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GEJ got accolades, let's make it known to Niralanders!

Making choice isn't somtin that is forced on som1, if u chose not to be a Buhari guy, u can as well chose to be a Gejite by uniting with team fresh air here:

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As team Gejites, nairaland chapter unite on this thread, a NWC will be formed, and there will also be a chairman. It all depends on our useful contribution to this thread. GEJ all the way.................let TEAM FRESH AIR unite here!

Chanchit: This Op must be kidding me, first its a crime to render free service to Nigerian government and secondly its GEJ for crying out loud..! Volunteer my foot. Mtcheew..!

Hey dis was not meant 4 u, its 4 compatroits and Gejites, u cud av jst ignored it and let it pass.

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Quit playing the Ostrich, ACN tells Presidency


The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has accused
the Presidency of being too clever by half with its
claim that the ongoing Rivers crisis is not a threat to
Nigeria’s democracy, saying the crisis is not just a
threat to the nation’s democracy but also to the
peaceful co-existence of its people.
In a statement issued in Lagos on Thursday by its
National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed,
the party said the Rivers crisis looked ‘normal’ to the
Presidency because it is the one behind it.

”Let us call a spade a spade: What is happening in
Rivers State is not normal. What is normal in five
members of a 32-strong house seeking to remove the
Speaker supported by the remaining members?
What is normal in the Police Commissioner of a state
labelling the state’s Governor a dictator and
supporting renegade lawmakers to stir trouble? What
is normal in hired thugs stoning visiting Governors
from another part of the country?
”Should it not be clear to the Presidency what would
have happened if any of the four northern Governors
had been mortally injured in the attack on them by
the hired thugs in Port Harcourt? In any case, is it not
common knowledge that most of Nigeria’s political
crises have originated from a state or regional
crisis?” it queried.

ACN also slammed the Presidency for struggling so
hard to convince more discerning Nigerians that the
outcome of the last NGF election won by Gov.
Chibuike Amaechi, at the expense of the presidency-
backed puppet candidate, was of no importance to it
(Presidency).
”If the NGF election indeed meant nothing to the
Presidency, as claimed by an ever-so-deceitful
presidential aide, why did the President make it a
referendum on his presidency? Would the Presidency
have described the outcome of the election as
inconsequential if its candidate had won? And if the
outcome is inconsequential, why is the Presidency
still aligning with its puppet candidate and
describing him as the Chairman of the NGF, even
when it is universally acknowledged that he lost the
election?

”As we have said many times, no government can
govern successfully by deceiving the people, and
certainly not in Nigeria where the people are
discerning enough to understand the antics of a
power-drunk, not-so-truthful Presidency. Here is a
Presidency that seeks to distance itself from the
Rivers crisis while regularly playing host to the leader
of the renegade lawmakers from the state. This
Presidency should quit playing the Ostrich over the
Rivers crisis!” the party said.
It also accused the Presidency of seeking to distort
the reason for the visit to Gov. Amaechi by the
progressive Governors, in an attempt to demonize
the four patriotic northern Governors who paid the
same visit earlier.

”The progressive Governors and the four northern
Governors are on the same page as far as the Rivers
crisis is concerned. Their visits were borne out of
patriotic concerns that the crisis could endanger the
nation’s democracy. It is therefore disingenuous to
accuse the northern Governors of meddling while
praising the progressive Governors.

”In his usually easily-excitable disposition, the
presidential aide who is always saddled with
defending the indefensible failed to see the satire in
the advice that Gov. Amaechi should visit President
Jonathan over the crisis. Next time, we advise the
presidential aide to contextualize such a statement
before rushing to the press to ridicule himself,” ACN
said.

www.vanguardngr.com/2013/07/quit-playing-the-ostrich-acn-tells-presidency/

By Funmi Falobi
Snr Reporter, Lagos

Ndigbo under the auspices of World Igbo Congress
(WIC) said on Wednesday they were strategising on
the possibility of producing Nigeria’s President of
Igbo ethnic extraction come 2015.

The 19th annual WIC convention holding from
August 29 to September 2 in Dallas, Texas, United
States of America, is to be used as the platform to
discuss the issue.
The theme of this year’s WIC convention is, ‘Njiko na
Oganiru Ala Igbo.’

The hosting affiliate is Igbo Community Association
of Nigeria, Dallas, under the leadership of Sam
Nwankwo.

This was contained in a statement jointly signed by
WIC Chairman, Joe Nze Eto, Executive Director,
Anthony Ejiofor, and Media Director, Acho Orabuchi.

The statement said the deliberations at the
convention would examine all options as the group
maps out plans on how to internationalise Igbo cause
“so that the global community will understand the
plight of Ndi-Igbo in Nigeria.”
“As a determined organisation, we must ensure that
Ndi-Igbo can no longer be timid about demanding
and receiving equity and fairness in Nigeria.

“The Nigerian President of Igbo extraction should no
longer be a dream, but a practical matter that we
must collectively accomplish within the context of
one and united Nigeria.

“Therefore, we are directing Ndi-Igbo in Nigeria to
stop allowing other groups to direct Igbo’s destiny in
Nigeria. It is our collective responsibility to chart our
own course and work assiduously to achieve our
goals,” it said.

The statement added that with “our special
consultative status at the UN-ECOSOC, we will
immediately constitute the required representation
at the appropriate UN centres and internally
communicate our plans on how to maximise the use
of our status to share with the world the current
socio-cultural, security and economic issues facing
the Igbo in Nigeria.

“No tribe in Nigeria has suffered more
marginalisation than the Igbo people. A case in point
is the Federal Government’s reluctance to build a
new Niger Bridge after promises from three
administrations,” the statement added.

The group, therefore, called on all South East
Governors, National Assembly members, Ohanaeze
leadership, and other Igbo leaders to attend the
convention and actively participate in the dialogue.

“It’ll not be about speeches, but about results to
enhance the condition of Igbo people everywhere in
Nigeria,” it said.

www.dailyindependentnig.com/2013/07/world-igbo-congress-strategises-for-2015-presidency/

PRESS STATEMENT BY THE SENIOR SPECIAL
ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT [PUBLIC AFFAIRS] ON
THE POLITICAL SITUATION IN RIVERS STATE.

We are compelled to react to the unfolding political
drama emanating from recent activities of some
Governors from the northern part concerning political
developments in Rivers State. These political moves,
which are clearly intended to create fear, despair and
sense of apprehension among the citizenry are
grossly unfounded, misplaced and a deliberate over
sensationalization of the situation.

We therefore wish to state as follows:

• Insinuations and statements suggesting that Rivers
State is on fire are grossly unfounded. So far, as is it
evident to every discerning observer of political
developments, the state is calm and peaceful.
Residents of the state continue to go about their
various businesses, religious, social and political
activities under peaceful atmosphere. A key pointer
to the prevailing peace in the state is the fact that
Governor Amaechi, the Chief executive and Chief
security Officer of the state, felt confident enough to
travel to the United Kingdom on official assignment.
It is doubtful he would have had the luxury of leaving
the country if his state is in turmoil as is being
canvassed.

