Saturday, 19 April 2025

HOLY WEEK: This Week We Celebrate God’s “Only Begotten” Son, But Is That Translation Wrong?

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HANG ON FOLKS!!

Do not judge a book by it’s cover….

Please read this FULL ARTICLE before casting any judgment.

No, I’m not rewriting the Bible or attacking the core foundation of Christianity.

Far from it!

I think if you read to the end, you’re going to find this very cool and even more exciting once you understand the full context!

More on that in a minute, but first I start with President Trump’s incredible post about Holy Week and Easter.

Charlie Kirk called it a “Flawless post” and I agree:

Here’s a zoom-in:

FULL TEXT:

This Holy Week, Christians around the World remember the Crucifixion of God’s Only Begotten Son, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ and, on Easter Sunday, we celebrate His Glorious Resurrection and proclaim, as Christians have done for nearly 2,000 years, “HE IS RISEN!” Through the pain and sacrifice of Jesus on the Cross, we saw God’s boundless Love and Devotion to all Humanity and, in that moment of His Resurrection, History was forever changed with the Promise of Everlasting Life. As we approach this Joyous Easter Sunday, I want to wish Christians everywhere a Happy and very Blessed Holiday. America is a Nation of Believers. We need God, we want God and, with His help, we will make our Nation Stronger, Safer, Greater, more Prosperous, and more United than ever before. Thank you, and HAPPY EASTER!

Big upgrade from when Obama and Hillary called us all “Easter Followers” don’t you think?

But it’s the bold part that really caught my eye….God’s Only Begotten Son.

Of course that comes from the most famous verse in the Bible, John 3:16.

But….is it accurate?

It turns out that recent discoveries in Greek dialect have revealed that the underlying work for “Only Begotten” may have been wrongly translated over the years.

The underlying Greek word is “Monogenes” which scholars have translated as “Only Begotten” for centuries.

Even if you don’t know Greek, you can see a little bit of that translation in the word:  Mono=Only, that makes sense.  But it’s the second part “genes” that now has new scholarship behind it.

Instead of “Only Begotten” scholars now believe “One of a Kind” may be more accurate….and that’s actually really cool!

It doesn’t take anything away from the Bible or from the Gospel, it adds to it!  It makes it ever richer.

Keep reading and Dr. Michael Heiser will explain….

“Monogenes”: Has The Most Famous Bible Verse Of All Time Been Translated Wrong All This Time?

Ok, hang in there friends!

I know that headline probably has some of you VERY nervous....

Has Noah finally lost it?

Is Noah suddenly into Gnostic, "secret knowledge"?

No and no.

Nothing of the sort.

In fact, I think you're going to really love this!

And it comes from one of the preeminent semitic language and Biblical scholars of our time, the late Dr. Michael S. Heiser.

This man was truly a gift for the short time he was with us, sadly we lost him recently to cancer.  A tragic loss for so many reasons.

If you know Dr. Heiser, you know he's rock solid.

If you don't know him, prepare to be impressed!

So as I said, Dr. Heiser is as traditional and conservative and grounded as they come.

He'd ever refer to himself as "boring".

He believes in all the very standard core Christian beliefs, right down the middle.

But what makes him different is he's not afraid to dig in to what the Bible really says,

You know, those weird passages or those weird stories where you're like "wait, what is going on here?"

Dr. Heiser was famous for saying he didn't believe people needed to be protected from their Bibles, so he would just dig in and tell you exactly what was going on with the language, and just like a good TV show or movie that wraps up with a perfect ending, Dr. Heiser would always seem to wrap things up in the end where the weird didn't seem to weird anymore, and in fact the deeper he went the more the full Bible started to make a whole lot of sense.

So with that background, we now dig into the question Dr. Heiser presents: Has the most famous Bible verse of all time, John 3:16, been translated wrong all this time?

Impossible, right?

Maybe not.

You've seen John 3:16 on posterboards at sporting events, but let's make sure we all know what it says:

"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son".

