   
WHY DID GOD USE "JESUS" INSTEAD OF "JOSHUA" IN ACTS 7?
   
Yeah, that's a great blessing.  Get Hebrews 4:8 in one hand, and then 
in Stephen's sermon get Acts chapter 7 verse 45.  Hebrews 4:8:  "For 
if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken 
of another day." Now, plainly, that's a reference to Joshua coming 
into the land.
   
And, in Acts chapter 7, verse 45:  "Which also our fathers that came 
after brought in with Jesus into the possession of the Gentiles, whom 
God drave out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David."
   
Now, the way that thing works is, that word in the Old Testament 
looked like this.  Hebrews write from right to left.  Or, a 
combination of that.  YESH-UAH.  Maybe sometimes like this, and 
sometimes like this.  And that thing in Hebrew will come backwards.  
Y-S-H-U-A-H.  In English, Y-S-H-U-A-H.  Masoretic vowel pointing will 
put "YESH-U-AH." Something like that.  And we pronounce "J." That's 
one of them, that's one of them, that's one of them, and in the New 
Testament--this.  Now, those are all the same word.  Those words mean, 
"Jehovah saves."
   
In the New Testament, the Greek will come out, "Iesus," in Greek--like 
that.  Now, that word in all the Greek texts in Acts chapter 7 and 
Hebrews chapter 4 is "Iesus." So, if the new bibles translate 
"Joshua," they're not translating the Greek text correctly--after 
complaining about the King James not doing it.  If you want to hang a 
scholar, hang him right there in Acts chapter 7 and Hebrews chapter 4, 
because in those passages right there, they have said there that it 
should be translated "JOSHUA." That word in any Greek text is not 
Joshua--it's Jesus.
   
Now, the question is, Why did the Lord do that?  And the answer is, 
the Lord did that to show you that the book of Joshua is a picture of 
the Second Coming.  And the word "Joshua" means "Jesus." That's what 
it means.
   
Now, I'll show you what I mean.  When Jesus Christ comes back, He 
attacks a cursed city--Babylon.  Right?  There's a cursed city in 
here, in Jericho.  When He comes back, He comes back at the end of 
seven years' tribulation--right?  They go around Jericho seven times.  
When He comes back, He's the Angel of the Lord coming back, and the 
Captain of the Lord's Host in the book of Joshua is the Angel of the 
Lord.  When Jesus Christ comes back to set up the millennial land, He 
divides the land for an inheritance; so when Joshua goes in, he 
divides the land for the inheritance.  That's the Holy Spirit showing 
you that the book of Joshua is a type of the Second Advent.
   
In the book of Joshua, the sun and the moon stand still, and in the 
Tribulation the sun and the moon do the same thing again.  King James, 
then, is superior to the Greek.  It's superior.
   

   

   

   

   

 
