Moved by the Holy Spirit, Solomon’s Impulsion for Designing the Young Shulamite Bride

Psa 119:103  How sweet are Your Words to my taste! More than honey to my mouth!

[Study Aired May 30, 2026]

The Introduction Studies thus far have outlined the Bride’s journey from Eden to these apparent last days, in learning Christ’s Song of Songs to becoming the New Adam in Christ, his Wife. And now that we see clearly the two overarching, linked themes arising from their gender-specific curses, which directly establish man’s deafness and blindness to spiritually understanding the New Covenant, Christ’s Song of Songs, to accelerate the preeminent theme of Spiritual Intimacy Avoidance. That ridiculously simple order of themes centred on Adam and Eve’s respective curses is:

1 – Adam’s injured privy and stones

Establishing:

2 – Eve’s wounded breasts

Finally, establishing the Preeminent Theme Indicative of the Woman (mankind in churches) for the entire Bible, a very reasonable carnal rationale that of,

– Intimacy Avoidance (Avoidant Attachment)

In psychology, this refers to an attachment style in which an individual instinctively pulls back from deep intimacy and vulnerability to maintain independence.

Here are some verses establishing Old Israel’s and our former Babylonian avoidant attachment style with Christ, our Husband.

Num 14:11  And the LORD said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have shewed among them?

Jer 2:11  Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.
Jer 2:12  Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD. 
Jer 2:13  For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out [for themselves] cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water. 

Those “two evils” are directly related to Adam’s signified self-emasculation, which dreadfully inhibits his ability to head and lead his wife, Eve. It leaves Eve and all women and wives spiritually directionless, trying to save themselves, taking the lead now by her drawing of what ravishes her from a broken Adamic cistern without water, substituted romantically in marriage.

Isa 3:1  For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water, 
Isa 3:2  The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient,
Isa 3:3  The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator.
Isa 3:4  And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them. 
Isa 3:9  The shew of their countenance doth witness against them [Impudent faces against headship]; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.
Isa 3:10  Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings [And carnal wives and women in trying to mend their cisterns by their methodology, receive only fleeting, unsatisfying, sensual joy since their house is built on sand, destroying all spiritually ravished incitements]. 
Isa 3:11  Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.
Isa 3:12  As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.

Pro 5:18  Let thy fountain [H4726] be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

Fountain H4726 – spring. Source of life, joy, purification. (It is directly associated with one’s wife’s monthly menstrual blood, denoting her fertility and fruitfulness, initially designed to be wholly connected to her husband in mind, body and spirit).

Pro 14:27  The fear of the LORD is a fountain of [spiritual] life, to depart from the snares of death.

That fountain of life, physically, was originally designed, yet and after leaving Eden, never got to be properly realised, to be the unified connection with a wife whose heart isn’t snares and nets and the resultant death of enthusiastic intimacy. So, and on the carnal account, yes, a fountain does send forth at the same place sweet and more bitter than death.

Jas 3:11  Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?

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.

However, the Bride’s fountain is temporarily virginal and sealed.

Son 4:12  A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.

Solomon profoundly understood the machinations of women and wives, as he experienced firsthand in his interactions with his 1,000 wives. However, as a consequence of the curses of Adam and Eve that led to his wives opposition towards him, and all wives to their husbands, it appears that he did not explicitly associate their opposition to men and husbands as the outcome of Adam’s wounded privy and stones, which caused women and their wives to be inherently ‘against masculine, and particularly a husband’s authority and headship,’ as a direct consequence of their ingestion of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. All he seemed to know was the resultant experience of evil. Had he had the holy spirit of all wisdom and understanding, he wouldn’t have had to try and solve the riddle by starting afresh with the design of a prepubescent young girl, but have an Abishag-like mature young woman with breasts his heart and spirit could lie betwixt always (Son 1:13).

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 have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them. 

Luk 10:16  He that heareth you heareth me; and he that despiseth you despiseth me; and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me.

Furthermore, a verse that signifies those same methods of evading our Lord’s marital intimacies, and is directly correlated with and highly indicative of the state of our hearts beneath our breasts.

Hos 2:1  Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi [nation, people]; and to your sisters [Judah & Ephraim], Ruhamah.

Ruhamah means, 1. to love, love deeply, have mercy, be compassionate, have tender affection, have compassion— [and where do those emotions arise, of course, beneath our breasts!].

Hos 2:2 [Saying,] Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts;

Hosea, in saying, ‘She is not my wife’, although directly relates to her whoredoms, covertly highlights that Avoidant Attachment style, where her self-centred focus to save herself sensually, is directly nursed in her wounded breasts, is deliberately designed by God to not be devoted to Him. It is the very reason Solomon dedicated himself to creating a young wife, her pattern unwittingly of the heavenly, for himself, who would be of the same mind to sequentially celebrate coitally that mirrors Christ with his Bride today.

The Bride of Christ has already been imprinted, essentially from birth, trained by her wise mother in the highest commission of being a helpmeet wife, in the art of an Abishage-like ministering to her future husband. Because of Adam and Eve’s curses, Old Israel and we were a child left to herself for four thousand years, further indicting our old adulterous mother with additional “shame”.

Pro 29:15  The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame. 

From time to time in the Introductory Studies, we have seen that the Shulamite, having been “spoken for” in being chosen by Christ, and in the very first verse of the SoS, initiates the reversal of “her adulteries from between her breasts” by opulently ravishing him with the next step of physical sexual arousal. She says,

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

Those kisses are not perfunctory! They are deliberately provocative H5400 style kisses, meaning – “to kindle, burn, to make a fire”! And no quicker way to make a husband burn with passion for his Bride is to know that her dream, her mother taught her, is a song in harmony with the very same dream as his, vastly amplifying the anticipation with the following inflaming imagery. The spiced wine OF the juice of her pomegranate connects with the wine in the opening verse of the SoS, highlighting the singularly deep connection of her emblematic wine with the exact same spirit in her kisses, as her Husband’s, thus soundly reversing her curse.

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, and 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.

Who do you think would despise her? Her 1,000 suffergett-like sisterhood, the world and Babylon, of course. They are alarmed that she is, in essence, a demagogue against Babylon’s orthodox ways, as is her Husband, overturning their 4,000-year-old established norms of the Mosaic Law (Rom 3) that never changed the “queens and concubines” hearts, striking both fear, wonder and praise in their breasts and minds.

Eph 4:22  That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
Eph 4:23  And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;
Eph 4:24  And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

Son 6:9  My dove, my undefiled is but one; she is the only one of her mother, she is the choice one of her that bare her. The daughters saw her, and blessed her; yea, the queens and the concubines, and they praised her.

Accordingly, the Introductory Studies were a brief summary of the Bride’s sordid journey, now converging on Solomon’s impulsion for designing his blueprint of the perfect wife, unwittingly, to the precise pattern of Christ’s blueprint, the Heavenly Temple, her magnum opus response to Him! A magnum opus is a Latin phrase that literally translates to “great work.” It refers to the single greatest masterpiece or crowning achievement in a creator’s career, commonly used in reference to art, literature, music, or film, and is a near-perfect description of Christ for his creation of His Bride, spiritually, his greatest work, as is He, the Father’s greatest work! 

Hab 1:5  “Look at the nations and observe— be utterly astounded! For I am doing a work in your days that you would never believe even if someone told you(BSB). (representing a “great work” including the multitude of miracles and signs, particularly spiritually)

Joh 20:21  Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you. 
Joh 20:22  And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost: 
Joh 20:23  Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.

Christ’s ravished intent was to construct her perfectly, which led him to start with a clean sheet, being remade with a cursory connection to the clay of the same lump of her past, bar the troublesome fact that she was still corruptible flesh (Ecc 7:29).

Son 6:13  Return, return, O Shulamite; return, return, that we may look upon thee. What will ye see in the Shulamite? As it were the company of two armies.

Signified by the near-perfect as perfect as the mindset of carnal flesh can be in Abishag, and no doubt highly trained in the art of husbandly ministrations, she was unable, and was never meant to revive the dying King David’s enthusiasm from her virginal youth, to defibrillate the Old Covenant. This is why Solomon saw her as signifying a second army, a type of New Covenant that was seen in Eccl 7:29, he knew would be a repeat of what carnal flesh does best by ‘inventively’ finding ways to twist God’s word to meet the idols of their hearts by believing that in doing so, ‘they would not surely die’—the very doctrine of Orthodox Christianity.

Gen 3:4  And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: 
Gen 3:5  For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

Pro 22:5  Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them.
Pro 22:6  Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. (Again, a kind of imprinting)

Jer 29:11  For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
Jer 29:12  Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.
Jer 29:13  And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart. 

Solomon, in response to God for being chosen in the natural succession to his father, King David, to rule Israel, asked for an understanding appropriate to a king, as close as possible to God’s own, for insight and discernment to govern Israel righteously. Solomon’s additionally given God-like wisdom reflects the Elect’s like God-given wisdom today, only with the holy spirit. It was the most crucial element missing from Solomon’s carnal wisdom, ultimately and unwittingly causing him immense vexation, as he could not understand why his Shulamite creation in the SoS would be any different from the ministrations of his 1,000 miserable comforter wives. It is why, and at the very end of his Song in Chapter 8, he, with analysis paralysis, concluded that he had to start from scratch with a pre-pubescent girl without breasts, in reality, from birth to train her up as perfect as flesh could be in the way she should go to be that ‘perfect’ Bride.

1Ki 3:1  And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh’s daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of the LORD, and the wall of Jerusalem round about.
1Ki 3:2  Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house built unto the name of the LORD, until those days.
1Ki 3:3  And Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places. 
1Ki 3:4  And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was the great high place: a thousand burnt offerings did Solomon offer upon that altar.
1Ki 3:5  In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, Ask what I shall give thee.
1Ki 3:6  And Solomon said, Thou hast shewed unto thy servant David my father great mercy, according as he walked before thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with thee; and thou hast kept for him this great kindness, that thou hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.
1Ki 3:7  And now, O LORD my God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of David my father: and I am but a little child: I know not how to go out or come in. 
1Ki 3:8  And thy servant is in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude.
1Ki 3:9  Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people? 
1Ki 3:10  And the speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing.
1Ki 3:11  And God said unto him, Because thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life; neither hast asked riches for thyself, nor hast asked the life of thine enemies; but hast asked for thyself understanding to discern judgment;
1Ki 3:12  Behold, I have done according to thy words: lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart; so that there was none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee. 
1Ki 3:13  And I have also given thee that which thou hast not asked, both riches, and honour: so that there shall not be any among the kings like unto thee all thy days.
1Ki 3:14  And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will lengthen thy days.
1Ki 3:15  And Solomon awoke; and, behold, it was a dream. And he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and offered up burnt offerings, and offered peace offerings, and made a feast to all his servants.

Now, Solomon, and by his own words and wisdom, among a huge volume of sage proverbs for truth, said that great wealth brings a person to poverty, and concerning his 1,000 wives, he proved his and their impoverishment most vexingly, their disconnectedness in mind and spirit, experienced thousands of times theoretically, coitally—with no lasting fulfilment (meaning carnal dying flesh’s craved sensuality representin the spiritual) whatsoever! Regarding that celebrated sensual state, believing that it won’t die but is a type of saviour, we can’t repeat Romans 1 often enough: by our carnality, “invisibly,” we represent every detail of its spiritual representations to be fully realised in the actual SoS and ultimately in life eternal.

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 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.
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:

Solomon concluded that for his new wife to have a focused desire for him above all other influences, she must be imprinted in the art of husbandly ministrations, unwittingly first centred sexually, appropriately in all purity, and increasingly from a young age, virginally and enthusiastically waiting for the day she is spoken for.

Our former foolish hearts were darkened by our Adamic curses of emasculated headship, resulting in wounded breasts avoiding marital intimacies from a pathetically weak husband, who was devoted to willingly ingratiate his wife’s insistent romantic needs to ultimately obfuscate the shame of his sexual needs. That shame theme stemming from the psychology of his ‘injured privy’, so easily shocks the blind, trying to keep our Lord pure by their standards in the same vein as their belief that ‘God wouldn’t create evil’: that Adam’s and all men’s unrighteous lusts mirror many of the same lusts, although righteously, our Husband desires of us spiritually! The Shulamite Bride is given to enthusiastically reverse that with the astonishing epiphany that her focus is to be on her Husband’s needs—soundly understanding for the first time in 4,000 years that indeed, she is made for Him, and not he, for her! 1Cor 11:1-12.

1Pe 1:3  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By His great mercy He has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
1Pe 1:4  and into an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, reserved in heaven for you, 
1Pe 1:5  who through faith are shielded by God’s power for the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time. 
1Pe 1:6  In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in various trials
1Pe 1:7  so that the proven character of your faith—more precious than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ. 
1Pe 1:8  Though you have not seen Him, you love Him; and though you do not see Him now, you believe in Him and rejoice with an inexpressible and glorious joy,
1Pe 1:9  now that you are receiving the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls. 
1Pe 1:10  Concerning this salvation, the prophets who foretold the grace to come to you searched and investigated carefully,
1Pe 1:11  trying to determine the time and setting to which the Spirit of Christ in them was pointing when He predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories to follow.
1Pe 1:12  It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves, but you, when they foretold the things now announced by those who preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven. Even angels long to look into these things.
1Pe 1:13  Therefore, prepare your minds for action [Make yourself ready by arousing Him by our enthusiasm He has imbued us! Rev 19:7]. Be sober-minded. Set your hope fully on the grace to be given you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
1Pe 1:14  As obedient children, do not conform to the passions of your former ignorance. [Our former ideologies for demanding to be aroused our way!]
1Pe 1:15  But just as He who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do,
1Pe 1:16  for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.”
1Pe 1:17  Since you call on a Father who judges each one’s work impartially, conduct yourselves in reverent fear during your stay as foreigners [in transition in becoming Christs].
1Pe 1:18  For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life you inherited from your forefathers,
1Pe 1:19  but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or spot.
1Pe 1:20  He was known before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in the last times for your sake.
1Pe 1:21  Through Him you believe in God, who raised Him from the dead and glorified Him; and so your faith and hope are in God.
1Pe 1:22  Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth so that you have a genuine love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from a pure heart.
1Pe 1:23  For you have been born again, not [and for this cause, ravished to produce the…] of perishable seed, but [Shulamite-like ravished to receive the…] of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.
1Pe 1:24  For, “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,
1Pe 1:25  but the word of the Lord stands forever.” And this is the word that was proclaimed to you.

Correspondingly, as well as the means of creating God as numerous as the stars of heaven, that is the purpose God made the woman for the man: to mirror the Bride for Christ spiritually, her unrivalled enthusiasm for spiritual intimacy,and IS his “impulsion for designing the young Shulamite Bride—a wife with the same mind and passion in perfect spiritual unity with his.

Likely, to conceal God’s spiritual word from everyone except his Bride, this study’s caption verse of Psa 119:3, states quite passively to the world and the Shulamite’s 1,000 sisters, with only exclamation marks, “How sweet are Your Words to my taste! More than honey to my mouth!” Consequently, the Bride’s primaeval ravishment emanating from her breasts for the kisses of his word (again, expressed impassively, seemingly blandly…) “is better than wine”, is more covertly seen, although in similar tones, hiding the underlying intense arousal, to action, directly akin sexually, is seen in Mat 13:44, “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.” In poetic Shulamite-like visionary passion, the Elect clearly feel that fervour flowing back and forth from her breasts viscerally and pelvicly for buying that field, the world, by first being married to her Lord and Husband.

That ravishment felt in the Bride’s heart beneath her breasts, felt viscerally and radiating out to her every neuro-sensitivity’s elation, is the physical and psychological result of what the young virginal Bride had been taught, in meticulous detail, of husbandly ministrations by her dedicated mother. Classically, a young virgin woman’s dream, in immense anticipation and barely contained ravishment, and long-awaited vision to fulfil her God-given reason for being created to be with her husband, is drawing near. She is highly conscious of what her mother inevitably taught her to avoid, in modern terms, the over-arousal of her male counterpart called epididymal hypertension, which, incautiously, can be fornication—is the painful physical effect an overly aroused male can feel, that for the female equivalent is called pelvic congestion or hypertension resulting from righteous or unrighteous thirsting sensually—of course, always understood spiritually akin to being drunk on the spirit of God’s word.

That panting or thirst both fiancé’ feel is seen in the Strong’s, meaning “Thirsteth” H6770 – Strongs’, meaning to “suffer” of overly dreaming of her commission in typically detailed female ways, naturally accentuating lust—the desirable and naturally increasing of ‘imprinting’ sexually, as is the Bride today, spiritually on her Husband (Psa 63:1. Son 3:1-3. Psa 42:1-2). In part, and to be studied in the actual SoS, this is why she thrice sternly rebukes her sisters in the Song of Solomon, “I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please.”

Psa 42:1  To the chief Musician, Maschil, for the sons of Korah. As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.
Psa 42:2  My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?

The entire Bible is primarily devoted first to the Bride’s experience, spiritually signified in Christ’s Song of Songs, only She knows and joyfully sings, as she dies with her Lord and husband at the end of the Sixth Day, raised in marriage for the Seventh Day to judge with Him, on the Eighth Day.

That concludes the primary reasons why Solomon had to start afresh in Chapter 8 of his Song with a “little sister without breasts” if he was to unwittingly signify Christ actuating the Father’s plan since before creation to construct a wife for himself who would be depicted first physically and psychologically immensely aroused for her Husband to present to himself spiritually.

Next week, Lord willing, we will study the details of how the Bride ‘makes herself ready’ for her Husband before getting into the much anticipated study of The Song of Solomon.

A Husband’s Rejection of Christ’s Headship is Symptomatic of Whores, Exemplified by Women, an Alignment Scorned Contemptuously Study 9

[Study Aired April 4, 2026]

… she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow (Rev 18:7)

Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness (Pro 30:20)

This study examines the biblical definition of a whore or harlot, which is mainly seen as a term related only to women and traditionally associated with using sex for money, morally identified as fornication and adultery. God’s wisdom in introducing harlotry directly signifies sex spiritually representing other doctrines, indicting churches full of equally whoring males. It was the principal proclivity of Old Israel in the wilderness, inherently rejecting her Lord’s word, and without the holy spirit, that identified her incumbent nature. 

Jer 3:4  Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou art the guide of my youth?

Immediately recognize the ongoing nature of prior research on breast significations and how eroticized emotions, whether righteous or not, are most intensely experienced during our ‘youth,’ engraving these experiences indelibly upon us.

Jer 3:5  Will he reserve his anger for ever? will he keep it to the end? Behold, thou hast spoken and done evil things as thou couldest. 
Jer 3:6  The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot. 
Jer 3:7  And I said after she had done all these things, Turn thou unto me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it.

Our eroticized emotions are so strong that, without Christ’s spiritual word, we are heavily driven to fulfill fleshly desires whenever possible, especially in secret, where stolen waters seem sweet. As emerging kings and priests of God, fleeing from Babylon, we observe the evil approaching and see our brothers and sisters engaging in harlotry without Christ’s spiritual guidance. We often turn a blind eye because we share the same father, Satan, without realizing it, much like the treacherous priests of Judah in Old Israel.

Jer 3:8  And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also. 
Jer 3:9  And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks. 
Jer 3:10  And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the LORD. 
Jer 3:11  And the LORD said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah.

One may ask why Israel would feel justified in backsliding. Whenever spiritual and political leaders, similar to one’s own parents, lack discipline from their guardians, it negatively influences their children, leading them to grow up according to their own misguided beliefs—unrighteously “training them up in the way they should[n’t] go”.

Jer 3:12  Go and proclaim these words toward the north [Judgment comes from the north], and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the LORD; and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you: for I am merciful, saith the LORD, and I will not keep anger for ever. 
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.
Jer 3:14  Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion: 

Isa 4:1  And in that day seven women [You and I; Zionist Orthodox Christianity and other religiosities] shall take hold of one man [Christ], saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy [Another Jesus’] name [Sexual relations with many doctrines], to take away our reproach.

Eating her own bread and drinking her own water is a self-pleasuring act of being aroused by idolized doctrines.

As indicated very early in these studies, a definition of a whore or harlot is a wife who is “against” her husband, typifying God’s Elect being given to recognize that they, too, were whores while in Babylonian religiosity.

Idiomatically, whoredom or harlotry can also describe the misuse of anything for gain, incomprehensibly indicting Adam as the first ‘whore’, since he deliberately and symbolically sold his God-given order of authority to Eve, for an emblematic pot of sexual lentils, him (and all men) now in subservience to her.

Due to Adam and Eve’s curses, especially Adam’s self-emasculation in submission to his desire to serve Eve’s beauty, the term ‘whore’ now unfairly condemns women. Shockingly, it subtly and morally seemingly unjustly stigmatizes all upright, everyday Babylonian Christian wives who, in effect, demand exorbitant, emotionally driven romantic fees from their husbands before agreeing to intimacy. It is the pattern easily seen in the doctrines of emotionally driven happy-clappy Jesus loves you churches of the world, eagerly paying the offering plate as it’s passed around—the very spiritual act of harlotry and whoredom.

According to God’s design, whoredom or harlotry is a prominent theme in the Bible. It is contrasted first with the other ‘mystery’ Woman, who produces the Bride of Christ, the Lord’s Wife. Only she is granted the insight to see and comprehend her former state of whoredom and her mission, which has remained fundamentally “black” to the world’s perception for 6,000 years.

Rev 17:18  And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.

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.

The first time the term ‘whore’ is referenced is in Genesis 34:8, where the beautiful Dinah, daughter of Leah and Jacob, went out to see her female companions in the land, and the Hivite Shechem lusted after her and lay with her. To his credit, he didn’t leave Dinah adrift as a defiled woman but sought to marry her. Classically, the self-righteous sons of Jacob demanded a severe restitution from the uncircumcised Shechem, treacherously in his death, leaving poor Dinah ceremonially unjustly morally bankrupt; characteristically, representing the Bride of Christ spiritually before being dragged to Christ.

Gen 34:31  And they [Jacob’s sons] said, Should he deal with our sister as with an harlot?

The term ‘whore’ or ‘harlot’ was never recited until that narrative, and its noting indicated that prostitution was very well known in those days, and colloquially in contemporary times, the immutable truth, having started in Eden, is referred to as “the world’s oldest profession”.

Whoredom and harlotry have the same meaning. According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, here is the modern definition of a whore or harlot. Interestingly, the tone of its interpretation downplays God’s judgment.

Plural whores

1. 1. Somewhat old-fashioned, disparaging + offensive: a person who engages in sex acts and especially sexual intercourse in exchange for pay: sex worker.

• a. Disparaging + offensive: a woman who has multiple sexual partners: a sexually promiscuous woman.

1. Disparaging + offensive—used as a generalised term of abuse for a woman.

• A mercenary or unscrupulous person: a person who is willing to compromise their integrity or principles for personal gain or in pursuit of something.

Others regarded him as a hack—a literary whore. … It wasn’t just that he was no longer a literary writer. It was that he was a turncoat, sacrificing his art for the almighty dollar—an awful sin in New York intellectual circles.— Neal Gabler

1. A person who gets an unusual amount of pleasure from or has an unusual amount of interest in something: junkie

An attention whore.

Publicity whores

Intransitive verb

1. 1. Somewhat old-fashioned, disparaging + offensive: to have sexual intercourse with a sex worker

• To pursue something unworthy, debasing, unseemly, or false

—usually used with after whoring after profits… go a whoring after their gods …—

Exodus 34:15 (Authorised Version) Exo 34:15  Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice;

A sentence example: “On the other hand, the great depression has not sent them whoring after the planned economy.”

– Edgar Ansel Mowrer.

Those applicable definitions in conjunction with God’s definition of what constitutes a whore are first mentioned in Leviticus.

Lev 19:29  Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a whore; [H2181] lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness.

In that verse, note that women symptomatically represent whores for the distinct purpose of indicting “the land”, the nation represented by her.

Whore H2181 – 1. to commit fornication, be a harlot, play the harlot a. (Qal) 1. to be a harlot, act as a harlot, commit fornication 2. to commit adultery 3. to be a cult prostitute 4. to be unfaithful (to God) (fig.) 

Thus, harlotry, whoredom and fornication are intrinsically the same.

The act of physical fornication, saturating the dating scene today, deliberately experienced with personally perceived innocent sexual enticements, is, by nature, predatory. The fine line of (non-genitally) intentionally arousing another person outside of a spousal agreement, either singularly or by both parties, for narcissistic or monetary gain is an act of whoredom. A woman considering herself virtuous is unwittingly a whore when all the previously mentioned reasons for sexual ensnarement or for marriage are pursued without the foundation of Christ’s spiritual commands! Spiritually, it means to wittingly or unwittingly present God’s word falsely, again, singularly or for both narcissistic and/or monetary gain, and is what the world’s churches and christendom excel.

However, it must be acknowledged that male (or female) arousal is not always a result of fornication, most notably among men and particularly youth, involuntarily, with often tiresome inconvenience. In women, clandestinely, it is not as dramatic, infrequent and at least initially, in many women, mostly unnoticeable, yet in both minds, intentional psychological arousal assuredly is, and likely denotive of fornication. That is how the Lord made our impending procreative responses, which Babylon typically highlights lewdly. Rather, wouldn’t it be beautiful if both sexes, upon recognizing those intrinsic qualities indicative of all beasts, quietly within, gave glory to God for the wonderment He created in our sexuality.

Psa 139:14  I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
Psa 139:15  My substance was not hid from thee, [And now, the Bride] when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. 
Psa 139:16  Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them. 

Eurphorically, contrary to all men and women cursed in Eden, the Bride glorifies virtuously in a male’s involuntary physical ravishment, which typifies her Lord’s spiritual ravishments—If she didn’t, she is signified by Old Israel, symptomatically a whore.

Psa 139:17  How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!

… and the “sum of them” is what we will elatedly study in the Song of Solomon.

Male arousal is largely visual, and young girls keenly observe for their cunning, unwittingly villainous gains, while the virtuous young woman thanks God and gracefully uses it for her righteous Abishag and Shulamite-like courtship for marriage. Women, upon learning from their hormone-driven youth, that male arousal, even from the most innocent, alluring feminine observation or, absurdly, non-feminine sensuality, can trigger his near-instant involuntary awakening, utterly ignorantly indicative of Christ’s unified and interactive joy in the purity of spirit for his Father, and he, for him. In the flesh, however, when there is no authentic interest in possible marriage, and either party observes or imagines another’s ravishment and deliberately advances that person’s elation indecently, either or both begin participating in the act of fornication since they are merely advancing the dead end fruitlessness of lust — just as Old Israel detested her Lord’s light bread, lusting gastronomically for the sensualities her neighbor’s god’s promised typified by Aholah and Aholibah’s overemphasized intrigue for male arousal.

