What is the Messiah’s Name? ucwhy

by Elder Jacob O. Meyer

An Assemblies of publication. Assemblies of Yahweh, The Narrow Way News- © Copyright 1973, 1983, 2004, letter, The Sacred Name Broadcaster, The Assemblies of Yahweh, Bethel, PA 19507 Sacred Name Broadcast, The Sacred Scrip- All Rights Reserved tures, The Sacred Name Telecast and WMLK Radio are Service Marks and Trademarks of Assemblies of Yahweh, Bethel, PA 19507 What is the

Messiah’s Name?

The Sacred Name YAHWEH is by spired Scriptures the word shem possibly the most consistent doc- Elder Jacob O. Meyer (name) is always SINGULAR when trine permeating the Scriptures, referring to the Almighty. In addi- with the possible exception of the tion Psalm 83:18 and Proverbs 30:4, importance of keeping the Law of statement in the Encyclopedia among a host of others, can be called Yahweh. Apparently many of the Judaica, Article “God, Names of”: forth to prove conclusively that denominations of ch-rchianity “The true pronunciation of the name there is only one Name for the Al- concur with this finding as their lit- YHWH waft never lost. Several mighty to be found throughout the erature reveals. The lack of quarrel early Greek writers of the Chris- Bible, although He does have many with this issue is so obvious that tian Church testify that the name descriptive titles. Why not check the at times we have almost anticipated was pronounced ‘Yahweh.”’ Isaiah literature of your denomination and some of the writers of the articles 52:6, “Therefore my people shall see their stand on the Sacred Name to be knocking on the doors of the know my name: therefore they doctrine? Watch for candid admis- Assemblies of Yahweh at any shall know in that day that I sions about the veracity of the moment. am he that does speak; behold, Sacred Name and then scrutinize While religious writers may agree it is I.” carefully the transparent and frail that the Heavenly Father’s Name Another stratagem which is em- arguments against using it in wor- is Yahweh, they usually invent some ployed by various denominations in ship. convenient strategy to avoid using a determined effort to avoid strict it. One method of circumventing the obedience to the Word of Yahweh issue points out that we do not know proposes that there are many names That Annoying Name— how to pronounce it. But this ob- for the Almighty and that not Yahshua jection can be dispatched readily. merely one Name is enough to sat- It is the Savior’s Hebrew Name Our constant research is unearth- isfy His magnificent nature. But that really annoys and angers most ing conclusive proof that we can this fabricated objection is totally of the church members, however. indeed know how to pronounce His transparent to the Bible student as You need do nothing more than Name, among which is the he recalls that throughout the In- begin using the Savior’s Name,

1 Yahshua the Messiah, and imme- diately the average church member will bristle and become indignant. Just what is the source of this in- grained resentment? Could it be that they do not wish to learn that they have been deceived in trust- ing in a name which holds no salvation? Possibly they realize that their position is precarious where their salvation is concerned unless they can prove that it is acceptable to the Almighty to use the common name for the Savior. So they desperately begin fabricating a way to circumvent having to use the true Hebrew Name for the Messiah, revealing their hereditary anti- Semitism. A STRIKING resemblence: The bust is that of ZEUS, the statue is that of the Christian JESUS. We cannot condone intermixing Scrip- ture and pagan traditions. Inspired in Hebrew following questions. Since it is prov- called “Dionysus.” He was parallel One of the first challenges which able that there was no consonantal in mythology to Bacchus, the deity is hurled at the Sacred Name be- “J” sound in the English language of wine. In the Larousse Encyclo- liever is that the New Testament before 1565 when it was created by pedia of Mythology (Paul was written in Greek originally and a printer named Gille Beys, how Hamlyn, London), we find this star- therefore the, name “Jesus” is ac- was the Savior’s Name pronounced tling and forthright statement: ceptable for common use. They even before then? Therefore, we are “DIONYSUS IS ETYMOLOGI- attach the misnomer “inspired” forced to conclude that the word CALLY THE ‘ZEUS OF NYSA’ when they speak of the Greek New “Jesus” is no older than the 16th and seems, by several similari- Testament. As we have shown in or 17th century and this can be ties of legend and function, to this publication and in the new proved from various dictionaries be the Greek form of the Vedic booklet off the press recently, schol- and early printed versions of the god Soma.” (Page 178) (Empha- arship will not support such a claim. New Testament. Another glaring sis ours throughout the article.) If you have not as yet seen or con- difficulty with accepting a “second There is further elucidation on this sidered the other side of the hand” name of recent origin like name and its etymology in The argument, why not send for this free “Jesus” for the only name which will Two Babylons by Alexander booklet right now? It is called “Ex- bring you salvation, is the fact that Hislop, page 71: “From this point ploding the Inspired GREEK New it is strikingly similar to the name let the well-known name of Testament Myth!” No cost or other of the pagan Greek deity Zeus. This Bacchus in Greece be looked at. obligation. fact can be verified from the Smith- The name was Dionysus or Goodspeed Bible translation of the Dionusos. What is the meaning Apocrypha in 2 Maccabees 6:2, of that name? Hitherto it has Is It Jesus? when you take all facets of this defied all interpretation. But After the universal argument incident into consideration. deal with it as belonging to the that the New Testament was origi- language of that land from nally inspired to be written in the which the god himself originally Greek language has been dealt such Linking Zeus came, and the meaning of it is a devastating blow by scholarship, With Jesus plain. Dion-nuso-s signifies ‘The several denominations have Since we expect a challenge on Sinbearer,’ a name entirely ap- “gnashed upon us with their teeth,” this assertion that “Zeus” and propriate to the character of much as happened with the early “Jesus” are linked etymologically, him whose sufferings were rep- apostles. Several crucial problems the following research is offered as resented as so mysterious, and are presented by this repudiation proof. In the pagan Greek religion who was looked up to as the and can best be posed in the a deity was worshiped who was ‘great purifier of souls.’ “ Then

