Kingdom Come

A covenant remains intact even if one of the parties breaches it. We simply can’t understand the terms of the new covenant without tracking it back to the original.. Every reference to a “new” covenant is a new condition to the original covenant upholding the original covenant by the stronger party of the covenant despite the failure of the weaker party.

God’s foundational covenant with humanity is the transfer of his power and authority to humanity.

“Let us make man in our image and let them have dominion”. (Genesis 1:26)

This is the Singularity enforcing a new reality, exactly as stated in “Let…” throughout Creation and thereafter. The circumstances are out of our control.

Clearly, the only way this could possibly work is for humanity to draw on the source of power and authority of the Singularity over Creation. We get into trouble when we disconnect from God. That is sin / self-destruction – rejecting God’s authority and power in our lives.

“And the LORD God commanded the man / made a law, saying…of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it:

In other words – do not break away to independence! Follow God’s determination of what is good and what is evil.

for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die [become separated from the Source of life].” (Genesis 2:16-17)

This is not some arbitrary wrath of God. This is a law of nature over which mankind was put in charge, and therefore mankind has to deal with it. All around us we see the consequences of death spreading from human – not only failure, but simply inability and lack of resources – to nurture life.

But it is simply human nature to take charge ourselves. This totally makes sense when we recognize that’s how God designed us – to have dominion.

“every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.” (James 1:14-15)

Throughout all history, the Creator has supported humanity’s failure to meet its covenantal responsibilities to take dominion.

1. “For he testifieth, Thou [Adam] art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
2. For there is verily a disannulling of the [singular] commandment going before
   • for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof.
   • For the [singular] law made nothing perfect.” (Hebrews 7:17-18)

The commandment / law that was changed, even disannulled, is a Melchizedekian law that goes back to the first man granted dominion – Adam – and his reappearance in his genetic offspring, in particular as the Seed of Adam’s clone, the Wo-man.

The singular commandment is a factual statement, but weak and unprofitable for humans.

1. Don’t eat the fruit
2. They ate the fruit.

This is because humans are simply unable to synchronize two dichotomies –

1. taking charge
2. and doing the Father’s will.

Therefore God supported the weak human party to the covenant by “the bringing in of a better hope did [make perfect]; by the which we draw nigh unto God…that said unto him [the one granted dominion], The LORD sware and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec…(Hebrews 7:19-21)

When the violation of the first law, like a trip wire, triggered the death knell throughout creation, merciful Creator God added a clause to the original covenant – transferring death “in the day” the Adams sinned to animals under their charge.

“And Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden. And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou? And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked / vulnerable, i.e lost some kind of hyper dimensional covering exposing his newly corrupted mortal state and I hid myself…Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God [kill animals to] make coats of skins…” (Genesis 3:8-10, 21)

YHVH allowed the use of certain animal’s blood which carries the life force given by the Creator to the original parents down through the maternal mitochondria, just like the Woman to her Seed.

“Every moving thing that liveth shall be [maintenance] meat [to replace your degenerating bodies] for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things. But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat…”

“For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls…” (Genesis 9:3-4, Leviticus 17:11)

The exchange of life for life should come as a logical observation, not as a spiritual mandate. We know that humans must sacrifice another life in order to maintain human life. Having our meat cut up into unrecognizable shapes and wrapped in plastic allows us to overlook that fact, but it’s still a fact nonetheless.

• “And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain [Hey, I’ve got a better idea!] brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD.
• And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof.

And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering: But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect.” (Genesis 3-4)

But animal life only provides temporary reprieve from death. God added another clause to the original covenant to support the failed Adams when he made a form of eternal life possible through natality, and promised that a future human would destroy the Adversary and the death that he represents, and restore the permanent connection Sons of God require with the LORD God Father in order to have dominion per the covenant.

“her seed; it shall bruise / smash thy head,” (Genesis 3:15)

Adam’s genetic and epigentic and chosen successor Melchizedeks / Priest-Kings such as Enoch, Noah and Shem continued the role Adam carried out with his wife, interfacing between sinful humanity and Holy God.

After the Flood, the LORD simply noted the fact that the single mass of humanity had fragmented into nations when he confirmed the original covenant with all of humanity to Abram as “the father / Melchizedek of many nations“.

Likewise, when the LORD expanded the Melchizedekian priesthood from one individual Isra-el / Prince of El to his nation Israel, the original covenant remained intact. After all, Adam was never the only intended target of the covenant giving dominion to humanity!

• “if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my [already existing!] covenant,
• then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:
  • And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation.” (Exodus 19:5-6)

Moses simply continued, perhaps reinstated and certainly elaborated on the Melchizedekian law, but he most certainly didn’t initiate it.

For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people, Saying, This is the blood of the [already existing] testament which God hath enjoined unto you [since the Adams first sinned]…without shedding of blood is no remission.” (Hebrews 9:19-22)

When the LORD added specifics – such as defining King David’s heir as the Seed of the Woman – this did not alter the original covenant.

