Hebrew Name of Jesus
Ever since the Son of God was given the name Yeshua, (the Hebrew name of Jesus), as his earthly name, that name, in
whatever language, has had a sacred connotation for all succeeding generations
(Acts 2:36). Accordingly; its profane and
repetitious use is not in keeping with the true spirit of reverence and worship. Whether we use the Hebrew name of Jesus or the
name as it is said in other cultures, it is still “The only name under heaven… 12 Neither is there
salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among
men, whereby we must be saved. (Acts 4:12) The Hebrew Name of Jesus comes
from the Hebrew root yasha', meaning to deliver,
rescue, or save; and accordingly, with supreme propriety, it
was chosen and revealed as the personal name of our Lord. (Luke 1:31.) This
name (also found as Jeshua, Joshua, and Jehoshua), was common among
the ancient Jews, all meaning 'deliverance'. “Son of God” was part of the Hebrew name of Jesus. Yeshua bar Abba ("Jesus son of the Father") is the name,
according to several scholars, originally borne by Mary's son, due to his habit
of always praying to God as Abba, meaning Father. It certainly makes sense, since Jesus would have found
it difficult to proclaim himself to be the Son of God
if his name would have been Jesus Bar
Joseph. Who, then, gave him that
name?
Joseph and Mary certainly knew that
their child wasn't Joseph's son. Having been visited by Gabriel, the
Arch-Angel, who proclaimed the paternal lineage of the Child to be born, would
find it hard to give Jesus Joseph's name with which to distinguish him from all
other men bearing the same name in the land. It is quite possible that they
decided to give him the name bar Abba, which could mean only one thing to Jesus and those who
were initiated. Unto strangers to the family it would not mean "Jesus son
of God", but simply that he was son of someone with the given name Abba. From the beginning he was known as Jehovah. Jehovah was the
Creator. He was the Old Testament God. He was the Lawgiver, the Revelator, the
Wonderful, the Terrible. It was he who sent the floods
in the days of Noah. It was he who talked to Moses, face to face, and who wrote
the law on stone tablets with his finger. And all these things he did, being
given to do so by Abba, the Father. The Father and the Son shared a great love
for each other. But they also shared a great love for all men on earth. The Father had it in his Plan to command his
Omnipotent Son, Jehovah, to leave his royal
courts on high, to step down from being the acting Jehovah, for a few decades,
to take his home among ordinary men. The Jews had been waiting for the Messiah, to save them
from oppression and suffering. In fact, they are still waiting! So, when a
man appeared, bearing a name signifying that he was the Messiah, taught with
power and authority, performed miracles, and received a following like no other
Jew in the history of the world, whose followers among the Jews testified to
the world that he was indeed the Messiah; whose non-Jewish followers testified
that he was the Christ (meaning “the Messiah”), and hundreds of men and women
witnessed that the grave could not hold him; it is more than strange that Jew
and Gentile alike can deny that he is anyone else than whom he claimed to be;
even Christ, the Son of the Living God. 
My Testimony of the Savior. I know that He was – and is - the great Jehovah. He is the Lawgiver, the Judge, and our savior. He condescended below all things in order to save everyone who has a broken heart and a contrite spirit.
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