Breasts: Signatory of The Mother of All Living, Nourishing Spiritually, Ruling Coitally, Part 7

[Study Aired March 21, 2026]

Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love. (Pro 5:19)  

In these latter days, since the Cross, an outwardly veiled young and beautiful female heroine is becoming the Bride of Christ. She ascends in the bondage of Agar (Gal 4:24-25), becoming a part of the Great Whore of Judeo-Babylonian Christianity, born from her womb, having grown strong, rich, and full of dainties of lying kisses from ‘another Jesus’ (2Co 11:4), kissing all nations of the world with all the unrecognized subtleties of harlotry. It is no accident that she became a harlot, for through her husband, Christ’s design, that sorry journey is vital for her to be humbled before being given to flee her nature and becoming His Bride, submissive to her husband in His throne, being given the most breathtaking honor bestowed upon any man.

Isa 1:21  How is the faithful city become an harlot! It was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.

This unfaithful Aholibah-like young woman, the incipient Bride of Christ, whose feet have rarely trodden the house of the Lord’s commands, is startled to see her former whorish nature now blessed with the astounding high calling of being transformed into Christ’s Wife. Typical of young and pretty unwitting harlots, she previously engaged every ‘joint’ of her beautiful femininity to ensnare her many paramours, to whom they eagerly submitted, subtly signified by Adam’s acquiescence to Eve, and Solomon’s too-late-understood same surrender to his 1,000 wives. It is all first underscored by Adam’s God-given apostasy and his emblematic self-emasculation toward his Wife, Eve; he thereby condemns all husbands, and exceedingly mankind, to the same plight against Christ and the Father. 

It is all deeply enigmatic and now transparently and exultantly understood only by the Bride, characterized as the Shulamite in the Song of Solomon, jointly, yet submissively in her Husband Christ’s authority in the order of command in the Godhead. In her breasts, she jealously guards, secretly, her God-given royal status. To Solomon’s vexing lament, the details of that understanding are utterly ‘black’ (Ecc 7:23-24), which the Shulamite sees with ravished, astonished clarity very early in the Song, leaving Solomon’s 1,000 other wives curiously mystified — “… The daughters saw her, and blessed her; yea, the queens and the concubines, and they praised her” – Son 6:8-9 [paraphrased]

Son 1:5  I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon. [These verses, as will all the Song of Solomon verses, will be studied in detail in the actual Song of Solomon.] 

Son 1:7  [The Bride…] Tell me, O thou [Christ] whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions? [Jacob’s 12 sons and Solomon’s 1,000 wives, emblematic of whoredom, out of whom the Bride comes, leaving the 10 (99 – Mat 8:12) brother tribes behind in Babylon, Christian Orthodoxy.]

For a symbolic, possibly literal 6,000 years, excluding the “1,000-Year reign”, at which time a husband’s espoused headship will be enforced without understanding upon the enfeebled, drone-bee-like Adams of the world, Eve steps up to the plate. Without the holy spirit in her heart, she now sentimentally views herself as more able to rule. In the meantime, for the previous 6,000 years, his lustful love for her body sexually set in motion a contentious tug-of-war over marital headship that all emblematic Eves of the World, fortuitously weaponize, subconsciously, uneasily, to their ruling advantage—confused and aghast that their body can be legally ravaged by a husband without physical and emotional unity of her spirit.

It results in endless turmoil for both parties, feeling unloved as they strive selfishly to satisfy their sensual desires, leaving Christ’s commands, His spiritual ‘kisses’, designed to be loathed (Num 21:5). Consequently, for Babylon, in this dishonorably disunified condition. As the saying goes, ‘never the twain shall meet’—and they don’t until the Eighth Day of creation, not in marriage, but as the Bride’s children as multitudinous as the stars of heaven (Gen 22:17) in subjection to her and her husband’s authority and headship under the Father.

Harlots rarely share or desire a sense of unity with their wearying laboring ‘drone’ as she pretends to enjoy herself, often typified by wives in a traditionally physically virtuous marriage, drearily wishing that her husband would ‘finish’. For the classic harlot, time is the essence of lost profit, mirroring the typical housewife’s mind being occupied with more personalised, profitable duties. For the casual predatory female, it is merely validation, not mindfully engaged, but hedonistically, or, as eventually typified by most conventional wives, peevishly remembering 1 Corinthians 7:3-5, a tedious, merciful duty. It leaves a reasonably moral male — particularly a husband — confused, quietly humiliated—even bitter — always, and, like the wife, seeking fully satisfying love in marriage and rarely genuinely finding it. The sorry marital narrative is designed to fail, bringing mankind since Adam, eventually, into subjection to God.

Num 21:5  And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loatheth this light bread.

2Th 3:11  For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies. 
2Th 3:12  Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.

The physically virtuous and beautiful Abishag possessed a glorious spirit and an intent of heart to reverse what she undoubtedly saw in all the women in Israel: effective widows who, while married, demonstrated their discontent in their marriages and expressed with their sisterhood (churches) of “busybodies” comparing personal experiences with their own husbands, and affirming their discontent.

1Ti 5:12  Having damnation [judgment], because they have cast off their first faith. 
1Ti 5:13  And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not. 

1Co 11:18  For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it. 
1Co 11:19  For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you. 
1Co 11:20  When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord’s supper.

The priests of Israel, their only hope of keeping alive the dying Old Covenant, represented by King David, were for him to lie with the highly virtuous, young, and beautiful Abishag, who knew from her youth her commission as a hopeful wife, was to “minister” to her husband in and by his mind, body and spirit demonstrated by her heart beneath her signatory breasts. Later, to Solomon’s blackened despair, not even his last hope in Abishag’s example in him finding “one woman” who, and, with her every ‘joint’ of beautiful femininity, could fit the high standard and honor for her calling, in perfect unity of mind and spirit with his; a hope intimately rebounding in them night and day, glorious waves of ravishment only sustainable spiritually, consistent with the Bride today, with Christ (corresponding sexual ravishment, thankfully, isn’t sustainable 24/7, somewhat akin to the Apostles not being able to keep watch with Christ one hour, a euphemism for an extended fullness of time).  Of course, it all spiritually mirrors the Bride of Christ’s God-given perfection through the holy spirit, the missing essence that enables eternally spiritually ravished life.

Ecc 7:27  Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account: 
Ecc 7:28  Which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not: one man [Solomon emblematic of Christ] among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.

1Ki 1:1  Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat. 
1Ki 1:2  Wherefore his servants said unto him, Let there be sought for my Lord the King a young virgin: and let her stand before the King, and let her cherish him, and let her lie in thy bosom, that my Lord the King may get heat. 
1Ki 1:3  So they sought for a fair damsel throughout all the coasts of Israel, and found Abishag a Shunammite, and brought her to the King. 
1Ki 1:4  And the damsel was very fair, and cherished the King, and ministered to him: but the King knew her not.

King David’s servants were attempting to revive the decaying Old Covenant, to keep it alive in Israel’s minds through its “clothes” of physical works, which Israel thoroughly demonstrated was impossible to maintain righteously. To breathe ravished life into the Old Covenant, no greater methodology was there than to search the entirety of the land of Shunem, noted for their women’s beauty, and bring the most virtuous and outstanding young maiden to lie with the King in the hope of revitalizing, the equivalent of resurrecting his dying body, emblematic of the Old Covenant.

To Solomon’s profoundly infinite wisdom, in conceptualizing the Jewish Shulamite woman in the Song of Solomon, whom his “soul seeketh, and finds not” (Ecc 7:28) his poetically perfect Bride doggedly and vexingly remains black to his and the world’s understanding, since she, too, is of the flesh, and acutely subject to corruption, as were his 1,000 other wives, their ‘breasts’ signified disunified spirits. Even though his Shulamite creation was perfect in mind and body, and in how she “ministered” to him, as Abishag was to David, he didn’t conceive that every element of her poetical and glorious physical responses to him, and his to her, in the Song of Solomon, corresponded spiritually. Hence, since the concept of her was conceived in sin, Solomon, with his vague understanding of spiritual concepts, gave up trying to understand and resignedly resubmitted to the vanity of the flesh’s sensuality. Although carnal men do not put as much thought into wife choosing as Solomon does, nor can they without Christ’s spiritual understanding, Solomon, as do all fleshy husbands sensually, had exhausted his mind in trying to create the perfect Wife. Still, without the holy spirit, “he found not” (Ecc 7:28).

Abishag signifies the great struggle we all endure when emerging from under the tutors and governors who represent the law of Moses and the laws of Babylon, both of which are “carnal commandments” that are vanishing away and being replaced by a much better “change… of the law,” which is “the law of faith” expressed in the doctrines of our Lord. Abishag was more than just another servant girl in King David’s household. At the time, she was non-scripturally recognised as his concubine who slept with him and would have consummated the marriage if the King had been capable of ‘getting heat’, which was not going to happen for this typical reason:

Gal 3:21  Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.
Gal 3:22  But the Scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ [signified by Solomon] might be given to them that believe.
Gal 3:23  But before faith came, we were kept under the law [signified by King David’s vanishing administration], shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
Gal 3:24  Wherefore the law [King David’s administration in type] was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ [signified by Solomon’s new administration] that we might be justified by faith.
Gal 3:25  But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster [King David’s administration].
Gal 3:26  For ye are all the children of God [signified by both Bathsheba and Abishag] by faith in Christ Jesus.

Abishag was politically recognised as David’s concubine because Adonijah’s attempt to have her given to him would have secured the throne, and that is why Solomon had him killed. Thus, Abishag was considered King David’s concubine, which is why Adonijah wanted her. The key issue is that Adonijah was not interested in any servant girl in King David’s household. Such a servant would not have given him any claim to the throne. Still, Abishag, in being considered the King’s concubine, his secondary Wife, would give him an excuse to challenge Solomon, and Solomon saw right through Adonijah’s request for Abishag. Every branch that bears fruit was once under the law but has now transitioned to the new administration of Christ and His transformative ‘change… of the law’. This transition is profoundly significant in our spiritual journey.

Abishag represents the symbolic Bride of Christ, without the holy spirit, and her great struggle, which we all experience as we transition away from the laws of Moses and Babylon. These laws, described as “carnal commandments,” are fading away and being replaced by a much better “change in the law,” known as “the law of faith,” expressed in the teachings of our Lord. Following Solomon’s lament in Ecclesiastes 7:26 about his bitter challenges in finding a perfect wife, he was inspired by the holy spirit to create the foreseen “black” unattainable ‘perfect’ Wife in the form of the Shulamite, undoubtedly influenced by the near-perfect Shulamite Abishag’s classic shortcomings of sinful flesh.

One has to stand in awe of Abishag’s profound impact on Solomon and us, stemming from her emblematic ‘breasts’, incredibly devoted, virtuous, and stunning adoration for her physically cold, cadaver-like, dying old husband, King David symbolizes the vain hope of resurrecting the nearly dead Old Covenant, which was never to be consummately reaffirmed, as Adonijah would have had if he had exalted himself with Abishag. 

Solomon’s disturbed observations of Abishag, no doubt, profoundly inspired him to create a sensually unified woman, one who would be in mind, body, and spirit with him. For us, Christ spiritually, conceptualizing the Song of Songs for such an impossibility in the flesh, the holy spirit quickens in the spirit of the Bride’s breasts. The phrase, “How has the faithful city become a whore”, is now becoming reversed, saying enigmatically, ‘How has the unfaithful whore become the holy city?’

Heb 12:22  But ye [The very Elect] are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
Heb 12:23  To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,

The Elect, having seen herself as characteristic of the everyday, genuinely physically virtuous, Martha-like Christian housewife, enthusiastically sees herself becoming spiritually representative of Martha’s sister, Mary, her mind captivated by a Shulamite-like dedication to a unified mind and spirit with her Lord, deeply felt in her breasts, her heart, and mind.

Luk 10:41  And Jesus answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things: 
Luk 10:42  But one thing is needful: [Necessary] and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.

1Co 3:16  Know ye not that ye are the temple of God., and that the spirit of God [Christ] dwelleth in you? [Where? In one’s mind, our spirit felt in our breasts in harmony with Christ’s] 

God the Father, who has existed eternally, is love and the author of creation. To administer His master plan for the creation of God, He duplicated Himself, creating a deputy, a type of ‘helpmeet’, whom He named the ‘Word’ to create all things. The Word, being second in command over all things, demands that the pinnacle of his creation, being man, bows in profound, hallowed worship of Him and in the same love he has for his Father. To thoroughly embed that order of headship and love in man necessitated that God creates a similar ‘help meet’ for him. He made a woman, beautiful to behold and third in the order of command, yet second with her husband, designed to be highly susceptible to self-elevation at the rejection of every masculine detail regarding headship and her now complete disagreement with how headship is represented and established—indicative of mankind – symptomatic of a new concept called whoredom now universally manifest, and impeaching every man, disunifying marriages spiritually. 

A woman primarily perceives and experiences love in her breasts, emotionally expressed rather than drawn from a dull handbook of a man’s easily aroused, idolized dogma, especially when it comes from a husband, filtered through him as if he could grasp her feelings instead of her having the intelligence to decipher her intimate viewpoint. Later in the introductory chapters, we shall see that her objections, insultingly, are the nuance of a harlot. She and, most eminently, her husband, do not grasp that Christ’s word is the foundation of every detail of sexual intimacy, now corrupted, which, as the Shulamite in the Song of Solomon elatedly realizes, leads to a profoundly more powerful emotional experience than she could ever have imagined physically. Yet, not even Solomon could infuse her with their spiritual connections. Accordingly, the Song of Solomon is presented in carnal sensuality, with every expression designed for Kings to discern the nuanced matters spiritually.

Pro 25:2  It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter. 
Pro 25:3  The heaven for height, and the earth for depth, and the heart of kings is unsearchable.

Rev 1:6  And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen. 

Hidden covertly within this study’s caption verse, Proverbs 5:19, and not too many years after marriage, is the growing, deliberate avoidance of intimacy among wives, a condition typified by Old Israel with her Husband and Lord.

Pro 5:16  Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets. 
Pro 5:17  Let them be only thine own, and not strangers’ with thee. 
Pro 5:18  Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
Pro 5:19  Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.
Pro 5:20  And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger? 

A woman’s heart and mind, distinctly symbolized in her breasts, depict either the spirit of a harlot or a virgin, with both biases satisfying her indulgent harlot-like male, at all times ravished unrighteously or righteously.

Old Israel was designed to let the ‘fountain of her youth be dispersed abroad among the strangers of neighboring heathen tribes; she sold her soul of harlotry in the streets and waterways to anyone who would emotionally pay her. However, a righteous woman’s breasts, symbolizing her entire being and the source of her emotions when rightly employed in marriage, wield a powerful influence over her husband, empowering him to go forth and combat unrighteousness in family, business, and society for the good of his home and the land. When she welcomes his kisses and breast caresses, his ravished heart trusts her profoundly, thus immutably consolidating this love for her “at all times.” Indeed, how could a ‘strange woman’ overshadow such a wife’s love?

In women representing churches in Babylon, from whom the Bride is given to escape and flourish as the only true Church, the Body of Christ, every “invisible” scheming spiritual artifice of mankind, and most notably the husband, is designed by God, manifested physically in women for the Bride to brightly see, spiritually. A marvelous example of this is Christ’s creation of bee colonies headed by an archetypal queen bee, whose headship over the colony, spiritually signifies the self-emasculated Adam, is representative of all males’ sensual and spiritual abdication of headship and their submission to her, the emblematic Mother of Harlots in Babylonian religiosity.

Rom 1:18  For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, [The supposed priests able to righteously rule their families, signified as the Church, the woman] who hold the truth in unrighteousness; 
Rom 1:19  Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.
Rom 1:20  For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
Rom 1:21  Because that, when they knew God, they [Men, representative of women] glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. 
Rom 1:22  Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 
Rom 1:23  And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. 

As will be studied soon, men have idolized and thus worshipped women, the figurative ‘Queen Bee’ he serves and glorifies, as do ALL the harem of ‘female worker bees’ in Babylonian-Zionist-Christianity, feeding her the royal jelly in tithes and offerings for the lying services rendered by her, their madam-whore-Queen.

Since Adam loved Eve, and due to his God-given conscious surrender and dismissal of headship to Eve, he implemented disinheritance of his birthright in the lust of his flesh in preference for her, being utterly ignorant of the consequential lifetime of evil experiences of disunion with his wife, unconsciously disinheriting mankind, bar the Bride, from Christ, the Tree of Life, for 7,000 years. It is replicated by Esau’s emblematic ‘red pottage‘, with him, dismissively, aware of his inner trumpet, which alerts him that ‘death is in the pot’ of his decision to prefer the physical, sensual immediacy of satisfaction over the long term (Gen 25:29-34, 2 Ki 4:38-40). His actions are starkly typical of our weak flesh’s lust for immediate feminine gratification.

Eve had already eaten of the fruit, and Adam, in not being deceived but composed of like weak flesh, couldn’t bear the thought of being separated from his very flesh in beautiful Eve. Adam’s lust for his wife was far more tangible than the esoteric concept of eternal life. He thus temporarily discounted eternal life by submitting to Eve and, thus, by listening to his wife’s justification for eating, joined his wife in disobedience, condemning mankind to the same fate of a lifetime in the flesh, indeed—”an experience of evil to humble them by it“.

Ecc 1:13 I applied my heart to inquiring and exploring by wisdom concerning all that is done under the heavens: it is an experience of evil Elohim has given to the sons of humanity to humble them by it.
Ecc 1:14 I saw all the deeds that are done under the sun, And behold, the whole is vanity and a grazing on wind.” – CLV

1Sa 8:7  And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they [The woman, the church] have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.

Accordingly, and because Adam, the head of Eve, deliberately rejected their Lord and ultimate savior’s word, husbands epitomize all marital problems, signified prominently by a wife’s inherently scheming nature, demonstrated by Adam blaming her for beguiling him. Of course, and in Scripture, it all is represented sexually in and out of marriage as adultery, signifying the corrupting of Christ’s word spiritually.

Preordained before the creation of physical matter, in that Adam represents Christ and Eve represents the Church, Adam blaming Eve, and successively she, the Serpent, their newly corrupted order of headship has now consolidated a complex experience of evil resulting from mankind’s intrinsically corruptible hearts now centralized on the woman, representing the Babylonian churches full of spiritually impotent men, fearful that their sexual appetites will be governed by their wives—and, they are!

It’s because Adam rejected his inheritance that men, husbands, and humanity have lost their headship, leaving Eve and all women in breast-felt emotional disarray, a delusional impossibility of feeling obligated to pick up the slack. In contrast, men (ironically, mystifyingly, as Christ is spiritually) are primarily interested in sex. Accordingly, wives never live in a state of mental and spiritual ravishment of their mind, body and spirit and are thus always at odds with their husbands’ passions—enigmatically a perfect match made in heaven, for a marriage made for hell—Sheol, the place of the dead! 

Mar 3:24  And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
Mar 3:25  And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand. 

Pro 5:5  Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to Sheol. (BSB)

Because of Adam and all husbands’ sexual submission to their wives’ deeply disquieted whims, it is a ‘kingdom divided against itself’. Husbands bitterly complain that they do not have wives as enthusiastic about boudoir intimacies as they are, and wives, equally rancorously yet rightfully, claim that their emotional needs are not met for the preparation of their minds and bodies. All because women need a head to cover them, thus arousing them sexually and the Bride spiritually, for and in Christ!

That dreadful resentment is what Solomon tried to resolve, but couldn’t, since it is to be spiritually understood through his emblematic Shulamite wife’s reversal of the curse. In the meantime, both parties sullenly blame the other for the disunity, oblivious to the Shulamite’s methodology, who at this stage has become the wise Woman who enthusiastically builds her house for her Lord and Husband by his design.

Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands. (Pro 14:1)

The Bride epitomizes the term “pleasing” her husband positively (Exo 21:7-8). Previously, her joints, representing husbands and wives who make up our Lord’s jewels in the Church, coming out of Babylon, stubbornly emphasized having their mate (meaning Christ) please them. That understanding is pivotal to the Bride’s about-face. 

The Song of Solomon thus represents the Bride of Christ’s exultant joy, barely contained by the breathtaking royal glory she has been gifted. At the outward return of Christ and consummating his marriage to her, she, in perfect unity with him, beginning and ending with Babylon’s mystifying One Thousand-Year Reign, will be the catalyst bringing her children, the world, into judgment in the Lake of Fire.

For the Elect of God, it is her Husband’s assurance that in the study of the Song of Solomon, the Bride perceives herself reflected as the Shulamite. She now humbly descends from her self-elevation, only to be immediately reaffirmed with righteous authority, power, and glory—surpassing any previous imagined self-glory, which was based on worldly conceits. “How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.” (Rev 18:7) 

Rom 1:24  Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: 
Rom 1:25  Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. 
Rom 1:26  For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
Rom 1:27  And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. 

Mat 13:43  Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear. 

Rev 19:7  Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready. 
Rev 19:8  And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.

From her emblematic harlotry emerges a refined remnant, the Bride of Christ, elegantly debuting provocatively, her worshipful, ravished response in building her home, indicative of her husband, 

Christ’s response to His Father’s eternal state of being for His purity in all things, and now, hers in unity with the Godhead. The Bride’s vivacious, deliberately submissive response to and in her Husband through her God-deigned methodology of building her house is the monumental theme in the Song of Solomon, concluding the last days before the First Resurrection, her effervescent (synonymous with wine’s spirit-like induced sparkle) unity and submission to his authority, delighting and glorifying him forever. Hence, and fittingly concluding this study of our ‘breasts”, our unity of spirit is piquantly savored and demonstrated with,

A bundle of myrrh is my well-beloved unto me; he shall lie all night betwixt my breasts. (Son 1:13)

Her ‘ministration’ to him, through the sweet scent of her unity with his, even in her darkest hours of tribulation, empowers the New Adam in her to go forth in Christ—a type of third, and strongest ply in their ‘threefold cord’ ascending in authority to Christ and the Father. 

Ecc 4:9  Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. 
Ecc 4:10  For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up. 
Ecc 4:11  Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone? 
Ecc 4:12  And if one prevail against him, two [Christ and the Father] shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken. 

In knowing our glorious future as the Bride of Christ, the disparaging names formerly identifying her as a whore, the mother of harlots, she graciously bears, mindful that her Husband, Christ, paved the way for having vastly worse humiliations leveled at him, and was victorious. In the Song of Solomon, she utterly reverses the female rulership of being “against” her carnal husband, formerly demanding the impossibility that he, in his emasculated condition, consistently arouses her physically; now, dramatically inverting this dynamic, she, though physically represented, unashamedly, with that beautiful female propensity, sets him up to awaken her spiritually; she says,

Son 1:2  Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine. 