• The situation in Rivers State is purely a localized
political matter and has no dangerous or far reaching
consequences for the peace and security of the
nation. Since our return to democratic rule in 1999, It
is on record that not less than twelve states have
witnessed incidents of attempted impeachment of
Speakers of Houses of Assembly in Nigeria and none
has posed any threat to peace and security in the
country even when our democracy was not this
established.

• Developments in Rivers State do not pose any
threat to our democracy. Our democracy remains
robust, alive and well. In politics as in every sphere of
human activity, different shades of opinion on issues
are not uncommon within the polity but often get
resolved either politically or through legal channels.
It is therefore disingenuous for anyone to suggest
that the political disagreement in Rivers State would
imperil and ultimately derail our democracy. We
recall that in Ogun State in 2010 after series of
sustained fracas and attempts at impeachment and
counter impeachment, the Inspector General of Police
locked up the House of Assembly for several months.
In all that time, nobody in the whole country
suggested that the situation was a threat to our
nascent democracy, and no state Governor went on
any solidarity visit.

• Nigeria is not in any way in disarray. As is the case
in every country of the world, there may be conflicts
of ideas and interests here and there, which in itself
is the beauty of democracy and should not by any
means be construed to mean that there is chaos in
the country or that Nigeria is tilting towards anarchy
as some people have claimed. Nigeria remains
peaceful and is not and cannot in any way be
threatened by political developments in Rivers State.

It is clear that one of the most potent threats to our
corporate existence and sovereignty since
independence has been the Boko Haram insurgency.
This menace has been confronted frontally with
strong determination and focus, which has led to
decisive action that has brought about the
containment of the menace by the Nigerian military
and other security agencies.

Most reasonable Nigerians would have expected
these governors to be deeply concerned and
appreciative of the laudable effort of the Federal
Government, which has brought reprieve from fear as
well as comfort and solace not only to the people of
the affected areas but also to the entire nation and
international community.

Surprisingly, they appear to be more interested in
political maneuvering and grandstanding at the
expense of the well-being of the people in their
states and the stability of the nation at large.

• The Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF) issue like the
political development in Rivers State remains
essentially an affair of the 36 state governors. The
outcome of elections in the body is inconsequential
to the orderly governance of the Nigerian state by
the Presidency. The choice of who becomes leader of
the body clearly has no significant ramification on
the wider political calculation of who becomes
President of the country as events in our recent
history bear out. We note that the chairman of the
NGF in 2011 was clearly at odds with the President.
He contested and lost the party’s presidential
primaries to the incumbent President of the country
who went ahead to be elected President by the
overwhelming majority of Nigeria. It is clear therefore
that occupying the chairmanship of the NGF does not
in any way confer any political influence or
advantage as regards who becomes President of the
country neither will it be of any major political
significance in the 2015 Presidential race as is being
bandied about erroneously.

We therefore admonish Governors having serious
issues with their party to take advantage of various
channels within the party machinery to resolve it.
Also, they may first of all try to show good example
of their commitment to peace by working to put their
own house in order through restoration of peace and
consensus within the NGF. While we note their
current political moves, they should be mindful that
in all they do as political leaders, they ought to put
the interest of the nation and our democracy first.

This indeed, is the hallmark of true patriotism.
We note with satisfaction and appreciation, the
subsequent visit by five governors and two deputy
governors including Governor Fayemi, Governor
Fashola, Governor Aregbesola, Governor Ajimobi and
Governor Amosun, who demonstrated high and
commendable sense of patriotism and genuine
concern for the nation, with very conciliatory
disposition and statesmanlike advise to Governor
Amaechi towards finding a lasting solution to the
political disagreements between the governor and
members of the state’s House of Assembly.

We want to assure Nigerians that the Presidency is
not involved in the dispute in Rivers State and will
not deliberately engage in any act of destabilization
of Rivers State or any state in the country neither is it
interested for whatever reason, in destabilization of
the NGF. In consonance with the dictates and
practice of true federalism and the supremacy of the
rule of law, it will be advisable that whatever political
entanglements may still exist in Rivers State should
be resolved politically or by employing due process of
law, in the interest of peaceful co-existence and
overall well-being of its citizens.

DOYIN OKUPE
SENIOR SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT
(PUBLIC AFFAIRS)

www.cknnigeria.com/2013/07/presidency-makes-official-statement-on.html?showComment=1374692979618&m=1

Rivers, NGF Crises No Threat to Democracy - Says Presidency

• Accuses Kwankwaso, Lamido, three other
govs of hidden agenda

• Rivers House leader answers IG’s summons

• David-West wants five lawmakers charged
with treason

FAR from the fear expressed by some people, the
crises in Rivers State and the Nigerian Governors’
Forum (NGF) pose no threats to peace, good
governance and democracy, according to the
Presidency.

Addressing a press conference in Abuja
Wednesday , Senior Special Assistant to the
President on Public Affairs, Doyin Okupe, said that
contrary to the impression created by five northern
governors, including Sule Lamido of Jigawa, Rabiu
Musa Kwakwanso of Kano, Babangida Aliyu of Niger,
Aliyu Wammako of Sokoto and Murtala Nyako of
Adamawa, that the crises in NGF and Rivers State
were capable of destroying democracy, peace and
good governance in the country, they would have no
effect on the life of Nigeria and civil rule and practice.

According to him, the five governors have a hidden
political agenda for which they have continued to
engage in “some political moves, which are clearly
intended to create fear, despair and sense of
apprehension among the citizenry.

“While we note their current political moves, they
should be mindful that in all they do as political
leaders, they ought to put the interest of the nation
and our democracy first. This, indeed, is the hallmark
of true patriotism.”

Besides, the Leader of the House, Chidi Llyod and
his lawyers at 4.00 p.m. on Tuesday reported at the
Police Force Headquarters.

A statement by the Police Public Relations
Department yesterday in Abuja, said Llyod “is
currently helping police investigators in efforts at
unravelling the circumstances surrounding the crisis
that occurred in the hallowed chambers of the House
of Assembly.”

Meanwhile, former Petroleum Minister, Prof. Tam
David-West, has advocated that the five House of
Assembly members whose failed attempt to oust the
leadership of the legislature triggered violence
should be tried for treason.

He warned that if the political crisis, which the five
lawmakers capitalised on to breach the 1999
Constitution as amended was not checked and it
spread to other parts of the country, it would explode
and compromise the country’s democracy.

The former minister told The Guardian yesterday
that it was wrong for the Inspector-General of Police
to have invited Lloyd, who was subsequently
detained in Abuja without arresting the five
lawmakers who he said breached the constitution in
an attempt to effect a leadership change.

