Yam or I AM?

Dan Baxley

servant@yahshuaservant.com

 

Please, let me introduce you to the God of the Flood, the God that spoke to Moses and identified Himself as YaHWeH, the God of Abraham.  So, which of the many gods did Abraham (Father of the Faithful) worship?  The God YAM (I AM in the King James Version).  Reader, meet YAM, God of the Flood and God of Abraham commonly known as YHWH, God of Israel – One and the same. 

What is the importance of this information?  Read the definition below and what follows and you will see why we need to know this and you will see, I pray, how rejecting the legal Identity of your God and Savior can lead to error and misunderstanding what the Scriptures have to say.    

Exert taken from Wikipedia, YAM (god):

Yamm, from the Canaanite word Yam, (Hebrew ??) meaning "Sea", is one name of the Ugaritic god of Rivers and Sea. Also titled Judge Nahar ("Judge River"), he is also one of the 'ilhm (Elohim) or sons of El, the name given to the Levantine pantheon. Others dispute the existence of the alternative names, claiming it is a mistranslation of a damaged tablet. Despite linguistic overlap, theologically this god is not a part of the later subregional monotheistic theology, but rather is part of a broader and archaic Levantine po

Yam is the deity of the primordial chaos and represents the power of the sea untamed and raging; he is seen as ruling storms and the disasters they wreak. The gods cast out Yam from the heavenly mountain Sappan (modern Jebel Aqra; "Sappan" is cognate to Tsephon (Tsion). The seven-headed dragonLotan is associated closely with him and the serpent is frequently used to describe him.

Of all the gods, despite being the champion of El, Yam holds special hostility against BaalHadad, son of Dagon. Yam is a deity of the sea and his palace is in the abyss associated with the depths, or Biblical tehwom, of the oceans. (This is not to be confused with the abode of Mot, the ruler of the netherworlds.) In Ugaritic texts, Yam's special enemy Hadad is also known as the "king of heaven" and the "first born son" of El, whom ancient Greeks identified with their god Kronos, just as Baal was identified with Zeus, Yam with Poseidon and Mot with Hades. Yam wished to become the Lord god in his place. In turns the two beings kill each other, yet Hadad is resurrected and Yam also returns. Some authors have suggested that these tales reflect the experience of seasonal cycles in the Levant.

My Comments:

 

This is my introduction to you to the God, the Creator God, the God of the Flood, to you -- IAM, IAM (YAM, YAM) is presented to you and He is the God of Abraham, He is the God of Israel and the God of the New Covenant also known as YHWH, and YaHshua.

 

 If you read Exodus 3:14, you will see YHWH identifies Himself, to Moses, as YAM (Greek English = I AM, not the English I’am – another error accepted due to lack of knowledge concerning the identity of our God and Savior)

 

“God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: 'IAM has sent me to you.' " NIV  (The emphasis, by capitalization, is placed in the text by the translators)

 

Understanding modern translation (following the KJV example) traditions used many words from the Greek Septuagint of the Old Testament.  This can be seen in the use of the letter “I” in place of the more correct English/Hebrew “Y” which is the English equivalent of the Greek “I”.  On the surface this may seem unimportant but in the English language the letters “I” and “J” have changed and modern usage even means something different and should be changed to the correct English equivalent for the Hebrew “Yod”, which is the “Y”, not the “I”.  Because this has not been done we see the confusion leading to ignorance and a misunderstanding of what our Creator is saying, really saying to Moses.  If the Hebrew “Y” instead of the “I” were used no one would suggest some of the definitions they attempt for this verse as they try to define what our Creator is saying concerning His Identity.  “YAM (not I am) has sent me to you”.  

 

From the information found in Wikipedia (read the opening paragraph at the top of this page) you can easily chase down the origin of YAM (again, not I am, but IAM or YAM) and see the connections this God has with the power of the waters, the ocean and all the seas.  He is the flood God and from the Canaanite legends you can see a tale of conflict between the children of El (the Bull) and Yam’s representative, Judge Nahar.  The article above suggests Judge Nahar is a possible title for Prince Yam.  Certainly you have to piece this together but what this shows is that there had been a God known as “YAM” and we see this God making Himself known to Moses and then fine tuning His identity for Moses as YHWH (Exodus 3:15-16) in the next two verses, the God of Abraham.  The worship of the god that had flooded the earth had been replaced by the worship of the children of Adam (EL, the Bull), identified as Baal and Ashroth, his sister and consort (wife).

 

 The children of Adam came down from the Garden (high mountain area) entering into the general population of men and were seen as gods.  Cain became a builder of cities, and the founding of metal work and musical instruments.  How was he able to do this?  If he were known to be a child of God from on High wouldn’t he be seen as a god himself?  We see this in the ancient world and societies, making their Kings as gods, from god, the direct children of the God.  When the population believes their leaders are gods or sons of gods they willingly serve them and what better way than to take on building projects.  We see this the world over, the pyramids being the most obvious example.    

