Thursday, May 24, 2018

Marriage, Divorce and Remarriage


Bible Believers' Newsletter 1026

"We focus on the present Truth – what Jesus is doing now. . ."
ISSN 1442-8660
Christian greetings in the precious Name of our Lord Jesus Christ; we are pleased you could join us in fellowship around God's unchanging Word.

Android PhoneThe subject of our study this week is "Marriage, Divorce and Remarriage." Redemption! Once again we find the natural types the Spiritual, emphasizing the fact God never changes His mind on His Word, and illustrating how in longsuffering grace He planned that "all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called, [elect], according to His eternal purpose. For whom He foreknew, He also predestinated to become conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren [in the new creation of God-men]; and whom He predestinated, these He also called: and whom He called, these He also justified: and whom He justified, these He also glorified" (Romans 8:28-30).

Lay aside all else to "make your calling and election sure" as one of His chosen few. By Genesis 3:15-16 God is resolving Eve's sin with one Covenant for men, a separate Covenant for women, and His one provided way to "multiply and replenish the earth and subdue it" through the new creation conceived without sexual desire as Adam, Eve, and Jesus were conceived without sexual desire. Eve ovulated two eggs and had relations with the Devil-incarnate Serpent, then taught her husband Adam and bore twin half-brothers Cain and Abel, a case of heteropaternal superfecundation. Please prove all things in your own Bible, and familiarise yourself with the prophetic import of our news items to identify your position in prophecy and your place in the Body.

The accursed seed of the Serpent is sowing global chaos by 'multiculturalism,' the enforced assimilation of inassimilable races, cultures and religions as Judah's High Priest, John Hyrcanus I, forcibly assimilated the Edomites who are sworn to kill Israel. Cain and Abel redivivus, leading to the crucifixion of Messiah who cannot redeem the Serpent's seed and Jerusalem's betrayal to Rome. The Serpent's seed are now sowing for the universal rebellion planned for the midst of Daniel's Seventieth Week following the 'hot stage' of the present World War III. The plan states:

"We shall unleash the Nihilists and Atheists, and we shall provoke a formidable social cataclysm which in all its horror will show clearly to the nations the effect of absolute atheism, origin of savagery and of the most bloody turmoil. Then everywhere, the citizens, obliged to defend themselves against the world minority of revolutionaries, will exterminate those destroyers of civilization, and the multitude, disillusioned with Christianity, whose deistic spirits will be from that moment without compass (direction), anxious for an ideal, but without knowing where to render its adoration, will receive the true light through the universal manifestation of the pure doctrine of Lucifer, brought finally out in the public view, a manifestation which will result from the general reactionary movement which will follow the destruction of Christianity and atheism, both conquered and exterminated at the same time".

All forms of individual identity are being dissolved now; we are no longer men, women, boys or girls. Honorifics: Sir, Dr, Mr, Mrs, father and mother have been abolished; all are addressed by their first name regardless of status, gender or seniority—except in Christian circles where we address each other as Brother or Sister. Disrespect, poor manners and familiarity breed contempt causing societal collapse, thus Australians seeking a passport may choose one of three genders. Our alien-controlled media and statutorily myopic government bureaucracies like the police have long ceased to identify individuals by race or nationality.

The aliens have landed and occupied; they write our laws, control your money and your mind. Their mind manipulation by television has foreclosed on your body, legally transforming the Vatican-IMF 'straw man' of your birth certificate to their pound of FLESH AND BLOOD, my zombie pseudo-Christian friend. We are all 'human resources' now, bridled property of a fascist state. Schools teach homosexuality, cross-dressing and lesbianism, destabilising young minds perchance they inhabit a body of the wrong gender. Today I received this YouTube from a German family that has emigrated to Russia to spare their six daughters from compulsory sex education in government schools.

One may no longer discriminate, or think for ones-self as if the Lord did not grant everyone, even Lucifer, free moral agency to determine their destiny; one must obey Big Brother's 'politically correct' determination. Freedom of expression is verboten; last week our Jewish Prime Minister said police require authority to demand 'papers' of anyone in an airport and arrest them for no cause. Any terrorism in Australia was pre-planned by the self-chosen master race who boast it was they who engineered rescission of our Immigration Restriction Act 1901, which was the envy of the world (Prof. Robert Pape Ph.D., Chicago, 1988, The Myth of the Suicide Bomber).

In Matthew 24:37 (Genesis 3:15; 6:1-4) Jesus prophesied miscegenation would be the nemesis of Adam's race as Rabbi Emanuel Rabinovich announced before a special meeting of the Emergency Council of European Rabbis in Budapest on January 12, 1952 (William Guy Carr, Pawns in the Game p. 104-106). Theodore Herzl, Rabbi Reichorn, Dr. Oscar Levy, Bernard Lazare, Rabbi Stephen Wise and Maurice Samuel likewise echo the Talmud.

"The intent and purpose of the Committee of 300 is One World Government and a one-unit monetary system, under permanent non-elected hereditary oligarchists who self-select from among their numbers in the form of a feudal system as it was in the Middle Ages. In this One World entity, population will be limited by restrictions on the number of children per family, diseases, wars and famines, until one billion people who are useful to the ruling class, in areas which will be strictly and clearly defined, remain as the total world population. [500 million will consist of Chinese and Japanese races, selected because they are people who have been regimented for centuries and who are accustomed to obeying authority without question].

[Might Mr. Trump vaporise North and South Korea to encourage the future co-operation of China and Japan? That would make a real Jewish holocaust].

There will be no middle class, only rulers and the servants. All laws will be uniform under a legal system of world courts practicing the same unified code of laws [Talmudic UCC], backed up by a One World Government police force and a One World unified military to enforce laws in all former countries where no national boundaries shall exist. The system will be on the basis of a welfare state; those who are obedient and subservient to the One World Government will be rewarded with the means to live; those who are rebellious will simply be starved to death or be declared outlaws, thus a target for anyone who wishes to kill them. Privately owned firearms or weapons of any kind will be prohibited.

Only one religion will be allowed and that will be in the form of a One World Government Church [Revelation 13:1-18], which has been in existence since 1920 as we shall see. [Questions of war and peace, economic justice and internationalism were developed in the 1920s and 1930s and the World Council of Churches was founded in 1948]. Satanism, Luciferianism and Witchcraft shall be recognized as legitimate One World Government curricula with no private or church schools. All Christian churches have already been subverted and Christianity will be a thing of the past in One World Government"  (Conspirators' Hierarchy: The Story of the Committee of 300, p. 161 – 164; Revelation 3:15-20; 18:4).

On a lighter note, next Tuesday, May 29, 2018 will be the Day of Pentecost, and the 1988th birthday of the Christian Church. Praise the Lord!

This Newsletter serves those of like precious faith. Whoever will receive the truth is welcome to feed their soul from the waters of the River of Life. Everything here presented should be confirmed personally in your own Bible.
Your brother-in-Christ
Anthony Grigor-Scott

Iran Nuclear Deal survives Trump's Vandalism

May 22, 2018 — Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi also clarified, "On Friday (in Vienna), the joint commission . . . will be held at Iran's request, and without the United States, to discuss the consequences of America's withdrawal, and how the remaining countries can continue their commitment to the deal" . . . the businessman-president in Washington also harbours the grouse that the 2015 deal helped only the European and Asian companies to do business with Iran.

