When my Dad died his wife kept just everything he owned. I don’t know what his will says because it probably doesn’t go into effect until his wife dies. Biblically, the son or sons inherited the land of the father, which is why the widow’s brother-in-law was obligated by law to marry the widow who had no son. That inheritance law of remarriage went into effect when the husbandman of the land died. The brother in law’s first born son would inherit her land and keep the dead brother’s name going. Like Joseph this faithful brother would actually get a double portion if he then had a second son. This was designed to keep each of the tribe’s allotments united in one name. If there was no brother, then the daughter or daughters could inherit her land. The daughter was then required to marry within the same tribe.

Their were 12 allotment names in the old covenant promised land. They were named after the 12 sons of Jacob, with a little variation due to Jacob’s final ‘will’ of blessings and cursings on his sons. He spoke his ‘will’ to his sons before he died. The firstborn lost his double blessing and it went to Joseph instead. In the promised land the two tribes from Joseph’s sons Ephraim and Manasseh each inherited their own land.

The following opinion is taken from a Quora article entitled – Is the King James Bible really the most accurate translation from the original manuscripts? By Steven Sorrell Masters of Arts in Theology & History, Evangelical Theological Seminary, Feb 3, 2022:

In Hebrew 9:16 the King James is more accurate than the New American Standard. The Greek word here for covenant can also mean will or testament. Although Hebrews speaks often of covenant, here in this verse according to the context “will, or testament is a better translation.

“For where a covenant is, there must of necessity be the death of the one who made it.” (Heb. 9:16) NASB

“For where a testament is, there must of necessity be the death of a testator” (Heb 9:16) KJV

“Where a will exists, the death of the one who made it must be established.” (Heb. 9:16) CSB

“For where there is a will, the death of the one who made it must be proven.” (Heb. 9:16)NET

The NASB made the mistake of over consistency because the word covenant is used so often. The NASB is very consistent in balancing closeness to the original languages and conveying the true meaning in English.

I question Steven Sorell’s opinion on this matter. It seems like it is the culture of Old Covenant Israel that must be understood in order to comprehend the true meaning of the letter written to the Hebrews. The first century Hebrews (to whom the book of Hebrews was written) were in their covenant transition. They had to claim the inheritance of their dead husbandman from the tribe of Judah through a new and living husbandman who was resurrected as their High Priest. That is not usually how a modern day will works. That is how the old covenant law of remarriage worked. Jesus died in the place of the old husbandman so His people (the Jews) could join Him in His resurrection rather than be found uncovered when judged by the old covenant millennium. In Hebrews chapter 9 it is the priestly office of the husbandman that is in focus. The inheritance of the priests were typically walled cities with surrounding pasturelands. Priests were explicitly prohibited from marrying a widow. Their cities were protected by law from being permanently sold, or even taxed and they could not be inherited by anyone other than the descendents of Moses’ brother Aaron. Moses was unwilling to be the priest and law bringer he was called to be so Aaron was appointed priest. God’s will was that the old covenant man Moses be both law bringer and priest. Jesus fulfilled God’s will.

The millennial age of judgement was near for Adam, since Jesus took up where Adam left off. He is called eschaton Adam because He fulfilled Adam’s eschaton. Corporately the nation was also approaching their age of judgement since they were in their second 490 years. To-the-age judgement in Christ would be covered in the most holy place of the new covenant marriage. The will of God was missing in the typical temple. The ark that contained the old covenant was supposed to be in the most Holy Place of the temple. The ark contained the two copies of God’s covenant or His will that Moses reiterated to His people in much detail before he died. He told them they wouldn’t live long in the land. They would only inherit life to the age rather than death to the age in the remarriage. This doesn’t sound much like a modern day will. It sounds more like the old covenant to the new covenant transition of husbandmen.

