Struggling/Striving with YHWH: The name "Yisra" captures the essence of striving or struggling.
In Genesis 32:28, Jacob is named Israel after wrestling with a divine being, symbolizing his perseverance and struggle with YHWH.
They are seen as a people who struggle and strive with YHWH, empowered by their relationship with the divine.
Genesis 32:28: "Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with the messenger of YHWH and with humans and have overcome." This highlights the dual aspect of struggle and divine empowerment encapsulated in "The Powerful Yisra."
The Hebrew word "mal'ak" means "messenger." In the context of the Hebrew Bible, it often refers to a supernatural being sent by YHWH to deliver messages, provide guidance, or execute divine tasks.
"the powerful Yisra" (Jacob/Israel) still obeyed and was subordinate to "the powerful YHWH" (God).
Here's a breakdown of the hierarchy and the relationship between Jacob (Israel) and YHWH:
YHWH (יהוה) - The Powerful One, the destructor:
YHWH is the supreme deity in the Hebrew Bible, the creator and ruler of the universe.
YHWH's authority is absolute, and all creation, including humans and angels, is subject to His will.
YHWH is the source of all power, blessings, and commandments.
Messenger of YHWH (מַלְאַךְ יְהוָה, mal'ak YHWH):
The messenger of YHWH acts as a direct representative of YHWH, carrying out His commands and delivering His messages.
This messenger possesses authority but operates under YHWH's direction.
In the Book of Joshua, YHWH commands the Israelites, led by Joshua, to conquer the land of Canaan.
Jericho: In Joshua 6:2-5, YHWH instructs Joshua on how to capture Jericho, and the city and its inhabitants are destroyed (Joshua 6:17-21).
Ai: Similarly, YHWH commands the Israelites to attack and destroy the city of Ai (Joshua 8:1-29).
The term "herem" refers to the practice of devoting something to YHWH for destruction.
Amalekites: In 1 Samuel 15:2-3, YHWH commands King Saul to completely destroy the Amalekites, including men, women, children, and animals.
In Deuteronomy 7:1-2 and 20:16-18, YHWH commands the Israelites to utterly destroy the nations inhabiting Canaan to prevent them from leading the Israelites astray into idolatry.
The destruction of these nations is presented as necessary to purify the land and establish a holy community dedicated to YHWH.
The commands to kill and destroy are also seen as protective measures to prevent the Israelites from adopting the corrupt practices of the Canaanites, thereby preserving their covenant relationship with YHWH.
Mount Sinai: YHWH directly speaks to Moses and gives him the Ten Commandments and other laws (Exodus 19-20).
Burning Bush: YHWH calls Moses directly from the burning bush and commissions him to lead the Israelites out of Egypt (Exodus 3).
Conquest of Jericho: YHWH directly instructs Joshua on how to conquer Jericho (Joshua 6:2-5).
General Instructions: Throughout the Book of Joshua, YHWH communicates directly with Joshua to provide guidance and commands (Joshua 1:1-9).
Samuel: YHWH speaks directly to the prophet Samuel to guide the Israelites and anoint kings like Saul and David (1 Samuel 3; 1 Samuel 16).
The name Samuel is generally interpreted in a few different ways, but the most common interpretation is "Name of YHWH" or "YHWH has heard."
The Hebrew word for "YHWH" or "mighty one," which can be associated with power.
It suggests a figure who listens with divine authority or power, which fits well with Samuel's role of hearing from YHWH and communicating His messages to the people.
The Messenger of YHWH:
Hagar: The messenger of YHWH appears to Hagar in the wilderness to deliver a message of comfort and promise (Genesis 16:7-12).
Gideon: The messenger of YHWH calls Gideon to deliver Israel from the Midianites (Judges 6:11-24).
Manoah and His Wife: The messenger of YHWH announces the birth of Samson and instructs his parents on how to raise him (Judges 13).
In the context of the Bible, the wilderness is often a place of testing, encounter with YHWH, and transformation.
Pillar of Cloud and Fire: YHWH leads the Israelites through the wilderness with a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night, signifying His direct presence (Exodus 13:21-22).
