New Birth, shedding sin like shedding leprosy, part 2

Ma'or Tzara'at

In the Bible, we are told how that the presence of “haunting Ghosts” are viewed as a “Ma’or Tzara’at” / “A Luminous Leprosy”. In our American culture, Halloween has become a celebration of “haunting ghosts”, those who are “demons” and “spiritual lepers”.

The demon spirits, in effect, attach themselves to the human host who has taken the blood of sacrifice and ingested it back into himself. He has either eaten or drunk the blood (Leviticus 17:12,14), and is effectively cutting Himself off from Israel (Leviticus 17:10, I Corinthians 10:19-21).

It is the blood that makes atonement for the soul (Leviticus 17:11), and if a sacrifice is made unto demons (Leviticus 17:7), what is happening to the blood? The blood somehow is absorbing sin, by acting as an atoning work. If that blood is not burned up, or buried by earth, it retains sin, and cries up from the ground (Genesis 4:10); or it is turned into a corrupting agent, a perpetuator of sins that it had retained.

When the spiritual blood of Christ is drunk in Communion / Thanksgiving, it forms an affirmation of Faith and a spiritual attachment between the subject and His G-D. He is saying, “L-RD make Your home in Me. Come dwell within me, as You said You would, according to Thy Holy Word.” If one should drink the blood of idols, he extends the same invitation to demons.

When the body of the man dies, the unsaved soul descends to hell, but leaves the demons behind until the APPOINTED TIME concerning their Judgment. When the body of the believer dies, his spirit is taken up by G-D’s Spirit to Heaven, and there is sweet co-habitation with the L-RD.

The Land of Israel is so sensitive, that when a man is an idolater, his house may even display a sign of his spiritual leprosy upon the walls of his house; especially if that house is recently purchased and taken over by a believer. In Leviticus 14, the priest will order the believer’s possessions out of the dwelling and shut the house up for 7 days. There will be examination, and a further removal of contaminated stones and dirt, and a new plastering, if the plague stays in the house.

If the plague returns again after this, it will then do so with "Ma'or" leprosy: that is, it will be accompanied by luminaries or “ghosts”. This signifies a defilement with demons through a blood attachment. The priest will have to offer a trespass offering that combines the essentials of the Cross with the Trespass offering… the offering up of an “Escape-Bird” (vv. 49-53), instead of an escape goat. In effect, the bird flies off, carrying the demons in the same way the pigs running off the cliff of Gadarene also carried the “Legion” (Mark 5:1-13).

Matthew 8:16-17, tells us that Jesus by His very words, had authority to cast out demons and heal sicknesses without shedding blood. This tells us, that even before Calvary, He was as already being Crucified for us before the Father and all of Creation. In the Aleitheia (or Spiritual and True Reality of Heaven), Christ is crucified from before the Foundation of the world; but in this material reality, He was physically crucified on a date we label as March 23, 30 A.D.


Historical Parallels in 1511 B.C.

The city of Jericho in 1511 B.C. experienced the invasion of the Nation of Israel from the East, through the wilderness and low mountain ranges.

Jericho had been a well watered with fresh water supplies and a thriving civilization from before the era from Moses birth, or circa 1631 B.C., through the next 120 years to 1511 B.C.'s Israelite invasion and successful conquest.

The following of the books of Moses, including Leviticus 14, suggests the Jewish practice to raze whatever structure and levels that remained to its foundations...in order that the land might be sanctified and made holy (set apart). The passages in the latter part of Leviticus 14 suggest this: such as the walls taking leprosy upon themselves (or words to this effect in the Torah).

The Hittites would have controlled the Eastern Banks of the Jordan prior to the invasion of the Hebrew peoples. One of the points of note about the Hittites, is that they ecumenized the deities and religious practices of the lands they and people they conquered.

Their influence over the Eastern banks of the Jordan would certainly be a consideration until some time after the confrontation of Kadesh, after which a truce and then a Peace Treaty was signed prior to the rise of Israeli kingship and the Assyrians in the East.

