1 John 3:15-16

¹⁵ Everyone who is hating his brother is a humanity-killer, and you are aware that no humanity-killer at all has life to the age remaining in him. ¹⁶ By this we know love, seeing that He, for our sakes, lays down His soul. We also ought to lay down our souls for the sake of the brethren.

John is a Christ-following-Jew writing to Christians. Those who hated their brethren without a cause were the humanity killers. They refused to lay down their old covenant soul. Jesus was the full-fledged humanity they hated and killed without a cause. Then they turned their hatred onto other brethren. The unbelieving Jews hated the believing Jews for following their Jewish Messiah. Following Jesus is not a good reason to be angry with your brethren, even if Christ did cost them their old covenant world. This murderous anger toward Christ followers is not truly human. Unbelieving Jews had to go against their old covenant code of humanity in the persecution of their newly covenanted brethren. They didn’t even believe in their own writings (God’s word). Old covenant humanity got better and worse. Those who transitioned got a better humanity. Those who hated the transition got worse.

Matthew 5:22 – Spoken by Jesus to Jews of course

YLT ²² but I—I say to you, that every one who is angry at his brother without cause, shall be in danger of the judgment, and whoever may say to his brother, Empty fellow! shall be in danger of the sanhedrim, and whoever may say, Rebel! shall be in danger of the Gehenna of the fire.

Jesus was going to lay down His soul only to take it up again into a new human creation called the new covenant. The new covenant creation was not out of nothing. Jesus died in the old creation to save the old world of humanity from complete destruction. Before the old was destroyed He would call His people out of it and start anew.

Those who saw this greatest display of love ever and were stirred to hatred by it were hating their brethren without a good reason. They claimed to be the righteous ones and called the Christians the rebels. The hoarders of wealth in the land held back the wages from the true workers of humanity. Those who refused to vacate the old covenant land were in danger of the perpetual Gehenna fire that burned in the valley of Jerusalem. It would continue to burn into the new age. It is not burning now.

Those from the 12 tribes who wanted to placate the judaizers to avoid their hostility (or to just keep their traditional place) and also be a Christ follower were called double-souled by Jacob (James). They were unstable and unable to receive anything from God. This defines the term soul as “covenant life”. They couldn’t claim the new covenant soul of Christ and keep the old covenant soul of Adam or Moses. The old humanity that led to death was vanishing. The new humanity was better because it granted life and peace with God. Those in the resurrection came out from the dead ones. They couldn’t keep claiming to be in the body of the dead ones. The dead ones were increasing their enmity with God, while the believing Jews were being made to live, in the resurrected body of Christ called the church.

God originally assigned life to the age in the human body of Adam. But every human spirit failed to live to the age. Every human body typically breathed their last breath and expired (ex-spirited) short of the age, because they were banned from the typical tree of life. We now translate “living to the age” as “eternal life” because that is what living to the age accomplished in the body of Christ.

The spirit in Adam wasn’t holy enough to live to the age spiritually alive, let alone give his family life to the age. Only the God who started the age of humanity would complete it spiritually alive. Jesus entered into and overcame Adam’s spiritual death. God sent His Son to join humanity in a flesh and blood body of the old covenant. He took the place of Adam to give His people resurrection life, to the age, by way of the Holy Spirit, sent by Christ. His holy spirit gave life to the age as the new and living firstborn. He became the life-giving spirit.

Christ laid down His old covenant soul only to take it up again. He became the life giving spirit to humanity. Christ is now in the new covenant in a way that He wasn’t in the old covenant. He is the firstborn human now rather than the eschaton Adam who died as the only Holy Spirit begotten Son. We inherit the covenant life from the firstborn with the new name for humanity; Christian not Adamic. He gave us new life by giving up His old creation life. He gave us His new covenant soul by laying down His old covenant soul as Adam. He laid down His soul only to take it up again. Historically, the hypocrites murdered Him, but by His own choice He laid down His human soul.

1 Corinthians 15:45

 ⁴⁵ So also it has been written, The first human, Adam, “became a living soul”, the eschatos Adam a life-giving spirit.

1 John 4:10

YLT ¹⁰ in this is the love, not that we loved God, but that He did love us, and did send His Son a propitiation for our sins.