Messenger of YHWH: In Exodus 23:20-23, YHWH tells the Israelites that He is sending a messenger to lead them and bring them to the Promised Land.
This messenger acts on YHWH's behalf and conveys His commands.
Through Samuel: In 1 Samuel 15:2-3, YHWH commands Saul, through the "The Powerful Listener", to destroy the Amalekites completely.
Direct to Joshua: YHWH directly commands "The Powerful Listener" to lead the Israelites into battle against the inhabitants of Canaan (Joshua 1:1-9; Joshua 6:2-5).
Messenger of YHWH: The Messenger of YHWH appears as a commander of the YHWH's army to "The Powerful Listener" before the battle of Jericho, giving instructions (Joshua 5:13-15).
Hannah names her son Samuel to commemorate that YHWH has heard her prayer.
Samuel listens to YHWH's voice and conveys His will to the people of Israel.
1 Samuel 3:10: "YHWH came and stood there, calling as at the other times, ‘Samuel!
YHWH (The Lord God) commands the prophet Samuel, "the Powerful Listener," to carry out actions that might be considered morally challenging or controversial from a human perspective.
Command to Saul via Samuel: In 1 Samuel 15, YHWH commands King Saul, through the Samuel, to completely destroy the Amalekites, including men, women, children, infants, and animals.
1 Samuel 15:2-3: "Thus says the YHWH of hosts, ‘I have noted what Amalek did to Israel in opposing them on the way when they came up out of Egypt.
Saul: Samuel anoints Saul as the first king of Israel under YHWH's direction (1 Samuel 10).
5 When all the work Solomon had done for the temple of the Lord YHWH was finished, he brought in the things his father David had dedicated—the silver and gold and all the furnishings—and he placed them in the treasuries of God’s temple.
2 Then Solomon summoned to Jerusalem the elders of Israel, all the heads of the tribes and the chiefs of the Israelite families, to bring up the ark of the Lord YHWH’s covenant from Zion, the City of David. 3 And all the Israelites came together to the king at the time of the festival in the seventh month.
7 The priests then brought the ark of the Lord YHWH’s covenant to its place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, the Most Holy Place, and put it beneath the wings of the cherubim. 8 The cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark and covered the ark and its carrying poles. 9 These poles were so long that their ends, extending from the ark, could be seen from in front of the inner sanctuary, but not from outside the Holy Place; and they are still there today. 10 There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets that Moses had placed in it at Horeb, where the Lord made a covenant with the Israelites after they came out of Egypt.
They were accompanied by 120 priests sounding trumpets. 13 The trumpeters and musicians joined in unison to give praise and thanks to the Lord YHWH.
Then the temple of the Lord YHWH was filled with the cloud, 14 and the priests could not perform their service because of the cloud, for the glory of the Lord YHWH filled the temple of God.
I'm looking for elements that were attributed to the female part of God but eradicated by YHWH over time.
King Josiah of Judah undertook significant religious reforms aimed at centralizing worship exclusively around YHWH and eliminating the worship of other deities, including Asherah.
"The king ordered Hilkiah the high priest, the priests next in rank and the doorkeepers to remove from the temple of the YHWH Lord all the articles made for Baal and Asherah and all the starry hosts.
He took the Asherah pole from the temple of YHWH Lord to the Kidron Valley outside Jerusalem and burned it there.
He also tore down the quarters of the male shrine prostitutes that were in the temple of the YHWH Lord, the quarters where women did weaving for Asherah."
The reforms aimed to restore the exclusive worship of YHWH as prescribed in the Deuteronomic code.
King Josiah's actions against the worship of Asherah, as described in the Bible, were part of his broader efforts to centralize and purify the worship of YHWH.
By destroying the objects associated with Asherah and other deities, Josiah aimed to eliminate polytheistic practices and reinforce the exclusive worship of YHWH in Judah.
King Josiah's reforms targeted a range of deities and associated practices, aiming to purify the worship in Judah and centralize it around YHWH.
