Exodus 34:22

KJV ²² And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year’s end.

There were two yearly harvests: feast of weeks in the spring and feast of ingathering in the fall, but was either one at the end of the Jewish year?

Exodus 12:1-3

CLV ¹ Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying. ² This month [Nisan] shall be for you the beginning of months. It shall be the first for you of the months of the year. ³ Speak to the whole congregation of the sons of Israel, saying: On the tenth of this month [Nisan] they shall take for themselves, each man a flockling according to the their fathers’ house, a flockling for each household.

If God clearly told Moses to start the year in Nisan (the month the lamb took the place of the firstborn and the nation was called out) then how can Tishri be called the year’s end after only 6 months? Either they had two new year’s months or it’s a bad translation from the KJV. LITV does a better job of translating this Hebrew word: tek-oo-faw’.

Exodus 34:22

LITV ²² And you shall observe a Feast of Weeks for yourself, the firstfruits of the harvest of wheat; also the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year.

KJV English Translation from the Hebrew Masoretic text –

KJV Exodus 34:22 H6213And thou shalt observe[H8799]H2282the feastH7620of weeksH1061of the firstfruitsH2406of wheat H7105harvestH2282and the feastH614of ingatheringH8141at the year’sH8622end

H8622 – Strong’s Hebrew Lexicon Number

תּקפה – tek-oo-faw’
From H5362; a revolution, that is, (of the sun) course, (of time) lapse

Interlinear from the Hebrew text –

Spring and fall both begin when the days and nights are most equal. They are both turning points in the year. Noah’s year started in the fall turning, but God told Moses to change the new year to the spring turning. If there is any doubt which one was the Jewish new year, the Septuagint uses a Greek word that means middle (of the year). The pre-Christ Jews who wrote the Septuagint replaced the Hebrew word that means turn (of the year) with a Greek word that means middle (of the year). The Hebrew text is often more covert where its Greek counterpart tends to be more overt. The Hebrews used more literary devices and assumed a cultural understanding that allowed the reader to deduce the meaning whereas the Septuagint specifies for the sake of the wider and less Hebrew-cultured audience.

Exodus 34:22

Brenton’s English Translation from the Greek Septuagint text – ²² And thou shalt keep to me the feast of weeks, the beginning of wheat-harvest; and the feast of ingathering in the middle of the year.

The existing Greek Septuagint copies of the Pentateuch pre-date the existing Hebrew Masoretic compilation by over 1000 years. The Septuagint translation reflects how these ancient Greek speaking Jews interpreted the meaning of the more ancient Hebrew text before it was ‘officially’ recompiled. The pre-millennial Greek Jews were undoubtably more familiar with the original Hebrew text than the first millennium post-resurrection Masorites. It was over 1000 years after the Septuagint when the Masoretic text was completed. These ancient pre-resurrection Greek Jews clearly saw Tishri as the middle of the year, over a 1000 years before it was “officially” changed to the beginning of the year. The KJV text wasn’t made until the second millennium, in 1611. The Septuagint Pentateuch was made in early to mid-3rd century B.C., after Nisan had already been the first month of the year since the exodus (13th century B.C.), so the Septuagint rightly continued to designate Tishri as the middle of the year. These Hebrew to Greek translators lived almost 2000 years before the Hebrew to English KJV translators decided to call Tishri the end of the year. The KJV was made almost 3000 years after God told Moses to call Nisan the first month of the year.

ABP English translation from the Greek Septuagint text –

APB Exodus 34:22 G2532AndG1859a holidayG1439.1of a period of sevensG4160you shall observeG1473to me,G746the beginningG2326of the harvestG4447.1of wheat,G2532andG1859a holidayG4864gatheringG3322being in the middleG3588of theG1763year.

G3322 – Strong’s Greek Lexicon Number

μεσόω – mesoō – mes-o’-o

to form the middle, i.e. (in point of time), to be half-way over

So why did the 10th-century anti-Christ ‘Jews’ change their new year’s month back to a pre-exodus calendar 1000 years after the first century Jews were separated into two groups, by the Christ event? Believing Jews joined the (Nisan) regeneration of Christ in their fulfillment of the typical exodus, while unbelieving Jews tried to keep the types in the land. Even so, it was their typical exodus from Egypt in Nisan that first formed them into a flesh and blood nation. The Mosaic calendar simply commemorated the typical birth of their nation by changing the start of the new year from Tishri to Nisan.

It was in fact changed back to the pre-exodus month of Tishri because one religious sect overpowered another religious sect in a 10th century public debate. But the new year, as God would have it, was designated to remember the original creation of Israel. One would think even modern day political ‘Jews’ would want to retain Israel’s national birth month. But as providence would have it, Nisan also commemorates when the new covenant was called out of the old flesh and blood covenant, i.e., Israel’s rebirth month.

The notorious controversy took place between two dominant schools of religious thought. It involved the head of the Babylonian Academy and the head of the Palestinian Academy. In 921 these two self-defined ‘Jews’ started a very public debate regarding the consecration of the Hebrew year 4682. The result became a referendum on which school would become most authoritative for all 12 tribes in ‘old covenant diaspora’. The Babylonian school of thought emerged triumphant. The King James translation reflects their public victory by going along with it.

