The New Testament

The New Testament: The Nazarean Version records the life and teachings of YAHSHUA and His earliest followers. It includes the four gospels, the Acts of the Apostles, twenty-one epistles by apostle Paul and others, and the book of Revelation. How important is the name of salvation? The answer is here in what many consider the essence of the gospel:

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. (John 3:16–18)

“Therefore My people shall know My name; Therefore they shall know in that day that I am He who speaks: ‘Behold, it is I.’ How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who proclaims peace, who brings glad tidings of good things, who proclaims salvation, who says to Zion, ‘Your God reigns!’” (Isaiah 52:6–7)

“Every word of God is pure; He is a shield to those who put their trust in Him. Do not add to His words, lest He rebuke you, and you be found a liar” (Proverbs 30:5–6). It is God who reveals His name to us as well as the revealed name of the Son of God, and we must proclaim the revealed name of YAHSHUA! Revelation by God determines the name of the Savior, not the linguistics of mankind. “But indeed for this purpose I have raised you up, that I may show My power in you, and that My name may be declared in all the earth” (Exodus 9:16).

Many people around the world know this Hebrew expression, “Hallelujah,” and when asked the meaning of this expression, most will say, “Praise the LORD”; however, it truly means “Praise YAH.” There is no J sound in Hebrew, and the proper spelling is “Halleluyah!” Halleluyah is a praise to God’s name with the Hebrew letter Yod, which corresponds to the English letter Y, not the J.

• Did you know that the letter J has only been in the English alphabet since the seventeenth century?

• Did you know that the name which is above every name is YAH? YAH is of the Hebrew HAYAH, which means “THE I AM.” Behold, the name which is above every name: YAH!

• Did you know that our Lord and Savior told the Jews that He is, “I AM,” that is, “YAH”? He said, “Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM” (John 8:58). Christ is YAH! And He bears that name. The prophet Isaiah told us this very thing: “Behold, God is my salvation, I will trust and not be afraid; ‘For YAH, the Lord, is my strength and song; He also has become my salvation’” (Isaiah 12:2 NKJV).

The name YAH was first given to Moses.

Then Moses said to God, “Indeed, when I come to the children of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they say to me, ‘What is His name?’ what shall I say to them?” And God said to Moses, HAYAH ASHAR HAYAH (‘I AM WHO I AM’). And He said, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, ‘YAH (I AM) has sent me to you.’” Moreover God said to Moses, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel: ‘The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This (YAH) is My name forever, and this is My memorial to all generations’” (Exodus 3:13–15).

And God spoke to Moses and said to him: “I am the Lord (YAH). I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as EL SHADDAI, but by My name Lord (YAH) I was not known to them.” (Exodus 6:2–3)

Did you know that the New Testament tells us that there is only one name by which we must be saved? The apostle Peter testified, “Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). The apostle Paul on the road to Damascus heard the Savior announce to him in Hebrew His name. “And when we all had fallen to the ground, I heard a voice speaking to me and saying in the Hebrew language, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’ So I said, ‘Who are You, Lord?’ And He said, ‘I am YAHSHUA, whom you are persecuting’” (Acts 26:14–15).

The apostle Paul heard the name which is above every name “YAH” in the name YAHSHUA. And he wrote about it:

Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, that at the name of YAHSHUA every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that YAHSHUA the Christ is LORD, to the glory of God the Father (Philippians 2:9–11)

Through time and many translations, the one name given under heaven has been changed; therefore, in truth, let our Savior’s name be restored.

-- Stephen R. Marlowe