Colossians 3:4-6
ECB 4 Whenever
the Messiah, our life, manifests, then you also manifest with him
in glory.
STRIPPING THE OLD
HUMANITY
5 So deaden your members on the earth:
whoredom, impurity, passion, evil panting, and avarice - which is
idolatry: 6 through
which the wrath of Elohim comes on the sons of
distrust:
The wrath of God is directed
toward the sons in Colossians 3:6. I have never heard that from any
pulpit. Could it have something to do with covenant transition? The
sons who trusted God were moving into the new covenant and the sons
of distrust were about to perish. Satan himself, who was ruling the
kingdom of Rome, was one of the sons of distrust. He tried to usurp
the true Son rather than trust Him. Being in God's family, he knew
the truth and was therefore very accountable.
It was a fallen son of God (an
angel) who caused the human son (Adam) to fall and then the fallen
sons (angels) cohabitated with Adam's descendents to bring the
local flood judgment on God's human and elohim/human
children.
It was the firstborn nation of
God that was destroyed in AD 70; not all the people on the whole
planet. The second born or born again Jewish nation is the church,
which will never be destroyed. The church is where we get the idea
that God's discipline is for His children and His wrath is for the
unbelievers. The unbelieving sons rejected their messiah and did
not escape the wrath. The believing sons took sanctuary in the
church.
John 3:36 (John witnessed to Jerusalem before they were
destroyed)
ECB 36 He who trusts
in the Son has eternal life: and he who distrusts the Son sees not
life; but the wrath of Elohim abides on him.
Philippians 3:2-3
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]! 3 For we are
the [true] circumcision, the [ones] sacredly
serving in [or, by] the Spirit of God and boasting in
Christ Jesus and not having placed trust [or, having
confidence] in flesh,
Hosea 11:1
LITV 1 When Israel
was a child, then I loved him, and I called My son out of
Egypt.
We are in a better covenant now
and the transition is over. His new covenant people have
been revealed as the only
children of God now. All the bad angels of the nations were
destroyed and the true Son rules the good angels and all of
humanity with His perfectly human soul. So in the new covenant
we do avoid the wrath of God that leads to
destruction. Our mediator is a merciful high preist who
took on humanity in Jerusalem and conquered it and raised it into a
better covenant.
Woe to the sons of distrust who
remained in AD 70 old covenant Israel !
Matthew 11:20-22
LITV 20 Then He
began to reproach the cities in which most of His powerful acts had
occurred, for they did not repent. 21 Woe to
you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the powerful acts
which have taken place in you had happened in Tyre and Sidon, they
would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. 22 But I say
to you, It shall be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon in Judgment
Day than for you.
AD 70
was the end for the temple of the gospel rejecters but judgement
actually began with the believers. A Jewish man named Peter was
writing from 'Babylon' when he addresses the elect scattered ones
(believing sons). He tells them to consider their fiery trial as
part of the sufferrings of Christ designed to prepare them for the
consummation that "has-neared". Some say that means Peter was
writing from Rome and some say Jerusalem. There were believing and
unbelieving sons scattered throughout the Roman Empire, but
Jerusalem with it's temple typically represented the old covenant
that was about to be destroyed. Rome was also part of the
about-to-be transition. It is said that Nero started the city of
Rome on fire and blamed the Christians. That started a fiery trial
of even more persecution for the believers. Rome was the 4th
kingdom prophecied by Daniel. It was also being ruled by an
unbelieving son (satan) who was about to be crushed. Both the 4th
kingdom and the old covenant were about to be handed over to the
true Son.
Revelation 11:8 (The city of Jerusalem is associated with
the unfaithful)
LITV 8 And
their bodies will be on the street of the great city, which
spiritually is called Sodom, and Egypt, where our Lord was
crucified.
Revelation 18:4
LITV 4 And I
heard another voice out of Heaven saying, My people, come out of
her, that you may not share in her sins, and that you may not
receive of her plagues;
Revelation 18:24 (Babylon)
LITV 24 And in
her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all the
ones having been slain on the earth.