The Messiah was born and raised when the common language of the Hebrews in diaspora was Greek. The dead Hebrew language was revived some time after the first century Christ event. Hebrew in its many newly spoken forms became part of the many new religious schools of thought of the post-Christ dissidents loosely being called “Jews”.

Obviously the school of Babylonia ‘won’ the debate with a sophisticated word salad rather than with any Biblical authority. The whole Bible points to the first century Jewish messiah who started another new creation (or fulfilled the typical one) with the second exodus of the Jews in the same month of Nisan. The true to the Word Jews were called out of their typical flesh and blood creation into their new covenant creation by the resurrection of their Messiah. His resurrection was in Nisan. That is why we started the calendar year over again.

We might debate the exact year or month of Jesus’ birth or His rebirth, or which one we should commemorate with our calendar, but the concept of a new creation calendar for the called out people of God is still represented by our modern day calendar. Whether the church started a new creation calendar or not was not a matter of obedience. God didn’t actually tell His new covenant Hebrews to do that, like He did with His old covenant Hebrews. If He had, it may have been from either Jesus’ birth month in Tishri or Jesus’ resurrection month in Nisan. I suspect the latter, in which case the first month of the Jewish new year would have remained the first month. God’s people would have continued to celebrate new year’s in the Spring.

Jesus was born as the eschatos Adam in Tishri and born again as the first born of the renewed national body in Nisan. He was the only individual unfallen body in the old covenant. He became the corporate unfallen body in the new covenant. The “Jews” of today date their calendar all the way back to the original formation of the old humanity, both by month and by year. Rosh Hashanah [Tishri] commemorates the birthday of the first two human beings, Adam and Eve. They would rather commemorate Adam with their new year. What happened to the exodus event that gave birth to the Jewish nation or the Jewish Jesus event that fulfilled the promise of the new covenant creation for the Jews?

The unenlightened first century Jews wanted their messiah to remain in their old covenant creation and rule the world with them in flesh and blood. They didn’t want the old man or old covenant put to second death (destroyed). They were taking advantage or their fallen establishment. Some people are still counting on that old notion of ruling-in the millennial jubilee in flesh and blood. The ‘official’ Hebrew calendar year as of 2023 is supposedly 5783. The ‘official’ month when we add another year to that old creation calendar, of Adam or Noah rather than Moses, is Tishri. The post-resurrection (Neo- or Retro-) ‘Jewish calendar’ hasn’t been ‘officially’ altered again since the tenth century; whatever ‘officially’ means. The One with true authority to renew a covenant is seated at the right hand of the Father as their new firstborn. No religious school president can officially overrule God’s Word by rhetorical trickery. The office of The Firstborn is not vacant. The reborn Firstborn who took Adam’s place on the cross even fulfilled Moses and took His people into the promised land.

Colossians 3:9-12

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 [His Tishri birth into the old humanity of Adam was put to death and resurrected into the new humanity in Nisan, so His nation and all the nations could join Him], 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,

In contrast with old covenant flesh and blood humanity, who had corporately rejected Christ as the chosen cornerstone and the head of the regeneration nation, Peter now describes the chosen people of God and the fulfillment of their great commission to the nations. The newly born ones were to offer spiritual sacrifices rather than flesh and blood sacrifices. God’s chosen people were not going to be put to shame. That was the destiny of the unregenerate ones who were persecuting the chosen ones.

1 Peter 2:9, NLT: But you are not like that, for you are a chosen people. You are royal priests, a holy nation, God’s very own possession. As a result, you can show others the goodness of God, for he called you out of the darkness into his wonderful light.

1 Peter 2:9, ESV: But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

1 Peter 2:9, KJV: But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:

1 Peter 2:9, NASB: But you are A CHOSEN PEOPLE, A royal PRIESTHOOD, A HOLY NATION, A PEOPLE FOR GOD’S own possession, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;

Peter uses language that had already been used to describe God’s unique relationship with Israel. As Israel was typically, so they are as the born-again chosen race. Unlike Israel though, the church is no longer just the race of Jews, in the sense of their family ethnicity or their country of origin. They became a spiritual race. In Christ, the born again people of Yahweh share a single spiritual Father. They became a holy nation by the indwelling Holy Spirit. A chosen group of people were called out and set apart and made holy during their transition of covenant creations. The new covenant creation came out of the old covenant creation. The old covenant creation pursued the new to attack them.