Eze 23:19  Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt. 
Eze 23:20  For she doted [to have inordinate affection or lust] upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.

An ass is another name for a donkey, also called a jackass. If Ezekiel were referring to the asses’ flesh as being of muscular build, surely he would have juxtaposed it with horses, as did Job (Job 39:19-25). However, the two women were enamoured with the size of their paramour’s members since an ass’s body compared to a horse’s is much smaller, but his member is comparatively significantly longer, perhaps with the same girth as a horse’s. The men of Egypt’s alleged issue volume of horses is deliberate hyperbole; one can imagine them loudly exclaiming in wide-eyed, ravished gaiety since the member’s reflexive response validated the two girls’ beauty and resultant ease of male arousal. Typical of Babylon, particularly in 2025, Ahola and Aholibah’s girlish new interest and response to male sexuality starkly contrasts with a righteous young woman’s God-fearing interest, where her fresh, natural curiosity and joy glorifies God for the wondrous design of her male compatriot’s and her body’s intriguing design and responses, opposite to a whore’s; the Shulamite, we shall see, glories righteously—unwittingly signifying its spiritual connections. 

Php 3:17  Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample. 
Php 3:18  (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: 
Php 3:19  Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.) 
Php 3:20  For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
Php 3:21  Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself. 

Consequently, adultery, based on Christ’s spiritual definition, can take place without penetrative sex when there is a deliberate pursuit of non-genital, breast incitements or other caressings, either physically or mentally, insidiously moving closer to the act of adultery.

Mat 5:27  Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery: 
Mat 5:28  But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. 

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. 

Almost all ‘working women’ don’t engage their customers for personal pleasure; their natural or imagined enhanced beauty and elegance influence their ability to charge astronomical fees accordingly. So-called high-end business escorts with genuinely influential intelligence and beauty charge thousands of dollars daily — we hope to see, paradoxically and shockingly, denotative of the everyday ‘virtuous’ wife.

Amo 3:5  How can anyone a woman [church] catch a bird man [with another Jesus] without using a net? Does a trap spring shut unless something is caught? 

Of course, we are constantly aware that ensnaring women, in representing a church with a relatively equal number of men, also represents them as ensnarement of women in the aggregate.

Why does one’s daughter and not a wife first represent a ‘whore’? In answer to that, the wife was first someone’s daughter, and her God-designed, inherently ensnaring heart beneath her youthful breasts, flooded with eroticizing hormones, drove her emotions in lust to be imprinted with romantic love. Those glorious and newfound emotions she (and her male compatriots) discovered, particularly without scriptural belief, were too powerful to resist. As seen in the “Breasts” studies, she is like most young birds and animals born, who generally follow the first thing that moves, usually imprinted on their attentive mother. Accordingly, a young woman’s bruised teats and breasts from torrid incitements profoundly imprint her first sexual experience, cheating her and her otherwise future husband of the profound nature of being embossed on and in each other.

Based on the Scriptures, specifically the account of Dinah in Genesis 34, she was not viewed as a whore (harlot) by her family, but rather a rhetorical question spoken by her brothers, Simeon and Levi, as a victim of sexual violation whose forced degradation was treated as a severe dishonor to her family. So, too, and spiritually does belief in false doctrine for an Elect espoused to Christ disgrace Christ’s marriage bed.

From those verses, we see that Adam, as Shechem did with Dinah, found Eve irresistible. To satiate his newfound emotional lusts, he traded God’s word for them and was thus the first to spiritually embody whoredom. Consequently, Eve immediately followed through with her instigating lust, having been handed the trading of Adam’s headship to her to indulge her emotions. There we go—spiritual whoredom in Eden, substantiating that the origin of their always highly aroused sensitivities stems rudimentally and from Adam’s pudenda and Eve’s breasts, hedonistically fulfilling the desires of the flesh and the mind. The stage is set for humanity’s wholesale physical and spiritual whoredom—no more graphically portrayed and typified by Old Israel’s exhilarative preference to dance naked than to keep her Lord’s commandments—“well favoured” by her neighbours as are today’s young women parading the beaches with three ‘eyepatches’ needlessly covering the indicative remnants of her once glorious femininity—posing duck-lipped ‘selfies’ with the daughters of the land—a ‘gazingstock’. And, as always, representing our former ways spiritually, most humiliatingly.

Nah 3:4  Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the well-favoured harlot [good, pleasant, agreeable, favour, grace, charm ], the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts. 
Nah 3:5  Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts; and I will discover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will shew the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame. 
Nah 3:6  And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock.
Nah 3:7  And it shall come to pass, that all they that look upon thee shall flee from thee, and say, Nineveh is laid waste: who will bemoan her? Whence shall I seek comforters for thee? 

A “well-favoured harlot” is one endowed with every nuanced element of feminine beauty, instantly arousing youthful lusts, all spiritually distinguished by the laity, who quickly nod in mesmerized agreement to the magical emotional ravishments of a different Jesus.

Pro 6:26  For the levy of the prostitute is [spiritual] poverty, and the adulteress preys upon your very life.

The embryonic Bride of Christ initially is very much a part of ‘The Great Whore’ of Babylon. She was her harlot daughter, born of that imposing, negatively ‘well-favoured’ Whore, with her skirts riding high while inelegantly astride the beast and the hearts of lustful men (Rev 17:7).

The Lord inspired Nahum to depict her skirts theatrically draping over her face to emphasize her collective nudity—the incipient Bride to reflect upon her self-same spiritual nudity. In contemporary society, although not ordinarily socially accepted unless under deranged circumstances, women’s so-called right to exercise autonomy over their bodies in a nearly nude state has become ridiculously prevalent. Consequently, many men, bar the libertine, desensitized to such expressions, tend to regard this type of woman as unsuitable for marriage.

In that women represent a church and mankind, they are thus the biblical sub-protagonists, and as Adam and Eve covertly and unwittingly, by God’s design, embody harlotry, so do all women (and men), whether single or married, who consider themselves virtuous, are utterly ignorant of their spiritual harlotry.

Once, most married people saw their espousal as sanctified for life. Now, in 2026, and unwittingly because of Adam’s curse, men are avoiding marriage since they only see it as a battlefield where everything they work for to procure a wife and build a life leaves them as the outright losers domestically, financially and emotionally. As he experiences it, it is a place where his wife’s equally non-directional opportunities, frustrations, and righteous lusts chaotically implode. Since Eden, and because her curse now vastly amplifies her resentment that her husband is her head, she now feels unseen, unheard and unappreciated. She embodies the concern of all feminists’ resentment about losing their self-identity due to their husbands’ traditional Christian concept of headship and her subservience to him. To compensate, she becomes proud, outspoken, strong, independent, and self-reliant—the exact opposite of the Godly women in scripture, like Esther and the righteous patriarchal fathers’ wives. It’s a mask she semi-consciously spent years constructing to protect the prisoner inside. She yearns to break free, liberated by the strength and presence of an influential leader who knows where he is going in life. Unintentionally, a Christ’s Christ she has never envisioned would be so captivating due to the indecisive Christian men supposedly embodying Him.

In marriage, she is now at her most vulnerable, since her husband, having not listened to their Lord, and subject to both curses, injured in his privy and stones, doesn’t know how to repair the breach. Consequently, Eves of the world, feeling emotionally abandoned, seek to fill the void of what she is missing, often from the deeply etched memory of her youthful, heady first sexual encounters, for some Ahola and Aholiabah-like paramour who she knows is driven by his gender specific lusts she can subtly use to her advantage. Classically, the young Ecclesiastes 7:22-29 female’s nature returns to reaffirm that she is still lusted after, and she discreetly re-ensnares her target with ‘innocent’ ensnaring cheating to test the waters, often followed through in conventional adultery, representative of classic whoredom. 

The following verse compares older widows, who have not denied the faith and are to be cared for by their family, to younger widows. However, younger widows, from an animal beast’s perspective of mostly yearly oestrus, are realistically always ‘in season’ and inherently seek male companionship through their age-old methodologies. 1 Timothy 5:11 directly corresponds to Eve’s curse, indicting her being against her husband, typifying whoredom and directly pointing to mankind being “against” Christ. In Christianity, and particularly for the Elect of God, it is no more poignant than in marriage to depict how we treat our husband, Christ. We were the younger widow being divorced from Babylon, waxing wanton in our natural sexual impulses to beget children and be romantically nurtured—and we do begin our journey in marrying our Lord and Husband, Christ; first by stepping down from our costly throne of demanding to be the centre of attention and worship.

1Ti 5:11  But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton [sexual impulses physically, represented spiritually…] against Christ, they will marry;

Our former whore’s “costliness” bites our spiritual understanding when we were rich in her doctrinally arousing falsehoods, elevating herself above her husband, carnally demanding that for her to be aroused sexually, her husband must first make her ready. While that outwardly is partly true, that physical reality in marriage of “making herself ready”, pointing to its overarching spiritual authority, alluded to in these Introductory Studies, is henceforth a weighty influence on all carnal marriages expressively spiritually lived this very day and every day since the cross!

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 18:15  The merchants of these things, which were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing, 
Rev 18:16  And saying, Alas, alas, that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls! 
Rev 18:17  For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off, 
Rev 18:18  And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like unto this great city!
Rev 18:19  And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.

Costliness G5094 – 1. preciousness, costliness a. an abundance of costly things. From 

G5093 – 1. as of great price, precious 2. held in honour, esteemed, especially dear. From G5092 – 1. a valuing by which the price is fixed a. of the price itself b. of the price paid or received for a person or thing bought or sold. From G5099 –  1. to pay, to recompense 2. to pay penalty, suffer punishment.

Those meanings are classically indicative of the price of a whore where the everyday self-emasculated husband semiconsciously is paying his wife her costly ‘fixed price’ for his romantic ministrations veiled as ‘punishment’. Unconsciously and at heart, and depending upon the psychological makeup of the wife’s highly variable consciousness of her actions, it denotes her psychological pleasure from witnessing her husband’s sexual frustration, lust, or longing for something he cannot have, and is generally categorized as a form of sexual sadism or indirect/vicarious sadism. This issue is widespread on beaches, the catwalk, downtown, and throughout society, often perpetuated passively through Babylonian Christian marriage and distinctly characteristically whorish. 

That “one hour” she is made desolate, is an outstanding part of her internal ‘earthquake’ of understanding that she was the ‘precious and honourable’ god, prematurely sitting on her Husband’s throne, pretty much telling him how to arouse her. Even then, should she ever engage enthusiastically, since, and as will be seen in the soon studied section on “Romanticism”, she holds all men in a constant state of sexual tension, now centered on her unwitting ‘another Jesus’ husband, the overextended anticipation and sociopathic lust in seeing his unconsummated panting is by far more satisfying than giving the God of god’s the glory for her glorious young feminine lively ministrations to her husband.

That “costliness” keeps him, eternally focused on her, making himself ready for her, the opposite of “making herself ready” that in carnal marriages is likewise never satisfying! It all represents the customary Christian self-considered “good” housewife, genuinely, and Martha-like ministering outwardly to her husband and family, thinking that those physical ministrations, while inarguably incredibly gratefully received, are not the prime doctrine of physical arousal to be seen spiritually! Her arousal narrative learned in Eden is indeed a dreadful cost in the bedroom and consequently to their marriage, as it was with Old Israel to her Lord and Husband.

That is how the everyday church-going morally virtuous homemaking wife can be identified as a whore to substantiate this study’s heading, “A Husband’s Rejection of Christ’s Headship is Symptomatic of Whores, Impertinently Rejected”.

Primarily, it is because Adam is the first signified whore in that he is first to reject his emblematic Husband, Christ’s word to righteously lead his wife, Eve, and protect them both from rejecting their Lord’s word.

The reemphasis is that carnally in marriage, the relatively innocent homemaking Christian wife’s injured heart, signified by her breasts growing loathing of espousal dues for her husband’s foreplay overtures, now represented spiritually negatively, is directly characteristic of rejecting Christ’s word. Her nuanced loathing of her husband’s advancing intimacies is precisely what the literal harlot naturally experiences, having no connection with the dishonorable man’s breathless, a stranger’s submission to her. It precisely reflects a husband’s experiences with his ‘good’ wife’s similar responses. To the Orthodox Christian wife, a most obnoxious concept, egregiously rejected and alarmingly denotive of every man’s and husband’s submission to women and wives of them being “against” Christ.

Henceforth, and typified by Eve, whoredom began in Eden by a woman’s deception effortlessly titillating her husband’s lust for her, now, and for 6,000 years, as Zionist-Orthodox Christianity, in control of church headship, their male priests and elders, being injured in their privy members and stones. It all represents forced exile, where they prospered as harlots in Babylon.

Rev 17:5  And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

Jer 29:4  This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says to all the exiles who were carried away from Jerusalem to Babylon: 
Jer 29:5  “Build houses and settle down. Plant gardens and eat their produce. 
Jer 29:6  Take wives and have sons and daughters. Take wives for your sons and give your daughters in marriage, so that they too may have sons and daughters. Multiply there; do not decrease. 
Jer 29:7  Seek the [whorish] prosperity of the city to which I have sent you as exiles. Pray to the LORD on its behalf, for if it prospers, you, too, will prosper.” 

And, of course, we did prosper in Babylon as harlots, out of which comes the righteously prospering now virgin Bride of Christ, culminating in the Song of Solomon.

As in any carefully managed business, and because money is at stake, prostitutes possess a refined understanding of intimate sensuality, enabling them to accurately discern the desires of men in a venereal context; an irony that wives, always indicative of Old Israel, increasingly feign ignorance. She, the everyday Christian homemaking wife, is the “mother” in Hosea 4:5, resisting her husband’s ministrations, with her feet rarely in her house, out and about, receiving imagined love by being needed; willfully overworked by the local church and friends rather than making herself ready for her husband—the “priest” ironically injured in his privy and stones.

Hos 4:4  Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for thy people are as they that strive with the priest.
Hos 4:5  Therefore shalt thou fall in the day, and the prophet also shall fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy mother.

Because of Adam and Eve’s curses, they both fail each other and fall in the night because they are both emblematic whores.

Hos 4:6  My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
Hos 4:7  As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame.

Most certainly, and because of Adam’s sin in Eden, rejecting God’s word in favor of every lustful detail for Eve, thus substantiating her beauty, affirming her superiority over Adam, their natural glory of nudity in and for each other, is turned into shame. Now, Adam must worship the now ‘strange woman’ Eve, ‘sitting as a queen’, waiting for her her husband to make himself ready and ironically seeing 7,000 years of sorrow (Rev 18:7) as an adulterous woman, the everyday homemaking wife wiping her mouth, satiated with that lying dogma of romanticism (Pro 30:20); indeed, a heavy price for all husbands and wives to pay the price of whoredom. Christ, the arch-nemesis of a carnal whore, too, bought us by the immensely costly price of dying for our whoredoms.

Pro 6:23  For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life: 
Pro 6:24  To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
Pro 6:25  Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids. 
Pro 6:26  For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life. 
Pro 6:27  Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? 
Pro 6:28  Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned? 
Pro 6:29  So he that goeth in to his neighbour’s wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent. 

1Co 6:17  But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with Him in spirit. 
1Co 6:18  Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. 
1Co 6:19  Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;
1Co 6:20  you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body [physically while still flesh, but most exceedingly spiritually] 

Next study, Lord willing, we will study some aspects of her, the regular church-going Christian male and female, anchoring her whoredoms since sensuality now is far more appealing than some esoteric spiritual inheritance. 

Breasts: Signatory of The Mother of All Living, Nourishing Spiritually, Ruling Coitally, Part 4

[Study Aired March 7, 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)  

Continuing the topic of espousal “touch”

A would-be husband chooses his preferably young wife, invariably from Babylon, where he and she are predestined to be sent. Because of Adam and Eve’s curses, she is already emblematically ‘old in adulteries’ (as is he), that a husband should unconsciously, yet gladly, bow to her eminence.

The following observations from both professional (adapted) and personal experience ideally stem from a wife needing and the Bride being given a higher purpose for a superior reason than Eve’s to engage a husband intimately, following her and Adam’s curses, aside from having children, an internal desire or longing (to ‘pant’ – Psa 42:1) for her husband’s touch, Just as he does for hers. Before further discussing physical touch—which symbolizes the spiritual touch from our Husband, Christ—that, driven by genuine passion to follow and obey all His commands, acts as the catalyst that ravishes Him, the very purpose of her design. King David in Psalms 42 reflects an everyday wife’s profound desire, upon realizing that her wounded libido, the “health of her countenance” (Psa 42:11), could be restored by dedicating her mind, spirit and body, entirely to Christ, without a slightly greater measure of the holy spirit, unwittingly invoking another Christ. In Psalms 42 and 43, the KJV correctly titled the chapter “Why Are You Cast Down, O My Soul?” is desired and sung by the Babylonian Harlots many Sundays. Interestingly, the “daughters of Jerusalem” are mentioned ten times in the Song of Solomon and are phenomenally indicative of Leah’s ten children aching for the sons of God to be revealed (Rom 8:18), yet, it is only the Shulamite-like Bride of Christ in the Song of Solomon who is given to eagerly and authentically pursue her Lord with her breasts wholly.

Why Are You Cast Down, O My Soul?

Psa 42:1  To the chief Musician, Maschil, for the sons of Korah. As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. 
Psa 42:2  My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?
Psa 42:3  My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?
Psa 42:4  When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday [All the feasts of the Lord, the Old Covenant]. 

Yet, terribly typical of us in Babylon, alert to a way of leaving, the holy spirit niggles us that all in Orthodox Christianity is not right—something significant is amiss!

Psa 42:5  Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.
Psa 42:6  O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.
Psa 42:7  Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me. [Her soul is searching her soul without respite] 
Psa 42:8  Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.
Psa 42:9  I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? 
Psa 42:10  As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God?
Psa 42:11  Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

Countenance H4758 – 1. sight, appearance, vision a. sight, phenomenon, spectacle, appearance, vision b. what is seen. From H7200 – appear, behold.

Following are some of the fifty-three times the term “countenance” is mentioned in scripture.

Gen 4:6  And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?

Son 2:14  O my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs, let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely. 

Son 5:15  His legs are as pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold: his countenance is as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.

Rev 1:16  And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.

Correspondingly, the agreeable opposite sex’s touch lights up our countenance, as our Husband Christ lit up our countenances when we were touched by Him to fully understand our Lord’s Song of Songs.

As opposed to Leah’s ten children, represented by Solomon’s 1,000 wives, “the daughters of [old] Jerusalem”, the following is what the Bride of Christ sees, having been given to reverse her curse and pursue her Husband analogously with her breasts, her heart overwhelmingly as a moment-by-moment and daily connective state of being consummated. We often only associate the term ‘consummate’ with a marital sexual consummative act, and, yes, that is true. Still, before that wonderful finality, every detail of our lives must be in transition to being consummated, a verb and adjective which and among many meanings is, expert, accomplished, complete, total, categorical, transcendent, supreme, unsurppassed, excellent, stellar, quintessential, whole, irreproachable, virtuous, hopeful, finished, undivided, definitive, obey, king, enthrone, all of which are directly indicative of Christ’s life in us, and we, in Him and around and in his throne.

Rev 4:6  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. 

In remembering this study’s theme of our breasts signifying our heart’s passions represented spiritually, biological triggers can transform a simple embrace into an obsession. Subsequently, specific touch techniques can elicit a reenactment of the moment for several days. For the Bride of Christ spiritually, forever! She thus ‘imprints’ on mind and spirit a desire for bodily intimacy with His body through three triggers that emboss her mind, body, and spirit—her emotional memory signified spiritually.

Luk 8:46  And Jesus said, Somebody hath touched me: [Ultimately, it is about the Bride touching Him] for I perceive that virtue is gone out of me. 
Luk 8:47  And when the woman saw that she was not hid, she came trembling, and falling down before him, she declared unto him before all the people for what cause she had touched him, and how she [for this purpose, “the health of her countenance”] was healed immediately.

Touch G680 1. to fasten oneself to, adhere to, cling to a. to touch b. of carnal intercourse with a woman or cohabitation. G 681 – a. to fasten fire to a thing, kindle, set on fire.

Virtue G1411 1. strength, power, ability a. inherent power, power residing in a thing by virtue of its nature, or which a person or thing exerts and puts forth. b. power for performing miracles. 

Mat 9:20  And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment:
Mat 9:21  For she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole.

Mar 10:13  And they brought young children to him, that he should touch them: and his disciples rebuked those that brought them. 

Luk 7:39  Now when the Pharisee which had bidden him saw it, he spake within himself, saying, This man, if he were a prophet, would have known who and what manner of woman this is that toucheth him: for she is a sinner. 

A young, beautiful, ebullient woman embodies a rich and complex blend of feminine power, inherently residing within her, both positively and negatively ‘touching’ all men. It so touched Adam, representing all men, having for the most part lost authority and headship, deludedly ascended to self-glory above God’s headship, and was thus attributed that ignominious distinction, representative of harlotry, touching the entirety of mankind.

Human touch between any combination of sexes, authentically and delicately granted in the appropriate setting, is the most profound sensual announcement of love. Touch for babies, particularly from their mother, is absolutely critical for their development of mind and body, as it is for spouses’ spiritual interplay; spiritually, it is designed to harmonize with Christ and the Father in an incredibly unifying way.

When any individual of faith came into contact with Christ, the “virtue” that departed from Him evidently is not something He is incapable of reclaiming, given His divine nature, as well as that of His Father—an unlimited spirit of “I am, the Alpha and Omega.” The love of the Godhead is so profound that the very dynamics of their existence are in perpetual motion of recognition.

Rev 4:8  And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come. 

Consequently, when love proceeds from them, it returns to them replete from the man or woman into whom it went. Touch, in mind, body and spirit, is essential to convey God’s holy spirit in a continual life-force of connectivity.

Isa 55:8  For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. 
Isa 55:9  For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. 
Isa 55:10  For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: 
Isa 55:11  So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
Isa 55:12  For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands. 
Isa 55:13  Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.

Php 4:8  Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. 

Accordingly, the sustained, anticipated husband-and-Shulamite-like passionate physical and spiritual touch and response in the Song of Solomon are of paramount importance to their relationship, as they are spiritually from Christ to his Bride and to her devastating reaction. Unrequited love is death, and in the end, death itself is dead.

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. 

Rom 5:8  But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Psa 147:2  The LORD doth build up Jerusalem: he gathereth together the outcasts of Israel.
Psa 147:3  He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds. 
Psa 147:4  He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names.
Psa 147:5  Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite. 

Typically, a person’s touch carries multiple nuances that the recipient must interpret. For women, whose thinner skin and entire body serve as a sensory organ, God has designed them to be instantly alert to a man’s touch, particularly a touch indicating intimacy. In the context of the environment, and speaking maritally, God designed women to be easily overcome by excitement; their emotions can flood their system, and it is a contrast of beauty for a husband, particularly from a young and devoted wife. She is innately inclined to share her emotions, the joy, and burden with another person, preferably her husband, to ground and contain that emotion. She wants to see and feel another person’s emotion through sharing hers, which is why she often has a gaggle of like-minded female friends. Deep down, she is often unsure of her feelings and impulsively seeks immediate validation while the sentiment is still hot, to gauge the impact her experience has on him. Since the fleshy experience feels so real and immediate right now, it’s essential to satisfy that need right away, or it might fade away.

Following is a brief diversion that reveals what her husband secretly adores, touching his heart: her lively, exuberant, youthful spirit, shown through charming little quirks she doesn’t even realize she has; if she did, it would intrigue her no end—and for the deceitful woman’s arsenal of Ecclesiastes 7:29 contrivances of allurement.

A young woman’s innate ability to ‘touch’ psychologically and physically reminds me of the lyrics from Bobby Goldsboro’s 1969 song, “Honey”, many an older person will remember. The critical point I wish to emphasize, is that it captures the beauty of a young, enthusiastic wife’s natural charm—an enchantment that only a man can truly appreciate—and a husband’s most irresistible allure, where even her (hopefully) few faults are kind of cute and easily overlooked—unless, of course, too often repeated, could, and lamentably denote a bimbo, a variation of a “silly woman” as noted in 2Timothy 3:6. Some women’s observance of such airy youthfulness, often regard it with contempt due to the young woman’s inherent, albeit totally unconsciousness of just being an ebullient young woman, that some women in jealous contempt roll their eyes as deliberately creating drama—the silly little “kind of dumb” idiosyncrasies of intimacy that only her husband appreciates. To fully embrace the genuine emotions through the music’s lilt without validating Christmas and other perceived esoterics in the lyrics, here’s a link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_d8kT-Vi90

I’ve included the full lyrics to immerse the audience in the music, with the emphasis I wish to highlight, which is mostly captured in the line. 

“She was always young at heart.

Kinda dumb, and kinda smart

And I loved her so…”

Eve was likewise “kind of dumb and kind of smart”, and Adam, equally, although slightly differently,  “kind of dumb and kind of smart, loved her so” all the way out of Eden. However, with a young Shulamite’s vibrancy emanating from her bosom, alongside the elegance of an Esther-like wisdom and maturity, every male’s attention is captivated.

Honey

See the tree, how big it’s grown

But friend, it hasn’t been too long

It wasn’t big

I laughed at her, and she got mad

The first day that she planted it

Was just a twig

Then the first snow came

And she ran out to brush the snow away

So it wouldn’t die

Came runnin’ in all excited

Slipped and almost hurt herself

And I laughed ’til I cried

She was always young at heart

Kinda dumb, and kinda smart

And I loved her so...

And I surprised her with a puppy

Kept me up all Christmas Eve

Two years ago

And it would sure embarrass her

When I came in from workin’ late

‘Cause I would know

That she’d been sittin’ there and cryin’

Over some sad and silly late, late show…

And honey, I miss you

And I’m being good

And I’d love to be with you

If only I could

She wrecked the car, and she was sad

And so afraid that I’d be mad

But, what the heck

Though I pretended hard to be

Guess you could say she saw through me

And hugged my neck

I came home unexpectedly

And caught her cryin’ needlessly

In the middle of the day

And it was in the early spring

When flowers bloom, and robins sing

She went away

And honey, I miss you

And I’m being good

And I’d love to be with you

If only I could

One day while I was not at home

While she was there, and all alone

The angels came

Now all I have is memories of honey

And I wake up nights

And call her name

Now my life’s an empty stage

Where honey lived, and honey played

And love grew up

And a small cloud passes over head

And cries down on the flower bed that

Honey loved

And see the tree, how big it’s grown

But friend, it hasn’t been too long

It wasn’t big

And I laughed at her, and she got mad

The first day that she planted it

Was just a twig

It’s the youthful, spontaneous energy and girlish laughter, even sadness, of a woman, expressed through every nuance and movement of her sensitive body, combined with her natural beauty, that truly captivates a man.

