The I Am

And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire …. Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I Am hath sent me unto you. Ex. 3:2, 14 The current view is that the burning bush is the symbol of Israel as held in the throes of a fierce persecution -- Israel, exposed to the action of fire yet not consumed because preserved by the Almighty so that the thought incorporated in that bush, set on fire by the presence of God, is the same as that to which Jehovah by the mouth of...