1 Peter 1:1-5

ECB ¹
SALUTATION
Petros, an apostle of Yah Shua Messiah: To the pilgrim diaspora throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Biyournia, ² Select according to the prognosis of Elohim the Father, in holiness of Spirit, to obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Yah Shua Messiah: Charism to you and shalom be multiplied. 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 new creation is official. Salvation has been revealed to God’s people. The true Jew Jesus has been reborn into the new covenant as the firstborn of all His creation. The Jews were the first creation to join His calling, not the last. Jews put out His call to join them in the new body, after Peter had a coming – down – from – heaven vision of bringing Gentiles (all creation) into His Jewish body. Salvation came to us from the Jews. Other nations also entered the reborn Jewish body to get saved. God commanded Peter three times to let the other nations into His/his Jewish body. The harvest of the last old covenant season ended before AD 70 ended the old covenant. The covenant transition ended and the new covenant remained. Jesus has held the office of the firstborn in the unfallen human body for over two thousand years now.

He was born in the month of Tishri as son of humanity. He then took Adam’s place in the old covenant death and was resurrected as the new firstborn of the new corporate humanity in Nisan. Then His called out ones joined Him in His recovery of old covenant humanity. The newly covered Jews invited all of the rest of the creation to join them before the old covenant forgiveness ended with their second 490 years. He will never redo the regeneration of His called out people again. There is no ‘3rd exodus’. The preparation for the ‘second exodus’ was the fulfillment of the passover Lamb for His people. Jesus left the old covenant in Nisan. He actually died in the place of the fallen firstborn in the old and was raised into the new in Nisan. Only in Jesus did anyone live to rather than die to the day/age.

Genesis 2:17

YLT ¹⁷ and of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou dost not eat of it, for in the day of thine eating of it—dying thou dost die.’

Genesis 3:22

CLV ²² And saying is Yahweh Elohim, “Behold! The human becomes as one of us, knowing good and evil. And now, lest he stretch forth his hand, moreover, and take of the tree of the living, and eat and live for the eon–!

Jesus would have to die in His new covenant to resurrect another dead firstborn of another born-again humanity. If He took on a flesh and blood body to fulfill and end the types, then why would He come again to re-enter or even restore the types? He returned to complete the types alive, not restart them. The salvation of the typical people of God by definition was not typical. It was in the “air”. Adam could have lived a typical life to the age of 1000 on the land. Adam needed to have Spirit to spirt life to the age not just biological life. Adam would have died dead at 1000 had he not been put to repose. The Holy Spirit continued the resurrection to salvation in the “air” at Pentecost. It was the destruction of the types that was visibly seen in the typical land in AD 70. Corporate rebirth and corporate consummation both arrived in the “air”.

The body of Christ never fell. How could a new-new covenant render the anti-typical body of Christ obsolete? The new Jewish covenant doesn’t need redeemed. The new firstborn already lived to the typical age and already granted life to the age. God’s people are like the angels. Their new body is eternal in the realm of heaven. First birth bodies will always be mortal bodies. You must be born again to enter the kingdom of God. Of course Nicodemus was stuck on his flesh and blood body.

CLV ¹ Now there was a man of the Pharisees, Nicodemus his name, a chief of the Jews.” ² This one came to Him by night and said to Him, “Rabbi, we are aware that Thou art a Teacher come from God, for no one can be doing these signs which Thou art doing, if God should not be with Him.” ³ Jesus answered and said to him, “Verily, verily, I am saying to you, If anyone should not be begotten anew, he can not perceive the kingdom of God.” ⁴ Nicodemus is saying to him, “How can a man, being a veteran, be begotten? He can not be entering into the womb of his mother a second time and be begotten!” ⁵ Jesus answered, “Verily, verily, I am saying to you, If anyone should not be begotten of water and of spirit, he can not be entering into the kingdom of God.” ⁶ That which is begotten by the flesh is flesh, and that which is begotten by the spirit is spirit.”

Jesus was given a flesh and blood body by the Father begetting Him by the Holy Spirit in Mary. He is the only one who didn’t need born again. His flesh and blood body would have sinlessly lived to the age of 70 years to fulfill the millennial jubilee. He alone would not miss the mark.

When Marry’s water broke, Jesus was born into the old covenant land. His body was already begotten by the Holy Spirit before He was born out of water. He was born of both water and Spirit the first time He was born. Jesus didn’t need to be born again by the Holy Spirit. He laid down His perfectly good soul for the sake of His brethren. The same Holy Spirit that gave Him His first birth into the old covenant body resurrected Him into the new covenant, where His brethren could join Him to the age, in His Holy Spirit rebirth. When Jesus turned 70 in Tishri, the called out people of God all fulfilled the age together in the new covenant body of Christ, i.e., the church. They joined the body with the immortal living soul.

Romans 8:11

ECB ¹¹ But if the Spirit of him who raised Yah Shua from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Messiah from the dead also enlivens your mortal bodies through his Spirit dwelling in you.

The national rebirth by the Holy Spirit started with a single (unmarried) individual. Jesus took 40 years to fulfill the typical flesh and blood regeneration by way of His Holy Spirit regeneration. If He died on the cross at 33.5 years of age then His 3.5 years of Holy Spirit ministry to His people in the old covenant were taken into account as part of the 40-year Holy Spirit regeneration of the nation. The Holy Spirit was at work in Jesus’ 3.5 year ministry to His brethren. The rebirth of that generation concluded when He was 70 years of age. 70 – 30 = 40.

