Converting Your Bible Reading  to Conform with the True Names Method

*starred listings are necessary in keeping the 3^rd commandment

THE KEY:

In the Tanakh  (Old Testament)

When you see

                *God read Elohim (Ail-oh-heem)

                *The LORD read Yahweh with great reverence

*Jehovah read Yahweh

                *Lord read Sovereign or Master

                Sabaoth or Hosts read armies

                Holy read set-apart or devoted

                Glory read Esteem or Fame

                Amen read Amein (ah-MAIN)

In the Brit Chadasha (New Testament)

When you see

                *Jesus read Yahshua or Yahusha

                *Christ read the Anointed One or the Messiah or Sovereign

                *Church read Assembly or Qahal(im)       

                *The Lord read Yahweh or Master, depending on context

                *Ghost read Spirit or Ruach

                Cross read Stake (Stauros)

                Gospel read Good News or Tov Besorah

                Grace read Favor

                James read Jacob or Ya’aqov

                Love read Charity

Read through these passages using THE KEY until you gain some proficiency.

Gen 1:3. And God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light.

Gen 2:8. And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east.

Est 1:22. He sent letters to all provinces that every man be lord in his house.

Exo 20:7. You will not take the name of the LORD your God in vain.

Exo 20:7b. The LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.  

Isa 66: 1. Thus says the LORD: "Heaven is my throne and earth my footstool.”

Isa 18:7. An offering will be brought to Yahweh Sabaoth on behalf of a people …

Mat 1:20. That which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.

Mat 1:25.  And he called his name Jesus.

Mat 3:3 . The voice crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord.

Mar 1: 1.  The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God …

Heb 7: 14. For it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Juda …

Mar 12: 36.  For David said by the Holy Ghost, The Lord said to my Lord, Sit …

Psa 35: 23.  Awake to my judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my Lord.

Psa 110: 1.  The LORD said to my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand …

Gal 1: 1. Paul, an apostle, … by Jesus Christ, and God the Father.

Gal 1: 19.  But other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord’s brother.

Gal 1: 22.  I was unknown to the churches of Judaea that were in Christ.

Gal 6:14. But far be it from me to glory except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Rev 1: 2. Who bore record of the word of God, and the testimony of Jesus Christ.

Rev 1:20. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches:

Rev 1:20b and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches.

Rev 1:9 The word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.

Mar 15:34 Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?

Mar 15:34b Being interpreted is, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

1 Cor 1: 2,3.  Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours:  Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

Mat 10:38.  He who does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. 

Why make these substitutions?  (in short:)

If we had objective Scripture translations, those not directed by churched, we would not have to make substitutes in order to keep the third commandment.   Popular English Bible translations follow a tradition started by the first English translators.  These fellows were not very skilled, yet they saw their mission as critical.  Among their many errors is the spelling and pronunciation of the Father’s name.  They took the four Hebrew letters of his name, anglicized the letters, then placed an arbitrary vowel between each letter.  The Hebrew letters they Anglicized are YHWH – these pioneers made them out to be JHVH, then popped a vowel between each letter, thus JeHoVaH.  Many translation traditions retain this misspelling / mispronunciation, even though the word it spells means “Yahweh wrecks things.” Soon after, many Christian translators decided to follow Jewish superstition and covered the Father’s name up entirely with the work LORD in capital letters.  The Jews had covered it up with the pagan name ADONAI, which English translators of the Elizabethan period considered to mean LORD.  Five hundred years later, translators still do this because of church tradition, thus keeping the name o above all names hidden for all but a very small minority of believers who know the truth of the matter.  To conclude this essay, both words “Lord” and “Adonai” refer to pagan deities despised by Yahweh.  Lord comes from the Greek/Etruscan god “Larth.” Adonai from the Egyptian sun god Adon and its Greek equivalent Adonis, the god of homosexuality.

What About the Rest?

God: this is the name of one of the gods Israel took into captivity.  Look at the parallel passages:

Isa 65:11. (RSV) But you who forsake the Lord, who forget my holy mountain, who set a table for Fortune and fill cups of mixed wine for Destiny (fate or luck).

