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

[Study Aired February 14, 2026]

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

A righteous man’s standing, power and authority in society, as was Job’s before his self-righteousness was exposed, is grounded in God’s righteousness, represented by his walk in Christ, and is characterised by his sexual expression in a righteous covenant of marriage. It directly reflects authority, symbolising Christ and the Father’s power and supreme authority. ‘In the natural’, it is embodied by a Priest of God, rightly sharing God’s word, represented by his fully functional ‘privy and stones’, which give physical life. Since Christ, those shadows of a Priest’s privy and stones represent every male and female Elect, in whom resides Christ’s life-giving holy spirit.

1Co 15:45  And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.

Pro 20:29  The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the gray head.

1Jn 2:14  I have written unto you, [Grey-headed…] fathers, because ye have known him [Christ and the Father] that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one.

Gen 1:27  So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

Male  H2145 = 1. Male. From H2142 = 1. to remember, recall, call to mind a. (Qal) to remember, recall

1. (Niphal) to be brought to remembrance, be remembered, be thought of, be brought to mind. Burn, burneth (Righteously or unrighteous burning of incense representing prayerful oblation [sacrifice for his wife] in Jer 65:3).

God designed masculinity identified by his sexuality, his entire ensemble to represent authority. The female form and her sexuality are originally designed to gladly receive that power and authority—a connection made in heaven. A man, particularly a husband, should acknowledge, “to remember” and “recall” and thus uphold his God-given authority rooted in righteousness as the woman’s head. A highly noteworthy sub-meaning is to burn incense, indicative of his dwelling of the holy spirit to be able to righteously lead a wife.

No woman is attracted to a prospective male, particularly a husband who displays any weakness, unless she perceives her attractiveness as unable to command a more powerfully represented male as a prospective mate. Males are designed to lead and to create a better environment for themselves and their families, which, in turn, benefits the tribe or society. Those essential qualities, indicative of men, are driven by their channelled sexual impulse to produce the best of a thing, driving them to always seek a socially acceptable outlet, whereupon leaders are born. Apart from his narcissistic displays in the gym or combat, his overall sexual expression as distinctly male, governing all aspects of his ‘walk’, is the most distinct method of determining a man’s power status. The more powerful the man, not necessarily physically, rather, his social standing, honour and respect among his male peers, and somewhat like Solomon, the more appealing he is to the most selectively attractive women (Son 1:7). Consequently in the world, the beauty and charm of the woman upon his arm, indicates his power and authority in the eyes of his admirers, vastly amplifying his wife’s standing and comeliness.

In Babylon, men seek and jostle for power, the sexual power and authority he unwittingly lost in Eden. In Eden, and upon being unwittingly injured in his privy and stones, to regain that power without God’s word, he seeks to regain it in a descending scale of relative impotence. From the top down, the more noble type, typified by the everyday Orthodox Christian husband trying to rule his home, to the most vile and dissolute forced form of power imaginable by rape. That is how it works in Babylon, unwittingly representing the most perverted form of the Father’s omnipotence. The Babylonian male’s self-acquired like omnipotence, overwhelms females whether they like it or not, and is exemplified by Judah’s priests figuratively raping Israel, and the world’s church leaders figuratively raping the laity. It is expressed negatively and positively in Gen 3:16, “… and thy desire shall be ‘against’ thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

Increasingly since Eden, and in growing crescendo in 2026, women, and specifically wives, see a male’s sexual libido covertly envied, and more vocally, something shameful and toxic to be fixed. He never got the chance to see, let alone use his sexuality righteously directed passion as a primal gift and energy he brings to the world—a shadow of life-giving on multiple fronts. It is designed to represent and give energy, whereas his wife’s energy is to be receptive and delight in his sexual energy, the model that drives successful marriages. The Shulamite, we will see (if we don’t, we are not the Bride), knows that Christ chose her. And Him seeing her relishing His energy, exponentially amplifies and inflames their mutual spirit, epitomising the ‘successful marriage’.

Since Adam’s fall in Eden, and because of men’s immoderate sexual desires, all men feel a frustrating sense of powerlessness over women, especially husbands over their wives. With Eve seizing the gift of sexual power and authority, Adam’s innate masculine authority, though severely damaged, still holds sway, albeit distastefully, for the Eves of the world to submit sexually. He now regularly senses her nuanced intimacy aversions and silently retreats, leaving her in a state of confusion, still requiring his power, leaving him feeling further emasculated and humiliated. He stops initiating boudiour intimacies, unwilling to re-experience his wife’s apathetic heart beneath her breasts, a negative wall opposed to the SoS Bride’s “wall” (Son 8:10). She sees him more as a friend, like a girlfriend; subdued, gelded of his privy. Now, his authority lost, the Babylonian man is set to descend further into degeneracy, handing his power and energy over to an ever-willing woman, subtle of heart and sexually (Pro 7:10).

