Romanticism Holds Husbands to Ransom, Escalating the Idolisation of Women—An Artifice of The Great Whore, – Part 1

[Study Aired April 15, 2026]

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)

How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow. (Rev 18:7)

The objective of this study is to spotlight the insidiously harmful female tendency that, for a wife to show any interest in marital intimacy, her husband must consistently nurture her emotional affections daily. However, when her singular focus is on him, it is true, as he is glad to do so. The issue with overly emphasizing this romantic “invention” is that, since leaving Eden and burdened by her curse—symbolized by being ‘injured in her breasts’—endless emotional displays by a husband ‘injured in his privy and stones’ have never truly fostered a deep connection with any wife. Even akin to the ‘queen’ in Revelation 18:17, representing The Great Whore, who, and typified by Solomon’s 1,000 wives who have servants, handmaidens, and abundant riches at her disposal, such displays have never prompted their daily, focused, vibrant, youthful-like intimacy.

Romanticism gradually evolved over the centuries into an unquestioned social adage, upheld by women and wives as the primary means of feeling loved. Through men’s lust for legitimate and illegitimate sexual intimacies with women and husbands with wives, advanced by poets, playwrights and songsters and filling the coffers of corporate overreach, “romanticism” has become the incontestable anchor for female ravishment before she could seriously consider a potential suitor.

To elucidate this dictum, one may retrospectively inquire whether Christ ‘romanced’ His first wife in Old Israel and His Bride, today, through the same contemporary methods for her to feel ravished by him which modern women demand of men. This study aims to explore and substantiate the title, “Romanticism Holds Husbands to Ransom, Escalating the Idolization of Women—An Artifice of The Great Whore.” 

Ecc 7:27  Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account:
Ecc 7:28  Which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found. 
Ecc 7:29  Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they [men and women] have sought out many inventions [H2810].

Inventions H2810 – 1. to think, plan, esteem, calculate, invent, make a judgment, imagine, count 

1- (Qal) 1. to think, account 2. to plan, devise, mean. Strong’s: From H2803; a contrivance that is actual (a warlike machine) or mental (a machination): – engine invention. 

Consistently stated in the earlier Introductory Studies, the ultimate difficulty Eve has with Adam is his substantial abdication of headship, meaning that he’s symbolically injured in his privy and stones, unable to consistently and righteously head and lead his wife, Eve. His now unconsciously feminized leadership doesn’t ravishingly contrast her femininity with his, defying the natural order of how God designed male and female attraction, and thus she is naturally feeling apathetic to be ravished by him, emblematically, another ‘female’. Unconsciously, that causes her an unsettling problem in not wanting sexual intimacy effectively with ‘another woman.’ To satisfy her sensory needs, as Adam does, she ambivalently requires the distinct contrast of each other’s body’s unique reactions to imprint their minds on and in each other spiritually in profound unity. However, since Adam gifted her, for the most part, his headship to her, his now characterized injured privy and stones, although fully functionally biologically, still profoundly represent his headship, the very thing her newly acquired “wisdom” upon her deception in Eden, she now chaotically has a love/hate relationship, biased towards hate.

Psa 81:11  But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me.

In Eden, the Serpent tempted Eve and deceived her into believing that she would become as wise as God. (Deu 6:16)  “Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.” Massah means “despair” and “test” From H5254 – 1. to test, try, prove, tempt, assay, put to the proof or test. Thus, Eve tested Adam to see if he really was her head, and consequently proved that he wasn’t, so now she steps up to the plate as the ‘wise’ one, effectuating Ecc 7:23  “All this have I tried by wisdom; I [She] said: ‘I will get wisdom’; but it was far from me”. Wisdom H2451 – meaning 1. Wisdom a. skill (in war) b. wisdom (in administration) c. shrewdness, wisdom d. Wisdom, prudence (in religious affairs), remained far from Eve because she was deceived.

Notice that the holy spirit gave the term “wisdom” figuratively the female gender, typifying Eve’s tremendously powerful quest to be as wise as God.

Pro 1:20  Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets: 
Pro 1:21  She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying, 
Pro 1:22  How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity [Naivete, open-minded {woke feminist methodologies to sustain dominance}]? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? 

Since Christ, her Husband, has exalted his Bride, “she” is the one in her streets within the gates of heavenly Jerusalem, preparing herself for Him by passionately dedicating each day to ravishing her Lord spiritually rather than insisting that for her to feel the least bit aroused to begin intimacy, he must ‘romanticize’ her.

Pro 4:5  Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my [Christ’s] mouth [whose kisses are better than wine’s amplified joy]. 
Pro 4:6  Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.
Pro 4:7  Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
Pro 4:8  Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her.
Pro 4:9  She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee.

Mat 11:19  The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.

It is the God-given wisdom that the Bride has been justified by her Husband’s faith that she is justified to bring forth her children, the world in the Resurrection to Judgment.

The Bride’s Wisdom G4678 is a combination of the meanings above in the Hebrew H2451 and G4658, which means – wisdom, broad and full of intelligence; used of the knowledge of very diverse matters.

1- the wisdom which belongs to men. 

2- spec. the varied knowledge of things human and divine, acquired by acuteness and experience, and summed up in maxims and proverbs. 

3- The science and learning. 

4- The act of interpreting dreams and always giving the sagest advice. 

5- The intelligence evinced in discovering the meaning of some mysterious number or vision. 

6- Skill in the management of affairs. 

7- Devout and proper prudence in intercourse [discourse – note the spiritual intimate connection] with men not disciples of Christ, skill and discretion in imparting Christian truth. 

8- The knowledge and practice of the requisites for Godly and upright living. 

9- supreme intelligence, such as belongs to God. 

10- to Christ. 

11- The wisdom of God as established in forming and executing counsels in the formation and government of the world and the scriptures [by Babylonian Christian beliefs]. 

All from G4680 compared with G5429, representative of her heart beneath her breasts 1. intelligent, wise 2. prudent, i.e. mindful of one’s interests. And take particular note of where G5429 comes from in G5424 – 1. the midriff or diaphragm, the parts of the heart 2. the mind a. the faculty of perceiving and judging, [… meaning in her breasts, the epicentre of her emotions that drive her heart and mind to express their ministrations to her husband]. 

By connection, it is the Bride’s midriff and breasts being a “wall” in Son 8:10,  meaning 1. to fence in, block up, stop up, close up 2. to put to silence, when it says “I am a wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in his eyes as one that found favour.” Son 8:10, and not ‘then was he in my eyes as one that found favour’.

However, in Eden, Adam’s largely abandonment of headship over Eve caused her to now distrust his judgment in all matters, is evidently well grounded, since he was apparently right there beside her when she lusted with her eyes and no doubt her olfactory, touch and the overruling argument in her mind with the Serpent’s seemingly more rational viewpoint, that did God really say that they would surely die, when death in the brand new beast world they lived in, likely hadn’t yet had time to cause death be evident… so, and anyway, what did this esoteric meaning of death really mean — similarly to everyone in Noah’s time, what is rain and a flood until it happens; so, too, possibly was Adam and Eve’s wonderment at the idea of death. Since Adam let her down by not stepping up and enriching her emotional sentimentalities with his God-given masculine power and authority to be her most vibrant source of ‘natural’ arousal. She now, as do all women, feels cheated and resorts to solving the lack of leadership themselves—engendering the contemporary adage, “Women can do everything a man can do; even better.”

In Babylon, she now has a problem with desiring coitus, let alone daily semi-passive intimacies, which she and all women, unconscious of Eden’s curses, resist due to his lack of emotional connection—and nothing will deter her from that standpoint. Why? Because she, now leading in representing mankind and especially churches, craves beautiful things (doctrinally appealing sentiments) and all sensual pleasures that arise from her, aimed at men and husbands’ patently obvious arousals, with a dismissive eye-roll, even as she visually affirms them. Protracted anticipation is far more appealing than consummation, and to keep that heady appeal in control, she certainly doesn’t want coition to end it. So she sits as a queen, rich in sensual dainties just out of reach of the breathless males. Yet, like Ahola and Aholabah, she engages her breasts and other jewelled delights to a select number of dashing paramours to keep the laity and husband on their knees, keenly focused expectantly in ingratiating servitude for sensual opportunity. Accordingly, this study’s caption verses distinctly depict the result of the everyday ‘virtuous’ home-making wife’s swift acceptance of the now-dominating order of intimate ministrations, utterly unwittingly becoming an emblematic ‘adulteress’.

“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 6:26).

How? Lord willing, we will see, in these studies, the deception of “romanticism” as the price he pays for the “bread” of her word and methodologies that demand it and no other way for her to even begin to desire to be ravished. However, all husbands, caught between the proverbial ‘rock and a hard place’, not deceived, know her intrinsic “inventions”. Yet, to have the craved sexual intimacies correspondingly spiritually to Christ from his Bride, although strongly resisted for its nature of self-sabotage, he must lavish her with emotionally romanticized gifts, signifying adultery. Thus, as Proverbs 6:35 says, “He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts.”

For this cause, meaning he is outrageously jealous of her, reversing the order of focus from him having to minister to her, romanticized with many gifts. The concept reverses Rev 19:7 to say, ‘Let him be glad and rejoice, and give honour to me: for the marriage of the Bride is come, and her husband hath made himself ready.’

In the meantime, he, as an Elect, recognizes that this is how he, too, spiritually treats Christ his husband, just as his carnal wife is most distasteful to him, where only God’s vengeance is wrought in timeliness, maybe in the Resurrection to Judgment (Rom 12:19). 

Men, dimwittedly innocent, appear to exhibit a more genuine form of love than women, who are socialized from a young age to fall in love with the concept of love itself. The grandeur associated with love — courtship, dates, gifts, celebrating her beauty, and the most potentially damaging enthusiastic encouragement from female peers —serves to “stir up and awaken her love” (Song 2:7), though, to be in love with love. Generally, a woman’s traditional notion of romance involves being elevated above her social standing by a distinguished man she encounters, who commands presence. Suppose the man of her interest demonstrates the potential to be a good provider, is protective, healthy, well-mannered, socially respectable, and possesses qualities aligned with higher social standing. In that case, she becomes enamored of the romantic pageantry. However, since Eden’s instigations of unrighteous lusts, women and wives, if they honestly searched their hearts, know that they use romanticism’s gifted immense power over men, and particularly husbands, they weaponise for their advantage—and men not deceived, damnably know it; his idolized and thus ‘injured’ privy, ruling his ‘breast’, to incautiously throw all red flags avoiding marriage to the wind, because she is so preciously beguiling. 

The dominance of the excessively emphasised concept of “romanticism” has become intricately associated with love, rendering it a fundamentally misguided aspect of the subject. We will first review the Lord’s definition of “love”.

Scripture heavily emphasizes that true, effective love for others, and most eminently a wife, is inseparable from loving Christ, as He is the source of love. The Bible directs that loving others is a natural overflow of living and walking in God’s love, and that we cannot truly fulfill this command without a relationship with Him. 

1Jn 5:3  For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous. 

By implication, one would expect scripture to state that ‘Adam loved Eve’. However, the first use of the expression “love” or “loved” in scripture is when God tells Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac, “whom you lovest”.

Gen 22:1  And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am. 
Gen 22:2  And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest [H157], and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of. 

1Jn 4:7  Beloved [G27], let us love [G25] one another: for love [G26] is of God; and every one that loveth [G25] is born of God, and knoweth [G1097] God. 
1Jn 4:8  He that loveth not knoweth [G1097] not God; for God is love [G26].
1Jn 4:9  In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. 
1Jn 4:10  Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 
1Jn 4:11  Beloved [G27], if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. 
1Jn 4:12  No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us. 
1Jn 4:13  Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit. 
1Jn 4:14  And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world. 
1Jn 4:15  Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth [G3306] in him, and he in God. 
1Jn 4:16  And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. 
1Jn 4:17  Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world. 
1Jn 4:18  There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. 
1Jn 4:19  We love him, because he first loved us. 
1Jn 4:20  If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? 
1Jn 4:21  And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.

Every nuance of the expressions referencing “love” has the same meaning, and has direct connections to the holy spirit’s abiding dwelling (dwelleth – G3306) within, with no prerequisite of romance. “Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth [G3306] in him, and he in God” –  (1Jn 4:15).  

Beloved G27 – 1. beloved, esteemed, dear, favourite, worthy of love.

Love G25 – 1. of persons a. to welcome, to entertain, to be fond of, to love dearly 2. of things a. to be well pleased, to be contented at or with a thing.

Love G26 – 1. brotherly love, affection, goodwill, love, benevolence 2. love feasts.

Love H160 – 1. love a. human love for human object 1. of man toward man 2. of man toward himself 3. between man and woman 4. sexual desire.

Knoweth G1097 – 1. to learn to know, come to know, get a knowledge of perceive, feel a. to become known 2. to know, understand, perceive, have knowledge of a. to understand b. to know 3. Jewish idiom for sexual intercourse between a man and a woman 4. to become acquainted with, to know.

Dwelleth G3306 – 1. to remain, abide a. in reference to place 1. to sojourn, tarry 2. not to depart 1a 

1- to continue to be present 1a c. to be held, kept, continually.

1Jn 5:2  By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.
1Jn 5:3  For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.

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.

It is by God’s will that we, under the influence of Satan, have sensualized the notion of “romance” to amplify our lusts. So, commonly, when we say we love the opposite sex, that ‘love’ is heavily garnished sensually, almost always distorting the reasons to love another by God’s foundations of what constitutes love.

When the ‘root’ of our foundation of love is centered on ourselves, based on romanticism, numerous tribulations ensue, and the “root of life” in Christ, which bears the joy we ‘romantically’ desire, gradually diminishes.

Mat 13:21  Yet hath he not root in himself [in and by Christ], but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.
Mat 13:22  He also that received seed [The holy spirit’s inception] among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches [romanticism, eroticizing sensualities; doctrines], choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.

First represented sexually, God’s love is the conception of the holy spirit in us, His Bride and Wife, to bring forth the fruit of our spiritual womb, the Temple and Heavenly Jerusalem above, in utter unity with Him by keeping his commandments.

Jupiter, or Zeus in mythology, symbolizes false divinity and is associated with the idea of descent from heaven. This narrative, broadly Babylonian, depicts humanity’s fall, reminiscent of the common fallacy of Lucifer’s (Satan’s) dramatic plunge from the presence of God, which serves as a sombre reflection on the world’s place in the cosmos—earthbound and struggling to rise again by its power and might.

In Revelation, we are warned: if anyone worships the Beast and embraces its mark, they will face dire consequences, tormented by divine wrath with no rest. Contrasting this fate are the saints, whose patience is noted—those who hold fast to God’s commandments and have faith in Jesus are blessed, resting from their labours of insisting that he arouse them, their delusional good deeds on works of the flesh, following them into eternity.

Rev 14:6  And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, 
Rev 14:7  Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.

Furthermore, Revelation speaks of the abundance of temptation found in the Great Whore, whose influence, emanating from her emblematic breasts, has seduced nations and kings. The call echoes from heaven for the faithful to separate themselves, avoiding participation in her sins and the resulting plagues. This image conjures the reality that many, past and present, have worshiped humanity’s beastly nature, personified by a female figure—a representation that can ensnare both men and women alike.

Jesus challenges followers to prioritise their allegiance to Him above all earthly ties, including family and even their own lives. In Romans, we see the dire consequences of prioritizing creation over the Creator—a reminder of how truth is distorted into lies, leading to the worship of the creature, notably the woman, representative of mankind, rather than Christ and the Father.

The notion of vanity runs deep, for life under the sun can often feel futile, filled with vexation and dissatisfaction. While the moon, symbolizing femininity and churches, is a direct scriptural basis as a deity, and is worshiped in the hearts of Orthodox Christianity, reflecting Christ’s glory, seducing mankind into idolatry. Women, under the moon’s sway, can evoke passionate desires, leading to all sorts of misdeeds and moral decay, likened to the condition of ‘lunacy’—romanticism—that overwhelming lust designed by God to blind mankind to the Bride’s purpose.

Men and women are dreadfully emotional creatures, impulsively defaulting to decisions based essentially on the significations of a man’s privy and a woman’s breasts’ incitements. Because of Adam and Eve’s curses, neither can make a Christ-like rationale for mate selection. And since carnal Adam collectively represents mankind, men’s prominence as leaders and heads of wives and family, fades into ‘drone-bee’-like status, and where the female worker bees of the world’s churches and their false doctrines, effectively are royal jelly like food for the signified queen bee, the Bride of Christ.

Mat 15:13  But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up. 
Mat 15:14  Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. 

Regrettably, in Babylon, awareness of and education in the necessity of dedication, self-awareness, growth, and mutual effort for maintaining a successful, healthy, and flourishing marriage are increasingly lacking. Women frequently focus on what they can gain from the marriage rather than what they can ‘minister’ to their husband, thereby neglecting the importance of personal development, collaboration, compromise, and empathy—qualities vital to fostering a resilient relationship. Such considerations are seldom included in women’s usual reflections, since their fathers, mothers and senior peers of righteous influence are first devoid of God’s word; consequently, they often experience feelings of burden and resentment towards the responsibilities inherent in marriage, feelings of enslavement.

Ultimately, this attitude stems from her curse and from a form of selfishness—an incapacity to acknowledge that there is another individual in the relationship who also requires consideration. Instead, their attention is predominantly directed toward satisfying their own desires—such as what she wants, how she prefers it, when she wants it, and her preferred methods—often neglecting their husband’s needs and emotions (… of course, always substantiated by our Lord’s experiences with Old Israel). Societal portrayals further complicate this viewpoint by erroneously implying that men are the ones hesitant to commit, while women are viewed as nurturing, fully committed caregivers. Since Eden, this misconception is inherently flawed. 

Ideal commitment, in fact, provides stability, predictability, long-term vision, shared goals, and collaboration—attributes inherently associated with a Christ-like man. Such a man is predictable, stable, forward-looking, and (ideally) thrives on Christ’s mind, which naturally leads him to desire marriage because he loves his fiancée and aims to build a shared life. Conversely, women tend to project their internal emotional turbulence onto men, living amidst chaos and drama, states that may serve to reinforce victim narratives and externalize blame for their circumstances. This internal chaos fosters a propensity to keep options open, live with one foot out the door, and assess relationships based on whether their needs are met or if their expectations for love and lifestyle are fulfilled. Such tendencies explain why, according to various studies, approximately 70% to 80% of divorces are initiated by women. Women’s reluctance to fully commit makes it easier for them to exit relationships when dissatisfaction arises. Men, by contrast, tend to invest emotionally and rarely contemplate leaving once they have committed; they tend to work through issues and seek a ‘fix it’ resolution to conflicts. When women withdraw from commitment, it hampers the possibility of resolving marital difficulties, leading to a clash of perspectives and unmet expectations. Many women feel unprepared for the realities of marriage, believing it will be free of problems, and thus perceive their own marriages as disillusioning when faced with inevitable challenges. 

No wonder marriages are in disarray when both spouses blur gender responsibilities, with the wife considering herself the more logical head of the home and her husband’s eyes “blemished”, meaning any defect that obscures righteous discernment.

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: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. 
Mat 6:23  But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness! 
Mat 6:24  No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon [Ones self-righteousness, in this case, leadership roles]. 

Lev 21:16  And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 
Lev 21:17  Speak unto Aaron, saying, Whosoever he be of thy seed in their generations that hath any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God. 
Lev 21:18  For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous, 
Lev 21:19  Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded, 
Lev 21:20  Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken;
Lev 21:21  No man that hath a blemish of the seed of Aaron the priest shall come nigh to offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire: he hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God. 
Lev 21:22  He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy. 
Lev 21:23  Only he shall not go in unto the vail, nor come nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not my sanctuaries: for I the LORD do sanctify them. 
Lev 21:24  And Moses told it unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel.

King Josiah exemplifies the drive to eradicate idolatry within his kingdom, dismantling the practices that turned people away from God—including the worship of celestial bodies. And as Jesus healed those afflicted with various ailments, His power over demonic possession gives hope to the lunatic—the one shackled by desires for women, and women’s determination to keep men focused on her, leading to unwitting destruction, physically pointing spiritually.

The dynamics of marriage shift dramatically with the lens of authority. When a husband kneels before his fiancée, ostensibly to propose, he unwittingly submits his leadership to her whims, positioning her as an idol. This ritual symbolised a more damnable reality—many men become mere drones in the hive of worship that surrounds female idolatry, and the often unfulfilled expectations of marriage stir a longing that transcends simple physical desire. Consequently, the concept of romanticism is born in Eden with Adam’s submission to Eve. Now, utterly deluded that he can win her affections through romanticism, facilitating her John Keats ode of “endless bliss”, she soundly rules him sexually to her dogma; starkly and fearfully reminiscent of the Great Whore’s ruling doctrine. 

As we explore this theme further, we recognise that the romanticism surrounding women often surpasses even men’s pursuit of erotic experiences. This creates a complex dynamic—a manifestation of Eve’s curse that resonates through generations, perpetuating cycles of sentimentality that clash with spiritual obligations. In the following discussions on “Romanticism Escalates the Idolisation of Women,” we will delve deeper into the intersections of desire, worship, and the spiritual implications of these societal narratives.

What draws a couple together in ravishment evolves into romanticism, which involves sharing the same mindset. Jacob’s first response to Rachel is for her beauty and her understanding of the outdoors, shepherding her father’s sheep; sheep being indicative of a unified government of one mind, following their leader, eventually for the ‘field’ of mankind; a mind that causes unity in marriage that is so connected to the same spirit, it mutually ravishes their mind and spirit to engage their bodies coitally. Initially, the modern definition of romanticism never entered into Jacob and Rachel’s relationship. For want of a better expression, what was Godly-‘romantic’ was their unified mind and spirit, ultimately celebrated in coital marriage. Even though work for a man in building his business is essential to having something to present to a prospective wife, it IS his works; they represent the works of the flesh that cannot be carried forward into the Kingdom. Nobody can enter the Kingdom based on their carpentry, herd tending, metalurgy, dam building, mechanisms of instruments of war or any other occupation. He enters into what Christ has built in him by His works in the spirit. Accordingly, Jacob was designed by God to dwell in tents; he was likely disengaged from worldly occupations, for in his spirit, he knew those physical practicalities were vital to living, but couldn’t sustain a decent society without righteous governance and its compliance. God was preparing his heart, mind, body, and spirit to rule with the principles that righteously govern society and, ultimately, unity in life eternal.

