Messianic Preferences

In the King James text, the studies have taken the liberty of replacing several words, where appropriate.

• Jesus is replaced with Yeshua
• LORD or GOD with Yehovah
• Christ with Messiah
• Holy Ghost with Holy Spirit
• Church with Assembly
• First Day of the Week with first Sabbath
• Charity with Love
• Elias with Elijah
• Trumpet, where appropriate, with Shofar

Many of these words mean the same thing.  For example, the word Christ is from a Greek word; whereas, the word Messiah is from a Hebrew word.  Being of Jewish birth, my preference is to use words derived from the Hebrew.  Holy Ghost was replaced with Holy Spirit, because it is not a ghost as is thought of today, but rather a Spirit.

However, in the case of the First Day of the Week that was to correct a mistranslation.

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