Hence, a Hittite influence upon the eastern bank of the Jordan Valley from 1630 B.C. to circa 1200 B.C., should enter into our considerations to the Conquest of Joshua through much of the times of the Judges. The strength of that influence would wax and wane...and in 1511 -1496 B.C., and to Joshua's death in 1471 B.C. (Judges 2:8), non-existant. The next date of interest, after the Hebrew settling on the Eastern Bank, is 1450 B.C., with the invasion by the "king" of Mesopotamia, Chushanrishathamin (Judges 3:8).

It is via the practice of dealing with “Ma’or Tzara’at” / “A Luminous Leprosy” that we will understand why Archaeology will have sites appear to have had hundreds of years of existence wiped clean and removed from their strata in the Land of Israel. It deals with Joshua, the Mosaic Law, and purging of leprosy via removing idolatry and uncleaness from the Land.

Hence, the reason why we should expect a gap of 1500 B.C. cities to have their Middle Bronze and Intermediate Bronze levels "vanish", and not reappear again until the low strata of the EB or 2350 B.C. level, which the Israelites would have reduced them to, and removed away the evidence.

The idea behind razing conquered cities to their foundations and removing those strata in 1511 - 1496 B.C.

For 15 years, Joshua and the nation of Israel disrupted the chronology of the promised land ( i.e., Israel) for modern Archaeology, via the practice of razing to the ground, and possibly to below ground level.

At the time Israel took possession...all lands pertaining to Israel's THEN control, would be subject and bound to this decree / view under Joshua -- even as it was under Moses.

That means, south from the East Valley of the Jordan to the Arnon river, and around the base of the Dead Sea and inclusive of the Lisan Peninsula - all cities given over to idolatry in such a way, must have been either put to the leprosy test. Those test buildings failing the leper test could then be determinate as to whether the city was or was not razed by Israel during these 15 years of Joshua conquest (1511 -1496 B.C.).



A Possible "Building" or "City's Leper Test"?

In these years, the likely scenario would be that the conquered city ready for Israelite habitation would have chosen buildings out of it...and the resident walls sprinkled with holy water of the ashes of the red heifer upon it, using hyssop and purple wool. The place would then be shut up for 7 days following this exorcism.

In Leviticus 14, we see that the priest will order the believer’s possessions out of the dwelling and shut the house up for 7 days.

After the 7 days, there will be examination by the kohenim (ritual priests), and a further removal of contaminated stones and dirt, and a new plastering may even be applied (upon discretion of the kohenim, if the plague stays in the house.

If the plague returns again after this, it will then do so with "Ma'or" leprosy: that is, it will be accompanied by luminaries or “ghosts”. The priests will declare they have seen ghosts...and the building or city will be razed.

The seeing of the “Ma’or Tzara’at” signifies a defilement with demons through a blood attachment. The priest will have to offer a trespass offering that combines the essentials of the Cross with the Trespass offering… the offering up of an “Escape-Bird” (vv. 49-53), instead of an escape goat. In effect, the bird flies off, carrying the demons in the same way the pigs running off the cliff of Gadarene were testifiedto as carrying off the many demons who inhabited an insane man and called themselves “Legion” in the NT times (Mark 5:1-13).

So, in discussing the Archaeology of this Mosaic time period...it might do well to also be willing to examine the religious zealous influences that could have had a direct impact upon the archaeology of the period.

a razing of cities to a clean leveling and removal of what we account as 850 years of history is indeed possible if :

1) There is an over staffing of help to get the job done.
--- The Hebrews could field over 600,000 men in a military capacity, ages 20-59, upon their crossing the Jordan River.


2) There is a strictness of the discipline of the participants toward following orders with zeal to micro-efficiency.
--- One needs only a thorough reading upon religious laws within the Torah, especially Vayikra / Leviticus, to be aware of this stringency for efficiency placed upon every soul of the Hebrews camp of 2.5 - 3 million.


3) There is a religious zeal hammered into and coming from the participants to please their Deity who demands micro-efficiency.
--- We have examples laid out for us through the Torah and Joshua that any lapse in micro-efficiency --even by one individual -- could result in national defeat or disaster.


4) There are religious priests involved looking for micro-evidence.
--- The Torah and the book of Joshua speaks of Kohenim accompanying the armies of Israel under Moses and Joshua.


