What Is In A Name?
By Messianic Rabbi Moshe Yoseph
Koniuchowsky
Throughout the centuries of the
Diaspora, Jews have been the targets of conversion attempts to paganized
Christianity both coerced and forced. These attempts were often followed by
forced baptisms and edicts of either assimilation or expulsion. When these
measures failed or due to some benign circumstance could not be carried out, our
enemies often settled for smaller victories. The Gentile nations of the world
would go to a secondary plan of progressive assimilation, with the changing of
Hebraic birth and biblical names such as Nathan and Aaron into pagan names such
as Nick or Alex. Under this satanic system and diabolical plan to eliminate
physical Israel (Judah and Ephraim), names such as Jacob were turned into Jack,
Isaac was turned into Irving, Joseph became Harvey, Abraham became Alan, Baruch
became Bernard and Barry, Hadassah became Edith, Noah became Norman and Moshe
became Marshall.
I do not wish to belabor this point,
but I think you get the picture! These name changes were sold to us by apostate
churchianity, who reminded us that these new names would definitely benefit us
in business, commerce and in social acceptance. Tragically we bought into this
lie and participated in our destruction. Some of these name changes were even
confirmed by "church" baptisms overseen by Jews themselves. Instead of
westernized Hellenistic paganism doing forced conversions and baptisms, the
devil discovered and propagated a seemingly benign way, through which we could
destroy ourselves. Why not get us to simply eliminate our own identity by
changing our own names? When we change names and adopt pagan names, we are then
only one small step away from ceasing the practice of Torah, circumcision and
Shabbat observance. This evil and ingenious plan called for us as children of
Israel to destroy ourselves. It seemed as if anytime organized religion tried to
do the dirty work, the Elohim of Israel would step in for our defense. Within
one or at the most two generations, satan would have accomplished the virtual
disappearance of the Israelite nation, as we now know them! His plan was for
us to slit our own throats through self-inflicted wounds!
I will never forget the time when I had
just graduated college back in 1979 and sat with my prospective Jewish employer
to discuss starting my first job. My new Jewish employer looked me straight in
the eye and told me that I would never get far in the business world with a
Jewish name like Moshe (which is my legal name on my birth certificate
despite MJAA claims to the contrary). He pointed his finger at me and said
"you know, you look like a Marshall. You'll do a lot better in business as
Marshall (without the burden of carrying around your Jewishness as an
albatross)."
I lovingly adopted that name since it
freed me from the name given to me by my verbally abusive father who would use
the name of Moshe, as would an army drill sergeant. I admittedly hid under that
pagan moniker. "Marshall" helped me to avoid detection as a Jew and to
also avoid memories of a somewhat abusive and unpleasant childhood at the hands
of both my father and non Jewish acquaintances, who would ridicule the ethnicity
of a uniquely Jewish name like Moshe. Virtually thousands of Jewish people have
had their names changed for somewhat similar reasons, sold to them under the
evil guise of simplicity, professional advantage and convenience. In light of
this tragic history, several observations are in order for us as a nation, as
well as for those living in this western culture. First there is a warning to
the manmade so called "church". Leave us alone and allow us to name
our babies for and to the glory of Yahweh. If you want to share the Gospel with
us that is fine and divine. Do not teach us how to raise our kids as children Of
Israel, since that is not your agenda, though it is Yahweh's! We were naming our
children with biblical names held by our forefathers for centuries, before
Hellenized Gentiles came into existence and decided to eliminate both houses of
Israel. Yahshua died to save the our nation from sin, not from biblical
Israelite faith (which contrary to popular opinion is not a disease that we need
to be pulled out of)! Moses named his son Gershom, did he not? With the
influence of the modern Hellenized church system, no doubt Gershom Ben Moshe
would have become Gary Small!
May this be a strong exhortation to the
traditional Jewish community as well! Change your names back to what they
originally were, or your pagan name will be a major first step to destruction
through assimilation. While these appear to be strong words, they are
nonetheless true. Why be an accomplice in the Final Solution to the Jewish and
lost tribes question? Change your names back to Yahweh's choice for you and by
doing so, make a statement to the world, the devil and false religious systems,
that you were born an Israelite (Jews and Ephraim) and will die one, all the
while refusing to adopt pagan names for business , social or any other reasons.