Ideally, for the sake of “touch,” she lovingly immerses herself in her husband’s next delicately synchronized orchestration, maybe feeling a little breathless with anticipation for his next touch. In the natural coming before the spiritual, the following three fundamentals thus quantify the level and advancement of ravishment through touch in her mind, radiating out of her stomach to her breasts, her heart, returning to him alive and rousing and evokes Isa 55:11… ‘my word shall not return to me void into whom he has sent it into’, manifested by Solomon’s words in the secret places of the stairs in his heart, “O my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs, let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely” – Son 2:14. Of course, “touch” is what Solomon and every man, and particularly husbands, “sick of love” (Song 2:5) experience in agonising joy, as it does spiritually with Christ and his Bride.

Here are but three aspects of how dynamically a wife responds to her husband’s touch, typifying how Christ and his Bride interact.

• • Sensory Contrast (fast, slow, delicate, a little rough, whisper, urgency of emotion)

• Duration Regulation (fine-tuning)

• Autonomic Synchronization (The involuntary alignment of physiological responses—such as heart rate, respiration, and skin conductance—between people during shared emotional experiences, and is what the Shulamite expresses from her breasts and heart in the Song of Solomon, and we spiritually to Christ today)

As you would expect, all of these Introductory Studies progressively unfold to reveal from whence the budding Bride has been emerging from Babylon, and to present her grand debut in the Song of Solomon. Thus, the following, and indeed the entire series, is not intended as a lesson on marital foreplay. Nonetheless, somewhat covertly, everything to do with the Bride’s journey to become Christ’s wife is assuredly lovemaking. It is the kind of poetry every young bride wants to hear, authentically expressed, that involuntarily arouses her sensually and, as does her bright response, Him—them both, ultimately, spiritually. Of course, all arising from both spouses’ hearts beneath their breasts.

Son 6:2  [In the third person with sensual overtones spoken by the Shulamite for us, spiritually] My beloved [Solomon/Christ] is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies. 

Isa 62:3  Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the LORD, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God. 
Isa 62:4  Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzibah, and thy land Beulah: for the LORD delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married. [Hephzibah Definition: hephzi-bah = my delight is in her 1. the queen of King Hezekiah and mother of Manasseh 2. a name for Jerusalem. From H2656 –  1. delight, pleasure a. delight b. desire, longing c. the good pleasure d. that in which one takes delight. H1156 Beulah Definition: 1. to marry, rule over, possess, own a. (Qal) 1. to marry, be Lord (husband) over 2. to rule over b. (Niphal) to be married]

Isa 62:5  For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee: [Not polygamy, but a reference to the Elect of God] and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee. 

Gal 2:20  I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. 

Son 2:10  My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. 
Son 2:11  For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; 
Son 2:12  The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land; 
Son 2:13  The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.

Wives, female sensual physicians and attentive husbands agree that the most seductively effective act—one that leaves a wife longing for you even in your absence—is fostering her anticipatory sensuality that imprints in him. This mirrors how Christ has built our spiritual anticipation over 2,000 years, as seen in all of scripture, to be teased out in these studies: Christ imprinting us, the young, effervescent Bride, on Him.

This process, coupled with her experience of her husband’s skilled touch, immediately heightens her sensory awareness, making every nerve ending alert for the next intricately placed delicate touch. This is the very tactic the Shulamite likewise employs as she builds her house, keeping His mind always ravishing on her. In fact, it is he building her, having trained her pre-pubescently, ultimately to be single-eyed and devoted to him. We are wonderfully reminded by the repetition of Christ saying, Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck – Son 4:9. It all is primarily accomplished by Christ, our sensually/spiritually skilled lover’s contrasting his touch with ours, carefully regulated in time and order, perfectly synchronized by His will.

Carnally, this initial sensual incitement requires 90 seconds and will fundamentally alter your perception of female desire. Like “deceitful kisses”, let us begin with an examination of why the majority of embraces are entirely forgettable; for an Elect in Christ, designedly so, since amatory embraces are by the millisecond extended, suggesting fornicative Ecc 7:26-like “ensnaring” machinations. Every woman can perceive this instantaneously, and depending upon her righteous or unrighteous artifices, often masterfully orchestrates them for her artful advantage. The distinction lies between a man who hastily envelops her in a hug and one who gently, gradually, and calmly ‘draws’ her closer.

Psa 28:3  Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts. 

Psa 69:18  Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies [holding me back from wholly giving you my mind, body and your spirit returning to you lushishly fruitful]. 
Psa 69:19  Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee. 

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. 

When a husband rushes, it comes across as desperate, almost as if he fears she might slip away. Conversely, when he gradually draws her in—assuming he is confident she will, with halting breath, come closer—her body relaxes involuntarily. This is where it becomes particularly intriguing. Such patience does not merely convey confidence; it exudes a form of dominance, suggestive of power and authority, headship, that is God-designed to be arousing for a wife. The psychological basis is straightforward. Women tend to be highly sensitive to pacing; rapid movements often indicate nervousness, fear, or Amnon-like lustful neediness, whereas slower movements suggest certainty, control, and masculine stability. When a man refrains from rushing to close the distance, akin to rape, he effectively communicates that he has the space and, having chosen his wife, he guides her into his framework—the opposite of what Babylonian wives emphasise. Authentically, of course, there is always a place for more torrid amatory expressions.

Pro 29:20  Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? there is more hope of a fool than of him. 
Pro 29:21  He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child [Trained up in the way he should spiritually go, particularly when without breasts] shall have him become his son at the length. 

Rom 15:5  Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus: 
Rom 15:6  That ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Psa 42:1… As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. 

Quite the opposite of dopey Hollywood movies, the fundamental principle is: never wrench, never lunge—instead, guide. Gently position your hand, apply calm pressure, and allow her body to lean into yours. By setting the pace, she perceives safety, which, in turn, unlocks desire. Move more slowly than you might instinctively believe necessary, and breathe more slowly than usual. This slow approach causes her to replay the moment more rapidly in her mind later. However, there is an additional aspect that most husbands overlook: once she is close, the placement of your hand becomes critically important.

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. 
Joh 16:15  All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you.

There is a reason women tend to melt when a man’s hand, particularly one of commanding presence, is placed on the lower back during a hug. Such a gesture does not appear casual or friendly; instead, it conveys a sense of protection and possessiveness, akin to a statement of, “You’re safe with me, and you’re mine” at the same time, giving her a welcome sense of ownership and peace and “delight” of belonging. The underlying psychological response is intrinsic to God’s design of women. The lower back is a vulnerable spot. It’s unguarded, exposed, close to her hips, and those highly erotic thighs, her “loins”, when elegantly, explicitly dressed for him, inherently, by equally cunning contrast, regulation and synchronization, play a particularly ravishing song of songs, she learnt from Him.

Son 7:1  How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince’s daughter! the joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman.

When a man places his hand on her lumbar, her sacral region, synonymous with ‘sacred’, it taps into God’s wiring of her blueprint to respond. It sends signals from her mind in harmony with her heart, through her thighs and legs, back to her breasts, proclaiming leadership and strength to which a welcoming wife draws nigh. An unwarranted physical contact with a single woman, especially in an increasingly risky area below her shoulder blade, where his left hand typically is, as in a waltz, could potentially cause offence. Consequently, her body language might respond curtly. 

Psa 69:18  Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies.

Jas 4:8  Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded. 

These expressions of intimacy correspond with the Shulamite’s preparation and anticipated liberation from years of dreaming of her restrained passion and imminent marital outpouring. Written by her husband for her, and if she, like Jephthah’s daughter (Jud 11:29-40), would be utterly devastated, (as too, we can imagine Abishag for King David, although he, excusably naturally impotent) in having a husband who was unknowledgeable and unskilled in righteous seduction was for any reason denied marriage, when she having devoted her entire youth “for the day she is spoken for” (Son 8:8). Consequently, these advancements from the forthright kisses in the Song of Solomon 1:2, are the Shulamite’s fantasized natural progression of essential touch, played with contrast and modulation in synchrony, particularly for a wife, as it is primarily critical to her arousal as it is to her husband’s arousal—the very kind of ravishment Christ our husband has been increasingly experiencing spiritually for around 2,000 years, as has his Bride.

Most incurious and uneducated husbands unconsciously avoid that area and stay high on the shoulders, where it feels platonic. Husbands who confidently take the lower back instantly separate themselves from the incurious and egocentric man. This is where it gets critical. If you want her to feel your presence, guide her lower back, synonymous with her aforementioned “loins”. Not too low, not groping, but firm and calm—and again, with contrast, modulation in synchrony. That placement tells her she’s with a man, not a boy, or an Ammon, sick with lust, hustling for the main meal, and not enjoying the zest of the hors d’oeuvres. Once she feels that strength, she won’t forget it. Most men ruin the moment without even realizing it. Similar to other men, they embrace, pat each other’s backs twice, and then relinquish the embrace too swiftly. To a wife, this gesture appears cold and easily forgettable, suggesting an eagerness to disengage. Conversely, a man who holds on slightly longer—merely one second beyond the anticipated moment of release—can produce a ripple effect within a potential fiancée and wife, affecting her mind and body in a manner she finds impossible to overlook. Her touch, too, has the same effect on him when he says, “Turn away thine eyes from me, for they have overcome me…” – Son 6:5.

Here’s what most people don’t realize. Women are wired to notice subtle timing. When you break that rhythm, her body reacts. If you let go too soon, it feels like rejection. If you hold a little longer, it feels like desire (Gen 2:24, Song 8:3). That extra second forces her to wonder. Did he want more? Was he feeling me, my heart? Why didn’t he let go right away? That question sticks. It’s the question that can turn an ordinary hug into an obsession. A wise and virtuous man’s rule with a maid or wife is, don’t grip, don’t cling, and don’t smother. Just hold the beat a little longer than usual, then release calmly. That slight delay will feel like an unspoken desire. She’ll be the one replaying it, wondering why it felt so different.

Remember this because it ties directly into the next layer. When your wife notices that your breath smells like apples and you gently brush her neck, her body responds instinctively before her mind has a chance to stop it. The hug might seem ordinary until his cheek softly brushes hers or his breath lingers near her neck. That tiny, almost accidental touch that the Shulamite has replayed masterfully in her mind is lethal for her response to Him. It bypasses logic. Her body reacts before her mind can control it. A shiver down the spine. Goosebumps. A sudden warmth low in the stomach, progressively and powerfully instigated from her mind in her heart beneath he breasts—it does with us, His Bride—the “me” in the following verse representing the collective Bride’s Body in the term, “we”:

Son 1:3  Because of the savour of thy good ointments thy name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee. 
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 [expressed in the above address] more than wine: the upright love thee.

The Male and Female Minds are Designed Innately Lustful – Ruling Adam Coitally and Eve Romantically

[Study Aired February 11, 2026]

LUST – The most powerful desire that controls all actions, good and evil. In marriage and society, it led Adam to relinquish his leadership meekly and Eve to assume authority with ease, with a caveat: Her veiled ‘administrative’ intimacy comes at a cost.

As Eve demonstrated, our eyes instigate lust that instantly fires off powerful hormones that incite other physical sensations in a cascade of possibilities to explore and amplify more intense sensualities. 

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.

When we hear the term ’emotion’, it commonly evokes concepts such as love, hatred, happiness, or fear. These intense feelings, experienced throughout our lives, drive many of our behaviours, whether beneficial or detrimental. The question arises: where do our emotions originate?

The human brain is inherently configured to seek out threats or rewards. When a threat or reward is identified, the brain’s emotional centers activate, prompting the release of chemical messengers. Emotions are the manifestations of these chemical signals, which travel from the brain to the rest of the body. Upon detecting a potential threat, the brain releases stress hormones such as adrenaline and cortisol, preparing the individual for a fight-or-flight response. Conversely, when encountering something rewarding, such as an act of kindness, the brain releases chemicals including dopamine, oxytocin, and serotonin, which induce feelings of pleasure and motivate continued engagement in the behavior. Often, the emotional centers of the brain activate before the rational thinking regions. In some instances, most significantly sexually, the reactions of the emotional brain are so intense that they override rational thought, leading to emotional hijacking where feelings dominate behavior.

While many of our emotional responses occur subconsciously, cognition can influence emotion, and at times this influence may be unproductive. Merely contemplating a threatening stimulus can elicit an emotional reaction. This underscores the importance of managing emotions through deliberate thinking; when our thoughts are not based on our Lord’s commands, they clandestinely are likely to become an idol of the heart. Emotions significantly impact our perception of the world. By understanding and regulating our emotions through our thoughts and behaviors, particularly historically, we can gain greater control over our mental processes and effectively pursue our objectives. Of course, while in Babylon, those objectives are carnally based, sensual and devilish in nature, so that we cannot consistently pursue God’s word. Consequently, those powerful emotions elicit lust.

For Eve, that lust instigated by her eyes was to make her wise—perhaps wiser than Adam—a covert theme of immensely negative proportions, soundly hiding Christ’s song of songs carnally and spiritually.

The Law and Sin

Rom 7:7  What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
Rom 7:8  But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence [G1939: 1. desire, craving, longing, desire for what is forbidden, lust]. For without the law sin was dead [Couldn’t be manifested]. 
Rom 7:9  For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. 
Rom 7:10  And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death. 
Rom 7:11  For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me. 
Rom 7:12  Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. 
Rom 7:13  Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding [exceedingly understood as] sinful. 
Rom 7:14  For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
Rom 7:15  For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
Rom 7:16  If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.
Rom 7:17  Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
Rom 7:18  For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
Rom 7:19  For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
Rom 7:20  Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. 
Rom 7:21  I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. 
Rom 7:22  For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
Rom 7:23  But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, [powerfully influenced by the tangibility of emotions] and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. 
Rom 7:24  O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
Rom 7:25  I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then, with the [redirected emotions serving a righteous…] mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh [without the holy spirit] the law of sin.

What is the biblical definition of “Lust”?

The concept of righteous ‘lust’ is a nature of God, and is expressed in His desire to create Himself in man. We shall soon see that lust in Eden existed long before it was first verbalized as lust in Exodus 15:19, where the Lord’s righteous lust is upon the Egyptian enemy, recounting Israel’s joy at seeing them destroyed before their eyes.

Exo 15:9  The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust [H5315] shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.

The Enemy’s Lust, typical of the flesh. H5315 – Nephesh

– Phonetic: neh’-fesh
– Definition: 

1. soul, self, life, creature, person, appetite, mind, living being, desire, emotion, passion

a. that which breathes, the breathing substance or being, soul, the inner being of man
b. living being
c. living being (with life in the blood) 

Its strength, by the frequency of its use, is: Heart 13, Life or Lives 120, Person or persons 30, Soul 411, with all the normally recognized references of being angry, discontented, greedy, and an appetite for a thing, registering very low.

That very same “lust” the Lord righteously expressed is next seen in the Psalms, in its unrighteous usage.

Psa 78:18  And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust [H5315].

The first time lust was inferred is God’s creation of living creatures:

Gen 1:20  And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, [H5315] and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

Consequently, we can see that righteous and unrighteous lust refer to the level of vibrancy a living thing expresses through its existence or in response to an external incitement.

For mankind, lust is mainly perceived through sight, either visually or in one’s mind. When idolized in self-will, it manifests as emphatic pride, the worst of all, keeping us deceived and from seeing God’s truth, and spiritually, equates to false doctrine or lies.

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.

1Jn 2:16  For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

Here’s an outstanding occasion of men using vision righteously to find the most carnally perfect female beauty in mind, body and spirit.

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.

For the highest honor in Israel, Abishag’s breathtaking ‘administrative’ qualities were decidedly and elegantly visually erogenous to King David, designed to improve his circulation—however, vainly. His representation of the Old Covenant was impossible to be ‘ravished’ back to life. Abishag, no doubt, took the outcome pragmatically, a little tearfully, as does the Bride of Christ in her journey. One must feel deeply saddened by her beautiful, devoted spirit and the intent she was guided by, which was undoubtedly shaped by her mother and female peers from her early youth (Son 8:8-14), for the day of being spoken for, unforeseen, not consummated.

If lust reaches through other senses without sight, the lust produced isn’t as immediately intense. If Eve were blind and ate the forbidden fruit, although it would later be spiritually bitter, it would no doubt have tasted glorious; however, eyesight greatly amplifies the experience. Likewise, the auditory experience of beautiful music is brought to life when the musicians are visually seen as emotionally and spiritually one with their instruments, as is the singer, the conductor, and the orchestra. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_fedWU-Aag&list=RDO_fedWU-Aag&start_radio=1 As seen in the accompanying link, ordinary people of no classically exceptional looks, when associated with stirring instrumentation and vocals, take on a beguiling beauty—as do the Elect, hidden in  Christ.

Gen 3:6  And when the woman saw [H7200 – 1. to see, look at, inspect, perceive, consider] that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant [H8378] to the eyes, and a tree to be desired [H2530 = 1. to desire, covet, take pleasure in, delight in] 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. 

The Word, the Creator of all things who became Christ, desired/desireth the creation, and his pinnacle of creation, man; he also “saw H7200” multiple times that all that He created, “was very good.”

If it weren’t for righteous lust in all that God “desireth” after the counsel of his own “will”, the Father wouldn’t have created the Word, and Christ, creation.

Pro 11:23  The desire [H8378] of the righteous is only good: but the expectation of the wicked is wrath.

Pro 13:12  Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire [H8378] cometh, it is a tree of life.

Job 23:13  But he [God] is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth [H183 = 1. desire, incline, covet, wait longingly, wish, sigh, want, be greedy, prefer a. (Piel) to desire, crave (food and drink) b. (Hithpael) to desire, long for, lust after (of bodily appetites)], even that he doeth.

Notice that all God desires to do for his “good pleasure” has the same meaning as “his will”.

Rev 4:11  Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure [G2307 = 1. what one wishes or has determined shall be done] they are and were created. 

1Jn 2:17  And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will [G2307] of God abideth for ever.

Heb 13:21  Make you perfect in every good work to do his will [G2307], working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen

Practically all deviations from following Christ’s commands, while laid at the feet of the Adams of the world, stem from their meek and unwitting treachery against their wives in preferring to submit to their ever-ready pudenda’s demands, not necessarily actuated, but adulterously from the heart. In direct parallel are the Eves of the world, their ever-ready breasts, signifying their emotional demands governing practically every thought and action, her lusts equally multitudinous as males, adulterously from her heart (Mat 5:28). Those statements were inspired by a source referencing David M. Buss, who wrote an alleged fascinating study, “The Evolution of Desire”; at Au$120—sadly, for me, a little lust too cashwise expensive. It appears that David Buss deeply resonated with Christ’s given inspiration for the foundation of Adam and Eve’s lusts emanating from his privy, and Eve’s breasts that the Shulamite in the SoS with elegant effusiveness expresses righteously as one with her Husband.

David Buss, it seems, is given by God to stumble upon those foundational origins of lust, substantiating what the Lord is revealing to His Body. A Christ abridged version is the significance of both the male and female’s emotional confines that inherently govern their minds over and above a sexual performance. Almost always, spouses are intensely jealous of their mates’ off-handed, subtle, sexually playful ‘innocent’ (cute) interactions with the other gender, dishonestly sanitised in mutual company (1Co 5:1) 

Pro 26:18  As those who need correction put forth fair words to men, and he that first falls in with the proposal will be overthrown; 
Pro 26:19  so are all that lay wait for their own friends, and when they are discovered, say, I did it in jest. (Brenton)

It is equal to Israel, men and women dancing naked before the golden calf, giddy with emotional highs, silently glorying in agreement of mind and body, and with Aaron’s sanctification, hoping that, and by the vast majority’s agreement, Moses would submit—spiritually typified by Orthodox Christianity each Sunday in church.

As is soundly being demonstrated by the foundational theme of this entire Study, in that the powerful emotions generated from a male’s privy, and his partner in crime, his woman’s breasts, initiate grievous disconnectedness, and divorce, characteristically spiritually. 

That said, a man’s most significant concern is about his wife’s potential sexual infidelity. She worries about her husband’s dreadfully easy temptation of another woman’s emotional infidelity, cunningly stimulating him with a million incredibly enticing allurements that the righteous girls gracefully know from pre-teen years and keep in Shulamnite-like fidelity for one man. Conversely, the predatory females fragrantly use for mind-titillations, equalling men’s, both always in a semi-eroticised unconsummated emotional disarray, ever searching, and like Aholah and Aholibah, never finding fulfillment (2Ti 3:7). 

The paradigm is that if either party is led astray by their lust for a third entity, and enters into a physically chaste, but emotionally intimate relationship, compared to one where they enter into a sexual relationship, devoid of emotion, men, and just like Adam in the Garden, far more easily submit sexually. For many complex reasons, women with the immediacy and potential for far more to lose will wantonly work to death, her alluring, fraudulent promises for emotional highs, while the more lubricious submit. Both spiritual lusts are a match made in heaven, an adulterous, spiritually naked dance and a foundational theme saturating the Bible.  

Increasingly, physical sexual infidelity for most men is gravely difficult to overcome, and spiritually, without the holy spirit and rarely considered, nigh impossible; nor do they care—Adam didn’t. Equally endemic is women’s ‘gifted right’, with varying degrees of intensity, to innocently present every detail of her body and mind erotically, brazenly veiled as fashion.  ‘An unfaithful wife says, “Sleeping with [erotically teasing] another man is as natural as eating.“’ – (Brenton)… she is effectively saying to her husband, ‘get over it’.

Pro 30:20  Such is the way of an adulterous woman, who having washed herself from what she has done, says she has done nothing amiss.

She epitomizes Solomon’s term for the majority of men, “vanity of vanities,” for opportunities never realised, driving men deeper into irretrievable lust. Then, the women audaciously complain about the “creeps” of the world—some desperately having given up in even knowing how to win a fine woman, the very basest of men, in hopelessness, brutally ‘go and get it’. 

There are two meanings to lust. We can lust righteously for the things of the spirit, or we lust for forbidden things that are not ours, or things that are ultimately harmful to us, as in inordinate desires.

Typified by Adam and Eve, none of us voluntarily gives up our lives. Flesh instinctively does the opposite and seeks to save its life and seek gain, and not be content in waiting for the Lord. Utterly deluded, Adam lusted for Eve, which provided Eve a windfall of lusted, albeit illusory, wisdom, pridefully superceding Adam’s authority.

Isa 59:2 But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.

Jas 4:3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. 

Things we consume out of our lust are physical items we often don’t truly need, but they satisfy our fleshly desires. More significantly, they include the lust for spiritual knowledge that we impose on others when we are in Babylon; this makes us the twofold child of hell.

Gal 5:16  I say, then, Walk in the Spirit and you shall not fulfill the lusts of the flesh. 

The spiritual life in Christ, which is eternal life, does not depend on flesh. We indulge our flesh to satisfy our imagined needs, and we live in lustful desires to fulfill those imagined needs that are soon fading away forever. 

Gal 5:17  For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh. 

The spirit doesn’t need the flesh at all, but we, as flesh, are dying, and we need the spirit’s life. These are opposed to each other; otherwise, whatever you may will, you will do these things. 

Gal 5:18  But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under law.

It is those who overcome and stand on the sea of glass (overcoming the flesh) who sing the new song, which is Christ’s song unfolding from the Shulamite’s song in the Song of Solomon, spiritually. The words of the Bride’s new song deliberately ravish her Husband, Christ, celebrating consummatively the great works of His justice in His judgments across all His ways in her. 

Lust Corrupts:

2Pe 1:4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. 

The fact that flesh is corruption, and the desire to satisfy that state is corruption. 

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;

Lust can also mean a legitimate desire: 

Deu 12:15  Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh in all thy gates, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the roebuck, and as of the hart.

Rom 1:21  Because that, when they knew God, they 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. 
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.

Uncleanness is symbolized by nudity — the exposed thighs of our walk (Jer 13:26). We must diminish the flesh and elevate the spirit, Christ within. We must never entertain the idea that we can save ourselves through fleeting lusts of the flesh that excite and serve the flesh. We thus hate our lives, the flesh that Adam and Eve found, and we formerly, and sometimes still, find irresistible. 

Adam, while searching Eden for a suitable mate, observed the other beasts of the field enjoying the company of their mates. With them, he found no unity of mind, body, or spirit, which prevented him from sharing experiences and engaging in intellectually meaningful communication. They were solely interested in foraging for food and sleeping, and the males, triggered by the female’s involuntary signals of fertility, would combatively compete to secure a mate. 

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

Adam, upon unintentionally donating one of his ribs for Eve’s creation, and recovering from his deep sleep, would have felt eager anticipation to see what the Lord created. Adam’s emotional response to seeing her for the first time is not described in the scriptures. 

Upon the Lord bringing Eve to Adam, we can be sure that he didn’t impassively look up from his cucumber sandwich and say laconically, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman,” and go back to scratching in the dirt the design of the wheel or trimming that annoying ivy off the fig tree. He and she wouldn’t have taken their eyes off comparing their differences in body and mind; both, in glorious child-like innocence, were unashamedly intrigued by his body’s obvious interest in hers, while her more latently manifest coy responses sparked much skittish curiosity and gaiety in them both—there wouldn’t have been much sleep that night.

Since she was the mother of all living and contained dozens of ethnicities in her genes, maybe she wasn’t what we today would call a highly refined specimen; nonetheless, Adam didn’t have any comparison, and she looked beautiful and interacted engagingly with a unity of heart, evoking the new sensation of intimate arousal—a perfect helpmeet.

Adam (mankind) was created, desiring companionship, mirroring God’s desire to share His glory in His creation of the Word, who in turn began the creation of God (Rev 3:14) through Him, through this new phenomenon called man. This unspeakable generosity gifted to the man wasn’t to be taken flippantly, as God designed the man to respond; instead, he was to learn through ‘much tribulation’ who is the head, God or man, soundly ending the deliberately anticipated matter for eternity! (Isa 45:5).

