Did Yahusha claim he was the Great I Am ?

John 8
55 Though you do not know him, I know him. If I said I did not, I would be a liar like you, but I do know him and keep his word.56 Your father Abraham rejoiced at the thought of seeing my day; he saw it and was glad." 57 "You are not yet fifty years old," the Jews said to him, "and you have seen Abraham!" 58 "I tell you the truth," Yahusha answered, "before Abraham was born, I am!" 59 At this, they picked up stones to stone him, but Yahusha hid himself, slipping away from the temple grounds.

In the scene above Yahusha is telling the Jews that because they transgress The Law of Yahuah with their human tradition and commandments of men (The Talmud) they are liars when they say they know Yahuah. When Yahusha made the statement “before Abraham was born, I AM” in context of the Word of Yahuah and the predestined plan of Yahuah to send a human Messiah; Yahusha was simply saying “before Abraham was born, I am (prophesied to come and have pre-eminence among the sons of Yahuah in the pre-ordained Plan of Yahuah).” Letting scripture interpret scripture we establish sound doctrine to overcome this sound bite. Yahusha knew he was given preeminence among all things in the plan of Yahuah which was with Yahuah at creation therefore “before Abraham”. Paul confirms this fact:

Colossians 1:15-20
15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. 16 For by Yahuah all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through Yahuah and for Yahusha. 17 And Yahuah is before all things, and in Yahuah all things hold together. 18 And Yahusha is the head of the body, the church. Yahusha is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything Yahusha might be preeminent. 19 For in Yahusha all the fullness of Yahuah’s Spirit was pleased to dwell, 20 and through Yahusha, Yahuah would reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his stake (Yahuah would reconcile creation in covenant with Yahusha).

Paul is explaining what Yahusha was stating… two facts: 1.) he was before Abraham and had pre-eminence in the Plan of Yahuah. 2.) Yahusha is before Abraham in the resurrection being the first born of all eternal creatures. As I stated early, Yahusha accepted worship as the preeminent son of Yahuah and was before all men in the Plan of Yahuah. Below is the meaning of preeminence:

pre·em·i·nence
noun: pre-eminence; plural noun: pre-eminences; noun: preeminence; plural noun: preeminences
1. the fact of surpassing all others; superiority.

So before Abraham was born, Yahusha said “I am preeminent among the sons of Yahuah”. Yahusha’s use of the phrase “I am” was no different than how you and I would use it today. If you ask me if I am a son of Yahuah, I would reply “I am”. Would you stone me for blasphemy? I am not claiming in any way to be Yahuah nor saying that I am The Great I AM simply because I used the phrase “I am”. Neither was Yahusha. In fact, Yahusha use this phrase often and never was he implying he was the Great I AM in the process. Below we see Yahusha use the phrase I am and what he meant:

1. Bread - “I am the bread of life; he who comes to Me shall not hunger.” John 6:35

2. Light - “I am the light of the world; he who fallows Me shall not walk in the darkness, but shall have the light of life.” John 8:12

3. Gate - “I am the gate; if anyone enters through Me, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.” John 10:9

4. Good Shepherd - “I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd lays down His life for His sheep.” John 10:11

5. Resurrection and Life - “I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in Me shall live even if he dies.” John 11:25

6. Way, Truth, Life - “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but through Me.” John 14:6

7. True vine - “I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser.” John 15:1

Given Yahusha’s use of the term I Am he would have said “I am the Great I AM” if that is what he intended to say. Again, to understand what Yahusha was saying in John 8:58 we must put this statement into context of Scripture. Christianity takes John 8:58 out of context and combines it with John Chapter 1 that is mistranslated to come up with the false teaching that Yahusha claimed to be God.

In fact those two verses do combine to give us the truth of what Yahusha was saying. Yahusha was simply saying that before Abraham was born, Yahusha was prophesied to come in the Plan of Yahuah and was preeminent in that plan.