An Insidious Destructive Dogma: 

Women and wives’ idolisation of romanticism rules over husbands, enslaving them desolately to indulge wives’ endless fantasies. 

Ideally, sex between a husband and wife symbolizes their united mind in Christ; therefore, it signifies His ravishing word that unites them spiritually erotically (Son 4:9). Daily exercising that ‘eroticism’ spiritually, is what the Bride does, epitomising her resting in Him from her insistence on romantic fantasies, now clearly seeing that her Lord’s methodology is an infinitely superior ‘romanticism’, we shall see, the Shulamite creation of Solomon’s enthusiastically engages. Having finally found her superior purpose of being made for one man, incredibly amplifies her reason to eagerly engage with her Husband, and fulfil her every emotionally intimate need, physically and spiritually. It’s about her submitting to learning about His inner workings, not about her declaring that he doesn’t understand her so that she can feel intimately and emotionally connected. In a carnal marriage, those bright, daily intimate conversations and affectionate touch directly correlate to the Bride’s daily connectivities with her Husband, Christ.

Heb 4:9  There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. 
Heb 4:10  For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his. 
Heb 4:11  Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.

Romanticism is rooted in the core sensuality that emerges from each gender’s erotic desires, as indicated by the Privy and Breasts studies. This desire for stimulation from the opposite sex is heightened when both individuals share similar ideologies. When one party presents themselves visually with elegance in both dress and demeanor, their social value increases, creating a romantic illusion that enhances the possibility of an erotic connection. Women, in particular, often find themselves captivated by an endless fantasy of sensual attention, encouraging their man to keep the ‘goodies’ flowing for them to feel loved as more valuable than morally indecent business advancements.

Even though Delilah and Samson nefariously played each other to gain power over the other’s nationality, Delilah, entrenched in female machinations, no doubt delighted in having that heady, seductive, romantic power over Samson. 

The ingratiating Old Man Adam, always seeking to please his wife, asks, “How can I support you when you need me most?” Evoking an ‘inventive’ air like Delilah to Samson, and expressed with a pout — ‘You don’t love me; if you loved me, you would tell me.’ It all amplifies the turbulent romanticism that females, in particular, thrive in, demanding that their emotions be sensualised to feel loved. It is especially true for a harlot, feigning in the theatre of exaggerated attention upon her patron, since she has no vested interest in a unified spirit (Pro 7:7-27).

Jdg 16:5  And the chiefs of the Philistines came up to her, and said to her, Make use of your [feminine] power over him and see what is the secret of his great strength, and how we may get the better of him, and put bands on him, so that we may make him feeble; and every one of us will give you eleven hundred shekels of silver. (BBE)

Jdg 16:10  Then Delilah said to Samson, See, you have been making sport of me with false words; now, say truly how may you be put in bands? 

Jdg 16:15  And she said to him, Why do you say you are my lover when your heart is not mine?

He who pleases her romances the idol.

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. 

We can imagine her feigned sulkiness in the following verses, as she caressed his hair and face, both of them flirtatiously enjoying the romantic charade, villainously.

Jdg 16:13  And Delilah said unto Samson, Hitherto thou hast mocked me, and told me lies: tell me wherewith thou mightest be bound. And he said unto her, If thou weavest the seven locks of my head with the web. 
Jdg 16:14  And she fastened it with the pin, and said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awaked out of his sleep, and went away with the pin of the beam, and with the web. 
Jdg 16:15  And she said unto him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when thine heart is not with me? thou hast mocked me these three times, and hast not told me wherein thy great strength lieth. 
Jdg 16:16  And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death; 
Jdg 16:17  That he told her all his heart, and said unto her, There hath not come a razor upon mine head; for I have been a Nazarite unto God from my mother’s womb: if I be shaven, then my strength will go from me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man. 

Women’s relentless craving for romantic fantasy quietly repulses men, who feel obligated to sustain the likes of Valentin’s Day, lest their women’s conditioning to feel unloved be affronted reflexively. Still, men cannot ignore their womenfolk and wives’ insistence on it, because of their constant and annoying fear of their amatory pursuits being cut short; he is doubly shackled, they both silently acknowledging his enslavement to his privy’s demands—to him, her subjugation of his honour and respect of his headship, he hates, yet submits. 

In Babylon, women ultimately view sex as an irksome necessity to sustain some semblance of marital functionality. They demand that they must be romanticised to ‘feel’ loved. He must whisper smooth, tingling sensations in her ears, validating her beauty, which he has come to realize through experience doesn’t guarantee advanced intimacy, akin to spiritual deceit, a form of worshipping ‘calves’.

Isa 30:10  Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits: 

Hos 13:2  And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.

For many men, solitude often brings a sense of tranquillity that is hard to achieve in the complexities of relationships. Much like the experiences chronicled by Solomon, the quest for fulfillment can lead a Babylonian man to seek sexual gratification with countless women. However, this pursuit often comes with the heavy burden of avoiding a partner who might threaten to dismantle the peace he has painstakingly built, seizing his wealth and security. The world sees this as tragic; the real victims in this scenario are the children, who find themselves caught in the crossfire of adult discontent. Deprived of a stable masculine influence, their formative years become a confusing tapestry of emotional challenges, leaving lasting marks on their development and understanding of healthy relationships. The major problem with the world’s view is that if the parents had their foundation of love patterned after the Shulamite’s knowledge of her Lord’s methodology, the children wouldn’t be in this quandary. In the meantime…

Pro 21:9  It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.

Jonathan’s love for his dearest friend, David, starkly endorses these bothersome realities that the breast-injured Eves of the world bring to marriage. The principle that gender doesn’t extend to the Kingdom of God indicts women’s intrinsic psychopathy, an experience of evil inevitably brought to marriage, as Old Israel, ad nauseum depicts, emblematic of the Bride’s journey through much tribulation, becoming the royal female protagonist in submission to Husband, Christ.

Mat 22:30  For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. 

Act 14:22  Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.

A man genuinely in love or imagining that he is in love with a girl of his lust (There is righteous lust as there is illicit lust. 1 Tim 3:1 G1937. G2372) knows that if he can consistently play an engaging tune on her emotional strings, she will perceive it as love: a glorious romantically bonded feeling longing for it to last forever — for the Shulamite in the Song of Solomon, it does!

2Sa 1:26  I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.
2Sa 1:27  How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished! 

There’s the answer. Women’s (the churches and the flesh) intrinsic complexities are a temporary phenomenon to bring forth the Manchild Christ for the recreation of Christ in his Christs and sons of God. It is depicted in Jonathan and David’s love for each other, spiritually transcending that of the immense sexual appeal of a woman. The profound comprehension of love exhibited by Jonathan and David exemplifies the spiritual love between Christ and His Bride.

For the Elect of God, the hope of love is initially romantic, and genuine romanticism is strongly activated when a man chooses his wife upon her acceptance. However, women, influenced by men’s lust, place the pursuit of romanticism first and foremost, before being chosen, when it should stem from their espousal commitment, exemplified by the Shulamite in the SoS. 

Undefeatedly, the world’s version of romantic love is transactional, and women, in particular, believe their beau should love them unconditionally as they are. Paradoxically, and without Christ’s commands, men must accept the female’s perplexities of birthing love in pain using her romantic methodologies — torridly, a match made in heaven for an experience of evil.

Women, driven by their enduring pain to seek romantic fulfillment, mistakenly believe it to be love, masochistically perpetuating their control over men’s breathless worship of their image. In contrast, men seek approval for their equally enduring lust and conclude romance. What a hopeless combination. Let’s not get into online video female body and fashion influencers and every female elevating fetish imaginable; they are downright humiliating… but they don’t care.

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 – A Good Conscience, Part 8

[Study Aired December 2, 2023]

A Good or Evil Conscience can be attributed to a ‘million’ scriptural applications. This study addresses only a few applicable cases the Lord provided to highlight a “good conscience”.

Repetitiously, the many nuances of an evil conscience all revert back to the Lord, creating an inescapable consciousness in Adam through the very first negative law (freely eating from every other tree being positive without encumbrances). Equally incessant, we can’t know and discuss a good conscience without seeing in light the blackness of an evil conscience by us breaching the Lord’s commandments. 

Exo 14:19  And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them:
Exo 14:20  And it [the light and the darkness are one and the same to us while in Egypt, Babylon and Old Jerusalem] came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these: so that the one came not near the other all the night. 

Gen 2:16  And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
Gen 2:17  But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

Adam and Eve, upon being told not to eat of the tree, were immediately encumbered with the brand-new and titillating emotion of temptation. Upon eating the forbidden fruit and hearing the Lord calling for them, they remembered their Lord’s command, “Thou shalt not eat of it” and were stricken by the devastating spiritual disturbance of an evil conscience. The Greek philosopher Sophocles (Sof-o-kies) adds strength to that reality with this quote:

“There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us”. – Sophocles.

One of the greatest enslavements of mankind and to his irritated conscience is women’s rulership over men, particularly a husband, even if he isn’t righteous (Isa 3:12). Around and around goes the deadly loop enslaving mankind with every shade of an evil conscience, and not being able to pinpoint its troublesome origin that is female/Ashtoreth rulership classically accomplished by Solomon with 1,000 wives.

1Ki 11:5  For Solomon went after Ashtoreth [ash-to’reth – 1. the principal female deity of the Phoenicians worshipped in war and fertility a. also ‘Ishtar’ of Assyria and ‘Astarte’ by the Greeks and Romans], the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom, the abomination of the Ammonites [all directly symbolic of Babylonian Christianity and their 40,000+ denominations].

Intrinsically etched in a male’s heart without understanding, men silently loathe any female exercising righteous or unrighteous authority over masculinity, regardless of environmentally (in the home/school/sports/war) acquired emasculation. Inherently, even grade school boys subconsciously feel irritated (bitter) by that unidentified enslavement to girls’ mostly unconscious emasculating jubilance (conversely, the daughters of music and everything about a young woman is highly attractive to males and dedicated to his lust to both party’s intrigue of turbulent emotions of love and hate).

Incidentally, Sophocles muses upon another highly pertinent and no doubt unwitting equation to the Church in the Wilderness, made up of more culpable men than women since they become abdicated leaders in marriage and the Church under a different Jesus. The disquieting and inescapable truth, possibly unwittingly, yet unerringly resonates with scripture:

“The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water” – Sophocles. (Eccl 7:28; Jer 3:11-18; Hos 4:16). [end]

Our lovely women folk of the Body of Christ, inclusive of their male counterparts, are at peace with their former feminine fluidity, manipulating scriptural facts that, with deceitful kisses, hide the spirit and intent of their hearts (Pro 27:4-6). They, becoming the Bride of Christ, are continuing to practice the delight of listening to their Husband’s every word and look back with head-shaking fascination at their former conniving ways, having vainly manipulated the word of God to support their illusory righteousness. Indeed, her oaths to Jehovah while in the Wilderness were ‘inscribed on water’; her sisters remaining in Babylon still inscribe their oaths in watery baptisms and equal espousal fluidity (Isa 1:21; Zep 3:1-3).

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

(Note: Just as a wife’s deceitful kisses ‘inscribed on water’ fall symbolically to the ground and cannot be collected since they lead nowhere, so, too, is a husband (the collective church) who only wants sensual intimacy without the fruit of deep spiritual connection ~ in part, typified by Onan in Genesis 38:9 spilling his seed upon the ground).

Temptation comes with irksome contempt for the authority oppressing our inherent feminine (church’s) autonomy. Our feminine indignity goads us to automatically question and reject a husband or any male’s authority since we, sitting as god in the Temple of God, feel indignant by disempowerment by his authority over our imagined self-will. 

Subsequently, even if the authority is understood as correct, every undertone of an evil conscience powerfully resists acknowledging a sin. Upon being humiliated for our wrongdoing, our nature is first to hide spiritually by accusing some other party, thus excusing ourselves of error (Rom 2:15). Though underwritten by Christ, it is a true adage that “the Devil made me do it”, particularly since, and ironically, we didn’t hear the still small voice of the (ironic) trumpet blast telling us otherwise and thus resisting the Serpent for Christ’s assured intervention.

Jas 4:4  Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God 

A primary way we become adulterers and adulteresses is with a convicting evil conscience that refuses the still, small voice prompting us to submit to the Lord’s war on our enemy. Subsequently, by siding with the world, we immediately become an enemy of God. We cannot serve two masters (Mat 6:24).

Jas 4:5  Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy? 

Mat 26:40  And He came to the disciples and found them asleep. And He said to Peter [That ‘little rock’, the Body of Christ], What! Could you not watch with Me one hour?
Mat 26:41  Watch and pray that you enter not into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

We make a mockery of our Lord’s powerful spirit when our temporary good conscience is overpowered by an evil conscience upon hearing the trumpet blast and don’t call on His name to fight our imminent war. This is when our Husband becomes a jealous God when we trust in the little whore we are with our oaths written on water and her fanciful authority over her Husband. “I will not have a [righteous] man ruling over me!” is our indignant subconscious response, and the vanity of our strength to resist the Devil evaporates. Consequently, our Lord’s highly aroused spirit to see our bright feminine response is dismally subdued, and him envious of our adulteries when he is not first enquired.

Mat 21:19  And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only [a show-pony; a beautiful woman by all accounts promising a husband’s delights], and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee [those Jews who say that they are Jews, and are not; Christian Babylon] henceforward for ever And presently the fig tree withered away.
Mat 21:20  And when the disciples saw it, they marvelled, saying, How soon is the fig tree withered away!
Mat 21:21  Jesus answered and said unto them, Verily I say unto you, If ye have faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only do this which is done to the fig tree [to our enemies within], but also if ye shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; it shall be done. 
Mat 21:22  And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.

However, our Lord is incredibly gracious and intimate with our weak frame and has a way for our escape should we humble ourselves. It all results in attaining the glorious peace of a “good conscience” by delighting our Husband with our God-given beauty and fruit of seeking his kisses.

Jas 4:6  But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
Jas 4:7  Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the Devil, and he will flee from you. 
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.

Every man despises being instructed or corrected by a female (or junior male) of any age without her (him) first showing genuine honor and respect. Eve was the first to challenge that authority, and typically, Adam, not wishing to offend his wife and have her frustrate marital dues, meekly complied. However, any female with an authentic introductory reverencing and honoring a male before her petition, as classically typified by Esther, immediately composes him with the deepest delight to indulge her and is compelled with a righteous conscience to do his utmost to comply with that female’s request. All the righteous women in scripture knew that immutable sovereignty; it is the very power modern feminists crave yet remain blind by Eve’s curse since Eden.

1Pe 3:7  Likewise, husbands, live together according to knowledge, giving honor to the wife as to the weaker vessel, the female, as truly being co-heirs together of the grace of life, not cutting off your prayers.

1Co 6:20  For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit [able to emphatically know your dealings are of a good conscience ~ at one in Him], which are God’s.

A woman delightedly following in her Lord’s order of headship effectively “has her cake and eats it too,” and the adage is summed up scripturally with ‘all things being hers’ (1Co 2:19). Esther, having an exceptionally good conscience and an unfeigned heart, typifies the Bride of Christ. She indelibly knew her exceptionally good conscience of honor and respect for her King which enabled her to boldly risk death by standing unannounced before him in the court to seek her Lord’s benevolence. Only a righteous person holding a countersigned good conscience is bold enough to come before the throne of God, knowing that they are appropriately dressed for presentation.

Mat 22:11  And when the king [Christ] came in to see the guests [prior to the wedding, the Elect with some remaining ‘tares’], he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment: 
Mat 22:12  And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless.
Mat 22:13  Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness [the Lake of Fire]; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Mat 22:14  For many are called, but few are chosen.

Est 2:17  And the king loved Esther above all the women, and she obtained grace and favour [effectively ‘chosen’] 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.

In the following verse, Timothy was warning against false teachers, yet it can be easily applied to many applications, inclusive of Esther’s “good conscience” for Mordecai’s intercession.

1Ti 1:5  Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned [unfeigned, undisguised, sincere. 1. To take up another’s statement {Mordecai’s, in this instance} in reference to what one has decided for oneself]. 

Of course, any husband is easily ravished by such a respectful wife (or any woman righteously) as is our Lord for His Wife who touches Him with “faith unfeigned” as seen in the above verse. Such respect dramatically amplifies her enchantment of his heart, sensually highly arousing to men and correspondingly spiritually to God and the Christs.

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. 

Est 5:2  And it was so, when the king saw Esther the queen standing in the court, that she obtained favour in his sight: and the king held out to Esther the golden sceptre that was in his hand. So Esther drew near, and touched the top of the sceptre [H8275 – Dart, spear. H7626 – Rod {Tribe/tribes 138 times}, staff, branch, offshoot. 
Est 5:3  Then said the king unto her, What wilt thou, queen Esther? and what is thy request? it shall be even given thee to the half of the kingdom.

Est 2:17  And the king [Christ] loved Esther [Christ’s wife] above all the women, and she obtained grace and favour in his sight more than all the [symbolic – ] virgins [deluded Babylonian Christianity]; so that he set the royal crown upon her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti. 

Vashti personifies our former selves from Mt. Sinai when we refuse to come to the Lord’s table and then humiliate him for his adoration of us before the world. If we continue our haughty self-elevation, he dumps us for a more humble and beautiful woman that the world will stand in awe.

Zec 2:7  Deliver thyself, O Zion [“come out of her {Babylon}, my people], that dwellest with the daughter of Babylon. 
Zec 2:8  For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled [plundered] you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.

The Elect of God who rule with him in the One-Thousand Year reign are given a type of half the kingdom in downpayment before being given in Christ the entirety of humanity in the Resurrection to Judgment. Our Lord has glorified His Bride by giving her the greatest honor in the universe to intimately know him, to touch Him, our Sceptre’s very head whose kisses are better than wine. Together as Husband and Wife, they have seeded the world to be spiritually born again. In perfect unity of mind, body and spirit, they will rule their ‘children’, the nations, with a rod of iron and ultimately judge those same nations since Adam with that “sceptre” – H7626 to bring them into the fullness of spiritual maturity through the Lake of Fire.

Zec 2:9  For, behold, I will shake mine hand upon them [the nations since Adam], and they shall be a spoil to their servants [The mighty men and rulers and servants will be of one servitude without dominion above the other, for all their pomposity will be soundly ground to powder]: and ye shall know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me.
Zec 2:10  Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion [Bride of Christ]: for, lo, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of thee, saith the LORD. 

Since the Elect of God represents the Daughter of Ziopon, our Lord is already dwelling in her midst, she being His first fruits of the Kingdom within, the very Temple in which He dwells.

Zec 2:11  And many nations shall be joined to the LORD in that day [following the Lake of Fire, on the Eighth Day], and shall be my people: and I will dwell in the midst of thee, and thou shalt know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto thee. 
Zec 2:12  And the LORD shall inherit Judah his portion in the holy land, and shall choose Jerusalem again.
Zec 2:13  Be silent, O all flesh, before the LORD: for he is raised up out of his holy habitation.

Utterly oblivious to the Zionists of today, the Jews who say that they are spiritual Jews and are not, Christ is right this very moment in that “Jerusalem again” spiritually, in His Elect. The physical Jerusalem today is becoming a focus of intense fighting and possibly the grand finalé leading to the outward return of Christ. 

As was Esther’s good conscience to approach the King, expecting his like good conscience to delightedly receive her, authentic honor and respect for the evil rulers over us always calm their corruptness for a more favorable outcome ~ it is foolish to amplify an already unscrupulous ruler’s contempt for us by standing on our watery feminine instability as did Vashti. Harkening back to the quote, “The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water” – Sophocles (Gen 49:4 – when we go a whoring) should profoundly cause our conscience to know that we are standing before the King on heaving water, as did Peter trying with a weak conscience walking on water rather than later, in fire, to and in Jesus.

Jas 1:6  But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. 

Eze 28:14  Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God [Old Jerusalem now New Jerusalem above]; thou hast [Pefect Tense] walked up and down in the midst of the stones [among our brothers and sisters who are gladly overcome] of fire.

A good conscience is endorsed first by God-given wisdom to foresee a potential evil and mitigate its expected effect, as did Paul’s address of Festus, attorney of Judea. Paul would have had to speak with a good conscience of authenticity to appease through respect for Festus’s seat of authority. Paul’s life was on the line, and both Paul and Festus knew that this was not a time for any perception of sarcasm towards Festus’s distinction.

Act 26:25  But he [Paul] said, I am not mad, most noble Festus; but speak forth the words of truth and soberness. 
Act 26:26  For the king knoweth of these things, before whom also I speak freely: for I am persuaded that none of these things are hidden from him; for this thing was not done in a corner. 

Paul is one of the Elect of God, and being of perfectly “good conscience”, he didn’t have to try not to inflect contempt for Festus’ authority in calling him “most noble Festus”; ‘[who] knoweth of these things not hidden from him’, though, and by today’s standards, could sound caustic. As such, and from a slightly earlier account before Ananias, the high priest, Paul was able to say,

Act 23:1  And Paul, earnestly beholding the council, said, Men and brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day.

Paul went on to say how in “good conscience”, he held the Laws of the Jews nearly perfectly, even to the point of satisfyingly killing Christians and ALL in “good conscience”!

One of the most outstanding forms of living in “good conscience” is one’s faith in a particular creed, as was typified by Paul regarding killing Christians, believing in circumcision and the Sabbath before the glorious earthquake of spiritual understanding.