To provoke the man’s rejection of God’s authority, the Word created his ultimate adversary, known as Satan, in the symbolic form of the Serpent, the prince of the power of the air (Col 1:16), given to ‘eat’, devour Adam’s weak obedience to their Lord’s commands (Gen 3:14). Just as any predator targets the young and less gifted to fight back, Satan beguiled Eve, knowing full well that she would subsequently more powerfully beguile her husband, effectively ‘killing two birds with one stone’, (Physically and spiritually) impudently condemning every man’s and husband’s submission to women and enormously, their wives.

Dan 4:35  And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?

Pro 16:9  A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps. 

Before the Cross, Adam’s lust for everything Eve wasn’t chronicled as sin, and was designed by God to endemically establish physical whoredom and the later greater sin of spiritual whoredom.

Mankind in Adam is designed to know everything about himself and God’s creation; as with any child, to be more knowledgeable than their parents, and brazenly challenge them to the veracity of their word in most everything—and when corrected, argue the toss and stand by the idol of his heart in hiding from the humiliating truth, accusing and excusing themselves (Rom 2:14-16).

The account of Adam’s, Eve’s, God’s and the Serpent’s interactions will unfold in subsequent introductory studies. For this section’s purpose, we are establishing that Adam, representative of mankind, was ahead of Eve in lust initiated by his eyes, followed by his other sensory organs generically called the “flesh”, all designed to amplify the desires of one’s heart rapidly.

1Jn 2:16  For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. 

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. 

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.

Those verses indict Adam as representative of mankind, who intrinsically lusts to satiate the desires of the flesh, displaying a propensity to drunkenly repeat the occasion endlessly, preferring the immediacy of gratification above regretful experience, and particularly God’s word, the delusionally seen spoiler of every sensuality. Fulfilling the adage, “a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush”—red pottage right now is better than one’s inheritance. It mirrors Adams’ sexual drunkenness for Eve through the lust of his eyes. 

In Eden, and for Adam to elegantly access Eve’s espoused “dues”, she being the first walled city in the flesh perhaps temporarily with no gates, and he, like his first father Satan cunningly, needed to validate her wisdom and beauty to find sexual favour, setting mankind and all husbands likewise ‘inventively’ (Ecc 7:29) riding the steel rails of generational female approval. I’ll be regularly jumping the gun by demonstrating it both positively and negatively with examples of the Shulamite’s far more submissive yet deliberate righteous ravishment of her Lord, compared negatively to the likes of Queen Vashti’s gate-keeping authority over her humiliated husband and the Great Whore’s extravagant harlotry, and the Shulamite’s spiritual legacy in the Elect.

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

It was Adam’s lust for Eve, rather than his love, that was stronger than obeying their Lord’s command not to eat the forbidden fruit, leading all males on a one-way path where the immediacy of sensual gratification outweighs waiting for the more assured long-term satisfaction. Eve, too, suffered from the same affliction, her unwitting instigation of her now rulership quietly undermining the long-term sensuality she would have righteously enjoyed, now used to control her husband’s sensual appetite. 

Mat 7:18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
Mat 7:19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.

With Eve at the helm of marriage and society, the stage is now set for wholesale spiritual whoredom, a subject later to be investigated.

Both Adam and Eve hold significant trump cards, wielding unrighteous authority over the other, guaranteeing marital disharmony. After Satan, Eve is the next to receive her curse from Eden, unconsciously taking a sociopathic-like delight in ruling Adam.

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 [H2530 = 1. to desire, covet, take pleasure in, delight in] shall be to [Hebrew–‘el’, against is the proper translation] thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. 

So, how do Adam’s and Eve’s gender specific lusts affect their relationship? It’s the same story in every study leading up to the actual Song of Solomon study. The long and short of their curses is that Adam’s lust for Eve’s sensuality can primarily only be accessed by mending her heart’s increasingly grave difficulties to being aroused. In the newness of courting days, it was very much alive and beguiling, but now, Adam’s unquenchable lust (equal to Christ’s righteously for his Bride) for her is despised and wearisome, and he is deeply bewildered and hurt. She thinks that her ability to be ravished is broken, and she is right, since neither of them submits, nor can they, to their spiritual heads. In the meantime, and notably in the last hundred years, women have been very capable of supporting themselves with excellent salaries. However, men still rule since she cannot survive without the endless mechanisms men devise to make life so much easier.

The following, not well-written extract from a Roman Catholic man, very effectively sums up how many Babylonian Christian marriages manage to get by. The Eves of the world will likely think that it’s all a great compromise. It will leave both men and women feeling desolate:

“Hi, I’m a submissive man – male. And I’m Catholic (very bad combination) [– the man has some wit. The wording of his discourse is transcribed mostly as written.]

And I want to help men like me (submissive men, but believing in God). Let me tell you how I solved my problem with my wife.

Since I am a submissive man, I would like my wife to be seen as a supreme goddess. And I am her the servant and slave. And worship her as highest goddess. But first, let’s talk and let’s face the truth: Male submissive is not normal, man-male to be dominant, it is a law of nature (male is a strong dominant in mammals (lion, deer …), female is rather weaker and submissive to the male – It is normal for mammals and humans ). Only women should be submissive. Men should be dominant. Do not be fooled femdom-web that matriarchy is normal, no. No. Man-male is a natural head of the family. The man-male is a God-appointed head of the family. God teaches us that: A man is head of the woman. And woman was created for man, not man for woman.

Submissive man-male is a small deviation. But I think it is possible to make a small compromise.

I want to be honest and not to lie to you. Such is the reality and truth:

Traditional Christian-Catholic morality:

A woman is not to rule over men. Women do not have authority over men.

I do not permit a woman to rule over men … (see Bible: 1-Timothy – Chapter 2,11-12)

Matriarchy is a pagan culture. God established the moral norm as only patriarchy.

Women should be nice and gentle.

Women should be quiet and tame.

Women should be meek and obedient to her husband.

The husband has authority over his wife, and the wife must be obedient to her husband!

I worship my wife.

Domestic society being confirmed, therefore, by this bond of love, there should flourish in it that “order of love,” as St. Augustine calls it. This order includes both the primacy of the husband with regard to the wife and children, the ready subjection of the wife and her willing obedience, which the Apostle commends in these words: “Let women be subject to their husbands as to the Lord, because the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ is the head of the Church.

Long time with his wife, talked about my problem.

Our solution is simple: Normally, I am head of the family as God commands us through the Holy Apostles. I decided a government. My wife does all the housework, cook, clean, feathers, wash dishes… all the traditional women’s work. (Traditional morality: for males it is unworthy of doing that work that are traditionally female work. And also the wife is unworthy to let her husband do women’s work, if the wife is healthy. God teaches us that: A man is head of the woman. The man is over woman. Woman is created for man. Wife must serve her husband.)

But in the evening, my wife and I are doing an intimate game, where everything turns around, I worship my wife as if she were a goddess (again, note that this is just a game) … submissive men love these games … therefore, I’m not going to write further about intimacy. And when our sexy games end, my wife and I will return to normal life again, where I rule and decide. During the day my wife is obedient in everything. During the day, my wife will do everything I command her. At night, the opposite is. At night, I am obedient to my wife. She reigns. I hope that our God will not punish for these games. And I hope I helped some people who have a similar problem.

Evening and at night I worship my wife for that, she served me through the day.

Our solution, our compromise: I am god by day. My wife is a goddess – at night.

Or: man (male) is the sun – the government of the day. A wife is the moon – the government at night. (After sunset comes the government women)

Try it, and you do with your wife if you are a submissive man and believe in God. [End]

That ethos would in many ways reasonably send feminists into orbit. It pretty much sums up the depressing state of Babylonian Christian marriages, barely hanging on, entirely at a loss for unity of mind and body in Christ’s spirit, the Bride of Christ alone is given to righteously honor her Husband’s body, and He, hers.

Male and female lust are activated relatively simply, through our senses, primarily our sight. The Babylonian male’s primary and instinctual lust is first sexual for connectivity with a woman, while a woman’s impulse is connectivity before sex. While her outward methodology appears more righteous, her perceived virtuosity is destroyed by her intrinsic nature to ensnare the man of her focus sexually, to which he almost always submits. Scripture is filled with both righteous and unrighteous lust from start to finish, and since the Bride, having been the heroine performer, essentially understands its nature, there’s no need to labour the point. 

Nonetheless, there is another highly pertinent reason in ‘Taking the Woman out of the Man’, and that is to further anchor a husband’s headship in marriage through his “washing”, that is, in a righteous priestly manner, being vigilant for his wife and children’s spiritual cleanliness. Yet, and no doubt many Orthodox Christian husbands and wives, use 1 Cor 7:3-4 to demand their alienating gender-specific sensualities, the husband sexually and the wife romantically, rarely meld harmoniously in honouring the other’s inherent needs joyfully.

1Co 7:1  Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. 
1Co 7:2  Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. 
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. 
1Co 7:6  But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment. 

Spiritually, those verses directly point to Christ’s washing his Bride, the Church, with his unsullied word for her to avoid fornication of doctrinal confusion with ‘the’ Jesus, rather than our first father, Satan. Her response, as the Shulamite states in the Song of Songs, is to respond brightly to his ravishment, thus passionately giving him his due benevolence, her unashamed and gracefully expressed spiritual libido, both fulfilling and not defrauding the other.

The reason the apostle Paul spoke those dictums as a permission, and not a command, is because of the far more obvious cases of an Elect being married to a non-elect. In that case, if the physical application were a command, it would spiritually mean that a husband could force-feed his wife the word, or she could badger him, thus cutting off the other’s ears and choking them on Christ’s word. Equally, it means that the Church is to be gentle with the babes in Christ, and not spiritually rape them with the word.

Thus far, with the order of man’s corruption beginning in Adam’s lust for everything Eve, it grows more complex with their divergent actions unwittingly elevating their delusional headship over God’s. Later on, and adding to that sickness, subsequent studies review the idolization and worship of women and wives, led by a review of the seats our male and female emotions occupy; the male privy members, and female breasts, both representing women’s and children’s ruling emotions.

Song of Solomon

[Study Aired January 24, 2026]

Introduction

How can any carnal husband, signifying Christ, consistently connect with His Bride unless she responds to Him with Her Breasts Wholly?

That enigmatic and misogynistic-sounding caption no doubt jars the Babylonian Christian sensibilities, stabbing at the very heart of female rulership. Yet, it doesn’t antagonize the Shulamite Bride, whose breasts’ significations, physically and spiritually, are the overarching theme of this study; she goes out of her way to amplify their righteous and truthful interpretations for her husband’s glory, reversing the lies and dreadful burden of her curse.

The Song of Solomon, shrouded in poetic mystique to all but the Bride of Christ, is her God-given “New Song” referenced in Revelation 14:3, mirroring her Husband’s Song of Songs perfectly. Its physical sensuality, signified for only the Bride to see spiritually, is a ‘short work’ (Rom 9:27-29) of unifying courtship with her Husband, Christ, a spiritual sensuality too ravishing to prolong (Psa 42:1, Son 5:2, 1Co 7:36) before consummation in the First and holy Resurrection. “As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God” (Psa 42:1)

Since the Bride has come this far in unity with her Husband, it is absurd to rehash every understanding of Scripture, particularly of her ‘old whorish song’ she knows too well, to support the introduction. Therefore, statements will frequently be made without scriptural substantiation, as her indwelling New Song has already validated her journey.

Isa 43:18  Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old. 
Isa 43:19  Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it?

The righteous Body of Christ, having reached this point in becoming “as he is” [see our IWWB studies fast becoming like a post-movie-like review of our (idiomatic) ‘hoary-whorish’ past (Eze 23:43)], serving to starkly contrast the Bride’s glorious Song of Songs, her orchestral consummation that is her husband Christ’s Song of Songs.

Indeed, it is a boldly accurate and outspoken statement to assert that the New Song, which only the emblematic 144,000 (12×12) “could learn,” represents the Bride of Christ’s God-given and sole spiritual comprehension of the New Covenant—the number symbolizing her nearing the completion in her Body of the completeness of sinful flesh filled up behind Christ in his Body, for the Church’s ultimate foundation. 

1Co 3:11  For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 

Although resulting in blasphemy, it is not a sin for Orthodox Babylonian Christians to read the Song—and they do, every Sunday—selecting agreeable aspects of the Bible, filtered through their Old Song, and changing the lyrics to be more benevolent, even romantic. In fact, and like them straining their eyes in the ‘blackness’ to see the Beast, the man of perdition, the New Song is right before them, but to force them to understand it is casting our pearls (G3135 – word of great value) before swine; but their reading or discordant singing it for 2,000 years soundly validates God’s word that it is only the Bride who can understand what she is singing.

Rev 1:3  Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand. 

The Song of Solomon, expressed physically and coitally spiritually, illustrates her unified, connective joy being raised from her sleep, and granted the singular opportunity, above all women, including the five foolish virgins, to reverse her curse, celebrated spiritually!

Mat 9:23  And when Jesus came into the ruler’s house, and saw the minstrels and the people making a noise,
Mat 9:24  He said unto them, Give place: for the maid is not dead, but sleepeth. And they laughed him to scorn. 
Mat 9:25  But when the people were put forth, he went in, and took her by the hand, and the maid arose. 
Mat 9:26  And the fame hereof went abroad into all that land. 

Est 2:16  So Esther was taken unto King Ahasuerus into his house royal in the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign. 
Est 2:17  And the king loved Esther above all the women, and she obtained grace and favour in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set the royal crown upon her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti. 

Queen Esther represents the Bride of Christ, superceding her self-serving sisters depicted as Queen Vashti and Old Israel. It all happened in the Tenth Month, in which the Day of Atonement falls, whereby she becomes one with her Husband, Christ, beginning the salvation of mankind in marriage at the beginning of the Seventh Year, the One-Thousand Year reign with the rod of iron.

Zec 8:19  Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts; therefore love the truth and peace. [Heralding the One-Thousand Year reign, the beginning of the salvation of mankind under Christ and his Bride]

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

Rev 2:26  And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations:

Jer 39:1  In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army against [Old] Jerusalem, and they besieged it. [Symbolically making the way for the New Heavenly Jerusalem, the Bride of Christ] 

Eph 1:5  Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will.

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 [Perfect Tense] 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. 
Rev 14:5  And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God. 

Rev 5:11  And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands; 

Interestingly, Christ, the tree of life, is referred to as “she.” Christ’s wife is as He is, a co-savior of mankind. She, the fruitful vine, produces and saves the twelve tribes of Israel, representing the entire world. If we multiply her 12 fruits by 12 months, the result is 144,000; those sealed in Israel, again, represent humanity as numerous as the stars of heaven.

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.

The Bride of Christ, especially in these outwardly visible ‘last days’ before the First Resurrection, although still being saved right up until Christ’s outward return, already has eternal life attributed to her. She is already standing on Mt. Zion with her Lord; she is the voice from heaven, harping on harps in perfect unity with her Husband’s voice, insensible to the world. She has been learning her “new song” and, more importantly, daily living it; singing it ever since being dragged from being defiled by the 40,000 ‘women’ of Zionist, Orthodox Christianity, and other abominable religions. “And they sang as it were a new song… (Rev 14:2) 

The Bible primarily serves as a map of salvation, a cryptic depiction of the mysterious, symbolic, and turbulent journey of a young woman. Initially represented by Eve, she embodies all women and symbolizes the Church in the wilderness, submitting to her husband in a fickleness that is both sexual and spiritual. Strangely, the Odyssey was initiated by her husband, Adam’s troubled subconscious failure to love his wife (1 Tim 2:14), as evidenced by his reluctance to object when Eve and he ate from the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. It set her, as a symbol of the Church, in a position of ruling mankind’s religiosity, on a covert path to inevitable harlotry—a notion insulting all outwardly considered virtuous women, clandestinely indicting men, the same. Ultimately, a remnant “little flock Church” was given to “come out of her” to become the virtuous Bride of Christ. The Bible is primarily dedicated to her, guiding mankind as numerous as the stars of heaven, on a similar troublesome journey in a later timeframe. It reflects a fierce spiritual struggle over who truly is God: man or “the God of gods”. From the Garden of Eden onward, its broadly progressive themes can be categorized into six short headings, all of which are first dramatically represented through unrighteous indulgence and worldly sensuality, which the Bride ultimately aligns with righteously.

— God’s Headship Rejected

—Adam tamely abdicates headship as Eve assumes command

— Mankind  subverts the creation of God sensually, unwittingly facilitating the experience of evil

— Christ reestablishes headship, to which the Bride vivaciously responds

— The Song of Solomon – Is the Bride’s Effervescent Response now “to” Her Husband 

— Resulting in salvation for all

So, why does the Bride sing The Song of Solomon anew?

It is only the Bride of Christ who is given her Lord’s same song for her alone, distinct from all of humanity since Eden, to understand. It is a “new song” just as the New Covenant is New, leaving the Old Covenant as a fascinating shadow pointing to all things spiritually.

Heb 8:13  In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away. 

Since men are biologically designed to have a significantly greater sex drive than women—with testosterone levels 10-20 times higher—this disparity in libido spiritually reflects Christ’s passion for his Bride and the world, and their corresponding dispassion, symbolized by wives like espoused indifference. Astonishingly, it symbolizes the Father and Son’s love and fervor for the world; their agreement that the Son should become flesh and die for an exceptionally insensible humanity and their ultimate salvation!

Women’s and wives’ inherently intentional sexual impassiveness is essential to ensure an “experience of evil” and bitterness in their husbands to portray humanity’s rejection of Christ starkly.

Mostly, when we see in scriptures someone “ministering” to another physically, as did Abishag (1Ki 1:15) to King David amorously, although fruitlessly to raise his body temperature, and carnally the envisaged Shulamite to Solomon, that ministration almost always holds a potent spiritual concept for our understanding—that melody tremendously mirrored by the Bride in the SoS.  

Ministered H8334 – to serve; to attend. And for the Song of Solomon’s cause, meaning espoused dues. As exemplified by Abishag to King David, and subsequently mirrored by the Bride spiritually towards her Husband, Christ, as His workmanship, thereby demonstrating our love for Him and intentionally seeking to ravish Him profoundly, as he does, the Bride.

1Pe 1:9  Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.
1Pe 1:10  Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the [chastening] grace that should come unto you:
1Pe 1:11  Searching what, or what manner of time the spirit of Christ, which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.
1Pe 1:12  Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels [The Elect – the Bride] desire to look into.

So, why does the Bride sing The Song of Solomon anew? Because her Lord ministered to her understanding and has aroused her symbolic spiritual testosterone levels somewhat equal to his, ravishing her spiritual libido, now vastly different from her carnality, so she can harmoniously ravish her Husband’s song upon her lips—“Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine” – Son 1:2.

Since the holy spirit conceived the Bride of Christ, she has been learning her new song of understanding the New Covenant, which wine represents, rapturously celebrated spiritually in Solomon’s Song. Soon after conception, she turns to her Husband with a Mary(mother of Christ)-like astonishment, “Rabboni”, and with shivers down the soles of her feet, the humiliating and blunt realization that her curse from Eden all but destroyed her physical espoused intimacies with her husband, representing her spiritual blindness. It all began because of Adam’s symbolized self-emasculaton, wounded in his stones and privy member, dispatched to being poor and needy of heart, indirectly responsible for the now poor and needy Eve’s ‘devastation’ (H7736) of being wounded in her breasts that she was consigned to deception; humiliated forever (aonian) for her gullibility.

Psa 109:22  For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me. 

Eze 36:26  A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. 

The Male Privy: Signatory of Authority and Life Pointing to Christ and the Father’s Supreme Power and Authority

For God to initiate the spiritual recreation of humankind, He needed to introduce the outwardly unique phenomenon of sex temporarily. Its distinctive sub-strait of lust incites many different kinds of injurious marital irregularities in men and women, aspects of which their genders manifest differently and often divergently. Anatomically, its most characteristic features, which are key to understanding the fundamental spiritual issues of all marital disparity, are first psychologically and physically evident in the significance of males’ genitals and females’ breasts. The meaning of those two concealed, soon-to-be-famous trademarks from Eden has a profoundly devastating impact, with divergent implications for every courting couple, and, most importantly, on carnal marriages and all aspects of human existence. Covertly, the Shulamite in the Song of Solomon, elegantly and righteously, expresses their unpolluted carnal representations for the Bride of Christ to understand and live as spiritually expressed in the Song of Solomon.

Upon Adam passively rejecting their Lord’s command not to eat of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, his action unwittingly severely wounded his headship. Probably unconsciously, Adam sees his privy members as symbolizing his headship and authority in marriage. Involuntarily ruled by his pudenda and not wanting to wound Eve’s sensitivities by powerfully and lovingly restraining her reasoning, he passively submitted to her emotionally convincing logic. By eating the forbidden fruit and covertly rejecting his Lord’s command, his action rendered him symbolically impotent in his role as Eve’s head. For us, in every sense of the term, laying down one’s life for one’s neighbour, on the surface, it appears that Adam did just that for Eve. Unwittingly, by God’s assignment for mankind, and no doubt Adam’s fear of once again being alone if Eve ate and he didn’t, he chose to listen to his wife in unity with their flesh, preferring to die with her. Such is the power of the lust of the flesh over the spirit without faith and the holy spirit. The carnal first Adam performed the negative, the reversal of Eph 5:22-33, effectively stating,

22 ‘Husbands, submit yourselves to your own wives, as unto the Serpent.
23 For now, the wife is the head of the husband, even as your first father (Satan) is now head of the churches of the world.
24 Therefore, as the churches are subject to Satan, so let the husbands be to their own wives in everything.’

Under that pretext, Satan, the author of confusion in Babylonian Christianity, conflates and mingles the remaining verses, with Christ minimised by the overemphasis on the husband loving his wife (Luke 14:26), since subconsciously, how can she reverence him for their Lord’s word, when he has just demonstrated that he listens to her? They both now unwashed by the Lord’s word, he presents to his dying self an inglorious dying wife, increasing in spots and wrinkles as he is.

Eph 5:25  Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; 
Eph 5:26  That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
Eph 5:27  That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
Eph 5:28  So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
Eph 5:29  For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:
Eph 5:30  For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
Eph 5:31  For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
Eph 5:32  This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
Eph 5:33  Nevertheless, let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

Now, because he listened to his wife, the symbol of his headship, his privy members are cursed psychologically (for some traumatized husbands, physically), where espousal intimacies, symbolized in the psychologically wounded “ground” of his wife’s breasts, her heart, her seat “within”, and the response of a million sensory titillations, are injured mostly beyond repair. Irregularly, access to her ground, her mind, breasts, and womb, with vindictive impudence, she guards. Adam’s vital physical and spiritual connection with her for connectively consummative joy is now utterly controlled by her. His physical and spiritual unity with her is now primarily accessed only for her pressing need of conception — cursed is his ground, where the key to accessing ‘his garden and vineyard’ is held by her. Now representative of all men and husbands, he sees, and more so feels, thorns and thistles every time he dares intimacy—she, embodying all future women, deftly sees coming a mile off, and with an airy smile, artfully redirects. Emotionally bereft, he wasn’t deceived, but like a moth to a flame, he ignored the signs of silence; his attempts to connect were consistently dismissed. It was all her growing, intrinsic game of power, addicted to control, relying, even relishing her husband’s servile attentiveness—subconsciously, a little uncomfortably. He fawningly hangs on, hoping, searching the net, fantasizing about fixes. Home life outwardly to Babylon, appears that he has it all sorted;  appearing wealthy with a lovely wife and children— ‘the ungrateful creep…’.  

He soon finds out that he no longer symbolically ‘eats’ with her in espousal communion since she is injured in her breasts, and he, in his privy member and stones. Ensnared by his own sensual devices, he realizes too late that he forsook his Samson-like strength of headship—classically gave it all away to an emblematic harlot. Now, he is blinded by subservience to her emotions in the vain hope of sensually arousing his; restricted to eating “herbs” and crumbs, characterized by drip-fed intimacies, rarely eating strong meat; gelded, psychologically, spiritually and physically flaccid in starved espousal connections—bitterly. The level of sensual, romanticized security is excessively insistent, filled with a million emotionally nuanced hurts. It is cunningly biased in her favor, equally ‘inventively’ nurtured by her doting paramour as she expected before marriage, and is carried forward into marriage without fulfillment, becoming painfully unsustainable and resentfully so.

So, too, did the Lord of the Old Covenant experience with his wife, Israel, indicting all women, representative of the Babylonian church, and mankind—rejecting His word, His priests, broken in their stones, wounding His heart in calling his life-saving food ‘loathsome light bread’ (Num 21:5). The Shulamite physically in the Song of Solomon representative of the Elect of God, soundly reverses that dreadfully sorry condition of disconnectedness, each day, spiritually.

Deu 23:1  He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD. 

Psa 34:18  The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.

Hos 9:14  Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts. 

Isa 61:1  The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; 

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.

Luk 16:21  And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man’s table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. 

1Co 7:3  Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: [God’s will, and kindness for her specific emotional needs amplified sexually, as she fulfils his] 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; [reconnection!] and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency. [Paradoxically, righteous spiritual incontinence is a ravishingly good thing]

1Co 6:19  What? Know ye not that your body is the temple of the holy ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? 
1Co 6:20  For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s. 

The embryonic Bride of Christ, upon journeying through the wilderness of Babylonian marriage, initially mourns the story and the ‘woman’. The Old Adam fell in love with the sexual version of her he created through hope and belief in her initial gloriously connected harmony in almost all things, a fantasy, built on lust, not willingly believed that highly sensual emotions emanating from the flesh, signified by her breasts and his pudenda’s cravings. Ultimately, it will always disappoint; both in type, a ‘fugitive and a vagabond’ of vain lusts, always wandering and like Cain, temporarily advantageous for God’s purpose as we feed our enemy negatively (Gen 12:20), but never finding the rest that can please God (Gen 4:12).

In realizing it is the Lord who drags whom He wills to himself, the New Adam’s power of his God-given authority is regained not by brow-beating spiritual wisdom spurned, but in silence, patiently awaiting the reason for the hope of his faith. In Eden, when Adam neglected to solemnly caution Eve about the impending danger associated with disobeying their Lord by consuming the forbidden fruit, it is evident that his weakness, permanently embedded in flesh, subsequently led her to question Adam’s capacity to guide her righteously. Consequently, she, along with all women, is effectively injured in her breasts, meaning, her heart. Thereafter, she is accustomed to men vying for her attention, as she possesses the authority over intimacy. That injurious saga, we will continuously see, is foundational to her curse, her stubborn resistance, her disease of not enthusiastically desiring intimacy, the hallmark of disunity. The eventual intimate healing of women begins in her heart beneath her signified wounded, bruised breasts that directly point to her spiritual healing. The Shulamite Bride now has an irresistible reason to trust in her husband, a balm to heal her wounded breasts—a Sabbath rest in Him, incredibly energizing her femininity to vigorously ravish Him, knowing from carnal experience that a husband will unfailingly respond to further awakening her intrinsically slower libido, all characteristically spiritual.