The original ‘young man’ who overcame the wicked one (1Jn 2:14) is Jesus Christ. We can pretty much guarantee that even though Jesus didn’t have outstanding looks to attract beautiful girls, Satan would have deluded some to ensnare him unsuccessfully, since his Father’s authority ruled the sensualities of his flesh, his spiritual libido’s ravishment was far superior to the carnal.

Pro 5:18  Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
Pro 5:19  Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love. 
Pro 5:20  And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

Babylonian women, their emotions being unwittingly and deeply scarred from Eden, are the first to derisively and errantly state that sex dominates men’s minds, to which men, equally scarred, in silent submission, uneasily agree. Ever since Adam’s sexual impulse in Eden to submit to Eve’s unwitting power struggle of authority, his privy, with direct connection back to his mind, when not governed by the signified male authority of God, we starkly see in hindsight that it is sociopathically dangerous. In the context of the succeeding study on women’s egocentric centre of power in her breasts, when men and women both vie for power, as represented by Ishmael and Isaac, it results in every man’s hand, whether free or bond, being against his neighbour.

No better example of the modern term ‘misogynistic’ is than Ishmael’s lineage and their extensive overreach of unrighteous male headship governed by a spirit directly opposed to Christ’s, causing their women unbearable hardship. Something akin to Stockholm Syndrome—the proposed psychological phenomenon where victims of abuse or captivity develop a, perhaps, unconscious emotional bond, sympathy, or loyalty toward their captors or abusers as a survival strategy: ironically, their womenfolk under austere authority largely submit, somewhat substantiating the idea that women, and particularly wives, thrive best under authority.

Gen 16:12  And he [Ishmael] will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.

Zec 14:13  And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour. 

Rev 16:13  And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet [… we, in times past].
Rev 16:14  For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.

For an orderly and highly functional society to thrive, it has to be governed by Christ’s commands upwards in authority of a husband’s emblemstic power and authority of Christ over his wife, and he under Christ, which Adam immediately dismantled, insecurely preferring to be ruled sensually by his, and ‘his flesh in Eve’.

Jas 3:15  This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. 

That devilish, earthy, sensual impulse constitutes the masculine drive to subdue the Earth, filled with harsh, dangerous and harrowing tasks, upon which civilisation by man’s rules is founded.

Gen 1:28  And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

… but upon their sin, Adam has to fight every step of the way with his fellow man, conscious that his wife is likely to influence his every decision heavily. Upon this shaky ground, society is based.

Only visible through the sum of God’s word, he designed Adam, through and symbolised by the initial purity of his life-driving libido, to be a luciferian force reflecting God’s light. (Lucifer is NOT who you no doubt believe the term refers to. Please see this link: https://www.iswasandwillbe.com/up-and-down-among-the-stones-of-fire/ )

Christ, the creator of all things, in harmony with his Father, is creating mankind to be His light force reflecting the purity of the Father’s glory. Christ designed Adam’s libido, or sexual desire, to physically correspond to His and His Father’s desire, spiritually. Physical life resided in Adam’s seed, symbolic of the life-giving holy spirit of God. Incidentally, the sperm, upon entering the female egg and connecting with its welcoming environment, emits a visible microscopic flash of light, marking the initiation of new life. Life is first the result of sex, corresponding spiritually with the holy spirit’s conception and resultant brilliance of Christ, our Husband, coming in a flash like lightning.

Heb 12:9 Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?

1Co 15:44  It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
1Co 15:45  And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit

Mat 28:3  His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow:

At odds with God’s design, it is rare for a young male not to have an inextinguishable passion for sex.

The genius of the holy spirit is to overcome death. Men’s desire to have sex is rooted in their unconscious conformity with their Creator’s determination to create spiritual life, directly pointing to the Godhead to experience more of Himself. To glorify Himself, he designed the ‘worm’, mankind, by Christ’s power to overcome death. That process is first unjustly and inherently enabled in the minds of dissolute males for the survival of mankind, driven by their imagined power, and to cheat death a little longer. It is all painfully problematic, with the libido of every man’s hand against his neighbour, initially thwarting each tribe’s power over another and elevating its emergent, all-powerful leader—and from biblical experience, we know that that order based on the lust for power leads to social collapse.

As depicted endlessly by Old Israel, with her see-sawing between physical riches and war, disease, and famine, it is all a result of that (God-designed) emergent, all-powerful, righteous, or unrighteous king’s libido-driven headship, indicatively masculine. The more the nation relies on physical riches, the more neurotically unhappy they become, descending classically into sexual depravity.

God designed a woman to be her husband’s helpmeet, a companion ideally in righteous libidinous harmony with his mindset. In Babylon, and the so-called sexual freedom revolution, males, with the dynamic shift towards fawning over women’s profound emotional influence on their every decision unrighteously, his focus on building a business and home with her is primarily out of the question—unless, of course, she is unusually ensnaring. Upon impulsive ‘seed’ release, all he wants to do is have a cigarette or roll over and go to sleep. To most women today, that is ok, since she, too, is oblivious to the Shulamite-like path to unified connectivity of mind, body and Christ’s spirit. Yet, her chaos, stemming from Eden’s humiliating encounter with her unconscious coup for headship—consciously controlling libertine sexuality and his libido, drives her to find the best mate her form can muster. By God’s design, she, unconsciously, if she didn’t frustrate his unrestrained libido, sexual chaos would reign, and the world, as opposed to now, would have imploded morally and populationally, no doubt thousands of years ago, before Noah’s flood. As is happening now with pharmaceutical products, poisoned food chains resulting in feeble health of the entire world, together with sexual depravity, many nations are in catastrophic population decline, with war, adding to the statement, ‘that unless those days are shortened, no flesh would remain alive’ (Mat 24:22).