2 a note at the bottom of the page the gates received the sacrifices from shows how this name was originally those that brought them, and led derived from the HEBREW them to the temple, Antiochus the WORDS for bearing iniquity in meanwhile feasting his army, which Exodus 28:38. was quite different conduct from Here we have another glaring Antiochus Epiphanes, who, when he instance of how the pure Worship had taken the city, offered swine of the Inspired Scriptures was upon the altar, and sprinkled the corrupted by the thoughts and temple with the broth of their flesh, ideas of men. Did you note the ‘in order to violate the laws of the final syllable of the name Dionysus? Jews and the religion they derived It is identical to the ending of from their forefathers; for which “Jesus” and we read further on page reason our nation made war with 72 of The Two Babylons (and else- him, and would never be reconciled where also), that Zeus was known to him; but for this Antiochus, all as the Savior, proving that he was men called him Antiochus the Pious, worshiped through Dionysus as the for the great zeal he had about re- Great Sinbearer in ancient Greece. ligion.” Obviously the etymology proves that As you will recall, in 2 Maccabees the reason for selecting the suffix 6:2 we find that the deity to which for the word Jesus was because of Antiochus Epiphanes offered the Dionysus or Zeus, who was known swine was called in some transla- as the Greek Savior when the Bible tions Zeus and others Jupiter, both Many arguments fabricated against the was translated into that language. use of the Sacred Names are based on the the identically same deity wor- It is imperative that we seek to assumption that the New Testament was shiped in different nations under eliminate all vestiges of paganism written in Greek. different names, and the unclean from our worship or we will be Examine the evidence in this article by sacrifice was made on Chisleu 25 denied acceptance by Almighty obtaining a copy from: (December 25), the day of the Yahweh. And that catharsis should The Assemblies of Yahweh winter solstice and the birthday begin with the Name which we call Bethel, PA 19507 of the sun deity in pagan my- our Redeemer and Messiah, who thology. This is HARD EVIDENCE was an Israelite and a Hebrew, and and not mere coincidence! Interest- whose real name was Yahshua the ingly, in Hebrew the word piggul Messiah. so that you can seek them in your means “to stink or be unclean cer- local library: Zell’s Popular emonially.” Evidently from this Encyclopedia & Universal word comes our English word pig. The Suffix SUS Dictionary of the English Lan- Additionally, the suffix was found Let us focus just a little more guage, Science, Literature, and elsewhere, as seen in this quote: “Ra thoroughly on the suffix of the name Art (T. Edward Zell, 1870, Phila.), drew from himself and without re- Jesus. Research has shown that all Webster’s Universal Unabridged course from woman the first divine paganization of the Hebrew True Dictionary, and Webster’s 20th couple. It was not until much later Worship is traceable to the tradi- Century Unabridged Dictionary. that he was given as his spouse tional worship of Nimrod and The following is a quote from Rat—which is only his own name Semiramis, the founders of ancient page 100 in The Two Babylons: feminised—or Iusaas, Eus-os…” Babylon and Assyria. As Dr. “In Egypt swine were offered once Larousse Encyclopedia of Alexander Hislop has pointed out a year, at the feast of the Moon, to Mythology, page 12. See also the in his book, The Two Babylons, the Moon, and Bacchus [Dionysus] references for Theseus in the Index. the ritual slaughter of a boar or hog or Osirus, and to them only was it was done by various pagans on the lawful to make such an offering.” venerable day of the sun, the winter Here then is the reason for select- The ONE Name solstice, Christmas day, (pgs. 100- ing the desecrating sacrifice and day Additionally, if we conclude that 101)! Several of our encyclopedic by Antiochus Ephiphanes. It ap- IESOUS is an attempted translit- dictionaries in the Assemblies of pears that the case becomes even eration of the Aramaic name Yahweh Library are excellent source more airtight as we search the YESHUA, then we are continuing material for explaining this point. writings of Josephus. Antiquities to corrupt the one Name by which Several of these volumes are listed XIII-VIII-2, “So those that were at we must be saved when we use the