Too obscene for many Orthodox Christian Babylonians, her mind, body, and spirit have, in Shulamite-like fashion, since being found in her blood in the field, been increasingly awakened for this day of righteous lust, centered in her breasts. The Shulamite is well schooled by her mother (as was Timothy by his mother, Eunice, 2 Tim 1:5), representative of the Church, in building her Temple for her Husband. Following, we have her ‘ministering’ to her Husband via her breasts’ significations, inciting ravishment of her heart by his kisses. As if he didn’t get the message, as harlots are adept at overcoming, and everyday wives feign ignorance, she more elegantly and ‘inventively’ instigated his imagination of what she wants him to do; she says,

Son 8:1  O that thou wert as my brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother! When I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; yea, I should not be despised. 
Son 8:2  I would lead thee, [Emotionally, to drive, guide] bring thee into my mother’s house, who would instruct me: I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate. 

Gal 4:26  But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

The outstanding theme of Scripture presents the whorish transition of the idolized self-proclaimed protagonist, who, with a shudder of disgust, gladly leaves self-elevation behind and becomes the Bride in complete unity as one with her Husband. Finally illustrated in the Song of Solomon, clothed with the sun in a dazzling white gown of her Husband’s design, she constructively uses her innate sexual ‘inventiveness’ virtuously to amplify fantastically her Husband’s anticipatory spiritual arousals, glorifying him, rebounding in her, resonating eternal unity of unspeakable joy in marriage – quintessentially, the nirvana, the ‘holy grail’ the carnal world since Adam dissolutely pants, and are not given to find.

This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church (Eph 5:32) 

The Song of Solomon is even more enigmatic than the rest of Scripture, instilling uneasiness in the hearts of respectful Bible students for their inability to decipher its ostensibly highly erotic verses, obscurely evoking a sense to the humble-minded, their nakedness that something more significant than a fig leaf conceals a mechanism of Christ’s to guard his Bride’s glory for himself jealously. 

The Song of Solomon illustrates the nature of mankind featured by women’s etched inventiveness, now reversed for the debutante Bride’s glorious entrance and marriage to her Lord in reverential devotion to him⎯the plan from the conception of creation, her perfectly complimenting him spiritually as his flawless ‘helpmeet’ (Gen 2:18-24), the mother of all living, her allegorical breasts spiritually nurturing the Father’s children as numerous as the stars of heaven.

Rev 19:8  And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints. 

1Ti 1:16  Howbeit for this cause I [The Bride] obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting. 

Gen 3:20  And Adam [spiritually, Christ] called his Wife’s name Eve; because she was the mother of all living. 

1Ti 1:17  Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.

If the Lord permits, our subsequent study, which concludes the series on “Breasts,” will focus on the critically significant finality that Solomon terminated, that of “imprinting,” a contemporary term denoting Solomon’s attestation of ‘Training up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it’ (Pro 22:6), and is the overarching concluding theme in the Song of Solomon—indeed, for all mankind in one of the two Resurrections.

Breasts: Signatory of The Mother of All Living, Nourishing Spiritually, Ruling Coitally, Part 5

[Study Aired March 11, 2026]

Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe;
let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love. Pro 5:19

Solomon in the SoS, as all attentive husbands know, that a woman’s neck is one of the most sensitive areas of a woman’s body. It’s intimate, vulnerable, in charge, with nerves tied to desire. Male friends tend to avoid it to prevent crossing boundaries, as it might be interpreted as having lustful intentions.

As we have been studying, a woman’s neck is a highly sensory part of her body, connecting her mind to her heart. The Bride’s neck, depicted in the SoS as like the tower of David, built for his armoury,  powerfully resists breaches of her passions by some brutish fellow’s plunder, devastating her sensual armoury’s resistance, him moving to her lips and soon after, her breasts, thus quickly degrading her virginity. Of course, all women, alert to their mother’s hopeful teaching (spiritually, the Church’s) and to upholding her husband’s word, will bind her parents’ words in their hearts. They are watchful and instantly alert to any verbal cues of a male that suggest his lustful physical intentions, righteously ‘stiffen their necks’, and will elegantly remove themselves from his company. In the negative sense, we, as was Old Israel, were a stiff-necked people, carousing with wanton necks, outstretched and constantly seeking adulteries physically and spiritually.

Exo 32:8  They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
Exo 32:9  And the LORD said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:

Isa 3:16  Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet: 
Isa 3:17  Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret parts.

Pro 6:20  My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
Pro 6:21  Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.

Son 4:4  Thy neck is like the tower of David builded for an armoury, whereon there hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men.

Depending on the cultural context, the expressions of male-to-male neck kissing, particularly among family members, are considered appropriately understood, where any sensuality is instantly recoiled and seen as perverted.

Of course, these lovemaking principles are all deliberately designed to relate to this study’s subject of her breasts’ response, signifying the overarching response of her heart beneath her breasts being healed from her wound from Eden.

Luk 15:20  And he [the Prodigal son] arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.

Gen 33:4  And Esau ran to meet him [Jacob], and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept.

Exo 4:27  And the LORD said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness to meet Moses. And he went, and met him in the mount of God, and kissed him.

Paul and the Church were aware that Nero in Rome was likely to execute him. They, both male and female, manifested their affection virtuously, without any conscious awareness of the absurdity of their embraces and kisses being regarded as inappropriate, starkly contrasting with the circumstances. These were brotherly gestures of love; if interpreted amorously, they could have been considered offensive.

Act 20:37  And they all wept sore, and fell on Paul’s neck, and kissed him,
Act 20:38  Sorrowing most of all for the words which he spake, that they should see his face no more. And they accompanied him unto the ship.

Pauls’ ambassadorship to Rome was a death sentence, as is our daily ambassadorship in Christ, spiritually.

As Christ does to us, the husband who lets his face linger close to his wife, who honours and respects him, and actively creates intimacy with calm confidence, creates tension in her so thick it lingers for hours, even days, and the Bride, hopefully forever. Here’s your rule. As does Christ to his Bride, let your masculine presence command without forcing intimacy; it is akin to Christ driving out the beasts of our land, little by little (Exo 2329-30). In our patience, we possess our spiritual land within. Like Solomon building tension with his Shulamite Bride, let your face get close naturally as you draw her in. Breathe steady. Let the warmth of your skin graze hers for just a moment, then pull back as if nothing happened. That single brush is enough to haunt her.

Isa 30:27  Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:
Isa 30:28  And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err.
Isa 30:29  Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of the LORD, to the mighty One of Israel.

The overflowing stream is like Christ’s word, which deeply stirs her heart, her breasts, and her navel—symbolising her stomach and loins. It flows back and forth through these highly sensitive parts of her body, often making her chest flush all the way up to the middle of her neck. For a righteous wife, that power has “sifted her vanity” of demanding that he worship her, now totally reversed, where she worships him, evoking a breathtaking arousal she never knew.

Let’s clear up a massive misunderstanding about what happens during the hug. Most men kill the moment with words. “The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall – Pro 10:8. But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness – 2Ti 2:16”. They hug and instantly say something. You smell nice. I missed you. Or worse, a nervous joke. And the second they do, the hug loses its charge. But the man who hugs in silence, who holds her without saying a word, that man makes her lose her balance because silence forces her to imagine what he’s feeling. Women are addicted to meaning. When you stay silent, you starve her of clues and amplify her wonderment for your intentions. And that uncertainty, as it does with the Bride today, turns into an obsession to run after her Lord. Silence strongly impacts the Elect when they are deeply in considered prayer, searching their hearts for authenticity and truth. It is a place where we are far more attuned to hearing the thunder of God’s word, reverberating in our breasts, ravishing our hearts.

Rev 8:1  And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. 
Rev 8:2  And I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and to them were given seven trumpets.
Rev 8:3  And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne.
Rev 8:4  And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel’s hand.
Rev 8:5  And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast it into the earth: and there were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake.

For a carnal husband, as does Christ, our Husband,

Pro 25:11  A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
Pro 25:12  As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover upon an obedient ear [of a submissive wife, honouring her husband’s authority].

Eze 37:9  Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live. 

(Continuing the thought from the previous paragraph about intentionally creating anticipation…)

For example, ‘A hand delicately placed; an unexpected touch on her…; a light breath near the lobe of her ear’, all announce the like perfection of the moment of sensuality that “apples of gold in pictures of silver” evoke for your spiritual consideration. It is likened to God’s breath upon our slain old man, enliving our members.

The embrace in which he said nothing, merely exhaling slowly and steadily, can arouse profound anticipation. Is he thinking about me? Is he turned on? Does he want to kiss me? Why isn’t he saying anything? That loop persists thoughts beyond the embrace, following the Bride throughout the day spiritually. It is a husband’s response to his wife’s copy of his architecturally sensually designed home. This is his rule. He doesn’t fill the silence. Doesn’t break the tension with words. Using the three principles of promoting arousal, he envelops her, holds steady, breathes slowly, and lets the moment breathe for 2,000 years. When a carnal husband stops trying to explain himself, she’s the one who will recount him in her head over and over until her soul pants (Psa 42:1, Son 7:10). Carnally, (somewhat exaggeratedly for effect) most men hug like statues, arms stiff, hands frozen in place, safe, polite, forgettable. But when a husband moves with intention, as does Christ, even in the smallest way, it changes everything. It builds agonising anticipation, where the slightest touch anywhere will instantly answer. In that she has spent her youth building her house for Him, she is already passively aroused, whereby she is not, like an artist’s impression of a harlot, sprawled back, waiting for him. Her mind and body, wholly devoted to Him, are naturally alive, sparkling as wine accelerates, ready to be sprung. To vastly advance the process, she says,

Son 1:2  Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine.

One of the most charming touches during a snuggle is when his hand gently slides just slightly across the top of the back or shoulder blade as he pulls away. That slight movement feels intentional, as if he meant it. A slow hand sliding across her shoulder doesn’t seem accidental; it feels like he wants her to notice (Son 4:1-5. 9-15… in the SoS, everywhere!). That tiny shift can turn a simple hug into something more charged and meaningful. And because it’s subtle, her mind replays it, trying to decide, “Did he mean that? Was that just a hug or something more?” He mustn’t stay rigid; let your hand move slowly and deliberately as you break the hug. A gentle slide across the shoulder or back as you release her tells her body (indicative of the Church) the hug isn’t over, even when it is. That lingering touch creates a ghostly sensation that she’ll keep feeling when he’s gone—and assertively complements her spiritual building of a home for him by his design. Similar to a physical marriage, spiritual lovemaking with our Husband, Christ, is a delicately orchestrated process of psychological, gentle persuasion, involving mutual pull and push from both parties.

Son 5:6  I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.

Deu 33:12  And of Benjamin he said, The beloved of the LORD shall dwell in safety by him; and the LORD shall cover him all the day long, and he shall dwell between his shoulders. 

Thus, our Lord has designed our bodies, representatively female, to respond to every sensual touch and to inspire us through righteous passions to carry the weight of our calling together, moving forward with strength and purpose embedded in our breast and heart.

Again, the imagery is designed to keep us focused on the incredible meaning that her breasts represent, meaning the ravishment she feels in her heart, and is phenomenally central to the Song of Solomon’s initiation of our Lord’s love for us that Solomon demonstrates carnally in the SoS. If he didn’t ravish our hearts, as he hasn’t, Babylon, for his Song of Songs, we would have never felt any passion to leave Babylon.

Act 7:47  But Solomon built him an house.
Act 7:48  Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet,
Act 7:49  Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool: what house will ye build me? saith the Lord: or what is the place of my rest? [… hopefully all night, betwixt her breasts. Emblematic of her youthful ravishment for her Groom]
Act 7:50  Hath not my hand made all these things?

Meaning, has not Christ designed a carnal wife’s cunningly crafted body’s sensual responses to mirror the Body of Christ, his Wife’s responses to Him, he so earnestly thirsts?

Some negative aspects of touch:

A specialist in marital relations, with my inclusions of spiritual associations, says that every woman secretly wants both strength and tenderness. Most men get it wrong by being all-or-nothing. Too soft and it feels weak, like you’re unsure of yourself. Too firm and it doesn’t feel very nice, like you’re trying to prove something. But the man who blends the two creates the kind of hug that makes women melt. A firm arm around her back makes her feel protected and contained. But a softer hand, maybe on the shoulder or lightly stroking the upper back, adds a layer of care and intimacy. That combination tells her you’re strong enough to hold her, but soft enough not to hurt her. And that balance is addictive. Here’s your rule. Mix your energies. Hold her steady with one arm, firm and secure, while letting the other hand move with subtle softness. The contrast creates tension that her body can’t resolve. And tension is what keeps her craving more. This is the part that changes everything. This is the one wives can’t resist. The hug that makes her crave you when you’re not even there. It’s not about holding longer. It’s about letting go first, even though she’s not ready. Breaking the hug, even when her body still wants it, creates an ache she can’t shake. Women, representative of churches, are wired to desire what’s withheld. If you give everything instantly, she enjoys it but doesn’t obsess over it. But when you stop short, when you end the hug before she does, you leave her suspended in tension. [That tension fuels Shulamite-like imagination, somewhat word-for-word poetically expressed throughout the entire SoS]. She replays the hug, wondering why you pulled away first (Son 5:5-6).

Did you want her, but control yourself? Did you feel the same spark she did? Husbands, here’s your rule. Always be the one to end the hug first. Not abruptly, not coldly, but with calm certainty. Pull away with confidence like you’re the one setting the pace. That small act of restraint tells her body the hug isn’t hers to control—it’s yours, she was made for you (1Co 11:8-10, Joh 15:16). And the moment she realises that, a righteous wife won’t stop thinking about you. Most men ruin the afterglow of a hug. They pull away, look down, maybe check their phone, or mumble something awkward. But the man who lets go and then locks eyes for just one second longer than feels comfortable leaves a mark that burns. That stare makes her feel like the hug didn’t end. It makes her feel like he’s still holding her even when his arms are gone. Eye contact is an act of intimacy [Son 4:9; 6:5]. It’s vulnerability. And when paired with touch, it becomes electric. It is akin to saying, “For God knows that in the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” – Gen 3:5. [Indicative of the SoS, and without previewing the entire Song…] A tender enveloping embrace followed by that deliberate lingering look feels like desire. It forces her to imagine everything you’re not saying out loud. What is he thinking? Did he feel that, too? Why is he looking at me like that? Here’s your rule. Don’t rush to kill the tension. After you release her, hold her eyes just one heartbeat longer than usual. Not a staredown, not a glare, just a calm, steady presence. Then let her break it. That one second will stick in her mind far longer than any words you could have said. Here’s the bottom line. It was never just about the embosom (embrace). It’s about the frame, the restraint, the masculine, Christ’s presence that turns even the slightest touch into something unforgettable. (In these intimacies, always think like Solomon and the Shulamite in the SoS…) When you draw her in slowly instead of snatching. When you place your hand on her lower back, where Christ guides our walk from our loins, with calm authority. When you hold one beat longer than expected. When you let your cheek brush hers, and your breath graze her neck. When you stay silent and let tension build. When you slide your hand as you pull away. When you mix firm strength with gentle softness, and when you break first before she’s ready, you’re creating psychological imprints that make her replay you for days. As Christ does with us, try this approach the next time you hug her. Slow down your draw in. Place your hand on her lower back, not her shoulders. Hold one second longer than feels normal. Let your face get close enough that she feels your warmth. Stay completely silent. Let your hands slide slowly as you release. Mix firm and gentle pressure. Always break the hug first. Lock eyes for one beat after you let go. Watch how she leans back in, how her breath catches, how she keeps looking at you differently. That’s when you and your Shulamite Bride know that it is working [end].

And, who would have known it—arousing touch leads to sex, that indispensable bonding mechanism phenomenally essential for a vibrant and happy marriage, and is so crucial for men, and essentially, husbands. The Husband, Christ, ultimately sets that aforementioned and minimally expressed pattern for carnal husbands, by initiating spiritual intimacy, symbolised carnally by sexual flirtations and coitions. For the wife to be truly loved by her husband, it is essential. Like the Shulamite, she uses His ‘design of the home she has built’ in every intimate encounter to engage those sparkling female emotions she celebrates. Most intimacies shouldn’t necessarily conclude coition, yet her daily connections should be enthusiastically engaged—like newborn babes, desiring the sincere milk of the word, and David, and we, fearlessly running forward into battle.

Who Initiates Sexual Activity, and the Significance of Its Initiation

Ultimately, Christ is the spiritual initiator of the Bride’s intimacy; her job is to respond with youthful vivacity. Yet, in the flesh, what does the emblematic Old Covenant intimate response look like in our carnal marriages?

In many marriages, who initiates sex can seem a highly trivial subject to get so upset about—being no more significant than who opened the new butter before the old one was finished. Nevertheless, considering the frequent emotional distress it engenders, it appears to hold considerable significance. It lies at the core of many issues, serves as the catalyst for hostile disputes and resentment, can influence the long-term well-being of young children, and often leads couples to seek therapy or, more frequently, to divorce courts.

At the heart of the scene are the subtle, often tense moments when, late at night and surrounded by darkness, one person’s hand gently reaches out and hesitantly touches the other’s body. This gesture, signalling a wish for intimacy or comfort, can feel unexpectedly complicated because it’s less about physical acts and more about the deep human need to feel wanted and desired. The willingness to initiate sexual activity may serve as an indicator of one’s appreciation within the overall relationship – and therefore whether a couple remains a going concern or not. For an individual to neither initiate nor respond half-heartedly to not caresses is equivalent to asserting that they cannot possibly love their partner. In reality, a lack of initiation or response can signify numerous things. It may, on occasion, simply indicate exhaustion following a long day of childcare or office work. Occasionally, an untouched hand is merely an untouched hand. The fundamental issue in the uncertain darkness of the bedroom is not an absence of reciprocation per se; rather, it is the manner in which ambiguity is interpreted: how assumptions are formed without discussion, and how significant offences are taken without the topic first being addressed.

The Old Covenant reflects our secular marriages and the disgrace stemming from an insufficient willingness to critically examine the reasons behind our feelings, leading to the shame of unreciprocated love, thereby addressing the fundamental issue of the lack of enthusiastic intimacy through lively communication. Many people, especially wives, often find it challenging to start discussions about sexual intimacy and issues related to withheld affection, which can lead to immense inner turmoil and a sense of wonder for the one lacking intimacy, whether their spouse ever loved me, and not wanting to face that question can make things even more challenging.

Unreciprocated touch becomes properly dangerous when it comes into contact with a high degree of doubting one’s motives or self-hatred on the part of the person who has dared to slide their hand across. What might seem like just a fleeting or innocent sign of disinterest can sometimes be silently and automatically interpreted as something much more serious: as evidence that the other person finds you truly unappealing. Ideally, if we loved ourselves enough, we would recognise what to do when we reach out with a gesture and don’t receive much in return. We would try to talk things over with kindness and calmness, aiming to understand what might be going on.

Pro 23:7  For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.

Gal 6:9  And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
Gal 6:10  As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.

If the signs clearly show a deep lack of interest or emotional connection, and, as routinely and dishonourably done in Babylon, the relationship is not considered viable. After all, as typically happens in Babylonian marriages, the vast majority of us, by God’s design, inevitably end up sharing a bed with an emotionally or physically withholding spouse—inevitably a wife—Christ did. Increasingly, Babylonian marriages perceive that there is nothing wrong, or at least nonchalantly unfortunate, with sticking around with such a spouse. Following is what Christ says on the subject:

Mat 19:8-9 He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so. And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery. Consequently,

Col 3:19  Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
Col 3:18  Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.

1Co 7:3  Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
1Co 7:4  The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.
1Co 7:5  Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.

For an Elect, and to many orthodox Christians’ credit, these are not options open to us when we feel overly ashamed for always being the one to initiate intimacy. Our unresponsive partners exacerbate feelings of unacceptability, leaving us bitter, silent, and fragile (Col 3:19). Childhood trauma can lead to a history of low self-esteem (Rom 12:3), making it exceedingly challenging for us to effectively voice complaints about mistreatment, let alone desert Christ’s values and leave and seek more nurturing partners elsewhere. As individuals who harbour self-critical sentiments within romantic relationships, we often find ourselves unable to articulate, with the appropriate composure and strategic patience, that we feel rejected, seek understanding, and desire change. Instead, we may choose to remain silent, risking infidelity, or we may erupt in anger, thereby ensuring that our message goes unheard. We lack the courage to interpret the signals correctly and to skillfully alter the trajectory of the relationship accordingly.

In the tensions around unreciprocated touch, we catch sight of a more general problem in love: the difficulties created when we aren’t able to ask for what we want in a relationship, when we suffer from a sense that we don’t deserve to be content and cannot handle frustration or respond to our misery adequately. We should not leave the untouched hand for too long in the darkness. We should dare to switch on a soft light, express our pain and consider our options without shame.

By design, Christ encountered all of those adverse reactions from his first wife during his time with her in the wilderness. Even when he analogously switched on the perceived harsh light of his word without the holy spirit, she, signifying our same response before being dragged to Him, was designed not to consistently see a good physical reason to submit to Him.

Again, those marital dynamics are phenomenally critical to what the Bride of Christ experienced carnally for our reflections spiritually, and all emanating from the significations of her breasts mirroring her curse!

Either spouse’s initiation of sexual intimacy should be a daily semi-passive expression in a million different ways of home building. It shouldn’t strike fear in a wife’s mind, thinking that it will always lead to a session of full-blown torrid sensuality right now! It is, and, as the Bride daily expresses, her crystal-clear jasper-like light is always on and alert to ministrations, quite the opposite of control; her twelve doorways never shut day or night, signalling sexual and thus spiritual openness of her Husband’s indwelling.

Rev 21:11  Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal;
Rev 21:12  And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel:

85% of carnal wives do not experience spontaneous desire until they are ‘awakened’, and by God’s design, she does not require arousal to initiate openness; she merely needs to personify enthusiastic reception (Son 1:2-4). She doesn’t wait to ‘be in the mood’; she only needs to ensure an open heart for her husband (Represented entirely in the SoS), which, in turn, should guarantee that her lagging arousal awakens—indicative of the Bride today and the brightly increasing light of spiritual understanding. Nonetheless, husbands often experience ingratiating shame for merely wanting to feel fulfilled sexually by their wives, in the hope that she, too, would delight in his highly physical, demonstrative adoration of her.

If the Bride waited to be “in the mood” for espoused intimacies, her nature would characterise Old Israel’s emblematic ‘bedroom in the wilderness’. She is exhausted from the incredible hormonally driven events ever since leaving Egypt. Now, her Husband wants to amorously engage her with His word; in New Covenant terms, to wash her with His word. She has a certain love, a skittish gratitude for the incredible miracles he has done for her. Compared to her upcoming neighbours’ dashing paramours, her Lord isn’t sentimentally attractive. He just has a strength she can’t identify and do without, yet powerfully resists.

Eze 23:20  For she [Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister – Old Israel and the younger Bride today] doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.

She is waiting for an amatory spark and an impulsive urge associated with young love, but it just isn’t there. He and she feel like it is trying to light a wet match. She cannot see how his supposed love is to light her fire within.