By eliminating the worship of Baal, Molech, Chemosh, Milcom, and the host of heaven, and destroying the high places and idolatrous artifacts, Josiah reinforced the exclusive worship of YHWH and sought to align Judah's religious practices with the covenantal laws found in the Torah.
King Josiah of Judah was a significant ruler in the history of ancient Israel, known for his religious reforms and efforts to restore the worship of YHWH.
This discovery led to a renewed covenant with YHWH, as Josiah read the book to the people and pledged to follow its commands (2 Kings 23:1-3).
Josiah centralized the worship of YHWH in the Jerusalem Temple, making it the sole legitimate place for sacrifices and religious ceremonies (2 Kings 23:4-9).
Josiah is remembered as one of Judah's most righteous kings, praised for his devotion to YHWH and his efforts to reform and purify the nation's worship practices.
His efforts to eliminate idolatry and restore the worship of YHWH had a profound influence on the religious landscape of Judah and the development of Jewish monotheism.
His reign is chronicled in the books of 2 Kings and 2 Chronicles, highlighting his significant contributions and the challenges he faced in his quest to renew the covenant with YHWH.
Asherah may have been considered a consort of Yahweh in early Israelite religion, based on archaeological findings and ancient inscriptions.
Inscriptions from Kuntillet Ajrud and Khirbet el-Qom (8th century BCE) mention "Yahweh and his Asherah," suggesting that she might have been venerated alongside Yahweh.
As monotheism became more firmly established, efforts were made to eradicate these syncretic elements and focus exclusively on the worship of Yahweh.
Prophets such as Jeremiah and Hosea condemned the worship of Asherah and other deities, calling for a return to the exclusive worship of Yahweh.
In this same vein, the redactor of II Kings gives us a clear feeling for what C7th-C6thBCE Jewish believers thought and felt about Yahweh.
The New Jerusalem Bible says, “They spoke slightingly of Yahweh their Powerful One.” They defamed him.
“They rejected his decrees.” To spell it out, the mainstream Jewish memory of Yahweh at this point, in the C8th-6thBCE, was essentially negative.
The regime of Yahweh’s laws had largely been dispensed with.
Yahweh was seen, in essence, as their former ruler, and good riddance.
A summary of what YHWH says a king will do to the people:
YHWH concludes with a warning that when these things happen, the people will cry out for relief from the king they have chosen, but YHWH will not answer them in that day (1 Samuel 8:18).
Despite this warning, the people insist on having a king, and YHWH instructs Samuel to give them what they want (1 Samuel 8:19-22).
And Samuel prayed unto YHWH.
7 And the YHWH said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.
10 And Samuel told all the words of YHWH unto the people that asked of him a king.
18 And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and YHWH will not hear you in that day.
21 And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of the YHWH.
22 And the YHWH said to Samuel, Hearken unto their voice, and make them a king.
Staying on Yahweh for a moment, you mentioned that it is a sequence of sounds.
What are these sounds invoking when we say the name Yahweh, and what do they mean to our ancestors?
There are early narratives carrying the name of Yahweh that follow this exact structure.
Descriptions of Yahweh in these stories are distinctly draconian, detailing the length of his snout, the strength of his hide, his flight feathers, the length of his tail, and his ability to ignite his breath and incinerate people.
In 1 Samuel 8, Yahweh is depicted as being overthrown by the people who refuse to serve him any longer, mirroring the dragon story arc.
One might wonder about the phonetic connection, as Yahweh doesn't immediately sound like the figures in other dragon stories.
However, the two "h" sounds in Yahweh have not always been silent.
For example, a "b" becomes a "v," a "v" becomes a "w," a "p" becomes an "f," and a "t" becomes a "th." In Proto-Northwest Semitic, the ancestor of Hebrew, the two "h" sounds in Yahweh were pronounced in a manner consistent with the sounds associated with dragon stories globally.
They said to him, “You are old, and your sons do not follow your ways; now appoint a king to lead us, such as all the other nations have.” But when they said, “Give us a king to lead us,” this displeased Samuel; so he prayed to YHWH.
And YHWH told him: “Listen to all that the people are saying to you; it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected me as their king.
