Did the new city of Yahwey arrive before the old city
was destroyed? Where is the image of God being embodied today if
not in his church? The Hebrews did not see old covenant
Jerusalem as their permanent city.
Hebrews 13:14
CLV 14 For here
we are not having a permanent city, but we are seeking for the one
which is impending."
The old-city of Jerusalem residents (in the flesh)
believed in persecuting the impending-new-city
residents.
Acts 9:1-15
LITV 1 But still
breathing threats and murder toward the disciples of the Lord,
coming to the high priest, 2 Saul asked from
him letters to Damascus, to the synagogues, so that if he found any
being of the Way, both men and women, having bound them he might
bring them to Jerusalem. 3 But in the
going it happened! He drew near to Damascus, and suddenly a light
from the heaven shone around him. 4 And
falling on the earth he heard a voice saying to him, Saul, Saul!
Why do you persecute Me? 5 And he said,
Sir, who are you? And the Lord said, I am Jesus, whom you
persecute; it is hard for you to kick against the
prods. 6 Both trembling
and being astonished he said, Lord, what do you desire me to do?
And the Lord said to him, Rise up and go into the city, and it will
be told you what you must do. 7 But the men
traveling with him had been standing speechless, indeed hearing the
voice, but seeing no one. 8 And Saul was
lifted up from the earth, but his eyes being opened he saw no one.
And leading him by the hand they brought him to
Damascus. 9 And he was
three days not seeing, and did not eat or drink. 10 And there was
a certain disciple in Damascus named Ananias. And the Lord said to
him in a vision, Ananias! And he said, Behold, Lord, I am here
. 11 And the Lord
said to him, Rising up pass along on the street being called
Straight and seek a Tarsian, Saul by name, in the house of Judas.
For, behold, he is praying. 12 And he has
seen in a vision a man named Ananias coming in and putting a hand
on him, so that he may see again. 13 And
Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how
many bad things he did to Your saints in Jerusalem. 14 And here he
has authority from the chief priests to bind all the ones calling
on Your name. 15 And the Lord
said to him, Go, for this one is a chosen vessel to Me, to bear My
name before nations and kings and the sons of Israel.
By the way, the
moralistic military campaigns of the Middle Ages were called the
Crusades. They took the name of Christ in vain as they drug it back
through the old dirt with the political end goal of reuniting
"Christendom". It has been a black eye to the 'church-in-the-flesh'
ever since. The 'church' in the flesh is any so called Christian
organization who would try to rule God's people by military force
or by manipulation of the truth.
Are Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the heavenly city
yet?
Hebrews 11:8-16
CLV 8 By faith
Abraham, being called, obeys, coming out into the
place which he was about to obtain to enjoy as an allotment, and
came out, not versed in where he is coming." 9 By faith he
sojourns in the land of promise as in an alien land, dwelling in
tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the joint
enjoyers of the allotment of the same promise. " 10 For he
waited for the city having foundations, whose Artificer and
Architect is God. " 11 By faith
Sarah herself also obtained power for the disruption of seed, and
brought forth beyond the period of her prime, since she deems the
Promiser faithful;" 12 wherefore,
also, were begotten by one, and these of one who is deadened,
according as the constellations of heaven in multitude, and as the
sand beside the sea shore innumerable." 13 In faith
died all these, not being requited with the promises, but
perceiving them ahead and saluting them, and avowing that they are
strangers and expatriates on the earth. " 14 For those
who are saying such things are disclosing that they are seeking for
a country of their own. 15 And, if,
indeed, they remembered that from which they came out, they might
have had occasion to go back." 16Yet
now they are craving a better, that is, a celestial;
wherefore God is not ashamed of them, to be invoked as their God,
for He makes ready for them a city."
Revelation 21:2 (The Celestial, i.e., Heavenly City)
ALT 2 And I saw
the holy city, New Jerusalem, descending out of
heaven from God, having been prepared like a bride having been
adorned [for] her husband.