5) They are intelligent enough in engineering or other means to grasp concepts on how to build and level a city, and utilize tools to the most effective effort while using the least amount of energy to do so.
---The generation entering the Promised Land over the Jordan river bed, had many who worked from the ages of 6 to 19, and learned the skills of their fathers, who helped build up two cities in Egypt: Pothim (not Pithom, as it is mispronounced) or Memphis, and the city later called Ra-Amesses (Bad Amosis in the Hebrew idiom) which is associated with Heliopolis / On.

Again, we see such a play on words with Ra-Amesses (Bad Amesses the person / "On" or "Avaris" for the city) and Pothim (many secret chambers/openings) instead of Pithom for the description of Heliopolis in Exodus 1, for example.

The Hebrews also renamed people, as well as cities, after their experiences with them.

Ahasuerus is the Hebrew renaming of the Persian Khshayarsha. The Hebraicization is likened to Ach-Shoresh, or "brother root".

Darius (darayavahush in the Persian, loosely meaning the "King known as 'the One'") is actually a designation for "emperor".

Over a century after the Hebrews had left, On / Heliopolis probably evolved under Osiris and Isis his queen, followed Orus their son. You better know these, perhaps, in Greek mythology as Bacchyus/Dionysius, Ceres, and Apollo.


Amenophis (II) - Osiris 1422 B.C. to 1391 B.C.
(Gk. - Bacchyus) 30 Years 10 mos. (credited as though unbroken)
(Gk. - Dionysus) w/ Queen Isis (Gk. - Ceres)

Orus 1391 B.C. to 1354 B.C. (Gk. - Apollo) 36 Years 10 months

In spite of who came later, the point is, that the same ones who were skilled as youngsters in helping their fathers in Egypt / KMT at Memphis and Heliopolis/On in 1552 B.C, were active in the armies of Israel and applied their skills which would have been honed in mental application and training by teachings over the next 40 years in preparation for entering and building the Promised Land...but removing the profane, first.


Therefore, the generation under Joshua in 1511 - 1496 B.C. could well have had and retained such requirements as the five that I list above, and successfully razed down to even the removal of micro-archaeology from the sites they chose to during / in these 15 years of conquest.

A study of ancient civilizations and the Bible, will also point to using fire and running waters as a choice removal of the profane. The idols of Jerusalem, for example, were burned and stamped or ground to powder, and cast upon the graves of those in the flash flood riverbed, where they would wash away.

Thus, a burning of idols and the Satanic to ashes represents the act of Faith by man acting in obedience to GOD, a Baptism of the Faith or the Spirit, after a sense. And then the rain washes the ashes away, as a Baptism of water...so that even the Land may be redeemed and made Holy unto GOD by fire and rain, by being reborn both the Spirit and by Water (as it were). Its redemption is best when it is cultivated with purity, so that it sprouts anew as either crops, or as a garden of grasses and trees and shrubs by those people who have wisdom to do so...and in the doing, to glorify GOD. Hence, a lesson in nature rebirth or born-again experience which Jesus related to Nicodemus can be brought to mind here as well.

In John 3:3, we are all called to be "gennethe anothen", "born from above" into the Kingdom of GOD, the "basileaian tou Theou".

As Jesus declared in John 5:24 -
"Amen, Amen, I say unto you, He that heareth My word, and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life."

New Birth, shedding sin like shedding leprosy, part 1

In John 3:5, Jesus spoke of rebirth by water and spirit.

The first -- a rebirth by means of water -- has to do with the shaving and bathing of one just cleansed from Leprosy (cf. Leviticus 14). They were as dead, but now are given new life as if born again into the Community as a new creature / creation.

The second -- a rebirth by means of the Spirit -- has to do with the action of Faith in GOD's means of Redemption, and this Faith is not what saves, it is the Redeemer --Jesus Christ, the Son of GOD -- whom we trust by Faith, through the Holy Spirit.

The first manifest expression of a rebirth in this manner is seen in the first formation of the Sanhedrin...in which Moses "spirit" increased, and this "spirit" was then imparted to his 70 helpers. In effect, the truly baptized in the Holy Spirit are seen as Eldad and Medad , who separated themselves from the other elders of the Sanhedrin, and went "Pentecostal Evangelical"; proclaiming the "good news" in the Camp among the people, prophesying, and perhaps speaking in tongues as well (Numbers 11).


The condition and religious ritual a healing of Leprosy, is found most prominently in the verses of Leviticus 14:
By Faith, GOD heals the leper of his leprosy. The leper has all the hair shaved off his body, washes in water, and shows himself to the priest.

