Brandon, Jesus comes from Hebrew, in Hebrew is Yehoshua. That comes into Aramaic as Yeshua. That comes into Greek as Iesous. From there into English comes as Jesus. In Hebrew Yehoshua means 'YHWH saves'. That's why is says: "She shall call his name Jesus, because He shall save his people from their sin". YHWH from the OT = YHWH from NT = YHWH manifested in human body = Yehoshua = Jesus.
Yeshua without taking the Greek detour, comes into English as Joshua. See the connection?
In some Bibles, Joshua is called Jesus Navi = Jesus the Prophet. Because they translate from Septuagint, which is a Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible.
Jesus and Joshua is exactly the same name, going back to the originals. So Jesus as boy in Israel had exactly the same name as the person we call Joshua in English.
YHWH is just a transliteration from Hebrew into English of how God is named in Hebrew in the OT.
By the way, you message is very inspiring. Thank you for posting it.
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Jan 16 at 09:18 PM
In Hebrew Bibles, Joshua the book is put together with the rest of the prophets. That's why Septuagint calls Joshua the book, Iesus Navi. Navi is from Hebrew and it means Prophet.
There is so much misinformation on the Internet about these simple facts I posted above.