As a “priest forever after the order of Melchisedec” Like Adam, when King David sinned against God’s law, like Adam he was justified despite his crimes because he did not depart from God’s judgments and statutes when he

1. acknowledged their existence and justice,
2. confessed that he had broken them,
3. repented
4. and accepted God’s justice in transferring his punishment of death to an innocent party.

• “And Nathan said to David…Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight?…
  • And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against the LORD.
• And Nathan said unto David, The Lord also hath put away thy sin; thou shalt not die. Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the LORD to blaspheme, the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die [recognize a seed of the woman?]…
  • And [instead of rejecting the woman whose relationship brought him shame, after the death of their first son] David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in unto her, and lay with her: and she bare a son, and he called his name Solomon: and the LORD loved him.” (II Samuel 12)

Since the sin nature is the problem, the key intervention by Party A is to get rid of Party B’s sin. This is another occasion of the stronger party supporting the failing party in the original covenant of dominion.

“your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear…the Redeemer shall come…unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD…the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob…

As for me this is my covenant with them, saith the LORD; My spirit that is upon thee…shall not depart…from henceforth and for ever.” (Isaiah 59)

So when the LORD made yet another “new” covenant, this also did not alter or cancel the original covenant and their addendums, which remain intact. 

“Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah…Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, 

The “new” covenant is clearly stated to empower Israel to meet their terms of the covenant, which is to obey God’s voice and keep his commandments in order to be a kingdom of priests and an holy nation.

• “I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts / deepest desires & drives;
• and will be their God / Source of Life and All Power,
• and they shall be my people…they shall all know me / be united with me
• for I will forgive / suffer the consequences myself of their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more…
• I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake…” (Jeremiah 31:31-34, Isaiah 43:25)

YHVH’s vow to permanently indwell and empower the people of Israel to obey laws clearly establishes that the humans’ responsibility in the covenant is to obey the laws!

“For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.  O wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the body of this death?  I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord.” (Romans 7:22-25)

This is not legalism, a demand to follow a list of dos and don’ts in order to be righteous. Biblical codes of law were never given to make one righteous. Laws simply clarify which behaviors are harmful to self or society. Even before a law is enacted to impose punishment as a deterrent to certain behaviors – like fines for failure to wear seatbelts – the naturally destructive consequences of those behaviors exist – like injury and death from failing to wear seatbelts. Having laws simply promotes a good life.

“For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.” (Romans 5:13)

Go back to the law “Don’t eat the fruit.” If God hadn’t warned the Adams, they would still have suffered the consequence from eating the toxic substance.

• “…the commandment [don’t eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil] which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.
• For sin [my own desire for self exaltation], taking occasion by the commandment [here’s the first opportunity to demonstrate I don’t need anyone to be the boss of me!], deceived me [using distorted thought processes like denial, rationalization, justification of self], 
• and by it slew me [suicide]. Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.” (Romans 7:10-12)

The great change from the old to the new covenant is

• not giving up the practice of the law,
• but receiving the permanent presence of God’s Spirit empowering the practice of the law.

“These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee: As thou hast given him power over all flesh / DOMINION! that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. And this is life eternal, that they might know [be united with] thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent…Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth…That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us…even as we are one.” (John 17)

Just as marriage vows require more from each partner than engagement promises, so the new covenant of union between God and his people demands greater, not less, commitment to love, honor and obey.

“Thus saith the LORD God; I will…assemble you out of the countries where ye have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel…And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you…That they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them…” ( Ezekiel 11:17-20)

“Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.” (John 6:53-54)

Talk about synchronizing a dichotomy! Cannibalizing human flesh and drinking any kind of blood? How does that fit with the old covenant?

When the letter to the Hebrews states that “the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law” (Hebrews 7:12) we can’t interpret “a change also of the law” to mean the entire Mosaic code was tossed out when Jesus died on the cross.  We certainly don’t believe that the Ten Commandments were discarded.

The same passage clarifies that the law that was changed was the one requiring constant sacrifice of animal lives through their blood.

The new covenant is the once-and-done “death following transgression of the law” requirement of the original covenant, provided by God in support of weak humanity.

“For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance…

For Christ / The Authorized Seed Of The Woman is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us…now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.” (Hebrews 9:13-15)

Salvation from sin, as documented at the beginning of time with first Eve, then Cain, is the power to eliminate destructive forces from our lives.

1. “If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted?
   • and thou shalt rule over him.
2. and if thou doest not well, sin lieth [is always ready to pounce] at the door. 
   • And unto thee shall be his desire” (Gen 4:7)

Becoming free from gluttony, sexual immorality, jealousy, or any of the destructive forces, AKA sins, involves a personal struggle in which the individual applies the supernatural grace and power of God that has been placed at his or her disposal to use, or not, as the individual chooses. Changes are not just zapped into us without any effort on our part. It’s like a drive-through car wash. It’s easy enough to just sit in the car while the machines wash the outside clean, but at some point you have to get out and vacuum the inside yourself.