It is Man’s Libido that Empowers or Disempowers Marriage and Society.

A male’s libido drives his enthusiasm to build freeways, 560-tonne A380 aircraft thundering steeply to great heights, spanning half the world in one flight, focus on computer coding, write great literature, what minerals can do other than the obvious, among a million other inventions that excite him, collectively building an exceptionally livable society.

Ecc 9:10  Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.

Gen 11:5  And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
Gen 11:6  And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. 

A man’s drive to want to labour through incredible challenges to make his life and others’ lives more meaningful requires some unconsciously pent-up sexuality. Epicurean layabouts, snorting opium and intellectualising superiorly, didn’t build civilisation.

Adam’s challenges in Eden were pretty basic, as naming the wildlife or simply living each day were easily accomplished. Experiencing his new wife, Eve, and the incredible sensations she provided was far more intriguing, as typified later by Israel seeking to luxuriate only in his Lord’s blessings without hardships.

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.

The thing that drives a decent society would have been God’s original design of marriage, where He is honoured as the marriage’s head, copied by the carnal husband. Ideally, it is a God-fearing husband, as typified by Abraham and the other patriarchs of old, who, although subject to sin, nonetheless had semblances of stable marriages that built relatively stable tribes and nations.

Sex to a man is incredibly invigorating, especially when his female partner enthusiastically expresses vibrant femininity during the occasion. If she possesses a certain charm and intelligence, her beauty becomes even more striking. Such a woman inspires him to conquer dragons and ignoble kings, where no problem he faces is too tricky to protect and love his wife. Suppose she is his Babylonian Christian wife, grounded in the sanctity of their marriage. In that case, he effectively has her assurance that he need not worry about anything at home while he focuses on building their business and family; the entire affair is not just built on reasonably stable rock, but it gives him tremendous peace, whereby his pent-up libido—that his masculinity wants to release on any version of those vocations mentioned above, pertinent to men—is safe—or, so he thinks; it causes him to take calculated risks and defeat any enemy. If his sexual drive is even minimally emasculated by his wife, he takes a severe hit to his desire to conquer life’s challenges; it too often resembles a pattern, the regular Babylonian male is likely to seek comfort from the many willing women, and even pornography. Having lost his God-given masculine power and authority, his marriage, society, and the land become desolate.

A husband with the nature of an Elect who can rely on his wife sexually is phenomenally empowered to conquer his many weaknesses, vices, and cowardices. It is the exact nature that leads an old-school Babylonian to fight a seemingly righteous war to protect king and country. However, as is classically happening today, when a husband is injured by his wife and himself, in the heart, privy and stones, all the single girls ask, Where have the real men gone. Every one of these challenges he and she face is directly related to his libido; his desire to go and fight for his wife and successively his street, neighbourhood, city and country according to his Babylonian morals. However, the modern man with access to porn, and now, amazingly, AI’s incredible reality-likeness, has no will to fight righteously when he has a harem greater than Solomon’s 1,000 wives—to boot, ones that don’t argue and humiliate him. Accordingly, and in Babylon, we can have semblances of sensually enjoyable marriages, but one or both spouses will always compromise his or her joy to keep the peace.

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

Consequently, almost all authentic human interactions that foster a good society come from the moral integrity of both married and single men who do not seek dishonest gain. Profoundly, they both need to identify spiritually with Christ to enjoy marriage as God designed it.

The Husband’s Privy & Stones Chiefly Identify Him as Male, Centralised In His Loins

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.

Deu 17:6  At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.

The term “privy member” and associated “stones”, denoting men’s genitalia, is only mentioned once in scripture, its physical functionality soundly identifying gender difference, and spiritually a husband, his God-designated priestly authority under Christ, in the family and Church. His stones, his two testes, are strongly disposed to representing the ‘stone tablets of the Covenant’ in the terms of truthful seed, the foundational doctrines of bringing forth in His Elect, righteous life in Christ. They represent two uninjured witnesses: first, the Father and Christ; and third, Christ’s Bride. It is the hip and thigh, the “loins” in ‘the natural’ that signifies Christ’s exact location of his name, King of Kings, and Lord of Lords.

Rev 19:16  And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.

In the natural coming before the spiritual, it could be said that a man’s two stones have a greater capacity to witness fruitfulness in the unity with his wife, as one in pregnancy.

Gen 35:10  And God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he called his name Israel.
Gen 35:11  And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins;

Rom 8:16  The spirit itself [The Father and Christ] beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: 
Rom 8:17  And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.

