THE NON‑ORIGINAL, SUBSTITUTE NAME "JESUS", TRACES BACK
TO SUN‑WORSHIP
There is not a single authoritative reference source which gives the
name Jesus or Iesous as the original
name of Yahshua. All of them admit that the original form of the
Name was Jehoshua or Yehoshua to
Jesus?
Many Hebrew names of the Old Testament prophets have been
"Hellenised" when these names were
rewritten in the Greek New Testament. Thus, Isaiah became Isaias,
Elisha became Elissaios or Elisseus
(Eliseus),and Elijah became Helias in the Greek New Testament.
The King James Version has retained
some of these Hellenised names. Since the King James Version
was published, the newer English versions
have ignored these Hellenised names of the Greek New Testament,
and have preferred , quite correctly,
to render them as they are found in the Hebrew Old Testament,
namely: Isaiah, Elisha and Elijah.
Incidentally, the similarity between the Hellenised Helias (instead
of Elijah) and the Greek Sun‑deity
Helios, gave rise to the well‑known assimilation of these two by the
Church. Dr. A.B. Cook, in his book,
Zeus ‑ A Study in Ancient Religion, vol. I p. 178 ‑ 179, elaborates on
this, quoting the comments of a 5th
century Christian poet and others, on this. Imagine it, Elijah
identified with Helios, the Greek Sun‑deity!
Returning to our discussion on the reluctance of the translators to
persist with all of the Hellenised names
in the Greek of the New Testament, one could very well ask: But
why did they persist with the Hellenised
Iesous of Yahshua's Name, and its further Latinised form Iesus? It
is accepted by all that His Hebrew
name was Yahshua. So why did the translators of the scriptures not
restore it, as they did with the names
of the Hebrew prophets? It is generally agreed that our successor
to Moses, Joshua. But "Joshua" was not
the name of the man who led Israel into the Promised Land. The
Greeks substituted the Old Testament
"Yehoshua" with Iesous, the same word they used for Yahshua in
the New Testament. Subsequently the
Latins came and substituted it with Josue (Iosue) in the Old
Testament (which became Josua in German
and Joshua in English), but used Iesus in the New Testament. In the
Hebrew Scriptures we do not find
the word "Joshua". In every place it is written: Yehoshua.
However, after the Babylonian captivity we
find the shortened form "Yeshua" in a few places ‑shortened,
because they then omitted the second and
third letters, namely: . Everyone who sees the names Yehoshua
and Iesous will agree: there is no
resemblance between the names Yehoshua and Iesous or Iesus.
Before we continue with our study of the word Iesous and Iesus,
we would like to point out that we have
been led to believe that the correct Name is Yahshua. He said in
John 5:43, "I have come in My Father's
Name". Again, in John 17:11 He prayed to His Father, "... keep them
through Your Name which You
have given Me" ‑according to the Nestle‑Aland Greek New
Testament, the United Bible Societies' Third
Edition, and the Majority Text ‑ all of which are over‑whelmingly
accepted today as being far more
reliable than the Textus Receptus. Therefore, in John 17:11
Yahshua states that His Father's Name had
been given to Him. Again He repeats this irrefutable fact in the next
verse, John 17:12, "...in you Name
which You gave Me. And I guarded them (or it)." See the footnote
on these two verses in the Revised
Authorised Version. Read also John 17:11‑12 in any of the modern
English versions. So, we have
Yahshua's clear words, in three tests, that His Father's name was
given to Him. Paul also testifies to this
in Ephesians 3:14‑15. What then is His Father's Name? Although
most scholars accept "Yahweh " and
many still cling to the older form "Yehowah" (or Jehovah), we are
convinced that the correct form is
Yahweh.