I asked some of these
questions to the new president of the seminary I went to. It was at
an eschatology conference about twenty years after I graduated. He
disdainfully asked me if Jesus was going to have sex with the
church at his wedding. I wondered how he became president as I
walked away. Okay, Jacob did have sex with his two wives and two
handmaids who then had twelve sons. Jacob was in that way married
to the old nation of Israel in the flesh. But the image of God in
man started with Adam walking spirit to spirit with Yahwey in the
garden. Similarly Yeshua sent the spirit of Yahwey to walk with the
new covenant people to prepare them to walk in the new holy place
he was preparing for them. Yahwey had proposed to make a great
nation out of the Hebrews at Mount Sinai by giving them his law.
When they entered the promised land, the law married the land.
God's proposal at the mountain turned into a type of marriage when
they entered the promised land. It was a marriage they could not
keep. But God didn't have sex with anybody? For crying out loud!
Metaphors anyone? Even Cain built a city and gave it his son's
name. I suppose if you really have to see the cube shaped city
floating down from the sky then maybe you have left the
metaphor.
Strong's:
καταβαίνω
to descend (literally or figuratively)
Psalms 48:1
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;"
Psalms 46:4
LITV 4 There is a
river, its channels gladden the city of God, the holy tabernacles
of the Most High.
Psalms 87:3
LITV 3 Glorious
things are spoken of you, O city of God. Selah.
Psalms 107:7
LITV 7 And He
guided them in the right way; to go to a city of
dwelling.
Revelation 21:22-26
LITV 22 And I
saw no temple in it, for the Lord God Almighty is its temple, even
the Lamb. 23 And
the city had no need of the sun, nor of the moon, that they might
shine in it, for the glory of God illuminated it, even its lamp is
the Lamb. 24 And
the nations of the ones saved will walk in its light; and the kings
of the earth bring their glory and honor into it. 25 And
its gates may not at all be shut by day, for no night will be
there. 26 And
they will bring the glory and the honor of the nations into
it.
Genesis 1:14
CLV 14 And saying
is the Elohim, "Become shall luminaries in the atmosphere of the
heavens, to give light on the earth, to separate between the day
and the night. And they come to be for signs and for
appointments, and for days and years.
The evening sacrifices
were marked by the going down of the sun as the morning sacrifices
were by it's rising. The moon marked out the times of the seven
festivals. They all pointed to Jesus who is the true light of the
cosmos. The festivals have all been fulfilled, which is why the new
city doesn't live by the sun and moon appointments
anymore.
Truly the greatest nations
today are the ones who borrow the most Christian ideas from their
saved residents.
The glory and honor of the
nations are those who live in the city of God.
Typically each nation was called upon to send
representatives to Jerusalem each year to celebrate the presence of
Yahwey. Nations today who celebrate the presence of God through
true Christianity are still the most blessed of all nations. If
Christianity thrives then that nation is blessed. History proves
it. Even the American civil war was fought on a moral issue. The
religious south biblically misrepresented Christianity as promoting
slavery; that is to take Christ's name in vain. They lost much of
their sovereignty to the federal government who rallied the troups
on a solid moral issue.
Zechariah 14:16-19 (Celebrate God's presence for your
nation)
CLV 16 And it
shall come to be that everyone left of all the nations coming
against Jerusalem, shall also go up, a quota, year by year, to
worship the King, Yahweh of hosts, and to celebrate the
celebration of booths." 17 And it
comes, whoever will not go up from the families of the earth, to
Jerusalem to worship the King, Yahweh of hosts, then the downpour
shall not come on them." 18 And if a
family of Egypt shall not go up, and shall not come, then it is not
on them; to it shall come the stroke with which Yahweh will strike
all the nations, which will not go up to celebrate the celebration
of booths." 19 This
shall be the sin of Egypt, and the sin of all the nations, that
will not go up to celebrate the celebration of
booths."
Tabernacles (also
called booths) was celebrated after the fall harvest. It was a time
of rejoicing over all that Yahwey provides. The seventh month began
at the first sighting of the new moon.
They needed to see the moon to
begin their daily counting.
