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The Song of Solomon: God’s Purpose for Taking the Woman out of the Man,  Part 2

[Study Aired February 4, 2026]

God designed a woman’s cognition, her superego, to be more easily manipulated (1Tim 2:14) than the male’s; thus, her perception is that God insulted her intelligence, not only by making her a more physically delicate, a “weaker vessel”, and intelligence equal to Adam’s, but processed differently, yet highly subject to sentimentalism. The humiliating imputation of childishness and ignorance now shapes her decision-making. Eve’s pride stubbornly refuses to be washed by the Lord’s infinite wisdom, deeply resentful that it should be accomplished by Adam rather than through her intelligence. Adam, now emasculated by Eve’s resolute rejection of his headship and to keep the peace, demurely, nonetheless equally bitterly, submits (Col 3:19; Gen 3:16).

Upon gazing on and eating the forbidden fruit, Eve, her body swayed by a myriad of sensory messages, was more influenced by them than by the rational prudence of following her Lord’s command—her conscience being temporarily emboldened by inherent nature, playing a power game over Adam. Now guilt-stricken, having been discovered by her Lord, she felt the new sensation of nakedness. Her pride caused her to feel insulted and ashamed that her emotional intelligence had made her feel weaker than Adam’s. Even though he was not deceived, his reasoning was compromised differently, being willingly led captive by the original ‘silly woman’; however, she was left feeling openly insulted by her witlessly flawed rationale, while Adam seemed to have successfully passed the buck, excusing himself.

2Ti 3:6  For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts.

Now, she indirectly, and at times erratically, blames Adam for feeling unloved—and she is correct. By his own devices, he is trapped, subservient to Eve’s whims, without understanding how to escape his curse, servile to hers. Eve is now fearful of her future, semiconsciously anxious that Adam will abandon her again. So, what does any strong, independent, and courageous woman do? She takes control, unaware that her stance is affecting all women, making her far less attractive to males. The most desperate females resort to same-gender affection, where we shall later see that ‘breasts’ represent a now greater power and authority than a male or husband’s damaged headship. For Adam, the concept of dying for eating the forbidden fruit was too esoteric and distant; what wasn’t unambiguous was Eve’s beauty, which his mind and body undeniably demonstrated for mutual intrigue—she is the reality of what he patently could see and feel. As we all battle, though less and less, Adam, vaguely aware of death, unconsciously foreshadowed Esau’s like mind, both of them much preferring to satiate their senses and risk the inevitability of death than to deny their lusts.

Gen 25:32  And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me? 

Pro 11:2  When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom [for this cause, obedience, soundly eliminating guilt]. 

Pro 15:33  The fear of the LORD is the instruction of wisdom; and before honour is humility.

1Co 8:1  Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.

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. 

1Co 8:2  And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.

Shame is closely associated with dishonour, and glory in victory is a form of honour. All three are names for the state of one’s perceived worth, measured against virtuous dogma, and for us, God’s word, which stimulates deep emotions of humiliation or righteous glory. Again, it is the event, not the name of the event, that causes us to hide, even cringe, from the underlying mental anguish.

1Co 15:42  So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:
1Co 15:43  It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power:

Rom 9:21  Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour? 

Having been forced to leave her first estate in submission to her Babylonian husband, the embryonic Bride of Christ, in her journey, feels more the prideful shame of humiliation for feeling culpable, rather than the new and confusing experience of guilt, typifying her emotions. Eve unconsciously did what we all have done in our eternally vain attempt to avoid humiliation by deludedly trying to absolve ourselves of blame by accusing some external enchantment as an excuse to avoid the shame of ignorance (Rom 2:15). Of course, Adam, too, was subsequently struck with a greater sense of shame and resultant humiliation for being directly accountable to God, his undeclared conscience acknowledging his guilt not only for himself but also for his wife. As with mankind, that shame and guilt were temporal; he was now cursed to bow before Eve for an emblematic six thousand years, and she, for the same timeframe, seeking the love she (as the wilderness church) tearfully craved and would never receive.

Rom 2:14  For when the Gentiles [Now Adam and Eve], 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;)

Pro 12:16  A fool’s wrath is presently known: but a prudent man covereth shame [with acknowledgment of guilt]. 

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.

