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?
That sets the worship of Jehovah against the worship of the Fish-god.
This sets the worship of Jehovah against the worship of the Fish-god.
He says the name Yahweh was pasted over older stories of the Elohim, and that treating those stories as the acts of God has been used to excuse violence.
He also talks about his own family and the people who write to him, and says Jesus saw God as a father and kept clear of the Yahweh stories.
He says the name Yahweh was pasted over earlier Elohim stories, and that reading them as the acts of God has been used to excuse violence.
Yahweh (YHWH)
Jesus and Yahweh: a deliberate misunderstanding
He says Jesus was pointing at the stories of Yahweh in the desert.
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.
God, or Sons of God or Lord of God is the English translation for the Hebrew word Elohim or YHWH Elohim.
It is not a proper name like YHWH.
It is not the same as the proper name YHWH.
Debate continues over whether such rites were offered to Yahweh, Baal, or another figure.
Title / epithet views: “the king” as a title (sometimes linked to Yahweh or Baal in critical readings).
The gods in the Bible: Molech and Milcom among foreign gods; Elohim / Yahweh frame.
YHWH Elohim
The text reveals a bitter rivalry between Yahweh and the neighboring Elohim of Ekron.
Indeed, it is Yahweh who refers to himself and his neighbour both as elohim.
Yahweh is one such Elohim, overseeing only the family of Jacob (the Sons of Israel), while others like Chemosh ruled groups such as the Moabites.
Biglino counts at least 23 Elohim named in the Bible, portraying them as human-like beings with physical needs (e.g., Yahweh requiring alcohol and calming smoke), vices, and limitations—not omnipotent or transcendent.
The term takes on a slightly different connotation in the Latter Day Saint movement, Elohim is believed to be the name of the Heavenly Father, distinct from Jehovah (Jesus Christ).
Elohim vs Jehovah Elohim
He rules over the elements of water and earth, alongside Cain, who is seen as Yahweh ruling over the elements of fire and wind.
"And Elohim said moreover to Moses, 'Thus shall you say to the children of Israel Elohim: YHWH Elohim of your fathers, the Elohim of Abraham, the Elohim of Isaac, and the Elohim of Jacob, has sent me to you.
2There the angel of YHWH Elohim appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush.
4When YHWH Elohim saw that he had gone over to look, God called to him from within the bush, “Moses!
Yahweh is the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible, named by the four consonants YHWH, the tetragrammaton (literally “four letters”).
Who is Yahweh?
YHWH is four Hebrew consonants.
The consensus modern transcription is Yahweh.
Jehovah is a later Christian hybrid: YHWH consonants read with Adonai vowels.
Related spellings on this trail include Yaho, Yahô, Yahû, YeHūàH, and YaHūàH.
In Exodus 3:14 God answers Moses with ehyeh ašer ehyeh, often rendered “I Am that I Am.” Scholars still debate whether the name YHWH comes from that verb.
Worshippers of Yahweh across history include Israelites, Jews, Samaritans, and early Christians.
Scholarship often places Yahweh’s earliest memory in the southern deserts: Seir, Edom, Paran, and Teman.
Judges 5:4 and Habakkuk 3:3 sing of YHWH coming from those regions.
Egyptian attestations of a name close to YHWH among southern nomads (Astour’s yhwꜣ; Van Der Toorn on fourteenth-century Edomite-Midianite worship before Israel) sit on the same southern map.
How he later stands below Elyon and above the priests and the nations, I map in The Hierarchy of YHWH.
Iron Age inscriptions such as Kuntillet Ajrud name Yahweh of Samaria and Yahweh of Teman, sometimes beside Asherah.
Yahweh moves from a more minor storm figure toward prominence.
Deuteronomy 32:8-9 and related “desert portion” readings place Israel as YHWH’s allotted people under Elyon.
Meaning: Yahweh is not introduced as lone creator of every nation in one step.
Before exclusive YHWH worship dominates, the Hebrew trail still carries El titles: El Shaddai, El Elyon, El Olam.
Yahweh sits supreme over a host of divine or semi-divine beings, then demands exclusivity more and more sharply.
“Have no other elohim before me,” says Yahweh.
The biblical text itself often shows Yahweh as a jealous war god who commands total destruction.
In the conquest and war trail, Yahweh issues total-destruction commands.
“However, in the cities of the nations Yahweh is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes.
Completely destroy them—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites—as Yahweh has commanded you.”
The Eden Conspiracy reads physical appearance from Psalm 18 and II Samuel 22, where King David describes “YHWH my Powerful One”:
In Psalm 18 and II Samuel 22 King David gives a detailed physical description of “YHWH my Powerful One.” He describes smoke arising from YHWH’s ap – a word which means nostrils or snout – and fire coming from YHWH’s mouth.
Isaiah 42 summarizes the general dynamic of YHWH’s leadership like this: “[The people] refused to walk in his ways nor were they obedient to his laws.
So [YHWH] poured upon them fury from his ap, which is his great power in battle, and set them all on fire until there was nothing left of them.”
I’ll show them!!” To make things clear Yahweh then slaughters the Syrians in the battle that ensues, costing the Syrian forces 100,000 infantry in a single day of battle and a further 27,000 in a post-battle accident.