In these circumstances, the survival of the 2015 agreement seems very difficult, unless what Mogherini calls the new "EU/E3 + 2 and Iran format" gains traction in real time, while alongside major European capitals also show the political will to assert their business interests in Iran's economy, especially in the oil and gas industry, which is what Tehran is seeking. Full story: strategic-culture.org

EU to switch from USD to Euro on Oil Trades from Iran

May 17, 2018 — Iran, under a renewed threat of US sanctions returning, two months ago decided to switch using the greenback as a currency in its imports and banned all traders from using USD . . . it has to use a network of foreign exchange bureaus . . . it wants no transactions at all in USD . . . Russia, Turkey and Iran have decided to 'ditch the dollar' . . . China is preparing the way to follow through . . . EU banks . . . are already in a position to provide trading services to European corporations wishing to do trade with Iran. Full story: truepublica.org.uk

The United States 'Master Stroke' against Venezuela

May 17, 2018 — SouthCom's secret plan to overthrow the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela . . . contradicts President Trump's engagements to put an end to the régime changes which have characterised US imperial policy. It demonstrates that the international image of chaos in Venezuela is entirely fabricated and is an exclusive invention of Anglo-Saxon propaganda (voltairenet.org).
May 14, 2018 — Declaration on Venezuela on the sidelines of the Summit of the Americas. Back-stabbing execution of this sickeningly unmanly US plan to destroy another oil-rich country makes shameful reading. US defeated from within by undisguised fulfilment of Genesis 3:15 (voltairenet.org).
May 20, 2018 — Canada bans Venezuelans . . . from electing their president . . . decision contravenes the Vienna Treaty on Consular Relations. France and Germany mirrored this action in 2014 . . . when they prohibited Syrian ambassadors from organizing polling stations . . . The Pentagon has drawn up a plan to destroy, one by one, the States and societies of the 'Enlarged Middle East,' followed by those in the Caribbean Bay, with the first on their list being Venezuela (voltairenet.org).
May 21, 2018 — Nicolas Maduro won another six-year term overwhelmingly by a two-thirds majority far greater than polls predicted, turnout disappointing at less than 50% . . . Washington's rage for control of Venezuela's vast oil reserves, the world's largest with its heavy oil, virtually assures continued Trump administration destabilizing activities ahead. Whether Maduro and Bolivarian social democracy can survive the onslaught remains very much uncertain (stephenlendman.org).

Korea and the United States: Negotiating a Peace Treaty

May 16, 2018 — War against both Iran and North Korea are part of the same global military agenda. Confirmed by a 2007 (leaked) classified Pentagon document which envisaged a simulated scenario of global warfare, the US is intent upon waging war against four non-compliant countries: Russia, China, Iran and North Korea . . . The 'denuclearization" of the Korean peninsula concept is being used by Washington to enforce the unilateral abandonment of the DPRK's nuclear weapons program without any meaningful counterpart obligations by the US including the withdrawal of US forces from South Korea.

Will they succeed? The Koreans are skilful diplomats and tough negotiators when compared to their US counterparts . . . The US is in a state of war against the entire Korean Nation. Under international law (Nuremberg) it's a war against peace. Needless to say, the reunification of North and South Korea would weaken US hegemony in North East Asia. It would also have significant implications with regard to trade and development in North East Asia.

A united Korean Nation of 80 million people, integrating the scientific and technological capabilities of North and South would inevitably lead to the formation of a powerful, self-reliant and sovereign regional economic power and trading nation. A divided Korea serves the geopolitical and economic interests of the US.
The Trump administration integrated by Mike Pompeo and John Bolton will do its utmost to sabotage the North-South dialogue, while maintaining the combined forces command intact. Full story: globalresearch.ca

Comment: According to RT and Japan's Asahi Shimbun newspaper, the US is demanding that the North ship some of its nuclear warheads and intercontinental ballistic missiles out of the country over the next six months . . . (zerohedge.com).

Bolton said Libya's abandonment of nuclear weapons could be used as a model for the denuclearisation of North Korea . . . Trump appears to be using the "Libya model" as a threat against Kim Jong-un and said it could be an option if a deal with North Korea is not made. What North Korea possess is a nuclear deterrence and not a nuclear threat. Obviously, to initiate a nuclear attack would be sheer folly and a suicidal act for Kim Jong-un and his government. However, North Korea is on record as asserting a no-first-use policy for nukes. This is a rational stance. Contrariwise, the US is an irrational actor that does not reject its first use of nukes. President Kim Jong Un should read Revelation 13:11-18.

Draft Dodger in Chief dodges 'Historic' Opening of US Embassy, Jerusalem

Gaza
May 17, 2018 — It was NBC's Cal Parry who summed up the obscenity of Donald Trump's ignorant and igniting decision to move the US Embassy to West Jerusalem, then to celebrate the inauguration on Monday, 14th May: "Well dressed American and Israeli officials on one side of the screen: desperation, death and fires on the other."

In 1948, 700,000 Palestinians began their flight from the city and the region trying to escape the massacres by Jewish militias on that date, seventy years ago. Commemorated ever since as the day of "Nakba"—disaster, catastrophe, cataclysm—following them to this day as land is stolen, families expelled and "settlements" encroach, and Palestinian history is bulldozed.

". . . not a single country currently has its embassy in Jerusalem because such a move is widely considered to violate international law." 'Under United Nations Resolution 181, which in 1947 set out the conditions for the partition of Palestine into an "Arab State" and a "Jewish State," Jerusalem was to be administered by the UN under a "special international regime." The 1949 armistice agreement that formally ended the first Arab-Israeli war divided the city along the "Green Line" into Israeli-controlled western areas, and Jordanian-held East Jerusalem, which included the Old City.'

"Israel's occupation of East Jerusalem and the West Bank since the 1967 Arab-Israeli war is widely recognised as illegal and violates further United Nations resolutions. For Palestinians then, sovereignty over the city is not something for leaders of other countries to determine, as US President Donald Trump did when he announced the embassy move in December" . . . "the only democracy in the Middle East," carried out a very democratic slaughter and target practice. Young, old, disabled, male, female, all were equally entitled to be shot, sniped at, tear gassed . . . In another world, just sixty miles away: 'Washington's Ambassador to Israel . . . said: "Today's historic event is attributed to the vision, courage and moral clarity of one person to whom we owe an enormous and eternal debt of gratitude: President Donald J. Trump" . . . [As at May 21, 110 Palestinians have been killed and at least 12,000 injured along the fence in Gaza].

