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YHVH receives a second form in ''Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse''. This is not a true form, but rather a demonized form forced upon him to deprive him of his true power.<ref>"The corrupted figure that appears depending on the player’s choices; it is, therefore, not the true god’s form. Depending on the way Christianity was propagated, the inconvenient local gods were slandered and degraded. These gods were given the extreme forms of demons, the animals and reptiles they disliked, but in this game irony has it that YHVH’s second form is degraded by the very entities he hated." - '''Masayuki Doi''' https://dijehtranslations.wordpress.com/2016/08/12/970/</ref> In this form he appears as a four winged serpent with various animals emerging from flames and surrounding a demonic head at the center that represent various biblical stories.<ref>"The first form was the head of the first man, Adam, created in his own image. However, the second form turns into a strange chimera that resembles a demon. The goat wanted by god in the Scriptures, the snake that tempted Eve in Eden or the swarm of locusts that appeared in the Exodus, threatening the Pharaoh if he refused to free the Jews, all can be seen in this form. Each part of the chimera is connected to the other." - '''Masayuki Doi''' https://dijehtranslations.wordpress.com/2016/08/12/970/</ref> Notably, the insect represents the plague of locusts in the book of Exodus,<ref>"This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: 'How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, so that they may worship me. If you refuse to let them go, I will bring locusts into your country tomorrow. They will cover the face of the ground so that it cannot be seen. They will devour what little you have left after the hail, including every tree that is growing in your fields. They will fill your houses and those of all your officials and all the Egyptians—something neither your fathers nor your forefathers have ever seen from the day they settled in this land till now." -  '''Exodus 10:3–6'''</ref> the serpent from Genesis that tempted Adam and Eve with knowledge, and the goat references the sacrifices performed in His name. When attacking a humanoid specter emerges from the flames writhing in fury.