And the question of mistranslation all comes down to the word "Begotten" or "monogenēs" in Greek.

For centuries, it was translated as "Begotten" but Dr. Heiser says that scholars now believe that to be incorrect.

Prior to the mid-20th century, scholars translated the word as "begotten" because they saw it as affirming Jesus’ eternal generation from the Father, a concept rooted in the Nicene Creed’s language of the Son being "begotten, not made, of one substance with the Father." This meant that "begotten" didn’t imply a beginning in time (like human birth) but rather an eternal, unique relationship within the Godhead. Jesus was the "only begotten Son" because he alone shared the divine essence with the Father, distinct from created beings.

That all makes a lot of sense right?

The only problem is in the mid-20th century, we suddenly discovered a slew of new Greek manuscripts in the dialect of the New Testament and they gave scholars a better understanding about what certain words actually mean.

One of those words was "monogenēs".

Instead of meaning "begotten", scholars had to admit it is actually much more likely to mean "one of a kind".

How cool is that?

If you're not immediately connecting all the dots about how cool that is, watch the video below and Dr. Heiser will lay it all out.

A quick disclaimer: as this clip begins, Dr. Heiser is talking about other "sons of God"...  

Don't let that throw you.

The concept of a "Divine Council" is Biblical, see Psalm 82 for example.

I'll dig deep into that farther down below, but the Bible teaches that there are many "sons of God" (a phrase used all over the Old Testament to refer to Angels/Elohim).

But Jesus is special, hence "monogenēs".

Watch here and I think it will blow your mind:

So...have we just translated the Bible wrong all these years?

Maybe, but I prefer to think of it slightly differently.

Actually, I think as God would have it, he used a word "monogenēs" here that can be interpreted in two different ways, and both bring great insight to the meaning of the verse.

I think it was perfectly chosen.

Now if you want to go much deeper on all of this stuff, including the "Divine Council"....keep reading:

So…Who Were The Elohim?

So...Who Were The Elohim?

So let's just get right into it....

I'm going to stick to Dr. Michael Heiser's teachings, not Noah's thoughts, ok?

Let's start off with the word "Elohim"....

Clif is right that Elohim is plural (it can also be singular).

What is an Elohim?

Elohim is a term that describes "place of residence". Every member of the spiritual world is an Elohim, but there's ONE who is above all.

Dr. Heiser explains:

Backup here:

And now what of Yahweh?

"Yahweh is the God of gods." Well, not really, because there aren't any other ones. But again, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense in a lot of passages, but we define monotheism that way. So what my advice to people is, look, dump the terminology. Just describe what a biblical writer would believe about the uniqueness of Yahweh. Biblical writers believed was that there were many elohim. Only one of them is Yahweh. He is unique when it comes to a specific set of attributes. So Yahweh is an elohim, (there's a bunch of those) but no other elohim is Yahweh.

Watch here:

Backup here:

Ok, so that was our terminology lesson...

Clif and Dr. Heiser have a fundamentally different understanding of the word "ELohim" although it is similar in many aspects.

And as I said above, I do think Clif is much closer to the truth of our world than even most Christians who have never read their Bibles to know it is a supernatural book through and through!

So now let's go deeper....

I am borrowing this from Dr. Heiser as well, but he was fond of saying if you ask a modern day person why there is "bad" in the world, they'll point to the Garden of Eden.

True and fair enough.

But if you asked an ancient Israelite, they would point to three events -- three "falls" of the human race:  First, the Garden of Eden with the serpent tempting Adam and Even and introducing sin into the world.

But second, they would point to the Genesis 6:4 incursion of the Fallen Angels and the Nephilim that were created -- something we've covered here many times before.

Third, they would point to Deuteronomy 32:8 where God divided up the Nations:

"When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when he divided all mankind, he set up boundaries for the peoples according to the number of the sons of Israel."

