El Elyon (THE MOST HIGH GOD) AN Eisegesis OF GENESIS 14:18-22

 

THE BLESSING OF MELCHIZEDEK TO ABRAHAM IS AN INTERESTING ONE INDEED.

3 TIMES THE EXPRESSION IS MADE ‘THE MOST HIGH GOD’ (EL ELYON) BY MECHIZEDEK. GEN.14.18-20

And then  we come  to  Abram in verse 22. "At this  Abram said to the  King of Sodom: “I DO LIFT UP MY HAND [IN AN OATH] TO JEHOVAH, THE MOST HIGH GOD, PRODUCER OF HEAVEN AND EARTH."

SO ABRAM CLARIFIES OR EXPLAINS THE ‘ EL ELYON’ WAS JEHOVAH,. JEHOVAH THE MOST HIGH GOD.

WAS THIS JUST A COINCIDENCE THAT MECHIZEDEK CALLED 'THE PRODUCER OF HEAVEN AND EARTH EL ELYON AND ABRAHAM WAS MORE PRECISE IN HIS DECLARATION, YHWH EL ELYON?

IT DOES APPEAR THAT THE BLESSING DISPOSED ONTO ABRAM WAS ONE THAT WAS CULTIC IN SOME SENSE RITUALISTIC OF A VICTORY AND OF COURSE THE BLESSING OF CANINITE FORMULATION.

BUT IT CANNOT BE OVERLOOKED THAT ABRAM INCLUDED HIS GOD JEHOVAH IN SUCH A BLESSING.

SOME HAVE SURMISED THIS TO MEAN A CORRELATION OF "EL ELYON PRODUCER OF HEAVEN AND EARTH," WITH YHWH. AND RIGHTFULLY SO.

 BUT THE PRECISE IDENTIFICATION OF THIS ONE NOT ONLY AS PRODUCER OF HEAVEN AND EARTH, BUT AS JEHOVAH THE MOST HIGH PRODUCER OF HEAVEN AND EARTH, CARRIES SOME WEIGHT IN REGARD TO THE INSPIRATION OF THE TEXT, TO INCLUDE THE DIVINE NAME AND ALSO ABRAM’S OWN UNDERSTANDING AND CONVICTION  ON WHO THE ‘EL ELYON’ PRODUCER OF HEAVEN AND EARTH WAS.

EITHER YHWH WHO INSPIRED THESE WORDS TO BE SPOKEN AND WRITTEN TO INCLUDE HIS NAME

AND OF COURSE WERE SPOKEN IN THIS ANCIENT TEXT BY ABRAM AND DEEMED NECESSARY TO BE ‘

INCLUDED IN THOSE INSPIRED WORDS AS JEHOVAH THE MOST HIGH GOD, PRODUCER OF HEAVEN AND EARTH.

TODAY THEOLOGIANS, OF COURSE, SEE NO NEED, AND NO DIFFERENCE  IN THE TERM: ‘MOST HIGH GOD PRODUCER OF HEAVEN AND EARTH  TO INCLUDE: JEHOVAH MOST HIGH GOD  PRODUCER OF HEAVEN AND EARTH. THEY ARE THE SAME EXPRESSION TO MOST.

BUT NOT TO ABRAM WHO SAW THE DIFFERENCE AND SO THE WRITTEN  TEXT.

IN MY OPINION ANOTHER TACTIC TO REMOVE THE DIVINE NAME AND IT’S SIGNIFICANCE FROM THE INSPIRED TEXT.

AFTER ALL WE HAVE ALL HEARD IT. GOD IS GOD. WE ALL KNOW WHO WE ARE TALKING ABOUT.

OR DO WE? MOST IMPORTANT AS ABRAM MAKES CLEAR IN THIS INSPIRED TEXT, GOD IS JEHOVAH

PRODUCER OF HEAVEN AND EARTH.

ABRAM  WAARES      SAMAYIM   QONEH            ELYON              EL         YHWH

ABRAM  THE EARTH   HEAVEN     PRODUCER    MOST HIGH     GOD     JEHOVAH