Jesus was calling His people out of the worst generation ever. We could call them degenerates. He was regenerating them by way of the Holy Spirit rebirth before they forever ceased to exist. Can you think of something worse we can do now than that evil generation did? How will a more evil generation ever exist? Besides that, we are no longer in a flesh and blood old covenant body. Jesus died to put that body to death for good. Our inheritance is kept incorruptible in heaven.

Every individual follower of the messiah was being called out of the firstborn flesh and blood nation. Every individual was called to pick up their own cross and follow Jesus out. The cross may have represented the post and lentil from their old covenant house. As passover lamb, Jesus covered the post and lintel of the cross with His own blood. He symbolically asked His followers to carry their cross (house) out of Jerusalem and join Him in putting the firstborn humanity to death. He was saving the firstborn by taking his place and creating a new house of God, where the fallen firstborn nation could join Him in the resurrection of the firstborn.

In the second exodus, the Jews were not saving their old covenant houses. Jerusalem was inevitably going to be destroyed. Jesus came to divide families between believers and unbelievers. Believing Jews were to carry their post out of the city as Jesus did in order to actually put the firstborn to death rather than save him. It was the resurrection of the dead firstborn that would save their national inheritance. No more postponing the death of firstborn humanity with animal sacrifice. The 1000-year time frame was at hand. The deadline was imminent.

Of course Jesus really did die in Adam’s place and the Jews were symbolically being called to join Him on the cross; mostly symbolic. Some Jews actually did die on a cross. Just as we know today that our baptisms don’t actually put our old man to death as Jesus really did for us in His second baptism. His first baptism confirmed that Jesus was the obedient Adam who was worthy of life to the age. The soul of the firstborn nation was saved by being put to death and resurrected into the new and unfallen humanity.

Matthew 16:21-28

ECB ²¹
YAH SHUA PROPHESIES HIS DEATH AND RESURRECTION
From then Yah Shua begins to show his disciples how he must go to Yeru Shalem; and suffer much from the elders and archpriests and scribes – slaughtered and rise again the third day. ²² And Petros takes him and begins to rebuke him, wording, Kapur/Atone to you, Adonay: this never no way becomes you. ²³ And he turns to Petros, saying, Go you behind me, Satan! You are a scandal to me: for you mind not those of Elohim but those of humanity. ²⁴ Then Yah Shua says to his disciples, If anyone wills to come after me, he is to utterly deny himself, and take his stake [post] and follow me. ²⁵
LOSE THE SOUL TO FIND THE SOUL
For whoever wills to save his soul, loses it: and whoever loses his soul for my sake, finds it: ²⁶ for what is a human benefited whenever he gains the whole cosmos and loses his own soul? Or what gives a human in exchange for his soul? ²⁷ For the Son of humanity comes in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he gives each according to his acts. ²⁸ Amen! I word to you, Some standing here never no way taste death until they see the Son of humanity coming in his sovereigndom.

Jesus died in the old covenant in the middle (turn) of the week. He was then resurrected by the Holy Spirit to the 7th day. He sent the Holy Spirit to engage the Jews in the realm of the rebirth. Jesus compared that realm to the air when answering Nicodemus. Jesus returned in the realm of the reborn body (air) to marry His (40-year) regenerated up-covenanted people. He returned in the middle (turn) of the year [Tishri] to complete His salvation with His final 7-day feast of tabernacles. The 8th day of tabernacles typically put the feasts to rest until the spring turning of the year resumed the 7 typical feasts. On the last day of that last feast at the fall turning of the year the feasts were permanently put to rest. They did not resume rehearsals again in the spring; not even 70 years later, as they did after their first national death. Jesus’ 70 years fulfilled the shortfall of the second 490 years in the land as well as Adam’s 70-year shortfall (purposeful delay). Jesus called His people into His fulfillment of humanity’s 1000-year jubilee. He reined in the the second death of types as He reigned in life – to the age. His people were sabbatized as He put their types to rest. Adam was an earthy type of the One about-to-be firstborn husbandman of humanity, in heaven and on earth; joined in the air. Embodied in the spirit realm.

Leviticus 23:39

CLV ³⁹ On the fifteenth day of the seventh month [Tishri] after you have gathered the yield of the land, you shall celebrate the celebration of Yahweh for seven days. On the first day there is a cessation and on the eighth day a cessation [also reflected in the new creation on Jesus’ 8th day of the ‘passion’ week, the 8th sabbath of Pentecost, the 8th sabbatical of Jubilee and 8th day circumcision = a new creation no longer in the flesh].

Exodus 23:16 is another problem translation that often renders the middle of the year as the end of the year. In Exodus 23:16, the word “exodus” is usually translated as the “end” of the year rather than the going forth of the year. Why don’t we call the book of Exodus itself the End rather than the Going Forth of God’s people? If anything we would call it the Turning Point or the New Beginning. What was ending in the exodus was the slavery to Egypt.