It was Eve’s easily swayed feminine wisdom, covertly acquired from Satan and masquerading as an angel of light, now her unwitting father, that she, with minimal female persuasiveness, likewise beguiled Adam. Adam, too, felt humiliated, as do all husbands and men today, for righteously claiming headship over their wives, slurred by accusations of patriarchal misogyny, mean, heartless and unloving for acknowledging the insultingly termed ‘weaker vessel’ requiring authoritative headship. He has now joined his wife in unity with their newly acquired father of lies, he, injured in his privy, and she, in her heart; likewise, her womb in pain and often fruitlessness, pictured spiritually. Both centres of emotional bonding are representative of Aaron’s ephod, resting on his heart, embedded with the twelve stones representing Israel, and her supposed unified heart with her Lord’s, the centre of representative spiritual ravishment for each other. (Exo 28:15-21)

Generally, a man feels less shame and guilt for his physical nakedness than a woman who is subject to body dysmorphia, diligently disguising her imperfections, and is more eager for validation from other women than from a male. She is streetwise, knows that he is more heavily influenced by her sexually provocative expressions—how she cunningly uses her presentation, having more impact than her appearance. A man, on the other hand, feels humiliated by being verbally identified as unintelligent by other men, and even more so by their silently burning eyes critically. It’s even more humiliating when women dismiss him with condescension, especially his wife reminding him starkly of his emasculation.

1Ki 21:7  And Jezebel his [Ahab’s] wife said unto him, Dost thou now govern the kingdom of Israel? arise, and eat bread, and let thine heart be merry: I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite. 

Dan 4:17  This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones: to the intent that the living may know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the basest of men.

The following verses initially seem to taunt women, as they are emblematic of the journey of both men and women in the Church to utterly recognise the headship of the espousal Husband, directly pointing to Christ’s submission to his denotative Husband, the Father. They powerfully announce the order of headship.

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 3:2  While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.
1Pe 3:3  Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;
1Pe 3:4  But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
1Pe 3:5  For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:

Women’s wound from Eden is now mankind’s wound, compounding his curse, of them both being spiritually bitten by the Serpent, all designed to bring us in unity with Christ eventually. She now represents the serpent-corrupted church; a physically and particularly spiritually harrowing journey is set in motion to bring forth the incorruptible seed, Christ. We hope to see that the Shulamite-Bride ‘disadorns’ herself of her self-styled dogma, designed by her to highlight her needs and overshadow her Husband’s, Christ’s gift of ministries (1Ki 1:4), designed to ravish her righteously, so that she might respond in unity.

Gen 3:15  And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
Gen 3:16  Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

Women, by their feminine nature, amplified by Eve’s curse, are insulted because they physically cannot exist without the male’s physical strength and focus on designing machinery and mechanisms to make their lives more bearable and protect them from marauding wild animals and beastly men. She is thus traumatised, irksomely forced to acknowledge male headship and rulership, particularly in marriage inwardly, pride never allowing her to reverence and honour his authority. It all is mirrored in Adam as that supposed head, now with Satan as his father, striving to recover their Lord’s authority vainly.

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.

Eve’s instinct of being the “weaker vessel” traumatises her intellectual capacity to be perceived as ‘weaker’ by males when, all along, that was not the Lord’s rationale. Nonetheless, her supposition is designed to dramatically amplify dissent against his headship. Punctually for the coming end times, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, in the early 1970s, a primary founder of the feminist movement, coined the iconic term “I dissent”, inciting disgruntled women to vociferously challenge, nonetheless, unrighteous religious patriarchy, overflowing to challenge any masculine trait imperilling female sagacity.

It’s a Red Pill (Google “red” and “blue pill”) for Babylonian women, the unsettling, inescapable truth that, as the song says, “This is a Man’s World,” they do not realise that it’s, the blue pill of reality for life-saving change in them both, the Elect has readapted, “This is Christ and His Christs'” world—but it would be nothing without the Bride!

