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been fulfilled? Was Jesus the seed of Abraham? The promise and
inheritance applies to the seed—a human descendent—of Abraham. So is
Jesus returning to claim the inheritance and promise? Of course not! God
would not extend an inheritance to Himself, for Jesus was Divine. This
inheritance or rather Divine Will has parameters that must be completed,
and will apply to the whole world.
If Jesus were to receive the inheritance, He could have accepted Satan’s
offer in the desert; He could have answered, “yes,” when tempted and
forgone the crucifixion, but His kingdom is not of this world. The covenant
or inheritance is for man, according to a Divine Will.
The words “I Am, who Am or I Am, that I Am” in a spiritual sense, refer
to the speaker or do they pertain to the originator only? To whom was Jesus
referring when He used the words “I AM”? Jesus knew who He was and
would be. Jesus was saying that He
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the God of Abraham, the God of
Isaac, and the God of Jacob, not the seed of Abraham as they suspected.
Physically manifested as the Son of God then, and the Father now! Can
anyone actually rationalize that Jesus is of the seed of a mortal man or the
seed [essence] of God?
Time was given to delineate a difference between the Father and son in two
contexts. Jesus was/is clearly the great “I Am”; God revealed this concept
to Moses. These words were a mystery, but they need not be a mystery;
those who do not lack wisdom in the moment should be able to
understand. Think about what Jesus meant when He said, “Now about the
dead rising
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have you not read in the book of Moses, in the account of the
bush, how God said to him, I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac,
and the God of Jacob? He is not the God of the dead, but of the living.”
(Mark 12:26-27)
And, we were reminded when Jesus said,
“
For there is nothing
hidden that will not be disclosed, and nothing concealed that will not be
known or brought out into the open. Therefore consider carefully how you
listen. Whoever has will be given more; whoever does not have, even what
he thinks he has will be taken from him.”
(Luke 8: 17-18)
The realities of those words are astoundingly accurate and absolute in this
time as well. The mystery is now revealed, because whenever the Spirit of
God speaks through the counselor [a person], the use of the words “I Am,
Who I Am” denotes a source, and this is what God revealed to Moses and
as Jesus spoke in perfect context. The fact that I Am spiritual or you are
spiritual gives recognition of the Spirit of God as the source within a