Of the eighty six Ambassadors to Israel, only thirty two attended the ceremony, with fifty four boycotting and only four EU Member countries attending . . . on this day of diplomatic vandalism—which the US State Department flagged as a "historic move"—the five times Draft Dodger in Chief it seems reverted to type. The man to whom limelight is seemingly indispensible, stayed in Washington and addressed the Embassy gathering by video, from a safe 5,897 miles away, dodging any potential conflict, demonstrations, dissent . . . Full story: globalresearch.ca

Comment: Likening the united States with Great Babylon in the time of Belteshazzar's Feast when the Lord wrote its doom on the wall in unknown tongues, "You are weighed in the balances, and found wanting," Brother Branham said: "You remember as THUS SAITH THE LORD, I said, America made her final decision in 1946. Watch, since then. She's gone, and there's nothing left but judgment and chaos . . . But Russia, according to our own science is five years ahead of us. And when we're caught up in five years, they'll be ten years farther the other way. God's letting an ungodly nation, letting an ungodly people, that took those Jewish scientists up there, and they are far ahead of us. We're putting our time to wine, women, and big time, and they're working day and night, how to blow us up . . . And the Scripture predicts that Russia will do it" (The Handwriting on the Wall, #29:5, p. 12:99, 121, 123).

[Remember the Jewish people was declared a nation [at the UNSCOP Committee at Lake Success on April, May 6 (UN docs. A/C.I/P.V.46-57 (May 6-13)]. On May the 7th, 1946, Green's Mill, Indiana, there was an Angel come into the room where I was at, a Man walking. He didn't have wings; He was just a big man, had a white garment down to His feet. And He said that I was born to pray for sick people. And I told Him I was uneducated, illiterate, and I wasn't able to go. He said I'd be praying for kings and monarchs and, Message around the world, a Message that would bring the second coming of Christ was near. And I told Him I couldn't do it. And He told me then for me to put my hands on the people and it would be told what was wrong. He said, "Then, if you'll be sincere, it'll come to pass that you'll even know the secrets of their heart," and said, "by this they will believe" (Prayer Line, #53-1127. Also see Newsletters 908, 911, 925, and 985.

How Jews Celebrate Murder

Magen David
May 18, 2018 — JEWS ARE EXEMPT not only from criticism of their pernicious influence-peddling in the US but of any censure of their committing of murder against innocent human beings. All one has to do is follow the money to know why. Jews wield the bucks in America; own the press; control the information (Google is owned by The Mossad since its inception); and cuts the checks of the military brass via the Federal Reserve Bank which the Jews own; and bribe and blackmail the hacks on DC. Some positive things can come of it—US hypocrisy for camouflaging the criminal deeds of Jews is being exposed for all the world to see and to react effectively against it. Full story: realjewnews.com

'Battlefield America': The Age of Petty Tyrannies

May 14, 2018 — "Whether the mask is labelled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the one facing us across the frontier of battle lines, which is not so much our enemy as our brothers' enemy, but the one that calls itself our protector and makes us its slaves. No matter what the circumstances, the worst betrayal will always be to subordinate ourselves to this apparatus and to trample underfoot, in its service, all human values in ourselves and in others"—Simone Weil, French philosopher and political activist.

We labour today under the weight of countless tyrannies, large and small, carried out in the name of the national good by an elite class of government officials who are largely insulated from the ill effects of their actions. We, the middling classes, are not so fortunate. We find ourselves badgered, bullied and browbeaten into bearing the brunt of their arrogance, paying the price for their greed, suffering the backlash for their militarism, agonizing as a result of their inaction, feigning ignorance about their backroom dealings, overlooking their incompetence, turning a blind eye to their misdeeds, cowering from their heavy-handed tactics, and blindly hoping for change that never comes.

The overt signs of the despotism exercised by the increasingly authoritarian regime that passes itself off as the United States government are all around us: warrantless surveillance of Americans' private phone and email conversations by the NSA; SWAT team raids of Americans' homes; shootings of unarmed citizens by police; harsh punishments meted out to schoolchildren in the name of zero tolerance; drones taking to the skies domestically; endless wars; out-of-control spending; militarized police; roadside strip searches; roving TSA sweeps; privatized prisons with a profit incentive for jailing Americans; fusion centres that collect and disseminate data on Americans' private transactions; and militarized agencies with stockpiles of ammunition, to name some of the most appalling . . . Full story: rutherford.org

Ultrasonic Attacks can trigger Alexa & Siri with Hidden Commands, Serious Security Risks

May 16, 2018 — Commands . . . undetectable by the human ear to Apple's Siri, Amazon's Alexa, and Google's Assistant . . . "secretly activate the artificial intelligence systems on smartphones and smart speakers, making them dial phone numbers or open websites" . . . allow cybercriminals to unlock smart-home doors, control a Tesla car via the App, access users' online bank accounts, load malicious browser-based cryptocurrency mining websites, and or access all sort of personal information . . . Full story: zerohedge.com

Comment: This could explain the deployment of school shootings in the US aimed at disarming citizens. Infrastructure, such as control systems for power plants, water-purification systems, and even control over private automobiles in motion now are easily hacked by highly-advanced cyber technologies in the hands of major governments and just waiting for the signal to 'push the button'  (needtoknow.news).


Marriage and Divorce and Remarriage

God ordained the five-fold ministry "to equip the saints for the work of the ministry (I Peter 3:15) for building up the Body of Christ; till we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God that brings mature manhood, tending toward the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ" (Ephesians 4:12-13). Every elect is to represent Christ to the world by having the "Token" or evidence of His Life on display at all times, for judgment must begin at the house of God.

In Israel the Levitical priesthood was separated to God from the twelve tribes to minister the Word of God and keep Israel sanctified and separated from profanity. They type Christ's Bride who is separated from her non-elect kindred and the things of the world (I Peter 2:5). Whereas the nation of Israel was the Bride of Jehovah whose union was conditional to obedience, the true Church is the Bride of Christ individually united to the Word through an indissoluble bond in the Spirit God calls an invisible marriage union between our soul and Christ the Word wherein we are one in the Holy Spirit as a man and his wife are one in the flesh (I Corinthians 6:17; Genesis 2:23-24).

Israel could be put away in divorcement as indeed he is, for Israel is God's servant and "the servant does not abide in the house forever as his tenure is conditional: but the son remains forever without conditions" (John 8:35). We know from the type in the Book of Ruth that Christ had to redeem Israel as a nation before He could marry the Gentile Bride yet only an election of individual Israelites in the Land is accounted as the nation. Counting from 780BC we are now well into "the third day" of one thousand years in which Hosea 6:1-3 prophesied the Israel nation—all 144,000 will be restored to divine favour in one day (Joel 2:32; Romans 11:26; Isaiah 66:8; 30:26; Jeremiah 3; Hosea 2). However their indissoluble bond of the Spirit will be that of servant, for the marriage of the Lamb will end at the Sixth Seal (Revelation 14:1-5; 19:7).

In Malachi 2:1-9, God reproved the Levitical priests for profaning His Name in the eyes of the people by teaching for hire, having respect of persons, and by misleading with false (Talmudic) expositions of the Law thus plunging Israel into sin, guilt, and perdition. They had made the Law into a stumbling-stone instead of a light and lamp for their feet (Isaiah 8:13-22; I Peter 2:6-9; I John 2:10).

