A little teaching to start your Shabbat.

There's a myth in the Sacred Name and Hebrew Roots movements that the letters yah or el have to be in every prophet's name. Yah is the prefix for the name YHVH and el is the singular for god or God in Hebrew (but it can mean other things).

This fallacy leads people to pronounce and massage Jesus' real Name, Yeshua into words that aren't really words because folks are taught/think that y-a-h or e-l has to be there. The fallacy being because Isaiah, Nehemiah, Elijah, Daniel, and Joel, as examples, have either y-a-h or e-l somewhere in their names, so the Messiah must also.

Brothers and sisters, let's reason together. This standard does not exist for prophets. Moses, Aaron, Miriam, David, Solomon, Saul/Paul, Peter, Timothy, and a host of other very important prophets' names don't have those sounds in them. In fact, most of the NT people don't have these letters in there names even if you transliterate the Greek names into Hebrew.

The Messiah's Name is Yeshua, which means salvation. When the scriptures say "salvation is found in no other Name", it's a double entendre. Isaiah 52:10 tells us that the world will see Yahweh's Salvation. And the world did.

Erev Shabbat Shalom.