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July 9, 2011 · 5:41 pm

For Those Weaned from the Milk of the Word and Want the Meat

God’s great eternal plan is this: He is bringing many sons and daughters unto Himself. They will do the ‘greater works’ that Christ promised some of His followers would do.

That is His purpose and plan, to multiply Himself. After all, He is the Seed, the Word, made flesh, and falling into the ground and dying, and thereby bringing forth much fruit. That is what the Son {the Father/Spirit Yahweh clothed in a human form} said, and He is the Seed.

Two things stand out on this quest for the truth. First: Oneness, not a Trinitarian concept. There is Father, yes, Son, yes, and Holy Spirit, but they are not three distinct persons. In other words, there are not three of them sitting up there in the throneroom. The Father is the Holy Spirit, and He is invisible, and He dwells now in the glorified heavenly body [I Cor 15: 35-50], which is our destiny upon His return to earth.

Second: Knowing His true name unlocks the door to answered prayer. But just knowing that the God of the ancient Hebrew partriarchs was Yah or Yahweh and the Son Yahshua is not enough. We must know what the names mean. Utmost importance.

Beware of this one thing: Most who are finding out about the sacred names of God are being led away into “Hebrew roots movement.” This is a trap because they are seduced away from the oneness of God; they are taught that there is a ‘twinity’ and not a trinity. They are also led away by teachers of the law. Now this sounds noble and good, but we humans cannot work real hard to ‘keep the law’ and thereby be more accepted by God. No. We must die with Christ, receive a new heart and the Spirit, grow in grace, walk in His word, and grow up into the sons and daughters of God who will do the ‘greater works’ that the Savior Yahshua did! This will not be done by very meticulous sincere people trying in their own strength to keep the laws of God. The Law [10 commandments] ‘are not made for a righteous man, but the unrighteous.’ His Spirit in us is quite capable of keeping the law by us believing He can. Faith. It is elemental to our walk with Him…Just a heads up on your walk. Kenneth Wayne Hancock….[for more read my books found here at the top of my blog].

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June 25, 2011 · 5:56 pm

Chapter 10 “Miracles, Protection, and Love–Lessons in His Name–YAH IS SAVIOR: THE ROAD TO IMMORTALITY

Knowing His Hebrew name opens up many wonderful realms to us. The power to perform miracles and do mighty works, the ability to show forth His astounding love, the unifying factor for the whole body of true believers–all these things and more open to us with the key of the knowledge of His name.

In John 10: 22-39, Yahshua said that the works (the miracles) that He was doing in His Father’s name testify as to His Messiahship. The Jews approached Him in winter during Hanukkah, the Feast of Dedication. The Messiah was walking in Solomon’s porch. They were accusing Him of making them to doubt as to whether He was the Messiah or not. “If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly.”

He then said that He had already told them, and they had not believed him. “My deeds done in my Father’s name are my credentials” (NEB). The miracles that I do in My Father’s name, He was saying, speak for Me, testify on My behalf that I am the Messiah.

And then He explained why they did not believe Him. “But you do not believe because you are not of my sheep, as I said to you. My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow Me” (v. 26-27, NKJV). They were not the people “whom He foreknew and had predestinated to be conformed to the image of His Son.” It was not given to them from heaven to believe in the Messiah. Their names were not written in heaven–(“Rejoice not that the devils are subject to you, but rather rejoice that your names are written in heaven…”). The Pharisees could not believe Him, for they were not of His sheepfold. But his sheep believe Him and He gives them “eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand. My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of My Father’s hand. I and My Father are one” (v. 28-30, NKJV). Messiah’s hand was the Father’s hand, for they are one.

That did it for the Jews. They just could not see it that the Messiah and the Father are one. They picked up stones to kill Him. Messiah said to them, “I’ve done many miracles in you midst. Which one are you stoning Me for?”

“We are not stoning you for any of these,” replied the Jews, “but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, claim to be God.” They just could not see that God was inside of the man, the mortal shell, and was doing the miracles.

Under great stress Yahshua continued to rain love upon the unjust. Look, He was saying, “is not it written in your law, in the book of Psalms, ‘I have said, You are gods.’ If He called them gods unto whom the word of God came, what about the one whom the Father set apart as his very own and sent into the world? Why then do you me of blasphemy because I said, I am God’s Son? Don’t believe Me unless I do what my Father does. But if I do it, even though you do not believe me, believe the miracles, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me, and I in the Father” (v. 34-38, NIV). By believing the miracles, we may know and understand that the Father is in the Son doing those miracles. The Son can only do what He sees the Father do.

His Name brings unity

In the Son of God’s prayer of intercession in John 17, He stresses the importance of the name of His Father. He says in v. 6: “I have revealed You Name to the men whom You gave Me out of the world. They were Yours, and You gave them to Me, and they have guarded Your Word.” He made known the name of His Father, Yahweh, to His called-out ones. And in verse 11, the Messiah asks that the Father “guard them in Your Name which You have given Me, so that they might be one, as We are.” We see that the name of Yahweh is a shield and protection needed so that they, the disciples, the children of God, might be one, as the Father and Son are one! Guard them in Your Name. His name has protective powers for us. Us being under the banner of the name of Yahweh preserves us until we all are one as the Father and Son are one–“till we all come to the unity of the faith, unto a perfect man.”