Rom 14:13  Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother’s way…

… rather, we gently correct a brother from the scriptures. If he takes some time to see the truth, so be it, as long as he doesn’t coerce his brethren to follow his deluded beliefs and thus cause them to stumble, as the Body of Christ was destined to experience on a number of occasions for their spiritual growth. Both parties are subsequently operating with a good conscience.

Rom 14:14  I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
Rom 14:15  But if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably [and expect a disquieted conscience]. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died. 
Rom 14:16  Let not then your good [conscience] be evil spoken of: 
Rom 14:17  For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost [from a good conscience]. 
Rom 14:18  For he that in these things serveth Christ is acceptable to God, and approved of men [all abiding in good conscience]. 
Rom 14:19  Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another. 
Rom 14:20  For meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are pure [when not offending Christ’s commandments]; but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence [for the thing he deems an offence].
Rom 14:21  It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak. 
Rom 14:22  Hast thou faith? have it to thyself before God. Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth [since he is living with a good conscience]. 
Rom 14:23  And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith [since his conscience should be condemning him]: for whatsoever is not of faith is sin. 

There are possibly millions of quotes since Adam referenced a “good conscience”. The Bible has only six where the two words are coupled. The first of which is Paul we saw earlier following his arrest in the Temple. Paul, having been dramatically struck down on the road to Damascus, directly spoke with and was questioned by the Lord, remained in ‘good conscience’, having devoutly killed Christians in good conscience by his commitment to the Laws of Moses. Paul had one of the most dynamic shifts in conscience ever recorded for the sake of the Elect ~ truly a tumultuous about-face all the way past believing in circumcision. Paul typifies most experiences of the Christs and their personal earth-engulfing flood that changes into the fiery word of God.

2Pe 3:3  Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts [having taken into their hearts every nuance of an evil conscience to profoundly condemn them, and hence…],
2Pe 3:4  And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. 
2Pe 3:5  For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: 
2Pe 3:6  Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: 
2Pe 3:7  But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the SAME [Caps, Grant] WORD are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.

In glorious irony, of course, we know that we have been the man of perdition being given to learn by those same watery Laws how to live in good conscience in them by fire that purifies our consciences.

2Th 2:3  Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; 
2Th 2:4  Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

1Co 3:12  Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; 
1Co 3:13  Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is.
1Co 3:14  If any man’s work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. 
1Co 3:15  If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire. 
1Co 3:16  Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the spirit of God dwelleth in you? 
1Co 3:17  If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are. 
1Co 3:18  Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool [in good conscience], that he may be wise [in good conscience]. 
1Co 3:19  For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness. 
1Co 3:20  And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain. 
1Co 3:21  Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours; 
1Co 3:22  Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours; 
1Co 3:23  And ye are Christ’s; and Christ is God’s. 

From those verses springs the remaining five verses where the two words for the term “good conscience” are spoken in scriptures.

1Ti 1:5  Now the end of the commandment [and all that this study speaks] is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned: 

1Ti 1:19  Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck: 
1Ti 1:20  Of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme. 

Heb 13:18  Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly.

1Pe 3:15  But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: 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: 
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. 
1Pe 3:17  For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing. 
1Pe 3:18  For Christ also once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, indeed being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit; 
1Pe 3:19  in which also He went and preached to the spirits in prison, 
1Pe 3:20  to disobeying ones, when once the long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared (in which a few, that is, eight souls were saved through water); 
1Pe 3:21  which figure now also saves us, baptism; not a putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ; 
1Pe 3:22  who is at the right hand of God, having gone into Heaven, where the angels [first the Elect of God giving up their perdition-ability, and then the world] and authorities and powers are being subjected to Him.

I pray that we all see the day and night of our consciences and always swiftly seek our Lord to live in His eternal conscience that only knows good.

Worship – Part 2, The God-Given Act of  Listening Internally to His Spirit

[Study Aired September 30, 2023]

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 3:17 

Today’s second part study on “Worship”, meaning devoted reverence, focuses on one of the most formidable acts of worship through which only the holy spirit can inspire. it results from being in the spirit today, the Lord’s day, for any biblical revelatory understanding. It is the act of diligently “listening.”

Here is Job, the Beast, who is you and I, sitting on the throne of God, spiritually stating that we are God! He’s telling God to diligently listen to him ~ our audacity is breathtaking!

Job 13:2  What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you. 

Job 13:17  Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears. 

The world’s spiritualism uses the modern term “mindfulness” to denote a genuinely outstanding tool that ingeniously works for spouses to deeply experience the ‘sound’ that each other’s bodies and minds speak for deeply intimate Shulamite-like espousals. Our Lord uses that modern term “mindfulness” by His terms of “harken/hearken; hear/heareth” condensed to “LISTEN.”

Eve didn’t honour and reverence (worship) Adam as she did not hearken to him or their Lord (Eph 5:22-33, 1Pe 3:1-7). Ironically, their subsequent guilt certainly caused them to suddenly “hear” the Lord walking in the Garden! It’s not so different from Saul, who became Paul, to abruptly “hear” the Lord in crystal clarity following his terror of blindness (Act 9:3-6).

By not listening to our Lord in spirit and truth, we automatically have an idol of the heart since our dogma is the only remaining ideological means to attain some semblance of an enjoyable life. It is the damning process of Eden’s curse on us in Babylon, ruling Christ whom we claim as our husband. In Babylon, we love lies, the opposite of worshiping Christ in spirit and truth.

Rev 22:12  And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be. 
Rev 22:13  I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. 
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. 
Rev 22:15  For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
Rev 22:16  I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.
Rev 22:17  And the spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.
Rev 22:18  For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:
Rev 22:19  And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy [by making a lie], God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.
Rev 22:20  He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus. 
Rev 22:21  The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.

I would be the precise personage of a Babylonian wife if I avoided spiritual intimacy with my Husband; if I didn’t up front and unashamedly state that the Elect’s center of worship is around Christ. He is our husband, and from this point in this study, we are working backward from whence we have come to identifying worship.

The God entity in Genesis 1 undertook the first act of biblically “listening”, responding to the yet higher personage of the Godhead we came to know as the Father. That “God” in the creation sequence in Genesis 1 was Elohim, the Word, who was created as the Son of God and became Christ, the Bride’s Husband.

It wasn’t until Genesis 1:26 that we realised two individuals of the Godhead conspired creation. To collaborate on the creation plan, these two luminaries must communicate, and the subordinate to the authority of the supreme Godhead entity had to listen and enthusiastically respond to His authoritative superior, just as an earthly righteous wife without a lying heart like snares and nets and hands like bands brightly interacts with her husband. Such a husband is oh, so glad to die for his wife without a hint of bitterness (Ecc 7:26).

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.

Christ, in responding to his disciples about the Pharisees’ narky opportunity to condemn him for working on the Sabbath, says:

Joh 5:19  Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.

‘Seeing’ inspires communication that involves attentive ‘listening.’

Joh 5:26  For as the Father has life in Himself, so He has given to the Son to have life within Himself, 
Joh 5:27  and has given Him [Elohim who became Christ] authority to execute judgment also, because [and in sequence…] He is [became] the Son of Man.
Joh 5:28  Do not marvel at this, for the hour is coming in which all who are in the graves shall hear His voice,
Joh 5:29  and shall come forth, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have practiced evil to the resurrection of condemnation.

The Son of God communicated with his Father before He, the Son, brought into existence the heavens and Earth. Their interaction before that event involved speaking and attentive listening to detail, particularly by the Son.

Much later in the continuing process of the creation and recreation of man, the Son attentively listened to the exacting details for recreating His Bride, who, in order of creation, goes on to recreate through her husband the rest of mankind.

Our Lord sternly commanded Moses to create the Tabernacle, the Ark and all its utensils in the exact proportions God had told him on Mt Sinai. To do that, Moses had to pay particular attention to the details by listening, as shown in all of Exodus 25–30, which is interspersed with:

Exo 25:40  And see [be diligent] that you make them after their pattern, which was shown you in the mountain. (Heb 8:5)

Col 2:17  For these are a shadow of things to come, but the body is of Christ.

The Lord gave Adam and Eve, Moses and the Israelites the ability to meticulously listen to all He said, yet, to their immense frustration, they were incapable of walking with equal diligence in what was commanded because of their flesh. Their spirit of the flesh, infused by Satan in the Garden, always caused them to question the Lord, as do all earthly wives (and husbands comprising worldly churches) sceptically question rulership over their very questionable husbands.

Adam and Eve’s God-given inability to meticulously listen to the Lord set the path of all humanity to fail miserably in worshiping him by having the missing ingredient, the holy spirit that quickens, enliven their understanding to diligently do the will of God! (Joh 6:63, Mar 3:35, Mat 12:50, 1Jn 2:17).

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 [because without the spirit good is impossible to sustain].

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 [in harmony with listening], 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 most profound levels to mindfully “listen” are allegorical for ALL of our senses. It is attained by relaxing from the anxiety of the noisome, beastly world’s chaos and deeply “listening” to every nuance of our Lord, through our Husband’s very body, the church. In that case, His word comes alive within our body (hopefully the Bride) and spirit with euphoric trembling elation. Such a beautiful response on His Bride’s face amplifies His ravishing for her and, in unity, her for Him. It is the impetus for the Shulamite’s electrifying epiphany: [“Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine. (Son 1:2)] and is “Worship.”

It wasn’t possible for Adam, without spiritual foresight or hindsight, to see the incredible depth of meaning to all the Lord said, including the magnitude of the subsequently prophetic curses for mankind.

The Shulamite, who directly symbolises the Bride of Christ, vigorously retained her ‘blackness’ of being understood by her sisters in Babylon through her poetic song, the Song of Solomon. Every word of her song of songs is spiritual foreplay, denoting its hidden spiritual interaction. It all is about profound spiritual “LISTENING” to every detail of her Lord by her interplay ~ in fact, the entire Bible!We ‘listen’ to every arousing sense our Lord has imbued us. We ‘listen’ to Touch, Sight, Hearing, Smell, Taste now experienced by His spirit, discerning the spirit of the matter in truth!

1Co 2:9  But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard [nor any of our physical senses], neither have entered into the heart of man [another act of hearing], the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. 
1Co 2:10  But God hath revealed them unto us by his spirit: for the spirit searcheth [1. to search, examine into. H2046 – 1. to utter, speak, say – Origin: probably a fuller form of G4483, an alternate for G2036 meaning, 1. to pour forth, to utter. 1. to speak, say]   all things, yea, the deep things of God. 

The act of the spirit speaking to us is in lockstep with us listening and profoundly understanding by hearing what the spirit says on all occasions, as stated to the “Seven Churches of Asia” (Rev 1:4-18). That understanding is why Adam, Eve and everyone up until the death of Christ couldn’t, with immense frustration, “do the will of God.” They were utterly incapable of worshiping in spirit and in truth.

Following is how we worshiped another Jesus while lounging around in Babylon. These verses epitomise physically the only way we knew how to ‘listen’ and thus understand His word.

To Your Name Give Glory:

Psa 115:1  Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory [worship!], for thy mercy, and for thy truth’s sake. 
Psa 115:2  Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is now their God?
Psa 115:3  But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased [For this study’s purpose, hidden his word from all but His Bride who alone can ‘hear’]. 
Psa 115:4  Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.
Psa 115:5  They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not: 
Psa 115:6  They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not: 
Psa 115:7  They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat. 
Psa 115:8  They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them.

By our Lord’s hand, I hope with less stammering lips to show how the Bride worships the Father in Spirit and truth through our Lord’s detailed interaction with His Wife’s body and thus make the Bible, the Lord’s handbook of foreplay, come alive.

In last week’s Introduction to this study on Worship, we saw that “worship” must be accomplished in spirit and truth and is outwardly represented by giving reverence by outwardly bowing down. The spiritual act reflects the ‘natural’ and is potently (inclusive of the entire Bible!) seen in the following verse regarding the Pharisee and the Tax Collector.

Luk 18:9  And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others: 
Luk 18:10  Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican. 
Luk 18:11  The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. 
Luk 18:12  I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess. 
Luk 18:13  And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.
Luk 18:14  I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted. 

One of the most animated acts of spiritual worship is seen by the publican, who unconsciously began spiritually to stand afar from Babylon while in Babylon. Upon looking back on his life, his horror from instant understanding shook him to the depths of his growing spiritual awareness. His stark realisation of his sins caused him to not give a thought to ‘bowing’; he was “standing”, transfixed in dread and, no doubt later, dichotic joy for his realisation of his condition. Appalled and humiliated, he unwittingly fiercely worshiped upward in spirit and truth! The horror of his endemically sinful flesh made him worship where he stood. Regardless of physically bowing, he profoundly and spiritually bowed before his Lord and Saviour. His prayers were heard and moved the Lord!

Those thrown alive into the Lake of Fire will involuntarily collapse in dread as dead men, a figurative forced bowing of fearfully induced worship before the terrible vision of their imminent future. Those very same people resurrected to spiritual life will dynamically bow and worship the Christ in and through His Christs (plural) with quivering fear. The Lord’s very own in this age right now, both physically and spiritually, fall on their faces in the worship of God as a precursory event to all mankind (Ecc 9:3).

Rev 6:15  And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; [effectively a forced bowing in worshipful fear] 
Rev 6:16  And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:
Rev 6:17  For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?

Rev 7:11  And all the angels stood round about the throne, and about the elders and the four beasts, and fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God,
Rev 7:12  Saying, Amen: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and might, be unto our God for ever and ever. Amen. 

The Bible is nominally 98% “unsearchable”, governed by our former Babylonian riches in believing that we were already saved while figuratively remaining stuck at Sinai ingloriously dancing nude with our brethren around a ‘different Jesus’ (2Co 11:4, Exo 32:19-25, Isa 20:2-4, Isa 47:3). 

How often in this age have we heard our former fellow dancers in Babylon say that nobody can understand the Bible! Of course, nobody can except the Elect, dragged from the ‘chosen’ and given to clothe their nakedness with the spirit of truth, an act of worship. 

Joh 6:44  No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw [Greek: G1670, Phonetic: hel-koo’-o; helkuō, ‘drag’. You, me or anyone else cannot come to the Father, except the Father which hath sent Christ draw (helkuō: ‘drag’ him against his will] him: and I will raise him up at the last day.

Of course, the Lord’s Elect are ‘dragged’ out of Babylon and thus raised up on this day, in this age representing the literal last day of their age before the holy First Resurrection. They are right now, being clothed in His righteousness.

Luk 8:10  And he said, Unto you [the ‘dragged’ ones] it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others [Our naked brothers and sisters delightedly enriched in Babylon] in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand.

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

Rom 11:33 O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable^[G419] are his judgments, and his ways past finding out! 

Notice that the KJV placed an exclamation mark at the end of that verse to amplify the impossibility for anyone other than His Elect to find out the unsearchable sum total of our Lord’s word.

We know that the Lord’s Elect, alone as his Bride, is given to know the ‘unfathomableness of his riches’ that defies their brothers in Babylon.

Unsearchable G419
Phonetic: an-ex-er-yoo’-nay-tos
– Definition: 

1. that cannot be searched out

Assumed derivative of G1830

ex-er-yoo-nah’-o

– Definition: 

1. to search out, search anxiously and diligently. To search after, thoroughly investigate (first used to tell of a dog sniffing out something with his nose). The prophets searched to find out the time of messiah’s appearance.

From G2045 – 1. to search, examine into.

Searching anxiously with diligence is the mindful act of listening to the inner heart and soul by our Lord’s spirit. Its startling revelation is grasping the “unsearchable” word of God.

What is Listening Mindfully?

Listening mindfully is intrinsically worshiping in spirit and in truth. It all is one and the same. Worshiping in the spirit is the God-given deciphering and understanding of our Lord’s word through His impregnating spirit that causes us to drop spiritually and often physically to our knees in awestruck ‘worship.’ That truthful spirit of understanding is for the Elect alone, having been given His mind to search out the ‘unsearchable’ with arousing excitement dramatically increasing on the individual’s “Lord’s day.”

Rev 1:10  I was in the spirit on the Lord’s day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet, 

We are fully conversant with John’s account of his particular “Lord’s day” and his suddenly electrified growing spiritual understanding of our Lord’s word. (Please see all of Revelation 1:9-20 to review that narration.)

The God-given spiritual ability to finally begin to understand scripture results in the pursuit of enthusiastically deep and diligent attention to detail condensed to the contemporary term “mindfulness” and, to his Wife, the act of mindful “listening”. Mindfully listening is the spiritual alpha and omega understanding of a thing, only achievable through the Lord’s Spirit. His spirit gives us a growing intensity of enlightenment for God’s hidden, unsearchable things. That state of being is the beginning of ‘receiving ‘the end of our faith in the salvation of our souls’ (1Pe 1:9).

“Unsearchable”, as seen in G419 above, has the same meaning as “searched diligently” G1830 below in 1 Peter 1:10.

1Pe 1:6  Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: 
1Pe 1:7  That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ: 
1Pe 1:8  Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:
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^[G1930], who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you [The Elect, today]: 
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 and chosen rejected] desire^{[G1937] to look into.}

Desire G1937 – from G2372 meaning: 1. passion, angry, heat, anger forthwith boiling up and soon subsiding again 2. glow, ardour, the wine of passion, inflaming wine (which either drives the drinker [of His spirit!] mad or kills him by its strength).

As seen in the Song of Solomon study and “A Mystery Hidden from the Ages and Generations: How Not to Be Bitter against One’s Wife; How Not to Make a Husband Bitter”, a wife, meaning a church, can “desire” espousal intimacies all she likes, but her desire for inflaming reality will largely remain dull (weak – Gen 29:17) or at best, lukewarm until she is aroused in spirit and truth by her Lord’s kisses.

The hour has come since Christ, where God’s “unsearchable” things are revealed as highly searchable alone for the Bride.

Joh 4:23  But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. 
Joh 4:24  God is a spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. 

Upon an Elect babe in Christ given the Lord’s spirit of understanding by listening to the heart of his mother (the Church), and her reverence of her husband, he eagerly drinks in the milk of the word as the Shulamite’s baby brother did (Son 8:1). Let’s continue studying how to listen mindfully in detail to Christ’s words and in unity worship the Father in Spirit and in truth, and be electrifyingly aroused as was the Shulamite. Spiritually listening, hearing and understanding her poetic speech is the consummative understanding of our re-creation; its grand finalé. 

Listening mindfully is a God-given spiritual devotion to the “still small voice” of detail of our Lord’s word, understood and worshipfully expressed from our heart in response to His words, which are  His “kisses.” 

Upon fleeing from Jezebel to Mt. Horeb, Elijah understood the Lord’s word, not through the frightening physical expressions that tend to overshadow the nuances of what is said, but rather by very attentive listening, an organised spiritual inspection of one’s thoughts by the Lord’s spirit connecting his spirit within. 

1Ki 19:11  And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the LORD. And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the LORD; but the LORD was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the LORD was not in the earthquake: 
1Ki 19:12  And after the earthquake a fire; but the LORD was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.
1Ki 19:13  And it was so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entering in of the cave. And, behold, there came a voice unto him, and said, What doest thou here, Elijah? 
1Ki 19:14  And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away. 

The fullness of those understandings is the major part of what makes the Bride’s burden seductively light.

Mat 11:28  Come to Me all you who labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 
Mat 11:29  Take My yoke on you and learn of Me, for I am meek and lowly in heart, and you shall find rest to your souls. 
Mat 11:30  For My yoke is easy, and My burden is light.

That kind of mindful detail inflamed the Shulamite to insatiably know more and famously expressed in her opening line in the Song of Solomon: “Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love [His word] is better than wine” (Son 1:2). Spiritual listening, as with sexually listening to the nuances of one’s spouse’s mind and body, shouldn’t be obsessed with rushing to a consummative goal. Most potently to experience every exquisite detail of each other’s body, it spiritually reflects luxuriating in every jot and title of the Lord’s word, learning and experiencing new nuggets of intimate delight. It is Shulamite-expressed spiritual foreplay. It’s a leisurely journey, stopping to see, breathe, feel the texture and mindfully sense each other’s every delight in harmony with His word. It all is reverential worship.

Mat 5:17  Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. 
Mat 5:18  For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
Mat 5:19  Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
Mat 5:20  For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.

The Lord blesses his Bride to righteously decipher in detail every jot and tittle of His word by His spirit. She diligently searches her body for every imperfection that doesn’t mirror her study of her Lord’s body.

Son 6:11  I went down into the garden of nuts to see the fruits of the valley, and to see whether the vine flourished, and the pomegranates budded.

Son 7:12  Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.
Son 7:13  The mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits, [the word…] new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved.

Why should the Shulamite fiercely protect every detail of her Lord’s body, His word? Because she is espoused to her Lord, whose word is for her alone. She uses that intricate, detailed understanding felt as a deep spiritual presence in the centre of her body with her breasts and heart beneath, every woman’s first port of call of heartfelt emotion directly connected to her mind. Her spiritually devoted listening, in perfect harmony with her Lord’s arousing word, is what ravishes Him to guard her most jealously. It is the mutual worship in unity of spirit and truth.

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.

The wording, The song of songs, which is Solomon’s (Son 1:1), with far-away eyes, can be read as a sentence: a matter of not seeing the forest for the trees. However, the Shulamite and the Bride’s eyes chew the cud while mindful of its individual flavours, textures, and pH neutrality, coming alive with alkalinity contrasting with the mini bursts of acidity of the ‘food.’ “The song of songs, which is Solomon’s” IS the Bride’s thunderstruck epiphany for the “unsearchable” detailed understanding of the Bible. Without meticulously looking into (1Pe 1:12) scriptures in spirit and truth, they remain “unsearchable” or, at best, lukewarmly searchable. Both forms of searching, regardless of understanding, are “worship.” The Shulamite richly sings the unsearchable wisdom of the Song of Solomon that Solomon and his 1,000 wives cannot understand. His wives, representing our former state while with our Christian Babylonian brothers and sisters, sing a discordant song of fools since they can’t equate chastisement with love.

