It doesn’t take sophisticated logic to tell the difference between a fossil impression and cave art. We all live by this kind of logic. We don’t assume this is really cave art made to look like a fossil, unless we have good reason to. We reasonably know it really is an ancient fossil. This fossil is much older than cave art. Similarly we don’t assume that old people just look old. Old people really are old. But the oldest people I know look to be 100 not 1000 years old.

If Adam would have lived a sinless life like Jesus then would he have lived to be 1000 years old instead of 930 years old? What then? How long would Jesus have lived here on earth had He not ascended to heaven at about 33 years of age? Would He have lived to be 37 if not cut off in the middle of the last week of years? Would He have lived to 70 to complete the age of Adam and Israel? Would He have lived to 1000? Would He still be among us in a 2000 + years old flesh and blood body? Would something have happened to Jesus at 1000 years of age had He not been crucified and resurrected into a new covenant? Would that be the national age of 1000 when He turned 37 or His personal age of 1000?

Jesus took Adam’s place on the cross 43 days before He returned to heaven. So why did Jesus ascend from the new covenant at about 33 years of age? Why didn’t He just stay here with us in His new covenant? After all, His death and resurrection is all His people needed to live to the age; isn’t it? Or did His people need the Holy Spirit He sent to them from heaven as a guarantee that they would live to the age with Him? Do we still need to live to 1000 with Jesus to reach the golden age of immortality?

The humanity of Jesus was only 70 years old when the old covenant finally ended. Jesus said the old temple complex would be destroyed in that generation and He was right. His prediction was fulfilled in 70 AD. His plan to end the old covenant system did not seem good to the old covenant unbelievers who were completing their second 490-year failure. His plan however meant eternal life to those Jews who joined Him in His Holy Spirit rebirth. John 3:16 says so. The Jews in the land were already in their second regeneration in the flesh. Their second flesh and blood resurrection didn’t end well for them. Their old covenant was cast down again in 70 AD. It was disrupted for the second time. Flesh and blood did not inherit the kingdom when held accountable for 1000 years of failure.

They didn’t have to be perfect, but it was the years of not keeping sabbaths that added up to 1000 first. They needed 1000 good years. The years in the land that they didn’t trust God enough to renew the land with sabbaticals were counted as failures. When Jesus walked in Jerusalem, the Pharisees were overly policing the 7th-day sabbath. Yet there is no indication they ever kept the 7th-year land sabbaticals, not during the second 490 years. That sabbath required much more faith in God’s providence. The land sabbath lasted a year, not a day. So God provided the 70 years to make up for their lack of faith in God.

70 years of Jesus’ humanity was more than enough to redeem all God’s chosen people. Since salvation still required faith to trust in God’s providence, the faith of Jesus was given to His chosen Jews on Pentecost. The born again Jews did very good work after receiving the Holy Spirit of Jesus. They faithfully worked toward their 20th Jubilee with the Holy Spirit enablement, rather than keep working the typical land in the flesh, with the unfaithful. The faithful Jews completed 37 years with Jesus in their new covenant before the end of the old arrived. 33 + 37 = 70 or 33 1/2 + 36 1/2 = 70. The new covenant recount was a grace period during the transition of covenants. Counting Jesus’ 3 1/2 year Holy Spirit ministry to the Jews, they were renewed by way of the Holy Spirit for 40 years, prior to the end of their old covenant.

Hebrews 4:9-11

ECB ⁹ So a shabbatism remains to the people of Elohim. ¹⁰ For whoever enters his shabbath also shabbathizes from his own works – exactly as Elohim from his. ¹¹ So be diligent to enter that shabbath, lest anyone fall in the same example of trustlessness.

