Almost every person in every nation in this world today worships God. Every person in these God-fearing nations is looking in himself or herself to find salvation, but they will not find salvation in themselves.
There are many, however, out of these God-fearing nations, who are searching the Holy Scriptures in order to find the way to eternal life for the worshipers. But, if there are three different men teaching three different doctrines, it is simple to see that all three could be wrong, but all three could not be right.
Every one of the people in the Christian denominations claims to follow the Holy Scriptures. They worship God, they say, because that is in the Bible. However, the same Holy Scriptures they claim to follow are the same Holy Scriptures that say the whole world is deceived.
Revelation 12:9—
And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil,
and Satan, who deceives the whole world. He was
cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
Yes, the Holy Scriptures say that Satan has not just deceived a few; they say that he has deceived the whole world. Since the whole world is most definitely deceived by Satan, will worldly teachings bring you eternal life?
We can fully depend upon Yahweh, Who inspired His Scriptures to be written, to bring anyone that obeys what He says through His Holy Scriptures to eternal life. It is very easy to prove the reliability of Yahweh's Word, but, what about the changes which have been made in today's translations of the Bible? What will you do about the mistranslations, the additions, and the deletions of the original Holy Scriptures when the facts of the truth are brought to you?
In the beginning, Yahweh made a covenant between Himself and those whom He called out to be His own. The Holy Scriptures tell us whom Yahweh has called out down through the ages, who are the very ones who have been offered the opportunity to take hold of His Covenant. We find that Adam, Seth, Noah, Shem, Abraham, Isaac, Yaaqob, and Yaaqob's twelve sons, known as the Twelve Tribes, had all come under Yahweh's Covenant. Yahweh's Covenant between Himself and mankind, in a nutshell, is this: Mankind promises to obey each and every word that has proceeded out of the mouth of Yahweh, which is written in His inspired Holy Scriptures, then Yahweh promises to take them for His own, and to be their Heavenly Father.
Each of you should know about the Exodus from Egypt; but what most people do not know is the fact that the Children of Israyl were implicitly commanded not to worship the Gods of Canaan when they entered the promised land.
Exodus 23:32-33__
32 You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods
(elohim).
33 Do not let them live in your land, or they will cause you to sin
against Me; for if you
worship their gods (elohim), it will certainly be a snare unto you.
We then
read in:
Deuteronomy 12:29-32__
29 When Yahweh your Father cuts off the nations from in front of you,
and you displace them and live in their land,
30 Be careful not to be ensnared into following them by
asking about their gods (elohim), saying: How did these nations serve
their gods (elohim)? I also will do the same.
31 You must not worship Yahweh your Father in their way,
for every abomination to Yahweh, which He hates, they have done to
their gods (elohim). They even burn their sons and daughters in the
fire as sacrifices to their gods (elohim).
32 Whatsoever I command you, be careful to observe and do it, you shall
not add to it, nor take away from it.
Yahweh,
most
assuredly, warned His people what would befall them if they ever turned
from Him in order to serve GODS and LORDS,
saying in:
Deuteronomy 30:17-20__
17 But if your heart turns away, and you are not obedient, and you
are drawn away to bow down and worship gods (elohim), and serve them;
18 I declare to you this day that you will surely perish;
you will not prolong your days in the land which you cross over the
Yardan to possess.
19 I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you this day, that
I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Because
you are free agents to make your own choice between righteousness and
evil-therefore
choose life, so both you and your children may live;
20 So you may love Yahweh your Father, by listening to Him, and then
obeying Him. Hold fast to Him, for He is your life. He will also
give you many years in the land He vowed to give to your
fathers; to Abraham, Isaac, and Yaaqob.
Again and again,
Yahweh WARNED His people against the worship of GODS;
warning them that IF they did such things,
punishment would come. We are told what this punishment would be in:
Deuteronomy 8:19-20__
19 If you, by any means, ever forget Yahweh your Father, by following
hinder Gods (Elohim) to serve and worship them, I testify and
witness against you this day that you will surely perish.
20 You shall perish just like the nations Yahweh is
destroying in front of you, because you would not obey the voice of
Yahweh your Father.
Yahweh knew the
hearts of His people. He knew that they would
prostitute themselves to the GODS OF THE CANAANITES,
and because of that very thing, break His Covenant which He had made
with them. Yahweh knew these people would TURN from Him,
for He told Mosheh in:
Deuteronomy 31:16-18__
16 And Yahweh said to Mosheh: Behold, you are going to rest with your
fathers, and these people will soon prostitute themselves to
the gods of the land which they are entering; they will forsake Me, and
break the covenant which I made with them.
17 On that day I will become angry with them, and I will forsake them.
I will hide My face from them, and they will be devoured. Many evils
and troubles will then befall them, and on that
day they will ask; Have not these disasters come upon us because our
Father is not with us?
18 And I will surely hide My face in that day, because of all the evil
they have done by turning to hinder gods (elohim).
It is a Scriptural FACT
that these people, who were given the Covenant of Yahweh, turned to the
very Canaanite GODS which they were WARNED
AGAINST:
Judges 2:13__
They provoked Yahweh to anger, because they forsook
Him and worshiped Baal; The Lord, and
the Ashtoreth; the goddess Astarte or Easter.
