Theological Correction, Exodus 3:14 and 34:14: Not Just "Is", But Zealous, Impassioned Dedication To The Task And To Him For Whom The Task Is
Jealous, Zealous, intolerant of rivals--of whom is the Lord jealous? Victor Alexander asks the question in his footnote on Exodus 34:14., which reads "Do not worship another God, because the Lord's name is Devoted*, for He is the God of devotion."
Devoted, the Lord's name in the ancient Aramaic; not Jealous, as in the Hebrew. Not just "I AM"?
In The Hebrew Meaning of the Divine Name YHWH, it mentions that "in 1956, Shelomo Dov Goitein (1900-1985), a scholar of both Jewish and Arabic studies,[16] suggested that the name (YHWH) derives from the Arabic root h.w.y (هوى), and the word hawaya (هوايا), which means 'love, affection, passion, desire.' He connected this suggestion with the passage in Exodus 34, in a set of laws known by scholars as the Ritual Decalogue. One of the laws, which forbids Israel to worship other gods, reads:
שמות לד:יד כִּי לֹא תִשְׁתַּחֲוֶה לְאֵל אַחֵר כִּי יְ־הוָה קַנָּא שְׁמוֹ אֵל קַנָּא הוּא.
Exod 34:14 For you must not worship any other god, because YHWH, whose name is Impassioned, is an impassioned God."
The suggestion is that the name of God, YHWH, is of ARABAIC origin. That it isn't a take on the Hebrew verb hayah, "to be," but on the Arabic hawaya, "love, affection, passion, desire," which all lean towards the Aramaic "devotion."
Hebrew and Arabic both come from Abraham, the father of Ishmael and Isaac. And Moses learned of YHWH among the Medians in ARABIA, and was by then speaking their language.
Could it be that the angel of YHWH was not telling Moses that "I am that I am," but that he was saying, "I am impassioned, devoted by love and affection to becoming fulfilled as the manifestation of God I am"? That angel, the Miltha manifest in the flesh in Jesus Christ, was and still is devoted to becoming the ACTUALIZED Manifestation of the Ineffable (...?), God, the Consciousness of the Ineffable, has imagined and ASSUMES to exist?
And if He is devoted to THAT, what should we be devoted to? Instead of preaching his existence, we should be preaching his devotion, the fulfilling of the Reward, the completion of the Miltha.
Now when I see YHWH and his other titles, I don't just think, "He is," I think, "He is dedicated, devoted to becoming." The name has PURPOSE in it. As Neville Goddard emphatically stated in "Call Upon Self," we are not here to get involved in the world of Caesar, we are here to preach Christ.
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