The following study presents an interesting perspective and an alternative explanation to what we have been taught about the creation scriptures and who the Lord God really is.
If you approach this as just another interpretation, you just might be in error, because this is based upon what the scriptures actually tell us, as it is presented in the original language the Bible was written in.
Much has been lost in the translation of these original writings into our English language and has caused our Bible teachers to put their own interpretation to it because of a lack of understanding.
Most of what you read here is backed by scripture, some will be theory based upon what has been revealed to me by the understanding of the totality of scripture.
This study is based specifically upon two English words used in the Old Testament scriptures which were translated from two Hebrew words. The word “LORD” in all capital letters was translated from the Hebrew name of “God” which is “Yehovah” or “Jehovah” as we know Him. The word “God” was translated from the Hebrew word “elohiym”, which actually means “Gods” as we will explain in more detail later.
So we now begin to study about the “LORD God”, “Yehovah elohiym”
God
Who is he? What is he? Where is he?
The Bible tells us in Genesis 1:1 that God existed in the beginning, before anything else came into being in the World and the Universe. At this time, God was called Elohiym in the Hebrew tongue, which is presented as the plural form of the Hebrew word “Elowahh” which means a deity. If in fact Elohiym is the plural sense of the word, then Genesis 1:1 should read that more than one God created the Heaven and the Earth. The singular form of the word referring to one God was not used until the end of the wilderness journey.
Because of Elohiym, the plural form of Elowahh being used in the first verse, which means Gods, the translators continued to view the remainder of the creation week as being the work of more than one heavenly being.
During the process of translating the 26th verse of Genesis chapter one, certain words were added by the translators of the Bible that indicated the creation of man was not the result of one God, but of many Gods. If we examine the 26th verse with the added words being highlighted it becomes clear as follows:
Rev 1:26 “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:”
So the addition of the words “us” and “our” followed the thinking of the translators that there was more than one person involved in the creation of man. If the creation of man was the result of one person, or one God, it should read as follows:
Rev 1:26 (modified) And God said, Let me make man in my image, after my likeness:
Then in the 27th verse, the wording of the translators changes to reflect the creation of man to be the result of the act of one person by the addition of the words “his” and “he” as follows, while continuing to use the plural form of the word for God.
Gen 1:27 “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.”
One could almost read the creation week events as being the resulting work of one God, in the presence of others or with the assistance of others who could be a race of people who are all called “elohiym”.
So should we consider that those who wrote this scripture in Hebrew mistakenly used the wrong Hebrew word for God, using “Elohiym” which is plural, instead of using the word “elowahh” which is singular? Or should we consider the “elohiym” as being a race of godlike people who probably were created by the one supreme God, living in His presence and watching what he does?
These beings, called the elohiym, could be the same “sons of God” mentioned in the Book of Job, chapter 38, where it says that the sons of God shouted with joy when they saw God creating the Earth. Job also mentions these same “sons of God” (the elohiym) presenting themselves before the Lord (Yehovah) in Job 1:6 & 2:1, with satan also in attendance. This must have taken place in Heaven where the elohiym reside and satan also.
When the creation was complete, the scripture tells us that the creator was the Lord God, Yehovah Elohiym.
Yehovah the Elohiym
God first introduced Himself by His name Yehovah, also know as Jehovah, on Mount Sinai when He gave the ten commandments to Moses for the children of Israel
He wrote in a slab of stone, with His own finger “I am the Lord thy God”. The words Lord and God were translated from the original Hebrew which He wrote in, but the original writing said: “ I am Yehovah Elohiym”. This could also be taken as “ I am Yehovah the Elohiym”, or “I am Yehovah of the Elohiym”.
Note that the translators translated the word “Yehovah” to LORD, but instead of translating the word “Elohiym” to gods, since it is plural, they made it God, which is singular. Now why would they have done that? Probably because they knew it would go against the one God belief and would be difficult for them to explain the use of Lord Gods.
In Exodus chapter six, God spoke to Moses saying: “ I am Yehovah, And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God (El) Almighty, but by my name YEHOVAH was I not known to them.