3 variation JESUS. Let us refresh our exact illustration of how the name free to write to us and request it. minds with the message of Acts 4:12 “Jesus” has been corrupted because On many occasions these first and then continue to study to show it was derived from a foreign, second three letters of the Savior’s Hebrew ourselves approved unto Yahweh. generation attempt to transliterate Name appear to be misunderstood “And in none other is there sal- the Hebrew Name YAHSHUA. It and questions arise because of the vation: for neither is there any is our opinion that the “sh” sound w (waw). Many ancient documents other name under heaven, that could have been brought over and have been uncovered by archaeo- is given among men, in which taught as a sound in the Greek and logical expeditions, and also various we must be saved.” As you study most probably was so presented by instances in the Inspired Hebrew the Word of Yahweh more thor- the Apostles. Much corruption has Scriptures show, that when the oughly every day, the obvious entered the True Worship over the Name Yahweh was applied to the reasons continue to emerge why past 1900 years since the Apostolic name of a person, it was abbrevi- there can be only ONE NAME for era and it is up to you and me in ated by using the form why. There is the Messiah, the Savior of Israel the last days to eliminate it when no precedent anywhere for using the and the Redeemer of the World. it is encountered if we wish to re- entire tetragrammaton when it is store true Apostolic worship. applied to a human being. Now remember that we have proved The Sound “SH” these letters to be vowels. They Scholars have tried to show that What Was the Savior’s are NOT consonants and there- there is no “sh” sound in the Greek True Hebrew Name? fore CANNOT be pronounced language and therefore the name Without exception, all knowledge- YEHU. They must be pronounced “Jesus” is acceptable. However, first able sources declare that the YAHW since they are equivalent to allow me to emphasize the fact that Savior’s Name which He was given the English vowels IAU. As Dr. IESOUS was only an attempted by the angel who appeared to Edward Horowitz has shown transliteration from the ORIGI- Joseph in Matthew 1:21 was graphically in his book, How the NAL into another language-Greek. YAHSHUA. In the Hebrew it is Hebrew Language Grew, these So if we are to find the pure and spelled ucwhy and many Bible trans- are weak letters and lose some of true worship, it is absolutely es- lations give the variation their precision when spoken. There- sential that we return to the “Jehoshua” (Numbers 13:16) as the fore the first three letters are source as closely as we can get attempted transliteration. Conse- pronounced as one syllable and waw to it. There is an “sh” sound in quently, many of the readers of this draws out the hay, so that instead Hebrew! What is wrong with going magazine have questioned the form of a short exhalation as is normal back to the Name for our Savior YAHSHUA which is used in this at the end of the hay, the sound which was given by the angel in publication. emerges as YAHW. Try saying it to Matthew 1:21? Should we not desire The difficulty which is presented yourself. to be corrected of the errors which by the form JEHOSHUA is readily The remainder of the Savior’s we have believed in the past and explainable. We have proved that Name is uc. It is pronounced “shua” fall humbly to our knees before the vowel points which dictate this and you may confirm this from the Almighty Yahweh saying, “Show me form of transliteration here are less Strong’s Concordance, number what you wish me to do to be ancient that the letters of the word, 8668. Actually the last short “a” saved”? By continuing to clutch having been introduced between which transliterates the u is not the desperately to the corrupted name 600 and 900 C.E. As with the feminine ending. This letter in the “Jesus” we stand guilty of foster- tetragrammaton, we must reject Hebrew language is the most diffi- ing a language corruption! For these vowel points because they are cult to pronounce distinctly and so example, those readers who have producing a hybrid word if we were it takes on the sound of a short ever done any carpentry work have to render it JEHOSHUA. To be con- guttural “a” in this instance. This probably at one time cut a board sistent we must reject the vowel does not, however, make it into a as a pattern as they were building. points and we find simply the let- feminine name as the other Hebrew They continued to use this pattern ters in Hebrew hwhy. The first three names ending in h,a ah. and each board came from the saw letters are vowels as may be ascer- with the exact same length. How- tained from Josephus’ War of the ever, if each time the freshly sawed Jews, Book 5, Chapter 5, Section Source Material board was used for the pattern, you 7, and any good Hebrew grammar You may check the following would soon find that the boards book under the subject of “Vowel source material which shows that wouldn’t fit since they became Letters.” If you would like more the Savior’s Name was ucwhy and longer with each cut. This is an evidence on this point, please feel should be pronounced “Yahshua.”

