12 Therefore, as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin; and so death passed unto all men, for that all sinned:-- 13 for until the law sin was in the world; but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the likeness of Adam's transgression, who is a figure of him that was to come.
Here in Romans 5:12-14 we see Paul discussing sin entering the "world" through Adam. And yet the 'world' Paul describes is not all the people on Planet Earth but specifically the people from Adam to Moses, ie those living on a small portion of land in the Middle East. To those same People, Yahweh Elohim gave His law (not to other peoples.)
This is the 'world' of the Old and New Testaments. It is the world of Yahweh Elohim's People and latterly in the Old Testament, He came to covenant specifically with the Children of Jacob.
This is the 'world' of John 3:16. Not a global love (wonderful as that would have been had it been true) but a love for His covenanted People. Yahweh Elohim loved (past tense) His People and so He sent Jesus to atone for them once and for all. Those who accepted Him and trusted Him would live forever. Those who didn't, would perish.
That generation's judgement and His coming would mark the end of His covenant with the children of Jacob. The judgement happened in their lifetime, as Jesus predicted it would by warning His disciples to flee Jerusalem when they saw it surrounded by armies.
Luke 21:20-22 "And when you see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that its destruction has come. And let those in Judea flee to the mountains. And those in its midst, let them go out. And those in the open spaces, let them not go into her. For these are the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled."
So His disciples would have fled to the hills at Passover 70AD when Roman General Titus surrounded Jerusalem and besieged it for months during which time up to 1 million people trapped inside perished by hunger, fighting and plagues.
His disciples were 'saved' and in the hills waited for Jesus' return in the clouds. It was going to happen in their generation because Jesus had told Caiaphas the High Priest that he personally would see Jesus come in the clouds. Math 14:62 "And Jesus said, I am. And you will see the Son of Man sitting on the right of power and coming in the clouds of the sky."
At that point, Jesus retrieved His waiting disciples and took them up with Him and there they met those who had earlier died (eg Peter and Paul around 68AD, and James mush earlier,m and others who died during the Roman/Jewish wars leading up to 70AD.) Jesus then took them as He had promised He would to His Father.
John 1:2-3. "In My Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself, so that where I am, you may be also."
And so all covenants on Planet Earth ceased between Yahweh Elohim and His People because now they were united with Him in His realm in the sky.
14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the likeness of Adam's transgression, who is a figure of him that was to come.
Here in Romans 5:12-14 we see Paul discussing sin entering the "world" through Adam. And yet the 'world' Paul describes is not all the people on Planet Earth but specifically the people from Adam to Moses, ie those living on a small portion of land in the Middle East. To those same People, Yahweh Elohim gave His law (not to other peoples.)
This is the 'world' of the Old and New Testaments. It is the world of Yahweh Elohim's People and latterly in the Old Testament, He came to covenant specifically with the Children of Jacob.
This is the 'world' of John 3:16. Not a global love (wonderful as that would have been had it been true) but a love for His covenanted People. Yahweh Elohim loved (past tense) His People and so He sent Jesus to atone for them once and for all. Those who accepted Him and trusted Him would live forever. Those who didn't, would perish.
That generation's judgement and His coming would mark the end of His covenant with the children of Jacob. The judgement happened in their lifetime, as Jesus predicted it would by warning His disciples to flee Jerusalem when they saw it surrounded by armies.
Luke 21:20-22 "And when you see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that its destruction has come. And let those in Judea flee to the mountains. And those in its midst, let them go out. And those in the open spaces, let them not go into her. For these are the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled."
So His disciples would have fled to the hills at Passover 70AD when Roman General Titus surrounded Jerusalem and besieged it for months during which time up to 1 million people trapped inside perished by hunger, fighting and plagues.
His disciples were 'saved' and in the hills waited for Jesus' return in the clouds. It was going to happen in their generation because Jesus had told Caiaphas the High Priest that he personally would see Jesus come in the clouds. Math 14:62 "And Jesus said, I am. And you will see the Son of Man sitting on the right of power and coming in the clouds of the sky."
At that point, Jesus retrieved His waiting disciples and took them up with Him and there they met those who had earlier died (eg Peter and Paul around 68AD, and James mush earlier,m and others who died during the Roman/Jewish wars leading up to 70AD.) Jesus then took them as He had promised He would to His Father.
John 1:2-3. "In My Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself, so that where I am, you may be also."
And so all covenants on Planet Earth ceased between Yahweh Elohim and His People because now they were united with Him in His realm in the sky.
