THE

"UNKNOWN
GOD"

The above stone altar is found on Palatine Hill, Rome, where once stood the palaces of the Caesars. It dates from
about 100 B.C. and has the inscription, ´To the unknown God.´

The ignorant Greeks labeled the Creator: "The Unknown God" (Acts
17:23). They forgot WHO He is -- because they had lost the meaning
of His name! That name is important -- what is it? What does it
mean?
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 Though these sects claim that "Jehovah" is not the

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name, they cannot agree among themselves as to what
the Hebrew name should be! Some claim the name
OW IMPORTANT is a NAME? Does it should be pronounced "Yahvah," others that it should
be "Yahweh." They vehemently insist that it is a SIN
make any difference what name you use to designate to translate the names of God into English! They
the Creator? contend that it is the SOUND of the name, NOT ITS
MEANING, that is important!
Does it matter IN WHOSE NAME you pray?
Yet Paul was inspired to write: "Except ye utter by
the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it
be known what is spoken?" In verse 19 Paul
Authority in a Name continued, "Yet in the Church I had rather speak
five words with my understanding, that by my voice
A person's name is important. When one acts in I might teach others, than ten thousand words in an
another's name, one acts in his stead -- BY his unknown tongue" -- to the Greeks, Hebrew was an
authority. The name designates the source of the unknown tongue (I Cor. 14:9, 19).
authority it designates WHO the person is for whom
one acts. To pray in someone's name is to take the Names Have Meaning
authority of that name.
In the Bible, names have MEANING. Names are
The greatest curse that could come on anyone is to
given for a purpose.
have his name blotted out for all eternity!
The first man was called in the Hebrew tongue
It does make a difference what name you use for the
ADAM because he was made of "red earth." ADAM in
Creator -- and in whose name you pray. There is
Hebrew MEANS "red earth." ABRAM'S name in
ONLY ONE NAME "under heaven given among
Hebrew was changed to ABRAHAM because the
men, whereby we must be saved" (Acts 4:12). What
promise was made to Abraham that he should become
is this NAME? Without IT YOU CANNOT BE
"a father of many nations" (Genesis 17:5).
SAVED!
ABRAHAM means "a father of many nations."
The Son came in His Father's name. WHAT IS
JACOB'S name in Hebrew was changed to
HIS FATHER'S NAME? Unless YOU bear your
ISRAEL. The word JACOB in Hebrew means
heavenly Father's name, YOU are not His son and heir!
"supplanter," but the word ISRAEL means "prevailer
with God." Jacob prevailed with God and obtained His
blessing.
Modern Confusion
All these Biblical names convey MEANING.
Notice that these names are usually not greatly
Some claim that "Jehovah" is the Father's name.
changed in any foreign tongue because their meanings
They claim that we ought to use the word "Jehovah" are already given in the Bible. They do not have to be
instead of "Lord." Is "Jehovah" the Father's name? translated!
Other sects claim that when we speak of or pray to But other important Hebrew Biblical names
the heavenly Father and/or the Son, we should use only mentioned in the New Testament ARE
the Hebrew names of Deity. They insist that it is a sin TRANSLATED from Hebrew into Greek!
to use the words "God," "Lord," "Jesus," "Christ,"
"Word," and "Christian." They insist that we should
Notice Acts 9:36, "Now there was at Joppa a
always use the Hebrew words for Deity. They claim
certain disciple named Tabitha, WHICH BY
that it is a sin to pray "in the name of Jesus." A sin to
INTERPRETATION IS CALLED DORCAS" -- in
be called a "Christian"!
Greek. Her name means "Doe" in English.
 Again in Acts 13:8, the Aramaic name "Elymas" IS said unto him, I am the LORD" (verse 2). The
TRANSLATED as "Sorcerer" in English, or as Hebrew word which is here translated "LORD" is
"Magos" in the inspired Greek New Testament. YHWH -- translated "LORD" in verse 2, and
FROM THESE EXAMPLES WE SEE THAT mistranslated "Jehovah" in verse 3 -- comes from the
PERSONAL NAMES ARE OFTEN Hebrew root word meaning "to be," or "to exist." The
TRANSLATED IN THE BIBLE! name YHWH means "the Eternal," "the Ever-
Living," and as the Creator of all and superior to all,
THE NAMES OF THE CREATOR also have this name signifies that He is eternally Ruler and
great meaning. LORD!