4 Remember that some of these that this is the autograph of English in nature. Why not return references print “Joshua,” but we [Yahshua]. uwcy [Yeshua] is not to the original language from which know that the J was a Y originally Hebrew. In Hebrew the name is writ- came the concept of a Mighty Jew- and should be pronounced Yahshua. ten ucwhy [Yahshua].” ish Monarch who will rule in the First turn to Numbers 13:16 in Here we have the voice of a great Kingdom of Yahweh? You do not your Bible and see the Savior’s scholarly authority writing for the get this graphic picture by using Name as you may never have seen benefit of correcting a misunder- “Christ!” it before. Cross out the first two standing by the writer of the book In the past we have suggested vowels and you have YAHSHUA. under review. “Yeshua” is late the origin of the word “Christ” as In reality the Israelite general who Hebrew or Aramaic. It is from the being derived from the Indian deity wrote the 6th book in the Bible, time when the Jews began to sup- “Chrishna.” This has been ridiculed usually spelled “JOSHUA,” is a press the use of the tetragrammaton in some quarters, so it is time that perfect type of the Messiah, since in mundane usage. They began to we present some of the scholarship he took Israel into the promised distort the pronunciation of the which, we have uncovered on this land as the Messiah will be doing NAME “YAH,” pronouncing it “Ye.” subject. On page 60 of The Two for the Israel of Yahweh within a They are still doing this in our day. Babylons by Alexander Hislop you few years as He establishes the Again allow us to emphasize the fact will find a representation of Kingdom on this earth. Then you that the Savior’s Name is recognized Chrishna crushing the head of the can check the McKenzie Bible as being YAHSHUA in Hebrew, and serpent with his foot. It is just too Dictionary (Bruce Publishing Co.), not Yeshua or Jesus’. obvious that this is a portrayal to Hasting’s Bible Dictionary fulfill Genesis 3:15. “ And I will (Charles Scribner’s Sons), put enmity between you and the McClintock and Strong’s Bible woman, and between your seed Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theo- and her seed: he shall bruise logical and Ecclesiastical your head, and you shall bruise Literature (Baker Book House), his heel.” So the serpent-crusher Jewish Encyclopedia (KTAV Most people of India was Chrishna. This is con- Publishing), Encyclopedia firmed exactly by Dr. Ignaz Britannica (Oxford), Encyclope- cannot stand to Goldzhier in his book, Mythology dia Judaica (Macmillan Co.), hear the Name of Among the Hebrews, as he ties Companion Bible (Bagster together the deities of Greece and Publishing), Douay Catholic Yahshua the India throughout his book. The Translation (Catholic Book same comparison is made by Publishing Co.), Encyclopedia Messiah coming Robert Taylor in his Diegesis, in Dictionary of the Bible from the his chapter on Christina. You may (McGraw-Hill), and Smith’s Bible find additional information in the Dictionary (Zondervan). You lips of True Larousse’s Encyclopedia of might also check your own Mythology. After a careful study dictionary and see that it will Worshipers. of these and other sources it is ob- confirm what has been said vious that the name “Christ” is above. linked quite closely with pagan worship. It should be our desire as True Worshipers to return to pure Why the Form Yeshua? doctrine as closely as we can get How about the form Yeshua or What About Christ? to it and thus the original Messi- Jeshua as it appears occasionally? Another question which is asked anic concept and term must take Can this have been the Savior’s frequently concerns the term precedent over any word which was Name? In an article called, “Juda- “CHRIST.” Any good dictionary and linked with paganism. ism and Professors of Religion,” the sources mentioned previously (Jewish Quarterly Review, Janu- will confirm that it is an attempted ary, 1970), Dr. Solomon Zeitlin says, translation of the Hebrew word Does It Really Make “ uwcy. This is how [Yahshua] wrote jycm (messyach or Messiah). It is a Difference? His name in Hebrew.” (The forego- imperative that we return to the Can it be that the Sacred Name ing word and sentence is taken from original once more rather than Doctrine is really just a “picky” point a book under review by Dr. Zeitlin.) using the pattern to derive fur- when it comes to True Bible Doc- “The innocent reader would assume ther words which are not even trine? Should we be so strict in our

