Another insightful article by NABU consistent with how I was trained by mentor Dr. Rocco Errico in Aramaic. Here we have ten sayings of our Lord Christ Jesus plainly explained of the Aramaic meanings common folks heard in their own language in Galilee (ie., illiterate fisherman, tradespeople, their families under an oppressive Roman occupation and religious institution demanding census poll taxes as well).

Here are just two of those ten sayings. NABU writes:

“… The fourth. Before Abraham was, I am.

This is one of the most misunderstood statements in the New Testament. The Greek is egoeimi. The present tense. Not I was. Not I existed before Abraham.

I am. Present. Now. Always now. The Jewish audience he was speaking to would have recognized the reference immediately. The divine name revealed to Moses at the burning bush was I am that I am. Ehyeh asher ehyeh. The eternal present.

The consciousness that exists outside of time. He was not making a claim about his personal biography. He was pointing at the nature of the awareness that was speaking. The I am that he was describing was notthe personal self.

It was the consciousness that underlies all personal selves.

What Yeshua was actually saying:

The awareness speaking through me right now is the same eternal presence that existed before Abraham. Before time began.

It is not my personal self making this claim. It is the consciousness that underlies all selves, speaking through the form you see in front of you. This is what I am at the deepest level. And it is what you are too.

The fifth. The kingdom of God is within you.

The Greek word used in Luke 17:21 is entos. It means within or among. Most modern translations choose among because within suggests something the institution has spent two thousand years denying. The kingdom is not a place you go. It is a state you recognize.

In the Aramaic tradition this teaching is unambiguous.

The Malkuth of Alaha is inside you. The divine creative principle is present within every human being.

Not as a metaphor.

As a structural claim about the nature of consciousness and its relationship to the source from which it came. What Yeshua was actually saying: Stop looking outside yourself.

Stop waiting for the divine reality to arrive from somewhere else.

The creative intelligence of God is not in the sky or in the future or locked behind the doors of an institution. It is inside you right now. It has always been inside you. The work is not to find it. The work is to recognize what is already there.

Please read all ten Aramaic sayings of our Lord Christ Jesus here: 🔥🙏