YHWH was not the only Elohim written about in the Old Testament. Elohim is the plural of the word El, which means only one of the Elohim. Biblical interpreters and writers often changed the word “Elohim” and “El” to the word “God,” or “Lord.” It is time to take off the cloak of indoctrination and study the words of the bible exactly as they are written, without the spin of particular belief systems.
Mauro Biglino in his book, GODS OF THE BIBLE, goes into a detailed account of bible history. If anyone can interpret the bible into accurate understanding into today’s world, it is Biglino. He is an Italian biblical scholar translator, popularizer, and best-selling author for Mondadari, one of the major publishing houses in Italy.
During his career, Biglino has directed and supervised the translation and publication of 17 books of the Old Testament for Edizioni San Paolo, Italy’s main Catholic publisher, whose Vatican-approved texts are used in theological, ancient Hebrew, and biblical studies schools and universities.
Notice that his discoveries in interpreting the Old Testament do not agree with Catholic teaching in his book, GODS OF THE BIBLE.
Don’t you want to know what he discovered?
The ancient historical book, Wars of YHWH, has been “lost.” Old Testament wars killed all the men, women who had slept with men, and the children. The only people they kept were the virgin women in the war between the Israelites and the Midianites.
Numbers 31:32-40 tells the plunder of war when YHWH gets 32 women who had never that had never slept with a man. In this war, the tribute to the “Lord” also included 675 sheep, 72 cattle, 61 donkeys. He also got 420 pounds of gold, which in today’s market would be about 270 million dollars..
Now why would a spiritual “God” need to have 32 virgins and 420 pounds of gold?
The more you allow yourself to read and comprehend what actually happened, which is most likely different from what you have heard from pulpits, the more you will begin to understand what literally took place in Old Testament days. You don’t have to put “spin” on it and turn it into something other than what the words say.
Also notice that Jesus taught the same thing when he said, “My Father is not your father, but my Father has become a father to you. Notice the capital F and lower-case f in this statement, found in the writings of Thomas and James in the Nag Hammadi writings, which has been kept from your eyes until now.
Accurate history is important.
History matters.
You matter.
Have you ever wondered who built the pyramids, or why the Ishtar Gate, is so huge?
Ishtar is also known in history as Isis and Astarte. Throughout the annals of time, the stories throughout history have been told and re-told by various cultures who used the same personalities called by different names to tell their versions.
Those “Fallen Angels,” “Elohim, otherwise known as, “Gods of the Bible,” as Biglino puts it, were the beings that lorded it over the humans in many ways at that time.
YHWH was just one of the many, also known as those 200 “Fallen Angels” of Revelation 12:9 who descended to Earth at that time. Moses had to question which of them he was speaking with when he asked YHWH in Exodus 3:13 where he addresses God (Elohim) and asks, “Suppose I go to the people of Israel and say to them, ‘The Elohim of your ancestors has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ What should I tell them?”
The Hebrews called YHWH, “Ish Milchamah.” The Hebrew translation of YHWH means “Man of War,” according to Biglino. Notice how he threatens all people not to follow any of the other Elohim or he will kill them and everyone else who does not “choose” to follow him.
In Exodus 18, Moses’ father-in-law, Jethro (Reuel), comments on Moses’ success in leading the Israelites out of Egypt. He expresses his joy and admiration by exclaiming: “Now I realize that Yahweh is greater than all the Elohim.” Exodus 18:11
Biglino asks:
- If the term “Elohim” indicates Yahweh-God in the singular, how can “God” be greater than all the Elohim?
- Why is Elohim in Hebrew accompanied by an adjective meaning “all, everyone, each?” What is the point os using this adjective if “only one” exists?
- Why does each article precede the term “Elohim?”
- What did Jethro mean? Did he mean that Yahweh is greater than all the “judges” (one of the terms used by commentators to justify the plural ending of the term “Elohim”)? Can one imagine a more blatant banality than this?
Biglino continues:
Suppose, instead the term “Elohim” denotes both a plurality of individuals and their actions as a group, the above questions become irrelevant, and the passage becomes understandable without needing explanation or interpretation.
Look at Exodus 20. In enumerating the Ten Commandments, the alleged “God” begins with an assertion that leaves no room for interpretation:
“I am Yahweh your Elohim, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. You shall have no other Elohim before me.”
“Do what I say or die,” is the mantra of YHWH, according to all ancient texts including the Bible.
While the “Elohim” lived long lives, they did die, but their Spirits, being flickers of the Limitless Living Light of Eternal Universal Life Force Energy, did not die. The same is true of your and my Spirits/Souls which return from where they originally came.
You and I have the glorious choice to live in freedom with empathy, compassion, and Limitless Living Love of Eternal Universal Life Force Energy or live with the vengeance promised by YHWH.
YHWH claims to be the one and only “God,” which further research suggests he is not.
I challenge that the reasons there are so many religions in the world all claiming that theirs is the “One True God,” is the personification of one of the 200 fallen angels did become each group’s One True God all over the world.