David-West suggested that the only way to end the
crisis was for President Goodluck Jonathan, his wife
and Minister Nyesom Wike to desist from meddling
in the affairs of the state.

The former minister who linked the crisis in the PDP
and Rivers State in particular, to the President’s 2015
re-election ambition, said the leadership of the
People’s Democratic Party (PDP) must first ensure
that all aggrieved members have justice.

www.ngrguardiannews.com/index.php/national-news/128067-rivers-ngf-crises-no-threats-to-democracy-says-presidency

Van snickers: \


Bro, don't mind these Biafrans. If Biafra won the war, the People of the SS would have become slaves while the Igbos siphon our Land dry. During the War, the Biafrans killed so many people from the SS.

Yea u are right, these bianfrans are not ppl u do bizness wit, they can backstab u @ any time. But in politics they have become parasytes to the SS, soon enough they will lose their place as a major ethnic group in Nigeria, that's if they are still relevant!

chukjojo: If he like, let him be president Buhari Tinibu Jonathan, as long as he is from south-south geo political zone, (ie. old eastern region) he is the president ASAP

I have just made my point biafrians, all u people no how to do is LOOSING! U guyz lost the civil war, lost your focus, even sold out ur rights as Nigerian citizenship to a mirage of a nation(biafra).......in the end after loosing all u guyz could do is alighn with the south-south that are a symbole of success, my aim of creating this thread is to make it clear that south-south and south-east are separate entities......we are not thesme because we(south-south) do not associate with greedy loosers!

backtosender: how about Azikaiwe in-between

That's d pointed these myopic biafrans wunt see, from all the bul-crab these guyz made above, I can only conclude on one thing, the Igbos as we know it is a lost tribe!

Sunny_bobo: GEJ's full names are Goodluck Ebelemi Jonathan. Ebelemi is an Ijaw name and he shortened it to Ebele.

Why did he shorten it to EBELE?

I have been thinking about how an IJAW man will answer EBELE as a middle name, our president, Goodluck EBELE Jonathan is from the south-south geo-political zone, from the Ijaw extraction, I have never seen an IJAW man with the appelation EBELE.

I asked some questions from unverified sources how come our president bear an Igbo name, it appears it came from the chiefstaincy tittle confered on him by his inlaws.

It was actually a political strategy to gain the igbo favor, in reality that strategy actually worked, that is why Our estern folks believe the souh-south/south-east connection.

This strategy have marginalised the Igbos so much that they are contented that an EBELE is the president, haven fallen for this trick, am afraid this is how far an Igbo man will goi close to the presidency in Nigeria.

Joavid: eeeyyaa..i understand. attention seeker. it is well with u,claim it before its too late

Atleast I goy yours

1. Bill Gates
2. Calous Tevez
3. Barack Obama
4. Osaze Odewinge
5. Alex Ferguson

These Nigerians are simply great!

frabel: Jonathan goodluck , asiri dokubo, peter obi, ogonna udigwe, Felix chiekwe.

Asari Dokubo? Hmmmmmmmm,

1. Malam Jibril Musa-- shoe maker in my street
2. Mama Nkechi AKA Madm rice and stew--mama put in my street.
3. Mr Ojo Eke------Asaba-Benin bus driver
4. Kabil muhamed----suya seller in Agbor, Delta state
5. Madam Grace Oyibo---garri seller @ ogbogonogo mkt, Asaba.
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These guyz are my heros, I need my shoe to shined, tanx to Musa, I need hot rice n stew in the morning, mama Nkechi is der 4 me. Benin here I come, na Mr Ojo work, I take my babe out, suya tins na kabil dey give me correct test, ofcos without Madam Grace, no garri 4 me. These Five guyz are my greatest and most respected Nigerians!

kraftykc: If they are LIVING Nigerians


Wole Soyinka

Col Dangiwa Umar

Hon Chukwuemeka Chikelu

My Father

Rev Fr Mattew Kukah

Who is your father, give me a name!....?

1. John Okafor---Actor
2. Yakubu Ayigbeni---footballer
3. Chief James Onanefe Ibori---politician
4. Doyl Okukpe------human right activist
5. Reuben Abati-------Nigerian greatest columnist

The terms "born again" and "new birth" are
not interchangeable:

They do not refer to the
same thing! Whereas "born again" applied to the
Jews in the first century, who were in the old
covenant but needed to be brought into the new
covenant, upon the termination of the old
covenant (as discussed above); the "new birth,"
mentioned by Peter, refers to those of Jesus'
disciples who will rule with him in his heavenly
kingdom. (1 Peter 1:3-5) This hope of going to
heaven is something new, for it did not exist prior
to Jesus time. It remained God's "sacred
secret" (mystery) until the time when it began to
be fulfilled, starting with the choosing of the
twelve apostles, and applies only to the ones who
are chosen by God, the number of which will
eventually total 144,000. (Rev. 14:1, 3; Rom.
16:25,26; 1 Cor. 2:7) Even John the Baptist, the
greatest "among those born of women," was not
among these, nor did he know anything about this
new hope reserved for them. (Matt. 11:11;
25:34-46) All of God's people are "born from water
and spirit," but they do not all have the "new
birth."

* Footnote:

Regarding the two loaves presented on the day of
Pentecost, Insight on the Scriptures, Vol. 2, page 599,
states: "The fact that there were two loaves of newly
ripened grain that were presented to Jehovah at
Pentecost indicates that more than one person would
be involved in the fulfillment. It may also point to the
fact that those who become spirit-begotten followers
of Jesus Christ would be taken from two groups on
earth: First from the natural circumcised Jews, and
later from all the other nations of the world, the
Gentiles." (bold mine)

The second loaf presented to Jehovah at Pentecost
cannot symbolize spirit-begotten Gentiles, for
Gentiles were not presented to Jehovah until three
and a half years later, with the baptism and
anointing of Cornelius. (Acts 10:44-48) Since the two
loaves were presented together, and for them to
have any significance, they must also represent "two
groups" who were present on that occasion together,
namely the 120 anointed disciples, and those
immediately joined to them, the 3,000 who were not
anointed with the spirit but were also baptized and
presented to Jehovah, being brought into the new
covenant. This second group, or loaf, would be cared
for by the ones who had been anointed for that
purpose, and thus both groups were "being built up
together into a place for God to inhabit by spirit."
Significantly, Insight on the Scriptures, Vol. 2, (page
599, par. 1) notes, "After the loaves were waved, one
of them was taken by the high priest, and the second
was divided among all the officiating priests." (Luke
12:42-44; John 21:15-17; Acts 2:1-4, 37-42; Eph.
2:21,22; 1 Peter 5:2-4)

