Jesus spoke of his own rebirth.
John 2:16-21
ALT
16 And He said to
the ones selling the doves, "Take these things from here! Stop
making the house of my Father a house of trade!" 17 Then His
disciples remembered that it is written, "The zeal of Your house
will consume Me." [Psalm 69:9] 18 But the
Jews answered and said to Him, "What sign do You show to us, that
these things You do?" 19 Jesus answered
and said to them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will
raise it up!" [cp. Matt 26:61; Mark 14:58] 20 Then the Jews
said, "This temple was built [in] forty and six years,
and You will raise it up in three days?" 21 But
that [One] spoke concerning the temple of His
body.
Nicodemus literally envisioned a second water
birth.
John 3:3-4
LITV
3 Jesus answered
and said to him, Truly, truly, I say to you, if one does not
receive birth from above, he is not able to see the kingdom of
God. 4 Nicodemus said
to Him, How is a man able to be born, being old? He is not able to
enter into his mother's womb a second time and be
born?
Nicodemus was not able to enter the kingdom of God
without spirit birth.
John 3:5
ALT
5 Jesus answered,
"Most positively, I say to you, unless someone is born from water
and Spirit, he is not able to enter into the kingdom of
God.
Even Jesus' disciples wanted to rule the kingdom in
their flesh.
Matthew 18:1-4
ALT
1 In that
hour [or, At that time] the disciples approached Jesus,
saying, "So who is greatest in the kingdom of the
heavens?" 2 And Jesus
having summoned a young child, He set him in the middle of
them 3 and said,
"Positively, I say to you(p), unless you(p) are turned
around [fig., changed inwardly] and become like such
young children, by no means shall you(p) enter into the
kingdom of the heavens. 4 "Therefore,
whoever will humble himself like this young child, he is the
greatest in the kingdom of the heavens.
Flesh and blood wasn't enough
for the imperishable kingdom rule. One must be born
again.
1 Corinthians
15:50
ALT
50 Now
this I say, brothers [and sisters], that flesh and blood is
not able to inherit [the] kingdom of God, nor does the
corruption [or, perishable] inherit the
incorruption [or, imperishable].
Destruction came to the flesh and blood cosmos when it
perished in AD 70. The spirit born new covenant saved the
arrangement.
John 3:16
ECB
16 For Elohim
loved the cosmos thus: that he gave his only birthed Son; that
whoever trusts in him destructs not but has eternal
life.
Maybe proselytes needed to be
born again to become Jewish and inherit a place in the kingdom, but
Nicodemus was already a Jew awaiting their kingdom's arrival. If
Nicodemus were to be born again, he could see no better way to
enter the kingdom than through his own flesh and blood Jewish
mother again, which of course was impossible. Jesus said the
unthinkable. Anyone wishing to see the kingdom would need another
birth; one from above. Being born a flesh and blood Jew was enough
for Jesus to be acceptable to His Father, even under law in the old
covenant, but not for anyone else. As a fully developed Jew under
law, Jesus came out of the water of baptism; the Holy Spirit
remained on Him. Yet Jesus spoke of another baptism, when He would
be birthed again by the Holy Spirit into the new covenant. He put
the old covenant man to death to save His people. The Jews were
then born again on the day of Pentecost because Jesus became the
firstborn in the rebirthed Jewish covenant.
Luke
12:50
ALT
50 "But I have a
baptism to be baptized [with], and how distressed I am until
it is completed!
God sent His Son to save the orderly arrangement and
it's inhabitants.
John 3:17
ECB
17 For Elohim
apostolized not his Son into the cosmos to judge the cosmos; but
that the cosmos be saved through him.
John 3:18
ECB
18 Whoever trusts
in him is not judged; but whoever trusts not is already judged:
because he trusts not in the name of the only birthed Son of
Elohim.
Not all
Israel in the flesh received the promised spirit
birth.
