Wow. I don't even know where to start here, M. First things first, I guess: is English your first language? If not, what is? I may know someone with whom you could communicate in your native tongue. That would make any exchange of information much easier and faster.
It is highly unlikely that you have ever heard me say anything, M, because I do not take part in the radio broadcasts/podcasts. My part is to work behind the scenes, maintaining my web site and archiving the "Observations For Our Times" and "Blog Talk Radio/Yada" broadcasts. The main person you're hearing is Yada. He teams up with Larry Hendricks, Kirk Miller, James Bowen, and others to broadcast discussions concerning Yahowah's teachings and instructions (his Towrah). I do not have anything to do with those programs other than that I post copies of them on my web site with everyone's full permission.
If you will read my home page at
http://www.BlessYahowah.com/index.html, you will learn what I and my web site are all about.
Now, about your question regarding the man inappropriately known as Jesus and your reference to the "NT". Please read the following very carefully, Marilou, and take the time to verify the information being presented to you. If you do not verify the information for yourself, you will never know whether it is accurate and true or not.
The whole reason God created us was so that He and we could get to know each other on the most intimate level. The first step in getting to know someone is learn their name. So it stands to reason that God would want us to know His personal Name. That begs the question, "Does the Creator ever tell us His Name?"
Yes, He does. He tells us His Name early on in the Towrah. Towrah is a Hebrew word which means "teaching, instruction, guidance, means to settle disputes". It has been translated in the commercial English Bibles as "Law", which is a terrible rape of the truth and a tragedy for all mankind.
Wait a minute. What? Hebrew?! Are we going to get all Jewish here or something? Absolutely not. The Creator created Adam and Chawah long before He ever established a covenant with Abraham, a Gentile and a Babylonian. Abraham was not a Jew. And the religion of Judaism today is based on something called the Talmud, not on God's Word and not on His one and only Family-Oriented Covenant. Therefore, what we'll be examining has nothing whatsoever to do with the religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (or with any other religion for that matter). So please. Relax your emotions and let yourself focus on the evidence being presented. It will either prove itself true or it won't. There's nothing to get antsy about here. (And I am going to try to pick your pocket, either, so you know right there this isn't about religion!)
Names / Shemowth / Exodus 3:15
And God said to Moshe, "Say this to the people of Isra'el, 'Yahowah, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Izhaq, and the God of Ya'aqob, has sent me to you.' This is My Name forever, and I am to be remembered by it throughout all generations."
Names / Shemowth / Exodus 20:2
"I am Yahowah, your God, Who brought you out of the crucible of Mizraim, out of the house of bondage."
Through His prophet, YashaYah, whom we know of as Isaiah, He tells us His Name even more emphatically.
Yah has saved / Yashayah / Isaiah 42:8
"I am Yahowah. That is My Name. My honor and respectability I surrender to no other, nor My worthiness to carved images."
"I am Yahowah. That is My Name." Plain, simple, clear, and to the point. According to God, He has but one Name, and that one Name is Yahowah. "Yahowah … is My Name forever, and I am to be remembered by it throughout all generations." He clearly states that He expects to be remembered by His Name as long as mankind exists.
So God does indeed tell us His Name. He introduces Himself as Yahowah ( יהוה ). He spoke that declaration in Hebrew, and we find it recorded in the Hebrew Towrah, Prophets, and Writings, the so-called Old Testament, a reported 7,000 times (as we'll see, Yahowah just loves the number 7). Hebrew is read from right to left, and the letters of Yahowah's Name are Yod - י - Heh -ה - Waw - ו - Heh - ה. Each is one of the standard 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet, each one is a vowel, and we know how to pronounce each one of them. The rabbis and others who insist otherwise are liars. The most commonly used sounds for the three vowels are:
Yod - י - ē (long "e", as in "she")
Heh - ה - ă (short "a", as in "father")
Waw - ו - ō (long "o", as in "hello")
Examples of commonly used Hebrew words which use the letters of the Creator's Name, Yahowah, are:
Towrah - TWRH - תורה - Taw Waw Resh Heh
Shalom - SLWM - שלום - Shin Lamed Waw Mem
Goy - GWY - גוי - Gimel Waw Yod
Israel - YSRAL - ישראל - Yod Shin Resh Alef Lamed
Ani - ANY - אני - Alef Nun Yod (Hebrew word for "me")
(Important: The Hebrew "yod" is a vowel, not a consonant. It is not pronounced like the "y" in "you" or in "yellow"! The name is not "Yisra'el"; it is "Isra'el", or "Eesra'el", or "Ysra'el".)
