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Episode 4 — “Birth Into a New Creation”
When graves crack open, the cosmos turns into a delivery room. In this midpoint of our Seven Steps to Shavuot series we’ll see how Scripture pictures resurrection as a birth—the earth itself laboring to deliver the saints, who are immediately welcomed by the Mother-City above: New Jerusalem, the woman clothed with the sun (Rev 12).

What We’ll Cover
• Creation’s Birth-Pangs
• Isa 26 :19 – “The earth will give birth to her departed.”
• Rom 8 :22-23 – All creation groans in childbirth, waiting for our adoption and redeemed bodies.

• Being “Born from Above”
• John 3 & 1 Pet 1 :3-5 – New birth through Messiah’s resurrection.
• Resurrection isn’t a reset of the old life; it’s entrance into an entirely new order.

• The Heavenly Homeland
• Heb 11 :10, 13-16 – Abraham looked for the Heavenly City whose builder is God & Heavenly country/Land (Eden).
• Phil 3 :20-21 – Our true citizenship is already registered in heaven.

• The Woman & the Child
• Rev 12 :1-6 – The radiant Woman (New Jerusalem) gives birth; the Child is caught up to God.
• The saints follow that same upward path—a preview of our own ascent.

• When City Meets Earth
• Rev 21 :1-4 – New Jerusalem descends; heaven and earth finally reunite.
• Resurrection births us upward, but the Kingdom ultimately comes downward.

Field Lesson – Living the Birth Now
Embrace the Labor – Identify “birth-pang” seasons in your life and pray Isa 26 :19 over them.

Practice Resurrection Living – Set your mind on things above (Col 3 :1-4) and let it shape everyday choices.

Fix Your Eyes on the City – Let the hope of New Jerusalem guide how you invest time, talent, and treasure.

Key Passages to Read Ahead:
Isa 26 :19 · John 3 :3-7 · 1 Pet 1 :3-5 · Rom 8 :18-23 · Rev 12 :1-6; 21 :1-4

🔔 Next up: Episode 5 — “Return & Taken.”

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In the beginning GOD created the Heaven & the Earth. Gen 1:1
Behold, the man is become as one of Us, to know GOOD & EVIL. Gen 3:22
For GOD so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son (Jesus), that whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have Eternal Life. Jhn 3:16
We are saved by grace through faith & not of ourselves. It is the gift of God, not of works. Eph 2:8
However, FAITH without works is dead. Jas 2:20-26
We show our FAITH by our works. Jas 2:18
For we are His workmanship, created in Messiah Yeshua (Jesus) to GOOD works (Commandments), which God has before ordained that we should walk in. Eph 2:10
And hereby we do know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments. He that says, I know Him, & keeps not His commandments, is a liar, and the TRUTH is not in him. 1Jn 2:3-4
Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus. Rev 14:12
And I saw a New Heaven & a New Earth. The first has passed away. Rev 21:1