YHWH’s most disturbing actions arrive when his grip on power feels threatened:
The moments of YHWH’s most disturbing actions are recognizably moments in which YHWH feels his own grip on power is waning.
For instance, it is when YHWH’s successor King Saul runs a war more mercifully than the way YHWH would have done that YHWH deposes him, afflicting him with a spiritual parasite which ultimately drives the king to insanity and suicide.
Having got rid of Saul, YHWH installs David who does well for a while, right up until II Samuel 24.
This chapter recalls a moment when YHWH realizes that David is laying the mental groundwork for questioning his battle orders.
The only factor in whether David should send his troops to war should be YHWH’s say-so.
So, for this insolence, YHWH executes seventy-thousand of his own infantry.
YHWH is sending the signal that no diminution of his authority will be tolerated.
In The Only Planet of Choice, Jehovah is not the Creator.
There is one you know of as 'Jehovah'.
ANDREW: Can we clearly state at this time, that the civilization of Hoova is that which identified in the Bible......?Tom: Hoova is Jehovah.
There Tom says the Israelis descend from Hoova and that Hoova's leader is Jehovah.
Kab reads Yahweh-Jehovah as a composite built from Mesopotamian divine roles:
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.
The Eden Conspiracy pushes further: the Laws of YHWH preserve a memory of many sky powers, not later monotheism alone:
The Book of the Laws of YHWH included undisguised narratives of elohim, Elyon the Captain, Shaddai the Destroyer, CH-CH the Dragon, Asherah, Baal, Dagon, the moloch child-sacrifices, and the whole kaleidoscopic memory of the seba hassamayim.
Visions of Atlantis states the identification with Old Testament YHWH plainly:
And in much of the cosmology of the Nag Hammadi Codices, Yahweh, (YHWH) the unpronounceable orthodox-alleged father of Christ and the God of the Old Testament, was a demonic demiurge alternatively referred to as Yaldabaoth and occasionally, Samael, playing a trick on the teeming gullible masses, using his wicked archons to enforce the deception.
I read this as a serious paleo-contact / Gnostic trail: YHWH as jailer-craftsman, not as the loving Father of the Gospels.
Yahweh was the name of the second.
Yahweh has a cat’s face.
Yahweh is righteous; Elohim is not.
Yahweh would command fire and wind Elohim would command water and earth.]
Meaning: Elohim and Yahweh appear as twin powers under the demiurge, then masked as Cain and Abel.
That strengthens the Elohim-versus-Yahweh distinction I use later.
In Jesus and the Essenes, a regression / Essene dialogue on this trail, the speaker knows the Name Yahweh but addresses God as Abba:
S: Yahweh.
When I speak to Him, I do not call Him Yahweh.
Meaning: Yahweh as “with no name” sits beside Abba as intimate Father.
Paul Wallis argues that combining the Old Testament Yahweh trail with the New Testament God of Jesus as one continuous character misleads readers.
I distinguish Elohim (plural / sky-army / creator-host trails) from Yahweh as the desert war and national god who concentrates power.
Jehovah, the self-existing one
Visions of Atlantis already tied Nag Hammadi’s Yaldabaoth reading to YHWH.
Bridgman-Metchim’s four names keep Adonai, Shaddai, Jehovah, and Elohim on the same Atlantis bookshelf.
The God of Israel named by the tetragrammaton YHWH, and the national god of Israel and Judah.
YHWH is the four-letter Name.
Jehovah is a later Christian hybrid of YHWH consonants with Adonai vowels, not the ancient pronunciation.
In Nag Hammadi cosmology, as summarized in Visions of Atlantis, YHWH is identified with the demonic demiurge Yaldabaoth (sometimes Samael).
The Secret Book of John further places Elohim and Yahweh as sons of Yaldabaoth, deceptively named Cain and Abel.
I separate Elohim host trails from Yahweh as concentrating war god.
Bridgman-Metchim’s Atlantis divine-name list (Adonai, Shaddai, Jehovah, Elohim) and the Visions of Atlantis demiurge reading are soft bridges.
the 12 Elohim: Elohim / creator-host trail versus Yahweh concentration.
The conquest begins with the battle of Jericho, followed by Ai (central Canaan), after which Joshua builds an altar to Yahweh at Mount Ebal in northern Canaan and renews the Covenant in a ceremony with elements of a divine land-grant ceremony, similar to ceremonies known from Mesopotamia.
Adam replied, "Jehovah."
There they agree to build a city and a tower with its top in the sky. Yahweh, observing their city and tower, confounds their speech so that they can no longer understand each other, and scatters them around the world.
Ephah is mentioned again in Isaiah 60:6 as a transporter of gold and frankincense from Sheba, who shall thus bring enlargement to Judah and praise to Yahweh.
The status of the cherubim as constituting a sort-of vehicle for Yahweh is present in Ezekiel's visions, the Books of Samuel, the parallel passages in the later Books of Chronicles, and passages in the early Psalms: for example, "and he rode upon a cherub and did fly: and he was seen upon the wings of the wind."
This has implications for the understanding of whether the ark of the covenant in the Temple was literally YHWH's throne or simply an indicator of YHWH's immanence.
"So YHWH scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.