With yod-heh-waw-heh we end up with the sounds ee-ah-oh-ah. Again, it is critical to remember that the Hebrew "yod" does not carry the sound of the English consonant "Y"; that is, we do not pronounce a "yod" as "yah". The "yod" carries the sound of a long "e" in English. The Hebrew "yod hey", or in English "ee-ah", when spoken together, produce "yah". Were the "yod" to be "yah" by itself, then we would have "Yah-ah", which would be completely inaccurate. Moreover, the Hebrew "waw hey" produce in English "oh ah", or in the normal flow of speech, "owah". We end up then with ee-ah-oh-ah, or Yahowah when spoken fluidly.
Therefore, as I declared earlier, anyone—regardless of who they are and what "credentials" they possess—anyone who declares that we cannot know the exact pronunciation of His Name is a liar. And those who insist that it is disrespectful to speak His Name are religious spokespersons who have no Heavenly authority backing up their man-made religious rules. Yahowah tells us His Name, and He never tells us not to use it. Never. Not once.
Notice, as well, that we do not need to use the vowel pointing system developed by the rabbis, whom Yahowah hates, in order to clearly understand how to pronounce common words in Hebrew, the language of Heaven. Just a heads up.
It really is just that plain and simple. Who is it, then, who dares to tell us that we can no longer know His Name, or that we are forbidden to vocalize it?
As for the spelling I've chosen to use, Y-A-H-O-W-A-H, that is completely arbitrary. I-A-O-A would be accurate, as would Y-A-O-A. In fact, spelling His Name in English as Yaoah is probably the purest form. It sounds like "Noah" with the sound of the "N" being replaced with the sound of "Ya", and with the stress falling back onto the first syllable. However, because "Yahowah" isn't exactly incorrect, and because I have already registered my site's name with the "Yahowah" spelling, I am pretty much "stuck like Chuck" with the less than perfect spelling for the time being.
Fortunately, the English spelling isn't really important because the Name is Hebrew, not English. And even though how we pronounce the Name is not the most important thing, either—though it is certainly important—we ought to try our very best to get it right.
When it comes to names, the proper procedure is to transliterate them rather than to translate them. We translate verbs, nouns, adjectives, etc. But we are to transliterate names. That is, we are to represent names using letters from our language to replicate the sound of the foreign name. Therefore, the Creator's Name can accurately be represented in English as Yahowah or Yaoa.
By far, the most important thing about our Creator's Name is that we understand it. That is, we want to learn what He's telling us about Himself through the Name by which He has chosen to be known. The idea that someone's name actually means something is foreign to many of us who speak English as our native language in the USA. But it was the norm in ancient times. So we'll start learning what Yahowah is telling us through His Name in the next section when we look at the pictograph characters with which He first communicated His Name. You will enjoy that, I'm sure.
Before we go there, you might be wondering if Yahowah even cares whether or not we carefully consider the meaning of His Name. It's a reasonable question. After all, if Yahowah doesn't care, why should we?
Well, as it turns out, He does care:
My Messenger / Malaki / Malachi 3:16-18
Then those who revered Yahowah spoke to one another, and Yahowah gave attention and heard it. A book of remembrance was written before him for those who revere Yahowah and who highly value his Name.
"They will be Mine," says Yahowah of the vast array of armies, "on the day that I prepare My treasured possession, and I will spare them as a man spares his own son who works at his side with him."
So you will again distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between one who works side by side with God and one who does not work side by side with Him.
Therefore, we too should care about His Name. First, we ought to learn what it is, and we have accomplished that goal on this page. We ought to learn how to pronounce it, and we've done that as well. Now, let's look at his Son's Name.
The author of Word Pictures / Mishlay / Proverbs 30:4 asked the penetrating question, "What is His Son's Name? Surely you know!"
Yahowsha is the Name of Yahowah's Son. It is pronounced yah-OH-shah and it means "Yah is salvation".
