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Yeshua Is the Living Torah

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Yeshua was the Torah-Word of Elohim that was Elohim, and who came to earth to live in flesh form (John 1:1–14).

He was the I am that was before Abraham (John 8:58)

Rom 10, Yeshua is the ultimate expression, end goal of fullest fulfillment of Torah (Rom 10:4). Paul equates Yeshua, the Living Torah, with the written Torah of Moses (verses 5–10). In Rom 10:11 through 21, Paul goes on to relate this very truth to being the central message of the gospel that Isaiah prophesied (Isa 52:7) would be preached to redeem both houses of Israel to Yeshua their Messiah.

Yeshua, was the Torah-Light-Word led who instructed, fed and watered Israel through the wilderness.

1 Cor 10:4, Yeshua was spiritual Rock that fed the Israelites.

Acts 7:38, Yeshua was the one who spoke from Mt. Sinai and who was with the angel that led the Israelites in the wilderness.

Yeshua is the Living Manna (John 6:48–51).

Yeshua equates himself with Torah (John 6—manna).

Yeshua referring to himself as the Light of the world (John 8:12, 9:5; 12:46) urged his disciples to believe in that Light and to become children of Light (John 12:35–36).

Believers are not only called to emulate their Master and become light as he is light, but they are called to put on the “armor of light” which is likened to walking in righteousness (Rom 12:12–13) after the similitude of their Father in heaven who is called the Father of lights (Jas 1:17) and who dwells in unapproachable light (1 Tim 6:16). This is the same light that caused Moses’ face to radiate with light upon descending Mt. Sinai after having been in the presence of YHVH (Exod 34:33, 35).

In the Gospel of Matthew, Yeshua urged his followers to be lights in this dark world and to be a candlestick on a hill (Matt 5:14–16).

 

Yeshua the Messiah in the Every Book of the Bible

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In Genesis, Yeshua is the eternal Torah-light of the world, the breath of life and the seed of the woman.

In Exodus, he is the Passover lamb, the Torah-Word of Elohim, and the way to the Father in the tabernacle.

In Leviticus, he is our atoning sacrifice and our high priest.

In Numbers, he is the pillar of cloud by day and pillar of fire by night.

In Deuteronomy, he is the prophet like unto Moses.

In Joshua, he is the captain of our salvation who leads us into the kingdom of Elohim.

In Judges, he is our judge and lawgiver.

In Ruth, he is our kinsman redeemer.

In 1 and 2 Samuel, he is our trusted prophet.

In Kings and Chronicles, he is our reigning king.

In Ezra, he is the builder of our temple, which houses the Spirit of Elohim.

In Nehemiah, he is the rebuilder of the broken down walls of human life.

In Esther, he is our Mordechai who saves us from those who would kill, steal and destroy us.

In Job, he is our ever-living Redeemer.

In Psalms, he is our shepherd to lead us in the ways of Torah-life.

In Proverbs and Ecclesiastes, he is our wisdom.

In Song of Solomon, he is our Loving Bridegroom.

In Isaiah, he is the Suffering Servant who bears our sins, the Repairer of the Breach between the two houses of Israel, and the Prince of Peace.

In Jeremiah, he is our Righteous Branch.

In Lamentations, he is the weeping prophet.

In Ezekiel, he is the one who rejoins the two sticks of Israel bringing them to worship Elohim together his temple.

In Daniel, he is the fourth man in life’s fiery furnace and our Ancient of Day.

In Hosea, he is the faithful husband forever married to the backslider.

In Joel, he is the baptize of the Holy Spirit.

In Amos, he is our burden bearer.

In Obadiah, he is mighty to save.

In Jonah, he is our great foreign missionary.

In Micah, he is the messenger of beautiful feet.

In Nahum, he is our strength and shield, and the avenger of Elohim’s elect.

In Habakkuk, he is Elohim’s evangelist crying, “Revive thy works in the midsts of the years.”

In Zephaniah, he is our Savior.

In Haggai, he is the restorer of Elohim’s lost heritage.

In Zechariah, he is a fountain opened up in the house of David for sin and uncleanliness.

In Malachi, he is the Sun of Righteousness arising with healing in his wings.

In Matthew, Yeshua the Messiah is the King of the Jews.

In Mark, he is the servant.

In Luke, he is the Son of Man, feeling what you feel.

In John, he is the Son of Elohim.

In Acts, he is the Savior of the world.

In Romans, he is the righteousness of Elohim.

In 1 Corinthians, he is the Rock, the Father of Israel.

In 2 Corinthians, he is the triumphant one giving victory.

In Galatians, he is your liberty. He set you free.

In Ephesians, he is the head of his spiritual body.

In Philippians, he is your joy.

In Colossians, he is your completeness.

In 1 and 2 Thessalonians, he is your hope.

In 1 Timothy, he is your faith.

In 2 Timothy, he is your stability.

In Titus, he is truth.