God's ministers should be men of understanding in His Word, keeping knowledge for, not from His people, and equipped to instruct those unacquainted with the revelation. This knowledge must be in their lips to "preach the Message urgently at all times, when it is convenient and when it is not; to reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine" (II Timothy 4:2) because without faith even the most sincere worship is void, and our offering of worship must be as unblemished as Israel's lamb, for the offeror and his sacrifice are one and by a defective sacrifice he is himself rejected.

How many lives have been destroyed through sin (i.e. unbelief in the revealed Word of God), particularly in this era of secular humanism, situational ethics, free love, no fault divorce, pornography, homosexuality, and "comme ci comme ça" ecumenism, because ministers possess seminary learning without faith to instruct their people? Brother Branham said, "By lack of this revelation is why we have so many different divisions among us and so much mockery, so much division among us, is because the people lack that revelation. See, they lack that revelation: the teachers." I have always attended church, believed and loved the Lord, but because of false ministry and false history for the first thirty-three years of my life I was without faith; and now that we are at the end of the age Lucifer's minions have made it a penitentiary offence in many once Christian nations to publicly express Bible faith and historical truth.

Malachi 2:10-16 introduces a new subject not unrelated to the first because it stems from the delinquent teaching ministry of the Levites that caused the people to stumble. As Hosea 4:6 prophesied 500 years earlier, "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being priest to Me: since you have forgotten the Law of your God, I will forget your children." God rebukes the men of Judah for unlawfully divorcing their wives in order to marry foreign idolatresses, "violating the covenant made by God with our fathers," by which it was ordained that Israel should be separated from all other peoples (Exodus 34:11-17; Leviticus 20:26; Deuteronomy 7:3). Intermarriage with the heathen would defeat this purpose of God, who was the common Father of the Israelites (Genesis 12:1-3; Isaiah 63:16; 64:8)—brothers and sisters—in the sense that He had not yet revealed Himself to the heathen.

This one Father created Israel to be His peculiar people and a Light to the Gentiles (Isaiah 42:1-7; I Corinthians 8:6), yet the Levites were dealing partially in administering the Law. This is illustrated in Matthew 19 where "The Pharisees came to Jesus, tempting Him, and saying 'Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause? And if not, why did Moses command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away?"

It was for miscegenation that God destroyed the world by Flood. Balaam's teaching that "we are all the same," brought Israel into miscegenation through fornication, which God never did forgive. Israel's rejection of the Holy Spirit at Kadesh was the putting away of Jehovah. The World Council of Churches, Charismatic and Ecumenical movements promote this sin through spiritual fornication today (Amos 3:3). God hates hybridizing, whether it be adding to or taking from His Word or the cursed multicultural agenda of the globalists, intermarriage with the children of Cain (Genesis 6:1-4; Matthew 24:37). The sin for which Malachi rebuked Judah is the sin of Christendom today (I Thessalonians 4:3-6). Christ's Church is called to a total separation from denominational unbelief (Matthew 25:6; Revelation 18:4).

God regarded all Israel as His beloved holy nation, wives equally with their husbands. Malachi 2 exposes the lie of God's unschooled critics who commonly condemn the Bible as chauvinist, supposing Hebrew wives were chattel slaves with no privileges. Whereas Oriental women were generally degraded and today's 'liberated woman' is often the enthusiastic mistress of her own degradation, under God's Law the women were honoured. Men who unjustly repudiated Hebrew wives committed an "abomination" classed with idolatry, witchcraft and adultery, and stood to be "cut off out of the tents of Jacob." Unlawful divorce became a national sin so no one should escape judgment, both the Levites with the authority of teaching and the laymen their pupils or "scholars" were guilty of "doing this . . . abomination." This emphasizes the need for we Christians to heed the admonition of the noble Bereans to "receive the preaching and teaching with all readiness of mind, then search the Scriptures daily, whether those things are so" lest we rest our eternal destiny on a second-hand religion (Acts 17:11).

Malachi 2:10-16, "Have we not all one Father? has not one God created us? why then do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?"

Judah was dealing treacherously against their wives under the Covenant God made with the Patriarchs to be His peculiar people; profaning the Covenant by dealing treacherously against their brethren in order to satisfy their lust for "daughters of a strange god" who were alien to the Covenant of promise (Ephesians 2:12). This was a profanation of the holy seed (Ezra 9:1, 2; 10:2; Nehemiah 13:23) for natural Israel like Spiritual Israel, the true Church, was holiness unto the Lord (Jeremiah 2:3; Matthew 25:6; II Corinthians 6:14-18; I Thessalonians 4:16; Revelation 18:4).

"In Judah, and in Israel, and in Jerusalem there is treachery; for the men of Judah have profaned the holy Temple of the Lord which He loves by marrying heathen women who worship idols. The Lord will cut off from His Covenant to the last man, whether minister or layman, all who have done this sin."

Marrying wives who have neither understanding in nor knowledge of Israel's God, or the presence of anyone or anything unconsecrated to Him, such as an idolatress, is regarded as profaning all that God has entrusted to His people, and God excommunicates them from Israel and deprives them of access to the Temple courts. This was not marriage to just any foreigner but to one who leads Judah astray to "serve foreign gods" (Deuteronomy 17:1-7; 3:6-11) and a repetition of what had previously brought about Israel's downfall (Deuteronomy 31:16-19; II Kings 17:7-41; Jeremiah 5:19; 8:19).

Malachi's prophecy was delivered in 397BC. The great national disaster of 586BC, when Nebuchadnezzar had destroyed Jerusalem and the Temple and taken the people away captive, had been forgotten. What had been entrusted to the renewed community—the Land of their fathers, the people, and the revived sanctuary (which had been rededicated only in 515BC) was again being profaned.

"And this have you done a second time, covering the altar of the Lord with the tears of your forsaken wives." The first charge condemned marriage to Serpent's seed women, and idolatresses, (doubtless in polygyny which was permitted under the Law), the second charge is unfaithfulness to "the wife of your youth," who is divorced rather than supported, causing her to weep, pouring out her heart before the God who witnessed her covenant of marriage thereby compounding the sin of the husband's treachery against God's covenant with Israel by his treachery against his covenant with his wife. The Lord will not receive his sacrifice of prayer nor bless him.

Refusing to be ashamed, and to confess their guilt, the men shamelessly ask the reason for their rejection. Malachi 2:14, "Because the Lord witnessed the vows between you and the wife of your youth [for life], against whom you have dealt treacherously: she is the companion you swore to care for and keep, and the wife of your covenant."

A sin against a daughter of God's Covenant is a sin against God. The church ceremony is NOT the marriage, but a public testimony in which we ask God to bless us before the witness of family and friends. We are married when we exchange vows one to another, a transaction that takes place some considerable time before the ceremony is planned. God is bound by His Word which is the expression of His unchanging thoughts, and He holds you to your word.

"And did not He make one? Yet had He the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That He might seek a godly race. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth".

Malachi now appeals to the prophet Moses, and God's purpose in creation. Genesis 2:18-25: "And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help suited to his needs. And out of the ground the Lord God formed every kind of beast and bird; and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them: and whatever he called them, that was their name".