And in verse 26, Christ says, “And I have made Your name known to them, and shall make it known, so that the love with which You love Me might be in them, and I in them.” At least three major points are made here. First, the Son reveals the Father to whomsoever He will by revealing the Father’s name to them. He told them that Yahweh was the name of the Father.

He then said, “And shall make it known…” He is giving prophecy here. He will make the Father’s name known once again to His followers–to a select people to whom it is given in these last days.

Third point: I have made your name known “so that the love with which You love Me might be in them, and I in them.” The revealing of the Father’s true name is so important that it is a pre-requisite; it is a necessary thing that must take place before that same love with which the Father had loved the Son might be in us. Making His name known is necessary to others so that the Spirit of the Son will come down and be in His followers! “So that the love with which You love Me might be in them, and I in them.” That is why knowing and declaring His name Yahweh is so important! [And yet, no preacher stands in the tens of thousands of pulpits across this world and teaches this! Why?]

What we have here then is the key to the Father’s love that He loved the Son with! He’ll make his Father’s name known to His disciples and show them how it is a “strong tower” and a keeper and a guard for us, allowing us to eventually tap into the Father’s unfathomable love. “Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.”

All this then would indicate that our Father’s name Yahweh is our unifying attribute. Our Father’s name is now our name; children are given their father’s surname. We then look forward to the time when we by the thousands walk with Him in white and He in us and we in Him, and the Father in you all. The Holy Spirit will someday fill us, His temple, when we have no sensation that we are there anymore, and He will dwell in us fully. All of our ego foibles and mortal earthly thoughts will be at last swept from His temple, which is our bodies, and something greater than the temple will be here, and we will no longer glory in that we are the temple of God. We will not think and strive as a blade of grass and as the potsherd we are today. We will sit still and know that He is the great Yahweh of old, and He will move mightily through His temple. And many will look on us and think that we have done something grand, and we will say, “Someone much greater that I is here.”

How were the miracles done? How will the unity come? In the Father’s name, Yahweh.

Eulogy for My Mother

[I spoke these words at the graveside service]

My mother passed away June 6, 2011. Louise Billups was 85 years old. For those of us who knew her, we lost a great treasure and a walking, breathing example of love, caring, and kindness, not only to her family and friends, but even to strangers.

I remember the time about three years ago in August, Mom and her husband Marion were riding back from town and saw a poor elderly man pushing his delapidated bicycle loaded down with all his worldly possessions up Whetstone Hill on Highway 60. She said, “We gotta help him.” So they went home and returned fifteen minutes later with a quart of good old homemade southern sweet iced tea and a sandwich for the man. That was my Mom.

There’s an old proverb in the Bible: “It is better to be in the house of mourning than the house of mirth and laughter.”

I’ve often wondered why? Because when a loved one passes away, we mourn for them. Our hearts become broken. The Bible also states that God is near to them of a broken heart. He is that invisible Spirit of Love that penetrates the cracks of our broken hearts and heals us and helps us. God can only get closer to us if we are humbled.

And a death of a loved one humbles us. And so God is near.

We are gathered here now to pay our last respects to a mother, a wife, a grandmother, a great-grandmother, a dear and kind friend, and most important, to our spiritual sister in Christ. And spiritual is the key. For the loved one that we all now mourn was a kind and loving spirit who inhabited this earthly body laying before us.

But this today is not the end. The Holy Scriptures says that we shall see her again–not in this old body but in a new, wonderful, everlasting spiritual body that will look like her in her vibrant prime.

We will see her again, for Christ has promised a new body for his followers upon His return to rule this earth for a thousand years. And so, let us take solace that her present pain and suffering has at last ended and her spirit now rests in God’s bosom. Without this truth, we wander around lost in not only sadness for this departed soul but in the solemn inevitability of our own mortality. Our resurrection with Christ upon His return is our only hope to escape the dusty tombs of oblivion.

But now today, we all have lost a priceless treasure in her departure, and that is Christ’s spirit of love actually walking around in another human being. That was my mother and spiritual sister in Christ.

My mom left us here on earth a few days ago. Her spirit went back to the Father who created her long ago. All that remains now lying here is her earthly body, a temporary vessel that God provided her to love through. Mom manifested the love of Christ by giving all to others.

And yet we can’t help but mourn the passing of this dear one, my very own mother, the vessel God used to usher in my entrance into this cruel old world. And she nourished me on her knee with warmth and food and milk and ran with me through the grass and held my hand as I grew up. And most importantly, she fed me the milk of God’s word which nourished my embryonic spirit within me when I was just a little boy.