Jer 8:22  Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

The Bride, initially representing all women, is unnervingly drawn to the man she cannot control, one who delights in and desires her, but doesn’t need her, who doesn’t fill her every emotional void, who refuses to submit to her innate schemes. She confronts a force she cannot manipulate. She senses a man who has unravelled her ethos, knowing the foundation of her injury that even she hasn’t identified, and that man’s standing and beguiling authority revitalises her ‘breasts’ in a way she has never known. Yet, without the holy spirit, she regularly tests his virtue, and yet, strangely still rejects him, further deepening her confusion rooted in her dismissal of his authority in Eden.

Psa 65:4  Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and causest to approach unto thee, that he may dwell in thy courts: we shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, even of thy holy temple. 
Psa 65:5  By terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God of our salvation; who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off upon the sea: 
Psa 65:6  Which by his strength setteth fast the mountains; being girded with power:
Psa 65:7  Which stilleth the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves, and the tumult of the people. 

A steeply decreasing carnal rarity and no greater peace and overjoy is there for a husband when blessed by his wife, glorying in his sensual responses to her, and redoubling her gratitude to Christ for having wonderfully created him so—the Bride, we shall see, enthusiastically and consistently ravishes her Husband spiritually.

Eve’s breasts, symbolic of her entire arresting form, we hope to see, represent her remarkable Ninja-like emotional glory, further provoking Adam’s involuntary erogenous sensitivities unquenchably; the combination, without the holy spirit, the Serpent uses to his gleeful advantage, igniting 6,000 years of adulterous wildfires represented spiritually initiated before they got out of Eden!

Within the meaning of that hidden theme of Adam’s privy parts and Eve’s breasts lies the profound reason why “no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand”, but the Bride! She, being ‘last’ in the order of gender authority, her every bodily element characteristic of Adam spiritually, becomes the emblematic ‘first’, the very thing she cravenly in Babylon, vociferously self-elevated (Pro 7:11, Rev 18:7).

The Great Whore’s song is likewise centered on Adam’s pudenda and Eve’s breasts as signatories of rejection of God’s word, the Shulamite in The Song of Solomon uninhibitedly reverses physically, and the Bride, spiritually—elegantly skilled in how to ravish her husband righteously, now delighting in his arousal, as opposed to formerly avoiding it, and right off the bat, she royally initiates,

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

Every man in Babylon, and husbands, knows that heartfelt, deeply connected kisses are guaranteed for instant arousal and responsiveness; He says,

Son 4:9  Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck. 

Every virgin damsel should be very well instructed, effusively committed with a sincere heart to learning the art of courting and marital affairs by her deeply caring mother and senior female peers representative of the Church in the craft of building her house, most honorably in the simple art of male ravishment, equally Christ’s spiritual captivation for her. Whereas previously, she scorned her father and mother’s wise directions, their hope of preserving her virginity physically and spiritually.

Pro 19:25  Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware: and reprove one that hath understanding, and he will understand knowledge. 
Pro 19:26  He that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach.
Pro 19:27  Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err from the words of knowledge. 
Pro 19:28  An ungodly witness scorneth judgment: and the mouth of the wicked devoureth iniquity.
Pro 19:29  Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.

Psa 123:2  Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God, until that he have mercy upon us.

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

His sensual arousal is easy, but the excitement of creating a home environment of anticipation in a semi-passive hour-by-hour incitement denotes her single-eyed devotion singularly chained in virtuous harmony. Although the symbolism is deeply offensive to feminists, the Shulamite is delighted that all her needs are met by being chained to one man, juxtaposed with her sisters in Babylon, figuratively off the chain, with their feet never in their home, running around like Aholah and Aholabah, enslaved to their breasts incitations and their suitors profane passions, growing old in whoredom (Eze 23:43-44) — classic negative responsiveness of her heart and his pudenda.

Even though the following is in the last chapter in the Song of Solomon, it is the Bride’s desire from the outset, signified by the Promised Land springing with milk and honey, to be nursed at royal breasts (Isa 60:16 – GW), thereby eagerly ravishing her Husband for their mutually jubilant response.

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, and 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. 

Those glorious verses, the Shulamite in the Song of Solomon, utterly reverse the Great Whore’s unrighteous and lewd use of her physical ‘jewels’, physical sensualities, the Bride of Christ privileges spiritually! She reflects to her Husband his “house”, the very same house she now is. Having measured that pattern, she now reverses what she humiliatingly represented in Old Israel and Babylon, rejecting his spiritual intimacies.

Eze 43:10  Thou son of man, shew the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities: and let them measure the pattern.
Eze 43:11  And if they be ashamed of all that they have done, shew them the form of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the goings out thereof, and the comings in thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the laws thereof: and write it in their sight, that they may keep the whole form thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and do them. 
Eze 43:12  This is the law of the house; Upon the top of the mountain the whole limit thereof round about shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house. 

Eve’s decision to eat the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is typically an artful female ‘invention’ to challenge a male, particularly her husband’s strength and authority, initially unconsciously, always bearing with it a host of dreadfully injurious consequences to their love responsiveness to each other. It is the inception of Isaiah’s much later statement, provocatively derived from the BBE version, “As for my people, their ruler is acting like a child, and those who have authority over them are women. O my people, your guides are the cause of your wandering, turning your footsteps out of the right way.” (BBE). 

Adam and Eve are both now dictatorially governed by their most powerful gender-specific emotions, emanating through Adam’s pudenda and Eve’s breasts. Practically every emergent decision Adam and Eve make, intrinsic to their respective gender, we hope to see in an ensuing study, is grounded in Adam’s sexuality, directly identified in his privy, and Eve by her breasts. Every thought and action of theirs arises from those two most potent gender-specific roots that they both secretly demand be satisfied selfishly and indulgently from the other—the new emotion, selfishness, has strode into their lives. For Adam to be sexually gratified, it has to come from Eve; likewise, for Eve to be emotionally exhilarated, she depends upon Adam. However, because of Eve’s curse, causing her to be ‘against’ Adam, contentious on almost all relational fronts, she soon realizes that she can weaponize her innate slower arousal to her advantage for overly extended periods of emotional indulgences that later, she, like the Dead Sea, peters out into desolation without the necessity for consummation, leaving Adam parched. 

Mat 12:30  He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad. 

Adam, having cast his crown before her, the emblematic Ashtoreth and Diana—ironic in being rich in “fertility and war”—and the “moon”-like “light” of her boudoir love, he glorifying and honoring her for her sexual prowess, the mother of all living, he now, on a leash, “restrained” to her bidding. All quite the inverse to the following verses in Revelation and prerequisite to the Great Whore”.

Rev 4:10  The four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying,
Rev 4:11  Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure [Adam is…] they are and were created.

All is built upon the lust of the eyes, representative of every other sensory organ’s initiating lust.

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. 

1Jn 2:16  For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. 

Rom 8:5  For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the spirit the things of the spirit.

For Adam and Eve, and their rulership coup in the making, about to guide 7,000 years of wandering with characteristic whorish footsteps never in the Lord’s house, their struggle for rulership authority indicts them both compulsively “acting like children.” However, the occasion is covertly governed, not only by breasts’ significations, but by every detail of Eve’s glorious feminine form, fearfully and wonderfully made (Psa 139:14), expressing a Satan-inspired sentimental delusion, knowing that he can easily reach Adam through his private parts, their singular central sensualities for Eve, and thus severely disarray the vast majority of marriages and the love spouses crave, designedly, temporarily destroying God’s order of headship in carnal marriages and societal leadership centralized on the church.

Inherently, and to varying degrees of responsiveness, a female’s highly sensory body and mind govern her every thought and action. After Eve’s deception, she naturally conceived the same female psyche in all women, testing (tempting) men and husbands by the emotional meaning of expressions stemming from her breasts. Just as Eve did, all wives and women, signified sexually, now innately test or tempt their husbands and men unwittingly to break God’s commands. It is now vividly portrayed in her every stunning bodily gesture, covertly centralized on her heart, her breasts signify, expressed pseudo-innocently in her every thought and action to which he both consciously and instinctively submits. 

Upon being expelled from Eden, the Adams of the world find themselves without a secure basis on which to lead their wives with righteous authority. His confidence is now fragile and easily psychologically and spiritually wounding his privy and stones by any woman, particularly his wife. His fundamental and concealed apprehension pertains to scarcity—specifically, the deficiency of authentic respect akin to that bestowed by a Job-like stature by other men within the gates of his city within. This diminishes his perceived strength in the eyes of others and renders him less attractive to women, thereby eliciting his most profound fear of sexual scarcity. As did Eve, women instinctively test that frame, not always maliciously, but to measure his strength. When he fails those tests, it’s not just the attraction that dies, but also the complete honor and respect. His focus on physical sensualities that Eve holds the keys, shackles him in that dungeon of the world, the deep, subservient to men and women—a most heinously wounded privy, indeed.

An oxymoronic absurdity of truth; if Eve hadn’t successfully tempted Adam to submit to her, Satan wouldn’t have deceived them to eat of the fruit.

Deu 6:16  Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted him in Massah [= temptation; despair – now emblematic of Eden]. 

Although Solomon in Christ’s Song beautifully depicts a female’s provocative beauty, breasts uniquely symbolize many sensually glorious female qualities, their sensitivities too numerous for Solomon and modern lyricists to express concisely and gracefully in poetry. Like the Japanese, who seek the perfect cherry blossom each season, called the “Sakura”, from which comes the equally perfect fruit, a single cherry attracting exorbitant prices ostentatiously, all men, albeit unjustly, desire their ideal of the perfect female form, which they longingly hope is expressed back through facial acceptance of them, emanating from her eyes. In real life, a breathtaking ravishment almost unbearable—an art carved by Solomon from one Shulamite-like wife, the Bride of Christ is designed to lavish spiritually upon Christ, and he, upon her. In the meantime, in Babylon,

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

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. 

Juxtaposed righteously by the Bride:

Son 4:9  Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck.

Ultimately, breasts and a male’s privates, symbols of all sensuality, powerfully influence each gender’s emotional experiences, stimulated through their eyes, govern their minds, the most potent sexual organ demanding action, without the holy spirit’s direction, speed marital disunity and bitterness. Due to a severe lack of marital connection, Solomon epitomized every carnal husband’s journey, not necessarily in outright adulterous relationships, but in his deep longing for one woman who would be unified with him, like Adam, looking in the wrong direction, seeking her to save him sensually.

1Ki 11:4  For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father. 

From now on, the basis of every pre-Song of Solomon study is shaped by the physical disconnection. This is marked by a husband’s wounded private parts symbolizing his lost authority, resulting in his wife’s similarly wounded heart, centered in her breasts, which are emblematic of a deeply damaged emotional connection. The Shulamite physically corrects all that the Bride of Christ delights in living spiritually.

First, we need to understand who the Father of Lies is and his purpose in causing marital turbulence.

The Song of Solomon

The Journey

The Song of Songs, which is ‘Christ’s’ – Son 1:1

Study Aired January 17,  2026

Prelude

Why did Solomon conceptualise The Song of Solomon?

Solomon, like Adam, was not deceived, nonetheless semi-consciously bearing a cursed injury in his privy and “stones” (Deu 23:1), since Eden, referenced in all of his writings, culminating in Ecclesiastes 7, the primary reasons why he couldn’t find one woman in the entire known world, and proved by his 1,000 wives, one who could ravishingly complement his intellectual wisdom (the shadow of the holy spirit) as the primary criterion for wholehearted espoused unity, climaxing indivisibly coitally (Son 1:5-7) to be unified in the same mind as him. Through the holy spirit, he has revealed to the Bride of Christ that she is already engaged in singing her Lord and Husband’s song. At the same time, humanity conceals itself behind delusional notions of romance, morality, and virtue, singing its own song in an attempt to redeem itself. Eve, in representing all women to this day, and upon Adam’s sexual insecurity, was compelled to rescue herself to provide security. That saga set the pattern for humanity’s opposition to God.

Hidden behind the chaos of romance, self-styled morality and virtue, what the Eves of the world profoundly want is not only financial security, emotional security, psychological security and relational security, but, nonetheless influenced by those ideologies, she now wants Adam to understand her needs for him to minister to her, rather than being managed. She desires the security of being respected rather than tolerated. The assurance that loyalty will not be exploited; that affection will not fade into indifference; that commitment will not devolve into complacency; and the security derived from his selecting her will not falter under pressure, withdraw from responsibilities, or resent her strength.

The stability of security without stagnation, the passion without volatility, and the connection without possession exemplify an idealized approach. Security does not equate to safety from life’s challenges. Rather, it signifies safety and partnership. For the flesh, Christ designed such security to diminish and launch the Bride on a journey of evil experience to refine her, and for her to build His pattern of the Temple within herself (Pro 14:1).   

This study is not a condemnation of women. It is a recognition of her representing mankind’s ceaseless effort to save itself through the security of its wisdom because security makes love sustainable. Security fosters vulnerability, intimacy, trust, and enduring emotional commitment. It constitutes the foundation upon which other elements, such as desire, loyalty, and affection, are built. The sole factor that is overlooked when attempting to uphold these principles is lust. “For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever” – 1Jn 2:16-17.

At the outset, it is essential to acknowledge that Adam, in not strongly dissuading his wife Eve from eating of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, unwittingly, to him, severely bruised his ability to wash her with God’s word and lead her as her God-ordained head. His now spiritually weakened headship, scripture describes for a priest of God as ‘wounded his stones and privy’,  directly and correspondingly wounded Eve’s spirit within her breasts, her heart to trust her husband’s leadership. The shocking covert result is that all women, particularly wives, now feel compelled to wrest the lead from men in all kinds of social and governmental authorities, and most critically, marital matters, essentially boudoir intimacies, to achieve their immense quest for security. 

Deu 23:1  He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD. 

Lev 19:29  Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a whore; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness.

Now, the everyday virtuously considered home-making wife’s connection of mind, spirit and body with her husband, we shall see, typifies whoredom. That chronicle constitutes the arresting theme that dominates this series until its conclusion, whereupon, in the end, the Shulamite Bride reverses that curse. The startling appreciation for the meanings of those topics will be examined in detail in the Introductory Studies. It will be recognized as a pivotal influence in understanding the Song of Solomon.

We shall observe (Mat 13:11) that the overarching, covert, and enigmatic theme of the Song of Solomon, which is exclusively sung by the 144,000, is the reversal of the curses afflicting Adam and Eve, as exemplified by the principal female figure, the Bride of Christ, in knowing that she has nothing to bring to the table, but her now wholehearted, enthusiastic intimate responsiveness to him, her Husband. She thus oxymoronically sings of the revealing of the brightness of His hidden coming.

Hab 3:4  And his brightness was as the light; he had horns coming out of his hand: and there was the hiding of his power. 

To Orthodox Christianity, The Song of Solomon presents a paradox, as it is alarmingly sensual and sexual for most women’s anxiety, thereby facilitating the empowerment of their husbands’ sexual pursuits. She knows that essentially, a husband’s principal need is for a unified mind in his wife’s, brightly applauded sexually, yet, something is dreadfully amiss. Applaudingly, that dynamic seems to be endorsed, as it is audaciously testified in hidden rectification by the proclamation of the Shulamite-Bride straight out of the gate with her first statement in the Song of Solomon, mirroring Christ’s Bride’s response every day, with Christ. Talk about a crisis!

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

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. 

It is widely recognized that husbands’ overwhelming method of connecting with their wives is sexually, and peeved wives, unconscious of wanting to rule their husbands, naturally, and logically reason why boudoir intimacies always appear to highlight their husband and his needs. Consequently, the internet has proliferated with, it seems, female primarily marriage assistants who eagerly acknowledge the significant disparity caused by wives emotionally distancing themselves. These assistants diligently employ a range of academically effective methodologies to address this issue. However, what they don’t know is what the Shulamite knows, that to correct that enduring and exceptionally reasonable aversion, is not just based on a wife attaining greater sensual satisfaction, but a supremely higher calling in understanding her purpose, to want to celebrate intimately, rather than advanced intimacy being the end in itself! Ironically, and subsequently, a Shulamite-like wife’s former fickle libido, and universal struggle for sexual satisfaction, is dramatically liberated; she ecstatically sees the purpose for her reason and increased emotional interest, and makes it her business to ravish her Husband!

Rom 8:28  And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. 

We shall see that Adam, in Eden, and by his hand, is first emblematically injured in his ‘privy’—effectively (unwittingly self) neutered to lead Eve. The primary dynamics of her curse are, barring a few spiritual ‘women’ since the cross, underwrite wives being “against” their husbands, and is signified in their equally ‘wounded’ breasts, her heart, ruling Adam’s most powerful compulsion for unity of mind, body and spirit, and is distinguished by the degradation of lively sexual intimacy. Her curse, representative of Adam’s curse, filling up behind in her of mankind’s curse against Christ and the Father, manifests in demanding endless romanticism that, historically and bitter anecdotal consensus, has never blessed a husband with consistent, authentic, lively, engaged sexual intimacy. That wretched disunity is signified by the 40,000 plus Orthodox Zionist Christian churches, representatives who are ‘harlots’ who never deny their “another Jesus” husband (2Co 11:4), actually Satan, his spiritual intimacies.

Thus, and always first ‘naturally’, it is Adam’s wounded privy that instigates the wound in Eve’s breasts that puts Eve perpetually in carnal marriages, against enthusiastically “ministering”, appreciably sexually, to her husband. As dreadful as a lot of negative biblical imagery is, that espoused disparity in every Babylonian marriage, covertly symbolizes the Whore riding the Beast, scattering her lewd doctrine among lustful men. It corresponds spiritually to Old Israel being against her Lord, her husband, that since the cross, the Bride, delightedly shocked and revulsed, swiftly reverses her Satan-gifted authority. 

Luk 11:23  He that is not with me is against me: and he that gathereth not with me scattereth. 

All 1,000 of Solomon’s wives, a veritable “companion of fools” (Pro 13:20), were only too aware of their lack of connective wisdom, and to procure the position of the most loved wife (Son 6:9), they are wired to default to their inherent sexual allure. That tactic is what The Great Whore, the mother of harlots, and to varying degrees of cunning accent, representative of all women, automatically engage to “ensnare” (Ecc 7:23-26) a prospective and all too compliant husband. Once she has captured her husband and her desire to bear children is fulfilled, she further enables her intrinsic lack of amorous ardour, a natural biological depreciation, to manage her husband’s tedious, never-ending amatory desires. (Indicative positively of the Father’s ravishment for Christ and Christ’s to the Bride’s elations). Ever since Eden, her fickle fervour, mysteriously eminating from the depths of her wounded breasts, her heart, sequentially represent all seven churches of Asia’s capriciousness (2 Ti 15), culminating in Laodicea’s apathy, and is the journey of the embryonic Bride of Christ, depicted before her representation as the Shulamite in The Song of Solomon, in which she undisguisedly ministers in assertive elegance (1Ki 1:1-4 representative transition to Song 8:1-3). Please do not be alarmed, as the utilisation of the profound theme of her bruised and wounded breasts, symbolising her heart in a manner analogous to Adam’s injured private parts, will be examined and substantiated in detail progressively.

Ominously, thereafter, Adam and Eve’s predetermined rejection of God’s word cursed them and humanity (except the Elect) for 7,000 years, forcing them to seek answers to their myriad physical and clouded spiritual confusions physically. Their life force energy, their vitality driving them, emanates from Adam’s center of emblematic authority in his privates, and Eve, unbridled feminine unity with Adam, embedded in her breasts, her heart, now both being severely wounded, not only creates conflict between them but also, worse, against their God. 

Eve’s “wounded breasts” precipitate the much later Aholah, the elder, and Aholibah, her younger sister, within, whereby their bruised breasts and teats, psychologically, Eve’s heart, and all women at odds to minister to their husbands rightly because of Adam’s self-afflicted, his treacherous/untrustworthy headship.

Eze 23:34  Thou shalt even drink it and suck it out, and thou shalt break the sherds [an itch to lust] thereof, and pluck off [H5423] thine own breasts: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.

Pluck off H5423 = 1. to pull or tear [off] or draw off or away or apart, draw out, pluck up, break, lift, root out.

Wound H6482 = 1. bruise, wound. From H6481 = 1. to bruise, wound, wound by bruising 
a. (Qal) to wound by crushing. [The same as “wounded stones” H6481 Deu 23:1]

Wounded H2490 = 1. to profane, defile, pollute, desecrate, begin a. (Niphal) 1. to profane oneself, defile oneself, pollute oneself 1a b. ritually 1a c. sexually 1. to be polluted, be defiled

Bruised H1792 1. to crush, be crushed, be contrite, be broken a. (Niphal) 1. to be crushed 2. to be contrite (fig.) b. (Piel) to crush c. (Pual) 1. to be crushed, be shattered

Isa 53:5  But he was wounded [H2490] for our transgressions, he was bruised [H1792] for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. 

Uniquely, their gender-specific innate sexual ravishments (allogorically spiritual), only their mate can satisfy, are now inherently selfish, reflecting the core difficulties of disunity their individual curses represent; with Adam’s heart unable to dynamically connect with his Lord’s word and walk in it, as is Eve’s opposition to Adam’s neutered counsel. It is profoundly emblematic of their disconnected espoused intimacies, directly representative of mankind’s rejection of God’s word. Essentially, these are the themes of the Introductory Studies Solomon’s Shulamite creation makes ‘new’.

2Co 5:17  Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. 

Although Solomon’s Shulamite nativity is the perfect physical pattern of how a wife is to respond to her husband, and he to her spiritually, without the crucial holy spirit to understand and particularly live the concept, he, in desolate ‘blackness’, concluded that it, too, was vanity and chasing the wind. Like Job’s singular failing of pride in his own appointed righteousness, only God’s spirit could reveal, Solomon’s apparent infinite wisdom failed him in finding one gloriously beautiful wife who could deeply connect with his mind, body, and spirit, transcendentally celebrating their union sexually. Similarly, we, like Solomon, feel that God has let us down; there was nothing better to do than sullenly return to the pointless vanity of pleasures, nurtured in wealth, power, and unresolvable, disunited, espoused intimacies (Ecc 2:10).

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 hath looked upon me: my mother’s children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept.

1Ki 11:4  For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father. 

Isa 55:11  So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. 

Consequently, the following “Contents” Introductory studies present a select few prime topics based on Eden’s curses, which were intended to help appreciate the Song of Solomon spiritually, and are wonderfully summarized by Proverbs 30:18-19. “…the way of a man with a maid”: we shall see that they are centered on the protagonist “maid” —the Bride’s journey that Solomon paradoxically found too confusing in Ecclesiastes 7 to understand. She moves mesmerizingly, like her first father, Satan. Serpentine-like, she lounges calmly, innately aware of her surroundings, and then, impulsively, as if upon ‘a rock’ (Christ), she becomes flighty, directionless, and uncertain of where she is going, like a ship seemingly without a rudder in turbulent seas, calling out to her carnal husband she had spurned, to save her, and suddenly, now directional, amazingly buoyant, in heaven-bound motion, like an eagle soaring without beating its wings upon unseen thermals. Such is the way of the carnal man juxtaposed here, in these studies, preceding the spiritual man, Christ, with a “Maid“, in the Song of Solomon.

Pro 30:18  There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: 
Pro 30:19  The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.

Lord willing, we, the dying Beast-Whore will see, insisting that our Lord ravish us by our romantic sentimentalities signified spiritually (Joh 12:25), will not be included in the holy First Resurrection if we contend that our psychologically injured privy and breasts’ sensualities be selfishly satiated without eagerly reciprocating devoted ravishement of our Lord, our Husband’s espoused dues (1Co 7:3-6) above our own. 

2Co 5:16  Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more. 

 Contents 

The Order of Evil to Complete the Creation of God, the New Adam in the Bride.

   THE JOURNEY – Prelude and Introduction

1. Headship 

2. God’s Purpose for Taking the Woman out of the Man. 

3. The Male and Female Minds Are Designed Innately Lustful – Ruling Adam Coitally & Eve, Romantically 

4. The Male Privy: Signatory of Authority and Life 

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

6. A Husband’s Rejection of Christ’s Headship is Symptomatic of Whores, Exemplified by Women, an Alignment Scorned Contemptuously 

7. The Female Idol – Fastened with a Nail 

8. Romanticism Holds Husbands to Ransom, Escalating the Idolisation of Women—An Artifice of The Great Whore  

9. Moved by the Holy Spirit is Solomon’s Impulsion for Designing the Young Shulamite Bride

10. “She Hath Made Herself Ready” – Is The Bride’s Invariable State of Ravishment Equal to Her Husband’s for the Father

11. What Can Be Gleaned from The Song of Solomon’s KJV Headings 

12. The Song of Solomon 

Conscience – An Evil Conscience, Part 4 – Good and evil are the only two forms of conscience.

[Study Aired November 4, 2023]

Our inherent nature of an evil conscience knows to do good and doesn’t. Such a one rightly divides the truth from error and is bewitched to disobediently choose error.

1Pe 3:15  But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts [where conscience resides]: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear [prompted by a good conscience. How?]:
1Pe 3:16  Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.

Heb 10:22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.

Hebrews 10:22 is the only verse in the Bible that directly refers to an “evil conscience.” However, as previously pointed out, the Bible abounds with stark nuances of both forms of a good or evil conscience. It is impossible to speak about specific evil consciences without juxtaposing them with their corresponding good conscience.

As we have seen in the preceding studies, a ‘good conscience’ is dramatically differentiated by Adam and Eve partaking of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Subsequently, a pandora’s box of evil conscience blooms like leavening in bread dough.

As such, Mr Barid’s order of sixteen headings for his conscience study does not descend in order of authority, but rather it is in order of scriptural reference.

1. 1. 1. The Natural Conscience
      2. A defiled Conscience
      3. An Evil Conscience
      4. A Convicting Conscience
      5. A Purged Conscience
      6. A Pacified Conscience
      7. A Good Conscience
      8. An Answering Conscience
      9. A Pure Conscience
      10. A Witnessing Conscience
      11. A Conscience Void of Offence
      12. An Emboldened Conscience
      13. A Wounded Conscience
      14. A Weak Conscience
      15. A Seared Conscience
      16. An Abandoned Conscience

Our study today is on an “Evil Conscience”, yet when we review the above headings, the vast majority of them are all aspects of an evil conscience. Nonetheless, it is the Saint’s God-given passion to study every detail of His word, leaving nothing alive that breathes of misunderstanding and thus our continuation of the sixteen mostly evil versions of our conscience.