John 1:1-5
1 In the beginning was the plan of Yahuah, and the plan was with Yahuah (and defined His purpose in creation), and the plan was Yahuah's. 2 The same plan was in the beginning with Yahuah. 3 All things were done according to the plan of Yahuah, and without the plan of Yahuah nothing was done, that was done. 4 In this plan was (predestined) life (through a human Messiah’s sacrifice), and that life was the light (revelation) to mankind. 5 Now that light (revealed plan to send a human Messiah) shines in the darkness, but the darkness does not take hold of it…

Again, in every case where incarnation is taught it is taken out of context. Put back into context that false doctrine crumbles. The Trinity and Incarnation doctrines are literally built upon implied doctrine and the Christian scribes had to add words to Scripture in order to even be able to “imply” such nonsense. If you take out the words added to scripture to promote the “doctrine of the false messiah” and put those verses back into context there is zero references to incarnation and The Trinity. We have been lied to for 2000 years:

Jeremiah 8:8-9
“How can you say, ‘We are wise, and The Law of Yahuah is with us’? But behold, the lying pen of the scribes has made it into a lie. 9 The wise men shall be put to shame; they shall be dismayed and taken; behold, they have rejected the word of Yahuah, so what wisdom is in them?

Father is Greater

by Ed Moore

Deu 6:4 “Hear, O Yisra’ĕl: יהוה our Elohim, יהוה is one!

Mal 3:6 “For I am יהוה, I shall not change, and you, O sons of Yaʽaqoḇ, shall not come to an end.

Mal 2:10 Have we not all one Father? Did not one Ěl create us? Why do we act treacherously against one another, to profane the covenant of the fathers?

Mar 12:32 And the scribe said to Him, “Well said, Teacher. You have spoken the truth, for there is one Elohim, and there is no other besides Him.

James 1:13
For Yahuah cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone;

Psa 90:2 Before the mountains were born, Or You had brought forth the earth and the world, Even from everlasting to everlasting You are Ěl.

Jas 2:19 You believe that Elohim is one. You do well. The demons also believe – and shudder!

John 4:24 tells us that YAHUAH is spirit. Yahshua was not spirit, but flesh and blood.

Our Messiah was tempted and he also died...

Numbers 23:19
"Yahuah is not a man, that He should lie, Nor a son of man (Yahusha is called the son of man 87 times), that He should repent; Has He said (that He would not take the form of a man), and will He not do it (keep His promise NOT to come to Earth as a man)? Or has He spoken (this promise not to take the form of a man), and will He not make good on this promise?

Isa 42:5 Thus said the Ěl, יהוה, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread forth the earth and that which comes from it, who gives breath to the people on it, and spirit to those who walk on it:

Isaiah 44
24 “This is what Yahuah says— your Redeemer, who formed you in the womb: I am Yahuah,the Maker of all things, who stretches out the heavens, who spreads out the earth BY MYSELF.

Isa 45:5 ‘I am יהוה, and there is none else – there is no Elohim besides Me. I gird you, though you have not known Me,
Isa 45:6 so that they know from the rising of the sun to its setting that there is none but Me. I am יהוה, and there is NONE ELSE,

Yahchanan 14:28—
You have heard that I told you: I go away, but come again to you. If you loved Me, you would have rejoiced that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.

Example

The example Yahusha set that we are to follow is that of an obedient son of Yahuah to His Commandments. Yahusha kept The Sabbath; he kept Passover and every other commandment. This is our example.

Constantine is not our example nor is The Pope not even your Christian Church. For all the double talk Christian’s do in claiming to walk in the footsteps of “Jesus” they don’t even come close to walking as Yahusha so set the example in obedience to the Law of Yahuah.

1 John 2
4 Whoever says, “I know him,” but does not do what he commands is a liar, and the truth is not in that person.

When the Messiah said "Follow me" (Matthew 8:22, 9:9), He meant we are to behave the way He did and obey Torah - the Word of YHVH! His death, as atonement for our sins did not mean we could simply keep on sinning and still obtain our place in the Kingdom! He meant we had our place so long as we did not continue to sin!