Leviticus
23:24-37
CLV 24 Speak to
the sons of Israel, saying, In the seventh month on day
one of the month there shall be a cessation for you with a
memorial trumpet blasting, a holy meeting. 25 You
shall do no occupational work at all and shall bring near a fire
offering to Yahweh.26 Yahweh
spoke to Moses, saying. 27 Then on
the tenth of this seventh month, it is the day of propitiatory
shelters. It shall be a holy meeting for you, and you will humble
your souls and bring near a fire offering to Yahweh. 28 You
shall do no work at all on this very day, for it the day of
propitiatory shelters so as to make a propitiatory shelter over you
before Yahweh your Elohim. 29 For
every soul who is not humbled on this very day will be cut off from
his kinsmen. 30 And
every soul who does any work on this very day, I will destroy that
soul from among his people. 31 You
shall do no work at all. It is an eonian statute throughout your
generations in all your dwellings.
They
needed the sun to mark the end of each day.
32 It
is a sabbath of cessation for you, and you will humble your souls.
On the ninth day of the month in the evening, from evening
until evening shall you cease for your
sabbath. 33 Yahweh spoke to Moses,
saying. 34 Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, From
the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the celebration of
booths seven days to Yahweh. 35 On the first day is a holy meeting; you
shall do no occupational work at all. 36 Seven days shall you bring near a fire
offering to Yahweh and on the eighth day there shall be a holy
meeting for you, and you will bring near a fire offering to Yahweh.
It is a day of restraint. You shall do no occupational work at
all. 37These are the appointed seasons of
Yahweh, those which you
shall proclaim as holy meetings, to bring near the fire offering to
Yahweh, the ascent offering and the approach present, the sacrifice
and the libations, each day's matter in its day,
John 8:12
CLV 12 Again, then,
Jesus speaks to them, saying, "I am the Light of the world. He who
is following Me should under no circumstances be walking in
darkness, but will be having the light of life."
They started in the dark because
that is how the covenant creation starts. We all started in the
dark. We are born very near sighted and depraved. We are then
raised up. Sacrifices were in place to cover sins of ignorance as
they grew up. The sin of not recognizing the messiah could
even be covered, as attested to by Paul and
Jesus.
Luke 23:34
LITV 34 And Jesus
said, Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are
doing. And dividing His garments, they cast a lot. Psa.
22:18
But their was a time limit for covering the old
covenant holdouts.
Hebrews 10:26-27
LITV 26 For if we
are willfully sinning after receiving the full knowledge of the
truth, there remains no more sacrifice concerning
sins, 27 but a
certain fearful expectation of judgment and "zealous fire being
about to consume the adversaries." Isa. 26:11
Some of the Hebrews covered their ears to the truth and
drove the glory of God out of their land.
Acts 7:55-57
ECB 55 but being full
of the Holy Spirit, he stares into the heavens and sees the glory
of Elohim; and Yah Shua standing at the right of
Elohim, 56 and says,
Behold, I observe the heavens open, and the Son of humanity
standing at the right of Elohim. 57 And they
cry out with a mega voice and hold their ears, and
run violently upon him in unanimity,
The final Hebrew festival was near.
Hebrews 10:19-25 (They saw the marriage day drawing
near)
LITV 19 Then,
brothers, having confidence for the entering of the Holy of
Holies by the blood of Jesus, 20 which He
consecrated for us, a new and living way through the veil;
that is, His flesh; 21 and
having a Great Priest over the house of God, 22 let us
draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, our hearts
having been sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our body having
been washed in pure water; 23 let us
hold fast the confession of the hope without yielding, for He who
has promised is faithful. 24 And let
us consider one another, to incitement of love and of good
works, 25 not
forsaking the assembling together of ourselves, as is the custom of
some, but exhorting, and by so much more as you see the Day
drawing near.
The new city is cube shaped because it is the new holy
place.
Romans 13:11
LITV 11 Also this,
knowing the time, that it is now the hour for you to be aroused
from sleep, for now our salvation is nearer than when we
believed.