Clearly, Adam and Cain within us initiated the many forms of evil consciences, yet the first time the term is directly used is in Hebrews 10:22, the entire Bible bleeding defiled evil consciences from the beginning to near the end.

Hebrews 10 admonishes us to remain faithful to the New Covenant in Christ and not regress to the Laws of Moses so etched in our hearts that we temporarily battle a dual of tortured consciences as Paul did regarding circumcision.

Heb 10:19  Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,
Heb 10:20  By a new and living way [one that literally leads to life eternal], which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh [revealing the path to a more excellent conscience];
Heb 10:21  And having an high priest over the house of God;
Heb 10:22  Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled [a sprinkle (little by little) is the beginning of a storm, a flood of truth] from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
Heb 10:23  Let us hold fast the [new] profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;) 

Christ’s mission was to declare the Father and our worship of Him in spirit and in truth. Formally, Israel worshiped God by attempting to keep His laws through physical washings and sacrifices that most certainly caused His people a good conscience via those laws. Yet, as depicted by Saul, who became Paul, his pricked conscience while under the slavery of the Old Covenant was subliminally aware of a strange new conscience opposing most turbulently his established beliefs. Paul’s boldness became dramatically evident through his earthquake of miraculous blindness as he whimpered, ‘”Who art thou, Lord?” And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.’ (Acts 9)

Paul’s conscience was kicking against the pricks of his murderous ways and imploring eyes staring back at him upon his many stonings as he demanded the church of the day adhere to Moses’s laws; subliminally, he couldn’t identify why these people over whom he lorded authority couldn’t and wouldn’t remain as faithful as he. A new disconcerting spirit of change was blowing upon his mind.

By the one who had the power to change the way mankind worshiped God, Christ cast aside the physicality of the Old Covenant to create in man a worship of God by the same laws, only by spirit and not by sweat. It was a shift in how each of us now perceived what constituted an ‘evil conscience’ and was earth-shattering. That seismic shift in how to live by the Law was quickly realized to be immensely liberating. Its overpowering joy eclipsed martyrdom, as Steven exemplified in Acts 7.

Heb 7:11  If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron? 
Heb 7:12  For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law. 
Heb 7:13  For he of whom these things are spoken pertaineth to another tribe, of which no man gave attendance at the altar. 
Heb 7:14  For it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Juda; of which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood.

Unlike Paul, Moses wasn’t given or ready to have his conscience pricked by a better conscience by the holy spirit…

Heb 7:15  And it is yet far more evident: for that after the similitude of Melchisedec there ariseth another priest, 
Heb 7:16  Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life. 
Heb 7:17  For he testifieth, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec. 
Heb 7:18  For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof.
Heb 7:19  For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God. 
Heb 7:20  And inasmuch as not without an oath he was made priest:
Heb 7:21  (For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath by him that said unto him, The Lord sware and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec:) 
Heb 7:22  By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.
Heb 7:23  And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death: 
Heb 7:24  But this man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood.

… governed by a pure conscience. 

Heb 7:25  Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.
Heb 7:26  For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless [a pure conscience casts out all fear], undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens; 
Heb 7:27  Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people’s: for this he did once, when he offered up himself. 
Heb 7:28  For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law, maketh the Son, who is consecrated for evermore. 

Hebrews 7 highlights the most profound shift of a good conscience to a means to attain a pure conscience through Christ, our High Priest. Stephen was so committed to the spirit of a ‘good conscience’ of greater purity that he was willing to be martyred. Stephen, Christ and all the martyrs of old, all died having acted in good faith in accordance with their consciences defying an ‘evil conscience’, and so, too, does the Bride of Christ. From that foundation arises the focus of this study and our immovable confidence…

Heb 10:22  Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.

For those given understanding, what a glorious and most joyful release it is to be under Christ’s light yoke, where he is the author of the Temple he is constructing.

The following scriptures annul an evil conscience.

1Jn 3:18  My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth. 
1Jn 3:19  And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.

There in the above scripture lies a conscience that is a foundation to rightly discern the truth, and in the below scripture, the bisection of choosing by His will a good or evil conscience.

1Jn 3:20  For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.

If we are an Elect of God, He assures us that our heart, that is, our mind, will know the difference between a good and evil conscience, and our Lord will provide the power for us to ultimately learn to choose righteously.

1Jn 3:21  Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God.
1Jn 3:22  And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.

How easy is it to simply ask our Lord to give us a pure conscience in all that we think. If we thus have that pure conscience, we are keeping all the commandments of Christ, and our hope in the First Resurrection, Lord willing, will be assured.

1Jn 3:23  And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment.
1Jn 3:24  And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the spirit which he hath given us [in practising a good conscience].

We have seen that we can’t have light without knowing darkness, and comparably, a good conscience without knowing an evil conscience. Let’s review some everyday examples of us being assailed by an evil conscience, namely the seemingly imperishable lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh and the pride of life.

In the Old Covenant, an evil conscience was somewhat foreign to lust yet still pricked their consciences.

Mat 19:8  He [Christ] saith unto them [the Apostles], Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.
Mat 19:9  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. 

Wow! What an indictment of a good conscience that mankind, subliminally from the beginning, as did Adam, Eve and Cain at heart, knew by their subsequent actions of hiding, revealed an evil heart against what constituted a good conscience.

Mat 5:27  Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery: 
Mat 5:28  But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

In Matthew 5, Christ is instituting the spirit of keeping all His commandments, resulting in growing a perfect conscience as He and the Father perpetually exist without contrast.

Yet, like Cain and Paul, their consciences beheld a shadowy dichotomy of a pricked conscience suggesting something (spiritually) awry. With that same conscience, Solomon, who is who we are before knowing Christ, withheld from himself no lust, as seen in Ecclesiastes 2:10. Solomon and everyone under the Old Covenant were blessed materially for their lawful dedication to loving God. Their physical wealth denoted their love for God in a shadowy good conscience and was evidence of their righteous living.

Deu 11:26  Behold, I [The Lord before Israel] set before you this day a blessing and a curse;
Deu 11:27  A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you this day [and resulting good conscience]:
Deu 11:28  And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the LORD your God [and resulting evil conscience], but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known [and assuredly a resulting evil conscience].

As earlier expressed, much later Achan, under those commandments,  knew by his evil conscience that he had done wrong since he hid his treasure in the ground beneath his tent. The spirit of keeping the Lord’s commands was already evident by the conviction of their Old Covenant hearts.

Jesus, being flesh, lived in perfectly good conscience, yet He knew that He was subject to an evil conscience by virtue of being tempted to acquiesce with an evil conscience in submitting to the Devil’s wiles ~ evil was present within His flesh as it is in us, yet he didn’t sin, but we do.

Mar 10:18  And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God.

We all, as Solomon, if given to honestly study our consciences, would conclude that our lusts are vanity, a vapour of joy unable to be retained. Solomon came close to understanding the misty conclusion of his polarised conscience, confusing him while he did his best to live by the Laws of Moses, and yet knew some unidentifiable spirit couldn’t be grasped. That missing something was the unheard-of holy spirit that urges a pure conscience that later, in his experiences with the Shulamite he frustratingly continued to see blackness. Christ’s love isn’t awakened in Solomon and the world until He pleases in the Resurrection to Judgment (Son 8:4). The Lord’s double portion of love in the brilliant light of His word is only awakened in His Bride since Christ.

Ecc 1:12  I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.
Ecc 1:13  And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith.

Life’s experiences only produced struggles against sin to be always faced with the junction of choosing, by our Lord’s hand, a pathway of either a good or evil conscience.

Ecc 1:14  I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.

Our works always cause us to constantly be vexed by having to choose the route of a good or evil conscience. 

Ecc 1:15  That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.

We are constantly besieged by the choice of a good or evil pathway of conscience. 

Pro 21:8  The way of him that is laden with guilt is exceeding crooked; But as for the pure [conscience], his work is right.

Ecc 1:16  I communed with mine own heart [my conscience!], saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.
Ecc 1:17  And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.

There in that preceding verse is Solomon’s Shulamite-like vexation of knowing that unidentifiable something we know as the holy spirit was missing from his vast wisdom.

Ecc 1:18  For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. 

Without the holy spirit to prick our consciences, when in Babylon, we as did Solomon, experienced an indefinable sorrow where immense physical prosperity and wives (churches) eluded our quest for peace and perfect joy, always searching but never coming to the truth. Our dichotic consciences increased sorrow.

Ecc 2:9  So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me.
Ecc 2:10  And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour.

There is some truth that, in good conscience, particularly Solomon in his time, and remnants of us in Babylon believe that it is our right to pursue any joy of the flesh as long as we use our “wisdom” to not directly contravene Christ’s laws. The major snag is that riches afford unrestrained pursuit of pleasure, so the more powerful bias is to love them more than our Lord’s greater riches of His commandments.

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.

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. 
Luk 14:27  And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.

Mat 19:29  And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.

With an elusive Shulamite-like epiphany, Solomon was further vexed by his conscience. With classic introspection, he says, 

Ecc 2:11  Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.

How utterly frustrating it is in Babylon when a mist of Christ’s spirit, for the most part, veils our conscience. When given a Stephen-like revelation upon keeping all the commandments of God, a good conscience hailstones our understanding, washing away the multitude of lies and outshining all vexations of darkness.

Probably the most exceptional lust for a male is what is highlighted in being taken out of him in the form of a woman. If the majority of his femininity wasn’t placed in front of him in the form of Eve to see himself, he would have had only a vague Solomon-like understanding of his evil nature. Being face-to-face with his own flesh is highly arousing to lust for all kinds of spiritual ethnicities (as did Solomon ~ and us ~ with captivating doctrines) while not understanding that they all represent the same ruling deception. A man’s wife mirrors himself as having a heart that ensnares his conscience with evil and fetters his hands to ‘excuse’ himself and hide from sin (Ecc 7:25-29). She is the reflection of his narcissism, and he is unwittingly taken by his own beauty, having ascended to heaven unconsciously to presume a dethroning of God. While pricked by a good conscience, he is so easily led away by his lust and conceit to be god; flattering himself seems the more, at least, temporal joy. Like Esau’s fleeting passion to satiate his famished state, we always have time to reflect upon our choice of conscience. If a semblance of righteousness resides, we should be stabbed through our liver with an evil conscience for not fully considering the Lord’s commandments.

Pro 6:23  For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life: [and peace through a good conscience]
Pro 6:24  To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman [the strange woman within ruling our conscience].
Pro 6:25  Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids. 
Pro 6:26  For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life [we buy our own lies by indulging the whore within].
Pro 6:27  Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? 
Pro 6:28  Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?
Pro 6:29  So he that goeth in to his neighbour’s wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent. 

Satan went into Eve, Adam’s wife, tempted her and spiritually impregnated her mind with his lying spirit of another Jesus ~ insidiously, himself.

Jas 1:12  Blessed is the man that endureth temptation [In this case choosing a good or evil conscience]: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him. 
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: [God doesn’t have an evil conscience to tempt anybody] 
Jas 1:14  But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. [… with his bias towards an evil conscience]
Jas 1:15  Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin [and the knowledge of an evil conscience that is amplified to hide the sin]: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

The famous German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche said, “A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation.” Why? Because a bad conscience is mostly contrived in secret, whereas a bad reputation is humiliating and mostly for everyone to see. We are more likely to fear another’s condemnation rather than God’s since God seems far off and not in our faces. It is easier in the short term to hide a bad reputation, even with having to live with the amplification of an evil conscience forever.

Pro 9:10  The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.

Luk 2:35  (Yea, a sword shall pierce through thy own soul also,) that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.

We can accuse, excuse and run and hide all we like from an evil conscience but are guaranteed to face the music of the last Trump heralding our judgment, either in this age or the next.

As stated in the previous studies in this series, by being made from the outset in Adam having a trace of our Lord’s spirit, we know, as Adam proved, a conscience when we are disobedient to God’s laws. If we weren’t by default disobedient, we wouldn’t have known a good conscience.

Gen 3:4  And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: 
Gen 3:5  For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

God gave us His power to have dominion over what we take into our minds as spiritual food and to learn not to believe in the power of the beast within to pursue every ‘foul’ spirit of doctrine. He says,

Gen 1:26  And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

In Gen 1:26, our Lord says parabolically that he will give us first physical power and later his power, his spirit, prior to being faced with a fork in the road of knowledge and thoughts to choose good or evil and a resulting conscience.

Conclusion

It is impossible to escape the God-given choice of good and evil and the corresponding consciences.

The Bride of Christ is most grateful for her Lord making “all things” hers to experience (1Co 3:22), the good equally with the day of evil, to cause both a good and evil conscience to be astronomically impactful. There is no escaping hiding among the trees and passing the buck when discovered, only to vainly excuse ourselves from the evil that we are since our thoughts already condemn us before displaying a pair of bare butts bobbing at speed through the brush.

Gen 6:5  And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

Heb 4:12  For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

Rev 22:14  Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.

Such a person rightly divides the truth from error. His foundation of judgment is guided by the holy spirit of truth and, with a good conscience, condemns his warring evil conscience.l

If we love lying, we love our bias for an evil conscience, one that, in a soon-coming study, runs the grave risk of a “seared conscience” that is impervious to a good conscience.

Rev 22:15  For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.

Rev 2:7  He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God. 

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 3

[Study Aired July 29, 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 

The torturous search for the mystery of an outstandingly loving marriage is found in the almost ridiculous simplicity the Shulamite elegantly announces in the Song of Solomon.

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

It is really that simple, for the most part (mental or physical abuse notwithstanding), to physically restore ailing marriages! With such a spirited wife, why would any husband be bitter against her? 

Our Lord designed the end from the beginning by giving his Bride an experience of evil flesh to look back upon her forebear’s experiences to know that it is impossible without his spirit for a wife, representing the Church to not be bitter against Him and all husbands in the flesh to be bitter against their wives.

Outstanding connectivity in marriage should result from a Shulamite detailed devotion to one’s spouses’ mind and body that corresponds to the mind-blowing spiritual consummation! That adoration should significantly inspire an unbelieving spouse’s arousal to know the Christ, yet, without his kisses interpreted by him, she will remain inert.

1Pe 3:1 Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives; 

1Pe 3:7 Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.

Should husbands and wives refuse or lethargically, like Leah, the Laodiceans and the woman of Mt Agar, to give each other deeply passionate love, they both have to fight not to be bitter against the other. The greater weight of potential bitterness rests on the husband since he is rejected sexually, as was Christ spiritually by Israel.

Possibly no greater act for a righteous wife to win her unbelieving husband is for her to spontaneously build up ingenious anticipatory arousals in him; that is the Shulamite’s creative methodology for her already eager Lord. It is much harder, as the Lord of the Old Covenant knew, for him to similarly arouse his fickle wife since she is already cursed with an unreliable desire to be aroused by his word. His New Covenant Bride unashamedly arouses him to his immense delight depicted by Solomon.

Pro 5:19 Like the loving deer and pleasant doe, let her breasts satisfy you at all times, and be ravished always with her love.

For the retiring and demure womenfolk’s timidity, please note that the biblically seemingly over-focus on a wife’s breasts, and as previously stated, are the first significant origin of her heart’s arousal after other more delicate and elegant titillations that stimulate anticipation. The emphasis on breasts is a means of understating her other, more private blazings and for this study’s cause, particularly spiritually.

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; 
Rev 3:15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. 
Rev 3:16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. 

To the spiritually astute Saint, the foundation of this study is about us all having been unwitting dull-eyed harlots, unconsciously in the wilderness and Babylon asking our Lord, ‘Are you nearly finished?’

Hosea married a known ‘run-around-Sue’ (the title of a crappy song by Dion in 1961) type of girl typifying Christ marrying Israel; a pretty but flighty girl who believed she was too good for Him, elevating herself and noting her neighbours overtly lewd arousals was tremendously more satisfying. Christ, like Hosea, knew they were marrying harlots. Israel soon became a ‘run-around-Sue’ girl like Aholah and Aholibah (Ezekiel 23).

Aholah, Aholibah, Gomer, Israel, and we combine all our harlotry characteristics, making us one harlot. Clearly, any husband would be bitter against such a wife.

Having designed men guaranteed to be bitter about our wife’s intrinsic apathetic awakenings, our Lord seems to rub salt into their wounds by saying,

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

Of course, by understanding Eve’s curse, wives naturally tend to feel exceptionally relieved that they have an escape route to justify their Leah-like eyes; that attitude is the continued embodiment of harlotry. Husbands respond with the immutable word of God in hand to soundly crush their wives by rubbing their faces in her curse ~ which is bound to arouse marital intimacies! And so, around and around goes the deadly loop. No matter how much washing of her by the word of God he splashes, she digs in her toes to his humiliating actions and now gross arousals; both behave like ‘snotty’ Queen Vashti and refuse to try the Shulamite’s methods of arousing the intrinsically sluggish sexual and spiritual nature of the woman. 

A lukewarm wife deeming her condition inherently insoluble with covert bias against her husband leads to both spouses’ inevitable resentment and a husband’s potential bitterness. That condition is the same as Babylonian Christianity thinking; ‘Nobody can completely understand the Bible; we all are saved, and we have a husband, so what’s the problem? He’ll (physical husband will) get over it.’  Even though Christ wasn’t looking forward to the cross, He effectively couldn’t wait to return to the Father’s glory. Likewise, it’s a bitter-sweet thing that an unrighteous fleshy husband frequently ponders his marriage “more bitter than death” (Ecc 7:26). Such an indifferently thinking church will land her in the Lake of Fire.

I have a musty-smelling insightful book written in 1958 named “The Power of Sexual Surrender” by Marie N. Robinson, MD. It resonates deeply with what the contemporary Australian Sexologist Bertina Arndt has discovered regarding only psychologically sound and unabused women’s growing avoidance of sexual intimacies after the honeymoon and childbearing urges of marriage. And wouldn’t you know it, subsequently, their husband’s enduring melancholic bitterness against them.

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

Arndt discovered from scores of private interviews that intimacy-avoidant people, a bit too broadly and unfairly termed “frigid” in Robinson’s late 1950s book, surprisingly regained or, for the first time, found their desire by persistently ‘just doing it’. The wives discovered that their desire was amplified first by arousal.

Of paramount importance, they unintentionally discovered the first key was to build Shulamite-like anticipation cunningly over hours, even days, before elegantly committing the incurable coup de grâce. Unless the husband is an uncouth beast, that formula IS the key to knowing His kisses are better than wine!

One study found that 65% of women’s greatest fantasy was being dominated, submissive and controlled. I’d be scripturally confident that if the remaining 35% looked honestly into their hearts, they all unwittingly desire to be submissive to an honest, morally sound guy who stealthily becomes good-looking, just as a spirited wife to him becomes more beautiful.

Of course, by design, Jesus was far from being the classically good-looking guy; only a Shulamite could see within him the hidden treasure of unfathomable price. If anyone should be bitter against his wife, Christ and Hosea are prime contenders embodying most husbands.

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: [His wife hated him] and we hid as it were our faces from him [His wife evaded and despised his arousals for her]; he was despised, and we [the church] 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 [… and was not bitter against her!].
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 [being] healed [sexually and spiritually].

1Co 7:2 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. 
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.

The quality of marital bedroom intimacies reflects the day-to-day merit of a husband and wife’s physical and spiritual relationship. We can easily prophesy the outcome if it is as lacklustre as Israel’s was with her Lord.

By the Lord’s design, the harsh reality is; a disgruntled wife (church) who despises bedroom intimacies even loathes her righteous husband’s spiritual ‘light bread’ (Num 21:5) yet abides by the letter of “Defraud not one another” [1Co 7:1-16 (YLT)], he is deserted, and she is a wooden marionette, to him, little more than a masturbation mannequin and the interaction effect is admissible rape (i.e. any form of unwanted sexual or spiritual intimacy). Withholding enthusiastic engagement is defrauded and no different from what old Israel forced on Christ. The antithesis is an unrighteous husband who, brutish in his spiritual understanding for its physical equivalence by not engaging in Shulamite (God-given) designed anticipatory arousals, is a rapist.

It naturally grates on the Lord’s people’s sensitivities to understand that those pitiless self-assigned responses our Lord experiences were required to highlight His humiliations when married to old Israel, and they didn’t stop there. Furthermore, he was married to a whore. After that appalling understanding, we automatically want to protect our Lord and husband from those distressing confrontations with our shock and outrage, like Peter protecting him from the Jewish high priest’s vigilantes and Christ foretelling His death (Joh 18)… ‘This will never happen to you, Lord!’ ~ and by design and foreshadowed by Hosea, it did.

The vast difference in not directly committing whoredom and rape is that our Lord designed His wife in the default of “evil flesh” to fulfill her part of desolating their marriage, whereas he went above and beyond righteously fulfilling His marital dues. The Lord sanctioned Satan to put her in that position, and the Lord took responsibility for the entire affair.

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

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. 
Mat 16:22 Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from thee, Lord: this shall not be unto thee. 
Mat 16:23 But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.

Mat 23:37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!
Mat 23:38 Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.
Mat 23:39 For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.

Our Lord has given his Bride a downpayment of His inflaming spirit, the fullness of which is given upon the First Resurrection and His consummative marriage.

Luk 22:16 For I say to you, I will not any more eat of it until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God. 
Luk 22:17 And He took the cup and gave thanks and said, Take this and divide it among yourselves. 
Luk 22:18 For I say to you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God shall come. 
Luk 22:19 And He took bread and gave thanks, and He broke it and gave it to them, saying, This is My body which is given for you, this do in remembrance of Me.

Christ came in the form of sinful flesh without committing sin. Engaging His wife in the deliberately vain hope of igniting a Shulamite-like spark was disheartening and unsatisfying, yet it wasn’t a sin but one of many unclean acts of sinful flesh that diminished the marriage to the eventual point, “Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he (she) that cometh in the name of the Lord.” 

The Lord of the Old Covenant could file a divorce bill for her ‘uncleanness’, but not so a man in the spirit of the New Covenant if she is happy to dwell with her husband. He remained doubly ungratified by his wife’s spiritless absence, reminiscent of Hosea’s wife whose validating arousals were elsewhere (Hosea).

Deu 24:1 When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

This paper is hoped to stir up the gift of the holy spirit as typified by its inflaming sexually.

2Ti 1:6 Therefore I remind you to inflame [1. to kindle up, inflame one’s mind, strength, zeal. 1. into the midst, in the midst, amidst, among, between] anew the gift of God, which is in you by the putting on of my hands. 
2Ti 1:7 For God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. 
2Ti 1:8 Therefore you should not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord [or your love for your husband or wife], nor of me His prisoner. But be partaker of the afflictions [for this paper’s cause, “bitterness”] of the gospel according to the power of God, 

2Ti 1:9 who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was given us in Christ Jesus before the eternal times [in downpayment before the full complement at the resurrection].

What is God’s gift, what does it mean to “inflame anew the gift of God”, and what does it mean to have a “spirit of fear?”

John 14:15 If you love Me, keep My commandments.
John 14:16 And I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another comforter, so that he [God] may be with you forever,
John 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.

1Co 3:16 Do you not know that you are a temple of God, and that the spirit of God dwells in you? 

John 4:24 God is a spirit, and they who worship Him must worship in spirit and in truth.

1Co 2:14 But the natural man does not receive the things of the spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

1Th 5:19 Do not quench [1. to extinguish, quench a. of fire or things on fire {opposite to inflame] the Spirit. 

God is spirit, the holy spirit who dwells in us and increases His truth of growing grace and knowledge, exhibiting His good works as our works until we are fully changed into Him at the First Resurrection.

To the Elect of God, it is foundationally recognised that the ‘natural comes before the spiritual’. So, to understand how to inflame our Lord’s spirit, we must be the opposite of being dull and slothful for the ‘kisses of his word that are better than wine’ (Son 1:2). The Lord is the spiritual reality of a fleshy man. All fleshy husbands are immediately and delightedly aroused by their wife’s bright and purposely inflaming intimacies. She is skilled at stirring up and inflaming him physically to engage her Shulamite love-making, knowing his unstoppable response will cast out of her land, little by little, all resistance and submit to his delight in her mind and body. Her slower responses, she knows, will exhilarate anticipation exponentially as they, like Solomon, are depicted with his bride. In the ‘natural’, they are inflaming their sensual intimacies. 

So, as the Lord’s bride, we inflame him, the holy spirit, by being a pretty bright-eyed and enthusiastic young woman purposely pursuing His word and living by it that is designed to rapidly inflame His spirit! As should spousal bedroom intimacies, His dynamic spirit becomes an unstoppable fiery eye-to-eye interactive passion that will not return to Him void ~ and hopefully forever.

Dan 10:6 His body also was like the beryl, and his face looked like lightning. And his eyes were like lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet in colour were like polished bronze, and the voice of his words like the sound of a multitude. 

Psa 104:4 He makes His angels spirits, His ministers a flaming fire.

Isa 55:10 For as the rain comes down, and the snow from the heavens, and does not return there, but waters the earth, and makes it bring out and bud, and give seed to the sower and bread to the eater; 

Son 7:12 Let us rise up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flowers, whether the tender grape appears, and the pomegranates bud forth; there I will give You my loves. 
Son 7:13 The love-apples give a scent, and over our doors are all pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for You, O my Beloved.)

Isa 55:11 so shall My Word be, which goes out of My mouth; it shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall certainly do what I sent it to do.
Isa 55:12 For you shall go out with joy, [following bedroom dynamic submissiveness that spiritually is us with our Lord] and be led out with peace; the mountains and the hills shall break out before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands. 
Isa 55:13 Instead of the thorn, the fir tree shall come up; and instead of the brier, the myrtle tree shall come up; and it shall be to Jehovah for a name, for an everlasting sign which shall not be cut off.

Why would any husband or wife wish to sensually quench that spirit!? The Bride of Christ is singularly focused on inflaming her Lord as he is for her, and their fire will be everlasting and not cut off.

Isa 26:8 Yea, in the way of Your judgments, O Jehovah, we awaited You; for Your name and for Your memory is the desire of our soul.
Isa 26:9 With my soul I desired You in the night; yea, with my spirit within me I will seek You early; for when Your judgments are in the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness. 