Bearing witness, G4828 = 1. to bear witness with, bear joint witness.

Etymologically and symbolically, a man’s stones are deeply connected to the concept of a “testament” or “witness.” The Latin word testis means “witness”. According to AI (not yet thoroughly corrupted), the following is how the concepts are linked:

– Etymological Connection: The words testis (male reproductive organ), testify (to bear witness), testimonial, and testament (as in “last will and testament”) all share the same Latin root, testis, meaning a witness.

– Symbol of Manhood: In ancient times, the testicles were seen as evidence, or “witnesses,” of a man’s virility, manhood, and generative power.

– Ancient Oaths: It is frequently cited that in Roman times, men would place their hand on their testicles while swearing an oath, essentially making their manhood a “witness” to the truth of their statement.

– Biblical Context: In the Old Testament, references to placing a hand “under the thigh” (e.g., Genesis 24:2) are widely understood by scholars to be a euphemism for touching the reproductive organs while taking a binding oath.

– Symbol of Procreation/Lineage: In ancient Near Eastern culture, particularly in Hebrew culture, the “thigh” or “loins” represented the source of a man’s descendants, or “seed”. Swearing on this area entailed pledging one’s future, family lineage, and life force. Ancient Near East Parallels: Similar, though rare, examples of oath-taking involving genital touching have been found in Mesopotamian and Nuzi texts, supporting the view that this was a legitimate, albeit rare, ancient practice.

Linguistic Root: Both words derive from testis. In Roman thought, a witness was seen as a “third person” (tri-stis) who stood by to verify the truth. [2Co 13:1  This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.]

– Symbolism of Virility: Anatomically, the testes were historically viewed as “bearing witness” to a man’s virility or manhood.

Although some ethnic groups inappropriately seized every opportunity to emphasise the highly sensual aspects of our bodies, and typically made the male genitalia the sole symbol of the strength of an oath, God prescribed a comparatively small area of the “loins”, representing all anatomical aspects of his thighs, inclusive of his privy and stones, as the physical centre of his calling to represent his walk, the purity of his ministration of his Lord’s word. Its relative size and concept are akin to the ritual of washing one’s feet, which symbolises the cleanliness of the entire body through spiritual symbolism applied to a relatively small part of the body. As Christ is, so are we to be walking in the purity of His word, and not as harlots, where the signified epicentre of harlotry in both men and women, while instigated in our breasts, our hearts, emanates from our loins—the outward act of adultery.

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. 

Lev 26:12  And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people.

Joh 13:9  Simon Peter saith unto him, Lord, [wash] not my feet only, but also my hands and my head.
Joh 13:10  Jesus saith to him, He that is washed needeth not save to wash his feet, but is clean every whit: and ye are clean, but not all.

Accordingly, historically, in ancient Mesopotamia, the land of Abraham’s origin, and later in Rome, a man’s fully functional “stones and privy”, central to the entire ensemble of the thighs and loins, was regarded as the location of maximim impact for the solemnity of a testament to the testator’s word founded on his respectable lineage, in the strength and purity of his walk signified by his loins suitable as a witness to an oath. Before God, they symbolised profound loyalty and the unbreakable unity of mind and spirit, signifying his commitment to honour and authority as a man in unity with God. To dishonour that oath is akin to being wounded in the stones, or having his privy member cut off, as symbolically did Adam, and such a person is expelled from entering into the congregation of the LORD, just as didn’t Israel. Hence, a priest of God must have the bilogical witness of 2×2 uninjured stones and thighs to signify the expected purity of his walk in the Lord’s word.

For this exercise, the primary points of interest centred on a priest’s loins are demonstrated in the following verses in Leviticus, where injury or impurity is not to be tolerated.

Lev 21:19  Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded,

Lev 21:15  Neither shall he profane his seed among his people: for I the LORD do sanctify him.

Gen 47:29  And the time drew nigh that Israel must die: and he called his son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt:
Gen 47:30  But I will lie with my fathers, and thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their buryingplace. And he said, I will do as thou hast said.
Gen 47:31  And he said, Swear unto me. And he sware unto him. And Israel bowed himself upon the bed’s head.

Israel knew that his death wasn’t far off. Upon that death, the oath Abraham made for the testament took effect, signifying Christ’s much later death and annulment of the Old Covenant, and introduction of the Bride becoming fully functional in her emblematic privy and stones, thereby more swiftly healing her wounded heart beneath her breasts with Christ’s life-giving spirit.

Heb 9:16  For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.
Heb 9:17  For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth. 
Heb 9:18  Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood

Heb 3:8  Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
Heb 3:9  When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
Heb 3:10  Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.
Heb 3:11  So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)

Synonymous with the Israelites’ not eating of the muscle of which the “sinew” was attached , under Jacob’s thigh”. Sinews (H1517 – to invade, attack) are exceptionally tough, and those from animals are used for bowstrings. It was the associated muscle “upon the hollow of the thigh” of an ox or sheep that wasn’t eaten out of respect for Jacob’s God-given determination and represents the power to walk, albeit with a limp, with God, represented by its sinew. Indeed, Jacob’s walk was historically scoundrelous, secondarily defined by his limp as a kind of reminder, primarily denoting his tenacity in wrestling God’s word for physical blessings, and signifying to us the endurance in wrestling fiery trials for the hope of a promised land and, for us, a better resurrection.

