Obviously Jesus could not perish. He was given a flesh and blood mortal body that could die. His death was prophesied to happen without breaking a single bone. By old covenant death Jesus’ spirit was loosed from His body of flesh. He didn’t perish. His spirit could not die. His body could.

John 2:19-21

KJV ¹⁹ Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy [luō] this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. ²⁰ Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days? ²¹ But he spake of the temple of his body.

Dodson: λύω, luō, loo’-o, – I loose, untie, release, destroy (a) I loose, untie, release, (b) met: I break, destroy, set at naught, contravene; I break up a meeting, annul.

John 3:16

KJV ¹⁶ For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish [apollumi], but have everlasting life.

Strong’s: ἀπόλλυμι, apollumi, ap-ol’-loo-mee, – to destroy fully (reflexively, to perish, or lose), literally or figuratively

Jesus body wasn’t broken to pieces on the cross. His flesh was pierced and torn. As a result, His spirit was loosed from His old covenant body. To the Hebrews, bones symbolized the indestructible life. Jesus exhaled His last breath and His spirit left His old covenant sacrificial body dead on the cross. No bones were broken.

Numbers 9:11-12

YLT ¹¹ in the second month, on the fourteenth day, between the evenings they prepare it; with unleavened and bitter things they eat it; ¹² they do not leave of till morning; and a bone they do not break in it: according to all the statute of the passover they prepare it.

Exodus 12:43-46

CLV ⁴³ Yahweh said to Moses and to Aaron: This is the statute of the passover: Any son of a foreigner, he shall not eat of it. ⁴⁴ Yet any man’s servant acquired with silver, when you have circumcised him, then he may eat of it. ⁴⁵ A settler or a hirling, he may not eat of it. ⁴⁶ In one house shall it be eaten. You shall not bring forth any of the flesh from the house to the outside; and a bone in it you shall not break.

Psalms 34:20

CLV ²⁰ He Who is guarding all his bones So that not one of them is broken.

Bones represent everlasting because they take so long to decay. They aren’t really everlasting. The new covenant body is everlasting because it is not even dependent on fulfilling the typical bones let alone the fragile flesh. Jesus fulfilled the types so we don’t have to. Unless you are born from above you will apollumi when your flesh and blood body dies. It doesn’t matter how long your bones last after that or if someone carries them to the typical promised land for you. Bones were just a symbol of the everlasting. Bones aren’t really everlasting. Jacob’s bones may have lasted a thousand years or more, until Jesus fulfilled the age, but they certainly weren’t required by Jesus for the Jews to have life to the age. Only one thing was necessary to live to the age: rebirth by the new covenant breath that Jesus sent to His chosen people who were told to wait in Jerusalem until then. They didn’t have to die in Jerusalem or be buried there. The types no longer applied to the born again Jews. Jesus fulfilled the types for all His chosen people.

Jesus died in the place of Adam to annul or loose His people from their marriage to Adam, so they could reform in the new marriage covenant to the new firstborn. All God’s chosen people inherited life to the age rather than death to the age. They didn’t perish because they were born again. Believe or perish. All God’s chosen people still live today because they were born again by the Holy Spirit. They are not still living today because they got a new body of flesh. That is what Nicodemus imagined. The longest any flesh could live from the beginning was 1000 years. God didn’t allow Adam to live to the age until Jesus arrived, because he would have died and perished at the age of 1000.

The martyrs under the alter weren’t waiting for their flesh and blood body to follow them to heaven so they could live to the age of 1000 in it. Like Jesus they sacrificed their flesh and blood to remain faithful to God. The martyrs were waiting for the old covenant to end. The national 1000 years was up already. The martyrs may have been a little less gracious toward others than God and His Son. Jesus died on the cross with only 3 1/2 years left of Daniel’s second 490 years in the land. What was God waiting for? God’s grace upon grace in His Son was more grace than the Jewish martyrs expected. They asked, “How long till you take vengeance on those living in the land?” The scoffers were also wondering why nothing happened yet. The 20th Jubilee celebration of the nation and come and gone already. Jerusalem was still there and nothing seems to be happening.