The Better Covenant

        Made better so we can really live                           Written by: John Rosenberger

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        

Acknowledgements:

I followed my own depraved soul and mislead spirit into my adult life without real meaning. It was worse than without meaning because I hurt those around me and had real guilt to deal with. Then, at 21 years old, I was born from above and thus began my journey as a new member of the family of God. I knew right away that the Holy Spirit was reshaping my soul; in the image of Yahwey's Firstborn new covenant Son Yeshua. I just want to mention some of the people who have been and continue to be my mentors in the truth. 


I very reluctantly list them here because I don't know if they want their names associated with mine. Yet I would have never reached this better and ongoing understanding of scripture without them; apologies.


My Mom and Dad- for giving me my original conscience.

L.J.Adams- who gave me the gospel the day I was born again.

W.A.Criswell- who was very kind to me at his school.

Sylvia- for marrying me and allowing me to see through the eyes of a husband and father. 

Shawn Oleinik- my neighbor who first gave me permission to look beyond church tradition.

C.F.Hazlewood- my pastor who wisely leads the loving spiritual community I call family.

Richard Ohendalski- my Sunday school teacher who is light years ahead of me thinking outside the traditions. 

Don K. Preston- the Bible really can make logical sense.

David B. Curtis- hours and hours of non-traditional sermons for deeper thinking.

Tim Martin- how did we get here historically and the real meaning of the Bible metaphors.

Alan Bondar- with some more crazy but true thoughts to bring it all together.

Doug and Boyardee- who were both kind enough to argue with me online at deathisdefeated.ning.com



1 Corinthians 15:45-47

ALT 45 In the same way also it has been written, "The first man Adam became a living soul." The last Adam [became] for a life-giving spirit. [Genesis 2:7] 46  But the spiritual [is] not first, but the natural, afterwards the spiritual. 47 The first man [is] out of the earth, earthy [or, made of dust]; the second Man [is the] Lord from heaven.

How did eschaton Adam become the second human?

How did He restore the life-giving spirit of Yahwey?


The Greek word translated 'final' or 'last' is eschaton. The eschaton Adam was resurrected to be the second covenant man. Typically the head human bears the family image through his bride, which becomes a tribe, which becomes a city or nation. Yashua is now the new head human! Adam was the first-covenant head-human. 


We get the word eschatology from eschaton. Eschatology has to do with the fire judgment, the end of old order, the death of the covenant death and Adam's reunion with Yahwey through Yeshua. (I mean first Adam himself was presumably saved. Corporately the old man was put to {second} death.)



Mark 1:11

KJV 11 And there came a voice from heaven, saying, Thou art my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

John 1:33

YLT 33 and I did not know him, but he who sent me to baptize with water, He said to me, On whomsoever thou mayest see the Spirit coming down, and remaining on him, this is he who is baptizing with the Holy Spirit;

The son of the king needs a proper bride for disseminating his father's image.

Adam looked for a human bride among the other creations and could not find one. So Yahwey formed a bride from his side while he was in a deep sleep. Eschaton Adam did not even find a bride from the human covenant. So God also formed a bride for Him from His side, while He was in a deep sleep on the cross. The bride of Christ is then betrothed at Pentecost when the twelve tribes enter the new covenant of the second human. Yashua did not start the new covenant over with a single individual, He set a whole nation free from the side of last Adam. The same God who breathed into the first Adam, re-breathed into his progeny at Pentecost. The image of the human soul did not change. It became fully realized in eschaton Adam and shortly thereafter applied to the nation of Israel in a made-new creation. The epistles address the betrothed church being prepared (by the life-giving spirit) to stand at the wedding. 


John 19:33-34  YLT 33 and having come to Jesus, when they saw him already having been dead, they did not break his legs; 34 but one of the soldiers with a spear did pierce his side, and immediately there came forth blood and water; 


Christ is Adam fulfilled. Christ completely procures the image of God in the first covenant then successfully transfers it to His people in His new covenant/creation. Jesus resonates with the sixth day of the prophetic creation week when he reiterates, "it is finished" from the lips of eschaton Adam on the cross. Since Jesus rises again, His real death is Adam's 6th day deep sleep fulfilled. The law man (soldier) pierced His side with a sword causing His blood and water to break out. The law did not kill Jesus. The law released the bride from her first marriage covenant because the husbandman was already dead. His blood flow symbolically carries the human soul while His water breaking forth from the pericardial sac around His heart and lungs represents being born again by the Spirit as a new land emerges out of water; a land where the bride too could fully live.

