they would have known!

Isa.    42 :8       “I am... Yahweh (both Names given to Moses); That is My

                                    Name!  I will not give My glory to another or My praise

                                    to idols”.

The Name - Ha’Shem - is quite unique, priceless, Kadosh, indivisible, incomparable and single.  Any departure from there would be tantamount to breach of the Third Commandment.

 Yet, the New Testament, having introduced Him through ‘one calling in the desert’, proceeds to give Him numerous names and identities - which makes Him unrecognisable, even if He had come.  The authors of the New Testament incorrectly call Yahweh by the following names:

 10.1     Yeshua

10.2     Son of Josef

10.3     Son of David

10.4     Son of Abraham

10.5     Son of Adam

10.6     Messiah

10.7     Son of God

10.8     Son of Man

10.9     Rising Sun

10.10   Immanuel, son of Isaiah

10.11   Nehemiah

10.12   The Prophet

 

10.1  Yeshua

Mat.  1   :21     “She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Yeshua,

                                    because he will save his people from their sin.”

 We have seen from the numerous references in 2 Isaiah how Yahweh refers to Himself as the Saviour (Yeshuot), the Redeemer of Israel.  “Saviour” or “Yeshua” is not His Name.  It is one of His attributes: Yahweh Yeshuot - the Lord who saves.  This will be one of His titles - when He does come.  Others are Yahweh S’baoth - the Lord of Hosts; Yahweh Tzidkenu – the Lord our Ritgheosness;  Yahweh Rafah (or Rofeka) - the Lord who heals; and others.  These are not different names of Yahweh.  They are descriptive attributes. He does not come in the flesh and be called by one of his numerous attributes. His Name is Yahweh.  His name is not Yeshua. When he does come it will be in a form which we cannot possibly contemplate at this time. 

This highly esteemed person called Yeshua, would have to have another identity, other than Yahweh - such as “Suffering servant” or “Suffering Messiah” , or “Messiah Son of Josef” (Mashiach ben Yosef) - who will be the instrument of Yahweh in bringing the Asham (Guilt Offering) for Israel’s reconciliation with Yahweh, prior to His coming.   

10.2  Son of Josef

Luke 3   :23     “...He was the son of Josef, or so it was thought”.

The common people, family and friends knew him as the son of Josef -  Ben Yosef.

 

10.3  Son of David and 10.4  Son of Abraham

Matth.1 :1       “A record of the genealogy of Yeshua Messiah the son of David,

                                    the son of  Abraham”.

 

10.5  Son of Adam

Luke 3   :38     “...The son of Adam, the son of God.”.

 

 10.6  Messiah and 10.7  The Son of God - Son of Himself-

Luke      3        :38        “...the son of God”.

Matth.16:16    “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.”

                              

10.8  Son of Man

 Yahweh is numerously referred to as Son of Man in the Gospels.  2 Jesus, however, denies being the Son of Man Messiah.

 

 10.9  Rising Sun

Luke 1   :78     “because of the tender mercy  of our God, by which the rising

                                    sun will come to us from heaven”

Luke appears to have taken this from the Day of the Lord scenario of Malachi 4:

  Mal.4   :1       “Surely the day is coming; it will burn like a furnace…

                          :2       But for you who fear My Name , the sun of righteousness will

                                    rise with healing in its (not HIS) wings...

                          :4       Remember the Torah of My servant Moses, the decrees and laws

                                    I gave him... (2 Paul, please take note!)

                          :5       See I will send you the prophet Elijah before the great and dreadful

                                    Day of the Lord…”

 Luke then called up John the Baptist to do service as Elijah, to introduce the “rising sun” in person.  And  2 Paul promptly decided that Yahweh had forgotten Torah.  It is furthermore possible that Constantine the Great and his non-Jewish theologians at the great Council of Nicea (325 CE) would have seen in this “rising sun”-figure another variation of the centuries old practice of  Sun Worship.  They were well acquainted with the Sun god, who’s rebirth was celebrated every year at the midwinter solstice with a festival of debauchery.  Now we have the “Yahweh-rising sun” Christmas birthday festival and a Sunday resurrection and worship day invention, none of which appear in the Bible!  In essence,  Luke here shows his affinity for his Greek orientation.

 

 10.10  Immanuel, Son of Isaiah

 Immanuel was a boy born to a young woman some 700 years before Yeshua  

 

 10.11  Nehemiah

 The governor of Judea, riding on his donkey - some 400 years before Yeshua.

                            

 10.12  The Prophet

Acts  3   :22      For Moses said, ‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet

                         like me from among your own people.’ (Deut 18:17)

 He will not be a god, born of a virgin, but a Torah observant Torah teacher - like Moses.  Not the Torah-superseding Jesus of the Church.

 This statement of Peter in Acts 3:22 is a contradiction of the analysis in John 1:20-24, where it is asked:

                         1.  Are you the Messiah?

                         2.  Are you Elijah?

                         3.  Are you the Prophet?

                         4.  Who are you? … The voice before Yahweh...

 This analysis says many things:

                         1.  The Messiah is not the Prophet.

                         2.  The Messiah is not Yahweh.

                         3.  The Prophet is not Yahweh.

                         4.  John the Baptist is not Elijah.

 How many versions could there be?  Yet Peter says Jesus is all three - Yahweh, the Messiah and the Prophet.  And, by implication, that John the Baptist is Elijah.

Acts  2   :36     “Therefore let all Israel be assured of this:  God has made this

                                    Jesus, whom you crucified, both Yahweh and Messiah”.

 Where in prophetic Scripture is such an eventuality foretold?  We will yet see why St Peter found it necessary to arrive at this conclusion.

Therefore, according to the New Testament... Yahweh has many identities.  Yet, He has warned:  In That Day Yahweh will be ONE and His Name ONE.  He will restore the integrity of His Name, which would have been mistaken before.