Hebrew names are readily descriptive, unlike many names that we use every day, like George!
Jesus' name in Hebrew is pronounced Y'shuah which has a meaning; "Salvation". It would be more descriptive in everyday terms if we used the alternate word "Help!" which we readily apply if we've fallen into a hole that we can't get out of! I'm sure that we can all relate to a scenario in our lives when we have exclaimed the word, "Help!"
Walls of Jerusalem
This year, 2020, on Wednesday, April 8, is the first day of Passover, which corresponds to the day the Last Supper was eaten by Jesus and his 12 disciples. And it's quite possible that nearly 2000 years ago it was also a Wednesday evening that they celebrated what is known in Israel as the Seder meal. A few hours later, very early in the morning, one of His disciples betraying Him, led a mob which arrested Him and presented Him before Pontius Pilate and Herod who both cleared Him of the chaotic charges against Him. Nonetheless the crowd coerced for His execution by way of an excruciating process.
Little did anyone know, in that moment of time, that what they were doing to the Author of Life was predetermined from the foundation of the world. Jesus titled Himself "I Am the Resurrection and the Life", a title which would require the prerequisite of having died! And yet, more than in a figurative sense, Jesus IS the "Lamb of God slain from the foundation of the world"! And attesting to His eternity, He confirmed by his more succinct title, "I Am",
He is in the ever present, and was able to be understood as slain from the foundation of the world in the present tense. For Eternal Life has no history, as we know it!
Slain as a sacrifice for the perfect end of the matter, regarding our sins. Some falsely teach, that Jesus died for a few predestined believers, but 1 John 2:2 teaches, "He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the WHOLE world". And that must include you and me, who have come so many years later, born in time but offered opportunity to be partakers of the Divine Life!
Yes, you and I have a responsibility, and that is to turn from being ‘captains of our own souls’, towards Him and receive that Life that is freely given – a cooperating dynamic which a simple child can understand. A responsibility to ourselves, to our neighbour, to God, to turn and receive, while that opportunity is available. Because the fashions of this world are quickly passing away, before our eyes. Follow Him Who desires to be our Teacher and Overseer of our souls – as Peter said of Him, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, "You are the Messiah, the Son of the Living God" and His desire is for us to know Him as our older Brother through new birth.
Yes, He is the Resurrection and the Life, for after three days and three nights He rose again, as promised. He Lives!