So God made it very clear to His people and etched it in stone to last forever, that His name was Yehovah. Some pick up on the words God used in Exodus 3:14, “ I AM that I AM, as being His name, but that it not true. If they would have read on to the next verse, He made it very clear what His name was as He said:
Exodus 3:15 “And Yehovah said moreover unto Moses, Thus shall you say unto the children of Israel, The Yehovah Elohiym of your fathers, the Elohiym of Abraham, the Elohiym of Isaac, and the Elohiym of Jacob, has sent me unto you: this is my name forever, and this is my memorial unto all generations.”
Considering the nature of God
The scripture of Genesis 1:26 & 27 states that God created man in His own image, after His own likeness. What exactly does this mean? Does it mean that our body and appearance are like God’s?
Being made in the image and likeness of God or the elohiym, means that we are a copy of Him, resemble Him, a copy of Him having the same shape and form. So do we look like God and does He look like us? God told Moses that if anyone sees his face they will die. So God has a face. He also had a rear part like man does, for He revealed it to Moses. So it appears that God has a body, having a face and rear parts just as man does.
In Genesis 12:1 God instructed Abram to journey to another country in a land he will be shown. Now how did God speak these instructions to Abram? Nothing is said about it being a dream or a prophet speaking God’s words to him. Could it be that God appeared to Abram in some form like a body? In Genesis 18:1 it tells us that this same God, Yehovah, appeared to Abram in the plains of Mamre and Abram recognized who He was and called Him Lord. Did Abram recognize Him because it was the same person who could have appeared to him instructing him to leave the former land? Notice that Abram described his visitors as three men. The Bible describes these three men as being Yehovah and two angels.
In Genesis 32:24-30 it tells about Jacob wrestling with a man for a blessing all night and called His name God, in Hebrew Elohiym. So again, Elohiym appears as a man.
As the first chapter of Genesis tells us, God, Elohiym created man. Then in Genesis 6: 6-7 the Bible says that the Lord, Yehovah regretted that He had made man. So the Lord, Yehovah was the one described in Genesis 1:27 as Elohiym that had created man. So if elohiym is plural, referring to more than one, the Lord Yehovah, instead of being elohiym in its entirety, was one of the elohiym which could be designated as a group or race of beings with the Lord Yehovah being over all, the creator of all, the supreme being.
In conclusion, what we could be seeing in these descriptions, is the supreme being, the Lord Yehovah along with a group of beings called elohiym who were watching or assisting during His creation of the World. These other beings could be created sons of God or angels existing in Heaven with God.
One other thing to note here, which appears in the original ten commandments, is the statement that God included, Exodus 20:3 where He said: “You shall have no other elohiym (gods) before me. Yehovah didn’t say to them that other gods did not exist, but He did say they were not to accept any other gods, or elohiym in place of Him. Yehovah went on to say that He, Yehovah Elohiym was a jealous God (elohiym). Now if other gods (elohiym) did not exist, why would Yehovah have a reason to be jealous?
Where/what is Heaven?
Is it possible that what we refer to as Heaven is really a distant heavenly body, something like a planet as we know planets, somewhere above us in the Universe?
Let us examine some scripture in the Bible that could give us some insight into where and what Heaven really is.
In Genesis 11:5-7, Yehovah saw the people begin to build the tower of Babel and came down to see what the people were doing, later saying let us go down and confound their language. So obviously Yehovah was somewhere above the Earth and came down from somewhere above.
Mark 6:41 describes Jesus looking up in the direction of Heaven as He asked for a blessing on the food to feed the people with. Stephen, while he was being stoned, looked up into Heaven and saw Jesus standing on the right hand of God (Acts 7:55). In Acts 1:11, the apostles were looking up into Heaven as Jesus was carried away in the clouds.
Now it really isn’t credible that Heaven is a place where we will just float around in space, traveling between stars and planets. After all, Jesus told the apostles that He was going away to prepare a place for them and it wouldn’t take much preparation out in space. Revelation chapter 21 describes the new Jerusalem as having walls and gates and streets and rivers, trees etc. That sounds to me like someplace resembling what we have here on Earth, except for the corruption we have here.