The marriage of the Messiah to the Hebrew founded
church (driven into in the wilderness by the unbelievers) is
salvation. They were no longer married to Adam by birth because the
old man was put to death by the promised seed of
Adam.
Hebrews 9:28
LITV 28 so being
once offered "to bear the sins of many," Christ shall appear a
second time without sin to those expecting Him for salvation. Isa.
53:12
Yahweh promised to bring Judah back after 70 years of
exile.
Jeremiah 29:9-11
CLV 9 For with
falsehood they are prophesying to you in My name; I have not sent
them, an affirmation of Yahweh." 10 `For
thus said Yahweh, Surely at the fulness of Babylon--seventy
years--I inspect you, and have established towards you My
good word, to bring you back unto this
place." 11 For I
have known the thoughts that I am thinking towards you--an
affirmation of Yahweh; thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give
to you posterity and hope."
Shemaiah caused the tribe of Judah to trust a lie and
was cursed by Yahwey; he lost his family inheritance.
Jeremiah 29:24-32
LITV 24 You
shall also speak to Shemaiah the Nehelamite, saying, 25 So says
Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel, saying, Because you have sent
letters in your name to all the people in Jerusalem, and to
Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, and to all the priests,
saying, 26 Jehovah
has made you priest instead of Jehoiada the priest, to be officers
in the house of Jehovah, over every raving man who prophesies, that
you should put him into the stocks and into the torture
collar. 27 And now
why have you not reproved Jeremiah of Anathoth, who prophesies to
you? 28 On
account of this he sent to us in Babylon, saying, This exile is
long; build houses and live; and plant gardens and eat their
fruit. 29 And
Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the ears of Jeremiah the
prophet. 30 Then the
word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah, saying, 31 Send to
all the exiles, saying, So says Jehovah concerning Shemaiah the
Nehelamite: Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you, and I
did not send him; and he caused you to trust in a
lie; 32 therefore
so says Jehovah, Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and
his seed. There shall not be to him a man living among this
people; nor shall he behold the good which I shall do for
My people, says Jehovah, because he has uttered rebellion against
Jehovah.
Jeremiah redeemed his family land during the Babylonian
siege.
Jeremiah 32:7
CLV 7 Lo,
Hanameel son of Shallum, your uncle, is coming unto you, saying,
Buy for you my field that [is] in Anathoth, for your [is] the right
of redemption--to buy."
The redeemed family land had to be witnessed and
documented.
Jeremiah 32:12-15
CLV 12 And I
give the purchase-book unto Baruch son of Neriah, son of Maaseiah,
before the eyes of Hanameel, my uncle's son, and before the eyes of
the witnesses, those writing in the purchase-book, before the eyes
of all the Jews who are sitting in the court of the
prison." 13 And I
charge Baruch before their eyes, saying, 14 `Thus
said Yahweh of Hosts, Elohim of Israel, Take these books, this
purchase-book, both the sealed one and the open one, and you have
put them in an earthen vessel, that they may remain many
days;" 15 For thus
said Yahweh of Hosts, Elohim of Israel, Again are houses and fields
and vineyards bought in this land.'"
They were told to make purchases and keep the records
because after a long 70 years they would be back in the land for
their new covenant.
Jeremiah 32:36-44
CLV 36 `And now,
therefore, thus said Yahweh, Elohim of Israel, concerning
this city, of which you are saying, It has been given into
the hand of the king of Babylon by sword, and by famine, and by
pestilence, 37 Lo, I am
gathering them out of all the lands whither I have driven them in
Mine anger, and in My fury, and in great wrath, and I have brought
them back unto this place, and have caused them to dwell
confidently;" 38 and they
have been to Me for a people, and I am to them for
Elohim;" 39 and I
have given to them one heart, and one way, to fear Me all the days,
for good to them, and to their sons after them:" 40 and I
have made for them a covenant eonian, in that I turn not back from
after them for My doing them good, and My fear I put in their
heart, so as not to turn aside from me;" 41 and I
have rejoiced over them to do them good, and have planted them in
this land in truth, with all my heart, and with all My
soul." 42 `For thus
said Yahweh: As I brought in unto this people all this great evil,
so I am bringing in on them all the good that I am speaking
concerning them;" 43 and
bought has been the field in this land of which you are saying, A
desolation it [is], without man and beast, it has been given into
the hand of the Chaldeans." 44Fields
with money they buy, so as to write in a book, and to seal, and to
cause witnesses to testify, in the land of Benjamin, and in suburbs
of Jerusalem, and in cities of Judah, and in cities of the
hill-country, and in cities of the low country, and in cities of
the south, for I turn back their captivity--an affirmation of
Yahweh.'"
