Thursday

Supernatural: Spiritual Warfare

Supernatural: Spiritual Warfare

Since we were able to dream and imagination a world outside of ourselves, we have entertained the Supernatural.
...Just to name a few. But what are we really dealing with here? Is this knowledge or entertainment or a little of both? How much of what we see in movies is real and how much of it is ripped right out of the oldest story known to man? Well the truth is - both. Horror movies, mystery novels and even rock music all glorify the battle at hand: spiritual warfare. Indeed there is a battle for lost souls. Some are aware of this and do what they need to do to protect themselves. Others seek wisdom to learn of these spiritual pitfalls and make a diligent effort to avoid them. And then there are those who worship this way of life and make it a religion. Then there is the small percentage of the world that just doesn't care one way or the other and thinks all the preceding groups are just nuts. Well, no matter what you believe, the facts are the facts. We live in a "fallen" world away from universal peace and good will and our media allows us to expose every corner of our spirit - light and dark. 



You are never pretty enough, skinny enough, strong enough, smart enough, tall enough, short enough you will never be "perfect" why? Because there is an unseen force that is embedded into the modern mind that without buying their product or paying for their service, you will not achieve perfection.

And then there is the obvious...


Guns...


...Cars


 Money...


and Sex...
 Without it even being said, we all know that there are more worldly desires out there in competition for our soul. Now, I left out addictions such as alcohol, tobacco, narcotics, and the abuses or extremes we press upon ourselves. Mainly because well it's self explanatory. Those things we impose upon ourselves only we can blame ourselves for. Those things that are pressed upon us by the world and its ways are things of an unseen force.


The Big Principle: How you "THINK" will determine - How you "LIVE".

The Battlefield of Spiritual Warfare is "OUR MIND".

2 Corinthians 4:4; 1 Peter 5:8-9

It is the thought process that drives, directs, shapes, molds, and creates your reality. It starts with you. Keep a "sober" mind and a "sober" path will be created before you.

The unseen force of evil is a living breathing being with the intent to kill, steal, and destroy. And the enemy of man seeks you out like a lion on the prowl in the wild. The enemy is an opportunist.

So let's just say I subscribe to this point of view...how would I know if I am being "Spiritually Attacked"?

1. Failures lead to DESPAIR. When your will is weak, your guard is down and it is easier to be tempted to do something hurtful and harmful to yourself and others. (Zechariah 3:1-4)
2. Uncertainty leads to DOUBT. When you start to question yourself and second guess your best judgment, you know right, but do wrong, whatever your definition of right and wrong is, you go against the grain and break your own rules and/or the rules and principles you naturally uphold. Becoming indecisive gives "evil" and "opportunity" to sink in. (Genesis 3:1-5)
3. Ambitions become DISTRACTIONS. Guard your mind, body, and spirit. They are the core of you. When they are weak, you can become ill and illness can lead to death. Gain, sew and reap wisdom. (Genesis 3:6)
4. Anger becomes DIVISION. We have all at one point or another said or done something in anger that we regret. This is exactly what the "enemy" looks for to break you down and destroy your relationships and devour your life - breadcrumb by breadcrumb. Anger is hasty, but evil is ever-so-patient. And will wait for you to fall and then kick you when you are down. (Ephesians 4:26-27)
5. Desires become DECEPTION. It is perfectly natural to desire material things: food, clothing, shelter and other necessities of life. Too much of anything will destroy you from the inside out. (Matthew 4:1-11)
6. Anxiety becomes DREAD. Take time to pace yourself in life and in spiritual matters. Getting ahead of yourself will only force you to fall over your own feet and hit  the ground. Getting ahead of your teacher will only force you to miss something of grave importance that you needed to learn. You may regret jumping ahead when you realize that you missed the whole point, the whole message, the bigger picture. (Hebrews 2:14-15)

Sometimes, it's just US! We carry the weight of the world on our shoulders. Sometimes, it's just our own baggage pulling us down and holding us back. That's when you have to do what some people will not: 
GET OUT OF YOUR OWN WAY

James 1:14

Yes, believe it or not, we tempt ourselves and cause ourselves to fail. It's not bad enough we have the world trying to take us down and the unseen forces of evil trying to eat us out, but now we have to protect our eyes, ears, and hands from seeing, listening, and idling in unhealthy destructive actions and behaviors. (Phew! Sounds like a lot of work!