As God would have it, His new covenant was completely established before His old covenant ended with 1000 years of failing to trust God. That was the salvation of all the chosen people of God. Benjamite Paul alludes to this in Ephesians chapter one. After addressing all believers in Ephesus (verses 1-2), He tells that Gentile church about the Jewish-first plan of redemption, before including them. Paul refers to old covenant believers as “us” and “we” in verses 2-12. Paul then calls the Gentiles, “you“. In verse 13 Paul says, “you also heard … and trusted and were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise”

Ephesians 1:4

CLV ⁴ according as He chooses us in Him before the disruption of the world, we to be holy and flawless in His sight,

Ephesians 1:13

CLV ¹³ In Whom you also – on hearing the word of truth, the evangel of your salvation – in Whom on believing also, you are sealed with the holy spirit of promise”

Gentile inclusion in the ongoing resurrection of Christ was a shock to the Jewish system. The same Holy Spirit that resurrected Christ was also resurrecting the Jews. But the Gentiles too?

Acts 10:47

Then answered Peter, ⁴⁷ Will any man say that these [Gentiles] may not have baptism who have been given the Holy Spirit just as we [Jews] have?

Peter saw non-Jewish people receiving the fullness of life that God had for all His chosen people: the rebirth by the Holy Spirit.

How The First Resurrection Was Spread Out
1 Corinthians 15:20
But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruit (singular body of Christ) of those who are asleep.

1 Corinthians 15:23

²³ But each in his own order: Christ, the first fruit [or the first fruit Christ], afterward those of Christ in the presence of Him [The presence of Him was Pentecost and Tabernacles].

Christ was a singular new covenant body until Pentecost. Thousands of Jews joined the resurrected body of Christ on that day of Pentecost, including Peter. The presence of Christ by way of the Holy Spirit added His chosen ones to His new covenant. Corporately it was and still is the singular body of Christ. The Jews joined the ongoing resurrection of the first fruit body by way of the same Holy Spirit who resurrected Jesus. It was His first resurrection that they were joining. Other resurrections had occurred before this one, so what makes this the first one and or the only one of its kind? This was the first Jewish resurrection that actually took them to eternal life. All other resurrections were failures in the flesh.

Jesus took their flesh failure upon Himself and redeemed them into His resurrected body (Biblically the born again Jews were no longer in the flesh). The Jewish resurrection of Lazarus wasn’t itself a failure, but Lazarus would still fail to live to the age in his resurrected Jewish flesh, unless he received the Holy Spirit and joined the singular resurrection of Christ, no longer in the flesh. Those Jews who received the Holy Spirit on Pentecost were no longer failures in their flesh. The second ongoing resurrection in Jewish flesh and blood was still failing and it would completely fail for the second time in 70 AD. Obviously the whole body of Israel wasn’t being resurrected back into the typical land. Even if all 12 tribes had returned to the land, they too would have failed for the second typical time. Those Jews (and the rest of the tribes) in the Holy Spirit resurrection would not at all be harmed by the second old covenant death. In fact the second old covenant death brought them relief from persecution.

Romans 8:9

LITV ⁹ But you are not in flesh, but in Spirit, since the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if anyone has not the Spirit of Christ, this one is not His.

Jesus was no longer in the flesh and blood covenant He appeared to. Biblically speaking Jesus was no longer in flesh after being born again into the new covenant.

2 Corinthians 5:16-21

¹⁶ From now on we know no one according to flesh, but even though we [Jews] have known Christ according to flesh, from now on we no longer know Him so. ¹⁷ Therefore if anyone is in Christ, new creation [not in the flesh]! The old things are passing away; behold, all things are becoming new! [“things” is added to the text. It was all nationalities that were becoming new by way of the ongoing resurrection of Christ] ¹⁸ And all things [“things” is added to the text here too. It was all nationalities of people that God was reconciling to Himself as a new creation or in His new creation] are of God, who is reconciling us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and having given to us [Jews] the ministry of reconciliation, ¹⁹ As God was in Christ reconciling the world [old covenant system] to Himself, not charging their trespasses to them, and putting the word of reconciliation in us [old covenant Jews]. ²⁰ Then on behalf of Christ, we are ambassadors, as God is entreating through us, we beseech on behalf of Christ, Be being reconciled to God. ²¹ For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might be becoming the righteousness of God in Him.

