Jethro, the Good All Things Work Together For, is Our Becoming as God Is
Jethro, the father-in-law of Moses, was not a man but rather the goal of God that Moses discerned from the myths of Egypt. Not that Moses knew what that goal was. That was the mystery he was trying to figure out in his contemplation of Jethro: "What the heck, God, is your goal? What is it that you are doing?" The obviousness of there being some goal underlying the myths was 'Zipporah,' the little chirping bird that Moses had been given.
What was 'Jethro?' The fulfillment of our destiny to become as God is. We know the verse from the King James Version of the Bible, "We know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose" (Romans 8: 28).
I say this for all who are so excited about manifesting the things they want. "I'm attracting money, riches, property, fame, and prestige." I have said in the past that God's goodness to us is Jethro. But the things we manifest are not God's goal except as we manifest HIS manifestation. Our ultimately becoming as he IS is Jethro, the good that all things work together for.
From Alexander's translation from the ancient Aramaic (http://www.v-a.com/bible/romans_8.html):
28. We know then that those who love Allaha in everything, He helps them toward goodness, those whom He consecrated beforehand to be called. 29. And beforehand He knew them and gave them the mark in the likeness of His Son's image, that he shall be the holy Sacrament* of many brethren. 30. To those whom He beforehand gave them the mark, He called, and to those whom He called, he sanctified, and to those whom He sanctified, he glorified. 31. What shall we thus say about that? If Allaha is on our side*, who is against us? 32. And if He did not interdict His Son, except on behalf of us all, He delivered him, how is He not going to give us everything with him? 33. Whoever receives the election of Allaha, Allaha sanctifies. 34. Who holds [them] responsible? The Messiah died and rose, and is on the right of Allaha and prays on our behalf. 35. Who will separate me from the love of the Messiah? Tribulation, poverty,* danger, the sword? 36. As it is written in Scriptures, “Because of you we die every day, and are reckoned as sheep for slaughter.” 37. Except through all these we are victorious, by whom that loves us. 38. For he delivers us, that neither death, nor life, nor kings, nor governments, nor armies; neither those that shall rise, nor that are destined, 39. Neither height, nor depth, and neither any creature can separate me from the love of Allaha, who is our Maran Eashoa Msheekha.
So when Moses is contemplating what Jethro is and God reveals himself and Moses asks what his nature is, God tells him, "Ahiyeh Ashur hiyeh" (Exodus 3: 14; ancient Aramaic per Alexander): "I-it is absolutely I-come. Ashur, the creative imagining, his becoming." I.e., "I am Jethro, and I become by imagining." He is working all things together for this good: him being us becoming birthed as him.
Exodus 3: 14 is the answer to Romans 8: 28, "What is the PURPOSE OF GOD for which all things work together for the good of them that love God?" The answer is Jethro -- that we might become him.
Who gives a rat's hiney what we can GET? Let's care about Whom we can BECOME!
What was 'Jethro?' The fulfillment of our destiny to become as God is. We know the verse from the King James Version of the Bible, "We know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose" (Romans 8: 28).
I say this for all who are so excited about manifesting the things they want. "I'm attracting money, riches, property, fame, and prestige." I have said in the past that God's goodness to us is Jethro. But the things we manifest are not God's goal except as we manifest HIS manifestation. Our ultimately becoming as he IS is Jethro, the good that all things work together for.
From Alexander's translation from the ancient Aramaic (http://www.v-a.com/bible/romans_8.html):
28. We know then that those who love Allaha in everything, He helps them toward goodness, those whom He consecrated beforehand to be called. 29. And beforehand He knew them and gave them the mark in the likeness of His Son's image, that he shall be the holy Sacrament* of many brethren. 30. To those whom He beforehand gave them the mark, He called, and to those whom He called, he sanctified, and to those whom He sanctified, he glorified. 31. What shall we thus say about that? If Allaha is on our side*, who is against us? 32. And if He did not interdict His Son, except on behalf of us all, He delivered him, how is He not going to give us everything with him? 33. Whoever receives the election of Allaha, Allaha sanctifies. 34. Who holds [them] responsible? The Messiah died and rose, and is on the right of Allaha and prays on our behalf. 35. Who will separate me from the love of the Messiah? Tribulation, poverty,* danger, the sword? 36. As it is written in Scriptures, “Because of you we die every day, and are reckoned as sheep for slaughter.” 37. Except through all these we are victorious, by whom that loves us. 38. For he delivers us, that neither death, nor life, nor kings, nor governments, nor armies; neither those that shall rise, nor that are destined, 39. Neither height, nor depth, and neither any creature can separate me from the love of Allaha, who is our Maran Eashoa Msheekha.
So when Moses is contemplating what Jethro is and God reveals himself and Moses asks what his nature is, God tells him, "Ahiyeh Ashur hiyeh" (Exodus 3: 14; ancient Aramaic per Alexander): "I-it is absolutely I-come. Ashur, the creative imagining, his becoming." I.e., "I am Jethro, and I become by imagining." He is working all things together for this good: him being us becoming birthed as him.
Exodus 3: 14 is the answer to Romans 8: 28, "What is the PURPOSE OF GOD for which all things work together for the good of them that love God?" The answer is Jethro -- that we might become him.
Who gives a rat's hiney what we can GET? Let's care about Whom we can BECOME!
posted by Daniel C. Branham-Steele at
5:07 PM
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To me, becoming "like God" is just an abstract idea. If we are all individualized aspects of God's consciousness.. then we already *are* God, and thus already like Him. This idea of all things working together for the "good" of us becoming like Him, hearkens back to all of those religious explanations I got as a child to explain away all the needless suffering in the world. The old "God works in mysterious ways" line. You know what I mean?
I'll give you an example. Take a look at the story of Joni Eareckson-Tada... she became a quadriplegic at age 17. But supposedly this was all "God's will" because it caused her to "find Jesus." Please. Now she has cancer.
Recently someone who is an avid Neville reader/follower told me that sometimes manifestations never happen because, in a nutshell, their not happening is "working together for [one's] good." If one's good is 'Jethro', or becoming like Him, then is it possible that some desires are "not meant" to manifest? Is it possible that some undesired experiences ARE meant to?
I know that Neville was really concerned with what he called "the Promise" in his later life (which I think is 'Jethro'), as opposed to "the Law" which we use to "get stuff." But I think people want to get "things" ("money, riches, property, fame, and prestige") because these things represent happiness. Happiness. Everyone wants to feel happiness, don't they? For me, happiness is finding a lover / spouse / however you want to call it. Do you think that falls in the same category of "things" such as "money, riches, property, fame, and prestige"? Is wanting to be loved wrong? Or not "wrong," but a symptom of spiritual immaturity, let's say? Because it's in honesty what I want more than anything.
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Anonymous, at 10:56 AM
When we are told that God is one, the word e'had is used for one. E'had is one made up of many. Yes, we are God, but so is the Ineffable whom we are not like but are going to become like. We are eternal beings growing that way as He becomes more fully manifest. Good does not mean we are not going to die from things we do not know how to contend with. There are not many two-hundred year old people walking around.
I suppose you have read Neville's instructions about seeking a mate, that you do not change them but yourself. You feel the feelings of having the spouse, the pride and joy and security a spouse would give you if you had one. But you feel them now with relief and thanksgiving. I have been married for thirty-six years, but I wish I had known God better before I got married. Not the church version of God, but the Becoming God as I understand him to be now. I would still want my wife, of course, but our lives would have been different. Ask God for exactly what you want, and trust him.
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Daniel C. Branham-Steele, at 1:05 AM
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