And that Word she shared with me stayed with me. “Train up a child the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.” I strayed in my youth far from the Lord, but those words she had shared about Him were like a fish line and hook in my jaw that the Great Heavenly Fisherman held and kept reeling me into His boat, slowly but surely.

That was the kind of mother I was blessed with, who never gave up on me, even as I squandered my youth on drink and smoke. But she was always there to encourage me. For her testimony was such that on the very hour that I came into this world in that hospital in Long Beach, she had a vision from God that her son would serve Him.

I am her lasting legacy, for we share the same light and same truth: That there is but one God. That the Great Spirit of Love, the Creator of heaven and earth, came down and walked among us and sacrificed that vessel so that we all could be redeemed from the wasted wreckage of a sinful life… She knew God by His original Hebrew name–Yahweh–that in His name is power and healing and answers to prayer…that He is returning to this earth bodily to establish His government where He, the Christ, will rule and reign in the Kingdom of God, literally here on earth…that He is coming soon, after Satan sets up a counterfeit one world government…and then, the good news, Christ returns and begins His reign over all earth…

These and many more things my mom believed, and I will miss those hours of fellowship studying the Word together….But now we must put her body back into the earth from whence it came. But we are not burying her, for she is not here; she is a spirit now at total peace with her Father.

So help us, Father, through this time of passing. I pray not for my mother, for she is with you. Instead, I pray for all of us who are still on our journey back to You. Be with us, O God. Help us, for we are weak and need your strength. Give us all eyes to see and ears to hear your truth. Thank you. We ask in your name, Amen.

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May 20, 2011 · 12:57 am

The Savior’s Original Hebrew Name–What His Mother Called Him Chapter 7 YAH IS SAVIOR: THE ROAD TO IMMORTALITY

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“But as many as received Him, to them He gave the power to become the children of God, to those believing in His Name.” It is difficult to believe in His name if we do not know His real name and what it means.

What name did Mary, the mother of the Messiah use when she would call him into the house for supper when he was growing up in Nazareth? When she and Joseph looked for him those three days during the feast, what name did she use when she asked his whereabouts? “Have you seen my son, _______?” What sound came out of her mouth when she uttered her son’s name?

The New Testament Greek, translated from lost Hebrew Messianic scriptures cite the name “Iesous” as the Savior’s name. “Iesous” was transliterated into the Latin as “Iesus.” This spelling was used as the English spelling until the 17th century. At that time the letter “J” replaced the letter “I” in that name. The letter “J” was non-existent in the English alphabet until 1630.

But what was his Hebrew name? Mary (actual Hebrew name: Miriam) and Joseph were devout descendents of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Judah, Phares, and on down through King David. The Heavenly Father chose a righteous couple to raise His Son here on earth. “When they had performed all things according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city Nazareth.” They lived righteously, living by the Torah, the law. They kept the Passover festival of Yahweh (Luke 2:41).

All of the above goes to show us that Mary/Miriam and Joseph were seriously devoted, righteous people with full knowledge of whose lineage they were of. The Hebrew language was the language that they spoke. The mother of the Messiah would not have called her son “Jesus” or even the Greek “Iesous.” They would not have named that special Son “Iesous” or “Jesus” upon whom all of them (Mary/Miriam, Joseph, Zachariah and Elizabeth and Simeon and the other faithful) had been waiting. There is absolutely no way that she would have called out the front door for the Son of God, “Iesous! Iesous! Come on in the house!” That would have been an absolute abomination unto the Almighty to have called Him that! And she could not have called him by the English name, Jesus.

So what did Mary call her son, the soon to be Savior? What name did she and Joseph give him? It was a name very close to the English name Joshua. Go to Strong’s Concordance and look up the patriarch’s name, Joshua; it is #3091 in the Hebrew. Joshua’s real name in Hebrew when transliterated (when you write it out in English in order to get the Hebrew pronunciation) is Yehowshua, pronounced Yeh-ho-shoo-ah. The “e” is the “uh” sound. The accent is on “shoo.” It has come down to us as Yahshua. The name itself, as is the case with the great majority of Hebrew names, has a specific meaning. It means, “Yah is Savior” or “Yah is Salvation.”

Hebrew names are prophetic

In ancient Hebrew times, much value was placed on the name of a person. A name was symbolical. In other words, the meaning of a name spoke of that person’s character. Biblical names were descriptive and prophetic with much religious significance. “It seems strange to us that at its birth, the life and character of a child should be forecast by its parents in a name.” A good example of this is the following passage in Mt.1:21: “Thou shalt call his name JESUS, for he shall save his people from their sins” (“God, Names of”, International Standard Biblical Encyclopedia).

Looking up the word “JESUS” from the above passage in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance Dictionary of the Greek Testament, we are referred to #2424 in the Greek: “Iesous; of Hebrew origin [#3091]; Jesus (i.e. Jehoshua), the name of our Lord and two or three other Israelites.”