The new marriage covenant is on the
heart.
Jeremiah 31:31-34
CLV 31 Lo, days
are coming, an affirmation of Yahweh, And I have made with the
house of Israel And with the house of Judah a new
covenant, 32 Not like
the covenant that I made with their fathers, In the day of My
laying hold on their hand, To bring them out of the land of Egypt,
In that they made void My covenant, And I ruled over them--an
affirmation of Yahweh." 33 For this
[is] the covenant that I make, With the house of Israel, after
those days, An affirmation of Yahweh, I have given My law in their
inward part, And on their heart I do write it, And
I have been to them for Elohim, And they are to me for a
people." 34 And they
do not teach any more Each his neighbor, and each his brother,
Saying, Know you Yahweh, For they all know Me, from their least
unto their greatest, An affirmation of Yahweh; For I pardon their
iniquity, And of their sin I make mention no more."
This is it.
Hebrews 10:16-18
ALT 16 "This [is] the
covenant which I will covenant with them after those days,
says [the] LORD, putting My laws on their
hearts [fig., inner selves], and I will inscribe them on their
minds," 17 [then He
adds] "And I shall by no means remember their sins and their
lawless deeds any longer." [Jer 31:33,34] 18 Now
where [there is] forgiveness of these [things, there
is] no longer an offering concerning sin.
The new marriage inheritance was not land dependent.
The new marriage Jews had no thought of redeeming their land
inheritance.
Acts 2:45
CLV 45 And they
disposed of the acquisitions and the properties, and divided them
to all, forasmuch as some would have had need."
Those Hebrews who regarded their new covenant blood as
unclean, outraged the spirit of grace. No sacrifice for sins was
left for the AD 70 land-marriage holdouts.
Hebrews 10:1-29
ALT 1For
the Law having [only] a shadow of the
good [things]coming, [and] not the very
form of things, by the same sacrifices which they offer continually
every year, they are never able to make the ones approaching
perfect. 2 Otherwise,
they would cease to be continually offered, because the ones
sacredly serving would no longer have conscience of sins, having
once for all [time] been purified, would they
not? 3 But in
those [sacrifices there is] a reminder of sins every
year. 4 For [it
is] impossible [for the] blood of bulls and goats to
be taking away sins. 5 For this
reason, entering into the world, He says, "Sacrifice and offering
You did not desire, but a body You prepared for me; 6 in offerings
which are entirely burnt and [sacrifices] concerning sin,
You took no pleasure. 7 Then I said,
'Look! I have come (in a roll of a scroll it has been written
concerning Me) to do Your will, O God.'" [Psalm
40:6-8] 8
[After] saying above, "Sacrifice and offering and offerings
which are entirely burnt and [sacrifices] concerning sin
You did not desire, nor took pleasure in" (which according to the
Law are offered), [Psalm 40:6,7] 9 then He has
said, "Look! I have come to do Your will, O God." He
abolishes the first so that He shall establish the
second, [Psalm 40:8] 10 by which
will we have been sanctified, the [ones]through the offering
of the body of Jesus Christ once for all time! 11 And indeed
every priest has stood daily sacredly serving and repeatedly
offering the same sacrifices, which are never able to take away
sins. 12 But He
Himself, having offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, "sat
down at [the] right hand of God," 13 waiting
from that time onward "until His enemies are put [as] a
footstool for His feet." [Psalm 110:1] 14 For by one
offering He has perfected for all time the ones being
sanctified. 15 But the
Holy Spirit also testifies to us, for after having said
before, 16 "This [is] the
covenant which I will covenant with them after those days,
says [the] LORD, putting My laws on their
hearts [fig., inner selves], and I will inscribe them on their
minds," 17 [then He
adds] "And I shall by no means remember their sins and their