In this section, which serves as a valuable reference, James Brown wrote and performed the blues song in 1966. Since then, many singers have sung stirring renditions, with some being Etta James, Seal, Krise Eden of The Voice TV series, and my favourite, Renée Geyer — crank it up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zT4-pRXeHg

Lyrics: This is a man’s world

This is a man’s world
But it wouldn’t be nothing
Nothing without a woman or a girl, ooh

You see, man made the car to take us over the road and
Man made the train to carry the heavy load
Man made electric light to take us out of the dark
Man made the boat for the water
Like, like Noah made the ark

This is a man’s, a man’s world, ooh
But it would mean nothing
Nothing without, without a woman or a girl
Without a woman or a girl

Man thinks about the little bitty baby girls
And the baby boys see
Man makes them happy
Cause man made them toys
And after man make everything
Everything he can
You know that man makes money to buy from other man

This is a man’s, a man’s world ooh
But it wouldn’t be nothing
Not one little thing no
Without a woman or a girl
Without a woman or a girl

Man needs a woman
He’s got to have a woman
Man, he needs a woman
He’s got to have a woman [All bold Grant’s]

Man makes everything he can
But you see a woman makes a better man
A woman makes a better man
This is a man’s, a man’s world ooh
But it would mean nothing
Not one little thing no
Without a woman or a girl, no
Without a woman or a girl, no
It would mean nothing

This is a man’s world[end]

The pinnacle of God’s creation is Christ, and they both agree on the creation of man. From Adam comes the extraction of a highly potent tincture of female essence, bringing a complex mixture of companionable joy (and unforeseen bitter experiences) to her husband, for his deliberate rejection of taking the lead in his marriage, preferring to appease Eve’s sentiments. Out of that sorry state, and as the song says, “But you see, a woman makes a better man”, for us, meaning mankind, through the Bride initiates by example, the New Adam, the ‘better man’ in all. She does that through the resulting trials of her curse, and the effect Adam’s curse has on her and him. In that she involuntarily makes the seeming incongruent blessing of a better man, as in the New Adam, if she knew her role carnally, she would pride herself on her prowess. Yet the younger sister doesn’t boast in her God-given duty, which causes her husband bitterness, since she understands that her espoused resistance is happening to her, the New Adam in Christ.

By God’s design, through the challenging experience of turbulent relationships, and distinctively in marriage, a Babylonian wife does make a better Adam by “His [Christ’s] wonderful works to the children of men”, the beauty of the New Man in Christ (Psa 107:21-31) as he sees himself in everything he hypocritically accuses her of doing (Mat 7:5). It forges him into being a gold-like image of Christ. For a righteous husband, the experience is initially a bitter paradox, akin to Hosea-like misery, engendering much drama and chaos for our declining old man. His misery sharply decreases as he recognises that his lack of wifely intimacy in the dawning New Man reflects how he, as a symbolic wife to Christ, has likewise treated him spiritually! Conceptualised by Adam’s life-giving body, out of him comes “Eve, the Mother of All Living”, evoking his harlot nature, engendering the New Adam—the ‘better man’.

Pro 31:12  She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.

Ecc 3:11  He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
Ecc 3:12  I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life.

Separating the female element from Adam was necessary for God to provide a means of creating carnal baby versions of Himself to mature through trials of rejecting God’s headship, necessitating chastisements and death, learning to honour the majesty and order of headship profoundly, and then reunite them as one spiritually in Him forever.

Absurdly, to our corruptible Old Man, the building of him is our Lord destroying him. To accomplish that,

He must divide Adam against himself.

Mat 12:25  And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand:

Luk 20:17  And he beheld them, and said, What is this then that is written, The [foundation corner stone, and keystone head, both critical to the Temple’s structure] which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner? 
Luk 20:18  Whosoever shall fall upon that stone shall be broken; but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder. 

The consequences of rejecting Christ, the foundation stone slightly out of place, critically affect the rest of the structure, unlocking the doorway keystone and breaching the wall.

Isa 30:12  Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness [by the coup of headship], and stay thereon [the throne of God]:
Isa 30:13  Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant. 
Isa 30:14  And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters’ vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit [because the pieces are unrecoverable, being ground to powder].

Always remembering that Eve (and Adam) represent every Elect’s experiences, and now that Adam has effectively handed over his headship to Eve, her pride is deeply traumatised by her humiliation from perceived ignorance of withheld and intriguing information. Driven by pride, she subconsciously feels that since she can’t rescue her honour by being equal to God’s intelligence, as symbolised by God aligning Adam’s headship with his own, her intuition is that Adam’s intelligence demonstrates her apparent inferiority. To save face and retain honour, she must somehow maintain power and authority; no greater authority exists than that of ruling over espousal intimacies. Its pattern is deeply etched in every IWWB study, and those preceding the Song of Solomon are represented physically by the Shulammite in a chaste, sexual manner; the New Adam in Christ sees spiritually.

