by William Hieatt
(Gisborne, New Zealand)
After 40 years as a practicing Christian, I retired from my job of looking after Psychiatric clients. As my wife and I settled into retirement I found that I had lots of time to read the scriptures. One day, as I read in Proverbs 30, I found that I was challenged to name my Creator and His Son. As I pondered this, the Spirit of Yahuah lead me to the gospel of John ch.4, where messiah was talking to a Samaritan woman.
In verse 22 He declared "You are worshiping that which you are not aware; we are worshiping that of which we are aware, for salvation is of the Jews." The Spirit made me aware that Messiah had a Greek name (Iiesous Kristos) or Jesus Christ, as it has finally come to be.
Then the Spirit led me to Matthew 1 v 1 where it gave the lineage of Messiah from Abraham to the birth of Yahuah's Son. 41 generations of Hebrew names, THEN Messiah GETS A GREEK NAME! STRANGE?
This caused me to ponder on Prov 30, So in my ignorance I cried out to my Creator to tell me what His real Name is. It was two days later that someone gave me a copy of Fossilised Customs. In it was the Greek TETRA GRAMMATON. Which means " FOUR LETTERS" which are written in the Hebrew
language. The author showed Hebrew letters and the correct pronunciation, even when at that time he preferred the name Yahweh. (which he later found was incorrect).
So I started to tell my church brethren what I had found, and was a bit disappointed at their responses that produced a number of variations and asked me how I knew Yahuah was the right one.
So I went back to Yahuah and asked Him to confirm what He had given me. NO ANSWER! As I pondered this problem, about a fortnight later, He spoke to me and said, "You asked Me once and I told you. Why are you asking Me again?" I felt very embarrassed and have never questioned what He has taught me since. From His Name to His Son's Name. Yahusha (meaning "In Yahuah is deliverance)
So, Yuahuah is The Creator, and His Son is Messiah.
So who is Jesus Christ? Again The Spirit of Yahuah led me through the history of Iesous Kristos, and he turns out to be the anointed one of the Greek sun god Mithra, who has come down through the four great beasts seen by Daniel the prophet, ending up in the teaching of Rome, and enforcing SUNDAY as the rest day each week. (the venerable day of the sun) in an effort to change the fourth commandment of Yahuah.
As followers of the Man from Natsarith (Nazareth), we have become members of the Ecclesia of Natsarim, or, as you have realised, (watchman). So I have come out of Babylon and can no longer call myself a Christian. This was just the start of my spiritual education from Yahuah. William
Reply from Watchman Bob: Interesting testimony - similar to my own concerning the names of the Father and the Son (see the Important Terms and Concepts page.
Common English translations of Hebrew and Messianic terms used in this commentary:
Yehovah - the LORD or GOD
Yah - I Am (the short form of Yehovah)
Elohim - God
El - God (the short form of Elohim)
Adonai - my Lord or Master
Yeshua - Jesus
Followers of Yeshua -
Christians
Messiah - Christ
Assembly of Followers of
Yeshua - the Church
Antimessiah - Antichrist
BBM - Before the Birth of
the Messiah (rather than
BC or BCE)
ABM - After the Birth of the Messiah (rather than AD
or CE)
For a complete explanation of Hebrew terms used, go to Important Terms and Concepts.