Variants of the phrase, “dying you shall die” occur about 49 times in the Old Testament. “dying you shall die” announces a judicial punishment for breaking a law or command. It means you will die in your human guilt. Your relationship to God and to His old covenant humanity died when you broke a human law and it can’t be restored.

At just the right time, Jesus came to save the cosmos from perishing in Adam. Adam was already judged to die dying for breaking God’s law. So God banned him from the land of Eden lest he live to the age in that condemned condition. Jesus took Adam’s place in His/his old covenant death, as firstborn; the “lamb” of God without blemish, and then Jesus overcame the death of the old covenant firstborn. Jesus was resurrected to a better covenant, not a restored one. He did not remain in Hades and live to the age and perish in His/his old covenant death. His new covenant became the living alternative to arriving to the age still dead. The new covenant didn’t replace the old, at least not right away. The old kept going to the age as it was: dead and dying and in ever-increasing guilt.

Nobody in the new covenant of God chooses to perish in their mortality, like Israel did in the old covenant. Both Adam and Israel did choose to die. They were both on trek for immortality until they knowingly broke God’s command. The leadership was not deceived. Adam was clearly not deceived and Israel’s leaders at least claimed that they could see.

God sent His Son to take Adam’s place as firstborn human in order to overcome His/his old covenant death. He then brought believing Jews to the age in His resurrected self. The unbelieving Jews still arrived to the age dead. The old covenant world still perished. Jesus only brought the mortality of Adam and Israel to eternal life in Himself. He insured both the life and the death of both Adam and Israel on the cross. Their continued and increasing guilt lasted to the age (in those who still wanted Jesus and His followers dead at that time). It was judged to die dead in AD70. The old covenant death of the unbelievers was as secure as the new covenant life of those who believed. The belief of Jesus and the Jews who followed Him was the truth that led to life. The belief of the unbelieving Jews who disavowed Him was the lie that kept them on trek for their death.

Jesus returned to the Father to prepare a place for His new covenant Jews to join Him in heaven

John 14:5-6

LITV ⁵ Thomas said to Him, Lord, we do not know where You go, and how can we know the way? ⁶ Jesus said to him, I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

1 Timothy 2:14

YLT ¹⁴ and Adam was not deceived, but the woman, having been deceived, into transgression came,

After the fall, Adam hid from God and blamed others. This is similar to the condition of the Pharisees who hated the light and blamed Jesus for their foreseeable problems. They were in the firstborn Adam. The Pharisees who accused the blind man of being born in sin (whom Jesus had healed of being born blind) were told by Jesus that their sin remained, because the Pharisees claimed to see already. They couldn’t see that they couldn’t see, that only Jesus could heal them. They did not choose the right way because they were already ‘woke’ in their own eyes. Satan had them hoodwinked in the fallen firstborn of humanity.

John 9:39-41

ECB ³⁹ And Yah Shua says, I come to this cosmos in judgment, that whoever sees not, sees; and whoever sees, becomes blind. ⁴⁰ And some of the Pharisees with him hear these words, and say to him, Are we also blind? ⁴¹ Yah Shua says to them, If you had been blind, you had no sin: but now you word, We see! so your sin abides. [they were still on track to die dead at the age]

James (better Jacob) wrote to his Jewish brethren and warned them that claiming to see better than others (knowing right from wrong) makes you more accountable in the coming judgment, not less. Matthew 6 and 7 make it very clear that judgement especially comes upon those who judge others hypocritically. The Pharisees famously guarded their typical sabbaths on the surface while rejecting the Lord of the sabbath that they all pointed to. They missed the deeper goal which was the millennial sabbatism of the age in Christ. The goal of the age was with Jesus in the place He prepared. Do not stay in old covenant Jerusalem.

James 3:1 (Jacob – to Jews in diaspora)

CLV^( 1 Not many should become teachers, my brethren, being aware that we shall be getting greater judgment.”

