When Are “The Last Days”?
An EASILY UNDERSTOOD Scripture Study for Christians

PART TWO - What the Apostles Thought and Taught II

We must pick up some we missed in the last lesson.  But first, try to improve your Bible language skills by completing this matching game.  If you do not know the answers, not to worry.  This lesson following will teach you.

1.   When your read LORD in your Bible, think _________________ .

2.   When you read God in your Bible, think _________________ .

3.   ________________ is the “family name” for all spiritual beings.

4.   ________________ means “he who was and is and is to come.”
5.   In the days of Enosh, people began to call upon the name of _______________ .

6.   Enoch was ushered away by _________________ and/or ____________________ .

7.   The Israelites were taken captive during the 4^th day by ____________________ .

8.   The name ___________________ means “Luck” in Aramaic.

9.   The third commandment has to do with the name _____________________ .
10.  The name God covers up the title _______________________ .

11.  The title LORD covers up the name ______________________ .

12.  The disciples had to learn the name _____________________ from Yahshua.

13.  ______________ is the name that Yahshua said he had made known in John 17?
14.  ______________ means “forgetful.”
15   ______________ means “disciplined.”

Possible Answers: Enosh, Enoch, God, Assyria, Yahweh, Elohim, angels.

1.  THE DAYS OF ENOSH: Genesis 4:26 briefly introduces a third son of Adam, Seth, and Seth’s son, named ____________ .   In his day, “men began to call upon the name of the LORD.”  So in the second generation after Adam, people invoked the name of the LORD, but what is that name?  Most would say, “Why, his name is the LORD!  Isaiah 42:8 tells us that.” 

   Now we come to probably the most hurtful of translation errors that has kept literally billions from knowing the name of their heavenly Father.  “LORD” in capital letters is a cover-up word to hide the name of the Father in heaven, which is _____________ . 

   (Enosh means “forgetful.”  We have been Enosh as a people about the name of the heavenly Father as the vast majority has not been taught his name in religious education institutions.)

   Starting in Genesis 2 through Malachi and the entire New Testament, the name YAHWEH has been covered by the title LORD – there are well over 7,000 cover-ups. 

   Since 7 is the number of completeness, we might say that translators have blotted out the Father’s name completely.  But any decent study Bible, commentary or dictionary will give you that name.  Father’s name is ______________.  His name means “one who is, who was, and who shall be” (Revelation 1:8).

    “LORD” IS the translation of a Hebraic Bible word.  That word is Baal, as in Baal-shalishah (which means “Lord Trinity” 2 Kings 4:42), Beel-zebub (“Lord of the Fly” Matthew 10:45) and just plain Baal (“Lord”).  Again, any modern Bible Dictionary will bear this out. 

   Think of this the next time the church breaks into “He is Lord.”  You may want to sing instead, he is “Yahweh.”

    So in the days of Enosh people began calling on Yahweh by name (Genesis 2:4).  This is important to remember for a future study.

2.  THE DAYS OF ENOCH:  Genesis 5:24 is well known, “And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.”  Enoch was a scribe and prophet seven generations from Adam whose predictions were well-known by Yahshua and his earliest followers.  Enoch is quoted or alluded to in many Bible passages (Like Jude 14.  Jude is, of course, the brother of Yahshua).  In this passage, we have the name “God” that always covers up and distorts the meaning of another Bible word.

   The name “God” generally covers up the word “Elohim,” which is NOT a name at all.  Elohim (or Eloha or El) means “mighty” or “powerful” or “strong one” and may refer to any being that is spiritual in nature.  In certain manuscripts, Elohim is translated “of Spirits.” Often “Elohim” refers to Yahweh Almighty .

   “The LORD God” should be read correctly as “Yahweh Elohim” or “Yahweh Almighty” or “Yahweh of Spirits.”  Elohim is a concept that has no direct counterpart in English.  Elohim is the congregation of all spiritual beings, including humans who are spiritually reborn.  Psalm 82:6 makes this clear.  The common English Bible has, “I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.”  But we are NOT gods.  Literally, this translates as, “You are elohim, and sons of the highest Elohim.”

   Yahshua expounds on the meaning of this puzzling passage in John 10:34 and following.  Put the word Elohim back in place of “gods” and sense returns to the passage.  By the way, the name “Enoch” means “disciplined.”  Enosh was “forgetful” while Enoch was “disciplined.”

3. YAHSHUA and ELOHIM.  We can see “Elohim” as used by Yahshua on the execution stake.  Check out Mark 15:34: And at the ninth hour Yahshua cried with a loud voice, saying,

“________, _________, lama sabachthani?”