Translation: that says God divided up the people of the world into Nations according to the "Sons of God" (i.e. the Principalities that Paul so often talks about in the New Testament).

These are real beings, and they were members of the Divine Council.

More on that in a moment.

Not co-equal gods, but certainly members of God's council (something else almost never taught in church).

If you look at the footnote of the quoted text above, some translations translate it "children of Israel" because they are not comfortable with "Sons of God", it creeps them out.

But look at the footnote Bible Gateway gives you on what the true language is:

Angels of God, or Sons of God.

The "DSS" refers to the Dead Sea Scrolls, which were only recently uncovered and which are widely believed by scholars to be one of the oldest and thus most reliable translations available.

That is the correct translation.

Then read verse 9:  "But Israel is the LORD's portion".

In other words, let me sum it all up for you:  God is angry with what people have done at Babel.  They have not disbursed and spread out on the Earth the way he instructed them, so he divides them up into Nations and he assigns each a ruler -- an Angel or a Son of God.

But God keeps Israel for himself so that in the event all other Nations become corrupt (and they do), he can still fulfill his original plan that he had in the Garden of Eden through Israel.

I hope you're tracking with me, because you're going to see the News in an entirely new light when you understand this.

It's Ephesians 6:12:  "12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places."

I know you've all read that verse many times, but does it make a lot more sense now?

Each Nation does indeed has a ruler over it, a "Principality".

It's Daniel 1013: "But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days; but lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me, and I remained there with the kings of Persia."

I'm telling you, this stuff is all over your Bible, and once you start to see it and connect the dots, things come alive!

Now let's really pull it home for you and especially for Clif....

It's Psalm 82:

Psalm 82

A Plea for Justice

A Psalm of Asaph.

1 God has taken his place in the divine council;     in the midst of the gods he holds judgment: 2 “How long will you judge unjustly     and show partiality to the wicked? Selah 3 Give justice to the weak and the orphan;     maintain the right of the lowly and the destitute. 4 Rescue the weak and the needy;     deliver them from the hand of the wicked.”

5 They have neither knowledge nor understanding;     they walk around in darkness;     all the foundations of the earth are shaken.

6 I say, “You are gods,     children of the Most High, all of you; 7 nevertheless, you shall die like mortals     and fall like any prince.”a]">[a]

8 Rise up, O God, judge the earth,     for all the nations belong to you!

If anything I have said so far makes you nervous, understand this is ALL in your Bible.

Have you ever read Psalm 82?

It connects with everything I just told you -- and it explains a lot of what Clif is saying.

YHWH takes his place in the Divine Council, in the midst of the gods he holds judgment!

(Also, verse one contains the word "Elohim" used twice in the same sentence, once singular and once plural)

Don't be made at me, I didn't write that....Jesus did!  It's in your Bible!

So does that mean we have multiple gods?

No, of course not.

But we do have multiple "Sons of God" that YHWH put on his Divine Council.

And you can't read that to just be the Trinity because in the remainder of the Psalm, these other "gods" (Elohim, simply meaning spiritual beings created by God living in the spiritual realm) they all turn evil and go bad.

Psalm 82 is recounting what happens after Deuteronomy 32.

God assigned the Nations of the world each to one of his members of his Divine Council.

He trusted them to rule fairly and justly but they all turn corrupt.

Sound familiar?

So they face judgment and God/YWHW carries out his original plan through HIS PORTION, which is Israel.

This is why I say in 75% of this Clif is spot on...

Call them "space aliens" or the Fallen Angels / Elohim from the Divine Council, they're one and the same!

And yes, they are mostly evil!

They brought sin and death and destruction to the Earth.

They ruled over us (the Bible tells us that in Psalm 82)...

They ruled unfairly and unjustly!

And they will be punished for it very severely by YHWH.

But that's where Clif's analysis falls apart.

Clif lumps YHWH in with the fallen members of the Divine Council and that is simply not supported by anything in your Bible -- quite to the contrary!