Well, the activity of Warfare is RESISTING and DRAWING NEAR.

Root yourself in love and devotion with a passion for self and others; knowing that there is a Higher Power that loved you first and showed you how to pass love on. 

Draw Nigh
Seek and Sew the Truth
Ask and Receive


James 4:7-8 ; 2 Corinthians 10:3-5 ; Psalm 8:2
In conclusion, I leave you with this: 
Protect yourself and the ones you love by bringing them up in love, life, and wholesome fulfillment. When you think you know it all, ask yourself what is it I do not know and more knowledge will come to you.
- DeMaster Thomas
...sleep now...

Ephesians 6:10-17

Wednesday

The Message: News from the East


Message to the Black Man "or"
{Message to the Original Humankind}
By Elijah Muhammad
-Honorable Elijah Muhammad, Messenger of Allah

Section one : Allah is God
Allah is God
Who is that Mystery God?
Part 1, Chapter 1

1 For thousands of years, the people who did not have the Knowledge of the person, or reality of God worshiped their own Ideas of God. He has been made like many things other than what He really is. The Christians refer to God as a "Mystery" and a "Spirit" and divide Him into thirds. One part they call the Father, another part the Son, and the third part they call the Holy Ghost; which makes the three, one. This is contrary to both nature and mathematics. The law of mathematics will not allow us to put three into one. Our nature rebels against such a belief of God being a mystery and yet the Father of a son and a Holy Ghost without a wife or without being something In reality. We wonder how can the son be human, and the father a mystery (unknown), or a spirit? Who is this Holy Ghost that is classified as being the equal of the father and the son?
2 The Christians do not believe in God as being a human being, yet they believe in Him as being the Father of all human beings. They also refer to God as He, Him, Man, King and The Ruler. They teach that God sees, hears, talks, walks, stands, sits, rides, and flies; that He grieves or sorrows; and that He is interested in the affairs of human beings. They also teach that once upon a time He made the first man like Himself in the image and likeness of Himself, but yet they believe that He, Himself, is not a man or human. They preach and prophesy of His coming and that He will be seen on the Judgment Day but is not man. They cannot tell us what He looks like, yet man is made like Him and in the image of God, and yet they still say that He is a mystery (unknown).
3 How can one teach the people to know God if He, himself, does not know God. If you try teaching the
Christians that God is also a human being, they will say that you are crazy, that you do not believe in God and that you are an infidel. In the meantime, while they admit that He is a Mystery God (unknown), they teach not to make any likeness of Him; yet they adorn their walls and churches with pictures, images and statues like human beings.

4 Can God be a Mystery God and yet send prophets to represent Himself? Have the prophets been representing a God that is not known (Mystery)? They tell us that they heard Gods voice speaking to them in their own language. Can a spirit speak a language while being an immaterial something? If God is not material, what pleasure would He get out of material beings and the material universe? What is the basis of spirit? Is the spirit independent of material?

5 Actually, who is that Mystery God? We should take time and study what has and is being taught to us. Study the word and examine it, and if it be the Truth, lay hold to it. To teach people that God is a Mystery God is to teach them that God is unknown. There is no truth in such teaching. Can one teach that which he himself does not know?

6 If one teaches a thing that he himself does not know, he can be charged with lying to the people. The word
"mystery," according to the English dictionaries, is something that has not been or cannot be - something beyond human comprehension. The unintelligent, or rather ones without divine knowledge, seem to delight themselves in representing the God as something mysterious Unknown.