Gen 32:24  And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.
Gen 32:25  And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him.

Hollow H3709 = 1. palm, hand, sole, palm of the hand, hollow or flat of the hand a. palm, hollow or flat of the hand b. power c. sole (of the foot) d. hollow, objects, bending objects, bent objects 1. of the thigh joint. 2. pan, vessel (as hollow) 3. hollow (of sling) 4. hand-shaped.

In other words, the recess or hollow where the Adductor Tendon on the joint attaches to the muscle to the pelvis and thigh bone, and is often injured in “groin strains”.

Secreted between a man’s loins are his privy and stones, a sign of his physical vitality, virility, and fertility, in succeeding as Christ’s spiritual seed, the holy spirit, bringing forth eternal life. It is a highly sensitive area that he instantly and involuntarily protects from injury, as we should, in the testament of God’s word.

Job 31:19  If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;
Job 31:20 If his loins [H2504] have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

Loins H2504
Original: חלץ
– Transliteration: Chalats
– Phonetic: khaw-lawts’
– Definition:

1. loins
2. as a seat of virility
3. as girded
4. as seat of pain (woman’s travail)

Loins G3751
– Original: ὀσφύς
– Transliteration: Osphus
– Phonetic: os-foos’
– Definition:

1. the hip (loin)
2. to gird, gird about, the loins
3. a loin, the (two) loins

the place where the Hebrews thought the generative power (semen) resided.

– Origin: of uncertain affinity
– TDNT entry: 13:16,7
– Part(s) of speech: Noun Feminine

– Strong’s: Of uncertain affinity; the loin (externally) that is the hip; internally (by extension) procreative power: – loin.
Total KJV Occurrences: 7

– loins, 7

Mat_3:4; Mar_1:6; Act_2:30; Eph_6:14; Heb_7:5; Heb_7:10; 1Pe_1:13

Clearly, loins refer to the seat of virility and travail in our own and our progeny’s walk with Christ. It is where Abraham’s servant swore to find a wife for Jacob among Issac’s kin (Gen 24:1-67) and where the Angel of the Lord injured the high probability of Jacob’s Adductor Tendon, causing him to limp. Accordingly, it is the site of swearing allegiance to an oath upon the entire loin assembly where the seat of generative physical life in a man’s stones, emblematic of the coming of Israel by the signified life giving sword of God power,  the sword of the spirit (Eph 6:17), worn on the outer thigh, standing by, ready to defending the spirit’s location in our heart and mind by the spiritual ‘seed’ of Christ’s life.

Gal 3:16  Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.

Son 3:8  They all hold swords, being expert in war: every man hath his sword upon his thigh because of fear in the night.

When the Lord discusses us as females, referring to us as a ‘veritable whore,’ her previous sensual practice of exposing her thighs—the hips and thighs of women in Babylon—is artfully and subtly accentuated in the style of attire designed for the perpetually watchful male observer. It is within the discreet uncovering of her inner thighs that she ostensibly feigns innocence, which proves to be far more alluring to him than outright nudity.

In the following verse, the Lord over-dramatises the visual to thoroughly crush any plea of innocent display.

Jer 13:25  This is thy lot, the portion of thy measures from me, saith the LORD; because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.
Jer 13:26  Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face, that thy shame may appear.
Jer 13:27  I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when shall it once be?

Exo_28:42  And thou shalt make them linen breeches to cover their nakedness; from the loins even unto the thighs they shall reach:

The outside flank, where a sword is worn, is not usually considered offensive to observe. The joints of the Bride’s thighs don’t have to be nude for the world to see the aggregate of her entire clothed form represented by her righteous and alluring walk.

Son_7:1  How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince’s daughter! the joints of thy thighs are like jewels [As opposed to Jacob’s damaged sinew of his thigh], the work of the hands of a cunning workman.

Joints H2542 = 1. curve, curving. From H2559 =  1. to withdraw, turn around, turn away a. (Qal) to turn away b. (Hithpael) to turn about, vacillate, turn hither and thither. Strong’s: A primitive root; properly to enwrap; hence to depart (that is to turn about): – go about, withdraw self.

Therefore, a female’s joints exemplify the feminine curvature of her entire hip and thigh assembly, broadly recognised as her loins, encompassing her thighs. Her overall form in this region is highly indicative of the female physique, which varies in size and shape, thereby appealing to a wide range of male preferences. Her arresting feminine form certainly does cause all men to turn their heads and ‘vacillate’, advancing or retracting her enticement righteously or wickedly. Such is the strength and power in the loins of the female form, seizing God’s might and power over men and as The Great Whore, when juxtaposed with Job 40:15—24 in her own right, a kind of Behemoth ruling the hearts and minds of men. Women’s might and power lie in the overall form of her captivating femininity, likewise focused on her walk, with key attributes highlighted for male attention. In contrast, the Behemoth, representing God’s overarching power, where Job, a mere mortal man, effectively usurp, amplifying his imagined perfection in the flesh and, pridefully, equating to God’s righteousness.