Now that Adam has submitted to his privy, he is terminally vulnerable to Eve’s intractable whims overruling his ‘desire’ for unity in mind, spirit and body on all levels of espoused interactions. She is to be cursed ‘against’ Adam, rejecting his headship, typifying mankind’s rejection of Christ, the dominating theme of the Bible.

In that men are created with the intrinsic nature of being problem solvers, a double-whammy resulting from his submission to Eve is that he is now forever carnally unable to preempt the New Covenant command to wash his wife by the word to solve their marital disharmony, as is clandestinely portrayed by Old Israel’s rejection of her Husband’s commands. Correspondingly, in Babylon, all men and husbands recognise most troublingly that women, and especially wives, resolutely rule them sexually. Wives, in opposition to their husbands’ authority, holding the key to all boudiour intimacy, innately know their power, and are in constant variance for him to even righteously ‘fix’ their intimacy differences since all she can see is him ‘fixing’ them to suit his sexual appetite—paradoxically, we hope to see, parallels the Lord of the Old Covenant’s same appetite to have Israel connect with his Word.

While in the flesh, men are now forever having to contend with Eve’s emblematic 200,000,000 artifices (Eccl 7:29 – “inventions”, always indicative of mankind’s) demanding Adam endlessly validate and comfort her — an ingratiating apology for the incredible dilemma initiated by Adam, and executed by Eve (1Ti 2:14), the espousal disunity they now faced outside of the Garden. Of course, time heals their pain, but her craving to be validated by her commanding methodology lives on forever at a bitter cost of Leah-like disunified intimacy with Jacob, reflected in every carnal marriage, exceedingly spiritually.

Consequently, the Lord, since Adam’s discharge from the Garden, is recreating a tiny remnant, again taken out of him, recreating the New Adam, now his Bride, united in Him eternally – to the non-spiritual mind, a complexity esoterically too deep. She is Adam’s expressive Temple of peace, the incipient New Jerusalem in which he resides, and she, in him, as the Bride in Christ.

Mat 12:25  And Jesus knew their [the Pharisees’] thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand:

Joh 2:19  Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. 
Joh 2:20  Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?
Joh 2:21  But he spake of the temple of his body.

1Co 3:16  Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
1Co 3:17  If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are. 

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. 

Universally, women see the notion of Eve’s curse condemning all women to be “against husbands” as utterly ludicrous, engendering greater resistance against men’s, and particularly a husband’s, rulership. To analyze the truth of the matter, it is expedient not to rework what Mike (Vinson) has already deftly affirmed scripturally (with a couple of additional emphases). He says,

Mike: ‘No, the Lord did not bless you wives with “your submission shall be to your husband.” It is beyond question that He tells the wives, and us husbands who are also the wives of Christ, “You will want to control your husband,” along with the [unsettling, nonetheless ultimately the…] reassuring words that, in the end, “He shall rule over you.”

Every woman in this fellowship professes to want to be subject to Christ, their spiritual husband (2Co 11:2). So, ask yourself, if you are hearing or reading this study, are you honestly even interested in being subject to your physical husband as unto the Lord? Do you really want to be “the light of the world” and demonstrate who Christ really is to this world?

Mat 5:14 Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.

Do we, as husbands, think these words do not apply to our wives, whom we profess we love? Who do we credit with the way our wives treat us? Ask yourselves that question. If you or I hold our wives responsible for their faults, then we are the world’s greatest hypocrites because we are more than willing to acknowledge that “it is not I that do it, but sin that dwells in me” when it comes to our own sins, but we cannot accept that God has placed that same “law of sin” into the members of our beloved wives. We can cry out to God for ourselves, “O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord…” but we cannot do the same for our beloved wives, whose curse is our curse:

Gen 3:16  Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to [H413 Hebrew: ‘el’ against] thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

In the very next chapter, we read:

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 [Hebrew: ‘el’, against] thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt 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 [H413 Hebrew: ‘el‘, against] Abel his brother, and slew him.

Sin is personified in these verses and is said to be ‘against’ Cain, just as Cain was “against Abel, his brother, and slew him” in the very next verse.