In II Kings 17:16, we read that the people worshiped all the Host of Heaven, and they worshiped Baal. We know that the host of heaven was being worshiped during the time of the kings of Israyl, for the Scriptures say that they were. The word translated HOST in this Scripture is word #6635 in Strong's Hebrew Dictionary; the word Tse-ba'ah, which means: mass of persons, company, army.
Then in Isayah 65:11, KJV, we find the word troop mentioned. The center reference of The King James Version will show you what the word troop means:
The word troop means: gad, which is a euphemism for God, as Webster's Deluxe Unabridged Dictionary, Second Edition, page 746, indicates:
The host of heaven that Yahweh condemned our fathers for turning to was GAD, or the English equivalent, GOD.
I realize that many will ask, "Isn't the word GOD a name for the Creator?" Or they will ask, "Isn't the LORD a holy name?" The Scriptural answer to these questions is a definite NO! If you have a reliable Bible dictionary, you can research these words for yourself. If you do not, you may go to your nearest library where these Bible helps are available, and you will find the FOLLOWING in Unger's Bible Dictionary, Merrill F. Unger, Moody Press, Chicago, IL, under the word Baal on page 413, which says:
On page 112 of Unger's Bible Dictionary, we find this information:
Under the word Lord, on page 665 of this same dictionary, we find:
As we have just read: The Name of the Creator is Yahweh, and should have been retained in that form in The Holy Scriptures. The words Lord and God are NOT RIGHTEOUS titles and are NOT to be used as titles of Yahweh, since they ARE the very titles for BAAL, the host of heaven, or troop.
The troop__the host of heaven, or BAAL, that most of our fathers turned to, and which the modern Bible translators and the modern churches are STILL following__is none other than DEMONS, whose titles are LORD and GOD!
Most of you know that after King Solomon's death, his kingdom was divided: Ten Tribes were allotted to Yeroboam, son of Nebat, which was the NORTHERN KINGDOM, for there is great significance to this FACT, which will be discussed shortly. The TWO remaining TribesSOUTHERN KINGDOM called Yahdah (Judah) under Rehoboam, the son of Solomon. then formed the
At first these two kingdoms were at war, but later in the history we find they had become allies -- through marriage. In I Kings 22:2 we find the kings of the two kingdoms discussing waging war against the Arameans. Yahshaphat of Yahdah, however, asked to first inquire of Yahweh about this joint venture. We read in I Kings 22:4-7, KJV--
What this deceived world does not see (because of this English translation) is the fact that the prophets of Ahab (Israyl) first inquired of ADONAI (LORD), NOT YAHWEH, at which point Yahshaphat (Yahdah) then asked if there still remained a prophet of YAHWEH there. The NIV Interlinear Hebrew-English Old Testament, John R. Kohlenberger III, Zondervan Publishing, Grand Rapids, MI, 49506, Volume 2, page 418, gives us the word for word Hebrew translation of I Kings 22:5-7, which shows us the difference between the word written as Lord (Adonai) and as Lord (Yahweh) in The King James Version:
What this also proves is the fact that the Lord was being worshiped in the Northern Kingdom while Yahweh was still being worshiped in the Southern Kingdom! As Unger's Bible Dictionary on page 665 has previously informed us, Adonai is NOT properly a title for Yahweh!
The following excerpts, from The Encyclopedia Judaica, Volume 7, pages 674-680, show us that the word God came from the Canaanite words El and Elohim, and the word Lord came from the Canaanite word Adon.
'El.The oldest Semitic term for God is 'el (corresponding to Akkadian ilu(m), Canaanite 'el or 'il, and Arabic 'el as an element in personal names). The etymology of the word is obscure. It is commonly thought that the term derived from a root 'yl or 'wl, meaning "to be powerful'' (cf. yesh le-el yadi, ``It is in the power of my hand,'' Gen. 31:29; cf. Deut. 28:32; Micah 2:1). But the converse may be true; since power is an essential element in the concept of deity, the term for deity may have been used in the transferred sense of "power.''
I invite you to request our free booklet: Who Do You Worship? which discusses the idea of strength and power in the YL and WL roots.
In Akkadian, ilu(m), and plural ilu and ilanu, is used in reference to any individual god as well as to divine beings in general; but it is not employed as the personal name of any god. In Ugaritic Canaanite, however, il occurs much more frequently as the personal name of the highest god el than as the common noun "god'' (pl., ilm; fem., ilt). In the Ugaritic myths El is the head of the Canaanite pantheon, the ancestor of the other gods and goddesses, and the creator of the earth and its creatures; but he generally fades into the background and plays a minor role in the preserved myths.
Like 'elohim, el can be employed in reference to an "alien god" (Deut. 32:12; Mal. 2:11) or a "strange god" (Ps. 44:21; 81:10).'El `Elyon. The Hebrew word `elyon is an adjective meaning "higher, upper" e.g., the "upper" pool (Isa. 7:3), the "upper" gate (II Kings 15:35), and "highest", e.g., the "highest" of all the kings of the earth (Ps. 89:28). When used in reference to God, the word can rightly be translated as "Most High". Since in reference to God `elyon is never preceded by the article ha- ("the"), it must have been regarded as a proper noun, a name of God. Thus, it can be used as a divine name meaning "the Most High" (e.g., Deut. 32:8; Isa. 14:14; Ps. 9:3) or in parallelism with YHWH (e.g., Ps. 18:14; 21:8; 83:18), El (Num. 24:16; Ps. 107:11), and Shaddai (Ps. 91:1).
