Humanity - are we born
into Adam's corporate body before we are born again into the body
of Christ?
Romans 6:6
CLV 6 knowing this,
that our old humanity was crucified together with Him, that the
body of Sin may be nullified, for us by no means to be still
slaving for Sin,
Romans 6:6
knowing this, that our old human
(anthropos) was crucified together with Him, that the body of the
sin (missing) may-be-being nullified, we should by no means still
be serving (the body of) the sin (missing),
Was the corporate body of
Adam nullified in AD 70 or just the Jewish old covenant
body?
Jesus is called the eschaton Adam
not the eschaton Jew. He completed the image of God in the human
under Jewish law. Jews called themselves the humans because they
had God's law. Those being ruled by other elohim were called the
animals. The animals were created before Adam. If all the human
Adams were still in depravity until Jesus became an Adam, then
surely the 'animals' were too. The first Adam never said,"If you
have seen me you have seen the Father." The eschaton Adam did. Do
we really need to be in Adam's covenant body to say we are still
born depraved of the full image of God today?
When the Jews were born again
they received the full image of God by way of His Holy Spirit in
them. Jesus worked and suffered for that privilege to be given.
They were then told to put Adam to death, even though Jesus had
already put him to death on the cross. Jesus released them from the
legal hold of Adam under the law, yet that law covenant still
existed throughout the new betrothal period, until the new
marriage. We are not born again out of the old covenant anymore. Do
we need to know if we are descended from Adam or from another
people group? What if we are of mixed origin? Aren't we all born
depraved anyway?
The progressive image of Adam
under Torah or Tanakh was being taught in synagogues throughout the
Roman empire. Those most likely to understand the gospel were the
ones who were familiar with those writings. Gentiles knew about the
Jewish humanity. Jews had been sovereignly scattered throughout the
four animal kingdoms prophecied in the book of Daniel. By the time
the gospel arrived the world was ready for it. Even if there are
angels still watching over the nations (or churches) today, which I
suppose there are, they are all promoting the image of Christ in
God's people, unless there was another angel fall.
The kingdom was taken from the
elohim of Rome and given to the Elohim/human Yeshua. We don't have
to inherit Adam's fall to be born depraved of God's image today.
When Adam was breathed into he had the full image of God in the
garden with him. Adam wasn't mature yet. The image of God in Adam
matured in Christ. Now the breath of God comes from the Holy Spirit
who lives in us by the rebirth. We don't want to return to the
pre-fall garden or the post-fall law land.
It only seems like we are born
into Adam's corporate body because most people act like his
children did whether genetically related or not. But wouldn't that
be the manifestation any way you look at it? People not descended
from Adam are still people. Many people still see the covenant body
of Christ as a body still under all the old covenant laws. That
itself is a reoccurring rendition of the 'old man', even though he
was put to death.
Jesus was the first human in the
new creation. Adam was the first human in the old creation. The
church is still today being called out of the existing population.
Adam was the first called out one. There were old covenant
proselytes who became
circumcised and moved
into God's family. In the new covenant only the true believers are
really in the family of Christ, which is also called the City of
God or the Bride or the
Church. New covenant circumcision of the heart can be faked, but an
unbeliever sitting on the church pew is positionally outside the
Church.
After the covenant transition begins, the true believers are
called Christians. They are the ones who put on the new human.
Matthew 15:26-27 (pre-covenant transition; gentiles are called
dogs)
MKJV 26 But He
answered and said, It is not good to take the children's bread and
to throw it to dogs. 27 And
she said, True, O Lord; but even the little dogs eat of the crumbs
which fall from their masters' tables.
Philippians 3:2 (covenant in transition; symbolic
reversal)
ALT 2 Be
watching out for [or, Beware of] the dogs! Be watching
out for the evil laborers! Be watching out for the
mutilation [or, false circumcision]!
Revelation 22:15 (transition almost complete)
LITV 15 But
outside are the dogs and the sorcerers, and the fornicators, and
the murderers, and the idolaters, and everyone loving a lie, and
making it.
Ephesians 2:12-15 (there is only one covenant man)
LITV 12 that at
that time you were without Christ, alienated from the commonwealth
of Israel and strangers of the covenants of promise, having no hope
and without God in the world. 13 But
now, in Christ Jesus you who then were afar off came to be near by
the blood of Christ. 14 For He
is our peace, He making us both one, and breaking down the middle
wall of partition, 15 in His
flesh causing to cease the enmity, the Law of the commandments in
decrees, that He might in Himself create the two into one
new man, making peace,
The New
Humanity
Colossians 3:9-11 (all God's covenant people have Christ)
YLT 9 Lie not
one to another, having put off the old man with his
practices, 10 and
having put on the new, which is renewed in regard to knowledge,
after the image of Him who did create him; 11 where
there is not Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision,
foreigner, Scythian, servant, freeman—but the all and in
all—Christ.
Adam was typical. Types
no longer exist in the fulfilled
covenant.
Romans 5:14
ALT 14
But death reigned from Adam until Moses, even on the ones not
having sinned according to the likeness of Adam's transgression,
who is a type of the coming One.
