The Holy Scripture - english version B.indd - Sabbat

252How The Savior's Name Was ChangedPlease note that your Biblespecifically says there is no otherName! It does not say there no other„person,“ which might allow you tocall Him by whatever name you wish.Yahshua is the only Name by which wehave salvation. There is no other namethan Yahshua, which literally means thesalvation that Yahweh has sent.In talking with the penitent Jewsat Pentecost, Peter was inspired togive this special Name through whichwe are to receive salvation. He did notsay to be baptized in the person of theMessiah. Peter gave us a very specificcommand to call on the personal namegiven by the Father, Acts 2:38, „Repentand be baptized, every one of you inthe name of Yahshua Messiah for theremission of sins, and you shall receivethe gift of the Holy Spirit.“To be sure, the person of Yahshuais important. But the Name He wasgiven by the angel came from On Highand carries a very special meaningfor the Savior, embodying the Nameof Yah-weh the Father Himself. TheName Yah-shua acknowledges both theFather and the salvation that is in HisSon Yahshua.Upon learning truth, we are to walkobediently in it. Most of us have learneddeeper truth in small increments, andthen put into practice what we havelearned. Yahweh will continue to revealmore truth only if we accept and followthose things He has shown us. Whyshould He give more insight to thosewho reject and rebel at what He hasalready revealed?Once we know the truth, pastignorance does not justify ourcontinuing in ignorance. „The times ofthis ignorance Yahweh winked at, butnow commands all men everywhereto repent,“ Acts 17:30. He reveals Histruth to those who willingly seek andfollow it.Disguising the Name YahwehHow did the sacred Name get changedin our Bibles?The concealing of the four lettersof the Tetragrammaton (YHWH)representing the Name of the Fatherfirst began with the Israelite priests. Itwas carried further by the ignorance ofthe early Christian translators.The superstitious Jewish scribes,aware of Leviticus 24:16 and otherverses that demanded reverence forYahweh‘s Name, decided the best wayto keep from blaspheming His Namewould be to invoke substitute titlesinstead of calling on the proper Nameof Yahweh. In their way of thinking,prohibiting the utterance of the sacredName would eliminate the potential ofblaspheming it.To forestall anyone‘s reading theTetragrammaton and vocalizing thename Yahweh, the scribes had placeddiacritical marks of the vowels forAdonai over the Hebrew letters for HisName. In fact, the first vowel carriedthe sound of „e“ as in met so the readerwould read Yeh, and not blurt out eventhe short or poetic form, Yah. Theirswas a misguided zeal.Early Translators Also Hide HisNameThe early Christian translators werepoor Hebrew scholars. In fact, mostwere ignorant of Hebrew, knowing onlyGreek and Latin. Having the attitudeof „not wanting anything to do withthose detestable Jews,“ they refusedeven to learn Hebrew and were thusunable to read the Old Testament inthe original language. The main sourceof their information came from theGreek Septuagint translation of the OldTestament and not from original Hebrewtexts.