The body of Christ is obviously a spirit born body rather than a flesh and blood born body. Nobody should require Jewish ethnicity or conversion to judaism as a essential for communion with the family of Christ. Paul met with the Jewish church in Jerusalem after some Pharisees tried to make circumcision of the (flesh and blood born) body a church member essential. A man’s seed gives birth to a natural body that must be born again to have communion with the family of Christ. Circumcision was a typical sign of the rebirth into the old covenant family. Circumcision was flat-out rejected as a continued covenant requirement, even while the transition of covenants was still ongoing. Circumcision signified old covenant status. To continue to require circumcision was to deny the actual new creation it typified; no longer in the flesh.

1 Corinthians 15:43-50

LITV ⁴³ It is [being] sown in dishonor, it is [being] raised in glory. It is [being] sown in weakness, it is [being] raised in power. ⁴⁴ It is [being] sown a natural body, it is [being] raised a spiritual body; there is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body [what is flesh is flesh and what is spirit is spirit]. ⁴⁵ So also it has been written, “The” first “man”, Adam, “became a living soul;” the last Adam a life-giving Spirit. Gen. 2:7 ⁴⁶ But not the spiritual first, but the natural; afterward the spiritual. ⁴⁷ The first man was out of earth, earthy. The second Man was the Lord out of Heaven. Gen. 2:7 ⁴⁸ Such the earthy man, such also the earthy ones. And such the heavenly Man, such also the heavenly ones. ⁴⁹ And as we bore the image of the earthy man, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly Man . ⁵⁰ And I say this, brothers [brothers by Holy Spirit rebirth], that flesh and blood is not able to inherit the kingdom of God, nor does corruption inherit incorruption.

Daniel 12:1-7 – The Time Of The Judgment And The Resurrection Of Two Groups

Daniel 12:1-7

LITV ¹ And at that time, Michael shall stand up, the great ruler who stands for the sons of your people. And there shall be a time of distress, such as has not been from the existence of a nation until that time. And at that time, your people shall be delivered, everyone that shall be found written in the Book. ² And many of those sleeping in the earth’s dust shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to reproaches and to everlasting abhorrence. ³ And those who are wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament [atmosphere or heaven], and those turning many to righteousness as the stars forever and ever [to the age and futurity. Jews like Peter, Paul and John turned many to righteousness in Christ, to the age, and their words still shine on God’s chosen ones today]. ⁴ But you, O Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book, to the end time. Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased. ⁵ And I, Daniel, looked. And, behold! Another two stood there, the one on this side, and one on that side of the river’s edge. ⁶ And one said to the man clothed in linen, who was on the waters of the river, Until when is the end of the wonders? ⁷ And I heard the man clothed in linen, who was on the waters of the river, when he held up his right and his left hand to the heavens and swore by Him who lives forever, that it shall be for a time, times, and a half. And when they have made an end of scattering the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished.

Daniel 12:1-4

CLV ¹ In that era shall stand up Michael, the great chief, standing over the sons of your people. Then comes to be an era of distress such as has not occurred since there came to be a nation on the earth, till that era. Now in that era your people shall escape—all those found written in the scroll.” ² From those sleeping in the soil of the ground [12 tribes in diaspora or God’s people in Hades: both represent the place of the dead ones] many shall awake, these [some] to eonian life and these [some] to reproach for eonian repulsion.”[some were raised into the new covenant age and some died with the old] ³ The intelligent shall warn as the warning of the atmosphere, and those justifying many are as the stars for the eon and further.” ⁴ Now you Daniel, stop up the words and seal the scroll till the era of the end, when many will swerve as evil will increase.”

For 3 1/2 years the Romans laid siege to Jerusalem. That completed the old covenant diaspora as the old covenant Jews either died in the land or joined the other scattered tribes who died outside the land. Either way they were covenantally dead. Only the born again Jews were in covenant after AD 70. So the scattering was finished. The new power of the Holy people is the Holy Spirit, not the flesh. The destruction of Jerusalem also ended the scattering of the born again Jews by the unbelieving Jews. Never again would new covenant Jews be chased out of Jerusalem by old covenant Jews. Old covenant Judaism is impossible now.