Romans 2:17-24

LITV ¹⁷ Behold, you are called a Jew, and rest in the Law, and boast in God, ¹⁸ and know the will, and approve the things excelling, being instructed out of the Law, ¹⁹ and persuading yourself to be a guide of blind ones, a light to those in darkness, ²⁰ an instructor of foolish ones, a teacher of infants, having the form of knowledge and of the truth in the Law. ²¹ Then the one teaching another, do you not teach yourself? The one preaching not to steal, do you steal? ²² The one saying not to commit adultery, do you commit adultery? The one detesting the idols, do you rob temples? ²³ You who boast in Law, do you dishonor God through transgression of the Law? ²⁴ For the name of God is blasphemed among the nations through you, even as it has been written: Isa. 52:5

James 1

CLV ¹ James, a slave of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes in the dispersion. Rejoice!

James 3:1-9

CLV ¹ Not many should become teachers, my brethren, being aware that we shall be getting greater judgment.” ² For we all are tripping much. If anyone is not tripping in word, this one is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also.” ³ Now if we are thrusting the horses’ bits into their mouths, so that they are yielding to us, we are steering their whole body also with it.” ⁴ Lo! the ships also, being of such proportions, and driven by hard winds, are being steered by the least rudder, wherever the impulse of the helmsman is intending.” ⁵ Thus the tongue, also, is a little member and is grandiloquent. Lo! What amount of fire is kindling what amount of material!” ⁶ And the tongue is a fire, a world of injustice. The tongue is constituted among our members that which is spotting the whole body, and setting the wheel of our lineage aflame, and is set aflame by Gehenna.” ⁷ For every nature, both of wild beasts and flying creatures, both of reptiles and those of the salt sea, is tamed and has been tamed by human nature. [the psyche of the human: the human soul]” ⁸ Yet the tongue can no man [human] tame – a turbulent evil, distended with death-carrying venom.” ⁹ With it we are blessing the Lord and Father, and with it we are cursing men [humanity] who have come to be in accord with God’s likeness.”

Jacob wrote to the 12 tribes who were still in their mortality, to warn them against the hypocrisy of their age. The 12 tribes were teaching people from the nations to be in accord with God’s likeness, yet they were not taming their own tongues. Those who were cursing God’s imagers were in danger of cursing themselves. Jacob warned his brethren in diaspora about their greater accountability, just a his big brother had warned those in the land. Matthew 6-7

Adam was very clearly taught the truth about choosing whether to live or die, while he was still a mortal of course. He was on track to live to the age of 1000 unfallen when he was warned, “in the day you eat of it dying you shall die”. Adam missed his mark by a long shot. He would not continue his journey to the age alive and become everlasting like the angels in heaven. But, since God is a God of the living and not the dead, He appointed a resurrection of the dead ones in Adam.

Matthew 22:29-32

CLV ²⁹ Now, answering, Jesus said to them, “You are deceived, not being acquainted with the scriptures, nor yet with the power of God.” ³⁰ For in the resurrection neither are they marrying nor taking in marriage, but are as messengers of God in heaven.” ³¹ Now concerning the resurrection of the dead, did you not read that which is declared to you by God, saying, ³² I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? He is not the God of the dead but of the living.”

Romans 5:21

CLV ²¹ that, even as Sin reigns in [the] death, thus Grace also should be reigning through righteousness, for life eonian [to the age], through Jesus Christ, our Lord.”

Jesus chose to join Adam in His/his death, in His/his day. Jesus would be resurrected from Adam’s death before the completion of the age of Adam and Israel. The telos of the age was either in the living reconstitution of humanity or in the ongoing death of humanity. At just the right time Jesus died and was resurrected to reign in the millennium of humanity alive.

Romans 5:6

VIN ⁶ For at just the right time, while we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.

The death of Adam’s disobedience couldn’t hold Jesus or His people.

1 Corinthians 15:22

CLV ²² For even as, in Adam, all are dying, thus also, in Christ, shall all be vivified [being made to live].”

