Author: tylamb

Ty Lamb has an agricultural background, holds a Bachelor's Degree in Pastoral Ministry and Biblical Studies from the Arizona College of the Bible, an ordained minister, an author, an independent John Maxwell Team Member, a Board Member of the Greater Prescott Area Healing Rooms and leads the Great Prescott Area Intercessor Teams for local prayer gatherings and geographic journeys locally and across the nation. He enjoys a ministry presence on social media, personal pastoral counseling, facilitates small groups, loves to preach and teach and delve into God's word. He and his wife Tamara reside in Prescott, Arizona, and enjoy five adult children with nine incredible grandkids.
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Why Are Some Christians Doing Jewish Holidays?

Question: Why are some Christians starting to do Jewish holidays?

Answer: First of all, they really aren’t “Jewish” holidays.

Jews simply do what the Bible tells them to do. Faithful Jews have been doing these things for centuries. They are Bible festivals or feasts called “appointed times” with the Lord. Yehovah promises to bless His people for their obedience. It is like having a divine appointment with Yehovah to receive His blessings.

Basically, Yehovah (the God YHVH who reveals Himself in the Bible) instructs His people to observe three times a year- Spring-Passover, Summer-Pentecost and Fall-Tabernacles (See Leviticus 23). In recent years some Christians are beginning to recognize they have been following “church tradition” instead of the Bible and and so they want to start following the Bible.

Some take a knee-jerk reaction to this waving the red flag of legalism or thinking someone might be converting to Judaism. This is actually not the case at all. The New Testament does not promote division between Jew and Gentile. In fact, it teaches exactly the opposite. Paul calls it, becoming “one new man.”

Ephesians 2 (ESV)

11 Therefore remember that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh, called “the uncircumcision” by what is called the circumcision, which is made in the flesh by hands— 12 remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. 13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. 14 For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility 15 by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace, 16 and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility. 17 And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near. 18 For through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father. 19 So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, 20 built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, 21 in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. 22 In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.

Paul clearly saw the household of God would include both Jews and gentiles. Retrospectively, we can gain further clarity to what Yeshua spoke early in His ministry. Here we can clearly see that Yeshua intended for His followers to be obedient to the Law of Moses.

Matthew 5 (ESV)

17 “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. 18 For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished. 19 Therefore whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. 20 For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

Some interpret “all is accomplished” (v.18) to refer to “it is finished” spoken on the cross (John 19:30). This is very shortsighted and aligns with replacement theology. Others believe “all is accomplished” to imply the fulfillment of the coming kingdom (Luke 22:18).

The caution I will share with you is what has taken place in most modern Western churches. Most follow a doctrine of grace to the exclusion of any works (Ephesians 2:8-10). They hold this doctrine to be central throughout their Christian life which tends to excuse them from doing any good works following their salvation. Consequently, many are stunted in their spiritual growth and maturity through the continuous rehearsal of salvation doctrine.

In closing, let us please, re-read what Matthew captured in the teachings of Yeshua:

Matthew 5: 19 Therefore whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

This forces the question- What commandments?

How you answer this will expose your heart.

Blessings in Yeshua

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Who Rules the Swamp?

January 8, 2021

Last night the Lord stirred me to read Psalm 146.

1 Praise the Lord.   Praise the Lord, my soul.

2 I will praise the Lord all my life; I will sing praise to my God as long as I live.
3 Do not put your trust in princes, in human beings, who cannot save.
4 When their spirit departs, they return to the ground; on that very day their plans come to nothing.
5 Blessed are those whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord their God. 6 He is the Maker of heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them—
    he remains faithful forever.
7 He upholds the cause of the oppressed and gives food to the hungry.
The Lord sets prisoners free, 8   the Lord gives sight to the blind,
the Lord lifts up those who are bowed down, the Lord loves the righteous.
9 The Lord watches over the foreigner and sustains the fatherless and the widow,
    but he frustrates the ways of the wicked.

10 The Lord reigns forever, your God, O Zion, for all generations.  Praise the Lord.

Then, this morning He said to me,

“My children always remember who rules the swamp. This may surprise you but I am the ‘Chief Alligator’ over the swamp and in the swamp. The earth is ‘My footstool!’