This was not revealed to Solomon. Solomon had nothing good to say about going to Sheol to wait for God’s love to redeem him. He didn’t say anything about Christ getting him out of Sheol before completing the old age of humanity. The Holy Son of God completed the age of humanity as the resurrected firstborn. That is how new covenant humanity got to the age spiritually alive and received the salvation they were waiting for.

Ecclesiastes 3:11

Thomson ¹¹ All the things which he made, considered as a whole, are good in his time. But with regard to all things considered as one whole, to them he hath assigned the whole age; so that no man can find out the work which God hath done from beginning to end.

Solomon followed the science. He described what he saw as a man through his short sighted experimentation. He tested everything by his flesh and blood life under the sun. By the way, Solomon only recommends living life with one wife in this passage, but he advises to live life with all your might, since he sees nothing beyond this flesh and blood life. All reward is under the sun. Nothing comes after that.

Ecclesiastes 9:4-10

YLT ⁴ But to him who is joined unto all the living there is confidence, for to a living dog it is better than to the dead lion. ⁵ For the living know that they die, and the dead know not anything, and there is no more to them a reward, for their remembrance hath been forgotten. ⁶ Their love also, their hatred also, their envy also, hath already perished, and they have no more a portion to the age in all that hath been done under the sun. ⁷ Go, eat with joy thy bread, and drink with a glad heart thy wine, for already hath God been pleased with thy works. ⁸ At all times let thy garments be white, and let not perfume be lacking on thy head. ⁹ See life with the wife whom thou hast loved, all the days of the life of thy vanity, that He hath given to thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity, for it is thy portion in life, even of thy labour that thou art laboring at under the sun. ¹⁰ All that thy hand findeth to do, with thy power do, for there is no work, and device, and knowledge, and wisdom in Sheol whither thou art going.

The new covenant human body is in a different realm. It is not in the flesh. According to the Bible, those in the new body are no longer in the flesh. The old body of humanity in the flesh stayed dead. Only the resurrected body of Christ gave spiritual life to all the dead bodies. Christ was no longer in the old covenant flesh and blood body after His death and resurrection. By the Holy Spirit, He was the first to be reborn into the new covenant body.

The image of God in humanity is in the new and living body. Jesus’ old covenant body did not live to the age. His new covenant body did. Jesus did die in the day of Adam and He did go to Sheol. He opened the gates of Hades so humanity could join the living body and live to the age in His resurrected day. The old covenant body died their second death still stuck in their Adamic or Mosaic day. They completed their millennial day dead. Moses told them they wouldn’t live long in the land. God forgave them for another 490 years before they died the second time. The eternal soul of humanity is in the body of Christ.

People from all creations heard the gospel and joined the ongoing resurrection of Christ. The image of God is the image fleshed out in the old covenant body of Christ. God’s image is now in the new covenant body of Christ. As eschatos Adam, the body of Christ took the place of the body of Adam on the cross. Just as the old body of humanity started with one person, the new body of humanity started with one person. God’s only begotten son took up where Adam left off. He died on the cross to take his/His place as firstborn.

Romans 8:29

YLT ²⁹ because whom He did foreknow, He also did fore-appoint, conformed to the image of His Son, that he might be first-born among many brethren;

So what spirit gives life to what body? The spirit (or breath or air) sustains the biological body. Biology can’t start to live without a special creation from God (of the animal body) and it can’t continue to live without breathing God’s air. Jesus compares the Holy Spirit (that must give the rebirth) to the air that sustains the biological birth. Also the individual is presented to be a unique spirit in himself. Even demons had their unique characteristics and are called spirits. God is called a spirit and God’s Holy Spirit is said to indwell the believers body to commune with each unique spirit. The believer that already had biological life (temporary as it is) is given spiritual life. He is born again.

NASB 1995
For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so the thoughts of God no one knows except the Spirit of God.

Even a corporate body can be said to have a unique spirit that gives a personality to that body. The old covenant body had the firstborn spirit of Adam that conveyed a spirit of slavery and fear to the whole body of humanity. The soul of America could refer to the Christian underpinnings of her constitution.

Is ex-souled worse than ex-spirited?