Luke 11:50-52 (The same
Jesus who said this in Jerusalem later relayed the book of
Revelation)
ECB 50 that the
blood of all the prophets, poured from the foundation of the
cosmos, is required of this generation 51 - from the
blood of Abel to the blood of Zechar Yah - who destructed between
the sacrifice altar and the house: yes, I word to you, It is
required of this generation. 52 Woe to you,
torahists! For you take the key of knowledge: and you yourselves
enter not; and them entering, you forbid.
1 Peter 4:17 (Judgement began in order to prepare rather than
destroy the believing sons)
LITV 17 Because
the time has come to begin the judgment from the house of God; and
if firstly from us, what will be the end of the ones disobeying the
gospel of God?
Promises to Abraham are
fulfilled in the gospel through the Son of promise
Hebrews 6:9-14 (Written to persecuted Jews outside of Israel; a
several years prior to destruction)
CLV 9 Yet we are
persuaded of better things concerning you, beloved, and those which
have to do with salvation, even if we are speaking
thus." 10 For God is
not unjust, to be forgetting your work and the love which you
display for His name when you serve the saints, and are
serving." 11 Now we are
yearning for each one of you to be displaying the same diligence
toward the assurance of the expectation until the
consummation, 12 that you
may not be becoming dull. Now be imitators of those who
through faith and patience are enjoying the allotment of the
promises. 13 For God,
promising Abraham, since He had no one greater to swear by, swears
by Himself, 14 saying,
"If, in sooth, it is blessing, I shall be blessing you, and
multiplying, I shall be multiplying you!"
Hebrews 12:1-11(To the Hebrews whose faith was being finished
for the AD 70 new covenant consummation; old covenant
dissolution)
LITV 1 So
therefore we also, having so great cloud of witnesses lying around
us, having laid aside every weight and the easily surrounding sin,
through patience let us also run the race set before
us, 2 looking to
the Author and Finisher of our faith, Jesus, who for the joy set
before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, "and sat down at
the right" of the throne of God. Psa. 110:1 3 For
consider Him who had endured such gainsaying of sinners against
Himself, that you do not grow weary, fainting in your
souls. 4 You did not
yet resist unto blood, wrestling against sin. 5 And you
have forgotten the exhortation which He speaks with you, as with
sons, "My sons, do not despise the chastening of the Lord, nor
faint while being corrected by Him. 6 For whom
the Lord loves, He disciplines, and whips every son whom He
receives." Prov. 3:11, 12 7 If you
endure discipline, God is dealing with you as with sons; for who is
the son whom a father does not discipline? 8 But if you
are without discipline, of which all have become sharers, then you
are bastards, and not sons. 9 Furthermore,
indeed we have had fathers of our flesh as correctors, and we
respected them . Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of
spirits, and we shall live? 10 For
they truly disciplined us for a few days according to the thing
seeming good to them; but He for our profit, in order for us to
partake of His holiness. 11 And all
discipline for the present indeed does not seem to be joyous, but
grievous; but afterward it gives back peaceable fruit of
righteousness to the ones having been exercised by it.
The first century
supernatural spirit ruler of the kingdom promoted distrust in the
true God.
Ephesians
2:2
ECB 2 wherein you
formerly walked according to the eon of this cosmos, according to
the arch of the authority of the air, the spirit that now energizes
in the sons of distrust:
God disciplined His Hebrew sons
of belief according to Hebrews 12:12, yet only His wrath is
mentioned for the sons of unbelief, according to Colossians 3:6.
Jerusalem officially opposed God by endorsing only the old covenant
sons who rejected the true Son. They sided with their father; the
adversary. The true Son is the noncorruptible son in the
unmitigated image of God. He is the new head of humanity today. He
is more than just our restoration to the typical tree of
life. The new covenant
with Him can never fall. He made possible all our good and
conquered our death on the tree we fashioned into a
cross.