Alien Species 1 - Humans

TRUTH

TRUTH UNFOLDS

TRUTH EXPOSED-PLEASE WAKE UP

Tuesday

What's in a name? The Bright Side

The Nazarene Way of Essenic Studies
 Yeshua, Jesus, or YH-Zeus?
The Mis-Transliteration of a Greek Mis-Transliteration.
This article was updated on January 1, 2011, to include new information about the Messiah's name.
Yeshua is the original Aramaic proper name for Jesus the Nazarene, who lived from about 6 B.C.E. to 27 C.E. (A.D.)  The word "Jesus" is actually a mis-transliteration of a Greek mis-transliteration. The Emperor Constantine even mistook Jesus for Apollo, the son of the Greek god Zeus. In Hebrew Yeshua means Salvation while the name Jesus has no intrinsic meaning in English whatsoever.

This section contains the new information about the Messiah's name.

The name YH-Zeus comes from merging the Jewish god YHVH and the Greco-Roman god Zeus.
The popular first century Egyptian god, Serapis, was the result of merging the gods Osiris and Apis.
Serapis was an invented god, the brainchild of Ptolemy Soter I as a means of peacefully merging two warring religious factions. It was immensely successful.
Merging the god of the Jews, YHVH, with the Greco-Roman god, Zeus, may well have been an attempt to duplicate Ptolemy Soter's success.
A dying and resurrected Jewish Messiah would have satisfied the Jews. the Greeks, and the Romans.
Merging YH-Zeus with the Egyptian god Serapis would encompass the rest of the Roman Empire.
"One Nation under One God"
This second century bust housed at the London Museum is Serapis, not Jesus.
It would most likely have been produced during the reign of Hadrian, 117 to 138 ACE, perhaps about the time he wrote the following:
"From Hadrian Augustus to Servianus the consul, greeting. The land of Egypt, the praises of which you have been recounting to me, my dear Servianus, I have found to be wholly light-minded, unstable, and blown about by every breath of rumor. There, those who worship Serapis are, in fact, Christians, and those who call themselves bishops of Christ are, in fact, devotees of Serapis. There is no chief of the Jewish synagogue, no Samaritan, no Christian presbyter, who is not an astrologer, a soothsayer, or an anointer. Even the Patriarch himself, when he comes to Egypt, is forced by some to worship Serapis, by others to worship Christ. They are a folk most seditious, most deceitful, most given to injury; but their city is prosperous, rich, and fruitful, and in it no one is idle."

