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God Revealing His Name (Exodus 3:13-15)
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Dear Shamasha Younan and all brothers and sisters in the Lord,
Please find below the link (of the church where I serve) to this artcile that I've published before in Zinda Magazine ("2007 December issue) which explains the meaning of God's Name as He revealed it to Moses and how that meaning was powerfuly and gloriously revealed in the person and works of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; the only Name that all knees will and shall bow down before whether in faith for salvation, or for condemnation and judgement if rejected.
May all praise and glory be to the Name of our Saviour Jesus Christ

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yours in Him
Pastor Henry Shaheen
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#2
In the lamsa bible, exodus 3-15, has'ahiah ashar high (that is the living God)', is this correct?
Thank you
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Shlama Pastor Henry,

Would that be "Shamasha" too? 'Pastor' in Syriac/Aramaic, I mean?

First, welcome to Peshitta.org Forum!

It's really great to have another member of The Assyrian Church of the East on the Board!

I thought that your post/article was very well done!

I also thought that it puts an end to the (so-called) "Sacred Name Movement" using "Yah-Shua" as Yeshua's "real name"??????

Yes, I would agree that 'Yah' is an abbreviation (spelling?) of God's Name, but I think to FORCE people to say "Yahshua" is put forth by people who neither understand Hebrew, nor Aramaic.

And as you know, the two languages are very, very similar, and really I feel that Hebrew is 'a descendant' language, of Aramaic.

I can't tell you how much that "the Sacred Name" people have bugged me in the past.

Thanks for explaining to us the passage from Exodus 3:13-15!

And again, welcome to Peshitta.org Forum!

Shlama in Yeshua, Albion
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Shlama Qashisha Henry,

I read your article and found your presentation of Yeshua as The "I AM" especially interesting, as I have translated The Peshitta NT, and have used Lamsa's translation of Exodus 3:14 "Ahiah Asher High" -"I AM The Living God" in translating our Lord's many "Ena na" ("I AM") statements, to emphasize His claim to Deity. I know Lamsa's is not literally accurate, but it conveys the power and majesty of that Name above all names.

Welcome to the forum. I am sure many will want to pick your brain.

Burkta b'Maran,

Qashisha Dave
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Shlama Pastor Shaheen,

I will be moving to London later this year. Can I stop by your church sometime <!-- sBig Grin --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/happy.gif" alt="Big Grin" title="Happy" /><!-- sBig Grin --> ?

Fanastic article BTW.
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Shlama Dmaran Yeshua Mshikha Paroqan Amkhon
Brothers and sisters in the Lord Jesus Christ, thank you all for your encouraging words.
Christina, you are most welcome to the UK and it will be an honour to see you in the church where I serve my Lord, His Word and His people. Thank you also for your encouraging words, may our Lord bless you and keep you in His mercy, love and care and in faith and faithful for His Name and glory.
Shamasha Younan,
Thank you very much for welcoming me on Peshitta.org forum. I hope I???ll be useful member to your forum; a lot of interesting subjects and information.
I hope also you or any body else will not be disappointed or offended in any way if I say that I am not a member of the Assyrian Church of the East. But I can say that I am undeserved sinner saved by God???s grace in Jesus Christ my Lord and my God, and I am a member of His Holy body the Church whom He died for and purchased with His precious blood. I preach and serve among fellow Assyrians (and other English and Arabic speaking churches) in our mother language and from time to time I give Bible related talks at the Assyrian house in London.

Shamasha Younan, I never heard about such group or cult or sect (whatever they are). So, I searched the website reading what has been published about them. If you have more reliable sources about them then please let me know, for further investigation, and then we'll chat about them.
Also, I'll reply to others comments soon.
yours in Christ
Henry
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Dear brother Younan,
I have followed your correspondence and posts on the BT forum and although you showed what is right and truth yet people didn???t accept it. Whether we like it or not we are engaged in the battle for the Truth in the Name of the Truth to expose false teachers and their teachings and never compromise at the expense of our Lord???s Name and his Truth revealed in the Bible, even with closest friends and relatives near and far within the Assyrian community. If any one calls us to worship any stupid pagan man made god and yet claims to be a follower of Christ Jesus our Lord and God, then he is a liar and not a Christian and I would never worship with him because he is worshiping false gods and false Christ and there is no fellowship between the cursed evil darkness of Satan and the blessed good light of Jesus Christ.
May our Lord keep you in his mercy, love and Name for His glory.