#3091 in the Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary has this entry: “Yehowshuwa or Yehowshua, from #3068 and 3467: Jehovah saved; Jehoshua (i.e. Joshua).” #3068 is the Hebrew word “YHWH,” the Tetragram- maton, the divine Hebrew name of the Creator. #3467 is “yasha,” meaning “to save” or “savior.”

Consequently, with a little sleuthing, we now see that the Savior’s true name would not be a Greek “Iesous,” later to be Latinized into “Iesus” and then on into the English version “Jesus.” The Savior’s true name would be the same as the Hebrew patriarch Joshua’s name, Yahshua.

Knowing that ancient Hebrew names were prophetic, especially the Savior’s name, the above passage in Matthew proves that His name foretells His character and destiny as being the Savior. “Thou shalt call His name Yahshua, for He shall save His people from their sins.” Joshua, or Yahshua means “Yah is Savior.”

What is His Name? Yahshua. He said, “I am come in my Father’s name.” This is a marvelous thing, for the name of the Father is Yahweh, and in the abbreviated form it is “Yah.”

The King James translators consistently put “LORD” in the Authorized Version in place of the name Yahweh—all except for one place that they overlooked, no doubt by heavenly design. In Psalms 68:4 it says: “Sing unto God, sing praises to his name, extol him that rideth upon the heavens by his name JAH…” “Extol” means to lift up, to praise. The command is to “extol him…by his name JAH (YAH).” Since there was no “J” in English until the 17^th century, David is saying in this Hbrew song lyric for us to praise Him by His name YAH! Praise YAH! Hallelu-YAH, which means ‘Praise Yah’ in Hebrew [For more confirmation see the footnote on Psalm 106 in the NIV where the editors even say that it means ‘Praise Yah.’

Yah or Yahweh is the Father’s name. And the Son said, “I am come in my Father’s name. The Father’s name “Yah” was literally a part of the Son’s name. Yah-shua. I know that this is disturbing to some good Christian brethren, for they have never been taught this truth, and it goes seemingly against what their elders have told them since childhood. But we take a stand for the truth. We must study and prove it right or wrong. He said, “Prove all things.” Not just what we believe to be the truth, but things that seem strange to us. What does the word say?

The Father’s name Yah is not in the name Jesus or Iesous. It just is not in there, any way you want to slice it.

And so, to believe in His name is to believe what His name means. It is to believe that YAH-IS-SAVIOR, the Father taking up residence in His Son.

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May 12, 2011 · 10:17 pm

Yah Is Savior: The Road to Immortality Chapter 6 “Secular Sources Confirm the Name of Yahweh”

Chapter 6

Secular Sources Confirm the Name of Yahweh

Sometimes it helps us to hear it from another source, to have it confirmed from an expert. The following is a quote from the Encyclopedia Britannica, Volume 23, 1970 edition, page 867:

“YAHWEH, the proper name of the God of Israel; it is composed of four consonants (YHWH) in Hebrew and is therefore called the tetragrammaton. The name was first revealed to Moses (Ex.3), but the god of Moses was the God of the fathers (Ex.3:6,15), known to the Israelites as El Shaddai (Ex. 6:2-3). In the bible, the name Yahweh is derived from the verbal root “to be,” “to exist,” and means “he who is” (Ex. 3:14 ff.). Other etymologies, suggested by modern scholars, lack cogency: no real parallels have been found in the Egyptian or Babylonian pantheon; a god Yaw in the ancient Canaanite city of Ugarit is poorly attested; and the close links between the Israelites and the Kenites are unlikely to have included the adopting of the Kenite god.

“The origin of the name Yahweh must be sought within Israel itself, and may well be older than the time of Moses, for the Bible speaks of a much earlier institution of his worship (Gen. 4:26), and the first syllable of Jochebed, the name of Moses’ mother, seems to be derived from Yahweh. Possibly the tribe of Levi or the family of Moses already knew the name Yahweh, which may have been originally, in its short form Yah or Yahu, a religious invocation of no precise meaning called forth by the terrible splendour of the holy made manifest. If this is so, Moses did not receive from God a revelation of a new name; instead, a name already familiar was given, in his prophetic experience, a new meaning which thereafter prevailed. But there is no need to reject the derivation of Yahweh from the verb “to be,” for it is supported by occurrences in Babylonian tests of the verbal root ewu (emu) meaning “to be” or “to exist” which also, in the imperfect tense, forms part of proper names such as Yawi-ilu, “the god (ilu) exists (yawu).” The pronunciation of the Hebrew name of God may have varied in antiquity; the accuracy of the form Yahweh is supported by both the etymology in Ex. 3 and the transliteration used by Church Fathers such as Clement of Alexandria.

