Was Zechariah the first Jewish Prophet to actually name their future Messiah "Yahshua?" See: Chap.3:1-9

Question

Five hundred and twenty years before Messiah was born in Bethelem of Yudea, Zechariah wrote:"...I will bring forth My Servant THE BRANCH." This Messianic revelation gives His Name as Yoshua/Yahshua. Zechariah 3:1-9. The contemperary Prophet Haggai also gives out this Name, but Zechariah reveals the double entendre re the Name Yahshua (meaning of this Name is: The Savation of YHWH). Are you aware of any earlier prophet who mentions the actual Name of the future Messiah of Israel?

Answer 1

Funny thing that--

The original Hebrew of Zechariah 3:1-9

1. And He showed me Joshua, the High Priest, standing before the angel of the Lord. And Satan was standing on his right, to accuse him.
2. And the Lord said to Satan: The Lord shall rebuke you, O Satan; and the Lord shall rebuke you, He who chose Jerusalem. Is this one not a brand plucked from fire?
3. Now Joshua was wearing filthy garments and standing before the angel.
4. And he [the angel] raised his voice and said to those standing before him, saying, "Take the filthy garments off him." And he said to him, "See, I have removed your iniquity from you, and I have clad you with clean garments."
5. And I said, "Let them put a pure miter on his head," and they put the pure miter on his head. And they had clothed him with garments while the angel of the Lord was standing.
6. And the angel of the Lord warned Joshua, saying,
7. So said the Lord of Hosts: If you walk in My ways, and if you keep My charge, you, too, shall judge My house, and you, too, shall guard My courtyards, and I will give you free access among these who stand by.
8. Hearken, now, O Joshua the High Priest-you and your companions who sit before you, for they are men worthy of a miracle-for, behold! I bring My servant, the Shoot.
9. For, behold the stone that I have placed before Joshua. Seven eyes are directed to one stone. Behold! I untie its knots, says the Lord of Hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.


servant? branch? Yeshu? huh??

Answer 2

None of the Jewish prophets predict the coming of Jesus, since Judaism rejects the concept of a man-diety and therefore Jesus is antithetical to Judaism. The term 'yeshua' is hebrew for salvation or rescue and is not meant to name a person. None of the Jewish prophets give an actual name to the future redeemer of the Jewish people about which they prophesized. Their prophecy has certainly not come to pass yet, because the Jews have not yet been saved. Jews are still being killed every day.

Answer 3

What translation of the Bible are you using? There is no Yahshua in my Bible which is a formal equivalence translation. The passage announces a future priesthood, that of Christ, appointed by God to be mediator between him and mankind. The Branch referred to in verse 8 refers to the Messiah.
Peace and every blessing!

Answer 4

i visit offer you Rashi's remark on the Tanakh right here: 9. Be particularly satisfied, O daughter of Zion; Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem. Behold! Your king shall come to you. he's only and helpful; humble, and driving a donkey and a foal, the offspring of [one in each of] she-donkeys. Behold! Your king shall come to you: that's impossible to interpret this different than as relating the King Messiah, as that's pronounced: “and his rule would be from sea to sea.” we don't locate that Israel had this variety of ruler for the time of the days of the 2d Temple. only and helpful: stored by ability of the Lord. and driving a donkey: that's an emblem of humility. and a foal of she-donkeys: as in (Gen. 32:sixteen)"and ten foals. 10. and that i visit shrink off the chariots from Ephraim, and the horses from Jerusalem; and the bow of conflict would be shrink off. And he shall communicate peace to the international locations, and his rule would be from the sea to the west and from the river to the ends of the earth. and that i visit shrink off the chariots: for they won't prefer them. and his rule: ?????????? As for something, you look under the impact that "anointed" in all circumstances refers back to the Moschiach. that's a call - one given to ALL kings, even a pagan one, Cyrus. The anointed one being shrink off in Daniel is King Agrippa - no longer the Davidic Moschiach. 26. And after the sixty-2 weeks, the anointed one would be shrink off, and he would be not greater, and the folk of the arrival monarch will wreck the city and the Sanctuary, and his end will happen by ability of inundation, and till the top of the conflict, that's going to be shrink off into desolation. And after: those weeks. the anointed one would be shrink off: Agrippa, the king of Judea, who became into ruling on the time of the destruction, would be slain. and he would be not greater: Heb. ?????? ???, and he won't have. The meaning is that he won't be. the anointed one: Heb. ????????. it incredibly is in basic terms an expression of a prince and a dignitary. and the city and the Sanctuary: lit. and the city and the Holy. and the folk of the arrival monarch will wreck: [The monarch who will come] upon them. that's Titus and his armies.

Answer 5

The phrase "... her seed" is referring to offspring from Eve. As woman do not have seed, Genesis 3:15 gives us a hint of the special and unique birth of the coming one that would "bruise the head" of Satan, defeating sin and death and providing a way of atonement for all that accept Him. Reference Isaiah 7:14a, "The Messiah would be born of a virgin."

Genesis 3:15a
"And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel."

Fullfiled
Luke 1:34-35
" 34 Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man? 35 And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God."

Answer 6

I think you could say that Joshua, the servant of Moses certainly prefigured Christ Jesus, or Messiah Yeshua if you prefer, in that he was designated as the one to bring the children of Israel into the promised land. I think this was God's way of saying that Moses, who typified the Law, would not be the instrument God would use to bring Israel into its promised inheritance.

Answer 7

Thanks for bringing that to my attention David...

There are other prophecies referring to him as "the Wonderful counselor, the prince of peace, the Mighty God."