We gave them the name of deity, be it God, Lord, Jehovah, Allah, Yahweh, Dios, created supreme being or Satan, Shaytan, and devil.
Yahweh-Jehovah was basically a fictional character made by combining aspects of Enki and Enlil, but primary Enki as he was made to be an adversary of Baal, the storm god, who is Enlil.
Elijah prays to Yahweh, who sends fire that consumes the offering, the altar, and even the water around it.
The people acknowledge Yahweh as the true God, and the prophets of Baal are executed.
This event proves Yahweh's control over rain and fire, areas where Baal (a storm and fertility god) was supposed to rule.
In Judges 6, Gideon destroys his father's altar to Baal, showing Yahweh's power over it.
Yahweh's dominance over storm imagery (Judges 5; 1 Samuel 7) In the Song of Deborah (Judges 5:4–5), Yahweh marches as a storm god, bringing rain and earthquakes, attributes claimed by Baal.
In 1 Samuel 7, after Israel removes Baal idols, Yahweh sends thunder to defeat the Philistines, proving He controls storms, not Baal.
This idolatry provokes Yahweh's anger, resulting in a plague that kills 24,000 people.
In the Hebrew Bible, Baal is often mentioned as a rival to Yahweh, the God of Israel.
The worship of Baal was frequently condemned by Hebrew prophets, and the Israelites are often portrayed as turning away from Yahweh to worship Baal, which led to various conflicts and punishments.
Prophetic MissionElijah’s ministry, recorded in 1 Kings and 2 Kings, centers on defending the worship of Yahweh against Baal idolatry.
Elijah confronts 450 Baal prophets on Mount Carmel to prove Yahweh’s supremacy.
Why would it be pleasing to Yahweh to kill something that He had created?
Yahweh
Yahwistic Religion refers to the worship and religious practices centered around Yahweh, the national god of ancient Israel and Judah.
The term "Yahwistic" is derived from "Yahweh," the personal name of the deity as revealed in the Hebrew Bible.
This religious tradition is characterized by its monotheistic or henotheistic worship of Yahweh as the supreme deity, distinct from the polytheistic practices of neighboring cultures.
The Yahwistic religion gradually evolved from a henotheistic system, where Yahweh was considered the most powerful among many gods, to a monotheistic faith, exclusively worshipping Yahweh.
Central to Yahwistic belief is the concept of a covenant between Yahweh and His people, Israel.
This concept of monotheism is similar to the worship of Yahweh introduced by Moses.
National God: Yahweh was the national god of the Iron Age kingdoms of Israel and Judah.
Pagan Origins: Scholars claim Yahweh's name may have originated from a desert pagan god.
Association with El: Yahweh's name might have started as an epithet of El, the head of the Canaanite pantheon.
Historical Mentions: Early mentions of Yahweh appear in Egyptian texts, placing him among the nomads of the southern Transjordan.
Now before I read this passage, I'm going to debunk the idea that God's name is Yahweh.
How many Christian organizations keep saying Yahweh, Yahweh?
I want people to understand this: Yahweh is not the name of God.
You have to avoid using this because the more Christians use the term Yahweh, the more you support the liberals.
To argue that Abraham and Moses got some tribal pagan god name for their God, they have to mention Yahweh.
Yahweh was the national god of the Iron Age kingdoms of Israel and Judah.
The Israelites borrowed it from some kind of nomadic tribe out of the desert for the name of their God, Yahweh.
But in Hebrew to English, it's not Yahweh.
The King James Bible calls it Jehovah.
If I'm going to translate that from Hebrew to English, I'm not going to say Yahweh.
Jehovah.
Yahweh is just a guess.
It could be "Yahweh" or "Jehovah" because of the Yod concept, which could go "Y" or "J".
If you keep using "Yahweh", that's not from a clean spirit.
Do you think they were all preaching Yahweh in Hebrew, or in their own language?
Noah's condemnation of the idolatrous practices and his prophetic warnings about the destruction of Atlantis highlight the tension between the worship of Jehovah and the idolatry of the Fish-god.