“When Moses asked God his name, the answer he received, “I AM WHO I AM” (Ex. 3:14), must be understood as a revelation of profound meaning, not as a refusal by God to disclose his true identity. The revelation does not dissolve the mystery that surrounds God, but the passage in Exodus shows that the revelation alone enabled Moses to accomplish his mission. The emphasis lies not simply on God’s existence but on his close and dynamic presence with Moses and his people (Ex. 3:12). This presence and power of God is stressed in the frequent biblical phrase “Yahweh Sabaoth,” “Yahweh of hosts,” those hosts both earthly and heavenly which God uses to establish his sovereignty over Israel, and through Israel over the whole world. The name Yahweh was thus for the faithful Israelite a never-failing source of confidence, power and joy. The ideas of God’s eternity and changelessness, not found in the Exodus passage, are present in later texts (e.g., Isa. 40:28; 41:4; 43:13; 44:6) and became predominant in the Greek versions and in most modern versions.”

Webster’s New World Dictionary of the American Language, 1972 edition, page 1645 has this to say: Yahweh, [Heb.: see JEHOVAH] God: a form of the Hebrew name in the Old Testament: see TETRAGRAMMATON. Jehovah, [modern transliteration of the Tetragrammaton YHWH; the vowels appear through arbitrary transference of the vowel points of adonai, my Lord], (page 756).

So we see that “Yahweh” is a very close rendition of YHWH, much closer than “Jehovah”, which is a modern appellation of the divine name.

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May 6, 2011 · 4:16 pm

YAH IS SAVIOR: THE ROAD TO IMMORTALITY CHAPTER 5 “The Importance of His True Name YHWH”

Every year here in southwest Missouri in November, an onslaught of hunters converge into the tens of thousands of acres of hardwood forests in hopes of bagging a prize buck. Imagine yourself in the middle of a 2000 acre tract alone in a deer stand. You hear the sounds of other hunting parties, for many have the same thing in mind as you do. You hear the word, “Daddy,” faintly off in the distance, and then it fades into the whisper of the wind in the leaves. You don’t pay it much mind.

I dare say that if you had heard your name coming through those trees, be it ever so faint, it would have gotten your attention. It would have generated thoughts immediately! Who could that be? Is that one of my kids? What are they doing out here? Are they hurt? Do they need me? And chances are that it would have sparked a search for that voice until you had found that person who had called your name.

Are names important? In this scenario a certain name is. The use of our name gets our attention. It could have been anybody’s daddy from anywhere, but when our name is uttered, we perk up.

I can’t help but think of our Father in heaven. We have been made in His likeness, in His image, both physically and emotionally. If our attention is corralled, galvanizing us into a desperate action by the mere mention of our name, could it be that His attention could be gotten in the same manner? Could it be that if only we could call upon the Creator and our Father using His real name, His given name, the name He said was His name forever—would that perk up His ears to our prayers, to our requests, to our cries?

The scriptures say that if we humans know how to give good gifts unto our own children, how much more will the Father give to those who ask Him. If we could respond to a faint cry of our own name in a deep forest, is it a big stretch to believe that the Almighty God, who is Love, could not be moved in His heart by hearing His own name expressed by one of His little ones?

The substitution of titles for YHWH

Now we know His real name. YHWH, pronounced “Yahweh,” is not a new revelation unto man. The name of the God of the Hebrews has been known for many centuries, but the translators have deliberately substituted the titles “LORD” and on occasion “GOD” and “JEHOVAH” for “Yahweh.” This is despite the passage quoted above, “Yahweh is my name forever.”

But Yahweh already knew that men would try to change His name throughout the ages. That’s why He said that it was His name forever and how we will remember Him. His name is His memorial unto all people in all times. You know His real Hebrew name, and you will begin to remember Him. His name Yahweh has been set up from the ancient times as a way for His people to bring Him back into their memories. The Hebrew word for “name” is shem, #8034, meaning “reputation; memory; renoun.” It was sometimes used as a synonym for “memory” (“Name,” Vine’s Expository Dictionary).

Believing in His Name

Just how important is the name of the Supreme Being? “But as many as received Him to them gave He power to become the sons (children) of God, even to them that believe on His name,” (John 1:12). Two major points are to be considered from this passage. First, when we receive Him, we are given authority and power to become the Spirit-Creator’s children. A comma sets off the second part of the verse. It is set up like an appositive, which renames what just went before in the verse. The second part of the verse says, “even to them that believe on his name.”

In other words, those who receive Him are those to whom He gives power and authority to become His offspring. And these are equal to those who believe in His name. His name is very important then. Those believing in it are equated with those who have received Him, who have received His Spirit (“I will come to you,” He says in John, speaking of the Comforter, the Spirit). Those believing in His name are those who are to become His children. The Creator came in human form; the Word was made flesh. “He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.” He came unto His own people and they did not receive Him. But some will.

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April 30, 2011 · 8:04 pm

The Elect of God–The Seekers of Truth

It is like we, the elect of God, are down here on earth where God has placed within our hearts a thirst and hunger for the truth. We have to know the truth. This search for truth is what keeps us going. It is the only thing seemingly that matters to us. Everything else is just cosmetics and window dressing.

