The Rabbi Who Found Messiah: The Story of Yitzhak Kaduri and His Prophecies of the Endtime by Gallups Carl

Author:Gallups, Carl [Gallups, Carl]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: WND Books
Published: 2013-11-05T00:00:00+00:00

NO SMALL MATTER—A DEEPER WORD STUDY

Here is the crux of the problem: In all honesty, Kaduri did not say that Messiah’s name was Jesus of Nazareth or Jesus the Christ, as represented in the New Testament. Actually, he did not even say the Messiah’s name is Jesus. And to cynics of the note, this is no small matter. Jesus truly is an invented English word—specifically. On this point of technicality, the critics are also correct. What the note actually said, provided one holds that the key to understanding the note was to take the first Hebrew letter of each of the Hebrew words from the sentence—“He will lift the people and prove that his word and law are valid”—was that the name of Messiah is Yehoshua. That’s it. The coded message simply said, “Yehoshua.” There was no other identifier attached to the name. As previously stated, Yehoshua and Yeshua are, in effect, the same name, derived from the same Hebrew root of the word salvation. They actually translate directly to English as Joshua. However, the Hebrew name Yeshua was apparently a very common name from Old Testament times through the days of first-century Judea and the time of Jesus and His disciples. The name Jesus, as we use it, comes from the transliteration of Yeshua into Greek, and then from Greek into Latin, and then from Latin into English (more on this in a moment).

It is widely reported that archaeologists have unearthed the tombs of well over sixty Yeshuas from the period of time that dates to Jesus’s ministry. The short name Yeshua (transliterated with a J) also appears dozens of times in the Old Testament and in reference to four separate characters—including a descendant of Aaron who helped distribute offerings of grain: “And next to him were Eden, and Miniamin, and Jeshua … in the cities of the priests, in their set office, to give to their brethren by courses, as well to the great as to the small …” (2 Chron. 31:15; emphasis added). Another person by that name accompanied former captives of Nebuchadnezzar back to Jerusalem: “Now these are the children of the province that went up out of the captivity, … which came with Zerubbabel: Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, Baanah (Ezra 2:1–2; emphasis added).

The longer version of the name, Yehoshua, appears a little over two hundred times in the Old Testament and refers most notably to the legendary conqueror of Jericho and the guide of the children of Israel into the Promised Land—Joshua. This long version corresponds to Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary reference number 3091 and is phonetically pronounced Ye–ho–shoo’–ah.

The Hebrew name Yehoshua is apparently quite common among Jews today. One of the most infamous people with that name is an American rabbi named Milton Yehoshua Balkany. Rabbi Balkany, of Brooklyn, New York, was dubbed the Brooklyn Bundler in November 2010, when he was found guilty of extortion, blackmail, wire fraud, and making false statements in a federal court in Manhattan.

It is also claimed that one of Rabbi Kaduri’s closest spokesmen is named Yehoshua.

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