 

As far as I know this is new knowledge, not hidden but not recognized.  For those of you having accepted the birth Name of our Savior this should be welcome information assisting in further confirmation of our God’s Identity.  This is information hidden too long and if accepted will clear up the real meaning of what our Creator is saying to Moses in identifying Himself to Moses, to the Israelites and to us.  This is also a bridge to understanding what happened with the children of Adam and Eve and how they became mythical gods, or a family of gods with all of the faults of humans.  This uncovers the misguided and corrupt worship of mankind by mankind.  Historically it has not been that long the rulers of the Roman Empire were considered gods, or from the gods. 

 

 When you take the gods of the Canaanites, the gods of the Greeks, and the gods of the Egyptians you see a common thread.  The names are different but the gods are very similar and in fact the same.  From the writings uncovered by archaeologist over the past few decades we see, what I believe, is the worship of the family of Adam and Eve.  Adam identified as the god EL also known as the Bull, a slothful god given to wine and credited for being the Father of all mankind.  His son Cain becomes a person of worship as does his sister Ashroth.  The become the gods of fertility and war against the God of the oceans where beasts of all types live.  This battle between man and God ends, in Biblical history, with the “flooding” of the world and the destruction of all mankind, save Noah and his family.  From this it can be understood why the children of Noah, from whom we descend, harbored evil feelings against a god that would do such a thing.  They, children of Noah, their sons and daughters and their sons and daughters, returned to worshiping themselves – making man god.  We see this throughout ancient history and in more recent history in the practice of Monarchs claiming direct connection with our Creator as rules of this Earth, ordained by God. 

 

 The ancients took it so far as to marry within their own family -- the kings marrying their own children – the blood of the gods is holy and must stay within the godhead, within the family.

 

  Our Creator identifies Himself as the God that was known for having destroyed man from the face of the earth and was seen as a mean god, as cruel, unfair god by the ancients.  He was known as the god of the surging Oceans -- oceans that still covered the better part of the earth.  He tells Moses He is that God, the God of the “SURF”, YAM, and then He tells Moses He is YHWH, the God of Abraham, it is the latter Name revealed to Moses that he is to tell the Israelites He will be known for all their generations.  When Moses tell the Israelites that YAM has sent him and that this is the same God as YHWH, the God of their father Abraham they then had a better understanding of whom they were dealing with.  To take this a step further, YHWH then goes on to deliver the Israelites from under the hand of the Egyptians by an act only the God of the Sea could do.  Keep in mind, YHWH had punished the Egyptians with plagues and each of these curses, plagues, violated a cherished god of the Egyptians.  That’s right, for every plague suffered it was a demonstration of how each of the favored gods of Egypt were helpless, unable to save them.  YAM’s final insult was to open up the Red Sea (Known as YAM-SURF, in ancient days) and delivered the people through the waters and by the same waters destroyed the Egyptian army.  Many connections can be made with this God when it comes to water, that liquid we cannot live without.  

 

Yam-Surf is not Reed-Sea as some disbelievers among even Christians suppose.  Some have real difficulty with a Creator God that can part the Sea, or even flood the whole world.  It is truly alarming how many claiming to teachers of the Word excuse away language in the Scriptures as “symbolic”, in other word, it does not really mean what it says.  The Red Sea is not red but it is a sea and the Red Sea is not a sea of Reeds located to the far north.  Yam Surf, or Red Sea is to say, Angry Sea.  You have heard the term, “seeing red”, this is how YaM-Surf became the Red Sea.  Remember, YaM means sea and this YaM became angry as seen by the raging waves (Suph) of water covering the earth and eventually crashing down on the army in pursuit of YHWH's choosen people. 

 

YAM-SURF?  Really?  If you have an NIV Study Bible turn to Exodus 15:4, 22 and read reference note (a) as follows, "Hebrew Yam Suph; that is Sea of Reeds, also verse 22.  We see the correct restoration of I'am for YAM and understanding the definitions for Yamm and Yam as meaning SEA it becomes obvious the "assumption" by Biblical scaholars (so called) that Suph means Reeds is in error.  Yam (Sea) Suph (Reeds?), hardly as it is easy to see the term Suph and Surf is one and the same.  YAM (Sea) Suph (the Surf) -- the "surf" pounds the beaches and is represented by high rising waves while the "sea" is the whole body of water.  This clearly identifies YAM as the God of the Flood and as the God that delivered Israel through the Sea, destroying the Egyptian army seekiong to destroy the people of the Living God YAM, known to Abraham as YHWH and to the first Christians as YaHshua, Creator of all things (John 1:1)

 

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