lawless deeds any longer." [Jer 31:33,34] 18Now
where [there is] forgiveness of these [things, there
is] no longer an offering concerning
sin.19 Therefore,
brothers [and sisters], having confidence [or, a joyful
sense of freedom] for the entrance into the holy places by the
blood of Jesus, 20 by a new
and living way which He inaugurated for us, through the veil, that
is, His flesh, 21 and [having] a
High Priest over the house of God, 22 let us be
approaching with a true heart [fig., pure inner desire], in
full assurance of faith, our hearts [fig., inner
selves] having been sprinkled [clean] [fig.,
purified] from an evil conscience and the body having been
bathed with pure water. 23 Let us be
holding fast the confession of the hope [or, confident
expectation] without wavering, for the One having
promised [is] faithful. 24 And
let us be considering one another for [the] stimulation
of love and of good works, 25 not
abandoning [or, neglecting] the assembling together of
ourselves, as [is the] habit of
some, but encouraging [one another], and so much
more as youp see the Day approaching. 26 For [if] we [are] deliberately
sinning after the receiving [of] the
full [or, true] knowledge of the
truth [there] no longer remains a sacrifice concerning
sins, 27 but only a
terrifying expectation of judgment and fiery indignation being
about to be devouring the
adversaries. 28 Anyone
regarding as nothing [or, rejecting] [the] Law of
Moses dies without mercies on [the testimony of] two or
three witnesses. 29 By how
much severer punishment do you(p) suppose will be counted worthy
the one having trampled underfoot God's Son and having
regarded [as] unclean the blood of the covenant
by which he was sanctified, and having outraged the Spirit
of grace?
Some first century Jews claimed Abraham while rejecting
Jesus.
John 8:39
LITV 39 They answered
and said to Him, Abraham is our father. Jesus said to them, If you
were children of Abraham, you would do the works of
Abraham.
Those first century old land Jews wanted to rule the
world like the devil. They murdered and lied trying to keep the old
marriage.
John 8:44
LITV 44 You are of
the Devil as father, and the lusts of your father you desire to do.
That one was a murderer from the beginning, and he has not stood in
the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie,
he speaks from his own, because he is a liar, and the father of
it.
They were in denial. "I sit as a queen and am not a
widow."
Revelation 18:7
CAB 7 In as
many things as she glorified herself and lived luxuriously, in the
same measure give to her torment and sorrow; because she says in
her heart, 'I sit as queen, and am not a widow, and I shall by no
means see sorrow.'
The law pointed the faithful Hebrews to the about-to-be
new covenant marriage.
Hebrews 10:1
CLV 1 For the law,
having a shadow of the impending good things, not
the selfsame image of the matters,...
The book of the
revelation of Jesus Christ may be the most poetic portion of
scripture. It is about the marriage to the new city of God and the
divorce and destruction of the old land of
Yahwey.
Revelation 1:1-3
YLT 1 A
revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his
servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he
did signify it, having sent through his messenger to his
servant John, 2 who did
testify the word of God, and the testimony of Jesus Christ, as many
things also as he did see. 3Happy
is he who is reading, and those hearing, the words of the
prophecy, and keeping the things written in it—for the time
is nigh!
Revelation 1:1-3
PROLOGUE ECB 1 The
Apocalypse of Yah Shua Messiah, that Elohim gave him to show his
servants what must quickly become; and he apostolized and signified
it through his angel to his servant Yahn: 2 who witnessed of the word of Elohim and of
the witness of Yah Shua Messiah and of all he
saw.
THE FIRST
BEATITUDE 3 Blessed
- whoever reads and whoever hears the words of this prophecy and
guard those scribed therein: for the season is near.
