Broken promises, broken families, broken hearts, broken laws, broken contracts, broken relationships, broken marriage covenants and broken lives: who can say these things no longer exist? Who can claim they have not been of and still are part of them?

Old covenant humanity broke God’s laws and broke their own vows to keep His laws. They broke their agreement with their creator and they died for it. But the old covenant creation itself wasn’t broken. It did what it was made to do. It enforced the laws of it’s nature. It would deliver them al to death in the end. What we call mother nature can seem amoral and merciless. The Father’s ‘nature’ is both righteous and gracious. He graciously put Adam in a place where he could rule over nature in His image. God created mother nature to be wild. He created humanity to be the ruler of all His creation.

Breaking from God’s path is why Adam fell into the death. Flesh and blood life to 1000 wouldn’t save Adam from his fall. It would merely seal his fate with second death. Mother nature offers no pathway to eternal life. Break her natural laws and you might die early, but their is no pathway to eternal life in biology, not even living to 1000 years old. Flesh and blood cannot inherit eternal life.

Before their falls, both Adam singularly and Israel as a nation had potential for eternal life in their land. All they had to do was to stay on God’s road to the age. Those who insisted on remaining in Jerusalem for their millennium weren’t saved. They were sealing their fate. That is why God removed Adam from access to the typical tree of life. Living to 1000 typically couldn’t grant anyone eternal life. Keeping God’s Word to the age was eternal life not keeping His land. Only Jesus could do that. God knew Adam would fall and Moses told Israel they would surely not last long in the land. God Himself had to take them to the age alive in His new land where He kept the covenant promises. That is why He put humanity on hold at 930. The 70 years He provided redeemed Adam and the nation at the same time.

It’s the new covenant creation that can’t be broken, because the firstborn of humanity is the only begotten Son of God. The promise keeper is in the Father’s full image. All of creation was made to be tamed by the Father’s image. Humanity was made to tame all other creations in God’s name: people’s wild natures and the land itself. Humanity was uniquely made in the image of God. Nature was made to be what it is and humanity was made to tame it. If nature wasn’t wild before the fall then what was Adam called to rule over?

Enter eschatos Adam in the last days of the old covenant. He came to the Jews promising them life to the age and never ending life. He said those who believed in Him would never die. Yet their old covenant was already broken and heading for it’s second death, with no mention this time of a return after another 70 years of typical rest. Those who broke the old covenant law were determined to arrive at the close of their millennium dead. God let the forever dead ones stay in the land this time.

They were off the path. They broke the law, but the law itself wasn’t broken. It was still Holy and intact performing it’s divine duty to deliver law breakers to the death it promised for disobedience. They would die in the day of the Lord. The law described the way for life to the age. But the law couldn’t fix their break from that path. Following the law was the only way to never-ending life. Until Jesus came and said He was the way. The promise keeper called His followers out of the old futile attempt.

Is the pathway to heaven still available today? Trying to get to heaven by keeping the law is even more impossible today. Because the old covenant agreement no longer exists. The law’s road to eternity was for Adam and Israel. All they had to do was to arrive to their prospective old covenant millenniums alive, by staying on the path of God’s Word.

Broken things today are reminders of the frustrations of old covenant works. They can still serve as school masters to grow us up. Broken promises and broken families are still painful realities. But new covenant promises are never broken. The new covenant family of God is never broken. Nobody moves into a broken family by being born from above. The family of Yahweh is in tact and fully functional. It has the perfect psyche because the firstborn is the eternal soul of humanity. Go ahead and do a scientific study on the human mind and its functions. You can be like Freud and study the minds of sick souls or you can study the perfect mind of Christ. In the short term it might make you fell better to look down on lesser minds. But the mind of Christ is the way, the truth and the life.

Jacob told the 12 tribes in covenant transition to avoid their own condemnation by not making vows anymore. At least not during their transition to the new covenant. It was their broken promises at the beginning of the old covenant that got them in their diaspora to begin with. Let God keep all the new covenant promises to the age.

James 1:1

ECB ¹
SALUTATION
Yaaqovos, a servant of Elohim and of Adonay Yah Shua Messiah: To the twelve scions of the diaspora: Cheers.

James 5:12

CLV ¹² Now before all, my brethren, do not be swearing, neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor any other oath. Now let your “yes be “yes, and “no be “no, lest you should be falling under judging.”

The first people to be born into the new family of God are Jews from the first century. They are referred to below as the firstlings of the Spirit. “All of creation” includes the rest of the nations who didn’t directly come out of the old covenant humanity. The old covenant and the new covenant still existed together when Romans was written. Which one you were in made all the difference in the world. The old has since passed away in second death and the new has become eternal by being fully born. Choose your metaphor: sonship or wifeship. As individuals we are called children and sons and brethren of the corporate sonship in the body of Christ.

Neither the human nation nor the Gentile nations are travailing to be born into the new creation today. The new covenant sonship fully arrived unbreakable. Suffering, for the purpose of growing up, by design includes broken relationships. But that is not a transition of covenants travailing and it is not a broken new covenant relationship. It is a growing up in the family of God suffering or it’s a growing up outside the family of God suffering. Romans 8:20-28 is specifically addressing the transition of covenants suffering. The new sonship was from the redemption of the old broken sonship. Salvation went to the Jews first because they were the old covenant sonship that was being saved by the resurrected firstborn. Then the other nations joined that made new sonship. The other nations are included in the “all creation”. “we” is Paul and the 12 tribes. The sonship that was Adamic became Christian. There is only one sonship and it was about to be revealed.

Romans 8:20-28

ECB ²⁰ For the creature subjugated to vanity – not voluntarily but through him who subjugated in hope, ²¹ so that the creature itself also liberates from the servitude of corruption into the liberty of the glory of the children of Elohim. ²² For we know that all creation co-sighs and co-travails in pain until now: ²³ and not only they, but we also, who have the firstlings of the Spirit, even we also sigh among ourselves, awaiting the sonship – the redemption of our body. ²⁴ For we are saved by hope: but hope seen is not hope: for why still hope for what one sees? ²⁵ And if we hope for what we see not, thus we, through endurance, await. ²⁶
THE INTERCESSORY MINISTRY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
Likewise the Spirit also co-helps our frailties: for we know not what to pray for according as we must: but the Spirit intercedes exceedingly for us with unutterable sighs. ²⁷ And he who searches the hearts knows the thought of the Spirit, because he intercedes for the holy according to the will of Elohim. ²⁸ And we know that all co-works to good to them who love Elohim, to them being the called according to his prothesis.

Prothesis in English has come to mean an artificial body part. But in Greek it is a representation of something in order to propose God’s intention for the body part it represents, such as the 12 loaves that represented the whole body of Israel or the 2 loaves of Pentecost that represented the Jews and the Gentiles. The 12 tribes and the Gentiles who typically left Egypt to form Israel would ultimately become the one unbreakable body of Christ.

πρόθεσις
prothesis
proth’-es-is
From G4388; a setting forth, that is, (figuratively) proposal (intention); specifically the show bread (in the Temple) as exposed before God

Thayer:

1) a setting forth of a thing, placing of it in view, the shewbread
1a) twelve loaves of wheaten bread, corresponding to the number of the tribes of Israel, which loaves were offered to God every Sabbath, and separated into two rows, lay for seven days upon a table placed in the sanctuary or front portion of the tabernacle, and afterwards of the temple
2) a purpose