Ecc 7:5  It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools. 

Col 3:16  Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in  psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace [Tit 2:12. i.e. chastening – paideuō] in your hearts to the Lord. 
Col 3:17  And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks [worshipping for his chastising grace] to God and the Father by him. 

God’s unsearchable riches and wisdom come alive through His spirit alone through deep and lingering Mary-like listening (Luke 10:38-42 – the account of Martha and Mary at Jesus’ feet). The depth of our understanding of scripture is dramatically amplified by lingering on the minute details of every word to obtain its flavour, texture, alkalinity, acidity, light and darkness, and positive and negative reflections! This is the act of being deeply spiritually aware of details; it is the act of glorifying, that is, “worshiping” by spiritually detailed inspection, the act of listening to our Lord’s body and He, the harmony of his Wife’s most delightedly arousing response! It is a profoundly spiritual foreplay of the Lord’s Spirit in us, unifying with His spirit, resulting in body-trembling worshipful understanding.

In keeping with the studies “The Song of Solomon” and “A Mystery Hidden from the Ages and Generations: How Not to Be Bitter against One’s Wife & How Not to Make a Husband Bitter”, in fact, all of the IWWB studies, that act of worship between a husband and wife is for Babylon, spiritually “unsearchable.” Gentile Christianity ‘touches’ Christ’s very Body and, in doing so, blasphemes His name by claiming His name while adulterously worshiping another Jesus. They and those associated with them outside the Camp of Israel are forbidden to look upon (Num 4:20), yet have “touched” the Jesus and must die at the end of the One-Thousand Year reign. Only the Bride of Christ, His Wife, can intimately “touch” her husband’s Body, mutually inducing righteous “drops of the night” in spiritually deeply connected understanding (Son 5:2). With the physical pointing to their spiritual counterparts, and with Shulamite poetic preparatory arousal, those “drops” result from His Bride’s listening to her Lord’s every arousing nuance of His body. From the misty night of trembling excitation, they form as dew upon our locks and dawn with daylight clarity and climactic spiritual understanding. Every millimeter of the Bride’s body is a sensory organ tuned by Christ to “listening” and understanding. Just as drops of water instantly merge upon them touching, so do the Shulamites and her Lord’s “drops of the night” instantly merge in ‘knowing’ each other in His unity of truth (Gen 4:1). 

By not worshiping in spirit and truth, our former Babylonian nature has no whit to understand the still many unexpressed sophistications of the Song of Solomon, indeed the complete Bible, without blunt expression.

Mar 4:11  And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables: 
Mar 4:12  That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them. 

2Sa 6:6  And when they came to Nachon’s threshingfloor, Uzzah put forth his hand to the ark of God [Christ], and took hold [touched] of it; for the oxen shook it.
2Sa 6:7  And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah; and God smote him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of God.

Num 4:20  But they [the Levites] shall not go in to see when the holy things are covered, lest they die.

Many Eastern cultures assuredly know how to maximise the worship of physical marital intimacy, yet tragically it is mixed with their heathen esoteric mysticism. With wonderful potency, their marriages connect with physical erotic mindfulness, often to our Christian Babylonian brothers’ and sisters’ shame. Yet, at least they, our close kin, preach Jesus, even if they worship “another Jesus” (Php 1:12-17, Luk 9:49-50). Either way, they are forms of worship.

While reflecting upon the connections of songs, psalms and hymns, another beautiful example of finding the nuances of the spirit in our hearts is being in the zone of listening to a heavenly orchestra. It is not a place to chat, eat popcorn, or fidget with your phone. The audience must be deathly quiet to get the most out of the experience ~ to hear our Lord’s still, small voice (1Ki 19:11-13) behind us while worshiping in spirit and truth. One needs to be mindful of every sensory organ of his body with relaxed breathing, listening intently for every minute detail of instrumentation ~ it is Shulamite spiritual foreplay. Depending upon how mindful you are, it is, on many levels, deeply spiritually arousing ~ it is worship. 

The Bible is mostly about the Lord creating a breathtakingly beautiful spiritual wife for Himself from beginning to end. Just as the creation of the heavens ‘suddenly’ came into existence, for those with eyes to see and ears to hear, the Song of Solomon graphically portrays the Bride’s sudden enlightenment (1Th 5:3) and unrestrained (mindful – detailed) pursuit of her reason for existence. Her bright and elaborate enthusiasm for her Lord is overwhelmingly arousing for them both. Her Rachel-like devotion would make any husband howl with tears of joy, as did Jacob ~ and now, Christ. (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.)

Worship isn’t only a devotion to Christ and our Father; we even worship others ignominiously or reputably. The inevitable contention with our Lord is honouring others or an item “more than” our Husband without giving Him “all” our heart, soul and mind.

Mat 22:35  Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying, 
Mat 22:36  Master, which is the great commandment in the law? 
Mat 22:37  Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love [worship] the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind [mindfully!].
Mat 22:38  This is the [spiritually mindful] first and great commandment. 
Mat 22:39  And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love [worship] thy neighbour as thyself. 
Mat 22:40  On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

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.

True worship in spirit and truth is profoundly loving, that is, worshiping our Lord more than a wife, husband, children, or anything more than God.

Mat 10:37  He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. 

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

Of course, Jacob represents our heavenly Father, who loves Christ “more than” carnal humanity. The Son implicitly agreed with the Father’s plan to create a carnal form of themselves in mankind for them to torturously learn to become as they are in spirit. That process begins with the Son’s creation of Himself in His Bride, the Elect of God being the first fruits (plural) of Him, the first fruit.

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.

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 [The Beast upon the throne of God], and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
Rom 1:24  Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the [corruptible, as opposed to righteous] 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. 

I pray we have no residing rebellion of listless harlotry by fooling around delaying buying oil for our lamps at this apparent late hour before hearing the pounding hooves of our Saviour’s horse coming for His Bride. With an irritated sigh, one such ‘madam’ thought could be, “Here we go; Grant is off infusing sex again with his studies…” To that possible notion, and in keeping with salvation, my response is, “Isn’t marriage an underpinning cornerstone of the Bible?” Marriage without enthusiastic [mindful] boudoir intimacies is a lukewarm and bitter marriage; didn’t Christ already experience that lamentable condition with His first wife? Look what happened to her! God forbid it happens to us! Yet, we fill up behind the very same, mostly inward afflictions of Christ (Col 1:24).

As the Lord wills, I look forward to more detailed inspection of our Lord’s body next weekend as He, in the meantime, inspects ours.

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 1

[Study Aired July 15, 20 23]

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.

In the beautiful account of Jacob lighting eyes upon Rachel for the first time, his response was to spontaneously burst into tears; such was his flood of profound emotions for having found a guaranteed virtuous woman to be his wife; to top off the connection, she was breathtakingly beautiful… besides, she obviously loved tending her father’s sheep in the sensorily arousing outdoors. That exhilarating imagery is enough to make any man nostalgically weep ~ it did Christ, who created all biological and spiritually related emotions that motivate ravishings (Son 4:9-11; Prov 5:19).

Gen 29:1 Then Jacob went on his journey, and came into the land of the people of the east. 
Gen 29:2 And he looked, and behold a well in the field, and, lo, there were three flocks of sheep lying by it; for out of that well they watered the flocks: and a great stone was upon the well’s mouth. 
Gen 29:3 And thither were all the flocks gathered: and they rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again upon the well’s mouth in his place. 
Gen 29:4 And Jacob said unto them, My brethren, whence be ye? And they said, Of Haran are we. 
Gen 29:5 And he said unto them, Know ye Laban the son of Nahor? And they said, We know him. 
Gen 29:6 And he said unto them, Is he well? And they said, He is well: and, behold, Rachel his daughter cometh with the sheep. 
Gen 29:7 And he said, Lo, it is yet high day, neither is it time that the cattle should be gathered together: water ye the sheep, and go and feed them.
Gen 29:8 And they said, We cannot, until all the flocks be gathered together, and till they roll the stone from the well’s mouth; then we water the sheep.
Gen 29:9 And while he yet spake with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep: for she kept them. 
Gen 29:10 And it came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother’s brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother’s brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother’s brother. 
Gen 29:11 And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.

Upon seeing Rachel’s bright-eyed and sunny personality, Jacob’s unabashed howls expressed unspeakable joy and relief that such a beautiful creature existed. His unmasking no doubt cascaded Rachel with rapidly changing and enchanting emotions of surprise, tenderness and reverence, all amplifying the beauty in her face, only to make Jacob wail a little more. I’ll confidently wager that neither slept much that night, them having stayed up late excitedly chatting. Speaking from a man’s point of view, in disbelief, I would have lain brightly awake through the dawn just as Boaz’s commitment was for Ruth. The male-savvy Naomi knew that Boaz wouldn’t rest until his inherently protective masculine duty was performed for the particularly comely, virtuous young woman. 

I encourage you to please read all of Ruth 3 for Boaz’s and Ruth’s beautiful correlations to Jacob and Rachel, both parties individually representing Christ and his Bride.

Playful Shulamite-like poetic intimacy is the most provocative connection for a courting couple, and if continued in marriage, it is a key to supreme happiness. It is an elegant teasing game masterfully controlled and escalated by the fiancée or wife’s feminine charm and subtle delicacies, entrancing her lover. If ever a woman had righteous and powerful rulership over her husband, it is with that method! Jacob, Boaz, Christ and no righteous or unbelieving man could rest with those enviable traits alive in his home.

Of supreme importance, note in Jacob and Rachel’s connections that he meets her in the “field” to the “east”, tending her “Father’s sheep”. Spiritually he represents Christ and Rachel, His Bride, in the “high day” light of Him courting and connecting with her and magnifying her arousal for his plan of salvation, having rolled away the “stone” from the “well’s” mouth, washing her by the word (Eph 5:26) for her to wash the rest of the world for one of the two resurrections. Jacob and Rachel, Boaz and Ruth had outstanding sensual (physical) connections Solomon and the Shulamite epitomised spirituality for Christ and his Bride.

The intrinsic problem is with the connection! Worldly sensual connections are ordained to grow tiresome, particularly for a wife and by the curse. 

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.
Joh 6:64 But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray him.

All wives (as are husbands spiritually to Christ) are predestined to “betray” their husbands ‘whose hearts are snares and nets, and their hands are bands’ for the pre-marriage guarantee of bedroom intimacy, just as old Israel promised Jehovah, and grow weary.

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. 

Christ is a wonderful stumbling block (1Co 1:23); He found relief from bitterness in death to fulfill His dream for us. And so…

“The dream is one”! This study aims to energise wives and husbands with aspirations for a dream marriage. It is hoped to show wives how to attain a connection with their husbands that almost every girl and wife since creation has dreamed of and torn down with her own hands (Pro 14:1). It likewise is hoped to show husbands how to be Christ so that their wives can realize their dreams.

It is only the Bride of Christ who has been electrified by the Shulamite’s God-given daydreaming who understands her past sluggish bedroom intimacies are the direct result of her curse from Eden. It is the staggering reason behind husbands’ bitterness against their wives and our Lord’s (designed) hatred for his first wife.

The heavenly pattern is clearly seen in the order of courtship by our husband, Christ choosing us to be His Bride. Her job, her high calling, is to enthusiastically respond and incite arousal in Him for her more profound conception and resulting mutually exhilarated joy.

Joh 15:16 You have not chosen Me, but I have chosen you and ordained you that you should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you shall ask of the Father in My name, He may give it to you.
Joh 15:17 These things I command you, that you love one another.

Col 2:17 For these are a shadow of things to come, but the body is of Christ. 

Following are two verses with tremendous implications for an outstanding marriage. Embedded therein hinges all marital dissonance founded on not having a spiritual connection.

Gen 4:1 And Adam knew [H3045] Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.
Gen 4:2 And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. 

We don’t necessarily have to look up the word “knew” to understand that Adam and Eve were sensually intimate. Yet, if we don’t, Satan jams a broom handle into the spokes of our marital pushbike, and the alliance goes over the handlebars; and that is precisely what happens to all marriages.

H3045 – Knew
Yada`
– Phonetic: yaw-dah’
– Definition: 
to know
(Qal)
to know 1a
to know, learn to know 1a
to perceive 1a
to perceive and see, find out and discern 1a
to discriminate, distinguish 1a
to know by experience 1a
to recognise, admit, acknowledge, confess 1a
to consider
to know, be acquainted with
to know (a person carnally)
to know how, be skillful in
to have knowledge, be wise
(Niphal)
to be made known, be or become known, be revealed
to make oneself known
to be perceived
to be instructed 
(Piel) to cause to know
(Poal) to cause to know
(Pual) to be known 
known, one known, acquaintance (participle)
(Hiphil) to make known, declare
(Hophal) to be made known
(Hithpael) to make oneself known, reveal oneself

Nothing in that translation says anything about sexual intimacies (except passively h. 2. to know (a person carnally); therefore, if a wife authentically wanted to ‘know’ her husband, she would make it her intimate ‘job’ to discover every minute detail about his mind, inciting his (Christ ~ spiritually) classically designed male body and mind to respond. Traditionally since he (and she) is almost guaranteed not to know ‘the’ Christ, that is where the broom handle is unwittingly employed.

However, let’s see how subtly “knowing” a wife or husband directly relates to spirited bedroom intimacies.

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. 

Permission G4774 from G48863 and G1097 meaning 1. to learn to know, come to know, get a knowledge of, perceive, feel a. to become known 2. to know, understand, perceive, have knowledge of a. to understand b. to know 3. Jewish idiom for sexual intercourse between a man and a woman< 4. to become acquainted with, to know.

The Bride’s (a wife’s) ‘job’ is the spiritual application of the highly sensual physical! If she doesn’t daily build her house with ravishing eyes (Son 4:9) to “provoke” her husband to good works (how dumb-easy is the biological application?), she is no different to that other dull woman from Mt. Agar (Gal 4:24-25).

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.

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 [highly spiritually arousing washing] of water by the word.

Continuing…

Heb 10:23 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;) 
Heb 10:24 And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: 
Heb 10:25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. 
Heb 10:26 For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, 
Heb 10:27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.

Put simply, a husband’s ‘job’ is to know Christ; a wife’s ‘job’ is to converse submissively and enthusiastically engage him and be washed by the word of God. It is the most biologically and spiritually arousing act not known to mankind other than the Bride! With pounding hearts, it is the discovery of “hidden treasure”.

Mat 13:44 Again, the kingdom of Heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which when a man has found it, he hides it, and for the joy of it goes and sells all that he has, and buys that field.

I pray that men and women in the Body never regress to our former dismissive unaroused state and buy this field.

The most profoundly satisfying physical marriage relationship anywhere on earth is only found among a very few in the Elect of God, who have all the keys to the kingdom confined to the one outstanding spiritual act of being warmly and deeply kissed by her Lord. That enthusiastic physical interaction between a husband and his wife directly corresponds spiritually to the meaning of a stunning marriage and, ultimately, eternal life with Christ as our inheritance!

Sure, some Babylonian Christians know that mother Eve was given by the Lord to commit her sin and be liable to the inevitable curse, yet, they mostly have no whit why a husband would be guaranteed to be bitter against his wife. Husbands likewise have no whit of understanding the equivalent curse on them for being bitter against their wives! Accordingly, this study hopefully benefits those contemplating marriage and ‘resurrects to life’ those existing marriages, particularly for us all, spiritually.

Mat 16:16 And Simon Peter answered and said, You are the Christ, the Son of the living God. 
Mat 16:17 Jesus answered and said to him, You are blessed, Simon, son of Jonah, for flesh and blood did not reveal it to you, but My Father in Heaven.

Peter represents the Church upon the “little rock” (Petros); he was compared to Christ and the foundation of the Church. The Father only reveals His truth through his Elect.

Mat 16:18 And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. 
Mat 16:19 And I will give the keys of the kingdom of Heaven to you. [The Elect only] And whatever you may bind on Earth shall occur, having been bound in Heaven, and whatever you may loose on Earth shall occur, having been [already, before the foundation of the world] loosed in Heaven. 

1Co 3:21 Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours;
1Co 3:22 Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas [Peter], or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours;

Those who have not been given the keys to the kingdom of heaven are those who cannot possibly accept the plain statement here in 1 Corinthians 3 that even “the world (and) death” are ours and that we must all live by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God, including “yes, even the wicked for the day of evil” (Pro 16:4) in each of us.

Those who have taken away the ‘key of knowledge’ of how to enter into the kingdom of heaven will never agree that “all things are yours” really means “all things ~ the world, death, things present and things to come.” 100% of “all things” are for the Elect alone only in this age; others are not being judged as yet, since the world does not participate in the First Resurrection. Those who refuse this key to the kingdom of heaven also go as far as to hinder those entering the kingdom of heaven. “…Ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered” (Luk 11:52). Even those sad words are “in me, that is in my flesh.”

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.

The Shulamite has been given all the keys to the Kingdom of Heaven rolled into one master key by her single-eyed focus on her Lord. With bright-eyed devotedness, she actively goes out of her way to spiritually inflame intense desire in her Lord for their mutual ecstasy, eager in measured anticipatory arousals for “when he pleases” (Son 8:4).

Son 4:9 You have ravished My heart, My sister, My spouse; you have ravished My heart with one of your eyes, with one chain of your neck.

The Lord slowly awakened the love of his Bride precisely ‘when he pleased’ at His death on the cross. There is no greater Shulamite awakening and inflaming of her love than today and increasing every day until His return! (Matthew 25 – the Ten Virgins)

The Lord made mature young women, particularly in their bloom of youth, devastatingly alluring to men. Even if some women are not instantly noticeably ravishing, they all have nuances of exquisite intrigue for the particularly attentive male. Almost all women fail to see those fleeting appeals that only a male sees, and even other males cannot see what a particularly discerning male loves in the girl of his watchfulness. She simply goes about being female in the body she was given, mostly innocently oblivious to what arouses males (a blight she inherits from dull-eyed mothers and elder women of influence). She’d be deeply intrigued, for sure, if she knew, yet, wrinkle her pretty nose up to understand its provocation to stare in the mirror to find the source for its amplification and frustrating failure. More likely, she grotesquely exaggerates what she perceives as sexually alluring, believing that ‘in-your-face’ sensual expressions trawl a larger catch for sorting… and she does.

All men and women sit somewhere in the long spectrum of lust that waxes and wanes in unrighteous lust; none are exempt. It is just that within that very broad band lies degrees of every dissolute thought and action imaginable. And by the design of the flesh, both men and women, particularly those ignorant of moral decency, lean toward exhausting their sensual titillations mostly secretly, yet in these end-times, becoming more and more pridefully triumphant.

The Lord made every aspect of feminine energy, those flashes of exquisite beauty that words defy, and the resulting male poetry of a million impassioned expressions for men’s endless fascination and intense focus. It is what mesmerises males to utter frustration of nonattainment, and many mournfully submit to pornography, either mentally or online. More women than those who admit do likewise. As an apparent statistical fact, today, it is hard to believe that women now watch more porn than men,  mostly for female sensuality vastly more than male. Ironic, isn’t it, that both men and women worship the Ashteroth^H6252.

Original: עשׁתּרת עשׁתּרות
– Transliteration: `Ashtarowth
– Phonetic: ash-taw-roth’
– Definition: Ashtaroth or Astaroth = star n pr f deity 
false Goddesses in the Canaanite religion, usually related to fertility cult n pr loc 
a city in Bashan east of the Jordan given to manasseh
Origin: H6251 –  1. ewe, flock, increase, young
From H6238 – 1. to be or become rich or wealthy, enrich, pretend to be rich.

Gen 14:5 And in the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer [Phonetic: ked-or-law-o’-mer] and the kings that were with him came and struck the giants in Ashteroth [ash-ter-oth’ kar-nah’-yim] Karnaim, and the Zuzim [zoo-zeem’] in Ham, and the Emim [ay-meem’] in Shaveh Kiriathaim [shaw-vay’ kir-yaw-thah’-yim],

There are plenty of derivatives of the term, Ashteroth or Ashtaroth, all meaning the worship of the female as a goddess.  You may like to check out this link. Astarte – Ancient Diety

Interestingly, the Ashteroth are of the Nephilim, the giants with which both Israel and we must contend. Fewer giants are ever more outstanding than the worship of women who rule over men. Women’s rulership over men and men’s most willing abdication of headship is the most damning sin of all, since, spiritually, it symbolises our imagined dethroning both the Father and Christ for our godship sitting on His throne (Rev 13, Rev 17, Rev 19).

Yet, the sexual vitality of a woman is the result of her overall feminine dynamism. Should she amplify authentic gentleness, kindness, softness in appearance and voice, peace, joy, temperance, gorgeous hair, her entire body and submissive mind (Gal 5) when devoted non-sexually to all men, she becomes an Esther, hopefully for one man’s unspeakable delight and glory for all the world to ultimately see ~ such is the Shulamite, the Bride, is to Christ.

The one-time protection of women for their purity for monogamous marriage is a cornerstone of a nation’s strength. Today, all focus is a flood of destroying the God-designed dynamism of our beautiful women, whose own hands (mind bogglingly) abet her destruction. Even though the following verse is for spiritual focus, its outward “natural” application today is immensely destructive to the glorious vitality of beautiful femininity.

Rev 12:15 And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.

Today, her demise is in freefall, and tragically she is carried away by the flood of lies. Her beauty is destroyed by her shrill cry demanding respect for her power, strength and independence. No wonder today we have a major Western push for ‘men going their own way’ (MGTOW) since they never wish to be enslaved to that kind of woman ~ Christ didn’t but was.

Women’s feminine energy in the Body of Christ is sanctified, protected and nourished for that one ‘man’ whose teeth (his flocks) rest at noon through the peace that their animated spiritual conversation excites in the full brightness of the Son.

