From the beginning

Foretold

Jesus said Moses wrote about Him. It is not a secret code. It is a lot of page: a line, the numbers He counted, the signs He named, and the days He appointed.

Walk it the way the text walks. The Hebrew is still on the page. When a preacher stretched a name, or forced a number, we say so.

The line

It runs from a garden to a town, in the order the text already walks.

01Seed02Names03Nations04Priest05Ram06Joseph07Scepter08I AM09Lamb10Bread11Rock12Curtain13Goat14Serpent15Prophet16Redeemer17House18Pierced19Stone20Immanuel21Branch22Egypt23Bethlehem24Donkey25Silver26Covenant

The numbers

It counts a week, a wait, and a people, then fourteen generations, ten words, a third day, seventy, and a tally.

SevenFortyTwelveFourteenThird dayTen wordsSeventy447

The signs

He named them Himself: a fish, a star, a prophet, a rest, and a bow.

JonahStarElijahSabbathBow

The days

These are appointed times: first fruit, fifty days, booths, and a year of release.

01First fruit02Weeks03Booths04Jubilee

The line · 08 of 26 · Exodus 3

I AM who I AM

A bush burns and is not eaten. The name cannot be held still in the hand. Then a Man says it of Himself.

The text
God said to Moses, I AM WHO I AM. Say this to the people of Israel: I AM has sent me to you.

The word

אֶהְיֶה

I AM, I will be, I will be what I will be (ehyeh)

Walk this word

What happens

  1. 01The bush is not eaten

    Exodus 3:2

    The angel of the Lord appears in a flame. The bush burns. It is not consumed. Moses turns aside to see.

  2. 02I AM who I AM

    Exodus 3:14

    Moses wants a name to carry to the people. God gives one that does not shrink: I AM. Then He says, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

  3. 03Before Abraham was

    John 8:58

    The argument is about age. Jesus will not stay in that argument. Before Abraham was, I AM. They reach for stones.

  4. 04I AM. You will see the Son of Man

    Mark 14:62

    Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed? I AM. And you will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of Power. The high priest tears his clothes.

Read it this way

Moses turns aside to a bush on fire that is not consumed. God speaks from it. Moses asks for a name. The answer is ehyeh asher ehyeh — I AM who I AM, I will be what I will be. It is not a lucky phrase. It is a name that will not sit still in the hand.

Jesus later says, before Abraham was, I AM. They pick up stones. At His trial He is asked if He is the Christ, the Son of the Blessed. He says I AM. They call it blasphemy. The bush was never a puzzle. It was a name. He put it in His own mouth.

Then it is named

The other room. Same line. A Person with a name.

John 8:58Mark 14:62

Some sayI AM is a riddle. Jesus quoting it is later Greek cleverness.

The name in the bush does not stay in the bush. He says it of Himself, and they know what they heard.

Open Exodus 3

The copies sometimes differ — that is Witness. Words you already say out loud sit in Words with weight. Foretold is what the page already says. It is not a decoder ring.