When the Bible speaks of two witnesses, there just may be a deeper message than what meets the eye. Could it be the "I" and the "Am" that are the two witnesses? The me that has flesh and the me that is Spirit which when brought together becomes the "I am"? God is here and near, now! Think about it. It's the desire of all spiritual masters and particularly of Jesus, who became the Christ, that we ALL become ONE!
Jesus repeats the "I am" identity (John 8:58) that God related to Moses in Exodus 3:14.
I am is the spiritual unity of ME & HE (though God is not a gender). From there it's ME and my neighbors, and then ultimately ME and the whole religious world out there which is pretty darned big, different, and frightening. After all, we've been trained to fear that which we don't know and those who are different from us. Can you say Buddhists, Muslims, and mystics all?
Read this next sentence very slowly.
We must suspend our disbelief in order to believe. We must always be open to new discoveries and never claim that we know it all or have arrived. It simply isn't so. It's painful to go against the establishment: Jesus did and He was crucified for it.
Our spirit must be infused with God's Spirit.
Our flesh must take on more of the incarnation of God! After all, one of the most foundational themes of Christian redemption is the Word of God taking on human flesh and walking among us. Why has most of the church limited this concept to only Jesus. Yes, He was the first, the the ultimate, but we are all the incarnation of God in human form. We need to get a grip on what that means or we'll never see the Kingdom of God in any grandiose format.
We have so many un-opened and unknown gifts!
We don't have to go to God (somewhere- out there). God is incarnate right here amongst us: found in every person we meet to some degree. The I AM is the spiritual marriage of the Word becoming flesh in each of us and thererin healing the breach or separation between us and our Creator. It was just automatic that once we took on flesh (humanity) that a separation occured and now it's up to us to make our way back home by realizing exactly who we are in the Christ. It's not because of any original sin because we are original blessings.
We're not separated because of some biological act that occured thousands of years ago, but because of the nature of the behaviorial environment that we become acclimated to and accept.
Spiritual unity or union is our destiny- partially now in the third dimention and fully in the fourth!
ernie@lrchouston.com