Second death, according to Revelation, is destruction in the lake of fire. “Dying you shall die” was typically the day Adam ate to the day he died. The consummation of Adam’s death was put to repose before the culmination of his day/age. Adam’s relational death and his death at 930 were both contained in the ongoing first death event. According to the Revelation from God to His Son, the second death event is the lake of fire. I’m sure God and Jesus got the definition right. Adam certainly died a relational death in the day he ate. He started hiding and blaming his wife and his God. He continued to suffer in that relationship death (to God in His humanity) until the day he died at 930 years of age. Adam’s premature death graciously put his final judgement day on hold by not allowing him to live to the typical day/age while still dead. If Adam was allowed to die dying at 1000 then that would have been the death of him. Adam’s day/age of death was put to repose until AD 70. The definition of mortality is not, “You will suffer forever and never die”. Mortality means perishability. Adam’s perishability was put on hold. Jesus took Adam’s place so His people wouldn’t die dying at the culmination of their age. “… He is not the God of the dead but of the living.” Those who stayed dead and perished with the old constitution were not His people.

John 3:16

YLT ¹⁶ for God did so love the world, that His Son—the only begotten—He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during [to the age].

The victory for God’s people was in Christ. Arriving to the age of 1000 alive in Christ was the victory of the ages. Adam was put to repose at 930 years of age. His forgiveness and all old covenant forgiveness both ended when the nation’s second 490 years concluded. The Lord of the sabbath sabbatized both Adam’s failed 930 and the second national 490 years with His 20th Jubilee. 490 years contains 70 sabbaticals, of which 10 are Jubilees. Every seventh year is a sabbatical and every 49th year is a Jubilee. The middle of every 49th year becomes sabbatized. The 49th year became the semicentennial after 6 months into it. When these 10 sabbatisms are added, the 490 years are counted as 500 truly covenanted years: making the total a full millennium of years, if they keep their sabbaths. They can only arrive alive by systematically returning to rest in God’s gift of sabbatism.

After Israel’s original land sabbatical, they should have counted to 50 twenty times, during their two stints in the land. Jubilees were designed to reset the people of God to their original God-given sabbatical, until they reached their final sabbatism in Him. The original sabbatical commenced 6 months into year one of the creation of the nation in the land. It was with the faith of the two living witnesses that the otherwise faithless regeneration of the nation finally arrived to the promised land. This new generation had no covenant on their own. They weren’t even circumcised in the wilderness. The sign of their covenant had disappeared in the desert. They were all circumcised after their land entry in the spring. Their typical flesh removal was the first of their works in the land. The first Sabbatical started that first year in the fall. It was then that Joshua read the law to the newly covenanted re-generation.

During the whole new covenant fulfillment of the 40-years of regeneration, the law was essentially taught to the people of God. Jesus Himself exegetes the real meaning of the law and the prophets for the first 3 1/2 years of His 40-year fulfillment. But He could only take them so far in their flesh. So He sends the Holy Spirit to continue writing the law on the hearts of this new generation. The timespan from the point when Jesus began His ministry in Israel until their old covenant forbearance by way of animal sacrifice ended was 40 years. If Jesus didn’t rein in that premillennial work of regeneration then nobody would have lived? Even His 3 1/2 years of ministry in His flesh and blood body was accomplished in the power of the Holy Spirit. His flesh and blood did not rule over Him. After 3 1/2 years of Holy Spirit ministry, He laid down His perfectly lived old covenant life, so His old covenant people could join His 40-year regeneration, in the same Holy Spirit enabled ministry that He was baptized into.