Three particularly offensive and bad individuals, who were killed by God, were said to out-soul rather than yield their spirit. “Into your hands I commit my spirit”, were Jesus’ last words of trust in God as the just judge. God did not leave Jesus’ soul in Hades. God judged His Son worthy to be the living firstborn of the new creation and undeserving of His old covenant death. Death could not hold Him because He never sinned. He was raised under the constitutional humanity of old covenant law. He was the un-fallen soul.

Possibly the unpardonable sins of these three notables caused them to forfeit their soul’s waiting place in Hades. They died on their feet in a big lie. They were judged immediately as irredeemable humans; like demons who had no human soul because they were the irredeemable hybrids that were created by the irredeemable fallen angels. Neither angels nor demons waited with Solomon in Hades. If you judge a person soulless you may think they have no morals. If you say a person has no spirit you may think he has no will to live. Both are used as hyperboles today. They have different meanings. Your spirit is the will or ability to live. Your soul is your covenant (constitutional) life in the land; your homeland values.

The personality (spirit) of America is to live free from tyrants. The soul of America is good human laws that subdue tyrants and unlawful citizens alike. To cross into America and become a citizen, one must agree to it’s constitutional make-up. A land without boundaries will lose it’s soul. A man and a nation both need a soul to tame the spirit. All Human souls went to Hades to await the final judgement: Gehenna or Heaven. Until the eschatos human went there and open the gates. The same patient justice that kept every other soul waiting for salvation in Hades, resurrected Jesus.

Matthew 10:28

CLV ²⁸ And do not fear those who are killing the body, yet are not able to kill the soul. Yet be fearing Him, rather, Who is able to destroy the soul as well as the body in Gehenna.”

Proverbs 25:28

YLT ²⁸ A city broken down without walls, Is a man without restraint over his spirit!

Acts 5:5

CLV ⁵ Now Ananias, hearing these words, falling down, gives up the soul. And great fear came on all those hearing these things.”

Acts 5:10

CLV ¹⁰ Now, instantly, she falls at his feet and gives up the soul. Now entering, the youths found her dead, and carrying her out, they entomb her with her husband.”

Acts 12:23

CLV ²³ Now instantly a messenger of the Lord smites him, because he gives not the glory to God, and, becoming the food of worms, he gives up his soul.” [“worms” alludes to Gehenna where the soul is destroyed]

The new covenant body of humanity was resurrected from the dead old covenant body of Christ. His body had no corruption and His soul was not left in Hades. He certainly didn’t go to Gehenna. The death of Adam didn’t hold Him. In the resurrected body of Christ, the image of God is no longer associated with flesh and blood types: such as circumcision in the flesh or gender or tribal status in flesh. The new covenant Christ fulfilled the types and instills the complete image of God in every creation He makes anew. The priesthood of new covenant believers isn’t even tribal anymore.

Colossians 3:9-11

CLV ⁹ Do no lie to one another, stripping off the old humanity together with its practices, ¹⁰ and 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.”

Luke 4:16-22

YLT ¹⁶ And he came to Nazareth, where he hath been brought up, and he went in, according to his custom, on the sabbath-day, to the synagogue, and stood up to read; ¹⁷ and there was given over to him a roll of Isaiah the prophet, and having unfolded the roll, he found the place where it hath been written: ¹⁸ `The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, Because He did anoint me; To proclaim good news to the poor, Sent me to heal the broken of heart, To proclaim to captives deliverance, And to blind receiving of sight, To send away the bruised with deliverance, <sup>19</sup> To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.’ <sup>20</sup> And having folded the roll, having given it back to the officer, he sat down, and the eyes of all in the synagogue were gazing on him. <sup>21</sup> And he began to say unto them—`To-day hath this writing been fulfilled in your ears;’ ²² and all were bearing testimony to him, and were wondering at the gracious words that are coming forth out of his mouth, and they said, `Is not this the son of Joseph?’

When Jesus quoted Isaiah 61 he stopped short of reading, “And the day of vengeance of our God, To comfort all mourners”. When it finally did arrive, AD 70 was a relief to the believers who were being persecuted without a cause. There is no good reason in God’s eyes to hate the true body of humanity. When Jesus quoted Psalm 31 He stopped short of reading, “you have redeemed me”. Jesus didn’t need redeeming like David did. He took the judgement of God’s old covenant law to redeem His people from the wrath of God’s destruction that came in AD 70. Jesus last words were, “Into your hand I am committing my spirit”. [to ransom others]

Psalms 31:5

CLV ⁵ Into Your hand am I committing my spirit; You have ransomed me, O Yahweh, El of faithfulness.”