Noah's condemnation of the idolatrous practices and his prophetic warnings about the destruction of Atlantis highlights the tension between the worship of Jehovah and the idolatry of the Fish-god.
In Genesis 3 in the Bible, any Christian or Jewish believer reading that text knows straight away they are not reading the earliest version of the story because the holy name Yahweh shouldn’t be in it.[1:25] The holy name Yahweh wasn’t revealed until ages later to Moses, and this is an event long before Moses.
You get to the Ten Commandments, and the people are commanded to forget the other powerful ones and serve only this one.[3:21] You get to Joshua, and he says don’t work for the powerful ones of Egypt or Mesopotamia, don’t serve the dragon of Egypt, serve Yahweh, the leader of us.
There is an equivalence there that makes sense of the moments when you realize that Yahweh sees himself in peer-to-peer competition with other powerful ones in the land.[3:51] None of that makes sense when you think you’re reading a story of Almighty God from beginning to end.
The name Yahweh has become understood as a name for Almighty God, the source of the cosmos, and that is the holy name that’s been pasted over all the stories of God from the beginning to the end of the Hebrew scriptures.[40:26] That name is used by the later prophets, for instance, to refer to a God of love, the cosmic source God who is in a love relationship with the whole of creation and with the whole of humanity.
But the name Yahweh has been pasted over Elohim stories that are stories of colonizers.[40:43] I believe that the name originates with the dragon stories, which will horrify a lot of people who will say, "Oh no, there are profound esoteric meanings to the Tetragrammaton, which we pronounce as Yahweh—profound meanings." Talk to Christians, and they’ll say, "Oh no, that name means 'I Am,' and there’s a profound truth to using that language."[41:03] These are all wonderful insights about the nature of us and reality and divine source, but that’s not where the name came from.
When Yahweh introduced himself to Moses, Moses had no idea what that word meant because it was not a word in his language.
Yahweh is not a Hebrew word at root—it is a loanword.
What Moses repeated was the sound he heard, and then he had to think, "What does that sound mean?"[41:45] Generations of theologians have had to ask, "What does that sound mean?" Yahweh sounds the way it does because we’ve inserted vowels into the Tetragrammaton to make it pronounceable, and when we do that, it makes the H’s almost silent.[41:39] In "Echoes of Eden," I point out that H’s in Proto-Semitic were not silent—they sounded like this: chhh.[41:49] Now, if I tell you that all around the world there are stories of our ancestors being governed by beings that were as violent and punitive and hungry for beef, gold, and virgin girls as Yahweh appears to be in the Bible, if you go to Mesoamerica, you will read about feathered serpents or what we might call dragons called Kukumatz or Kukulkan or Quetzalcoatl.[42:24] Go to Georgia, it’s the Caucasus; Japan, you’ve got the Akuchi or Kuchi-dera; go to Spain and Portugal, Pacoca; go to Greece, it’s the Drakos.
If you think that’s just a coincidence, then put Yah alongside chhh.[43:50] When Joshua stands up and says, "Don’t work for the powerful ones of Egypt, serve Yahweh," the words themselves tell you he’s talking about very similar entities.[43:01] Yahweh is the dragon of Egypt.
It explains why they are in competition with one another—why Yahweh is so jealous of the other Elohim.
Yahweh says, "Is there no Elohim here that he has to run off to the Elohim there to get his answer?"[43:35] They’re the same kind of being.
That’s where that word has come from—it’s a sound associated with ancient dragons.[45:27] It doesn’t mean all the Yahweh stories of the Bible are dragon stories because that name then comes to be used differently.
You go to the later prophets, and you see that name Yahweh—they’re talking about God in the way the Apostle Paul meant.
Or you go to Genesis 3—Yahweh in Genesis 3 is not necessarily a dragon; it’s just the later name that’s been put into that text.
The real name of that entity is Enlil.[45:50] It’s been made deliberately confusing in the 6th century BCE when they pasted the name over the whole of the Bible so that you wouldn’t see there are different kinds of entities—you’d think it’s all the same one.[46:03] Put all that together, and you will begin to realize this is why Jesus never talked about Yahweh.