Upon seeing Hollywood movies, in a carnal marriage, most wives think that their sexual drive is broken, that they are frigid, and that their sexuality is dead. She may muse that she is asexual or lesbian. Unbeknownst to her, she is falling victim to the spontaneous desire myth. Men and women have been conditioned by profit-driven media to believe that sexual desire should instinctively overwhelm us with insatiable lust out of the blue—similar to her experience during early puberty—common to all males and females, inevitably leading them to become “old in adulteries”, “at ease” with many lovers (Eze 23:40-49). Typically, as Aholah and Aholabah discovered, when their biological and hormone-driven youthful libido is waning and worked to death with no lasting reward, such a woman, as are most women, wonders if her ‘spontaneous desire’ was ever a reality. In Babylon, she joins yoga or Tantra classes to regain her youthful vigour, and yes, they can have the desired effect, but they can also, potentially and insidiously, absorb Eastern evil spirituality. What she doesn’t know is that God designed women to have responsive desire!… of course, emanating from her signatory ‘breasts’.

Responsive desire means that her body does not have a penchant for intimacy until her mind and spirit are already engaged in it. Unlike her husband’s arousal, her body isn’t like a light switch that can be flicked instantly on. She is more like an oven that needs to be preheated, but the effort is too much. Nonetheless, she knows that to satiate her hunger, she must prepare the ingredients—in Shulamite terms, it is her everyday preparation of ‘building her house’ in carefully managed passive and not-so-passive intimacies until her husband pleases—a seemingly misogynistic dictum that infuriates her Babylonian sisters (Son 2:7, 3:5, and 8:4… particularly Gen 37:9-10). Awaiting the desire to emerge can feel like a lifelong sentence; relying on a husband she already possesses, coupled with her subdued manner of playful, youthful flirtation, only reinforces his fear of once more witnessing her unexpressive eyes indicating rejection. She is waiting solely on spontaneous desire. The solution for all wives feels counterintuitive: She must initiate the Shulamite enthusiasm of not waiting to be aroused, and delight in taking action to get impassioned as a daily habit, as does the Bride with Christ. She throws out the old, symbolically and literally adulterous system so that her husband, who is always ready, as is Christ, sees her welcome and, in his timeliness, lights her responsive fire.

Just as Christ chose the joints in his Bride, so, too, does a carnal husband choose his wife, having a strong desire for sexual intimacy, portraying Christ’s same immense desire for spiritual intimacy with his Bride. When perceived rejection is triggered, even by the slightest indication, it often leads carnal husbands to withdraw out of concern for appearing creepy and overly dependent. Such characteristics are incongruent with the qualities of a calm, well-grounded husband who is supposedly portraying a Christ-like presence. He thus goes about life stoically, as if nothing is amiss, appearing in control. At the same time, bitterness or weariness from trying to improve the relationship eats away at his commitment to even bother; reminded that his wife and family will be against him, as Old Israel was with Christ, he thus learns patiently to endure—filling up behind the same afflictions as did Christ. Failure to do so is repeating what Adam did with Eve, and he was cast out of the Promised Land, symbolic of our miscarriage of inheritance in Christ.

Luk 9:62  And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.

Luk 14:26  If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

This extensive study of the meaning of carnal wives’ breasts since Eden portrays the Lord’s first wife’s disposition towards him, a type of ‘ministration of death’ and thus “destroying” (Breasts H7699 from H7736 – 1. (Qal) to ruin, destroy, spoil, devastate) their marriage. It was graphically displayed that her spirit was disconnected from his word; she couldn’t sustain ravishment for his commands because she wasn’t given to mix it with faith. Consequently, she couldn’t rest from her work of telling her Husband how she wants to be ravished by signified leeks, melons, onions, and all kinds of meat and dainties, because her focus was on material wealth and status, steering her self-serving sensualities to sit as a queen being waited upon (Rev 18:7).

Heb 4:1  Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.
Heb 4:2  For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.
Heb 4:3  For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

2Co 3:3  Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
2Co 3:4  And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:
2Co 3:5  Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;
2Co 3:6  Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
2Co 3:7  But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away: [G2673, ‘katargeo’]

2Co 3:12  Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:
2Co 3:13  And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished [G2673, ‘katargeo’]:
2Co 3:14  But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.
2Co 3:15  But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.
2Co 3:16  Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.
2Co 3:17  Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty [From sin and “the minstration of death”].
2Co 3:18  But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

The Truth About Her Body that Only The Bride Understands

So, what’s the takeaway here? Here’s the point: Just as the male pudenda is a man’s seat of righteous and unrighteous ravishment, so, too, yet more extensively do the female nipple and breast influence every other part of the female body, which is layered with profound spiritual symbols representing our former ways of rejecting our Husband’s word. Carnally, both genders’ seats of desire symbolically compete for control, trying to govern, resulting in a destructive sexual divide that echoes spiritually. They encompass emotional, psychological, biological, and symbolic aspects of the Bride’s walk in Christ, all of which correspond spiritually. For the Elect, it’s not just about sex, nor just about motherhood. It’s about her experience in transition from harlotry to becoming the virtuous Bride of Christ. In Babylon, wives are ruled by romanticism while deemphasising sex, and men, ruled by sex, deemphasise romanticism. Sex cannot effectively and authentically occur without emotional connection, and emotional connection cannot happen for the man without sex representing Christ spiritually; both are starved of connection! If marriages are not sexual, neither is the Shulamite spiritually to Christ, and neither is he to her. Women, typified by Solomon’s 1,000 wives, get an emotional connection with their ‘whore’ sisterhood, the 40,000-plus Babylonian churches; husbands, representing Christ, are left out. When wives and their husbands learn to honour those experiences spiritually, their bodies become more than just for fleshy lust—it becomes a home, the Temple of God. A sexless marriage is a touchless marriage, as is Orthodox Christianity without the holy spirit.

Gal 5:16  This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
Gal 5:17  For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

In contrast, the Bride’s connection in Christ’s truth is what is spiritually romantically ravishing for her, which Christ finds tremendously arousing! It results in both of them singing in harmony the Song of Songs. I’m sure that we understand why sex represented in the “natural” is lusted by confused men in Babylon, and crucial to righteous husbands, since the latter signifies our Husband Christ’s imperative spiritual intimacies with his Wife. She now has an exceptional purpose for the reason, and with vivacious elegance to delight her Husband with those beguiling emotions!

Breasts Emblematic Rulership, continued…

Due to Adam’s submission to Eve, all men are now ruled more singularly by unrighteous sexual desires representing twisted self-serving doctrines; if correctly and righteously established, they mysteriously point to Christ’s spiritual desire for his Bride, the washing of her by the Word. However, following Adam and Eve’s exile from Eden, Eve is emotionally traumatised by her symbolically bruised teats and pressed breasts representing her wounded pride, humiliated for having ruled Adam, a deep scar lasting 7,000 years of marital disharmony into the Eighth Day of creation.

Both parties, influenced by their gender biases—more pronounced in females—view life circumstances and decision-making through the lens of their emotions. However, the female’s innate over-emphasis on emotional feelings, profoundly emanating from beneath her breasts, when used positively and authentically in marriage, is by all easily ensnared males invariably experienced by a husband as a charming and seductive trait, indeed. In positions of leadership, law, and governance, it often evokes immature judgments (Isaiah 3:12), particularly now through her illustrative authority in church doctrines.

An emotionally led person, typified by children and, seemingly to Eve, insultingly, now represented by women, when directed by an authority not to do something that their emotions stimulate them to do, like a child disobeying a father because he said that they can’t have a doughnut, feels deeply offended and wounded in her heart and breasts, that she should be told what to do; to “submit” to a God-designated higher authority in their husbands supposedly righteous authority. They feel as though they have been ruled unfairly, as if they have been struck with a rod, causing them to feel unloved, unappreciated, unintelligent, and voiceless, particularly by the command to “submit” to her husband, since it means to be in subordination, suggestive of enslavement to his (hopefully righteous) authority; to all women, and particularly wives, a most irksome and insulting command.

Eph 5:22  Wives, submit [G5293] yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. 

G5293 = 1. To arrange under, to subordinate. Obedience; obedient; subject; under.

Those meanings evoke a demeaning element, making the one created, so beautiful in every respect, feel deeply insulted by her perceived lack of intelligence. A humiliating and insufferable seven-thousand-year temporary measure to humble mankind.

Typically, a Babylonian wife’s response to being ‘washed with the word’ by her husband — rejecting the claim that this is an act of love — is met with indignation, pride, and underlying humiliation, as she feels she is being treated like a child due to her perception of a reprimand. Though executed lovingly, their egocentrism rarely sees it that way. Young girls, who are truly cherished as ‘Daddy’s princess’ and sources of joy, and who mature into women, are particularly susceptible to cognitive dissonance. This occurs when they emotionally interpret their reality through their highly sensory bodies, which tyrannise their thinking and cause their firmly held beliefs to seem unquestionably true; their every sensory organ’s response, written in their faces and body language, tells them so! — and a husband better not argue with that! And Adam didn’t.

1Co 2:4  And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words [Demonstratively, Eve’s] of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the spirit and of power: [Adam rejected]
1Co 2:5  That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

Upon her eating of the forbidden fruit, Eve may not have been in tears for being caught having listened to ‘her better judgement’; nonetheless, Satan knew precisely how to get to Adam, and it was by that methodology mentioned above by women typically testing a courting male and always a husband for her to feel the security of his power and authority that is strangely a little bit sensually arousing—a vital element of intimacy the Eve’s of the world now unconsciously struggle to recapture; overruled by her perception by the more believable feminised truth, indicative of the 1,000 ‘girlfriends’ reinforcing self-indoctrinations of Solomon’s court. It all empowers the most unfeminine nature of violently wresting a husband’s authority in the ugliness of contemporary feminism, causing her husband to withdraw. She believes that marriage is all about her, and how he doesn’t understand her; quite the opposite of the bride’s impassioned desire to understand her Husband.

Adam’s anguished abdication of righteous authority over his wife, Eve, is necessary to mirror humanity’s mandatory insurrection and whoreish rejection of Christ, establishing her Queen-like rulership over the Beast of humanity. Like a party trick, on her emblematic head is written Mystery Babylon the Great, the Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the Earth (Rev 17:5), insensibly representative of man’s temporary coup over God’s throne.

Isa 46:9  Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, 
Isa 46:10  Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure: 

The Song of Solomon: God’s Purpose for Taking the Woman out of the Man – Part 3

[Study Aired February 7 2026]

While Adam is the principal sinner, having abdicated his headship over his wife by submitting to feminine logic, Eve highlights mankind’s 200,000,000-strong lies (Rev 9:16-18), inventively accusing and excusing themselves while manipulating relationships for personal advantage – all highlighted by the Woman, now unwittingly becoming the signified New Adam. She additionally inherits his curse from him in all carnal marriages by not outwardly tending her vineyard, her fields in her home building for him, infertile and overgrown with emotional thorns and thistles (Son 1:6), in control of espousal intimacies represented spiritually. We know that irritating truth by the Lord’s humiliating experiences with Old Israel as his wife in the wilderness, embedded in her Eve-like feminine wiles carried forward perpetually in the flesh of mankind until the First Resurrection and first corrected by his Bride.

Rom 8:3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh;

Our Lord designed mankind, characterised by women and wives, to reject their husbands’ headship, all ruthlessly symbolised by ancient Israel in the wilderness, the Lord’s first wife. She, like Gomer to Hosea and the budding Elect to Christ, was a God-induced heartache to her respective husbands, indicative of the New Adam’s temporary condition. As the aforementioned song goes, “It’s a Man’s World”, meaning, it is God’s world.

Eze 20:5  And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when I chose Israel, and lifted up mine hand unto the seed of the house of Jacob, and made myself known [H3045 – espoused ‘knowing’ intimately] unto them in the land of Egypt, when I lifted up mine hand unto them, saying, I am the LORD your God; 
Eze 20:6  In the day that I lifted up mine hand unto them, to bring them forth of the land of Egypt into a land that I had espied for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands:
Eze 20:7  Then said I unto them, Cast ye away every man the abominations of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
Eze 20:8  But they rebelled against me [rejected their husband’s intimate advances teaching them his word], and would not hearken unto me: they did not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt: then I said, I will pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.

Exo 14:11  And they [Israel, the Lord’s wife] said unto Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness? wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us, to carry us forth out of Egypt?
Exo 14:12  Is not this the word that we did tell thee in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For it had been better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness.

That is what every Elect husband or wife hears from their non-Elect spouses, since what they, as Eve did, see and feel through their senses is the stark testimony to wealth physically, intellectually and monetarily. Centred in Eve’s emphasised femininity, highly subject to sensualities, those elements are vital to hiding the mystery of seeking what we must worship in spirit and truth.

Joh 4:24  God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

Understandably, yet a vital necessity, it is a dreadful burden that the ‘weaker vessel’ is highlighted to carry her greater load of “many inventions” of Ecclesiastes 7:29, emblematically 200,000,000 of them guaranteed to embitter all husbands duplicitously. All Babylonian women, internally, know and rarely admit, and then resentfully, that they are full of female artifices to get their way in all strata of society, particularly in marriage. Upon being taken out of Adam, her stratagems, concentrated in her DNA, and mainly uncontrollably manifested impudently without apology – a wretched condition infecting mankind. Why? To condemn Adam, representing mankind who rejects God, signified by Eve rejecting Adam, demonstrated in the most impactful, hurtful manner conceived, fulfilled in Christ, rejected by his first wife, Old Israel, of a wife’s inevitable rejection of her husband’s insatiable need for espousal intimacies.

That is a significant burden of the Bride’s high calling (Phil 3:14, Zec 12); she now enthusiastically turned around in The Song of Solomon.

Mar 7:9  And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.

Luk 9:22  Saying, The Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders and chief priests and scribes [the Woman, the church], and be slain, and be raised the third day.

Mat 10:34  Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
Mat 10:35  For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law [Notice, men singularly against God and every scheming variation of women against both men, women and God; both entities being the same]
Mat 10:36  And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household

Rev 3:14  And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;

Our enemy, being of our household, is any member rejecting the husband’s headship, all cascading to the children being against both their father and mother, as are the Babylonian churches against Christ.

The Creation of Man and Woman:

Gen 2:4  These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,
Gen 2:5  And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground. 
Gen 2:6  But there went up a mist [Emblematic of the holy spirit coming much later in ‘kisses’ to rejoin the man and woman effervescently] from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
Gen 2:7  And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Gen 2:8  And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

Skipping down,

Gen 2:15  And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. 
Gen 2:16  And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
Gen 2:17  But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely [begin the process of dying] die.
Gen 2:18  And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. 
Gen 2:19  And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
Gen 2:20  And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him. 
Gen 2:21  And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
Gen 2:22  And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
Gen 2:23  And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. 
Gen 2:24  Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

In God’s plan for “the beginning of the creation of God” (Rev 3:14, Joh 10:34), the birthing of man in the flesh is, from the outset, designed for destruction before being gifted eternal life with the same unspeakable power and glory at their fingertips as the Father (Gen 40:41-42).

1Co 15:50  Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.

Consequently, the crowning glory of scriptural understanding of mankind’s terrible experience of evil is alone in this age for the Bride to understand – just who is Lord and King, she, the woman (mankind/the harlot church) or Christ, the Husband. God will not allow His headship to be continually challenged by His creation. Hence, he designed mankind to learn through the bitter experience of corruptible flesh the order of headship; consecutively, the Father, Christ, the man, his wife, and their children are represented in marriage as a significant part of the pattern of salvation! For mankind, and foremost, the Bride, to have that order thoroughly embedded in their heart, mind, and spirit, mankind must be severely humbled, and the most humbling experience is for both a physical husband and wife to be cursed by their indignant rejection that God should rule over them, telling them what is right for their happiness.

Accordingly, the world’s churches, represented by wives and women, are the key performers, comprehensively objecting to ‘some man’ ruling them and, more eminently, men objecting to Christ ruling them. That pattern experienced spiritually by every human who has ever existed is the intrinsic nature of evil flesh, highlighted by Adam and Eve’s curse, manifested in marriage, consummated in and by the star soloist, the Bride of Christ.

Ecc 1:13 I applied my heart to inquiring and exploring by wisdom concerning all that is done under the heavens: it is an experience of evil Elohim has given to the sons of humanity to humble them by it.

Hos 13:9  O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me is thine help [G5828 – is the same ‘help’ as Eve is Adam’s “helpmeet”]

Gen 2:18  And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

Two aspects of the term “Helpmeet” are derived for its understanding.

Help – H5828 1. help, succour [Comfort] a. help, succour b. one who helps [comforts].

Meet – H5048 1. What is conspicuous, what is in front of adv 2. in front of, straight forward, before, in sight of.

When the Lord brought Eve to Adam, Adam immediately saw that she was like him, yet different. Eve’s most conspicuous difference was her outward bodily presentation, which deeply intrigued his mind and spirit to “know” her; the most profound and resultant aspect of that ‘knowing’ was the sexual unity melding all three elements into wholeness — of one mind, body and spirit as one, comforting him, oblivious to the coming complications of him listening to his wife rather than God.

1Th 5:23  And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Through our hindsight discernment by the holy spirit, that ‘helping comfort’ Eve engendered in Adam, essentially enlivened by his lust, was about to transform into an experience of evil, deludedly perceived as love — an overpowering mixture of confusion afflicting Adam’s sensibilities, utterly unaware that his wife’s overruling actions would be emblematic of the future Whore, Babylon the Great (Rev 18).

Accordingly, a man’s introduction to or view from a distance of a woman, her attractiveness is instantly calculated visually, without any other virtuous “helpmeet” credentials adding to her value. Once she has aroused his attention and he can interact to learn of her other possible virtues, the inherently ignoble man will always place a higher value on the level of sensuality she evokes than on her other potential helpmeet qualities in Proverbs 31:10-31. A man of Godly sophistication is likewise always instantly visually attracted, yet knows that her beauty can evaporate equally as fast if all she represents is an intractable ‘show pony’. However, her value is akin to ‘far above rubies’ only if she embodies a synthesis of Martha and Mary. If her outward beauty is comparable to that of Leah—relatively modest and typical, as is the case with many women, varying in subtleties—her primary asset is her carefully cultivated sexual appeal. When combined with the enthusiastic ministrations reminiscent of Abishag or Esther, her basic presentation can transform into something incredibly beguiling, adding an element that is ‘too wonderful,’ as pondered in ‘the way of a man with a maiden’ (Proverbs 30:19). This perspective offers immense hope to socially anxious women perceived as lacking conventional beauty. Men are so easily seduced. Such women, with seemingly simple appearances, yet who momentarily devote a sincere, centred smile to a particular man, can immediately dispel his negative perceptions.

Pro 6:25  Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.

Son 6:5  Turn away thine eyes from me, for they have overcome me…

Even though “he who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favour of the Lord” (Pro 18:22), one who brings immense joy to a husband, she comes with a hidden price, not necessarily monetarily, but spiritually, unwittingly characteristic of harlotry. Consequently, the Bible is about the torturous journey of two men, the Old Man in Adam and the New Man in Christ, paradoxically characterised by the protagonist, a woman, whom Christ transforms into the pinnacle of his creation in the Bride, and her marriage to Him for the salvation of the rest of mankind.

In the Kingdom of God eternally, there is neither male nor female. Mankind is a unique and fascinating phenomenon, designed materially to signify his progress toward becoming God. In the meantime, he impudently poses as god, on the God of God’s throne.

Gal 3:28 [In the Kingdom of God…] There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. 

Ecc 3:18  I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.

2Pe 2:12  But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;

Ecc 3:18 I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.
Ecc 3:19  For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.
Ecc 3:20  All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. 
Ecc 3:21  Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?
Ecc 3:22  Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better [while in the flesh], than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?

2Th 2:3  Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;

2Th 2:4  [Mankind, represented by the Great Whore] Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

We have identified many of the results of Eve’s curse. What further impact does Adam’s curse have on Eve and mankind?

The first time the term “cursed” or “curse” appears in Scripture is in Genesis 3, and the first to be cursed from conception is the Serpent, the Devil himself.

Joh 8:44  Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

Possibly because Adam was not deceived, Eve is next in line to receive the outcome of her curse, followed by Adam. One would generally think that, even though Adam was not deceived, he was still the head of Eve and thus should be the first to be reprimanded. Not so, because the principle of ‘the first shall be last, and the last, first’ was already covertly in play, with God steering Satan’s inherent lying nature to pick on Eve, him knowing that Eve, in representing all women, would have a massive flow-on of artifices over all men until the end of the Sixth Day of mankind’s rule. Regarding the principle of the first shall be last, and the last, first, Eve is first to be deceived, but the New Adam in her, although last, becomes the first as the Bride. No wonder God’s word is a mystery to Christian Orthodoxy.

Even though Adam represents mankind comprising men and women, Eve, the last to be created, will represent the coming Church, likewise constituting men and women, despite that she represents the future two wives of the Lord, the Whore and the Bride – again, the first, being the Whore in the wilderness will be last to be saved, while the previous wife, the Bride is the first. It appropriately identifies the female protagonist, the Bride of Christ, as the celestial body in harmony with her Husband, who has been exalted to the place she has always desired, rather than former notoriety as The Great Whore in each of us. Sitting as a queen, impudently believing her espousal to Christ, now correctly appointed in the order of headship under, and virtuously married to ‘the’ Christ.

Gen 3:13  And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The Serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
Gen 3:14  And the LORD God said unto the Serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: 

Again, and without repeating our many detailed studies on the significations of names, the Body of Christ is well versed in what cattle and dust represent. The upshot of Satan’s curse is that he devours mankind, particularly through the easily beguiled woman’s multiple emotional stimulations, who, in turn, conveniently beguiles her husband, Adam, particularly sexually, and he dismissively knows it, silently fearing complete disconnection bitterly. In the world, the most dissolute men easily fulfil their lust for females anywhere, worse, even of their own gender.

1Ti 2:14  And it was not Adam who was deceived, but the woman who was deceived and fell into transgression.

Eve couldn’t have deceived Adam, as that would later imply that the Lord was tempted to give in to Old Israel’s endless attempts to trap his heart absurdly, just as Satan tried, before Christ being taken to the cross. Both accounts required Christ, the Last Adam, to be tempted to submit to his fleshy sensualities, which we know for him is impossible, since without the Father, Christ can do nothing.

Jas 1:13  Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:

Joh 15:5  I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. [Nothing means nothing]

Since Eve came from Adam and is female, her hormonally driven level of sensory awareness is significantly higher than Adam’s, and this now forms a natural part of all women. Her heightened sensitivities bombarding her mind, depending upon the psychological makeup of the individual, leave women prone to highly variable levels of sensory overload, and to varying degrees, affecting their every decision. Indeed, some women with higher testosterone levels are less easily affected by estrogen spikes. However, if not recognised early, their high likelihood of emotional bias in decision-making can destabilise analytical thinking. Because of sentimentality, they are left vulnerable to deception and avoid critical, truthful analysis. Those God-designed female traits that make her susceptible to deception also affect men with psychological impotence from willingly submitting to lust, or naturally low testosterone, and, like the female, are far more vulnerable to deception—indicative of him being injured in his privy member and stones.

2Ti 3:13  But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived. 

Jdg 16:5  And the lords of the Philistines came up unto her [Delilah], and said unto her, Entice [deceive] him, and see wherein his great strength lieth, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him: and we will give thee every one of us eleven hundred pieces of silver.

Exo 22:16  And if a man entice [deceive] a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.