Oxford Dictionary: es·cha·ton /ˈeskəˌtän/ noun

1. the final event in the divine plan; the end of the world. “the gift of eternal life at the eschaton”

The only begotten Son of the Father died in the place of the first born son. Since He was the only old covenant man to carry the true name of the Father, He put the true old covenant humanity to death when He died. A remarriage was in order. In His new name without genealogy (the Aaronic priesthood could not marry a widow) the new covenant High Priest did marry a widow. The laws of the old covenant man were in force on the widow of a priest until she remarried to the High Priest not under the old covenant laws of types. That is why the book of James (Jacob to the 12 tribes) seems to be so legalistic. The types were still standing. As types even Moses was put to rest before Joshua took the renewed national body into the land.

It had everything to do with fulfilling the typical land inheritance that the Father had portioned out to the 12 tribes. In the new covenant, the priesthood of believers were all moving into the one spiritual city; the new heavenly Jerusalem is pictured as a priestly city with walls. The 12 tribes gave the Levites 48 walled cities with surrounding pastureland, 13 of which were priestly cities. The new walled city has the names of the 12 apostles in it’s foundation and the 12 tribes at the gates.

In America, your ‘big’ brother (our government) would like to take half your land when you die no matter what your will says. And since the new covenant is not land based, there is no law in Christian culture that requires you to marry your widowed sister-in-law. The old covenant types were pictures of the new covenant fulfillment in the one name. Our modern day context of an American will can only confuse the old covenant reference in Hebrews 9:16. Even if this verse is referring to an individual death rather than a nation-in-covenant death, the principles of both types are included. It is the old covenant to the new covenant transition that is being portrayed to these Hebrews. It actually seems like it is a new firstborn individual for the whole nation who is in view. He fulfills both, the one who died to put the covenant law of remarriage into effect and the one who lived to grant eternal life to the corporate body. The one new name over the one new land is Jesus-Joshua-Yeshua. God knows the name of His Son in all languages, but they never invoked the name of the typical Joshua who actually took them into the land. They invoked the name of Moses who couldn’t.

So when did Jesus go into the holy place to sprinkle His vessels of service with His blood? His blood was the old covenant soul that He poured out into the old covenant ‘holy’ (not so holy) land. The soul is typically in the blood. He laid down His soul to release them from those types only to take it up again for a new marriage creation.

70 AD was the fulfillment of the acceptable sacrifice of Able whose soul cried out from the land. The time for Cain to repent was over. The national body of Ables cried out from the new land in heaven (under the alter of acceptable sacrifice). The firstborn old-souled nation had murdered the younger soul to try to rid the land from the acceptable sacrifice. But the fear of the pending punishment of death was more than Cain could bear, so God marked Cain so that anyone who took justice on him would suffer sevenfold. Cain’s final judgement was put on hold. The city of Cain became the city of fear. The Septuagint translates the curse on Cain as one who would be groaning and trembling rather than a wonderer. His grandson Lamech proclaimed himself marked for 7 times 70 vengeance on anyone who wanted justice for what he did. The city of guilt-induced-grief and fear became irrational. The unrepentant Cains would be marked for destruction this time. Their self proclaimed 7 times 70 was up. They were not to be put on hold any longer. Even Cain and Lamech would face judgement at the end of this 490, which occurred when Jesus sevened everything in 70 AD. Salvation had arrived.

Genesis 4:23-24

Brenton ²³ And Lamech said to his wives, Ada and Sella, Hear my voice, ye wives of Lamech, consider my words, because I have slain a man to my sorrow and a youth to my grief. ²⁴ Because vengeance has been exacted seven times on Cain’s behalf, on Lamech’s it shall be seventy times seven.

Lamech claimed God’s protection over his father Cain, 70 times over. Even for the act of murder, Yahweh was willing to extend forgiveness to His people who were grieved for murdering His Son whom He loved. But the time for their salvation only extended to 490 years, which ended in 70 AD. This typical culmination included the spiritual fulfillment.