According to some dispensationalists, after a future 1000 year reign, we will supposedly return to being pre-fall naked vegetarians, blissfully ignorant of our condition, unable to stub our toe or step on an ant. In the 40-year typical rebirth of the nation, God caused their clothing to never wear out. That typical 40 years was their first national regeneration. That generation had to be put to death in the flesh before the next generation crossed the Jordan to enter the land. They were corporately baptized in the wilderness.

On the way to their inheritance, God gave them a vegetarian diet and shoes that miraculously didn’t wear out, (Miraculously manna was enough to keep them healthy, like the time Shadrach, Mishach and Abednego ate only vegetables and somehow remained as healthy as the meat eaters.) but the people complained so much that God gave them meat to eat (birds). They didn’t trust God like Shadrach, Mishach and Abednego did. They were idolaters and God was angry with them.

The second re-generation to re-enter the land didn’t include all 12 tribes and it took 70 years to begin trickling in. It wasn’t such a great national resurrection by flesh standards. The first Holy Spirit rebirth of the nation was on Pentecost. The Jews were in the land celebrating their original flesh and blood birthday, when God’s chosen people from all 12 tribes were born again. What is flesh is flesh and what is spirit is spirit.

Even though the Left Behind movies send Christians to heaven unclothed, our morticians never do. Even morticians put dead bodies in their best clothing. Paul Himself desired to be clothed rather than unclothed during his covenant transition. Jesus in His resurrected body was seen fully clothed within hours of leaving his wrappings in the tomb. Mary thought He was the gardener, not a naked madman. There is no indication that Jesus became a naked vegetarian after His resurrection. Is Jesus still waiting to return to the ignorantly blissful Eden stage? There is no reason to believe that naked fruit eaters represent innocence beyond babyhood. Adults that still act like babies are not innocent. They are repulsive. Glorified flesh isn’t going to change that. We aren’t going back to pre-fall nakedness.

If you interpret the Bible scientifically rather than literaturely, then you must think the wolf will someday become a vegetarian and lie down with the lamb. And then back to naked babyhood we will go. Toddlers can’t grasp figures of speech because they are too immature. Evidently Christians who want to live forever in the flesh can’t see them either, or they don’t want to. Requiring me to believe that glorified flesh and blood will inherit the kingdom is like requiring that I be circumcised. I wouldn’t want to be resurrected permanently uncircumcised in a glorified flesh and blood body that lasts forever. Especially if everyone left their clothing behind. We do keep our scars don’t we? Circumcision is the sign of being in covenant in the flesh. I can only assume the same goes for a glorified flesh and blood covenant.

1 Corinthians 3:2-3

CLV ² Milk I give you to drink, not solid food, for not as yet were you able. Nay, still, not even now are you able, ³ for you are still fleshly. For where there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not fleshly and walking according to man?

The word for man here is anthropos not andros. It implies humanity in the old covenant flesh (before AD 70) rather than resurrected humanity into the new covenant by the Holy Spirit. The born again Jews and the born again Gentiles were called to walk according to the Holy-Spirit-born humanity, not the flesh and blood born humanity. The immature Corinthians were claiming the flesh and blood church fathers rather than claiming God as their mutual Father (or Jesus as their mutual brother) by way of His Holy Spirit rebirth. Immature Christians create artificial disunity in the flesh realm.

1 Corinthians 3:1-10

CLV ¹ And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshy, as to minors in Christ.” ² Milk I give you to drink, not solid food, for not as yet were you able. Nay, still, not even now are you able, ³ for you are still fleshly. For where there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not fleshly and walking according to man? ⁴ For whenever anyone may be saying, “I, indeed, am of Paul, yet another, “I, of Apollos, will he not be fleshly? ⁵ What, then, is Apollos? Now what is Paul? Servants are they, through whom you believe, and as the Lord gives to each.” ⁶ I plant, Apollos irrigates, but God makes it grow up.” ⁷ So that, neither is he who is planting anything, nor he who is irrigating, but God Who makes it grow up.” ⁸ Now he who is planting and he who is irrigating are for one thing. Yet each will be getting his own wages according to his own toil. ⁹ For God’s fellow workers are we. God’s farm, God’s building, are you.” ¹⁰ According to the grace of God which is being granted to me, as a wise foreman I lay a foundation, yet another is building on it. Yet let each one beware how he is building on it.”

