When God "commissioned" Moses to return to Egypt to confront Pharaoh (c. BC 1491), and demand that he release His chosen people of Israel from bondage, allowing them to depart from Egypt, Moses said unto God,
"Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, 'The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name?' What shall I say unto them?"
God answered Moses, saying,
"I AM That I AM:" and He said, "Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you" (see
Exodus 3:13-14).
About 1,523 years later, when responding to the Jews, who failed to comprehend the meaning of Jesus' statement wherein He said to them,
"I go my way, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your sins: whither I go, ye cannot come," after which they wondered aloud if He would kill himself Him, we find that it is written our Lord Jesus Christ said to them,
"I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins" (see
John 8:21-24).
We also find it written in
John 13:18-20, that at that event which is commonly called "The Last Supper," following His washing of the disciple's feet, once again our Lord identified Himself as "I AM he," that is, the visible, human manifestation of that same Almighty God who appeared to Moses and commanded him to return to Egypt which we read about in
Exodus 3:13-14.
So, based solely upon these scriptural passages, which clearly indicate that the Lord Jesus Christ, who is the "Son of man," that is, He is the human manifestation of the Almighty I AM in a physical human body (see
II Corinthians 2:19); and should one who has is a recipient of the baptism of the Spirit and has been immersed in the waters of baptism "in His name," ever be persuaded to entertain doubts concerning what we commonly know as the Oneness of God, then I am persuaded to believe that such "doubts" are a subtle, deceitful ploy of the enemy to cause that one to deny the One True God.
And what did Christ Jesus admonish the Jews concerning those who would doubt or fail to believe His true identity -
"that ye shall die in your sins: FOR IF YE BELIEVE NOT THAT I AM HE, ye shall die in your sins"? And we know the eternal fate of ALL those who do so will "die in their sins," do we not?
Just something I think we must all think about ...
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