Two factors contributed greatly to the substitution and distortion of
Yahshua's Name. The first was the
un‑Scriptural superstitious teaching of the Jews that the Father's
Name is not to be uttered, that it is
ineffable, that others will profane it when they use it, and that the
Name must be "disguised" outside of
the temple of Jerusalem.182 Because of the Father's name being in
His Son's Name, this same disastrous
suppression of the Name resulted in them (? the Greeks) giving a
Hellenised, in fact a surrogate name for
Yahshua. he did warn us in John 5:43, "I have come in My Father's
Name ... if another comes in his own
name, him you will receive." The second factor was the strong
anti‑Judaism that prevailed amongst the
Gentiles, as we have already pointed out. The Gentiles wanted a
saviour, but not a Jewish one. They
loathed the Jews, they even loathed The Mighty One of the Old
Testament. Thus, a Hellenised
Saviour was preferred. The Hellenised theological school at
Alexandria, led by the syncretising,
allegorising, philosophying, Gnostic‑indoctrinated Clement and
Origen, was the place where everything
started to become distorted and adapted to suit the Gentiles. The
Messianic Faith, and its Saviour, had to
become Hellenised to be acceptable to the Gentiles.
Where did Iesous and Iesus come from? In Bux and Schone,
Worterbuch der Antike, under "Jesus", we
read, "JESUS: really named Jehoshua. Iesous (Greek), Iesus (Latin)
is adapted from the Greek,, possibly
from the name of a Greek healing goddess Ieso (Iaso)." Like all
authoritative sources, this dictionary
admits to the real true name of Yahshua: Jehoshua (more
precisely: Yahshua). It then states, as most
others, that the commonly known substitute, non‑original, non‑real
name "Jesus" was adapted from the
Greek. We must remember that Yahshua was born from a Hebrew
virgin, not from a Greek one. His
stepfather, His half‑brothers and half‑sisters, in fact all His people,
were Hebrews, Judeans. Furthermore,
this dictionary then traces the substitute name back to the Latin
Iesus, and the Greek Iesous. It then traces
the origin of the name Iesous back as being possibly adapted from
the Greek healing goddess Ieso (Iaso).
To the uniformed I would like to point out that Iaso is the usual
Greek form, while Ieso is from the Ionic
dialect of the Greeks. This startling discovery, the connection
between Ieso (Iaso) and Iesous, is also
revealed to us by the large unabridged edition of Liddell and Scott,
Greek‑English Lexicon, p. 816, under
"Iaso". The third witness comes to us in a very scholarly article by
Hans Lamer in Philologische
Wochenschrift, No. 25, 21 June 1930, pp. 763‑765. In this article the
author recalls the fact of Ieso being
the Ionic Greek goddess of healing. Hans Lamer then postulates,
because of all the evidence, that "they
changed Ieso into a regular masculine Iesous. This was even more
welcome to the Greeks who converted
to Christianity." He then continues, "If the above is true, then the
name of our Lord which we commonly
use goes back to a long lost form of the name of a Greek goddess
of healing. But to Greeks who
venerated a healing goddess Ieso, a saviour Iesous must have
been most acceptable. The Hellenisation
was thus rather clever." This then is the evidence of three sourced
who, like us, do not hide the fact of
the Greek name Iesous being related to the Greek goddess of
healing. The Hellenisation of Yahshua's
Name was indeed most cleverly done. To repeat Yahshua's words
of warning in John 5:43, "I have come
in My Father's Name and you do not receive Me; if another comes
in his own name, him you will
receive." There is no resemblance or identifiability between the
Name, Yahshua, and the Greek substitute
for it, Iesous. The Father's Name, Yah‑ or Yahu‑, cannot be seen in
the Greek Iesous or in the Latin
Iesus, neither in the German Jesus, nor in the English Jesus.
President Reagan's name remains the same in
all languages. Hitler's name remains the same in all languages.
Even Satan has seen to it that all nations
know him by his name: Satan. Satan has seen to it that his own
name has been left unmolested!
However, let us further investigate the names Ieso (Iaso) and
Iesous. According to ancient Greek religion,
Apollo, their great Sun‑deity, had a son by� the name of Asclepius,
the deity of healing, but also identified
with the Sun. This Asclepius had daughters, and one of them was
Iaso (Ieso),183 the Greek goddess of
healing. Because of her father's and grandfather's identities as
Sun‑deities, she too is in the same family of
Sun‑deities. Therefore, the name Iesous, which is possibly derived
from Ieso, can be traced back to
Sun‑worship.