Among the Canaanites, 'El and `Elyon were originally distinct deities, the former attested by archaeological evidence from Ugarit in Western Syria, the latter by evidence from Phoenicia further south. Later, both terms were combined to designate a single god 'El `Elyon. In the Tell el-Amarna Letters of the 15th-14th centuries B.C.E., the Canaanites called El Elyon "the lord of the gods".'Eloha, 'Elohim. The word 'eloha "God" and its plural, 'elohim, is apparently a lengthened form of 'El (cf. Aramaic 'elah, Arabic 'ilah).
More likely, however, it came from Canaanite usage; the early Israelites would have taken over 'elohim as a singular noun just as they made their own the rest of the Canaanite language. In the Tell-el-Amarna Letters Pharaoh is often addressed as "my gods [ilani'ya] the sun-god". In the ancient Near East of the second half of the second millennium B.C.E. there was a certain trend toward quasi-monotheism, and any god could be given the attributes of any other god, so that an individual god could be addressed as 'elohai, "my gods" or 'adonai, "my lords".
The words EL, ELOHIM (GOD) and ADON, ADONAI (LORD) were slowly, but surely, incorporated into the WORSHIP of the Israylites!
Was Yahweh pleased with this worship?
Well, as we have read in Revelation 12:9, the whole
world is DECEIVED; therefore, the worship of El
(God) and Elohim (Gods) is DECEPTION, as we find in:
Deuteronomy 11:16__
Take heed and be very careful, or your heart will be deceived, and you
will turn away and serve hinder gods (elohim) and worship them,
The word translated Gods in Deuteronomy 11:16 is word #430 in Strong's Hebrew Dictionary, and is the word Elohim:
The word Elohim is the exact word that Yahweh CONDEMNS YOU for serving and worshiping, and is the EXACT WORD from which the English word God is translated in today's modern translations!
The prophets of
Yahweh were not ignorant of the DECEPTION of using PAGAN
TITLES in the place of the Name of Yahweh!
The Prophet Yeremyah (Jeremiah) tells us in:
Yeremyah 2:8__
The priests did not ask; Where is Yahweh? Those who deal with
the Law did not know Me! The pastors also transgressed
against Me, and the prophets prophesied in the name of Baal; the
Lord, and walked after things of worthlessness;
worthless gods (elohim)!
As we have found in Deuteronomy
11:16, those who follow after these PAGAN GODS are
also DECEIVED. Even though a person is deceived, that person
is still in error. The Prophet Yeremyah then tells us `how' the people
whom he was prophesying to were in error in:
Yeremyah 23:26-27__
26 How long will this be in the heart of the
prophets who prophesy lies? Yes, they are prophets
of the deceit of their own minds;
27 Who devise; plan and scheme, to cause My people
to forget My Name through their dreams, which they tell every man to
his neighbor, just as their fathers have forgotten My Name for Baal; Lord.
Yes, the people
were in ERROR because they forgot the Name of
Yahweh for the name of BAAL, which is merely the Canaanite
name for LORD! However, you may be assured that this
`changing' of Yahweh's Name did not take place overnight. This came
about through a systematic, organized CONSPIRACY to HIDE
Yahweh's Name in The Holy Scriptures! We find in:
Yeremyah 11:9-10__
9 Then Yahweh said to me: A conspiracy is found among the men
of Yahdah and among the inhabitants of Yerusalem.
10 They have turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, who
refused to listen to My words, and they have gone after the
hinder gods (elohim) to serve them! The house of Israyl and
the house of Yahdah alike have broken My covenant which I made with
their fathers.
Yes, the House
of Israyl__FIRST, and then the House of Yahdah,
turned back to the sins their forefathers had committed. They refused
to obey Yahweh. They served GODS. They BROKE the Covenant
which Yahweh had made with them! Yahweh inspired Yeremyah to
show us how this conspiracy was accomplished, saying in:
Yeremyah 8:5-9__
5 Why, then, has this people slidden back; turned away, with
a perpetual backsliding; turning away? They hold
fast to deceit; they refuse to return!
6 I have listened and heard, but they do not say what is right; no man
repents of his wickedness, saying; What have I done? Each pursues his
own course, as a horse rushing into battle.
7 Yes, the stork in the heavens knows her appointed times of
migration. And the turtledove, the swallow and the crane
observe the time of their coming; return, migration; but
My people do not know the judgment of Yahweh.
8 How can you say; We are the wise, and the Law of
Yahweh is with us? Behold, the lying pen of the scribes has
falsified them, and written them wrong!
9 The wise are ashamed; they are dismayed and taken. Behold, they have
rejected the word of Yahweh__so
what wisdom is in them?
Yes, the False Pen of the Scribes has falsified the Scriptures even today because the people in this world worship LORD and GOD due to their systematic, organized CONSPIRACY to first hide, and then to replace Yahweh's Name in these same Holy Scriptures!
To understand how these PAGAN TITLES came into the Scriptures, we must first understand that it was the added words, the deleted words, and the replacement of words that should not have been replaced, which have caused all the confusion and deception in these same Scriptures.
It should now be a WELL-KNOWN FACT that the scribes used the word ELOHIM, translated GOD, to REPLACE the Name of Yahweh in The Holy Scriptures.
