God did NOT say, "I AM THAT I AM"! Fix your theology, fix your philosophy, fix your life, find salvation and healing and correct your life by reading Exodus 3: 14 correctly.

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God did not say to Moses, "I AM THAT I AM" (Exodus 3: 14). I believe the eternal self-existence of Triune God, but that was not what God was talking to Moses about at the time. What God did say to Moses was radically different from that, and our theology is way off.

God explained praying, and we are supposed to read the passage as such. He said in effect, "This is how we jethro (expand exponentially)."

Moses was a spiritually aware man. That is what 'Moses', a son born, means. Being spiritually perceptive, he was fascinated by jethro. Jethro means "jutting over the brim." We call it excellence, abundance, wealth, increase and prosperity. Jethro is abundant provision. It is also a miracle. The miracle part is what fascinated Moses.

"What is up with that?" he wondered. "In the middle of a famine, a guy plants the last of his seed in faith . . . and reaps a hundred-fold. That kind of increase is not normal . . . except it is when the guy does it in faith." Moses perceived that the increase was providential--God super-charged--and that where he found it working was where he would find God.

But what were the mechanics of it? Where do you put in the gas and what makes it work? What indicates that it is working? Moses knew it had something to do with faith. Hmmm.

God wants to be known; he descends to ascend. Moses had followed his thoughts of jethro about as far as he humanly could and finally came to the end of his thinking. Finally, he shut up. Then God could talk toward ascendance.

"You want to find the mechanism, the power that will afford you a pleasant life, serenity, health and healing? You want not famine and hardship but constant living in the heart of jethro, "the land of milk and honey"?

Then the big bomb: "Ahiyeh Ashur hiyeh." No, not "I AM THAT I AM," but the mechanics of effective praying--how to utilize God's nature with faith:

It is God's nature to increase, to become. That is 'Ahiyeh', "I come in my becoming."

It is God's nature to imagine and to believe. That is 'Ashur', "I create what I plan to become in my mind. I believe it. It is as real as manifest to Me."

It is God's nature to expand, to manifest actually what he would have and be. That is 'hiyeh', "I become his becoming."

You can take it to the bank: this is how God creates the world: he defines it, he imagines it, and he becomes it. He has become us. There is one him in all of us. He who imagined us has become our imaginations. You and I are the Father, Jesus Christ, the Manifestation and the Creator of the world. All of us together as a single entity in action: YHWH.

This is what theology is supposed to reflect. The awareness of being in our minds is the same God who created the world and inspired the prophets . . . "flipped" to man's level of awareness, which is abject ignorance (we had to forget all our past in the process of learning freedom and independence). Our imaginations are the "IGNORANCED" power and wisdom of God. We became us in order to enjoy the generation of ascendance we prophesied before we came to this life of death (forgetting). The Bible we inspired was to smarten us up to the Law, the NATURE of God we are ascending to. Jesus Christ is the spirit (in us) of prophecy of that ascendance; the Holy Spirit beings remembrance of the Law. Everything we prophesied will come to pass; in the volume of the book it is written of Me. And your Me. It is all about the ascendance.

If Moses' "resting in the Lord" meditation is Noah, Ahiyeh, Ashur and hiyeh are Shem, Ham and Japheth. The burning bush who confronted Moses was the same Shining One who confronted Adam. This was the mighty arm of YHWH being revealed to Moses.

The children of Israel are our thoughts. Just as Abel and Jacob were the spiritual consciousnesses of Cain and Esau, Israel is our spiritual side, our God-ward thoughts. Egypt is our ignorance, our thinking that we are the human of flesh instead of the spirit making the flesh alive to God. This ignorance is our bondage: the slavery, the darkness and our taskmaster. God will destroy this ignorance to display his Glory in us. In the word 'Israel', God is the doer of the verb part of the word: man ruling. He will win out and usurp the world of flesh.

We are becoming the ascended, perfect man. It is "a long row to hoe," but it is our irrevocable destiny, for Christ is risen in the end, and we are Christ going to that end.

So learn from what God said, "By vivid, creative imagining, my dear e'had, we become the experience we created manifesting in the world; and we will continue doing this until all are the completed, perfect man we planned, Our living image."

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Some of my resources:

From Bullinger's The Companion Bible margin note on Genesis 1, verse 2, I learned that the single Hebrew word hayah was translated as is, am, was, become, come to pass, to be, etc., all of which carry the sense of become. All carry the idea of transition from one state to another. Bullinger's note on Genesis 32, verse 28, mentions God being the doer of the verb in Hebrew compound names. Strong's notes that "name" in Hebrew means nature.

From Victor Alexander's Exodus: a translation from the ancient Aramaic margin note on Exodus 3: 14, I learned, well, this:

*3:14 Lit. Aramaic: (1) "Ahiyeh": "the One Who Comes in His Coming," the absolute sense of "the One Who Comes." (2) "Ashur": "the Beginning Spark that kindles the Fire" or "the Light." (3) "Hiyeh": "His Coming." (4) "Ahiyeh" and "hiyeh" are related forms of the same word. They mean more than "the Coming." They signify also the "Eternal Presence," "the Ever-Present," and the "Never Ceasing Intent of the Comer to Come." (5) In the same way, "Ashur" signifies "the Uncreated Creator who Creates Everything from Nothing." (6) Also, "Ashur" signifies: "Above-the-Flames." (See v-a.com/bible)

From Neville Goddard I learned that God is one, us and imagination. Everything Neville wrote and spoke is available free on the Internet, and hundreds of people are making a living selling his public domain materials. Protect your computer from viruses.

One of Neville's most important contributions is the idea of revision. Because our imaginations are that being who created us and became us, we create our worlds. And because we are God's power sleeping in ignorance, many of us have screwed up royally. But we can revise the past and unscrew our worlds by reliving the past in our minds and imagining it right. Neville covers this thoroughly in The Pruning Shears of Revision.

Neville was a meditator, as Jews trained in mysticism are. He said he would go into a sleepy, drowsy state of meditation and enjoy watching a light blue flame--like alcohol burning--that appeared and seemed to dance about floating in the view of his closed eyes. When he achieved the sense of also floating, he would--as that Being who had become him--imagine exactly the experience he would like to receive in reality as though he were actually experiencing it. The trick, he said, was to form some scene in mind which would imply that he had already received what he wanted, and then to keep repeating that scene of having received until it took on "all the tones of reality."

Revision like this is what God is doing in and through us. We cycle through revision after revision in the course of our lives until we get it right.