Now notice especially verse 3, in the King James

translation: "And I appeared unto Abraham, unto
The Meaning of God's NAMES Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God
Almighty, but by my name 'Jehovah' was I not
In the Old Testament the English word "God" known unto them." The name "Jehovah" in the King
comes from the Hebrew word ELOHIM, meaning James is admittedly a woeful mistranslation. It comes
"mighty ones." It is a uniplural word showing that from the Hebrew word YHWH. Notice that the One
there are NUMEROUS MEMBERS IN THE ONE who was worshiped by Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob
DIVINE FAMILY. Sometimes the English word appeared under the name "God Almighty" -- in
"God" comes from another word EL. It signifies in Hebrew "El Shaddai." He did not reveal Himself by
Hebrew "a mighty one." the name YHWH. Not until the days of Moses did He
reveal this name. For 2,500 long years of human
Often the word EL is combined with other Hebrew history the Creator did not explicitly use the name
words to give new names to the Creator. Thus "El- YHWH. When Moses compiled the book of Genesis,
Shaddai" means the "Almighty God" (Gen. 17:1). he introduced the name, beginning with chapter 2.

Now turn to Exodus 3:13 and 14 for another Abraham, of course, used the word "YHWH" in
surprising NAME of the Almighty. "And Moses said reference to the Creator, for they knew the Creator was
to God, behold, when I come unto the children of ever-living -- that's what "YHWH" meant. But the
Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your name YHWH was never expressly used by the
fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say Almighty -- the Spokesman of the Creating Family.
unto me, What is His NAME? What shall I say unto
them? And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I How plain! The Creator thought it more important
AM: and He said, Thus shalt thou say unto the to reveal His WORD than even this name -- YHWH --
children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you." to Abraham. Notice Psalm 138:2, "... for thou hast
MAGNIFIED THY WORD ABOVE all thy name."
Notice! Here is one of the many names of the
Creator -- "I AM THAT I AM." There is real But what about the word "Jehovah" in Exodus 6:3?
meaning to this name! It may also be translated from
the Hebrew as "I will be what I will be." This name -- I
AM -- means that there is no one under heaven
superior to, no one who exercises lordship over, the
"Jehovah" Is NOT the Name
ONE who appeared to Moses. The One who appeared
to Moses is above all creation -- Lord of all! That is Tens of thousands are being led today to believe
what His name means. He is the ONE WHO IS, the that the Creator's name is "Jehovah." Where did the
SELF-EXISTENT ONE. name "Jehovah" come from? Notice what the "Jewish
Encyclopedia" has to say:

"'Jehovah' is generally held to have been the

He Is "The ETERNAL" invention of Pope Leo X's Confessor, Peter Galatin ...
who was followed in the use of this hybrid form by
Now turn to Exodus 6:1-3. Here the Creator reveals Fagius ... But it seems that even before Galatin, the
yet another name. "And God spake unto Moses, and name 'Jehovah' had been in common use ... It is found
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in Raymond Martin's 'Pugio Fidei,' written in 1270" "I have heard what the prophets said, that
(from "Jewish Encyclopedia", article "Jehovah," prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I
volume VII, page 88). have dreamed ... which think to cause my people
TO FORGET MY NAME BY THEIR DREAMS
The word "Jehovah" has come down to the modern which they tell every man to his neighbor, as their
world through the Catholic Church! Even the "Jehovah' fathers have forgotten my name for Baal."
Witnesses," in the preface to their translation of the
Bible, state: "While inclining to view the pronunciation The Jews in Jeremiah's day knew how to pronounce
'Yahweh' as the more correct way, we have retained the the word YHWH. But through the dreams of their
form 'Jehovah' because of people's familiarity with it false teachers they were misled into believing that the
since the 14th century" (page 25). word YHWH should not be pronounced -- that it is too
holy a word to be uttered! And so the true
"Jehovah" is not the name! It is a corrupt pronunciation of the word became lost!
mispronunciation.
NO ONE TODAY KNOWS ABSOLUTELY
Since "Jehovah" is not the proper pronunciation of HOW IT SHOULD BE PRONOUNCED. This is
the Hebrew word YHWH, what then is its proper exactly what Jeremiah prophesied in these verses over
pronunciation? Some "Hebrew Name" sects say 2500 years ago!
"Yahvah," others say "Yahweh," still others believe it
should be "Yehweh," etc. Here is what Rotherham says about this name in his
"Emphasized Bible" page 25: "The true pronunciation
Why this CONFUSION? seems to have been Yahwè ... The accent should be on
the final syllable." "The Jewish Encyclopedia" says of
The answer is -- THE TRUE PRONUNCIATION this name: "... the original pronunciation must have
OF the Hebrew word YHWH WAS LOST!! been Yahweh, or Yahaweh" (Article "Names of God,"
Volume IX, page 161).
Here is how it happened.
So the pronunciation of YHWH is definitely not
The Hebrew language uses consonants and semi- Jehovah. Nor do any exact means today exist of
consonants, not vowels. Moses was inspired to write knowing precisely how it is to be pronounced -- YET
this name for the Creator with the four Hebrew letters THE MEANING OF THIS NAME IS
YHWH. This Hebrew word, which the Israelites PRESERVED FOR US TODAY. It means the
originally knew how to pronounce, comes from "Eternal," the "Everliving," the Eternal "LORD."
another Hebrew word HWH, an old form of the root The meaning of the Almighty's name is far more
HYH, which means "to be," or "to become." important than its mere sound.

In the centuries since Jeremiah's day, the Jews Now notice definite SCRIPTURAL PROOF that it
became superstitious and MADE AN IDOL out of this is proper to TRANSLATE the names of God so that
name! They treated it with such superstitious reverence we may understand what they mean in whatever
that they decided NEVER TO PRONOUNCE IT! language we speak today!
Instead, whenever they found this word in the Old
Testament, they read ADONAI in its place. ADONAI
is a Hebrew word meaning "Lord" or "Master." Hence Part of Old Testament Not Written
the proper pronunciation of YHWH became lost!
in Hebrew!
True Pronunciation Prophesied to
Some sects deny we should ever translate the
Be Lost! Hebrew names of Deity. But notice the Bible evidence!

The Bible even prophesied that the pronunciation In the Old Testament the English word "God" is
of this name should be lost to us today! Notice often a rendering of the Hebrew words "El," "Eloah,"
Jeremiah 23:25-27: and "Elohim." Were these Hebrew names ever

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translated into other tongues in the original inspired notice what the Bible reveals about this very question
Old and New Testaments? in Romans 1:21:

The answer is a resounding Yes! "When they (the Gentile nations) knew God, they
glorified Him not as God, neither were thankful;
When Babylon conquered the Kingdom of Judah but became vain in their imaginations, and their
(604-585), Hebrew gradually ceased to be the language foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves
of common speech of the Jews. Hebrew was replaced to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory
by Aramaic, spoken throughout the Babylonian of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to
Empire. Daniel wrote five whole chapters of his corruptible man, and to birds, and to four-footed
prophetic book in Aramaic -- chapters 2 through 6. beasts, and to creeping things." And notice verse 28,
And Ezra wrote four whole chapters of his work in "... they did not like to retain God in their
Aramaic -- chapters 4 through 7. knowledge."

