COMMENTARY OF THE DAY

 

I AM WHO I AM

by Elinor Montgomery

June 1, 2007


And Moses asked the question of God, "Indeed, when I come to the children of Israel and say to them, 'The God of your fathers has sent me to you,' and they say to me, 'What is His name?' what shall I say to them?" And God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM." And He said, "Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, 'I AM has sent me to you (Exodus 3:13-14).'"

This answer from God was both simple and complex at the same time.

Every man, woman and child can make one simple statement of truth that cannot be altered or tampered with by the philosophies or doctrines of man; no one can take this truth away. It is this: I am, because I have the understanding and knowledge of my existence.

Other men may have their own understanding, but they do not have mine, and when others are not in my presence or in contact with me, I am not able to perceive through my senses whether or not they still exist. Their existence loses its certainty, but as long as I have understanding, my truth remains a certainty. I know I am, because I know and understand I am, or that I exist. This truth forces us to acknowledge God - "I am because I know "I AM", or because I know God."

When God declared Who He was to Moses, His statement made it clear that there is nothing man can do or say to change the name and nature of God. He simply is and exists apart and independently of His creation. At the same time, we exist because of Him.

Human beings are a part of His creation, that part which has the breath of life breathed into it, giving man understanding and the knowledge of who he is in Him by the breath of the Spirit within him. Hence we are created in His image, which means we live and find our existence by the breath or Spirit of Life within us, separate and apart from the animal kingdom and the beasts of the fields, which have no understanding at all.

It is only by the light that we see; we cannot see anything in darkness. The light dispelled the darkness at creation, and there was only day, the evening and the morning, both of the same day, beginning with the evening. Light is basic for spiritual understanding, which comes only with the breath of God, breathed into the living being, but not into the living creature. When referring to a living being or man we use the pronoun 'who'; when referring to the living creature or beast we use the pronoun 'which'. There is a difference between the two of day and night, of light and darkness and of understanding and no understanding.

God was relating a huge message to a spiritually dead people with the words "I AM", stating the sure and basic truth of life. These two words completely blast the word 'evolution' out of the equation. I do not exist because of anything, which I can do to create myself in the image of God. Nor is my humanness reached by the process of evolving from a beast of no understanding, possessing some miraculous ability to transform itself into a higher level of existence.

Such ideas fall into the category of the 'Superman-type' of thinking, which belongs in the child-like mind that believes in fairy tales. As the tale goes, the animal, like Clark Kent, can be seen for centuries and then hides itself away from view, only to reappear, transformed into a much 'super being', no longer an animal. The fable of evolution has accomplished what the grounded, bi-speckled, mild-mannered reporter, Kent accomplished when he disappeared momentarily, only to reappear in the form of a man with a cape and the power to fly like a bird.

There is a difference, though, between evolution and the Superman fable, for Clark Kent and Superman could not appear together, yet the animal, today, still walks the earth with the man. Does this fable of evolution not require more of our child-like imagination to believe it, than is required to believe in Superman? Such is the counterfeit message of Satan.

The only Superman, whom I know, is the Lord Jesus Christ, Who died a mild-mannered Man, disappeared briefly, only to be resurrected as the immortal Powerhouse, Who will be known forever as the I AM. The prophecy of the Bible validates it, and history fulfills it as declared by the historians who recorded it. He has the power to restore us spiritually from our fall into sin, which made us spiritual sons of the beast. He can take us from our captivity in death back to life, by way of a rebirth with the breath of the Spirit of life being breathed into us once again, transforming us from sons of the beast to sons of God.

"I am, simply and unequivocally, because I am." This idea can be enlarged upon to reach the conclusion that, "I am because I AM, because God was first."  It only remains to be stated that I am because of God.

Moses was commissioned to speak the words, which God gave to him, for the fledging young nation of Israel before he led its exodus from the land of Egypt. It is time for these words to be spoken again to the two nations of the West, which have lost sight of their existence because of God,
the great I AM.

In the schoolrooms, our children are being bombarded with the messages of Secular Humanism, most of which are lodged in absurdity. It takes far too much faith to ever believe that human beings with the breath of life breathed into them, giving man understanding,
could evolve from a creature of no understanding.

If Jesus is the Light, and the light is that which allows us to see, then we can well understand why God began His creation with the opening words, 'Let there be light.' His spoken Word brought all things into being. God is the God of truth, so His creation sat on a foundation of truth. If we want to continue to live in this world, then it is time we feed our children the life-giving words of truth so that they can use them to build a wall of defense against the lies of Secular Humanism,
which will ensnare them.

What will it benefit our children if they gain the riches of a materialistic society, achieving success by man's standards, as opposed to the standards of God, yet, in the process, they lose the light of truth and the understanding of who they are within God's creation? "For what is a man profited if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul
(Matthew 16:26)?"

Open your eyes, America, the eyes of understanding, and let us teach the children the fundamental statement of truth - 'I am because I AM.' If they understand this truth in their lives, then all else will fall into place and false teachings will begin to fall away like a house built of a full deck of cards lined up, end upon end. When the first one falls, the rest all fall in line, within the chain reaction that follows. It takes nothing more than that first push at the point of weakness before one can see that a house built without a firm foundation will not survive.

The house of Secular Humanism, the religious system upon which we have allowed the devil to lay his foundation of lies in the classrooms of this nation, will fall like the house of cards. It will occur with the rapidity of a chain reaction, the moment we place the whole teaching system back on the foundation of truth, where it belongs. The basic truth, which we have been keeping from the understanding of our children, is the truth that they only exist because they are a creation of God and not because they have evolved from a beast.

If we start with the simple words, 'I am because I AM', the truth of all truths in which we find our being, the Egypt of this world will have no choice but to let us go. Our witnessing to the light, or lack of it, is a matter of life and death.

Men who hold up the Book of Truth in our faces, yet stand as hypocrites on a foundation of religious Christianity, walk in impurity, without the light in them. They will begin to fall away from the witnesses of the true apostolic church, whom they will come to hate and label as fundamentalists, as quickly as the house of cards was flattened in the chain reaction.

Stand back and watch the exodus of the present-day spiritual Israelites from the religious Egypt of this world, with their exodus from religion into the truth becoming the spiritual reality of the shadow from the past. It was with this prophetic message that Moses was sent to Pharaoh as the designated voice for God, given the right to speak these words for Him:
'Thus says the Lord: "Let My people go, that they may serve Me (Exodus 8:1)."'


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