During the Hanukkah feast (33 A.D.) Yahshuah appeared in the temple. He drove  the crowd to a frenzy by telling them they are not the children of Abraham but the murderous children of the devil and they do his lusts. He infuriated them even more by saying they are slaves to sin and if anyone will keep his logos(teachings), they will never taste death.

They ask him who are you?

He says I am the son of Yah, and if the son sets you free you will be free indeed. (v.35-36) You must believe that I am he ,or you will die in your sins. Is he saying you must believe I am God? No. he is saying you must believe I am the son.

They ask "do you think you are greater than the prophets and Abraham?

He then pushes them to the wall calling them liars. They shout back that he is demon possessed. He says "Abraham rejoiced to see my day". (John 8:58)

What day is he talking about?

I contend that Yahshuah is saying Abraham rejoiced when he learned that one day, one of his descendants, the Messiah would come and bless all nations.

By now the crowd is seething and ready for blood, they cry "you are not yet 50 years old. Are you trying to say you've seen Abraham?".

Yahshuah replies "Before Abraham was Ego Eimi. This has come into the English language as "I AM" and has given the impression that Yahshuah was declaring himself to be God Almighty. The modern preacher will tell you that's why at that point the crowd tried to kill him. I contend that the crowd tried to kill him for saying he was alive before Abraham and they were now convinced that he was definitely a lying false prophet.

I contend that he was NOT saying I AM but "I am He" -the messiah. Before Abraham foresaw me, God foresaw me and chose me. I was already in God's mind and plan.

I contend that the translators deliberately dropped off the word "He" to try to project deity onto Christ to fit their preconceived doctrine. Just a few verses earlier they twice translated Ego eimi as "I am he".

"if ye believe not that Ego eimi, ye shall die in your sins." (John 8:24)

Three times in this chapter Yahshuah said Ego eimi. I contend he was saying I am the son and I am the messiah. That was the whole point of John's Gospel. John says in Chapter 20 I wrote this book to tell people that Yahshuah is the Messiah, the Son of God.

"But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God," (John 20:31).

John did not write his book to say what that modern preachers say that Yahshuah is the Messiah, and God.

4 verses later in John 8:28 he uses Ego eimi again and the Jews do not riot thinking he is claiming to be God.

"Then said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that Ego eimi". I am he- the Messiah.

I contend that at no point when he said Ego eimi did the Jews think he was using the title for Yah. If they did they would have stoned him in verse 24, and if they missed it in 24, they would have stoned him in 28. The translators should have consistently translated ego emi as' I am he". That is how they translated it in verses 24 and 28 but not in 58.

One missed word changes Yahshuah from the son of God to God the son, and leads countless people into worshipping a man as God. How wicked is that?



There is an even more serious problem with the Old Testament phrase I AM.

It only appears once in English in Exodus 3:14 and appears to not even be in the original text. When Moses asks who shall I say sent me Yah replies in verse 3:15:

"tell them Yah the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob sent you." He goes on to say pass my name to all generations.

"God said moreover to Moshe, "You shall tell the children of Yisra'el this, Yah, the God of your fathers, the God of Avraham, the God of Yitzchak, and the God of Ya`akov, has sent me to you.' This is my name forever, and this is my memorial to all generations. (Exod.3:15)

Nowhere do we hear Moses saying I Am has sent me, even though Charleton Heston said it many times in the movie, The Ten Commandments.

The Septuagint (Greek version of the Old Testament)

In the Septuagint we do not find the phrase I AM HATH SENT

Kai Eipen Theos pros Moses
And declared God to Moses
Ego Emi o ton and eipen autos epeis tois viois Israel ho ton apestalken Me
I Am the being and declare to the children of Israel the being has sent me
pros Umas
to you

But look what The King James translators added:

Exd 3:14" And God said unto Moses , I AM THAT I AM: and he said Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel I AM hath sent me unto you.

If you look at the phrase I AM HATH SENT you will see that there is only one word there "SENT" (Shalach). The translators have added on the I AM part.

Check it out at http://www.blueletterbible.org/tmp_dir/words/i/1126880385-7727.html

So how could Yahshuah be claiming to be The Great I AM when that title doesn't exist?

The Vulgate Error

Even in the Latin Vulgate the words I AM HATH SENT me do not appear. But a mistranslation of the Hebrew Eyeh Asher Eyeh does appear. eyeh 'asher 'eyeh should be translated I will be what I will become
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_name_of_God_in_Judaism)

Jerome translated eyeh asher eyeh into Latin as Ego sum qui sum "I am who I am". Here it is in Latin:

dixit Deus ad Mosen ego sum qui sum ait sic dices filiis Israhel qui est misit me ad vos
said God to Moses I am who I am and tell the children of Israel that is who sent me to you

So once again Jerome has lead us astray, and we can see that when translated correctly as I will be what I will become then we see that not even Yah claimed to be the I AM. So if Yah never said I am that I am or tell them I Am sent you, then surely Yahshuah was not claiming to be the I AM.

So a Roman monk, 500 years after Yahshuah, created the I Am phrase by mis-translating Eyeh Asher Eyeah. The whole thing is a scam that has had dreadful repercussions down through the centuries. Christianity at its beginning was purely monotheistic,. There was one God the Father and Jesus was his mortal son, the Messiah.

When Yahshuah asked his followers "Who do men say I am?" Peter did not say you are the I am. He said you are the son of Yah and the Messiah. Yahshuah said "Blessed are you Peter for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my father in heaven has revealed it. By the Fifth Century this revelation was buried, but it has been unburied for all to whom the Father reveals it.

Back to Writings Index