But what about that other name? What about Jesus? You might want to hold onto your seat cushion here.
Jesus is a made-up name.
Jesus appears nowhere in the original manuscripts, not even as Iesous.
The name Jesus has no heavenly power whatsoever.
The name Jesus means absolutely nothing.
Each one of those statements is 100% true. Every one of them is 100% accurate and correct. Moreover, not one of them can be disproved. They cannot even be rationally or intelligently argued against. And that just blows the religions of the Roman Catholic Church, Christianity, Mormonism, the Jehovah's Witnesses, the Seventh Day Adventists, and the Worldwide Church of God right out of the water.
Jesus is not the Name of the Son of Yahowah, the Creator of the heavens and earth. And rather than saving you, faith in the name of Jesus will cause your soul to be annihilated. Well, that's not precisely true. If you're promoting one of the religions based on that name, your soul won't die. You will be given eternal life, and then you will spend all of that eternal life in isolated lockdown, imprisoned with the rest of those foolish enough to be Yahowah's enemies.
Some of you might be protesting, "But I was miraculously transformed from being a really sorry excuse for a human being into a wonderful, kind, moral, and caring person when I cried out in the name of Jesus! And I have seen people miraculously healed in the name of Jesus! I just KNOW that He loves me and is the Truth!"
And I am telling you the truth when I emphatically state that you have been deceived. The Lord (Satan, the devil, the serpent, Allah, Buddha, Krishna, pick the name of your choice) can heal if it suits his purpose and if he gets Yahowah's permission to deceive therewith. And it definitely suits his purpose to lead people astray.
What, you didn't know that Yahowah lets the Lord and his demons deceive people? Oh, my. You'd better read the story of Isra'el's King Ahab at the end of this email.
Remember, free will is a gift, not a right. Yahowah will trump your free will when He has to, and when He does, it is almost never for your good. As we saw with King Ahab (You DID read that, didn't you? If not, please stop wasting my time.), when it suits God's purpose, He can and will issue the decree that a person be successfully deceived by a spirit they will not be able to resist. In Ahab's case, that spirit manipulated Ahab's religious priests to persuade the king that God was on his side and would prosper his self-aggrandizing plan. Ahab fell for the ploy and it cost him his physical life.
Acts of Power, Miracles, Etc. in Religion
It takes a lot to push Yahowah to such extremes, so the foregoing was not meant to frighten you or threaten you. I just don't want you to be tricked into thinking that just because something is spiritual, it's pleasing or acceptable to Yahowah. There are evil spirits. They are neither pleasing nor acceptable to Yahowah. They have been given permission to interact with those people who refuse to accept the terms and conditions of Yahowah's one and only Family-Oriented Covenant. That's just how it is. The Teachings, Prophets, and Songs confirm it.
So then, acts of spiritual power, miracles, supernatural deeds, and the like do occur in the name of Jesus. However, Christians, much to their chagrin, do not have a lock on miracles. The very same miracles occur in other religions, too. Christians are just loathe to acknowledge that fact because it weakens the self-superior structure of their irrational and easily debunked faith.
Certainly a miracle is evidence of a supernatural power at work. But an act of supernatural power is not evidence of the presence or approval of Yahowah, our Creator. So what if you were instantly delivered from drug addiction? So what if your cancer miraculously vanished? What will it profit you to gain complete sobriety and perfect health if you lose your soul? What good has been done if you are transformed into the perfect parent in the eyes of your family and this world if you end up passing your religious deceptions down to your kids, dragging them with you into the Pit? That's a good thing? I think not.
Miracles have their place in the Halal ben Shakar's (aka, the Adversary, the dragon, the serpent, the devil) agenda.
Yahowsha warned us that deceivers would come and that they would do miracles and show other signs of "divine" power. The magicians in the courts of Pharaoh duplicated the miracles performed by Moshe and Aaron. Yahowah's adversary created a tornado and a wildfire to torment Yob (Job). The adversary claimed, and Yahowsha did not dispute it with him, that he can give whatever riches and glory he wants to whoever he wants. And you'll agree that the power to do miracles is a means to gain riches and a way to receive glory! Televangelists and their ilk demonstrate the truth of that claim.
Think about it.