After the completion of the second harvest, came the completion of the seven feasts. It was not the end. The year actually went forth for another six months before the annual cycle was repeated. Both Jesus and Peter spoke of their “exodus”. Jesus’ exodus was in the middle of His last old covenant work week. It was not the end of the week. It was the going forth of humanity from the old creation into the new. The completion of the passion week resulted in a new beginning.

Exodus 23:16

KJV ¹⁶ And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labors, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end [exodus] of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labors out of the field.

Exodus 23:16

CLV ¹⁶ also observe the celebration of the harvest of the firstfruits of your yields from what you are sowing in the field: and observe the celebration of ingathering at the going forth [exodus] of the year, when you gather your yields from the field.

The year did not end after they gathered their works out of the field. They had stored up enough to eat until the next harvest. If their animal sacrifices postponed the death again, they could enjoy life and keep working the rest of the year because of their work to the middle of the year. The 8th day of Tabernacles fulfilled is now the never ending Day of the Lord.

Luke 9:31

YLT ³¹ who having appeared in glory, spake of his outgoing [exodus] that he was about to fulfill in Jerusalem,

LSJ Gloss: ἔξοδος – exodos – ex’-od-os – going out, promoting the passage

Jesus’ outgoing on the cross did not end Israel. It was His fulfillment of their Spring feast that enabled the Hebrews to enter the remaining sabbatism, on the final day of their Fall feast.

Hebrews 11:22

CLV ²² By faith Joseph, at his decease, remembers concerning the exodus of the sons of Israel, and gives directions concerning his bones.”

The first exodus was not the end of Israel. The first exodus was in fact the typical flesh and blood creation of Israel. God’s called out ones also left ‘Egypt’ in the fulfillment exodus. As God’s timing would have it, the old covenant had become the place of slavery that they couldn’t escape from without the actual death of the firstborn. Jesus’ calling of His people out from under the enslavement to the law of the death is sometimes called a second exodus or a fulfillment of the typical exodus. Following Jesus out of old covenant Jerusalem was not the end of God’s chosen people. It was God’s chosen people who actually ‘went forth’ into the new creation. It was when the old covenant turned into the new covenant by the actual death and resurrection of the firstborn. The sacrificial delays eventually ended. The final sacrifice put an end to the postponed death of the firstborn. Replacing the firstborn with an animal every year was just a delay tactic that was only good for their day, which turned out to be 1000 years.

Matthew 18:21-22

ECB ²¹
THE PARABLE ON FORGIVENESS
Then Petros comes to him, saying, Adonay, how often sins my brother to me, and I forgive him? Until seven times? ²² Yah Shua words to him, I word not to you, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven.

2 Peter 1:15

CLV ¹⁵ Yet I shall endeavor to have you, after my exodus [sometimes translated figuratively as death], to make mention of these things, ever and anon, also.”

Sabbath years started in the middle of the calendar year after the work of the two harvests were over. Sabbath years overlapped the old creation calendar with the new creation calendar. Sabbaticals were re-creation years. The Noahic year overlapped into the first Mosaic year in the typical transition to the new Mosaic creation, at the typical exodus of Israel. Until the progeny of Israel left Egypt, they used Noah’s calendar. That changed in the middle of their last Noah year. They revisited and renewed that creation as a nation every 7 years. The sabbaticals and the feasts were rehearsals for the final renewal exodus. They were remembrances of their going forth. The final renewal was of course their 1000-year jubilee.

The two 500-year golden anniversaries both ended in a typical destruction. But before the second death of the nation, the old covenant overlapped into the new covenant, in the final going forth, into the permanent new creation transition. The new covenant is no longer rehearsing for the final renewal because it is forever new now. I don’t think God is going to make another new covenant that makes the new covenant old and obsolete. When you buy a better tool for your workshop, the old one doesn’t get used again, because the new one that is better made it obsolete, by the very creation of the better one. You might allow the inferior one to take up space in your shop for a while before it finally gets discarded.

Hebrews 8:13

CLV ¹³ In saying “new, He has made the former old. Now that which is growing old and decrepit is near its disappearance.”

Hebrews 8

YLT ¹ And the sum concerning the things spoken of is : we have such a chief priest, who did sit down at the right hand of the throne of the greatness in the heavens, ² of the holy places a servant, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord did set up, and not man, ³ for every chief priest to offer both gifts and sacrifices is appointed, whence it is necessary for this one to have also something that he may offer; ⁴ for if, indeed, he were upon earth, he would not be a priest—(there being the priests who are offering according to the law, the gifts, ⁵ who unto an example and shadow do serve of the heavenly things, as Moses hath been divinely warned, being about to construct the tabernacle, for `See (saith He) thou mayest make all things according to the pattern that was shown to thee in the mount;’) —
<sup>6</sup> and now he hath obtained a more excellent service, how much also of a better covenant is he mediator, which on better promises hath been sanctioned, <sup>7</sup> for if that first were faultless, a place would not have been sought for a second. <sup>8</sup> For finding fault, He saith to them, `Lo, days come, saith the Lord, and I will complete with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah, a new covenant, ⁹ not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers, in the day of My taking them by their hand, to bring them out of the land of Egypt—because they did not remain in My covenant, and I did not regard them, saith the Lord, — ¹⁰ because this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel, after those days, saith the Lord, giving My laws into their mind, and upon their hearts I will write them, and I will be to them for a God, and they shall be to Me for a people; ¹¹ and they shall not teach each his neighbor, and each his brother, saying, Know thou the Lord, because they shall all know Me from the small one of them unto the great one of them, ¹² because I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawlessnesses I will remember no more;’ — ¹³ in the saying `new,’ He hath made the first old, and what doth become obsolete and is old is nigh disappearing.