If Jesus really was the continuation of the story of the Hebrew scriptures, he would have talked about Yahweh, wouldn’t he?
That’s Jesus’s concept of God.[46:27] He makes a very clear separation between him and the Yahweh stories in one moment in the Gospels when he says, "What kind of father?" Because that’s how he understands God.
He’s talking about Yahweh, and his Jewish viewers knew it.
That’s exactly what Yahweh does in the pages of the Old Testament.
They complain about the food, and Yahweh sends snakes, dragons, serpents instead of food to bite them, to punish them for moaning.
Unless they kowtow to the image of the dragon or the serpent, they will die.[48:06] That is the story Jesus is identifying, and so he’s cutting himself off from the dragon stories, from the Yahweh stories, and talking instead about God who is our Father, God who is our source.
The Tab refers to heavy equipment that moves and launches—that’s in Moses’s encounter with Yahweh.[55:52] We’ve got various references to technology.
In ancient Israel, the best livestock had to be offered to Yahweh, leading to increased insecurity for the farmers who relied on their livestock for sustenance and economic stability.
The YHWH Elohim acted as intermediaries between humans and the divine, guiding people in their actions and establishing a reciprocal system where offerings were exchanged to fulfill prayers.
1 YHWH Elohim spoke to Moses in the tent of meeting in the Desert of Sinai on the first day of the second month of the second year after the Israelites came out of Egypt. He said: 2 “Take a census of the whole Israelite community by their clans and families, listing every man by name, one by one.
17 Moses and Aaron took these men whose names had been specified, 18 and they called the whole community together on the first day of the second month. The people registered their ancestry by their clans and families, and the men twenty years old or more were listed by name, one by one, 19 as the YHWH Elohim commanded Moses.
48 YHWH Elohim had said to Moses:
54 The Israelites did all this just as the YHWH Elohim commanded Moses.
Moses is a prophet and leader, chosen to communicate directly with the Anunnaki (Yahweh) and convey his commands to the Israelites.
1The YHWH Elohim said to Moses and Aaron:
33 The Levites, however, were not counted along with the other Israelites, as the YHWH Elohim commanded Moses.
34 So the Israelites did everything the YHWH Elohim commanded Moses; that is the way they encamped under their standards, and that is the way they set out, each of them with their clan and family.
1 This is the account of the family of Aaron and Moses at the time the YHWH Elohim spoke to Moses at Mount Sinai.
3 Those were the names of Aaron’s sons, the anointed priests, who were ordained to serve as priests. 4 Nadab and Abihu, however, died before YHWH Elohim when they made an offering with unauthorized fire before him in the Desert of Sinai. They had no sons, so Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests during the lifetime of their father Aaron.
In the biblical account, particularly in the Book of Leviticus, Nadab and Abihu offered "strange fire" or unauthorized fire before the YHWH Elohim, which was not commanded by Him.
5 The YHWH Elohim said to Moses,
11 The YHWH Elohim also said to Moses,
I am the YHWH Elohim.”
14 The YHWH Elohim said to Moses in the Desert of Sinai, 15 “Count the Levites by their families and clans.
16 So Moses counted them, as he was commanded by the word of YHWH Elohim.
39 The total number of Levites counted at YHWH Elohim’s command by Moses and Aaron according to their clans, including every male a month old or more, was 22,000.
40 YHWH Elohim said to Moses, “Count all the firstborn Israelite males who are a month old or more and make a list of their names.
I am the YHWH Elohim.”
42 So Moses counted all the firstborn of the Israelites, as YHWH Elohim commanded him.
44 YHWH Elohim also said to Moses,
The Levites are to be mine. I am the YHWH Elohim.
51 Moses gave the redemption money to Aaron and his sons, as he was commanded by the word of YHWH Elohim.
1 The YHWH Elohim said to Moses and Aaron:
17 YHWH Elohim said to Moses and Aaron, 18 “See that the Kohathite tribal clans are not destroyed from among the Levites. 19 So that they may live and not die when they come near the most holy things, do this for them: Aaron and his sons are to go into the sanctuary and assign to each man his work and what he is to carry. 20 But the Kohathites must not go in to look at the holy things, even for a moment, or they will die.”
