Jesus’ use of “I am” (Greek, ego eimi) was also tantamount to saying “I am God,” for he was applying to himself “one of the most sacred of divine expressions” from the Old Testament. Yahweh had specifically referenced himself as “I am” or “I am he” (Isa. 41:4; 43:10, 13, 25; 46:4; 48:12). Jesus may have also been echoing Exodus 3:14 where Yahweh refers to himself as the great “I AM.”

Who has performed and done this,   calling the generations from the beginning? I, the Lord, am first,   and will be with the last. You are my witnesses, says the Lord,   and my servant whom I have chosen, so that you may know and believe me   and understand that I am he. Before me no god was formed,   nor shall there be any after me. I am God, and also henceforth I am He;   there is no one who can deliver from my hand;   I work and who can hinder it?

I, I am He   who blots out your transgressions for my own sake,   and I will not remember your sins. even to your old age I am he,   even when you turn grey I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear;   I will carry and will save.

Listen to me, O Jacob,   and Israel, whom I called: I am He; I am the first,   and I am the last.

[Isa. 41:4; 43:10, 13, 25; 46:4; 48:12]

Who is the I AM?

This is the last in a series of columns addressing Jehovah’s Witnesses and their understanding of Jesus.

Previously, we looked at passages in the Watch Tower’s official New World Translation 2013 (NWT) that seem to affirm Christ’s deity, even though the Watch Tower blots out Jesus’ divine identity in other verses.

Specifically, we looked at both Jehovah and Jesus as Lord, as the Creator of all…

Holy Night 12 applied to December and Sagittarius

January 4-5 – Sagittarius

During the 12th night the crowns won are placed at the feet of the divine, because we have struggled against ourselves, but what we have wrung from it is grace, is the law of the spirit. Because grace is a stream from a source that a human being cannot reach with human power. Now is the start and end of a spaceless time – timeless space. Now everything is eternal and…

Our I AM and Christ – you can’t have one without the other

“Mankind had its beginning in the group-soul [led by Jehovah] and then advanced to a state of independent, personal existence, in which every individual experiences the “I AM,” and the Christ is the force that has brought it to this consciousness of the ‘I AM.’” Rudolf Steiner Gospel of St John Lecture 3

Christ is the cornerstone of all spiritual knowledge – we cannot know anything unless we know…

Our I AM is our servant

Do we realize that our I Am is our servant? What does this mean in our lives?

“For which is the greater, one who sits at table, or one who serves? Is it not the one who sits at table? But I am among you as one who serves.” Luke 22:27

It astounds me that this Bible really says. When we incarnate we “sit at table” – a table is a physical item in this material world. Our Higher Self, our I Am which…