The plain simple fact is that the Creator was never known as a god in any of the original writings! The earliest writings we have, known as the J, or Yahwist, manuscripts, use the Name of Yahweh exclusively in its writings. The J source is THE OLDEST source of writings we have, which MAKES IT the Inspired Writings of the Scriptures! The Interpreter's Dictionary, Volume 2, page 777, tells us about the Yahwist Source:
The Anchor Bible, Genesis, Volume 1, pages 37-38, Introduction and Commentary by E.A. Speiser, Doubleday & Co., 1983, Garden City, NY, confirms that the J Source is the OLDEST (and therefore the FIRST AND INSPIRED) Source of the Scriptures:
J traced back the name Yahweh to the dim past, while E and P attributed the usage to Moses, both views may be justified depending on the point of vantage. The worship of Yahweh was in all likelihood confined at first to a small body of searchers under the aegis of the patriarchs; it was this movement that found a worthy recorder in J. When Moses set out to fashion a nation out of an amorphous conglomerate of sundry ethnic and tribal elements he had to concentrate on three major features of nationhood: a territorial base, a body of laws, and a distinctive religion. The last was normative in more ways than one; it was necessarily the faith of the same forefathers who had already tied it to the Promised Land, with Yahweh as its fountainhead. To that extent, therefore, Yahweh revealed himself to Moses: and it is this personal revelation that both E and P celebrate. To J, however, who chronicled the progress within the inner circle of the patriarchal pioneers, the personal participation of Yahweh had been the dominant fact from the start.
The E, or Elohist, Source is derived from the Hebrew word for GOD__the word ELOHIM__the use of which is characteristic of this Source. The Elohist Source came AFTER the Yahwist Source. The Interpreter's Dictionary, Volume 2, page 1, tells us:
The Interpreter's Dictionary, Volume 2, page 94, also shows that this source is commonly associated with the NORTHERN KINGDOM of Israyl, and dates approximately 100 years later than the Yahwist Source:
Then The Anchor Bible, Proverbs-Ecclesiastes, Volume 18, page xxxi, tells us that the E (Elohist) Source shows its ORIGIN to be in the Northern Kingdom of Israyl, when the kingdom split in two after the death of Solomon:
The fact that the E document in the Pentateuch shows evidences of origin in North Israel after the division of the kingdom at Solomon's death, but follows the outline of the Judean J document which it later was used to supplement, indicates that both stem from a common source before the kingdom split in two.
Do you grasp the significance of this? This says that both the Yahwist and the Elohist Sources stem from a COMMON SOURCE BEFORE the kingdom split in two. What this means is that they used the same work, but one RETAINED Yahweh's Name in the Scriptures, while the other REPLACED Yahweh's Name with the pagan title ELOHIM!
The PAGAN word GOD comes from the word EL (singular, GOD) or ELOHIM (plural-GODS). The Interpreter's Dictionary, Volume 1, page 817, tells us what the words El and Elohim really mean:
Digressing here, I would like to draw your attention to the Greek word THEOS which has been translated GOD in what is known as The New Testament. I would also like to draw your attention to the fact that DEMON and THEOS were virtually INTERCHANGEABLE! The Interpreter's Dictionary, Volume 1, page 817, says:
The words El and Elohim (God), like the words Baal-Adonai (Lord), came from the Canaanite vocabulary and WORSHIP. These Canaanite words were accepted into the Hebrew Language many years AFTER the Yahwist Writings of The Holy Scriptures. The Encyclopedia Judaica, Volume 7, page 674, tells us:
Most of these terms were employed also by the Canaanites, to designate their pagan gods. This is not surprising; since on settling in the Promised Land the Patriarchs and early Israelites made "the language of Canaan'' their own (Isa. 19:18), the Hebrew language would naturally use the Canaanite vocabulary for terms designating their own Deity.
A while AFTER these Canaanite TITLES were incorporated into the Hebrew Language, the people of Yahweh slowly, but surely, forgot the Name of their Creator. Indeed, His Name came to be never MENTIONED, except on the Day of Atonement, and then only by the High Priest who was in office at the temple, and then in such a low voice that no one was even able to hear it.
The Encyclopedia Judaica, Volume 7, page 679, tells us about ELOHA and ELOHIM:
'Eloha', 'Elohim'. The word `eloha "God" and its plural, `elohim, is apparently a lengthened form of `El.
The Encyclopedia Judaica, Volume 7, page 680, tells us a very important FACT about YAHWEH'S NAME, saying:
YHWH. The personal name...written in the Hebrew Bible with the four consonants YHWH and is referred to as the "Tetragrammaton." At least until the destruction of the First Temple in 586 B.C.E. this name was regularly pronounced with its proper vowels, as is clear from the Lachish Letters, written shortly before that date. But at least by the third century B.C.E. the pronunciation of the name YHWH was avoided, and Adonai, "the Lord", was substituted for it, as evidenced by the use of the Greek word Kyrios, "Lord", for YHWH in the Septuagint, the translation of the Hebrew Scriptures that was begun by Greek-speaking Jews in that century. Where the combined form 'Adonai YHWH occurs in the Bible, this was read as 'Adonai 'Elohim, "Lord God". In the early Middle Ages, when the consonantal text of the Bible was supplied with vowel points to facilitate its correct traditional reading, the vowel points for 'Adonai with one variation__a sheva with the first yod of YHWH instead of the hataf-patah under the aleph of 'Adonai__were used for YHWH, thus producing the form YeHoWaH. When Christian scholars of Europe first began to study Hebrew, they did not understand what this really meant, and they introduced the hybrid name "Jehovah". In order to avoid pronouncing even the sacred name 'Adonai for YHWH, the custom was later introduced of saying simply in Hebrew ha-Shem (or Aramaic Shema', "the Name") even in such an expression as "Blessed be he that cometh in the name of YHWH" (Ps. 118:26). The avoidance of pronouncing the name YHWH is generally ascribed to a sense of reverence. More precisely, it was caused by a misunderstanding of the Third Commandment (Ex. 20:7; Deut. 5:11) as meaning "Thou shalt not take the name of YHWH thy God in vain", whereas it really means "You shall not swear falsely by the name of YHWH your God" (JPS).