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Yeshua Ben Yosef
It is most proper to call Him Yeshua; only in Hebrew does this name have any meaning. In Hebrew Yeshua means both "Salvation," and the concatenated form of Yahoshua, is "Lord who is Salvation." The name Jesus has no intrinsic meaning in English whatsoever.
There are many Yeshuas that we read about in Biblical text and many are confused with the Yeshua who would later become the "Christ". The name Yeshua appears 29 times in the Tanach. Yehoshua (Joshua) of Nun is called Yeshua in Nechemyah (Nehemiah) 8:17. Yeshua is the name of the Cohain HaGadol (the high priest) in the time of Zerubavel in Ezra 3:2. It is the name of a Levite under King Hizkiyah (Hezekiah) in 2 Chronicles 31:15. There is even a city called Yeshua in the negev of Yehudah in Nechemyah11:26. Yeshua is also a shortened version of the word Yehoshua much like Bill is for William.
There are 7 other Yeshuas (Jesuses) in the Brit Chadashah. There is Elymas bar Yeshua in Acts 13:6. There is an ancestor of Yeshua HaMashiach: the son of Eliezar, the father of Er in Luke 3:29. In Rav Shaul's letter to the Colossians in chapter 4, verse 11, there is a Justus called Yeshua a fellow worker of Shaul. Josephus, the famous Jewish historian mentions 20 different Yeshuas (Jesuses), 10 of which are contemporary with Yeshua HaMashiach. All together, at least 50 Yeshuas from his time plus about 9 in the Tanach have been revealed from Biblical text and other literary sources.
Mis-Translating the Mis-Translation
Yeshua is a Hebrew name which has been transliterated into Greek as Iesous (IhsouV: pronounced ee-ay-SUS or ee-ah-ZOOS). The English "Jesus" comes from the Latin transliteration of the Greek name into the Latin Iesus. Now Greek has no "y" sound, but the Latin "i" is both an "i" and a "j" (i.e., it can have a consonantal force in front of other vowels), the latter of which is properly pronounced like the English "y" (which explains the German Jesu, "YAY-su")That is why we spell Jesus as we do, taking it straight from Latin, but we pronounce the name with a soft "j" sound because that is what we do in English with the consonantal "j".
The first letter in the name Yeshua ("Jesus") is the yod. Yod represents the "Y" sound in Hebrew. Many names in the Bible that begin with yod are mispronounced by English speakers because the yod in these names was transliterated in English Bibles with the letter "J" rather than "Y". This came about because in early English the letter "J" was pronounced the way we pronounce "Y" today. All proper names in the Old Testament were transliterated into English according to their Hebrew pronunciation via the Latin, but when English pronunciation shifted to what we know today, these transliterations were not altered. Thus, such Hebrew place names as ye-ru-sha-LA-yim, ye-ri-HO, and yar-DEN have become known to us as Jerusalem, Jericho, and Jordan; and Hebrew personal names such as yo-NA, yi-SHAI, and ye-SHU-a have become known to us as Jonah, Jesse, and Jesus. To further complicate matters, there was no letter "J" in the old English alphabet and the letter "I" was often used in its place. Often in early texts of the time, Jesus or Jerusalem would be spelled Iesus or Ierusalem.
The second sound in Yeshua's name is called tse-RE, and is pronounced almost like the letter "e" in the word "net". Just as the "Y" sound of the first letter is mispronounced in today's English, so too the first vowel sound in "Jesus". Before the Hebrew name "Yeshua" was transliterated into English, it was first transliterated into Greek. There was no difficulty in transliterating the tse-RE sound since the ancient Greek language had an equivalent letter which represented this sound. And there was no real difficulty in transcribing this same first vowel into English. The translators of the earliest versions of the English Bible transliterated the tse-RE in Yeshua with an "e". Unfortunately, later English speakers guessed wrongly that this "e" should be pronounced as in "me," and thus the first syllable of the English version of Yeshua came to be pronounced "Jee" instead of "Yeh". It is this pronunciation which produced such euphemistic profanities as "Gee" and "Geez".