Son 1:7 Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon: for why should I [the Shulamite] be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions? (More exposition on that verse later)

Nothing is more sexually arousing for a male than those mentioned above delectable female attributes with sparkling eyes authentically and singularly devoted to him at noon. For the spiritually void young man, her endless beauty seems to him melancholically as unattainable as a fictitious Shulamite. Shockingly, she is much closer than he’ll ever know!

Joh 17:15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them [the Bride] out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.
Joh 17:16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 
Joh 17:17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth [by ‘the washing’ of the Lord’s word]

It is understandable, yet a little desolate, that demurely inherent people tend to shift uncomfortably when the sexual “natural” that comes first corresponds to the spiritual. Almost daily, I ask most passionately of our Father to give me Christ’s kisses of deep spiritual understanding to be spiritually aroused and blazingly ‘turned on’, ravished, inflamed for Christ, my [the Body’s] husband and Lord, and for him to instantly delight in the beauty He is creating in me. There shouldn’t be one person in the Body of Christ who doesn’t know what intense sexual arousal feels like. If there is such a person, he is missing the full impact of its spiritual meaning. Does he think Christ figuratively closed his eyes and other spiritual sensories when he designed our incredible body, holding His breath and averting his eyes because it was all just too gross? (Php 2:5-8). It is intensely erotic for a husband whose wife, with unrestrained elegance and skilful planning, blesses him with her mind and body focused on him ~ so, too, is Christ spiritually. Subsequently, all things literally become hers.

Psa 139:13 For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb. 
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, 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. 

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.

The curse from Eden immediately diverges a wife from her husband for them to be one flesh, body and spirit. When given to honour and submit to her head, a righteous husband, she captures the virtuously arousing nature of her God-given femininity. Her determination to exercise physical and spiritual enchantment in the home and for her husband and family immediately melds her and her husband as one spirit in Christ. That is the most powerful form of rulership she has that is infinitely greater than what her woke feminist kin in Babylon can only jealously lust for and deepen their ugly expressions.

Jud 1:12 These people are filthy minded, and by their shameful and selfish actions they spoil the meals you eat together. They are like clouds blown along by the wind, but never bringing any rain. They are like leafless trees, uprooted and dead, and unable to produce fruit. 
Jud 1:13 Their shameful deeds show up like foam on wild ocean waves. They are like wandering stars forever doomed to the darkest pits of hell.

Let’s explore why and how husbands become bitter against their wives and, if possible, Christ symbolically bitter against both.

The Bride of Christ alone has spiritually been given those keys as soundly understood in the study, the Song of Solomon. The Shulamite in the Song of Solomon was electrified to physically discover her marital ‘resurrection of life’ that her 1,000 sisters in Solomon’s palace could never discover. Even with Solomon’s infinite wisdom, she remained immutably “black” to him in understanding her unsearchable wisdom, reflected in perfectly expressed sensual arousal of an unknown (spiritual) higher plane. He had all the God-given wisdom above all fleshly wisdom, yet vexingly, this Shulamite held the literal (vernacular) ‘holy grail’ for an unspeakably blissful marriage! 

Meanwhile, Solomon’s 1,000 wives remained dead in their ‘perfection’ of beauty above all women in Israel, expecting the King to worship them. With a pout for not understanding why their Lord (Solomon/Christ) would not grovel before their self-acclaimed excellence and allurement, they, including Leah (Jacob’s first wife – greater Israel) and Queen Vashti, fulfill the following verse:

Isa 4:1 And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, we will eat our own bread and wear our own clothing; only let us be called by your name, to take away our shame.

An overwhelming fact remains that stunning sexual intimacy between a husband and wife results from outstanding spiritual connections that further cause an already pretty woman to become her heart’s desire, exquisitely ravishing. By the Lord’s design, Leah, Jacob’s (ironically) supplanted wife, couldn’t understand that multiple sexual encounters resulting in many sons weren’t the ultimate criteria for love (Gen 29:31-35); spiritually, neither can the woman from Sinai whom the nominative 99.99% of the world’s men, physically and spiritually marry.

Of course, Queen Vashti was spectacularly put in her place for glorifying herself before all the nobles, princes and nation of Shushan (Persia) by not humbly coming at her Lord’s behest. She was too absorbed in elevating her beauty before the other women of King Ahasuerus’s (Phonetic: ‘akh-ash-vay-roshs’)  palace (Est 1:9). She certainly didn’t need a man, particularly her husband, to have his image symbolically glorified when she could artfully satisfy herself before the entire nation by taking such an outrageous objection to her husband’s bidding. Vashti was a classical feminist. Vashti’s and Israel’s haughty dismissiveness of her husband’s appetite for her tantalising beauty cost her royalty ~ so, too, does it cost the 99.99% of humanity’s majesty who narcissistically worship themselves in Babylonian Christianity. 

1Co 11:7 For a man indeed ought not to have his head covered, because he is the image and glory of God. But the woman is the glory of the man.

All Christian Babylonian women are effectively feminists since they rarely submit to their husbands as unto the Lord (Eph 5:22). The accepted spiritual fact in the Body of Christ is that all men in greater Babylon are spiritual ‘feminists’ since they utterly reject Christ, and subsequently and unwittingly are subject to the greater judgement.

Before Christ’s people were dragged out of Babylon, they subliminally knew something about the other Christ preached was amiss (a Solomon-like vexation for the Shulamite’s blackness and his inability to understand her spirit).

Just as Babylonish wives can’t submit to their Babylonish husbands; similarly, Christ-like wives have grave difficulty submitting to a Babylonish husband, and Christ-like husbands have “bitter” distress connecting to their Babylonian wives, as symbolised by our Lord’s hatred for His first wife’s rejection of His ‘kisses’ (Israel in the wilderness). Even though our Lord designed Israel’s rejection for His deep kisses of His word, all husbands are in lockstep with Christ for the same near-guaranteed experience that leaves them feeling defeated and betrayed. The unspiritual husband is exceedingly troubled by his wife’s dismissiveness of his physical arousal for her. More often, his exasperation plunges his marriage into deeper discord.

God commanded Hosea to marry a known harlot (Hosea 3) to parallel Israel’s harlotry while married to her Lord; for most husbands today, the most insidious off-shoot dynamics of harlotry is his wife’s inherent increasing disdain to be authentically aroused for his love ~ why should she?

Harlotary is traditionally solely financially interested in the transaction and mostly despises her client’s inflamed passion; she has perfected feigning exhilaration, hoping to speed up his zenith while secretly hoping, “Are you finished yet?” She artfully knows that a hint of that expression will extend or kill her client’s fulfillment of the transaction and is the last thing she desires.

Of course, not all harlot’s business (covenant) involves money since a Queen Vashti-like self-glorification in the eyes of the entire nation is superior currency involving tens of thousands of ‘customers’. She is the ultimate capitalist. Indeed, a wife’s rulership over her husband is a damnably damaging act to marriage.

That self-worship is further narrowed down and identified in our physical marriages in the Body of Christ, where the same self-worshiping act can linger and hide physically and, worse, spiritually.

The spiritual Esthers and Shulamites intrinsically know from experience that honouring a husband, not only for his headship but his God-given design, to be easily sensually inflamed will bless her more leisurely arousals. Her entire body is a tactile organ with many more sensory interconnections than her husband’s; they complement his God-given greater gift for spiritual connections and, thus, headship. She teaches her husband to be a skilled ‘harpist’ with her body, lingering on some notes and ingeniously plucking others. She delights in seeing his delight in her sensory beauty, deliberately designed to further enhance her awakening and is a major key to her ultimate joy, the Shulamite no doubt learned from her mother. (Son 8:1-7 – in fact, all of Son!). Her husband is designed to spiritually do likewise to her overwhelming joy. No wonder the Shulamite, with that understanding, fiercely protected her virginity for “when he pleases”!

Of course, our Lord is the master psalmist and musician for our colossal spiritual arousals, deftly timing every essential disturbance for our excitement for Him. Our submission to Him guarantees Him raising a chorus in us of honour.

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

1Sa 2:30 Wherefore the LORD God of Israel saith, I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever: but now the LORD saith, Be it far from me; for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.

Our strong delusions in Babylon were mind boggling for the spiritually stimulated mind when we were given to see the cunning plan our Lord had designed for his Elect.

Mar 10:28 Then Peter began to say unto him [Jesus], Lo, we have left all, and have followed thee. 
Mar 10:29 And Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife [regardless of outstanding marital intimacies], or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel’s,
Mar 10:30 But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time [coming age; and maybe now physically for the wise], houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life. 
Mar 10:31 But many that are first shall be last; and the last first.

[End of Part 1]

Song of Solomon 4:1-16 – Part 8, Solomon Admires His Bride’s Beauty

[Study Aired December 17, 2022]

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.”

Saints, both men and women, think about this: Since you are becoming Christs, imagine being the Lord himself and it is given to you by the Father to create the most perfect wife for yourself. How would she appear in mind and body? 

The answer to the above is that we are given the pattern of the heavenly, and by the Lord’s guidance, create such a magnificent woman with fear and trembling! The Bible is Christ’s pattern for her to be born as the Bride. The Bride’s mind is her body since the outer body reflects her spiritual mind. Her entire ensemble began in Eden and consummates with her wedding. The Song of Solomon is her response in perfect spiritually erotic charm for His pleasure ~ the perfect (virtuous) wife.

Our Lord, by Solomon’s imaginative poetry, admires his Bride’s beauty of his handiwork from conception through the fiery trials of life and the imminence of marriage.

It is well documented in the previous seven studies that a world hell-bent on overemphasizing physical erotica is looking in the opposite direction to maximize its salacious lust. Intrinsically in men and women is their God-given programming to be attracted to their sexual opposite. For the Lord’s purpose, there are all sorts of distortions of attraction that nature cannot sustain, no matter how hard its contenders loudly proclaim their ‘rights’. It is overwhelmingly inherent for boys and girls with parents who don’t attempt to rewire their child’s gender that boys play and act like boys, and girls likewise as girls. Certainly, there are minimal natural anomalies with genders that the Lord wills via His crooked Serpent to facilitate mankind to conjure other sexual possibilities for the degradation of the naturally erotic. Those exceptions are just as destructive to humanity as any other disregard for God’s word.

As we well know, the immutable fact is,

1Co 11:8-9  For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man. Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.

It means that the very small dedicated Church was made for Christ in marriage and, subsequently, all remaining humanity depicted as their children.

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 2:21 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. 
Gen 2:25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

The physical difference between a man and a woman and how the other’s brain is wired causes them to be naturally attracted to each other. The overarching missing link is the Lord’s more significant gift of His spirit that makes a husband and wife supremely one in Christ. It is why the Shulamite’s arousal is so focused on Him. Her utter submission to Him, she discovered (given by Him), intensified her every ‘happy hormone’ beyond what any man-devised erotica imagined or drug could hope to duplicate! We would need far more imagination than the Shulamite to fantasize about what the Lord has for us in eternity once His spirit is fully us. The “deep things of God” bring us to the marriage, yet we have very little idea of what He has for us beyond the Eighth Day, which excites the Bride with additional anticipation. A glimpse is for us to have the ability to move like lightning in any direction without turning (Eze 1). Yet, where do we go, and what do we do with our Husband in that mind boggling spiritual body beyond the Eight Day? We have little idea.

In the meantime, we will continue to study our responses to our Husband, who has written for us for our immense intrigue.

In this study of Chapter 4, the Shulamite is in a state of unspeakable belief in every word of her Lord’s adoring speech. The fact that the Lord chose her and not one of the other symbolic 1,000 gorgeous women speaks for itself, even though she knows she didn’t have one smidgeon of input for her beauty ~ it is all for and by Him for the Father’s glory.

Solomon Admires His Bride’s Beauty

Son 4:1 Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves’ eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead. 
Son 4:2 Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep that are even shorn, which came up from the washing; whereof every one bear twins, and none is barren among them.
Son 4:3 Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely: thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks.
Son 4:4 Thy neck is like the tower of David builded for an armoury, whereon there hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men.
Son 4:5 Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies.
Son 4:6 Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.
Son 4:7 Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee. 
Son 4:8 Come with me from Lebanon, my spouse, with me from Lebanon: look from the top of Amana, from the top of Shenir and Hermon, from the lions’ dens, from the mountains of the leopards. 
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. 
Son 4:10 How fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is thy love than wine! and the smell of thine ointments than all spices! 
Son 4:11 Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon. 
Son 4:12 A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed. 
Son 4:13 Thy plants are an orchard 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 of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon. 

Together in the Garden of Love

Son 4:16 Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits. 

Irrefutably, the Lord made the woman for the man, and she is a shadow of His Church (1Co 11:1-16), the Bride of Christ being made for him and the rest of humanity, their children.

In the prior studies of the Song of Solomon, it was cited that the Lord clearly made a woman’s every physical detail a delight for the man. Not only is her outward impression particularly inviting, but if her mind is the mind of Christ, as it should be, every physical detail and speech amplifies her beauty by leaps and bounds. As the husband should be God’s image in all spiritual understanding and is God’s glory, such an equally spiritually yoked couple is a match made in heaven! 

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.

Intrinsically in women is their desire to nurture and highlight every element of their natural beauty and subdue the inelegant features. To many, it is torturous to present themselves with makeup and have their hair look its best, with touchups throughout the day. Men are particularly glad that they make an effort. From a spiritually truthful standpoint, the Babylonian adage is interesting, “if a woman’s hair looks good, so does the rest of her.” Our former Babylonian way didn’t know that saying symbolically agrees with the Lord’s order of headship with Him as her covering.

For the Lord, what counts as beauty is a person’s spiritual understanding and his God-given ability to walk in and do the will of God. The Shulamite’s utter submission to her husband amplifies her every bodily feature for his accumulative spiritual arousal.

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:

The Lord’s spirit within, from years of study, with relative ease discerns the spiritual meanings of the Bride’s bodily features in Chapter 4 (e.g. Eyes – spiritual understanding; Twin washed white sheep – witness; fruitfulness; etc.). We could, for example, attain a quasi-spiritual correlation with the word “goats” and the Lord’s goat and heavenly sacrifices for no significant spiritual benefit and make this series even more rhetorical. I hope to tease out the concealed spirit and clarify the metaphors at the Lord’s will rather than restate the spiritually obvious in verses 2 – 8.

Thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from Mount Gilead.

We can only guess Solomon’s vivid imagination of why his Bride’s hair looks like a flock of goats on Mt Gilead. Sheep and goats follow each other on well-worn trails they make by constantly walking the same path. They walk on different meandering paths loosely parallel to each other, and thus, his Bride’s hair looks like wavy tendrils cascading down her head, Mount Gilead. With exceptional imagination, if the Bride, with a typical female action, runs her hands through her wavy hair and gently shakes her head, her hair cascades like trails of thousands of goats running in fits and starts down the small ravines and gullies of Mount Gilead. Such are those tantalising nuances of female actions they are unaware of that captivate a male, particularly Christ, for their spiritual connections.

Gilead is a resource-rich and beautiful part of Lebanon. The derivative meaning of Gilead is H1567 means, witness heap; the pile of stones heaped up between Jacob and Laban to certify their covenant; located on Mt Gilead. (H1530 – heap, spring, wave, billow a. heap (of stones) 1. over dead body 2. alone 3. used in ratifying a covenant b. waves (fig. Of chastisement of Jehovah) c. spring).

We can see that the Bride’s hair is wavy; she is a pillar in the Temple of God, a daily sacrifice. She is beautiful and bountiful, like the sweet-smelling mountains and valleys of Lebanon’s richness.

The most outstanding spiritual aspect of Chapter 4 is that the Bride has been a sacrifice without blemish spiritually; she is given to be spotless.

Son 4:7 Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee. 

Exo 12:5 Your lamb shall be without blemish [H8549], a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:

Blemish – H8549
– Original: תּמים
– Transliteration: Tamiym
– Phonetic: taw-meem’
– Definition: complete, whole, entire, sound 

complete, whole, entire
whole, sound, healthful
complete, entire (of time)
sound, wholesome, unimpaired,
innocent, having integrity
what is complete or entirely in accord with truth and fact (neuter adj/subst)

– Origin: from H8552
– TWOT entry: 2522d
– Part(s) of speech: Adjective 
– Strong’s: From H8552; entire (literally figuratively or morally); also (as noun) integrity truth: – without blemish complete full perfect sincerely (-ity) sound without spot undefiled upright (-ly) whole. 
Total KJV Occurrences: 91

In Ephesians 5, regarding husbands loving their wives and him presenting to himself as Christ, his wife washed by the word without blemish, that “blemish” is:

Blemish – G299
– Original: ἄμωμος
– Transliteration: amomos
– Phonetic: am’-o-mos
– Definition: 

without blemish 
as a sacrifice without spot or blemish
morally: without blemish, faultless, unblameable

[H3971 – spot, physical defect, moral stain].
– Origin: from G1 (as a negative particle) and G3470
– TDNT entry: 17:50,6
– Part(s) of speech: Adjective 
– Strong’s: From G1 (as a negative particle) and G3470; unblemished (literally or figuratively): – without blame (blemish fault spot) faultless unblameable.

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 [G299].

Every aspect of the Shulamite’s physical body represents a spiritual correlation. Even a babe in Christ can easily reference the spiritual reality of most shadows of the Bride’s body. What Christ has presented to himself in Song of Solomon chapter 4 is His wife washed by His word and her sins having been made white as snow.

Son 4:9 Thou hast ravished [H3823] my heart, my sister, my spouse; thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck. 

The primary point of the Groom being ravished is in the erotic sense since the term refers to his pounding heart for his spiritual arousal for her sole devotion to Him. 

Ravished – H3823 – – Original: לבב
– Transliteration: Labab
– Phonetic: law-bab’
– Definition: 

to ravish, become intelligent, get a mind
(Niphal) to take heart, become enheartened, become intelligent
(Piel) to ravish the heart, encourage, make heart beat faster
(Piel) to make cakes, bake cakes, cook bread

H3824, this verse in Nahum, refers to breasts for the sake of a different connection for being ravished. A denotative of H3823 relating to being ravished sexually is H3824 for “breasts” in foreplay depicted as a dove’s breasts and throats pulsating (like a heartbeat) to its ceaseless calls. As such, the couple’s hearts are ‘ravished’ like the sound of two doves rhythmically out of sync calling to each other.

Nah 2:7 And Huzzab shall be led away captive, she shall be brought up, and her maids shall lead her as with the voice of doves, tabering [meaning to play or sound the timbrel, beat, play upon, drum on a timbrel or other object] upon their breasts [H3824].

In the process of the Bride being spiritually ravished by her Lord’s word, she has become spotless and without blemish, as the derivative H3824 with its multiple meanings refers. For us, where the rhythmic play of flesh profits nothing, the spirit is life and is the most significant meaning.

Ravish H3824
Original: לבב
– Transliteration: Lebab
– Phonetic: lay-bawb’
– Definition: 

inner man, mind, will, heart, soul, understanding
inner part, midst
midst (of things)
heart (of man)
soul, heart (of man) 
mind, knowledge, thinking, reflection, memory

Continuing to explore the term “ravished” where its positive and negative meanings are starkly polarised: The Church can be ravished positively always with the truth of her echoing the dove-like call of her Lord’s word and he back to her. In the negative, a deceptive shepherd, too, can echo the Lord’s words that cause the laity to go astray.

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 [H7686] always with her love.

Ravished – H7686
– Original: שׁגה
– Transliteration: Shagah
– Phonetic: shaw-gaw’
– Definition:

to go astray, stray, err [deceived; wander; ignorance]
(Qal)
to err, stray
to swerve, meander, reel, roll, be intoxicated, err (in drunkenness)
to go astray (morally)
to commit sin of ignorance or inadvertence, err (ignorantly)
(Hiphil)
to lead astray
to lead astray, mislead (mentally)
to lead astray (morally)

How fitting in the negative that the delights of a woman’s body can lead us astray, as we know happened to us while in Babylon being fed the milk of the word as we lay with some of the nominal 46,000 Christian churches.

Speaking of the destruction of Babylon and especially within, in the following verse:

Isa 13:15 Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword [word of God]. 
Isa 13:16  Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished [H7901 – to lie down sexually; H7693 – to violate, ravish; copulate]. 

Continuing…

Son 4:11 Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon.

The word of our Lord is sweet to us, as is honeycomb, and for us to poetically succumb in pure love to milk as opposed to the strong meat of the word in lovemaking is more fitting for this occasion.

Positively:

Pro 16:23 The heart of the wise teacheth his mouth, and addeth learning to his lips. 
Pro 16:24 Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

Negatively:

Pro 5:1 My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding: 
Pro 5:2 That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.
Pro 5:3 For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: 
Pro 5:4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.

The smell of death to the flesh, which was the Bride’s former garment, allegorically doesn’t sound too inviting, yet, to our Lord, it is now like the smell of Lebanon, a sweet savour.

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

The Bride’s “garden” (H1588 – enclosure; enclosed garden;) is her virginity sealed for the day of her marriage; she is protected by a hedge of the Lord’s word. Likewise, the Garden of Eden was sealed for Adam and Eve until sin manifested by them taking the forbidden fruit. Initially, Adam and Eve were sealed within the garden with its hedged borders that protected them from the ravagings of the world beyond. Upon being cast out of the garden, their return was prevented by an Angel with a flaming sword until the Bride of Christ was made worthy to be the new heavenly garden.

Gen 3:24 So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

She now is that spiritual Garden of Eden, about to be no longer sealed to produce a change in the rest of humanity, from her fountain of the bountiful spiritual fruit of her Lord’s word, his weapons that will turn every way that will soon enforce the tree of life.

… A fountain sealed. 

There are several derivative meanings for “fountain”; the one in that verse is H4599, which means 1. Spring.

Eve is the original mother of all living; from her ‘fountain’ springs all humanity. The Bride of Christ is the final fountain of life eternal through her Lord and from her springs the salvation of the rest of humanity. For the moment, in the Song of Solomon, she is a sealed virgin for her wedding day, and her consummation brings forth a fountain of living waters for her children on the Eighth Day.