"So Adam named all cattle, and the birds, and every beast of the field; but still there was no proper helper for the man. Then the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and took one of his ribs and closed up the place whence he had removed it; and made the rib into a woman, and brought her to the man." The word "made" is the Hebrew banah, meaning to re-build or extend. For woman is not a part of God's original creation but a by-product made from the man after creation had been finished—a perfect type of Christ and His Church. Whereas Jesus is the beginning of the new creation of God—less than 2,000 years ago—the Church is a continuation of the same creation, being formed from the Holy Spirit taken from Jesus' side after God put Him to sleep on Calvary as Eve was formed from a rib taken from Adam's side after God put him to sleep.

"And Adam said, Eureka!! She is part of my own bone and flesh! Her name is Woman, because she was taken out of Man. This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife such that they become one (I Corinthians 11:1-16; Ephesians 5:23). Now although they were naked, neither the man nor his wife were embarrassed or ashamed".

This helps us to understand Malachi 2:15, "And did He not make one? Yet had He the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That He might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth".

God's whole purpose is to manifest His own attributes to express what He is so He might fellowship with those attributes in the form of His glorified Family through the harmony of faith (which is the mind of God in us). His plan was sealed in the first Adam who fell and in the last Adam Who overcame. God had finished His creation long before He formed the woman as a by-product. A careful reading of Genesis reveals that Adam would have been about 110 years Eve's senior. When God formed Adam, his wife was in him, and when the Logos was made flesh in the last Adam, His Wife was in Him.

Genesis 5:1-2, "This is the Book of Life, the genealogy of Adam. In the day God created man in His likeness." (God's likeness is His divine nature or character as we learned from the stature of the perfect Man (Ecclesiastes 7:29; Ephesians 4:11-16; II Peter 1:1-11). God created man in His great thinking before the foundation of the world; therein He foresaw all men and women of Adam's race; and being part of His foreknowledge we were spirit—Genesis 1:26-28; Revelation 17:8). "He created them male and female, and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created".
the mind of GodFrom the beginning God foresaw and foreknew you and me and every member of Adam's race, and God blessed us. Think on that! Adam was one of God's thoughts or Attributes before God formed him a body in the image of animals from the dust of the earth. Then he was expressed as Word, and all of his seed was potentially in him when that Word was made a living soul. Then Eve was taken from Adam's flesh and they were reunited in marriage to produce an entire race through holy wedlock. "A godly seed." Recognize yourself a son or a daughter of God, and live up to that high calling. Act out your part of God's Word by becoming a written epistle of the present Truth. If your life proves you are an Attribute of God (signified by one of the dots in the circle that represent God's expressed thoughts, the Logos), you are eternal Life and will display the Token of His Life. Then whoever blesses you will be blessed of God; and whoever curses you is accursed of God for you are an overcomer for you have striven with God and with men, and have prevailed (Genesis 12:3; II Corinthians 5:19).

"Yet God had residue of the spirit." His creative resources were not expended. He might have made Adam many wives, a veritable harem, but He planned for a monogamous partnership of one pair or couple. Through their word of agreement, or covenant of marriage, God makes a man and his wife one again. God took the feminish nature from Adam's mortal spirit and placed it in the woman so that through the marriage union they should re-unite their spirits and their flesh and pro-create as "amateur gods" through agreement in their own word, the antitype of His Own creative Word, and a type of Christ and His Bride. Trust, fidelity.

For us, a most instructive application of the term "residue of the spirit" is to apply it to free moral agency and discipline. Through our marriage vows we separate ourselves from all others only to our spouse. We forgo the "residue of the spirit" or free choices that may be in the offing for the mutual benefit of the marriage relationship, for godliness and to produce a godly offspring. The purpose of marriage is the fulfilment of God's one eternal purpose of multiplying and rearing children who will hold fast His Word—"a godly seed" or race in the new creation of God-men.

A bastard (the seed of adultery or incest) will never enter the kingdom of God, which is the election. Deuteronomy 23:2, "A bastard shall not enter the congregation of the Lord; even to his tenth generation" (that is, never). While the ungodly seed of Cain's lineage is without salvation at all.

A godly people should reproduce godly seed. God's law of reproduction in Genesis 1:11 requires that "everything bring forth of its own kind whose seed is in itself." And God's commandment at the start was that His children should "Be fruitful, and multiply, fill and subdue the earth" (Genesis 1:28). His purpose is defeated when the wives and mothers of Israel are "daughters of a foreign god." Therefore, the man must take heed to his "residue of spirit" and control his passions so he does not commit adultery against "the wife of his youth".

"For the Lord, the God of Israel, says, I hate divorce: for one covers cruelty with his garment, says the Lord of hosts; therefore control your passions so that you do not deal treacherously with the wife of your youth".

As Adam and Eve attempted to hide their faithlessness behind garments of fig leaves, men try to cover their injustices and ethical wrongs behind a veneer of outward respectability in remarriage. God hates divorce, and permits it only in the case of some unclean thing (Deuteronomy 24:1) for the Law requires a husband to maintain a hated wife who is innocent of any uncleanliness (Numbers 5:13-31; Deuteronomy 21:15-17). God will not justify divorcing one wife to marry another in order to serve a man's lust, which would be to condone treachery against the faithful wife of his first choice. His sole purpose is to gather glory unto Himself by manifesting His Attributes through a holy people who have come under pre-eminence by the obedience of faith for fellowship in unity throughout Eternity. Paul said, "You are dead and your life is hid with Christ in God." So it is no longer you or I but Christ living in us, willing and doing His Own good pleasure.

Fellowship has been defined as two fellows in the one boat, but how can two sail together unless they are perfectly joined in the same mind and in the same judgment (Amos 3:3; I Corinthians 1:10)? The natural types the Spiritual. You men should unite with the mortal spirit of your future bride before you receive her body as Christians unite with Christ's Spirit before we receive bodies like His own glorious body and enter the intimacy of His physical Presence. When a man chooses a bride, he should look for character. Her outward beauty will fade. But if she has character, it will mature and blossom with the years. God is looking for a people of character. Men and women of their word. Fidelity!

Matthew 5:31-37, "It has been said, Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement. But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of fornication, makes her commit adultery (because she will re-marry and a woman can only have one living husband): and whosoever marries her (not him) that is divorced commits adultery" (because she already has a living husband).

"Again, you have heard it said by men of old, You shall not perjure yourself, but shall perform unto the Lord your oaths: But I say, Swear not at all; neither by heaven; for it is God's throne: nor by the earth; for it is His footstool: neither by Jerusalem; for it is the city of the great King. Neither shall you swear by your head, because you cannot make one hair white or black. Simply give a clear Yes, or No! Your word is sufficient, for to strengthen your promise with a vow is indicative of lurking evil".

