Page 80 - The Road from Babylon to Zion

name of God (Yahweh) has been obscured and lost to multitudes of professing
believers due to the practice of the translators of replacing it with titular substitutes.
Many saints falsely think that Yahweh's name is God or LORD. These words are
titles, not names, in the same way that Dad is a title, but all Dads have proper names.
I believe it has been a deceit of Satan to obscure the name of Yahweh, but it has also
served the purpose of Yahweh. Knowing someone's name is a sign of intimacy and
the masses of professing Christians are not intimate with Him.

However, this man, his family, and the groups of which he was a part, though they
had some truth, they also had much error. They teach that it is sinful to use the title
LORD to refer to Yahweh or Yahshua because Baal is often translated into English
as lord. But they have overlooked numerous scriptures where the word baal was
actually used in reference to Yahweh, for baal was a rather generic term that could
refer to any lord or master. On the other hand, a word that they state is acceptable,
Elohim, is also a generic term referring to deity and it is used in various places in
scripture to refer to false gods, such as the elohim of Egypt. Their logic in accepting
one term and refusing another is nonsensical.

They also teach that Jesus is a pagan name and that it was derived from either the
name Zeus or Isis and it should never be used. I searched this claim with a great deal
of persistence and I found it to be unsubstantiated. Other logic employed by this
man, and the groups that believe as he did, is not sound. This man told me that
names don't change over time or across languages, so we are only correct when we
use the original form of a name recorded in scripture. This is easily disproved, for
even alphabets change, and the Hebrews themselves have had several quite
remarkably distinct variations of their language and alphabet. Also, it is a simple
matter to show that names do change over time and across languages, sometimes
quite drastically.

As I examined this matter I found that a Latin form of Yah was Iah, Yah being a form
of Yahweh used in numerous places in scripture, and the word for salvation, or save,
was pronounced "soose". Combining these two we get Iesus (ee-ay-soose) which
literally meant "Yah's salvation" to the Greek speaking people of the Roman Empire.
“Yah’s Salvation” is the meaning of the name of the Son of God recorded in scripture
(Matthew 1:21). If you look at Matthew 1:21 in the Greek you will find that to the
Greek, Iesus, from which we get Jesus, held the meaning mentioned here. It was not
as this man asserted, some devilish plot to replace the name of the Son of God with
the name of a Greek or Roman god or goddess. Yahshua would have been the name
Jesus was known by among the Hebrews to whom He was sent. In Hebrew Yahshua
holds the same meaning as does Iesus in the Greek.

This man, his family, and the groups that teach the same things, have become islands
unto themselves. They declare in many instances that you are not saved if you were