Joh 4:14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.

Son 4:13 Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard,

Plants – H7973, 1. weapon, missile, sprout a. missile, weapon b. sprout, shoot.

Pomegranates – H7426 derivative, 1. to be exalted, be lifted up a. (Qal) to be exalted b. (Niphal) to lift oneself.

Camphire – H3722 derivative, 1. to cover, purge, make an atonement, make reconciliation.

The above metaphors depict the course of the Bride’s life that has created her into the beauty she is for her wedding day.

Together in the Garden of Love

Son 4:16 Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits.

The cold frosty winds of the north are not too long gone, as are the southerly whirlwinds (incidentally, it is all reversed in the southern hemisphere) on the turbulent days of her creation. Now the gentle summer breeze for the reality of her Lord’s pressing closeness wells up the floral perfumes of her spiritual arousals from the south; they call out, and his answers are symphonic – like doves to each other.

The Bride imagines her beloved above her; he resides to her north of the garden of love that she is. The judgment from the north has done its work within her ever since she was found naked in the field in her blood. The dichotomy of the north wind of her Lord’s breath, formally judgment, became a gentle floral, arousing summer breeze from the south. 

Just as Adam and Eve discovered, biologically and spiritually for our bodies, trouble comes from the south; in this case, our pudenda, when we disobey the Lord’s word. The parable now is that Her Lord’s southern summer breeze of his breath is now soft upon her face, lips and every part of her body, the ‘earth’, the fruitful garden that blooms in luxurious spiritual expressions. 

As judgment came from the north to Job, it was and is a blessing for us all as the Lord blesses us spiritually upon our repentance. The Lord causes us to not fear walking in the coals of fiery conversion that we eventually see, as did Job is a blessing.

The Bride in the Song of Solomon most profoundly sees the totality of her life of struggles about-face, now flowering in her with and by her Lord.

Job 37:9 Out of the south cometh the whirlwind: and cold out of the north. 
Job 37:10 By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the waters is straitened. 
Job 37:11 Also by watering he wearieth the thick cloud: he scattereth his bright cloud: 
Job 37:12 And it is turned round about by his counsels: that they may do whatsoever he commandeth them upon the face of the world in the earth. 
Job 37:13 He causeth it to come, whether for correction, or for his land, or for mercy. 
Job 37:14 Hearken unto this, O Job: stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God. 
Job 37:15 Dost thou know when God disposed them, and caused the light of his cloud to shine? 
Job 37:16 Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him which is perfect in knowledge? 
Job 37:17 How thy garments are warm, when he quieteth the earth by the south wind? 
Job 37:18 Hast thou with him spread out the sky, which is strong, and as a molten looking glass? 
Job 37:19 Teach us what we shall say unto him; for we cannot order our speech by reason of darkness. 
Job 37:20 Shall it be told him that I speak? if a man speak, surely he shall be swallowed up. 
Job 37:21 And now men see not the bright light which is in the clouds: but the wind passeth, and cleanseth them. 
Job 37:22 Fair weather cometh out of the north: with God is terrible [awe-filled] majesty.
Job 37:23 Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out: he is excellent in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice: he will not afflict. 
Job 37:24 Men do therefore fear him: he respecteth not any that are wise of heart.

In a loving embrace with her Lord, the enigma of his fair-weather from the north mixes with his gentle breeze from her south into a passionate whirlwind of blissful spiritual delights, transporting them up into the heavens or eternal love. That is how His garments to her are warm as he “quieteth” her earth through the paradox of intense spiritual arousal by His south wind upon her perfumed fruitful garden.

Song of Solomon, Part 4 – Solomon and His Bride Delight in Each Other

Song of Solomon 2:1-7

[Study Aired November 19, 2022]

“Let everything that hath breath praise the LORD” (Psa 150:1-6)

Chapter two of the Song of Solomon continues to express the Bride’s passion for her Lord.

Son 2:1 I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys.
Son 2:2 As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.
Son 2:3 As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
Son 2:4 He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love.
Son 2:5 Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love.
Son 2:6 His left hand is under my head, and his right hand doth embrace me.
Son 2:7 I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.

In the second part of the Introduction, it was noted that Solomon, who represents Christ, speaks on behalf of his Bride as though she is speaking in the third person. The Shulamite speaks glowingly of herself and is far from being conceited and speaking above what is written, for she knows that her words are her fiancé’s ~ Christ will not be yoked to an unbeliever.

Son 2:1  I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys.
Son 2:2 As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.

Roses are world-renowned for their classic beauty and scent; they are deep-rooted and hardy. While Solomon depicts his Bride as “the rose of Sharon”, roses only feature twice in scripture (Song of Solomon and Isaiah). On both occasions, their location suggests a lonely plain, a savannah wilderness. Also, the following scripture speaks of Israel in the flesh and spiritual Israel as Sharon being that lonely plain. The fruits of their works do not compare to the spiritual blossoming of the rose and lily reserved in relative isolation for her Lord.

Isa 35:1 The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. 

Isa 33:9 The earth mourneth and languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed and hewn down: Sharon [H8289] is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits.

Sharon [H8289] 1. plain, level n pr loc Sharon = a plain. 2. the district lies between the mountains of central Palestine and the Mediterranean Sea north of Joppa. 3. a district on the east of Jordan around Gilead and Bashan. [Carmel is a fertile land east of the Jordan and inhabited by the half-tribe of Manasseh, and regardless of her fruit of good works, they are shaken off]

A rose in such lonesome places reminds me of abandoned outback homesteads with the only remains of a crumbling stone chimney and nearby, the bright beauty of a single rose gaily blooming in the neglect for almost nobody to notice. Similarly, there is the wonderment of a solitary apple tree thriving in a freakish environment. Yet, the Shulamite similarly is likened to a cheerful [H7797] lily equally remote because access is blocked by witless thorns, her sisters (“daughters”), preserving her virginity and contrasting beauty. Though dead in their works, they unconsciously serve her, the Temple.

Thorns represent the deceitfulness of riches. As we painfully were, the Shulamite’s sisters are rich in their many genuinely good works in Babylonian Christianity. They are not given to see the Bride symbolised by a lonely rose, apple tree, or access-hindered lily. They are separated by their thorny lies of false doctrines they flippantly regard as inconsequential and fall out of season to rot in the field. With a multitude of teachers, they are always seeking and never finding, whereas the Bride precisely knows what she has been given.

2Ti 4:1 I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; 
2Ti 4:2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. 
2Ti 4:3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;

Eze 2:6 And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers [H5621 – prickle] and thorns [H5544, definition H5541] be with thee, and thou dost dwell among scorpions: be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house.

Thorns H5541 are a classic example of meaning for our former lightness in taking the Lord’s word in vain ~ being saved and tossing aside having to die daily, whose lying works have stings in their tails, bear thorns and are burned in a crackling fire.

– Original: סלה
– Transliteration: Calah
– Phonetic: saw-law’
– Definition: 
to make light of, toss aside 
(Qal) to make light of
(Piel) to flout, reject
to weigh, balance
(Pual) to be weighed

– Origin: a primitive root
– TWOT entry: 1502,1503
– Part(s) of speech: Verb
– Strong’s: A primitive root; to hang up that is weigh or (figuratively) contemn: – tread down (under foot) value.

See also ‘Scorpions’. (Mat 13:22, Jer 4:3) [Strong’s #873 – akantha]. A disability [Strong’s #4647 – skolops]

Isa 33:10 Now will I rise, saith the LORD; now will I be exalted; now will I lift up myself. 
Isa 33:11 Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath, as fire, shall devour you. 
Isa 33:12 And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire. 

Heb 6:8 But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.

Son 2:3 As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.

No matter where the future daughters of Israel reside, be they in the mountains of Abram, the plains of Lot or the vast reaches of Babylon, none match the magnificence of the Shulamite; she is blooming alone and hidden from the world’s sight in plain sight. Outwardly, to the blind eyes of Babylon, she has no comeliness; she is broken, suffering and dishevelled. Yet, to our Lord, she is His spiritually elegant delight. He only sees her transformed beauty that, like him in the purity of God’s spirit, nobody in the flesh can look upon and live.

Col 3:3 For ye are dead, [KJV] and you have a secret life with Christ in God. (BBE)

Continuing…

Son 2:4 He brought me to the banqueting [H3196] house, and his banner over me was love.
Son 2:5 Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love.

Solomon in the flesh reflecting Christ in spirit are her shadows of sweet delight, and Christ’s word is initially bitter in her mouth. Still, it has become an unusual sweetness craved to make her “sick of [with] love” ~ intoxicated with the headiness of love. Indeed, her life in the flesh is dead, and she anticipates being lifted into the heavenly place with her Lord for the marriage feast. The entire Song expresses intoxicating love in vivid dreams for the surety of the purchased possession (Eph 1:3-14).

Interestingly, the “banqueting house” equates to the nature of festivity and permanent peace and clearly relates to Christ stating at the Passover that he wouldn’t drink of the vine again until the spiritual “supper” in his Kingdom, the marriage banquet (Mat 26:26 -29). Her final resting place is in her Lord’s bosom, in his house, the inner sanctuary of the holy of holies, her ark of pure love those without the Temple nobody else can touch, let alone see.

[H3196] Banqueting 
iteration: Yayin
– Phonetic: yah’-yin
– Definition: – wine
– Origin: from an unused root meaning to effervesce [ferment, fizz, sparkle, bubble, enthuse]
– TWOT entry: 864
– Part(s) of speech: Noun Masculine 

– Strong’s: From an unused root meaning to effervesce;
wine (as fermented); by implication intoxication: – banqueting wine wine [-bibber].

Of course, the Bride in her flesh has learned to be physically and spiritually sober, and the full understanding of her Lord and husband is now a reality. Her pain of walking in the fiery coals filling up from behind the same afflictions as her husband is gone; she is about to be birthed a new creation. Now in the fullness of eternal spirit with the glorious beauty of both Esther’s submissive dignity and Rachel’s bright eyes, she is festive, pretty, and a stunning delight of righteousness to her Groom. She is the apple of His eye.

Banners (H1714 – standard; to look, behold) are flags or standards signifying to what country or state the company belongs. The banner over the Shulamite proclaims the Lord’s ownership of his purchased possession, to which she gladly and wholeheartedly submits.

Son 2:5 Stay me with flagons [H809], comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love.

Spiritually, bread, strong meat and wine are all necessary for growth. Wine in flagons is especially used for festive occasions, as did David celebrating the return of the ark of the Lord to Jerusalem. Often flagons are associated with raisin or date cakes that are condensed by being pressed. The high fructose content in the cakes preserves them for long distant travel without deterioration and, as does honey, provides the body with instant energy and a spiritually bright mind (1Sa 14:27 – Jonathan dipped his lance or rod’s end in honey and ate).

2Sa 6:19 And he dealt among all the people, even among the whole multitude of Israel, as well to the women as men, to every one a cake of bread, [wheaten bread] and a good piece of flesh, and a flagon [H809] of wine. So all the people departed every one to his house.

The Bride is resting upon her Lord with the typically bright and unbridled enthusiasm of a beautiful young woman that is likewise intoxicating to the Groom ~ they are sick with love.

Christ’s first miracle was to convert water into wine (Joh 2:1-11), and the occasion was a wedding feast that in the flesh directly points to the anticipated wedding banquet in the Song of Solomon and, spiritually, the marriage of the Lamb.

Mat 26:29 But I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father’s kingdom.

For the Bride, the fiery wrath of God is gone, and the paradox of wine’s positive meaning merges with the festivities.

Wine (H3631 – fiery wine of God’s wrath; and effervesce – bubbly)

For the last part of verse 5, Strong’s derivative of the meaning of apples is H5301 and the Hebrew word:

– Original: נפח
– Transliteration: Naphach
– Phonetic: naw-fakh’
– Definition:
to breathe, blow, sniff at, seethe, give up or lose (life)
(Qal) to breathe, blow
(Pual) to be blown
(Hiphil) to cause to breathe out

The Shulamite and her Lord are in a loving embrace, and the breath of his life-giving word is breathing on her and she on him as they exchange His word with kisses that are better than wine. She says:

Son 2:6 His left hand is under my head, and his right hand doth embrace me.

The spirit they now share was in the flesh, a type of downpayment the Lord gave Adam’s physical life and now the Bride of Christ, is one spirit in Him which He figuratively breathed into her in a consummative embrace. In that physical position of an enflamed loving embrace, her Lord breathes the spiritual breath of life that a deer (roe, hart or hind) she typifies and pants (H6165 – to long for; pant after) for the full measure of His spirit. Her panting labour pains and memories of bringing forth the good fruit of His spirit are gone, and she is about to reap what her Lord has and is now sowing; the full measure of His spirit within her. In suspense, she is “sick of love”; the memories of her travails in the flesh will be gone with cries and panting of consummative joy.

Gen 2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed [H5301] into his nostrils the breath [H5397] of life; and man became a living soul.

The primary point in the following verse is that a travailing woman pants (panteth H6165 – 1. (Qal) to long for, pant after) in the positive for the joy her labours have concluded. Her Lord’s breath in the loving embrace is synonymous with breathing (“breathed”) and panting the breath of life in Adam and now her spiritually!

Isa 42:14 I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; [H3205 – 1. to bear, bring forth, beget, gender, travail a. (Qal) 1. to bear, bring forth. 1a b. of childbirth 1a c. of distress (simile) 1a] I will destroy and devour at once. 

Psa 42:1 To the chief Musician, Maschil, for the sons of Korah. As the hart panteth [H6165] after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.

Breathed H5301 – simply, to breathe, blow, sniff at, seethe, give up or lose (life).

Breath H5397
– Original: נשׁמה
– Transliteration: N@shamah
– Phonetic: nesh-aw-maw’
– Definition: 
breath, spirit
breath (of God)
breath (of man)
every breathing thing
spirit (of man)
– Origin: from H5395 [from the same root meaning of Breath H5397 – 1. to pant
(Qal) to pant 1. of a woman in travail or labour]
– TWOT entry: 1433a
– Part(s) of speech: Noun Feminine 

– Strong’s: From H5395; a puff that is wind angry or vital breath divine inspiration intellect or (concretely) an animal: – blast (that) breath (-eth) inspiration soul spirit. 

Total KJV Occurrences: 24

The term “breath” (H5397) of life God gave Adam relates to Him having “Breathed” (H5301), the beginnings of his travail, and relates to the “spirit” (H7307) and soul in man to bring forth the New Adam

Isa 57:15 For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, [H7307] to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
Isa 57:16 For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls [H5397 – 1. breath, spirit a. breath (of God) b. breath (of man) c. every breathing thing d. spirit (of man)] which I have made. 

Zec 12:1 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit [H7307] of man within him. 

Spirit H7307
– Original: רוּח
– Transliteration: Ruwach
– Phonetic: roo’-akh
– Definition:
wind, breath, mind, spirit
breath
wind
of heaven
quarter (of wind), side
breath of air
air, gas
vain, empty thing
spirit (as that which breathes quickly in animation or agitation)
spirit, animation, vivacity, vigour
courage
temper, anger
impatience, patience
spirit, disposition (as troubled, bitter, discontented)
disposition (of various kinds), unaccountable or uncontrollable impulse
prophetic spirit
spirit (of the living, breathing being in man and animals)
as gift, preserved by God, God’s spirit, departing at death, disembodied being
spirit (as seat of emotion)
desire
sorrow, trouble
spirit
as seat or organ of mental acts
rarely of the will
as seat especially of moral character
Spirit of God
as inspiring ecstatic state of prophecy
as impelling prophet to utter instruction or warning
imparting warlike energy and executive and administrative power
as endowing men with various gifts
as energy of life

– Origin: from H7306
– TWOT entry: 2131a
– Part(s) of speech: Noun Feminine 
– Strong’s: From H7306; wind; by resemblance breath that is a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively life anger unsubstantiality; by extension a region of the sky; by resemblance spirit but only of a rational being (including its expression and functions): – air anger blast breath X cool courage mind X quarter X side spirit ([-ual]) tempest X vain ([whirl-]) wind (-y). 

Total KJV Occurrences: 378

The Bride and her Lord are one breath of the spirit of eternal life in each other’s embrace.

1Co 6:17 But he that is joined [G2853 – to glue together; join oneself to; cleave] unto the Lord is one spirit.

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. 

1Co 6:16 What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh. 

Eph 2:18 For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.

Eph 4:4 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling.

The final verse for this study finishes with the Shulamite’s internal soliloquy. She sternly commands her sisters of Old Jerusalem within to withstand their propensity to be like a deer, wild ass in their season or swift dromedary, that cannot resist a majestic stag or equivalent male’s rutting call. (Jer 2:23-24)

Son 2:7 I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please. 

The roes of the field relate to the masculine as with the outward majestic glory of rams, stags and bucks (H6643) whose swollen (H6638) spiritually hedonistic ways match the equally libertine hind’s (H355 female; doe) lustful eyes. As with Rachel’s immense patience in waiting for Jacob, she does not allow her love to be fully aroused until her wedding day. Her elegantly and subtly expressed physique behind equally appealing dress points to her heart and not overtly to her breasts. With dreadfully deep sobriety, she internally reminds herself to focus on her Lord and not be cajoled by her sisters in Old Jerusalem to prematurely and sensually feast until her Lord pleases.

In previous Song of Solomon studies, female breasts elegantly dominate the initial arousal of feminine tenderness and the spiritual epicentre of a beautiful heart. She knows her sisters’ love in Babylon is polluted and symbolised haughtily by their exaggeratedly pushed-up (H7736 – swollen) breasts designed to catch the eye of attentive males. As the roes and bucks are likewise swollen in their self-righteous majesty, so are the hind’s hearts sensationally depicted by breasts defiantly taking centre stage and immediately awakening concupiscent love. Both parties become the waste of rotten fruit.

The accompanying verse speaks of Israel’s unfaithfulness and her heart symbolically portrayed by impudently exaggerated breasts:

Hos 2:2 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. [H7699]

H7699 and its derivative H7736 Strongs meaning,
– Original: שׁוּד
– Transliteration: Shuwd
– Phonetic: shood
– Definition:

(Qal) to ruin, destroy, spoil, devastate
– Origin: a primitive root
– TWOT entry: 2331
– Part(s) of speech: Verb 
– Strong’s: A primitive root; properly to swell up that is figuratively (by implication of insolence) to devastate: – waste.

Total KJV Occurrences: 1 
wasteth, 1
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There is a stark contrast between the Shulamite sisters of Old Jerusalem’s heart displayed by the spiritual scent of their arousals between their breasts, compared to the Bride’s holy heart anointed with the glorious scent of pure myrrh.

Son 1:13 A bundle of myrrh is my wellbeloved unto me; he shall lie all night betwixt my breasts. 

The Bride is not conceited for the honour her Lord has bestowed on her; the King says,

Psa 45:8 All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad. 
Psa 45:9 Kings’ daughters were among thy honourable women: upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir.

The Bride has left her father and mother and will devotedly cleave to her husband.

Psa 45:10 Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father’s house; 
Psa 45:11 So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for he is thy Lord; and worship thou him.

The next verse reminds us of Babylonian Christianity, which says they are Jews but do lie and shall bow down before her.

Psa 45:12 And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; even the rich among the people shall intreat thy favour. 
Psa 45:13 The king’s daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold. 
Psa 45:14 She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee. 
Psa 45:15 With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought: they shall enter into the king’s palace. 
Psa 45:16 Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth.
Psa 45:17 I will make thy name to be remembered in all generations: therefore shall the people praise thee for ever and ever.

In remembering the Eighth-day, with those verses indelibly written in her heart, she, with quickened breath, painfully (“sick of love”) yet gladly restrains her arousal until He pleases.

At the Lord’s hand, next week we will review Song of Solomon 2:8-17.

Song of Solomon, Part 1 – Kisses/Arousal Comes before Desire

[Study Aired October 29, 2022]

In the “Introduction” to the Song of Solomon, we couldn’t clearly identify the name of the Shulamite or her ethnic background. That neutrality is positive since she represents the Bride of Christ and is the mother of the entirety of humanity and her spiritual ethnicity and integrity are what matters. Her physical and spiritual character is utterly opposed to the Great Whore of Revelation. The Bride is not that long past being “treacherous”, having unwittingly called herself a Jew while holding the oracles of God in unrighteousness. 

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. 

Rom 2:28 For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: 
Rom 2:29 But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.

Remember the “two armies” in the last part of the Introduction, Hagar and Sarah, Old Jerusalem and the Heavenly Jerusalem above and Israel and Judah ~ the Shulamite represents the spiritual positives of those entities.

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

It is profane in the Body of Christ for us not to juxtapose the physical with the spiritual. However, it is understandable that discussion on bedroom intimacies can jar some folk’s sensitivities. At our Lord’s hand, those intimacy reviews will be seemly.

For us to now rush through the relatively short book of the Song of Solomon and, looking down, shuffle our feet in shame and dismiss its powerful imagery of physical intimacies is akin to remaining our elder sister, Israel, and her dismissal of her Lord’s tender courtships. The Body of Christ is personally aware that marital intimacies are a shadow of our Lord’s spiritual intimacies (Eph 5:1-5, Eph 5:22-33). As vile and offensive as forced and unwanted intimacy is, it is a shadow of our former selves enthusiastically ingratiating our spiritual food on another. Being intoxicated on the word revolts a possible babe by the foul adulterous spiritual breath and cuts off his ears from receiving any truth. 

The Bride in the Song of Solomon doesn’t half-step or deny her Lord with her physical ardour, nor should we with the reality of our spiritual ardour since we expectantly are she.

2Ti 2:11 It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him: 
2Ti 2:12 If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us:
2Ti 2:13 If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.

