His Name is Yeshua, NOT Yahshua

His Name is Yeshua, NOT Yahshua
Andre Widodo
© Talmid HaMashiach

Shalom,

How do we get the Name "Yeshua" as the Name of Messiah?

This is really quite a simple exercise. The name יֵשׁוּעַ (Yeshua) appears multiple times in Ezra and Nehemiah and once in each of the books of Chronicles.

1Ch 24:11  KJV
The ninth to Jeshua, the tenth to Shecaniah,

1Ch 24:11  Westminster Leningrad Codex
 לְיֵשׁ֙וּעַ֙ הַתְּשִׁעִ֔י לִשְׁכַנְיָ֖הוּ הָעֲשִׂרִֽי

1Ch 24:11  Hebrew Transliteration
le.ye.shu.a ha.te.shi.i lish.khan.ya.hu ha.a.si.ri

In the English, you can usually find it as "Jeshua".

To arrive at the correct pronunciation, however, we have to accept and fully understand the Masoretic vowel pointings.

Those who are insistent upon the "YAHshua" pronunciation reject the traditional Masoretic vowel pointings when it does not suit their beliefs. Or the other possibility is, they do not understand the Hebrew.

The name begins with a Hebrew letter י (YOD), which carries with it the sound of our English "Y".

The vowel point associated with the YOD is the "ֵ"(tsere).

Tsere ( Hebrew : צֵירֵי‎, sometimes צירה ) is a Hebrew niqqud vowel sign represented by two dots "ֵ" underneath a letter.

In modern Hebrew, it indicates the phoneme /e/ which is the same as the "e" sound in "sell" and is transliterated as an "e". In modern Hebrew, a tsere makes the same sound as a segol.

Segol (Hebrew : סֶגּוֹל‎) is a Hebrew niqqud vowel sign that is represented by three dots forming an upside down equilateral triangle "ֶ".

So, with tsere, it makes the vowel sound "eh" in sephardic/modern Hebrew ("ey" in Ashkenazi).

Let's look again at the Hebrew Name : יֵשׁ֙וּעַ֙

So the first letter is the יֵ (YOD) and with the tsere ( two dots "ֵ" underneath a letter ) , the sound is "yeh".

The second letter is the שׁ֙ (SHIN) and makes the "sh" sound.

The third letter is the וּ  (VAV) with the וּ (shuruk) pointing, which makes an "oo" sound. (The ו alone makes a "v" sound, but when it appears as וּ the ו functions as a vowel.)

Together, יֵשׁוּ makes the sound "yeh-shoo". The final letter is the ע (AYIN).

By itself, the ע is a silent letter, however, it appears as עַ with the ַ (patakh) vowel pointing, which adds the "ah" sound to the letter.

Together, the three syllables of יֵשׁוּעַ are pronounced "yeh-shoo-ah".

We transliterate this in English as "Yeshua."

Rapture is on Rosh HaShanah

Rosh HaShanah is known as the Jewish New Year. It is called as Yom Teruah or the Day of Trumpets (Shofars). The day when all the believers blow the 4th blast Tekiah HaGadolah.

Tekiah HaGadolah is : "the great Tekiah," a single unbroken blast, held as long as possible.

There are 4 types of Shofar blasts :

the Tekiah : the "blast," one long blast with a clear tone.
the Shevarim : a "broken," sighing sound of three short calls.
the Teruah : the "alarm," a rapid series of nine or more very short notes.
the Tekiah Gedolah : "the great Tekiah," a single unbroken blast, held as long as possible.

Usually, a combination of Tekiah, Shevarim, Teruah, is blasted and ending with a Tekiah Gedolah.

The Tekiah HaGadolah is for celebrating the coming of HaKohen HaGadol or the High Priest which is our Lord Yeshua HaMashiach (Jesus Christ).

From the Old Testament, the blowing of shofar is always related the coming presence of the Lord.

Exo 19:18 KJV
And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
Exo 19:19 KJV
And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed louder and louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by a voice.

In the New Testament :

1Co 15:52 KJV
In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

1Th 4:16 KJV
For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:

When is the Day when the last trumpet usually blown? Rosh HaShanah! It is a picture of Rapture.

Keep watching, we are now approaching the day of Rosh HaShanah.