The first husbandman of humanity ate from the tree and blamed his bride.

Genesis 3:11-12

LITV ¹¹ And He said, Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat? ¹² And the man said, The woman whom You gave to be with me, she has given to me of the tree, and I ate.

The first nation of humanity called condemnation upon itself. They so wanted Pilate to hang Jesus on the tree in order to keep their typical nation for themselves. Jesus had too many Jewish followers. The leadership felt so threatened that they said they would take the blame for their bad decision. Jesus and Stephen both said that the Jews didn’t see what they were really doing. Pilate saw their blind determination and stopped trying to stop them.

Matthew 27:24-25

LITV ²⁴ And seeing that nothing is gained, but rather an uproar occurs, taking water, Pilate washed his hands before the crowd, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just one; you will see. ²⁵ And answering, all the people said, His blood be on us and on our children.

Judas found no forgiveness from his Jewish religious leaders who would even condemn themselves and their children to see Jesus publicly condemned to die. Jesus’ wrongful death didn’t open anyone’s eyes to salvation. His resurrection did. The tree of death became the tree of life after He was resurrected out from the dead ones. The Holy Spirit He sent from heaven reversed the curse of the husbanman who knowingly died naked on the tree. Adam wasn’t deceived. Eve was. Jesus knew what He was doing when He took the firstborn’s place in his/His death on the tree. It was the national leaders who were deceived and deceiving. Jesus died to save the unknowing (ignorant) bride.

The same Jerusalem sky that went dark during Jesus’ death now opened to the glory of heaven during Stephen’s death. Stephen knowingly died or was known in his death by the presence of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Stephen was clothed in a white robe of the righteousness of Jesus. The same religious Jews who publicly condemned Jesus to die naked just outside of Jerusalem also condemned Stephen to die just outside of Jerusalem. The same people who condemned Jesus for being the best Holy Spirit engaged Jew in the old covenant now condemned His follower for evangelizing in the Holy Spirit sent to the new covenant.

Stephen engaged in religious discussions in the synagogues of diaspora Jews, most likely in the capital city synagogue. Growth in the number of Jewish converts, included “many of the priests”. This provoked an unjust reaction again. Stephen was summoned before the Sanhedrin; the rabbinic court in Jerusalem. He was vaguely charged with speaking against “this holy place and the law.” The ignorant (yet most educated) Jews didn’t want to see true success in either covenant. They were more envious than properly jealous. The old covenant could only be kept in righteousness. The Son and the Holy Spirit moved their righteousness to the new covenant. God’s jealousy for His people moved Him to make a new covenant for them.

By the time Stephen was thrown out of Jerusalem, heaven was opened for the true Jewish faith of Jesus that lived in Stephen. True Jewish humanity overcame their old covenant death and ascended to heaven in Jesus. Heaven was opened by the true humanity of Yeshua. Stephen didn’t die in the dark like His savior did. Stephen’s eyes saw heaven open for new covenant humanity, as he was being murdered by the old covenant deceived humanity. His opened eyes looked up and saw Jesus standing at the right hand of the Father in His full humanity. The fulfillment of the Jewish image of God now lived in heaven. That revelation sealed the deal for everyone involved. The Jews plugged their ears as Stephen declared their continued ignorance a mitigating factor.

Paul himself was still on the wrong side of Jewish his-tory at that unofficial court proceeding that ended in Stephen’s death. Paul was consenting with that adversarial government gone rogue; claiming to be the true humanity. But there was still time for old covenant people like Paul to have his eyes opened and find the new covenant inheritance under the new firstborn. AD70 became the point of no return for the old covenant. Nobody can ever again be saved from the old covenant into the new covenant. The transition of covenants was made complete over 2000 years ago.

The adversarial old covenant government who claimed to keep the law, promised freedom. They were in fact slaves to sin and were on track to see the second old covenant death of the nation, and or captivity into exile again. Nobody was left in the old covenant after it ended. The promise of a new covenant was fulfilled by the old covenant messiah. That is how God saved His chosen nation from their condemnation to their second national death. The nation was born again on Pentecost before it died again in the AD70 condemnation. There is now no condemnation to God’s chosen people in their never-ending covenant. The new covenant will never be judged to death. The firstborn of the new covenant already overcame the death of the old covenant tree. The new covenant doesn’t have a tree that kills; only a tree that heals.

