I
keep hearing countless (TV) preachers advocating countless masses of their
faithful, to do things in “Jesus’ name.” Assuming they listen to the preachers’
preaching, how come their prayers do not appear to be heard?
What is the magic in “Jesus name”? What does it mean? His name, I
mean. Why do they invoke Jesus’ name seemingly in vain?
There may be a number of reasons.
Sometime ago I found it strange that having typed the word Yeshûa with or
without the û, the spellchecker instantly underlined the word in red, denoting
a spelling mistake. Few of us seem to know, (and this includes the billionaire,
Mr. Gates, whose Word 98 I was using), that Yeshûa is an abbreviated form of
Yehoshûa, the original name under which Jesus walked the earth. Nowadays we
spell it with a J, as in Jeshua, although the Hebrew letter Yod has a soft
sound to it.
Most Hebrew names have an etymological, or symbolic meaning, and
Yehoshûa is no exception. Yehoshûa (or Jehoshua, which gave the Greeks a head
start to changing it to Jesus) means “Jah is help”, “Jah is salvation”, or “deliverance
through Jah”. Jah is, of course, short for Jehova, literally, The Existing One.
I capitalize it though the Hebrews only had capital letters, making them all
the same. You can read all about it in my Dictionary
of Biblical Symbolism. It’s
quite fun. It sort of changes your way of looking at things. It certainly
changed my thinking. That’s why I wrote the historical novel, Yeshûa––A
Personal Memoir… it’s a long title.
To get to the point, invoking Jesus’ name is meaningless unless the
invokers know what it is that they are invoking. And that is, or should be, the
presence of The Existing One, within them. Within the invoker. In biblical
symbolism “in his name”, means “by his nature”, or in this case, by your TRUE nature which is, to use
biblical terminology, “spiritual”.
And where does Jesus, I mean Yeshûa come in? He answered it himself.
His words were: “…just as you and I are one—as you are in
me, Father, and I am in you.”
The invoker is to invoke the divine presence within him or her.
That’s all folks!
As the Existing One, (or the ‘Father’, as Yeshûa liked to call Him/It)
is omnipresent, it could hardly be otherwise. The two books mentioned above may
reaffirm this thesis. If not… keep searching. We all have individual paths. We
all are unique.
PS. Both books are available in paperback or as downloads. Enjoy!
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