We find other related names, all of them variants of the same name,
Iasus, Iasion, Iasius, in ancient Greek
religion, as being sons of Zeus.184 Even in India we find a similar
name Issa or Issi, as surnames for their
deity Shiva.185 Quite a few scholars have remarked on the
similarity between the names of the Indian
Issa or Issi, the Egyptian Isis and the Greek Iaso.186 In our research
on the deity Isis we made two
startling discoveries. The one was that the son of Isis was called
Isu187 by some. However, the second
discovery yielded even further light: The learned scholar of
Egyptian religion, Hans Bonnet, reveals to us
in his Reallexikon der Agyptischen Religionsgeschichte, p. 326, that
the name of Isis appears in the
hieroglyphic inscriptions as ESU or ES. No wonder it has been
remarked, "Between Isis and Jesus as
names confusion could arise."187 This Isis also had a child, which
was called Isu by some.187 This Isu
and Esu sound exactly like the "Jesu" that we find the Saviour
called in the translated Scriptures of many
languages, e.g. many African languages. Rev. Alexander Hislop,
The Two Babylons, p. 164, also
remarked on the similarity of Jesus and Isis, "IHS ‑ Iesus Hominum
Salvator ‑ But let a Roman
worshipper of Isis (for in the age of the emperors there were
innumerable worshippers of Isis in Rome)
cast his eyes upon them, and how will he read them, or course,
according to his won well‑known system
of idolatry: Isis, Horus, Seb." He then continues with a similar
example of "skillful planning" by "the very
same spirit, that converted the festival of the Pagan Oannes is not
the feast of the Christians Joannes."
(The Hebrew name of the baptizer, and that of the apostle as well,
was Yochanan or Yehochanan).
Thus, by supplanting the Name of Yahshua with that of the
Hellenised Iesous (in capitals: IHSOUS),
which became the Latinised Iesus, it was easy to make the pagans
feel welcome ‑ those pagans who
worshipped the Greek Ieso (Iaso), of which he masculine
counterpart is Iesous (in capitals: IHSOUS), as
well as those who worshipped the Egyptian Esu (Isis). further
evidence of syncretism withe the
Isis‑system is found in A. Kircher, Oedipus Aegypticus, wherein the
name of the son of Isis is revealed to
us as "Iessus, which signifies Issa, whom they also called Christ in
Greek." Another pagan group of
worshippers could also be made to feel at home with the
introduction of this surrogate name Iesous
(IHSOUS) or Iesus, namely the worshippers of Esus. Jan de Vries
hold that Esus was a Gallic deity
comparable to the Scandinavian Odin.188 Odin, of course, was the
Scandinavian Sky‑deity. This Gallic
or Celtic deity, Esus, has also been identified189 with Mars, and by
others with Mercury, and was
regarded to by the special deity of Paris.189 Just as Iaso, Ieso,
Iesous are derived fro m the Greek word
for healing, iasis, we similarly find Isis (more correctly: Esu) and
her son Horus (more correctly: Her),
regarded as deities of healing as well as cosmic deities,190 or
Sun‑deities, by others.
The most disturbing evidence is yet to follow. The abbreviated
form of the name Iesous is: Ies or in
capitals: IHS, or in Greek the capital for "e" id "H". This is to be
found on many inscriptions made by the
Church during the dark Middle Ages. This fact is also well
documented and is generally admitted by
scholarly sources and ordinary English dictionaries.191 These
dictionaries bear witness to the fact if IHS
(Ies) being an abbreviated form of IHSOUS (Iesous).
Furthermore, the shocking fact has also been recorded for us that
IHS was a mystery surname of
Bacchus, and was afterwards taken as initials for Iesous, capitals:
IHSOUS.192 We discovered this in a
dictionary of mythology and in an encyclopedia of religion.192 This
revelation was confirmed by a third
witness, Dr. E.W. Bullinger, The Apocalypse, footnote p. 396,
"Whatever meanings of ... IHS may be
given, the fact remains that it was part of the name of Bacchus ..."