Although indicative of mankind, the inescapable, and for some women, the unpleasant truth is that women are purposefully highlighted as being innately predisposed to deception and deceiving (Ecc 7:26-29) to portray Babylonian churches directly. That condition from Eden, affecting all male and female interactions, and particularly carnal marriages, is a prime and necessary result of taking the woman out of the man, enlivening the Bride’s understanding of the entire process.

Adam, although not deceived, is representative of all men, by God’s design, are consumed by Eve’s mystical beauty and would much rather experience what is before their somatic sensory system, the lust of the flesh and the eyes, even while their consciences excuse and accuse them from keeping God’s word. (Somatic sensory: a subsystem for the detection of mechanical stimuli (e.g., light touch, vibration, pressure, and cutaneous tension), and a subsystem for the detection of painful stimuli and temperature.)

Gen 6:2  the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they took as wives whomever they chose.

At this juncture, it is essential to understand the significance of Ecclesiastes 7:26, as its dynamics profoundly affect every marriage and physically represent the all-important spiritual reality unfolding throughout these studies.

Ecc 7:26  And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.

Solomon encountered numerous instances, with his 1,000 wives, reflecting the involuntary consequences of Eve’s curse. This curse entailed a wife’s deceptive assurances of honour and respect, promising submission to her husband’s spirit in unity, which served as an inherent stratagem to entrap his heart. Consequently, upon experiencing the deception thousands of times, within the context of marriage under God’s law, he was bound in matrimony with no means of release except through death, paralleling Christ’s experience with ancient Israel.

The significant obstacle every husband faces, stemming from Eve’s (and his to Christ) curse, is her opposition to his leadership, as she insists that he pursue her sentimentalities to feel loved—dogma and complexity of a critical scriptural theme of the Bible, quite the opposite of what the holy spirit inspired Solomon to pen its simplicity:

Son 1:4  Draw me, we [The collective joints in the Bride] will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine: the upright love thee.

Much more will be extrapolated from that verse much later in the actual study of the Song of Solomon. However, for this occasion, I wish to highlight the overwhelming theme of women, particularly wives, demanding that men, and specifically husbands, run after them!

A house divided cannot stand. And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand – Mat 12:25.  Every man and husband experiences that damnable obscenity; that if she honours her husband as her leader, she will have to give up her power over him—exemplifying her staunch resistance to his headship, and insistance of being against him, and Christ. However, she will angrily and with tears say that is not so, that all he has to do is “love her”—exactly, by her methodology of him bowing to her!

The ONLY man given to escape from her is the Bride through the death of herself, her old man.

Since Adam has now physically and spiritually abdicated most of his headship to Eve and, for the most part, worships her in marriage, the emblematic church that she represents runs riot with her self-elevation, becoming a host of harlot churches.

Gen 3:15  And I will put enmity between thee [Satan, our first father, we, being his seed] and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed [Men and women alienated]; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel [Lead mankind to eternal life through Christ].
Gen 3:16  Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be (to) against thy husband, and he shall [Ultimately] rule over thee [unrighteously and finally, righteously]. 
Gen 3:17  And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; 
Gen 3:18  Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;
Gen 3:19  In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
Gen 3:20  And Adam called his wife’s name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.

The fundamental theme of Adam and Eve’s curses is their disunity of mind and spirit, with a primary focus on Eve, who sows profound sexual discord, a lustful desire lapped up by Adam, resulting in the tumultuous struggles of spiritual life. This depiction illustrates the Church’s virtuous growth to maturity. Since Eve is the mother of all living, those complex struggles highlight mankind’s painful birth from the spiritual loins of Christ’s Wife, the spiritual mother of the eternally living. Interestingly, Solomon’s profound understanding of women, as he experienced with his 1,000 wives, incriminates men for their equal ‘inventiveness’ in Ecclesiastes 7:29, epitomised by the intrinsic nature of women.

Ecc 9:1  For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred by all that is before them [All are deluded predominately by Eve’s curse infecting marriages mirroring the church’s].
Ecc 9:2  All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.

Hence, women attempt to rule men, implemented rigorously by wives ruling their husbands sexually, his emasculation utterly destroying the dissemination of truth, adding to his curse by his impotence of ineffectively washing her with the word.

Rev 17:7  And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.

Rev 17:16 And the ten horns [Mankind, and our power of having imagined the appropriation of God’s throne] which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
Rev 17:17 For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.
Rev 17:18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.

What potent methodology does that ‘woman’ employ to rule all kings, meaning mankind, whereby they willingly give her power? The principal is the natural, and then the spiritual comes into play (1 Cor 15:46-47). That first ‘natural’ element is her gloriously beguiling sexual prowess, weaponised to rule lustful men. It spiritually represents a false doctrine: the sweet lies that men indulge in to satiate their craving for intimacy, with its quid pro quo forcefully validating the woman’s illusory beauty (Pro 31:30) and her devastating control over men, primarily husbands.

Women have men believing the psychologically manipulating adage, ‘Happy wife, happy life’, magnifying her assumed divinity, his focus on her; a stealthy distortion of the truth, a spiritually ‘Happy Husband, Happy Wife’. However, while in the flesh, she arouses endless experiences of the type described in Ecclesiastes 7 to gain men’s and a husband’s unflinching focus on her. All of these constitute a significant part of rejecting his headship and creating disunity, as evidenced by her being taken out of Adam, re-created externally, and returned, unified internally, in Christ.

Throughout history, humanity has focused on women. In dance, he leads, but the focus is on her. Because of her innate charm, and if sustained righteously, even in politics, she becomes a Deborah (Jdg 4:4-5), naturally attracting immense honour and respect, usually in governance reserved for a male. At the marriage ceremony, she, emblematic of Christ’s Bride, rightfully draws the most attention, subtly usurping unrighteous authority with ease.

It is now well established that the female, recognised as the weaker vessel, is last to be mentioned, if at all, in Old Covenant family blessings and inheritances, yet subtly becomes the first (Mat 20:16). Because she is the focus of God’s work in the Old Adam transitioning to the New Adam in Christ, she is the most honoured and esteemed woman in the creation of Christ’s Wife, leading every inseminated conception to salvation. Her transition is profoundly portrayed in the Old Covenant as a whore, becoming the Bride in the New Covenant – all soundly studied in IWWB’s spiritual examinations.

Eve represents our flesh, and we are not to have our flesh rule over us. A woman, or especially a wife, is not to rule over her husband; that is Christ within.

1Co 11:2 Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you.
1Co 11:3 But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.
1Co 11:4 Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonoureth his head.
1Co 11:5 But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven.
1Co 11:6  For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered. That is, covered by her husband.
1Co 11:7 For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.
1Co 11:8 For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man.
1Co 11:9 Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.

Since the Bible primarily focuses on two men, the supreme protagonist is enigmatically the Old Man in transition to becoming the New Man in Christ, who is mystifyingly represented by a woman, culminating in her becoming Christ’s Bride. Hence, she describes the outward nature of her husband and mankind and is, first, attracting fiery judgment ahead of her sisters remaining in Babylon. By our Lord creating woman, her intrinsic nature contributes to the Elect’s experience of evil, ensuring our Lord’s wrath upon our Old Man as it transitions into the New Adam in Christ.

Eph 2:3  Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. 
Eph 2:4  But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
Eph 2:5  Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are [chastised and thus,] saved;)
Eph 2:6  And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
Eph 2:7  That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.

The conclusion of God’s purpose in reducing some overriding female elements from Adam instils in him an unquenchable need to be reunited. While in the flesh, that unity is marred in the Potter’s hand, destined for espousal turbulence generated by him, now manifest in his wife, the symbolic church, representing mankind, their 6,000 long years of inability to be washed by their Lord’s spirit.

Joh 4:23  But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. 
Joh 4:24  God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. 
Joh 4:25  The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things.
Joh 4:26  Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he.

It was all planned before the foundation of the world that the female protagonist, destined for royalty, seated in the midst of God’s throne in and with Christ, would need to be severely humbled to attain such a breathtaking status.

That distinction is what all feminists, the unwitting noisome beasts (Eze 14:21) with another spirit, raucously demand. An impassable chasm exists between them and their younger sister, the Shulamite, who is given to possessing the same spirit as her Husband. As we shall see in the SoS, she unashamedly and enthusiastically stirs up His spirit, to which He is guaranteed to respond immeasurably, thus embodying 2 Tim 1:6 and the Shulmite’s opening expression and outstanding theme in the Song of Solomon.

1Th 5:19  Quench not the spirit. 

2Ti 1:6  For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift [spirit] of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands.

That fanning aflame the sensual espoused spirit in our carnal marriages to be reunited in one mind and body, is without the holy spirit, nigh impossible; an experience of evil indeed, the world is blind to mending. That experience of fiery evil, the Bride, the “anointed cherub, typified by Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, physically, she likewise walks up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.

Eze 28:14  Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.

And so, the purpose of taking the woman out of the man engenders much tribulation on multiple fronts in the recreation of man in God’s image. The Bride lives the epitome of the old British naval wit, “The beatings will continue until morale improves”—and to the bewilderment of Babylon within, paradoxically, it does!

The woman at the well of Christ’s word is the embryonic Bride of Christ, who in these latter times, since the cross, are an exceptionally rare few who hear, see, and ravishingly live their Husband’s word. She, the once-ensnaring ‘fowler’, is now committed to fulfilling ‘the purpose of taking the woman out of the man’, as she forsakes her noisome intimacy dogma, leading to desolation, and is given to reunite in the spirit and truth of His commands—an infinitely superior fulfilling ravishing, Solomon carnally dreamt, and she spiritually fulfils.

In that the Bride is the New Adam, he is the supreme ‘protagonist’ as Christ’s Christs. He stands quietly by in the myrtle grove, retrospectively and futuristically observing his Is, Was, and Will Be while the female within temporarily suffers violence.

Psa 91:3  Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.

Eze 14:15  If I cause noisome beasts to pass through the land, and they spoil it, so that it be desolate, that no man may pass through because of the beasts:
Eze 14:16  Though these three men were in it, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters; they only shall be delivered, but the [rest of the] land shall be desolate [until the Eighth Day of creation]. 

Zec 1:9  Then said I, O my lord, what are these? And the angel that talked with me said unto me, I will shew thee what these be. 
Zec 1:10  And the man that stood among the myrtle trees answered and said, These are they whom the LORD hath sent to walk to and fro through the earth. 
Zec 1:11  And they answered the angel of the LORD that stood among the myrtle trees, and said, We have walked to and fro through the earth, and, behold, all the earth [of the Bride of Christ] sitteth still, and is at rest. 

Vital marital understanding is found here:

Mike Vinson, and essential reading from https://www.iswasandwillbe.com/marriage-part-1-he-that-loves-his-wife-loves-himself/

https://www.iswasandwillbe.com/marriage-part-2-wives-submit-yourselves-to-your-own-husbands-as-unto-the-lord-part-a/

https://www.iswasandwillbe.com/marriage-part-3-wives-submit-yourselves-to-your-own-husbands-as-unto-the-lord-part-b/

Steven Crook’s 14-part series on The Virtuous Body of Christ, beginning here: https://www.iswasandwillbe.com/the-virtuous-body-of-christ-introduction/

In the subsequent study, we shall, Lord willing, see that lust initially came through Adam, not Eve.

Biblical Overview of the Plan of God, Part 9:  The Jubilee

[Study Aired October 17, 2025]

Lev 25:8  And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years.
Lev 25:9  Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.

Pentecost is preceded by seven weeks, seven weekly sabbaths, seven weekly days of rest.

Exo 31:15  Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD: whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.

The year of jubilee is preceded by seven sabbath years when the land was to be given rest. If we hope to know the meaning of these two sabbaths… Pentecost after seven weekly sabbaths of rest, and Jubilee after seven sabbath years of rest for the land, it will help greatly to understand the significance of the words ‘sabbath of rest’.

Hebrews four provides us with that bit of information, but before we look at the fourth chapter let’s first see what the introductory words ‘Let us therefore’ are referring to. Here are the last three verses of chapter three:

Heb 3:17  But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
Heb 3:18  And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?
Heb 3:19  So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

Now Paul is going to give us the spiritual significance of the words “sabbath of rest” of Exodus 31:15:

Heb 4:1  Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.
Heb 4:2  For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.
Heb 4:3  For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
Heb 4:4  For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works.
Heb 4:5  And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest.
Heb 4:6  Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:
Heb 4:7  Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
Heb 4:8  For if Jesus [Greek: ‘Joshua’] had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.
Heb 4:9  There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.
Heb 4:10  For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.
Heb 4:11  Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.

That is the spiritual significance of “a sabbath of rest.” Our ‘rest’ is the gift of the spirit of God and His grace which is setting us free from our own beastly carnal mind and sins which have reigned over our lives:

Eph 2:8  For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

Rom 6:14  For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

Being made free from the dominion of sin in our lives necessitates that we must therefore become slaves to righteousness:

Rom 6:15  What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
Rom 6:16  Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
Rom 6:17  But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.
Rom 6:18  Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants [G1402: ‘douloo’, slave] of righteousness.

Now we should begin to see that a “sabbath of rest” whether it be the weekly sabbath, the seven weekly sabbaths from the days of unleavened bread until Pentecost, or the seven sabbath years which bring us to the jubilee, the only heirs of that rest will be believers who come up through great tribulation and wash their robes white in the blood of the Lamb:

Mat 10:21  And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.
Mat 10:22  And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.

Rev 7:9  After this [After being shown the 144,000 “firstfruits unto God and the Lamb”, (Rev 7:1-8)] I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;

Rev 7:13  And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they?
Rev 7:14  And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation “lake of fire”], and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
Rev 17:14  These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful [“to the end”].

Those who ‘endure to the end’ in this present time are the bride of Christ. It is Christ’s bride who are signified by seven weekly sabbaths culminating in the feast of Pentecost, the day on which the Lord’s bride was born through the giving of the holy spirit in Acts 2. We are those who are numbered as 144,000, “firstfruits unto God and The Lamb… the Bride The Lamb’s wife… Jerusalem above, the mother of us all”.

Gal 4:26  But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

Rev 14:1  And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father’s name written in their foreheads.
Rev 14:2  And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps:
Rev 14:3  And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.
Rev 14:4  These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb.

There is another group which cannot be numbered. They, too, must “come up through great tribulation and wash their robes white in the blood of The Lamb” (Rev 7:14). These are the fruit of the womb of the bride of Christ. The great multitude which no man could number are signified by the fiftieth year. The Jubilee year which follow 7 sabbath years.

Lev 25:1  And the LORD spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying,
Lev 25:2  Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the LORD.
Lev 25:3  Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof;
Lev 25:4  But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the LORD: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.
Lev 25:5  That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: for it is a year of rest unto the land.
Lev 25:6  And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you; for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for thy stranger that sojourneth with thee,
Lev 25:7  And for thy cattle, and for the beast that are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be meat.

The Lord’s jubilee comes on the fiftieth year, the year after seven  sabbath years.

Lev 25:8  And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years.
Lev 25:9  Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.
Lev 25:10  And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.
Lev 25:11  A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine undressed.
Lev 25:12  For it is the jubile; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field.
Lev 25:13  In the year of this jubile ye shall return every man unto his possession.
Lev 25:14  And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest ought of thy neighbour’s hand, ye shall not oppress one another:
Lev 25:15  According to the number of years after the jubile thou shalt buy of thy neighbour, and according unto the number of years of the fruits he shall sell unto thee:
Lev 25:16  According to the multitude of years thou shalt increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of years thou shalt diminish the price of it: for according to the number of the years of the fruits doth he sell unto thee.
Lev 25:17  Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God: for I am the LORD your God.
Lev 25:18  Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety.
Lev 25:19  And the land shall yield her fruit, and ye shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety.
Lev 25:20  And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase:
Lev 25:21  Then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years.
Lev 25:22  And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat yet of old fruit until the ninth year; until her fruits come in ye shall eat of the old store.

This series of studies has been entitled The Biblical Overview of the Plan of God as Revealed in the Holy Days. I did not include the words ‘As Revealed In The Holy Days’ in the title of this study simply because this part of the plan of God, His year of the jubilee, is not in the purview of the holy days which the Lord gave to ancient Israel. The seven weeks leading up to Pentecost and the birth of the New Testament church, who are signified by the number 144,000, the firstfruit elect of God, are called the bride of His Son, Christ. Christ’s bride is a precursor to the salvation of all the rest of mankind as the fruit of “the marriage supper of the Lamb. The fruit of that marriage between Christ and His bride is the jubilee harvest which signifies the great multitude which no man could number who will also come up through great tribulation and wash their robes white in the blood of the Lamb as the children of Christ’s bride. This event is not featured in the seven holy days which end with the eighth day, the last great day. The last great day of the feast signifies the short season of rebellion against the ‘camp of the saints’. That rebellion gives the Lord the ‘occasion’ He is seeking to destroy the nations in the four quarters of the earth and thereby begin the process of destroying death via the great white throne judgment/lake of fire/ second death. The lake of fire is the “great tribulation” which must try all who are given to be that part of the plan of God which is revealed by the holy days brings us to the very beginning of the judgment of the nations in the great white throne judgment.

When Christ cried out on the  last great day that anyone who was thirsty should come to Him, believe on Him and become a well of living waters for others:

Joh 7:37  In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.
Joh 7:38  He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
Joh 7:39  (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)

 It will be through us, through spiritual Israel, through “they that believe on Him… by the church”, that the “all in all” goal of the plan of God for all men will be accomplished, even as all of the holy days of the three seasons of the year are also being fulfilled in and through “Christ and Christ in [us]” (Col 1:27):

Eph 1:18 The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance [which is] in the saints,
Eph 1:19 And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,
Eph 1:20 Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,
Eph 1:21 Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world [G165: ‘aion’, age], but also in that which is to come:
Eph 1:22 And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,
Eph 1:23 Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.

Eph 3:9  And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:
Eph 3:10  To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God,

“The church which is His body [is], the fulness of Him that fills all in all.” It is a rare person who is even given to understand that this is so, because Christ’s “inheritance [is] in the saints”. (Eph 1:18)

It is even fewer who realize that this “all in all” goal is not typified by the holy days. It is typified for us outside of the seven festivals of the three seasons of the year. The goal of the plan of God, God being all in all, is outside the scope of this earthly vessel of clay. Therefore it is represented, not in a day which follows seven sevens of weeks, but in a year which follows seven sevens of years which we are given in the Old Testament law of the year of the jubilee:

Lev 25:9 Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.
Lev 25:10 And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.

You will notice that the trumpet of the jubilee is sounded on the day of atonement. It is also on the day of atonement that the scapegoat was offered for the iniquities of Israel. While it is not specifically stated in Revelation 20 that it will be the saints who will judge every man according to His works, it is specifically stated that Christ is the judge of all men:

Rom 2:16  In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.

2Ti 4:1  I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;

Exactly who is “Jesus of Nazareth?”

Act 22:8  And I [Self-righteous Saul of Tarsus, signifying you and me] answered, Who art thou, Lord? And he said unto me, I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom thou persecutest.

Christ’s Father will “judge the quick and the dead… by Jesus Christ” (Rom 2:16; 2Ti 4:1].

What will that ‘judgment’ produce?

Isa 26:9  With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.

That is what the fiery judgments of God will produce, whether it is the first judgment which is now on the house of God or the later ‘great white throne… judgment’ when the great multitude which no man could number will be resurrected from the dead and judged as spiritual sons of their father the devil:

Joh 8:43  Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.
Joh 8:44  Ye [All men before being judged] are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
Joh 8:45  And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.
Joh 8:46  Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me?
Joh 8:47  He that is of God heareth God’s words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.

Christ makes this incredible statement concerning us as His Christ:

Joh 20:21  Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.

We just read in Romans 2:16 and 2Timothy 4:1 that “God will judge the living and them by Jesus Christ.” Here we have Christ telling us, “As My Father hath sent me, even so send I you.”

Is there a second witness in scripture which states that we will judge spiritual sons of the Devil? Indeed there is just such a verse:

1Co 6:2  Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
1Co 6:3  Know ye not that we shall judge angels [In the lake of fire at the white throne judgment]? how much more things that pertain to this life?

For whom is the lake of fire prepared?

Mat 25:41  Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting [G166: ‘aionios’, age lasting] fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:

All the words of Christ and all the words of His apostles are addressed primarily to His elect firstfruits who are also called “the bride, The Lamb’s wife”. It is to us that He makes these admonitions:

Mat 5:29  And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
Mat 5:30  And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

Mat 18:8  Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and cast them from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire.
Mat 18:9  And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire.

The “everlasting fire” of Matthew 18:8 is the same “everlasting fire” of Matthew 25:41 where we are told this fire is “prepared for the devil and his angels”. The very next verse here in Matthew 18 refers to this “everlasting fire” as “hell fire” and the word ‘hell’ is G1067, ‘Genna’ or ‘Gehenna’, which refers to the valley of the sons of Hinnom just south of Jerusalem which was used as the city dump where fires were kept burning to devour the waste of the city. Christ used this term to refer to the lake of fire where the great white throne judgment will take place and death and the refuge of all flesh will be devoured and destroyed.

We must never confuse the process with the product. The lake of fire is the process of judgment which we patiently endure:

Isa 26:8  Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we waited for thee; the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee.
Isa 26:9  With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.

God’s judgments, which He works through His saints, produces righteousness in “all men”. That “righteousness of Christ”, that “mind of Christ” is the “God… all in all” for which the Lord is working in and through us, “the church”.

Eph 3:9  And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:
Eph 3:10  To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God,

Rom 11:32  For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.
Rom 11:33  O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
Rom 11:34  For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor?
Rom 11:35  Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?
Rom 11:36  For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.

This is Paul’s prayer for the Ephesians and it should be our prayer for each other:

Eph 1:17  That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:
Eph 1:18  The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
Eph 1:19  And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,
Eph 1:20  Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,
Eph 1:21  Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:
Eph 1:22  And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,
Eph 1:23  Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.

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Rev 22:16-21 If Any Man Add to or Take Away, Part 2

 [Study Aired August 22, 2025]

Rev 22:16  I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.
Rev 22:17  And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.
Rev 22:18  For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:
Rev 22:19  And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.
Rev 22:20  He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Rev 22:21  The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.

We paused our last study with this stern warning from the Lord:

Rev 22:18 For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:
Rev 22:19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.
Rev 22:20 He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.

We will continue our study by considering the consequences of ignoring this warning against handling the Word of God carelessly as the sons of Aaron handled the fire in their censors carelessly. That ‘fire’ in their censors signifies the Lord’s Words and as that story clearly demonstrates the Lord does not tolerate His ministers offering “strange fire.”

Jer 5:14  Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.

1Co 3:13  Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is.

Num 26:61  And Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire before the LORD.

“Strange fire” signifies a perversion of the Lord’s Words. His Words are not to be dealt with carelessly. If we “speak above what is written”, we are ‘adding to these things… which are written therein’ (Rev 1:3). If we do such a rash and foolish thing, “God shall add unto him [us] the plagues that are written in this book.” Paul had given us this same warning many years earlier:

1Co 4:6  Now these things, brothers, I applied to myself and Apollos for your sakes, so that in us ye might learn not to think above that which is written, so that ye may not be puffed up, one over the one against the other.

