THE CHRISTIANS OF THE END OF THE AGE SHOULD KNOW WHO THEIR GOD IS!!!

“WHY IS THIS KNOWLEDGE SO PARAMOUNT? It IS BECAUSE NO OTHER GOD SHOULD RECEIVE THE PRAISE, THANKSGIVING, GLORY, HONOR AND THE RESPECT THAT BELONG TO THE highest AND HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON. THERE ARE THOSE GODS WHO try TO TAKE THIS GLORY FOR THEMSELVES. SO THE CHRISTIANS OF THE END OF THE AGE SHOULD KNOW WHO THEIR GOD IS. YESHUA SAID, KNOW THE TRUTH AND IT SHALL SET YOU FREE! HE WHO IS THE TRUTH REVEALS THE TRUTH TO HIS SERVANTS WHO ARE OBEDIENT TO HIS SAYINGS AND LAWS, ACCORDING TO JOHN 14:12 -20. ACCORDING TO JEREMIAH 8:8, THE SCRIBES USE THE LYING "’PEN’{ TO LIE AND DECEIVE THE PEOPLE WHO ARE SEEKERS OF THE TRUE GOD, WHICH BEGS THE QUESTION: IS YHWH THE GOD OF ISRAEL, THE SAME GOD AS EL-ELYON, ACCORDING TO DEUTERONOMY 32:? Here are THE FACTS AND TRUTH OF THE QUESTION. THE WHOLE MATTER.”
Are Yahweh and El Distinct Deities in Deut. 32:8-9 and Psalm 82?
Dr. Michael S. Heiser
Academic Editor, Logos Bible Software, Bellingham, WA
mheiser@logos.com
Citation: Michael S. Heiser, “Are Yahweh and El Distinct Deities in Deut 32:8-9 and Psalm
82?” Hiphil 3 [http://www.see-j.net/hiphil] (2006). Published October 3, 2006. Read
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Introduction
The polytheistic nature of pre-exilic Israelite religion and Israel’s gradual evolution toward
monotheism are taken as axiomatic in current biblical scholarship. This evolution, according
to the consensus view, was achieved through the zealous commitment of Israelite scribes who
edited and reworked the Hebrew Bible to reflect emerging monotheism and to compel the
laity to embrace the idea. One specific feature of Israelite religion offered as proof of this
development is the divine council. Before the exile, Israelite religion affirmed a council of
gods which may or may not have been headed by Yahweh. During and after the exile, the
gods of the council became angels, mere messengers of Yahweh, who by the end of the exilic
period was conceived of as the lone council head over the gods of all nations. Deuteronomy
32:8-9 and Psalm 82 are put forth as rhetorical evidence of this redactional strategy and
assumed religious evolution. The argument is put forth that these texts suggest Yahweh was at
one time a junior member of the pantheon under El the Most High, but that he has now taken
control as king of the gods. Mark S. Smith’s comments are representative:
The author of Psalm 82 deposes the older theology, as Israel's deity is called to assume a new
role as judge of all the world. Yet at the same time, Psalm 82, like Deut 32:8-9, preserves the
outlines of the older theology it is rejecting. From the perspective of this older theology,
Yahweh did not belong to the top tier of the pantheon. Instead, in early Israel the god of Israel
apparently belonged to the second tier of the pantheon; he was not the presider god, but one of