Another reason why the second loaf cannot represent
spirit begotten Gentiles is because of Jehovah's
promise in connection with his covenant made at
Mount Sinai with only natural Israelites. "'And now if
YOU will strictly obey my voice and will indeed keep
my covenant, then YOU will certainly become my
special property out of all [other] peoples, because
the whole earth belongs to me. And YOU yourselves
will become to me a kingdom of priests and a holy
nation.' These are the words that you are to say to
the sons of Israel." (Exodus 19:5,6)

Since the festival of Pentecost (also known as the
"Festival of Harvest," "Festival of Weeks," and "the
day of the first ripe fruits", was part of the Law
"spoken by Moses to all the people" in connection
with the covenant Jehovah made with them, if the
second loaf presented to Jehovah on that day
represented "spirit-begotten followers of Jesus
Christ" taken from among Gentiles then Jehovah was
telling his people from the very beginning of making
his covenant that the promise he made to them,
about becoming a "kingdom of priests and a holy
nation," was unattainable for them, and thus he was
already illustrating to them, yes, reminding them
yearly on that date, that they would eventually be
replaced by people of the nations. (Ex. 23:16; 34:22;
Num. 28:26; Heb. 9:19,20) That would render all his
future appeals to his people to return to him, and his
promises to them, meaningless, even hypocritical, for
he had already determined to reject them from the
beginning, that is, if the second loaf indeed pictured
anointed Gentiles. (2 Chr. 36:15; Jer. 44:4,5)
But Jehovah is not the kind of God who makes false
promises, as Insight on the Scriptures, Vol. 1, page
1138, assures us: "Jehovah God is the Source of true
hope and the One able to fulfill all his promises and
the hopes of those trusting in him. It is through his
undeserved kindness that he has given mankind
“comfort and good hope.” (2Th 2:16) He has been
the hope of righteous men in all ages. He was called
“the hope of Israel” and “the hope of [Israel’s]
forefathers” (Jer 14:8; 17:13; 50:7), and many are
the expressions of hope, trust, and confidence in him
in the Hebrew Scriptures. In his loving-kindness
toward his people, even when they were going into
exile for disobedience to him, he said to them: “I
myself well know the thoughts that I am thinking
toward you, . . . thoughts of peace, and not of
calamity, to give you a future and a hope.” (Jer
29:11) Jehovah’s promise kept alive the faith and
hope of faithful Israelites during the Babylonian exile;
it greatly strengthened men such as Ezekiel and
Daniel, for Jehovah had said: “There exists a hope for
your future, . . . and the sons will certainly return to
their own territory.” (Jer 31:17) That hope came to
fruition when a faithful Jewish remnant returned in
537 B.C.E. to rebuild Jerusalem and its temple.—Ezra
1:1-6."

The terms "born again" and "new birth" are
not interchangeable:

They do not refer to the
same thing! Whereas "born again" applied to the
Jews in the first century, who were in the old
covenant but needed to be brought into the new
covenant, upon the termination of the old
covenant (as discussed above); the "new birth,"
mentioned by Peter, refers to those of Jesus'
disciples who will rule with him in his heavenly
kingdom. (1 Peter 1:3-5) This hope of going to
heaven is something new, for it did not exist prior
to Jesus time. It remained God's "sacred
secret" (mystery) until the time when it began to
be fulfilled, starting with the choosing of the
twelve apostles, and applies only to the ones who
are chosen by God, the number of which will
eventually total 144,000. (Rev. 14:1, 3; Rom.
16:25,26; 1 Cor. 2:7) Even John the Baptist, the
greatest "among those born of women," was not
among these, nor did he know anything about this
new hope reserved for them. (Matt. 11:11;
25:34-46) All of God's people are "born from water
and spirit," but they do not all have the "new
birth."

* Footnote:

Regarding the two loaves presented on the day of
Pentecost, Insight on the Scriptures, Vol. 2, page 599,
states: "The fact that there were two loaves of newly
ripened grain that were presented to Jehovah at
Pentecost indicates that more than one person would
be involved in the fulfillment. It may also point to the
fact that those who become spirit-begotten followers
of Jesus Christ would be taken from two groups on
earth: First from the natural circumcised Jews, and
later from all the other nations of the world, the
Gentiles." (bold mine)

The second loaf presented to Jehovah at Pentecost
cannot symbolize spirit-begotten Gentiles, for
Gentiles were not presented to Jehovah until three
and a half years later, with the baptism and
anointing of Cornelius. (Acts 10:44-48) Since the two
loaves were presented together, and for them to
have any significance, they must also represent "two
groups" who were present on that occasion together,
namely the 120 anointed disciples, and those
immediately joined to them, the 3,000 who were not
anointed with the spirit but were also baptized and
presented to Jehovah, being brought into the new
covenant. This second group, or loaf, would be cared
for by the ones who had been anointed for that
purpose, and thus both groups were "being built up
together into a place for God to inhabit by spirit."
Significantly, Insight on the Scriptures, Vol. 2, (page
599, par. 1) notes, "After the loaves were waved, one
of them was taken by the high priest, and the second
was divided among all the officiating priests." (Luke
12:42-44; John 21:15-17; Acts 2:1-4, 37-42; Eph.
2:21,22; 1 Peter 5:2-4)

Another reason why the second loaf cannot represent
spirit begotten Gentiles is because of Jehovah's
promise in connection with his covenant made at
Mount Sinai with only natural Israelites. "'And now if
YOU will strictly obey my voice and will indeed keep
my covenant, then YOU will certainly become my
special property out of all [other] peoples, because
the whole earth belongs to me. And YOU yourselves
will become to me a kingdom of priests and a holy
nation.' These are the words that you are to say to
the sons of Israel." (Exodus 19:5,6)

Since the festival of Pentecost (also known as the
"Festival of Harvest," "Festival of Weeks," and "the
day of the first ripe fruits", was part of the Law
"spoken by Moses to all the people" in connection
with the covenant Jehovah made with them, if the
second loaf presented to Jehovah on that day
represented "spirit-begotten followers of Jesus
Christ" taken from among Gentiles then Jehovah was
telling his people from the very beginning of making
his covenant that the promise he made to them,
about becoming a "kingdom of priests and a holy
nation," was unattainable for them, and thus he was
already illustrating to them, yes, reminding them
yearly on that date, that they would eventually be
replaced by people of the nations. (Ex. 23:16; 34:22;
Num. 28:26; Heb. 9:19,20) That would render all his
future appeals to his people to return to him, and his
promises to them, meaningless, even hypocritical, for
he had already determined to reject them from the
beginning, that is, if the second loaf indeed pictured
anointed Gentiles. (2 Chr. 36:15; Jer. 44:4,5)
But Jehovah is not the kind of God who makes false
promises, as Insight on the Scriptures, Vol. 1, page
1138, assures us: "Jehovah God is the Source of true
hope and the One able to fulfill all his promises and
the hopes of those trusting in him. It is through his
undeserved kindness that he has given mankind
“comfort and good hope.” (2Th 2:16) He has been
the hope of righteous men in all ages. He was called
“the hope of Israel” and “the hope of [Israel’s]
forefathers” (Jer 14:8; 17:13; 50:7), and many are
the expressions of hope, trust, and confidence in him
in the Hebrew Scriptures. In his loving-kindness
toward his people, even when they were going into
exile for disobedience to him, he said to them: “I
myself well know the thoughts that I am thinking
toward you, . . . thoughts of peace, and not of
calamity, to give you a future and a hope.” (Jer
29:11) Jehovah’s promise kept alive the faith and
hope of faithful Israelites during the Babylonian exile;
it greatly strengthened men such as Ezekiel and
Daniel, for Jehovah had said: “There exists a hope for
your future, . . . and the sons will certainly return to
their own territory.” (Jer 31:17) That hope came to
fruition when a faithful Jewish remnant returned in
537 B.C.E. to rebuild Jerusalem and its temple.—Ezra
1:1-6."