Jesus reigns as the new
representative head human. Thank God Adam does not represent me.
The body of Moses was released and raised to become the body of
Christ.
Before the transition to Christ, Satan was assigned to rule in
the last kingdom, which contained the old covenant people. It was
only fitting for Satan to end up ruling them in his kingdom. Even
the archangel Michael left it up to the Lord to rescue the old
covenant people from the Devil's reign. The Devil was right. They
deserved to be in and remain in the death of Adam. Only one person
could advocate now.
Jude 1:9
ALT 9 But Michael the
archangel, when contending with the Devil, he was arguing about the
body of Moses, did not dare to bring a slanderous
judgment, but he said, "May the Lord rebuke
you!"
Even Paul used Satan's kingdom
to do the Lord's work.
1 Corinthians 5:5
ALT 5 to
hand over such a one to Satan for destruction of the flesh, so that
the spirit shall be saved in the Day of the Lord
Jesus.
The Devil tried to recrute Jesus for his kingdom work.
Luke 4:6
ALT 6 And the Devil
said to Him, "I will give to You all this authority and their
glory, because it has been handed over to me, and I give it to
whomever I shall be desiring.
Jesus had different plans.
Matthew 25:41
YLT 41 Then shall
he say also to those on the left hand, Go ye from me, the cursed,
to the fire, the age-during, that hath been prepared for the Devil
and his messengers;
The Jews spoke of two ages: the
one they were in and the one that was about to arrive. When Jesus
pointed to the municipal open valley 'incinerator', they saw smoke
and fire and if the wind was blowing in the right
direction, smelled rotten garbage. But if you go to Jerusalem
today you will not see nor smell any of it. The Gehenna fire where
the worm never dies and the fire never goes out is gone. The age of
the old covenant officially ended in AD 70 and the age of the new
covenant will never end. The new covenant doesn't get old again and
there is no new new covenant. The new humanity of Christ will never
fall into death like Adam did.
Matthew 25:46
YLT 46 And these
shall go away to punishment age-during, but the righteous to life
age-during.
The end of the first
age when God's covenant people were destroyed by the
age-during fire is over. New covenant people have
been born again into a better covenant. All God's children are safe
from KJV "hell" fire. The age of life that we
are presently in
lasts forever. In my
understanding, if one doesn't get born again into this human family
then one will simply die like an animal and cease to exist. The
Gehenna fire was for God's fallen ones who rejected their new
humanity. The new covenant family can't fall that
far.
John 5:24
YLT 24 `Verily,
verily, I say to you—He who is hearing my word, and is believing
Him who sent me, hath life age-during, and to judgment he doth not
come, but hath passed out of the death to the life.
Adam fell into the death. Jesus
never will. The new covenant human gives life to those in covenant
with Him. Everyone in the old covenant fell into the death that
Adam gave, except One. He obediently chose to enter the place of
the old covenant dead ones in order to defeat it. He will never die
again. He doesn't need to rescue anyone from the death of the new
covenant. It doesn't exist. The new head human didn't get a death
warning like Adam did. He got a death mission in order to raise
humanity. Jesus did obediently die on the tree of good and
evil in the old covenant. But He was then resurrected into a new
covenant. As a
human, Jesus was raised under the law of good and evil but it did
not bring death to Him as it did to everyone else. Today we are not
under the law of Adam or Moses that brought old covenant death to
everyone in it. We are under the law of the Spirit sent by the
human who brings life to everyone in His family. He raises us
spiritually without letting us covenantally die under
law.
Old covenant unbelievers were
destroyed by fire.
Jude 1:5-7 (angels also)
YLT 5 and to remind
you I intend, you knowing once this, that the Lord, a people out of
the land of Egypt having saved, again those who did not
believe did destroy; 6 messengers
also, those who did not keep their own principality, but
did leave their proper dwelling, to a judgment of a great day,
in bonds everlasting, under darkness He
hath kept, 7 as Sodom and
Gomorrah, and the cities around them, in like manner to these,
having given themselves to whoredom, and gone after other flesh,
have been set before—an example, of fire age-during, justice
suffering.
Angels had sex with humans and
produced a generation of continual violence, which brought the
flood judgment. Then humans tried to have sex with the very angels
sent to rescue Lot from Sodom's about-to-be destruction by fire.
Sodom is cited as a typical example of the coming AD 70 destruction
of God's people. The fire of destruction that was seen in God's
covenant land of Jerusalem represented the fire that was happening
spiritually to all old covenant unbelievers who were also being
held captive.
As the corporate head, Adam did
get the 'gates' of his most holy place shut on him. The old Adam's
family was finally ended in AD 70. Humanity is now Christian not
Adamic. Adam is not the firstborn head of God's family anymore. He
is under Christ. Everyone is still born depraved and we are born
into a more or less depraved family, depending on how human our
family of origin was. If we are born again, our new family is in no
way depraved of the image of God. Jesus is the head of the church
family. We can learn to walk with God and grow up in the family
lead by the perfected humanity.