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Continuing with last time’s topic, we will analyze what steps Satan has taken to prevent us from fulfilling the conditions of salvation.

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In order to properly examine the steps taken by Satan to hide the path to salvation, we will analyze the steps that people must take to achieve Salvation.

1 Corinthians 12:3. “Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking in the Spirit of God ever says “Yeshu is accursed!” and no one can say “Yeshu is Lord” except in the Holy Spirit.

The above verse reveals to us the first gift that we have been or we will be given. Namely, the “Gift of Faith”, does not come from ourselves, it is given to us from above by Holy Breath (Spirit), but it depends on us whether we will accept this gift and believe. This is our first step, which gives us a chance for Salvation. The gift of Faith consists in the desire to know Christ, and the above example indicates knowing the true Christ, in the sense of personality, the deeds he performed, taking care of every detail, also about His Name, which is mentioned in Acts 4:12, as the only Name in which we must obtain Salvation, and the information that the name of Christ was given by God the Father Himself (Luke 1:26 and 31), should further confirm us in knowing Christ by His true name Yeshu. However, the name alone is not enough, because if we believe in Christ knowing His correct name, we can still be deceived by various claims that are not a reflection of Christ but of the antichrist. An example is that Christ was in the trinity, to refute this theory I will use an article written by “A. Plowman” “Analyzing Matthew 28:19” which you can find by clicking on the link below.

https://www.dailyreadings.org.uk/biblenotes/matt28_19.htm

Acts 2:38. “And Peter said to them, “Repent and be immersed every one of you in the name of Yeshu Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.”

Once we believe, our next step is to be immersed in the name of Yeshu. This is a confirmation of our faith in Christ by submitting to the condition of immersion, after which we receive the next two gifts. The first gift is to be born again as a new man with a blank slate, because our failures and sins have been erased by immersion, which prompts us to correct our lives and not look back and make the same mistakes, in other words to put on the new man. We also receive the Gift of the Holy Spirit, as our Lord Yeshu promised us.

Matthew 10:22. “and you will be hated by all for my name’s sake. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.”

Perseverance in faith obliges us to constantly work on ourselves, on the deeds from which we should refrain, on the deepening of knowledge on how we should act and the ever greater consolidation of our faith in our Savior. This is the last step lasting our whole life, which requires us to change our lives in anticipation of meeting our Savior and fulfilling the conditions and walking through life modeled on our Savior. Despite the difficulties and everything that happens to us in life, we walk with faith to achieve our goal, which is life in the new aeon together with our Lord Yeshu.

Romans 10:13. “For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.””

As the above verse says, we are obligated to call upon the name of the Lord. If we look closely at the teachings contained in the Holy Scriptures, especially those that His Apostles proclaimed after our Lord’s departure, we will see that all faith is based on faith in the true Christ, taking care of every detail in knowing His personality, the deeds He performed, and His Name. It was not without reason that Christ received the name Yeshu. This name has great significance, it refers both to the mission He received when He came to earth and to who He is, His name means “Savior”. When Christ came into the world, he had a mission to fulfill to redeem the nation of Israel from slavery to the law and to provide a chance of salvation to all people under heaven. His entire life focused on fulfilling the mission given to Him by God the Father, starting with the teachings He passed on to us, through every deed He performed, to His death on the cross and fulfilling everything that the Father commanded Him. The reward He received is described in the Letter to the Philippians.

Philippians 2:9-11. “Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Yeshu every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Yeshu Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”

Steps taken by Satan.

The fact that Satan took steps to mix up the personalities of Christ and to make the name of Yeshu forgotten should not surprise us. By changing the personality and name, he could completely disconnect humanity from the path of salvation, which contributed to the introduction of antichrists, reducing humanity to calling on another Christ. Translation of the word “antichrist”, link below.

https://biblehub.com/greek/500.htm

It turns out that Satan has made it very difficult for us to find the path marked out for us by our Lord Yeshu. By introducing other Christs (antichrists), he has inspired humanity to many beliefs that do not reflect the personality of Christ, and by trying to erase the true name of Yeshu, he has introduced many false names, so that in most languages ​​we find another name that is written similarly but the pronunciation is completely different, and in some languages ​​it is not similar to the true one at all. In summary, the correct identification of our Lord Yeshu is not based only on His name but also on the personality and deeds He has performed, and His name has the power to save only in connection with the true personality that Christ presented to us.

To begin with, we will focus on Satan’s fight against the name of Yeshu and the history of That name.

Let’s start from the very beginning of the history of the name Yeshu. For the first time, the name “Yeshu” was written in the rather unpopular Hebrew language. Today, we can only guess how the words in this language were read. Fortunately, the name of our Lord was also written in other languages, and this was in the times when Christ walked the earth, and even earlier. Around 280 years before the birth of the Messiah, a Greek version of the Old Testament was created, in which the name Yeshu was transliterated into the Greek form. That is, letter by letter and sound by sound, the name was written using the Greek alphabet. The Greek alphabet was different from the Hebrew, the difference that interests us is the letter “sh” which did not appear in the Greek alphabet. This is how the name “Yesu” was created, which, declining by accident, revealed two more forms, “Yesus” and “Yesun”.

It is worth noting that in Hebrew the name Yeshu did not decline for cases, so it has no other endings. Any endings would mean that it is not a name but an action (instead of Savior, salvation) or that it is a feminine word.

