Messianic Judaism Question: Why do Messianic Jews call Jesus, Yeshua?

Why don't you ask about His last name? Christ? If His name wasn't Jesus Christ, then what was it?

Jesus was a Jew with a Jewish name and never converted to another religion. He was/is the Jewish Messiah.

He comes from the town of David. He comes from Melchizedek's priesthood which is why He is both priest and king. His priesthood is above the Levitical priesthood as Melchizedek was Abraham's priest.

You don't find non-Messianic Jews offering sacrifices because Aaron's priesthood has been destroyed. It is impossible to prove lineage to Aaron...you can say, "My DNA...." but that would not pass the Ezra 2 test from the previous time the Temple was destroyed.

Is this important to you? If you don't honor the Jewish scriptures...and most non-Messianic Jews don't because they believe they were created by men, then your question is very shallow like most Gentiles.

But if you are a Believer in the Jewish Messiah (Christ) who fulfilled the Jewish scriptures, then you are interested in knowing why non-Messianic Jews worshiped the golden calf and having picked up stones to go back to Egypt instead of going into the Promised Land with their new law under their new covenant. As it took a 2nd generation Jew to get things going under the new law and covenant then, so it is with Jesus.

All His disciples were Jews. All those on the day of Pentecost were Jewish. Pentecost is a Jewish holiday and not a sect of Christianity. In fact, Christian isn't a word before Acts 11 and the leadership in Acts 15 are all Jews looking for God's guidance on this new covenant and law from the High Priest/King in the line of Melchizedek.

Being filled with the spirit of God is not limited to a sect of Christianity. He is the seal of promise for all Believers...even though He has been around since Genesis 1:2...before the creation of the things on earth and is not a angel and is never seen with God in any of the visions of God like Is 6 though those filled with Him speak the very words of God as 1 Samuel says...long before anyone thought of the trinity to include Him in it.

Shhh! Non-Messianic Jews don't want to talk about Him more than they don't want to talk about Jesus.

***Why do Messianic Jews call Jesus, Yeshua?***

So when you stand in the presence of God because the Blood of the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world has freed you from sin,

when you understand that your High Priest is the King of kings and Lord of lords...

when you understand that the One who offers your sacrifice for your sin is also the One who established the Law and that there is no grace without the condemnation of the Law

sometimes you want to praise God saying Yeshua instead of Jesus...

Hope this helps

Even Christian resources which might be better than sympathetic and charitable to the Nineteen Sixties motion 'Messianic Judaism' will concede that 80-90 5% of Messianic "Jews" have been below no instances raised in a Jewish family, and can't also be severely known as an apostate from Judaism. There could also be even a few embarrassment among some of the leaders of the missionary hobbies, precipitated by way of the truth that their congregations do the opposite of what they have been supposed to do. As a alternative than convert Jews, they tend to draw from Christians...A lot of whom turn out to be keen approximately what Judaism without doubt is, and, upon doing the target study, make a bona fide conversion to a unique department of Judaism. So, in all honesty, your natural Messianic "Jew" embraced "Yeshua HaMashiach'' whilst he used to be as soon as sitting in his family pew on the vicinity Southern Baptist church, be taught a flier approximately the overpowering have to support give the Jews to Christ, and wondered if he had a Jewish satisfactory-grandmother. And "Jews who recall in Jesus' with out issues do not exist...Adherents of Judaism and a veneration of a demigod are 2 conflicting realities. To argue in any other case could be as absurd and/or asinine as Muslim missionary duties that argue that truly Christians are Muslims. Peace

Its very simpke really- "messianic judaism" is a missionary movement tryign to convert Jews to Christianity. however, they try to hide the fact they are Christians in an attempt to mae themselves appear more Jewish as part of their scam. Its pure misrepresentation, what would be called a bait and switch scam in the financial world and punished with jail time for such fraudulent misrepresentation.

So, as part of their attempts to pull off their scam they try to use Hebrew to hide the Christian terminology here are a few:

Jesus become Yeshua

Paul becomes rabbi Shaul (never mind no Rabbis existed at the time LOL)

New Testament becomes Brit Chadashah

Baptism becomes Mikveh

Holy Spirit becomes Ruach HaKodesh

Apostles beome Talmidim

edit: the claim that "messianic jews" are ethnically jewish is a false one. First off, it is based on the Nazi notion that there is a Jewish race and thus once can leave Judaism and remain Jewish. There has never been any belief in a Jewish race in Judaism. Right form the start , in the time ofAvraham, there were converts to Judaism, jus as there were the eruc rav that left Egypt with the Jews most of whom converted to Judaism (the rest leaving during the 40 years in the desert). The secon issue is that it ignores the fact that the vast majority of members of "messianic judaism" have no connection to Judaism. People that would actually qualify to be Jewish under Jewish law are only 2-4% of "messianic jews", maybe double that number have some tenuous conneciton to Judaism that doe snot actually qualify them as Jews under Jewish law!