Notice, the exact same words the Lord spoke to Eve about her relationship with her husband are the very same words and phrases spoken here of sin’s relationship with Cain: “Your desire shall be against your husband, and he shall rule over you… and against you shall be [sin’s] desire, and you shall rule over him [sin!].”

Our wives can no more, of themselves, overcome being against us than Eve could have chosen to submit to Adam in all things. Neither can “the law of sin in our (wives’) members” choose to submit to us in all things. It is Christ who is ‘working all things after the counsel of His own will’, and all things certainly include my spouse and your spouse, whom He has made to be against us, just as we have been marred in the hand of our husband, “The Potter”:

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

The verbs in Jeremiah 18:4 are in the Hebrew Qal stem, indicating an ongoing process. That is the glorious process and guaranteed consummation of the ages.

Just as surely as “a city that is built on a hill cannot be hid”, so also your blasphemous hypocrisy cannot be hidden from your husband or the world.

Tit 2:4 That they [“the aged women”, (vs 3)] may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,
Tit 2:5 To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

God does not play mind games. He is the one who gives us our thoughts and ‘turns us to destruction’. However, then He says, “Return, you children of men”. He ‘makes us err from His ways’, and then He makes us return to Himself:

Psa 90:3 Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.

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

So, I am not holding you responsible for what you do as your husband’s wife. All I am here to tell you is that it is God who works “in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure”, and I am here to tell you that it is “His good pleasure [to] work in you” the repentance which He requires of us all:

Php 2:12 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
Php 2:13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

Which “good pleasure” includes:

Rev 2:5 Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.

Either we tremble at his word or don’t, and He knows what is in our hearts. You wives are commanded to “remember” what it was like when you were first so much in love with your husband. Remember when you aspired to submit to and please him “as unto the Lord”. Look at Titus 2:5 again. Think very carefully about what you are reading in that verse. When you fail to submit to and obey your husband, you are “blaspheming the word of God” before your husband and, before your children, and before the whole world to whom you [the Church] are supposed to be “the light of the world”‘. [Mike, end]

The matter concludes that a wife’s inherent nature is to formulate relational strategies against her husband to achieve her desires; her most biblically significant motivation is to act as the gatekeeper of bedroom intimacies, indicative of Orthodox Christianity’s rulership of the laity — this serves as the central theme for Solomon by the incitement of the holy spirit that inspired the Song of Songs reversal of the God-given torpidity of wives ministering espousal dues to their husbands, where he would eagerly reside, leading most husbands eventually musing death as the better option (Ecc 7:26)… it did, Christ.

1Ch 29:1  Furthermore David the King said unto all the congregation, Solomon my son, whom alone God hath chosen, is yet young and tender, and the work is great: for the palace [Palace, castle, temple] is not for man [emblematic of the Bride], but for the LORD God. 

Luk 11:21  When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace:
Luk 11:22  But when a stronger than he shall come upon him, and overcome him, he taketh from him all his armour wherein he trusted, and divideth his spoils.
Luk 11:23  He that is not with me is against me: and he that gathereth not with me scattereth.

Mar 9:38  John said to Him, “Teacher, we saw someone else driving out demons in Your name, and we tried to stop him, because he does not accompany us.”
Mar 9:39  “Do not stop him,” Jesus replied. “For no one who performs a miracle in My name can turn around and speak evil of Me.
Mar 9:40  For whoever is not against us is for us.
Mar 9:41  Indeed, if anyone gives you even a cup of water because you bear the name of Christ, truly I tell you, he will never lose his reward.

We all initially are against Christ, rejecting him as our husband while remaining espoused, paradoxically, for us in transition to becoming his Wife.

At creation, Eve’s intoxicating female characteristics, physically, psychologically, and spiritually expressed in every glorious movement of her entire ensemble, are designed in women to deliberately arouse every male sexually, and ideally, one, her phenomenally blessed husband. While in Eden, before Adam’s sin, the couple epitomised the seemingly perfect physical marriage, glorying in each other’s beautifully designed bodies and minds complementing each other. By God’s design, Adam and Eve, immediately upon the Devil’s instigation of lust, ate the forbidden fruit and unwittingly initiated the arduous process of destroying the Temple (Joh 2:19) within, Christ’s recreating it in a figurative three days.

1Co 1:28  And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:
1Co 1:29  That no flesh should glory in his presence.
1Co 1:30  But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
1Co 1:31  That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.

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