5 eviction of pagan influence from A Startling Prophecy is at hand: do not go after them. what we believe? The obvious for Today! And when you shall hear of answer to these questions is another wars and tumults, be not ter- question: Can we be strict with one Would you believe that the Name rified: for these things must portion of the Scriptures and not of Yahshua the Messiah will be cru- come to pass first; but the end with another part? Obviously we cial in arousing the end-time is not immediately. Then said must be total in our commitment prophesied religious persecution he to them, Nation shall rise to obedience to the Almighty Heav- which is to take place just before against nation, and kingdom enly Father Yahweh. the end of the age? It will definitely against kingdom; and there If you have been doing any study- be the Savior’s Revealed Personal shall be great earthquakes, and ing into the events which will lead Name which will bring this time in divers places famines and up to the last days at the close of of testing of the True Worshipers pestilences; and there shall be this age, it becomes obvious that to fruition according to the terrors and great signs from the Savior’s Name will prove to be Messiah’s own message to His heaven.” of vital importance! We are in that people. Turn with me to Matthew Some of these predictions are precise era now and this is the 24:9. “Then shall they deliver you already beginning to be fulfilled, but reason why the Sacred Name mes- up to tribulation, and shall kill few people really have patience to sage is being preached once again you: and you shall be hated of await the Savior’s return. Often at the close of this age, as it was all the nations FOR MY NAME’S ministers and laymen seek glory for in the days of the Apostles. Let us SAKE.” There it is again! How themselves by setting dates, but see this proved conclusively from many people are hated today for the Yahshua says that those who say the Inspired Scriptures. name of Jesus Christ? I grant that that the end is here within a short you might select some obscure ab- (a year or two in the future, per- original tribe who is persecuting haps) will be misleading you. “In Philadelphia and the Christian missionaries. You might your patience you shall win your Savior’s Name even find a few instances today of souls,” says Yahshua in Luke 21:19. Assuredly, all religious groups hatred for a Christian person in our Much prophecy still remains to be on the spectrum of ch-rchianity own country. But can you say that fulfilled before the Savior will seek to be the fulfillment of the ALL NATIONS hate the people return! Philadelphia Assembly of Revela- who bear the name of Jesus Let us now continue with this tion 3:7-13. But how many people Christ? ABSOLUTELY NOT! BUT absorbing and gripping prophecy. are willing to pay the price to en- THEY DO HATE THE NAME OF “BUT BEFORE ALL THESE ter this select group? Few indeed YAHSHUA THE MESSIAH! If you THINGS, they shall lay their are able to accomplish it. First of don’t believe this to be a provable hands on you, and shall perse- all, that select group is to be few fact, try using the Messiah’s true cute you, delivering you up to in number, with only a little Name in public and see how many the synagogues and prisons, strength, but an OPEN DOOR people will accept you. And as bringing you before kings and has been set before them which no prophecy is fulfilled in these last governors FOR MY NAME’S man can shut, because they have days, the now-smoldering aggrava- SAKE.” (Luke 21:12). Do you really “kept My Words, and have not tion will turn to burning hatred, grasp what you are reading? It will denied MY NAME!” Now where or your Bible is not reliable. be a persecution of the True Wor- did this irritating phrase, “MY shipers instigated by nominal NAME” appear from anyway? It is That Name Again! religion. The term “synagogue” is entirely obvious that in our day it used here by the messiah to sym- is the SAVIOR’S NAME which pro- Turn now to Luke 21. If you have bolize the doctrines which are duces the irritation and not a new edition of the Jerusalem taught by the religion of ! exclusively the NAME OF Bible it will be most helpful as it How many churches are teaching ALMIGHTY YAHWEH. It is the conveys a much clearer picture of that we must not use the Name of Name of Yahshua the Messiah the prophecy of the end times. the Heavenly Father which was which the people cannot stand to Notice how the Messiah’s Name is inspired to be written into the hear coming from the lips of the crucial as you read this chapter. Hebrew Scriptures? They are fol- True Worshipers. The irony of this We shall begin to quote from verse lowing the doctrine of the is that most of the hostility comes 8. “And he said, Take heed that synagogue! They might as well be from people who claim to be in the you be not led astray: for many synagogues because they are teach- Philadelphia era of the Revelation shall come IN MY NAME, ing that same doctrine. Notice that assemblies! saying, I am he; and, The time this religious persecution takes