The old covenant ended with the destruction of Jerusalem in the middle (going forth) of the typical Mosaic year. Jesus 70 years put the typical covenant renewals to rest after calling the chosen ones into His 1000-year jubilee. He took them to the age alive in His renewed covenant. The head of humanity rules His family from heaven, which is also on earth in the Spirit/spirit realm. The place He prepared for His people came down to earth In Tishri to fulfill the 8th day sabbatism of Tabernacles. Tabernacles started in the middle of the 7th month.

The typical booths were made of four species of trees, symbolic of all the nations of all the creation that the Hebrews were originally called out of. In Nisan, all the foreigners in the land were invited to Jerusalem to celebrate. The humanity of the 12 tribes was dispersed back into all God’s creation to prepare all the nations to be God’s permanent tabernacle. Salvation went to the Jews first, but they took it to all the nations, before Tabernacles was finally fulfilled. Today God’s Spirit indwells all of creation, no matter what nationality or location, because the second birth (regeneration) is in the realm of heaven. Life in heaven overrules the physics of the temporary earthly life. The fulfillment of the 40 years of wilderness wondering was by way of Jesus’ 40 years: from 30 years of age to 70 years of age. The Holy Spirit empowered Jesus’ transition ministry. Overcoming physical location in the spirit realm means there is no new covenant diaspora of the body of God’s called out ones. And there is no old covenant.

John 1:14

YLT ¹⁴ And the Word became flesh, and did tabernacle among us, and we beheld his glory, glory as of an only begotten of a father, full of grace and truth.

Tabernacles was a typical celebration of God’s presence. During the 40 years in the wilderness, God dwelt in a tabernacle of His own, among His people. Immanuel means God with us. We clearly see Jesus’ name Immanuel as the fulfillment of the Feast of Tabernacles. Jesus fulfilled all the types with His 40 years and with His 70 years. Perhaps Jesus was born on the first day of Tabernacles and circumcised on the eighth. Jesus started His public ministry when He was about 30.

Matthew 1:22-23

YLT ²² And all this hath come to pass, that it may be fulfilled that was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, ²³ `Lo, the virgin shall conceive, and she shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel,’ which is, being interpreted `With us he is God.’

The eighth day of Tabernacles was the final sabbatism that remained for the people of God when Hebrews 4:9 was written to the Hebrews in their old covenant diaspora. What Joshua couldn’t actually do in the typical promised land (after the 40 years of the regeneration of the nation), Jesus did for the church in the heavenly promised land (after His 40 years of rebirth). Earthly location became irrelevant for the final sabbatism of the new covenant people of God in the completion of their transition. The destruction of the typical or earthly Jerusalem did mean the end for the unregenerate old covenant hold outs who couldn’t see or enter the kingdom that was at hand. They didn’t go forth into the new creation because they rejected the final sacrifice. Old covenant sacrifices were rejected by God after the second 490 years in the land. They could no longer delay their death for another year with an animal substitute. Old covenant forgiveness in type ended with the second 490.

Deuteronomy 31:10-13

CLV ¹⁰ And Moses instructed them saying: At the end of seven years, at the appointment of the year of release, at the celebration of booths, ¹¹ when all Israel comes to appear before Yahweh your Elohim in the place that He shall choose, you shall read this law in front of all Israel in their ears. ¹² Assemble the people, the men, the women, the little ones and your sojourner who is within your gates, that they may hear and that they may learn: they must fear Yahweh your Elohim and must observe to keep all the words of this law. ¹³ And their sons, who have not known it, they shall hear; they too must learn to fear Yahweh your Elohim all the days that you are alive on the ground where you are crossing over the Jordan to tenant it.

The 8th day of tabernacles annually put the 7 feasts to rest at the end of the second harvest, which was in the middle of the year or the going forth of the calendar year. Joshua first read the law to everyone during Tabernacles, which was after the two battles of Jericho and Ai. After that initial (first year) sabbatism by Joshua, a priest had to read the law, according to that law that Joshua read to them. Joshua could only read it in God’s original sabbatism of the land. (This was all reversed when Jesus became the permanent high priest who sent the Holy Spirit to write the law on the heart at the betrothal of the nation in preparation for the marriage.) Typically, the law of the land had not yet been given to the land. Those born in the wilderness first needed to be lawed or legalized before they knew to keep the law of the land. They started counting to 7 years after the initial year was sabbatized.