 

If you start on a sabbath, then the eighth day is the new sabbath. Jesus was born on a sabbath and circumcised on the next sabbath. He also entered Jerusalem on a sabbath and was resurrected as the only one in the new creation on the next sabbath. He took his completed image of God in a man from the old to the new covenant/creation for his people.


This new creation theme already so ubiquitously symbolized in eighth-day circumcision, was maintained by the author of the epistle we call John (identified in the epistle as, "the disciple whom Jesus loved"). He more than alludes to Genesis 1:1 in John 1:1. The Pharisees do object when Jesus brings life to a dead man on the sabbath, but He says His Father is working until now and so is He. The fulfillment Eve had yet to be ensouled, so the image of God in Adam was fully transferred from the old covenant to the new in the last work week of eschaton Adam. Since the first covenant full-image-of-God-in-man died, the widow was set free to remarry the soon-to-be-resurrected new covenant man.


Fifty days after First Fruits, the progeny of Israel is represented at Pentecost by the twelve apostles and the scattered tribes, who had reassembled in Jerusalem for the festival. The believeing Israelites of the diaspora then returned to their foriegn homes with the gospel. The risen Messiah sent the promised Holy Spirit to re-create His image in the heart of His church, prior to the wedding. He sent out twelve apostles to lay the foundation and twelve tribes to open the gates to the world.



Jesus told Jews to wait in Jerusalem til they are born from above on Pentecost.

Acts 1:4-5 YLT 4 And being assembled together with them, he commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, `Ye did hear of me; 5 because John, indeed, baptized with water, and ye shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit—after not many days.


Act 2:1-5 YLT 1 And in the day of the Pentecost being fulfilled, they were all with one accord at the same place, 2 and there came suddenly out of the heaven a sound as of a bearing violent breath, and it filled all the house where they were sitting, 3 and there appeared to them divided tongues, as it were of fire; it sat also upon each one of them, 4 and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues, according as the Spirit was giving them to declare. 5 And there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation of those under the heaven


Israel's belief in the new human is tested.

James 1:1-3  Jacob, a servant of God and of the Master Jesus Christ; to the twelve tribes who are in the through seeding [i.e., the scattering of the tribes outside of Judea]: be rejoicing with all joy my brothers whenever you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your belief produces patient endurance. 


Proselytes too-

2 Corinthians 11:2  for I am jealous over you with the jealousy of God, for I betrothed you to one man; a pure virgin, to stand beside the Messiah.


I will show you the bride.

Revelation 21:9-11 LITV  9 And one of the seven angels came to me, he having the seven bowls being filled with the seven last plagues, and spoke with me, saying, Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb. 10 And he carried me in spirit on to a great and high mountain, and showed me the great city, holy Jerusalem, coming down out of Heaven from God, 11 having the glory of God. And its light was like a very precious stone, as a jasper stone, being clear as crystal,
 

Just as the breath of Yahwey introduced his glorious image into people's hearts at Pentecost, without blood, Yahwey introduced his image into Adam, without blood. He breathed into Adam's nose. The old blood-covenant was a result of the disobedience of the head human. The sacrificial blood was shed to cover first covenant man, because Adam brought the death of disobedience into his relationship with Yahwey. 


Yashua shed His blood to end that fallen blood covenant (in the flesh). There are no more sacrifices for disobedience because the new covenant human will never disobey Yahwey! The blood of the eschaton Adam released Yahwey's people from the side of Adam, so the twelve tribes were set free to re-engage with Yashua on Pentecost. There is no threat of covenant death due to a disobedient husbandman.  


The glory of Yahwey is breathed into the bride.

The church has become the "mother of all the living", "the second Eve", "the  city of God", and Yashua is now the husbandman who keeps us covered with his 'living human blood'. It will never be shed again. People are born again and raised through the church by His spirit. He lives to intercede for us. Symbolically, the living blood carries the breath of life to all parts of the human body even as it carries away all the toxins. Jesus' heart and lungs went under water indicating his death to the land of his first birth. On the third day he was born again by the holy spirit.


Romans 8:2  CLV 2 for the spirit's law of life in Christ Jesus frees you from the law of sin and death.

 

If the bride knows and loves her husband, because he has a good soul, then she will raise their childeren in his image. Their children are in their bloodline. They will be breathed on by the words of mom and dad who are two individual and personal human spirits. Spirit to spirit is more personal and understanding than just law over spirit.


Metaphorically, the soul is passed on through the blood. Therefore the blood of animals was always poured out before the meat was eaten, since no animal had an immortal soul. Eating meat symbolizes becoming one body. Yashua offended many of his bretheren in the flesh by telling them to not only eat His flesh but to also drink his blood. The breath of Jesus, symbolically carried in His blood, would arrive from heaven on Pentecost. The breath (words) from other spirits is how the living soul is passed on. 

