Do you believe God, the Son, was the self existent, I AM, YHWH, Son of God, pre-incarnate and incarnate? He was the person speaking to Moses
John 1:18
18 No one has seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, being ( self existent) in the bosom of the Father, that One declares Him .
Exodus 3:13
13And Moses said to God, Behold, I shall come to the sons of Israel and say to them, the God of your fathers has sent me to you; and they will say to me, What is His name? What shall I say to them?
Exodus 3:14
14 And God said to Moses, I AM THAT I AM; and He said, You shall say this to the sons of Israel, I AM has sent me to you.
Exodus 3:15
15 And God said to Moses again, You shall say this to the sons of Israel, Jehovah, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is My name forever, and this is My memorial from generation to generation.
Genesis 19:24
24 And YHWH rained brimstone and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah, from YHWH out of the heavens.
Comment– We have 2 persons called YHWH. The YHWH standing on earth must be, since He was seen, The pre-incarnate Son of God.
Acts 13:25
25 And as John fulfilled the course, he said, Whom do you suppose me to be? Not I AM , but, behold, “He comes after me, of whom I am not worthy to loosen the sandal of His feet.” John 1:27
John The Baptist called Jesus I AM
John 8:24
Therefore, I said to you that you will die in your sins. For if you do not believe that I AM, you will die in your sins.
John 3:13
13 And no one has gone up into Heaven, except He having come down out of Heaven, the Son of Man who is in Heaven.
Comment– Jesus says He is in heaven while He is standing on earth. He is standing in finite form while omnipresent in Heaven.
John 5:18
18 Because of this, therefore, the Jews lusted the more to kill Him, for not only did He break the sabbath, but also called God His own Father, making Himself equal to God.
The Gospel ( Good News)
God promises to save His people, Jew and Gentile, from their sins, who are taken from every nation, tribe, language and people, conditioned solely on the atoning shed blood of Jesus Christ and His imputed righteousness alone without contribution from those that Jesus represented.
All The people given by the Father to Jesus to be effectually saved will come to the knowledge of the truth sometime between conception and death.
They will realize their self righteousness is nothing more than a menstrual cloth. They will know only God is good and that He is the one through the Holy Spirit that works the willing and the doing in His promised people for His good pleasure. His people, the justified through the work and person of Jesus Christ shall live their lives by God given and worked faith in this gospel of Grace.
Luke 18:19, Philippians 1:6, 1:29, 2:13, 2 Thessalonians 2:13, Romans 1:16-17, Romans 8:8-9
The Tax Collector is representative of a repentant sinner, ready by God given repentance, to turn to the mercy of God through Jesus Christ; a salvation conditioned on the atoning shed blood of Jesus Christ and His imputed righteousness alone received by God given faith.
Luke 18:9-14
9 And He also spoke this parable to some of those relying on themselves, that they are righteous, and despising the rest:
10 Two men went up into the temple to pray, the one a Pharisee, and the other a tax collector.
11 The Pharisee was standing, praying these things to himself: God, I thank You that I am not as the rest of men, rapacious, unrighteous, adulterers, or even as this tax collector.
12 I fast twice on the sabbath; I tithe all things, as many as I get.
13 And standing at a distance, the tax collector would not even lift up his eyes to Heaven, but smote on his breast, saying, God, be merciful to me, the sinner!
14 I say to you, This one went down to his house having been justified, rather than that one. For everyone exalting himself will be humbled. And the one humbling himself will be exalted.
They will turn to The True God through Jesus Christ asking for mercy while living their lives by faith because it is God through Jesus Christ that works faith, the willing and the doing for His good pleasure.
They will know that salvation is completely the work of God from regeneration to glorification when He comes again when they will be unable to sin in their newly resurrected bodies in the new heaven and new earth.
John 3:36
36The one believing into the Son has everlasting life; but the one disobeying the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.
Revelation 1:7-8
7 “Behold, He comes with the clouds,” and “every eye will see Him, and the ones who pierced” Him, and all the tribes of the earth “will wail on account of Him.” Yes, Amen. Dan. 7:13; Zech. 12:108 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the Ending, says the Lord, the One who is, and who was, and who is coming, the Almighty.
Revelation 22:13
13 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the Ending, the First and the Last.
Revelation 1:17-18
17 And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet, as dead. And He put His right hand on me, saying to me, Do not fear. I am the First and the Last,18 and the Living One; and I became dead; and, behold, I am living forever and ever. Amen. And I have the keys to hell, and of death.
Comment– Jesus Christ is The Almighty God YHWH, The I AM who became flesh and walked among us.
Matthew 1:21-23, Isaiah 53, Hebrews 9, Hebrews 10, John 6:35-65, John 3:26-27, John 6:29, John 10, John 17, Ephesians 2:8-10, Ephesians 1, Ephesians 2, Ephesians 6, John 3:3,5,8, Revelation 5:9,7:9, Romans 4:3-8, Romans 1,2,3, 8:28-30 Romans 9, Acts 20:28, Acts 13:48, 1 Corinthians 15, 2 Corinthians 4:3-7, 1 John 3:2, Luke 18:13, Isaiah 64:6, John 1:1-3,14,18, Romans 10:1-4, Romans 1:16-17, Revelation 21:1-8, Galatians 1:15-16, 2 Timothy 2:25
Highlights, italics added for emphasis by me unless in scripture
Literal translation Jay P Green 1993 or KJ3 literal translation Jay P Green 2006-2010
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