1 Corinthians 15:50-58

YLT ⁵⁰ And this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood the reign of God is not able to inherit, nor doth the corruption inherit the incorruption; ⁵¹ lo, I tell you a secret; we indeed shall not all sleep [repose in Hades], and we all shall be changed; ⁵² in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, in the last trumpet, for it shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we—we shall be changed: ⁵³ for it behoveth this corruptible to put on incorruption, and this mortal to put on immortality; ⁵⁴ and when this corruptible may have put on incorruption, and this mortal may have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the word that hath been written, `The Death was swallowed up—to victory; ⁵⁵ where, O Death, thy sting? where, O Hades, thy victory?’ ⁵⁶ and the sting of the death is the sin, and the power of the sin the law; ⁵⁷ and to God—thanks, to Him who is giving us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ; ⁵⁸ so that, my brethren beloved, become ye stedfast, unmovable, abounding in the work of the Lord at all times, knowing that your labour is not vain in the Lord. [work in the Lord lasts]

Did believers in Christ (who came from Adam and Israel and all the nations) arrive to the age alive? Are believers still mortal today or have we been given immortality as the newly constituted family members of God? Are we still subject to die dying by sinning under law or did the new constituted firstborn of humanity fulfill the law and secure our inheritance? Is the final sabbatism still remaining to be fulfilled or Jesus already rein in the millennium with His people?

The old covenant was in their second re-generation as a flesh and blood nation. Jesus’ first regeneration made it to the age alive. Jesus’ resurrection fulfilled the typical first resurrection in the wilderness. After 40 years, the new generation entered the promised land. Everyone in the resurrection of the body of Christ were blessed and holy. However, those who remained in the second flesh and blood regeneration of the nation went to the age in contempt. The resurrection of condemnation was the failed resurrection of Israel under law again.

They were originally condemned to die at Sinai for worshipping a beast, which is the breaking of the primary law of humanity, even before they received the law written on stone. After that fall into beast worship, their first regeneration as a nation covered the next 40 years in the wilderness. Then the new generation entered the promises. After the first 490 years in the land, they were expelled. That generation was condemned to die in the wilderness again. Their second resurrection as a nation in the wilderness started to trickle into the land after 70 missed sabbatical years passed. The types were reset but the people still had a failing faith. Jesus first re-generation, of the worst generation ever, took both 40 years and 70 years. He fulfilled all the types. He ministered to His people in the power of the life-giving Holy Spirit for 40 years as He concurrently fulfilled the final sabbatism with from His birth. Like His Father, Jesus became the master of the typical sabbath, by way of His very good works from inside the creation. He joined His old creation in their thousand year fulfillment so they could join His new creation fulfillment.

Hebrews 4:6-11

CLV ⁶ Since, then, it is left for some to be entering into it, and those to whom the evangel was formerly brought did not enter because of stubbornness, ⁷ He is again specifying a certain day, “Today”-saying in David after so much time, according as has been declared before, “Today, if ever His voice you should be hearing, You should not be hardening your hearts.” ⁸ For if Joshua causes them to stop, He would not have spoken concerning another day after these things.” ⁹ Consequently a sabbatism is left for the people of God. ¹⁰ For he who is entering into His stopping, he also stops from his works even as God from His own.” ¹¹ We should be endeavoring, then, to be entering into that stopping, lest anyone should be falling into the same example of stubbornness.”

That was then. This is now. The conclusion of the age was either: to the final sabbatism of the age of types alive in Christ or to the millennial death in Adam and Israel. Jesus’ call to His people was to put the old man to death and pick up their cross and follow Him outside the typical city, bearing the reproach from the typical unbelievers as He did. After His resurrection, Jesus told His people to remain in old covenant Jerusalem until they were enabled from heaven, but to be out for sure before AD70. Jesus would bear the reproach from the old cosmos till then. Then He put an end to it.