Matthew 27:3-5

CLV ³ Then Judas, who gives Him up, perceiving that He was condemned, regretting, turns back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and the elders, ⁴ saying, “I sinned in giving up innocent blood. Yet they said, “What is it to us? [confession of sin was the business of the chief priests and elders but they weren’t interested in atoning for this one. The priests paid Judas for this Passover Lamb and they didn’t want their money back. The fulfillment Passover Lamb actually took the place of the death of the firstborn. There would be no atonement for Judas.] You should be seeing to that!” ⁵ And, tossing the silver pieces into the temple, he retires, and, coming away, strangles himself.”

The eschaton Adam took their old covenant condemnation upon Himself even as He hung dying on the tree. “Father forgive them. They don’t know… “, says Jesus from their old covenant place of condemnation. Peter opens their eyes to their guilt on Pentecost and 3000 penitent Jews are added to the church. Pilate was right when he said, “you will see”. Those who didn’t see before AD70 would die without redemption like Judas did. They breathed their last old covenant air in hopeless condemnation. As the righteous judge, Jesus Himself condemned old covenant Jerusalem to destruction, even as He offered them rebirth. He ascended to prepare the heavenly Jerusalem for His re-generated people.

Romans 8:33-35

LITV ³³ Who will bring any charge against God’s elect? God is the One justifying! ³⁴ Who is he condemning? It is Christ who has died, but rather also is raised, who also is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us. ³⁵ Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?

The new creation firstborn Son grants the unfallen image of God to live in His people. Knowledge of good and evil didn’t accompany the first breath into humanity’s nostrils like it did the second breath into humanity’s heart. Peter spoke condemnation to the Jews in Jerusalem after receiving Jesus’ breath from heaven. That eye opener caused the old covenant Jews to ask how they could be saved.

Romans 8:29

LITV ²⁹ because whom He foreknew, He also predestinated to be conformed to the image of His Son, for Him to be the First-born among many brothers.

The entire creation groaned along with the human creation. The human nation was the first to receive the Holy Spirit and the first to bear new covenant fruit. The Holy Spirit then went to all the nations with the gospel. The Gentile nations are obviously represented by the animal creations in Hebrew cosmology. The Jews represented the human creation. The entire creation joined the Jews who were waiting for the sonship to deliver the body. The betrothed but not yet married body of new creation people were waiting for their salvation to be completed in the new covenant sonship.

Romans 8:22-23

CLV ²² For we are aware that the entire creation is groaning and travailing together until now. ²³ Yet not only so, but we ourselves also, who have the firstfruit of the spirit, we ourselves also, are groaning in ourselves, awaiting the sonship, the deliverance of our body.”

The Sonship through the new creation firstborn was pending. The old creation firstborn was being replaced by the death and resurrection of the only begotten Son. The faithful body of humanity was being delivered from their second death. So why does the bible call Jesus the second Adam? It doesn’t call Him that. Jesus is called the eschaton Adam (Hebrew) and the second humanity (Greek). Jesus’ humanity was given a Greek name after the resurrection. He died as Adam (old covenant humanity) and was raised as anthropos (new covenant humanity). The diaspora was teaching old covenant humanity to the nations. The gospel is the fulfillment of their Torah-teaching in the firstborn of the new covenant.

1 Corinthians 15:45-49

LITV 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 [adam], we shall also bear the image of the heavenly Man [anthropos].

Paul as a Jew obtained grace and apostleship in the new covenant name of humanity (firstborn Jesus took the place of firstborn Adam). Paul declared his obedience to the Jews in the name of Jesus. Paul also declared the new man’s name to the Gentiles. The new creation man went to the Jews first. 50 days after the resurrection of the firstfruit Barley the firstfruit Wheat joined the resurrection by the breath of humanity sent from heaven. The new covenant firstborn breathed the image of God into His nation. The first human didn’t even save one person from the fall.

Romans 1:4-5

CLV ⁴ Who is designated Son of God with power, according to the [S]spirit of [H]holiness, by the resurrection of the dead), ⁵ Jesus Christ, our Lord, through Whom we obtained grace and apostleship for faith-obedience among all the nations, for His name’s sake,

The Spirit of Holiness raised Jesus as eschaton Adam at His first baptism in the land. Jesus was the only one in the old creation of Adam who carried and displayed the full image of God. God was well pleased with Jesus’ old covenant life. The same Spirit who approved of His old covenant humanity, declared Him the New covenant Man by raising Him out of the dead ones on the third day after the cross. Jesus died naked on the tree in the place of fallen Adam. He was raised with His new firstborn name for humanity.

Jesus is not called a second Adam in the Bible. He deliberately put the old man to death. He did not resurrect the old covenant Greek or Hebrew name for Adam. He took Adam’s fall in His old covenant condemnation. There is no new covenant condemnation in the name of the new firstborn. Anybody born into the new family name never dies. Husbandman transition was made complete in AD70. The old covenant man is not still waiting in Hades for the new covenant man to save him from his second death. That would be a revival of the old covenant for a third national condemnation. The old covenant was revived through the tribe of Judah in order for Jesus to save the firstborn nation by His Passover sacrifice.