 

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What Is the Purpose For The Institution of Marriage? – Part 1 https://www.iswasandwillbe.com/what-is-the-purpose-for-the-institution-of-marriage/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-is-the-purpose-for-the-institution-of-marriage Sun, 23 Feb 2014 18:47:11 +0000 http://www.iswasandwillbe.com/?p=7063


“Marriage in Scripture” Series

What Is the Purpose For The Institution of Marriage?

This is the first study of what will be a series of studies on marriage – its purpose, selecting a mate, problems faced in marriage, etc. We will be asking and answering with the scriptures, many questions you may have had, and maybe many questions you have never had, but should have asked before you ever got married. We will first establish with the scriptures the purpose for the institution of marriage. Then we will be discussing the stresses upon the marriage union, and what the Creator of this institution of marriage has given us to keep our marriages strong and unified in the one mind of Him who created and instituted the marriage union.

So what is the purpose for the institution of marriage? Why do we need marriage? Is there a spiritual lesson for us in this institution? Why did God give Adam a woman instead of another man? Why are women called “the weaker vessel”?

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.

Here is the history of how the Lord gave us the institution of marriage. Let’s read this story and see what lessons we can learn from what we are told:

Gen 2:20 And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.
Gen 2:21 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
Gen 2:22 And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
Gen 2:23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
Gen 2:24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

There is a huge spiritual revelation in this true story of how the Lord gave us the institution of marriage, and the scriptures reveal that this union has many very edifying spiritual revelations for us.

After giving us many wonderful admonitions that will, if obeyed, keep our marriages healthy, Paul tells us this:

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

In 1 Corinthians 2 Paul also tells us this:

1Co 2:13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
1Co 2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

When Paul tells us in Ephesians 5 that the institution of marriage, when “comparing spiritual things with spiritual” is actually speaking “concerning Christ and the church”, then we know that our physical marriages are really just a type and shadow of “Christ and the church”.

Accepting that as the Truth, let’s look the institution of marriage “comparing spiritual things with spiritual, and see what we can learn. Let’s ask ourselves what is the spiritual meaning of “she was taken out of the man.” What is the spiritual meaning of “sleep”? What is the spiritual meaning of “flesh… and bone”? And what is the spiritual meaning of “they shall be one flesh”?

The spiritual meaning of “she was taken out of the man”

The spiritual lesson behind this statement is of utmost significance. Without knowing what this statement means we cannot “know God and Jesus Christ who He has sent”. And if we do not “know God and Jesus Christ” we do not have life eternal.

Joh 17:3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.

Knowing just how important a matter this is Christ Himself reveals to us the meaning of this statement. This is what that part of the history of the institution of marriage is teaching us:

Joh 16:27 For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.

Joh 17:8 For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.

This is not speaking of Christ as the firstborn from the dead, as Babylon teaches us. This certainly includes that meaning, but it is specifically teaching us that God the Father created Christ and in that sense Christ came out from His Head, for the specific purpose of creating the physical universe and for the specific purpose of creating all men of all time, and becoming the savior of all men.

Here are two places in scripture where this is plainly stated for all who have eyes to see and ears to hear:

Col 1:15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
Col 1:16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:

The word ‘for’ in verse 16 is translated from the Greek word ‘hoti’ and it means ‘because’. Christ was “the firstborn of every creature BECAUSE by him were all things created that are in heaven and that are in earth…”

Then we also have this verse of scripture:

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;

That is the spiritual meaning of “she was taken out of the man”.

The spiritual meaning of ‘sleep’

To understand the spiritual meaning of ‘sleep’, we need to go to the New Testament story of the death of Christ’s good friend, Lazarus, the brother of Mary and Martha. When Christ was told of the sickness of Lazarus, He waited until Lazarus had been dead four days before he got there to pray for Lazarus. Lazarus had already died, and after his death Christ told his disciples:

Joh 11:11 These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep.
Joh 11:12 Then said his disciples, Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well.
Joh 11:13 Howbeit Jesus spake of his death: but they thought that he had spoken of taking of rest in sleep.
Joh 11:14 Then said Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead.

So being in “a deep sleep”, as Adam was when God took a rib from him to make him a wife, is a symbol of being dead. If we are given the understanding that the first Adam is a type of the last Adam, then we will know that the first Adam had to, “in a figure”, die before he could be given a wife who would, just like the last Adam, be given a wife who also must come “out of [himself]:

Rom 5:14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam’s transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.

If we are so blessed, spiritually we are the espoused “chaste virgin”, who is the bride of our husband, Christ:

2Co 11:2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

How was this accomplished? It was accomplished only as Adam’s “deep sleep” typified, “through death”:

Col 1:22 In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:

Heb 2:14 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;

The Spiritual Meaning of “Brought Her Unto the Man”

We were told that Christ brought Adam’s wife to him:

Gen 2:22 And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.