We then realised, most painfully, that
our beloved Messiah was identified with the Greek deity Bacchus,
by giving Yahshua the surname or
other name of Bacchus, namely: IHS or Ies! Bacchus was well
known to be a Sun‑deity. Bacchus was
also a commonly known name for Tammuz among classical
writers.193 Tammuz, as you will remember,
was known to be the young returning Sun‑deity,194 returning in
spring. Bacchus, also known as
Dionysus, was expressly identified with the Egyptian Osiris,195 the
well‑known Egyptian Sun‑deity.
Bacchus was also called Ichthus, the Fish.196 So, yet another
group, the worshippers of Bacchus, the
Sun‑deity, alias Ies (IHS), were conciliated, were made welcome,
with the foreign‑to‑the‑Hebrew name of
Iesous (IHSOUS) or Iesus. This most appalling revelation startled
us, indeed. After being enlightened
about the solar origin of the word IHS and its fuller form IHSOUS
(Iesous), we are no longer surprised to
find the ecclesiastical emblem, IHS, encircled by sunrays,
commonly displayed on church windows:
�No wonder that we read the testimony of the learned Christian
advocate, M. Turretin, in describing the
state of Christianity in the 4th century, saying "that it was not so
much the (Roman) Empire that was
brought over to the Faith, as the Faith that was brought over to the
Empire; not the Pagans who were
converted to Christianity, but Christianity that was converted to
Paganism."197 A further witness to this
paganization of the Messianic Faith is that of emperor Hadrian, who,
in a letter to the Consul Servianus,
wrote, "There are there (in Egypt) Christians who worship Serapis;
and devoted to Serapis are those who
call themselves 'Bishops of Christ.'"198 Another testimony comes
to us from the letter of Faustus, writing
to Augustine, "You have substituted your love‑feasts for the
sacrifices of the Pagans; for their idols your
martyrs, whom you serve with the very same honours. You
appease the shades of the dead with wine
and feasts; you celebrate the solemn festivals of the Gentiles, their
calends, and their solstices; and as to
their manners, those you have retained without any alteration.
Nothing distinguishes you from the Pagans,
except that you hold your assemblies apart from them."199
Yahshua, in His final message to us, the book of Revelation, has
warned us of this in Rev. 17, Rev. 18,
Rev. 19, and also in Rev. 13, Rev. 14, and Rev. 16 ‑Babylon, Mystery
Babylon. The Great Harlot has
made "the inhabitants of the earth drunk with the wine of her
fornication," out of the "golden cup" in her
hand, "full of abominations and the filthiness of her fornication,"
Rev. 17:1‑5. This is also described as
"sitting on a scarlet beast, full of names of blasphemy," verse 3.
Tammuz, alias Bacchus, had a surname:
Ies or IHS. He was also known as the fish (Ichthus), and had the
Tau, the cross, as his sign. These three
things have survived, and are still with us!
In Acts 4:12 we read, "Nor is there salvation in any other, for there
is no other name under heaven given
among men by which we must be saved." This verse clearly tell us
that there is only one Name whereby
we can be saved ‑ there is none other. It cannot be Yahshua as well
as Jesus, Iesous, Iesus, or Ies
(Bacchus). There is no resemblance between the names of
Yahshua and Jesus. The one is correct and the
other one a substitute. The one contains our Father's Name and the
other one not. Yahshua has said that
He came in His Father's name, John 5:43. In the newer translations
of the Scriptures, we read in two
places, John 17:11 and 12, that Yahshua said that His Father's Name
was given to Him. If we believe the
Scriptures, if we believe our Messiah, if we believe what Peter said
in Acts 4:12, we cannot be satisfied
with any substitute name. We must believe, accept, and be
baptized into the only saving Name: Yahshua.