Jesus’ last words:

Luke 23:34

ECB ³⁴ And Yah Shua words, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. 

Luke 23:46

ECB ⁴⁶ And Yah Shua voices with a mega voice, saying, Father, into your hands I set forth my spirit: – and saying thus, he expires [he ex-spirited].

The spirit of Christ ruled the spirit of Stephen when the last of the old covenant people hated and killed him without a cause. God was still being patient and had not yet brought His wrath upon the old covenant hold outs. The new covenant soul is the law of Christ written on the heart of Stephen by the Holy Spirit. Stephen has that eternal human soul to tame his own spirit as he is being murdered. What better example could there be for heaven to open for? Stephen was actually the second person from old covenant humanity to go to new covenant heaven, but he was the first one who was ransomed by Christ. Heaven opened for redeemed humanity as Jesus stood by the Father for a Holy Spirit filled Jew. In the spirit of Christ Stephen was asking forgiveness for his murderers.

Acts 7:55-60

KJV ⁵⁵ But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God, ⁵⁶ And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man [humanity] standing on the right hand of God. ⁵⁷ Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord, ⁵⁸ And cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man’s feet, whose name was Saul. ⁵⁹ And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. ⁶⁰ And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.

Job was a type of true humanity. He was bitter in his human soul. Like Stephen’s Jewish brethren, Job’s ‘friends’ of humanity had no good reason to criticize him. Job was suffering for being true to humanity, better than all others in the land. Job has his own breath living with God’s breath in his nostrils. That is a claim to the old covenant soulish humanity of Adam. The courts of heaven were opened for Job and in the end Job even prays for the forgiveness of his accusers. But Job was still soulish and had to wait in Hades for Christ to redeem him. Job repents when he comes nose to nose with God. Heaven wasn’t accepting even the humanity of Job in Adam. A more true Son of humanity would die an old covenant death to rescue even Job.

Job 27:2-4

CLV ² As El lives, Who has taken away judgment for me, He Who Suffices, Who has brought bitterness on my soul, ³ As long as my breath is yet whole within me And the spirit of Eloah is in my nostrils, ⁴ My lips shall assuredly not speak iniquity, And my tongue, it shall assuredly not soliloquize deceit.

Job 42:5-6

CLV ⁵ With the hearing of the ear I had heard of You, But now my eye sees You. ⁶ Therefore I sink down and repent On soil and ashes.

Did the remnant from the 12 tribes gathered at Pentecost see and repent? did they receive Holy Spirit circumcision of the heart? Did those who stayed in the old covenant perish without the eternal soul of Christ? Did unbelieving Jews lose their salvation? The new covenant heart and soul is Christ. He sent His Holy Spirit to live in the Jews so they would stay alive to the age. Those who were dead at 1000 died for the second time. They died as the enemy when Yahweh put all the curses of Moses on the obstinate unbelievers still in old unspiritual Jerusalem.

Hosea 11:1

Jesus is the first born son of true Israel

KJV ¹ When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 30:6-7, 11-18

CLV ⁶ Yahweh your Elohim will circumcise your heart and the heart of your seed so as to love Yahweh your Elohim with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may stay alive. ⁷ Then Yahweh your Elohim will put all these imprecations on your enemies and on those hating you, who persecute you. ¹¹ For this instruction that I am enjoining on you today, it is neither too difficult for you, nor is it too far off. ¹² It is neither in the heavens for you to say: Who shall ascend to the heavens for us and take it for us and announce it to us that we may obey it? ¹³ Nor is it across the sea for you to say: Who shall cross across the sea for us and take it for us and announce it to us that we may obey it? ¹⁴ For the word is exceedingly near to you, in your mouth and in your heart, to obey it. ¹⁵ See! I put before you today life and good, death and evil. ¹⁶ In case you should hearken to the instructions of Yahweh your Elohim that I am enjoining on you today, to love Yahweh your Elohim, to walk in His ways and to observe His instructions, His statutes and His judgments, then you will live and multiply, and Yahweh your Elohim will bless you in the land where you are entering to tenant it. ¹⁷ Yet should your heart turn around, and you are not hearkening, and you are induced to bow yourself down to other elohim and serve them, ¹⁸ I tell you today that you shall perish, yea perish. You shall not prolong your days on the ground where you are crossing over the Jordan to enter to tenant it.