God expects your word to be your bond. Think carefully before speaking, know and understand what you are talking about, and mean what you say. Your conversation should be a firm unequivocal "Yes!" or "No!" so as not to create uncertainty. When a man and a woman covenant in marriage, they are bound by their word. She must confess any unclean living before she accepts his proposal of marriage, otherwise she has perjured herself. Should he subsequently learn of fornication she did not confess before the marriage, her vow is null and void and her husband can put her away for unconfessed fornication. Take the case of Joseph and Mary:

Matthew 1:18-20, "These are the facts concerning the birth of Jesus Christ: when His mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they consummated their union, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost. Then Joseph her husband, being just, determined to divorce her, but privately to avoid her public disgrace. But while he thought on this, he fell into a dream and saw the Angel of the Lord Who said, Joseph, son of David, don't hesitate to take to yourself Mary your wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost".

Joseph was her husband because he had proposed marriage and she had accepted. Before he could know her as his wife he discovered she was already pregnant, and suspecting she had been in fornication he was preparing to divorce her. But privately, lest she be stoned to death.

Deuteronomy 22:13-27, "If any man marries a wife and after consummating their union he accuses her of premarital intercourse with another man, saying, I took this woman, and found she was not a virgin, then her father and her mother shall bring forth the tokens of her virginity to the city judges: and her father shall say, I gave my daughter to this man to wife, and now he despises her, and has accused her, saying, she was not a virgin when she married; yet here is the proof of my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city."

"And the judges shall take that man and have him whipped; and fine him one hundred shekels of silver to be given to the girl's father, because he has falsely accused a virgin of Israel. She shall remain his wife and he may never divorce her."

"But if this thing is true, and the tokens of virginity are not found, the judges shall take the girl to the door of her father's house where the men of her city shall stone her to death because she has defiled Israel by playing the harlot while living at home under the headship of her father. So shall you put evil away from among you."

"If a man is discovered lying with a married woman, both he and the other man's wife must be killed; so shall you put away evil from Israel."

"If a virgin who is betrothed to a husband is seduced within the walls of a city, both she and the man who seduced her shall be taken outside the city gate and stoned to death. The girl because she didn't scream,
(being in the city, for had she cried out someone would have heard and come to her aid); and the man, because he has humbled another man's wife: so shall you reduce crime among you." So you see, the betrothal is the marriage!

"But if a man finds a betrothed girl in the country (where her cries for help would not be heard), and forces her, only the man shall die: the girl is as innocent as the victim of a murder; for it must be assumed that the betrothed girl screamed, but there was none to hear and rescue her".

The case is different if the woman is not betrothed. Verses 28-29, "If a man lies carnally with a virgin who is not betrothed, and they be surprised, he must pay a fine of fifty shekels of silver to the girl's father, and he shall marry her; he may never divorce her".

The demon-possessed infidels who run the entertainment industry in the once Christian world are of "the synagogue of Satan" sending billions to hell, promoting promiscuity, adultery, filthy communications, and sodomy. Christians should not have a television set in the house. Woe betide backslidden ministers with their feet on the desk who lack the audacity to admonish their congregations and "shun to declare the full counsel of God." They will answer at the judgment where there will be no repentance.

Deuteronomy 24:1-4, "When a man has married a wife and he finds some uncleanness in her: let him write her a bill of divorcement and give it to her, and send her away. If she then remarries, and the second husband also divorces her (because he also discovers unconfessed fornication), or if he dies, her former husband may not marry her again, for she has been defiled; and that would be an abomination bringing sin upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance" (Jeremiah 3:1).

There is but one condition for which a man can put away his wife in divorcement, and that is unconfessed fornication. Once a woman has been divorced, and has remarried, there is no ground upon which the former husband may re-marry his divorced, remarried wife, even if her second husband is dead. Oh, how lax our ministers have been. How evil they are for not thoroughly instructing their congregations from an early age on the true message of marriage and divorce.

He can put her away in the case of unconfessed fornication even though they've been married for ever so long. But she cannot put him away and still re-marry.

I Corinthians 7:1-11, "Now concerning the things of which you wrote: It is good for a man not to touch (i.e. have carnal knowledge of) a woman (but to stay unmarried). Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. Let the husband render unto the wife her conjugal rights: and likewise also the wife to the husband. For a wife no longer has full right to her own body, for her husband then has his entitlement to it: likewise the husband no longer has exclusive right to his own body, for it belongs also to his wife. So don't refuse these rights to one another except by mutual agreement, and for a limited time, so that you may consecrate yourselves to fasting and prayer. Afterwards, come together again for marital relations, lest Satan tempt you through lack of self-control."

"I am not saying you must marry, but you certainly may if you desire. I wish everyone could get along without marrying, even as I do. But we're not all the same
(see Matthew 19:10-12). To some God gives the gift of a wife or a husband, and to others, that of remaining happily unmarried. So I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is better to stay unmarried like me. But if you can't contain your passions, you should marry. It is better to marry than to burn with lust."

"Now, for those who are married I have THUS SAITH THE LORD: let not the wife depart from her husband. But and if she separates from him, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife".


That is THUS SAITH THE LORD. If a woman leaves her husband she may not re-marry so long as he lives. And a man may only divorce his wife and re-marry another while she is living if the cause is unconfessed fornication, or for adultery, or if she has left him (Esther 1-2), or is deceased.

I Corinthians 7:26-28, "Here is the problem: we Christians face impending dangers (Paul was perhaps referring to Jewish persecution and to the famine under Claudius) and in times such as these I think it is best for a person to remain in their present situation. If you are bound to a wife do not seek release. But if you are free from a wife, do not seek marriage at this difficult time. But and if you do marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. However marriage will bring additional responsibilities that I wish you didn't have to face right now".

A divorced man may re-marry under the conditions outlined above. Paul says nothing about a divorced woman remarrying. He speaks here only of virgin women marrying. And says that widows may remarry.

I Corinthians 7:39, "The wife is a part of her husband according to the Law as long as he lives; but if her husband dies, she is at liberty to be remarried to whom she will, but only if she marries a Christian." ("Be not unevenly yoked together with unbelievers: for what common ground has righteousness with iniquity? And what fellowship has Light with darkness" – II Corinthians 6:14; Amos 3:3)?

Acceptance of his proposal is the marriage, for our word is to be our bond, so if she did not confess her unchastity before accepting his proposal she was never his wife but was already joined to Tom, Dick, or Harry. The marriage union is not the church ceremony, it is our word! If she perjured herself, the covenant was not made in good faith and is void; her husband may divorce her and marry another; and under such circumstances she can marry another man. But and if she confesses her unclean premarital life and the man forgives and takes her responsibility upon himself, he can never put her away.

Numbers 30:13-16, "Her husband may establish or nullify her vow, but if he keeps quiet for a day concerning her pledges, he has confirmed them, because he said nothing to restrain her on the day he learned of them. But if he waits more than a day and then refuses to permit the vow, then he shall be responsible for and bear her iniquity. These are the statutes the Lord commanded Moses concerning relationships between a man and his wife, and between a father and his daughter who is living at home".

