Authority, Heirship and the Quest for Transnational Glorification

- The Indivisibility of Rights

Because Restoration Age authority is derived from spiritual life, and Restoration Age heirship is established by descent from the same life, it means that under Restoration Law, the right to govern and the right of land possession are held together and indivisible; and that the conditions defining one right necessarily define the other.

Together this means all government is vested in the heirs and only in heirs. In the Restoration, government is a “family affair,” not an electoral or dictatorial one. One must be part of the “ruling dynasty” of Yeshua to carry executive authority as well as right of land possession. Unless he is an actualized heir through spiritual descent, a man cannot be vested with actual authority as a lawgiver (governor).

It also means that government is apportioned at the same three levels as heirship. Unbelievers, since they are not heirs but slaves to sin, will also have no authority in the earth. Reborn nationals will as “minors” have limited stewardship authority under oversight of the glorified transnationals. And the glorified transnationals will have full Homologos governmental authority in the earth in consort with Yeshua, their eldest manifest brother (Rev. 3:21; Heb. 2:11-12).  

- The Purpose of Earth Life

The nature of the Law of Life also defines life’s purpose for all Restoration Age peoples. The purpose of life will not be to have careers, babies and “ministries.” It will be to become transformed out from death under unbelief into national spirit rebirth; and then to transnational glorification free from physical death. The transition to glory without seeing physical death will become an increasingly common experience in the Regeneration.  All dynamics of existence, including those of inter-personal and international friction will serve to promote it.

- Friction and Discipleship in the Restoration

Because of sinful unbelief, friction will remain in the earth between sinners and believers—right up to the international level. But the thrust of this friction will be to lead unbelieving peoples to spiritual rebirth into the Kingdom Family. Friction will also exist inside the Kingdom among mortal “siblings.”

But all such friction will serve to exercise the believing mortals in the Law of Agape; and it will occur under the watchful tutoring eye of Yeshua and the glorified ones, beneficently steered to promote glorified Life in the whole family.

Yes, the discipleship principles in force today for believers will remain in force for believing nationals in the age to come. At that time, discipleship will work to mature reborn mortal clans and nations toward the goal of transnational glorification with fully placed membership in Eternal Israel. While the cruel effects and ravages associated with today’s discipleship under satan’s opposition will be eliminated, men and nations will nevertheless still be learning to “die to” their remaining adamic vestiges en route to glory. The purpose of the cross will still be paramount.

- The Status of the Immortals, the Overcoming of Death and the Legal Age of Maturity

In that day, Eternal Israel’s immortals will be held in utmost esteem (or dread) throughout the world, though they will be the most humble of all peoples. As intimated above, their primary role in the earth will be to help shepherd the mortal believing peoples toward their own transition under Agape, mediating disputes among men, converting the frictions to profitable instruction in the disciplines necessary to pass “seamlessly” from mortality to immortality. They will be the earth’s true peacemakers. 

Every mortal believer will aspire to become “like the immortals” without seeing death—to become recognized as a fully mature “son of the Kingdom,” and awarded all the rights, privileges and status of an adult heir and “liberator” of the earth. For under Restoration Law, the transition to glory replaces physical age as the benchmark for demarcating the legal age of maturity. All laws that assign rights and statuses by virtue of adult maturity will conform to this reality worldwide.

To be clear, this hope of graduating into the glorified realm without seeing death does not mean every believer will successfully overcome death, any more than that every unbelieving man and nation will convert under Yeshua’s reign. Death will still be a Restoration reality and its overcoming is not automatically assured: "—For the youth will die at the age of one hundred and the one who does not reach the age of one hundred will be {thought} accursed.” (Isa. 65:20.)   

Still, the precedent set by the Great Harvest Translation and the First Resurrection will radically alter mortal mankind’s understanding of death’s invincibility and the purpose of life. It will establish a new realizable hope wherein passage through a cemetery is no longer accepted as one’s inevitable destiny! This hope will be stimulated by promises associated with the rite of passage to immortality that are without par!—promises that will galvanize the reborn peoples to earnestly seek completed conformity to Yeshua’s image through the discipleship requirements. 

In that day every believing youth will say, “When I grow up, I want to be one of the Immortals! I want to be Like Yeshua—a Homologos. I want to pass the New Bar Mitzvah to hold a full Kingdom governorship! ” It’s hard to imagine the “pomp and circumstance” that will accompany the graduation ceremony to glorified transnationality in the next age.

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With this brief but intense summary of the Restoration Age legal system in hand, we have all we need to properly understand the role of reborn Israel in the Regeneration. The following points outline what will entail national Israel’s regenerative roles and distinctives of status in light of the above truths.