Joshua 8:34

LITV ³⁴ And afterward he [Joshua] read all the words of the law, the blessing and the curse, according to all that was written in the book of the law.

The eighth day of Tabernacles was the annual sabbatism of the 7 feasts. The first year in the land actually became a sabbath year, after Joshua read the law to those born in the wilderness. Then they knew to start counting to the seventh year. They started counting in Nisan of the following year. They were initially established with a God-given recreation sabbath. They re-counted God’s original sabbatism every 7th year, as another 8th-year of rest and re-creation. They recounted the first year every 49th year as a 50-year reset. The 1000-year sabbatical fulfilled the whole day/age. The first counted-to 7th year was actually the 8th year in the land and the first counted-to 49th year was actually the 50th year in the land. It was the first year that was perpetually recounted, until it became the final and never-ending sabbatism of God to the Hebrews of Hebrews 4:9.

Like Ezekiel’s vision, the 4 walls of the tabernacles were constructed with 4 different species. In the wilderness, the tabernacle roof was made of animal skins. Jesus became the final sacrifice who removed the animal coverings and opened heaven for His people. He sacrificed His old covenant humanity to make one final and everlasting renewal for the people. In the wilderness and in the land, the Hebrews faced the nations in every horizontal direction. In the land, the nations were all invited to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles with them, as a foreshadowing of the messianic age. One of the names of Tabernacles today is “The Festival of the Nations”. Strangely enough, Christians today still travel to Jerusalem to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles with Israel in a supposed foreshadowing to the Messianic age. The new covenant tabernacle with God is no longer located in a certain land or a wilderness. When Jewish Stephen looked up to heaven, he didn’t see animal skins. He saw the Son of man. He saw humanity fully embodied in the most Holy place. Heaven was opened because Jesus stood at the right hand of the father to intercede for His people.

Acts 7:56

YLT ⁵⁶ and he said, `Lo, I see the heavens having been opened, and the Son of Man standing on the right hand of God.’

The Feast of Tabernacles was the final sabbatism to be fulfilled by the Jewish Messiah. It no longer needs repeated or rehearsed every year. Salvation arrived.

Hebrews 4:8-9

ECB ⁸ For if Yah Shua [Joshua] had shabbathized them, then he had not ever after have spoken about another day. ⁹ So a shabbatism remains to the people of Elohim.

The final shabbatism was the completion of the age by the messiah, for both Adam and Israel. The two first-borns of humanity were telos-ed: in the new covenant firstborn. Christ and the born again Hebrews were the first to be born again as the first fruit (singular). Gentiles became part of the first fruit (singular) during the transition. The first born of the new covenant came from the first century; both Jesus and His church are called first fruit (singular). They were born again during the transition of covenants. That was a one time event. It was the telos of the age. ECB sees the Greek word “telos” (fulfillment, completion, goal or aim) as the Hebrew word “shalom” (peace, harmony, wholeness, completeness).

Romans 6:22-23

ECB ²² And now, being liberated from sin and being subservient to Elohim, you have your fruit to holiness and the completion/shalom – eternal life [αἰώνιος]. ²³ For the wages of the sin is death; but the charisma of Elohim is eternal life [αἰώνιος] in Yah Shua Messiah our Adonay.

LSJ Gloss: αἰώνιος

lasting for an age

Dodson: αἰώνιος – eternal, unending age-long, and therefore: practically eternal,

So which is it? A day/age is not practically eternal because it is 1000 typical years. An age by definition has a beginning and an end. The age was the goal that resulted in eternal life if you arrived unfallen. That was the mark they didn’t want to miss. It was the ultimate blessing. Doesn’t that make more sense? When Paul wrote Romans, salvation was nearer than when they first believed, for both Jews and Gentiles. The transition harvest was almost complete. The new covenant church was almost the fully formed and sabbatized humanity.

Romans 6:13

YLT ¹³ neither present ye your members instruments of unrighteousness to the sin, but present yourselves to God as living out of the dead, and your members instruments of righteousness to God;

Romans 13:11

YLT ¹¹ And this, knowing the time, that for us, the hour already is to be aroused out of sleep, for now nearer is our salvation than when we did believe;

Romans 6:6

ECB ⁶ Knowing this, that our old humanity is co-staked to inactivate the body of sin so that we no longer serve sin.

By being born a second time today means we are saved from ceasing to exist when our flesh and blood body dies. The old covenant body was abolished. New covenant life is given to us while we are in or mortal bodies, but we are not being saved from the second death of the old covenant, at it’s 1000-year age. We no longer arrive to the age to inherit salvation from Christ. The old covenant first borns were Adam and Israel. They are no longer in the old covenant. We are born again into the eternal family that already arrived to the age alive. The new covenant firstfruit is Christ and His born again first century church. The covenant transition harvest is over. New covenant people of God are no longer waiting for their salvation to fully arrive. Eternal life is still given to us in our mortal bodies when we are born again, because the church was given an immortal body when it arrived alive in Christ.