So beware of putting stock in miracles, or of letting some experience you've had "in the name of Jesus" hold you back from accepting the evidences you are discovering here that explode the myths of your religion. Reject your religion and embrace Yahowah and His Towrah. Paul's anti-Towrah, Old Covenant/New Covenant teachings are not of Yahowah; they come from the father of lies. Walk away from your religion, even if it means being reviled by your family and friends. Put your hand into Yahowah's Hand. Walk with Yahowah by accepting the terms and conditions of His one and only family-oriented Covenant as described in His Towrah. For your convenience, here they are:
Yahowah's Family-Oriented Covenant
The Five Conditions
Walk away from Babylon, from corruption, from confusion, from country, from politics, from patriotism, from religion, from one's earthly family.
Trust and rely on Yahowah, which requires us to know Him and understand what He is offering by closely observing and carefully considering His Towrah.
Walk to Yahowah and become perfect, which is achieved by accepting His 7 Invitations (participating in His 7 Feasts).
Read the Covenant, coming to know and understand its Terms and Benefits so that we can respond appropriately.
Those of us who are males are to be cirumcised. If we are parents, we are to circumcise our sons as a sign that we are committed to teaching them the Towrah and raising them to become part of Yah's family.
The Five Benefits
Eternal Life (as a result of the promise of Passover)
Perfection (and thus vindication and redemption) (as a result of the promise of Unleavened Bread)
Adoption into Yah's Covenant Family (as a result of the promise of First Fruits)
Enrichment and Enlightenment (receiving the Towrah and benefiting from its Teaching as a result of the promise of Seven Sabbaths)
Empowerment (also part of the promise of Seven Sabbaths)
Yahowah's Seven Invitations
Passover / Pesach – frees us from death, the penalty for our sins, allowing us to receive eternal life
Unleavened Bread / Matsah – removes our sins from us, allowing us to draw near to Yahowah ("Walk to Me and become perfect!")
First Fruits / Bikurim – Yahowah receives us into His Covenant Family
Sevens / Shabuah – we are restored and renewed so that we are empowered to share the Word
Trumpets / Taruah – we shout for joy and sound a warning
Reconciliations / Kippurim – we are required to present ourselves to our spiritual Mother, the ruach qodesh, or Set-Apart Spirit
Shelters / Sukah – we camp out with Yahowah
So you see, Marilou, there is no possible way "Jesus" could have been the name of anyone living in the days of Shimown Kepha (aka Simon Peter), Ya'aqob (aka James), and Yahowchanan (aka John).
Now, as far as there being a New Testament, there isn't and never will be. Yahowah does not change. He established one Covenant with mankind. There will not be another. When he renews that Covenant during the Millenial Reign, he has promised to write his Towrah into our hearts. So, unless you can recite the entire Towrah in Hebrew, verbatim, it hasn't been written in your heart. And that, Marilou, means that Yahowah has not renewed his Covenant yet.
I hope this helps.
Richard McCord
The Bless Yahowah Web Site
The Death of Ahab
1 Kings / 1 Melekim / 1 Kings 22:1-40
They continued three years without war between Syria and Isra'el. It happened in the third year that Yehoshaphat, the king of Yahudah, came down to the king of Isra'el.
The king of Isra'el said to his servants, "You know that Ramoth Gilead is ours, and we are still, and don't take it out of the hand of the king of Syria?"
To Yehoshaphat he said, "Will you go with me to battle to Ramoth Gilead?"
Yehoshaphat said to the king of Isra'el, "I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses. Please inquire first for the word of Yahowah."
Then the king of Isra'el gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them, "Shall I go against Ramoth Gilead to battle, or shall I forbear?"
They said, "Go up! For the Lord will deliver it into the hand of the king!"
But Yehoshaphat said, "Isn't there here a prophet of Yahowah, that we may inquire of him?"
The king of Isra'el said to Yehoshaphat, "There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Yahowah, Mikayah the son of Imlah. But I hate him, for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil."
Yehoshaphat said, "This is a king speaking?"
Then the king of Isra'el called an officer, and said, "Quickly! Fetch Mikayah, Imlah's son."
Now the king of Isra'el and Yehoshaphat, the king of Yahudah, were sitting each on his throne, arrayed in their robes, in an open place at the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets were prophesying before them.