Romans
9:1-8
ALT
1 I speak truth
in Christ, I do not lie, my conscience testifies with me
in [the] Holy Spirit, 2 that
great sorrow is with me and unceasing pain in my
heart, 3 for I could
wish I myself to be accursed [Gr., anathema] from Christ
on behalf of my [Jewish] brothers [and sisters], my
fellow citizens according to the flesh, 4 who are
Israelites, whose [is] the adoption and the glory and the
covenants [or, the ordinances of the covenant] and the
law-giving and the sacred service and the promises, 5 of
whom [are] the fathers and out of whom [is] the
Christ [or, the Messiah] (the [ancestral
descent] according to [the]flesh), the One being over all
God blessed into the ages [fig., forever]! So be
it! 6 But it is not
possible that the word of God has failed. For all
the [ones] of Israel, these [are] not
Israel; 7 nor [are
they] all children because they are seed [fig.,
descendents] of Abraham, but "by Isaac will your
seed [fig., descendents] be named." [Gen
21:12] 8 That is, the
children of the flesh, these [are] not children of
God, but the children of the promise are counted for
seed [fig., descendents].
Reborn Israel lived. Israel in the flesh died in AD
70.
Romans 8:13
ALT
13 For if
you(p) live according to the flesh, you(p) are about to
die; but if by [the] Spirit you(p) put to death the
deeds of the body, you(p) will live.
Romans 8:2
ECB
2 For the torah
of the Spirit of life in Messiah Yah Shua liberates me from the
torah of sin and death.
Romans 8:4
ECB
4 to
fulfill/shalam the judgment of the torah in us, who walk not after
flesh, but after Spirit.
Romans 8:6
ECB
6 For the
thought of the flesh, is death; but the thought of the spirit, life
and shalom.
The 12 tribes were in the throes of
death.
Romans 8:8-11
ECB
8 So they who
are in flesh, cannot please Elohim. 9 And you
are not in flesh, but in Spirit whenever the Spirit of Elohim dwell
in you. and if one has not the Spirit of Messiah, he is none of
his. 10 And if
Messiah is in you, the body is indeed dead because of sin; and the
Spirit is life because of justness. 11 But if
the Spirit of him who raised Yah Shua from the dead dwells in you,
he who raised Messiah from the dead also enlivens your mortal
bodies through his Spirit dwelling in you.
The old covenant served the new covenant.
Romans 9:12
ALT
12 it was said
to her, "The greater [or, older] will serve as a slave to
the lesser [or, younger]." [Gen 25:23]
Galatians 3:24
ALT
24 Therefore,
the Law has became our tutor [to lead us] to Christ, so
that by faith we should be justified [or, declared
righteous].
Galatians 4:1-3
FROM SERVANT TO
SONSHIP
ECB 1 And I
word, as long time as the heir is a baby, he surpasses not a
servant - being adoni of all; 2 but is
under managers and administrators until the pre-appointment of the
father. 3 Even so
thus we, when we were babies, were subservient under the elements
of the cosmos:
Jerusalem was restored to proclaim the
Name.
Romans 9:17
ALT
17 For the
Scripture says to Pharaoh, "For this very [reason] I
raised you up, in order that I should show in you My power, and in
order that My name shall be proclaimed far and wide in all the
land." [Exod 9:16]
Romans 9:20
ECB
20 Yet so, O
humanity, who are you to contradict Elohim? Says the molded to the
molder, Why made you me thus?
Jerusalem was restored only to be destroyed
again.
Romans 9:22
ALT
22 So [what] if
God, desiring to show His wrath and to make His power known,
endured with much patience vessels of wrath having been prepared
for destruction,
The reborn remnant was saved.
Romans 9:27
ALT
27 But Isaiah
cries out concerning Israel, "If the number of the sons [and
daughters] of Israel are as the sand of the sea, the remnant
will be saved.
The land matter ended.
Romans 9:28
ALT
28 "For He is
finishing and abruptly ending [the] matter in
righteousness, because [the] matter having been ended
abruptly will the LORD do on the land." [Isaiah
10:22,23]
Those in the flesh and blood covenant who were reborn
were not put to shame.