When Daniel and Ezra referred to the Creator in The nations ONCE KNEW GOD, but they
these chapters, did they use the old Hebrew words, or changed the glory of the UNCORRUPTIBLE GOD
their Aramaic translations? into images -- idols! THEY ATTACHED THE
NAME OF THEIR CREATOR TO THEIR
The surprising answer is that Daniel and Ezra IDOLS.
TRANSLATED the Hebrew words for God into the
Aramaic word ELAH! In 78 different places in these 9 Notice the astounding proof of this in the Old
chapters, the Aramaic word ELAH is used to translate Testament!
the Hebrew word for "God"!
In the inspired Hebrew of the Old Testament the
If the Almighty intended that His name should be Hebrew word ELOHIM -- which means "the God
pronounced only in Hebrew, then Daniel and Ezra Kingdom," or "the God Family" -- IS USED 240
were false prophets! But Daniel and Ezra were not TIMES TO REFER TO PAGAN, HEATHEN
false prophets! They were inspired men! They were "GODS"! In two places this word is also translated
INSPIRED TO TRANSLATE THE HEBREW "goddess" in the Old Testament.
WORD FOR GOD into the Aramaic word ELAH
which means God! Every word -- every letter -- which Again, the Hebrew word EL is once translated
Ezra and Daniel were inspired to write has been "idol" and 15 times translated "god" -- and refers to the
preserved for us today! Not one jot or tittle -- the least heathen gods. The Hebrew word "Eloah" is five times
letters or marks of the alphabet -- in the Old Testament used in the Old Testament TO REFER TO
has been lost (Matthew 5:18; Luke 16:17). HEATHEN "GODS." In 16 different places Ezra and
Nehemiah were inspired to use the Aramaic word
Since the Creator inspired His prophets to translate ELAH to refer to the heathen "gods" of the Aramaic-
the Hebrew word for God into the Aramaic ELAH, speaking people!
which means "God" in Aramaic, THEN IT IS
FITTING AND PROPER THAT THE HEBREW Thus if it is a sin to use the English word "God" to
WORD ELOHIM SHOULD BE TRANSLATED refer to the Creator -- merely because our pagan
"GOD" INTO THE ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS ancestors used it to refer to their idols -- THEN IT IS
of the Old Testament! ALSO A SIN TO USE THE HEBREW WORDS
ELOHIM, ELOAH, EL, or the Aramaic "Elah" to
refer to the Creator because these words were also used
by our pagan ancestors to refer to their pagan idols in
"God" Is NOT a Pagan Name Old Testament times!

Some "Hebrew Name" sects contend that it is a sin GOD INSPIRED HIS PROPHETS TO USE IN
to use the word "God"! They reason that because the THE OLD TESTAMENT SCRIPTURES THE
word God was used by our ancestors to refer to their VERY SAME HEBREW WORDS FOR BOTH
idols, it is improper to use it to refer to the Creator. But PAGAN IDOLS AND THE TRUE CREATOR! It is

