Elohim

H430 ‘ēlôhîym

Plural of H433; gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative: -angels, X exceeding, God (gods) (-dress, -ly), X (very) great, judges, X mighty.

Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Dictionaries

“Elohim”, being plural, translates: “the Godhead”. So, we should plug in “the Godhead” for “Elohim”. Thus, “the Spirit^H7307[Ruach] of [Elohim]”, would be defined as “the Spirit of the Godhead”, i.e. “the Spirit of God” and “the Spirit of Christ” (Rom. 8:9).

 

Gen 1:1  In the beginning [the Godhead] created the heaven and the earth.

Gen 1:2  And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit^H7307[Ruach] of [the Godhead] moved upon the face of the waters.

Gen 1:3  And [the Godhead] said, Let there be light: and there was light.

Gen 1:4  And [the Godhead] saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

Gen 1:5  And [the Godhead] called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

Gen 1:6  And [the Godhead] said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

Gen 1:7  And [the Godhead] made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.…

Gen 1:26  And [the Godhead] said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

Gen 1:27  So [the Godhead] created man in his own image, in the image of [the Godhead] created he him; male and female created he them.

Gen 1:28  And [the Godhead] blessed them, and [the Godhead] said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

Gen 1:29  And [the Godhead] said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.

Gen 1:30  And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.

Gen 1:31  And [the Godhead] saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

Thus, “the Spirit^H7307 [Ruach] of [Elohim]”, would be defined as “the Spirit of Elohim”, “the Spirit of the Godhead”, i.e. “the Spirit of God … the Spirit of Christ” (Rom. 8:9).

“But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His.” (Rom. 8:9). The Spirit^H7307 [Ruach] of [Elohim] can only be defined as the Spirit of God and the Spirit of His Son.

The Spirit^H7307 [Ruach] of [Elohim] cannot be defined as “the Spirit of the Spirit”. If “of”, as in “the Spirit^H7307 [Ruach] of [Elohim]”, were translated, “from”, as in “the Spirit from God”, and “the Spirit from Christ”, it still could not be translated, “the Spirit from the Spirit”; it would be as nonsensical as “the Spirit of the Spirit”.

Why is the Trinity and Holy Spirit so momentous a subject that it needs so much agitation? Because, if we are not having the biblically correct “in the Spirit” Christianity, then we are “in the flesh” and we are “none of His”; that is, we are none of Christ’s. We are yet in our sins. We are reprobate. We are not converted; we have no part with Christ. We are not saved. We are not born again into His kingdom. We are still part of Satan’s dominion, and worse, we are caught in his world-wide delusion. We are worshiping him under his occult spiritualism.

Biblically, to be “in the Spirit” means to “have … the Spirit of Christ”. To be in the Spirit means to receive from the Spirit of Christ His “power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name: which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.” (John 1:12,13). To be in the Spirit means to have “the Spirit of God dwell in you” for Jesus’ power to keep all His commandments. “In His days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is His name whereby He shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.” (Jer. 23:6). “Here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.” (Rev. 14:12).

To the unconverted Christian who is serious about his standing before God, being reprobate, none of Christ’s, and having no part with Him, call forth serious chastisement of peace. And if I am a church leader who is exposed as being unconverted, then I can lose my standing before men—an even greater chastisement of peace. It’s a serious accusation to one held up highly among the church that he doesn’t have the Spirit, because then he is not quickened; he is dead in sin. He has no simplicity in Christ, but is operating by his own works, his own mammoth mental constructs that leave him heavily burdened and damned. Yet, unconverted church leaders have had a long history—long before Paul wrote of it.

“But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him….

But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things.

Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?….

Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.

But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we. For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.” (2Cor. 11: 3,4,6,7,12,13).

Oh, the wrestlings of that man of God for the churches he espoused to Christ. They were almost as reprobate as the false apostles. “Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?” (2Cor. 13:5). “But”, he wrote, “ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.” (1Cor. 6:11). Thankfully, God doesn’t immediately cut us off for being tempted away from “the Spirit of His Son” (Gal. 4:6).

If they break My statutes, and keep not My commandments; then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. (Ps. 89:31, 32).

I will correct thee in measure, and will not leave thee altogether unpunished (Jer. 30:10, 11).

Nevertheless My lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer My faithfulness to fail (Ps. 89:33).

But, if I am so high in the leadership of God and I can’t explain the simplicity of the gospel in Jesus, then I need to look for another job. Either that, or, I better be quick on my feet and come up with Bible doctrine that matches what I have in my personal religious experience. I need to handle the word of God deceitfully, and do a real thorough work of a new religion, or it won’t sell. If I can’t rework the truth before I am exposed, then I need to borrow an already made doctrine and tweak it to look like my group’s religion.

“Through heathenism, Satan had for ages turned men away from God; but he won his great triumph in perverting the faith of Israel. By contemplating and worshiping their own conceptions, the heathen had lost a knowledge of God, and had become more and more corrupt. So it was with Israel. The principle that man can save himself by his own works lay at the foundation of every heathen religion; it had now become the principle of the Jewish religion. Satan had implanted this principle. Wherever it is held, men have no barrier against sin.” Desire of Ages, p. 35.

Deceitfully handling the word of God and molding it to fit Satan’s religion happened to the ancient Hebrew religion, and again it occurred to Christianity early in its existence, as paul tried to warn the early church,

“Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;

Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?

And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.

For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.” (2Thess. 2:3-7).

Paul, by the Spirit of Christ, had mastered the Old Testament scriptures. His warning to the church was based on Daniel’s prophecies. In those visions Paul saw a usurping power taking control of the church of Christ, blasphemously changing church doctrine and persecuting the faithful voices who spoke out against him.

“He shall … have indignation against the holy covenant: so shall he do; he shall even return, and have intelligence with them that forsake the holy covenant.

And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate.

And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he corrupt by flatteries: but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits.

And they that understand among the people shall instruct many: yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days.” (Dan. 11:30-33).

“And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.” (Dan. 7:25).

Once a backslidden church would stand with the wicked one, then great changes would be made to Bible doctrine. This is how the Father and Son Godhead became a trinity that gave room for Satan to oversee and control Their kingdom on earth. By manipulating what they believed about God and His only begotten Son, the devil controlled how they thought of God’s self-sacrificing love. Thus, Satan was able to lump the Christian world together with the vast pagan world, and rake the whole world into the fires prepared for him and his angels.

“Then shall that Wicked be revealed … even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: that they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.” (2Thess. 2:8-12).

Who is the Spirit? From whom does it come to our hearts? Does it come from Someone else than God Himself and “His Son”? No, no one else, according to the scripture.

Another spirit beside “the Spirit of God” and “the Spirit of Christ” is not authorized by the one true Godhead. A third person in the Godhead is spurious, blasphemous, and leprous. He will intentionally spread his leprosy to us all. He will make us none of Christ’s. We will be as reprobate as the great deceptive adversary. We will have no part with Christ.

Therefore, we must withstand the third person of the Trinity at the door. We need to be “valiant men” and say, “Go out of the sanctuary; for thou hast trespassed”. We need to “thrust him out from thence” (2Chron. 26:20), that is, from the heavenly sanctuary and from our doctrine of God. The powerful, but presumptuous, trespasser of the Godhead needs to be “cut off from the house of the LORD”, “being a leper” (2Chron. 26:21). He needs to be quarantined to a “several house” “unto the day of his death” (Ibid.), and ultimately be blotted out of existence (see Revelation 20:10).