Romans 9:31-33
ALT
31 But Israel,
pursuing a law of righteousness, did not arrive at a law of
righteousness. 32 Why?
Because [they did] not [pursue it] by
faith, but as though [it was] by works
of [the] Law; for they stumbled at the stone of
stumbling. 33 Just as it
has been written, "Look! I place in Zion a stone of stumbling and a
rock of offence; and every one believing on [or, trusting
in] Him will not put to shame." [Isaiah 8:14;
28:16]
Romans 8:9
ALT
9 But you(p) are
not
in [the] flesh but in [the] Spirit,
since the Spirit of God dwells in you(p); but if anyone does not
have the Spirit of Christ, this one is not His.
John's baptism was a picture of coming out of the water
again. A newborn comes out of the water after being fully formed.
John worked a soulish rebirth into reformation. John prepared
Jewish flesh and blood for their spritual rebirth and
reformation.
Matthew 3:11
YLT
11 `I indeed
do baptize you with water to reformation, but he who after me is
coming is mightier than I, of whom I am not worthy to bear the
sandals, he shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with
fire,
The typical birth of the nation was in
Moses.
1 Corinthians 10:1-6
YLT
1 And
I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, that all our fathers
were under the cloud, and all passed through the
sea, 2 and
all to Moses were baptized in the cloud, and in the
sea; 3 and
all the same spiritual food did eat, 4 and
all the same spiritual drink did drink, for they were drinking of a
spiritual rock following them, and the rock was the
Christ; 5 but
in the most of them God was not well pleased, for they were strewn
in the wilderness,
6 and
those things became types of us, for our not passionately desiring
evil things, as also these did desire.
The body of Moses needed Christ
Jude 1:9
YLT
9 yet Michael, the
chief messenger, when, with the devil contending, he was disputing
about the body of Moses, did not dare to bring up an evil-speaking
judgment, but said, `The Lord rebuke thee!'
All of Egypt was baptized in the sea. Only the new man
nation came out of the water on dry
land.
Israel did not drown in the Red
sea. They were birthed. But their old slave master forces were put
to death in the water. The whole nation of Pharaoh was baptised and
only the new nation of the body of Moses came out on the other
side. The tribes came out of the water on dry land to form the
nation of Israel. Moses was a type of Christ. The new nation was
birthed out of an old nation. Out of Egypt God called his son in
the types mode. A human baby only takes 40 weeks to fully form. The
body of Moses took 40 years. The body of Moses was birthed again to
form the body of Christ, in their fulfillment of their types. The
body of Christ also took 40 years to form but it formed before the
old body was destroyed. It is in reverse because it follows the
chiastic Hebrew poetry style or because it is in the reversal of
the old covenant curses order and because God was applying grace to
His people.
Ezekiel
38:16
YLT
16 And thou
hast come up against My people Israel, As a cloud to cover the
land, In the latter end of the days it is, And I have brought thee
in against My land, In order that the nations may know Me, In My
being sanctified in thee before their eyes, O Gog.
The new creation is the new covenant
body.
Romans 8:19
LITV
19 For the
earnest expectation of the creation eagerly awaits the revelation
of the sons of God.
Romans 8:19
CLV
19 For the
premonition of the creation is awaiting the unveiling of the sons
of God.
Romans 8:19
ECB
19 For the
intense anticipation of the creature awaits the apocalypse of the
sons of Elohim.
The elect nation of God was
rebirthed to form the body of Christ.
1 Peter
1:1
LITV
1 Peter, an
apostle of Jesus Christ, to the elect sojourners of the dispersion
of Pontus, of Galatia, of Cappadocia, of Asia, and of
Bithynia,
1 Peter
1:5
ALT
5 the ones
being guarded by [the] power of God through faith
for [the] salvation ready to be revealed
in [the] last time;
The Jews' baptism by Holy Spirit and fire killed their
old man but birthed their new man.
Luke 12:49 ('earth' should probably be 'land'
here)
ALT
49 "I
came to cast fire to the earth, and how I wish that it was already
kindled!