And Torah defines "sin." Sin is transgression of Torah (1 John 3:4)

John 14:6
Yahusha answered, "I am (my example is) the way and (my example is) the truth and (my example is) the life. No one comes to the Father except through me (my example).

The Whole Law

                         Contributed by Ed Moore

“Christians” often mock those who seek to be obedient to Yahuah in love as “legalistic”; and they condemn us for not keeping “the whole law”. Christian’s favorite accusation is: “if you keep The Law, why aren’t you sacrificing animals?” These Christians show a complete disconnect with The Renewed Covenant and do not know Yahuah.

Sacrifices are made on behalf of those who “do this” or keep Passover in remembrance of his sacrifice. The “Altar” has not disappeared as many assume and in error claim there are currently no daily sacrifices being made. The Altar exists now in our hearts and the sacrifices being made on it are still alive and very active.

The Temple of YAHUAH is the human body

The altar of YAHUAH is the hearts/minds of man

The Sacrifices to YAHUAH are expressing faith through action

Which brings us to "The Law"....

Not everyone is “under” every one of the 613 Laws. The Laws of Yahuah just
like laws of man are jurisdictional and not everyone falls under the jurisdiction of every law:

• There are laws that pertain to women only.
• There are laws that apply to men only.
• There are laws that apply to Kings, Priests, and Judges that don’t apply to the average person.
• The Laws of the Priesthood and Sacrificial Laws have been transposed over
to Yahusha who serves as Melchezidek. These laws don’t apply to us as they
have been transposed to Heaven to define the role Yahusha plays as High
Priest

This is why the entire Law was summarized into the Ten Commandments because those are the commandments that apply to and have jurisdiction over everyone.

The Law is a term used for all 613 “instructions” in righteousness found in The Torah. The Law contains very distinct categories:

                                  by Ed Moore

His Commandments (Ten Commandments)

His Ordinances/Laws (Dietary, Priestly, Ritual Purity, Sacrificial, Judicial, Moral, Agricultural, Business, Sabbatical, Community, Prohibition, Tithes/Offerings, etc.)

His Decrees (Judicial Judgments amounting to a Certificate of Debt against us for our disobedience to His Commandments and His Laws)

Those death decrees are covered by the blood of the Lamb. That reduces the number significantly from the 613 “laws” and leaves only the commands and ordinances.

There are other “sins” not “unto death” which are the laws that pertain to our physical bodies and health such as the dietary laws. Violating these laws has physical consequences to our health not our eternal life. Laws that apply to agriculture, business, community, and so forth are all laws that if violated effect our relationships with others, our reputation, the ability of the land to regenerate etc. They do not impact our eternal life. There are laws given as physical to spiritual parallels that teach us through physical examples what it means to be “set apart”.

All these laws, as Paul said, are profitable to us in our earthly lives and instructing us in righteousness as we study them from the standpoint of spiritual intent. Anytime you see the word “Scripture” in the Bible it is referring to The Law, The Prophets, and The Writings we in error call The Old Testament.

2 Timothy 3:16
All (Hebrew) Scripture is given by inspiration of Yahuah, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, 17 that the man of Yahuah may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

We should all study The Law in its entirety to understand Yahusha’s role as High Priest, to become better people in general, to stay healthy, and to prepare ourselves for our roles as Kings, Priests, and Judges in the coming Kingdom.

Torah

“Torah” in Hebrew means Instructions in Righteousness. Keeping The Law is how we will be declared righteous before Yahuah as The Torah is that instruction.

It is in keeping The Law that the process of sanctification is accomplished as we are set apart for Yahuah as a prized possession through our obedience.

Sin is breaking The Law and Grace is forgiveness in light of our inability to keep The Law fully. The love of Yahuah is made complete in those who obey The Law.

Romans 2:13
For it is not those who hear The Law who are righteous in Yahuah's sight, but it is those who obey The Law who will be declared righteous.

Titus 2:14
who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness (abolishing The Law 1 John 3:4) and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works (of The Law James 2:14-26).