Romans 10

Salvation to the Jews and of the Jews

LITV ¹ Brothers, truly my heart’s pleasure and supplication to God on behalf of Israel is for it to be saved. ² For I testify to them that they have zeal to God, but not according to knowledge. ³ For being ignorant of the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they did not submit to the righteousness of God. ⁴ For Christ is the end of law for righteousness to everyone that believes. ⁵ For Moses writes of the righteousness which is of the law: “The man doing these things shall live by them.” Lev. 18:5 ⁶ But the righteousness of faith says this: “Do not say in your heart, Who will go up into Heaven?” (that is, to bring down Christ); ⁷ or, “Who will go down into the abyss?” (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead.) ⁸ But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith which we proclaim) Deut. 9:4; 30:12-14 . ⁹ Because if you confess the Lord Jesus with your mouth, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. ¹⁰ For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth one confesses unto salvation. ¹¹ For the Scripture says, “Everyone believing on Him will not be put to shame.” Isa. 28:16 ¹² For there is no difference both of Jew and of Greek, for the same Lord of all is rich toward all the ones calling on Him. ¹³ For everyone, “whoever may call on the name of the Lord will be saved.” Joel 3:5 ¹⁴ How then may they call on One in whom they have not believed? And how may they believe One of whom they have not heard? And how may they hear without preaching? ¹⁵ And how may they preach if they are not sent? Even as it has been written, “How beautiful” “the feet of those announcing the gospel of peace, of those announcing the gospel of good things.” Isa. 52:7 ¹⁶ But not all obeyed the gospel, for Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our report?” Isa. 53:1 ¹⁷ Then faith is of hearing, and hearing through the Word of God. ¹⁸ But I say, Did they not hear? Yes, rather, “into all the earth their voice went out, and to the ends of the world their words.” LXX-Psa. 18:5; MT-Psa. 19:4 ¹⁹ But I say, Did not Israel know? First, Moses says, “I will provoke you to jealousy by a not-nation, by an unwise nation I will anger you.” Deut. 32:21 ²⁰ But Isaiah is very bold and says, “I was found by those not seeking Me; I became known to those not inquiring after Me.” Isa. 65:1 ²¹ But to Israel He says, “All the day I stretched out My hands to a disobeying and contradicting people.” Isa. 65:2

Romans 9:27

KJV ²⁷ Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:

Romans 11:1-5

KJV ¹ I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. ² God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel saying, ³ Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life. ⁴ But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal. ⁵ Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.

Isaiah 10:22

ECB ²² For though your people Yisra El become as the sand of the sea, their survivors return: the appointed consumption overflows with justness:

Colossians 2:8

ECB ⁸ See to it lest anyone seduce you through philosophy and vain delusion – after the tradition of humanity, – after the elements of the cosmos and not after Messiah.

