Eonian Life

Would Adam have lived forever if he didn’t fall? Would eschaton Adam have lived forever if He didn’t take Adam’s fall? Would Jesus still be on earth today in the same biological body 2000 plus years old? At what age would He have stopped aging? Aging can’t be bad because Jesus Himself aged as the eschaton Adam. How old would first Adam appear today if he didn’t fall?

Literally an age has a definite duration, but Vine’s Expository Dictionary Of The New Testament tells us we can’t take age literally.

Vine’s G165 – aion: The phrases containing this word should not be rendered literally, but consistently with the sense of indefinite duration. Thus eis ton aiona does not mean “unto the age” but “forever” (see, e.g., Hebrews 5:6).

Vine’s argument is that since Hebrews 5:6 must mean “eternal”,  due to it’s association with Melchisedek,  then so does every other phrase where the word “age” appears.

Hebrews 5:6 (This letter is addressed to the Hebrews by the way) YLT 6 as also in another place He saith, `Thou art a priest—to the age, according to the order of Melchisedek;’

Hebrews 5:6 KJV 6 As he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedek.

Other people change the Bible because to them Melchisedek can’t be eternal. “He is without father or mother or genealogy; he has neither beginning of days nor end of life . . . he continues a priest forever.”  That bothered some people so much that they reject the writing addressed to the Hebrews and change the writing in Genesis 11.  They changed the ages of the patriarchs by removing one hundred years from six patriarchs and 50 years from a seventh in order to try to give Melchisedek a genealogy.

‘Jews’ today teach that Shem is Melchisedek. But, in order for Shem to meet up with Abraham, 650 years were removed from the record. The Greek Septuagint, the Samaritan Pentateuch, and Flavius Josephus all retain the 650 years. Which has Shem’s death 500 years before Abraham is even born, hence he can’t meet Abraham as Melchisedek. Ages matter. Yeshua retains no legal genealogy after His Old Covenant death and resurrection [like Melchisedek, God and His angels(watchers)]. And since Yeshua was resurrected (reborn) by the Spirit, without legal genealogy, into a new covenant (as firstborn of the new humanity), then like first Adam, He doesn’t have to be from the tribe of Levi to be a priest.

What’s wrong with Yeshua being a priest to the age in the order of Melchisedek? It leaves the old flesh and blood mode behind. It means the New Covenant completes the Old Covenant age in spiritual life rather than in the death. No Old Covenant priest was ever able to overcome the death and reconstitute the fallen age. And just because Yeshua is able to take the Hebrews into the new age (alive) doesn’t mean He quits being high priest after arriving. In fact Yeshua can’t even be a priest in the Old Covenant.

Eternal life is only accomplished for us in the New Covenant. The Holy Spirit was sent to grant life to the Jews first, but He wasn’t sent until the genetically Jewish Lamb of God ascended to the true temple in heaven as the final flesh sacrifice. Every other priest sacrificed for himself first then for others. Eschaton Adam sacrificed Himself for others, but not as high priest yet. Life to the age is only in the priesthood of Christ, but He wasn’t a priest until after His resurrection. 

Hebrews 7:27 YLT who hath no necessity daily, as the chief priests, first for his own sins to offer up sacrifice, then for those of the people; for this he did once, having offered up himself;

After His resurrection, He re-entered His non-corrupted final sacrifice as proof that He did indeed overcome their O.C. death. He was the lone living sacrifice of the New Covenant until Pentecost. He already sacrificed His Old Covenant life, but He did not take the final sacrifice to the true temple in heaven in the order of Melchizedek yet. He put the O.C. human to death in the typical priesthood covenant. He had yet to sacrifice His Jewish genetics as the first-fruit offering of the New Covenant creation. He would arrive to the most holy place in heaven as high priest without genealogy.

It was in the order of Melchizedek that He sent the Holy Spirit to the Jews, not in the fading glory of Judah or Levi genes. The new order high priest took His place in heaven as New Covenant chief before He made Israel spiritual. After Yeshua was re-birthed by the Holy Spirit, He spent 40 days in the land and ten days in heaven, then the Holy Spirit began to indwell other living sacrifices in the priestly order of Melchizedek. The spiritual nation of Israel was born on Pentecost. 

It’s the power of an endless life that enables the living-completion of the age. Adam was not allowed to complete the age because he spiritually died and stayed spiritually dead.

The tree of life typically sustained biological life for Adam not spiritual life.

The Old Covenant was typical and Adam was a type of Christ. Romans 5:14 …Adam was a type of Him who was to come. Eschaton Adam came to teleos humanity’s 1000 years, says Revelation chapter 20. It says it three times. Is it just coincidence that Yeshua took 70 years to do what He came to do? Did His rescue mission have anything to do with Adam and Israel? One was His fallen individual and the other was His fallen nation. He not only came to save both the individual and the corporate body of humanity, but to continue the great commission given to Adam and Israel; that is to humanize people from all national bodies. After Israel received Holy Spirit life, the Holy Spirit secondly went to the Gentile nations. God’s people continue to come from all nationalities even today, by the same Holy Spirit.

