Jacob Returns to the Law/Renews the Covenant in the Fullness of Messiah – Chapter 4, Part 4

​This week in our review of Isaiah Decoded we’ll continue with our look at chapter 4 - Jacob/Israel, Believers in a Creator-God. In previous posts, we set out this sequence that we see in chapter 4: Jacob > Returns to the Law > Israel > Keeps the Law > Zion/Jerusalem. So this week, we’ll tackle Returning to the Law. The primary concepts that we should see in this week’s review is that Jacob returns to the law/renews the covenant but as yet, Jacob hasn’t actively implemented the law/covenant in their lives, which what we see occur with Zion/Jerusalem. Moreover, what we’ll see this week is God’s Law/Covenant set in the context of the Fullness of Messiah as we prepare to receive Him when He returns in power and glory.

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​Returning to the Law/Renewing the Covenant
As we saw in the opening paragraph, Dr. Gileadi sets out this sequence in chapter 4 –

Jacob

Renews the Covenant/Returning to the Law ​>

Israel

Keeps the Law ​>

Zion/Jerusalem

“According to Isaiah, “Israel” represents those who have renewed the covenant but who haven’t yet ascended higher. “Jacob” represents those who believe in God but who haven’t yet renewed the covenant.” “…[they] can ascend to the next level (Zion/Jerusalem) by keeping God’s law and word.” – p. 115
 
 
The Covenant/Law in the Fullness of Messiah
One of the important distinctions that we will see in the Endtimes is an integration of the Messiah into Israel’s law code. We can say that because animal sacrifice for personal sin was never the destination for Israel’s sacrificial system - becoming like the Messiah and overcoming sin is that destination – Jeremiah 31:31-34. Moreover, the Messiah said that he was not abolishing the law but to make it full and complete.
 
“Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to [make full].” – Matt 5:17
 
 
Messiah’s Primary Teaching
The primary teaching that we see Yeshua declare was His admonition to be “born again” – John 3. This process of being born again is to transform one’s life to live a higher reality on a more elevated plane.
 
“When we ascend, we are not as we were. We are still ourselves, but we are remade and transformed. When we ascend …, we no longer think and act exactly as before. In that sense, being “born again” means living a higher reality, functioning on a more elevated plane.” – P. 130

Really, our first task in Messiah is to overcome our carnal natures manifested in sin or being transformed from out carnal natures into a state of righteousness. Essentially, this transformation process results in having a new heart and a new spirit so that we can keep the Law, which we see with Ezekiel and Jeremiah - Ezekiel 36:26, Jeremiah 31:33. 
 
 
Being Born Again and the Process of Transformation
When we drill down into Yeshua’s teachings on the process of being born again, what we see are four aspects of rebirth – water, blood, spirit, and a new reality. The scriptures set out this pattern of rebirth –

BORN AGAIN ​(process of transformation)

Born of the Water ​>

Born of the Blood ​>

Born of the Spirit ​>

Born of God

This is Yeshua’s general model of being born again to overcome our carnal natures manifested in sin.
 
 
Covenant Theology and Being Born Again
Another concept that we need to include with the process of being born again are God’s covenants. Covenants and covenant law define our relationships with God. When we integrate the biblical covenants that we see in the Bible, this is what we immerges –

BORN AGAIN ​(process of transformation)

Born of the Water ​>	Born of the Blood ​>	Born of the Spirit ​>	Born of God
​Doctrine of Messiah (faith, repentance, baptism)	​Messianic Covenant (universal sin)	​Abrahamic Covenant Threshold Covenant Priesthood Covenant Sinai Covenant (personal sin)	​Baptism of Fire Baptism of the Holy Spirit (new creation of the Spirit)

We'll go into more detail of being Born Again when we get to chapter 5.

The Covenant/Law in the Fullness of Messiah – Revisited
The final destination of Israel’s law code was never intended to culminate without the integration of Israel’s Messiah. As a steppingstone during mortality, God’s law in the Torah was designed to bring Israel into God’s presence, but this would never be fully accomplished until Yehovah as Yeshua in mortality made the law full and complete. The following table identifies the Messianic elements that we see in the New Testament that would be integrated in with Israel’s law code.

​New Testament Messianic Elements

​Messianic Covenant Yeshua’s Atonement, Death and Resurrection   Priesthood Covenant Melchizedek Priesthood Ex. 19:6, Heb 7, 1 Peter 2:9   Sinai Covenant Pure Hearts – Pure Motives, Desires and Attitudes Bearing One Another’s Burdens Overcomes Personal Sin by Keeping the Law – Animal Sacrifice for Personal Sin Ends Promoting Material Equality   Enochic Covenant Sealing Power/Matt 16:19

Renewing The Covenant
God in the Torah provides a structured protocol for renewing our covenants with Him, which He accomplishes through the “moedim” – appointed times – that we see in Lev. 23. This is how God’s  covenants and Israel’s holy days come together.

​Spring Feasts (Passover, Unleavened Bread, First Fruits)	​Summer Feasts (Shavuot/Pentecost)	​Fall Feasts (Trumpets, Atonement, Tabernacles)
​Messianic Covenant Abrahamic Covenant Threshold Covenant	​Doctrine of Messiah Priesthood Covenant Sinai Covenant	​Davidic Covenant/High Priest Enochic Covenant (Fullness of Abrahamic Covenant)

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Transcript John 3 Video Teaching

Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles which thou doest, except God be with him. Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born? Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit. How can these things be? Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things? Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness. If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall you believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? No man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven. And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. He who believeth on him is not condemned: but he who believeth not on him is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation, that light has come into the world, and men loved darkness more than light, because their deeds are evil. For every one who doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.​