Ezekiel 9

Brenton ¹ And he cried in mine ears with a loud voice, saying, The judgement of the city has drawn nigh; and each had the weapons of destruction in his hand. ² And, behold, six men came from the way of the high gate that looks toward the north, and each one’s axe was in his hand; and there was one man in the midst of them clothed with a long robe down to the feet, and a sapphire girdle was on his loins: and they came in and stood near the brazen altar. ³ And the glory of the God of Israel, that was upon them, went up from the cherubs to the porch of the house. And he called the man that was clothed with the long robe, who had the girdle on his loins; ⁴ And said to him, Go through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark on the foreheads of the men that groan and that grieve for all the iniquities that are done in the midst of them. ⁵ And he said to the first in my hearing, Go after him into the city, and smite: and let not your eyes spare, and have no mercy. ⁶ Slay utterly old man and youth, and virgin, and infants, and women: but go ye not nigh any on whom is the mark: begin at my sanctuary. So they began with the elder men who were within in the house. ⁷ And he said to them, Defile the house, and go out and fill the ways with dead bodies, and smite. ⁸ And it came to pass as they were smiting, that I fell upon my face, and cried out, and said, Alas, O Lord! wilt thou destroy the remnant of Israel, in pouring out thy wrath upon Jerusalem? ⁹Then said he to me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Juda is become very exceedingly great: for the land is filled with many nations, and the city is filled with iniquity and uncleanness: because they have said, The Lord has forsaken the earth, The Lord looks not upon it. ¹⁰Therefore mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have any mercy: I have recompensed their ways upon their heads. ¹¹ And, behold, the man clothed with the long robe, and girt with the girdle about his loins, answered and said, I have done as thou didst command me.

Matthew 18:21-22

YLT ²¹ Then Peter having come near to him, said, `Sir, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him—till seven times?’ <sup>22</sup>Jesus saith to him, `I do not say to thee till seven times, but till seventy times seven. (Jesus quoted Lamech here. God really is long suffering and merciful to sinners)

The first place Jesus went after the murderous land was cleansed by His blood was in the spirit realm to Hades. Hades was the holding place for His vessels of old covenant service. His spirit (holy of course) witnessed to the disobedient spirits in prison who were from the days of the typical Noah’s flood-cleansing of the land. He sent the holy spirit to write His law on His newly cleansed vessels of service; 50 days after His resurrection from Hades. That Pentecostal betrothal was the n.c. holy place in the land in fulfillment of the typical receiving of the law at Mount Sinai.

Moses broke the tablets of stone and cleansed the people from their idolatry before giving them the law. Moses then gave the law to the cleansed people. Jesus broke Himself as the only law keeper in the old covenant. He then wrote His law on the heart of the 12 tribes with the Holy Spirit He sent down. The Holy Spirit coming down fulfills the second time the law was sent down the mountain from God. Jesus removed the old covenant heart of stone on the cross and sent them His heart of flesh on Pentecost.

It was the sprinkling of His blood that cleansed those vessels for service. Dying as the only true law keeper in the place of the firstborn soul left the land with no name. They were free from the law of Moses written on stone that revealed their sinful condition but could never save them. The soul is in the blood. The soul is the name or the character or the covenant of the land. Like Jesus, the law was holy and righteous and good. Jesus broke the old covenant stone law of Moses with His own body on the cross. That fulfilled the Mount Sinai cleansing performed by Moses on the people the first time he came down.

Most of the disciples scattered in fear and denial when Jesus died to cleanse His people. Peter was standing by the fire of denial. 53 days after that Jesus sent His law down to His clean people, by way of the Holy Spirit. The Hebrews would not enter the most holy place of marriage until 70 AD, but the first thing Jesus said to His disciples after the cleansing was, “Do not be afraid.” They survived His presence for 3 1/2 years and would now be given life by the Holy Spirit presence until the end of the age (age-during). In AD 70 they would enter into the Father’s presence and even survive that.

Jesus fulfilled all the Hebrew typology that pointed them to Him: individually, nationally and spiritually. He took the death of the firstborn as the passover lamb. He even took the place of the firstborn son of ‘Egypt’. Old covenant Israel was spiritually called the Egypt of the fulfillment Exodus. Jesus also fulfilled the close relative who was willing to remarry the widow to redeem the dead husbandman’s inheritance. He was the lamb who became the final sacrifice. He was the post-resurrection high priest who inherited the cleansed vessels ready for service; cleansed by way of his own old covenant flesh and blood, so the flesh sacrifices were no longer of any use to Him as High Priest of the new creation.