Galatians 2

Some Jews were trying to double-soul the nations

CLV ¹ Thereupon, after the lapse of fourteen years, I again went up to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus also along with me.” ² Now I went up in accord with a revelation, and submitted to them the evangel which I am heralding among the nations, yet privately to those of repute, lest somehow I should be racing or ran for naught.” ³ But not even Titus, who is with me, being a Greek, is compelled to be circumcised.” ⁴ Yet, it was because of the false brethren who were smuggled in, who came in by the way to spy out our freedom which we have in Christ Jesus, that they shall be enslaving us- ” ⁵ to whom, not even for an hour do we simulate by subjection, that the truth of the evangel should be continuing with you.” ⁶ Now from those reputed to be somewhat-what kind they once were is of no consequence to me (God is not taking up the human aspect)-for to me those of repute submitted nothing. ⁷ But, on the contrary, preceiving that I have been entrusted with the evangel of the Uncircumcision, ⁸ according as Peter of the Circumcision (for He Who operates in Peter for the apostleship of the Circumcision operates in me also for the nations), ⁹ and, knowing the grace which is being given to me, James and Cephas and John, who are supposed to be pillars, give to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we, indeed, are to be for the nations, yet they for the Circumcision-” ¹⁰ only that we may be remembering the poor, which same thing I endeavor also to do.” ¹¹ Now when Cephas came to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, for he was self-censured.” ¹² For, before the coming of some from James, he ate together with those of the nations. Yet when they came, he shrank back, and severed himself, fearing those of the Circumcision.” ¹³ And the rest of the Jews also play the hypocrite with him, so that Barnabas also was led away with their hypocrisy.” ¹⁴ But when I perceived that they are not correct in their attitude toward the truth of the evangel, I said to Cephas in front of all, “If you, being inherently a Jew, are living as the nations, and not as the Jews, how are you compelling the nations to be judaizing? ¹⁵ We, who by nature are Jews, and not sinners of the nations, ¹⁶ having perceived that a man is not being justified by works of law, except alone through the faith of Christ Jesus, we also believe in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by the faith of Christ and not by works of law, seeing that by works of law shall no flesh at all be justified.” ¹⁷ Now if, while seeking to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ, consequently, a dispenser of sin? May it not be coming to that!” ¹⁸ For if I am building again these things which I demolish, I am commending myself as a transgressor.” ¹⁹ For I, through law, died to law, that I should be living to God.” ²⁰ With Christ have I been crucified, yet I am living; no longer I, but living in me is Christ. Now that which I am now living in flesh, I am living in faith that is of the Son of God, Who loves me, and gives Himself up for me.” ²¹ I am not repudiating the grace of God, for if righteousness is through law, consequently Christ died gratuitously.”

Galatians 4:9-26

Jerusalem was about to be destroyed. New covenant Jerusalem is the mother of all God’s children. God left none of His children in the old covenant. Jerusalem in the flesh was the hand maid of slavery under law that led to Christ. The enslaving elements of that cosmos were destroyed. All God’s children are in the new Jerusalem, also called the church.

CLV ⁹ Yet now, knowing God, yet rather being known by God, how are you turning back again to the infirm and poor elements for which you want to slave again anew? ¹⁰ Days are you scrutinizing, and months and seasons and years.” ¹¹ I fear for you, lest somehow I have toiled for you feignedly.” ¹² Become as I, for I am even as you, brethren, I beseech you. In nothing do you injure me.” ¹³ Now you are aware that during an infirmity of the flesh I bring the evangel to you formerly. ¹⁴ And your trial, in my flesh, you do not scorn, neither do you loathe it, but as a messenger of God you receive me, as Christ Jesus.” ¹⁵ Where, then, is your happiness? For I am testifying to you, that, if possible, gouging out your eyes, you would give them to me.” ¹⁶ So that I have become your enemy by being true to you! ¹⁷ They are jealous over you, not ideally, but they want to debar you that you may be jealous over them.” ¹⁸ Now it is ideal for you to be jealous in the ideal always, and not only in my presence with you.” ¹⁹ Little children mine, with whom I am travailing again until Christ may be formed in you!” ²⁰ Yet I wanted to be present with you just now, and to change my voice, for I am perplexed about you.” ²¹ Tell me, you who want to be under law, are you not hearing the law? ²² For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, one out of the maid and one out of the free woman.” ²³ But the one, indeed, out of the maid is begotten according to flesh, yet the one out of the free woman through the promise:” ²⁴ which is allegorizing, for these women are two covenants; one, indeed, from mount Sinai, generating into slavery, which is Hagar.” ²⁵ Yet Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia; it is in line with the Jerusalem which now is, [old covenant Jerusalem no longer exists] for she is in slavery with her children.” ²⁶ Yet the Jerusalem above is free, who is mother of us all.”

Will God renew the old covenant with His chosen people so he can bring salvation to the Jews in a new new covenant? Will the re-established old covenant Jews hate the re-established new covenant Jews again? Will God bring relief to the new new covenant people by destroying the new old covenant people again? Will double-souled Jews become an issue again in their second transition from the old to the new? Will flesh and blood Jews inherit the kingdom after all? As a previous hater of the spiritual body of Jews, Paul now calls the Corinthian believers his beloved brothers.