“Great is the mystery of godliness,” the scriptures say, God being the greatest mystery of all. And so the seekers search Him out. And throughout the expanse of the earthly years that He has given us, we discover little bits of truth like pieces to the puzzle. We are like children adding a crystal to our tin box that it might lay with a seashell or a discarded brass key. We know these bits of truth are a special treasure and we hold them dear.

And these little bits of truth, if we endure, begin to add up and, like a jigsaw puzzle, begin to take shape. A picture of the landscape of spiritual reality emerges as we put things together.

We begin to see this panorama of God’s purpose and plan to reproduce Himself inside His sons and daughters. And then we begin to walk in it, thereby exercising His Spirit in us. And then He smiles, pleased with our belief, and says to those around Him, “See there. They are getting it! They are believing my word, and so I will answer their cries and grant their requests.”

And so our faith grows as we see that God really is real and personal. It is no longer just book learning intellectualism. No. He is real, and no one can take that away from us.

And so our appetite for the truth about who God is and why we are here is whetted, and our hunger is unabated. We need more of Him, who is the Truth. That is it. That is the truth. I am the way, the truth, the life…Thy word is truth…God is truth…

God has placed within us this unquenchable need to know the truth, which is Him and His plan, which entails the heavens and earth and all that is therein. This need for truth within us was placed there by God. It is His doing. And someone will say, What about the others who are not desperately seeking the truth? To that we must say that we are not to judge another man’s servant. They were created by God for His pleasure, and although our eyes are dim as to all mysteries, we will continue to trust Him that He knows what He is doing. He is our Father, and we are His children. We will submit our finite thinking to His mind, which is magnificent.

For it is all His doing. “His ways are past finding out.” Just knowing that it is all summed up in His name, which is holy and is to be reverenced. For the secrets of His universe are expounded in His name–His original Hebrew name–Yahshua, “for there is no other name given whereby man must be saved.” Find out what it means and you’ll have the keys to the Kingdom of Heaven. KWHancock

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April 23, 2011 · 1:26 pm

YAHWEH IS SAVIOR: THE ROAD TO IMMORTALITY CHAPTER 4 “And They Shall Say to Me, What is His Name?”

STEP TWO–KNOWLEDGE OF HIS NAME [“The name of Yahweh is a strong tower; the righteous runneth into it and is safe.” Proverbs 18: 10]

Chapter 4 And They Shall Say to Me, What Is His Name?

The quest for immortality is really a search for the knowledge of who the Immortal One, the Creator, is. And there can be no knowledge of who He is without knowing His true name.

Take Moses, for example. The first thing that he was concerned about when called out by God to do a work was knowing God’s name.

Moses had already fled Egypt and was shepherding a flock on Mt. Horeb in the Sinai. It is here that God appears to him out of a burning bush. Moses goes over to get a better look at the marvelous sight. Then God calls Moses by name out of the burning bush.

Moses is dumbfounded, of course. God then tells him just who is speaking. “I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” And then He tells Moses that He has heard the cries of His people in Egypt, and that He has come down to deliver them out of bondage. “Come now therefore, and I will send you unto Pharaoh, that you may bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt.”

And Moses said in essence, “Why me? Who am I to do such a difficult task?”

And God said, “Certainly I will be with you.”

And Moses said to God, “If I come to the people of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ what shall I say to them?” This is the foremost thing, the very first thing that Moses knows the children of Israel will ask him when he goes down to deliver them. Moses knows that if he does not know God’s name, the people will not buy it. They will know that something is wrong with this deliverer. If you know God, Moses, you will surely know His name. If you and God know each other so well that He would be sending you with power to overthrow Pharoah, then surely you are going to know His name (Ex. 3: 10-13).

God then says to Moses, “I AM THAT I AM.” And he said, “Say this to the people of Israel, ‘I AM has sent me to you.’” God also said to Moses, “Say this to the people of Israel, ‘The LORD*…has sent me to you’: this is my name for ever, and thus I am to be remembered throughout all generations.” [*Footnote in the RSV, Exodus 3:15: “The word LORD when spelled with capital letters, stands for the divine name, YHWH, which is here connected with the verb hayah, to be.”]

With this information, we may now restore the divine name into that same passage: “Say this to the people of Israel, ‘YHWH has sent me to you: this is my name for ever.” Stop. God says that YHWH is his name forever. “And thus I am to be remembered throughout all generations.” With this God is saying that He is to be remembered by using the name of YHWH! The word “LORD” appears more than 6,800 times in the Hebrew canon, commonly known as the Old Testament. That means that the Creator’s name YHWH appears about 6,800 times! The prophets addressed Him by His name YHWH. They remembered Him by using His name. The name YHWH was a memorial, the way to remember Him.

Did Moses obey God and tell the children of Israel that “YHWH has sent me to you”? The answer is yes. And afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and told Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD (YHWH) God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness. Ex. 5:1. In fact, Moses penned down the name of YHWH 1,700 times in the first five books of the Scriptures. And the divine name of YHWH appears in most translations as the title, “the LORD.”