Notice that we are told that God will plague those who add to the things which are written therein. We will all keep the things written therein, and the seven last plagues are already written. That is why we are told, “I testify to every man that hears the words of this prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book.” This demonstrates that there are those who are given ears to hear what is written, and yet they are made to “add to the things which are written therein.” An example of such a person is one who sees that all who would enter into the temple in heaven must first ‘fulfill the seven last plagues.’

Rev 15:8  And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power; and no man was able to enter into the temple, till the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled.

That phrase, ‘were fulfilled’ is in the aorist tense and should read ‘are being fulfilled.’ Nevertheless the person who is given to “hear the prophecy of this book” and agrees that we are to keep the seven last plagues, but then ignores the promise that all overcomers in this present age “will not be hurt of the second death” and begins teaching that all men are ‘partakers of the second death’, that person and all who seek after him, has “added to the words of this prophecy”, and they will indeed ‘be hurt of the second death’, because the Lord has promised to “add to him the plagues which are written in this book.”

Rev 22:18  For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:

All who teach that our Lord’s statement that ‘man… shall live by every word’ means that we must ignore this promise…

Rev 2:11  He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death. [which is “the lake of fire”:

Rev 20:14  And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.

…The person teaching that false lying doctrine is ‘adding to the words of the prophecy of this book’, and our Lord will “add unto him the plagues which are written in this book”, and He will judge him out of his own mouth, and he will indeed ‘partake of the second death.’

Since we have all “come out of” Babylon, where we have all “added unto these things”, therefore we have all had these plagues added to us in accord with our own personal stubborn, self-righteous, rebellious, and blinded ways. Yes, it is all the work of the Lord, even our lack of appreciation of Him requiring us to “give an accounting” of all He has caused us to do (Isa 63:17). However, our ‘giving an accounting’ does not change this work of our Creator in our lives.

Pro 16:4 The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.

Isa 63:17 O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants’ sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.

Luk 16:1  And he said also unto his disciples, There was a certain rich man, which had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods.
Luk 16:2  And he called him, and said unto him, How is it that I hear this of thee? give an account of thy stewardship; for thou mayest be no longer steward.

Who among us is not wicked by nature? Who among us has not erred from our heavenly Father’s ways? So what part of this prophecy is not to be applied to “every man”? Obviously it is only that part which is specifically qualifies that “he that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death”:

Rev 2:11  He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death. [which is “the lake of fire”]:

Rev 20:14  And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.

Col 1:26 Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:
Col 1:27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
Col 1:28 Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:

This prophecy is all of “the things written therein.” If we take out all the seven fiery trumpet judgments, or if we place the seven last plagues written therein upon someone else and teach that we are not required to fulfill those fiery plagues, then we are taking out our part in the things which are “written therein.” What will be done to any who attempt to do such a foolish thing?

Rev 22:19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.

It is significant to notice the loss suffered by those who take away from the words of this prophecy, including the judgment of Revelation 14:7-12 and the judgment of Revelation 15:8, is to have our part taken out of the book of life and out of the holy city. In other words we will not have a part in the first resurrection, and we will not be the bride, the Lamb’s wife, the mother of all living. That is the loss suffered by those who take away from the words of the prophecy of this book.

It is argued by all those who are recognized as the “great men of God” in the churches of Babylon, that to believe that the plagues written in this prophecy and labeled “the wrath of God” have any personal application to, or upon, God’s very elect, is to nullify the promise of 1Thessalonians 5:9.

1Th 5:9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,

It is argued that we simply cannot “keep” and “live by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God” and Christ in this prophecy because of this promise:

Rev 3:10 Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.

It is asked, “How is it possible to be “not appointed… to wrath” and yet endure the wrath of the seven last plagues? How is it possible to be “kept from the hour of temptation” and live by every word which proceeds out of the mouth of God telling us that there is an hour of temptation which will come upon all the world?”

These are certainly not illogical questions. We have all had them. So let’s just ask and answer how it is possible to “enter into the temple of God after the seven plagues of the seven angels are fulfilled” and at the same time be able to say, “God has not appointed us to wrath?”

While we are told we “are not appointed to wrath”, we are also told this:

Rev 15:7 And one of the four beasts gave unto the seven angels seven golden vials full of the wrath of God, who liveth for ever and ever.
Rev 15:8 And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power; and no man was able to enter into the temple, till the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled.

Are these words of this prophecy not for you? Do you believe that 1Thessalonian 5:9 is for you, but the words of Revelation 15:8, are not “things written therein” to be kept by you?

If that is your mindset, then you have no concept of what “the sum of thy word is truth” means.

Psa 119:160 The sum of thy word is truth; And every one of thy righteous ordinances endureth for ever. (ASV)

If you think that 1Thessalonians 5:9 is true, but Matthew 4:4, Revelation 1:3, Revelation 15:8 and Revelation 22: 6-7 have no application for you, then you have turned the word “sum” of God’s Word into ‘some’ of God’s Word’, and you now believe that you can pick and choose which “words written therein” have any personal application to you.

So how does this Biblical principle of “the sum of God’s Word” work? How is it possible to be delivered from the wrath of God in our lives, and still have the seven plagues of the seven angels fulfilled in our lives?

This is accomplished in the exact same way we are delivered from being blind:

Joh 9:39 And Jesus said, For judgment came I into this world, that they that see not may see; and that they that see may become blind.
Joh 9:40 Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said unto him, Are we also blind?
Joh 9:41 Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye would have no sin: but now ye say, We see: therefore your sin remaineth.

“If you were blind you would have no sin” means simply that as long as these Pharisees cannot acknowledge their own blindness, their blindness remains. So it is with the wrath of God. “We are not appointed to wrath” only if we acknowledge that we ourselves have been “by nature the children of wrath, even as others.”

Eph 2:3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.

Now we are simply adding scripture to scripture, while adding nothing to the things written therein. Now we are able to accept “the sum of God’s word” instead of pitting scripture against scripture and taking away from the things written therein.

How is it possible to believe on Christ in this life and never die, as Christ promised Martha?

Joh 11:23 Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother [Lazarus] shall rise again.
Joh 11:24 Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day.
Joh 11:25 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
Joh 11:26 And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?

Just how does one who “lives and believes in Christ.. never die?” Once again, as contradictory as 1Thessalonians 5:9 seems to be to Ephesians 2:3 and Revelation 15:8, this is the only way to “believe on Christ and never die.” This is how we can live forever and not be appointed to death.

Eph 2:3  Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.

Rev 15:8  And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power; and no man was able to enter into the temple, till the seven plagues of [the wrath of God] the seven angels were fulfilled.

It is the same principle by which “we are not appointed to wrath.”

Mat 10:39 He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.

So let us ask, “Do you want to see the things of the spirit?” If so, you simply must first acknowledge your spiritual blindness. Do you want to live and never die spiritually? If so, all you need do is “lose your life [in this world] for Christ’s sake” and you will find how you “will never die” spiritually. Would you be found of God? You simply must acknowledge that you are spiritually lost. Would you ‘not be appointed to wrath?’ All you need do is to acknowledge that you have been “by nature a child of wrath even as others”, that ‘the seven plagues of the seven angels are being fulfilled’ in your life, and then “you are not appointed to wrath but to salvation” spiritually as all men of all time are “not appointed to wrath, but to salvation.”

Joh 3:17  For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

1Th 5:7  For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. [The many called but not chosen]
1Th 5:8  But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation. [Of “all men”, 1Ti 2:4]
1Th 5:9  For God hath not appointed us [all men] to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
1Th 5:10  Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep [are drunken or sober], we should live together with him.

1Ti 2:4  Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.

Job 23:13  But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth [1Ti 2:4], even that he doeth.

1Jn 2:2  And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.

There are two more verses which bookend this subject of God’s wrath, as indeed they bookend and wrap up how we are to approach every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God. Here are those very revealing verses of scripture.

Ecc 9:2 All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.

1Co 3:21 Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours;
1Co 3:22 Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours;
1Co 3:23 And ye are Christ’s; and Christ is God’s.

Should Ecclesiastes 9:2 read, ‘All things come alike to all but God’s elect, who never experience His wrath upon their unrighteousnesses?’ Is that what the sum of God’s Word teaches?

Rom 1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;

Should Romans 1:18 read ‘The wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, except for those who accept Christ?’

Should 1Corinthians 3:21-22 be made to read ‘Most things are yours, most things present and most things to come, but not the seven last plagues of God’s wrath upon my ungodliness and my unrighteousness?’

We who have the mind of Christ know that is not the case, and we are careful to neither add to nor take away from the words of this prophecy, knowing we will reap what we sow, and knowing that the grace of God will chasten us to live godly lives in this age.

That is how this great revelation which ends with the promise that death and all that are dead in Hades and in the ‘sea’ of all mankind of all time, will be delivered up and cast into those who are the small ‘lake’ of fire to be purged and cleansed at the “great white throne judgment” of all that exalts itself against the knowledge of God and His Christ.

Isa 26:8  Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we waited for thee; the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee.
Isa 26:9  With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth [the seven last plagues], the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.

Isa 33:14 The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?
Isa 33:15 He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil;

Those among us who are at ease in the everlasting burnings, and who are able to dwell comfortably in the devouring fire of God’s Word, are those who “speak uprightly” those devouring fiery words:

Jer 5:14  Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.

They are the gates of that city, the pillars in the temple of God, the bride of Christ which is New Jerusalem. It is by those twelve gates of a single pearl each, that all the dogs, sorcerers, whoremongers, murders, and idolaters who love and make a lie, will one day be purified of all the lies and false doctrines with which they have added to and taken away from the word of God. It is through the fiery sword which guards the way of The Tree of Life that all men will be redeemed of all their sins and be transformed from a “vessel of clay” into a new vessel of spirit as seems good to the Potter to make it.

1Co 3:15  If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire. [The purifying lake of fire]

1Co 15:44  It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.

Those who are that ‘Lake of Fire’ as those who are “the bride, the Lamb’s wife”. They alone will “enter into that city through the gates” of that city which as The Bride, The Lamb’s wife, will become “the mother of all living” and will have the power and authority to give life to all men of all time:

Rev 22:14 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right [G1849: ‘exousia’, power, authority] to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
Rev 22:15 For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.

Such is the revelation of Jesus Christ. We dare not add to or take away from what it reveals, and what it reveals is that it is only those who “do His commandments… in this present time” (Rom 18:8) who will be given the “exousia”, the power and authority to redeem  the ‘dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremonger, and murders, and idolaters, and whosoever loves and makes a lie’ who are not given the ‘exousia’ to become the Bride, the Lamb’s Wife, the mother of all living.

Every word that has proceeded out of the mouth of God, neither added to nor diminished, will be acknowledged as being within the same Adamic flesh with which we are all “by nature” born. This process of judgment will in the end be accomplished in every man who has ever lived, as the scriptures so clearly make known.

Joh 3:17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the [“whole”, (1Jo 2:2)] world through him might be saved.

1Co 15:22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

1Ti 2:4 Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.

1Ti 4:10 For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially [not exclusively] of those that believe.

2Pe 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us- ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

1Jn 2:2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.

It is all being accomplished by our Lord Himself working in every man His chastening work of grace, “after the counsel of His own will” (Eph 1:11). That is why we all ask for that chastening grace to always be with us, at all times.

Tit 2:11 For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared [aorist tense, is appearing] to all men,
Tit 2:12 Teaching [Greek: paidueo, chastening] us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;

(Read The Purpose and Function of Grace [Tit 2:12] at this link:

https://www.iswasandwillbe.com/what-grace-is-versus-what-grace-does/

It is with the knowledge that the grace of God chastens us to “forsake ungodliness and worldly lust and to live Godly lives in this present age” that this revelation of Jesus Christ in His own body the church (Col 1:24), ends with this blessing:

Rev 22:21 The [chastening] grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.

It is by Christ’s chastening grace, as our ‘everlasting Father’ (Isa 9:6), through His faith working in us, that all men will be saved and come to the knowledge of the Truth. It is from the beginning to the end, His work within us, and we bring nothing at all to the table.

Eph 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
Eph 2:9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.
Eph 2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

This concludes our study of the revelation of our Lord and His Christ, the bride, the Lamb’s wife:

Rev 21:9  And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb’s wife.
Rev 21:10  And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,
Rev 21:11  Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal;

Rev 21:23-27 The Lamb’s Wife is Those Who are Written in the Lamb’s Book of Life

[Study Aired August 1, 2025]

Rev 21:23 And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
Rev 21:24 And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it.
Rev 21:25 And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there.
Rev 21:26 And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it.
Rev 21:27 And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

Introduction

When we read in our last study that “I saw no temple therein”, what are we being told? What we are being told is that the symbolism of the temple will then have been fulfilled. Christ is now dwelling with men, because “the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.”

Rev 21:22 And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.

This verse, Revelation 21:22, is not a contradiction of these verses:

1Co 3:16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

2Co 6:16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Revelation 21:22 complements 1Corinthians 3:16 and 2Corinthians 6:16 and confirms these verses of scripture:

Joh 17:11 And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.

Joh 17:22  And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:

1Jn 4:17  Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.

“As [Christ] is so are we in this world.”  Christ is of His Head, His Father, just as we, “The bride, the Lamb’s wife… New Jerusalem”, are of our head, Christ:

1Co 11:3  But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.

We are told that the invisible things of God are understood being clearly seen by the things that are made:

Rom 1:20  For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they [Trinitarians?] are without excuse:

“The head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man and the head of Christ is God… so they are without excuse.”

That all being true it is therefore in the creation account that we can plainly see His eternal power and Godhead… the head of Christ is “God the Father” just as Adam was the head of Eve. The phrase, “God the Father” appears twelve times in the New Testament, and it is always in association with “the Lord Jesus Christ, the son of the Father.”

Gal 1:3  Grace be to you and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ,

2Jn 1:3  Grace be with you, mercy, and peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.

Not one of the twelve entries for the phrase ‘God the Father’ includes the holy spirit as a person who is part of the God head, which we are to  understand by the things that are made.

In Luke 3 we are told that Adam is “the son of God.”

Luk 3:38  Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God.

Eve comes out of Adam and is called ‘Adam.’

Gen 2:21  And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
Gen 2:22  And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
Gen 2:23  And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.

Christ came out “of God.”

1Co 8:6  But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.

All things are “of God… the Father” but all things come “by… one Lord Jesus Christ. All of us are by Christ, yet all men are “of the woman.”

1Co 11:11  Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.
1Co 11:12  For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things of God.

All men are “by the woman” just as all things are “by… one Lord Jesus Christ.”

1Co 8:6  But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.

That brings us back to how “the invisible things of God… even His eternal power and Godhead are understood by the things that are made” because Eve, who is ‘of Adam’, is yet called “the mother of all living.”

Gen 3:20  And Adam called his wife’s name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.

What all of this shows us is that “the bride, the Lamb’s wife” is also to become “the mother of all living” who will come up through the great tribulation of the great white throne judgment and wash their robes white in the blood of the Lamb. So those who are Christ’s are His Bride, His wife, the mother of all of His children. Those who are in Christ are  “Jerusalem above [which is] the mother of us all.” “The bride, the Lamb’s wife” has now been pronounced to be the fulfillment of the symbolism of the temple into which all who come to God must enter. “There is no temple therein” simply because “the Lord God almighty and the Lamb [therein ] are the temple of it.” So the following verse now applies to the Lamb’s wife, the New Jerusalem.

Rev 15:8 And the temple [the Lamb’s wife] was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power; and no man was able to enter into the temple, till the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled.

If you and I are the temple of God, then it is only so because “the spirit of God dwells in us.” That is what you and I are being told when we read:

Rev 21:22 And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.

If we are “the bride the Lamb’s wife, the holy Jerusalem”, then it is not adding to what is written to say “there is no temple therein” because “Christ and His Father within us are the temple thereof.” That is just as true here and now as it will be at the great white throne judgment where the Lamb’s wife will begin to bring forth fruit in the form of all men who have ever lived.

Rev 21:23  And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.

Rev 21:9  And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb’s wife.
Rev 21:10  And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,
Rev 21:11  Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal;

Rev 21:24  And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings [who have ruled and reigned with Christ a thousand years] of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it.
Rev 21:25  And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there.

These are the words of our Lord and they “will not pass away.” These words will be just as applicable to all men who are cast into the lake of fire as they apply to us now in our own “fiery trials.” The only difference is that those who are not granted to have part in the first resurrection will not become “the mother of all living’, and they will never be called “the bride, the Lamb’s wife.” His ‘children’, yes; His wife, no. We will be the city with the twelve gates through which all men of all time must pass as they are dragged through us to Christ and His and our Father.

To the natural man it seems impossible to say ‘as the children of Christ, we are the church of Christ’; we are the “manchild… who is to rule all nations with a rod of iron” (Rev 12:5); and we are the church which is His body (Col 1:24), and we are “Jerusalem above, the mother of us all” (Gal 4:26). To the natural man it is pure foolishness to say we are the “four beasts and the four and twenty elders” which are in the midst of the throne and round about the throne (Rev 4:4-6, Rev 5:8-10), and at the same time we are Christ’s children, we are also His brothers, His sisters, His mother, and at the same time we are His wife! How is any of this possible? This is no problem at all in the spirit:

Mat 12:47 Then one said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to speak with thee.
Mat 12:48 But he answered and said unto him that told him, Who is my mother? and who are my brethren?
Mat 12:49 And he stretched forth his hand toward his disciples, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren!
Mat 12:50 For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.

If we go on to say we are the angel who shows us these things and we are the seven churches and we are the hundred and forty four thousand, it just sounds impossible for one very precious “pearl of great price” to be all of these things. It is all true only if we are in Christ in this present time.

Rom 8:18  For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
Rom 8:19  For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.
Rom 8:20  For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,
Rom 8:21  Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
Rom 8:22  For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
Rom 8:23  And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. [That “blessed and holy… first resurrection, (Rev 20:6)]

Gal 3:29  And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.

1Co 3:21  Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours;
1Co 3:22  Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours;
1Co 3:23  And ye are Christ’s; and Christ is God’s.

To add to the confusion of the natural man, we must also confess that before we were Christ’s wife we were first the Ephesians who had “lost [our] first love; we were the church of Smyrna with “they that say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan; the church of Pergamos “where Satan dwells among you.” As the church at Pergamos we first ‘held the doctrine of Balaam’, [and we] ate things offered to idols and committed spiritual fornication, all while lording it over the Lord’s flock as we also ‘held to the doctrine of the Nicholaitans.’   As the church of Thyatira we first allowed that woman Jezebel to seduce us and to cause us to commit fornication.   These things must all be seen as being within our own flesh, and they must first be burned out of us and develop within us “the patience and faith of the saints.” As the church of Sardis we must first come to see ourselves as spiritually dead, and as Laodicea we must also acknowledge that even as we have been all these terrible things we still think of ourselves as being “rich and increased with goods”, while totally unaware of the fact that in reality we are spiritually “wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked” (Rev 3:17). All of this must be “read, heard, and kept”, before we are granted to become “the bride, the Lamb’s wife”, through whom all men will be brought to Christ.

Rev 21:23  And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.

Another way of understanding what we are being told in this verse was given us by our Lord when talking to His disciples just before His apprehension and His glorification. Here is how He told us that the glory of God and the Lamb would be within those who are espoused to Him as a chaste virgin:

Joh 14:20 At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.

Our primary approach to these words is to see these words as “I in you.”  When we apply these words presently and internally, their outward and future application take care of themselves. Here is what this knowledge produces within us:

Joh 14:21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.

That is the ‘is’ and present application of “for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof”. Here is Christ revealing to us that we are this “city on a great and high mountain”:

Mat 5:14 Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill [Greek: oros – mountain] cannot be hid.

The Greek word translated ‘hill’ in this verse is the same word translated ‘mountain’ in this verse:

Rev 21:10 And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain [Greek: oros], and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,

This Greek word ‘oros’ appears in the New Testament 65 times. 62 of those 65 entries are some form of the word ‘mountain’. 28 entries are translated ‘mountain’; 21 ‘mount’ and 13 ‘mountains’. Only three times is this Greek word ‘oros’ translated as ‘hill’. In Matthew 5:14, Christ is telling us that we are “that great city, on a great and high mountain, which cannot be hid.“

Rev 21:10 And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,

It is nothing less than denying our Lord when we put our light under a bushel, or try to hide the fact that we are “a city on a mountain.” Christ goes as far as to tell us that just as the world did not know who He was, neither will they recognize who we are.

Joh 8:43 Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.

Joh 8:37 I know that ye are Abraham’s seed; but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you.

The apostle named Judas asked Christ how this is accomplished, and this is His answer:

Joh 14:22 Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world?
Joh 14:23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
Joh 14:24 He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father’s which sent me.

It is Christ’s Words, which are really His Father’s Words, which, if they are in us, put Christ and His Father, with their light and with their glory, within us. That is how the light and glory of God and the Lamb, are within us, as that great city, which is the wife of the Lamb.

Rev 21:24 And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it.

Here is a verse which graphically demonstrates both the inward and the outward application of these words. “The nations of them that are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it” because:

Rev 5:8  And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints.
Rev 5:9  And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;
Rev 5:10  And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.

1Jn 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

1Jn 4:17 Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is [the King of the world, (Mat 28:18)], so are we in this world.

Christ is “the light of the world”, but he tells us that “as He is so are we in this world.”

Joh 8:12 Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

Therefore if He is that light that lightens the great city, which city we are, then we too, must be “the light of the world”. Is that so? If we “do not walk in darkness, then there is no night in us as that “city of New Jerusalem… a mountain great and high.”

Mat 5:14 Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill [Greek: oros, mountain] cannot be hid.

Rev 21:10 And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain [Greek: oros], and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,

Rev 21:25 And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there.

There is no night in the holy Jerusalem, the Lamb’s wife, because “the spirit of God dwells in us, and the glory of God and the Lamb are the light thereof.”

1Th 5:5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.

“The gates of it need not be shut at all by day” for this reason:

Rev 15:8 And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power; and no man was able to enter into the temple, till the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled.

Remember, this city, which city we are (Rev 21:2, 9-20), is “lighted by the glory of God and of the Lamb… who are both the temple of this city”.

Rev 21:22 And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.

If “the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it”, then there will be no way in which any evil or any darkness could possibly slip through the gates of this city. Here is how we know this to be the case:

1Ti 6:15 Which in his times he shall shew, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords;
1Ti 6:16 Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen.

We may have thought that this verse is speaking only of the Father, but Christ makes clear that the word ‘man’ does not mean those who love and obey God. Rather, it means unrighteous and ungodly men:

Joh 14:7 If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.
Joh 14:8 Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us.
Joh 14:9 Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?

Rev 21:26 And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it.

“The glory and the honor of the nations” is the subduing of “every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.”

2Co 10:3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:
2Co 10:4 (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)
2Co 10:5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
2Co 10:6 And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.

Every thought is a “nation” which, when it is “brought into captivity… to the obedience of Christ”, is “the honor of the nations” which will then become an integral part of the great high wall and the foursquare character of this “city of God” which wants nothing but to please her husband.