A resurrection out of the second death doesn’t even make sense. If the old covenant is resurrected only to die again that would be its third national death. The old covenant body was first regenerated in the 40-years journey to the promised land. The old covenant was put to the first national death by the Babylonians. A newly resurrected body of Jews was again put to national death by the Romans in AD70. That was the second national death of the old covenant people of God. The new covenant was their permanent resurrection as a nation. The breath of the unfallen firstborn was received by the dead and dying nation as they celebrated their original creation as a nation. This time the law (the knowledge of good and evil) was written on their hearts. Their nakedness was fully covered by the fulness of Jesus’ new covenant humanity, even as their eyes were being opened by the Holy Spirit. They saw both their guilt under law and their salvation in the Holy Spirit resurrection.

2 Corinthians 5

CLV ¹ For we are aware that, if our terrestrial tabernacle house should be demolished, we have a building of God, a house not made by hands, eonian, in the heavens.” ² For in this also we are groaning, longing to be dressed in our habitation which is out of heaven, ³ if so be that, being dressed also, we shall not be found naked.” ⁴ For we also, who are in the tabernacle, are groaning, being burdened, on which we are not wanting to be stripped, but to be dressed, that the mortal may be swallowed up by life.” ⁵ Now He Who produces us for this same longing is God, Who is also giving us the earnest of the spirit.” ⁶ Being, then, courageous always, and aware that, being at home in the body, we are away from home from the Lord” ⁷ (for by faith are we walking, not by perception), ⁸ yet we are encouraged, and are delighting rather to be away from home out of the body and to be at home with the Lord.” ⁹ Wherefore we are ambitious also, whether at home or away from home, to be well pleasing to Him.” ¹⁰ For all of us must be manifested in front of the dais of Christ, that each should be requited for that which he puts into practice through the body, whether good or bad.” ¹¹ Being aware, then, of the fear of the Lord, we are persuading men, yet we are manifest to God. Now I am expecting to be manifest in your consciences also.” ¹² Not again are we commending ourselves to you, but are giving an incentive to you by boasting over you, that you may have it for those who are boasting in personal appearance and not in heart.” ¹³ For, whether we were beside ourselves, it is to God, whether we are sane, it is to you.” ¹⁴ For the love of Christ is constraining us, judging this, that, if One died for the sake of all, consequently all died.” ¹⁵ And He died for the sake of all that those who are living should by no means still be living to themselves, but to the One dying and being roused for their sakes.” ¹⁶ So that we, from now on, are acquainted with no one according to flesh. Yet even if we have known Christ according to flesh, nevertheless now we know Him so no longer.” ¹⁷ So that, if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: the primitive passed by. Lo! there has come new!” ¹⁸ Yet all is of God, Who conciliates us to Himself through Christ, and is giving us the dispensation of the conciliation, ¹⁹ how that God was in Christ, conciliating the world to Himself, not reckoning their offenses to them, and placing in us the word of the conciliation.” ²⁰ For Christ, then, are we ambassadors, as of God entreating through us. We are beseeching for Christ’s sake, “Be conciliated to God!” ²¹ For the One not knowing sin, He makes to be a sin offering for our sakes that we may be becoming God’s righteousness in Him.”

Paul urges everyone to be reconciled to God through Christ before being judged by works. Jesus told the Jews that their own old covenant words would be used for or against them in the final court of law. Those who confessed Jesus were not condemned in the old covenant under law. Paul says that everyone will be judged by their own works, therefore be reconciled through new covenant Christ before that day arrives. Paul is urging people to avoid condemnation by way of the only available reconciliation; in the new covenant work of the Messiah.

Matthew 12:30-40

YLT ³⁰ `He who is not with me is against me, and he who is not gathering with me, doth scatter. <sup>31</sup> Because of this I say to you, all sin and evil speaking shall be forgiven to men, but the evil speaking of the Spirit shall not be forgiven to men. <sup>32</sup> And whoever may speak a word against the Son of Man it shall be forgiven to him, but whoever may speak against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this age, nor in that which is coming. <sup>33</sup> `Either make the tree good, and its fruit good, or make the tree bad, and its fruit bad, for from the fruit is the tree known. ³⁴ `Brood of vipers! how are ye able to speak good things—being evil? for out of the abundance of the heart doth the mouth speak. <sup>35</sup> The good man out of the good treasure of the heart doth put forth the good things, and the evil man out of the evil treasure doth put forth evil things. <sup>36</sup> `And I say to you, that every idle word that men may speak, they shall give for it a reckoning in a day of judgment; ³⁷ for from thy words thou shalt be declared righteous, and from thy words thou shalt be declared unrighteous.’ ³⁸ Then answered certain of the scribes and Pharisees, saying, `Teacher, we will to see a sign from thee.’ <sup>39</sup> And he answering said to them, `A generation, evil and adulterous, doth seek a sign, and a sign shall not be given to it, except the sign of Jonah the prophet; ⁴⁰ for, as Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights, so shall the Son of Man be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights.