The true pronunciation of the name of YHWH was never lost. Several early Greek writers of the Christian Church testify that the name was pronounced "Yahweh".
On page 682 of this same Volume, we find:
In The Talmud. The subject of the names of God in the Talmud must be considered under two heads, the prohibition of using the biblical divine names, and the additional names evolved by the rabbis.
THE PROHIBITION OF USE OF THE NAMES OF GOD. The prohibition applies both to the pronunciation of the name of God and its committal to writing, apart from its use in sacred writings. The prohibition against the pronunciation of the name of God applies only to the Tetragrammaton, which could be pronounced by the high priest only once a year on the Day of Atonement in the Holy of Holies (cf. Mishnah Yoma 6:2), and in the Temple by the priests when they recited the Priestly Blessing (Sot. 7:6; see also Ch. Albeck (ed.), Seder Nashim (1954), 387). As the Talmud expresses it: "Not as I am written am I pronounced. I am written yod he vav he, and I am pronounced alef dalet" (nun yod, i.e. 'Adonai; Kid. 71a).
For those of you who may have been told at one time or another that: No one knows HOW to pronounce His Name, please note that the True Pronunciation of Yahweh's Name has never been lost!
By now you should clearly see why the True Name of Yahweh was FORGOTTEN: In ALL instances YAHWEH'S NAME was REPLACED WITH the TITLES of the PAGAN GODS; and soon afterward people began to think the Lord God created the heavens and the earth.
As we have seen in The Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible, Volume 1, page 817, the words EL or ELOHIM from what is commonly known as the Old Testament, rendered THEOS in what is commonly known as the New Testament, commonly translated GOD, simply mean: DEMON, DEMONS!
However, as you have previously read for yourself, our forefathers did not listen to Yahweh; they did not obey Yahweh, but they took the names and titles of the Canaanite Gods (Lord and God) in prayer and worship; they substituted the name of BAAL for the NAME of YAHWEH in The Holy Scriptures that He inspired to be written__and caused His people to forget His Name, as the prophet Yeremyah was inspired to write in Yeremyah 23:26-27. And, by this conspiracy to hide Yahweh's Name__through the LYING PEN OF THE SCRIBES__the Name of Yahweh has been FORGOTTEN to this very day and age.
Keep this fact in your mind as you read these authoritative references: The words Lord and God are not righteous titles, and should never have been used by the translators to replace Yahweh's Name! Yet, even after these authorities admit this fact to be the Truth, they erroneously CONTINUE to write the words Lord and God in their translations of the Scriptures__rather than using the Name of Yahweh our Creator.
This DECEPTION has spread so deeply throughout today's society that it takes some people months, or even years, to avoid the use of these pagan titles: Lord and God.
As we have also seen in II Kings 17:16, when these deceived people worshiped Baal, they were worshiping the Host of Heaven. Well, I have heard more than one person say to me, "I only worship the Lord of Heaven." To those who are most certainly DECEIVED about who they are worshiping, Unger's Bible Dictionary, page 413, tells us that Baalzebub was The Lord of the Heavenly Habitation:
The Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible, Abingdon Press, Nashville, TN, Volume 1, page 13, also gives us some very interesting information about who The Lord of Heaven really is:
In Mattithyah 12:24, Yahshua Messiah was accused of casting out DEMONS by the power of Baalzebub-Baalzebul: the ruler of demons__who is none other than Satan the DEVIL (the ruler of the demons). Of course, Yahshua cast out demons by the power of YAHWEH, which is the ONLY way demons can be cast out! The world did not understand this fact then, and the world does not understand this fact today.
As we have seen, BAAL was worshiped under different attributes. In Yahshua 11:17, we read about Baal-Gad (pronounce each a in the following examples as the sound ah). Baal Gad (Lord God) was the Lord of Good Fortune.
In Numbers 32:38, we read of Baal Meon: The Lord of the Dwelling. In Deuteronomy 4:3 Baal Peor is written, which means: The Lord of the Opening. Then Judges 20:33 mentions Baal Tamar: The Lord of the Palm Tree.
All of these various and sundry names for Baal had special meaning to those who understood the Religion of Mystery which had spread throughout all the Earth. But do not be fooled, Baal, the Lord, is none other than the Adversary__Satan the Devil__as this passage from the Lexicon In Veteris Testamenti Libros, by Koehler and Baumgartner, E.J. Brill, Leiden, Netherlands, 1985, page 137, shows:
However, today, just as in the days of the Apostle Shaul, people just do not realize WHO they are worshiping when they pray to Lord or God! They may think they are worshiping the Creator, but in fact they are worshiping BAAL when they use the TITLES OF BAAL! It is as simple as that.
