OrthJBC - I Corinthians - 15

15:1  Now, Achim b'Moshiach, I draw your attention to the Besuras HaGeulah which I proclaimed to you, which also you received, in which also you stand firm, [Yeshayah 40:9]

15:2  through which also you are brought to Yeshua'at Eloheinu, provided you hold fast to the dvar Torah which I proclaimed to you, unless you received it in vain (cf. 15:12-14, 10).

15:3  For I transmitted and handed on to you as authoritative Torah, rishon (first), that which was also transmitted and handed on to me as authoritative Torah (Gal.1:18): that Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach died on behalf of avoneinu (our averos--Yeshayah 1:4, iniquities, gross wickednesses, depravities), according to the Kitvei Hakodesh (Yeshayah 53:8-9; Daniel 9:26),

15:4  and that Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was buried in a kever (grave, burial place, Yeshayah 53:9), and that Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was raised in a Techiyah from the mesim on YOM HASHLISHI (Bereshis 1:11-13 [bikkurim, see I Cor. 15:20]; Shemot 19:11,15-16; Yehoshua 1:11; Bamidbar 19:11-13; Yonah 1:17; Hoshea 6:2; Melachim Bais 20:5,8; Ezra 6:15) according to the Kitvei Hakodesh (Tehillim 16:10; Hoshea 6:2; Yonah 1:17),

15:5  and that Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was seen by Kefa, then by the Sheneym Asar,

15:6  afterward Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was seen by over five hundred Achim b'Moshiach at one time, of whom most remain alive until now, though some sleep the sleep of the mesim.

15:7  Afterward, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was seen by Ya'akov (Gal.1:19), then by all the Shluchim.

15:8  And, last of all, even as if to one born not normally [like the rest], Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was seen by me also (cf.9:1).

15:9  For I am the least of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach's Shluchim, not qualified to be called a Shliach, because I brought redifah (persecution) upon the Kehillah of Hashem.

15:10  But by the Chen v'Chesed Hashem I am what I am. And the Chen v'Chesed Hashem of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach to me was not in vain, but more abundantly than all the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach's Shluchim I labored, yet it was not I, but the Chen v'Chesed Hashem with me.

15:11  Whether it was I or the other of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach's Shluchim, so we preached as Moshiach's maggidim, and so you had emunah and became Moshiach's ma'aminim. AGAINST THOSE WITH THE GREEK PHILOSOPHY THAT DENIES THE TECHIYAS HAMESIM: IF FOR THE OLAM HAZEH ONLY [AND NOT FOR THE OLAM HABA] WE HAVE TIKVATEINU IN REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH, WE ARE TO BE PITIED MORE THAT KOL BNEI ADAM; THE TECHIYAS HAMESIM AND THE GLORIOUS GUF (BODY) OF THE OLAM HABAH (YECHEZKEL 1:11) GIVEN TO REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH BEN YOSEF AND REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH'S TZADDIKIM (BERESHIS 47:18-19);

15:12  And if Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach is being preached that his Techiyah (Resurrection) is from the Mesim (dead ones), how is it that some among you say that there is no Techiyas haMesim?

15:13  And if there is no Techiyas haMesim, neither then has Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach be raised.

15:14  And if Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach has not been raised, then our preaching to you was in vain and also in vain is your emunah (faith).

15:15  Moreover, we are found also to edei sheker (false witnesses) (Shemot 20:16; Devarim 19:16-21) misrepresenting Hashem Himself, because we gave solemn edut (testimony--1:6) as in the presence of G-d that Hashem raised Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach [whom of course He did not raise if, as you say, the Mesim are not bemetzius (in fact) raised].

15:16  For if the Mesim (dead persons) have not Techiyah, neither has Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach had a Techiyah;

15:17  and if Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach has not already had his Techiyah from the Mesim, your emunah is futile, you are still in your averos (sins),

15:18  and even the ones who sleep the sleep of the Mesim in Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach have perished.

15:19  Listen, if for the Olam Hazeh only we have tikvateinu in Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, we are to be pitied more that kol Bnei Adam. A DESCRIPTION BEGINS OF THE TECHIYAS HAMESIM AND THE GLORIOUS GUF (BODY) FOR THE ALIYAT NESHAMAH; BUT REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH HAS HAD HIS TECHIYAH, EVEN IN THE MIDST OF HIS REDEMPTIVE MISSION; NOW IN REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH WILL ALL BE MADE ALIVE, THAT IS, REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH BEN YOSEF ADONEINU, ALL WILL BE MADE ALIVE, GIVEN ZERAH V'NICHEYEH V'LO NAMUT ("SEED THAT WE WILL LIVE AND NOT DIE"--BERESHIS 47:19; BERESHIS 22:18; YESHAYAH 53:10; DANIEL 7:13-14; IYOV 19:25-26)

15:20  But in fact Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach has had His Techiyah! Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach is the Bikkurim ("Firstfruits" --Bereshis 1:11-13; Shemot 23:16), the Firstfruits of the ones having fallen asleep (in Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach).

