JESUS

The name Jesus derives 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.

Yeshua bar Abba ("Jesus son of the Father") is the name, according to several scholars, originally borne by Jesus Christ, 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 Jesus 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 Jesuses 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. To strangers to Jesus and his family it would not mean "Jesus son of God", but simply Jesus, son of someone with the given name "Abba".

The use of the name Jesus by the Lord God Omnipotent as his personal name has given it 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.

Jesus Christ is the master of personal repentance and conversion, meaning that there is no other name given under heaven whereby men can receive any degree of salvation from their sins, nor the consequences thereof.

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:Verse 12)

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.

So the Father had it in his Plan to send Jehovah, his Omnipotent Son, 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 Father wanted holy men and women to recognize him as Jehovah. So he sent Gabriel to make sure he was given the name, Jesus, that would point straight back at who he was before he was born. Jesus means "Jehovah is Salvation".

My Testimony of Jesus Christ. I know that Jesus was the great Jehovah, and that he is so now. 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.