Unger's Bible Dictionary, under the word BAALZEBUB, on page 413, tells us: "It is a matter of revelation that DEMONISM is the dynamic of Idolatry". The definition of the word DYNAMIC, from Webster's New Twentieth Century Dictionary Of The English Language Unabridged, Second Edition, The World Publishing Company, 1968, page 567, is:
Therefore, what this
means is: It is a matter of revelation that DEMONISM
is the power, strength__the
energetic force, of IDOLATRY__GODWORSHIP.
This is exactly what the Apostle Shaul was saying in:
I Corinthians 10:20__
But I say that the things which the Gentiles
sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to Yahweh; and I
do not want you to have fellowship with demons.
The word which has been translated DEMONS in this Scripture is word #1140 in Strong's Greek Dictionary, and means: devil, or GOD!
Unger's Bible Dictionary tells us on page 412:
Just as the Children
of Israyl were deceived into adopting the Canaanite
word El-Elohim-God to express all the excellencies
and attributes of Yahweh, most translators of the
Scriptures are deceived into using the same words--El-Elohim-God--
even though they admit that God is not Yahweh's Name, and
they know they should not use it as though it were.
Yahweh gave warning about this deception in:
Deuteronomy 12:30__
Be careful not to be ensnared into following them by asking
about their gods (elohim), saying: How did these nations
serve their gods (elohim)? I also will do the same.
Yet they, like so many today, did not heed Yahweh's warning. They not only were deceived into following the heathen in their godworship, they thought they were following Yahweh by doing so! Therefore, they whored after BAAL, worshiped in the names of the pagan GODS, and forgot the Name of Yahweh. Unger's Bible Dictionary, page 413, shows us:
Yes, the Israylites were addicted to godworship because they wanted to be just like all their heathen neighbors; they wanted a GOD to worship, and not a Loving Heavenly Father. The Canaanites worshiped El-Elohim (God-Gods).
Gods can be made of anything: wood, stone, animal, bird, or man. The PAGAN TERMS which describe the attributes of these things--THESE GODS--were applied to Yahweh when His NAME was HIDDEN, then was REMOVED from the Scriptures and replaced with the titles of these things.
The definition of the word GOD, from Webster's Deluxe Unabridged Dictionary, Simon and Schuster, NY, is: akin to gott, goth, guth, and of various beings conceived of as supernatural, a male god, an image that is worshiped, a person or thing honored or admired.
The Canaanite-Hebrew words El
and Elohim simply mean demon(s).
The Greek word Theos simply means demon.
The English word God__which
was directly translated from the Greek word Theos,
which was directly translated from the Canaanite-Hebrew words El
and Elohim, simply means Demon.
Therefore, is it any wonder that Yahweh is Displeased
because these pagan titles were used to replace His Name
in the Scriptures? Yahweh tells us emphatically in:
Deuteronomy 32:39__
See that I, ONLY I, AM HE, and there is NO
GOD (EL) WITH ME! Me, I kill, and I make alive! I wound, and
I heal! Neither is there any that can deliver out of My hand!
Isayah 43:10__
You are My witnesses, says Yahweh, and My servants
whom I have chosen; so you may know and believe Me, and understand that
I am He! Before Me there was no god (el)
formed, nor will there be after Me.
It is plain to see exactly what Yahweh Himself thinks about GOD.
The First Commandment of Yahweh's Ten Commandments is written in Exodus 20:2-3. What the people in the world do not understand is the fact that Exodus 20:2 identifies the ONE Who brought the Children of Israyl out of bondage, identifying WHO they were to worship and serve.
Exodus 20:2__
I am Yahweh your Heavenly Father Who brought you out of the
land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
We are then told WHO
we are NOT to worship or serve in the very next
Scripture:
Exodus 20:3, King
James Version__
Thou shalt have no other gods beside me.
Exodus 20:3, Holy
Name Version__
Thou shalt have no elohim before me.
Exodus 20:3, Jerusalem
Bible__
You shall have no gods before me.
The Hebrew word ACHER, rja^ word #312 in Strong's Hebrew Dictionary, which is translated OTHER in The King James Version, means: strange, or hinder; ones left behind.
The Hebrew words AL PANEH, hnp* lu, which were translated BEFORE in The King James Version, are words #5921 and #6440 in Strong's Hebrew Dictionary. They mean: AGAINST. According to Webster's Dictionary, the word AGAINST means: IN OPPOSITION TO.
Exodus 20:3,
therefore, should have been translated:
Exodus 20:3__
You shall have no hinder gods (elohim) at all, they
are in opposition against Me.
Yahweh was not
identifying Himself as a god__He
was instructing the Believers NOT to have gods at
all! We read the Second Commandment of the Ten Commandments
in:
Exodus 20:4__
You shall not make for yourself any carved image; an
idol, in the form of anything in heaven above, or on the
earth beneath, or in the waters below.
The definition for the word GOD, from Webster's New World Dictionary, Second College Edition, also shows that GOD can be an IDOL, which is an IMAGE that is worshiped:
god (gäd, gôd) n. [ME. < OE., akin to G. gott, Goth. guth, prob. < IE. base *g^hau-, to call out to, invoke, whence Sans. havaté, (he) calls upon] 1. any of various beings conceived of as supernatural, immortal, and having special powers over the lives and affairs of people and the course of nature; deity, esp. a male deity. 2. an image that is worshiped; idol.