He became the age-enduring first born spirit of the new covenant. He became a life-giving spirit 50 days after His resurrection. He is the firstborn son who prepared a place for His people in His Father’s house in heaven. He is the High Priest who took His people into the most holy place in heaven as a priesthood of believers. At the typical betrothal at Sinai the people couldn’t even touch the mountain let alone ascend to the most holy place with Moses. The martyrs under the alter were holy/cleansed vessels in service but not quite in the most holy place yet. Old creation souls were still around and still murdering their brethren. The land of the tribe of Benjamin (known for rape and civil war) had to be put to it’s final rest.

Jesus died as the only true first born, retroactively all the way back to Adam. His newly created marriage covenant was by way of the Holy Spirit on a cleansed people/land. The old leaven was removed from the land the same time Jesus was buried. By the time of Pentecost the new barley malt was used to raise the new wheat bread. It was the first fruits of the Holy Spirit who inherited and cultivated the new land in the one new name. The spiritual promised land is portrayed as a city where the 24 names are united under one name. The 12 apostles laid the foundation of this new city but the 12 tribes in diaspora opened the gates to the four origins of the creation. The new creation man married a corporate bride that had all 24 ribs in the mainframe of her body, which is the city extending down in the spirit realm. She is kept incorruptible in the spirit realm of heaven.

Of the 12 sons of Jacob, Rueben was the firstborn. He defiled his father’s bed and lost his firstborn status. A portion of the land still carried his name but it was not a double portion. Joseph was the most loved by Jacob. Benjamin became the most loved in Joseph’s absence because Jacob could still see him. But Joseph as the most faithful got the most land inheritance. It was divided among his two sons: Ephraim and Manasseh; both had an Egyptian mother. Since the Levites were excluded from the land allotments, (they were in charge of the 48 cities) that makes a total of 12 names for the 12 land allotments. This type was fulfilled when the unbelievers insisted on staying in the final portion of land of the firstborn nation in the flesh. It was the land of the last apportionment. Jerusalem was actually in the land of the last born: Benjamin.

The Jews in the land of Benjamin lost their inheritance of covenant life to the age. They had no one to carry the name of Yahweh to the age. They lost their salvation by claiming Abraham as their father without claiming the faith of Abraham. Abraham was called out of his father’s land into a land he couldn’t see and by faith he left his father’s land. The unbelievers defiled Abraham’s name with their unwillingness to trust God’s calling to leave the land they could still see. It was the portion of the land allotted to Benjamin that contained first century Jerusalem. The tribe of Judah was allowed to go into the land of Benjamin to rebuild the last temple in the flesh-sacrifice mode. But they called themselves Jews after the tribe of their messiah rather than call themselves Benjis after the least of the tribes.

An individual from the tribe of Benjamin raped a Levite’s concubine, causing civil war among God’s people and near extinction of that tribe. Vengeance came upon the land of Benjamin again in 70 AD, after the unbelievers from that land persecuted their faithful brethren, who had become the priesthood of believers. The land of Benji occupiers were acting like dogs. Joseph at the right hand of the Pharaoh typically called Benjamin to leave the land of his father and come to him. Jesus at the right hand of the Father finally called the last ones in the land to leave the land of Benjamin and come to Him.

Joshua 15:8 – Allotment of Judah

YLT ⁸ and the border hath gone up the valley of the son of Hinnom, unto the side of the Jebusite on the south (it is Jerusalem), and the border hath gone up unto the top of the hill-country which is on the front of the valley of Hinnom westward, which is in the extremity of the valley of the Rephaim northward;

The allotment to Judah flanked Jerusalem but did not contain it. Jerusalem was not and is not the land of the Jews/Judaens.

Joshua 18:28 – Allotment of Benjamin

YLT ²⁸ and Zelah, Eleph, and Jebusi (it is Jerusalem), Gibeath, Kirjath: fourteen cities and their villages. This is the inheritance of the sons of Benjamin, for their families. 