“I gave you a very simple means by which to discern good from evil. There are good trees and bad trees and you will know them by their fruit. So also, there are good and bad alligators in the swamp of the world. The dragon, the prince of the air has been cast out and corrupts whatever he occupies. Adam decided he wanted to learn good from evil. The swam is a laboratory of learning. There are good and bad alligators in this classroom of learning. You will know them by their fruit.”

“My children, do not expect to be in a swamp without alligators. This is your classroom. This is your learning- this is your test! Do you desire good or evil? Choose who you will serve! Continue the battle! Don’t expect one man to rise up to defeat the evil in the swamp until I come.”

“Trump is not a savior. Turn your hearts and minds and eyes to Me. I am the Chief Alligator!”

“Must I remove a man so your eyes will turn to Me?”            Selah

blessings, Ty Lamb

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Christians and Hanukkah

The eight lamp “Hanukkia” is used during this winter festival.

Question: Should a Christian celebrate Hanukkah? Why don’t Christian’s celebrate it? What significance is there for believers in Jesus?

Answer: Yes, though most Western Christians have never been taught to celebrate it, I believe Christians should celebrate Hanukkah. Here is why-

Holidays are designed to help us remember important historical events. These events helped to shape who we are as people. If we forget them, over time, we will forget who we are.Christians don’t “remember” Hanukkah because this historic event took place before Jesus was born and the accounts surrounding Hanukkah are not in our Bibles. The five books of Maccabees, primarily the first two were not included in the Hebrew Bible because the official list of books had already been formalized.

Most Western Christians have been taught replacement theology which promotes division and separation from the Jews and all of the biblical feasts which is unfortunate. The Christian church has been severed from its roots or removed from its foundation since the time of Constantine in 325 AD.

Hanukkah is significant for Christians because Yeshua (Jesus) also recognized the festival. Hanukkah is also known as the “Feast of Lights” or the “Feast of Dedication.” We see this in John 10:22. Hanukkah is a historical remembrance of the struggle between the Greeks and the Jews that took place in the time span between Malachi and the birth of Yeshua around 160-165 BC. It reminds us that with the favor of God, we can overcome the oppression of the world and its (man made) humanist ideologies. It is a message of hope and promise for the people of God who are not afraid of revolution and that God is with us in revolutionary conquest when we are fighting for His cause. It reminds us that God is with us during dark troubling times, even during the Diaspora (scattering of the people of Israel).

Moreover, we can make the suggestion that if the Maccabees revolt had not taken place back in that time, it is possible that Israel would not have survived as a nation. Then, if there was no Israel, it would be difficult to present Messiah to the world. Many prophecies concerning the coming of Messiah would be maligned. The revolt and subsequent Temple re-dedication were essential for the preparation of Messiah to come.

The miraculous sign of God came as a supernatural replenishment of oil for the Menorah that burned for eight days with one flask of oil. Eight is the number associated with “new beginnings.” This is why we see the 9 lamps of the Hanukkia presented during this festival- a center light with eight lamps representing each day the Menorah in the temple remained burning. For distinction, the Menorah itself has 7 lights.

Closing thoughts- Hanukkah gives us the light of hope during the dark seasons of history for the people of God. We can clearly see Yeshua in the celebration if you look for Him. Yeshua is the “Light of the World” who came to save us. There is also strong probability that Mary conceived of the Holy Spirit during Hanukkah giving the Festival of Lights a new and deeper meaning. Yeshua was born nine months later on the first day of the Feast of Tabernacles, “Sukkot.”

I can’t think of any reason why a believer in Yeshua (Jesus) should turn a blind eye and ignore the Feast of Lights- Hanukkah. We should be seeking every opportunity to teach our children, family, friends and churches the deep meaningful history and the miracles Yehovah performs among His people. It is a happy festival with bright blue and white decor, food and fellowship lasting eight days and offers wonderful devotional elements for Christians.

Blessings, Amen

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Biblical Proportions Require Biblical Solutions

We are living in the year 2020 or shall we say 20/20 and we are seeing things taking place with crystal clarity. The Lord told me and many others this would be the case. The Lord can and does use strange things like idioms in our own language to get our attention.