Zidkiyah the son of Kina'anah made horns of iron for himself, and said, "Thus says Yahowah, 'With these you shall push the Syrians, until they are consumed.' " All the prophets prophesied the same way, saying, "Go up to Ramoth Gilead, and prosper! For Yahowah will deliver it into the hand of the king!"
The messenger who went to call Mikayah spoke to him, saying, "Now look, the prophets declare good to the king with one mouth. Please let your word be like the word of one of them, and speak good."
Mikayah said, "As Yahowah lives, what Yahowah says to me, that I will speak."
When he had come to the king, the king said to him, "Mikayah, shall we go to Ramoth Gilead to battle, or shall we forbear?"
He answered him, "Go up and prosper! Yahowah will deliver it into the hand of the king!"
The king said to him, "How many times do I have to adjure you that you speak to me nothing but the truth in the Name of Yahowah?"
He [Mikayah] said, "I saw all Isra'el scattered on the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd. Yahowah said, 'These have no master. Let them each return to his house in peace.' "
The king of Isra'el said to Yehoshaphat, "Didn't I tell you that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil?"
Mikayah said, "Therefore, hear the word of Yahowah!
"I saw Yahowah sitting on His throne, and all the army of heaven standing by Him on His right hand and on His left. Yahowah said, 'Who will entice Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth Gilead?'
"One said one thing, and another said another. A spirit came out and stood before Yahowah, and said, 'I will entice him.'
"Yahowah said to him, 'How?'
"He said, 'I will go out and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.'
"He [Yahowah] said, 'You will entice him, and you will also prevail. Go out and do so.'
"Now therefore, behold, Yahowah has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these your prophets: Yahowah has spoken evil concerning you!"
Then Zidkiyah the son of Kina'anah came near, and struck Mikayah on the cheek, and said, "Which way did the Spirit of Yahowah go from me to speak to you?"
Mikayah said, "Behold, you will see on that day, when you go into an inner room to hide yourself."
The king of Isra'el said, "Take Mikayah, and carry him back to Amon, the governor of the city, and to Yoash, the king's son. Say, 'Thus says the king, "Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread and water of affliction, until I come in peace." ' "
Mikayah said, "If you return at all in peace, Yahowah has not spoken by me. Listen, all you people!"
So the king of Isra'el and Yehoshaphat, the king of Yahudah, went up to Ramoth Gilead. The king of Isra'el said to Yehoshaphat, "I will disguise myself, and go into the battle; but you put on your robes."
The king of Isra'el disguised himself, and went into the battle.
Now the king of Syria had commanded the thirty-two captains of his chariots, saying, "Fight neither with small nor great, except only with the king of Isra'el."
It happened, when the captains of the chariots saw Yehoshaphat, that they said, "Surely that is the king of Isra'el!" And they turned aside to fight against him. Yehoshaphat cried out. It happened, when the captains of the chariots saw that it was not the king of Isra'el, that they turned back from pursuing him.
A certain man drew his bow at random and struck the king of Isra'el between the joints of the armor. So he said to the driver of his chariot, "Turn your hand and carry me out of the battle, for I am severely wounded."
The battle increased that day. The king was propped up in his chariot facing the Syrians, and died at evening. The blood ran out of the wound into the bottom of the chariot. A cry went throughout the army about the going down of the sun, saying, "Every man to his city, and every man to his country!"
So the king died and was brought to Samaria, and they buried the king in Samaria. They washed the chariot by the pool of Samaria, where the prostitutes washed themselves, and the dogs licked up his blood according to the word of Yahowah which He spoke.
Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and the ivory house which he built, and all the cities that he built, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Isra'el? So Ahab slept with his fathers, and his son, Ahazyahu, reigned in his place.
Yahowah's prophecy regarding the death of Ahab
1 Kings / Melekim / 1 Kings 21:16-19
It happened, when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, that Ahab rose up to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Isra'elite, to take possession of it.
The word of Yahowah came to Eliyah the Tishbite, saying, "Arise, go down to meet Ahab, king of Isra'el, who dwells in Samaria. Behold, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, where he has gone down to take possession of it. You shall speak to him, saying, 'Thus says Yahowah, "Have you killed and also taken possession? In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth, dogs will lick your blood, even yours." ' "
And we saw that that is exactly what happened to that murdering king.