They had till the AD70 judgement on old Jerusalem to see the third day sign and admit they were wrong. Second death was the point of no return. After their first national death they were promised a return to the land after 70 years was fulfilled. Jesus permanently saved His people with His 70-year fulfillment. They now live in the New Jerusalem that He prepared for them within that 70-year time frame. New Jerusalem was ready to live in before old Jerusalem was finally condemned to second death. The old covenant believers like were not left naked. Salvation arrived in the air over Jerusalem. Jesus’ breath from heaven brought salvation to His people. He covered them in His humanity. Animal covering ended in AD 70.

John 9:39-41

YLT ³⁹ And Jesus said, `For judgment I to this world did come, that those not seeing may see, and those seeing may become blind.’ <sup>40</sup> And those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and they said to him, `Are we also blind?’ ⁴¹ Jesus said to them, `If ye were blind, ye were not having had sin, but now ye say—We see, therefore doth your sin remain.

In more ways than one Jesus told His Jewish followers they had to be born again to avoid the coming destruction. Those Jews who blasphemed the Holy Spirit would never be born again by the Holy Spirit. They were condemned by the law they claimed to keep with no court of appeals pending. The AD 70 judgement to destruction under old covenant law was final. The AD 70 judgement to eternal life in the new covenant was also final.

John 3:14-15

ECB ¹⁴
ETERNAL LIFE
And exactly as Mosheh exalted the serpent in the wilderness, even thus must the Son of humanity be exalted: ¹⁵ so that whoever trusts in him destructs not, but has eternal life. ^{John 12:30-34}

After Jesus was lifted up just outside of Jerusalem He secured new covenant life for all His chosen people. He isn’t coming back for the frozen chosen. All born again Jews were saved by the resurrection of Jesus. None of God’s chosen people were condemned under law. All of God’s chosen people moved into their covenant of rebirth.

John 20:22

LITV ²² And saying this, He breathed on them and said to them, Receive the Holy Spirit.

God’s chosen are not united by a particular flesh body anymore. The Body of Christ is not a flesh and blood covenant body. He meets His new covent people in the realm of the air (His heavenly realm body).

Romans 8:9

ECB ⁹ And you are not in flesh, but in Spirit whenever the Spirit of Elohim dwell in you and if one has not the Spirit of Messiah, he is none of his.

So far, Holy Spirit life has saved nobody’s flesh and blood body from dying. I now have eternal life in a heavenly body while still in a mortal earthly body. Flesh and blood bodies didn’t inherit the kingdom. Flesh and blood must be born again or simply die dead with the mortal body only.

Romans 8:11

YLT ¹¹ and if the Spirit of Him who did raise up Jesus out of the dead doth dwell in you, He who did raise up the Christ out of the dead shall quicken also your dying bodies, through His Spirit dwelling in you.

Not everyone in that generation died before the old covenant death under law was defeated. Stephen died in the transition process of defeating old covenant death under law. Covenant death was defeated before everyone from that 40 years of re-generation died.

1 Corinthians 15:50-57

YLT ⁵⁰ And this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood the reign of God is not able to inherit [The old covenant in the flesh did not inherit the reign. The new covenant by way of the Holy Spirit did.], nor doth the corruption inherit the incorruption; ⁵¹ lo, I tell you a secret; we [we is the old covenant body in transition to the new covenant body] indeed shall not all sleep, 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 covenant transition generation] the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ;

Jesus was the true Jewish rising again. The Jews in the flesh were trying to rise again before their grand finale jubilee. Jesus was the true Jewish rising again. He took their failure to rule the kingdom of God from the old covenant to the new. The first Holy-Spirit-enabled rising again took the place of their second typical attempt to be resurrected from the dead. They nationally died and were regenerated during their typical 40 year journey to the typical promised land. They were typically put to death again by the babylonians. After 70 years flesh and blood reformed a new body of Jews in Jerusalem. This was their second wilderness regeneration. But this resurrection barely succeeded to rebirth the nation. Most stayed dead in the diaspora. This body of Jews on life support was unplugged in AD70. Their second death was not defeated by their second resurrection. After 490 years of flesh and blood life support all false hope of a successful flesh and blood resurrection was abandoned. It was not plan b. It was never meant to be a flesh and blood success story. Jesus was the rising again, not Cyrus or Nebuchadnezzar or Nero.