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In a Nutshell:

The Jews were born as a nation at Mount Sinai, and
became God's people when they, at that time,
entered into the covenant with God. The entire
nation, "every man of Israel," including the little
ones, and their wives, were included in that
covenant, "for the purpose of establishing you
today as his people and that he may prove himself
your God." (Deut. 29:10-13) That covenant was
made with Abraham's offspring for the purpose of
producing the promised Seed, thereby
safeguarding the lineage through which the
Messiah would come by means of whom "all
nations of the earth will certainly bless
themselves," according to God's promise to
Abraham. (Gen. 22:16-18; Matt. 1:1-16; Luke
3:23-34)

God also foretold that once this covenant had
fulfilled its divine purpose, he would then make a
new and better covenant with his people, thereby
rendering the former old covenant obsolete.
Nicodemus, a leader and teacher among the Jews,
should have been familiar with God's promise of a
new covenant, as foretold by the prophet
Jeremiah. (Jer. 31:31-34; Heb. 8:7-9, 13) When he
failed to get the sense of Jesus' words, "You people
must be born again," Jesus scolded him, saying:
"Are you a teacher of Israel and yet do not know
these things?" (John 3:7, 9,10) Clearly, not only
Nicodemus, but all the Jews should have been in
expectation of the Messiah, including God's
promise of making a new covenant with them.
Being God's people under the old covenant, the
Jews needed to be "born again" by entering into
the new covenant upon termination of the old one;
but how could they if they rejected the mediator of
that new covenant? (Heb. 9:13-15) Only by
entering into the new covenant could they inherit
the promise God had made them: "And you
yourselves will become to me a kingdom of priests
and a holy nation," for it was by means of the new
covenant that this was to be fulfilled. (Exodus
19:5,6) That is why Jesus said to Nicodemus:
"Unless anyone is born again, he cannot see the
kingdom of God." (John 3:3)

When Jesus told Nicodemus that "anyone" [of you
people, the Jews] must be born "again" in order to
see the kingdom of God, he was not referring to
"people of the nations," the Gentiles, who had not
been previously in the old covenant, but were
"alienated from the state of Israel and strangers to
the covenants of the promise." (Eph. 2:11-18;
Matt. 15:24) Yet, through their faith in Jesus,
people of the nations could now also become God's
people, under the new covenant; no, not as
proselytes as before, but as genuine "sons of
God." (Rom. 10:12; Gal. 3:26; Eph. 2:19-22; 1 John
3:9; 5:1) Both Jews and Gentiles are equally "born
from God" when they are baptized, in obedience to
Jesus' command, at which time they receive "the
free gift of the holy spirit." Thus they are "born
from water and spirit." This was true also in Jesus'
own case. (Matt. 3:16,17; 28:19; compare Acts
2:38; 8:14-17; 10:47; 11:15-17; 19:1-6; 1 Peter
3:21) It is only by means of this new covenant that
anyone can enjoy a personal relationship with God,
just as he foretold regarding it: "'I will become
their God, and they themselves will become my
people." (Jer. 31:33; Acts 15:14-18)

At the moment of a person's baptism, he also
receives the benefits of the ransom, including the
forgiveness of his previous sins. (1 John 2:-3, 12)
He is now a member of God's household, which is
God's holy temple, "a place for God to inhabit by
spirit." (Eph. 2:21,22; 3:5,6; 1 Cor. 3:16,17) As
long as he remains within God's temple he is
assured of inheriting God's kingdom, which means
the everlasting life that God promised, and as
Jesus told Nicodemus. (John 3:16; Jude 21; Heb.
6:4-6; Matt. 13:40-43) The vast majority of
mankind will live right here on earth, according to
God's original purpose for Adam and his offspring;
whereas a small number are chosen by God from
among Christ's disciples to rule with Jesus in his
heavenly kingdom, by which God will bring about
the blessings to the nations that he first promised
to Abraham. (Daniel 7:13,14, 27; Matt. 5:5; 6:10;
19:27,28; Rev. 3:21; 20:6)
Summary:

• "Born again" does not refer to some sort of
spiritual resurrection.

• The nation of Israel was born as God's people at
Mount Sinai when God made the covenant with
them, with Moses as the mediator, " for the
purpose of establishing you today as his
people and that he may prove himself your
God ." (Deut. 29:12,13)

• God foretold: "Look! There are days coming and I
will conclude with the house of Israel and with the
house of Judah a new covenant; not one like the
covenant that I concluded with their
forefathers . . . I will put my law within them, and
in their heart I shall write it. And I will become
their God, and they themselves will become
my people ." (Jer. 31:31-33; Heb. 8:6-13) Please
note, with the new covenant they would renew
their relationship with God as his people; he would
become their God again, and they his people
again.

• The foretold new covenant became operative on
the day of Pentecost, with Jesus as the mediator,
when he poured out the holy spirit upon the 120
disciples. (Acts 2:1-42; Heb. 9:13-15, 18-22)

• Isaiah's prophecy was fulfilled on Pentecost:
"Before she began to come into labor pains she
gave birth. Before birth pangs could come to her,
she even gave deliverance to a male child. Who
has heard of a thing like this? Who has seen things
like these? Will a land be brought forth with labor
pains in one day? Or will a nation be born at
one time? For Zion has come into labor
pains as well as given birth to her
sons ." (Isaiah 66:7, The Jews, who exercised
faith in the mediator Christ Jesus, became the
nation that was born at one time, in one day. They
were thus born again, again becoming God's
people while He again became their God. The Jews
who failed to enter into the new covenant, by
rejecting the mediator, would no longer be God's
covenant people. (Paul in his letter to the
Galatians illustrates the two covenants by
comparing them to the birth of Hagar's son and
Sarah's son; Gal. 4:21-31; Rom. 10:1-4; Heb. 8:13)
Nicodemus, as a teacher of Israel, should have
known these prophecies, as Jesus indicated to him.
(John 3:9,10) When he went to visit Jesus that
night, he had the privilege of being instructed by
the mediator of the new covenant. This is what
Jesus was impressing on him.