As a second step, go back to the Holy Land Of Israel and liquidate the Diaspora,
before the Diaspora liquidates you! According to Jeremiah 16:16, you as a
traditional Jew or Messianic Nazarene Yisraelite have only two choices. You can be fished
back in relative peace and serenity through Zionistic proclamations and through
the Zionistic preaching of Yahshua's Gospel (yes Yahshua was and still is an
ardent Zionist), or you can be hunted back to the land of Israel. Yahweh
promises that if you are comfortable in America and have adopted it as your
personal Babylon, He will still remove you and bring you back by human hunters.
They will hunt you down through religious persecution until you flee back.
We believe that Zionism is not a
political hot potato to be discussed by sincere men of opposing views. Rather
it is the only biblically outlined eternal plan of survival for both houses of
Israel! Do you want to change your name back to what it was and go back as a
free individual to Israel, or do you want to wait until the anti Semitic hunters
come and knock at your door? The militant Jewish Defense League's slogan is
"never again." Yahweh's slogan is "never again if you obey, but
one more time if you disobey." Ezekial 39:28-29 makes it crystal clear that
the day will soon dawn when not a single Israelite man, woman, boy, or girl
living according to Ezekial 37 guidelines (no idolatry, division or double
mindedness), will be left in any of the countries of the Diaspora. That is the
plan! You will either get with it, or Yahweh will send hunters to hunt you down
and break your foolish pride. As it always has been, the choice is yours to
make! Finally, I need to address the Messianic Nazarene Yisrael community. It is we that
have and possess the Ruach Hakodesh, through our faith in Israel's resurrected
Messiah. We must tap into that wisdom and discernment that come along as gifts
of the Ruach and use it to set the standard. The Ruach of Yahweh will lead the
way in reinstating our Israelite heritage and culture. Frankly, many of our
traditional Jewish brothers are too busy using their pagan names to enrich
themselves, by seeking to establish careers in the Galut (Diaspora). They do not
want to change, despite the above warnings.
We do not need to be rocket scientists
to figure out that the organized Roman based church system, does not intend to
lead a campaign for a return to our Hebraic culture and heritage. First John
5:21 calls us to keep ourselves from their error. The burden of action is on you
and me! It is this glorious last day Messianic Nazarene Yisrael restoration
movement, predicted and prophesied through Hosea the prophet in chapter 3:4-5
(around the year 750 BC), that must set and raise the standard. As I become more
familiar with Messianic Nazarene Yisrael, I see more of our Israelite brethren from both
houses re-adopting their Hebraic birth names, re-adopting Israelite heritage and
being obedient to Yahweh. Messianic Nazarene Yisraelites from both houses are making
aliyah (returning to Israel), even though they find themselves giving up
comfortable and affluent circumstances in first world western nations.
Considering this observation the growing anti missionary element in the Orthodox
Jewish community must stifle their tongues! Yahshua's love and care for us is
making us more culturally Hebraic and Torah observant than even you yourselves
are! (Not bad for us meshumadim-traitors!) It is this return to Yahweh, through
Yahshua, that is provoking us to return to our Hebraic heritage. If Messianic
Nazarene Yisrael was just another Christian attempt at the conversion of our people, then
wouldn't we be more Catholic or Lutheran in our lifestyle? Wouldn't we exhibit
the same traits as those converting us? That unfortunately did happen for two
thousand years, but those days are over forever!! Yahweh has actually reinvented
the wheel and found a way for wandering and scattered Israelites, to receive
eternal life and the forgiveness of all their sins, while allowing them to
maintain and grow in their Israelite heritage! What an Almighty Yahweh we
serve!
Today, those involved with Messianic
Nazarene Yisrael are taking the bull by the horns and saying "enough
assimilation." This task has fallen to us as the new determiners of
Messianic halachah, because spiritually bankrupt traditional Jewish leadership
has failed in that very task. Any Jewish leadership that would purposely cover
up Yahshua's Messianic claims to His people, by willfully omitting the reading
of Isaiah 53 in the Haftorah portion on the Shabbat, can hardly be trusted to
lead us back to a full Israelite heritage. All the while they have been
misleading many Jewish Israelites about the arrival of the New Covenant of
Messiah Yahshua, promised through Jeremiah (Jeremiah 31:31 in 550 BC), to both
houses of Israel. In Isaiah 3:12, Yahweh cautions the Israelite nation that
traditional leadership teaches many erroneous doctrines. He warns that those
leaders who teach the doctrines of anti-messiah, cause us as a people to be
destroyed (Hosea 4:6).