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just as right and proper for us today to use the English WORDS WOULD NOT PASS AWAY -- Matthew
word "God" when referring to the Creator! 24:35. Either these are the inspired words of Jesus, or
He lied -- and if He lied, you have no Savior! He did
"God" is simply the English word for the Supreme not lie. These are His words. He inspired His apostles
Deity. Like the Hebrew "Elohim", it also refers to to translate the names of God from the Hebrew into the
idols which men have falsely claimed to be God. Greek when writing to the Greek converts; and He has
seen to it that not one word has perished or been lost!
Now let us notice how God inspired the apostles to
write His name in the inspired Greek New Testament. There is not one authoritative New Testament
manuscript with the names of Deity written in Hebrew!
There is not one New Testament manuscript which
supports the idea that the apostles exclusively used
The Name in the New Testament Hebrew names for God when speaking to the Greek
people.
The words of your Savior are given to us in the
New Testament. Before He ascended to heaven, He New Testament Inspired in Greek
promised His disciples, "Heaven and earth shall pass
away, BUT MY WORDS SHALL NOT PASS
AWAY" (Matthew 24:35). Some sects are unwilling to admit what the inspired
New Testament plainly says! They falsely claim that
the New Testament was not written originally in
Heaven and earth have not passed away! Neither
Greek. They assume that the Jewish Christians could
have the words of the Savior! They are found inspired
in the New Testament today! How were the names of not understand Greek. They would have us believe that
Paul wrote to the Greek converts in Greece, and Asia
Deity rendered in the New Testament for the Greek-
speaking converts? Notice! Minor, and Rome in Aramaic instead of Greek! This is
not true!
Paul was sent to the Gentiles -- particularly the
GREEK was the one universal language which
Greek-speaking Gentiles. His ministry covered the
whole Greek speaking world. The Greeks did not know united the common people in the Roman Empire in
Hebrew or Aramaic. They knew Greek. How did Paul New Testament times. The Jewish historian Josephus
himself testified to Greek as the language which the
explain to these Greek converts who the Father and
who the Son were? What names did he use for the Jews everywhere understood in New Testament days!
Not only did the Jews who lived in the Greek world
Greeks when referring to the Creator?
speak Greek, but even the Jews who lived in Palestine,
he declares, were well acquainted with Greek! Greek-
The answer is -- HE USED THE GREEK
speaking Jews were so prevalent in Palestine that
WORDS for "God," "Lord," "Christ," the
synagogues for them had to be built (Acts 6:9). Jewish
"Word," and "Jesus." God inspired him to
law for Palestine permitted that the Scripture "may be
TRANSLATE the Hebrew word EL, meaning
read in a foreign tongue to them that speak a foreign
"God," into the Greek word THEOS. God inspired
tongue" (Megillah 2 § 1). And it was further permitted
Paul in the New Testament to translate the Hebrew
"that the Books (of the Bible) may be written in any
word YHWH into the Greek word KYRIOS, meaning
language," but that at the time of Christ the Books
"Lord." were "ONLY PERMITTED TO BE WRITTEN IN
GREEK" (Megillah 1 § 8). (From "The Mishnah" by
In 665 different places in the New Testament the Herbert Danby, Oxford University Press.)
apostles were inspired to translate the Hebrew word
YHWH into the Greek word KYRIOS, meaning the
Though the native-born Jews in Palestine in the
eternal "Lord." And 1,345 times the apostles were
days of the apostles generally used Aramaic as their
inspired to translate the Hebrew word for God into the
common language, yet Greek was the next in
Greek word THEOS -- which means "God" in the
importance even to them.
Greek language! These two Greek words -- KYRIOS
and THEOS -- meaning "Lord" or "God" in Greek,
are found hundreds of times in the gospels, in the very Josephus tells us why the Greek language, after
words of Jesus Himself! AND JESUS SAID HIS Aramaic, was so common with the Jews in Palestine:

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 "I have also taken a great deal of pains to obtain the Notice what the church historian Eusebius, in
learning of the Greeks, and understand the elements of chapter 25 of Book VI, tells us about the first gospel:
the Greek language, although I have so long "Among the four gospels, which are the only
accustomed myself to speak our own tongue, that I disputable ones in the Church of God under heaven,"
cannot pronounce Greek with such an exactness" -- he wrote, "the first was published by Matthew, who
Josephus spoke Greek WITH AN ARAMAIC was once a publican, but afterwards an apostle of Jesus
ACCENT -- "for our nation does not encourage those Christ, and it was prepared for the converts from
who learn the languages of other nations, and so adorn Judaism, and published in the Hebrew language."
their discourses with the smoothness of their periods; Jerome tells us, in his "Lives of Illustrious Men"
BECAUSE THEY LOOK UPON THIS SORT OF chapter 3, that Matthew's gospel WAS
ACCOMPLISHMENT (learning Greek!) AS TRANSLATED INTO THE GREEK LANGUAGE
COMMON, NOT ONLY TO ALL SORTS OF FOR THE WHOLE CHURCH. It is Matthew's
FREEMAN, BUT TO AS MANY OF THE inspired Greek gospel which God has preserved.
SERVANTS AS PLEASED TO LEARN THEM.
But they give him the testimony of being a wise man These two are the ONLY books of the New
who is fully acquainted with our laws, (which was rare Testament which were ever asserted to have been
among the Jews) and is able to interpret their meaning" written in Hebrew or Aramaic!
("Antiquities of the Jews", Book XX, chapter XI,
Section 2). The Aramaic version of the Bible which we have
today is admittedly a TRANSLATION FROM THE
Notice that it was the rare Jewish scholar who GREEK despite what Dr. Lamsa mistakenly claims.
learned Hebrew. It was common for the people --
freeman and even servants -- to learn Greek! It was
more difficult to learn the Hebrew! Now let us
notice testimony of history as to the language in which Proof That Aramaic Is Not
the books of the New Testament were inspired. From Original
the Church History of Eusebius, Book VI, chapter 14,
we read: "... the epistle to the Hebrews is the work of
Paul, and ... it was written to the Hebrews in the Open your Bibles to Mark 15:34. The English
Hebrew language; BUT ... LUKE TRANSLATED IT rendering of this verse reads: "And at the ninth hour
CAREFULLY AND PUBLISHED IT FOR THE Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, 'Eloi, Eloi,
GREEKS, and hence the same style of expression is lama sabachthani?' which is, being interpreted, 'My
found in this epistle and in the Acts." God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me?'"

Notice that to the Jews Paul "became a Jew." In Notice this! The last half of verse 34 proves that
order to gain the audience of the Jews, after being Mark was writing his gospel account, including these
made a prisoner in 56 A.D., Paul spoke "IN THE final words of Christ, in a language different from the
HEBREW TONGUE" (Acts 21:40). Continuing with one in which Jesus spoke! Jesus' own words are quoted
Acts 22:2: "And when they heard that he spoke in from the Aramaic, but TRANSLATED into Greek.
the Hebrew tongue to them, THEY KEPT THE
MORE SILENCE." Hebrew, in the days of the Now consider the Aramaic Version. If Aramaic
apostles, had become a language difficult to understand were the original language of the New Testament, there
because Aramaic was the common tongue of the would be no reason to insert in the Aramaic Version
people and Greek was next most often spoken, the words "which is, being interpreted, 'My God,
followed by Hebrew. My God, why hast thou forsaken me?'" because
every Aramean would have understood Jesus' words
So history tells us that, in order to influence the without translation. Yet the Aramaic New Testament
religiously sensitive Jews, Paul wrote his "Epistle to repeats the exact Greek original word-for-word! This
the Hebrews" in the Hebrew language. But notice, the PROVES Aramaic NOT to have been the original
letter to the Hebrews was inspired to be translated by language of the New Testament, but merely a
Luke and published for the Greeks in the Greek translation from the Greek.
language. It is Luke's inspired translation which God
intended to be preserved for us.