Dear brother Albion,
Thank you for welcoming me to the forum, I am honoured.
Regarding this group I can read emphasis on a false claim to the sacredness of the Hebrew language just because God??? Name and Revelation was written in Hebrew language originally, which in essence is similar to the Arab Muslims??? claims and Arabic language.
But we know from the Bible and in both Testaments that God???s Revelation and message is what is valuable and sacred and not the languages through which He communicated His Revelation (Genesis 11:1-9; Acts 2:5-12; Revelation 7:9-10); the Revelation is given from God with all humanity (nations and tribes and languages in view).
But what is more serious and dangerous about this cult is that I find them already classified, and according to the Word of God, as false teachers and their teachings false. They are teaching false Christ and false Gospel; they are not teaching Christ Jesus as Jesus himself revealed himself, whom the Apostles witnessed and wrote about in fulfilment to Old Testament Prophets of God. The Apostle John warned us and how can we protected in 1 John 4).
1)they deny the Trinity; hence denying the Son Jesus Christ and the Fatherhood of God the Father (John warns about 2000 years ago 1 John 2:22-23, 4:15 in context).
2)they deny Jesus Christ coming in the Flesh and they deny that Jesus is the Christ; hence denying the miraculous birth of the Virgin Mary (1 John 4:1-3; 5:5:1)
3)As expected they want to go back to the Law, ceremonies, rituals, feasts for salvation and sanctification and judgement; a step backward towards Judaism (Judaizers). The Apostle warned against such people (Colossians 2:16-23; Galatians)
4)they put so much emphasis on the Sabbath and the command of keeping the Sabbath (why not on the other commands too! that we don???t know!! Galatians 3; Romans).
5)they reject the New Covenant which God the Father established and sealed in the only Name and the blood of His Son Christ Jesus our Lord and his cross; the Covenant of the Holy Spirit for Salvation and Sanctification (1 John 4:10); hence they deny the Christ???s atonement.

These are just few observations about this misleading and false teaching; not every one who calls himself Christian is a Christian. It was very hard for the Jewish who became believers in Christ Jesus and those who didn???t believe to accept the fact that they should give up their religious inheritance as a way of salvation and sanctification as they mistakenly interpreted it (Romans 9), and wanted to make it necessary for salvation (Acts 15:1) which could be labelled Christian heresy! although they talk in God's Name and Law; wolves desguised in sheep clothes.
But did Jesus come to give us a better religion than Judaism? Is that what we conclude from the four Gospels and then from the rest of the NT books? If it was then: we should have for example a better temple, a better priesthood and priestly order, better sacrifices and a better earthly centralized earthly Jerusalem and a better king! Do we add to the work of God the Father on the cross?
We know from the Gospels that our Lord spoke of the new wine for the new wineskins (Matthew 9:17 within context). Do we have to keep Jewish traditions and practices to become better Christians? Never! Because then we???ll fall from the grace of God in Jesus Christ; Christ who died for His Church whom he bought with His precious divine blood, for me and all who believe in Him given the gift of faith from Him in Him and for Him, Amen.
Yours in Christ
Henry
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Quote:Regarding this group I can read emphasis on a false claim to the sacredness of the Hebrew language just because God??? Name and Revelation was written in Hebrew language originally, which in essence is similar to the Arab Muslims??? claims and Arabic language.
But we know from the Bible and in both Testaments that God???s Revelation and message is what is valuable and sacred and not the languages through which He communicated His Revelation (Genesis 11:1-9; Acts 2:5-12; Revelation 7:9-10); the Revelation is given from God with all humanity (nations and tribes and languages in view).
But what is more serious and dangerous about this cult is that I find them already classified, and according to the Word of God, as false teachers and their teachings false. They are teaching false Christ and false Gospel; they are not teaching Christ Jesus as Jesus himself revealed himself, whom the Apostles witnessed and wrote about in fulfilment to Old Testament Prophets of God. The Apostle John warned us and how can we protected in 1 John 4).
1)they deny the Trinity; hence denying the Son Jesus Christ and the Fatherhood of God the Father (John warns about 2000 years ago 1 John 2:22-23, 4:15 in context).
2)they deny Jesus Christ coming in the Flesh and they deny that Jesus is the Christ; hence denying the miraculous birth of the Virgin Mary (1 John 4:1-3; 5:5:1)
3)As expected they want to go back to the Law, ceremonies, rituals, feasts for salvation and sanctification and judgement; a step backward towards Judaism (Judaizers). The Apostle warned against such people (Colossians 2:16-23; Galatians)
4)they put so much emphasis on the Sabbath and the command of keeping the Sabbath (why not on the other commands too! that we don???t know!! Galatians 3; Romans).
5)they reject the New Covenant which God the Father established and sealed in the only Name and the blood of His Son Christ Jesus our Lord and his cross; the Covenant of the Holy Spirit for Salvation and Sanctification (1 John 4:10); hence they deny the Christ???s atonement.