Mat 24:7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
Mat 24:8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
Mat 24:9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake.

All of this must happen as a necessary part of being prepared to enter into that great city. Christ continues with this very theme:

Mat 24:10 And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.
Mat 24:11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.
Mat 24:12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
Mat 24:13 But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

That is how we are prepared by our Lord to enter this city and become “the bride, the Lamb’s wife.”

Rev 21:27 And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

The fact that the only people who can enter into this “New Jerusalem… the bride, the Lamb’s wife” are “they which are written in the Lamb’s book of life”, proves that those who comprise this ‘city’ are those who were given a part in that “blessed and holy first resurrection.”

Rev 3:5  He that overcometh [in this present time, not in the great white throne judgment/ lake of fire/ second death], the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.

Rev 13:8  And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

Rev 17:8  The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.

Rev 20:15  And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. [No one who is cast into the lake of fire was found written in the book of life]

Those who come up in the resurrection of judgment, also called the great white throne judgment/ lake of fire/second death, will “come up through [the] great tribulation” of that judgment (Rev 7:14), but it will never be said of them that their names were written in the book of life. Read it again:

Rev 20:15  And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.

Our old man must die in this present age and be left behind with the rest of the world, if we are granted to enter into that city. It is only by acknowledging that we are “marred vessels of clay” in the Potter’s hand, that we have defiled the temple of God, and our old man must therefore be destroyed via the wrath of God upon our own ungodliness and unrighteousness, so that we ourselves, our new man, will be saved “yet though as by fire.”

1Co 3:15 If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
1Co 3:16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
1Co 3:17 If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
1Co 3:18 Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.

Dying in order to live, and enduring the fire to avoid the lake of fire, is foolishness to the natural man. Let all of us “become a fool that we may be wise.” Only then will we be granted to “bring the glory and honour of the nations into it.”

Let’s read these last two verses again so we can remember just how special we are to our husband, The Lamb:

Rev 21:26 And they [We, “the kings of the earth… for a thousand years] shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it.
Rev 21:27  And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

In our next study, if the Lord wills, we will cover these verses of the very last chapter of this “revelation of Jesus Christ” within each of our lives.

Rev 22:1 And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.
Rev 22:2 In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
Rev 22:3 And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him:
Rev 22:4 And they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads.
Rev 22:5 And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever.

The Book of Hosea – Part 6, Hos 6:1-11

[Study Aired May 18, 2024]

In the previous chapter, Hosea 5, our Lord forecasted punishment upon the Bride of Christ. Typically, from experience and old Israel’s espousal to her Lord, it is a long and arduous process to route all the iniquities from our land.

We, the Gomer-like harlot that we were, if weak in the faith without implicit dedication to our husband, sometimes dally, tickling our ears with our old adulterous lovers’ (doctrines) and with dull, weak Leah-like unreciprocated eyes, like Jacob, despise her disunified spirit.

In the flesh, a husband’s marriage to an unconverted spouse has the same disunified spirit as a harlot has with her client. In the case of the converted husband and his unconverted wife’s refusal to be washed by the unifying word of God, she is deemed “unclean” effectively like Leah was to Jacob, to the point that he hated her even while she was ‘pleased to dwell with him.’ Conversely, the converted wife, married to an unconverted husband, has the spiritual tool of “chaste conversation” coupled with enthusiastically giving him her whole body as the Bride does for her Lord. Comparatively, it is much harder for a converted husband to win an unconverted wife since his only mechanism for winning her is spiritual, where her innate physical connectivity is mostly cursed.

However, and for the time being, like old Israel and Judah, we need to be vigilant not to return to our Gomer-like whoredoms only to again have our unrepentant hearts shredded (Hos 6:1). For the Bride of Christ, the cycle continues with repentance and His forgiveness on an expectant decreasing scale.

Eph 2:10  For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

Israel and Judah are Unrepentant

Hos 6:1  Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. 
Hos 6:2  After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.

It is upon the witness of two days having gone through the figurative past six days of man’s life on earth that Christ first gives His Elect a double portion of spirit for their understanding of the seven seals of Revelation 5. Can you feel the enlightenment, the deep understanding that comes from this revelation? Christ is the seventh-day Sabbath that revives us. Being smitten as Christ was physically smitten and having our flesh torn and being ground to powder, His little flock goes ahead of their brothers and sisters who remain in Babylon, and Christ begins to rebuild the New Man of God, the budding Christs (plural) on their figurative seventh day, today. The entire affair of change from the old man to the new is a symbolic three days of Christ-like ministry for personal spiritual change.

The term “birthday” is only twice featured in scripture, with a third mention alluding to Job’s children, who were apparently celebrating a birthday of one of the siblings. On each occasion, someone lost their head or, in Job’s children’s case, were crushed by the symbolised stone riches of Job’s wealth collapsing upon them.

Gen 40:20  And it came to pass the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, that he made a feast unto all his servants: and he lifted up the head of the chief butler and of the chief baker among his servants.

Mat 14:6  But when Herod’s birthday was kept, the daughter of Herodias danced before them, and pleased Herod.

Mat 16:21  From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day.

The number three symbolises the spiritual progression for the completion of judgment, and we torturously endure many revelations of denying Christ all the way to the First Resurrection before our perfection.

Mat 26:34  Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, That this night, before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. 

2Co 11:25  Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep;

A most damning condition for the incipient Christian is reflected in the meaning of the name Capernaum, a village in Palestine. She represents our former Babylonian selves in the past, resting luxuriously in imagined peace believing we are saved without needing to be chastised.

Mat 11:23  And thou, Capernaum [G2584 = village of comfort. From G5151 Definition: 1. thrice From G5140 – three], which art exalted unto heaven, shalt be brought down to hell: for if the mighty works, which have been done in thee, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.

In fact, the Lord was so critical of Capernaum’s arrogant luxuriating in comfort that, most shockingly, she is depicted worse than Sodom.

Mat 11:21  Woe unto thee, Chorazin! [Chorazin = a furnace of smoke 1. a town in Galilee] woe unto thee, Bethsaida! [Bethsaida = house of fish 1. a small fishing village on the west shore of Lake Gennesaret, home of Andrew, Peter, Philip and John. Dung, mire]  for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, [1. an ancient and wealthy city of Phoenicia, on the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea, less than 20 miles (30 km) north of Tyre. Known for worshipping Ashtoreth] they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

Luk 12:48  But he that knew not [Sodom, Tyre & Sidon], and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given [Babylonian Christianity and supremely the Elect of God], of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more. 

Regarding Paul’s thorn in the flesh that remains in each of the Lord’s Elect before being perfected on the third day IN the developing New Heavenly Jerusalem, where he and we spiritually perish, he says,

2Co 12:8  For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.

Luk 13:32  And he said unto them, Go ye, and tell that fox, Behold, I cast out devils, and I do cures to day and to morrow, and the third day I shall be perfected.
Luk 13:33  Nevertheless I must walk to day, and to morrow, and the day following: for it cannot be that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem.

Hos 6:3  Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.

Mal 4:1  For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
Mal 4:2  But unto you [The Bride who…] that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.

Christ is the rising sun, the morning star who has healing in His wings, pictorially seen as shafts of light imaged as a red anvil-shaped storm cloud, an eagle’s wing lanced with bright shafts of sunlight. He is the sailor’s warning for the deluge of life-giving rain on the Saints today and the latter fiery rain at the end of the One-Thousand Years culminating in the Lake of Fire upon every conception of human life since the creation.

Exo 19:4  Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you [Old Israel physically and now, the Elect of God] on eagles’ wings, and brought you unto myself.

Rev 12:14  And to the woman [Old and New] were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.

Calves grown into young yet mature beasts are stall-fed grain (not genetically modified grain and hormone enhanced) and specialised fodder, which enhances the meat’s flavour, particularly when seasoned with salt (Col 4:6). Being raised in a stall restricts muscle movement and makes the meat more tender on the plate. That imagery represents our Lord’s tender mercies upon His young Wife. As Christ is, so is she.

Isa 53:1  Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? [His Bride, of course!]
Isa 53:2  For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

Php 2:5  Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: 
Php 2:6  Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:

Hos 6:4  O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away.

To the non-spiritual eye, our Lord sounds as if he is lamenting Ephraim and Judah’s wretched plight of harlotry as something beyond his control. She is depicted as a fatted calf in its youth, even as his very own Aholibah, glorying in her seductive beauty only to dry up in the midday heat of chastisement as just another old harlot with bruised teats.

Eze 23:1  The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
Eze 23:2  Son of man, there were two women [representing Ephraim and Judah], the daughters of one mother [… one church with one doctrine made void by fornication]:
Eze 23:3  And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity. 
Eze 23:4  And the names of them were Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister: and they were mine, and they bare sons and daughters. Thus were their names; Samaria [representing Ephriam in the north of Israel] is Aholah, and Jerusalem Aholibah [in the south].
Eze 23:5  And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbours.

Eze 23:11  And when her sister Aholibah [The Priests of God represented as Jerusalem portraying the future Bride of Christ] saw this, she was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms more than her sister in her whoredoms. 
Eze 23:32  Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou [the younger, Aholibah] shalt drink of thy sister’s cup deep and large: thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had in derision; it containeth much [humiliation].

Eze 23:43  Then said I unto her that was old in adulteries, Will they now commit whoredoms with her, and she with them? [… when you’re just an old dried-up harlot having dissipated the glory of your youth upon all the outwardly superb young men?]
Eze 23:44  Yet they went in unto her, as they go in unto a woman that playeth the harlot: so went they in unto Aholah and unto Aholibah, the lewd women.

To the stubborn and stony heart, those scriptures humiliatingly stop the mouths of the mighty lions we once thought we were in the glorious beauty of our Aholibahish youth.

Hos 6:5  Therefore have I hewed [divided into two parts, Judah in the south and Ephriam representing the rest of Israel in the north ~ Aholah and Aholibah; Old Israel and the New Israel of God] them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth. 

Those with spiritual eyes easily see in those scriptures the multiple representations of the two prime women (fatted spiritually – negatively and positively) in scripture. Hosea, Jehu, and all the prophets preceding and succeeding her amply warn of her luxuriating in her beauty and disregarding her Lord’s admonitions to be colloquially seen as ‘mutton dressed as lamb.’ The Lord’s chosen to hopefully become the very Elect are the King’s (meaning, Christ’s) daughter who has previously been known to dress and refurbish herself to optimistically seduce her ‘bedfellows.’

2Ki 9:30  And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her face, and tired her head, and looked out at a window. 
2Ki 9:31  And as Jehu entered in at the gate, she said, Had Zimri peace, who slew his master?
2Ki 9:32  And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who is on my side? who? And there looked out to him two or three eunuchs. 
2Ki 9:33  And he said, Throw her down. So they threw her down: and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses: and he trode her under foot. 
2Ki 9:34  And when he was come in, he did eat and drink, and said, Go, see now this cursed woman, and bury her: for she is a king’s daughter.

Hos 6:6  For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

There is no greater “mercy” upon any man than what Christ is doing to his Elect, His Wife! Since ‘all things are hers’ (1Co 3:22-23), she, with wide eyes now that she spiritually sees, starkly understands her miserable condition all the way from Egypt to the cross. Her endless works of sacrifice and by the sweat of her strength, even for some into the twenty-second century, she is alarmed yet joyfully sees her former self.

Isa 1:11  To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
Isa 1:12  When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?
Isa 1:13  Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. 
Isa 1:14  Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them. 
Isa 1:15  And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
Isa 1:16  Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; 
Isa 1:17  Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. 
Isa 1:18  Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. 

That “mercy” the Lord desires is in the ridiculously simple act from our heart to acknowledge our sins and rely on Christ’s strength to rebuild the spiritual Temple within. When compared to the Old Covenant Laws, how gloriously merciful is the simplicity in Christ’s methodology in relying totally on His strength to overcome the man of sin. Looking back to Sodom, Egypt, Babylon and Old Jerusalem being one and the same and recalling an exhilarating sensuality or material item long gone is not advancing the spiritual Adam but covertly displays one’s underlying heart not fully devoting our ‘land’ to our Husband (Account of Ananias and Sapphira – Act 5:1-11).

2Co 11:2  For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband [not a husband of the Old Covenant and personal sacrificial works], that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
2Co 11:3  But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

Hos 6:7  But they like men [the flesh as opposed to the spirit] have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.

Our “covenant” is the sacred marriage agreement we have with Christ, our spouse. Our natural feminine tardy desire to stir up the gift of God, the holy spirit, can result in insidious hypocrisy of accusing our spouse of the very thing we do spiritually to Christ. Thankfully, Christ’s desire for mercy over judgment emphatically keeps Him from being hypocritical (as if!) of His law. We know that it is impossible for God to lie (Heb 6:18), but not so many husbands in the flesh become bitter against their wives, remembering her in the glory of her youth, full of righteous sensuality, vigour and enchantment.

2Ti 1:6  For this reason, I am reminding you to fan into flames the gift of God that is within you through the laying on of my hands (ISV).

The fast-disappearing orthodox act in the apostolic era of the laying on of hands was a symbol of being imbued with the holy spirit. A person of the time, and likewise today, having his eyes and ears open for the first time, is being highly spiritually aroused that we all first equate with the natural in sensual incitement. As we naturally age, those heady days of glorying in our youth often become a dull glow that the directly correlating spiritual likewise needs to be fanned alive daily.

Job, speaking concerning Leviathan, is the forthright antipathy of Christ in every respect of Job 41:21! With the experience of Shulamite poetic arousing drama, it is easy to see the righteous sensuality depicting its spiritual counterpart using only one verse from Job:

Job 41:21  His breath [Leviathan’s/Christ’s] can ignite coal; and flames proceed from his mouth.

Son 1:2  Let him kiss me over and over again! Your love is better than wine (ISV).

Only a harlot would suffer with righteous disdain for her hire’s dissolute repetitive kissing of lies, but not the Shulamite, the Bride of Christ she represents.

The most lamentable form of dealing treacherously against our husband is graphically experienced in the flesh of Leah-like disunity of spirit with Jacob. Jacob was unaware that Leah’s marriage to him was the tradition that the elder daughter must be first married before her younger sister Rachel, whom he loved. Jacob effectively ‘hated’ Leah for her God-given separation of like-mind, just as the Great Whore today unwittingly hates the Lord’s Bride. As such, Jacob unconsciously dealt treacherously with Leah. Try as she might to win Jacob’s affection with mandrakes sensualities and subsequently the majority of tribal Israel, disunion of spirit will never trump the works of the flesh.

Spiritually, our treacherous transgression of the covenant in Hosea 6:6-7 is blaming Old Israel, alive and well today, for the world’s plight of Zionism. In our physical marriages, it is represented as a converted husband blaming his unconverted wife (symbolically Old Israel) for not understanding nor wanting to be washed by Christ’s commandments. It is first experienced most ‘bitterly’ by a husband and his wife’s innate indolent boudoir intimacies consequent to Eve’s curse from Eden. Since a husband is to be head of the wife and understand spiritually Christ’s word, there is barely a husband in the flesh who understands her curse and is thus more profoundly likewise cursed and condemned for (unconsciously) not understanding that curse. Mercy is to be expressed by a believer for the babe in Christ or non-believer, and if that believer rages his Deuteronomy 24:1 displeasure upon his spouse for their unbelief, the following verse is likely to apply:

Jas 2:13  For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.

Hos 6:8  Gilead [Gilead = rocky region] is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.

A husband dealing treacherously with the innate and inevitability of a physically dis-inflamed wife unwittingly condemns himself equally innately with a “rocky” (i.e. stony) heart that pollutes the New Temple he is supposed to represent with the blood of his iniquity.

Hab 2:12  Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity! 
Hab 2:13  Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the people shall labour in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity?

Such an obtuse husband labors with his two-fold child of hell-like self-righteous inflamement vainly attempting to change his wife when he should rather have mercy upon her God-given tardiness.

Eze 3:18  When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not [meciful…] warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.

The hypocritical husband who is self-righteous and gives no mercy earnestly seeks mercy himself.

Probably no more profound measure of mercy is there than Christ for His Bride’s sins even before she has learned to swiftly acknowledge them herself (Jer 3:13, Rom 7:24-25).

Hos 6:9  And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness. 

There is no greater robber than Satan, who goes about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour. So, too, we were such while in Babylon, heaping to ourselves co-conspirators to justify our lies. Accordingly, they murder Christ and His word afresh and relatively innocent blood is on their hands.

2Ti 4:3  For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; 
2Ti 4:4  And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

Hos 6:10  I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

It is bad enough that Ephraim, representing the body of Israel, is full of harlotry. However, the greater blame lies at the feet of her Priests in Judah, you and I, who hold the oracles of God with Oholibah’s intent. A little bit of wink and nudge harlotry, colloquially expressed as ‘boys will be boys’, had already leavened the entire Body.

Gal 5:9  A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump. 

1Co 5:6  Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?

1Co 5:5 [Reverse order] To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. 

1Co 6:20  For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.

Hos 6:11  Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people.

The little harvest of the first seeded fruits is with Judah, representing the little flock of the Lord’s faithful Elect whose harvest is in progress this very day since the cross – it is only she who can begin to understand that statement.

Luk 18:7  And shall not God avenge his own Elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them? 
Luk 18:8  I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?

The Priests of God, His Elect who are predestined before the creation to be His Priests, receive the most blessed inheritance of Christ, their Husband. In being given that office, they are automatically given mercy, initially seen as torturously being ground to powder and utterly consumed by fire. Upon them joyfully enduring their chastisement, they “returned [their] captivity” in coming out of Babylon and are named by their Husband as “my people.”

1Pe 1:3  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
1Pe 1:4  To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, 
1Pe 1:5  Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. 

Amen! 

Ezekiel 15:1-8 and 16:1-20  The Lord’s Useless and Faithless Bride

[Study Aired April 29, 2024]

Introduction

Chapter 15 and 16 of Ezekiel show us Jerusalem as a useless vine and a faithless bride of Christ. Until we are given eyes to see and ears to hear, we are not able to understand that this Jerusalem, referring to the physical churches of this world, of which we were part until Christ came to deliver us, is not the chosen bride of Christ. It is in the spirit that we can understand our spiritual state while we were serving in the churches of this world, which is called Babylon.

Rev 17:3  So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. 
Rev 17:4  And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: 
Rev 17:5  And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. 

Gal 4:25  For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children. 
Gal 4:26  But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all. 

Our reaction when we come to see the depravity of the church system of this world and the fact that we were part of it, is that of wonder, just like what happened to Apostle John when he came to see what Babylon really is.

Rev 17:6  And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration. 
Rev 17:7  And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns. 

Today, as we look at Jerusalem which is in bondage with her children, we shall come to see the Lord’s concerns about our lives in Babylon which caused Him to intervene in our circumstances. It is through the unbelief of our brothers and sisters in Babylon that the Lord has called and chosen us through His mercy. 

Rom 11:30  For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief: 
Rom 11:31  Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy. 
Rom 11:32  For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.

The Lord’s People Described as Wood of Vine Tree

Eze 15:1  And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 
Eze 15:2  Son of man, What is the vine tree more than any tree, or than a branch which is among the trees of the forest? 
Eze 15:3  Shall wood be taken thereof to do any work? or will men take a pin of it to hang any vessel thereon? 
Eze 15:4  Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire devoureth both the ends of it, and the midst of it is burned. Is it meet for any work?

In these verses, the Lord is asking whether the wood of a vine tree or its branch surpass any wood of the forest? In other words, wood from any tree is of no use for any work apart from it being used as fuel in a fire. We understand spiritual truth by the things that are made. When a tree is unable to receive its food supply from its roots, it dies and therefore becomes wood, which is used as fuel for burning. Therefore, wood represents the state in our walk with the Lord when we are spiritually dead as we are not able to understand the truth of the word of the Lord which is able to sustain us in Christ. This is affirmed by the following verses in Jeremiah:

Jer 5:11  For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, saith the LORD. 
Jer 5:12  They have belied the LORD, and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine: 
Jer 5:13  And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done unto them. 
Jer 5:14  Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them. 

Here in these verses in Jeremiah, the people representing the house of Israel and Judah (the Lord’s people) have gone astray as they have done treacherously against the Lord. The reason they had gone astray, or become spiritually dead, was because they did not receive the truth of the word of the Lord but were deceived into thinking that the Lord will not judge them. As a result, the Lord’s people had become wood, and the Lord’s word is the fire that destroys the old man in these people. In this sense, wood represents our old man which serves as the fuel for our judgment. As the new man gains ascendancy within us, our old man (wood) continues to be destroyed through the fire of the word of the Lord.  

Pro 26:20  Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth. 
Pro 26:21  As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife. 

In the previous study on Ezekiel chapter 14, the people had done treacherously against the Lord by setting up idols of their heart, which is the stumbling block of iniquity, as they came to the Lord. These sins of the idols of the heart are like fuel that set us up for the Lord’s judgment. 

Eze 14:1  Then came certain of the elders of Israel unto me, and sat before me. 
Eze 14:2  And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 
Eze 14:3  Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: should I be enquired of at all by them?

Eze 15:5  Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work: how much less shall it be meet yet for any work, when the fire hath devoured it, and it is burned? 
Eze 15:6  Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; As the vine tree among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 
Eze 15:7  And I will set my face against them; they shall go out from one fire, and another fire shall devour them; and ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I set my face against them. 
Eze 15:8  And I will make the land desolate, because they have committed a trespass, saith the Lord GOD. 

As we can see here in these verses, the inhabitants of Jerusalem are the fuel for the fire that the Lord has lighted. In other words, judgment is upon the house of the Lord. In our spiritual poverty, we were of no use to the Lord, just as the wood of a vine tree cannot be used to do any work other than to be used as fuel for burning. We deserve the Lord’s judgment because we have sinned against the Lord as our old man or flesh has dominated us in our walk with the Lord. 

1Pe 4:17  For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God? 
1Pe 4:18  And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear? 
1Pe 4:19  Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.

The Lord Wants us to Know our Sinful State

Eze 16:1  Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 
Eze 16:2  Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations, 

A prerequisite in developing an intimate relationship with our Lord is to come to know our sins or abominations. Coming to realize our sins is the beginning of our deliverance from sin. It is when we acknowledge our sins that we can be forgiven. The word of the Lord has a lot to say about us coming to acknowledge our sins.

Isa 58:1  Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins. 
Isa 58:2  Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God. 

Jer 3:13  Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the LORD thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the LORD. 

If we do not understand what causes us to sin, we end up going back to sin even if our sins are forgiven. As we are aware, the flesh or the old man or the beast within us is a factory that produces sin in our lives. Unless our flesh or old man is dealt with, we shall continue sinning. Thus, in the subsequent verses, the Lord is showing us, His people, the root cause for our disloyalty to Him. 

Eze 16:3  And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite.
Eze 16:4  And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all. 
Eze 16:5  None eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto thee, to have compassion upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the open field, to the lothing of thy person, in the day that thou wast born.   