Did the new covenant fully arrive? Are we married to
the heavenly city of Yahwey? Pentecost initiated the betrothal
stage of the marriage covenant by bringing the law of Christ to the
old covenant body. Then, according to type, after 40 years they
entered their promised land; they married the heavenly
land. The new covenant fulfillment is not
like the old covenant type because the body of Christ, which is the
church, doesn't ever break the covenant and get divorced by God. I
should gratefully try to represent His name as accurately as I can
as I speak and live for his kingdom on earth. Yahwey developed a
moral allegory of national marriage to His old covenant people
through the person of Hosea. The adulterous story of Hosea's wife
is a figurative treatment of the loyal yet jealous love of a
faithful husband (Yahwey) for his idolatrous people.
Jeremiah 31:31
YAH VEH CUTS A NEW
COVENANT ECB 31 Behold,
days come, - an oracle of Yah Veh that I cut a new covenant with
the house of Yisra El and with the house of Yah Hudah:
Jeremiah 31:31-32
LITV 31 Behold,
the days come, says Jehovah, that I will cut a new covenant with
the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, 32 not
according to the covenant that I cut with their fathers in the day
I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt
(which covenant of Mine they broke, although I was a husband to
them, says Jehovah).
Of course Peter had
no idea that the gospel would include the Gentiles. The founding
Jews were astonished when Yahwey added non Jewish believers to
their new marriage covenant.
But then Yahwey's people accepted the fact that all
believers (and only believers) formed the one new body. Sons of
humanity refers to Yahwey's people. Through the
gospel-preaching-diaspora, people from all races were becoming the
new sons of humanity.
Ephesians 3:5-6
ECB 5 which in
other generations was not known to the sons of
humanity, as it is now unveiled to his holy apostles and
prophets in Spirit; 6 that the
goyim be co-heirs and co-bodied and co-partakers of his
pre-evangelism in the Messiah through the evangelism:
The gospel is still the only way to recieve their
promise and join the one and only family of Yahwey. The secret is
out, but only born again believers seem to comprehend
it.
Ephesians 3:4-6 (The nations have joined the Jewish body)
CLV 4 by which
you who are reading are able to apprehend my understanding in the
secret of the Christ, 5 which, in
other generations, is not made known to the sons of humanity as it
was now revealed to His holy apostles and prophets): in
spirit" 6the
nations are to be joint enjoyers of an allotment, and a
joint body, and joint partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus,
through the evangel"
The mystery of the messiah is that you don't have to be
a Jew to be saved by the Jewish messiah. He will even give the new
birth to the humanized goyim. It was a shocking revelation but,
halleluja praise Yeshua!
Matthew 28:16-19
CLV 16 Now the
eleven disciples went into Galilee, into the mountain where Jesus
arranges with them." 17 And,
perceiving Him, they worship Him, yet they
hesitate." 18 And,
approaching, Jesus speaks to them saying, "Given to Me was all
authority in heaven and on the earth." 19 Going,
then, disciple all the nations, baptizing them into the name of the
Father and of the Son and of the holy spirit,
Acts 10:28
JMNT 28Thus
he affirmed to them, "You folks continue well
versed [in the
fact] and are well aware of how illicit and
inappropriate (forbidden by [our] Law and contrary to
[our] established order) it is for an adult
man [who is] a
Jew (or: is of the Jewish culture) to be
intimately joined to, or to regularly come to (or:
visit and associate with), a man from another race.
And yet God pointed out and demonstrated to me not to continue
saying [that] even one
human [is] common (=
socially or ceremonially unhallowed or defiled) or
unclean.
1 Corinthians 6:10-11
CAB 10 nor
covetous, nor thieves, nor drunkards, nor abusive people, nor
swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And
such were some of you! But you were washed, but you were
sanctified, but you were justified in the name of
the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.
I don't believe Adam is the federal head of unsaved
people today.