21 YHWH Elohim said to Moses,
Moses and Aaron counted them according to YHWH Elohim's command through Moses.
Moses and Aaron counted them according to YHWH Elohim’s command.
45 This was the total of those in the Merarite clans. Moses and Aaron counted them according to the YHWH Elohim’s command through Moses.
49 At the YHWH Elohim’s command through Moses, each was assigned his work and told what to carry.
Thus they were counted, as YHWH Elohim commanded Moses.
1 Now the people complained about their hardships in the hearing of the Elohim YHWH, and when he heard them his anger was aroused. Then fire from the Elohim YHWH burned among them and consumed some of the outskirts of the camp.
2 When the people cried out to Moses, he prayed to the Elohim YHWH and the fire died down. 3 So that place was called Taberah,because fire from the Elohim YHWH had burned among them.
The Elohim YHWH became exceedingly angry, and Moses was troubled.
11 He asked the Elohim YHWH, “Why have you brought this trouble on your servant?
We were better off in Egypt!” Now the Elohim YHWH will give you meat, and you will eat it.
20 but for a whole month—until it comes out of your nostrils and you loathe it—because you have rejected the Elohim YHWH, who is among you, and have wailed before him, saying, “Why did we ever leave Egypt?”’”
23 The Lord answered Moses, “Is the Elohim YHWH's arm too short? Now you will see whether or not what I say will come true for you.”
25 Then the Elohim YHWH came down in the cloud and spoke with him, and he took some of the power of the Spirit that was on him and put it on the seventy elders. When the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied—but did not do so again.
28 Joshua son of Nun, who had been Moses’ aide since youth, spoke up and said, “Moses, my Elohim YHWH, stop them!”
I wish that all the Elohim YHWH’s people were prophets and that the Elohim YHWH would put his Spirit on them!”
31 Now a wind went out from the Elohim YHWH and drove quail in from the sea.
33 But while the meat was still between their teeth and before it could be consumed, the anger of the Elohim YHWH burned against the people, and he struck them with a severe plague.
Iao (Jupiter in that list) echoes Yahu / YHWH, and also the magic cry iao.
Sabaoth (Mars) echoes Sabbath and Yahweh sabaoth, “of Armies,” with a Sabazios trail beside it.
They strengthen the demiurge and sky-power map on Who is Yahweh?
That frame soft-bridges the demiurge / Yaldabaoth / Samael trail already on Who is Yahweh?.
I read those as labeled Gnostic name-echoes on the Yahweh and Elohim trails, not as proof that every biblical Name equals one Archon.
I use Archons to soft-bridge the Yahweh demiurge reading, Elohim sky-power echoes, Nephilim intervening powers, and creation-stories questions about who makes the world.
Who is Yahweh?: demiurge / Yaldabaoth / Nag Hammadi neighbor.
The Old Testament phrase Yahweh sabaoth or 'Jehovah of Armies' was thought a proper name, hence Jupiter Sabbas or Sabazios.
Perhaps from Yahu, YHWH, but possibly also from the magic cry iao in the Mysteries.
Jehovah's Witnesses believe Michael to be another name for Jesus in heaven, in his pre-human and post-resurrection existence.
[Elohim was the name of the first.Yahweh was the name of the second. Elohim has a bear’s face. Yahweh has a cat’s face. One is righteous; One is not. Yahweh is righteous; Elohim is not.Yahweh would command fire and windElohim would command water and earth.]
Psychopathic doublethink of this kind is powerfully dramatized in the episode in Numbers 21, referenced by Jesus, in which YHWH sends seraphim to bite the people.
It is seraphim (the same word) who the Jewish prophet Isaiah witnesses acting as deputies for YHWH and empowering him to act as a go-between.
He rules over the elements of water and earth, alongside Cain, who is seen as Yahweh, ruling over the elements of fire and wind.
Jehovah?
This is analogous to Satan enlightening Adam and Eve in Genesis, and Yahweh cursing them with death.