Tension Between Yahwism and Popular Religion in Ancient Israel: Implications for Seventh-Day Adventist Church in Nigeria

Theodore Uchechukwu Dickson, PhD Candidate

Abstract

Introduction

The Bible and human history are full of Satan's unrelented efforts to controvert and counterfeit whatever God does. From the war in heaven (Revelation 12:7-9) to the deceit and subsequent Fall at Eden (Genesis 3), the Great Controversy became a recurring theme. While God or most appropriately Jesus Christ represents Truth, Satan stands as the father of falsehood (1 John 3: 4, 8). Given the God-imputed enmity between the serpent and the Seed of the woman (Genesis 3:15), there has always been cold war and tension wherever light and darkness; truth and falsehood meet. As part of this struggle, God called Abraham, the progenitor of ancient Israel out of polytheism to the worship…