Colossians 3:10

YLT ¹⁰ and having put on the new, which is renewed in regard to knowledge, after the image of Him who did create him;

1 Peter 1:1-5

ECB ¹
SALUTATION
Petros, an apostle of Yah Shua Messiah: To the pilgrim diaspora throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Biyournia, ² Select according to the prognosis of Elohim the Father, in holiness of Spirit, to obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Yah Shua Messiah: Charism to you and shalom be multiplied. ³
THE LIVING HOPE
Eulogized be the Elohim and Father of our Adonay Yah Shua Messiah; who according to his vast mercy rebirthed us to a living hope [the diaspora was no longer dead and dying to the age] through the resurrection of Yah Shua Messiah from the dead: ⁴ to an inheritance incorruptible and unpolluted and amaranthine, guarded in the heavens to you ⁵ who are garrisoned in the dynamis of Elohim through trust to salvation – prepared [ready] to be unveiled in the final season:

Revelation 6:10-11

YLT ¹⁰ and they were crying with a great voice, saying, `Till when, O Master, the Holy and the True, dost Thou not judge and take vengeance of our blood from those dwelling upon the land?’ ¹¹ and there was given to each one white robes, and it was said to them that they may rest themselves yet a little time, till may be fulfilled also their fellow-servants and their brethren, who are about to be killed—even as they.

These first century martyrs were probably all Jewish believers from the tribulation of their transition of covenants. They were not modern day Christians under the alter waiting for their brethren who were about to join them. These transition Jews were foundational.

2 Thessalonians 1:6-12

YLT ⁶ since it is a righteous thing with God to give back to those troubling you—trouble, ⁷ and to you who are troubled—rest with us in the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven, with messengers of his power, ⁸ in flaming fire, giving vengeance to those not knowing God, and to those not obeying the good news of our Lord Jesus Christ; ⁹ who shall suffer justice—destruction age-during—from the face of the Lord, and from the glory of his strength, ¹⁰ when He may come to be glorified in his saints, and to be wondered at in all those believing—because our testimony was believed among you—in that day; ¹¹ for which also we do pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of the calling, and may fulfill all the good pleasure of goodness, and the work of the faith in power, ¹² that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and Lord Jesus Christ.

Daniel 9:26-27

LITV ²⁶ And after sixty two weeks, Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself. And the people of a coming prince shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. And its end shall be with the flood, and ruins are determined, and war shall be until the end. ²⁷ And he shall confirm a covenant with the many for one week. And in the middle of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the offering to cease. And on a wing of the altar will be abominations that desolate, even until the end. And that which was decreed shall pour out on the desolator.

As the first national body of Israel died in the wilderness due to worshipping a golden calf (bowing to a beast) so it was in the last days, in the body of those who were about to be perishing. God’s imminent judgement in wrath was coming on all the unbelievers in the old covenant cabal who killed His Son and persecuted His people. As in their first death, they also fell into beast worship before the second death. The only escape from the wrath of God was through His Son. The second flesh and blood resurrection can not save you and Rome can not save you: both bodies of stubborn unbelieving ‘humanity’ were exhibiting extreme episodes of animal behavior, especially toward the end of the old covenant cosmos. Humanity under the law of Moses was increasingly guilty of bad behavior all the way to the end. Most of God’s people were out of the land and in the world at large, infiltrating the nations with their humanity, when the old covenant perished. All the fields had been cultivated by the 12 tribes before the transition of covenants harvest. All the fields were ripe and ready for harvest.

Revelation 14:9-13

YLT ⁹ And a third messenger did follow them, saying in a great voice, `If any one the beast doth bow before, and his image, and doth receive a mark upon his forehead, or upon his hand, <sup>10</sup> he also shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, that hath been mingled unmixed in the cup of His anger, and he shall be tormented in fire and brimstone before the holy messengers, and before the Lamb, <sup>11</sup> and the smoke of their torment doth go up to ages of ages; and they have no rest day and night, who are bowing before the beast and his image, also if any doth receive the mark of his name. <sup>12</sup> Here is endurance of the saints: here are those keeping the commands of God, and the faith of Jesus.’ <sup>13</sup> And I heard a voice out of the heaven saying to me, `Write: Happy are the dead who in the Lord are dying from this time!‘ `Yes, (saith the Spirit,) That they may rest from their labors—and their works do follow them!’

