From Whence Are God's Elect?
R____wrote:Hi R____,
MikeI was listening to your talk on divorce, and I was trying to see what was shadowed by God allowing under the terms of the old testament putting away a wife that didn't please a man. Then I saw that when we are in the church, we go from wife (church) to wife (church) when we don't like her doctrines. If one doctrine doesn't please us, we just go and get another wife (church).Then I remembered....
Matt. 22:24 Saying, Master, Moses said, If a man die, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.
Matt. 22:25 Now there were with us seven brethren: and the first, when he had married a wife, deceased, and, having no issue, left his wife unto his brother:
Matt. 22:26 Likewise the second also, and the third, unto the seventh.I wondered what this foreshadowed. Then I saw that when we die spiritually and leave the church (our wife), our brothers in the church take her and raise up seed that comes out of her to become the elect.As always your comments would be welcome.R____
As usual God has given you eyes to see. I must say that I had not thought that far, but now that you mention it, it was Judah himself, the man who wanted to burn his own daughter-in-law alive, who was used to "raise up seed" to his own dead son. And it was through Pharez, the the firstborn of the twins which came of this union, that "Christ according to the flesh" was born.
How true it is that all those who are proven to be God's elect first go from church to church before they are given living waters by Christ Himself: But that practice stops when we are finally given to our True Husband:
How true it is that all those who are proven to be God's elect first go from church to church before they are given living waters by Christ Himself: But that practice stops when we are finally given to our True Husband:
John 4:16 Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither.
John 4:17 The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband:
John 4:18 For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly.
John 4:19 The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.
The fact that this Samaritan woman at the well had not bothered to marry this sixth man tells us that her heart was being prepared to marry her True Husband. "He whom you now have is not your husband.'
I'm sure you have noticed that many of the patriarchs met their wives at wells, signifying where we meet our husband, Christ, at the deep well of His word.
I'm sure you have noticed that many of the patriarchs met their wives at wells, signifying where we meet our husband, Christ, at the deep well of His word.
Thanks again for sharing with me what the spirit shared with you.
Mike