Luke 12:50
ALT
50 "But I have a baptism to be
baptized [with], and how distressed I am until it is
completed!
Acts
19:4-5
YLT
4 And Paul said, `John, indeed, did baptize
with a baptism of reformation, saying to the people that in him who
is coming after him they should believe—that is, in the
Christ—Jesus;' 5 and they,
having heard, were baptized—to the name of the Lord
Jesus,
Jesus
died as eschaton Adam; the old covenant
man.
Daniel 9:25-26
YLT
25 And thou
dost know, and dost consider wisely, from the going forth of the
word to restore and to build Jerusalem till Messiah the
Leader is seven weeks, and sixty and two weeks: the broad
place hath been built again, and the rampart, even in the distress
of the times. 26 And after
the sixty and two weeks, cut off is Messiah, and the city and the
holy place are not his, the Leader who hath come doth destroy the
people; and its end is with a flood, and till the
end is war,
determined are desolations.
Revelation 11:8
KJV 8 And
their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which
spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was
crucified.
Many believe the old man nation is not dead yet. I
copied the following sentence from a GRACE TO YOU
websight article.
Israel's Future, Part
3
Since Christ was crucified after the
end of the sixty-ninth week, but not during the seventieth week,
there must be one week left of the seventy determined for Israel
(Dan. 9:24).
Sorry, but that sentence does not sound very reasonable
to me.
Daniel 9:24
KJV
24 Seventy
weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to
finish the transgression, and to make
an
end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and
to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal
up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most
Holy.
Make an end of what?
The Hebrew words
translated 'sins' in Daniel 9:24 are: חטּאת
חטּאה
Brown-Driver-Briggs' Hebrew
Definitions
חטּאת
חטּאה
1. sin, sinful
2. sin, sin
offering
a. sin
b. condition of sin,
guilt of sin
c. punishment for
sin
d. sin-offering
e. purification from
sins of ceremonial uncleanness
Bring in what?
The Hebrew word translated
'righteousness' in Daniel 9:24
is: צדק
Brown-Driver-Briggs' Hebrew
Definitions
צדק
1. justice,
rightness, righteousness
a. what
is right or just or normal, rightness, justness (of weights and
measures)
b. righteousness (in
government)
1. of judges,
rulers, kings
2. of
law
3. of Davidic
king, Messiah
4. of
Jerusalem as seat of just government
5. of God's
attribute
c. righteousness,
justice (in case or cause)
d. rightness (in
speech)
e. righteousness (as
ethically right)
f. righteousness (as
vindicated), justification (in controversy), deliverance, victory,
prosperity
1. of God as
covenant-keeping in redemption
2. in name of
Messianic king
3. of people
enjoying salvation
4. of
Cyrus
This translation makes more sense:
Daniel 9:24
Thomson
24 Seventy
weeks are set apart for thy people and for the holy city; for
finishing sin offerings, and for sealing up sin offerings; and
blotting out iniquities, and making atonement for iniquities; and
for bringing in an everlasting righteousness; and for sealing
vision and prophet; and for anointing the Holy of
Holies.
The last seven is the rebirth of the covenant. Daniel
9:34 actually says, "seventy sevens...". To seven is to make a
covenant complete.
The Hebrew word for "oath" is
"shevah," meaning "to seven oneself". The root word means, "to be
full".
Old Testament Hebrew scholar
Kenneth L. Barker wrote:
The cosmic order is restored by
means of the oath and the name of the Son of Man. The oath is the
means of creating order. It is the means of binding the fallen
spirits who operate through nature in order to make them serve a
higher purpose. To be initiated into the oath, according to the
Jewish outlook, gives great power. It enables the initiate to
summon and bind the spirits in his service by means of the even
greater name whose authority he uses. When the great oath was
broken [referring to Adam's sin and the Fall] the system began to
collapse. The name of the Son of Man is the most powerful means of
restoring order to a broken world.
I may not line up with
Professor Barker's eschatology, but he is insightful to me in other
areas.