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 There are at least a dozen places in the New some "Hebrew names"? No! They are coming IN THE
Testament where Aramaic words are quoted and are NAME OF "CHRIST" -- IN THE NAME OF
TRANSLATED INTO THE GREEK for the Greek- "JESUS." And Jesus said these would be using HIS
speaking people -- and in most cases the Aramaic New NAME.
Testament retranslates the original Greek word-for-
word! Now turn to Acts 4:10. What is the ONLY NAME
given among men whereby we may be saved? "Be it
Another example is John 1:41: "He (Andrew) known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel,
first findeth his own brother Simon, and saith unto that by the name of JESUS CHRIST of Nazareth,
him, we have found the Messias, WHICH IS, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the
BEING INTERPRETED, THE CHRIST." The dead, even by Him doth this man stand here before
word MESSIAS is a Greek spelling of the Hebrew you whole" -- the man who had just been healed.
word MESSIAH, which means "the Anointed." But Verse 12: "Neither is there salvation in any other:
the Greek-speaking people were not generally for there is none other name under heaven given
acquainted with the meaning of the word Messias; among men, whereby we must be saved."
hence John translates it for them into the Greek word
CHRISTOS which means "the Anointed One." Notice! According to the inspired Greek New
Testament, there is no other name given whereby we
Some sects today claim that we should use only the must be saved than the name of JESUS CHRIST!
word "MESSIAH" and never the word "CHRIST."
Their assumption is that the word "Christ" comes from The English word "Jesus" is an anglicized spelling
the name of the Hindu god Krishna! "Christ" does not of the Greek word "Iesous". The Greek word for
come from the name of the Hindu god Krishna! "Jesus" is but the common Greek name used to
CHRISTOS is a common Greek word which means translate the Hebrew name "Yahshua". The meaning
"to anoint." of the Hebrew word for "Yahshua" is "the Eternal is
the Savior." Over 910 places in the New Testament
The New Testament was inspired to read that Jesus God INSPIRED the New Testament writers to use the
IS "the Christ." Even the enemies of the early true Greek word "Iesous" as the personal name of Christ,
Church called the disciples "Christians" (Acts 11:26). the Messiah! EITHER YOU WILL HAVE TO
The disciples would not have been called ACCEPT THE NAME OF JESUS AS YOUR
"Christians" in the city of Antioch if they had not SAVIOR -- OR YOU WILL HAVE TO THROW
been followers of CHRIST! They would have been AWAY THE ENTIRE NEW TESTAMENT!
called the "Messians!" Now turn to I Peter 4:14: "If
ye be reproached for the name of Christ But -- reason these "Hebrew Name" sects -- doesn't
(CHRISTOS in Greek) happy are ye." The Scripture the Greek word "Iesous" come from the pagan Greek
does not use some unknown Hebrew name; it uses the god "Zeus"? This is absolutely untrue! In fact, the
"NAME OF CHRIST." And now verse 16 -- "Yet if Greek word "Zeus" and the Roman word "Jove" are
any man suffer AS A CHRISTIAN, let him not be BOTH ULTIMATELY DERIVED FROM THE
ashamed, but let him glorify God on this behalf." HEBREW YHWH -- or JHVH. But the Greeks -- and
The disciples in the New Testament Church could not other heathen -- did not like to retain God in their
have suffered as "Christians" unless they were the knowledge. So they took the names of God and
followers of CHRIST! attached them to their idols! The ancient Hebrew-
speaking people did the same thing by calling their
idols EL or ELOHIM, meaning "God" in Hebrew.
False Churches Use True Name So the name "Jesus" is actually derived from
YHWH!
Notice Jesus' startling prophecy in Matthew 24:4-
5: "And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take Jesus said if any would deny Him -- which means
heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come DENY HIS NAME -- before men, "Him will I also
IN MY NAME (USING HIS NAME), saying I am deny before my Father which is in heaven"
Christ, and shall deceive many." IN WHOSE (Matthew 10:33). If you deny the name Jesus, He will
NAME are the many coming? Are they coming in deny your name before the Father in the Judgment!
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 Corinthians 1:2). Paul wrote to the Gentile
Thessalonian converts: "For ye, brethren, became
What Is the Father's "Family followers of the Churches of GOD which in Judea
Name"? are in Christ Jesus" (I Thessalonians 2:14).