In the end‑time, according to Joel 2:32, calling on the Name of
Yahweh will be necessary for salvation
and deliverance. By believing on, calling on, and being baptized in
the Name of Yahshua, we do "call on
the Name of Yahweh " , through His Son, "Who had His Father's
Name given to Him, by His Father. "I
have come in My Father's Name, and you do not receive Me; if
another comes in his own name, him you
will receive," John 5:43. The writer of Proverbs challenges us in
Prov. 30:4, "What is His Name, and
what is His Son's Name, if thou canst tell?" KJV. a very interesting
alternate rendering for Psalm 72:17 is
given to us in the centre column of the Reference King James
Version, speaking about he promised
Messiah, "His Name shall be as a Son to continue His Father's
Name for ever."
As I have stated, there is no resemblance between the Name
Yahshua and the name Jesus. neither is there
any resemblance between their meanings. Yahshua means: "the
Salvation of Yah or Yahu." "Jesus" is
derived from Iesus, derived from Iesous (IHSOUS) derived, most
probably, from the Greek goddess of
healing, Ieso or Iaso. her name was derived from iasis ,which
means "healing". Further, the short form, or
original source of the name Iesous (IHSOUS) is Ies (IHS), the very
surname of Bacchus, the Sun‑deity.
Therefore, the two names differ completely in their origin, and in
their meaning. And more important:
Yahshua's name contains the Name of His Father, which the
substitute name does not. Further proof of
the Father's Name being in the Son's Name is found in Eph. 3:14‑15,
"For this reason I bow my knees to
the Father ... from Whom the whole family in heaven and earth is
named." Surely, if His family received
His Name, His only begotten Son will also have His Name.
Another proof is Rev. 14:1, but this should be read in the newer
translations, because the King James
Version and the Revised Authorised Version have it both wrong.
Rev. 14:1‑5, in the NASB reads, "And I
looked, and behold, the Lamb was standing on Mount Zion, and with
Him one hundred and forty‑four
thousand, having His Name and the Name of His Father written on
their foreheads ... These are the ones
who have not been defiled ... These are the ones who follow the
Lamb where ever He goes. These have
been purchased ... as firstfruits ... And no lie was found in their
mouth; they are blameless." The
translators of the King James version must have realized the
meaning of this passage in Rev. 14:1,
namely, the similarity between the Lamb's Name and His Father's
Name. Therefore they took the liberty ,
even if wrongfully, to omit the words "His Name and". The King
James Version therefore only speaks
about the Father's Name, while the Greek Text reads, "having His
Name and the Name of His Father
written on their foreheads." Do we wish to be part of this first fruit
company? Then we are to make quite
certain that we have the Father's Name and the Lamb's Name on (or
in) our Foreheads. The similarity
between their Names is obvious. Whether it will be just one Name,
Yah, or whether it will be both
Yahweh and Yahshua, is not clearly indicated, and is less important
‑ as long as we have the essential part
of the Name, Yah, which transmits its etymological concept of life,
everlasting life. Verses 4‑5 warn us
against defilement, spiritual defilement ‑ the lies that we have
inherited, including the lies about the
Names. "O Yahweh , ... the Gentile shall come to You from the ends
of the earth and say, 'Surely our
fathers have inherited lies ...' Therefore behold, I will this once
cause them to know ... ; and they shall
know My Name is Yahweh ," Jer. 16:19‑21, a prophecy for the
end‑time. "Therefore My people shall
know My Name," Isa. 52:6. "I will bring the one‑third through the
fire, will refine them as silver is
refined, and test them as gold is tested. They will call on My Name,
and I will answer them. I will say,
'This is My people'; and each one will say, 'Yahweh is my Mighty
One,'" Zech. 13:9. "For then will I
restore to the peoples a pure language, that they all may call on the
Name of Yahweh , to serve Him with
one accord," Zeph. 3:9. "And Yahweh shall be King over all the
earth. In that day it shall be ‑ 'Yahweh is
one,' and His Name one," Zech. 14:9. he will no longer be called by
all those hundreds of names, by
which He is known today. His Name will be "one". And His Son, in
Whose Name the Father's Name is
contained, will subject Himself to His Father in that day, 1 Cor.
15:28.