Since Yeshua is spelled "Jeshua" and not "Jesus" in most English versions of the Old Testament (for example in Ezra 2:2 and 2 Chronicles 31:15), one easily gets the impression that the name is never mentioned in the Hebrew Scriptures. Yet 'Yeshua' appears there twenty-nine times, and is the name of at least five different persons and one village in the southern part of Yehudah ("Judah").
In contrast to the early biblical period, there were relatively few different names in use among the Jewish population of the Land of Israel at the time of the Second Temple. The name Yeshua was one of the most common male names in that period, tied with Eleazer for fifth place behind Simon, Joseph, Judah, and John. Nearly one out of ten persons known from the period was named Yeshua.
The first sound of the second syllable of Yeshua is the "sh" sound. It is represented by the Hebrew letter shin. However Greek, like many other languages, has no "sh" sound. Instead, the closest approximation, the Greek sigma, was used when transcribing "Yeshua" as "Iesus". Translators of English versions of the New Testament transliterated the Greek transcription of a Hebrew name, instead of returning to the original Hebrew. This was doubly unfortunate, first because the "sh" sound exists in English, and second because in English the "s" sound can shift to the "z" sound, which is what happened in the case of the pronunciation of "Jesus".
The fourth sound one hears in the name Yeshua is the "u" sound, as in the word "true". Like the first three sounds, this also has come to be mispronounced but in this case it is not the fault of the translators. They transcribed this sound accurately, but English is not a phonetic language and "u" can be pronounced in more than one way. At some point the "u" in "Jesus" came to be pronounced as in "cut," and so we say "Jee-zuhs."
The "a" sound, as in the word "father," is the fifth sound in Jesus' name. It is followed by a guttural produced by contracting the lower throat muscles and retracting the tongue root- an unfamiliar task for English speakers. In an exception to the rule, the vowel sound "a" associated with the last letter "ayin" (the guttural) is pronounced before it, not after. While there is no equivalent in English or any other Indo-European language, it is somewhat similar to the last sound in the name of the composer, "Bach." In this position it is almost inaudible to the western ear. Some Israelis pronounce this last sound and some don't, depending on what part of the dispersion their families returned from. The Hebrew Language Academy, guardian of the purity of the language, has ruled that it should be sounded, and Israeli radio and television announcers are required to pronounce it correctly. There was no letter to represent them, and so these fifth and sixth sounds were dropped from the Greek transcription of "Yeshua," -the transcription from which the English "Jesus" is derived.
So where did the final "s" of "Jesus" come from? Masculine names in Greek ordinarily end with a consonant, usually with an "s" sound, and less frequently with an "n" or "r" sound. In the case of "Iesus," the Greeks added a sigma, the "s" sound, to close the word. The same is true for the names Nicodemus, Judas, Lazarus, and others.
English speakers make one final change from the original pronunciation of Jesus' name. English places the accent on "Je," rather than on "sus." For this reason, the "u" has been shortened in its English pronunciation to "uh."
In Jesus' Name
Today's tradition of pronouncing His completely Hellenized name as "Jesus" has indeed obscured His true name, "Yeshua," and has shifted its perceived meaning much like most of His original teachings. 
As with all things Essene however, there is always the exoteric and the esoteric philosophies and functions. That is, those ideas and teachings suitable to be imparted to the public, and those designed for or understood by the specially initiated alone. 
Even His name, it would seem, became a part of this understanding. The name Jesus or Jesus Christ is often used in everything from idle conversation, to bumper stickers and jewelry, to enforcing false teachings, to justifying wars and political agendas, and is even used as a profanity. The name Yeshua however, has remained pure and holy, known and used only by those who would uphold His name and teachings in the highest regard and thus reserving His holy name for use only in spiritual matters and the most humbled and sincere of prayer and obeisances.