In this season, we are learning how important politics is to the climate and conditions of our daily life, and in the case of the US, how politics affects the entire world. Political leadership is crucial because there is a trickle down effect in the spirit realm that spreads far and wide. The leader opens the door in the spirit world to allow either blessings or curses to flow into the land. We’ve learned that in a democratic republic the people, including the uneducated and uninformed, can actually vote for their own blessing or demise by the leadership they choose. It causes me to reflect on how King Saul was the people’s choice (1 Sam 8:19-21). It didn’t go so well. Hindsight tells us that we never should have asked the Lord for an “earthly” king. But, here we are 3000 years later and nothing is new under the sun.

Naturally, the more depraved a nation becomes due to unaddressed social ills, the more likely people will make depraved choices. In time, the depraved will overtake the majority thus voting their own destruction. It doesn’t even require an act of God! Like blind sheep, people will drive themselves over a cliff! The consequences of entitlement mindset will be likened to an animal that finally dies because of an infestation of parasites.

The God of the Bible is more than a personal pocket God. He is the Supreme God of the Universe who also judges the nations of the earth.

Moreover, we are making a detrimental mistake by looking to politics to solve our present crisis and dilemmas. Our nation has deviated so far and so long from our God given identity and purpose that money and political and social engineering cannot fix. The level of depravity has reached its limit. God knows that a people can become so depraved and carnally minded that they are beyond the hope of redemption. This is why nations fall into devastation and destruction.

As we have learned from scripture in Luke chapter 15, verse 16, that we can take an American idiom saying, “living high on the hog” will actually take you there, eating pig slop in a pigpen. Sometimes it is only there where reality hits us square in the nose that we can humble ourselves and cry out to God. The fear of ‘God-sized consequences’ leads to wisdom (Proverbs 1:7).

Our only hope is a massive radical movement of the majority, top down from the highest to the lowest, men, women and children, to humble ourselves, get on our faces and cry out, to confess and repent of our sin, and to dedicate ourselves to permanent lifelong fundamental change and radical sacrificial devotion to God. We need the Spirit of God to manifest this movement. We learn over and over from the Bible that it is when the people cry out of desperation, it arouses the Spirit of God to act. Here are just a few examples-Judges 10:10, 2 Chronicles 7:14; 20:9, Psalm 130, Matthew 15:22.

Physically getting on our knees is a gesture of sincerity and desperation. The more desperate we get, the more we are willing to do things like this. This gets God’s attention because we are more likely to make lasting changes.

Personally, and frankly, I sometimes believe it’s too late. Honestly, most of the time. Our minds and flesh have become too indoctrinated and set on having a love of pleasure rather than a love for God and the things God loves. Thankfully, there are others who pick me up and still hold on to the hope of a great reprieve from certain judgment. Thank you so very much for standing firm and holding on to the hope of a mighty move of God in these last days. Bless you!

Ty

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Four More Years- How Will You Maximize the Trump Era?

This is a critical question for every one of us. God is listening…

The most important question we should be dealing with at this time in history is-

What will I do with four more years? What steps can I take and what plan of action can I implement to maximize four more years of the Trump administration era should the Lord grant them to us? You need to know, and God wants to hear about it? God is waiting to supernaturally assist you in an action plan.

Understanding the time we are living in is important. This can give you greater urgency and motivation. We need to weigh the consequences if we choose to do nothing. We know what the Bible says about the last days and where we are in it. The church is divided into two basic camps- the book of Revelation was largely fulfilled in 70 AD and there is no future antichrist figure (preterism) OR those who believe there was a near partial fulfillment of the book of Revelation in 70 AD, but there awaits a future time of global fulfillment. Obviously, I am of the 2nd camp. I believe there are too many signs to ignore, but we will not go into them here.

I strongly believe the “Last Days” scenario is developing right before our very eyes. As the two political party platforms contrast their polarized views we can anticipate the consequences. The case is quite clear, if the “liberal, progressive, socialist left” gains control of the White House, we will see the sun begin to set on Christianity in America.