The former leper offers sacrifice by way of a mediator with one of two birds (two turtle doves). The one bird is killed in an earthen vessel with living waters. The priest then takes the cedar wood (a type of the Cross) with scarlet and hyssop, and the living bird and dips them in the blood of the sacrificial bird. The Sacrificial bird becomes a type of Christ, and when it flies away, it represents Christ's death upon the Cross, taking away the blemishes and trespasses and sins of the world, once and for all.

After a 7 day separation, the former leper again shaves, but this time, only all the hair upon his head from the neck up. On the 8th day, he must come and stand in the gates of the LORD with two male lambs (representing the Father and the Son) and an ewe (a female lamb representing the Holy Spirit) of the first year to offer up as a complete and atoning sacrifice: trespass, sin, and burnt (guilt) offerings.

The blood of the sheep atone for all Trespasses, all Sins, all Guilt, in regard to the healed leper.

And after some more ritual, the former leper is soon to be allowed to ENTER into the Congregation of the Living, into the Communities of Israel, and be able to freely live in Zion as one from among the (living) dead...as one BORN-AGAIN by water and the Spirit, to dwell among the living.

The last Old Testament prophet, John the Baptist, once pointed to Jesus and declared: "Behold the Lamb of GOD which taketh away the sins of the world!"


In John Chapter 3, Yeshua / Jesus discusses with Nicodemus on how to believe.

The very name of Nicodemus declares him to be one of the 7 elders of Israel, and the second most powerful member of the Sanhedrin outside of the High Priesthood. He was a man of authority. The descriptive used of him by Jesus, retained for retained through the Gospel of John for all eternity, tells us that he was chief rabbi of ALL eretz Israel OUTSIDE JERUSALEM.

Nicodemus arrived to question Jesus by night for two reasons: 1) Jesus was an ordained "Semikah" rabbi under Nicodemus' jurisdiction, and he wanted to decide for himself what Jesus taught and thought privately as well as publicly. 2) The Sanhedrin Katan was out of control, and occupied by 23 wild-eyed zealots who could instill the death penalty in matters of Jewish law, and whose members (we learn from Josephus) were to likely include Sicarii Gladiator terrorists and murderers themselves. Thus, Nicodemus appeared before Jesus in the darkest of conditions, because at the time, he feared for his life in associating with Him. This in spite of being the chief Rabbi and Master Scholar of all Israel.

Yet, for all his knowledge, Nicodemus too, was unable to grasp Heavenly and spiritual things through the shadow of earthly examples.

In the case of having a proper spiritual perspective, Yeshua / Jesus uses the example of the Born-again experience of the Leper whose Leprosy is healed. We can either evoke the passage of the Levitical experience of the Torah in Leviticus 14, or of the Prophetical experience of Naaman in 2 Kings 5:1-19.

In Gematria, the Torah offering is symbolized as an Alef: a lamb as a vav, and two turtle-doves as two yods. Thus, the Jewish convert is asked to confirm that which he is already shown through the Torah and the Writings and the Prophets.

In the case of Naaman, he is asked to simply "trust" into the Salvation of the spoken "Word" and heed the "Voice", the Yeshua of G-D, who spake to Hebrew Fathers and to the nations through the Hebrew prophets.

The Jew rejoices in Torah (the first 5 books of the Bible), because he feels that he really hears the "Voice", the "Qol", the "Logos" of G-D -- through the Instruction / Torah.

The nations rejoice in the prophets of the Old Testament, because through them we hear the "Voice" of He who spake at Sinai more clearly through these men (and sometimes women like Deborah, and Hannah).

But like Naaman in 2 Kings 5, we all appear and arrive as the living dead and as lepers before GOD, UNTIL...WE BELIEVE. We enter into Baptism by faith enough to enter, and then...afterwards, through the experience of the blessing and acceptance of the LORD...afterwards, we learn to see, know, perceive, experience faith / trust into the LORD Jesus, Messiah of GOD the Father.

Without the Amens, we read:

" [And Jesus said ...]
Except a man be born again,
he cannot see the kingdom of G-D.

...Can a man be born when he is old? [,Nicodemus asked.]
Can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?

... Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of G-D. [Jesus replied]

...born of the flesh is flesh; and
...born of the Spirit is spirit." (John 3:3-6)

The word "see" is "idein", the aorist infinitive active of the Greek word which means to "see... know... perceive... experience".

The adjustment of one letter "e" before this spelling -- "edein" instead of "idein" -- will place it as a pluperfect or a result of an action that happened in a "past" tense. What would it have meant to us if Jesus had said...

"Except a man be born again,
he cannot HAVE SEEN
he cannot HAVE KNOWN
he cannot HAVE PERCEIVED
he cannot HAVE EXPERIENCED
the Kingdom of G-D." ?

It does not say he cannot have briefly "tasted" or "sensed"...it says he cannot see, know, perceive, experience. What would that slight adjustment have meant to you, if it had been said in that manner or way to Nicodemus? And so we must ask ourselves...do you view your "salvation" in a past tense, instead of a living "in the present and believing now" experience?

But let us now reread the passage with the Amen in them:

Jesus (with quiet authority): "Amen, Amen -- I say unto you, Except a man be born-again, he CANNOT SEE the Kingdom of G-D."

Nicodemus (with astonishment): "How? Can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?"

Jesus: "Amen, Amen, I say unto you. Except a man be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot ENTER the Kingdom of G-D."
Nicodemus: "How can these things be?"


The word "Amen" in the Hebrew has the same connotation in the Hebrew as an instruction or "halicha" (religious ritual law) that Nicodemus is to "repent, trust and believe, to be more faithful and truthful, to come to the Right Hand".

Jesus is instructing the master teacher of eretz Israel. This tells us the sorry state that the Pharisaic leadership of Jerusalem and all Judea had fallen to in the First Century A.D., despite there being a presence of a Holy temple in Jerusalem.

In Isaiah 53:1, "Whom shall believe our report, and to whom is the Arm of the LORD revealed?"

In Isaiah 53:1, when one repents and trusts the report {shmua / sh'ma - hence a commanding "report" to which one is to stop, listen intently, and obey concerning, in regard to/ } about Jesus the Messiah, there is an apocalypse -- an unveiling, an uncovering -- that occurs: and one sees the ARM of the LORD manifest in some special and enlightening way.

Therefore, to see Jesus, who is this ARM {v'zeroa} of the LORD, is to see the Kingdom of GOD.

In regard to water and the Spirit, it is by the Works of moving forward by Faith (e.g., John 6:29).

The child like willingness to come forth and call out to Yeshua is that trust that Adam, as though or like a child in his new state, should have had and done in Paradise.

Thus, be a person born again, free from leprosy at the Temple, or born again and free from leprosy by dipping in the Jordan 7 times...there is clear precedent in the Law and the Prophets on this one. By the action of faith, trust, and believing into Yeshua...you can be righteousified by that which is beyond the Law, and the fulfillment of (the intent of) the Law and the Prophets.

Isaiah 53:4 "Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem Him stricken, smitten of GOD, and afflicted."

This verse uses a certain word of interest..."nagua" / "stricken". Nagua is effectually used by Jewish rabbinical scholars as one of the secret names of King Messiah the "Hivrah" or "leper".

In Negaim, that which deals with {the afflictions of} leprosy, the Aramaic word Hivrah originally is used after the miracle of the whiteness made by Moses' yad (his hand) being placed into his bosom (which he was to exhibit before Pharoah), and the whiteness of the yad / hand leaving when he draws his hand in a second time. Later, "Hivrah" takes on the inference of a white layer (some say 'film') upon the surface of the skin.

As King Messiah, the use of the Aramaic (think Galilean) word Hivrah tells us that He identifies with and is able to heal the sick, paying for them their penalties by His act of service (as we keep reading Isaiah 53 to the end of the chapter) in pouring out His own innocent soul unto death, and taking (absorbing) all their maladies upon Himself and rendering those maladies/infirmaties as impotent.

Hence, He is so great in conquering sickness with but a word or a touch(as even the Gospels testify of Jesus' own abilities), that He is given the power to conquer death, and see His Seed (His followers / believers into Him) after Him.

In other words, as we read even from just the chapter of Isaiah 53 from Isaiah 53:4 onward, we now transition into the world to come, where it is the King Messiah who reigns over those who were healed and who believe into and follow Him, while yet King Messiah is still affecting this world as well.