2 Corinthians 6:2

JuliaSmith ² (For he says, In an acceptable time I listened to thee, and in the day of salvation have I run to succor thee: behold, now the acceptable time; behold; now the day of salvation.)

Was the acceptable day the day of the Lord or the day of Adam? Can we die joyfully today or is the transition of firstborns still incomplete? Has the old covenant perished or is an even more evil old covenant generation going to be somehow resurrected for a third time so God can destroy it again in an even greater build up to wrath? When this modern day more evil generation reaches their fulness of guilt will God bring old covenant destruction again. How can a new old covenant generation be worse than the last old covenant generation to ever exist? They were already in their second regeneration as a nation and it was far from complete. The Bible nowhere speaks of a third resurrection. Jesus’ first Jewish resurrection worked. Those in His first resurrection didn’t fulfill their second death. Salvation is of the Jews. Jesus saved all His people from perishing–to the age. Only some from a few tribes were temporarily in the land and on reprieve from their second typical death as a nation. In AD70, the unbelieving Jews in reprieve rejoined the diaspora already in progress. The diaspora was a type of second death. Since AD70 their are no diaspora Jews. The types have ended. There are only the true Jews who are no longer mortal.

John 10:27-28

YLT ²⁷ according as I said to you: My sheep my voice do hear, and I know them, and they follow me, ²⁸ and life age-during I give to them, and they shall not perish—to the age, and no one shall pluck them out of my hand;

If the fulfillment of the old covenant promises was not the new covenant salvation of humanity prior to the death of the old covenant, then what will be? Maybe the modern day promise of eternal suffering would have helped. The promise from well-intentioned people of burning forever and never dying may have kept Adam from falling in the first place. Why didn’t God tell Adam he would suffer forever and never perish? Isn’t that everyone’s first birth fate for just being born on this planet? Why did Jesus use the word perish as if they would die like mortals.

Reigning in the millennium in Christ only included the Jews who were on the right side of (His story)their transition of covenants. The only escape they had from perishing in the second death of their old covenant was to be resurrected into the new. The new covenant priesthood of believers reigned to the age and fulfilled the 20th jubilee. The completion (τελέωto) of the millennium in Christ was the timespan of the first resurrection.

Revelation 20:5-6

LITV ⁵ But the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were ended [see τελέωto below for a better definition than ‘ended’]. This is the first resurrection. ⁶ Blessed and holy is the one having part in the first resurrection. The second death has no authority over these, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will reign with Him a thousand years.

Dodson: τελέω – I end, accomplish, pay(a) I end, finish, (b) I fulfill, accomplish, (c) I pay.

Strong’s: τελέωto end, i.e. complete, execute, conclude, discharge (a debt)

Jesus paid the debt in order to resurrect His people to the age of their fulfillment jubilee.

The people who received the Holy Spirit were the blessed and holy ones. The people who were not in the first resurrection were not His people. The resurrected old covenant world under law has perished in judgement for the second time. The expulsion from the land the first time could be counted as the second death of the nation, since they already died once in the wilderness. But the expulsion from the land came with a major caveat. The second death was not complete. God would allow them to barely restore the nation (a few people from a few tribes tribes) to the typical land of promises until the promise of the death was both overcome and completed in the promise of life: either in their new covenant firstborn or still in their old covenant firstborn.

John 5:28-29

ECB ²⁸
THE TWO RESURRECTIONS
Marvel not at this: an hour comes, wherein all who are in the tombs hear his voice, ²⁹ and whoever does good, proceeds to the resurrection of life [the first spiritual one] ; and whoever does evil, to the resurrection of judgment [the second flesh and blood one].

