If you see the angel of the LORD as the flame and YHWH also being present there and speaking from the bush, OK, but I read it as the Angel of the LORD being God's presence there and so when the angel spoke it was YHWH that spoke, not as a ventrilaquist but as being present there in the bush
"... YHWH
also being present there... " Agreed! Also! Is it only there? Jeremiah knows. 23:24
Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? said the Lord. Do I not fill heaven and earth? says the Lord.
"not as a ventrilaquist...."
When words are produced, aren't the lips, teeth, jaw, palette, and diaphram a dummy? It's the will of the speaker that is producing the words? Can any person distinguish in any way the difference between what the lips, teeth, jaw, palette, and diaphram are doing and the will of the speaker? The will of the speaker IS the motion and actions of the lips, teeth, jaw, palette, and diaphram. And the actions and motions of lips, teeth, jaw, palette, and diaphram ARE the will.
The words before they are spoken are with the will, AND they are the will. In the beginning before they are spoken... the words are with the will and they are the will, they are indistinguishable. Sound familiar?
Once the words are spoken, then they contain the will of the speaker. The words are the shell, the wrapper, but they have no will of their own. They are completely subservient to the will of their maker.
Does the dummy have a choice what to say? Does it have a choice in what it does? The will of the ventrilaquist is literally INSIDE the dummy making it move. Kind of like this:
Puppet(Puppet-Master)Puppet ---> The puppet-master is IN the puppet. ----> There is no distinguishing between the two.
John 1:1
λόγος ἦν πρὸς τὸν θεόν, καὶ θεὸς ἦν ὁ λόγος.
λόγος(θεόν-θεὸς)λόγος
Logos(Theon-Theos)Logos
The ventrilaquist is nothing more than a puppet-master. It just so happens you can see them, but their lips aren't moving. But the same thing happens with any puppet show. The puppet doesn't have any will of it's own. The puppet-master is far above pulling on invisible strings to make them move. The puppet is connected to the master always. If the strings are cut, the puppet collapses.
The will of the puppet is not the puppet's will. It has no will of it's own. It does nothing on its own. The will of the puppet is... IN the puppet.
But it's not just the puppet. The entire puppet show is the will of the puppet master. The scenery, is the will of the puppet-master. All the characters are the will of the puppet-master. Every word that is spoken by every character is the will of the puppet-master. The entire puppet-show is the will of the puppet-master. It looks something like this:
Will(Puppet(Will)Puppet)Will
The will of the puppet-master is both the entire puppet-how and the individual actions of the puppet. The Will is in the Puppet AND The Puppet is in the Will. The Puppet is both filled and surrounded with a higher will. And it has no will of its own.
John 12:49: "... I did not speak on my own, but the Father who sent me commanded me to say all that I have spoken."
Commanded is not a choice. All is all. Not a single word was uttered that was chosen by Jesus. Assuming the book of John is true.
John 14:10: "Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work.
Jesus does not speak on his own. The-Father is doing all the work. Jesus is not doing anything. He is a vessel. He is in the Father (in the will of the father, fulfilling his destiny, that's the puppet-show) and the Father is in him (The will of father is directing everything he says, and everything he does)? Assuming the book of John is true.
PuppetShow(Puppet(Will)Puppet)PuppetShow
What people see --->PuppetShow+Puppet(Will)Puppet+PuppetShow <--- What people see
What people see ---> Father(Jesus(Father)Jesus)Father <--- What people see
or, maybe...
What people see ---> Father+Jesus(Father)Jesus+Father <--- What people see
Even if a person decides that what they see when they look at Jesus is a Jesus+Father unit, that doesn't change that Jesus is never-never executing his own will. The Father is in him, and he's told you it's The-Father that's "pulling his strings" "doing the work", he is always connected to The Father. This is why it's so, forgive me, unbearbly frustrating for him when people don't listen to his words. They're not his words. They're not his actions. Don't blame him, blame "The-Father". Don't question him, question "The-Father". If you don't know him, you don't know ... The-Father.
angel-Of-The-Lord. What does that mean to you? It's the Lord's angel isn't it. The Lord possesses it. It speaks and does the will of the Lord. Can it do anything that the Lord does not will it to do? Isn't it just a puppet? If it ever chose to do something counter to the will of the Lord, would it still be true to call it "Angel of the Lord"?
When the Lord possesses something, what does that mean? Is it just ownership, like on a sales contract, or a title, or a deed? Or does it mean like a car, boat, or house? Does the Lord get drive the car, sail the boat, and decorate the house? If the Lord chose to do those things, would you deny it? Could you deny it? Could anyone anywhere deny it? If it couldn't do those things, is it true to say that the Lord possesses them?
So, if it's the angel of Lord, and that's who you think is speaking, does it matter? Who's will is directing those words? Isn't the will that matters? If someone hits you with their car, God forbid, do you blame the car or the driver?
Moses though that if he looked he might see God who spoke from the bush, but imo he would not see God but the flame only, which was not God.
This is a very important story to me. Let's start at the beginning OK? What's most important is
how God was choosing to reveal itself to Moses.
First, "And the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush; and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.
bush(fire(flame(angel-of-the-Lord)flame)fire)bush
You're saying Moses only would see the flame.
What Moses saw ---> bush+fire+flame(angel-of-Lord)flame+fire+bush <--- What Moses saw
The angel is concealed. Is the Lord's will in command? I think, I hope we both agree, 'yes'?
What Moses saw ---> bush+fire+flame(angel(Lord)angel)flame+fire+bush <--- What Moses saw
The Lord's will is concealed in the angel, and both are concealed in the burning bush.