Elohim

Elohim, translated “God”, is used over 2,300 times in the Bible, and stresses His power and sovereignty as Creator and Ruler. The name Elohim is derived from a verb meaning “to be in front or lead”, or  “strength or power”, thereby describing God as the Strong One or Mighty Leader. Elohim denotes God as the First Cause or Creator of all that is, which assumes His power and ability to create. (Genesis 1:1; Jonah 1:9.) It also denotes God as the Sovereign Ruler and Judge over all. (Deuteronomy 10:14, 17–18.)

My depiction of the "Father of Lights" (as He is also referred to in the Bible) show the face of God holding a staff, much like Moses did thousands of years ago. The staff of God began with Adam in the garden of Eden. Adam cut a branch off of the tree of life and used it for a staff when He walked with God in the cool of the day. When Adam sinned he had the staff with him when he was driven from Eden. After Adam died, his son Seth took it. After many years it found it's way into Noah's hands and he used it. Then it was passed down to Shem and from Shem it was passed onto Abraham as a blessed thing from the Paradise of God.

With this rod Abraham broke the images and graven idols which his father made, and therefore God said to him, 'Get thee out of thy father's house,' etc. It was in his hand in every country as far as Egypt, and from Egypt to Palestine. Afterwards Isaac took it, and (it was handed down) from Isaac to Jacob; with it he fed the flocks of Laban the Aramean in Paddan Aram. After Jacob Judah his fourth son took it; and this is the rod which Judah gave to Tamar his daughter-in-law, with his signet ring and his napkin, as the hire for what he had done.

From him (it came) to Pharez. At that time there were wars everywhere, and an angel took the rod, and laid it in the Cave of Treasures in the mount of Moab, until Midian was built. There was in Midian a man, upright and righteous before God, whose name was Yathrô (Jethro). When he was feeding his flock on the mountain, he found the cave and took the rod by divine agency; and with it he fed his sheep until his old age. When he gave his daughter to Moses, he said to him, 'Go in, my son, take the rod, and go forth to thy flock.' When Moses had set his foot upon the threshold of the door, an angel moved the rod, and it came out of its own free will towards Moses. And Moses took the rod, and it was with him when Moses spoke to God at the burning bush. God asked Moses (in Exodus 4:2) " what is that in your hand?" God recognized the staff first hand.

We all know the stories of how Moses used the staff, from parting the Red Sea to hitting a rock and creating water from it. When Moses died his staff was put into the arc of the Covenant. No one has seen or known of it's location since that time.

I know is not the common name used here in America when speaking of God the Father, by Elohim is the correct name used by the Hebrew people when referring to God, the Father.The Father goes by many names, as does His Son Jesus Christ, but this one has a special meaning and sound to it when spoken.