 

The Christ taught the Jews.

John 6:53-59 LITV  53 Then Jesus said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, except you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink His blood, you do not have life in yourselves. 54 The one partaking of My flesh and drinking of My blood has everlasting life, and I will raise him up at the last day. 55 For My flesh is truly food, and My blood is truly drink. 56 The one partaking of My flesh and drinking of My blood abides in Me, and I in him. 57 Even as the living Father sent Me, and I live through the Father; also the one partaking Me, even that one will live through Me. 58 This is the Bread which came down out of Heaven, not as your fathers ate the manna and died; the one partaking of this Bread will live forever. 59 He said these things teaching in a synagogue in Capernaum.


1 John 4:1-4  Interlinear Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see if they are of God, for many false prophets have come out in the world. In this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit (human or other) professing that Yah Shua Messiah has come in the flesh is of God; and every spirit (human or other) not professing that Yah Shua Messiah has come in the flesh is not of God; and this is of the antimessiah (group) of which you heard that it is coming and even now it is already in the world. Little children, you are of God and have overcome them, because He that is in you is greater than he that is in the world. 


John 1:41

KJV 41 He first findeth his own brother Simon, and saith unto him, We have found the Messias, which is, being interpreted, the Christ.


Antimessiah

The word antimessiah is usually rendered 'antichrist'. Christ is not Yeshua's last name. Christ means messiah. Antichrist means, 'opposed to the anointed one'. The word spirit is usually added to the text to read, 'the spirit of the antichrist'. But the antimessiah leader did not have an omnipresent spirit. He had a group of individuals consisting of humans and demons that loosely formed the body of the antichrist; a group of people who formed to go against the Son of God. The omnipresent antiholyspirit did not make them a body. There was no such spirit. The rejection of the Holy Spirit and the Son was their 'uniting' factor. The lead adversary had influence but each false prophet spirit tried to rule in the power of his own unholy spirit by going against Yeshua and His people. Even the unholy spirit of a demon could only inhabit the body of a single individual at a time. And the fruit of that antichrist spirit was not self control or love. In fact, the spirit of the demon possesed person often spoke for them against their will. 


1 John 4:9  Interlinear This is how the love of God was manifest among us; in that God dispatched the only begotten son of him into the world so that we could live through him.


John 6:63 CLV  The Spirit is that which is vivifying. The flesh is not benefiting anything. The declarations which I have spoken to you are spirit and are life. {note: The word “flesh” here is a figure for “being born or proselytized into works of Law”: with its flesh circumcision, flesh animal sacrifices, flesh location, ceremonial flesh washing, etc. Born from above is inward by the Spirit; not outward by the hands of men in the flesh.}


Galatians 5:22 ALT  But the fruit of the Spirit is: love, joy, peace [or, freedom from anxiety], patience, kindness, goodness [or, generosity], faith,


Acts 8:27-33  Interlinear And standing up he went and saw an Ethiopian man, a eunuch, a potentate of Candace the queen of Ethiopians, who was over all her treasure, who had come to Jerusalem to worship. 28 As he was returning and sitting on his chariot he read the prophet Isaiah. 29 And the Spirit said to Philip, Go near and enter his chariot. 30 And running to him Philip hears him reading the prophet Isaiah, and said, surely you do know what you are reading? 31 But he said, How could I unless someone guides me? And he called Philip near, to come up to sit with him. 32 And the section of the scripture which he was reading was this: "He was led as a sheep to slaughter, and as a lamb speechless before the one shearing it, so He does not open His mouth. 33 In His humiliation His judgment was lifted; so who of His generation will be relating (to lead or carry the narration through) that His life is being lifted from the land.


Psalm 48:1-3  CLV 1 {A Song{ {A Psalm for the Sons of Korah{ Great is Yahweh, and praised exceedingly In the city of our Elohim, His holy mountain;" 2 Lovely of undulation, The elation of the entire earth is Mount Zion, The flanks of the north, the town of the great King." 3 Elohim, in her citadels He is known as an Impregnable Retreat."


Hebrews 11:10  CLV 10 For he waited for the city having foundations, whose Artificer and Architect is God. "


In Jewish weddings only the father could say when the wedding day would be. The book of Revelation is about the Father telling the Son what is about to occur.


Revelation 1:1 - The Unveiling


KJV 1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:


Revelation 21:2  CLV 2 I perceived the holy city, new Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband."


. Point and click on the small verse numbers for other translations .


Email comments to: definingyoursoul@icloud.com                                                                                                                                 I hope I am humble enough to keep correcting what I have written as I become aware of my many errors.