Glimpses of God
I AM that I AM
When Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and
said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.
And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this
birthright do to me? And the LORD appeared unto him the same night, and said, I
am the God of Abraham thy father: fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless
thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham's sake.
And Isaac his father said unto him, Who art thou? And he said, I am thy son, thy
firstborn Esau.
And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest,
and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I
have done that which I have spoken to thee of.
And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and
a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins;
And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to
bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing
with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the
Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
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. And the Egyptians shall know
that I am the LORD, when I have gotten me honour upon Pharaoh, upon his
chariots, and upon his horsemen. And they shall know that I am the LORD their
God, that brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, that I may dwell among
them: I am the LORD their God. Speak thou also unto the children of Israel,
saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you
throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the LORD that doth
sanctify you. And ye shall eat it in the holy place, because it is thy due, and
thy sons' due, of the sacrifices of the LORD made by fire: for so I am
commanded.
But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto
you to possess it, a land that floweth with milk and honey: I am the LORD your
God, which have separated you from other people. Neither shall he go out of the
sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the crown of the anointing
oil of his God is upon him: I am the LORD.
And the Lord hath performed his word that he spake, and I am risen up in the
room of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised,
and have built an house for the name of the LORD God of Israel. And went after
the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak: and he said unto him, Art
thou the man of God that camest from Judah? And he said, I am. And he answered
him, I am: go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here.
And it came to pass at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that
Elijah the prophet came near, and said, LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of
Israel, let it be known this day that thou art God in Israel, and that I am thy
servant, and that I have done all these things at thy word. But I have
understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not
such things as these? Behold, I am according to thy wish in God's stead: I also
am formed out of the clay.
Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be
exalted in the earth. Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will
testify against thee: I am God, even thy God. I am the LORD thy God, which
brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither
my praise to graven images. For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel,
thy Saviour: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee.
Fear not: for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather
thee from the west; Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I
have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he:
before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me. I, even I,
am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour. I have declared, and have saved,
and I have shewed, when there was no strange god among you: therefore ye are my
witnesses, saith the LORD, that I am God. Yea, before the day was I am he; and
there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let
it?
I am the LORD, your Holy One, the creator of Israel, your King. I, even I, am he
that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember
thy sins.
One shall say, I am the LORD'S; and another shall call himself by the name of
Jacob; and another shall subscribe with his hand unto the LORD, and surname
himself by the name of Israel. Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his
redeemer the Lord of Hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me
there is no God.
He burneth part thereof in the fire; with part thereof he eateth flesh; he
roasteth roast, and is satisfied: yea, he warmeth himself, and saith, Aha, I am
warm, I have seen the fire: Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that
formed thee from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things; that stretcheth
forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself.
I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee,
though thou hast not known me: That they may know from the rising of the sun,
and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD and there is none
else. For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed
the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he
formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else.
Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and
there is none else. And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs
will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will
deliver you. Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none
else; I am God, and there is none like me, Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel,
my called; I am he; I am the first, I also am the last.
Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the LORD thy God
which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest
go. And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing
mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth, and lick
up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD: for they shall
not be ashamed that wait for me.
But I am the LORD thy God, that divided the sea, whose waves roared: The LORD OF
HOSTS is his name. Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore they shall
know in that day that I am he that doth speak: behold, it is I. Then shalt thou
call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am.
If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the
finger, and speaking vanity; Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me;
for I am holier than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all
the day.
But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me,
that I am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness,
in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the LORD. And I will give
them an heart to know me, that I am the LORD: and they shall be my people, and I
will be their God: for they shall return unto me with their whole heart.
For I am with thee, saith the LORD, to save thee: though I make a full end of
all nations whither I have scattered thee, yet will I not make a full end of
thee: but I will correct thee in measure, and will not leave thee altogether
unpunished. They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead
them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way,
wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my
firstborn.
Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard for me?
And I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt know that I am the
LORD.
I am the LORD your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them;
And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may
know that I am the LORD your God.
And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall bring you into the land of
Israel, into the country for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to your
fathers. And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have wrought with you for
my name's sake, not according to your wicked ways, nor according to your corrupt
doings, O ye house of Israel, saith the LORD God. And thou shalt take thine
inheritance in thyself in the sight of the heathen, and thou shalt know that I
am the LORD.
Thus Ezekiel is unto you a sign: according to all that he hath done shall ye do:
and when this cometh, ye shall know that I am the LORD God. In that day shall
thy mouth be opened to him which is escaped, and thou shalt speak, and be no
more dumb: and thou shalt be a sign unto them; and they shall know that I am the
LORD. And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the Ammonites a
couchingplace for flocks: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
In that day will I cause the horn of the house of Israel to bud forth, and I
will give thee the opening of the mouth in the midst of them; and they shall
know that I am the LORD.
And the tree of the field shall yield her fruit, and the earth shall yield her
increase, and they shall be safe in their land, and shall know that I am the
LORD, when I have broken the bands of their yoke, and delivered them out of the
hand of those that served themselves of them.
For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn unto you, and ye shall be tilled and
sown: And I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and
bring fruit: and I will settle you after your old estates, and will do better
unto you than at your beginnings: and ye shall know that I am the LORD. And I
will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the heathen, which ye have
profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD,
saith the LORD God, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.
As the holy flock, as the flock of Jerusalem in her solemn feasts; so shall the
waste cities be filled with flocks of men: and they shall know that I am the
LORD. And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and
cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know
that I am the LORD.
And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my
people, and brought you up out of your graves, Thus will I magnify myself, and
sanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall
know that I am the LORD. So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my
people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the
heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
And he informed me, and talked with me, and said, O Daniel, I am now come forth
to give thee skill and understanding. At the beginning of thy supplications the
commandment came forth, and I am come to shew thee; for thou art greatly
beloved: therefore understand the matter, and consider the vision.
Then said he unto me, Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day that thou didst
set thine heart to understand, and to chasten thyself before thy God, thy words
were heard, and I am come for thy words. Now I am come to make thee understand
what shall befall thy people in the latter days: for yet the vision is for many
days.
I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not return to destroy
Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of thee: and I
will not enter into the city. Yet I am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt,
and thou shalt know no god but me: for there is no saviour beside me. And ye
shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the LORD your God,
and none else: and my people shall never be ashamed.
Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the
weak say, I am strong. So shall ye know that I am the LORD your God dwelling in
Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no
strangers pass through her any more.
Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, saith the LORD; and be strong, O Joshua, son of
Josedech, the high priest; and be strong, all ye people of the land, saith the
LORD, and work: for I am with you, saith the LORD OF HOSTS.
Thus saith the LORD; I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of
Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth; and the mountain of
the LORD of HOSTS the holy mountain. And I will strengthen the house of Judah,
and I will save the house of Joseph, and I will bring them again to place them;
for I have mercy upon them: and they shall be as though I had not cast them off:
for I am the LORD their God, and will hear them. For I am the LORD, I change
not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.
While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice
out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased;
hear ye him.
I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in
his own name, him ye will receive. Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the
truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. Believest thou
not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I speak unto
you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the
works.
Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for
the very works' sake.
Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou
sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into
the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the
truth heareth my voice.
I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. (I
Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches.) I
am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.
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