These are just few observations about this misleading and false teaching; not every one who calls himself Christian is a Christian. It was very hard for the Jewish who became believers in Christ Jesus and those who didn???t believe to accept the fact that they should give up their religious inheritance as a way of salvation and sanctification as they mistakenly interpreted it (Romans 9), and wanted to make it necessary for salvation (Acts 15:1) which could be labelled Christian heresy! although they talk in God's Name and Law; wolves desguised in sheep clothes.
But did Jesus come to give us a better religion than Judaism? Is that what we conclude from the four Gospels and then from the rest of the NT books? If it was then: we should have for example a better temple, a better priesthood and priestly order, better sacrifices and a better earthly centralized earthly Jerusalem and a better king! Do we add to the work of God the Father on the cross?
We know from the Gospels that our Lord spoke of the new wine for the new wineskins (Matthew 9:17 within context). Do we have to keep Jewish traditions and practices to become better Christians? Never! Because then we???ll fall from the grace of God in Jesus Christ; Christ who died for His Church whom he bought with His precious divine blood, for me and all who believe in Him given the gift of faith from Him in Him and for Him, Amen.
Yours in Christ
Henry

Shlama Akhi Henry:
It would appear to me from your response that you have a bone to pick with "sacred namers". Is that so? In your above quote, you have outlined in point form, statements concerning a "cult". You have accused them of teaching "false Christ and false gospel".
To be clear, it is not my view that Orthodox Talmud-Torah Judaism is spiritually representative of the Jewish people anymore than Western Christianity represents the quintessential orthodox Christian. There are many denominations (speed bumps) in the neighbourhoods of Christianity. All are branches from the same sacred trunk, that is Jesus our Messiah the King of the Jews and the manifest GOD of Israel. The Church of Jesus Christ (universal) is neither Jewish, Gentile, western nor eastern, but all inclusive. Moreover this is not to mean that the Greek scriptures which are the mainstay of western Christianity are valueless. The Greek western texts are an excellent independent witness to the Aramaic "autograph". They are, as stated, a translation from the Aramaic and not the "autograph" itself. The scriptures are derived from two Semitic sister languages Hebrew and Aramaic. The close relationship between Hebrew and Aramaic has to do with the sharing of "common word roots" as well as semitic "cognates". It is for this reason that the Peshitta New Testament is the best written language in which the revelation of our LORD and Saviour Jesus Christ is put forth in "autograph". The Aramaic "autograph" of the New Testament can be easily traced back to the Hebrew scriptures, the TN"K. The Peshitta AN"K (Aramaic Old Testament) is a translation of the Hebrew "autograph" into Aramaic. After all, both semitic languages share about 80%+ of their "common roots". Greek shares 0% of its roots with Aramaic and Hebrew.
One must be careful, as is evident from reading your post. Do not throw out the baby with the bath-water. Indeed it's necessary to flee "false doctrine" but not the "autograph" of either the TN"K or the Peshitta New Testament simply because there are abusers of the WORD of God. Let the chips fall where they will. So be it that some will become enraptured in the use of "sacred names". That is not wrong in and of itself. It only becomes a danger to falsify the WORD of GOD.
Therefore the LAW is established as the absolute indictment of the sin of humanity. We are not saved by keeping the LAW of Moses and neither can we truly repent without it. How can one repent of his sins if he doesn't know what sin is by definition? The LAW of Moses serves as our "schoolmaster" to lead us to Messiah.(Galatians 3:24-25). Also, it is not correct to apply the label "judaiser" indiscriminately to those that are Torah Observant. The Messianic movement seems to swing like a pendulum between "grace" and "law" continually. Western Christianity may very well have replaced the LAW of Moses with its own traditional ways and introduced laws that place an even greater burden upon genuine believers than Talmud-Torah Judaism has done. The grace of our LORD Jesus Christ, and the LAW of Moses are not mutually exclusive. Our Saviour fulfilled the LAW of Moses. He went so far as to become a "curse for us", according to the LAW, to save us from our sins.(Galatians 3:13, Deuteronomy 21:22-23)

Shlama,
Stephen
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Dear Stephen,

This is so well written, that I'm literally gonna copy it off, and print it, so I can remember your words here.

There's very few posts here that I can say that I'm in 100% agreement with, but yours is definately one!

It's always so beautiful when people can kind of 'get themselves out of the way' and just let Maran Yeshua speak, as He did when He walked among us in a body like ours.

I really appreciate you just letting Him Guide your words here.

Shlama In Messiah Yeshua, Albion
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