We need to ask ourselves and search our hearts, “What will I accomplish in the next 4 years under the Trump administration should the Lord grant them to us? Here are some thoughts to help you make your personal list of objectives. To ask the Lord for 4 more years of Trump-

  1. is to give the church and its missionaries 4 more years to get the gospel out there to the far reaches of the earth with less duress so everyone can hear the gospel. What will I do to encourage, help support and expand that effort?
  2. It gives me 4 more years to minister to my family so all my children and grandchildren know the truth. What can I do to promote the importance of family bonding and cohesiveness? What can I do to reduce divorce and marital strife? How do I teach my children the importance of the biblically defined family unit to promote a healthy society?
  3. It gives us 4 more years of Christian freedom to pray and hope and prepare for a great harvest revival of these last days. How an I prepare myself to be a useful instrument for evangelism, discipleship and “being the church?”
  4. It gives us 4 more years to have the muzzle of the preacher loosened so the people can hear and receive the truth of the gospel without fear of reprisal. What can I do to encourage my pastor and other ministers to stop compromising and to preach the truth in love without fear?
  5. It gives us 4 more years to strengthen the “Christian” stronghold of America in the world. If America can be seen as a large platform on the earth to preach, teach and evangelize the world, what can I do to strengthen this platform? Like a table, this platform has legs underneath it that the enemy has been working to weaken and break- a) finances- sacrificial giving with accountability and stewardship, b) government freedom, c) active volunteerism with churches and ministries working together, d) accurate media exposure and promotion.
  6. It gives us 4 more years to raise up Christian believers to position themselves in the influential cultural institutions of the land and to teach the biblical worldview to the next generation. Consider the following areas of cultural influence: a) Religion. b) Family/Home. c) Government. d) Media. e) Education. f) Business/Marketplace. g) Arts and Entertainment. Can you define where you can influence these areas? What would your plan be to begin to affect change and transformation of your neighborhood, community, city, state, region?
  7. It gives us 4 more years for the US to re-establish national sovereignty and to decrease our dependency on other nations. What can you do to increase your devotion to the American free enterprise system? How can you support local businesses and American made products?
  8. It gives the USA 4 more years to complete the border wall with Mexico to better control illegal immigration and drug and human trafficking. What can you do to improve the immigration process and make sure it is legal and beneficial to America? What can we do to reduce the immigration of anti-American Muslim extremists? What can you do to help support the border wall construction effort?

Let us pray that we are good stewards of these next 4 years that the Lord might grant us! Will you be taking some time and write down your thoughts on these subjects and set some goals and make some plans for what we will do for these next 4 years?

I sure hope you will! If you need help, please reach out to us.

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The Christian and Our Role in Government

The earth is moving from freedom to bondage at the hand of man’s own invention.

Question- Why are so many Christians charged up about politics these days?

My answer- Because politics is extremely important as government stewards the laws and economies of people through which people can be free or enslaved, live or die. When life and freedom is threatened, people are forced out of their “me culture” to defend the right to live as free people. In the case of the Christian, we have a sacred duty to live out the teachings of the Bible. It requires freedom to do that- freedom to believe and worship the God of your choosing; the freedom of speech to be able to share what you believe with others; the freedom to shape culture in a way that people can be safe and to prosper; the freedom to bear arms to defend your family and your freedoms and way of life from tyrannical government; the freedom to vote so we can choose leaders that are in agreement with what we believe. This then demands faith to respond with civic responsibility.
It can be historically demonstrated that there is a “force” or a nature in the human experience that finds it way in the minds of men that tends:

1) to exalt oneself above others

2) it desires to micro-manage people

3) to compete with other entities/governments for supremacy

4) to conquest other nations and peoples for control of natural resources and establish dominance- craves power and wealth

5) to put down threats from other nations

6) to enslave and exploit people to do the will and purposes of government

7) to control what people believe and how they should live because the state is central and worthy of worship

8) exaltation of self to world historical prominence

We can see that this “nature” resurfaces and repeats itself through time. From a biblical worldview, this manipulative force carries the earmarks of satan himself who is the spirit of the antichrist. We may as well say it- Satan and his demons have the ability to sway and manipulate the minds of men to carry out his schemes. Mankind is creating the very technology infrastructures that will eventually be used for their own bondage.

As believers in Bible centered faith and ideology, we have a mandate and duty to resist these governmental movements because they always result in fascism, oppression, dictatorship, genocide and the enslavement of people in a antichrist, atheistic regime. A global system would have no accountability to be other than the ultimate end of this ideology. The entire earth would become controlled and enslaved with no escape.

By now, Mankind should learn that secular humanistic atheistic institutions of man are incapable of sustaining power and control of people and governments without becoming corrupt. This has been demonstrated all around the world throughout history. The Christian enforces that God (Jesus Christ) is the Supreme head and must be the center of life, public and private. This gives permission for His divine character to permeate the hearts, minds and wills of the peoples which promote righteousness, justice, freedom, love, joy, peace, harmony, good will, blessing and the favor of God. Please read Deuteronomy 28.