“Therefore being justified by faith [in God], we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.” (Romans 5:1-2)

This grace wherein we stand is NOT God overlooking our faults. We are deliberately, antisocially oblivious to the ripple effects of damaging behaviors if we choose to believe that a loving Father can just brush off our bad behavior as inconsequential. It is because we love our children that we teach them rules like not running heedlessly into the road or indulging themselves in any self-destructive behavior.

Grace is the insight God gives us to understand the significance of our harmful behaviors and to repent-rethink our values, and the parental support to change our ways and to offer reconciliation with those who we have offended and lost valuable relationships.

Being sanctified, i.e. living righteously, is the reality of salvation. Think about it. A drug addict who goes to church and repents and prays for deliverance from heroin addiction then goes back to his dealer for more smack can excuse his actions on the basis that he is covered by grace, but he’s not saved from the current effects of his sin in this life, is he? What makes you think he is saved from the effects of his sin after death? This addict has to collaborate with God for salvation from heroin addiction by a conversion – a changed heart attitude about the awful effects of heroin on himself and his family, and turning away from his drug crowd and joining a rehab and support group to be successful in maintaining sobriety.

“I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions…be made for all men…For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.

For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the [hu]man Christ Jesus; Who gave himself a ransom for all.” (I Timothy 2:4-6)

If we maintain consistency, reliability, validity with the entire written word of God we recognize that the scripturally precise Apostle Paul is not preaching a new exclusionary religion founded on a man born in 33 AD, but connecting that man to the whole of prophesied scripture.

“the LORD God said unto the serpent…seed [of the human woman] shall bruise / crush thy head / destroy you.” (Genesis 3:14-15)

The man who English speaking peoples call Jesus is YHVH’s promised human agent of salvation. This is more easily recognized when translated back to the original languages:

• Iesous (Greek)
• Yehoshua (Hebrew) = Yhvh is salvation.

Exactly as Paul said – “God our Saviour.”

In an upset to the King James Only Movement, the original 1611 King James Bible spelled all words that now contain a “J” with an “I”, including “Jesus”.

The Hebrew translation of Jesus into Yeho-shua is most easily recognized in comparison with other biblical names compounding YHVH in the ending of the name with a contraction of iah, or fairly recently in the English language, jah, or in the beginning of the name with Yeho or Jeho.

• Abi-jah: My Father is YHVH
• Eli-jah: My God is YHVH
• J/Yerem-iah: Exalted by YHVH
• J/Yeho-ram: YHVH is exalted – note how two names can have the same root words with a twist on the subject of the action
• Isa-iah: Salvation is YHVH – from the roots יָשַׁע(yasha‘) meaning “to save” and יָה (yah)
• J(eh)o-shua: YHVH is Salvation – English form of the Hebrew name יְהוֹשֻׁעַ (Yehoshu’a): from יְהוֹ (yeho and יָשַׁע(yasha‘ meaning “to save“

This directly links the Savior in the New Testament to the saving God of the Old Testament, not only of Israel but of the pre-Israelite ancient patriarchs like Abel and Noah.

• I Am that I Am
  • “Then spake Yahweh’s Savior / Yeshua / Jesus again unto them, saying..if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.
    • Then said they unto him, Who art thou?
  • And Yahweh’s Savior / Yeshua / Jesus saith unto them, Even the same that I said unto you from the beginning [the Son of God John 1:34]…I proceeded forth and came from Theos / God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me…
    • Then said the Jews unto him, Now we know that thou hast a devil. Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and thou sayest, If a man keep my saying, he shall never taste of death. Art thou greater than our father Abraham, which is dead? and the prophets are dead: whom makest thou thyself?…
  • Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I Am.” (John 8:12-58)
• Christ (English) = Xristos (Greek) = Messiah (Hebrew) = the Anointed One, which is to say the Designated, Appointed, Chosen or Consecrated One. This may be best translated into English as “The One Chosen To Save From Sin” promised to the first humans as “the seed of the woman“.

“And thou shalt put them [official garments] upon Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him; and shalt anoint them, and consecrate them, and sanctify them, that they may minister unto me in the priest’s office.” (Exodus 28:40-41)

“Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Yaweh’s Consecrated Savior / Messiah Yeshua / Christ Jesus; Who was faithful to him that chose / appointed him…” (Hebrews 1:1-2)

• Church (English) =  ekklesia (Greek) = qahal (Hebrew) = congregation, convocation, assembly of believers.  This may indicate an Old or New Testament gathering of believers, a local sub-assembly or the total aggregate of all believers from all time.

“This is that Moses, which said unto the children of Israel, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear. This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us.” (Acts 7:37-38)

“But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, And to Yahweh’s Savior / Yeshua / Jesus the mediator of the new covenant.” (Hebrews 23:22-24)