Superficial flesh and blood claims (who’s your church father?) created disunity in the unified by the Holy Spirit church of Corinth. Glorying in the flesh was not a good thing for the first century church in Corinth. Requiring that a church today believe a certain school of glorified-flesh-teaching or in a future when all flesh will be being glorified is not good for church unity either. The Bible hardly speaks of glorified flesh let alone promote it as essential. It seems so anti-Biblical, since the Bible down plays the flesh. “You must be born of the Holy Spirit”, not, “you must raised again in the flesh”. What is spirit is spirit and what is flesh is flesh. There is a spiritual body and there is a natural body. Flesh and blood is the natural body that did not inherit the kingdom. There is no supernatural immortal glorified flesh. Flesh always dies. You shouldn’t put your hope in the present flesh or the future flesh and you shouldn’t require me to put hope in glorified flesh of the future either.

John 20:14-22

LITV ¹⁴ And saying these things, she turned backward and saw Jesus standing, and did not know that it was Jesus. ¹⁵ Jesus said to her, Woman, why do you weep? Whom do you seek? Thinking that it was the gardener, she said to Him, Sir, if you carried Him away, tell me where you put Him, and I will take Him away. ¹⁶ Jesus said to her, Mary! Turning around, she said to Him, Rabboni! (that is to say, Teacher). ¹⁷ Jesus said to her, Do not touch Me, for I have not yet ascended to My Father. But go to My brothers and say to them, I am ascending to My Father and your Father, and My God, and your God. ¹⁸ Mary Magdalene came bringing word to the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that He told her these things. ¹⁹ Then it being evening on that day, the first of the sabbaths, and the doors having been locked where the disciples were assembled, because of fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst and said to them, Peace to you. ²⁰ And saying this, He showed them His hands and side. Then seeing the Lord, the disciples rejoiced. ²¹ Then Jesus said to them again, Peace to you. As the Father has sent Me, I also send you. ²² And saying this, He breathed on them and said to them, Receive the Holy Spirit. [The Father sent Jesus into the ministry in a mortal body of flesh and blood. Before He started His ministry the Holy Spirit remained on Him. The born again Jews were sent out just as Jesus was: in a mortal body enabled by the Holy Spirit.]

Mary thought Jesus was a common gardener, not a glorified immortal flesh and bone being without blood. Jesus said get the Holy Spirit. He said nothing about getting rid of their blood and getting glorified flesh and bone like His. The Jews joined the family of Christ in the spirit realm body. The same Holy Spirit that gave life to Jesus’ dead body on the third day was sent to the Jews on Pentecost, 50 days after He breathed on them. The Holy Spirit did not give eternal life to flesh and blood. The Holy Spirit gave eternal life while they were still in their dying flesh and blood body. They had eternal life in their dying body. The church today rightly teaches that you must be born again before you die. The Jews who were born again joined the first fruit body of Christ on Pentecost. They all still died in flesh and blood. Born again flesh doesn’t get you into the kingdom.

The born again Jews who completed our Bible did not teach anything about glorified flesh bodies, let alone require that it be taught. Those who wished to be glorified in their flesh and blood murdered their messiah for not delivering what their flesh wanted. The old covenant hold outs died for the second time at their millennium fulfillment: they were DOA. Their second resurrection in flesh and blood failed worse than their first one. The born again Jews however received eternal life along with the Gentiles who joined them in their millennial fulfillment. The family of God is indeed eternal already. The family of God arrived to the age of 1000 alive. Only the Holy Spirit can give birth into God’s eternal family. What is spirit is spirit and what is flesh is flesh. Flesh gives birth to flesh. You must be born again. That does not require a new flesh body as Nicodemus imagined. There is no Biblical requirement to be glorified in a new flesh body, not even for 1000 years let alone forever. Holy Spirit rebirth is the only Biblical essential Jesus spoke of. He promised life to the age by way of Holy Spirit rebirth. He said it was the only way to enter the kingdom. 50 days after His new covenant rebirth He sent the Holy Spirit to His chosen ones in Jerusalem. The Jews were first to be reborn into their new covenant creation.