The translators of the Old Testament, when transferring the name Yeshu to Greek, added an ‘s’ in the nominative case to clearly emphasize that it is a male name. That is why one of the most popular forms of this name is written “Jesus”. It comes from Greek, and the later language of the Roman Empire, Latin, had similar grammar and therefore popularized the form Yesus. In both languages, the vocative case of this name was pronounced “Yesu”, and the vocative case is the way in which we address Christ directly. The form Yesu is correct and corresponds to the Hebrew “Yeshu”. The difference between “sh” and “s” results from the fact that the Greeks did not pronounce the letter “sh”, and only for this reason it was accepted by the Apostles. Some nations simply cannot pronounce some letters from other languages. The Holy Scripture describes one example in which the inability to pronounce the same letter “sh” led to disastrous consequences.

Judges 12:5-6. “And the Gileadites captured the fords of the Jordan against the Ephraimites. And when any of the fugitives of Ephraim said, “Let me go over,” the men of Gilead said to him, “Are you an Ephraimite?” When he said, “No,” they said to him, “Then say Shibboleth,” and he said, “Sibboleth,” for he could not pronounce it right. Then they seized him and slaughtered him at the fords of the Jordan. At that time 42,000 of the Ephraimites fell.”

The lesson we learn is that some people cannot pronounce the name “Yeshu” correctly. However, if you cannot pronounce the name exactly, you should pronounce it as best you can. So the form “Yesu” is only acceptable for people who cannot pronounce “Yeshu”.

Acts 2:21. “And it shall come to pass that everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.’”

Romans 10:13. “For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.””

Reading the above verses, it should not surprise us that Satan would want to take away our opportunity to call upon the name of Yeshu. However, we do not tolerate a complete and conscious change of sounds, because the sounds have their equivalents in both the Greek and Hebrew alphabets. An example is the letter “z” which appears in some languages, e.g. Polish. If “z” were to appear in pronunciation, it would have been used by the apostles, and since it was not used, we should not put this sound instead of “sh” or “s”.

We model the way we serve Christ on the behavior of the apostles, according to the principle:

1 Corinthians 4:6. “…that you may learn by us not to go beyond what is written…”

The Holy Scripture teaches us that names have meanings, and changing one letter in a name can completely change its meaning.

Genesis 17:4-5. ““Behold, my covenant is with you, and you shall be the father of a multitude of nations. No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham, for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.”

The name Abram means “Father”, God added one phone and changed the meaning to “Father of Many”.

Genesis 17:15. “And God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name.”

With the change of name Sarai to Sarah, we see a complete change of meaning. Sarai meaning dominant, and Sarah meaning princess.

It is very important that we direct our prayers to the true Christ whose name is Yeshu. And if you cannot pronounce the name of our Savior correctly, do it as best you can, because a small change may not be so small after all.

Let’s go back to the history of the name, because looking at today’s Greek language we can see some changes.
Why don’t the Greeks say Jesu (Jesus) but Isu (Isus)? Well, in the Greek language, the process of changing the pronunciation of the letter eta (e) to ita (i) began. This process is called Iotacism.
Wikipedia describes it as follows:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iotacism

Changes of this type are common in the world. However, in our case, they led to a distortion of the correct pronunciation of the name that we are to call upon in order to obtain salvation. We must therefore take these distortions into account in order to correctly pronounce the name of the Lord. Fortunately, Latin was also a parallel language to Greek, and it has preserved the ‘e’ as the correct pronunciation. The good news about our Lord Yeshu reached many corners of the world, especially Africa and Asia, before itacism, which is why millions of Christians around the world still use this name in the form Yeshu or Yesu. Western Christianity also had this opportunity. Thanks to Latin, the correct name of our Lord was also called upon in Europe. But what was considered a scribal error in the 2nd century became the rule in the 4th century, because the Reformation displaced Latin and introduced vernacular languages, and then the name of Christ was changed.

There are traces that initially the correct transliteration was made, but not from the first Hebrew version, but from Latin, which in itself led to distortions. The derivation into other languages ​​should have been made from the first Hebrew version, then each national version would be as accurate as possible. In the meantime, something was used that children used to call a telephone game.

In Polish it looked like this:
Yeshu >> Yesus >> Yezus

Each subsequent version is slightly changed in relation to the previous ones, which eventually leads to large-scale changes. In the case of the Polish language, these are not very large changes, but it is still a different name.

In Spanish it looked like this:
Yeshu >> Yesus >> Hesus

The error consisted not only in reading the letters differently, but also in deriving the next declination not from the root of the word, but from its declination.

The first Bible translations in England contained the name Yesu. For some mysterious reason, the name of the Lord appeared in the English Bible written in the Latin style as early as the 16th century. This meant that it was mispronounced, because the first letter ‘J’ was pronounced differently in different countries. Thus, in Spain they honor the name Jesús, in France Jésus, in England Jesus, etc. The corruption came about because of loyalty to the way of writing, not to the way of pronouncing. In this way, completely new names were created, which neither God nor the apostles authorized. This became a departure from the apostles’ teaching about one name (Acts 4:12).

The only name by which we must be saved has been changed, leading to the appearance of the antichrist in a form that only few can identify. Because we are constantly being told, that the name doesn’t matter, can be pronounced differently in other languages, and that all that matters is, to think that we are praying to Christ. As it turns out, the name of Christ is very important, and for those who think otherwise, please show me the verses in the Holy Scriptures, which deny it. Satan has not only led people onto the wide road to perdition through faith in the antichrist, but he has also hidden, as best he could, the narrow way of salvation in faith in the true Christ named Yeshu.

Thus, faith, immersion, abiding in Christ, and calling on the name of the Lord have been redirected to another Christ (the Antichrist), and therefore none of the above conditions are fulfilled.

How then can men be saved by calling upon the name of the Lord? Paul answers:

Romans 10:14-15. “How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!””

The actions and steps that Satan has taken have led to a situation in which Christians need to be preached again about the true Christ to help them attain salvation by calling on the name of Yeshu.