6 place BEFORE the final end-time fore in your hearts, not to medi- ernments which will hate the True tribulation! Have you ever consid- tate beforehand how to answer: Worshiper, it is ALL MEN! Do your ered that you may soon be required for I will give you a mouth and relatives, friends, acquaintances, to put your faith in the Messiah and wisdom, which all your adver- and even all strangers hate you in HIS NAME on the line? That saries shall not be able to for the SAVIOR’S NAME WHICH time is fast approaching as the withstand or to gainsay. But you YOU BEAR? If you are sealed by message of the Assemblies of shall be delivered up even by the Name of Yahweh and Yahshua Yahweh continues to expand in parents, and brethren, and kin- the Messiah, you are in the club! scope and power! The more people sfolk, and friends; and some of You are following the lamb every- who accept the Sacred Name Doc- you shall they cause to be put where He goes (Revelation 14:1-5) trine, the more radio broadcasts to death. And you shall be hated and He had plenty of persecution which we are able to maintain, the of all men for my name’s sake. in His sojourn on earth. Now re- more literature and the more per- And not a hair of your head member, all of this persecution will sonal witnessing which is being shall perish. In your patience be taking place just before the tribu- done by the people of Yahweh will you shall win your souls.” How lation! We are now entering those demand ACTION, taking a stand perfectly enlightening! Can you say days BEFORE THE MESSIAH’S and declaring themselves before the that your present doctrines which RETURN! worldly churches! Are you ready for you believe will be able to stand So you think that the Savior’s the showdown which was predicted the test of close scrutiny? Are they true Name is of no great impor- by Yahshua the Messiah over His really perfect, or do they have glar- tance where salvation is concerned? own personal NAME? Is your sword ing flaws when you compare them It certainly is, as you can deter- sharp and shiny? Will you capitu- to what the Scriptures teach? The mine from reading your Bible! Now late to popular pressure and people to whom Yahshua is speak- is the time for you to begin to know, opinion? Do you wish to see the ing will have sound doctrine because use, and understand the Sacred present evil world continue? they allow the Holy Spirit to teach Name if you wish to be in the se- But that isn’t all. Let’s continue them. lect group of people who will do into this passage just a little fur- And then we come across another exploits in the end times, and the ther now. “It shall turn out to you mention of the Savior’s Name. Now Name to know and use is Yahshua for a testimony. Settle it there- it is no longer only national gov- the Messiah! ❑

The Assemblies of Yahweh present this volume, The Sacred Scrip- tures, Bethel Edition, to the reader in our humble endeavor to The Sacred Scriptures give you a special gift of greater biblical knowledge. We have restored the Sacred Name, Yahweh (the Tetragrammaton) and proper titles to the English text of the as well as returning the Name of Yahshua, our Savior, to the text of the New Testament. The Sacred Scriptures, Bethel Edition, is based upon the trans- lation work of the American Standard Version, 1901, known as the most accurate English version ever put into print. It maintains the delicate balance necessary to provide a very accurate, lit- eral translation, while preserving the majesty of expression of the original texts. In this edition we have sought to eliminate the Shakespearen English which is no longer familiar in modern usage, and we have tried to be faithful in rendering the original texts (as closely as we can return to them). While striving to make the text of the Bible more understand- able for the modern reader, the majesty with which the Bible should be comprehended was not sacrificed; therefore, this text emphasizes our need to think of our Heavenly Father and His Messiah on a higher level. We hope you will enjoy The Sacred Scriptures, Bethel Edition. Read and learn from this, the sacred Word of Almighty Yahweh. Write in for information on how you can obtain a copy of this superb Bible translation. Send your request to: Assemblies of Yahweh P.O. Box C Bethel, PA 19507

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