15:21  For als (since) through an Adam (Man) came mavet (Bereshis 2:17), also through an Adam (Man, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach) came the Techiyas haMesim (Resurrection of dead persons).

15:22  For as in Adam all die (Bereshis 3:19), so also in Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach all will be made alive.

15:23  But each one in his own order; the Bikkurim, Moshiach; afterward the ones of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach at the Bias HaMoshiach;

15:24  then haKetz when Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach gives over the Malchut Hashem to G-d, even Elohim Avinu (Daniel 2:44; 7:13-14), after He has abolished all Mishrah (Rule) and all Shilton (Authority) and all Gevurah (Power). [Daniel 2:44; 7:14,27]

15:25  For it is necessary for Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach to reign until Hashem puts all his OYVIM ("enemies") under His RAGLAYIM ("feet"--TEHILLIM 110:1). [Yeshayah 9:7; 52:7]

15:26  The last Oyev (Enemy) to be abolished is Mavet.

15:27  For KOL HASHEM put TACHAT RAGLAV "All things He subjected under His feet"--TEHILLIM 8:7(8), but when He says that all things have been subjected, it is peshat (plain, literal) that this does not include the One [Hashem] who put all things in subjection under Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach. [Tehillim 8:6]

15:28  But, when all things are subjected to Hashem, then also the Ben haElohim [Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach] himself will be subjected to the One (Hashem) having subjected all things under him (Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach), that in all things G-d may be all (i.e. preeminent). AN UNAUTHORIZED MINHAG (WE DO NOT HAVE DA'AS WHETHER IT WAS AN ABUSE OF A MOURNING OR FUNERAL PRACTICE OR AN ABUSE OF A MIKVEH PRACTICE OR BOTH), MENTIONED BUT NOT APPROVED BY REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH'S SHLIACH, SINCE THE TOPIC IS NOT REALLY INTRODUCED BUT IS A TANGENTIAL REMARK USED AS A DEBATING MOVE, LOBBING THE ARGUMENT IN A HIGH ARC TO THE BACK OF HIS OPPONENTS' COURT TO ILLUSTRATE THE INCONSISTENT THINKING IN THE "CHOCHMAH" OF THE GOYIM AT CORINTH

15:29  Otherwise, what will they do, the ones being given tevilah on behalf of the dead? If the Mesim really are not raised, why indeed are their ones given tevilah on behalf of the Mesim? DO YOU GOYIM NOT UNDERSTAND THE CENTRALITY OF IMPORTANCE OF THE DOCTRINE OF THE TECHIYAS HAMESIM IN THE JUDAISM OF OUR LIVING REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH? DO YOU GOYIM NOT UNDERSTAND THE CENTRALITY OF THE IMPORTANCE OF THE DOCTRINE OF THE TECHIYAS HAMESIM TO HIS JEWISH SHLUCHIM FACING DEATH'S DANGER EVERYDAY?

15:30  Why also are we putting ourselves at risk and in danger every hour?

15:31  Daily I die--and that is as true a fact, Achim b'Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach--as it is that I kavod over you in Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua Adoneinu.

15:32  If it were a mere humanistic matter, my fighting, so to speak, with wild beasts in Ephesus (Act chapter 19; II Cor. 1:3-10), what do I gain? If there is no Techiyas haMesim, "Let us eat and drink, KI MACHAR NAMUT "For tomorrow we die" YESHAYAH 22:13; 56:12). [Yeshayah 22:13]

15:33  Do not fall under a delusion: "Bad chavrusashaft (association, influence or hashpaa) corrupts good midos."

15:34  Wake up and come to your senses. Start walking in the derech tzaddikim (Tehillim 1:6). Stop committing averos. Some among you have no saving da'as of Hashem. I say this to your bushah (shame). THE GUF (BODY) CHAYYAH OF THE TECHIYAS HAMESIM OF ADON REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH BEN YOSEF, THE ZERA OF ABRAHAM AVINU (BERESHIS 47:18-19; YESHAYAH 53:10); DIATRIBE REFUTING THE DETRACTOR, SHOWING THAT JUST AS A SEED HAS TWO BODIES, ONE THAT IS SOWN AS DEAD AND BURIED, AND ANOTHER GUF (BODY) [BERESHIS 47:18; TEHILLIM 16:9-10; IYOV 19:25-27; YESHAYAH 53:11 THAT RISES RENEWED, SO THERE IS A NATURAL GUF (BODY) AND A SPIRITUAL GUF (BODY), ONE HAVING A KAVOD OF ONE KIND, ONE OF ANOTHER; JUST AS THERE IS ADAM HARISHON, OF THE DUST, EARTHLY, SO THERE IS ADAM HAACHARON, THE MAN FROM SHOMAYIM, REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH

15:35  But someone will question, "How this Techiyas haMesim? And in the Techiyas haMesim, with what kind of guf (body) will they come?" [Yechezkel 37:3]

15:36  Foolish man, what you sow is not made alive unless it dies.