The old covenant sons
were about to experience one or the other: the covenant blessings
of Christ or the curse of the everlasting
destruction
Hebrews 6 (to Hebrew tribes outside of Israel)
CLV 1 Wherefore,
leaving the word dealing with the rudiments of Christ, we should be
brought on to maturity, (not again disrupting the foundation of
repentance from dead works, and of faith on God, 2 of the
teaching of baptizings, besides the imposition of hands, and the
resurrection of the dead, and of judgment eonian)." 3 And this will
we be doing, that is, if God may be permitting." 4 For it is
impossible for those once enlightened, besides tasting the
celestial gratuity and becoming partakers of holy
spirit, 5 and tasting
the ideal declaration of God, besides the powerful deeds of the
impending eon, 6 and falling
aside, to be renewing them again to repentance while crucifying for
themselves the Son of God again and holding Him up to
infamy." 7 For land
which is drinking the shower coming often on it, and bringing forth
herbage fit for those because of whom it is being farmed also,
is partaking of blessing from God;" 8 yet, bringing
forth thorns and star thistles, it is disqualified and near
a curse, whose consummation is burning." 9 Yet we are
persuaded of better things concerning you, beloved, and those which
have to do with salvation, even if we are speaking
thus."
It was impossible for the
unbelieving sons who remained in the old cursed land to crucify the
Son again in order to remove the curse again. They instead became
disqualified and their old covenant was destroyed. The blessed by
Christ Hebrews moved into a covenant land without national borders;
the church. And they are still in it. I suppose all the elect Jews
were completley saved, just as Peter and the author of Hebrews were
confident they would be. The old man (adamic son headship under
law) was put to death. The new man lives on. God's people are still
judged today. We are still disciplined through suffering rather
than perish with the unbelievers. Just because the transition
judgement is over doesn't mean it has become a free for all. Yeshua
is the head of the body now and He unlike Adam is the ultimate
supernatural human being. Adam has been raised from the person he
started off as. We have better family character now not worse. The
new man even rules the elohim/angels. The old man let the elohim
rule him.
Ephesians 5:6-10 (sons of unbelief)
LITV 6 Let no one
deceive you with empty words, for through these the wrath of God
comes on the sons of disobedience. 7 Then do
not be partners with them; 8 for you
then were darkness, but now light in the Lord; walk as children of
light. 9 For the
fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and
truth, 10 proving
what is pleasing to the Lord.
Vine's Expository Dictionary of
New Testament Words
ἀπείθεια G543
apeitheia
ap-i'-thi-ah
From G545; disbelief (obstinate
and rebellious)
KJV Usage: disobedience,
unbelief.
Hebrews 13:12-15 (The city of Jerusalem was about to burn)
LITV 12 Indeed,
because of this, in order that He might sanctify the people by His
own blood, Jesus suffered outside the gate. 13 So let us
go forth to Him outside the camp bearing His
reproach. 14 For we do
not have here a continuing city, but we seek the city
coming. 15 Then
through Him let us offer up a sacrifice of praise to God always,
that is, the fruit of the lips, confessing to His
name.
Luke 17:32 (unbelieving sons who chose typical Jerusalem
perished)
LITV 32 Remember
Lot's wife.
Hebrews 12:7
LITV 7 If you
endure discipline, God is dealing with you as with sons; for who is
the son whom a father does not discipline?
Genuine belief comes with the
new territory. Therefore there are no sons of unbelief who get
spiritually destroyed in the new covenant era, but God sure can
bring on the disciplinary measures. Even during the transition era
the goal was to save the disobedient believer's spirit so that he
himself won't perish but have everlasting life.
1 Corinthians 5:1-5
YLT 1 Whoredom
is actually heard of among you, and such whoredom as is not even
named among the nations—as that one hath the wife of the father!
— 2 and
ye are having been puffed up, and did not rather mourn, that he may
be removed out of the midst of you who did this
work, 3 for I
indeed, as being absent as to the body, and present as to the
spirit, have already judged, as being present, him who so wrought
this thing: 4 in
the name of our Lord Jesus Christ—ye being gathered together, also
my spirit—with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, 5 to
deliver up such a one to the Adversary for the destruction of the
flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord
Jesus.