Acts 10:11-16 ECB  11 and he observes the heavens open; and a vessel descends on him as a mega linen bound at the four beginnings, and lowers to the earth: } 12 wherein are all quadrepeds of the earth and beasts and creepers and flyers of the heavens: 13 and so be it, a voice to him, Rise, Petros! Sacrifice, and eat! 14 But Petros says, No way, Adonay; for I never ever ate aught profane or impure. 15 And a second voice to him, What Elohim purifies, you profane not! 16 And this becomes thrice: and the vessel is taken again into the heavens.

Hebrews 7:28 CLV 28 For the law is appointing men chief priests who have infirmity, yet the word sworn in the oath which is after the law, appoints the Son, perfected, for the eon.”

After the law, the oath constitutes the Son having been matured into the age (“having been matured” is teleos).

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Jesus married the church and made her eternal when He reached the age of 70. From the time of His birth into the body of Adam until the marriage was 70 years. It’s as if Eschaton Adam rescued and completed humanity for both Adam and Israel. Imagine that. And the second exodus began when he was 30 years old. Jesus’ ministry began to set people free when He was 30 and He completed the regeneration of the nation when He was 70. The first exodus also took 40 years to regenerate Israel. Just as two people from that generation were still alive when the first Exodus was fulfilled, some would still be alive when the second Exodus was fulfilled.

Matthew 16:28 YLT Verily I say to you, there are certain of those standing here who shall not taste of death till they may see the Son of Man coming in his reign.

Adam would have lived to the age of his thousand year reign if he hadn’t been banned from the tree of life. Concordant Literal Version – Genesis 3:22b And now, lest he stretch forth his hand, moreover, and take of the tree of the living, and eat and live for the eon–! Most translations render this last word, “forever”, but it is more accurately translated, “to the age”. Their concept of resurrection and forever hadn’t developed yet. We read our eschatology back into it when we say forever. The typical tree of life in the garden only gave biological longevity on earth. It didn’t give spiritual life to Adam. That is why Adam was banned from it. It would have allowed him to live to the age in spiritual death. Adam needed spiritual salvation before he lived to the age. Premature death at 930 years of age put his judgement on hold until esachaton Adam came to take his place. Only eschaton Adam could save original Adam from permanent death, i.e., judgement to second death.

Jesus alone would have completed Adam’s age and Israel’s age alive, if He wouldn’t have agreed to take Adam’s place, in order to become the spiritual tree of life for His people. He granted the Holy Spirit to the sons of Adam on Pentecost after He took their death on the tree. Galatians 3:13 Berean Literal Bible – Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law, having become a curse for us—for it has been written: “Cursed is everyone hanging on a tree”—

Death has no power unless the law of death is enacted. Yeshua enacted the curse upon Himself by hanging on a tree. Adam enacted it upon himself by disobedience to the only law of the garden; the law of death itself. He ate what hung on the tree of spiritual death; a non-spiritual eye opener.

The typical tree of life would have kept Adam physically alive to the age of 1000. He spiritually died the day he ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and he biologically died in his 1000-year day. A day is as 1000 years to God we like to say. Yeshua is the spiritual tree of life that reversed the curse for Adam by taking spiritual death on the tree and overcoming the death of Adam. Yeshua became the antitypical tree of life. Jesus was raised under the knowledge of good and evil and it didn’t spiritually kill Him. In fact the Holy Spirit joined Him at full maturity under law. On the antitypical dual tree, the best good and the worst evil met and their firstborn death was covered. It was the fulfillment passover sacrifice to save the firstborn. Eschaton Adam applied His own blood to the post and lintel for the old house of Israel. He then called on His followers to pick up their post and leave the firstborn death behind. They had to lose their old soul because he was dead and dying.

It is by grace that @ 70 years is our average lifespan today. We are on this side of the transition of covenants. Adam had to suffer a lot longer than we do. Yeshua suffered a lot more than anybody ever will, even though He made a quick work of it. Hallelujah praise Yeshua. We don’t have to rule in the millennium. He and His first century followers did it for us.

Yeshua nailed the Old Covenant law to the tree. The New Covenant testator will never die. The law of death has been abolished. The death of flesh and blood mode enacted the spiritual law of life on Yeshua. The O.C. death couldn’t keep Him and a N.C. death doesn’t threaten Him.