It would be no different than someone observing humanity and seeing people who murder and kill and then saying all of humanity is evil and doomed!

Is that a fair analysis?

Dr. Michael Heiser does it better than I ever could....and so now I want to give you his 4-part "Supernatural Seminar" series.

It will absolutely blow your mind, and it will explain what I just told you above much better than I did.

Dr. Michael Heiser is a real treat and I think you're going to love this.

If you're at all interested in this topic, please enjoy:

This is Dr. Heiser's 4 Part Supernatual Seminar.

It covers everything I just told you but in much more detail and in the way only Dr. Heiser could do it.

Please enjoy -- and if any of this is resonating with your spirit, please share this article to people, friends, family members, or even pastors, that might need to see it.

Part 1 YouTube:

Part 2 YouTube:

Part 3 YouTube:

Part 4 YouTube:

Part 1 Rumble:

Part 2 Rumble:

Part 3 Rumble:

Part 4 Rumble:

So there you go....

I'm not going to win a debate with Clif, nor is that my intention with this article.

My intention is simply to introduce you to the wonderful and brilliant teachings of Dr. Michael Heiser and present a counterbalance to anyone who might read what Clif is posting on Twitter...

I used to wonder how the entire world would turn and wage war on Israel, especially after the Holocaust and the severe reaction to it.

The "never again" reaction.

How in the world would that happen again, I always wondered....

But seeing what Clif is posting to Twitter and knowing that the final "space alien" card will soon be played on the world stage, now I see it.

So I post this to help as many people as possible along the way.

Do not fall for the Grand Delusion!

My Take On The “Coming Great Deception”

I'll wrap up by giving you my most recent conversation with Bo Polny where he talks about being suddenly attacked by Clif on Twitter:

Bo Polny Attacked By Clif High On Twitter

I was going to say that Bo Polny and Clif High are engaged in a vicious fight on Twitter, but I don't really think that's accurate.

It can't really be a "fight" when it's all one sided.

And that's what seemingly happened this week as Clif High "sucker-punched" Bo Polny on Twitter.

Why?

For his faith in Jesus Christ.

Sad to see so much anger coming out of Clif.

Here is one such Tweet where he plainly states "no more kindness" and then references the "Elohim Worship cult":

If you're wondering what in the world any of that even means, I chatted with Bo about it recently and I have that full video for you down below.

But first allow me to summarize....

Clif High, who we have covered here many times before and who still has an open invite to come on my show, has a belief system that the "Elohim" of the Bible are all basically evil space aliens.

Yes, that's about the most simple summary of his belief.

He calls them the "El" for short.

He believes they came to Earth 6,000 years ago and basically enslaved all of humanity.

You know what the crazy thing is?

He's not entirely off base.

(He's not entirely right either, and he misses some MAJOR big things)

But he's not entirely off base and many of you may be surprised to learn your Bible tells you about parts of this.

Let me give you my summary and you may see many large parts of both beliefs overlapping.

I believe the Bible DOES teach that there was an infiltration (as Rob Skiba once coined it, an "Archon Invasion") -- which is described right in Genesis 6:4:

"The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown."

There are MANY different interpretations of this verse, but the oldest and most predominate (and I believe most accurate) interpretation is that the "Sons of God" were Fallen Angels who left Heaven, came to Earth, and mated with Human Women.

That produced the "Nephilim" -- essentially a hybrid Giant Race on the Earth.

As always, the Bible always confirms a thing in more than one spot, and this is confirmed in several places, one of which is Jude 6:

"And the angels who did not keep their positions of authority but abandoned their proper dwelling—these he has kept in darkness, bound with everlasting chains for judgment on the great Day."

The other confirmation is all through the Old Testament....

Have you ever read the Old Testament and wondered about all the Giant Clans that are referenced in the Old Testament?

Spoiler alert: that wasn't just a metaphor or euphemism....they truly were Giants -- Nephilim -- from the unholy mixing of Fallen Angels and women.

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