Messianic Jews prefer to keep Jesus in a Jewish context. Everything is about maintaining the Jewishness of Jesus. Some Christians have almost completely given up the understanding that Christianity is based entirely on Judaism or that Christianity is a sect of Judaism. There is no Christian Messiah only a Jewish one. Messianic Jews are ethnic Jews and prefer to maintain Jewish traditions. Using correct Hebrew and Aramaic names have been central to Jewish practice since the beginning. It is just one more tradition that the Messianic Jews are continuing.

I am a Messianic Jew and we call "Jesus" Yeshua because that is his name. When it was translated into the greek it sounded like "Yeshuas" because in greek a name ending in a vowel was feminine. Then when it was translated into English the "Y" made a "J" sound so it ended up being "Jesus". I hope this helps some. :) Happy Shabbat!

'Yeshua' is a Hebrew word, does mean 'salvation,' and is used as a name. However, it's a feminine noun and so is used only for women's names. If you look up 'Jesus' in a Hebrew-English dictionary, you'll find the name 'Yeshu'.

Zvi the Fiddler

I have attended services in many Messianic services and I have only heard Him referred to as Yeshua.

Yeshua is the name Jesus was called while on the earth. Jesus is the Greek name. I actually prefer Yeshua because that is what he answered to..........

Because Jesus is his name in English.

English is an amalgamation of other languages and didn't come from a root base that was a Semitic language anyway.

We get "Jesus" (the name) from the oldest NT manuscripts. Those are in Greek. There his name is written in Greek and begins now with a J, but an I (Iesous). Since Roman Catholicism took over these Christian documents as much as they possibly could and translated them into Latin for advancing their versions (to the extent that even up to Martin Luther's time Bibles were chained to the altars in their Churches) Christ's name then became known all over the world as Iesus, add then English and you get Jesus.

What Messianic (anythings, Jewish or not) do is return to what God's angel, Gabriel, instructed Mary (Miriam in Hebrew) to name her son, conceived of the Holy spirit. That would is the same name that Joshua had. Why it was translated Joshua but Jesus later, we really don't know. Custom does affect/inhibit the best translators. Actually, it is Rabbinic custom to spell it and say it Yeshua with an e, Yeh, when in fact it had to have had the Yah sound for his name to mean "God saves."

None of us is doubting the his mother and Yosef (Joseph in English) named as Gabriel instructed. Truth be known, either Y'shua (the correct spelling) or Joshua are shortened for the full naming. Much like Mathias is the short form of (God's gift) which is either Matthew, Mattathias, Nathaniel, etc.

So too, Y'shua is short for Yahoshua, which can be spelled Y'hoshua also.

The point being there was no such thing as a J sound in Hebrew until about 500 years ago and that because of the influence of English (which did not exist as a single whole language of itself until in Shakespeare's time).

Yes, that means the original holy Name of the Most High, the Almighty, the Ancient of Days did not and never has begun with a J as in Jehovah either. It came about in the same fashion as "Jesus" as a name did, translations from Greek (the Septuagint) OT down into English.

In the Spanish speaking groups the J is usually sounded out as a Y. So that too affected things. If the Spanish groups spelled Jesus, yet pronounced it Yeh-zuz, that's the outgrowth of Spanish roots in Latin. Both effects resulted in a Jesus where all the English speakers pronounce the J as you know it.

I've no idea how Jesus is pronounced in Chinese or obscure tribes in the Amazon, but I am sure that the God who really does exist and is the Father of our Messiah, God's Word come in the flesh, born of woman, crucified, died and risen, knows if someone is addressing Him or not.

With so many false Jesus', such as the one so many Popes worshipped, and Nazi's killed in the name of, God has created a movement back to truth. With our focus on his name as the Bible gives it (Miriam is actually written for Mary in the original NT) it is much easier to stay focused on the "Jesus" who really did exist verses the one with blond hair and blue eyes that is not the Incarnate Word of God come to earth to be our Lamb of God; the one whom John ( Yochanan) the Baptizer ( HaMatbil) recognized for us all.

because they're trying to make a big show out of knowing a few key hebrew words in order to fool people into believing that they're actually jews.

The name Jesus is the anglicized form of the Greek name Iesous, which is the name as it appears in the original Greek version of the New Testament. The name Iesous is the equivalent of the Hebrew name Yeshua, which means Yahweh is salvation. The word 'diety' has its origin in the name Zeus, which is actually Dias in Greek.

God understands all languages, so to call upon Him using the name Yeshua would be appropriate for those who speak Hebrew. For those who speak Greek, they may call Him Iesous. For those of us who speak English, we may call Him Jesus. All the same name, simply different languages.