In verse 3, the Lord saying that the inhabitants of Jerusalem could trace their lineage to the Amorite and the Hittite is to let us know that, as His elect (Jerusalem), we are not different from the people of the world in the sense that we are all made of the same flesh. Our navel not being cut and not being washed with water or salted or swaddled in verse 4 all affirms the fact that we were just like people of the world who are dominated by the flesh (navel not cut), not given to know the word of the Lord (washed with water), nor tried and tested (not salted), and did not know the love of the Lord (not swaddled). In verse 5, we are made to know more of our spiritual state at the beginning of our lives. Not being pitied by anyone as none showed compassion to us is another way of saying that we did not see the compassion of the Lord concerning us. As a result, we were like those cast out in the open field and hated by everybody. The open field represents the world, and therefore being cast in the open field means that we conform to the standards of this world.  

Eph 2:1  And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; 
Eph 2:2  Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: 
Eph 2:3  Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. 

The Work of the Lord in our Lives

Eze 16:6  And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own blood, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live; yea, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live. 
Eze 16:7  I have caused thee to multiply as the bud of the field, and thou hast increased and waxen great, and thou art come to excellent ornaments: thy breasts are fashioned, and thine hair is grown, whereas thou wast naked and bare. 
Eze 16:8  Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord GOD, and thou becamest mine.

The time that the Lord comes to visit us with the spirit of His mouth and His brightness is called here in verse 8 as the time of love. That is the time that the Lord came and passed by us and saw us polluted by our own blood, as shown in verse 6. 

2Th 2:7  For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. 
2Th 2:8  And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:

Our own blood signifies our life in the flesh. Therefore being polluted by our own blood means being dominated by the flesh as we obey the desires of the flesh. It is in this deplorable state that the Lord came to us and announced to us that we shall live!! That means He will surely destroy the flesh so we can live victoriously in Him.

Lev 17:11  For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.

In verse 7, the Lord has promised to multiply us as the bud of the field and that we shall increase and wax great. That is another way of saying that our new man will increase and grow stronger and stronger as our old man decreases. Coming into excellent ornaments means being given to know the truth of the word of the Lord. Our breasts being fashioned signifies that we are able to feed each other through the word of the Lord by what every joint supplies. Our hair growing also shows that we are submitting to the authority of Christ as we represent the bride of Christ whose head must be covered. 

Eph 4:16  From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love. 

1Co 11:4  Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonoureth his head. 
1Co 11:5  But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven.
1Co 11:6  For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.
1Co 11:7  For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man. 

Our nakedness in verses 7 and 8 represents our sinful state when we are dominated by the flesh. As we can remember, when Adam and Eve sinned against the Lord, that was when they realized that they were naked and tried to cover their nakedness with their own man-made righteousness. Verse 8 shows us that when the Lord came to us at the time of love, we were found naked, and therefore He spread His skirt over us to cover our nakedness. That is to say that when the Lord came to us with His brightness, He covered our nakedness with His garment of righteousness. This covering of our nakedness is a process which involves the judgment of our old man, resulting in us learning righteousness.

Gen 3:6  And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. 
Gen 3:7  And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
Gen 3:8  And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden. 
Gen 3:9  And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou? 
Gen 3:10  And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself. 
Gen 3:11  And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat? 

Rev 19:8  And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.

Eze 16:9  Then washed I thee with water; yea, I throughly washed away thy blood from thee, and I anointed thee with oil. 
Eze 16:10  I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers’ skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk. 

These verses recount what the Lord has taken us through to become His sons and daughters. In verse 9, washing us with water means being cleansed by the fire of the word of the Lord. As indicated earlier, blood symbolizes our lives of the flesh. Thus, washing away our blood means the destruction of the life of the old man in our lives. In the scriptures, oil is a symbol of the Holy Spirit. This implies that anointing us with oil signifies being given the Holy Spirit to guide us into the truth of the word of the Lord.

Joh 16:13  Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come. 
Joh 16:14  He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.

In verse 10, being clothed with broidered work has significance. According to Strong’s Dictionary, broidered work means needlework of diverse colors. If we can remember, Jacob clothed His beloved son Joseph with a coat of many colors. This implies that being clothed with broidered work signifies that we are the beloved of the Lord who are called and chosen from among our brothers and sisters in Babylon.

Gen 37:3  Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours. 
Gen 37:4  And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him.

The Badger (probably antelope) in verse 10 represents Christ, and it is through His sacrificial death that we are found in Him as our covering. As we have shown earlier, being girded with fine linen means being given the ability to walk in righteousness.

Rev 19:8  And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.

One of our coverings mentioned in verse 10 is that of silk. Silk is a natural fiber produced by silkworms. Therefore, it is not the work of man. Our covering with silk by the Lord means that our righteousness is not man-made. It is the work of the Lord. 

Pro 31:21  She (the bride of Christ) is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household are clothed with scarlet. 
Pro 31:22  She maketh herself coverings of tapestry; her clothing is silk and purple. 

Eze 16:11  I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain on thy neck. 
Eze 16:12  And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon thine head. 

Being decked with ornaments is another way of saying that we have been given eyes to see and ears to hear the mysteries of the kingdom of Heaven. In addition to being decked with ornaments, the Lord has also put bracelets upon our hands and a chain on our necks. The first time the word ‘bracelet’ is used in the Bible was when the servant Abraham sent to find a wife for his son Isaac put two bracelets on Rebekah’s hand after she had given water to the servant’s camels. The bracelets being two therefore served as a witness that Rebekah shall be married to Isaac. What this implies is that the Lord putting a bracelet on our hands is to assure us that we shall be the bride of Christ at the marriage feast. This assurance comes through His words as we are given to know the mysteries of the kingdom. Thus, the bracelet can be regarded as the truth of the word of the Lord. 

Gen 24:22  And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold; 
Gen 24:23  And said, Whose daughter art thou? tell me, I pray thee: is there room in thy father’s house for us to lodge in?

Rev 19:7  Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready. 
Rev 19:8  And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints. 

The chain the Lord puts on our necks marks us out for rulership with the Lord. The first time a chain was put on the neck of someone in the bible was when Pharaoh took Joseph out of prison and made Him a ruler of Egypt.

Gen 41:42  And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph’s hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck;
Gen 41:43  And he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had; and they cried before him, Bow the knee: and he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt.

The jewel that the Lord puts on our forehead and the earrings in our ears in verse 12 signifies being given understanding of the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven. 

Pro 20:15  There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.

Exo 35:22 And they came, both men and women, as many as were willing hearted, and brought bracelets, and earrings, and rings, and tablets, all jewels of gold: and every man that offered offered an offering of gold unto the LORD.

The beautiful crown upon our heads is an assurance of our rulership in the fullness of time.

Eze 16:13  Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver; and thy raiment was of fine linen, and silk, and broidered work; thou didst eat fine flour, and honey, and oil: and thou wast exceeding beautiful, and thou didst prosper into a kingdom. 
Eze 16:14  And thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty: for it was perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord GOD. 

Being decked with gold and silver means being given to understand the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven. Our raiment being of fine linen, silk and broidered work implies that our righteousness is not man-made. It is because the Lord has favored us as being the beloved of the Lord. Eating fine flour, honey and oil means being given to understand the truth of His words and walking in this truth. Being beautiful and prospering into a kingdom signifies that the kingdom of heaven has become well established within us, and in the eyes of the Lord, we are beautiful to behold. 

Psa 48:1  A Song. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah. Great is the LORD and greatly to be praised in the city of our God! His holy mountain, 
Psa 48:2  beautiful in elevation, is the joy of all the earth, Mount Zion, in the far north, the city of the great King. 

Psa 50:2  Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth.

Our renown going forth among the heathen means our light shining forth before men to the glory of the Lord. 

Mat 5:16  In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.

How we Ended up Playing the Harlot

Eze 16:15  But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that passed by; his it was. 
Eze 16:16  And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy high places with divers colours, and playedst the harlot thereupon: the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so. 
Eze 16:17  Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given thee, and madest to thyself images of men, and didst commit whoredom with them,

These verses show us how after all that the Lord has done in our lives, we ended up playing the harlot. Our backsliding life started when we trusted in our beauty and therefore played the harlot. In Ezekiel 28:17 we are given more information regarding trusting in our beauty.

Eze 28:17  Your heart was proud because of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor. I cast you to the ground; I exposed you before kings, to feast their eyes on you.

Here we are shown that our beauty made us proud, leading us to corrupt the wisdom the Lord has given to us. This wisdom is the truth of the Lord’s words, which we corrupt with man’s wisdom and tradition, which is a marketable commodity acceptable by many who are perishing. This is affirmed in verse 17 where we took the beautiful jewels of the Lord’s gold and silver and made ourselves images of men. The Lord’s gold and silver refer to the truth of the Lord’s words which we exchange for man’s wisdom and tradition (images of men), thus, playing the whore. As we are aware, a whore wants to please every man she meets. In a bid to become accepted by everybody or become renown, we play the harlot. Jesus demonstrated to us what it means to take the Lord’s gold and silver and make images of men as follows:

Mar 7:8  For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do.
Mar 7:9  And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition. 
Mar 7:10  For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death: 
Mar 7:11  But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free.
Mar 7:12  And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother; 
Mar 7:13  Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.

In verse 16, we are told that we took our own garments and made ourselves colorful shrines. Our own garments here represent our man-made righteousness. Thus, we used our own righteousness to create another Jesus whom we worship. 

Rom 10:3  For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. 

2Co 11:4  For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.

Eze 16:18  And tookest thy broidered garments, and coveredst them: and thou hast set mine oil and mine incense before them. 
Eze 16:19  My meat also which I gave thee, fine flour, and oil, and honey, wherewith I fed thee, thou hast even set it before them for a sweet savour: and thus it was, saith the Lord GOD. 
Eze 16:20  Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured. Is this of thy whoredoms a small matter,
Eze 16:21  That thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them?

In these verses, the Lord is saying that all the resources He has given to us to become His beloved sons and daughters, we have used to serve another Jesus. As a result, we have slain the Lord’s children by making them pass through the fire. That is to say that we have caused the Lord’s children to become spiritually dead by sacrificing them to another Jesus.

Mat 23:15  Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves. 

Here in this study, we have seen how we start so well in the Lord and then turn for the worse as we become enchanted with another Jesus. The following verses are to remind us to remain focused on the price of His higher calling:

Heb 6:4  For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, 
Heb 6:5  And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, 
Heb 6:6  If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame. 
Heb 6:7  For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God: 
Heb 6:8  But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned. 
Heb 6:9  But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak. 
Heb 6:10  For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister. 
Heb 6:11  And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end: 
Heb 6:12  That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

May the Lord continue to show mercy to us as we see the day approaching. Amen!!

[Study Aired April 6, 2024]

The presenter’s studies are designed not only for the Elect of God but also for the greater world and the many called and few chosen whom the Lord chooses to draw to himself. The repeated sub-themes by the teachers may seem repetitive, but they serve a purpose, hopefully dispelling the darkness in everyone’s Babylonian eyes.

Let us not dismiss the Lord’s desire for a deep spiritual connection with His people, likened to a husband’s longing for his vibrant and loving wife. This metaphor, though it may seem repetitive, underscores the intensity of the Lord’s love for His Bride’s creation since Egypt to the present day.

Understanding scripture and the identities of Christ and His Bride are rooted in the principle that the ‘natural precedes the spiritual.’ This theme is profoundly illustrated in Micah chapter 7, where we see a significant pattern: greater Israel’s behavior mirrors the individual Elect’s journey as an experience of evil to become the Bride.

1Co 15:46  Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.
1Co 15:47  The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven. 

Ecc 1:12  I the Preacher [Solomon in the ‘natural’ representing Christ spiritually] was king over Israel in Jerusalem. 
Ecc 1:13 I applied my heart to inquiring and exploring by wisdom concerning all that is done under the heavens: it is an experience of evil Elohim has given to the sons of humanity to humble them by it. (CLV)

The sequential pattern of our behavior, which is classically depicted and largely concealed in the book of Micah, begins with destruction. This is followed by a troubling phase where the Lord’s very Priests deceive the nation, leading to ongoing chastisement. The hope of rescue emerges, with a King in the ‘natural’ being born as a Savior. Finally, we find salvation in the hope of the First Resurrection, a concept that is vividly expressed in Micah 7.

Christ is the man to have two wives, one beloved and the other hated. His beloved wife is this very day spiritually coquettishly engaging Him with delightful feminine flirtations that only a woman has the superiorly designed advantage to elegantly arouse her ever-willing Husband, Christ. We do not fully engage our Husband intimately until our wedding day; needless to say, our courting spiritual intimacies are singularly identifiable with marriage. This timeframe before the First Resurrection, although espoused and already considered married, is the engagement period where we Shulamite-like brightly and easily bewitch our Husband with our eager anticipation and engagement in His spiritual arousals – the natural comes before the spiritual – 1Co 15:45-49 (With a righteous wink, remember, no Babylonish eye-rolls…).

Son 1:2  Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine. 

Son 8:4  I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please [Our marriage, the First Resurrection].

Since HE chose us, our daily naturally inherent flirtations simply by innocently being female spiritually lead to marriage. Only a harlot abuses her once beautiful feminine flirtatious quality specifically designed for ‘one’ man adulterously ~ and exhaustively, the world does!

Inheritance Rights of the Firstborn

Deu 21:15  If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have born him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers that was hated:
Deu 21:16  Then it shall be, when he maketh his sons to inherit that which he hath, that he may not make the son [the younger] of the beloved firstborn before the son of the hated, which is indeed the firstborn:
Deu 21:17  But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the firstborn, by giving him a double portion of all that he hath: for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his.

Hate H8752 – 1. to hate, oppose oneself to, bear a grudge, retain animosity against, cherish animosity against. Note: Hate to most people has been expressed in their minds as a particularly vicious and venomous expression and not simply opposition and hostility primarily for this cause a wife’s almost universal decline of physical intimacies reflected spiritually in all men and women as seen in the parable of the sower. Nonetheless, “hate” in these last days will manifest more venomously.

A Rebellious (Hated) Son

Deu 21:18  If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them: 
Deu 21:19  Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; 
Deu 21:20  And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard. 
Deu 21:21  And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear. 

Verse 16 of Deuteronomy 21 to an unspiritual eye is dreadfully convoluted. It seems to read that the firstborn is to receive the more significant inheritance over his younger brother, and this is precisely what the Muslim world with violence against Jews and Christians (unwittingly one and the same) is dedicated to believing. Throw into the mix Esau and Jacob’s clashes with Leah and Rachel, and the secular world throws up their hands in confusion to default to simply mutter the ten-second sinner’s prayer and believe that Jesus did it all on the cross for them saved in their sins just as they are.

As the secular world rolls its harlot eyes as we once did, giving up on the preconceived boring nature of spiritual arousal by the prolonged flirtatious research into who are the free woman and the bondwoman. Lord willing, if they prolonged their arousal by genuinely asking Christ for His kisses (Pro 27:6), like the Elect, poetically, they would see a brilliant flash of fingered lightning extending into the clouds of their heavens of understanding. (Of high scientific interest connecting the natural to the spiritual with thunderstorms, a lightning positively charged “leader” (Christ) extends down magnetically to the negatively charged earth, man, and as soon as it touches (a chosen Elect), bam, a lightning flash of spiritual manifests and instantly lights up the multi-forked pattern of neuron connections in his cloudy brain, his heavens, and God speaks as thunder).

“… the son of the hated, which is indeed the firstborn” is represented by Esau, who abdicated his birthright and afterwards, with bitter tears, tried to re-inherit his status without any hope of success (Gen 25:19-34).

Heb 6:4  For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened [We who know to whom we are espoused], and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy ghost, 
Heb 6:5  And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, 
Heb 6:6  If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.

Only to the Bride of Christ is it given to understand the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, and the Lord consistently in scripture ends His chastisements of His Elect with the glorious hope of being that Bride. So, too, does the final chapter of Micah 7 repeat that most potent theme.

Wait for the God of Salvation

Mic 7:1  Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grapegleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat: my soul desired the first ripe fruit.
Mic 7:2  The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net. 

That “me” in verse one represents both Christ and His Elect. Jesus in the ‘natural’ is rejected from man’s Babylonian ‘grape harvest’, the rejected “grape-gleanings”, since He represents no comeliness; he looks like Lazarus, ridden with sores and filthy clothes where (ironically, the “little…) dogs” figuratively tend his sores (Luk 16:19-31, Mat 15:21-28) by experiencing the incredible value of crumbs from the Master’s table.

Isa 53:1  Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? 
Isa 53:2  For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. 
Isa 53:3  He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. 
Isa 53:4  Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. 
Isa 53:5  But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. 
Isa 53:6  All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

Christ is that bunch of grapes the hurried pickers quickly see as not worthy of vintage since he physically appears diseased. He, too, is the gleaner of the harvest whose eyes light upon the bright, plump bunches He has tended as the vinedresser as He similarly seeks good figs and not the ‘naughty’ (Jer 23:2).

Pro 3:9  Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase: 

2Ti 2:6  The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits.

Lev 23:39  Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days: on the first day shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath. 

Exo 22:29  Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors: the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me.

In verse 1 of Micah 7, Christ, the barley harvest, desires the “firstripe fruit”, which parallels the little harvest of souls, the Bride of Christ, from the first planted wheat harvest. He demands the first and the best of every kind of fruit and grain harvest, including the firstborn males in Israel, according to the Mosaic Laws. Of course, those first firstfruits paradoxically forfeit their birthright to the younger; nonetheless, our Lord likewise demands the best spiritual fruit from them, his new and younger ‘first fruit’, His Bride.

Exo 11:4  And Moses said, Thus saith the LORD, About midnight will I go out into the midst of Egypt:
Exo 11:5  And all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto the firstborn of the maidservant that is behind the mill; and all the firstborn of beasts [Even Egypt’s firstborn set the pattern and were sacrificed for Israel’s sake].

Exo 13:1  And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Exo 13:2  Sanctify unto me all the firstborn, whatsoever openeth the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of beast: it is mine. 

Christ as “The [first] good man is perished out of the earth, and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.” Our Lord, by design from before the foundations of the world and Genesis, begins the creation of a wife who will submit to His headship as did Solomon in his heart create the Shulamite in “the Song of Songs which is Solomon’s”! (Song of Solomon).

However, we know that the firstborn Esau, in his great passion for satiating his physical hunger, forfeited his birthright to his younger twin brother, Jacob and set up the God-ordained pattern consistently through scripture that the elder will always serve the younger. That incredibly important pattern of doctrine resolutely points to Old Israel, the Lord’s first wife, abdicating her inheritance to her younger sister, the new covenant Bride of Christ symbolised by Solomon’s Shulamite.

Gen 25:21  And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived. 
Gen 25:22  And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the LORD. 
Gen 25:23  And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, [Esau and Jacob] and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people [Jacob] shall be stronger than the other people [Esau]; and the elder shall serve the younger. 

Gen 25:29  And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint: 
Gen 25:30  And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom. 
Gen 25:31  And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright. 
Gen 25:32  And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me?
Gen 25:33  And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he sware unto him: and he sold his birthright unto Jacob. 
Gen 25:34  Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthright. 

Heb 12:14  Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord: 
Heb 12:15  Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled; 
Heb 12:16  Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
Heb 12:17  For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears. 

Heb 12:22  But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, 
Heb 12:23  To the general assembly and church of the [spiritual] firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
Heb 12:24  And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel. 

The church of the firstborn is the “firstripe fruit” Christ’s “soul desires” in Micah 7:1 and the first of the firstfruit who is upright among men in verse 2.

In the meantime, Micah summarises his Book in these first few verses of the coming Bride’s experience of evil he is giving mankind and she, and ALL for her sake. She begins as a whore and becomes the faithful city, the Heavenly Jerusalem above. Again, it all is a paradox and parable designed for her alone to understand and for her elder sisters remaining in Babylon to happily live in the unwitting deluded luxury of self-wisdom and ironic confusion of mixed doctrine. (Babylon H894: Phonetic: baw-bel’- Definition: babel or Babylon = confusion (by mixing) 1. Babel or Babylon, the ancient site and/or capital of Babylonia (modern Hillah) situated on the Euphrates)

1Co 3:18  Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. 
1Co 3:19  For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness. 
1Co 3:20  And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain. 
1Co 3:21  Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours; 
1Co 3:22  Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours; 
1Co 3:23  And ye are Christ’s; and Christ is God’s.

Mic 7:3  That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.

Doing evil earnestly with both hands is a double witness against us when in Babylon since both hands know precisely what the other is doing as he flaunts his self-righteousness. He thus semi-consciously judges himself, his conscience condemning him ~ but he doesn’t care about the ‘pricking brier’ (verse 4) since the reward of unjust gain is uppermost in his mind.

Mat 6:1  Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven. 
Mat 6:2  Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. 
Mat 6:3  But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth: 
Mat 6:4  That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.

Mic 7:4  The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity. 

Thus, the summary of Micah continues with reflection upon Old Israel’s ways that mirror ours spiritually when our Job-like hedge is taken away when we willfully, by the Lord’s hand, hear the watchman’s trumpet blast and fail to take action upon our sins.

Eze 33:6  But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman’s hand.

2Co 4:7  But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
2Co 4:8  We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; 
2Co 4:9  Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; 
2Co 4:10  Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. 

Mic 7:5  Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom. 

No greater echoed act of us lying in a woman’s bosom is there than Sampson with Deliah and we formally in Babylon, our elder sister’s bosom and her lewdly tutoring us in false doctrine. Precisely as the lesson was with Sampson and Deliah and us in Babylon, the Lord sets it up for an occasion against us when our hedge is temporarily pulled down for our indulgence in lusts. However, out of darkness comes light, and our experiences of evil are for our ultimate good to gain dominion over our flesh. Sampson dishonored his father and his mother by going against their supposedly better judgment.

Jdg 14:3  Then his [Sampson’s] father and his mother said unto him, Is there never a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? And Samson said unto his father, Get her for me; for she pleaseth me well. 
Jdg 14:4  But his father and his mother knew not that it was of the LORD, that he sought an occasion against the Philistines: for at that time the Philistines had dominion over Israel. 

Mic 7:6  For the son dishonoureth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter in law against her mother in law; a man’s enemies are the men of his own house.

The Body of Christ is painfully conversant with their spouses, family members, and friends, effectively being enemies of the cross. Even more fearfully remembered are those brothers who formally ate and drank with us at our Lord’s table.

Joh 13:18  I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He that eateth bread with me hath lifted up his heel against me. 

1Co 11:19  For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.

Mic 7:7  Therefore I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me. 
Mic 7:8  Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light unto me. 

It is a dreadfully sobering occasion our Lord performs by periodically revealing heretics in our midst. We plead with them in tears and prayers, yet, like any ‘occasion’ the Lord has set upon his servant before his birth to be an apostate, we grieve his departing the little flock since he was ordained just like Pharaoh to do the Lord’s will (Eph 1:11-12). Our Lord has given His Elect to rise from the fiery chastisements and become His first fruits.

Lam 3:33  For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men. 
Lam 3:34  To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth, 
Lam 3:35  To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High, 
Lam 3:36  To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not. 
Lam 3:37  Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not? 
Lam 3:38  Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good? 
Lam 3:39  Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? 
Lam 3:40  Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.