Romans 6:19
I am speaking in simple terms because of the frailty of your human nature. Just as you once offered the parts of your body as slaves to impurity and to greater and greater disobedience (to The Law; the carnal mind is hostile to The Law Romans 8:7), so now, in the same way, you must offer the parts of your body as slaves to righteousness (which is keeping The Law Romans 2:13) that leads to sanctification.

1 John 3:4
Whosoever commits sin transgresses also The Law: for sin is the transgression of The Law.

1 John 2
3 We know that we have come to know Yahuah IF we keep His commands. 4 Whoever says, “I know Yahuah,” but does not do what Yahuah commands is a LIAR, and the truth is not in that person. 5 But if anyone obeys Yahuah’s word (Matthew 5:17-20), love for Yahuah is truly made complete in them. This is how we know we are in The Renewed Covenant: 6 Whoever claims to live in covenant with Yahusha must live as Yahusha did (keeping The Law of Yahuah in loving obedience)

Yahusha did not come to abolish The Law of Yahuah but to transpose it to its fullest meaning and spiritual intent. We know Yahusha’s view of those who violate the commandments of Yahuah:

Matthew 7:23
“And then I shall declare to them, ‘I never knew you, depart from Me, you who work lawlessness!

Matthew 13:41
“The Son of Aḏam shall send out His messengers, and they shall gather out of His reign all the stumbling-blocks, and those doing lawlessness,

Matthew 23:28
The same is true of you: outwardly you seem to the human eye to be good and honest men, but, within, you are full of insincerity and disregard of Yahuah's Law.

The Gift of Life

                                       by Ed Moore

Yahuah loves everyone He created. He gives everyone this life on Earth as a gift. Yahuah then makes His sons a promise that requires an immense amount of faith. He offers eternal life as a gift for those that will give this life back to Him. We “give this life up” by denying our own selfish will and seeking His Will by obeying His Commandments.

We must serve His purposes and not our own. We are to give up our own will for this life and do the Will of our Father and submit our lives as living sacrifices to Him. Just like Yahusha did. That means… we are to submit to this life as a training ground for His Kingdom.

Luke 18
18 Now a certain ruler asked Him, saying, “Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” 19 So Yahusha said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good but (the) One (Elohim), that is, Yahuah (Yahusha is declaring The Shema). 20 You know (to keep) the commandments: ‘Do not commit adultery,’ ‘Do not murder,’ ‘Do not steal,’ ‘Do not bear false witness,’ ‘Honor your father and your mother.’ (the Ten Commandments)” 21 And he said, “All these things I have kept from my youth.”

22 So when Yahusha heard these things, he said to the young ruler, “You still lack one thing. Sell all that you have and distribute to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, FOLLOW ME.” 23 But when he heard this, he became very sorrowful, for he was very rich.

24 And when Yahusha saw that he became very sorrowful, he said, “How hard it is for those who have riches (physical metaphor of richness of lives) to enter The Kingdom of Yahuah ! 25 For it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man (a man with a richness of life to give this life up and) to enter The Kingdom of Yahuah.”

26 And those who heard it (realized he was not talking about rich as in money but rich meaningful earthly lives and) said, “Who then can be saved?” (Because giving up this life in hope of the next life is a huge leap of faith) 27 But Yahusha said, “The things which are impossible with men are possible with Yahuah.” (you have to be chosen by Yahuah to be able to truly sacrifice this life in faith)

Now Yahusha clearly says he wasn’t talking about material wealth but richness of life in terms of family, friends, wives, and children

28 Then Peter said, “See, we have left all and followed You.” 29 So He said to them, “Assuredly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or parents or brothers or wife or children, for the sake of The Kingdom of Yahuah , 30 who shall not receive many times more in this present time, and in the age to come eternal life.”

As we give this life up and surrender to our training, study His Laws; we will apply ourselves in walking the example set by Yahusha. Exercising our authority given us as judges, declaring our birthright as sons of Yahuah, setting ourselves apart from this world with Yahuah by keeping His Sabbaths and Ordained Festivals, we will be transformed into living Temples of Yahuah.