The allotment to Benjamin included Jerusalem.

It is no coincidence that the people who claim to be Jews today are involved in story-telling Hollywood. It is also no coincidence that they named their favorite movie-star-mutt “Benji”.

Isaiah 54

CLV ¹ Jubilate, O barren, who has not borne! Crash into jubilation, and make a noise, who has not travailed! For more are the sons of the desolate than the sons of the one with a possessor, says Yahweh.” ² Widen the place of your tent, and the sheets of your tabernacles will stretch out. You must not keep back! Lengthen your cords, and your pegs make fast.” ³ For right and left shall you breach, and your seed shall tenant nations, and the desolated cities shall be indwelt.” ⁴ You must not fear, for you are not shamed, and you must not be confounded, for you shall not be abashed. For the shame of your adolescence will you forget, and the reproach of your widowhood you will remember no longer.” ⁵ For your Possessor is your Maker. Yahweh of hosts is His name. And your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel. The Elohim of the entire earth shall He be called. ⁶ For as a woman, forsaken and grieved in spirit, Yahweh called you, and as a wife of youth, that is being rejected, says Yahweh, your Elohim.” ⁷ For a small moment I forsook you, yet with great compassions will I convene you.” ⁸ In effervescent wrath I concealed My face a moment from you, yet with kindness eonian have I compassion on you, says your Redeemer, Yahweh.” ⁹ For this is the waters of Noah to Me. As I swore off from passing the waters of Noah again over the earth, so I swore off from wrath over you further and from rebuking you.” ¹⁰ For the mountains shall remove, and the hills shall slip, yet My kindness from you shall not remove, and the covenant of My welfare shall not slip, says your Compassionate One, Yahweh.” ¹¹ Humbled! Tempest-tossed! Not comforted! Behold! I will cause your stones to be embedded in pigment. And your foundation I lay with sapphires.” ¹² And I make of brilliants your sun-slits, and your gates of stones that kindle, and all your boundary with stones delightful.” ¹³ And all your sons are taught by Yahweh, and much is the welfare of your sons.” ¹⁴ In righteousness shall you establish yourself. Be far from extortion, for you shall not fear, and from dismay, for it shall not come near to you.” ¹⁵ Behold! One shall sojourn, yea sojourn only because of Me, and who sojourns with you, to you shall fall.” ¹⁶ Behold! I, I created the artificer who blows into the fire of coal, and brings forth an implement for his occupation. And I, I created the ruiner to harm.” ¹⁷ Any implement formed against you shall not prosper, and any tongue which rises against you for judgment you shall condemn. This is the allotment of the servants of Yahweh, and their righteousness is from Me, averring is Yahweh.”

God had compassion on His old covenant people all the way to the age. He would not pour out wrath on His own people in the 70 AD fulfillment of Noah’s flood judgement. His old covenant people were all marked for salvation by the Holy Spirit. 70 AD was salvation to them not the destruction that came in like a flood. The High Priest could marry the widow in the new covenant because the new priesthood was in the order of Melchizedek. Without genealogy implies a new name not found in the old covenant priesthood under law. Levite priests by law were not allowed to marry widows. But this marriage was a new and better priesthood without beginning or ending. Even the land allotment was without borders. Salvation went to the true Jews of all the nations. Those in the new city of Jerusalem could never be condemned or removed.

So what did the death of the husbandman bring to bear on the widow by law? Did they lose their inheritance? Did they put it on indefinite hold rather than 490 years to the Jubilee? Or did the get their promised inheritance after all?

Answer: Jesus is the new land name; not Adam or Moses or Abraham or the 12 sons of Jacob. Joshua/Jesus would take them into the land and put His name on all of it. The high walls and the gospel gates of the New Jerusalem (bride of Christ) proclaim the One Name to those who enter.