The Bride’s treasure is being single-eyed to expressly inflame her Lord’s spiritual ardour. She knows, as any wife elegantly skilled in husband arousals, that her bright smile and Shulamite-like anticipatory planning will cause him to overpower her for her (ecstatically submissive) and his immeasurable delight.

Mat 6:21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. 
Mat 6:22 The light of the body is the eye. Therefore if your eye is sound, your whole body shall be full of light. 
Mat 6:23 But if your eye is evil, your whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!

In the negative, if a wife (as did Israel in the wilderness) continues to submit to Eve’s curse and not dynamically respond and or plan her husband’s unquenchable desires for her, her eye is evil, and indeed, her whole body will be full of darkness and bitter moaning as was given Leah.

2Co 12:8 For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. 
2Co 12:9 And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 
2Co 12:10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong. 

Eze 16:45 You are your mother’s daughter, who despises her husband and her sons. And you are the sister of your sisters, who despise their husbands and their sons. Your mother was a Hittite [H 2865 – 1. to be shattered, be dismayed, be broken, be abolished, be afraid], and your father an Amorite [H 550 – to say, speak, utter; to say, to answer, to say in one’s heart, to think, to command, to promise, to intend]. 

For the Elect’s sake, it is a harsh and bitter curse! From that scripture, we see that Israel, married to our Lord, was a fickle woman who depicts all women (the church) since mother Eve! She broke submission and her vow to God’s ordinances by shattering His commandments. She despised the kisses of His vow and, by design, left Him dismayed and crushed. She was likewise dismayed by her Lord’s chastising responses. The emotion in her eyes was equally a dispassionate, desolate wilderness, demonstrating a non-connected mannequin tediously suffering her husband’s (a righteous husband) impassioned love ~ a harlot, collaborating self-pleasuring. Under the Old Covenant, the Lord got immensely humiliated and hurt ~ even “jealous” since he showed her all the treasures of his house… bar his spirit.

Note that this woman’s daughter and sisters are alike in their hatred for righteous leadership and a husband’s eagerness to wash his wife by the word. To varying responsive degrees, every aspect of a woman’s body is a sensory organ. Washing her with the Lord’s word to him is sensually highly arousing and carried forward spiritually in our Lord! He is delighted by her animated sensual (spiritual) responses, just as we enjoy another’s bright interactions.

The Lord’s true word is intentionally seductive for the Bride alone! When engaged in Shulamite-like interactions, the encounter is unwitting spiritual foreplay for which the Body of Christ is delightfully incontinent.

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. 

Prolonged, vivacious and deeply meaningful spiritual interactions with any member of the Lord’s Body induce profound connection and spiritually inflamed arousals that curiously correspond totally unconsciously, a little biologically with our pudenda. Without spelling it out, only folk with acute anatomical awareness and naturally elevated emotional responses, with socially fragile amusement, would notice that very private oddity. It is a natural biological response to all deeply passionate Christs. Its spiritual correlations prepare our minds for His word’s easy and excitable engagement. Non-believers are not the least bit aroused to receive His truth, and for Christ to proceed enthusiastically to force conviction is outright rape. It is a beautiful and fascinating aspect of “Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual” (1Co 15:46).

The Lord designed those sensual responses to correspond to spiritual stimulus when one finds spiritual gold that deeply secures ‘joint’ adhesion and growth (Eph 4:16). Outwardly, for example, it happens every time, particularly between young single men and women delighting in any deeply connecting conversation, notably if both parties contain some beguiling quality. Warmly engaging conversation and being one mind,  particularly between a man and woman, rapidly advances ravishing likeability between the two, as it does between Christ and His Bride, who ravish each other. It is a God-given phenomenon for ‘the’ Christ’s deeply and jealously guarded fusion of spirit and body.

Amo 3:3 Can two walk together, except they be agreed? 

Gen 17:1 And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.

2Co 6:14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? 

Of course, Christ is always beguiling to His Bride, which is why the Shulamite yearned for His kisses. 

Christ outrageously arouses His Bride, and she, Him. To embarrassingly deny our biological responses that reflect the spiritual is akin to denying our Lord’s passion for us. 

Mat 10:33 But whoever shall deny Me before men, I will also deny him before My Father in Heaven. 

His deeply ravishing connections with us engage Him as our God, just as deliberately seductive arousals outside marriage connect a man with an Ashteroth-like god; yet, within marriage, a wife’s outrageously designed preparations for her husband’s arousals IS the key to her delightfully slower responses for her immeasurable joy!

Exo 20:3 You shall have no other gods before Me.
Exo 20:4 You shall not make to yourselves any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. 
Exo 20:5 You shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them. For I Jehovah your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons to the third and fourth generation of those that hate me, 
Exo 20:6 and showing mercy to thousands of those that love Me and keep My commandments [As does the Bride of Christ].

A god above God is anything you hold in greater esteem than the God; its often innocuous perishing corruptness, you believe, will give you a more pleasurable life and eminence than He can. If we love a husband, wife, sex or anything more than God, that thing can become a god.

The Lord was true to His word. Under the Old Covenant, he eventually ditched his dull-eyed wife; as such, she never became an Astheroth, a god to him. Rather, he gave His love to a wife who was given to dynamically plan daily her spiritual arousals for their never-ending mutual love. Under the New Covenant, the converted spouse practices peace and is always in a state of forgiveness for his or her unconverted spouse’s condescension towards bedroom intimacies. Nonetheless, he (or she) lawfully infrequently engages his insipid spouse-mannequin for his ironic ‘frequent incontinence’. He doesn’t engage in fornicating thoughts of another woman, and his dispirited intimacies are temporarily alleviated (effectively an act of self-pleasuring); the humbling trial drives him too long for Christ.

Our Lord’s experiences with Israel were precisely the same for him to long for the Father. He is also rapturously ‘incontinent’ for the truth that he inherently is, as is the Father (Joh 14:6). Our Lord made for himself a wife who would seek Him with her entire heart. Christ’s incontinence is royally established in His Bride’s unity of incontinent truth; it is what makes them blissfully “one”.

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.

Today, God’s people must be careful not to be lifeless, loathe our Lord’s burning interactions with us where his flocks rest at noon, and humiliate him for his ardour.

Isa 26:9 With my soul have I desired [H183 – covet, wait longingly, wish, sigh] 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.

Mal 1:2 I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob’s brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob, 
Mal 1:3 And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness. 

Deu 7:6 For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth. 

Under Eve’s curse, and starkly typified by Vashti’s swift dismissal, it is too often irksome for a wife (Israel) considering her husband’s desire for the entirety of her body, mind and heart, symbolised by a focus on her breasts; universally she disdains it as groping; a term guaranteed to humiliate a husband into forced abstinence and possible cheating, especially for the incontinent unbeliever. 

The fundamentally vital key the Shulamite knew, as sequentially portrayed in the Song of Solomon, is her bright, sensual and cunning development of anticipation, designed tantalisingly hours, even days (maybe weeks) away from her ‘main menu’, for the intensity of mutual escalation of tensions. She thus “builds her house”.

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 2

[Study Posted July 22, 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. 

In the first study, we saw a pattern of the heavenly for choosing a wife,  typified by Jacob and Rachel. Issac’s cardinal rule was for Jacob to find a wife within his family, spiritually, the Body of Christ. Being unequally yoked “is, was and will be” utterly out of the equation!

Upon seeing Rachel come with her father’s sheep, Jacob’s very first act was to roll the stone from the mouth of the well to water his future wife’s children, the Bride of Christ’s flock of ten sons, most significantly, and likewise, the yet-to-be-conceived Joseph and Benjamin. Scripture doesn’t say at this point the no doubt minimal interactions between Jacob and Rachel. Yet, every male instantly recognises a girl’s “altogether” (Son 4:7) beauty upon their eyes meeting. Rachel’s glorious femininity must have caught Jacob’s breath since his first response upon kissing her was to lift up his voice and weep. 

Pro 18:22 Whoso findeth a [virtuous] wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD. 

The spiritually maturing female joints of the Bride will not feel picked upon by the Lord’s word focusing on her many physical failings to reflect their momentous spiritual connections since her composition is equally men. Only Christ finds a virtuous wife; all men in Babylon (as do women) unwittingly find a spiritually non-virtuous spouse typified by the cringy term, a “harlot” (Isa 1:21).

Spiritual connection is the stanchion that underpins a marriage

A potential husband offers spiritual connection to the girl of his single-eyed focus. If his spirit sparkles her fascination, her connecting response is her Shulamite-like elegant feminine arousals in him that will guarantee him weeping for joy. It is the pattern of the heavenly which Christ spiritually evokes in His Bride. His spirit and its understanding passionately arouse her eager submission and desire to artistically inflame him for his kisses which are better than the wine of the Old Covenant. It is the pattern for a husband’s and wife’s indelible connection and resulting bliss ~ reversing “a life more bitter than death” (Ecc 7:26).

Exo 25:40 And see that you make them [the Temple that we are!] after their pattern, which was shown you in the mountain.

2Ti 1:13 Hold fast the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

A Queen Vashti-like seeker of self-glorification by not submitting, soundly positions her as an Esau-like “first”, and the stunning Rachel and Esther (two of several similar representations) represent the Bride of Christ, the “last” becoming the spiritual “first”. Queen Vashti’s ‘underpinning stanchion’ for her marriage was her rulership over her husband, a guarantee for its collapse ~ and it did!

Mal 2:10 Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers? 
Mal 2:11 Judah [those dragged to the Lord] hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the LORD which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god. 
Mal 2:12 The LORD will cut off the man that doeth this [cut off the man not wholeheartedly seeking the Lord that first is depicted as wholehearted sexual intimacies], the master and the scholar, out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and him that offereth an offering unto the LORD of hosts.
Mal 2:13 And this have ye done again, covering the altar of the LORD with tears, with weeping, and with crying out, insomuch that he regardeth not the offering any more, or receiveth it with good will at your hand.

That weeping and moaning is like Leah decrying that Jacob doesn’t love her. He had a semblance of a relationship with her, yet she is described as his ‘hated wife’ since she didn’t have the connecting spiritual pattern of the heavenly for him. Leah, as does Babylon, thought sexual intimacies were the primary source of a lasting marriage. Though bedroom intimacies significantly help, they do not denote deep personal and spiritual connection that soundly amplifies the ‘natural’.

Gen 29:31 And when Jehovah saw that Leah was hated, even He opened her womb. But Rachel was barren. 
Gen 29:32 And Leah conceived and bore a son. And she called his name Reuben, for she said, Surely Jehovah has looked upon my afflictions. Now therefore my husband will love me. [… but he didn’t!]

The foundational and underpinning fact to understanding anything in scripture, including the above verses, is the stark understanding that ‘first comes the natural’ pointing to its spiritual reality. (All of 1 Corinthian 15 – 1Co 15:46).

Even though we know that the flesh profits nothing, the Song of Solomon is central to discovering that literal (colloquially speaking) ‘holy grail’, the keys to the ultimate dream marriage are first physical and culminating distinctly spiritual; the epitome of all spiritual sensuality reflected in eternal life.

Most marriages are agonisingly aware of unresolved issues that disconnect the couple from being one flesh and one mind in everything. If spouses are one mind in almost everything, the bedroom intimacies take care of themselves. (Eph 4:1-6). Yet, enough people stumble into exceptionally good sexual relationships that encourage the masses to ‘gold feverishly’ search for the holy grail answers to living in eternal bliss with their spouse.

Following the honeymoon phases of the first couple of years of marriage, most wives, with buoyant busyness “whose heart[s’ unwitting inheritance] is snares and nets” and “her hands as bands” (Ecc 7:26) with deceitful kisses masterfully mollify any escalation of sexual tensions. 

A wife’s drip-fed sexual intimacies silently anger a husband, especially as he reads, “Be not bitter against them” as he struggles to spiritually forebear her in the unity of peace, knowing from experience that enthusiastic engagement for change is unlikely to occur. In smouldering anger, he quietly yields to his wife’s manipulations, after which non-related disagreements blow up, and she can’t understand his brooding grouchiness. He feels trapped and betrayed (“defrauded”). 

Ecc 7:25 I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness: 
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 [and the Bride of Christ is escaping from her].

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 [Intrinsic need for sexual fulfilment, and particularly for the man representing Christ’s spiritual need for his Wife’s utter devotion to him].
1Co 7:6 But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment. [Why?]

The Lord made within the vast majority of men, as did the Father in Christ, an intense desire to fulfill his longing for companionship epitomised through sexual (spiritual) contentment, much to the woman’s age-lasting exasperation by the unwitting meaning of her “curse”. Of course, remember that the woman represents a church filled with men equally cursed to be weary of their Lord’s longing to be fulfilled. 

That form of the “natural coming before the spiritual” directly parallels Christ’s longing to have his Shulamite-like wife’s equal spiritual passion for him.

King David considered his appetite for one woman similar to what his son, Solomon, later desperately desired; one wife whose heart isn’t snares and nets and her hands as bands. Ironically, at the Lord’s hand, Solomon’s birth resulted from his father’s despair that the seeming origin of his unrighteous and righteous lust emanated from his loins, just as a woman’s unrighteous and righteous lust stems from her breasts and heart, which escalates desire in her and her husband.

The Shulamite, and Oholibah, like all women, knows that her passion arises from a thousand other erotically sensory locations on her body, nowhere near her breasts or the home of coup de grâce’ seizures. 

Eze 23:21 And thou didst look back to the lewdness of thy youth, in the handling of thy teats by the Egyptians, for the breasts of thy youth.

The woman’s entire body, the Bride of Christ, is a spiritually erotic sensory organ akin to a stringed or keyboard instrument. When our Lord skillfully caresses some notes and plucks others from the treble to the bass, it culminates around the center of the instrument, her breasts. Our Lord brushes the lobe and fine hairs of our ear with his breath of apples (Son 7:8), whispered truths. His fiery eyes look into ours and melt our pruriently pounding hearts beneath our breasts ~ the endless spiritual eroticism is left up to the individual’s imagined vivid spiritual arousals. 

A woman’s breasts and heart are the epicenters where all sensual and spiritual roads lead, ensuing the lovesick waves emanating seismically from her orchard (H6508).

Son 4:12 A garden [H1588 – 1. garden, enclosure; enclosed garden 1. (fig. of a bride) From 1598 – 1. to defend, cover, surround] inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring [H1530 – 1. heap, spring, wave, billow] shut up, a fountain sealed. 
Son 4:13 Thy plants [H7973 – 1. weapon, missile, sprout] are an orchard [H6508 – 1. park, preserve, enclosed garden, forest] of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard, 
Son 4:14 Spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices: 
Son 4:15 A fountain [H4599 – 1. spring. From H5869 – eye] of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon [From H3835 – 1. to be white a. (Hiphil) 

to make white, become white, purify]

Why, then, does a wife a few short years after marriage drip-feed her Lord spiritual excitations when unjust Oholah and Oholibah have more whit to keep a man than the free woman? Our Lord made her that way; with the enormous beauty of her Husband’s strength, her job is to ‘reverse the curse’ (a lyrical chime worth resonating).

Luk 16:8 And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.

Of course, Aholibah took her breasts’ representative power over men too far; she abused their righteous use to the extent that they were “bruised” (Eze 23:21) to the extent that they were figuratively plucked off her chest ~ such was the fervid attention of her endless suitors. 

Eze 23:34 Thou shalt even drink it and suck it out, and thou shalt break the sherds thereof, and pluck off thine own breasts: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.

Oholibah represents “the children of this world [who] are in their generation wiser” than the budding Bride of Christ in biological marriages. A righteous husband and Christ would be delighted with a fraction of Aholibah’s torrid affections.

Pro 17:1 Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices with strife. 

Psa 37:16 A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked. 

Interestingly, when a man expresses heartfelt emotional surprise, he clasps his head or runs his hands down his face, whereas a woman clasps her neck or breasts. Men tend to have a greater single-minded (head/mental) focus, and women have an emphasis on heartfelt emotions, each beautifully complementing the other. 

Psa 38:7 For my loins [H3688 stupid; foolish] are filled with a loathsome disease [parched burning; to disgrace]: and there is no soundness [to be complete; be at an end] in my flesh. 

We could likewise state, “For my breasts (H7736  1. (Qal) to ruin, destroy, spoil, devastate) are filled with a loathsome disease (parched burning; to disgrace): and there is no soundness (to be complete; be at an end) in my flesh.” Of course, Aholah and Aholibah in Ezekiel 23:4, and hopefully not in us, will gravely vouch for that analogy with “bruised teats” and tears of humiliation in the Resurrection to Judgment. 

David, a man after God’s heart (Acts 13:22), and like all men subconsciously, precedes the spiritual in their burning to have one wife companion, not an interchangeable selection similar to one thousand of Solomon, his son’s ethnic beauties. David’s bitter irony is that his heart became snares and nets and his hands as bands with his lust for a woman (Bathsheba) whom he unwittingly thought would satisfy his Solomon-like quest for truth that a righteous sexual covenant would in the future portray. What wonderful truths came from David and Solomon’s unrighteous aches for “one woman” who would glorify them rather than herself; of course, Christ didn’t find her, so He made her for Himself since, and as Solomon knew, none existed.

Ecc 7:27 Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account [there wasn’t one in his one thousand wives who could fit the bill]:
Ecc 7:28 Which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found [being Christ, whom fleshy husbands are to represent]; but a woman among all those have I not found.
Ecc 7:29 Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man [Jesus] upright; but they [mankind] have sought out many inventions [devices; scheming].

So, what does a woman whose heart is snares, nets, and her hands as bands represent? Of course, she is Solomon’s thousand wives of Babylonian Christianity. She strikes unrighteous fear into her many suitors’ hearts labouring to attain eternal life in a delusionary ‘one’ resurrection. They are bound to a false Christ with an iron grip, enslaved to paying tithes and offerings, and only the Lord’s Elect escape her. Our Lord designed it all to work precisely like those above expressions to reflect Israel’s unequivocal enthusiastic marital agreement to follow Him entirely with her heart; for Him to feed her with kisses better than wine. How does that equate to a biological marriage? As with most marriages and Christ’s experience, it doesn’t take long for the curse from Eden to kick in, and the kisses turn to vinegar.

With the growing infrequency of sexual intimacies, a husband sharply feels a resentment “more bitter than death” for the thinly veiled Martha-like legitimacy for busyness (and where credit is due, often sincerely) dedicated to late nights to bed, endless housework, looking after children’s needs that only a mother can perform, and authentic tiredness. He’s bewildered and feels that he has been utterly ambushed and defrauded by his wife’s feigned heart that, in their courtship, seemed a mirror of Rachel and secretly hoped a little ‘righteous’ Aholibah; he distinctly now senses a vice-like capture and ensnared heart (Ecc 7:26) and a bitterness more than death.

Because those phenomenally bona fide female burdens don’t disappear, their legalised power is her trump card with no recourse for a husband. Any thoughts of her body not being her own are dismissed since that concept butts head to head with her commanding rulership. He, not wanting to look and feel even more like a sexual degenerate by broaching those subjects, submits to his wife’s rulership in quiet anger. And so, the grinding ‘bitterness’ loop is rarely resolved. 

Luk 10:38 And as they [Christ and the Apostles] went, it happened that He entered into a certain village. And a certain woman named Martha received Him into her house.
Luk 10:39 And she had a sister called Mary, who also sat at Jesus’ feet and heard His word. 
Luk 10:40 But Martha was distracted with much serving. And she came to Him and said, Lord, do You not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Therefore tell her to help me. 
Luk 10:41 And Jesus answered and said to her, Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things. 
Luk 10:42 But one thing is needful, and Mary [The Shulamite, the Bride] has chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.

Mary’s beauty is amplified by her intense interest in Jesus’s message. Her passion is directly spiritual foreplay, typified by sexual seduction; both ravished parties don’t want to stop its escalation. Mary was given by God to grasp the Shulamite-like desire to be spiritually aroused by her Lord’s symbolic kisses. She was unconsciously building her house by the extended, deeply spiritual excitement. In the Body of Christ, nothing is more exhilarating. Lord willing, we utterly refuse another Jesus in adulterous doctrine “until He pleases” (Son 8:4) the fullness of his spirit in marriage.

When an electric connection between a young man and a woman is mutual, its magnetism is excruciatingly irresistible. It is the most stupendous sensory delight echoing Shulamite flirtations! Deliberately, the Shulamite (in the Song of Solomon) agonisingly draws out that thrilling spark in her poetic dream with her Lord. She and Mary spiritually experienced such with Christ; nothing would stop Mary’s intense interest in her Lord’s spiritual arousals. 

Any extended flood of non-sexual sensual arousals, as is Christ’s spiritual ravishings, are mostly unconsciously yet directly connected sexually in the flesh. Many people are oblivious to that mysterious biological phenomenon.

It takes immense Shulamite-like discipline to cunningly delay intimate stimulation that delightfully agonises anticipation in a husband (Son 8:4) ~ the Shulamite is a master builder of her house! 

Pro 14:1 Every wise woman builds her house, but a foolish one tears it down with her own hands. 

2Ti 1:6 Therefore I remind you to inflame anew the gift of God [holy spirit], which is in you by the putting on of my hands.

In the 1970s, as the late ribald male Australian comedian, John Barry Humphries, going by the pseudonym of Dame Edna , quipped in affected female tones, the hurtful biased truth spoken by most wives (at least internally) regarding husbands, “… all you men can think about is sex, sex, sex!” Of course, everyone in unison laughed at the distortion of reality that covertly reinforced women’s gleeful bias with furtive looks at their husbands, while men, with awkward grins, stoically looking straight ahead, felt mocked and beaten ~ all to both parties’ enduring ruin.

The comedian spoke powerful elements of truth for those with the foresight to spiritually understand the Shulamite’s masterful plan. She, being us, and from past experience, saw that her years of endless study and exhaustion were devoted to finding how to be a Leah. Our husband, Christ, as did Jacob, will likely (‘if it were possible’)  become bitter against us when we represent Leah.

Rachel and the Shulamite revelled in anticipatory, elegantly calculated foreplay that caused Jacob (symbolic of men sexually) and Christ to be single-eyed and focused on thinking, spirit, spirit, spirit! Time flies with such a sparkling-eyed and breezy girl who trusts in her Lord’s strength (Gen 29:20); no man can resist her! Christ couldn’t.

In the same era as the aforementioned bawdy Australian bard, some illuminary ‘professional’ resonated with billions of wives that men think of sex every seven seconds. Of course, that absurdity only strengthened women’s entrenched bias towards men’s seemingly endless libertine mindset. Men with that now equally entrenched inconceivable equation were tarred for decades as dissolute sweaty ghouls lecherously labouring insensitively ~ the notion did have great credence. So, regarding spouses’ hoped connectivity, as the adage says, “Never the twain shall meet”, and they universally don’t.

For the Body of Christ, it is immutable that two women, represented by Hagar and Sarah, the Lord’s rejected wife and His elected wife, dominate the scriptures. Old Israel is represented by Hagar, who is against her husband, the Lord of the Old Covenant. Submissive Sarah is the mother of us all spiritually [as Eve is physically – Gen 3:20], the heavenly Jerusalem above (Gen 17, Gal 4:21–31)

The vital element of understanding that wives are “against” their husbands is the foundational theme that drives husbands to be bitter against their wives:

The New English Translation has the more accurate account of Gen 3:16 To the woman he said, “I will greatly increase your labor pains; with pain you will give birth to children. You will want to control your husband, but he will dominate you.”

Witless men and particularly husbands, innately deeply feel their God-given role of headship without understanding. Gelded, they withdraw from their equally cretinous wives (any controlling woman) demotion and in semi-confused stony-faced loathing for the humiliation. The Concordant Literal Version succinctly expresses his wife’s dishonour:

Deu 23:1 No one emasculated by the crushing of his testicles or having his penis cut off shall come into the assembly of Yahweh. (CLV)

Confused and angry with his emasculation, he unrighteously rules over his wife, and she responds with tears and a stubborn heart.

Gen 3:16 Unto the woman [our rebellious nature] he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to [the word “to” is properly translated in Hebrew: ‘el’ – against. Hebrew: ‘el’ – against by implications of the intent of the verse] thy husband [Christ within us], and he [Christ] shall rule over thee. Gen 4:7 If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.

YES! Here, Cain can be viewed as the Harlot church and Abel the Bride of Christ. Adam desired Eve even after she sinned since he realised he was just as liable as she was. So, too, do men desire women today, and Cain, the harlot church, is men’s desire, and SHE will and does rule over him! 

Gen 4:8 And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against [Hebrew: ‘el’ the same word for “to”] Abel, his brother, and slew him. 

All men, led by Adam, abdicated their headship due largely to their sexual desire for the woman, which she quickly learned to use as a trump card of control. To many women’s secret lust and outward disdain, it is natural for the heterosexual woman to yearn for the mostly unattainable chiselled specimen of manhood to dominate her. Yet, she semi-consciously holds the discordant duplexity of wanting him to bow down and worship her, as seen by Queen Vashti’s conceit and humiliating retreat (Est 1:9 – 22).

Est 1:19 If the king is so inclined, let a royal edict go forth from him, and let it be written in the laws of Persia and Media that cannot be repealed, that Vashti may not come into the presence of King Ahasuerus [akh-ash-vay-rosh], and let the king convey her royalty to another who is more deserving than she [Esther].  
Est 1:20 When the king’s rescript, that he must execute, is announced in all his kingdom, vast as it is, then all wives shall render esteem to their spouses from the greatest unto the smallest.

The Shulamite utterly reversed that strange dichotomy Solomon couldn’t understand from his experiences that all women have hearts of snares and nets and her hands like bands (Ecc 7:24-29). She unabashedly promoted elegant arousal with exquisite ravishings in herself and Him since she saw the pearl of great price in crystal clarity and sold all her self-will and rulership over Him to buy that field containing buried treasure (Mat 13:44-46). She struck gold in finding that nirvana to immutably crush her innate tardy arousals! No wonder Christ is a jealous God for his Bride when she unreservedly focuses her feminine spiritual ravishings on Him for their future mutually eternal loop of paradise.

1Co 11:8 For the man is not of the woman, but the woman of the man. 
1Co 11:9 Nor was the man created for the woman, but the woman for the man.

The Sun (husband) is not of the Moon, but the Moon (wife) revolves around the Sun indirectly in its revolutions around our revolving earth.

Nor was the Sun created for the Moon, but the Moon for the Sun, meaning that the Church was made for Christ, not Christ for the Church.