"A Nation Born at One Time"

"Who has heard such a thing? Who has seen such
things? Shall a land be born in one day?
Shall a nation be brought forth in one moment? For
as soon as Zion was in labor
she brought forth her children."—Isaiah 66:8, ESV
The new covenant came into operation at Pentecost
33C.E., which, according to the Jewish calendar was
Sivan 6; and with that the old Law covenant became
obsolete. It is interesting what Insight on the
Scriptures notes regarding this date: "The Jews
traditionally hold that Pentecost corresponded to the
time of the giving of the Law at Sinai, when Israel
became a distinguished people. It was early in the
third month (Sivan) that the Israelites gathered at
Sinai and received the Law. (Ex 19:1) Just as Moses
as mediator was used to introduce Israel into the Law
covenant, so Jesus Christ as Mediator of spiritual
Israel* now brought that new nation into the new
covenant." ―Vol. 2, page 599. (*Note: The term
"spiritual Israel" is not found in the Bible.)
It had taken the nation of Israel a period of several
hundred years to form; and its birth, with the
covenant made at Mount Sinai, had been
accompanied with great birth pangs, labor pains. But
their new birth, with the new covenant, was going to
be astonishingly different. It would take place in one
day, before there could even be any "birth pangs."
Before she began to come into labor pains she gave
birth. Before birth pangs could come to her, she even
gave deliverance to a male child. Who has heard of a
thing like this? Who has seen things like these? Will a
land be brought forth with labor pains in one day? Or
will a nation be born at one time? For Zion has come
into labor pains as well as given birth to her sons.
―Isaiah 66:7,8

Zion, in Jerusalem, was where Jehovah's temple
stood and where God's sons were worshiping him
according to the old Law covenant, although they
continually broke it. But it was not this Zion that
Isaiah prophesied would give birth to her sons.
Because the sacred ark was situated in Jehovah's
temple on Mount Zion, Zion came to represent
Jehovah's presence and heavenly realities. Quoting
Insight on the Scriptures, "Zion became a mountain
especially holy to Jehovah when David had the sacred
Ark transferred there. Later, the designation “Zion”
embraced the temple area on Mount Moriah (where
the Ark was moved during Solomon’s reign) and the
term was, in fact, applied to the entire city of
Jerusalem. (Compare Isa 1:8; 8:18; see MOUNTAIN
OF MEETING.) Since the Ark was associated with
Jehovah’s presence and because Zion was a symbol
of heavenly realities, Zion was referred to as the
place of God’s dwelling and the place from which
help, blessing, and salvation would come." ―Vol. 2,
page 1236.

Before his ascension to heaven Jesus had told his
disciples not to withdraw from Jerusalem, "but keep
waiting for what the Father has promised." While his
disciples had already been baptized by John the
Baptist in water, showing "that they had repented of
their sins and turned to God to be forgiven," they
were about to be "baptized in holy spirit not many
days after this." (Mark 1:4, 8, NLT; Acts 1:4) As the
Father had promised by means of the prophet Isaiah,
Zion was about to give birth to her sons and his new
nation was about to be born in one day, "at one
time." The account in Acts tells us what happened
when Jesus' twelve apostles and 108 disciples were
gathered together:

On the day of Pentecost all the believers were
meeting together in one place. Suddenly, there
was a sound from heaven like the roaring of a
mighty windstorm, and it filled the house where
they were sitting. Then, what looked like flames
or tongues of fire appeared and settled on each of
them. And everyone present was filled with the
Holy Spirit and began speaking in other
languages, as the Holy Spirit gave them this
ability. ―Acts 2:1-4, NLT.

Regarding the Spirit, Jesus had told Nicodemus that
"the wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its
sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or
where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the
Spirit." (John 3: On the last night with his disciples
Jesus had promised them "the helper, the holy spirit,
which the Father will send in my name, that one will
teach you all things and bring back to your minds all
the things I told you." (John 14:26; 15:26; 16:7) Now,
on this day of Pentecost, God sent the promised
helper by pouring out the holy spirit upon the 120
disciples. Since the holy spirit is not visible to the
eyes, God made it evident when it was accompanied
by the sound from heaven "like the roaring of a
mighty windstorm" (NLT), so loud that it brought the
multitude, that had gathered in Jerusalem for the
festival, running to the house where the disciples
were gathered. They could hear the sound but could
not see where it came from. Inside, the holy spirit
made itself evident when "flames or tongues of fire"
settled upon each of the 120 individuals receiving it.
—Acts 2:2-6.

The disciples had previously already been "born of
water," having been baptized which made
forgiveness of their sins possible once Christ had
paid the ransom, resulting in their clean standing
before God. (1 Cor. 6:11; Heb. 9:14) Now they had
been baptized also with holy spirit which filled them
with "all the fullness that God gives," empowering
them to understand and "grasp what is the breadth
and length and height and depth." (Eph. 3:18,19)
Full of holy spirit, the apostle Peter was able to
explain to the crowd that had gathered, the
significance of what had just occurred, according to
Joel's prophecy: “And after that it must occur that I
shall pour out my spirit on every sort of flesh, and
your sons and your daughters will certainly prophesy.
As for your old men, dreams they will dream. As for
your young men, visions they will see. And even on
the menservants and on the maidservants in those
days I shall pour out my spirit."
—Joel 2:28,29.

With the outpouring of his holy spirit Jehovah
brought the new covenant into force, thus giving
birth to his new nation — his household, made up of
Christ's disciples. As foretold by his prophet Isaiah,
his new nation was "born in one day," "in one
moment." It was not Zion, the city of Jerusalem, that
gave birth to God's new nation, but rather this came
from Jehovah himself: "'Shall I bring to the point of
birth and not cause to bring forth?' says the LORD;
'shall I, who cause to bring forth, shut the womb?'
says your God." —Isa. 66:8,9; ESV.
Jehovah began to lay the foundation of his new
nation with his chosen twelve apostles and 108 other
disciples, all of them natural offspring of Abraham;
with "Christ Jesus himself [as] the foundation
cornerstone." (see Summary) Keeping "the covenant
in force for the many for one week [of years],"
Jehovah continued to choose exclusively from among
faithful Jews for another three and a half years to add
to the foundation of his household, until 36 C.E.,
when Cornelius became the first Gentile to be added
until the full "foreordained" number of 144,000
would be fulfilled. —Daniel 9:27; Acts 10:1, 44-48;
Romans 11:13, 17-24; Ephesians 2:19-22.