Revelation 22:15-21
CAB 15 But
outside are dogs and drug users and fornicators and murderers and
idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices a
lie. 16 I,
Jesus, have sent My angel to testify these things to you for the
churches. I am the Root and the Stock of David, the Bright and
Morning Star." 17 And the
Spirit and the bride say, "Come!" And let him who hears say,
"Come!" And let him who thirsts come. The one who
desires, let him take the water of life
freely. 18 I
testify to everyone hearing the words of the prophecy of this book:
If anyone adds to them, may God add to him the plagues having been
written in this book. 19 And if
anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, may
God take away his part from the tree of Life, and from the holy
city, and from the things having been written in this
book. 20 He who
testifies to these things says, "Yes, I am coming quickly." Amen.
Yes, come, Lord Jesus! 21 The
grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with all the
saints. Amen.
Saints is also translated 'holy
ones'. It comes from the Greek word
'hagion'; hag'-ee-on. We are the new Holy
Place. We are where the grace of the Master Jesus Christ now causes
the image of God to stand; in the temple of the new covenant
humans. We call it the process of sanctification.
Strong's: hag'-ee-on
ἅγιον
a
sacred thing (i.e. spot) Derivation: neuter of G40;
22 for
as in the Adam all are dying, so also in the Christ all are being
made to live.
Nobody is covenantally dying like the Adam
today.
Adam is no longer the federal
head of a corporate body. Everyone is still physically dying like
the Adam, but they don't covenantally die like the Adam did.
Unlike the Adam, people not
in the Christ today will stay dead. We are not in the covenant overlap era anymore.
The resurrection of the old body is past. Today there is only one
corporate body in covenant with Yahwey. Adam was in the old
covenant with Yahwey, but he was resurrected; either to life in the
new body of Yeshua or to his second death. If we are in the body of
the Christ, then we still die physically, but we don't die
covenantally. Everyone in the body of Adam was dying covenantally.
If I was covenantally dying before I was born again, then what
covenant was I dying to? There is no death in the one and only new
covenant. Christ gives life to his people. The new marriage
covenant is better; even if you believe we are still in the new
covenant betrothal period and the old covenant is still in the
throes of it's death, i.e., divorce from Yahwey.
Jesus covenantally died like the Adam; yet without
sin.
Actually Jerusalem was
graciously widowed when Jesus put eschaton Adam to death on the
cross so they could have the option to remarry the new covenant man
before the AD 70 final destruction. Some stayed and lived out there
last old covenant days in denial.
There is no longer a
city of God married to old covenant Adam; and if there were it
would not make a good queen. Along with fallen Adam's corporate
body, even the fallen queen is dead now. The new Jerusalem is the
new bride of the new covenant
king.
Revelation
18:7
JMNT 7"As
much as she glorified (or:
glorifies) herself and indulged (lives
in proud luxury), so much give to her
examination (testing) by the touchstone
and mourning (grief; sadness;
sorrow), because within her heart she is continually
saying, 'I continually sit as a queen, and I am not a widow; I may
by no means see mourning (grief; sadness; sorrow;
misery). ' 8"On
account of this, in (or:
within) one day her
plagues (blows) will
progressively arrive: death,
mourning (grief) and
famine. And she will proceed being burned
down (consumed) within
fire, because the Lord [=
Yahweh], the God judging
her, [is] strong!
Christ means anointed,
which signifies who the king is.
Romans 5:21
JMNT 21to
the end that JUST AS the Sin (the failure; the
erroneous act; the deviation and digression which issued in missing
the goal) at one point reigned (or:
ruled as king; exercised sovereign sway) within, and
in union with, the Death, THUS SO (or: in THIS
way) also the Grace and joyous favor would
reign (should rule as king; can exercise sovereign
sway) through rightwisedness (or: by
means of rightly-turned existence with equity in [covenantal]
solidarity of right relationships which accord to the Way; through
a Justice-[expression]) [which leads] into Life which
belongs to, pertains to and has the characteristics of the
Age (or: eonian life; Life of the Age [of Messiah]; a
life for the ages) – through Jesus Christ, our
Owner (Lord; Master).