In the Song of Solomon, the Bride is finished being dragged from her decreasing Babylonian Christian spiritual fickle and flighty temperament, which is usually synonymous with her physical nature in Babylonian marriage. She was the gatekeeper of physical intimacies that reflect her spiritual condition perfectly when in the wilderness. She only desired her Lord when it suited her, mostly when the titillating blessings of courtship flowed. When His inevitable arousal for her became evident, that was too much; she preferred to bathe in the bliss of being perpetually pursued and to pursue affection by any good-looking man without bringing forth righteous fruit. (Eze 23:12-23). She had a multitude of neighbouring tribes who could sustain her insatiable quest to be desired in her timing, reminiscent of Queen Vashti controlling her standing in the eyes of the kingdom of Persia which dramatically backfired on Vashti being dismissed as Queen. Esther, another stunning shadow of the Bride and with superior spiritual poise, was given Vashti’s former status as Queen. (Est 1:1-22)

It is a beautiful thing that women inherently desire to be loved, yet her curse from Eden soundly enables the negative side of her desires. Her Lord designed her that way and patiently waited while she complained and groaned, effectively, for four thousand years.

Even harlots yearn to be loved. In the interim, harlots have very little interest in physical intimacies. Their goal is to be paid monetarily or validly where time is of the essence to accommodate as many customers or suitors as physically able. Not so here in this study of the Song of Solomon. The Bride of Christ awaits the Lord’s good pleasure with enough oil even while asleep and, as is our custom, delights in His word of protracted spiritual arousals. That blessing is a foundational theme of the Bride in the Song of Solomon in delightedly receiving the good seed of the Kingdom of God within, having learned to wait even while painfully barren.

Gen 30:1 And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die. 

Act 2:41 Then they that gladly received his word were baptised: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls. 

Joh 15:8 Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.

Let’s begin with the first verse of the Song of Solomon.

Son 1:1 The Song of songs, which is Solomon’s.

The Bride Confesses Her Love

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

The first verse in the Song of Solomon is called “The song of songs, which is Solomons” (Son 1:1).

Since we know that Solomon and the Shulamite’s intense visionary dreaming of marital intimacies is a shadow of Christ’s spiritual, marital intimacies, the Song is the Bride’s expressive masterpiece ~ a Song of Songs; the grand finale of anticipatory consummation! With the tremendous and glorious knowledge of who she is and what she has been given, no wonder she is trembling with enthusiastic anticipation and can hardly contain herself. Her physical and spiritually animated passion unconsciously prepares her mind and body for marriage.

The remnants of a wife being against her husband in the Shulamite’s mind are gone in utter contempt, for the curse that waxed gross against her husband had done its good work within.

Mat 13:15 For this people’s heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
Mat 13:16 But blessed are your [the Bride’s] eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear.

The Shulamite’s former disdain that a man, a husband, should be her “head” and have authority over her is now utterly gone; she is unconditionally at “one” with him!

Unbeknown, and more likely powerfully resisted by her elder sister, in comparison, the Bride knows that a wife’s unreserved submission to a righteous husband is the key to rapidly unlocking her God-given and post-honeymoon phase, her sluggish physical intimacies, the shadow of the spiritual. The honeymoon phase of Israel leaving Egypt was no different. 

Exo 14:8 And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued after the children of Israel: and the children of Israel went out with an high hand. 

Exo 19:4 Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles’ wings, and brought you unto myself.
Exo 19:5 Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine: 
Exo 19:6 And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel. 
Exo 19:7 And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before their faces all these words which the LORD commanded him. 
Exo 19:8 And all the people answered together, and said, All that the LORD hath spoken we will do. And Moses returned the words of the people unto the LORD. 

Inherent with women’s curse on Eve, what relatively righteous woman isn’t extremely cautious for what lustful suitor she gives her mind and body? Apart from her virginity, she has a lot to lose that is not genuine love. Her ultimate happiness in marriage is at stake.

The Shulamite’s implicit belief in her Lord for his exceptional goodwill and plan for her causes her to unhesitatingly respond:

Son 1:2 Let him kiss^H5401 me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine. 

God designed deep soft kisses of that nature for any man, especially young men, to become immediately aroused and to burn with passion. To the dismay of most women, men (Babylonian with no regard for the word of God) can lustfully engage or violate pretty much any woman. Scripture and the world are littered with such violence. As scripture profusely paints, men idolise women, and women, with impunity when it suits them with the haughty impudence of Israel, love the attention. Without the word and spirit of God, mankind is but a beast!

Son 7:9 And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak. 

Only a harlot encourages aggressively and tactlessly kissing any male she perceives as momentarily valuable of the type in the above verse unless she is like the Bride and highly esteems the man’s integrity and noble intentions. A little later in the Song of Solomon, those same intimate kisses for a righteous bride are in chaste limitations while engaged and lavished in marriage.

Jer 10:14 Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

Ecc 3:19 For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.

A kiss[H5401] with the nature described in the Song of Solomon is a derivative is H5400 and means:

– Original: נשׂק
– Transliteration: Nasaq
– Phonetic: naw-sak’
– Definition: 

1. to kindle, burn
2. (Niphal) to be kindled 
3. (Hiphil) to make a fire, burn

1Co 7:8 I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I. 
1Co 7:9 But if they [the virgin Shulamite] cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn [G4448 – 1. to burn with fire, to set on fire, kindle]. 

The Shulamite has learned (is learning) not to shy away from any form of burning. The burning of dead works brings forth refined gold and blossoms in burning spiritual passion for the Lord as is expressed in the Song of Solomon.

Her faded memories of harlotry are from the same mouth of soft, gentle kisses.

Jas 3:10 Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
Jas 3:11 Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter? 
Jas 3:12 Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh. 

Rom 1:27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

A kiss can be relatively meaningless or have massive positive or negative consequences.

Spiritually righteous passionate kisses arouse burning desire in a discourse of the word that should expressly result in the consummation of truth and builds permanent bonding.

Unrighteous kisses likewise convey the negative that is always a lie.

As a kid, I can graphically remember shyly, yet with respect, not avoiding the greetings of a few elder female relatives. One aunt, in particular, would, with the accuracy of a puckered-up homing missile, aim for my lips with a deadly and damp explosion smack on target! No matter how finely tuned my momentary weaving and dodging, I always got a mortal blow of bright red lipstick that was just as instantly and cheerily wiped from my lips with her thumb ~ I felt a little violated.

In my late teens, with an attractive girl who had designs for me, she kissed more eloquently, and the difference was out of this world! Though she was a Christian, the Lord gave me excellent control; she didn’t belong to my particular faith, so I considered us unequally yoked. This single relationship afforded the libertine opportunity to all the delights Solomon likewise never toiled with 1,000 plus wives. For a short time, I was breathlessly awakened to the multiple burnings of what a kiss can do. The Biblical thought of hasty romance stabbing me through the liver with a dart severely tempered my ardour; tortuously, the word of God won.

The following scripture speaks about any girl or guy next door or in your group of friends with degrees of passive or aggressive intentions of intimacy and not necessarily a harlot with direct intentions.

Pro 7:13 So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him, 
Pro 7:14 I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed [H7999] my vows. She is at peace with her Babylonian ways.
Pro 7:15 Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee. 
Pro 7:16 I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt. 
Pro 7:17 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
Pro 7:18 Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves. 
Pro 7:19 For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:
Pro 7:20 He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed. 
Pro 7:21 With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him. 
Pro 7:22 He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks; 
Pro 7:23 Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life. 
Pro 7:24 Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth. 
Pro 7:25 Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths. 
Pro 7:26 For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her. 
Pro 7:27 Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death. 

Do you recall what the Hebrew for H7999 refers to? Alarmingly, Shulamite^H7759 means “the perfect” or the “peaceful”, and is the derivative of H7999.

– Original: שׁלם
– Transliteration: Shalam
– Phonetic: shaw-lam’
– Definition: 

1. to be in a covenant of peace, be at peace
2. (Qal) 
3. to be at peace 
4. peaceful one (participle) 
5. (Pual) one in covenant of peace (participle) 
6. (Hiphil) 
7. to make peace with 
8. to cause to be at peace 
9. (Hophal) to live in peace

The negative intentions of a “kiss” are the precise opposite of the Shulamite, whose name likewise means “peaceful; a covenant with peace” as does Jerusalem; the “two armies” of the earthy and heavenly Jerusalem. Classically we have Satan parading the intoxicating nature of a beautiful girl’s tender and warm kisses as authentic and peaceful; an unwitting betrayal with no consequences! Christ knew the consequences of Judas’ kiss, that Judas resulted in his literal innards, his liver being thrust through with the dart of a stake rupturing his belly upon his botched suicide.

Mat 26:47 And while he [Jesus] yet spake, lo, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priests and elders of the people.
Mat 26:48 Now he that betrayed him gave them a sign, saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he: hold him fast. 
Mat 26:49 And forthwith he came to Jesus, and said, Hail, master; and kissed him. 

It’s amazing how the seeming simplicity of a kiss can take up an entire study with barely a dent and many more hours of discussion.

This mutual burning of the Shulamite and her Lord is from the immense mindfulness of her future in Him. That knowledge is the best and smoothest wine… “for thy love is better than wine”.

Wine figures 137 times in scripture, and we all know the result of its use and abuse, especially from our sometimes reckless youth. The righteous use of wine can vastly brighten alertness for spiritual understanding, yet when lingered upon, it dulls wise spiritual counsel of the mind, that still small voice that says, ‘… don’t kiss!… and definitely not amorously’.

The harlot and the Shulamite know precisely where the seemingly innocuous act of a kiss can and does rapidly lead a man ~ to unrighteous or righteous lust that wine amplifies.

Jas 1:14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. 
Jas 1:15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. 

2Co 13:11 Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace [G1515 – peace; tranquillity] shall be with you.
2Co 13:12 Greet one another with an holy kiss. [G40 of G53 – 1.

exciting reverence, venerable, sacred

2. pure 
3. pure from carnality, chaste, modest 
4. pure from every fault, immaculate 
5. clean

H6942

1. to consecrate, sanctify, prepare, dedicate, be hallowed, be holy, be sanctified, be separate 
2. (Qal) 
3. to be set apart, be consecrated 
4. to be hallowed 
5. consecrated, tabooed.

The Lord designed all violence in nature or mankind for our spiritual learning. Every woman, and especially wives, knows the power of her kiss. As stated earlier, lustful male Babylonian Beasts disgustingly have no discretion when at war or in the field or city simply follow their inherent nature to mindlessly violate any woman. Man is but a Beast.

The Shulamite is smitten by her Lord with the intoxicating knowledge of him patiently waiting in love for her until she is a mature young woman.

She is the “Is, Was and Will Be” apple of His eye before the foundations of the Earth. Her very opening phrase of devotion in the Song of Solomon is with her kisses. She knows her God-given power to arouse her Man with bright-eyed enthusiasm that, in turn, blesses her with the spiritual magnificence of “wine” for which she righteously lusts. She no longer desires milk but the taste of smooth wine, spiritual truth directly from the roof of His mouth; the marital form of a “holy kiss”. Her wounds from his chastisements are long ago healed, and those reproofs are no longer felt as loveless fiery trials but are within a burning of truth in passion from the roof of his mouth with the blessed metaphor of wine.

Pro 27:6 Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful. 

Deceitful lips and kisses are from the former works of iniquity she learned from her first father, the Devil. She knows too well that she was like her brothers and sisters in Jerusalem who unwittingly remained to shed their blood, the metaphoric wine of her Lord.

Rom 3:9 What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;
Rom 3:10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
Rom 3:11 There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
Rom 3:12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. 
Rom 3:13 Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: 
Rom 3:14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: 
Rom 3:15 Their feet are swift to shed blood: 
Rom 3:16 Destruction and misery are in their ways: 
Rom 3:17 And the way of peace have they not known: 
Rom 3:18 There is no fear of God before their eyes. 
Rom 3:19 Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. 
Rom 3:20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin. 

Why are her Lord’s kisses and love “better than wine”?

The Shulamite is poetically juxtaposing the laws that bring death, covered by his wine, Christ’s blood, which He first spilled for her. For us, it is profoundly understood by her Lord’s kisses. His kisses are “better than wine” since the “wine” for her has completed its good work once and forever; now she is about to enter the consummate glory of being perfectly yoked in him, and he in her ~ that staggering spiritual knowledge that kisses convey “is better than wine”. For her, Christ’s work is finished. She is about to drink the new spiritual wine in His Kingdom with her Lord, her husband.

Jesus, having turned six stone pots of water into wine, is covertly declaring the end from the beginning with His first miracle and recorded marriage feast pointing to His marriage.

Joh 2:10 And [Jesus] saith unto him, Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine; and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse: but thou hast kept the good wine until now. 

The Shulamite in the Song of Solomon looks forward to drinking that wine in the Kingdom of eternal life. Her inferior old wine that the flesh thinks is good wine is gone!

Luk 5:37 And no man putteth new wine into old bottles; else the new wine will burst the bottles, and be spilled, and the bottles shall perish. 
Luk 5:38 But new wine must be put into new bottles; and both are preserved. 
Luk 5:39 No man also having drunk old wine straightway desireth new: for he saith, The old is better. 

Mar 14:24 And he said unto them, This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many.
Mar 14:25 Verily I say unto you, I will drink no more of the fruit of the vine, until that day that I drink it new in the kingdom of God.

Luk 22:20 Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you.

Joh 6:54 Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
Joh 6:55 For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
Joh 6:56 He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.

The Shulamite’s narrative in the Song of Solomon sensationally anticipates that “last day” without having a say in being chosen as the Bride. She was given to die daily and thus spiritually shed her old wine (blood) and drink the new wine in her Lord in their marriage following the First Resurrection. She knows that she has been “no better than they” (Rom 3:9 What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin) and weeps for her brothers and sisters yet to be trodden in the winepress of Babylon, as Christ wept for what was to happen with the imminent sacking of Jerusalem.

Rev 14:8 And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.
Rev 14:19 And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
Rev 14:20 And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs. ~ and is synonymous with six jars of wine.

“Kisses ~ Arousal Comes before Desire”

From Adam until the Shulamite, the world, besotted by every sensuality that Solomon likewise exhausted, desires to return to the Garden to live the imagined esoteric purity of nakedness.

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. 

In the very opening sentence of the Song of Solomon, the Shulamite (and Solomon) knows that a wife, the Church, as opposed to the husband’s speedy intimacy arousal, is deliberately designed to be much slower. The Shulamite needs more tender nurturing and expressions of love than her sister in the wilderness. Yet, in the night and the brightening dawn of her arousal and desire for her husband, she sees her future more brightly.

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

2Sa 23:4 And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain. 

It can be a hotly contested point, yet most people think that desire comes before arousal in women. Men can be relatively unattractive, as was Jesus to most women and men. However, suppose an average-looking guy ticks all the boxes of charm, leadership, relative masculinity, cleanliness, work ethics and moral integrity, to name a few priority needs. In that case, she is slowly aroused to desire him. We don’t need to be told that men are infinitely more visually aroused, which just as swiftly induces desire.

If women were as easily aroused as men, lovemaking in marriage would be a dreary affair. The world would have been overpopulated in the first one thousand years.

Speaking of Jesus, the Christ, to come:

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

To most beautiful young women seeking their equal in an attractive, dashing, brave, powerful and respected man in the gates of her city, Jesus was not her type! However, the Shulamite in the Song of Solomon was slowly (figuratively) for two thousand years, becoming spiritually aroused and agape for what was being presented to her. She is in the love-induced dreamy submission that good wine cajoles her to fantasize about her arousal and his for her. Righteous lust, that is, desire, follows arousal as she achingly yet chastely contains her passion. 

Son 8:3 His left hand should be under my head, and his right hand should embrace me. 
Son 8:4  I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please.

The Lord designed women to be aroused differently from men. In a recent study in Canada that would reflect the Western World, and no doubt the entire world, astonishingly, women spent significantly more on dreamy novels and all kinds of romantic theatre than men on sexually explicit visuals.

Spiritual kisses and dwelling spiritually on the word of God slowly produce arousal and then escalates desire that is in keeping with the “natural” that comes first.

Continuing with the Song of Solomon, the Shulamite substantiates those erotically driven differences.

“As He is so are we”

September 6, 2020

News alert! You are sin and were made in sin!?!

Psa 51:5 KJV  Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

Rom 7:25 KJV  I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.

Rom 8:3 KJV  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:

Do you doubt this?

Well, here we are in our sin, so what do we do with our time? For this moment, we participate in fellowship that might get us thinking a little more about our Lord and His Kingdom.

Other times, we might just be living in our lives, in the world not of the world, while adhering to the principles of the things we learn to be like in the bible.

For example, we are learning to be as He is IN THIS WORLD.

As He is ….. ========== > AS HE IS ………so are we  … in THIS WORLD.

Said another way, and combined as Husband and wife, the Head and the body.

The H stands alone. He is the Head and the H of the body. He is the Head and we are the ead, we are the body. That is why I capitalize the H in He and Head.

He, Jesus, was the bridge of the Father to making everything through Jesus Christ, and now we have everything else in creation. Likewise, Jesus’ inheritance, is to the world, what Jesus was to the world. We are a gift given to now spread Jesus Christ.

But, that doesn’t always show itself up the in the ways you might be thinking.

In our study today, we are going to cover the second book in Judges.

We are going to attempt, once again in this study and the others like it, to connect our flesh with the spiritual message given in the study, so that the new man in us can learn to cope with the old man that we are.

While living in this flesh, we must contend with it. Our spiritual mind is battling the mind of that old serpent, the serpent which preys on … and EATS dust, for that is his lot.

Gen 3:14 KJV  And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:

That old serpent, goes too and fro, seeking whom he may devour…. slithering along on the earth…. seeing what flesh he can temp into becoming his dinner.

More on that later.

In this second book of Judges, we find ourselves serving others gods again, even after being told my Joshua that we cannot serve the Lord…. because we serve other gods. Yet, whatever we are doing, we refuse to acknowledge who it is that we are.

Jdg 2:1 KJV  And an angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you unto the land which I sware unto your fathers; and I said, I will never break my covenant with you.
Jdg 2:2 KJV  And ye shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall throw down their altars: but ye have not obeyed my voice: why have ye done this?
Jdg 2:3 KJV  Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare unto you.
Jdg 2:4 KJV  And it came to pass, when the angel of the LORD spake these words unto all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice, and wept.
Jdg 2:5 KJV  And they called the name of that place Bochim: and they sacrificed there unto the LORD.

What did we just witness? What we just witnessed is what everyone one of us, down to the last person, do to the Lord even after He redeems us while we were slaves in Egypt.

I mentioned that the old serpent is roaming too and fro seeking whom he may devour, but notice where it is that he is doing this.

Jer 22:29 KJV  O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD.

Job 1:6 KJV  Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them.
Job 1:7 KJV  And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
Job 1:8 KJV  And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?
Job 1:9 KJV  Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought?

Does anyone find it interesting that the Lord tells us not to tempt Him, but you find satan border line tempting the Lord of Job’s fear of the Lord not being real….by saying “Does Job fear you for no reason at all, what has Job ever had to fear you for?” … in my own words

That old serpent does this while “going to and fro in the earth…walking up and down in it.

You heard it here first, satan is near unto you … seeking you day and night.

The snares that early Israel had to endure are the same snares we have to endure today.

Jdg 2:2 KJV  And ye shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall throw down their altars: but ye have not obeyed my voice: why have ye done this?
Jdg 2:3 KJV  Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare unto you.

That is why we weep/wept, because this walk can get pretty hard depending on your perspective and individual trials.

“gods” are a snare unto us… snares are anchored somewhere… and in this case, we are snared to the earth, earth, earth.

Have you ever noticed that that majority of “other gods” are “earthen” bound gods. They have something to do with our flesh. Fertility, health, wealth, crops, cattle, etc. We very much want to succeed in the flesh, as well as in the spirit. That is the law working in us every single day.

We want to feed our belly… the same belly that is crawled on when that oil serpent feeds on the dust that we are.

However, even the “sky” gods, are really like gods for sunshine, rain, etc. Physical weather related. Regardless of all of that, we have the One True God, but we don’t always focus on Him our His mind.

We tend to focus on the other because it screams the loudest, and the squeaky wheel gets the oil until the Lord forcibly steps back in .

The devil tempts God, and satan gets his mandate. A mandate satan the serpent cannot break.

Job 1:10 KJV  Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.
Job 1:11 KJV  But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.
Job 1:12 KJV  And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD.

So, that old serpent is given a job to do but he is still a hired pit bull, completely in the control of the Lord.

Jdg 2:6 KJV  And when Joshua had let the people go, the children of Israel went every man unto his inheritance to possess the land.
Jdg 2:7 KJV  And the people served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great works of the LORD, that he did for Israel.
Jdg 2:8 KJV  And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being an hundred and ten years old.
Jdg 2:9 KJV  And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnathheres, in the mount of Ephraim, on the north side of the hill Gaash.
Jdg 2:10 KJV  And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which knew not the LORD, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel.

Peace was known while Joshua, and the elders that outlived Joshua ruled, but as soon as they died (there is a type and shadow here, I know you can almost “see” it), Israel turns their back on serving the Lord.

Jdg 2:11 KJV  And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim:
Jdg 2:12 KJV  And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and provoked the LORD to anger.
Jdg 2:13 KJV  And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and Ashtaroth.
Jdg 2:14 KJV  And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers that spoiled them, and he sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies.
Jdg 2:15 KJV  Whithersoever they went out, the hand of the LORD was against them for evil, as the LORD had said, and as the LORD had sworn unto them: and they were greatly distressed.

Now, we have Israel with the very hand of the Lord raised against His own people because they are not serving Him.

If you are only seeing physical Israel in this, then you are missing it. This is us.

Whenever we are serving other gods, we are going to be having the hand of the Lord against our flesh.

And if that is too heavy of a topic for some of you, let me introduce a new section to my studies called, “Stupid Jesus Jokes”.