1 Corinthians 15:44-58

ECB^(i) 44 spored a soulical body; raised a spiritual body. There is a soulical body and there is a spiritual body. ⁴⁵ And thus it is scribed, The first human Adam became into a living soul; the final Adam into an enlivening spirit. ⁴⁶ Rather the spiritual is not first; but the soulical – and then the spiritual. ⁴⁷ The first human is dust from the earth; the second human is Adonay from the heavens. ⁴⁸ Such as the dust, such also those of dust: and such as the heavenlies, such also those of the heavenlies. ⁴⁹ And exactly as we bear the icon of the dust we also bear the icon of the heavenlies. ⁵⁰ And this I say brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the sovereigndom of Elohim; corruptibility inherits not incorruptibility. ⁵¹
THE MYSTERY OF THE RESURRECTION
Behold, I word you a mystery; indeed, we all sleep not, and we all change; ⁵² in a moment – in the atom of an eye – in the final trumpet: for indeed it trumps; and the dead rise incorruptible and we all change. ⁵³ For this corruptible must endue athanasia; and this mortal must endue immortality. ⁵⁴ So when this corruptible endues incorruptibility and this mortal endues athanasia – then becomes the word that is scribed, Death is swallowed in triumph. ^{Isaiah 25:8 55} O death, where is your sting? O hades/sheol, where is your triumph? ⁵⁶ The sting of death is sin; and the dynamis of sin is the torah. ⁵⁷ And to Elohim – charism to him who gives us the triumph through our Adonay Yah Shua Messiah. ⁵⁸ So my beloved brothers, become grounded; unmoveable; always superabounding in the work of Adonay knowing that your labor in Adonay is not in vain.

The spiritual body of Christ is not flesh and blood. The flesh and blood body was the old covenant corruptible body. The humanity of Adam was obviously corrupted by Adam’s fall. Will Jesus fall and corrupt the new creation body of humanity? Will the resurrected church fall into the death that comes from the law? Will God’s people return to being under the Torah only be rescued from law again? Did God’s people marry the new husbandman yet? Are the Jews still in the new betrothal of Pentecost waiting for the salvation of marriage? Maybe the Gentile church married God and the Jews were left out. I thought the Jews were first and brought in the Gentiles to fill the wedding hall. Jews took the Gospel to all creations.

Matthew 24:13-20

CLV ¹³ Yet he who endures to the consummation, he shall be [being] saved.” ¹⁴ And heralded shall be this evangel of the kingdom in the whole inhabited earth for a testimony to all the nations, and then the consummation shall be arriving.” ¹⁵ Whenever, then, you may be perceiving the abomination of desolation, which is declared through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let him who is reading apprehend!);” ¹⁶ then let those in Judea flee into the mountains. ¹⁷ Let him who is on the housetop not descend to take away the things out of his house. ¹⁸ And let him who is in the field not turn back behind him to pick up his cloak. ¹⁹ Now woe to those who are pregnant and those suckling in those days!” ²⁰ Now be praying that your flight may not be occurring in winter, nor yet on a sabbath,

Paul knew what inspired love on earth. It was a focus on heavenly things not earthly things. Hatred from old covenant Jews was inspired by their focus on earthly things. The unthreatened hope was in heaven.

Colossians 1:4-6

LITV ⁴ hearing of your faith in Christ Jesus and the love toward all the saints, ⁵ because of the hope being laid up for you in Heaven, which you heard before in the Word of the truth of the gospel, ⁶ coming to you, as also in all the world, and it is bearing fruit even also among you, from the day in which you heard and knew the grace of God in truth;

Jesus took away their hatred in the death of His body of old covenant Jewish flesh, incorruptible as it was.

Colossians 1:21-23

LITV ²¹ And you then being alienated and enemies in your mind by evil works, yet now He reconciled ²² in the body of His flesh, through death, to present you holy and without blemish and without charge before Him, ²³ if indeed you continue in the faith grounded and settled and not being moved away from the hope of the gospel which you heard proclaimed in all the creation under Heaven, of which I, Paul, became a minister.

Romans 16:25-26

CLV ²⁵ Now to Him Who is able to establish you in accord with my evangel, and the heralding of Christ Jesus in accord with the revelation of a secret hushed in times eonian, ²⁶ yet manifested now and through prophetic scriptures, according to the injunction of the eonian God being made known to all nations for faith-obedience -“

– suddenly being made known unto all the ethnic multitudes (nations; Gentiles; pagans; non-Israelites),