John 11:25-26

YLT ²⁵ Jesus said to her, `I am the rising again, and the life; he who is believing in me, even if he may die, shall live; ²⁶ and every one who is living and believing in me shall not die—to the age;

Jesus fulfilled the final 70 years even as old covenant hold outs became “Babylon”. Jesus really did grant eternal life to His chosen ones through His chosen One. After 40 years of Jesus’ Holy Spirit ministry to His chosen ones, the fulfillment of the promise arrived. It landed His people in the promised land of heaven to an inheritance kept incorruptible in heaven. Heavenly Jerusalem lifts us up from here to there.

Jeremiah 29:10-11

CLV ¹⁰ `For thus said Yahweh, Surely at the fulness of Babylon–seventy years–I inspect you, and have established towards you My good word, to bring you back unto this place.” ¹¹ For I have known the thoughts that I am thinking towards you–an affirmation of Yahweh; thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give to you posterity and hope.”

Salvation and condemnation were both fulfilled after their second failed 490 years in the land. The fulfillment was over 2000 years ago. Will God gather His chosen people back under the law that already condemned everyone who remained under it? Is there a repeat condemnation for unbelievers in the typical land that will surpass the former condemnation of stubborn Jews in first century flesh and blood? After reforming in obsolete Jerusalem will obsolete old covenant people again have the option to enter their promised new covenant? Some today are actually preaching two different gospels, to attempt in vain to explain away this flesh-made conundrum.

For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion sought for a second. For finding fault with them, He says,

“Behold, days are coming, says the Lord,
When I will effect a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah;
Not like the covenant which I made with their fathers
On the day when I took them by the hand
To lead them out of the land of Egypt;
For they did not continue in My covenant,
And I did not care for them, says the Lord.
“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel
After those days, says the Lord:
I will put My laws into their minds,
And I will write them on their hearts.
And I will be their God,
And they shall be My people….”

When [God] said, “A new covenant,” He has made the first obsolete. But whatever is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to disappear.

Maybe the first covenant didn’t really disappear because it wasn’t really ready to disappear. It just appeared to disappear so it could get ready to reappear to disappear. Right now the old covenant is really ready to reappear so it can really get ready for its final disappearance. Then old covenant death will be defeated and God’s chosen people will really inherit the never ending life of their new covenant.

Is condemnation and salvation coming to the Jewish nation again in a different way? Is there another gospel for the Jews; a way to inherit salvation in flesh and blood this time? Maybe I shouldn’t preach old covenant condemnation like Peter did to his brethren on Pentecost. Jewish Jesus and Stephen were also murdered for preaching new covenant salvation as an option to the old covenant condemnation. My Bible doesn’t say flesh and blood will inherit salvation in another gospel for future Jews who restart the old covenant again.

1 Corinthians 15:40

YLT ⁴⁰ and there are heavenly bodies, and earthly bodies; but one is the glory of the heavenly, and another that of the earthly;

2 Corinthians 3:9-11

YLT ⁹ for if the ministration of the condemnation is glory, much more doth the ministration of the righteousness abound in glory; ¹⁰ for also even that which hath been glorious, hath not been glorious—in this respect, because of the superior glory; ¹¹ for if that which is being made useless is through glory, much more that which is remaining is in glory.

Do we want to bring the dispensation of condemnation back to God’s chosen people (the church)? I don’t think God will do what we want. Even in the generation who saw the transition of covenants, condemnation was only for those who didn’t move their allegiance to the new firstborn.

Romans 8:1

YLT ¹ There is, then, now no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit;

A thousand years in the flesh may not be proof of final salvation from the old covenant of the death. The Jews did finish a thousand years in the old covenant of flesh and blood. There are heavenly bodies and there are earthly bodies. We have never seen an earthly body that didn’t die. By all indications we never will. Even Enoch is in a heavenly body now. Earthly bodies live on earth. Heavenly bodies live in heaven. Flesh was meant to live to the age on earth and then face judgment. The judgement that prevented Adam from living to the age of 1000 was a gracious one. If Adam would have been allowed to lived to the age of 1000 in the flesh he would have died forever, rather than lived forever. Israel was put to rest for 70 years so it could be given thee option: they could finish living to the age of 1000 in the Holy Spirit resurrection or in their own flesh and blood resurrection.