Again I will state that because of the fallen nature of man, our faith must be lived out with civic governmental responsibility. We will continue to promote these worthy goals until we are taken and then return with Him in His glory and establishment of His kingdom on the earth. We are in training to rule and reign with Yeshua our Messiah in the earth.

Amen

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What is the Law of Leasts?

Do you attend a church that follows the “law of leasts?” In other words, answering the question:

What is the least I must do to be saved?

We live in a rushed frenzied world of bottom lines. We often hear, “so let’s cut to the chase” or “at the end of the day.” We tend to want minimal, need to know information because we are busy and often distracted by so many things competing for our time and attention. The world at large has become a force of its own.

But here is something we should not multi-task, nor can we delegate to another. We need to understand Yeshua’s words here very clearly.

We enter the teaching discourse of Yeshua often called the “Sermon on the Mount.” Here, Yeshua is not speaking in parables, but straight and direct to His listeners-

Matthew 5 (ESV) 17 “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. 18 For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished.

Very clearly, Yeshua draws a distinction between “abolish” and “fulfill.”

For a word study on the Greek word translated as “fulfill,” lets look at the word, “ple-roo” and all its variations not just the simple single word rendering in your Bible. Here, Yeshua makes a clear distinction between the idea of “abolish” and “fulfill” so that we don’t mistake one for the other. Here is a screenshot from blueletterbible.org.

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Then, Yeshua’s clarification continues-

19 “Therefore whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.”

This is where the teaching of Yeshua would confront the “law of leasts.” We can directly interpret this to say, if you want to be least in the kingdom of heaven, just do the bare minimum requirements to be saved. This entry level requirement is here:

Romans 10 (ESV) 8 But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith that we proclaim); 9 because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved. 11 For the Scripture says, “Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame.” 12 For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, bestowing his riches on all who call on him. 13 For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

Hallelujah! Confess with your mouth, “Yeshua is Lord” and believe in your heart that He was raised from the dead, you will be saved! This is a simple, bottom line, bare minimum truth. You cannot earn salvation, but it requires a confession from your mouth.

So then, moving on, from the above context in Matthew 5 to the next question that naturally surfaces- “What commandments are Yeshua referring to?” Is He referring to the Beatitudes that He just preached? There are no commands in the Beatitudes. It is a series of blessings for the poor in spirit, those who mourn; the meek, the lovers of righteousness; the merciful; the pure in heart; the peacemakers and the persecuted. Indirectly, Yeshua is telling us to align ourselves with these principles and we will be blessed.

Now let’s examine another passage in Matthew near the end of Yeshua’s ministry. It is a completely different context relating to the Law. It is clear that Yeshua means we should obey all of the commandments, not just the least of them. Yes, this means all of the Old Testament commandments. An expert in Mosaic Law asks Him a question-

Matthew 22 (ESV) 34 But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together. 35 And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. 36 “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” 37 And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 38 This is the great and first commandment. 39 And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. 40 On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”

Can we, from this discussion, make the interpretation that the entire Law of Moses has been suddenly reduced to two laws? I suppose you might be tempted to do so if you are following the “law of leasts.”

It makes me wonder if one who follows the law of leasts is really saved at all.

Closing thoughts-

-Why nullify the Sabbath Day and select another day of our own choosing to call it the Sabbath, and now in our day ignoring the Sabbath altogether?

-Why nullify and ignore biblically prescribed festival seasons that point to our REDEMPTION in Yeshua?

-Why nullify laws that point us to PURITY and holiness?

-Why nullify laws that teach us how to live in HARMONY with fellow man?

-Why nullify laws that point us to the NEED of Yeshua?

-Why nullify laws that activate our need for confession and REPENTANCE?

-Why nullify laws that the Bible says are GOOD?

-Why nullify laws that IDENTIFY us as the people of YAH in a fallen world?

Blessings!

