INTRODUCTION TO YESHUA

Introduction to Yeshua
I grew up and learned about our Creator God and our Lord, the Son on our Creator in the mainstream Christian Church in US, by the name of JESUS. I am very comfortable calling our Savior Jesus.
However, "Jesus" is the English way of saying His name. In Hebrew His name is Yeshua and is much more recognizable as meaning "Yahweh saves".
Calling Jesus Yeshua is still awkward and uncomfortable to me; but I AM comforted by the knowledge that YE SHUA means YAH (short for Yahweh) saves.
This thought goes with my happy envisioning of that happy day that Jesus (Yeshua) entered Jerusalem; a  glorious crowd of joyful people cheered Jesus and praised Him by waving palm branches and saying "Hosanna" and "Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord."
Hosanna means "save" or "save us". I can imagine the people also cheering, saying
YE SHUA, YE SHUA,
YE SHUA, YE SHUA.
And I join them saying
YE SHUA, YE SHUA
Our Creator God came down to us as Jesus to save us!
Hallelujah!
And, if you don't already know that that day when they had that beautiful parade for Jesus was just days before He was arrested and beaten and tried and killed on the orders of (corrupt) religious leaders, I'm telling you now.
So Palm Sunday is a bittersweet day of remembrance.
However, I have always loved Palm Sunday because it IS the time of joyful praising the Lord; AND Jesus our Lord accepted that show of love from "us" (I imagine myself in fellowship with those people then praising our Jesus) even though He knew that the people would not be able to be constant and solid in their (and my, and our) loyalty and honoring of Him.
Jesus knew what was coming later. But He loved them and me and us anyway; and He accepts us and the praise we can give.
AND there WILL BE A DAY WHEN EVERY KNEE WILL BOW AND EVERY TONGUE WILL CONFESS THAT JESUS CHRIST IS LORD.
So I think of Palm Sunday as a foreshadowing of that glorious day to come.
Now let me speak once more about YESHUA (and what that Hebrew name means to me): Our Creator (Yahweh) made a way to save (shua) us. Jesus paid the price for our sins- He was punished by that horrible torture death that He did not at all deserve, so that that could count for just punishment for our sins and wrongs- so that our Creator can receive us with joyful love and open arms and also with all righteousness.