Mic 7:9  I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness. 
Mic 7:10  Then she that is mine enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her which said unto me, Where is the LORD thy God? mine eyes shall behold her: now shall she be trodden down as the mire of the streets.

We are mightily blessed to see that our worst enemy is us, the man of sin, to see the shame of our nakedness and cry out to Christ to cover us with His righteousness. That understanding washes our clothing from the dung of our many filthy streets of vile scheming within. We are initially worse than our brothers in Babylon since we held the Lord’s truth, yet unrighteously. It is only by our Lord’s choosing that we are separated from our twin brother, Esau and that our supplanting machinations are first beaten out of us to be given headship over him. It is not wise for Esau to gloat over our demise, worse for us to boast over his loss of inheritance.

Oba 1:10  Shame shall cover you [Esau] from the violence against your brother Jacob, and you shall be cut off forever [Cut off from the hope of the First Resurrection].
Oba 1:11  On the day of your standing on the other side, on the day that the strangers were capturing his force, and foreigners entered his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem, even you were like one of them.
Oba 1:12  But you should not have looked on the day of your brother on the day of his alienation; nor should you have rejoiced over the sons of Judah in the day of their ruin; nor should you have enlarged your mouth in the day of distress.
Oba 1:13  You should not have entered into the gate of My people in the day of their calamity; also, you should not have looked on his evil in the day of their calamity. Nor should you have sent out against his force in the day of his calamity.
Oba 1:14  Nor should you have stood on the crossways to cut off those of him who escaped; nor should you have shut up his survivors in the day of distress.

The endlessly repeated theme is our learned joyful recovery from chastisement for Christ to rebuild the walls of the Shulamite Bride we are, the Heavenly Jerusalem, with her embedded breasts in the walls symbolic of her heavenly motherhood.

The Lord’s “decree” in Micah 7:11 (below) is Cyrus’ command that the kingdom worship Daniel’s God with the rebuilding of Old Jerusalem but prophesying the finished walls of the Heavenly Jerusalem, his Bride now a Wife. She, a ruling mother in the One-Thousand Years, doesn’t glory over her children who are not given the spiritual capacity to obey consistently but are forced to obey for fear of her Lord’s ‘rod of iron.’ The impenetrable wall that she is, locks out humanity during the One Thousand Years. Clearly, she is a mother represented by her breasts like towers embedded in her city walls where humanity sees her as a woman, even a disciplining mother wielding an unyielding iron rod.

Gal 4:25  For this Agar [Equivalent to Esau] is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and [Egypt, Assyria, Sodom, Esau, Babylon and Old Jerusalem as one] is in bondage with her children. 
Gal 4:26  But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all. 

Son 8:10  I am a wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in his [Christ’s] eyes as one that found favour. 

Mic 7:11  In the day that thy walls are to be built, in that day shall the decree be far removed.

‘Are to be Built’

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“simple” or “causal” action of the root in the active voice.

Mood -Infinitive See [H8812]

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The “decree” is our Lord’s mandate reflecting his rebuilding of Heavenly Jerusalem. Darius, King of Persia, upon finding a role where his predecessor Cyrus had signed off that the walls of Jerusalem should be rebuilt, put into effect the ‘decree’ since it was a law of the Medes that once such a command had been instituted and sealed with the King’s signet ring, it was an ironclad legislation. Even though the subsequent verses speak in an ambiguous tense, notice that the decree is “far removed”, meaning that Micah is speaking of a future event that we know is Christ’s completion of building His Wife. Cyrus represents the physical enactment of rebuilding Jerusalem, and Darius represents the spiritual Heavenly Jerusalem as a future event.

Ezr 6:1  Then Darius the king made a decree, and search was made in the house of the rolls, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon. 
Ezr 6:2  And there was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of the Medes, a roll, and therein was a record thus written: 
Ezr 6:3  In the first year of Cyrus the king the same Cyrus the king made a decree concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, Let the house be builded, the place where they offered sacrifices, and let the foundations thereof be strongly laid; the height thereof threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof threescore cubits; 

Mic 7:12  In that day also he shall come even to thee from Assyria, and from the fortified cities, and from the fortress even to the river, and from sea to sea, and from mountain to mountain. 

How appallingly bright is the delusion of verse 12 today with our spiritual understanding that the literal Old Jerusalem, represented as greater Babylon, symbolised by Zionist Israel AND Esau, both today, viciously fighting for the physical fortress of world domination from the Euphrates River to the Mediterranean Sea. Unwittingly, the dismal irony is that their plans will remain desolate since our Lord is building a Heavenly Jerusalem, and the kings of the world will have their pitiful image chopped into chaff and blown away in the summer wind (Dan 2:31-45).

Isa 41:15 Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.

People are hills, mountains, nations, kings, kingdoms, etc., and God is bringing chastisement to the world’s nations, and He will do it through His Elect. 

Isa 42:1 Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.

Mic 7:13  Notwithstanding the land shall be desolate because of them that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.

However, the world’s dominating kingdoms remain desolate and will shortly be made even more desolate just as our ‘fruit’ has spiritually been desolate while the Lord fulfils His decree in creating His Elect as the Heavenly Jerusalem. In the period between now and the First Resurrection, we are being fed our Lord’s inheritance while outwardly, our brothers in Zion unwittingly await the rod of iron as in the days of old.

Mic 7:14  Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thine heritage, which dwell solitarily in the wood, in the midst of Carmel: let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old. 

Isa 58:10  And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday: 
Isa 58:11  And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not. 
Isa 58:12  And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in. 
Isa 58:13  If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: 
Isa 58:14  Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it. 

Mic 7:15  According to the days of thy coming out of the land of Egypt will I shew unto him marvellous things. 
Mic 7:16  The nations shall see and be confounded at all their [the Elect’s…] might: they shall lay their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall be deaf. 

Beginning with the rulership of the world with the rod of iron in the One Thousand Years and culminating in the Resurrection to Judgment, every human conceived since Eve will horrifically come to understand who it is who rules with Christ. The Lord’s Wife is represented as Joseph in the following verses:

Gen 45:1  Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him; and he cried, Cause every man to go out from me. And there stood no man with him, while Joseph made himself known unto his brethren. 
Gen 45:2  And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard. 
Gen 45:3  And Joseph said unto his brethren, I am Joseph; doth my father yet live? And his brethren could not answer him; for they were troubled at his presence. 
Gen 45:4  And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt. 
Gen 45:5  Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.
Gen 45:6  For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and yet there are five years, in the which there shall neither be earing nor harvest. 
Gen 45:7  And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
Gen 45:8  So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me [the Elect] a father [second in command under Christ] to Pharaoh [God], and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt [the World].

Mic 7:17  They [the Jews who say that they are spiritual Jews, and are not inclusive of the World] shall lick the dust like a serpent, they shall move out of their holes like worms of the earth: they shall be afraid of the LORD our God, and shall fear because of thee. 

Licking dust like a serpent is worshiping God at the feet of Christ and His Wife’s feet.

Rev 3:9  Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee. 

Just as earthworms are forced out of the earth by a lot of rain, so, too, will this world’s kingdoms of men, within and without, be forced out of fear to hear the ‘water’ of Christ’s commands. Even though earthworms use exceptionally wet times to mate, similarly in spirit, humanity eating dust will be imbued with the seed of God’s spirit.

God’s Steadfast Love and Compassion

Mic 7:18  Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy.
Mic 7:19  He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
Mic 7:20  Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old. 

What a glorious end to the Book of Micah, as do all books of scripture spiritually conclude!

Isa 52:10  The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.

Eph 1:5  Having predestinated us [first in his Elect] unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will 
Eph 1:6  To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved. 
Eph 1:7  In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace; 
Eph 1:8  Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence; 
Eph 1:9  Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:
Eph 1:10  That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:
Eph 1:11  In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will: 
Eph 1:12  That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.

Amen!

A Mystery Hidden from the Ages and Generations: How Not to be Bitter against One’s Wife and How not to Make a Husband Bitter – Part 4

Who can find a virtuous woman? Pro 31:10

[Study Aired August 5, 2023]

“Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord. 

  Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them” – Col 3:18,19. 

All young women passionate about the Lord in Babylonian Christianity aspire to be the Proverbs 31 wife, and all young, another-Jesus-centric (2 Cor 11:1) males believe that if they can attain her, they will secure the foundation of a perfect life. Deep in both parties lies disquiet for the unidentifiable complication that dogs their spirit.  A seemingly inevitable disconnection that their peers and the world have proven for thousands of years, yet the nuptials cannot define. Yet, off they go hand in hand to the teary-eyed, overjoyed wedding guests’ farewells.

Sadly, in today’s world, newlyweds are rarely virgins, with the husbands being delighted that their living together arrangements have proven too big a fuss has been made about her seemingly folkloric tardy arousals; she has proven them all wrong! And for now, she has ~ as did Israel in the wilderness.

This scriptural business of his wife having a heart that ‘ensnares and nets’ his libertine freedom certainly doesn’t indicate that she has “hands like bands” over his self-proclaimed steamy liberty. The righteous and respectful husband, at least in the flesh, believes the same.

Exo 19:8 And all the people [Israel, the Lord’s first wife] answered together and said, All that Jehovah has spoken we will do. And Moses returned the words of the people to Jehovah. 

Nonetheless, most young husbands have been educated for the past seventy years yet do not necessarily respect nor fully understand a wife’s much slower boudoir arousals. Despite that, the flush of sensual wedding preparations, the big day and now the honeymoon unwittingly amplifies her every Shulamite sensory allurement for mutual delight.

As time passes, the husband sees little cues of discontent and disdain in his wife’s body language that increase alarmingly for his anytime indulgences of the flesh. He can’t believe that his lovely wife is enacting that harsh term, rejection ~ and she doesn’t seem to care! He’s hit with a tonne of bricks in the flesh, at least when he realises what Solomon meant when he said, “And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her”. (Ecc 7:26)

It is commonly believed that a woman invites intimacy. That is true in every sense of her beautiful sensual self, yet the protocols are utterly back-to-front. Rather, our Lord invites/drags us to his spiritual self, and we, the woman, are given to enthusiastically respond, as exemplified by the Shulamite.

Eph 1:8 Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence;
Eph 1:9 Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:
Eph 1:10 That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him: 
Eph 1:11 In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will: 
Eph 1:12 That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.

Our lovely ladies in the Body of Christ electrifyingly understand the depth of a wife ruling a husband, as do their husbands, and the stab in both parties’ self-righteous hearts for the “curse” is fading. Our wound is healing, and we look forward to learning outstanding Shulamite daily arousals.

By the Lord’s design, a virtuous wife’s most potent instrument of seduction and power (ironically, she dissolutely craved in the flesh) is every detail of her Christ-authentic self! Christ wants daily to be seduced (Son 4:9) by this beauty, who mirrors his virtuously seductive qualities and is the impetus of mutual arousal and honouring both husbands.

Let’s now see how we can amplify our Lord’s glory that is guaranteed to inflame rebounding arousal for us. The answer for a Babylonian is downright boring; simply keep the commandments with all your heart, and its hidden result is the gift of “kisses”, the holy spirit.

Col 1:26 the mystery which has been hidden from ages and from generations, but now has been revealed to His saints.
Col 1:27 For to them God would make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the nations, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory, 

Joh 14:15 If you love Me, keep My commandments. 
Joh 14:16 And I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, so that He may be with you forever, 
Joh 14:17 the Spirit of Truth, whom the world cannot receive because it does not see Him nor know Him. But you know Him, for He dwells with you and shall be in you.
Joh 15:16 You have not chosen Me, but I have chosen you and ordained you that you should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you shall ask of the Father in My name, He may give it to you.

The Body of Christ, wherever he is in the World, is alone chosen by God to receive the spirit of Christ and his Father. They alone have been given to see all the nuances of how a husband is not to be bitter against his wife, and she in no way causes him to be bitter!

However, the now jaded wife is mostly a disengaged marionette waiting for her sweating, ghoulish husband to learn, <>most un-Shulamite-like, by himself, how to awaken her millions of sensory delights. Five years into marriage, they grow barley-subdued bitterness and frequently divorce. Self-righteous commitment to their mutual shabby understandings guarantees them mourning negatively, ‘all things are yours’ (1 Cor 3:21), and hopefully positively physically and spiritually for the Saints.

The Shulamite’s Terrible Blue Lyrics

And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four beasts full of eyes before and behind. (Rev 4:6. Eze 1:22).

‘Hell has no fury like a woman scorned’ (or sometimes ‘hell hath no fury like a woman scorned’) is usually attributed to the English playwright and poet William Congreve. He wrote these lines in his play [ironically] The Mourning Bride, 1697:

Heav’n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn’d,

Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn’d. [Quote: The Phrase Finder]

Pro 31:10 Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.

Who can find an unscorned, joyfully virtuous woman who has made herself ready?

Christ, of course, is the answer!

Upon understanding the previous three parts of this study and seeing how we are becoming far less that woman from Mt. Agar, it seems almost trite to further examine the Shulamite’s arousals. Yet, rather than merely talk and muse about the Shulamite’s methodology, we must, with Rachel’s bright eyes, walk the talk.

Gal 4:23 But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.
Gal 4:24 Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.
Gal 4:25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children. 
Gal 4:26  But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

The Internet is crammed full of sex therapists’ (Babylonian churches) “how-tos” to fix every intricate detail of broken bedroom intimacies to the volume it runs out of our noses and mostly frustration. Men and women of all ages, ethnicities and spiritual persuasions have their ‘proven’ method of ‘fixing’ the eternal unrighteous disunion of female torpor and male vigour, equal to Agar and Jerusalem above and Queen Vashti, Queen Esther and Amnon’s embarrassing lust (2 Sam 13). None of the worldly fixers of intimacies has the absurdly simple answer, bar the Bride of Christ by her Lord’s hand, to which we are somewhat sorry that it appears ostentatious but delighted that it’s the Lord’s doing.  

Joh 15:16 Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. 
Joh 15:17 These things I command you, that ye love one another.

The first line in the Song of Solomon states the end from the beginning, “The song of songs, which is Solomon’s” (Son 1:1)

It is her glorious “song of songs” since it holds the master key to the “Mystery Hidden from the Ages and Generations: How Not to Be Bitter against One’s Wife & How Not to Make a Husband Bitter”. It is her, the Bride of Christ’s God-given modus operandi.

Almost all physical, psychological and past sexual abusive complications precipitously decrease by the Shulamite’s methodology guided by her Lord’s spirit. So, let’s begin.

In Babylon, as did Israel, most wives drop the ball soon after marriage and breathe a micro-expressed irritated sigh for their husband’s goal-focused ardour. Christ is also goal-focused with his Bride, yet at a far more leisurely pace ~ something like 2,000 years of Shulamite foreplay.

Long-standing marriages maturing from torrid youthful sexuality doesn’t mean the Lord slackens off with His ardour for His wife. Only weak flesh invariably grows weary, disguising it as maturity. Fleshy maturity is worth nothing if it doesn’t point to its spiritual counterpart, where spiritual ardour takes up the slack.

Joh 6:63 It is the spirit that makes alive, the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit and are life. 

Rev 3:15 I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I would that you were cold or hot. 
Rev 3:16 So because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth. 

Like the Shulamite, almost all brides and cute, dreamy, righteous young girls in times past spent months or years preparing for every detail of their marriage. Such a bride doesn’t realise that she is passively and unwittingly arousing her mind for her wedding day, just as we do spiritually daily in the Body’s studies. Upon marriage, and after the first few years, the flush of heated bedroom intimacies subsides, and she becomes more exasperated that her husband hasn’t likewise “matured”. They don’t understand that the husband’s potency (subject to health) reflects the permanency and vigour of Christ and spirit life.

At one hundred years, Abraham sired Isaac (Gen 18) and, in part, reflects the Lord’s undying flame for his wife by washing her with the word, the ultimate “maturity”. 

Joh 8:51 Truly, truly, I say to you, If a man keeps My Word, he shall never see death.

We don’t know if Abraham and Sarah had matured past direct sexual expression; nonetheless, it is an immense relief, particularly for wives, to have limited child-bearing fruitfulness. Yet, maturity is a work of spiritual progress for the Lord’s purpose in us.

Husbands and wives have to stop thinking that “sex” is penetrative intimacies. Wives will irritatedly remark that is what they have been advocating for thousands of years! ~ righteous husbands will equally be miffed for the direct accusation against their bedroom prowess. As Lord willing, we hope to see “sex” as a state of consistent micro-arousals moment by moment, hour by hour and daily that keep us constantly in a state of spiritual arousal that doesn’t have to end in penetration (interestingly, in contemporary terms means discernment; piercing, equivalent to “terrible crystal” clarity). It builds anticipatory tension in a husband to be instant in thought for his wife to delight in coming home to her increasing beauty; it is really that simple.

Col 4:2 Be instant in prayer: watching in it with thanksgiving.
Col 4:3 Praying withal for us also, that God may open unto us a door of speech to speak the mystery of Christ (for which also I am bound): (DRB) 

1Ch 16:9 Sing [the Shulamite song] to Him, sing psalms to Him, talk of all His wondrous works.
1Ch 16:10 Glory in His holy name, let the heart of those who seek Jehovah rejoice. 
1Ch 16:11 Seek Jehovah and His strength; seek His face continually. 
1Ch 16:12 Remember His marvelous works which He had done, His wonders, and the judgments of His mouth [as the Shulamite amorously did].

For the major part, those moments-by-moment micro-spiritual arousals through immersion in prayer arouse within the mystery of Christ, our Lover. It is not a state of lukewarm.

The Lord designed that blindness until the Shulamite was given the lyrical key to her Song of Songs! She now enthusiastically and unashamedly set about building her house (Pro 14:1). To most Babylonian wives, their wedding night laid the foundation for her home, and she doesn’t have the structural (Lord’s) understanding of how to finish her Temple, neither does her ‘other Jesus’ husband. Their subsequent few years quickly establish bitterness in her husband, who no longer knows how to love his wife, not that he ever did, and she, like Leah, feels rejected and is tearfully bewildered. 

Luk 14:27 And whoever does not bear his cross and come after Me, he cannot be My disciple. 
Luk 14:28 For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not sit down first and count the cost, whether he may have enough to finish it;
Luk 14:29 lest perhaps, after he has laid the foundation and is not able to finish, all those seeing begin to mock him, 

Luk 14:3 saying, This man began to build and was not able to finish.

The primary effect of a wife not having the passion to finish building her house is embedded in the curse of her rulership over her husband.Unconsciously, she wonderfully prepared her mind and body for her wedding night, and in subsequent years, Queen Vashti style (attempted) forced her husband to come to her. Like King Ahasuerus (akh-ash-vay-rosh), he is humiliated by her rulership over his headship and becomes bitter for her Laodocean spirit. She, marionette-like, now expects him to work enchantment on her mind and body, just as the 40,000 wives of Babylonian Christianity lay limp before their workers of magic arts, plucking her strings and breathlessly singing their song of lies to tingle her ears.

To physically and spiritually refuse to come at our husband’s behest to see our arousing beauty will result in Esther taking our place. 

Rev 18:23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.

One of the doctrines that the Lord’s wife will be ruling with the rod of iron in the One Thousand Year rulership of her “young women” (and men) is how to love their husbands, and he, her. Unlike the Shulamite, to their endless frustration and ironic “bitterness”, both parties will be forced to sustain submission and be under rulership.

Eze 1:22 And the likeness of the firmament upon the heads of the living creature was as the colour of the terrible^H3372 crystal, stretched forth over their heads above.

Noah and his family, upon exiting the Ark, were the first humans to ever see the vast blue sky of the firmament above; from Eden to this point in time, mist and clouds obscured the entire sky. Now, the sun shone like lightning in the pure atmosphere in a setting of sapphire blue. The site from the mountains of Ararat was breathtakingly “terrible” [H3372 – 1. to fear, revere, be afraid a. (Qal) 1. to fear, be afraid 2. to stand in awe of, be awed 3. to fear, reverence, honour, respect] It all represents Christ the sun/Son sitting in his heavenly throne for the coming terrible clarity of his word in our heavens. Our understanding will become reverently clear as crystal and utterly free from the clouds of darkness that covered the understanding of our former selves represented as the Egyptians, Old Jerusalem and the Israelites in the wilderness, and Babylon (Exo 14:19,20)

The Shulamite was equally “black” and thus hidden from Solomon’s understanding, yet she saw her Lord’s ravishings of her in trembling awe, honour and respect in the crystal clarity of understanding. She now perfectly understands how to arouse her naturally inherent morbidity of excitement for her Lord’s word.

The “we” in the following verse is the Shulamite’s 1,000 sisters, Solomon’s figurative Babylonian Christian wives all running after a different Jesus, and only the Shulamite sees with terrible crystal clarity.

Son 1:4 Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine: the upright love thee.
Son 1:5 I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.
Son 1:6 Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun [Christ] hath looked upon me: my mother’s children [Old Israel and today, Babylon] were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept [her Lord is the keeper of her vineyard bringing forth his fruit from her following much pruning and dunging].

“The Shulamite’s Terrible Blue Lyrics” methodology is to plan daily cunningly skilful seductions. In the flesh, her God-designed beautiful femininity is perfectly designed to sexually arouse her husband; it faultlessly aligns with the Bride’s daily spiritual arousals that her Lord is ravished to be equally “sick of love” (Son 2:4)

The terrible crystal is a type of Rev 4:1 After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter. Solomon desperately tried to look behind his understanding of the Shulamite, Return, Return, Return that we may look upon you without success. Conversely, Job, like the Shulamite, was given to look behind him and have their eyes opened to their respective “terrible crystal” understandings.

Out of all the women and wives ever to exist, only the Bride of Christ leaves behind the sexual and spiritual contrivances more bitter than death that Saul, Jonathan, and Solomon knew in the flesh that a woman could never suppress the reliable love of another man, in the reality of Christ.

Ecc 7:27 Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account:
Ecc 7:28 Which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found. 

2Sa 1:23 Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided: they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions. 
2Sa 1:24 Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet, with other delights, who put on ornaments of gold upon your apparel. 
2Sa 1:25 How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! O Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine high places.
2Sa 1:26 I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.
2Sa 1:27 How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!

We have gone full circle: “Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine. Because of the savour of thy good ointments thy name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee” (Son 1:2-3). 

Luk 4:4 And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word [every Shulamite-received kiss] of God.

The Shulamite has “reversed the curse” physically and spiritually at her Lord’s hand. She has seen how not to make a husband bitter in terrible blue crystal clarity. She enthusiastically uses her immensely seductive and glorious femininity first by dwelling on skilful micro-intensities of physically awakening her husband (absurdly easy!) to keep his mind on her. In doing that, she automatically and semi-consciously awakens and prepares her body and mind ~ spiritually, the process is precisely the same!

She IS the one “man” without “many inventions” (Ecc7:29) among 1,000 awakened in perfect clarity by her methodology.

Rev 19:6 And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth. 
Rev 19:7 Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready. 
Rev 19:8 And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.

She has attained her body’s most powerful indirect rulership for (not over) her Husband’s glory.

That is the pure simplicity of not making a carnal and spiritual man/Christ bitter against his wife and ALL to her glory in Him.

Her price is far above rubies!