GOD?

This study is intended to show the reader the meaning behind the word, “God.”  Many people say, “God” as if it is the name of the Creator.  Also, “God” is not the actual word used in the Hebrew Scriptures.  So let’s see what we can learn about this word.  Are you ready?

There are four!

1.       EL- God, the Mighty One, as a title of majesty and power; any false god; any person who is strong; strength.

2.       Elohim- God, plural in form but singular in meaning (focus is great power): can mean god’s when intent is there: any person characterized by greatness or power: mighty one, great one, judge.

3.       Elah- Rarely used of false god’s.  The true God in the singular.

4.       Eloah-  God; false god; idol.

Amazing!  There are actually four different words that our English translators have translated into “God” as well as appropriate other words. 

Knowing this information and studying how the words are used can be of the utmost importance on how to learn the truth of the Scriptures!  Many people believe that the word, “Elohim” always means more than one, thus proving the Trinity in their minds.  Let’s start with this word first in our study.

Elohim

Isaiah 43:15- “I am Yahweh, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your king.”

Isaiah 44:6- “Thus says Yahweh, Israel’s king, Yahweh Sabaoth, his redeemer: I am the first and I am the last; there is no ELOHIM except me.”

Here we see Yahweh is the Creator/”God” and is also said to be the only Elohim. It is used with other “God” words, like here in the Isaiah 44 chapter we also see:

Isaiah 44:8- “…Is there any ELOAH except me?

Elohim is also used in other singular ways.

Genesis 3:8- “With ELOHIM/GREAT wrestlings”

Genesis 23:5-6- ‘The Hittites replied to Abraham, “Please listen to us Adon, we regard you as a ELOHIM prince among us.”

Elohim is the most used word for “God” in our Bibles. It has so far been shown that it is used for more than just Yahweh, and is singular in meaning unless the words show plural meaning.

Exodus 12:12- “…shall execute justice of all the ELOHIM’S of Egypt.”  (They had more than one.)

Eloah

Eloah is also used in combinations with other “God” words.  Here is an example:

Job 12:6- “And yet the tents of brigands are left in peace by ELOAH, those who provoke EL dwell secure.

Oh, hello!  Up next is 3 of them together!

Psalm 18:31-32- “For who is ELOAH but YAHWEH, who is a rock but our ELOHIM? The EL who girds me in strength…”

Wow!  There is his name and 3  of his titles!

 

El

El is used also with titles of Yahweh like:  El Shaddai (El of the Mountains) and El Roi (El who sees). Clearly by definition, El is ONLY SINGULAR in meaning.  Some passages are:

Psalm 118:27-28- “Yahweh is El, he gives us light…You are my El, I thank you, all praise to you my Elohim.”

Daniel 9:4- “I pleaded with Yahweh my Elohim and made this confession: ‘Oh Adoni, El great to be feared,…”

Yahweh, Adoni, El, Elohim, Elah, Eloah =  SAME

 

Elah

The writer of Ezra used the word “Elah” a lot.  Here are some verses from that book:

Ezra 5:11- “We are the servants of the Elah of heaven.”

Ezra 7:25-26- “And you, Ezra, by virtue of the wisdom of you Elah, which you possess, are you to appoint magistrates and scribes to administer justice for the whole people of Transeuphrates, that is, for all who know the Torah of your Elah; and you are to teach it to those who do not know it. And anyone who will not comply with the Torah of your Elah and the law of the king let sentence be swiftly executed, whether it be death, banishment, fine or imprisonment.”

 

Let’s think about this for a moment…

It does not make any sense to say that Yahweh is only part of a three part “God.”  First of all, we see by definition on the words used to get to the word “God” in English, that El, Elah and Eloah, are all SINGLULAR words.  Elohim is the only one that is debatable. But failure comes to those who attempt to say, Yahweh is more than one.  As shown here, there has been much proof given to the contrary.  It was not used along with words showing more than one in regards to Yahweh, and it is used with the other, only singular “God” words in the same Scriptures! 

 

God is god. What’s the difference?

Some of you reading this pamphlet may be thinking, “What does any of this matter?  God is God right?”  Well, it matters a lot when the Creator says that he is the ONLY ONE and yet you have some who say Messiah, and a separate Spirit “person” are also the same one, yet separate?!  Isaiah 44:24 says-

“I YAHWEH, HAVE MADE ALL THINGS, I ALONE SPREAD OUT THE HEAVENS.”

Isaiah 40:28-

“Did you not know? Had you not heard? YAHWEH is the EVERLASTING ELOHIM, HE CREATED THE REMOTEST PARTS OF THE EARTH.”

 

Isaiah 40:25-

“TO WHOM CAN YOU COMPARE ME, OR WHO IS MY EQUAL?’ SAYS THE HOLY ONE.”

Satan’s master plan

 

Isaiah 14:12-14- “How did you come to fall from the heavens, Daystar, son of Dawn?  How did you come to be thrown to the ground, conqueror of nations?  You who used to think to yourself:

I shall scale the heavens; higher than the stars of EL, I shall set my throne.  I shall sit on the Mount of Assembly far away to the north.  I shall climb high above the clouds,

I shall rival the Most High.”

Satan has been deceiving people for thousands of years. His goal? TO RIVAL THE MOST HIGH.  He wants to be the one worshiped as a Mighty One.  He even had the audacity to ask Yahoshua Messiah, Yahweh’s chosen leader over Israel to worship him!  How arrogant he is! 

But- if people are giving acknowledgement to anyone else as Creator, other than the Great Yahweh Elohim himself, we are allowing Satan to rival the Most High.  Yahweh says to us in: 

Exodus 23:13-

“Take notice of EVERYTHING I have told you and DO NOT MENTION THE NAME OF ANY OTHER ELOHIM: LET NONE EVER BE HEARD FROM YOUR LIPS.”

Micah 4:5-

“For all peoples go forward, each in the name of it’s elohim, while we go forward in the name of YAHWEH OUR ELOHIM forever and ever.”

1 Timothy 6:13- Now before Yahweh, THE SOURCE OF ALL LIFE…”

Malachi 3:16-18-

“….Yahweh took note and listened; and a book of rememberance was written in his presence recording those who feared him and KEPT HIS NAME IN MIND. ‘On the day when I act, says Yaweh Sabaoth, THEY WILL BE MY MOST PRIZED POSSESSION, AND I SHALL SPARE THEM IN THE WAY A MAN SPARES THE SON WHO SERVES HIM.  Then once again you will see the DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE UPRIGHT PERSON AND THE WICKED ONE, BETWEEN THE ONE WHO SERVES ELOHIM AND THE ONE WHO DOES NOT SERVE HIM.”

 

Even Paul warns us not to worship other people or things.  Read Romans 1:18-25. Here is part:

Romans 1:25-

“because they  exchanged Yahweh’s TRUTH for a LIE and have WORSHIPPED AND SERVED THE CREATURE INSTEAD OF THE CREATOR…”

 

See NEHUSHTAN and I ALONE pamphlets.


Oops, I lied!  There are really five!

Believe it or not, there is ONE OTHER “GOD” word in the Scriptures other that the four we have already went over.  It is amazing what Satan will do to hide the Father of Light’s name from us!  “Adoni” is a word the translators made into our English “Lord”.  So when it really said, “Adoni Yahweh,” they would have had to write, “Lord Lord.”  So instead they wrote, “Lord GOD.”   Joshua 7:7- “…Alas, oh ADONI YAHWEH.”