Who then gave Christ His wife?

Joh 17:6 I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.

Joh 17:12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.

The type carries through to the point that the first Adam, and Christ, the last Adam, both willingly died for their respective errant, sinful wives:

1Ti 2:14 And Adam was not deceived, but the woman [as the type of Christ’s called out ones] being deceived was in the transgression.

Joh 10:17 Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.

Joh 10:18 No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.

Very few know or understand just how integral Christ’s espoused wife is to His own purpose. Very few understand just how integral she is to His death, His resurrection, and His own inheritance.

Look at this verse:

Rom 4:25 Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.

The word ‘for’, which appears twice in this verse, should actually read “through”, because it is both times, translated from the Greek word ‘dia’, which means ‘through’ and from which we get our English word ‘diameter’, which is the distance ‘through’ a circle to the other side. What this verse reveals is that Christ was delivered up to be crucified ‘through’ our offenses, and was raised from the dead ‘through’ our justification. That is just how integral His own wife is to His inheritance. She is given to him “through death”, and this is all typified by God causing a symbolic “deep sleep” to fall upon Adam, and taking a rib from him and making of that rib a wife which He then brings to Adam. That is the spiritual significance of the word ‘sleep’ in the story of the institution of marriage.

The spiritual meaning of “flesh and bone”

Let’s notice carefully what we are being told about Eve’s origins:

Gen 2:23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.

Eve coming “out of Adam”, for those with eyes to see, reveals that Christ Himself is the one out of whom Adam came. Christ is the Word who said “Let us make man in our image…”, and that is exactly from whence we are told Adam came:

Col 1:16 For by him [Christ] were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:

The scriptures teach that when God creates another, a second for that which He created first, under those circumstances, that which is first, becomes the stronger, and becomes the head of that which was created for the first and preeminent creation.

Here are the scriptures which make this spiritual lesson so clear:

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

Christ was created before the man, Adam was created before the woman, and the Father is He “of whom are all things” (1Co 8:6). This is the lesson of the institution of marriage. “Through death, “a deep sleep”, the wife of the first Adam came out of Adam, just as the wife of the last Adam “through death”, comes out of Christ” to be “bone of [His] bones, and flesh of [His] flesh”. All of this is done for the purpose of showing us that a married couple are to be “one flesh”, spiritually typifying the one spiritual mind of the one body of Christ and His bride.

Gen 2:24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

While the earthy type is created in a “marred… made to be destroyed” condition and composition, the spiritual anti-type is being made to be of an “immortal” condition and composition, “a spiritual body”. The first Adam is of this earth, earthy. Nevertheless he is a figure of the last man Adam:

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

Jer 18:4 And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.

Rom 5:14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam’s transgression, who is the figure [Greek, tupos, type] of him that was to come.

Rom 8:20 For the creature was made [‘”marred… in the Potter’s hand”] subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,

1Co 15:44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
1Co 15:45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
1Co 15:46 Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.
1Co 15:47 The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.
1Co 15:48 As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.
1Co 15:49 And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.

Why Did God give Adam a woman instead of another man?

Why are women called “the weaker vessel”?

“Adam called his wife’s name Eve because she was the mother of all living.”

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

Here is the meaning of the Hebrew word ‘Eve’ the name Adam gave his wife.

H2332
חוּה

chavvâh
khav-vaw’
Causative from H2331; lifegiver; Chavvah (or Eve), the first woman: – Eve.

The wife was made for the husband for the purpose of giving life to others by her husband. Witness the billions and billions who have come “through the woman”.

As unpopular as it is to just read it out of the Bible, the apostle Paul, under the inspiration of the holy spirit, tells us that this headship of God over Christ, and Christ being the head of the man, and the man being the head of the woman, is all ordained to be symbolized by a man having short hair and thereby having an “uncovered… head”. The very same symbol of submission to God’s ways is also symbolized by a woman having her head covered by her long hair:

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

And what is the point being made by the holy spirit?

1Co 11:8 For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man. [and Christ for His Head]
1Co 11:9 Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man. [As the man was created for Christ]
1Co 11:10 For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels [the messengers of Christ].

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

1Co 11:13 Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered?

So exactly what does “uncovered” mean?:

1Co 11:14 Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?
1Co 11:15 But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering.

1Co 11:16 But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom [of long haired men and short haired women], neither the churches of God.

Just like outward adultery and outward fornication demonstrate our infidelity to the spiritual laws of God, so does a man having long hair, and a woman having short hair, demonstrate that we are not very worried about our Lord’s spiritual commandments.

Please do not think that we should begin measuring the hair of our brothers and start setting limits on exactly what is to be considered as long hair, and what is to be considered as short hair. We do not want to think above what is written, but we do want to be faithful to what is written, and let the holy spirit do its own convicting work within each man and woman.