If one were to translate Exodus 20:4 as the translators of The King James Version rendered Exodus 20:3, it would read, "Thou shalt have no OTHER graven images beside Me...", inferring that Yahweh is just another graven or carved image. However, Yahweh is not a God, and neither is He represented by any graven image!
All one needs to do in order to come to the KNOWLEDGE that Yahweh has NEVER identified HIMSELF as any god or image, is merely to study The Holy Scriptures. Through these inspired Scriptures, Yahweh identifies HIMSELF as a very loving, patient, merciful, kind, caring Heavenly Father.
The following Scriptures should prove to you, if Yahweh has blessed your understanding, that Yahweh has identified HIMSELF as a FATHER to His sons.
Luke 11:11-13__
11 If a son should ask bread from any of you who is a father, would you
give him a stone? If he asks for a fish, would
you, instead of a fish, give him a serpent?
12 Or if he would ask for an egg, would you offer him a scorpion?
13 If you then, being evil, know how to give righteous gifts to your
children, how much more will your Heavenly
Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him?
Romans 8:15__
For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you
received the Spirit of adoption; sonship,
by which we cry out: Abba, Father!
One can only RECEIVE the Holy
Spirit upon being BAPTIZED according to the instructions given in
Yahweh's Holy Scriptures. If one is baptized incorrectly (as Acts
Chapters 18 and 19 state emphatically), Yahweh's Holy Spirit
is just not given. Upon CORRECT baptism, one
becomes a begotten son of Yahweh. I would like to invite you to write
for our BOOKLET: Baptism Yahweh's Way,
for indepth information about this subject. Continuing in the
Scriptures, we read:
Yahchanan 1:12__
But as many as received Him, to those He gave authority to
become the sons of Yahweh to those who believe the testimony
of Yahweh__
Mattithyah 23:9__
And you must not pray to or worship any man on
earth as a "Father", for you have only One Father, Who is in
heaven.
Luke 6:36__
Therefore, be merciful, just as your Father also is merciful.
Luke 12:32__
Do not be afraid, little flock, for it is your
Father's righteous pleasure to give you the Kingdom.
When Yahshua Messiah
instructed His disciples to pray, He did NOT
instruct them to pray to any god! Most of you are familiar with
Yahshua's instructions in:
Mattithyah 6:9__
After this manner; example and general outline, you
should pray: Our Father Who is in heaven. Hallowed is Your
Name.
King David, a man
after Yahweh's own heart, was inspired by Yahweh to call Him
FATHER, saying in:
Psalm 89:26__
He will call out to Me; You are my Father, O Yahweh!
You are the Rock of my salvation!
Was David inspired
to call Yahweh God? Did David call Him Lord? Most assuredly not! Just
as the Scriptures say, David called Yahweh FATHER.
Yahshua Messiah has also instructed you to call Yahweh your FATHER
if Yahweh has called you out to be one of His begotten sons. The
inhabitants of The New World will also call Yahweh "My Father", as we
find in:
Yeremyah 3:17-19__
17 At that time Yerusalem will be called The Throne of Yahweh, and all
the nations will be gathered to it, to the Name of Yahweh, to
Yerusalem. They will no longer walk after the imagination of their evil
heart; the gods (elohim).
18 In those days the house of Yahdah will walk with the house of
Israyl, and they will come together out of the land of the north, to
the land that I have given for an inheritance to your fathers.
19 But I said: How can I put you among the children and give you a
pleasant land, a beautiful heritage of the hosts of the nations? And I
said: You will call Me; MY FATHER, and not turn away from Me.
It is a Scriptural Fact that Satan will be bound for the duration of the Millennial Reign, and will NOT be able to deceive the nations then, as he is doing at this very time. When Satan is BOUND and a seal set upon him, all the people on the Earth will call Yahweh "MY FATHER".
All the SINS
committed by the people of this world, through their worship of BAAL,
have separated them FROM Yahweh. Therefore, their PRAYERS
are not even heard by Yahweh, much less answered by Him. We read in:
Isayah 59:1-2__
1 Behold, Yahweh's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; nor His
ear heavy, that it cannot hear.
2 But your own iniquities have separated you from
your Father; and your own sins have caused
Him to hide His face
from you, so He will not listen.
In these Scriptures,
Yahweh tells us that He is not the One Who is lacking. It is the SINNER
who is at fault! Yahweh's inspired Scriptures, in Revelation
12:9, also tells us that Satan has deceived the whole world.
Added to this, not only have Yahweh's Laws and Feast Days been changed
by this deception (Daniyl 7:25)__the
Great NAME OF YAHWEH has been replaced with PAGAN TITLES
(Yeremyah 23:26-27) in most of today's Bible
translations. Because of the deception of replacing Yahweh's NAME
with pagan titles, when one thinks one is praying to one's Heavenly
Father Yahweh, but is USING the titles of BAAL, which are GOD
and LORD, that person is actually calling to SATAN, the ruler of the
demons. Yes, indeed, this whole world is deceived. Yahweh our
Creator and Heavenly Father is not pleased with this, and asks in:
Yeremyah 23:26-27__
26 How long will this be in the heart of
the prophets who prophesy lies? Yes, they are prophets
of the deceit of their own minds;
27 Who devise; plan and scheme, to cause My people
to forget My Name through their dreams, which they tell every man to
his neighbor, just as their fathers have forgotten My Name
for Baal; Lord.
