Posts by David de Bruyn

The ancient Hebrews were not shy to include portions of the Sacred Name in their own names. Every Hebrew name that ends with the suffix “-ah” or begins with the prefix “Jeho/ Yeho” is some form of God’s name. Micah means “Who is like YHVH?” Jehoshaphat means “YHVH is Judge”. Perhaps the most important of…

The name of God reveals much of the kind of being God is. The sheer simplicity of the term “I AM” or “He is” belies how many layers of meaning it has. Aseity,1 eternity, immutability, simplicity, and tri-unity are implicit in the term. So, too, is the idea of infinity. To say I AM THAT…

“The Trinity is in the Old Testament present but concealed; The Trinity is in the New Testament present and revealed.” True enough, and equally true of how much the covenant name of God reveals of the Trinity in the respective Testaments. When Moses first learns God’s name, there is something implicit in the conversation that…

When God declares “I AM THAT I AM”, He is explaining to us, as best as human language can communicate, what He is. Philosophy, and specifically that branch of philosophy known as metaphysics, studies the nature of reality. It breaks things down into their component parts, hoping to reach the final essence that makes up the substance of…

The covenant name of God communicates profound depth with a two-word simplicity: I AM. The hallowed Name of God contains a wealth of truth, if we will stop to peer into its depths, and not merely notice its surface. I AM THAT I AM reveals a God who is immutable: unchanging and unchangeable. To say…

“I AM THAT I AM” communicates an eternal timelessness inconceivable to human experience. We exist in a fractional, fleeting, unquantifiable moment that we call “now”. But “now” becomes past as quickly as it arrived from the future. Most of our life, considered from the point of view of experience, is either past or future. Memory…

When God announces that His name is I AM THAT I AM, He is communicating much of His nature and essence. Besides teaching us that His existence is grounded in Himself, the term I AM THAT I AM is about as concise a way of explaining the truth that God is simple. The simplicity of…