It is Messianic Nazarene Yisraelites who are
returning to Yahweh through teshuva (repentance), through Yahshua the Cohen
Hagadol of Elohim (High Priest of Yahweh over Israel), and through His
atonement. Messianic Nazarene Yisraelites have been called by Yahweh to set the standard
and model for all Israel. We have the boldness and the courage to proclaim
"thus saith Yahweh." We have the kishkas (guts), to follow through by
way of a Hebraic lifestyle, through the indwelling prophetic anointed power of
the Ruach Hakodesh in our lives.
This divine mandate has been deposited
in our midst by Yahweh. To ignore His leading and revealed will would be sin in
the camp. That sin is certainly one we do not need and it is our business to
make sure that those Achin's hiding in Messianic Nazarene Yisrael's tents, have nothing
sinful hidden in those theological tents. We do not need Israelite believers
sinning covertly by referring saved born again Israelites Judah and Ephraim) to
Babylonian style churches. These Achins need to be exposed and lovingly restored
to Messianic Nazarene Yisrael "the last great hope of the Israelite nation" This
day I record heaven and earth to witness this warning to our Messianic Nazarene Yisraelite
community. Yahshua warns us that to whom much is given much is required. We
carry and possess the full revelation of Yahweh as found in both Brit Chadasha
and Tanach. Therefore it is us and not apostate traditional Jewry (who are
selective about what parts of Scripture they choose to believe), that must pave
the way for the rest of our people for total teshuva (repentance). We must not
sin in joining the plans of our enemies, by assisting and abetting them in their
attempts at Israelite assimilation. We have had plenty of that for the past 2700
years. It is time for Messianic Nazarene Yisrael to write a new and promising epilogue to
the wandering plight of our people.
Having laid our case bare before you,
it is with great joy that I announce the reinstitution of my birth name as Moshe
to be used in all aspects of my life. I cannot be a hypocrite. I must practice
that which I have chosen to preach. Regardless, Yahweh knew what He was doing
when He named me Moshe at birth and still calls me Moshe in my quiet times of
prayer and fellowship with Him. Being omniscient and knowing the future,
Yahweh chose a suitable name for me in Messianic ministry. Obviously He knew
that what was bad for business, would indeed serve me in good stead as a
Messianic rabbi and leader in the Messianic Nazarene Yisrael two house revival that we all
enjoy today. Henceforth all bylines will be seen with my real name of birth
"Moshe" and not the name that demonic church influenced forces of
assimilation opposed to the preservation of Israel's children, imposed on me!
As children of Israel we are called to
remember the death of 6 million of our people in the Nazi Holocaust. I
personally cannot think of a better way to honor their memory as martyrs of the
Israelite nation, then by reverting back to the biblical names of our birth that
they died to preserve. That would be a wonderfully tangible way that we can
identify with Jewish-Israel our beloved brethren, all the while distancing
ourselves from their captors. Don't forget that the Final Solution to the Jewish
question, digressively deteriorated into the Holocaust. So-called Christendom in
Europe had this slogan as their motto: "We don't want you to live as Jews.
We don't want you to live among us as Jews and finally we don't want you to live
at all". While these words are chilling and haunting reminders, they in
fact do represent so called "apostate perverted church" love towards
our Jewish people throughout history. Let us be as bold as our torturers and
lets revert back to the names that glorify Yahweh and not those that were often
identical to the butchers of Jewish-Israel! Our adopted pagan names did
not seem to have impressed Hitler, since he killed all Jews and many Ephraimites
even those with pagan names. Messianic Nazarene Yisraelites from both houses also perished
in the Holocaust. Our traditional friends should try to remember that next time,
before they call us spiritual Nazis again! Please pray about doing the same for
you, your wife, your children, your nation and most importantly for the sake of
the risen Jewish Savior of mankind, whose very Hebraic name itself means Yahweh
saves! Aren't you glad that some religious fanatics did not change that Holy
Name (Phil 2: 9-11)?
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