The old man was put to death in the sea and the new man
emerged: typified in Noah's flood, the Red Sea, and
Jonah.
There is no sea in the new
creation; only land. The twelve tribes were in the throes of the
diaspora death. They were dispersed out into the nations.
Biblically the sea represents the Gentile nations and covenant
death. The Jews were submersed into the sea of nations and only the
new man emerged onto the dry land of the new covenant creation; Jew
and Gentile alike regardless of location. The new man nation does
not need to be baptized in the sea again. The new man has been
rebirthed and for the last time. The old man was put to death and
the new man can never die. The new cosmos is not
broken.
When Noah's corporate body was baptized the corrupted
flesh actually died and only
the new corporate body
came out of the water onto dry land and into a type of new
birth.
1 Peter 3:20-21 (Peter wrote to
the Jews who were getting a new birth)
ECB 20 - who
sometime distrusted when once the patience of Elohim awaited in the
days of Noach while the ark was a preparing, wherein few - that is
eight souls were saved through water: 21 to which
baptism, the antitype, now also saves us - not the
laying aside of filth of flesh but the question of a good
conscience to Elohim through the resurrection of Yah Shua
Messiah:
The antitype of Noah's baptism is to be saved by
joining the made new body. The new head of the new body always has
a good conscience toward God. Some diaspora wives were going
to win their husbands' trust in the new body life without
words.
1 Peter
3
SUBJUGATING IN
RELATIONSHIPS
ECB
1 Likewise,
women: subjugate yourselves to your own men; that even if any
distrust the word, they also be gained without the word through the
behavior of the women; 2 While in awe, they observe your hallowed
behavior: 3 whose cosmos is not
outward - of braiding the hair and of wrapping around of gold or of
enduing garments: 4 but that secret human of the heart in what
is incorruptible - of a meek and quiet spirit which is vastly
precious in the sight of Elohim. 5 For thus also in the old time the holy
women who hoped in Elohim adorned themselves; subjugating to their
own men 6 - as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him
adoni: of whom you became children - as long as you do good and are
not awestricken of any terror. 7 Likewise men: co-settle according to
knowledge; bestow honor as to the frailer vessel and as being
co-heirs of the charism of life; that your prayers be not
excsinded. 8 In completion/shalom, all likeminded,
sympathetic one of another, befriending as brothers,
tenderspleened, friendly minded: 9 not giving evil for evil or abuse for
abuse - but contrariwise eulogize; knowing that you are called to
this - to inherit a eulogy: 10 For whoever wills to love life and see
good days, pause your tongue from evil, and that your lips not
speak deceit, 11 deviate from evil and do good, seek shalom
and pursue it. 12 Because the eyes of Yah Veh are over the
just and his ears to their petitions: but the face of Yah Veh is
against them who do evil. 13 And who is he that vilifies you, whenever
you become mimickers of good? 14 But and if you suffer for sake of
justness, Blessed! And neither awestricken by their awesomeness nor
be troubled; 15 but hallow Yah Veh
Elohim * in
your hearts, ever prepared to plead to everyone who asks you a word
concerning the hope in you with meekness and
awe: *some mss: Adonay
Messiah 16 having a good conscience; so that they who
slander you as evildoers, who threaten your good behavior in
Messiah, shame. 17 For it is better, if Elohim thus wills,
that you suffer for doing good, than for doing
evil: 18 because Messiah also suffered for sins
once - the just for the unjust, to bring us to Elohim, indeed
deathified in flesh and enlivened in the
Spirit: 19 wherein he also went and preached to the
spirits in the guardhouse 20 - who sometime distrusted when once the
patience of Elohim awaited in the days of Noach while the ark was a
preparing, wherein few - that is eight souls were saved through
water:
1 Peter 3:21(The new body has a good conscience)
ALT
21 which [as] an
antitype baptism [or, immersion] now also saves us
(not [the] removal of [the] filth of
flesh, but an appeal to God for a good conscience)
through [the] resurrection of Jesus Christ,