This means mankind was made for Christ, not Christ for mankind. Yet, unilaterally, the sisterhood of women (bar the Bride of Christ) led by the ship’s figurehead, Queen Vashti, innately know that 99.99% of men will submit to pretty much anything she says if the undertone of sexual denial glares silently! His weak protests don’t make a whit of difference since he is lumped in with his peers who loudly affirm the label of his degeneracy ~ he’s snookered, and she rules!

While the act seems relatively innocent, I always feel degraded that a young man ‘charmingly’ goes down on bended knee to ask his teary overjoyed girl to be his wife. That act powerfully represents her coming rulership over and emasculation of her husband, to which both are naive.

Spiritually, Christ never bowed to his fiancée; she enthusiastically bows both knees before him, and He irresistibly responds by devoting His colossal love to her; ironically, the very thing she craved! 

God made Adam symbolically upright even though the sin was initially attributed to Eve. Adam was complicit with Eve’s sin by submitting to her rulership, classically by him symbolically bending his knee to Eve! Solomon’s conclusion that all women “… have sought out many inventions” equally indicts Adam and all men in the sin of worshiping women, represented as spiritual harlotry with Babylon.

Solomon worshiped many women (1Ki 11:1-2… “love” is worship) and intimately knew their convoluted back-stabbing machinations as they jostled among themselves for distinction. He trusted in his God-given wisdom for understanding, and looked and looked and looked upon the “black” (clouded; hidden from understanding) Shulamite to understand that this stunning beauty broke all his God-given rules of wisdom since she was a startling outlier who was given to not have “a heart that snares, and nets and hands like bands.” Before his time, Solomon knew that God was true and every man a liar, and now, this Shulamite preposterously seemed equal with God! Solomon couldn’t accept that the mortal female Shulamite wasn’t the perfect deception. Solomon trusted implicitly in his God-given wisdom, particularly in Eccleiastes 7:24-29 (… hands like bands etc.); hence, he needed to stringently question a missed aspect of his wisdom for the irksomely overlooked pretence that the Shulamite just had to manifest. His exasperation caused him not to give up looking for her patent treachery, so he says…

Son 6:13 Return, return, O Shulamite; return, return, that we may look upon thee [to stare down her presumed hidden lie; she must flinch from his intense introspection, seemed to be his intention]. What will ye see in the Shulamite? As it were the company of two armies. 

Solomon seems to conclude that she is utterly different from all other women. She is of his other 1,000 ethnic beauties, yet, she is different, and a (small) army bearing her likeness will undoubtedly come from her loins (Luke 12:32) to rule over all of her sisters of his court.

Gen 17:7 And I will establish my covenant between me and thee [Abraham] and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee. [Exo 31:16; Deu 4:23; Deu 9:9]

The first “army” was Israel in the wilderness, represented by Solomon’s 1,000 wives, of which Solomon (unwittingly) represented as Jehovah. He concluded that the Shulamite must represent a new army, a second representation since she was outstandingly different from any woman he had ever known!

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 [effectively saying that no matter how much you look upon me, you will not (in this life) discover my spiritual representation] because the sun hath looked upon me: [Christ’s spirit was to look upon her with God’s brightness that blinded in blackness all understanding of her representation] my mother’s children [The mother of harlots from Sinai] were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept. 

The next verse can be seen from Solomon’s and the Shulamite’s perspectives.

Son 1:7 [Solomon’s internal questioning] Tell me, You [Shulamite] whom my soul loves, where do you feed [your flocks, your teeth], where do you lie down at noon? [Solomon appears peeved that this Shulamite girl has more wisdom than he! Spiritually, she did and made him lie down at noon and rest from the blackness in his heavens which her brightness caused that he’d never fathom!] saying For why should I be as one who is veiled beside the flocks of Your companions? [He’s saying, “With and by my infinite God-given wisdom, I’m pretty aggrieved by your flock’s unwillingness to share your hidden (spiritual) truth with my flock; you blacken my God-given wisdom!”]

Solomon is deeply troubled by his profound musings to understand the Shulamite and speaks in a soliloquy of the third person (as if she is speaking). He is annoyed that if he can’t fathom her, he will never get the answer from his 1,000 women whose hearts are like snares and nets and hands like bands. He’s asking, “Why should the Shulamite have wisdom and understanding that seems to supersede my immeasurable wisdom?” (She fed her ‘teeth’ on his (Christ’s wisdom) represented as her flock (teeth) better than his flocks (teeth). His disturbed mind seeks understanding by reversing his internal questioning; “…why should I [miss Shulamite] be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions? (his teeth are her private, internal companions who will not divulge her secret, much to his immense irritation).

The same scriptures can be seen in reverse from the Shulamite’s submissive beauty. The dual meaning is based on her humility for having her flocks rest with his flocks at noon. She asks why she should be an Elect above 1,000 ethnic debutantes. Such is the humble nature of the most male-arousing woman in the history of creation! Her humility for her God-given and unspeakable beauty further amplifies her spiritual femininity. Christ made her immensely spiritually arousing for Himself as first seen naturally of men’s more prurient awakenings and much to the natural woman’s curse-driven disdain. (1Co 11:8-9 … For the man is not of the woman, but the woman of the man…). We could symbolically say Christ thinks of spirit incontinently (a play on men thinking “sex, sex, sex”; page 18) every seven seconds since he is spirit (1Co 7:5).

From our recent study of the Song of Solomon, it is patently clear that the Shulamite representing the Lord’s Bride ,utterly turns on its head the Queen Vashti’s dictum printed in invisible ink on her forehead, that all men will worship her; and they do!

Rev 17:5 And on her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. 

Hos 14:9 Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein.

As we know spiritually, all men (and women) in the world lust after one or more of the tens of thousands of religious sects, of which Gentile Christianity is the most dissolute; they all represent Mystery Babylon the Great.

Agonisingly, at this point, everyone reading and understanding this study knows the key to a successful marriage is in the simplicity of the Shulamite’s first statement in the Song of Solomon.

Son 1:2 Let Him kiss me with the kisses of His mouth; for Your love is better than wine. 

Not a soul in the history of mankind fully understands the physical, which points to the spirit of that verse’s intent! As ostentatious as it sounds, only the Bride of Christ has been given that key.

The Song of Solomon is the Shulamite in the third person, spoken by Solomon in poetic verse, unashamedly (in righteous lust), and spiritually expresses her determination to have her Lord arouse her for her highly anticipated reciprocal arousal of Him!

However, the Lord is not backward in coming forward to highlight His spiritual meaning of the physical. If a scripture seems to sully the purity of the marriage bed, it is the following verses speaking of old Israel’s prurient ways:

Jer 2:23 How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: thou art a swift dromedary traversing her ways; 
Jer 2:24 A wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her. 

The spiritual Shulamite is equally as swift in traversing the Lord’s word in her arousals as she snuffs up the righteous spirit (wind) in her God-given immeasurable pleasure for the occasion He has given her. The Bride of Christ was found by Him (by design) in her blood in the field, and after growing up as the most beautiful woman to ever exist, He again, by design, “found”, married and impregnated her with His spirit. Even though she doesn’t officially marry Christ until He comes at the resurrection to life, she symbolically is already His wife in downpayment.

Just as Israel was married to Christ, the God of the Old (marriage) Covenant, His New Covenant Bride is now effectively married to her Lord by her agreement to the word, his marital covenant.

Jer 3:14 Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:

2Co 11:1 I would that you were bearing with me a little in foolishness; but indeed bear with me. 
2Co 11:2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy. For I have espoused [betrothed] you to one Man, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

2Co 1:21 But He confirming us and anointing us with you in Christ is God. 
2Co 1:22 And He has sealed us and having given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.

2Co 4:18  While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. 

Rom 4:17 (As it is written, I have made thee [Abraham] a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.

Males, particularly teenage and young men relatively new to sensual arousal, learn to subdue their frequent inopportune awakenings whose origin seems to have a mind of its own. Though secretly intrigued, the beautiful women have bright-eyed tender empathy for their male counterpart’s disquiet since they also have more concealed heartfelt involuntary expressions at inconvenient moments. Mutual understanding and respect for those awakenings are endearingly cute and covertly build reciprocal trust.

The Shulamite intentionally uses her ‘gifts’ most elegantly for her and her husband’s direct arousal (as expertly taught by her mother and elder woman’s sensual wisdom ~ and how I wish it was so today!). She implicitly knows that her arousal will rise exponentially by her Lord’s spiritually engulfing arousal, which physically overwhelms them, symbolising eternal spiritual joy ~ the pinnacle of sensual exhilaration in marriage.

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, and 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 H7416 – c. as pomegranate shaped ornaments in the temple. H2426 – 1. To be exalted, be lifted up. H7699 = breasts; and derivative H7736 – 1. (Qal) to ruin, destroy, spoil, devastate.

Exo 38:17 And the sockets for the pillars were of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver; and the overlaying of their chapiters [H7218 = 1. head, top, summit, upper part, chief, total, sum, height, front, beginning of silver] and all the pillars of the court were filleted with silver. 

1Ki 7:18 And he made the pillars, and two rows round about upon the one network, to cover the chapiters that were upon the top, with pomegranates: and so did he for the other chapiter [Two chapiters depicting our Lord’s rejected wife and Elected wife].

Beautiful and ornate pomegranates decorated the Temple’s pillars’ tops or “chapiters” and featured on the Priest’s robes and many other places to catch the eyes in open-mouthed wonder.

The Woman, the Temple of God, and her breasts are a thing of glory for His delight. Notice above that pomegranates directly depict breasts that portray her body erect like a palm tree with breasts at the top of her ‘chapiter’. Her stately erectness depicts her elegant righteous walk and single-eyed focus on her Lord, compassionately mindful of the world’s leering eyes yet not turning to validate their lust. 

Son 7:7 This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes. 
Son 7:8 I said, I will go up to the palm tree [H8558 = 1. palm tree, date palm – Origin: from an unused root meaning to be erect], I will take hold of the boughs thereof: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples; 

Indeed, the negative unrighteous and adulterous joy of a woman’s breasts (H7736 – 1. (Qal) to ruin, destroy, spoil, devastate) a man; when delighted righteously induce more spiritual truth… even if at the beginning of our journey it is the milk of the word.

The most potent education of Song of Solomon 8:1–2 is for the Bride of Christ! Every person in the Body of Christ has suffered from indolent spiritual female arousal, which is why the Shulamite’s God-inspired incredible wisdom is for her and not her husband! Every man and woman knows how easily males are sexually aroused. Teenage and young women (all women representing both the rejected and elected Church) are intrigued by that phenomenon, and in marriage, they soon get over it and treat it with contempt ~ so, too, did Israel for her Lord. We all need our Lord’s kisses which are better than (the old) wine, to arouse us to further spiritual stimulation. Everyone is intimately familiar with sexual stimulation that corresponds to inflaming the spirit of God. Its classic parallel is when studying God’s word, and you are on an exciting thread of truth, its escalating spiritual arousal incites extended research that continues to amplify excitement until gold is found.

The Shulamite is not despised since she hasn’t the machinations of a whore seeking a suitor. She is ‘spoken for’ by her fiancé’s commitment to marriage. The spiced wine is directly juxtaposed with her breasts, a “contrivance” (Ecc 7:29) in her dreaming she shrewdly knows will arousingly intoxicate her Lord to be righteously incontinent and “lifted up” (H7416) with desire. Conversely, in Solomon’s court of 1,000 wives, they all used their feminine wiles, most notably employing their breasts, vying “to be exalted” (see H7736 above) “to ruin” their husband’s escape from their ensnaring heart and hands like bands (Ecc 7:26-29). His incontinence makes him miss the mark of better judgment and is “taken by her” (verse 26).

The Shulamites and the Lord’s wine, His word, are one in reciprocal arousals. Depending upon her ethnicity’s skin tone, her pomegranate’s rose-coloured or darker-hued alertness highlights her virginity, which compared to the Great Whore’s in their exaltation, is bruised by her many lovers. Like all men’s haughty elevation, they are eventually brought low and destroyed in humiliation for their whoredoms.

Eze 23:1 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, 
Eze 23:2 Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother: 
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 [the world, particularly Babylon]. Thus were their names; Samaria [in the north] is Aholah, and Jerusalem Aholibah [in the south of Israel].

Jer 3:20 Surely as a wife treacherously departs from her husband [somewhat equal to Vashti’s scheming unplanned separation from her husband and her devastating exile], so you have dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, says Jehovah.

Israel, the Lord’s first wife, is represented by Aholah and Aholibah, the totality of Israel, both north and south.

It is given only for the Bride of Christ to see the colorfully graphic imagery the Shulamite expresses through astonished Solomon, who can’t believe such a woman exists; yet, there she is, right in front of him. Whether the Shulamite actually did exist, was Abishag or a poetic soliloquy of his dreaming for such a woman, scripture doesn’t say. Nonetheless, the Lord deemed the Song of Solomon a foreplay grand finalé of His courtship ‘song’, the entire Bible.

What can we now take away physically from the spiritual applications to outstandingly improve our marriages physically and distinctly spiritually?

In growing anticipatory spiritual arousals, we delight in waiting for the next study.

Psa 62:5 My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him. 

Son 2:17 Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether.

Instructions for Entering the Promised Land

[Study Aired February 18, 2023]

The book of Joshua begins following the death of Moses (120 years), one of the most incredibly iconic figures in the Bible. Joshua proved his dedication to the Lord’s commands revealed in Exodus, Numbers and Deuteronomy and was chosen to lead Israel into the Promised Land. Because of their perpetual complaining about the Lord’s goodness, out of the entirety of Israel none over the age of 20 at the time of leaving Egypt could enter the Promised Land; Joshua and Caleb were the only exceptions.

Num 32:11 Surely none of the men that came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me:
Num 32:12 Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite, and Joshua the son of Nun: for they have wholly followed the LORD (also Deut 1:34-46).

Caleb was 40 years old when he helped spy out the land of Canaan:

Jos 14:7 Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadeshbarnea to espy out the land; and I brought him word again as it was in mine heart.

Scripture doesn’t precisely state Joshua’s age. However, in all likelihood, the twelve spies in Joshua and Caleb’s company were of similar age, generally, give or take 10 years for maturity and spying experience. That makes Joshua roughly 30-50 years of age when he spied on Canaan. Add 40 years of wandering in the wilderness and it places him roughly a minimum age in his eighties when Israel entered the promised land. Caleb tells us he himself was 85 (Jos 14:10). Of course, Joshua died when he was 110 years of age. (Jos 24:29)

Since everyone over the age of 20 died in the wilderness, the Lord continued his espousal to a young wife in the bloom of her youth with Israel until his divorce, whose legacy of whoredom has lasted to this day.

Toward the end of Israel’s journey in the Promised Land as the Lord’s wife, a representation of purity was discovered by Solomon in a beautiful Shulamite girl. As brightly seen in the Song of Solomon studies, the wisest man to have ever lived saw something painfully unidentifiable in the beautiful Shulamite girl. His spirit seemed dreadfully unfulfilled upon his persistent “looking upon” her to distinguish the last irksome piece of the puzzle for the meaning of her presence. Scripture doesn’t say that he married the Shulamite. Even though he nearly perfectly imagined being married to her, his spirit of understanding was still of the Old Covenant Laws, and the spirit of God through Christ hadn’t yet come to reveal who Shulamite was, will be and is! The whorish nation of Israel, the Lord’s first wife, had many more works of harlotry in this new land before the distant Christ was revealed with his spiritual wife.

Before the foundation of the world and upon Moses’s death, the Lord had planned that the son of Nun, Joshua (Num 11:28), would lead Israel into the Promised Land. Joshua had proved his valour and dedication in following the Lord’s commands. The painful journey of the Lord’s people in the flesh, which unconsciously pointed to eternal life, was still in its infancy. The entirety of the old brigade of Israel over the age of 20 upon leaving Egypt, including Moses, perished in the wilderness.

Although God’s laws were evident primarily since Adam’s experience of sin, they were mostly hidden before the Lord revealed their written code through Moses, everyone since Adam, did what was right in his own eyes (Rom 2:14).

Joh 6:63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. 

Num 14:26 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, 
Num 14:27 How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, which murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me. 
Num 14:28 Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the LORD, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you: 
Num 14:29 Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me,
Num 14:30 Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

If we don’t recognise the commandments of Christ, we perish without the fulfillment of the Law in Him. All, including those under the carnal laws of Moses and Joshua’s rule to this day, sinned in the Law and perished under the Law, that of its own and without the spirit to come, could never change hearts for eternal life.

Rom 2:12 For as many as have sinned without Law shall also perish without Law: and as many as have sinned in the Law shall be judged by the Law; 
Rom 2:13 (For not the hearers of the Law [Christ’s spiritual laws] are just before God, but the doers of the [Christ’s] Law shall be justified.
Rom 2:14 For when the Gentiles, which have not the Law, do by nature the things contained in the Law, these, having not the Law, are a law unto themselves:
Rom 2:15 Which shew the work of the Law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)
Rom 2:16 In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.

The theme of the elder serving the younger runs powerfully throughout scripture. An old, weary, and no doubt melancholy, Moses, having suffered his brother’s and sister’s endless complaining, was given to see the vast extent of the land to be possessed as the nation of Israel’s inheritance, but he himself would die without possessing it. In a sense, Moses died outside the city, the Promised Land, to figuratively sanctify the nation of Israel. He diligently served the tabernacle of God and bore the disgrace of the old company of Israel, who likewise died outside of their inheritance.

Son 6:13 Return, return, O Shulamite; return, return, that we may look upon thee. What will ye see in the Shulamite? As it were the company of two armies.

Spiritually:

Heb 13:10 We have an altar from which those who serve at the tabernacle have no right to eat.
Heb 13:11 Although the high priest brings the blood of animals into the Holy Place as a sacrifice for sin, the bodies are burned outside the camp.
Heb 13:12 And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate, to sanctify the people by His own blood. 
Heb 13:13 Therefore let us go to Him outside the camp, bearing the disgrace He bore.
Heb 13:14 For here we do not have a permanent city, but we are looking for the city that is to come.

Deu 34:1 And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. And the LORD shewed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan,
Deu 34:2 And all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, unto the utmost sea, 
Deu 34:3 And the south, and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, unto Zoar.
Deu 34:4 And the LORD said unto him, This is the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, saying, I will give it unto thy seed: I have caused thee to see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not go over thither.
Deu 34:5 So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD.
Deu 34:6 And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Bethpeor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day.
Deu 34:7 And Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated. 
Deu 34:8 And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended.
Deu 34:9 And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom; for Moses had laid his hands upon him: and the children of Israel hearkened unto him, and did as the LORD commanded Moses.
Deu 34:10 And there arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face, 
Deu 34:11 In all the signs and the wonders, which the LORD sent him to do in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land, 
Deu 34:12 And in all that mighty hand, and in all the great terror which Moses shewed in the sight of all Israel.

After forty years of pain, suffering and death in the wilderness of sin, the elder of Israel served the younger Israel and the younger, with a high hand, was about to enter the Promised Land. That principle of the elder serving the younger began in Rebecca’s womb with Esau, the elder twin serving Jacob, his brother. (Rom 9:12-21. Gen 25:19-28).

The Book of Joshua

Jos 1:1 Now after the death of Moses the servant of the LORD it came to pass, that the LORD spake unto Joshua the son of Nun, Moses’ minister, saying, 
Jos 1:2 Moses my servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, thou, and all this people, unto the land which I do give to them, even to the children of Israel.
Jos 1:3 Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto you, as I said unto Moses. 
Jos 1:4 From the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your coast. 
Jos 1:5 There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.
Jos 1:6 Be strong and of a good courage: for unto this people shalt thou divide for an inheritance the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give them.
Jos 1:7 Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest. 
Jos 1:8 This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.
Jos 1:9 Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.
Jos 1:10 Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people, saying, 
Jos 1:11 Pass through the host, and command the people, saying, Prepare you victuals; for within three days ye shall pass over this Jordan, to go in to possess the land, which the LORD your God giveth you to possess it.
Jos 1:12 And to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to half the tribe of Manasseh, spake Joshua, saying,
Jos 1:13 Remember the word which Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, saying, The LORD your God hath given you rest, and hath given you this land. 
Jos 1:14 Your wives, your little ones, and your cattle, shall remain in the land which Moses gave you on this side Jordan; but ye shall pass before your brethren armed, all the mighty men of valour, and help them; 
Jos 1:15 Until the LORD have given your brethren rest, as he hath given you, and they also have possessed the land which the LORD your God giveth them: then ye shall return unto the land of your possession, and enjoy it, which Moses the LORD’S servant gave you on this side Jordan toward the sunrising. 
Jos 1:16 And they answered Joshua, saying, All that thou commandest us we will do, and whithersoever thou sendest us, we will go. 
Jos 1:17 According as we hearkened unto Moses in all things, so will we hearken unto thee: only the LORD thy God be with thee, as he was with Moses. 
Jos 1:18 Whosoever he be that doth rebel against thy commandment, and will not hearken unto thy words in all that thou commandest him, he shall be put to death: only be strong and of a good courage.

Beginning in verse two with the referral to the death of Moses, the Jordan River running from the midst of the Promised Land, ran 200 miles to the Dead Sea. The origin for the name Jordan means (H3381) ‘to go down; to lay prostrate’. Unwittingly to the Israelites, their prostration didn’t end with their forefathers dying in the wilderness; they were about to continue with their exhaustion of weak and decaying flesh as part of the process pointing to their brother’s future rest in Christ. The river Jordan symbolically continued to drain the filth of Israel to be allegorically purified in the salt of the Dead Sea, where their forefathers of Sodom, Gomorrah and the other cities of the rich plain were similarly purified.

Jos 1:3 Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto you, as I said unto Moses. 
Jos 1:4 From the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your coast.

Verses 3 and 4 outline the “coast”, or the borders of the Promised Land, with the “great sea toward the going down of the sun” referring to the Mediterranean Sea. (It is easy to look up a map of the Promised Land).

Amazingly, the rich resources and beauty of Lebanon, regarded as a “wilderness”, suggest that it was largely protected from the surrounding nations for Israel’s sole use, featuring cedars in the future temple. 

Verse 5 epitomises and foreshadows the routing of the evil inhabiting the land, and for the Elect of God today, they have the very same Lord who spiritually cleanses their land within.

Jos 1:5 There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.
Jos 1:6 Be strong and of a good courage: for unto this people shalt thou divide for an inheritance the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give them.
Jos 1:7 Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest.
Jos 1:8 This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.
Jos 1:9 Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.

Our Lord’s faithfulness stands. He is in absolute command of our salvation and continues to not fail or forsake us. Without Christ, we, too, have the same precise experience of not being able to stand before our enemies within. Nonetheless, the comparative history, for our sakes, resulted in the Israelites flip-flopping their faithfulness to God as they did in Moses’ time, regardless of the Lord’s guarantee of physical salvation through minimal faith.

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:

Jumping to:

Mat 28:16 Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them. 
Mat 28:17 And when they saw him, they worshipped him: but some doubted.
Mat 28:18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. 
Mat 28:19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
Mat 28:20 Teaching them to observe all things I have commanded you: I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

Jos 1:10 Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people, saying, 
Jos 1:11 Pass through the host, and command the people, saying, Prepare you victuals; for within three days ye shall pass over this Jordan, to go in to possess the land, which the LORD your God giveth you to possess it.

Christ, in his three and half year ministry, prepared his disciples “victuals”, meaning (H6720) ‘provision of food; meat’.He has increasingly provided spiritual food that increased their faith, especially in these latter days before His return. As we see the fig tree put forth new shoots, we know that the end is near for our preparation to cross our Jordan with the spiritual Christ within to possess Him, our Promised Land inheritance through faith. (Eph 1:3-14)

Eph 1:12 That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.
Eph 1:13 In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, 
Eph 1:14 Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.

Gal 4:1 Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all; 
Gal 4:2 But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.
Gal 4:3 Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:
Gal 4:4 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, 
Gal 4:5 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. 
Gal 4:6 And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. 
Gal 4:7 Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.

The entire torturous process the Israelites experienced, and are still experiencing unto this very day, is for His body’s sake, for His little flock, the Church. He has given us rest in Him through His spirit of truth and our espousal to Him. Our rest is Christ, the master Potter doing His work within us, just as He gave the Israelites a type of physical rest if they utterly depended upon Him to go before and fight and thoroughly rout the evil inhabitants within their physically prized possession.

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. 

Rom 8:31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? 
Rom 8:32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
Rom 8:33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth.
Rom 8:34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. 
Rom 8:35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 
Rom 8:36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. 
Rom 8:37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. 
Rom 8:38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 
Rom 8:39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Jos 1:12 And to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to half the tribe of Manasseh, spake Joshua, saying, 
Jos 1:13 Remember the word which Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, saying, The LORD your God hath given you rest, and hath given you this land. 
Jos 1:14 Your wives, your little ones, and your cattle, shall remain in the land which Moses gave you on this side Jordan; but ye shall pass before your brethren armed, all the mighty men of valour, and help them; 
Jos 1:15 Until the LORD have given your brethren rest, as he hath given you, and they also have possessed the land which the LORD your God giveth them: then ye shall return unto the land of your possession, and enjoy it, which Moses the LORD’S servant gave you on this side Jordan toward the sunrising.

1Pe 2:9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: 
1Pe 2:10 Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy

The Body of Christ is growing into the beautiful young woman espoused to her Lord. She has spent a relatively short time devouring her Lord’s strong meat. She readily sees the spiritual truths received daily that intensely arouse her love for him and delights in finding nuggets of overlooked truth in the frequently reviewed studies. She is ever vigilant to not let her lamp oil run low as she awaits the ultimate “sunrising” shining at full strength.

Jer 29:11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
Jer 29:12 Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. 
Jer 29:13 And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart. 
Jer 29:14 And I will be found of you, saith the LORD: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, saith the LORD; and I will bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive.

Jos 1:17 According as we hearkened unto Moses in all things, so will we hearken unto thee: only the LORD thy God be with thee, as he was with Moses. 
Jos 1:18 Whosoever he be that doth rebel against thy commandment, and will not hearken unto thy words in all that thou commandest him, he shall be put to death: only be strong and of a good courage. 

Just as our Lord God was with Moses and Joshua, He is infinitely more in spirit with His chosen “little flock” today and gives us immense courage to go forth and possess Him, our promised land within.

Yet, Lord willing, we remember to not be puffed up by His revelations and rebel against His word that would assuredly land us in the resurrection to damnation and go through a more torturous process to attain eternal life. 

Luk 21:34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. 
Luk 21:35 For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth. 
Luk 21:36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.