This information was in & of itself fascinating to me, and yet I didn’t give it much thought until I later decided to use this rediscovery to color-code the first book of the Bible.  To do so, every time the word “God” showed up in Genesis, I shaded it lightly with an orange pencil, and every time the word “LORD” was read, I shaded it with green … Needles to say, the results were astounding — Almost without exception, every “evil” act performed by God was actually performed by the orange-shaded “God” (the plural Elohim), while the “LORD” (the actual, singular Godhead) seemed simply to Love & guide & forgive as a cool-green, never-ending source of compassion.

 

Without listing every instance – and without going into too much detail, consider the following examples:

 

*In the 9^th chapter of Genesis, we hear the Elohim tell Noah and his sons not to merely “be fruitful and multiply” (as most English translations show), but rather to “tyrannically dominate & over-fill the Earth” (the actual Hebrew terminology used).

 

 

 

*In the 11^th chapter of Genesis, we see the actual Godhead (the “LORD”) attempt to non-violently check the then unbridled hubris of humanity at the Tower of Babel.

*In the 17^th chapter of Genesis, we see Abraham almost make a covenant with the one “LORD”, but then choosing to align himself with “God” (the fallen Elohim) instead.

 

*In the 18^th chapter of Genesis, we hear God’s promise to not destroy Sodom & Gomorrah, and yet in Genesis’ very next chapter, we see two of the Elohim (fallen angels – in this instance, literally) destroy those two cities anyway.

*In the 22^nd chapter of Genesis, we see “God” (the fallen Elohim) mislead Abraham into almost sacrificing his own son to prove his allegiance to them, whereupon a divine representative of the “LORD” (the actual Godhead) intervened and stopped their cruel nonsense.

*Most importantly, in the 3^rd chapter of Exodus, the Elohim defiantly usurp the name of the actual God (Adonai or YHWH, read as “LORD”), and brazenly commence using it throughout the rest of the Pentateuch – indeed throughout the rest of the Old Testament – to fulfill for their own less-than-Kind ends (see specifically Exodus 3:13-15+, Exodus 6:2-7 & Exodus 6:28-29).

*As such, in the 12^th chapter of Exodus, it is the Elohim (who are merely posing as “the LORD”) and not God Himself who actually kill all of Egypt’s firstborn children during the terrible night of the first Passover.

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