The Sons of God
In Genesis chapter six, it mentions the sons of God, or the sons of Elohiym taking wives of the daughters of man, as many as they chose to take. It goes on to say that the offspring these unions produced were giants compared to the other people.
Now some say that these sons of God were the children of Seth’s linage mating with the women. If this was true then all of the children being born of the linage from Adam to Noah would have been giants also. So these sons of God must have been other than the offspring coming from Seth’s linage.
With reference to the book of Enoch, which was written before the time of Christ, but not included in our Bible, was quoted by Jude, in Jude 1:14-16, something is said about these sons of God.
Now before you reject the book of Enoch because it’s not in the Bible, just recognize that the author of the book of Jude, who quoted from the book of Enoch, is the half brother of the Lord Jesus and gives legitimacy to the truthfulness of the book of Enoch by quoting from it.
Enoch said: “And it came to pass when the children of men had multiplied, that in those days were born unto them beautiful and comely daughters. And the angels, the children of the Heaven, saw and lusted after them, and said to one another: “come, let us choose us wives from among the children of men and beget us children.””
Enoch called them angels, and the children of the Heaven. It is unknown for sure whether they were angels or children of God called elohiym. In either case, they must not have been normal men, as the offspring from their unions with those women produced giants, whom some call nephilum from the Hebrew word for giants, “nephiyl”. Jude also said: (Jude 1:6) that the angels, (supposedly speaking of these same men), which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation (left their heavenly home), God has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day, for what they did. The apostle Peter also spoke of this in second Peter 2:4.
Enoch called these men or angels who came down unto these earthly women “watchers”. Saying: “wherefore you have left the high, holy, and eternal heaven and laid with women, and defiled yourselves with the daughters of men and taken to yourselves wives, and done like the children of Earth, and have begotten giants as your sons.”
The apostle Paul must have recognized the danger of this occurring when he wrote to the Church of Corinth
These so called sons of God, or angels, whichever they were, were responsible for the corruption of the people and the wickedness spoken of in Genesis 6:5 which eventually led to God bringing the flood to destroy them.
Along these same lines, in the book of Genesis, it tells of Jacob dreaming about a ladder being setup on the Earth and reaching into Heaven, with the angels ascending and descending upon it. I’m sure that the ladder is symbolic, but does demonstrate that there is travel between Heaven and Earth by heavenly beings.
Now all of these children of Heaven, or the angels are not bad and have not left their first estate, but are servants of Yehovah doing His will both in Heaven and on Earth. It appears that just some of them rebelled against God’s law, or the order of things in their habitation.
Since Jesus stated that He was with the Father before the World began, He too could have been one of these Elohiym, one of the sons of God in Heaven. Jesus could very well have been one of many created sons of God and was selected by Yehovah to come to Earth to perform God’s will by being born of woman, being the only begotten son of God by a virgin and born free of the original sin passed on by Adam. Because then, since Jesus pleased the Father, unlike the Elohiym that came to do evil, He earned a place at God’s right hand on the throne.
Let’s not forget about Jesus making the statements about being with God the Father before the creation of the World.
John 17:5 “And now, O Father, glorify me with your own self with the glory which I had with you before the world was.
John 8:42 “Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, you would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.
John 16:28 “I came forth from the Father, and have come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.
These scriptures make it very clear by Jesus’ own words that He was with the Father God before the World was created and He was going to return back to the Father who sent Him in the first place. So Jesus Himself could very well have been one of the Elohiym, one of Yehovah’s created heavenly beings, who because of His faithfulness and loyalty with the Father, was sent to Earth, being born of a woman, to fulfill Yehovah’s plan of redemption for mankind. The Bible tells us that Jesus was the only begotten Son of God, but it does not say that He was the only Son of God. To be the only begotten son means that He was begotten of God through a woman.