Of what use is a foundation, unless a building is
constructed upon it? (Luke 6:47,48; 14:29,30) A
foundation is of a specific size, having definite
dimensions, which includes the one cornerstone. On
the other hand, that which is build upon it is only
limited by what the foundation can bear. After laying
the foundation on the day of Pentecost, Jehovah also
immediately build upon the foundation with "about
three thousand souls [that] were added." These three
thousand had responded to Peter's speech and
consequently repented and were baptized for
forgiveness of their sins. (Acts 2:37-41) Likely
Jehovah chose a number of them in order to add
them to the 120 foundation stones. But most of the
newly baptized disciples were built upon the
foundation. The two loaves of newly ripened grain
that were presented to God at Pentecost under the
old covenant had pictured these two groups: 1. The
anointed disciples who would eventually number
144,000, and who were the foundation, with Jesus as
the foundation cornerstone; and 2. The countless
others, "all those who [are] rightly disposed for
everlasting life," who are build upon this foundation,
and whose natural hope of life on earth is assured by
Jehovah. (Rev. 14:1, 3; 7:9,10; John 3:16; Acts 13:48;
1 John 4:9) Both groups were presented before
Jehovah on that day; both taken from among sinful
mankind as the loaves, having been baked leavened,
symbolized. * (See footnote) —Leviticus 23:16-20.

The 120 disciples, who were anointed with holy spirit
as the foundation stones, and the 3000 who were
baptized that day, were thus "born again" and
brought into the new covenant, becoming God's sons
for a second time since the old covenant was from
this day on no longer valid. Samaritans, and later
Gentiles, would also be born from God, but for their
first time. (Rom. 8:14; Gal. 4:4-7) In this way "the
whole building [was] being harmoniously joined
together, growing into a holy temple for Jehovah,"
and "built up together into a place for God to inhabit
by spirit." —Ephesians 2:19-22; Hebrews 3:6; 1 Peter
2:4-6.

All who belong to Jehovah have been "born of
water" (by baptism) and are also born of the spirit. It
is God's spirit that teaches us to know the things of
God, "for the spirit searches into all things, even the
deep things of God. . . But a physical man does not
receive the things of the spirit of God, for they are
foolishness to him; and he cannot get to know them,
because they are examined spiritually." (1 Cor.
2:10-14) All of God's faithful people have God's spirit,
as a recent Watchtower article acknowledged:
"Genuine anointed Christians. . . do not believe that
they necessarily have more holy spirit than their
companions of the other sheep have." ―The
Watchtower, May 1, 2007, page 31.

We are born from God, according to his will and
promise, and are brought into the new covenant as
we are adopted as his sons and daughters. As such
we become members of his household, some as
foundation stones, others built upon this foundation;
and if we remain there, faithful, we will inherit the
blessings that Jehovah had originally intended for
Adam's offspring, had Adam remained faithful. —2
Cor. 6:16-18; Gen. 1:27,28; Ps. 37:10,11, 29; Rev.
20:3,4.

Do not allow anyone to rob you of your precious
relationship with your heavenly Father, for you were
bought with a price and have been brought into the
new covenant, born from water (by your baptism)
and the Spirit (generously poured out upon us),
which has been made possible by the "blood of the
covenant." —1 Cor. 6:19,20; 7:23.
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The "People that is to be Born"

"You were once not a people, but are now God's
people." ―1 Peter 2:10.

The covenant that Jehovah made with the nation of
Israel at Mt. Sinai, that gave birth to them as his
sons, was not the end of the journey, as if this was all
there was to God's purpose in fulfilling his promise
made immediately after the rebellion in the Garden
of Eden. (Gen. 3:15) From the very beginning
Jehovah had purposed to redeem all of Adam's
descendants, all mankind "who had not sinned after
the likeness of the transgression by Adam." (Rom.
3:21-25; 5:14, 19; 1 Cor. 15:22) Abraham's seed and
the covenant God had made with them would be the
means by which he was going to accomplish this. For
that reason the time would come when the Law
covenant, once it had served its purpose, would be
replaced by a new and better covenant. —Galatians
3:24,25.
31 “Look! There are days coming,” is the
utterance of Jehovah, “and I will conclude with
the house of Israel and with the house of Judah a
new covenant; 32 not one like the covenant that I
concluded with their forefathers in the day of my
taking hold of their hand to bring them forth out
of the land of Egypt, ‘which covenant of mine
they themselves broke, although I myself had
husbandly ownership of them,’ is the utterance of
Jehovah.”
33 “For this is the covenant that I shall conclude
with the house of Israel after those days,” is the
utterance of Jehovah. “I will put my law within
them, and in their heart I shall write it. And I will
become their God, and they themselves will
become my people.”
34 “And they will no more teach each one his
companion and each one his brother, saying,
‘KNOW Jehovah!’ for they will all of them know
me, from the least one of them even to the
greatest one of them,” is the utterance of
Jehovah. “For I shall forgive their error, and their
sin I shall remember no more.” ―Jeremiah
31:31-34.
Nicodemus, as a teacher of Israel, would have (should
have) been very familiar with Jehovah's promise of a
new covenant, as foretold by Jeremiah. The time had
now arrived for Jehovah to bring this about and
Nicodemus, along with all the Jews, should have been
in expectation of it, especially since he confessed
that the signs that Jesus performed provided
evidence that he had come from God. —Luke 3:15.
One striking difference of this new covenant was that
God's law would be written in the heart of his people,
instead of on stone tablets and parchment as had
been the case with the old covenant, and to which
the Jewish religious leaders had added abundantly.
(Matt. 23:1-4) Yes, instead of obeying God because of
some written code—made up of rules and
regulations, as is common among man-made
organizations—under the new covenant God's people
would obey him because of their faith and deep love
for him, all of them having come to know Jehovah
"from the least one of them even to the greatest one
of them."
Please note that Jehovah says concerning the house
of Israel and the house of Judah that "I will become
their God, and they themselves will become my
people." (vs. 33) Was Jehovah not already their God,
and were they not also his people who were born to
him at Mt. Sinai, due to the covenant mediated by
Moses? Yes, the Jews had enjoyed their
relationship with God as sons on account of
that covenant. Since it was about to become
"obsolete" their relationship could no longer
continue based on a covenant that no longer
existed . The end of the old covenant would also end
their special relationship with God! Therefore, for
them to again become God's people, and have
Jehovah once more become their God, they needed to
be born "again," a "second" time, by being brought
into the new covenant. —Colossians 2:13,14;
Hebrews 8:13.
Also, an outstanding feature of the new covenant is
the forgiveness of sins. (Jer. 31:34) How is this
different from the forgiveness the Jews obtained from
their animal sacrifices at the temple? The life of an
animal is never equal to that of a man, and thus can
never fully compensate God for the sins committed
by his people. Paul explains that "it is not possible for
the blood of bulls and of goats to take sins
away." (Heb. 10:4) God's people were guilty of sins
by failing to live up to all that the Law of the old
covenant required of them, and were in need of
forgiveness. (Gal. 3:19) The new covenant made that
possible because of the superior sacrifice of the
perfect man Jesus. (Heb. 9:12-14; 1 Peter 2:24) The
Jews needed to accept the mediator of the new
covenant in order to have their transgressions
forgiven and inherit the promises God had made to
the nation. The apostle Paul explains it this way:
"Therefore he is the mediator of a new covenant, so
that those who are called may receive the promised
eternal inheritance, since a death has occurred that
redeems them from the transgressions committed
under the first covenant." (Heb. 9:15, ESV) Having
their sins thus forgiven would make it possible for
the nation to get a fresh start, in a cleansed
condition, by being born again. This new covenant
was not "like the covenant that [God] concluded with
their forefathers." (Jer. 31:31,32) Nicodemus, as a
"teacher of Israel," should have understood most of
these things.
This new covenant would further fulfill God's promise
to Abraham that "all the nations of the earth must
bless themselves by means of him." It would
embrace not only Abraham's natural descendants, as
God's firstborn son, but now also people of all the
nations would be "born" to God as his added sons. —
Gen. 18:18; Ex. 4:22; Matt. 5:9; 2 Cor. 6:17,18.
27 All the ends of the earth will remember and
turn back to Jehovah. And all the families of
the nations will bow down before you. 28 For
the kingship belongs to Jehovah, And he is
dominating the nations. . . 30 A seed itself will serve
him; It will be declared concerning Jehovah to the
generation. 31 They will come and tell of his
righteousness To the people that is to be born,
that he has done [this]. ―Psalms 22:27-31.
Jehovah is a faithful God. (Deut. 7:9) Abraham's faith
in him was not in vain. Not only did Abraham's seed
become as "the stars of the heavens and like the
grains of sand that are on the seashore," but also
through them blessings would come to all mankind.
(Gen. 22:17,18) It was his seed who was entrusted
with the sacred pronouncements of God, and from
among them the promised "seed" or Messiah
appeared. It was Abraham's seed that got to know
Jehovah because of their covenant with him, and now
the ones who put faith in Christ and were born again
could "tell of his righteousness" to "all the families of
the nations," yes, "to the people that is to be born."
—Romans 3:1,2; 9:4,5; Galatians 3:7-9.
Under the new covenant people of all nations would
be born to God, but only the Jews who had been in
the previous covenant could be born "again." The
mediator of the new covenant, Christ Jesus, validated
the new covenant by means of his own shed blood.
Anyone who exercises faith in "the blood of the
covenant" will have his sins forgiven and be "born"
from God by being brought into that new covenant.
—Galatians 3:14-16; Revelation 7:14.
Everyone believing that Jesus is the Christ has
been born from God , and everyone who loves the
one that caused to be born loves him who has been
born from that one. 2 By this we gain the knowledge
that we are loving the children of God, when we are
loving God and doing his commandments. 3 For this
is what the love of God means, that we observe his
commandments; and yet his commandments are not
burdensome, 4 because everything that has been
born from God conquers the world. And this is
the conquest that has conquered the world, our faith.
―1 John 5:1-4.