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Jesus or Yeshua

By Yeshua.org

Where does the name ‘Yeshua’ come from? Don’t most people call him ‘Jesus’? The name Yeshua is a shortened version of the name Yehoshua or Joshua and is the literal Hebrew word for Salvation.  Around the time of Jesus’ birth the names ‘Yeshu’ and ‘Yeshua’ were not uncommon. Reading right to left, the Hebrew letters which spell Yeshua are:  Yod, Shin, Vav, Ayin. According to scholarship Aramaic was used in everyday language, but Hebrew remained the holy language and was used in daily prayer and worship.  The two languages were as similar to each other as Italian is to Spanish, and both used the same alphabet.  The name Yeshua transliterated into Aramaic became Yeshu, dropping the final “a” and pronouncing it “Yeh-shoo.” The name ‘Jesus’ did not exist at this time, as it was later derived as a transliteration from the Greek IESOUS.  In fact, the letter ‘J’ was not added to the English alphabet until the 14th century. Note that around 1600 A.D> Protestant Bible translators started to transcribe עושי in the Old Testament into English as “Jeshua”, but kept transcribing Ιησους in the New Testament into English as “Jesus”, obscuring the connection between the equivalent Greek and Hebrew versions of the same name. The name Jesus is a transliteration of the Greek name Iesous which is a transliteration of the name Yeshua.  Translation and transliteration are not the same thing.  Translation involves the conversion of a word in one language to a word in another language with equivalent meaning. For example, the English word ‘Cross’ translates into the Latin word ‘Crux’ from which the word ‘Crucified’ is derived. Transliteration involves finding the equivalent letters used in a word from the alphabet of one language into the alphabet of another language. An example is the Greek word βιβλίον is the noun for a paper book or scroll and is transliterated into English as Biblion from which we have derived the word ‘Bible’. All occurrences of Yeshua  as a name in the Hebrew Bible or Tanakh are in I Chron. 24:11, II Chron. 31:15, Ezra 2:1, and Nehemiah 7:7 where it is transliterated into English as Jeshua. There are even more instances of the word Yeshua being used which are translated as ‘salvation’. In the Brit Hadasha, or New Testament, the first instance of the name of the Messiah is found in the first chapter of the Gospel of Luke: In Luke 1:26-39 the angel Gabriel was sent by God to Nazareth to bring news to a virgin named Mary. “Greetings, you who are highly favored! The Lord is with you.” Mary was greatly troubled at his words and wondered what kind of greeting this might be.  But the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary; you have found favor with God.  You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call him Jesus.  He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over Jacob’s descendants forever; his kingdom will never end.” In Matthew 21 we read, “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take to you Mary your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit.  And she will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins.” (NKJV) “She will give birth to a son, and you are to name him Yeshua…because he will save His people from their sins.”  (Jewish New Testament) Jesus is a Jew.  He is a direct descendant of King David through both his mother’s lineage and his adoptive father Joseph’s lineage.  When Jesus read from the scroll of Isaiah in the synagogue he read in Hebrew, not Greek or Aramaic.  So we know that he was ‘schooled’ in Hebrew, which is almost absurd because we’re talking about God in the flesh, the Living Word, who is the Creator of all things including language.

The name Yeshua is found in letters from the time of the Bar Kokhba Revolt (132-135 AD).

Joshua the son of Nun is called both Yeshua bin-Nun (Nehemiah 8:17) and Yehoshua (I Chronicles 7:27).

Archeologist Amos Kloner stated that the name Yeshua had been found 71 times in burial caves from the Second Temple period.

The Old Syriac Bible (c. 200 AD) and the Peshitta  (which is the standard version of the Bible for churches in the Syriac tradition) both use the shortened version Yeshu in equivalent Arabic letters.

References to Jesus in the Talmud are rendered as Yeshu as well.

  The Bible doesn’t give instruction to favor one language or translation over another. We are not commanded to call upon the name of the Lord in Hebrew only. Acts 2:21 says, “But everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” God knows who calls upon His name, whether they do so in English, Portuguese, Spanish, Hebrew or any other language. He is still the same Lord and Savior. Below is a list of how the name Jesus is pronounced in other languages:

  1. Arabic = Issa
  2. Chinese (Catonese) = YeshSou
  3. Chinese (Han) =耶稣 = Ye Su Ay Wo
  4. Dutch = Jezus
  5. French = Jésus
  6. German = Jesus
  7. Hebrew = Yeshua
  8. Hindi = yīśu
  9. Italian = Gesu
  10. Japanese =イエス・キリスト = Iesu kirisuto
  11. Korean = 예수  = Yesu
  12. Portuguese =  Jyesus
  13. Russian = Иисус
  14. Spanish = Jesus

In calling Him Yeshua we are restoring to Him His Jewish identity. Yeshua was and is the name He was called when He walked on this Earth. Greek masculine names have a nominative “s” ending.  Therefore, the final Greek form became Iesous which in return became the Latin IESVS which was finally translated into English as Jesus.  So what we end up with in “English” is a fifth-hand transliteration of the original name Yeshua. Regardless of which name is used, Yeshua (Jesus) hears the prayers of those who pray from their heart and who truly seek Him, He is the same yesterday, today and forever and just like his Father, He has several names and titles. Other names and titles by which Yeshua is known are:

Emmanuel which means ‘God is with us’.