What all of this reveals is that this is the exact same submissive, fruitful function that Christ fulfills for His head, His God the Father:

Let’s put these two sections of scripture together and see if we can see what the institution of marriage reveals to us:

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

Col 1:15 Who [Christ, whose “head… is God”] is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:

Why must Christ be “the firstborn of every creature”? Here is why:

Col 1:16 For [Greek, ‘hoti’, because] by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
Col 1:17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
Col 1:18 And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
Col 1:19 For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;

Nowhere in the New Testament is there any mention of anyone in “the Godhead” other than Christ and His Head, “the Father of whom are all things” (1Co 8:6). It is the lesson we are taught by the institution of marriage which delivers us from the yoke of the false doctrine of a trinitarian Godhead. We are told that the invisible things are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even the Godhead:

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:

We are not left to speculate which “things that are made” make the “Godhead” to be clearly seen. We are told throughout the New Testament that “the head of Christ is God”, and we are told that “the Father” Himself is the “one God”, and that besides that “one God, the Father of whom are all things, [there is also] one Lord Jesus Christ by whom [like Eve, “the mother of all living”] are all things.” There is no mention of “third person” in the Godhead.

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

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

Just a few verses later we are made to know just how integral Christ is to His Head and just how integral Christ’s wife is to Him:

1Co 11:12 For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things of God.

“The man is by the woman” tells us that Christ is a woman to His head, His “one God, the Father, of whom are all things…” (1Co 8:6). “The man” came by Christ, as Col 1:16 make so clear:

Col 1:16 For [Greek, ‘hoti’, because] by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:

There certainly is not room in the institution for a third “coequal” head, and it is the institution of marriage which teaches us that “the head of Christ is God”.

Just as a marred creature, such as these Adamic vessels of clay, is a very accurate “figure” of “the last man Adam”, so too, is the physical institution of marriage an accurate type of the relationship between Christ and His Creator and His head, His “one God the Father. The institution of marriage also teaches us that we are the weaker vessel, the called-out bride of our husband and our head and our Creator, Christ. But the institution of marriage also reveals to us that Christ is “the weaker vessel”, in His relationship with His head and His Creator the “one God, the Father, of whom are all things”, including Christ, by whom the Father has chosen to give life to all men.

Conclusion

The institution of marriage shows us “clearly” what is the Godhead (Rom 1:20). It shows us that the Father was, is and always will be the head of Christ (1Co 11:3). It shows us that Christ is “subject unto the Father” (1Co 15:28), just as the church is “subject unto Christ in all things” (Eph 522-24). These are spiritual lessons which the institution of marriage impart to us. This is why God gave Adam a wife instead of another man. This wife, He tells us, came “out of the man”. It is through the institution of marriage that we are taught that the wife is “the weaker vessel” (1Pe 3:7), by whom “all living” came into this world (1Co 11:12). It is the institution of marriage between male and female which shows us we are to ‘bear fruit’ (Gen 1:28). It is the institution of marriage which the scriptures use to demonstrate for us that Christ’s relationship to His Father is as “the weaker vessel” (Joh 14:28), His “life giver” (Col 1:16) who, in the end will be “subject to Him who put all things under Him” (1Co 15:28).

1Co 15:28 And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God [“the Father of whom are all things”] may be all in all.

There is nothing about the institution of marriage which so much as hints at Christ being “co-substantial, coequal, and co-eternal” with His Father. There is nothing about the institution of marriage which even hints at a trinitarian Godhead. Instead what we are clearly told many years after Christ had returned to His Father, is that “the head of Christ is [still] God” (1Co 11:3), that “it pleased the Father that in Him should all the fulness of the Godhead dwell”, and that the Father is “but one God, of whom are all things, [and besides this “one God of whom are all things” there is also] one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom [like Eve] are all things”. What we are told that Christ, the anti-type of the first Adam, “is the first born of every creature, For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:” We are even told in very clear language, which confirms the witness and lessons of the institution of marriage, that “the holy spirit” is “the holy spirit of God [the] one God, of whom are all things”:

Eph 4:30 And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.

Then finally we are told is that Christ will subject every man who has ever lived, along with every creature and every power in heaven and in earth to Himself, and that He will then, “be subject unto [His]… Head” just as “wives [are to be] subject unto their husbands in all things”.

All of this demonstrates scripturally how the institution of marriage helps us to ‘clearly see the invisible things of the Godhead’ (Rom 1:20). All of these scriptures demonstrate how the institution of marriage teaches us that all men come through Christ who is “the weaker vessel” in His relationship to His Head, His Father. All these scriptural witnesses teach us that Christ is also His Father’s Eve, His Father’s “life giver” and that through Christ, our “life-giver”, the very definition of the name ‘Eve,’ we will all “in [our] own order” be imparted an “immortal… spiritual body”.

Through the institution of marriage we learn that while we are the sons of Christ, we are at the same time also His bride, and He is our husband. In the same way, the institution of marriage teaches us that “the things that are made” (Rom 1:20), teach us that while Christ is the son of God and He too, is at the same time, the Father’s “life giver”, the Father’s ‘Eve’, the Father’s wife. “The head of Christ is God” (1Co 11:3).

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