Romans 8:10-11

CLV ¹⁰ Now if Christ is in you, the body, indeed, is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is life because of righteousness.” ¹¹ Now if the spirit of Him Who rouses Jesus from among the dead is making its home in you, He Who rouses Christ Jesus from among the dead will also be vivifying your mortal bodies because of His spirit making its home in you.”

Either the Holy Spirit gave them life to the age (immortality) while they were still in their mortal bodies or the Holy Spirit will reassemble their mortal bodies and grant immortality sometime in the future. Jesus evidently appeared to His disciples in His preserved mortal body. It did not start to decay the moment He died. He was not re-assembled for His physical new covenant appearance. Everyone else’s body of flesh and blood sees corruption. His was the incorruptible old covenant humanity sacrifice.

1 Corinthians 15:50-58

YLT ⁵⁰ And this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood the reign of God is not able to inherit, nor doth the corruption inherit the incorruption; ⁵¹ lo, I tell you a secret; we indeed shall not all sleep, and we all shall be changed; ⁵² in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, in the last trumpet, for it shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we—we shall be changed: ⁵³ for it behoveth this corruptible to put on incorruption, and this mortal to put on immortality; ⁵⁴ and when this corruptible may have put on incorruption, and this mortal may have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the word that hath been written, `The Death was swallowed up—to victory; ⁵⁵ where, O Death, thy sting? where, O Hades, thy victory?’ ⁵⁶ and the sting of the death is the sin, and the power of the sin the law; ⁵⁷ and to God—thanks, to Him who is giving us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ; ⁵⁸ so that, my brethren beloved, become ye stedfast, unmovable, abounding in the work of the Lord at all times, knowing that your labour is not vain in the Lord.

If the old covenant no longer exists then the power of the law no longer brings covenant death. It brought the death to Adam who broke the law of the garden and to Israel who broke the law of Moses. Permanent covenant death finally came to those who remained under law. Jesus was resurrected to intercede for the true people of God. He fulfilled the law for His people. The law (and the temporary animal sacrifices) was the old covenant mediator. Jesus’ old covenant sacrifice and new covenant intercession removed the power of the law over His people. He rescued His people from the second death of the old covenant before it arrived.

1 Peter 1:4

CLV ⁴ for the enjoyment of an allotment incorruptible and undefiled and unfading, kept in the heavens for you,

Salvation is here; not near. The transition harvest took the unfallen family of God to the age. We can rest in the work of Christ. We can do our best work in Him, without the ultimate fear of sure failure in Adam or in Moses. The sabbatism that remained for the people of God was the completion of salvation that had neared in the first century. It was the fulfillment of the 1000-year Jubilee sabbatical of the Jews. Salvation is of the Jews. Thanks to the faithful Jew who made more faithful Jews, who then completed the turning of the covenants harvest, along with the born again Gentiles.

Romans 8:15-19

CLV ¹⁵ For you did not get slavery’s spirit to fear again, but you got the spirit of sonship, in which we are crying, “Abba, Father!” ¹⁶ The spirit itself is testifying together with our spirit that we are children of God. ¹⁷ Yet if children, enjoyers also of an allotment, enjoyers, indeed, of an allotment from God, yet joint enjoyers of Christ’s allotment, if so be that we are suffering together, that we should be glorified together also.” ¹⁸ For I am reckoning that the sufferings of the current era do not deserve the glory about to be revealed for us. ¹⁹ For the premonition of the creation is awaiting the unveiling of the sons of God.

The father of the old covenant leadership was an unholy spirit that promoted fear and slavery. Jesus said their father was the devil. The devil wasn’t omnipresent but his spirit was ‘contagious’ under law. He tempted Adam and Eve to fall into fear and slavery. The Father of the new covenant is the Holy Spirit of God. Only Jesus was begotten by the Holy Spirit as an old covenant person. Everyone else born of the Holy Spirit became a new covenant person.

Romans 8:15-19

ECB ¹⁵
THE SPIRIT OF SONSHIP
For you take not the spirit of servitude [the law of Moses] again to awe [fear]; but you take the Spirit of sonship [the law of Christ], wherein we cry, Abba, Father. ¹⁶ The self-same Spirit co-witnesses with our spirit, that we are the children of Elohim: ¹⁷ and if children, then heirs – heirs of Elohim – and indeed co-heirs with Messiah; whenever we co-suffer to also co-glorify. ¹⁸ For I reckon that the sufferings of this present season are not worthy of the glory about to be unveiled ^* in us. ^{*verb of Revelation 19} For the intense anticipation of the creature [creation] awaits the apocalypse [unveiling] of the sons of Elohim.

The old covenant of death under Torah ended. The new covenant sonship of Christ is never ending life. Become a child of God by being born again into the eternal family of God. He won’t return you to the law mediated by Moses. That mediation brought the judgement of old covenant death to everyone in the old covenant; holy and righteous as it was. The new covenant mediation brings life to everyone in it, because Jesus laid down His perfectly good old covenant life for His called out people: past, present and future.