The ‘Christ’ which is derived from the Greek word ‘Christos’ which means ‘Anointed One’ or Messiah, which is Mashiach or Moshiach in Hebrew.  So ‘Yeshua Mashiach’ and  ‘Jesus Christ’ are one and the same.

‘The Word’, ‘The Living Word’, ‘The Word of Life’

The ‘Son of God’ is used in a Heavenly context.*

The ‘Son of Man’ is used in a Jewish context.*

The ‘Lamb of God’ representing the ultimate, final, perfect sacrifice of Yeshua laying down His life for the sins or the world, that whoever should believe would not perish, but have everlasting life.

The ‘New Man’ , ‘Second Adam’ or ‘Last Adam’.  The name ‘Adam’ in Hebrew means man. Yeshua was raised from the dead as a new,  immortal, incorruptible man.

The ‘Light of the World’,

The ‘Bread of Life’

The ‘King of the Jews’,

Rabbi or Rabboni, which means teacher.

Savior

The ‘I AM’ , which is the name God attributed to Himself in Exodus 3:14

And the ‘High Priest’

 

  See: ‘Precepts of the Blessed Hope’ by Don Mills   ISBN-13: 9781606964149 at  www.barnesandnoble.com ‘The Names of God’ by Nathan Stone, ISBN-13: 978-0802458568 at www.amazon.com

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25 Gifts of the Holy Spirit

Charismamag.com  by Ron Phillips

Most Bible students are familiar with the nine gifts of the Holy Spirit that Paul describes in 1 Corinthians 12:4-10. But did you know there are many more? Though the exact number is debatable, here are at least 25 spiritual gifts the Holy Spirit gave to the early church—and continues to give today.

  1. Word of wisdom (1 Cor. 12:8; Luke 6:9)
  2. Word of knowledge (1 Cor. 12:8; Luke 18:22)
  3. Faith (1 Cor. 12:9; Acts 3:6)
  4. Gifts of healing (1 Cor. 12:9, 28; Acts 28:1-10)
  5. Working of miracles (1 Cor. 12:10; Acts 6:8)
  6. Prophecy (1 Cor. 12:10; 1 Thess. 5:20-21; Eph. 4:11)
  7. Discerning of spirits (1 Cor. 12:10; Luke 8:29)
  8. Tongues (1 Cor. 12:10; Acts 19:6)
  9. Interpretation of tongues (1 Cor. 12:10; 14:13-33)
  10. Helping (1 Cor. 12:28)
  11. Administration (1 Cor. 12:28; Acts 6:2-3)
  12. Ministry/service (Rom. 12:7; 2 Tim. 1:16-18)
  13. Teaching (Rom. 12:7; Eph. 4:11-14)
  14. Encouragement (Rom. 12:8; Heb. 10:24-25)
  15. Giving (Rom. 12:8; 1 Cor. 13:3; Acts 4:32-35)
  16. Leadership (Rom. 12:8; Acts 13:12)
  17. Mercy (Rom. 12:8; Luke 5:12-13)
  18. Apostleship (Eph. 4:11)
  19. Evangelism (Eph. 4:11; 2 Tim. 4:5)
  20. Pastoral guidance (Eph. 4:11)
  21. Grace (Rom. 12:6; Eph. 3:7; 4:7; 1 Pet. 4:10-11)
  22. Willingness to face martyrdom (1 Cor. 13:3)
  23. Intercession (Rom. 8:26-27)
  24. Hospitality (1 Pet. 4:9)
  25. Celibacy (1 Cor. 7:8)
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Are You Called Out of the World?