Those in the old covenant resurrection were doing badly. Those in the new covenant resurrection were doing well. In the first century, there were two ongoing and competing resurrections. The one called the first resurrection was by way of Holy Spirit rebirth. It was the one and only Holy Spirit regeneration of the Jews. The second ongoing resurrection was the typical rebirth of the nation back under law again. It was the second flesh and blood rebirth of the Jews and it wasn’t going very well. Only a small portion of a few tribes were back in the land under Roman rule. It was hardly a complete resurrection of the 12 tribed nation. The first flesh and blood regeneration included the whole nation and it took 40 years in the wilderness. By AD70 the Jews had been attempting to resurrect their kingdom rule under law for 490 years, before it ended badly again. The second resurrection was to condemnation again, because it was under law again. It inevitably failed and ended in their judgment to death and diaspora again, but this time it was the fulfillment of their second death, since it was the permanent second death without a 70 year caveat. The typical second death of Israel was made complete by Babylon. The typical resurrection of the nation started 70 years later. The fulfilment of the second death was in the lake of fire. The Jews were promised a partial rebirth of the nation in the flesh so their savior could be born. God’s old covenant people started returning to the land after 70 years. It was a resurrection to condemnation for those who trusted in their second resurrection rather than the first resurrection of their messiah. Jesus was the only one in the second flesh and blood resurrection of the nation that didn’t need born again. For everyone else in the old covenant the second typical resurrection could only end in condemnation.

John 3

CLV ¹ Now there was a man of the Pharisees, Nicodemus his name, a chief of the Jews.” ² This one came to Him by night and said to Him, “Rabbi, we are aware that Thou art a Teacher come from God, for no one can be doing these signs which Thou art doing, if God should not be with Him.” ³ Jesus answered and said to him, “Verily, verily, I am saying to you, If anyone should not be begotten anew, he can not perceive the kingdom of God.” ⁴ Nicodemus is saying to him, “How can a man, being a veteran, be begotten? He can not be entering into the womb of his mother a second time and be begotten!” ⁵ Jesus answered, “Verily, verily, I am saying to you, If anyone should not be begotten of water and of spirit, he can not be entering into the kingdom of God.” ⁶ That which is begotten by the flesh is flesh, and that which is begotten by the spirit is spirit.” ⁷ You should not be marveling that I said to you, ‘You must be begotten anew.'” ⁸ The blast is blowing where it wills, and the sound of it you are hearing, but you are not aware whence it is coming and where it is going. Thus is everyone who is begotten by the water and the spirit.” ⁹ Nicodemus answered and said to Him, “How can these things be? ¹⁰ Jesus answered and said to him, “You are a teacher of Israel, and these things you do not know? ¹¹ Verily, verily, I am saying to you that of that which we have perceived are we speaking, and to that which we have seen are we testifying, and our testimony you are not getting.” ¹² If I told you of the terrestrial and you are not believing, how shall you be believing if I should be telling you of the celestial? ¹³ And no one has ascended into heaven except He Who descends out of heaven, the Son of Mankind Who is in heaven.” ¹⁴ And, according as Moses exalts the serpent in the wilderness, thus must the Son of Mankind be exalted, ¹⁵ that everyone believing on Him should not be perishing, but may be having life eonian.” ¹⁶ For thus God loves the world, so that He gives His only-begotten Son, that everyone who is believing in Him should not be perishing [death to the age], but may be having life eonian [life to the age].” ¹⁷ For God does not dispatch His Son into the world that He should be judging the world, but that the world may be saved through Him.” ¹⁸ He who is believing in Him is not being judged; yet he who is not believing has been judged already, for he has not believed in the name of the only-begotten Son of God.” ¹⁹ Now this is the judging: that the light has come into the world, and men love the darkness rather than the light, for their acts were wicked.” ²⁰ For everyone who is committing bad things is hating the light and is not coming to the light, lest his acts may be exposed.” ²¹ Now he who is doing the truth is coming to the light that his acts may be made manifest, for they have been wrought in God.” ²² After these things came Jesus and His disciples into the land of Judea. And there He tarried with them and baptized. ²³ Now John also was baptizing in Enon near Salim, for there was much water there, and they came along and were baptized, ²⁴ for not as yet was John cast into jail. ²⁵ There occurred, then, a questioning of the disciples of John with a Jew concerning cleansing.” ²⁶ And they came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, He Who was with you on the other side of the Jordan, to Whom you have testified, lo! this One is baptizing and all are coming to Him.” ²⁷ John answered and said, “A man can not get anything if it should not be given him out of heaven.” ²⁸ You yourselves are testifying to me that I said, ‘Not I am the Christ,’ but that ‘Dispatched am I in front of Him.'” ²⁹ He Who has the bride is the Bridegroom. Yet the friend of the Bridegroom, who stands and is hearing Him, is rejoicing with joy because of the Bridegroom’s voice. This, my joy, then, has been fulfilled.” ³⁰ He must be growing, yet mine it is to be inferior.” ³¹ He Who from above is coming is over all. He who is of the earth [land] is of the earth [land] and of the earth [land] is speaking; He Who is coming out of heaven is over all.” ³² What He has seen and hears, this He is testifying, and no one is getting His testimony.” ³³ He who is getting His testimony sets his seal that God is true. ³⁴ For He Whom God commissions is speaking God’s declarations, for God is not giving the spirit by measure.” ³⁵ The Father is loving the Son and has given all into His hand.” ³⁶ He who is believing in the Son has life eonian [life to the age], yet he who is stubborn as to the Son shall not be seeing life [death to the age], but the indignation of God is remaining on him.”

