Our Image is God’s Image
Genesis 1:26-27 (Humanity had to be created male and female because no human wife was found for Adam among the animals/nations)
CLV 26 And saying is the Elohim, “Make will We humanity in Our image, and according to Our likeness, and sway shall they over the fish of the sea, and over the flyer of the heavens, and over the beast, and over all land life, and over every moving animal moving on the land. 27And creating is the Elohim humanity in His image. In the image of the Elohim He creates it. Male and female He creates them.
Genesis 2:20 (Bible names often reflected the character. No human character was found among the nations.)
YLT 20 And the man calleth names to all the cattle, and to fowl of the heavens, and to every beast of the field; and to man hath not been found an helper—as his counterpart.
Genesis 2:23 (Eve was taken from the side of the flesh and bones man who was in the land of humanity, but flesh and bones does not inherit the kingdom and Adam was far from mature yet. Eve was not taken from the telos human. The new covenant bride is taken from the fully formed human side. Jesus said, “If you have seen me you have seen the Father”. He represented the full image of God. God is seen by knowing Him.)
ECB 23 And Adam says, This is at this time bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh: call this, Woman – for she is taken from Man.
John 14:9
CLV 9 Jesus is saying to him, “So much time I am with you, and you do not know Me, Philip! He who has seen Me has seen the Father, and how are you saying, ‘Show us the Father’?
James 3:8-9 (Jacob addresses God’s human nation in their diaspora missions mode. They were teaching humanity to the nations by way of a synagogue in every city. It was especially new humanity that came to be in God’s image. Even the Jewish tongue was tamed on Pentecost.)
ECB 8 but the tongue, no human can tame – an unrestrainable evil full of death bearing venom: 9 therein we eulogize our Elohim and Father; and therein we curse humanity who became after the likeness of Elohim. (we curse the humans who came to be in accord with the likeness of God)
Colossians 3:5-12 (Old covenant humanity wanted to keep the status quo. They cursed and murdered their messiah and His followers. They produced false witnesses and false prophets and got in bed with Rome. New covenant humanity was being renewed into the image of God by Jesus, God, Holy spirit, angels, and disciples. ‘Let us remake new covenant humanity in our image’. The sons of stubbornness received God’s wrath in AD 70. There are no wrath-receiving sons in the new covenant.)
CLV 5 Deaden, then, your members that are on the earth: prostitution, uncleanness, passion, evil desire and greed, which is idolatry, 6because of which the indignation of God is coming on the sons of stubborness 7 among whom you also once walked, when you lived in these things.” 8 Yet now you also be putting away all these: anger, fury, malice, calumny, obscenity out of your mouth.” 9 Do no lie to one another, stripping off the old humanity together with its practices, 10and putting on the young, which is being renewed into recognition, to accord with the Image of the One Who creates it, 11 wherein there is no Greek and Jew, Circumcision and Uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, slave, freeman, but all and in all is Christ.” 12 Put on, then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, pitiful compassions, kindness, humility, meekness, patience,
1 Samuel 16:7
Thomson 7 But the Lord said to Samuel, Look not on his countenance, nor the height of his stature, for I have rejected him: for God looketh not superficially as man looketh; for man looketh at the outward appearance, but God will look to the heart.
Psalms 22:15-23 (Those Jews who murdered the messiah were in the image of dogs but the true seed of Jacob were His human brethren)
YLT 15 Dried up as an earthen vessel is my power, And my tongue is cleaving to my jaws. 16 And to the dust of death thou appointest me, For surrounded me have dogs, A company of evil doers have compassed me, Piercing my hands and my feet. 17 I count all my bones—they look expectingly, They look upon me, 18 They apportion my garments to themselves, And for my clothing they cause a lot to fall. 19And Thou, O Jehovah, be not far off, O my strength, to help me haste. 20 Deliver from the sword my soul, From the paw of a dog mine only one. 21 Save me from the mouth of a lion: —And—from the horns of the high places Thou hast answered me!
22 I declare Thy name to my brethren, In the midst of the assembly I praise Thee. 23 Ye who fear Jehovah, praise ye Him, All the seed of Jacob, honour ye Him, And be afraid of Him, all ye seed of Israel.
Hosea 2:1-5 (Israel split and became two whoring sisters)
YLT 1 `Say ye to your brethren—Ammi, And to your sisters—Ruhamah. 2 Plead ye with your mother—plead, (For she is not My wife, and I am not her husband,) And she turneth her whoredoms from before her, And her adulteries from between her breasts, 3 Lest I strip her naked. And have set her up as in the day of her birth, And have made her as a wilderness, And have set her as a dry land, And have put her to death with thirst. 4 And her sons I do not pity, For sons of whoredoms are they, 5 For gone a-whoring hath their mother, Acted shamefully hath their conceiver, For she hath said, I go after my lovers, Those giving my bread and my water, My wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.