The Oneness of God–Christ Said, “The Father Is in Me”

Believing in the meaning of His name is of utmost importance. To ever fulfill our God-given calling of becoming His sons and daughters with His power flowing through us, we must believe on His name.

“But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name” (John 1:12). And in John 3:18 we discover that “believing on Him” is “believing in the name of the only begotten Son of God.” And conversely, he that “believes not is condemned already” for only one reason: “because he hath not believed in the name.”

Not believing in the meaning of His name carries a catastrophic result. The condemnation is “that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil” (John 3:19). Because that same apostle wrote, “God is light,” in I John 1:5, we might read the above passage, “God is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than God, because their deeds were evil.” He did say that He was “the true Light” in John 1:9.

The Savior’s name, Yahshua, which means in Hebrew, “Yahweh is the Savior,” has within it God’s truth as to what His very nature is. That nature is that He is One. One Spirit, one expressed image called the Son, One, One, One. The invisible Father is in the Son, which is God (Spirit) in human form.

Let us get this teaching from the Master’s own lips. In John 14:10, it is like the Savior is speaking to us today. Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me? The Father that dwells in Me speaks the words through me and does the works. The Father is omnipresent. He is everywhere. The Son is a vessel, then, that is in the Father, in the Spirit. We, then, since God is everywhere, we are in the Father, too. And the Father, in turn, is also in the vessel as that same one invisible Spirit.

In verse 11, He commands us. “Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me: or else believe me for the very works’ sake.” This is a commandment. In fact, this is one of his new commandments that John tells us about. He is saying, The things I do only God can do, so believe what I am saying to you about the Father being now present right now with you (in me). These miracles done through me—it is the Father in me that is doing them.

Believing on Him as the Scripture has just said

In verse 12 He says that those who “believe on Him” will do the same works that He does. Now, most assume that this means “accepting Him as their personal Savior.” But it does not mean this. It means, “to believe on Him” in the same manner that He just expounded on in the previous two verses. I repeat—those that “believe on Him” will believe on Him as He has just expounded—believing that the Father, the great wonderful invisible Spirit-Creator is in the Son. There is only one way the Father could be in a human vessel, and that is by the Father being an invisible Spirit.

Let us not forget already what He taught about belief in them. First, He said that “ if you have seen me, you have seen the Father.” Second, He said, “Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me.” This was His teaching on “believing on me.” That is what He meant when He commanded, “Believe on me.” It was that we believe that He was in the Father and the Father in Him, as opposed to the idea of the Father in some other vessel. For the Son is the “expressed image of the invisible God.”

He emphasized this truth by prefacing it with, “Verily, verily.” This means, “In truth,” and He said it twice to make sure we got it. And that truth about believing on Him means believing that He was in the Father and the Father was in Him. And if we get this right, there is a ton of promises He makes to us. One of them is that we will do the same works that He did. And “if we believe on him as the scripture has said,” the Spirit will flow out from our depths. KWH

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March 26, 2011 · 4:27 pm

“Yahshua”–Believing in the Meaning of His Name

The disciples are looking up into the serene face of the risen Savior. They have been with him for forty days now—witnessing the glory in His every word and movement. He has taught them precious things “pertaining to the kingdom of God.” He has also instructed them to stay in Jerusalem and “wait for the promise of the Father.” He has told them to wait for a spiritual baptism in which they will be immersed in God’s very own Spirit. No water like John’s baptism—this time the power from on high will come upon them.

This promise to them must have been difficult to believe because instead of asking questions about it, they ask a question concerning the kingdom. Thinking He was talking about a political government, they ask, “Wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?”

He responds by saying that the times and seasons of the restoration of the kingdom to Israel rests in the Father’s power. Shortly, you will be given some of this power from the Father. That is the first step in the restoration process. You disciples must begin to receive some of the Father’s power so that you can be witnesses of Me, not only locally, but throughout the whole world. First receive the power of the Father, and then He will restore the government to Israel in due season.

This account in the first chapter of Acts begins the talk of the restoration of all things in the post-resurrection era. Peter picks up this thread in Acts 3: 21 when he tells the crowd on the day of Pentecost that “the heaven must receive” the Savior “until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.” In other words, the Savior Yahshua will not be returning to set up the kingdom of God here on earth until all things are restored.

Restoring the Knowledge of His Name

And one major piece of the puzzle that God is restoring is the knowledge of His name. First, we must become aware of His original Hebrew name. But that is only the beginning. The secrets of God’s power are locked up inside the holy name of God—secrets to His power, secrets about receiving answers to our prayers, and secrets about how to have Him flow through us to heal, which, in turn, shows that the Father is alive and well and living in His sons and daughters.

Clues to the Power in His Name

Peter gives a clue to this healing power found in His name five verses before in Acts 3:16. Peter and John had, of course, just received the baptism of the Holy Spirit and fire on the day of Pentecost. They go to the temple; a lame man asks alms from them. Peter then delivers his famous line. “Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee: In the name of Yahshua the Messiah of Nazareth rise up and walk.” And the man was healed!

