Original "As The Man Thinketh, So Is He"
I am always learning. In this article I propose that as the Manifestation of God, the "Milta," believes us to be, so we are. I have had and have seen enough instantaneous miracles to conclude that as God changes his mind about us, we instantaneously change. I thought I saw evidence of this in Genesis 32:24, where Jacob wrestled the angel of the Lord as a man. Jacob gets the man, the Lord, to change his mind about him, and Jacob is so changed. Not so.
I still believe that as God thinks, so are we. If he imagines us purple, we are purple. But Alexander's translation demonstrates that Jacob did not wrestle with an angel, he wrestled with the man. What man? Please see As The Man Thinketh, So Is He, Revised.
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The original article:
As the man thinketh, so are we. In Genesis 32:24, it says that Jacob remained alone, “and the man wrestled with him until the break of dawn.” THE Man. We are whatever He thinks we are. Thank God we get to elect what He thinks, because whatever He thinks, that is what we become.
Genesis 32:24 (per Alexander's translation from the ancient Aramaic) says that Jacob was alone in the night, "and the man wrestled with him until the break of dawn." THE Man. The Milta, the Manifestation of God. Jacob wouldn't let the man go, and then they got into a discussion about their names. I understand shem, the Hebrew word for name, to refer to a thing's nature. E.g., a chicken is called a chicken because it has all the nature of a chicken. A sheep has the nature of a sheep, a lamb the nature of a lamb, a rock the nature a rock. Jacob, the inner man, has the nature of a Jacob, a "heel-catcher," and the Man has the nature of . . . ?
Why did Jacob have to ask? He didn't have to. There was no one else with him. No one there but him and his imagination. Jacob had sent his tributes to his brother Esau, thinking, "his anger will subdue on account of the offering of tribute that proceeds before me, and later when I see his face, he may receive me with a friendly face" (v. 32:20). This imagining Jacob would not let go regardless of the light of day--facts--unless YHWH, his imagination, bless him. Prevailing in this, Jacob became Israel.
I still believe that as God thinks, so are we. If he imagines us purple, we are purple. But Alexander's translation demonstrates that Jacob did not wrestle with an angel, he wrestled with the man. What man? Please see As The Man Thinketh, So Is He, Revised.
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The original article:
As the man thinketh, so are we. In Genesis 32:24, it says that Jacob remained alone, “and the man wrestled with him until the break of dawn.” THE Man. We are whatever He thinks we are. Thank God we get to elect what He thinks, because whatever He thinks, that is what we become.
Genesis 32:24 (per Alexander's translation from the ancient Aramaic) says that Jacob was alone in the night, "and the man wrestled with him until the break of dawn." THE Man. The Milta, the Manifestation of God. Jacob wouldn't let the man go, and then they got into a discussion about their names. I understand shem, the Hebrew word for name, to refer to a thing's nature. E.g., a chicken is called a chicken because it has all the nature of a chicken. A sheep has the nature of a sheep, a lamb the nature of a lamb, a rock the nature a rock. Jacob, the inner man, has the nature of a Jacob, a "heel-catcher," and the Man has the nature of . . . ?
Why did Jacob have to ask? He didn't have to. There was no one else with him. No one there but him and his imagination. Jacob had sent his tributes to his brother Esau, thinking, "his anger will subdue on account of the offering of tribute that proceeds before me, and later when I see his face, he may receive me with a friendly face" (v. 32:20). This imagining Jacob would not let go regardless of the light of day--facts--unless YHWH, his imagination, bless him. Prevailing in this, Jacob became Israel.
Edit 11/30/21: Israel means "Eil Prevailing."
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