Everyone born from God "conquers the world" as
Jesus did, by keeping integrity and not being any
part of the world of which Satan is the ruler. (John
12:31; 15:17-21) How different this now was for
people of the nations who previously were "without
Christ, alienated from the state of Israel and
strangers to the covenants of the promise, and had
no hope and were without God in the world." (Eph.
2:12) They now had the same opportunity as the
Jews of being born from God and becoming his sons.
13 But now in union with Christ Jesus YOU who
were once far off have come to be near by the
blood of the Christ. 14 For he is our peace, he
who made the two parties one and destroyed the
wall in between that fenced them off. 15 By
means of his flesh he abolished the enmity, the
Law of commandments consisting in decrees,
that he might create the two peoples in union
with himself into one new man and make peace;
16 and that he might fully reconcile both peoples
in one body to God through the torture stake,
because he had killed off the enmity by means of
himself. 17 And he came and declared the good
news of peace to YOU, the ones far off, and peace
to those near, 18 because through him we, both
peoples, have the approach to the Father by one
spirit. ―Eph. 2:13-18.

There would no longer be any distinction between a
Jew and a Gentile under the new covenant, for they
would both equally be born as sons of God. It is to
these believing Gentiles that Jesus referred when he
said, "And I have other sheep, which are not of this
fold; those also I must bring, and they will listen to
my voice, and they will become one flock, one
shepherd."—John 10:16; Rom. 10:11,12; Gal. 3:26.
The new covenant is actually the restored original
covenant of life that Jehovah had made with Adam,
which now makes possible for all of his offspring to
be completely reconciled to God through their faith in

Christ Jesus. (2 Cor. 5:18,19; Col. 1:20) There is no
other future third covenant necessary. Jesus did not
make "a covenant for a kingdom" with his disciples
on the night he was arrested, as is taught by the
Society. On that occasion he simply promised that
they would receive the kingdom, the means by which
blessings will flow to redeemed mankind under the
new covenant, for God's kingdom will replace all
present oppressive human governments. —Dan.
7:13,14, 27; Luke 22:29,30; Rev. 3:21. (see Did Jesus
make a covenant for a kingdom?)

The only distinction that will endure forever will be
regarding the "Israel of God," which had its root
firmly planted in the covenant Jehovah had made
with Abraham. Since the root was holy, the 144,000
branches would also be holy, even though some of
the domestic branches had been broken off
[unfaithful Jews] and replaced by "wild" branches
[believing Gentiles]. —Romans 11:16; Revelation
7:4-8.
It might be good to note at this point that although
the Jews were born from God as his sons, none of
them had the opportunity of ruling with Christ in his
heavenly kingdom, that is, not until the time of
Christ's actual appearance; no, not even John the
Baptist who prepared the way for him. That is why
Jesus said regarding him: "I tell you the truth, of all
who have ever lived, none is greater than John the
Baptist. Yet even the least person in the Kingdom of
Heaven is greater than he is!" (Matt. 11:11, NLT)
King David certainly was God's son, yet he did not
have the heavenly hope. Therefore, Jesus told
Nicodemus, "No man has ascended into heaven but
he that descended from heaven, the Son of man." —
John 3:13; compare Acts 2:34.
It is evident, that to qualify as being born from God
as his son, one does not need to have the heavenly
hope. There is no scriptural basis for suggesting that
this designation has changed. Those who will rule
with Christ are chosen from among God's sons. Such
future rulers may be viewed as God's sons in a
special sense, as God spoke of his king designate,
Solomon, "I myself shall become his father, and he
himself will become my son." (2 Sam. 7:14) All who
will "inherit the earth" will be sons of God just as
Adam was a "son of God" before his rebellion. (Matt.
5:5; Luke 3:38) ―it-2 pp. 998 Son(s) of God.