The Names of God Series : EL ELYON (THE MOST HIGH GOD)
Meaning and Derivation: El is
another name that is translated as "God" and can be used in
conjunction with other words to designate various aspects of God's character.
Elyon literally means "Most High" and is used both adjectivally and
substantivally throughout the Old Testament. It expresses the extreme
sovereignty and majesty of God and His highest preeminence. When the two words
are combined - El Elyon - it can be translated as "the most exalted
God."(Psa 57:2) [BlueLetterBible]
And Melchizedek king
of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high
God.
Genesis 14:18
Genesis 14:18
When I was but a little girl in elementary school ancient
Greece simply fascinated me for a season. As I looked at all their gods and
goddesses with childlike wonder, I saw them as simply stories, yet amazing
characters indeed. Athena was my favorite, a woman who was wise and just. As I
have grown, the stories of old have taken on a different meaning to me. My
heart is saddened that they did not know of the one true God, in His almighty
splender. However, as we read in Acts they had an inkling that there was a Most
High out there.
For as I passed along, and observed the objects of your worship, I
found also an altar with this inscription, TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. What therefore ye
worship in ignorance, this I set forth unto you. The God that made the world
and all things therein, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in
temples made with hands; neither is he served by men's hands, as though he
needed anything, seeing he himself giveth to all life, and breath, and all
things; and he made of one every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the
earth, having determined their appointed seasons, and the bounds of their
habitation; that they should seek God, if haply they might feel after him and
find him, though he is not far from each one of us: for in him we live, and
move, and have our being; as certain even of your own poets have said, For we
are also his offspring.
Acts 17:23-28
Acts 17:23-28
Of course this downcast sentiment does not extend only to
the Greeks, but I find solace in knowing that El Elyon has made himself known
to all people. Did you know that even though the Egyptians in a whole where
engulfed in polytheism, Akhenaten
(husband to Nefertiti) believed there to be only one true God whom he dubbed as
Aten? As Plumb so eloquently sings,
"There is a God-shaped hole in all of us". Yet it is for the
individually to believe or not, to trust and have faith, or to simply dismiss
the truth for the guise of lies.
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