Before God creates a single world, He is already in conversation.

Moses 1 opens with an encounter so vast it staggers the imagination: God showing Moses world upon world, declaring that His work and glory runs across all of it. Abraham 3 extends the vision further, with intelligences organized before the earth was formed, a council of heavenly beings, a God who deliberates before He acts.

If God consults a council, who sits on it? If other divine beings exist, what does that mean for monotheism? And why does the Bible’s language about God so often sound like a king addressing his royal court?

These questions deserve a direct answer. The ancient world supplies one.