Notice Psalm 83:18: "... that men may know that Either your entire New Testament is a fraud and
must be rejected or the true name of the true Church is
Thou, whose name ALONE is YHWH, art the Most
"the Church of GOD!" "God" is the "Family Name"
High over all the earth." This verse does NOT say,
of the Divine Creative Kingdom.
as some assume, that the Creator has ONLY ONE
NAME -- it plainly declares that THE CREATING
FAMILY ALONE of all whom men worship is The Hebrew name YHWH -- the Greek KYRIOS,
YHWH or eternal. the "Eternal" or "Lord" in English -- is but one of
God the Father's numerous given PERSONAL names.
It is also one of the PERSONAL names of the Son,
But did you know that the Father in Heaven has also
because both are eternal. But the whole message of
a Family Name?
Jesus Christ, the Gospel, was the message about the
Family NAME -- the GOD Family. Jesus Christ came
In Ephesians 3:14-15 we read: "For this cause I in the name of God, His Father. He called Himself the
bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus "Son of God" numerous times.
Christ, OF WHOM THE WHOLE FAMILY IN
HEAVEN AND EARTH IS NAMED." Jesus Christ
Read John 9:35, "Dost thou believe on the Son of
is the Father's Son. Every son bears his father's last
God?"
name.
See also Matthew 16:16-17 and especially Mark
Jesus said in John 5:43, "I am come IN MY
1:1, "The beginning of the gospel of JESUS
FATHER'S NAME, and ye receive me not." What
CHRIST, THE SON OF GOD"! Jesus came bearing
was Jesus' family name? Notice the surprising answer
His Father's name -- "God's Son" -- the "Son of
in John 10:36: "... say ye of him, whom the Father
God."
hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou
blasphemest; because I said, I AM THE SON OF
GOD?" Jesus claimed to be "GOD'S Son." We, too, Jesus' whole message -- which He spoke "in the
may be called GOD'S Sons (I John 3:1). The name of the Lord" -- or "by His authority" -- was to
Supreme, Divine, All-ruling Family is the GOD explain that the name "God" -- the Hebrew ELOHIM
Family! It is the Family or Kingdom OF GOD! Jesus' -- is a family NAME! His Gospel, or good news, is the
Gospel -- His entire Message -- was about the message that we may also bear that name God -- that
Kingdom or Family of GOD and how you may be born we may be called the sons of God and be "born again."
into it! His whole Message was about the DIVINE
NAME -- GOD! Notice that even the Church today is to bear the
Father's Name -- God. The Church today -- before
Just before Jesus was crucified, He prayed that His which Jesus Christ is opening the doors of radio and
Church would be kept "in the Father's Name." the printing press to preach His Gospel, His message,
Notice John 17:11-12, "And now I am no more in to all the world -- this Church has "kept my name,"
the world, but these are in the world, and I come to said Jesus, and has "not denied my name"
thee. Holy Father, keep through Thine own Name (Revelation 3:8). God's Church today is to be named
those whom thou hast given me, THAT THEY the CHURCH OF GOD.
MAY BE ONE, AS WE ARE. While I was with
them in the world, I kept them IN THY NAME." Jesus Called the "Word"
What is the Father's NAME in which the New The true Church is even promised to have forever
Testament Church is to be kept? The name of "God"! the name of God (Rev. 3:12) and Jesus' "new name" -
In 12 passages in the New Testament, the name of the - Revelation 19:12. Jesus not only is to receive a new
church is called "the Church of God." Paul wrote, name, but He even now -- and from the beginning -- is
"unto the Church of GOD, which is at Corinth" (I called "the Word of God." And, in verse 16, He has

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"on His thigh a NAME written, King of Kings, and Yes, "God" IS the Father's Family Name! And
Lord of Lords." "Jesus" is the name of His Son! But they both have
many other names! It is time we called on GOD for
In Amos 4:13 and 5:27 another one of the names of His mercy IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST! It is
the Divine Family is, "the God of Hosts." Jeremiah time we BELIEVE the Bible -- and recognize that God
46:18 and 48:15 call Him "the Lord of Hosts." IS God!
Another of His names is "Zealous" (sometimes
spelled "Jealous") in Exodus 34:14.
HERMAN L. HOEH

THE PLAIN TRUTH, OCT, 1965

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