In Philemon, he is your benefactor.

In Hebrews, he is your perfection.

In James, he is the power behind your faith.

In 1 Peter, he is your example.

In 2 Peter, he is your purity.

In 1 John, he is your life.

In 2 John, he is your pattern.

In 3 John, he is your motivation.

In Jude, he is the foundation of your faith.

In Revelation, he is the Righteous Judge of the world, the Avenger of the saints, your coming King, your First and Last, the Beginning and the End, the Keeper of creation, the Creator of all, the Architect of the universe and the Manager of all times. He always was, he always is and always will be. He’s unmoved, unchanged, undefeated, and never undone. He was bruised and brought healing. He was pierced to heal our pain. He was persecuted and brought freedom. He was dead and brought life. He is risen and brings power. He reigns and brings peace. The world can’t understand him, the armies can’t defeat him, the public schools can’t kick him out and the leaders can’t ignore him. Herod couldn’t kill him, the Pharisees couldn’t confuse him, the people couldn’t hold him, Nero couldn’t crush him, Hitler couldn’t silence him, the communists can’t destroy him, the atheists can’t explain him away, and the New Age can’t replace him. He is life, love, longevity and Lord. He is goodness, kindness, gentleness and Elohim. He is holy, righteous, mighty, powerful and pure. His ways are right, his word is eternal, his will is unchanging, and his eyes are on me. He is my Redeemer, he is my Savior, he is my Guide, he is my peace, he is my joy, he is my comfort, he is my Lord, and HE RULES MY LIFE!

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Does the Name Jesus Come from Zeus?

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Does the name Jesus derives from the Greek god Zeus whose name sounds similar? Many people believe that it does. What are the facts?

The Greek name Zeus begins with the Greek letter zeta, while the “soos” in the name Jesus transliterated into English begins with the Greek letter sigma. Zeus and Jesus are two very different words with totally different etymologies.

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If one knows even basic Hebrew and Greek, one can easily see how Yeshua translates into Koine Greek as ee-ay-sous (transliterated) and into English as Jesus considering that in the 1600ss the letter J replaced the I in the name of ee-ay-sous to give us Jesus.

What’s more, the Jewish scholars who translated the Septuagint several centuries before the birth of Yeshua translated the name Joshua as Ee-ay-sous. Go get an LXX Bible and look it up. Go to the book of Joshua and you’ll see it for yourself. I highly doubt that these Jewish scholars would have taken the name of Joshua and translated it into the name of the pagan Greek deity Zeus if, in their minds, there had been even the slightest possibility of confusion between the two names.

Some people also have a problem with the name Jesus because of it similarity to the Hebrew word for horse (sus, spelled samech, vav, samech). The similarity between Jesus and sus is simply coincidental. Hebrew and Koine Greek are two different languages and have nothing to do with each other. The Greek word for horse is hippos. As any language student knows — especially those who are multilingual — just because two words in two different languages sound alike doesn’t mean they have related etymologies (linguistic origins).

Now let’s review how the Hebrew name Yeshua (hud, shin, vav, ayin) becomes Ee-ay-sous in Koine Greek and then Jesus in English. It goes like this:

  • Yeshua begins with the Hebrew letter yud which, in this case, has the yuh sound. In Greek, there is no  yuh sound. The closest vowel is the letter iota with the long e sound (ee) which is combined with the Greek letter eta. Together, the iota and eta from a combined vowel sound or diphthong, which is the closest the Greek language could come to sounding like the Hebrew letter yud.
  • The next Hebrew letter in the name Yeshua is the sh sound made by the Hebrew letter shin. Again, Greek has no sh sound. Instead, they substituted the letter sigma (s) for the sh in Hebrew.
  • The next letter in Hebrew is the letter vav giving us, in this case, the oo sound. Greek has this sound when the letters omega and upsilon combine.
  • Now what about the final letter s in the Greek language? Where does that come from, since the Hebrew name Yeshua doesn’t end with the letter s. As any beginning biblical Greek student will immediately see, the s ending in Ee-ay-sous is simply the standard nominative case ending (or suffix) for a masculine singular noun and is made by the Greek letter sigma.
  • Now let’s go from Greek to English. Since the New Testament (NT) was proliferated in the Greek language, and since the vast majority of ancient NT manuscripts were in Greek, the name pronunciation of the Hebrew name Yeshua became Ee-ay-sous in the common language of the day. This name was simply brought over into Latin and then into English as you can see in your earliest English Bibles when they spell Jesus as Iesus. However when the letter j (a variant of the letter i) came into usage in the 1500s in Europe, the i in Iesus became a j. This is how we ended up with Jesus for the Hebrew name Yeshua. This is an over-simplified explanation of this linguistic development, since language evolution is usually a slow and complex thing, but this is the basics of it.

As you can see, the name Jesus in no way relates to the Greek god Zeus or to the Hebrew word for horse.