Only those whom
Yahweh is calling out now realize the FACT that Yahweh's
NAME, and not PAGAN TITLES, should be used to address Yahweh our Father.
Yahweh shows that this LIE will continue until the
end of this age in:
Daniyl 7:25-27__
25 And he will speak great words against Yahweh,
and will wear out; mentally attack to cause to fall away, the
saints of Yahweh, and think to change times; Yahweh's Feast
Days, and Laws; and they will be given into his
hand until a time, and times, and the dividing of time.
26 But the judgment will sit, and they will take away his government,
to consume and to destroy it completely.
27 Then the kingdom and government, and the greatness of the
kingdom under the whole heaven, will be given to the people of the
saints of Yahweh, Whose kingdom is an
everlasting kingdom, and all governments will serve and obey Him.
These Scriptures plainly show that the Beastly Religious System which grips this world in deception at this very time will CONTINUE until the END of The Great Tribulation, at which time Yahshua Messiah will return and set up The Kingdom of Yahweh upon this Earth. If you have not done so already, I urge you to read our two books: The Mark of The Beast, Volumes One and Two, which explain these events in DETAIL.
This LIE of causing the people in this world to forget HIS NAME will also continue to be in effect in the vast majority of the people in this world until the Second Coming of Yahshua.
We also find that until that time the
people will continue to call Yahweh by the NAMES OF BAALIM__Lord,
God, El, Elohim. We find this in:
Hosheyah 2:13-17, King
James Version__
Hosheyah 2:13-17, Book
of Yahweh__
13 I will visit upon; punish, her for the days of
the Baalim; Lords, Gods (Elohim), and Goddesses,
to which she burned incense. She decked herself with her
earrings and jewelry, and went after her lovers; then she
forgot Me, says Yahweh.
14 Therefore, behold, I am going to allure her, bring her into the
wilderness, and give her understanding;
15 And I will assign to her there, her
vineyards, and the Valley of Achor; Trouble, as a
door of hope. She will sing there, as in the days of her youth, as in
the day when she came up from the land of Egypt.
16 And it will be in that day, says Yahweh: that you
will call Me Ishi; My Husband, and will no longer
call Me Baali; My Lord.
17 For I will take away the names of Baalim; the
Lords, Gods (Elohim), and Goddesses, out of her mouth, and
their names will no longer be called upon!
Yes, the names of the BAALIM will be removed from the mouths of the people, and Yahweh will NO LONGER be addressed as LORD, GOD, EL and ELOHIM.
Yahweh gives a WARNING
to HIS OWN PEOPLE in: Revelation 18:4__
And I heard another voice from heaven, saying: Come out of her, My
people, so that you do not partake in her sins, and so that
you do not receive of her plagues,
We know that it is an impossibility to leave this physical world, and Yahweh does not expect us to do so! However, Yahweh does mean for us to come out of the Beastly Religious System which grips this world, for it is within IT that the deception lies!
The substituting of pagan titles for our Father Yahweh's Name started when our forefathers began thinking that the Creator's Name should not be mentioned because of its HOLINESS. However, Yahweh Himself shows us that His Name is too Holy NOT to mention!
Yahweh's Name is the ONLY way to salvation, and it should always be used in complete reverence to our Heavenly Father! How is Yahweh's Name the only way to salvation? I would like to assure you right now that just using Yahweh's Name in worship and reverence is not, as it were, a ticket into His Kingdom! As we see through the Scriptures, we are SEALED WITH THE NAME OF YAHWEH.
In Revelation
7:1-8, we are told about a certain number of the tribes of
Israyl who are SEALED. These who are sealed of the
tribes of the children of Israyl, are sealed with the NAME
of Yahweh__BECAUSE they PRACTICE
keeping the LAWS of Yahweh! We find in:
Psalm 119:142__
Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, because
Your Law is the truth!
We then find in:
II Timothy 2:19__
Nevertheless, the foundation of Yahweh stands sure, having this seal:
Yahweh knows those who are His, because: everyone who
reverences the Name of Yahweh departs from iniquity.
The word translated iniquity in II Timothy 2:19 is word #93 in Strong's Greek Dictionary, and means:
As you can see, one
of the definitions of this word is UNRIGHTEOUSNESS. What is
righteousness? We see what YAHWEH'S RIGHTEOUSNESS is in:
Deuteronomy 6:25__
And it will be OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS, if we observe to do all
these commandments; His Law, before Yahweh our
Father, as He has commanded us.
Therefore, all those who Name the Name of Yahweh DEPART FROM BREAKING any of Yahweh's Commandments, Laws, Statutes, or Judgments__and they have The Seal of Yahweh!
Yes, Yahweh is calling a few out of this deception at this time, calling them out for a job which will begin in the next few years. That job is to rule under Yahshua Messiah IN the Kingdom which will be Established here upon the Earth.
What a wonderful opportunity this is! This is one of the most blessed opportunities in the whole world, and Yahweh only offers it to a few at this time. You can be a part of The Family of Yahweh__The House of Yahweh__if You will put away the deception of this world, and serve and obey Yahweh in truth__and you can START by calling upon your CREATOR, your FATHER in heaven, with His Holy and Righteous NAME, which is YAHWEH!
May Yahweh Bless your UNDERSTANDING of His Will for those whom He is calling out, AND your understanding about Who and What Yahweh is to HIS PEOPLE.