Believing in the Son = life to the age in the new man firstborn inheritance

Stubborn as to the Son = death to the age in the old man firstborn inheritance

Acts 14:1-2

CLV ¹ Now in Iconium the same thing occurred at their entering into the synagogue of the Jews and speaking, so that a vast multitude of both Jews and Greeks believe.” ² Yet the stubborn Jews rouse up and provoke the souls of the nations against the brethren. [Believing Jews were preaching the gospel in the synagogues. The Gentiles were attending the synagogues.]

John 11:49-52

CLV ⁴⁹ Now a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being the chief priest of that year, said to them, “You are not aware of anything, ⁵⁰ neither are you reckoning that it is expedient for us that one man should be dying for the sake of the people and not the whole nation should perish.” ⁵¹ Now this he said, not from himself, but, being the chief priest of that year, he prophesies that Jesus was about to be dying for the sake of the nation, ⁵² and not for the nation only, but that He may be gathering the scattered children of God also into one.”

Acts 10:43-48

LITV ⁴³ To this One all the Prophets witness, so that through His name everyone believing into Him will receive remission of sins. ⁴⁴ As Peter was yet speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell on all those hearing the Word. ⁴⁵ And the faithful of the circumcision [believing Jews] were amazed, as many as came with Peter, because the gift of the Holy Spirit was poured out on the nations [Gentiles] also. ⁴⁶ For they heard them speaking in languages and magnifying God. Then Peter answered, ⁴⁷ Can anyone forbid the water that these not be baptized, who the Holy Spirit received, even as we also? ⁴⁸ And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord. Then they asked him to remain some days.

Jewish Peter commanded that Gentiles be added to the heretofore Jewish-only spiritual resurrection. The Gentiles joined the Jews in the day of their one and only Holy Spirit regeneration. The Jews started joining the resurrected body of Christ on Pentecost. Pentecost was the annual birthday celebration of their original flesh and blood formation as a nation. The Holy Spirit birthed them again during a diaspora gathering in Jerusalem. The Gentiles also spoke in various languages when they started to join the body of Christ in His ongoing gathering of the new covenant body. He prepared a new place for His people to live before the old place finally perished. Will there be a second resurrection of the body of Christ or a third resurrection of the flesh and blood body of Moses? Maybe those in the resurrection of Christ weren’t harmed at all by the second death of the old covenant. The diaspora of the 12 tribes was the ongoing yet incomplete second death. Those back in the land were temporarily and partially resurrected from the majority who remained in second death. The second death was finalized when the flesh and blood resurrection ended in old covenant condemnation.