Special Note: In an effort to keep the integrity of the manuscripts within The Nazarene Way site and its archives intact, and for the purposes of study, correspondence and for future theological reference, the name Jesus does appear in many of our texts, files and manuscripts. To the devout student, the proper name Yeshua is always implied. 
It is our intention to reproduce all texts as they were originally written or, as they were originally translated. We feel it is important that no text is ever arbitrarily or intentionally changed, altered, added to, replaced or corrected, to include spelling, punctuation or grammatical error. The word Jesus is also used on our main menu and index pages for general public recognition and for common browser and search engine purposes.

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Names of Jesus Christ

The Savior and Redeemer of the World

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This list contains over 200 of the many names of Jesus. Some are titles of the Savior and concepts of who Christ is. Many of the names of Jesus come from the Bible, LDS Scriptures, and Latter-day revelation.

Names of Jesus Christ
  1. Advocate
  2. Almighty
  3. Almighty God
  4. Alpha and Omega
  5. Amen, The
  6. Ancient of Days
  7. Anointed
  8. Anointed One
  9. Author
  10. Author of Eternal Salvation
  11. Beginning
  12. Beginning and the Ending
  13. Begotten
  14. Beloved
  15. Beloved Son
  16. Beloved Son of God
  17. Blessed of God
  18. Bread of Life
  19. Bridegroom
  20. Bright and Morning Star
  21. Captain of Man's Salvation
  22. Captain of Our Salvation
  23. Carpenter
  24. Carpenter's Son
  25. Chief Cornerstone
  26. Chosen
  27. Chosen of God
  28. Christ
  29. Christ Child
  30. Christ of God
  31. Christ the Lamb
  32. Comforter
  33. Consolation of Israel
  34. Cornerstone
  35. Counsellor
  36. Creator
  37. Creator of All Things
  38. Deliverer
  39. Divine Son
  40. Door of the Sheep
  41. Emmanuel
  42. End of the Law
  43. Endless
  44. Eternal
  45. Eternal Father
  46. Eternal God
  47. Eternal Head
  48. Eternal Judge
  49. Eternal Judge of Quick and Dead
  50. Everlasting Father
  51. Example
  52. Exemplar
  53. Faithful and True
  54. Father
  55. Father of Heaven and Earth
  56. Finisher
  57. Finisher of faith
  58. First and the Last
  59. Firstborn
  60. Firstfruits
  61. Forerunner
  62. God
  63. God of Abraham
  64. God of Isaac
  65. God of Israel
  66. God of Jacob
  67. God of Thy Father
  68. God of Whole Earth
  69. God's Anointed
  70. God's Holy Child Jesus
  71. Good Shepherd
  72. Governor
  73. Great I AM
  74. Great God
  75. Great Shepherd
  76. Head of Every Man
  77. Head of the Body
  78. Head of the Church
  79. Healer
  80. Heir of All Things
  81. Holy
  82. Holy Child
  83. Holy Messiah
  84. Holy One
  85. Holy One of Israel
  86. Holy One of Jacob
  87. I AM
  88. Image of God
  89. Immanuel
  90. Jehovah
  91. Jesus
  92. Jesus Christ
  93. Jesus of Galilee
  94. Jesus of Nazareth
  95. Joseph's Son
  96. Judge
  97. Judge of Quick and Dead
  98. Just One
  99. Just, The
  100. King
  101. King of Israel
  102. King of Kings
  103. King of Zion/Sion
  104. King of the Jews
  105. Lamb
  106. Lamb of God
  107. Life, the
  108. Light of the World
  109. Light, the
  110. Lion of the Tribe of Juda
  111. Living Bread
  112. Living Stone
  113. Living Water
  114. Lord
  115. Lord from Heaven
  116. Lord God
  117. Lord God Almighty
  118. Lord God of Hosts
  119. Lord Jehovah
  120. Lord Jesus
  121. Lord of All
  122. Lord of Dead
  123. Lord of Glory
  124. Lord of Hosts
  125. Lord of Living
  126. Lord of Lords
  127. Lord of the Sabbath
  128. Lord Omnipotent
  129. Lord our Righteousness
  130. Lord's Christ
  131. Maker
  132. Man of Counsel
  133. Man of Holiness
  134. Master
  135. Mediator
  136. Meek and Lowly
  137. Messenger of the Covenant
  138. Messiah
  139. Messias
  140. Mighty God
  141. Mighty One
  142. Mighty One of Israel
  143. Mighty One of Jacob
  144. Minister
  145. Most High God
  146. Nazarene
  147. Offspring of David
  148. One Body
  149. Only Begotten
  150. Only Begotten of the Father
  151. Only Begotten Son
  152. Our Passover
  153. Physician
  154. Power of God
  155. Prince
  156. Prince of Life
  157. Prince of Peace
  158. Prophet
  159. Prophet of Nazareth
  160. Propitiation for Sins of Whole World
  161. Rabbi
  162. Redeemer
  163. Redeemer of Israel
  164. Redeemer of the World
  165. Resurrection and the Life
  166. Revealer
  167. Righteous Judge
  168. Righteous Man
  169. Rock, the
  170. Rock of Heaven
  171. Root of Jesse
  172. Sacrifice, the
  173. Savior
  174. Savior of Israel
  175. Savior of the World
  176. Second Comforter
  177. Seed of Abraham
  178. Seed of David
  179. Seed of the Woman
  180. Servant of Jehovah
  181. Servant of the Lord
  182. Shepherd
  183. Son
  184. Son of Abraham
  185. Son of David
  186. Son of God
  187. Son of Man
  188. Son of Mary
  189. Son of Righteousness
  190. Son of the Blessed
  191. Son of the Eternal Father
  192. Son of the Everlasting God
  193. Son of the Highest
  194. Son of the Living God
  195. Son of the Most High God
  196. Spiritual Rock
  197. Stem of Jesse
  198. Teacher Come from God
  199. True Vine
  200. Truth, the
  201. Unchangeable One
  202. Way, the
  203. Well Beloved
  204. Wisdom of God
  205. Wonderful
  206. Word of Life
  207. Word, the
  208. Worthy
If you know of a name of Jesus that is not listed here, feel free to submit it or learn more about Jesus Christ.
Rachel Bruner
Guide since 2002

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