Revelation 21:1-27

¹ And I perceived a new heaven and a new earth, for the former heaven and the former earth pass away, and the sea is no more.” ² I perceived the holy city, new Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband.” ³ And I hear a loud voice out of the throne saying, “Lo! the tabernacle of God is with mankind, and He will be tabernacling with them, and they will be His peoples, and God Himself will be with them.” ⁴ And He will be brushing away every tear from their eyes. And death will be no more, nor mourning, nor clamor, nor misery; they will be no more, for the former things passed away.” ⁵ And He Who is sitting on the throne said, “Lo! New am I making all!And He is saying, “Write, for these sayings are faithful and true.” ⁶ And He said to me, “I have become the Alpha and the Omega, the Origin and the Consummation. To him who is thirsting I shall be giving of the spring of the water of life gratuitously.” ⁷ He who is conquering shall be enjoying this allotment, and I shall be a God to him and he shall be a son to Me.” ⁸ Yet the timid, and unbelievers, and the abominable, and murderers, and paramours, and enchanters, and idolaters, and all the false-their part is in the lake burning with fire and sulphur, which is the second death.” ⁹ And one of the seven messengers who have the seven bowls brimming with the last seven calamities came, and he speaks with me, saying, “Hither! I shall be showing you the bride, the wife of the Lambkin.” ¹⁰ And he carries me away, in spirit, on a mountain, huge and high, and shows me the holy city, Jerusalem, as it is descending out of heaven from God, ¹¹ having the glory from God. Her luminosity is like a stone most precious, as a crystalline jasper gem, ¹² having a wall, huge and high, having twelve portals, and at the portals twelve messengers, and their names inscribed, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel.” ¹³ From the east are three portals, and from the north three portals, and from the south three portals, and from the west three portals.” ¹⁴ And the wall of the city has twelve foundations, and on them the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lambkin.” ¹⁵ And he who is speaking with me had a measure, a golden reed, that he should be measuring the city, and its portals, and its wall.” ¹⁶ And the city is lying four square: and its length is as much as the breadth. And he measures the city with the reed to twelve thousand stadia. Its length and breadth and height are equal. ¹⁷ And he measures its wall of a hundred forty-four cubits of a human measure, which is that of the messenger.” ¹⁸ And the building material in its wall is jasper, and the city is clear gold, like clear glass.” ¹⁹ The foundations of the wall of the city are adorned with every precious stone, the first foundation with jasper, the second lapis lazuli, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald, ²⁰ the fifth sardonyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh topaz, the eighth beryl, the ninth peridot, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh amethyst, the twelfth garnet.” ²¹ And the twelve portals are twelve pearls. Each one of the portals was respectively of one pearl. And the square of the city is gold, clear as translucent glass.” ²² And a temple I did not perceive in it, for the Lord God Almighty is its temple, and the Lambkin.” ²³ And the city has no need of the sun nor of the moon, that they should be appearing in it, for the glory of God illuminates it, and its lamp is the Lambkin.” ²⁴ And the nations shall be walking by means of its light, and the kings of the earth are carrying their glory into it.” ²⁵ And its portals should under no circumstances be locked by day; for there shall be no night there. ²⁶And they shall be carrying the glory and the honor of the nations into it, ²⁷ and under no circumstances may anything contaminating, or one who is making an abomination and a lie be entering into it, except those written in the Lambkin’s scroll of life.”

Isaiah 62:3-5

³ And you become a crown of beauty in the hand of Yahweh, and a royal turban in the palm of your Elohim.” ⁴ And it will not be said of you any further, “Forsaken”; and of your land it will not be said any further, “Desolation. For He shall call you Hephzi-bah, and your land Beulah. For Yahweh is delighted with you, and your land is possessed.” ⁵ For as possessing is a chosen man a virgin, possessing you are your sons. And as the elation of a bridegroom over the bride, so will Yahweh, your Elohim, be elated over you.”

Revelation 19:7-9

⁷ We may be rejoicing and exulting and will be giving glory to Him, for the wedding of the Lambkin came, and Its bride makes herself ready.” ⁸ And to her it was granted that she may be clothed in clean, resplendent cambric, for the cambric is the just awards of the saints.” ⁹ And he is saying to me, “Write: ‘Happy are those invited to the wedding dinner of the Lambkin. ‘And he is saying to me, “These are the true sayings of God.”