I will lift up the Cup of Jesus / Yeshua

In Psalm 116:13 we read: kos-yeshu{a}oth esha

“The cup of Yeshua / Salvation, I will lift / carry.”

KOS {then a connecting horizontal} YeSHUAOTH ESHA [Alef-Shin-Alef].

The phonetic of “esha” {from the Hebrew “nasa”, to bear up, bring, exalt, carry} is the same as Alef-Shin-He, ESHaH {“woman”}.

Even as Eve, the woman { “eshah” } was taken out of Adam (Genesis 2:21-23), and of the same substance as Adam, being from the bosom of Adam…so is Yeshua here prophesied in Psalm 116:13 as being “he who is from the bosom of G-D the Father”, and the Name and means by whom mankind is to be redeemed unto G-D and “saved”.

By means of the woman, and by means of the Tree in Eden, to which the deceiving Serpent (Satan) occupied and deceived, Man fell through sin. So it is that by GOD in Christ opening His arms upon the Tree, He draws in Israel on the Right and the Nations with the Left, and atones for them upon the Cross. Where there was once rebellion and unbelief focused upon a Tree in Eden...so now, by means of a Tree, the Cross, and Faith focused toward the Obedient Christ upon the Tree, so Man can thereby be redeemed by the Obedient Word of the Father, Jesus Christ.

By being attached via the horizontal of the Cross, we see that Kos, the act of exaltation and being carried to deliverance, is accomplished in and directly to Yeshua/Jesus.

Yeshua is He whom will bear up and carry mankind. The deliverance is found in and through a coming by Esha...He who effectively "mothers" over us with the GOD's Love.

The last letter in the expression "Kos-Yeshu{a}oth Esha" is the “alef”. When the "alef" is lifted or "exalted" 45 degrees, as I have demonstrated elsewhere, it shows “Christ crucified”...He who is lifted up and exalted upon the Cross.

And how does He -- Yeshua -- come into the world of men and deliver? Through “esha / eshah”, through being carried and borne, and exalted through the {seed of the} woman, as Genesis 3:15 prophesies.



"And I will put enmity between thee and the woman,
and {enmity} between thy seed and her seed;
He shall bruise / crushingly pound thy head,
and thou shalt bruise / hiss at his heel." (Genesis 3:15)

The revered medieval Jewish sage, Rashi, explains: "you will bite him on his heel, and even from there, you will kill him."

According to Rashi, the hissing at the heel clearly implies the killing of Messhiach / Messiah / Christ.

The hissing and bruising at the heel, though it kills, indicates a temporary killing of the Messiah...because the crushing of the head indicates a victory by the Messiah AFTER that He had been slain, and brought to life again.

On the second go round with the Snake as the adversary (or ha Satan), we fast forward to Genesis 48:17-18, to the conquering Messiah who is now raised. How do we know this? Because Genesis 3:15 speaks of the SAME PERSON seed (singular) and not of another.

In Genesis 48:17, we see that again, the serpent waits in ambush...but strikes as an anti-Messiah / anti-Christ through the seed of Dan, but is unable to touch the rider (as Rashi also concurs). The Messiah who comes conquering is named Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus, as we see revealed in the Hebrew of the next verse, verse 18.

The two prophecies (Genesis 3:15 and 48:17-18) testify of
the many hundreds of years difference, even as the rabbis state,
"if Israel is unworthy, Messhiach will come lowly, riding on an ass (Zechariah 9:9). If Israel is worthy, Messhiach will come as a mighty conqueror."

Even the rabbis must use more than one scripture to explain this. Hence, even those Jews who deny Jesus as their King, themselves affirm two comings, even if they deny this while affirming it also though the lowly and conquering parallels they themselves have given.


Only the LORD can reveal these secrets, and one must be born again...and by this, meaning something more than the OUTWARD SIGNS of undergoing that ritual of Moses or of the prophetical miracle of being cleansed from leprosy (Leviticus 13, 2 Kings 5) or of the consecration of the Levites (Numbers 8:6-7). Three OT examples of the NT call to be "born again", proving "by example" that the NT "basar" / "good news" / "gospel" in and through Yeshua is truly from HASHEM (or as some would phrase it, "truly Jewish").