Actually, I just made that up, but I do have a funny little joke I think to myself sometimes which would fall under this category.

I have always wondered why we don’t see too many miracles workers, much like social workers, but not to be confused with them, going around doing miracles we can see?

Then I thought to myself, what would be the qualifications for such a gig? I assume you’d have to be like super holy or something, and I already fail that.

Why do I fail at that? Cats. Yep, cats.

If it were left up to my “free will” I would fail the Jesus test right away because cats. I couldn’t be like Jesus left to my own devices, but for the glory of God go I into the world, because He is my Head with His mind in it.

If I had Jesus miracle powers, they would be revoked on day one or upon meeting the first cat I didn’t like. Why? Because poof, that’s why. I’d get my first round of cat-itude, and poof, no longer here. Poof into a floating hairball, then my Jesus miracle powers would be revoked and I think humanity would have been doomed. Cats can be cool once you figure out their personalities, which takes some deep medication or meditation sometimes, but once you get on the good side of a cat you might be okay.

But yeah, cats would end my Jesus powers because my fleshly carnal minded self would poof a cat because I can’t stand their cat-itudes, and because I think that would be a sin somehow, and you laughed at some of that joke too, making you a partaker of my sin, you now are proven to be a sinner.

Boom.

All because of a cat.

But seriously, our thoughts can at times become rampant, and we must get them back into submission and obedience to Jesus Christ. This isn’t some super holy test you have to undertake, but it is simply a mindset we must possess, so that we can counter the darts and wiles of the devil – which are spiritual in nature – taking place in the heavens.

We do this by judging our thoughts against biblical measurements (the Word of God), and then seeing what happens with that.

Jdg 2:16 KJV  Nevertheless the LORD raised up judges, which delivered them out of the hand of those that spoiled them.
Jdg 2:17 KJV  And yet they would not hearken unto their judges, but they went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves unto them: they turned quickly out of the way which their fathers walked in, obeying the commandments of the LORD; but they did not so.
Jdg 2:18 KJV  And when the LORD raised them up judges, then the LORD was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it repented the LORD because of their groanings by reason of them that oppressed them and vexed them.
Jdg 2:19 KJV  And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they returned, and corrupted themselves more than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down unto them; they ceased not from their own doings, nor from their stubborn way.
Jdg 2:20 KJV  And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel; and he said, Because that this people hath transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened unto my voice;
Jdg 2:21 KJV  I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died:
Jdg 2:22 KJV  That through them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of the LORD to walk therein, as their fathers did keep it, or not.
Jdg 2:23 KJV  Therefore the LORD left those nations, without driving them out hastily; neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua.

The Lord is always giving us trials in our flesh, but of which are spiritual in nature. That is one way we are in the world, but not of it. Our mindset is on heavenly things, where the war is at, but we still must contend with whatever the Lord has us contending with while in this flesh.

We are always being tempted to give in to all that is in the world, (lust of the flesh and eyes and the pride of life).

I will give some examples so that isn’t just such a blanket statement.

In the bible, the Lord is always changing the names of His people. Abram and Abraham, Sarai and Sarah, Jacob and Israel, etc.

All my life, I have been known as Stevie to my family. To most others I am known as Steve. Some people call me by my name Steven. Some people known me from before, some people know me from recent history, but in all of this God has me realizing more and more that He just has been in this like as a bridge to Him.

I am being trained as bridge to Him. Jesus Is, was and will be a bridge to God the Father, but also, Jesus is Jesus the Christ. We are the Christ of the Christ!

We are a part of this process.

Therefore, people from my past are bridged to people of my future, but mainly to God who is all in all in the future.

See, I am the blind man who is the bridge to Jesus. Jesus uses me as a bridge to other people because they can see themselves in me, and if I am me (and they can see themselves in my a little bit) then they can see Jesus COME out of ME, thereby infected them with Jesus during social distancing…. Thank you very much.

My testimony in me, of who I use to be, can be verified by others, and then I find Jesus I get healed, because Jesus finds me one day with a gaping hole ion my face to be filled.

Jesus bends down and grabs some earth, and instead of ingesting it, Jesus SPITS on it, giving it LIFE via the water from His mouth, and He places that lump of life into my dead and blind sockets of darkness.

I can now see, and as I live my life, I live in such a way as to try to bring others to the truths of the gospel as easily and as painless as possible, depending on what the Lord’s plans are.

I get to live my life now as the chosen elect, hopefully being given the gift of FAITH, given that gift UNTO TO THE END, so that I can have it around the throne when I need to be called, chosen and faithful.

We are called to live in this flesh, with the knowledge we have, by contending with whatever the Lord challenges us with in flesh as a PAYMENT for being given this understanding now. Our payment is LIPS of THANKSGIVING while serving the Lord in sincerity and Truth.

However, that is only a portion of our calling as well, because there are people who will rise up spiritually after us, whether in this life or not, who will need guidance.

Let me paint a picture for you. For MANY MANY years, most humans have not know the secrets of the Kingdomg of God nor the fact that when they physically die the next stop is not heaven or hell.

Most Christians are going to rise to a very different situation than what they were planning. We will be there as spiritual stewardesses guiding people to their proper destinations while having the power of God ourselves.

I say this to say that just like in Judges, our flesh … which we are, is always being pulled at. The carnal mind is a tool used against our flesh to temp our flesh to give into sin.

At the same time, as Paul says, we have a law in our members (flesh) that battles the law of his mind that is in him.

Rom 7:22 KJV  For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
Rom 7:23 KJV  But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
Rom 7:24 KJV  O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
Rom 7:25 KJV  I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.

So, then in the mind I MYSELF SERVE THE LAW OF GOD. In my mind of the inward man, I serve the law of God. However, there is an opposite to the inward man, That man also has a mind that we must not serve, or we will be serving other gods just like the Israelites did when the elders and Joshua died. We do not want to go back to old ways and the old ways of the old man.

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The Husband is The Head of The Wife

[Study Aired and Posted June 15, 2020]

This study is addressed to believing wives to whom the word of God is supreme. As I said in yesterday’s address to believing husbands, it is critical that a Godly couple “be of the same mind”. Nevertheless, the Lord has given some people among us unbelieving mates, and it is critical that those who have unbelieving mates know it is not their place to change that mate, and this is why:

Joh 6:41  The Jews then murmured at him, because he said, I am the bread which came down from heaven.
Joh 6:42  And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? how is it then that he saith, I came down from heaven?
Joh 6:43  Jesus therefore answered and said unto them, Murmur not among yourselves.
Joh 6:44  No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw [G1670: helkuo, to drag] him: and I will raise him up at the last day.

John 6:44 applies to our believing mates as much as it applies to the unbelieving spouse. It is not our place to change each other even if we claim to be “of the same mind”. It is the spirit, and the spirit alone, which will change, mature and make new the old man within all of us. You, as a wife, are not able and are not given the commission of growing your husband into the Christ you envision him to become. These words are addressed specifically to women within the body of Christ who are married to unbelievers, but these words apply to your relationship with your believing husband also:

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:

Being a wife myself I am well aware of how my own flesh despises the words “wives be in subjection to your own husband”. You might say, “Mike, you are a man with a wife. How can you know anything about what it is like to be a wife?” Here is how I know all about what it is like to be a wife:

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.

That verse is addressed to the whole church at Corinth, both the men and the women. It is every bit as hard on the flesh of a man to be obedient to and subject to Christ as it is for a woman to be subject to her husband. Being a proper head and a Godly leader is just as demanding as being an obedient wife who is subject to her husband.

A Godly husband sets an example for his wife. He does not say one thing and then turn around and act contrary to what he tells his wife he believes. What that means is that he does not attempt to remake his wife into what he wants her to be. When he attempts to do that, he is denying that Christ is working all things after the counsel of His own will, and when you as a wife begin listening to a spirit which is telling you that because your husband is not being obedient to Christ therefore you are justified in ignoring your husband then you, too, are being disobedient to Christ.

Ephesians 5:25 does not say, “Husbands love your wives if they are obedient to Christ.” What it does say is:

Eph 5:25  Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

As part of “His body, which is the church” (Col 1:24), I can tell you without any hesitation that Christ has been supernaturally patient and kind to me as I shed crocodile tears over the ways I mistreated the wife of my youth for literally years. It was not deliberate. It was not blatant rebellion, but it was weakness, and it was the natural rebellion of the carnal mind of the wild beast which is within all of us.

This brings us to what wives just naturally are while attempting to “be subject to [their] husbands, as unto Christ”. Why do such words even need to be written down or uttered? This is why the Lord commands “wives [to] be subject to their husbands as unto the Lord”:

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: el] thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

“In sorrow shall you bring forth children” is indeed a curse. “Your desire shall be to your husband” almost sounds, in modern English, like a blessing, telling Eve that she will just naturally desire to please her husband. However, a proper translation of the Hebrew word ‘el’, translated as ‘to’ here in Genesis 3:16 changes the meaning completely.

Let’s go to the next chapter to see how this Hebrew word ‘el’ here in Gen 3:16 should be translated:

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: el, against] Abel his brother, and slew him.

So, Eve’s, and every wife’s, desire is just naturally to be “against” being obedient to their husband’s headship and leadership, as is the carnal mind in every man. This is the lot of every wife, and this is the default lot of every man:

Rom 8:7  Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
Rom 8:8  So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

“The carnal mind…cannot please God”, and since we are all just naturally carnally minded, it requires a supernatural miracle to please God, and to fight against and overcome our rebellious carnal mind. The point being made in today’s study is that the Lord has cursed all wives with the carnal desire to please themselves and to be against their husbands… “Your desire shall be against your husband”. Notice closely the similarity between what the Lord says of Cain’s fate and what He says of Eve’s ultimate fate. It is very good news for all of mankind:

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 [ultimately] rule over thee.

Gen 4:6  And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?
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 [ultimately] rule over him.

These words are spirit, and they are life to everyone who has ever lived, and here they are right here at the beginning of the Bible. This is not a promise that every wife will be subject to her husband in this age, but it is a promise that Christ will be the head of His church, His body, His bride, and it is a promise that every wife will ultimately be ruled by her husband… “He shall rule over you”.  It is not a promise that everyone will rule over sin in this age, but it is a promise that everyone will ultimately be given dominion over sin in their lives… “You shall rule over him [sin]”.

The fact is that the promise of these words will not be realized by the masses of mankind in this age. The Lord ordained “before the world began” (2Ti 1:9) that He would bring all of mankind to Himself through two judgments. The first is at this moment upon “the house of God” within His elect who are being judged at this very moment:

2Ti 1:9  Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,

1Pe 4:17  For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?

“Judgment must… first… begin at the house of God”. “The house of God” is “His body which is the church” which is “espoused to one husband”. It must first begin “at us”. Christ tells us that if we are given to submit to Christ as our husband in “this present time” (Rom 8:18), that fiery judgment is now upon us. It will be few indeed that will be subject to their husbands in this age. There will not be one married woman in the first resurrection who was not given in this age to overcome her rebellious carnal mind which just naturally pits her “against [her] husband” and has not submitted herself to her husband in every way possible without disobeying the words of our Lord.

“Your desire shall be against your husband” tells you, as a wife, that you will by default, as a vessel of clay which is “marred in the Potter’s hand”, strive to be the head, to take the lead, to make the call instead of being patient with where the Lord has your husband and encouraging him to be the head and to take the lead and to make the call that has to be made.

As we saw in yesterday’s study, two cannot spiritually walk together if they do not agree.

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

No couple can have two heads, or two leaders. It is not possible as a couple or as a family to go to the right and to the left at the same time. No normal healthy body has two heads. Every healthy body has a single head, and if properly nourished in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, that one head will have a very submissive healthy body under that spiritually healthy head. If you as a wife simply will not submit to your husband, then you are in effect attempting to be his head. If your husband has a backbone and refuses to be led by his wife, then the fruit of a stubborn and rebellious spirit is all that can come of such a tormented relationship. That fruit will be either daily torment or the death of your marriage relationship or both. Do not continue, as a physical wife, claiming to know and obey Christ while refusing to submit to your husband in any way which does not require you to disobey the Lord’s commandments. When you do so you are actually blaspheming His name:

Tit 2:3  The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;
Tit 2:4  That they [“the aged women] 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.

When you as a wife, claiming to be a  part of the very body of Christ, the church, the household of God, the pillar and ground of The Truth… refuse to submit to your husband, you are blaspheming the Word of God, and the name of God is blasphemed through you:

Rom 2:21  Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal?
Rom 2:22  Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?
Rom 2:23  Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?
Rom 2:24  For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.

Nothing blasphemes the Word of God or His name more than hypocrisy. You say you believe God is working all things after the counsel of His own will:

Eph 1:11  In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:

You say that you believe the Lord when He tells you:

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.

Indeed, the Lord cannot lie, and all things really do work together for good to them that love Him, but the love of God is obedience to God. The love of God is not hollow words:

1Jn 5:2  By this we know that we love the children of God [your husband], when we love God, and keep his commandments.
1Jn 5:3  For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.

You say you believe it is God who is doing all of this for your good, but when your husband pushes your buttons that all goes out the window, and you find yourself stubbing up “against your husband”. You simply cannot help it because you don’t really believe or appreciate what the Lord is doing at all. What you really believe is that your husband is an evil man who must be resisted at all cost, and in so thinking and acting, you are “blaspheming” the Word of God, and you are blaspheming the name of God.

What to do??? There is only one thing you as a Godly wife must do:

1Pe 5:6  Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:
1Pe 5:7  Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.

You are not commissioned to change your husband. You are commissioned and commanded to “humble yourself…” Your husband is nowhere near as formidable an enemy to you as the wild beast you see in the mirror every day. Submit to your husband. In so doing you are submitting to Christ, and “a meek and quiet spirit” is of great value to Him:

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:
1Pe 3:6  Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement.

Or as the NET bible version has it:

1Pe 3:6  like Sarah who obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. You become her children when you do what is good and have no fear in doing so.

The feminazis have had so much influence on our society that most women are literally fearful of saying things like… ‘I’m a stay-at-home mother’ or ‘My husband is the head of our home’. Don’t any of you daughters of Christ ever be afraid of acknowledging that you fear God and keep His commandments. To do so is nothing less than denying Him.

Now ask yourselves honestly, do you look upon your husband as your ‘lord’?

I looked up the Greek for the word ‘Lord’ in verse 6, and this is what I found:

G2962
κύριος
kurios
koo’-ree-os

From κῦρος kuros (supremacy); supreme in authority, that is, (as noun) controller; by implication Mr. (as a respectful title): – God, Lord, master, Sir.

This is the same word in these verses:

Joh 13:13 Ye call me Master and Lord [G2962]: and ye say well; for so I am.
Joh 13:14  If I then, your Lord [G2962] and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another’s feet.

The book of Revelation ends with these words:

Rev 22:21  The grace of our Lord [G2962: kurios] Jesus Christ be with you all, Amen.

Also, when the name ‘Yahweh’ is translated into the Greek in the New Testament, it is translated as G2962, ‘kurios’.

Psa 110:1  A Psalm of David. The LORD [H3068: Yahweh] said unto my Lord, [H113: adon], Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.

Mar 12:36  For David himself said by the Holy Ghost, The LORD [G2962: kurios] said to my Lord [G1962: kurios], Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool.

Why would the holy spirit call Christ, ‘Kurios’, and why would the holy spirit inspire both Hebrew words, ‘Yahweh’ and ‘adon’, to be translated with the single Greek word ‘kurios’? The answer is that Christ is the ‘Yahweh’ of the Old Testament, and that is the same word used to tell you wives how you should honor your husband.

Eph 5:22  Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord [G2962, Kurios].
Eph 5:23  For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
Eph 5:24  Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.

As I pointed out when speaking to the husbands, “You cannot change your wife. You must be patient with her as the Lord has been patient and has tolerated your rebellious ways for so long.” The same is true for you wives. You cannot change your husband and make him the patient, loving, merciful leader you want Him to be. However, you can obey the Lord and submit to your husband, and notice what the Lord says:

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:

Notice the words, “without the word”. What the holy spirit is telling you wives is that it is not your place to attempt to change your husband by preaching to him verbally. All your preaching to your husband is to be the same as the preaching of the church to this lost world which shows no sign or hint of being dragged to Christ. You are to be a light to your husband. We are all called “the light of the world”. We are not called ‘the bull horn of the world’.

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

The word ‘conversation’ in 1 Peter 3:1 is an old English word for your way of life. Here is this section of scripture in the CEV:

1Pe 3:1  If you are a wife, you must put your husband first. Even if he opposes our message, you will win him over by what you do. No one else will have to say anything to him,
1Pe 3:2  because he will see how you honor God and live a pure life.
1Pe 3:3  Don’t depend on things like fancy hairdos or gold jewelry or expensive clothes to make you look beautiful.
1Pe 3:4  Be beautiful in your heart by being gentle and quiet. This kind of beauty will last, and God considers it very special. (CEV)

What hope is there for a marriage where both of you are so stubborn that neither of you fear the Lord enough to do what He says to do? Christ is insulted and blasphemed when we are that stubborn.

Luk 6:46  Why do you keep on saying that I am your Lord, when you refuse to do what I say? (CEV)

This chapter begins with the Greek word, G3668, ‘homoios’, and this is what that word means:

As I told the men, the only solution to an unhappy and dysfunctional marriage is to “be of one mind… the same mind… the mind of Christ”.

Now let’s read just a little further here in 1 Peter 3:

G3668
ὁμοίως
homoiōs
hom-oy’-oce

Adverb from G3664; similarly: – likewise, so.
Total KJV occurrences: 30

This word is an adverb meaning “similarly, likewise, so. Then what is similar to the subject of this chapter is the subject of the previous chapter which deals with how servants are to serve their masters:

1Pe 2:18  Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.
1Pe 2:19  For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.
1Pe 2:20  For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.
1Pe 2:21  For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:
1Pe 2:22  Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:
1Pe 2:23  Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:
1Pe 2:24  Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
1Pe 2:25  For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.

That is the ‘wherefore’ of verse one of chapter three. “Even hereunto [we are] called…”. Christ does not just talk. “[He set] us an example, that we should follow His steps.” We are called to be subject to evil rulers, to be subject to froward bosses, and for you wives, to be subject to angry and disobedient husbands while setting them a Christ-like example.

If you say, “I just cannot do it” then I will certainly agree. It is more than is humanly possible to obey a husband who says he believes in the sovereignty of God, while he holds you responsible for your weaknesses and faults and is talking down to you and talking down about you to others. That is the very definition of treachery. Do not let yourself as a wife ever be guilty of being treacherous to your husband. Neither can I do such things as He requires of me. I simply cannot, of myself, be obedient to Christ’s words which command me to “resist not evil”.

Mat 5:38  Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth:
Mat 5:39  But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.

Fortunately, nothing depends upon us. Our books have already been written, and what the Lord has written is what is happening around us every day. One thing we do know is written in the book of every man who has ever lived is that we will all be brought, by the Lord Himself, to our wits’ end;

Psa 107:25  For [the Lord] commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof.
Psa 107:26  They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble.
Psa 107:27  They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits’ end.

Your trials with your husband are not your husband’s doings. He is the workmanship of the Lord, good or evil:

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

The Lord has not given any of us to see what He has written in our books, and He tells us it is so:

Jas 4:14  Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
Jas 4:15  For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.

Since you don’t know what the Lord has in store for yourself or your husband, the Lord tells you to cry out to Him to deliver you and your husband from the wild beast and from the dragon who gives the wild beast his throne and his power. In spite of the fact that you, as a wife, simply cannot of yourself overcome the beast within, the Lord has faithfully provided a way of escape that you might be able to bear this trial.

As I pointed out to all of the husbands who have wives in the last study, this is also your own only way of escape:

Php 4:13  I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

Now let’s get a little of “the sum of [the Lord’s] word” (Psa 119:160) together on this subject. When Christ tells us to “turn… the other… cheek” He is not telling us to just stand there and get beat up if we can flee. The exact opposite is true:

Mat 10:23  But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another: for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come.

You wives are not required to endure physical abuse day in and day out. But “as much as lies within you” be patient with your husband if he is not physically abusing you. Wash him with the word of God if he will let you do so [Eph 5:26]. Above all be obedient to the Lord, and be a quiet light before your husband. Seek to “be of the same… one mind… the mind of Christ” with your husband. As you are given to do so “quietly, gently” encourage your husband to lead his family both spiritually and physically. Do not ever talk down to your husband, and never talk negatively about him to strangers. Always be solicitous of the man whom the Lord has made your head in this present time. Whether he ever overcomes the beast of pride in this age is not yours to decide. Whether you ever overcome that same beast of pride in this life is not his to decide. It is one thing to seek counsel with both of you present seeking to find out how to better your marriage relationship. That is as commendable as the Corinthians seeking Paul’s counsel. However, it is an entirely different spirit which will have you to speak evil of your husband behind his back:

Tit 3:1  Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work,
Tit 3:2  To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men.
Tit 3:3  For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
Tit 3:4  But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared,[within you!]

I can tell you from personal experience, it is a lot more fulfilling and rewarding to look for the good in your wife and “to think on [those] things”, than it is to stew over her rebellious ways. There can be no doubt that it will work the same for you wives. Seek the counsel of the older women in our fellowship who have lived through everything I have mentioned, ‘yet they [remained] the companion of their husbands and the wife of their husband’s youth’ (Mal 2:14), and as hard as that may have been at times, the Lord blessed and is blessing all who have been faithful to His Words and have endured the hardships which that obedience promises us with the rewards that come along with those hardships.

Pro 31:10  Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.
Pro 31:11  The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.
Pro 31:12  She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.

There is always so much more which can be said to both our husbands and to our wives, but it is my hope that all these scriptures will inspire you wives to seek to be what you just naturally do not want to be, and to submit yourselves to your husbands as unto the Lord… that you will from this moment forward speak only good things about your husband to others, will encourage him to take the lead in your marriage and that you will willingly accept Him as the head of your home and as your head.