Hosea 2:20 Pentecost celebrated their typical betrothal until 50 days after the resurrection of Christ when it became spiritual

²⁰ And I will betroth you to Me in faithfulness; then you shall know that I am Yahweh.

Hosea 2:14-17

¹⁴ Wherefore, behold! I am enticing her, and I conduct her to the wilderness, and I speak to her heart;” ¹⁵ and I give to her her vineyards thence, and the vale of Achor for a portal of expectation. And she responds there as in the days of her youth, and as the day of her ascension from the land of Egypt.” ¹⁶ And it comes in that day, (averring is Yahweh), she shall call Me, My Husband, and no longer shall she call Me, My Possessor, ¹⁷ and I take away the names of the Baals from her mouth, and no longer shall they be remembered by their name.”

Hosea 2:19 New Covenant Pentecost Betrothal Made it to the 70 AD New Covenant Marriage

¹⁹ And I will betroth you to Me for the eon, and I will betroth you to Me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in kindness, and in compassions.”

2 Corinthians 11:2 Betrothal in Order to be Presented to Christ in Marriage

² for I am jealous over you with a jealousy of God. For I betroth you to one Man, to present a chaste virgin to Christ. “

Isaiah 54:5

⁵ For your Possessor is your Maker. Yahweh of hosts is His name. And your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel. The Elohim of the entire earth shall He be called.

The typical promised land in the flesh had 12 husbandmen who put their names on all the promised land. Jesus chose 12 Jewish apostles to lay the foundation for the new promised land, which is represented by a new city of Jerusalem. It is a city rather than a country because all the reborn people of God became priests. All God’s people enter into His presence. All 24 names are represented in the foundation and at the gates of this city. The whole city is the new bride who was about to inherit the one new name, a name without beginning or ending. He took the Jews to their 1000 year Jubilee in His name. In Jesus name amen.

Revelation 18:7

CLV ⁷ As much as she glorifies herself and indulges, so much torment and mourning be giving her, for she is saying in her heart, ‘I am sitting a queen, and am no widow, and mourning I may by no means see.'”

This passage was written before the old city of Jerusalem was destroyed. She was still a widow in flesh mode denial of her savior. She was about to lose her salvation. This verse refers to a “Babylon,” that is spiritually corrupt like Babylon. The voice from heaven, heard by John, refers to a first century “Babylon” who was glorifying herself. Like the builders of the Tower of Babel (Genesis 11), Babylon had attempted to make a name for herself. The non-human beast named Nero, whom Jerusalem made a peace covenant with, also wanted his empire under his name to be the admiration and wonder of the whole world. But Rome was not divorced from God or newly betrothed in a new covenant to God. Jerusalem was. Just as it was God’s people who were trying to make a name for themselves at the original Babel.

Typically the high priest was the man of the year whose job was to make a sacrifice on the day of atonement in order to live in the land marriage for one more year. The high priest annually renewed the covenant by sacrificing an animal rather than himself. Jesus married the church right after that day of atonement in the fall of the year. However His appearance as High Priest was without regard to the sacrifice for sin. His new covenant betrothal did not result in a fall that needed atoned for.

The death of the one making the covenant (or the one being covenanted) not only brought the law of release upon the widow but the resurrection (renewal of covenant) gave her the law of Christ. She joined His ongoing resurrection of the dead and dying covenant with Yahweh on Pentecost. There never was a day of atonement for a fallen betrothal (or anything) in the new covenant. Jesus died in the old covenant. Adam and Eve fell in betrothal. But the law of the garden was not enforced until Adam died. Their fall in betrothal resulted in the first sacrifice. They were sent out temporarily covered in animal sacrifice to delay the age of second death. It was a sacrifice to save the firstborn before leaving the land in their slavery to death. It was not a marriage atonement. Since Jesus took up where Adam left off their was no fall in the renewed or resurrected covenant. There is only one creation. It was typically renewed innumerable times until the final renewal.