15:37  And what is it you sow? Not the guf (body) that is to be, but something else: a bare zera (seed), efsher (perhaps) of wheat or some other grain.

15:38  However, Hashem chooses [another] guf (body) to give to the (dead and buried) seed, and to each kind of zera is given by Hashem its own guf (body) (Bereshis 1:11-13; 47:18-19).

15:39  Now basar is not all the same: Bnei Adam have one kind of basar, animals, another; birds, another; fish, another;

15:40  and there are gufot baShomayim (heavenly bodies), and gufot baAretz (earthly bodies), but the kavod of the heavenly is of one kind, and the kavod of the earthly of another kind.

15:41  There is one kavod (glory) of the shemesh (sun), and another kavod (glory) of the yare'ach (moon), and another kavod (glory) of the kochavim (stars), for, in kavod (glory), kochav differs from kochav. [Tehillim 19:4-6; Tehillim 8:1,3]

15:42  So also is the Techiyas haMesim. That which is sown is of one kind, perishable; that which is raised is of another kind, imperishable. [Daniel 12:3]

15:43  What is sown without kibbud is raised in kavod. What is sown in weakness, is raised in ko'ach (power).

15:44  What is sown a natural guf (body), is raised a spiritual guf (body). If there is a natural guf (body), there is also a spiritual one. REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH: THE ADAM ELYON, THE SPIRITUAL ADAM FROM SHOMAYIM

15:45  So, also, it has been written, VAY'HI HAADAM L'NEFESH CHAYYAH ("And [first] Man became a living soul" BERESHIS 2:7); but the Adam haacharon (last Adam) became a Ruach mechayyeh (Joh.5:26). [Bereshis 2:7]

15:46  But the spiritual guf (body) is not harishon, but the natural, afterward the spiritual.

15:47  The Adam haRishon is AFAR MIN HA'ADAMAH ("dust from the earth/ground" BERESHIS 2:7), out of ha'aretz. The Adam haSheni (the second Adam) is out of Shomayim. [Bereshis 2:7; 3:19; Tehillim 90:3]

15:48  As was the Adam of dust, such also are those of the dust; as was the Adam of Shomayim, such also are those who are of Shomayim;

15:49  And just as we have bourne the demut of the Adam MIN AFAR HA'ADAMAH ("from the dust of the earth" BERESHIS 2:7), so we will bear also the likeness of the Heavenly Adam (Man). [Bereshis 5:3]

15:50  Now this I say, Achim b'Moshiach, that basar vadam cannot inherit the Malchut Hashem, neither can the perishable inherit the imperishable (Tehillim 16:9-10; Iyov 19:25-26). THE SOD (MYSTERY) OF THE ALIYAT (ASCENT) OF THE SHE'ARIT (REMNANT, SURVIVORS) ALIVE AND REMAINING UNTIL THE LAST SHOFAR

15:51  Hinei! I speak a sod (mystery) to you: we will not all sleep the sleep of the mesim. But we will all be changed.

15:52  In a rega (moment), in the wink of an eye, at the last shofar blast. For the shofar will sound, the mesim (dead ones) will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.

15:53  For it is necessary for this perishable nature to put on the imperishable, and this mortal nature to put on the immortal.

15:54  But when this perishable nature puts on the imperishable, and this mortal, the immortal, then the dvar hanevu'ah will come to pass that stands written, HASHEM BILLA HAMAVET LANETZACH ("He will swallow up death forever" YESHAYAH 25:8) in victory. [Yeshayah 25:8]

15:55  EHI DEVARECHA MAVET EHI KATAVECHA SHEOL? "Where are your plagues, O death? Where is your destruction, O sheol?" HOSHEA 13:14 [some, "sting"]?

15:56  Now the sting of death is chet (sin) and the ko'ach (power) of chet (sin) is the Torah.

15:57  But Baruch Hashem, who is giving us the nitzachon (victory) through Adoneinu Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.

15:58  So then, Chaverim and Achim b'Moshiach of mine, be steadfast, immovable, abounding always in the avodas kodesh of Adoneinu, have da'asing that your po'al (work) is not in vain in Hashem (Divrey Hayamim Bais 15:7; Yeshayah 65:23).