And he starts to walk and leap around in the temple, praising God for healing him. And everybody standing around knew this crippled man, and “they were all filled with wonder and amazement at that which had happened to him” (v. 8-11).

And Peter, looking around, realizes that the people think that they had healed him somehow. So he straightens them out and tells them that it was the Holy One who had healed him. In fact, he gets even more specific about just how the man was healed. “And his name through faith in His name has made this man strong.”

Wait a minute now. Let’s not just pass over this lightly. It was “His name through faith in His name” that infused that poor man’s legs with strength.

Now if a person nowadays could channel this power by just saying, “in Jesus name,” then everybody would be healing the sick everywhere And we know that is not happening. So there has to be more to it than just speaking a formula, such as “in Jesus’ name.”

And, yet, we have thousands of so called men of God running around the earth trying to invoke the name of God in order to heal someone. They will say earnestly, “But He said that if we ask anything in his name, that He would grant it.”

Now all of us at one time or another labored under this thought. We have understood this to mean that if we say the special words, “in Jesus’ name,” that somehow or other God would answer our prayer requests.

But upon further reflection, just saying those words, “in Jesus’ name” tacked onto the end of a prayer, does not guarantee anything. Our minds, of course, did not know what else those words could mean. After all, someone supposedly much more knowledgeable about God than us showed us how to say “in Jesus’ name” after our prayer request, and so we, without questioning it, began to say it. We were young and impressionable. We did not know any better. We were spiritual children, “tossed about by every wind of doctrine.”

And then a wonderful thing happened. We learned about the sacred names. It was a glorious revelation at the time. And so we began to replace the name of Jesus with God’s Hebrew names. And, so, we naturally ended our prayers, asking all “in the name of Yah, or Yahweh or Yahshua.”

But we still are saying the words, “in Yahshua’s name,” at the end of our prayers the same way we did with, “in Jesus’ name.” We have the name right now, but why aren’t we seeing the fruit of our prayers? Why are we powerless to heal in His name?

The key: Believing what His name means

It is time for us to get a deeper understanding of His promise, “Whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do…” (John 14:13). YHWH earnestly desires to share this with us. He wants us to have the power to be His witnesses. So what is the key to understanding what this means: asking anything in His name and receiving it?

The key lies in believing what His name means. Three steps are on this road of understanding. First, we need to know His name. Second, we need to know what His name means. Third, we need to believe in the meaning of His name.

The Hebrew name of Immanuel, God with us, is Yahshua. There are many variations on the spelling. Spellings may be different by one or more letters. Different camps are adamant that their spelling is the correct one. I’m not trying to be glib here, but until He or one of His heavenly messengers speak His name to us, it is difficult to be sure. Paul of Tarsus, under the influence of the Spirit, said that the letter kills, but the spirit gives life. Getting to the spirit of His name is more important than the exact spelling, as rendered in a foreign language called English. Understanding its meaning is the important thing.

Yahshua means “Yah is Savior.” “Yah” translated means in essence, “The Self-Existent One.” So, “Yahshua” means “The Self-Existent One is Savior.” YHWH created everything, says many verses of scripture. It also says that Yahshua created all things. “He was in the world and the world was made by Him,” says the apostle John. “You shall call His name “Yah Is Savior,” for He shall save His people from their sins” (Matt. 1:21).

Believing in the meaning of His Hebrew Name

It is when we get to this third step that the going gets tough. Believing in the meaning of His name. That is the difficult part because one must throw away preconceptions about His name, and there are plenty. This is the crux of the matter, however. If it were not difficult to come to this part of the quest for God, then everyone would have the power.

This is what, literally, separates the sheep from the goats, the spirit of truth from the spirit of error. To believe the message contained in His name, we must believe its meaning. And it means that Yah, the eternal Spirit, the Father, dwells in a human vessel known as the Son of God, and that entity, called the Holy One of Israel, is the Creator and Savior of mankind.

There are not “two men and a dove” up in heaven somewhere. There are not two gods in two different forms sitting on two different thrones. The Father is invisible—period. If you want to see the Father, you will have to go to the “expressed image of the invisible God.” In other words, you will have to go to the Son, for He is that very image of God. And so are we humans, for that matter. We have been created by the Pattern Himself in His own image. You want to see what God would look like here on earth? Just look around at your brothers and sisters walking the globe. That is the reason that he said, “If you cannot love him who you can see, you cannot love Him who you don’t see.” To love the invisible Father we need to love His visible image. That would be Yah in human flesh—Immanuel, an invisible Spirit, dwelling in the Son, who is sitting upon the throne. For He is the First and the Last, and “Beside YHWH, there is no savior” (Isaiah 43:11). The prophet Isaiah saw into the throne room in heaven; he is a reliable witness to His majesty. We need to believe him. KWHancock

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