List of Distinctive Signs, Indicators, Markers, Features, Traits

That You are being called out and separated by Holy Spirit in these days

Ty S Lamb©2018

The Lord is drawing people out of the Babylon system of the modern world.  Here is a list of indications that you are being drawn out of your present Western Christian faith experience to move towards a restoration or completion of your faith in Yeshua. It is the work of Holy Spirit as Father God is drawing His people out of their comfort zone into this grand fulfillment of the last days.

We are in a season where the Holy Spirit is stirring drawing the 12 or 13 tribes of Israel back together as the fulfillment of many biblical prophecies.

Matthew 23 37 “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing! 38 See, your house is left to you desolate. 39 For I tell you, you will not see me again, until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.’”

Let’s take out a piece of paper and take note of how many of these things you can say yes or no to, about yourselves.

1. You are growing dissatisfied with your present church and you’re not sure why.

2. You are having difficulty finding a church to connect with.

3. You find that your private devotional time is richer and deeper than your church life.

4. You are feeling that traditional holidays such as Christmas and Easter are out of sync or less fulfilling and you don’t know why.

5. You read the words of Yeshua in Matthew 5 and they impacted you in a deeper way. says,

17 “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. 18 For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished. 19 Therefore whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. 20 For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

6. You find yourself drawn to know more of the Old Testament and find that you have neglected learning the deep foundations of your faith.

7. You’ve begun to realize that adherence to Old Testament ways are not about legalism. They are about the Lord calling people out of the world system to be identified and set apart for God and to live obedient, holy and pleasing to the Father.

8. You have a hunger or fascination with searching your family roots and have curiosity about someone in your family line being Jewish.

9. You have thought about doing a DNA blood test because there is a deep longing to                 find out who you are and where your family originated.

10. You have been on a Holy Land trip and have walked where Yeshua walked or you are longing to be able to go on such a trip.

11. Your ears perk every time you hear about Israel in the news and you love Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

12. You were a news watching adult in 1997, you were fascinated with newly appointed Secretary of State, Madeline Albright during the Clinton administration when she suddenly discovered that she was Jewish.

13. You have visited a Holocaust Museum and were deeply impacted more than the average by the history Jewish persecution. It felt personal.

14. You have donated money to help Jews get back home to Israel.

15. Driving down the road, have you noticed a Jewish synagogue or maybe you have attended a messianic congregation?

16. You admit that you are Pro Israel and approve of an independent state of Israel.

17. You were filled with joy when President Trump brought the US embassy to Jerusalem in 2017.

18. You know the Scripture that says, “I will bless those who bless thee and curse those who curse thee.”    

Genesis 12 1  Now the Lord said[a] to Abram, “Go from your country[b] and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. 2 And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. 3 I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.

19. You know all or part of Psalm 122

6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem!
    “May they be secure who love you!
7 Peace be within your walls
    and security within your towers!”
8 For my brothers and companions’ sake
    I will say, “Peace be within you!”
9 For the sake of the house of the Lord our God,
    I will seek your good.

20. You’ve found yourself curious and wanting to attend a Passover Seder and learn more about the symbolisms that point to Yeshua Jesus.

21. You have a general increase in curiosity and interest in the Feasts of the Lord and wonder why the Christian churches don’t celebrate them.

22. You discovered that the Hebrew name of Jesus is Yeshua and you want to start using His real Hebrew name.

23. You like matzo ball soup!  Haha

Like Jeff Foxworthy’s redneck jokes that go, “If you have a v-8 engine hanging from the tree in your front yard, you just might be a redneck… Remember those?  Haha

In the same way, if you scored high on this list I just gave you, probably 10 or more, you just might be one that Father God is drawing you closer and closer through this experience.

You are indeed a person the Holy Spirit is calling out to identify yourself with Him in a deeper way. Part of that reason could be that you a descendant of one of the lost tribes of Israel that was dispersed among the nations of the earth 2700 years ago. In these last days, the Lord is bringing restoration and reconciliation of all things.

Revelation 18 4 Then I heard another voice from heaven saying,

“Come out of her, my people, lest you take part in her sins,
lest you share in her plagues;

2 Corinthians 6 16 What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said,

“I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them,
    and I will be their God,
    and they shall be my people.
17 Therefore go out from their midst,
    and be separate from them, says the Lord,
and touch no unclean thing;
    then I will welcome you,
18 and I will be a father to you,
    and you shall be sons and daughters to me,
says the Lord Almighty.”

Ty S Lamb©2018