In The Time Before Time

Exodus 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.

Commentary by: Bill the Butcher

Theologians, scientists, philosophers, and religions, have puzzled over this simple line since Rabbis first penned it back in the old used to be. It sounded real cool in “The Ten Commandments” as Carlton Heston knelt before that burning plastic bush. So different from what Joseph Smith claimed that he saw on Hill Cumorah millennia later. A voice saying it is what it is! Deal with it!

But it was much more than that. First and foremost, “I Am was the name of God! Of course, greater minds than mine will disagree. They will point to all manner of names. From El to Jehovah, but only this one time did God ever show his ID and say “This is me! Call me by this and tell your people!” When Jesus uttered the words, “I Am,” Caiaphas tore up his clothes and gave them to Goodwill.

But when “I Am” said it, he knew it would fall on deaf ears. Oh, it was cool and all, but the meaning is much deeper than that. Much . . . Deeper. Back before time. Back before the creation of the universe. Back even before that, and then some. And then some more. To a time before time.

1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

So short. So simple. In fact a lot of people get so caught up in the eloquence of the prose they don’t comprehend what’s really transpiring here. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. He made it from nothing. Nada! He didn’t fill up space. There was no space. So He made space itself. But what did he need space for? So He’d have someplace to put matter. Earth! Just like when Jesus fed five thousand with one order from Long John Silver’s and a side of curly fries! Jesus created matter. We can’t do that!

In any Atheist/Preacher debate there is one supposition that will confound everything. If there was a Big Bang, who lit the fuse? And if someone lit it, who lit His? And His, and His, as far back as you want to go. Even Mormons stumble and fall over this stone with their thousands of “gods.”

And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.

The bush said it was “Am,” Jesus said He was too, He also said he hung out with Abraham, and Peter said this simple fact was a stumbling stone that was beyond all understanding. Don’t you wanna know why? Because we were never supposed to understand it. Our corporeal brains were never meant to take that in. And that condition is universal. From Angel to Atheist. The buck stops right there!

This was Lucifer’s mistake. He claimed that he would rise above the Most High, one third of his audience immediately became Woke and God reassigned them to Salt Lake City. Lucifer did not have a key to the executive washroom and when asked about it he just said, like any politician, “I’m glad you asked that question,” changed the subject and went on to star in “The Exorcist.”

When scientists come upon this, they wave their hands in the air like they don’t care and start talking about quantum physics. But this is not the only unfathomed truth perplexing the human condition. We’ve shown that we can come up with amazing things. From fire to microwaves but we can’t actually “make” anything!

The Muslims say Allah said, “Be,” and it simply was! We cannot create. As I just said, we can rearrange atoms, but we can’t make the atoms. We can cook fish and biscuits and feed all those people. Jesus filled all those baskets. Think about that. Take all the time you need.

During those six days that God was “creating” all that we see and know, and a few things we can’t, he threw in time. And the rules and regulations of time was the filter that helps us put events in perspective. Even then we get it wrong. There’s no such thing as time. It’s just a concept. It basically makes no difference to eternity which is where we really live. Ask yourself: Why did God make plants before sunlight because everyone knows plants need sunlight to thrive. Had to add time do you would think you understand and ask that question. Tree don’t know what time it is. Don’t care. Only after the condition of time is mixed in can we even begin to understand the plants, sunlight, day and night or Monday morning.

And this not the only abstract we miss. Take numbers. So now you ask why numbers. Because numbers are an abstract. Something else God made to help us function and understand. And He made numbers a rule of the universe. But what is a number? In an of itself a number is nothing. Only a teaching aid. A condition thereof. You can hold three apples. But you can’t “hold” the number “three!” You can’t because the “number” three is only an abstract as your mind tries to explain one of the conditions of the apples. Oh by the way, careful about them apples.

We were never meant to understand time, numbers, apples, oranges or The I Am. We were meant to accept it. You can theorize all you want but you’ll never arrive at the answer to that equation. E might equal MC Square, but what about MC Circle? And that’s what you’re trying to do when you wrestle with the two words. He is “I Am” and you are “I Ain’t!” Watch out for that stone!

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