The Becoming God

Sunday, June 01, 2014

Insight into Exodus 3: 14's "his coming."

According to the ancient Aramaic text, in Exodus 3: 14 God said, "Ahiyeh Ashur ehiyeh." According to Victor Alexander's notes on the verse, Ahiyeh and ehiyeh are related words: "I come" and "his coming."

There is little debate about who "I come" refers to, but who does "his coming" refer to?

I proffer that "his coming" is the End Man, the Completed Man set as goal in Genesis 1: 26. Exodus 3: 14 then would be saying (with the perfected man in mind), "I am becoming Him."

God's nature, then would also be the becoming of the Completed Man. The pattern of that would be YHWH: the Divine desiring to become man and effectively becoming the man who receives the becoming. I.e., the Sender and the Sent are one.

There is expansion and extension involved in this action. The nature of Japhath comes to mind. But especially the nature Jethro comes to mind. Jethro is jutting over the brim, excessive and abundant increase, like God is barreling toward his goal.

We lack. We need provision--material, wealth, healing--whatever. Touching the image of ourselves as more complete, seeing not ourselves as we seem to be but as we wish to be, "completed," seems to compel God to make that so. It is, as Neville said, imagination and faith. We assume that we ARE what we want to be, and God hardens it into fact.

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