1 Corinthians 6
19 Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from Yahuah, and you are not your own? 20 For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify Yahuah in your body and in your spirit, which are Yahuah’s.

We will be transformed into living stones uncut by human hands. Our hearts and minds are sanctified through the study of His Word and become altars to Yahuah upon which our spiritual sacrifices are offered:

I Peter 2:5
You also, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house…

Shadow Pictures

                                       Contributed by Ed Moore

The keeping of Passover to be saved from death was established clearly by the original Passover when Isaac was spared by a substitutionary ram (a male lamb). Then again in Egypt when the Angel of Death “passed over” those who had the blood of the lamb on their doorposts.

Yahusha made this clear as he kept Passover the day he died. John the Baptist made this point crystal clear when he saw Yahusha at his Mikveh and declared “Behold! The Passover Lamb of Yahuah”. The Apostle Paul makes this point clear instructing us in “how” to keep Passover, Peter stressed it, John the
Revelator showed us this in the Spirit;

Passover is truly the scarlet thread (blood) of redemption running from cover to cover in the Word of Yahuah beginning with Abraham and Isaac:

Luke 22:19
19 And when He had taken some bread and given thanks (at Passover), He broke it and gave it to them, saying, "This (Passover Dinner) is My body (Passover Lamb) which is given (sacrificed) for you; do this (keep Passover) in remembrance of Me."

John 1:29
"Behold the (Passover) Lamb of Elohim, which taketh away the sin of the world."

John 1:36
"and he looked at Yahusha as He walked, and said, "Behold, the (Passover) Lamb of Elohim!"

1 Corinthians 5: 7-8
"Get rid of the old yeast that you may be a new batch without yeast--as you really are. For the Messiah, our Passover Lamb has been sacrificed. Therefore let us keep the Festival (of Passover/Unleavened Bread), not with the old yeast, the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with bread without yeast, the bread of sincerity and truth."

1 Peter 1: 18-25
"For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your forefathers, but with the precious blood of the Messiah, a (Passover) lamb without blemish or defect”

Revelation 5:6
"Then I saw a (Passover) Lamb, looking as if it had been slain.

Revelation 5:12
"In a loud voice they sang: "Worthy is the (Passover) Lamb, who was slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and praise!".

Revelation 5:13
"Then I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all that is in them, singing: "To him who sits on the throne and to the (Passover) Lamb be praise and honor and glory and power, for ever and ever!"

So we see the “proper” sacrifice for sin on The Altar of Yahuah (our hearts) is The Passover Lamb of YAHUAH, the Messiah Yahusha. We are to keep and put our faith in Passover each year as we “do this” in remembrance of The Messiah’s sacrifice. Keeping Passover is our spiritual sacrifice to Yahuah and in doing so, we are “covered by the Blood of the Lamb” and will be Passed Over the Second Death. This is the story of salvation told in the Bible.

Today, however, Christianity no longer puts their faith in Passover but rather “Easter”.

Christians abolish the law did away with the writings about Yahusha and Torah. They made up their own demi-god Jesus Christ (Hesus Krishna) and celebrate this demi-god on Christmas and make the abominable sacrifice Easter. Which makes the Passover Lambs blood that covers our sins non existent leading them to destruction.

Christianity has no foundation at all in Biblical Truth

Christianity (both Catholic and Protestant) has literally created a composite god and another gospel based totally on lies that have their beginning in the mystery religion of Babylon.

Christianity has given us a lie:

The Trinity/Jesus/Sunday/Christmas/Easter/abolishment of law

A lie totally contrary to The Truth and The Way found in scripture…

YAHUAH/Yahusha/Sabbath/Feasts/Torah

It really isn’t that hard. Just replace the pagan rituals with the true Festivals of YAHUAH; the ones actually IN The Bible.

Keep Sabbath not Sunday. Celebrate Passover not Easter. Call on the name of Yahusha not Jesus.

You are already doing the same amount of things! Just trade in the “way of the pagan gentiles” and stand up and be counted as one of The Lost Sheep of the House of Israel.