Man and woman are no longer co-equal; since the Fall they are under two separate covenants with God "but the woman being deceived was in the transgression" (I Timothy 2:1-15). Under the Old Covenant the token was fleshly circumcision but as it is not possible to circumcise a woman the only way she could come under the blood of the sacrifice was by her father's Token, or through marriage to an Israelite who was in the Covenant. Thus she is under the authority of her father until she is married after which she is bound to her husband so long as he lives; he is to rule over his wife and she must obey him (Genesis 3:16; I Corinthians 11:3; Ephesians 5:22-24).

Spiritually, the Law as a husband ruled over the Israelites, and while Jesus "blotted out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to His cross" (Colossians 2:14, 20; Ephesians 2:15; Hebrews 8:13), "He magnified the Law and made it truly glorious" (Isaiah 42:21). Thus Paul applied it to the new birth or invisible union of the souls of the New Testament saints with Christ the Logos, which is the Spiritual antitype of marriage, for the soul is the feminine of God. So Paul instructed Israelites and proselytes in Rome that before their soul can be born-again, or re-married to the new Man, Christ the anointed Word, their old husband, the Law, must be dead to them.

Romans 7:1-4, "Don't you understand, my Hebrew brothers in Christ, that when a person dies the Law no longer holds them in its power?" To illustrate, when a woman marries, the Law binds her to her husband so long as he lives. But if he is dead, she is no longer bound to him; and the laws of marriage no longer apply to her. Accordingly she may remarry. But if she marries another while her husband lives, she shall be an adulteress (and subject to stoning): but if her husband is dead, she is free from that law; and may legally marry another man".

(Your husband and lord used to be the Law of Moses, but you are accounted dead through your fellowship with Christ in His death (II Corinthians 5:14; Colossians 3:3). Galatians 3:10, "For all who depend on the works of the Law live under a curse: for it is written, Cursed is everyone who does not abide by all that is written in the Book of the Law and do it." Therefore "through the Law you died to the Law, that you might live unto God" — Galatians 2:19).

"Accordingly, my Brethren, you also, like the widowed wife, were made dead to the Law (and released from the marriage covenant which was nailed to the Cross); it is dead and has no more authority over you. Then you revived with Christ and resurrected to newness of Life in Him, and are a new person. Now that you are married to the One Who rose from the dead you can bring forth fruit unto God".

In representing the Law as the husband or ruler of the soul Paul types the fidelity of the Spiritual relationship with the fidelity of a wife to her natural husband. As the natural husband is ruler over the wife through the covenant of marriage, the Law has dominion over all who have entered into covenant relationship with it. Everyone who is delivered by the new-birth from the Law as a covenant, is married to Christ by the Spirit of Life, and delivered from the bondage of sin which shall never more have dominion over them (I John 3:9; 5:18).

It would be spiritual adultery for one bound by Mosaic Law and with no provision for loosing their soul to take a new belief, as it would be natural adultery for a woman bound in marriage to take a new husband. Hence when Israel "joined herself to idols," God "put her away and gave her a bill of divorcement," then Judah "committed adultery with stones and stocks" (Jeremiah 3:8-9) so He put her away also, for it is in the power of the husband, not the wife, to repudiate the relationship (Deuteronomy 24:1-2).

Do you see how important words are? One word can condemn us to hell fire, whilst another Word can make us joint heirs with Jesus Christ. We must respect words. Words carry spirits, for they are the expressed thoughts of people ruled by One Spirit or the other. Words can make you the Bride of Christ or a harlot daughter of mystery Babylon. Colloquial language is full of slang, jargon and filth when spoken. When written the spelling is atrocious, there is no order in grammar or syntax, and the integrity of its message is lost in "political correctness".

Jesus told us to enunciate what we mean, and honour what we've said. As the words of her marriage vow bind a woman to obey her husband so long as he lives, the Word of the Old Covenant bound Israel so long as the Covenant was in effect. When Israel took to serving strange gods, she committed adultery against Jehovah. And when the church which claims to be the Bride of Christ (by the New Covenant) adds to or takes from His unchanging Word, she has usurped His authority and committed adultery with another spirit (Revelation 22:17-19). Like Israel before her, she is called an adulteress: a whore, and the mother of harlots, whose end is to be stoned from heaven and burned in the Lake of Fire (Revelation 17:1-5; 2:21-23; 13:10; 18:1-20).

Before you speak, be sure your words are His Word, and honour your commitments. His Word is Spirit and it is Life. Anything more or less is not His Word, and is death. "But if her husband be dead, she is free from that Law; and if she marries another man she is not an adulteress".

The prophet Paul said, "sin shall not have dominion over you; for you are not under the Law but under grace" (Romans 6:14-15).

Galatians 2:19, "Likewise, my brethren, like the widowed wife you were made dead to any duty to serve your old husband the Law, whose requirement of a life for a life has been met and it has passed away".

As a Divine revelation the Law had to grow old and vanish away; however, as a human ordinance, it has itself inflicted death and therefore still retains its former historical and ethical (though not religious) force toward those who are not dead to it by a new-birth. "For as many as seek justification by the works of the Law are under the curse because they are bound to keep all of the precepts of the Law" (Galatians 3:10; Deuteronomy 27:26). Fellowship with the death of Christ embraces freedom from the curse of the Law and this includes the death of our old nature (Romans 6:6).

Romans 7:4, "We are no longer married and under dominion to the Law and are free to marry Another—even Him who is raised from the dead." So not only are we His purchased possession, but having been dead with Him, as risen again, we can be united only with the Risen One. We died in Christ on Calvary and were raised together with Him to live in newness of life (Ephesians 2:6). Therefore our continued connection with the Law of this mortal life would be a misalliance.

"We are now married to our new Husband, the risen Word, in order that we should bring forth fruit unto God." By passing the Life through the Body we bring forth children to God—"Spirit babes," thereby fulfilling God's command to "be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth" (Genesis 1:28).

"But when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions of sins which were brought to our consciousness by the Law, were constantly producing sinful deeds, so that we brought forth fruit unto death." Spiritual bastards! Denominational children born of carnal creeds and not faith.

"But now we are delivered from the Law, being dead to what once held us captive [as souls in prison], so that now we serve in the new relationship of the Spirit by faith, and not in the old relationship of literal obedience to the letter".

In the natural application of marriage and divorce, "the Law has dominion over a person as long as they live." And through the marriage vow the man and his wife are one flesh (Genesis 2:24). But the husband is the head of the body and is to rule over her because he is a spoken Word whereas she was made secondarily for him as a by-product from him (Genesis 2:18, 21-22; 3:16; I Corinthians 11:3-16). And she is bound to serve him so long as he lives. But when the head is dead the body is freed from his dominion.

Matthew 19:3-12, "The Pharisees came to Jesus, tempting Him, saying, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?" (The same hypocritical spirit on our denominational cousins today tries to fault God's elect by quoting His Word out of context when they are not prepared to receive correction themselves). "Jesus answered, Have you not read, that He who made them at the beginning made them male and female, (or matched pairs —Genesis 1:27—the woman was created and named in Adam—Genesis 5:2). Because of this a man shall leave his father and mother, [take headship], and be inseparably united to his wife (as if stuck with glue): and the two shall be one flesh".

