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"AND YOU SHALL CALL HIS NAME...JESUS"

  AND YOU SHALL CALL HIS NAME... By Daneille Gray Snowden    As we all are basking in this blissful holiday season, I find myself telling my loved-ones: 'Merry CHRISTmas' on their Christmas cards. As I do, my mind's eyes peers back to the night when the greatest event ever happened: the birth of our all powerful, loving Savior- JESUS !    The simple, yet direct assignment to Joseph was indisputable! That is to name the baby of whom Mary will give birth to; Jesus ! In the Hebrew Jesus is Yeshua ; which means to ' rescue ', to ' deliver ' and to ' save '.   Matthew 1:21   " She will bear a Son, and you shall call His name Jesus [the Greek form of the Hebrew Joshua, which means Savior], for He will save His people from their sins [that is, prevent them from  failing and missing the true end and scope of life, which is God]." [ampl.]   Yahu in the Hebrew word Yeshua, stands for God [YHWH: which is a saving cry]. The second p