Spacecraft and the Elohiym
A flying saucer theory
Many have believed that the so called flying saucers that have been seen flying about in the sky were aliens from another planet. This just might be closer to the truth than many people want to believe.
The theory that I would like to present for consideration is that the Elohiym, the children of heaven, or the angels as it might be, use spacecraft in some of their visits to Earth. I first want to preface my statements with my belief that the Elohiym or angels can travel between Heaven and Earth at will, using only their thought to do so. Some call this the fourth dimension, being able to traverse space by the power of thought. Yehovah and His angels can appear and disappear at will, traveling between Earth and Heaven in an instant using only the power of thought to do so. So then, why would it be necessary for them to use spacecraft?
Man, being in these flesh bodies, could never endure space travel without some type of vehicle to ride in and don’t possess the ability to use the power of the fourth dimension. Until such time as a man is transfigured or changed into a glorified body, only conventional travel, as we know it, is possible. But if there was a reason for man to travel through space, then return to Earth in his present body, spacecraft would have to be utilized.
In order to see if the scriptures would shed any light on this theory, we first should look at the patriarch Enoch. The writer of the book of Hebrews says that because Enoch walked with God and pleased Him, Enoch was translated. In other words, God transported Enoch into Heaven. Since the Bible says nothing about Enoch ever returning to Earth, I believe that Enoch was changed from his flesh body into a Heavenly body, an immortal body.
But there are two men that left the Earth which God intended for them to return in the future to do a work for Him. These two men were Elijah and Moses. According to Revelations 11:3, God will send two witnesses to the Earth to prophesy to the people at the end time. After their period of prophesying is complete these two witnesses are to be killed, so they must be returning in flesh bodies. I believe these two witnesses will be Elijah and Moses, who I believe were taken into Heaven, by way of a spacecraft and did not die in their time of ministry on Earth.
The Bible tells of several men that have been taken up into Heaven in different ways. Beside Elijah, there was Enoch, the Apostle Paul and Jesus. Although the scriptures don’t plainly say it, I believe that Moses also was taken up and did not die as is written in Deuteronomy 34:5-7. After all, it says that his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated. It sounds like Moses was still in pretty good physical condition.
Since Moses and Elijah had more work to do in their Earthly bodies before they died, God must have taken both of them up in spacecraft. With our earthly bodies we cannot travel through space to wherever Heaven is, we would need our new glorified bodies. So in the end time, when Moses and Elijah return, they will be brought back in these same spacecraft and after they are killed, they will put on their glorified bodies and be raptured up into Heaven.
We need to keep in mind that the scriptures tell us that it is appointed for every man to die one time, but I don’t believe that Moses died because God still had a work for him to do in the end time. The two witnesses spoken of in Revelations 11:3-12 are without a doubt Moses and Elijah, since the miracles they perform are the same as was done as is recorded in the Old Testament. Since these two witnesses are killed at the end time, it would be against scripture for either one of them to die twice. Since Elijah was taken up and did not face death, and I believe that Moses was also.
The story of Elijah’s departure is told in second Kings 2:12. Here a chariot, or some kind of spacecraft, carried Elijah off into Heaven to await the end of the World when he was to return. Since Elijah was to return in a flesh body, he was not changed, was not glorified and changed into a heavenly body, so in order for him to travel into Heaven, Yehovah had him transported in some kind of spacecraft.
The end of Moses’ life was written that he died in the land of Moab
There is another case where a man could have very well been transported to Heaven in a spacecraft and returned to Earth to continue doing God’s work. Paul the apostle told of being caught up to Heaven and heard things that he was not to repeat. Paul said that he didn’t know whether he was in the body being transported or out of the body in a vision. Well I believe that he could very well have been in the body, just as Elijah and Moses were.
What does the future hold for us?
In Paul’s letter to the Corinthians he said: “There is a natural body and there is a spiritual body”. He said: “flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God
At the return of Christ for His Body, the Church, we shall all be caught up to meet Him in the air, both those who sleep in Christ and those who are still alive at His coming. Our future will then be to spend the rest of eternity with Him and the Father in the place He has prepared for us.
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