Hosea 2:14-18 (After her diaspora in the wilderness, the new covenant with Israel included all nations (all animal creations) and the new covenant is not in a land that is based on war. It is in a spiritual land. The typical land was fulfilled into the age of sabbath rest. Salvation is sure.)
YLT 14 Therefore, lo, I am enticing her, And have caused her to go to the wilderness, And I have spoken unto her heart, 15 And given to her her vineyards from thence, And the valley of Achor for an opening of hope, And she hath responded there as in the days of her youth, And as in the day of her coming up out of the land of Egypt. 16 And it hath come to pass, in that day, An affirmation of Jehovah, Thou dost call Me—My husband, And dost not call Me any more—My lord. 17 And I have turned aside the names of the lords from her mouth, And they are not remembered any more by their name. 18 And I have made to them a covenant in that day, with the beast of the field, And with the fowl of the heavens, And the creeping thing of the ground, And bow, and sword, and war I break from off the land, And have caused them to lie down confidently.
Paul used Hosea 2:18 to refer to the Gentiles who were being added to the new creation of the early Jewish Christian Church. Gentiles would also experience the redemption of their bodies, just as the Jews who were first stewards of the promises to humanity did. Their national bodies were not part of the original body of humanity. But, this allegory from the apostle Paul does not mean that God was making a covenant between Jews and animals in order to abolish hunting by the Power of His Holy Spirit, in fulfillment of His promise in Isaiah 63:14, to give the beasts of the earth rest by the same Holy Spirit. This Hebrew allegory does not mean all men and animals are destined to become vegetarians in the new Holy Spirit creation, so the anatomical animals can find rest.
Hosea 2:19 (The Jews and Gentiles in the new covenant betrothal made it to the age of marriage, while spiritually alive. The spiritual betrothal was on the day the seed of Jacob were gathered to celebrate their typical betrothal. The indwelling Holy Spirit is the indwelling image of God. Let us make humanity in our image included the essential work of the creative Spirit of God.)
YLT 19 And I have betrothed thee to Me to the age, And betrothed thee to Me in righteousness, And in judgment, and kindness, and mercies,
1 Corinthians 15:50
CLV 50 Now this I am averring, brethren, that flesh and blood is not able to enjoy an allotment in the kingdom of God, neither is corruption enjoying the allotment of incorruption.”
Genesis 2:23
ECB 23 And Adam says, This is at this time bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh: call this, Woman – for she is taken from Man.
Ephesians 5:30 (obviously ‘flesh and bones’ is an analogy taken from the old man. Jesus doesn’t have a ‘flesh and bones’ woman as a wife. His corporate bride was analogously released from his side on the cross. His death released the Jews from their marriage to the typical humanity. They were widowed to Adam so they could re-engage spiritually with the new humanity on Pentecost. Gentiles were adopted into the made new family of God.)
YLT 30 because members we are of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones;
Romans 8:9
CLV 9 Yet you are not in flesh, but in spirit, if so be that God’s spirit is making its home in you. Now if anyone has not Christ’s spirit, this one is not His.”
2 Corinthians 4:18
YLT 18 we not looking to the things seen, but to the things not seen; for the things seen are temporary, but the things not seen are age-during.
1 Peter 1:3-5 (Peter wrote to the chosen nation concerning their eternal allotment kept in heaven for them and their salvation that was ready to be unveiled in the eschaton age (translated below as ‘the final season’). It was the eschaton Adam who put the old man to death to release the nation of Israel from His side in order for her to re-engage on Pentecost with the new creation humanity. The spiritual bride was to be unveiled at the wedding. Only heavenly eyes could see the new covenant bride unveiled. Even John was in the spirit on the Lord’s day looking into heaven at the spiritual city of God called the bride. It wasn’t with his biological eyes that saw the city coming down. It was extending down to earth spiritually not physically. Pentecost was not a physical incorporation of the 12 tribes. That would require the typical land of war again. Jesus went to prepare a place for God’s people in another realm called heaven. It is where the eternal temple is. The real temple in heaven extends to earth spiritually. God’s Spirit lives in His city and in His people.)
ECB 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 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 to be unveiled in the final season:
The final season of the old covenant was the fall festivals.