   We must also keep in mind that Yahshua was quoting Psalm 22 upon the execution stake, and we have no reason to believe that he did not quote the whole Psalm, which culminates in these words:

The whole wide world will remember and return to Yahweh, all the families of nations bow down before him.  (Psalms 22:27, NJB)

   As for Enoch, he walked with elohim (angels – spiritual beings, plural) and elohim (spiritual beings, plural) took him. 

   That Enoch went with spiritual beings or angels is affirmed in the Books of Enoch – books that predate the New Testament and describe the prophecies and angelic journeys of the Patriarch Enoch.

   Finally, Enoch as the seventh from Adam (Jude 14), speaks of the seventh prophetic day in this manner: “In the seventh shall arise an apostate generation, and many shall be its works, and all its works shall be apostate” (1 Enoch 93:9).  We are in the seventh day.

4. THE DAY OF GOD – Somebody has said, “When we say God, what god do we mean.  There are lots of gods.”  This is a good reason to be specific, especially in view of prophecy, whom you address in your petitions.  Another has said, “God knows who I am and that I’m praying to him.”  Perhaps that’s true, but he has numerous commandments about his NAME – commandments that, when learned, should probably be kept.  Consider the third commandment (correctly rendered):

Exodus 20:7  You shall not misuse the name of Yahweh your Elohim, for Yahweh will not leave unpunished anyone who misuses his name.  (NJB)

There have been many good essays on the origin of the name “God.”  Here is a brief summary of the origin of God from a Hebraic viewpoint:

   The Israelites (+ or - 10 tribes) were taken into captivity into Assyria and East beginning about 700 BC (4^th prophetic day).  The gods of the Assyrians at that time were named “GD” and “MNY” – pronounced “Gawd” and “Meny” – meaning “Luck” and “Prosperity.”  The Israelites in captivity were warned by the prophet Isaiah that worshipers of  God and Prosperity would be destined to continuous warfare because when Yahweh called them but they did not answer.  In that day, they no longer called on the name of Yahweh, but on God.

   In the ensuing generations and over hundreds of years, those who were once Israelites migrated eastward to the Caucasus mountains then westward to Europe – Scandinavia, Germany, Spain and Great Britain.  They took God with them, with the name God showing up in the first translations of German Bibles – then in English Bibles later.  English Bibles added “LORD” to the mix.  So we have inherited from the apostate Israelites, WHOM WE ARE, the name “the LORD God” which translated means “the Luck Baal.”

   This is a very brief overview of this subject – many broader studies may be found in books or on the Internet.  Try “Yahweh Elohim” in your favorite search engine and you’ll learn that we are not alone in our newfound knowledge.  We are discovering, in our day, the Seventh Day of Salvation History, the fulfillment of a number of prophesies meant for our time, such as

Zechariah 14: Then Yahweh will become king of the whole world. When that Day comes, Yahweh will be the one and only and his ____________ the one ______________.

Ezekiel 20:44 44.  “And you will know that I am Yahweh, when I treat you as respect for my own ____________ requires, and not as your wicked behavior and corrupt actions deserve, O House of Israel, declares the Sovereign Yahweh.”

The most profound new understanding we receive from this teaching is what the “great high priestly prayer” of Yahshua the Messiah is all about:

John 17:11, 12, 25, 26.  “And now I am no more in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in ______  __________  _________________, which you have given me that they may be one, even as we are one.  While I was with them, I kept them in __________  _________________, which you have given me; I have guarded them … . O righteous Father, the world has not known you, but I have known you; and these know that you have sent me.  I made known to them ______  __________  _________________, and I will make it known, that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.” 

What was the name that Yahshua taught the Disciples?  Why do you suppose they had to be taught this information?  Why do you suppose Yahshua came to seek out and save that which was lost; that is, the “lost” tribes of Israel?  Who are those lost tribes today that worship Luck and Prosperity?

SUMMARY:  In the days of Enosh (the first prophetic millennium / day), the name of Yahweh was first invoked, though Yahweh was active in the creation account of Genesis 2:4.  LORD in capital letters in common English Bibles covers up the name Yahweh.
   In the second prophetic millennium / day, Enoch was taken up by Elohim; Elohim being spiritual being / beings.  Elohim is the “family name” (so to speak) of Yahweh and all who are of spirit, including humans spiritually born.  Yahweh Elohim is the name and title of our heavenly Father (rather than “LORD God”).  Yahweh Elohim translates as “He who is of spirits.”
   Finally, “God” is a name that came to us through the development of our language from European languages.  Germanic “tribes” (that were once lost Israeli tribes) continued to worship the god of the Assyrian captivity, namely, “God,” which means “luck.”  We continue in this pagan tradition, but are trying now to regain the promises of Scripture and prophecy by correcting our language and outlook so we may understand upcoming lessons.