Colossians 2:10-15 (the operation of God is not a typical flesh circumcision) CLV  10 And you are complete in Him, Who is the Head of every sovereignty and authority, 11 in Whom you were circumcised also with a circumcision not made by hands, in the stripping off of the body of flesh in the circumcision of Christ.” 12 Being entombed together with Him in baptism, in Whom you were roused together also through faith in the operation of God, 13 Who raised Him out of the dead ones, you also being dead to the offenses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He vivifies us together jointly with Him, dealing graciously with all our offenses, 14 erasing the handwriting of the decrees against us, which was hostile to us, and has taken it away out of the midst, nailing it to the cross, 15 stripping off the sovereignties and authorities, with boldness He makes a show of them, triumphing over them in it.”

1 Corinthians 15:42-58 42 Thus also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is roused in incorruption. 43 It is sown in dishonor; it is roused in glory. It is sown in infirmity; it is roused in power. 44 It is sown a soulish body; it is roused a spiritual body. 45 If there is a soulish body, there is a spiritual also. Thus it is written also, The proto-human, Adam, became a living soul: the eschaton Adam a life-giving Spirit. 46 But the spiritual was not first, but the soulish, thereafter came the spiritual. 47 The first human was out of the land, soilish; the second Human is the Lord out of heaven. 48 Such as the soilish one is, such are those also who are soilish, and such as the Celestial One, such are those also who are celestials. 49 And just as we are wearing the image of the soilish one, we shall also be wearing the image of the Celestial one. 50 Now this I am saying brethren, that flesh and blood is not able to enjoy an allotment (to tenant) in the kingdom of God, neither is corruption enjoying the allotment (tenanting) of incorruption. 51 Be perceptive, I am telling you a mystery! We shall not all sleep, yet we shall all be changed, 52 in an instant, in the twinkle of an eye, at the last trump. For He will be trumpeting, and the dead will be roused incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal put on immortality. 54 Now, whenever this corruptible should be putting on incorruption and this mortal should be putting on immortality, then shall come to pass the word which is written, Swallowed up was the death by conquest. 55 Where, O Death, is your victory? Where, O Death, is your sting? 56 Now the sting of Death is sin, yet the power of sin is the law. 57 Now thanks be to God, Who is giving us the conquest, through our Lord Jesus Christ. 58 So then, my beloved brethren, become settled, unmovable, superabounding in the work of the Lord always, being aware that your toil is not for nothing in the Lord.

The eonian life of eschaton Adam was laid down and taken up for you. As son of the human, only Yeshua had eonian life. Everyone else was still in eonian death and headed for a dead fulfillment which is second death. They couldn’t escape the curse of the law, which is the death of Adam.

Jesus gave up His spiritual life in the Old Covenant so He could head up a New Covenant in which one could not miss the mark. There is no law of death now. All who are given eternal life are secure in the non-genetic family of Yahweh. We have a new body of humanity in the order of Melchizedek. The body of Moses was given life to the age in the body of Christ. The indwelling Holy Spirit fulfills the image of God in people.

Yeshua assured His Jewish believers that they would complete the old age with the Holy Spirit.

John 14:16-17 CLV 16 And I shall be asking the Father, and He will be giving you another consoler, that it, indeed, may be with you for the eon -” 17 the spirit of truth, which the world can not get, for it is not beholding it, neither is knowing it. Yet you know it, for it is remaining with you and will be in you.”

1 Corinthians 15:21-22 ECB 21 For since through humanity, death, also through humanity, the resurrection of the dead. 22 For exactly as in Adam all die, even thus in the Messiah all enliven:

Revelation 1:10 – I was in the Spirit on the day of the Lord, and I heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet, saying,

I take the Lord’s day here to be a 24-hour day. Yeshua called Himself Lord of the Sabbath. But the day of the Lord was also at hand – meaning final judgement for those under works of law. So John was seeing the culmination of the thousand year day of Adam and Israel – by the Lord of the sabbath. It was good for those who could see and bad for those who wouldn’t see until it was too late. There eyes would be opened by the second death of Adam/Old Covenant humanity.

Even though they were circumcised in the flesh many were not circumcised in their heart by the Holy Spirit, so they stuck their head in the sand. They wanted to stay married to the typical land. But they were in the transition from the old to the new as unveiled through Hebrew symbolism – to John.

Revelation 1:1 KJV – 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. 4 Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand. YLT 7 Lo, he doth come with the clouds, and see him shall every eye, even those who did pierce him, and wail because of him shall all the tribes of the land. Yes! Amen! 9 I, John, who also am your brother, and fellow-partner in the tribulation, and in the reign and endurance, of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, because of the word of God, and because of the testimony of Jesus Christ; 17 And when I saw him, I did fall at his feet as dead, and he placed his right hand upon me, saying to me, Be not afraid; I am the First and the Last, 18 and he who is living, and I did become dead, and, lo, I am living to the ages of the ages. Amen! and I have the keys of the hades and of the death. 19 Write the things that thou hast seen, and the things that are, and the things that are about to come after these things;