Isa 65:11  (NJB) But as for those of you who abandon Yahweh, who forget my holy mountain,who lay the table for Gad (pronounced gawd), who fill cups of mixed wine for Meni (pronounced money)

     Here is their fate for worshiping gods named God and Money:

 12.  I will destine you to the sword, and all of you shall bow down to the slaughter; because, when I (Yahweh) called, you did not answer, when I spoke, you did not listen, but you did what was evil in my eyes, and chose what I did not delight in."  etc.

     Yahweh’s title is Elohim and the enemy of his people is God.

Lord: Etruscan and Greek god, Larth, worshipped by the early Europeans as the god of dough & bread.  Continued in use for scripture translations to teach people to obey their “landlords.”

Jehovah: An error early German and English bible translator made in trying to record the name of the Father.  It means, “Yah wrecks.”

Glory: “a ring of light” – the halo pictured on the heads of saints in icons.  Glory (gloria, Latin) is identified with the sun god.

Holy: derived from the Greek son god Helios and the Saxon son god Heilig.  Qadosh (Gr.) or Hagios (Gr.) mean separated or set-apart. 

Jesus: a contrived name based on the Latin Iesus.  There is no ‘j’ sound in Hebrew or Greek and no ‘sh’ sound in Greek.  The closest they could get in transliterating the savior’s name was ‘Ihsou’ pronounced YƏšū (yuhshu).  Since he came to save in his Father’s name, we know his name to be YAH (his Father’s poetic name) SHUA (meaning ‘saves’) = Yahshua (not Yeshua).  Check the King James Version 1611 – it is correct in there until translators changed his name.

Amen is the name of the sun god at the time Joseph was serving Pharoah (Amen-hotep IV) in Egypt.  Please pronounce it ah-MAIN or oh-MAIN.

Christ as a title or name came along long after the death of the Savior.  ‘Christ’ is Greek for ‘smeared.’  Some called his followers Christians in Antioch, meaning ‘smeared with excrement’, a play on words.  Christ comes from the demigod Krishna.  Use instead “The Anointed One” or “Messiah.”

Church: This word got into our language through the Greek goddess Circe, the destroyer of sailors.  Coming into European languages, ‘kirk’ meant ‘circle’ – the circle of people who conjured up evil spirits.  The Scriptural word is ekklesia, ‘called out.’  The Hebrew is qahal, which means ‘called together.’  The word to substitute is “assembly’ (as in “The Assembly of Yahweh”) or I say Qahal (congregation) or, as Yahshua probably called it, the Yahad – those “called together in one accord.”

Ghost: a ghost is an unclean spirit that has left an inhabited person when that person died.  Use instead “spirit,” “wind,” or “ruach.”

Cross: This word does not (to my knowledge) exist in Scripture.  The Greek word for ‘cross’ is chiasm, but the word that is actually there is stauros, which means ‘stake,’ ‘pike,’ ‘pole,’ or, metaphorically, ‘tree.’

Gospel: “god’s spell” – not suitable for speaking of set-apart teaching.  The Greek word is euaggelion; in Hebrew it is tov besorah.  Call it ‘good news,’ or, better, tov besorah.

Grace: this word has come to mean something far different than it did originally.  Charis means favor.

James: No such name in any Scripture.  The name is Ya’aqov or, Anglicized, Jacob.  Why do you think translators changed Jacob to James?

Love: This word has also come to mean something unintended.  Agape (Greek) or Ahava (Hebrew) mean cherish and charity; that is, love that actually works.

Note:

Isaiah 42:8. I am Yahweh, that is my name! I shall not yield my glory to another, nor my honour to idols. (NJB)

Proverbs 30:2.  Surely I am too stupid to be a man. I have not the understanding of a man.   3.  I have not learned wisdom, nor have I knowledge of the Holy One.  4.  Who has ascended to heaven and come down? Who has gathered the wind in his fists? Who has wrapped up the waters in a garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son's name? Surely you know!  (RSV)

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