(The man leaves his father and his mother to unite with his wife but she must first obtain her father's permission since she lives under his token and headship (Genesis 2:24; I Corinthians 7:36-38 and Numbers 30:1-5). The consent granted, she has lawfully left her father and mother and formally come under the headship of her husband, even before the wedding ceremony, for the betrothal is the marriage. To this day, when a man wants to marry a girl he must ask her father's permission. But because the church is apostate and ministers know all about denominational traditions without faith in God's Word, they don't understand the revelation behind these customs which is a witness against them).

"So they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man put asunder".

(Those who are born-again have been joined together with God in Christ the revealed Word. They have "eternal security" and can never be separated from their Lord (Romans 8:28-39; Ephesians 4:30). Those who think they've been joined by catechisms, first mass, Christenings, baptisms and man-made creeds, are still married to the world and God can put them away at any time, just as a man and women who've been united by some backslidden pastor or half-drunk magistrate can be separated. There's no glue of the Holy Spirit to bind them permanently together).

"Then why, they asked, did Moses say that a man may divorce his wife merely by writing her a letter of dismissal?" Jesus replied, "Due to the hardness of your hearts Moses permitted you to put away your wives: but it was not so from the beginning."

("In the beginning",
Adam's heart was not hard but tender toward Eve, insomuch that he voluntarily joined her in death in order that she would be redeemed. However we are not "in the beginning" today).

"And I tell you, that anyone who divorces his wife, except for fornication, and marries another, commits adultery: and whoever marries her commits adultery" (because she already has a living husband). "His disciples then said, If the man is bound to his wife—whether she be quarrelsome, petulant, prodigal, foolish, barren, an alcoholic or troublesome by numberless vices—he is better not to marry at all." (As Paul advised—I Corinthians 7:1, 7-8, 26-28, 37-40).

"Jesus replied, The gift to conquer the natural desires of the human constitution is not given to all. For the gift of continence is given to three sorts of persons:-

1. To some who are eunuchs by dint of birth—without their choice.
2. To some by violence of men against their choice.
3. To others by grace and choice that they may wait upon the Lord without distraction and glorify Him in a single life."


In the case of her committing adultery, she has put him away! She is dead to him as if she were stoned under the Law, and he can marry again (Deuteronomy 22:22-27). Or if she refuses to bear her husband children he can marry another because by refusing to bear a further part of Him in a godly seed she has put him away and renounced their union; refusing to procreate life which was God's commission (Genesis 1:28).

When Vashti refused King Xerxes he put her away and took Esther as his queen. Likewise at the end of each of the Church Ages Jesus Christ put away His espoused denominational wife who repudiated the present Truth by impersonating a past Move of the Spirit that could no longer produce Life. The natural types the Spiritual: Christ divorces nominal Christians who refuse the Word for their hour because in refusing to receive His Life, be fruitful, and multiply, they have rejected the Holy Spirit which is the unpardonable sin and are dead to Him (Matthew 12:32; I John 1:7).

When Wesley's Message added Sanctification to Luther's Message of Justification by grace through faith and the Lutheran, Presbyterian and Anglican churches refused impregnation by a further measure of the Spirit they denied Christ His offspring and He put them away (Isaiah 53:10; 63:23; 28:13; Genesis 2:18; John 6:63); and when He added the Pentecostal Message the Methodists, Baptists and Nazarenes refused Him, so He put them away. Finally, the revelation of the Seven Seals brought Him back to earth in W_O_R_D form and His rejection by the Laodiceans rendered all denominations apostate. As He is no longer a Mediator for PART-Word no one can cross the chasm into Christ, the Capstone without "that which is perfect" (Revelation 3:17-20; I Corinthians 13:10). Yet the Voice of the seventh angel is shouting, "Come out of Babylon and her harlot daughter churches and be filled with the Spirit" (Matthew 25:6; II Corinthians 6:14-18; Revelation 17:1-6; 18:1-4).

With the exception of the human race, all creatures were created in pairs, male and female. "In the beginning" God created Adam, the beasts and birds. After creation was finished He made Eve and joined them in holy wedlock. So long as they were one they were co-equal over creation: "The Lord God warned the man: You may freely partake every tree of the Garden but the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil—for in the day you partake of that Tree you will certainly die" (Genesis 2:16-17). Adam could not break God's Covenant because he was a spoken Word created in the image and for the glory of God. Woman is not original creation but a by-product made from man in his image for his glory, co-equal in the Covenant free to choose obedience and Life, or self-will and death. She was made so she can deceive and be deceived, but so long as she remained under pre-eminence to and in union with her Word husband she should not err and could not fall.

They were co-equal so long as they were at one in God's Covenant by agreement in His Word (Genesis 1:27; Galatians 3:28; Ephesians 4:13; Hebrews 8:11). "But the woman being deceived was in the transgression" and crossed the Word from Eternity into time according to the curse: "the day you partake Lucifer's wisdom you will certainly die." When Eve separated from the Spoken Word and her man she lost her co-equality in nature and God placed woman under a separate Covenant, forbidding her to preach and to teach His Word or to usurp authority over the man. From now on she must be in subjection and her husband is to rule over her (Genesis 3:16).

After "the beginning" they are no longer co-equal in nature and God introduced a polygyny covenant with all nature. One male could have many females; one stallion many mares; one rooster, a yard full of hens; one David after God's own heart with five hundred wives; and one Solomon with a thousand wives typing Christ and His Bride. But not one of those women could have more than one living husband.

Henceforth women will bear natural life into time and death by sexual desire (Job 14:1). After testing by the Spoken Word of the hour an election will receive Spiritual Life by a second birth through faith in the Man, redeeming them back to eternity, resurrected in a glorified body not born of sex but called from the dust of the earth like Adam.

In summary:
  • A minister may only marry a virgin as he is a type of Christ who is only marrying a virgin to the Word.
  • Man may only put away his wife and re-marry if she is found to have been in fornication unconfessed before marriage. She is then free to marry.
  • Man can re-marry if his wife commits adultery or if she refuses to bear his children since she has put him away. She cannot re-marry so long as she has a living husband.
Amos 3:3 inquires, "Can two walk together, except they be agreed"? God's whole purpose is to fellowship in the common faith through eternity with His Own expressed Attributes manifest in the glorified flesh of His Family. These are they who cast down imaginations, and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and lead every thought and purpose away captive into the obedience of Christ.

It is far later than we think. The end-time Message of God's prophet has restored the apostolic faith (Malachi 4:5, 6b; Matthew 17:11; Acts 3:21-23), finished the mystery of God (I Corinthians 13:10; Revelation 10:7), and is now calling His elect out from all denominational teachings into oneness with their Husband, the Word, for the manifestation of the Sons of God and the great translation (Romans 8:19-22; Matthew 25:1-13; I Thessalonians 4:16; Revelation 18:4; 22;17-19). By coming under pre-eminence to the Word the last Adam's Bride will accomplish where the first Adam's Bride failed.

Since Christ is no longer a Mediator for the ignorance of part-Word and we now have the perfect interpretation of the Word through the revelation of the Seven Seals, when she comes to maturity and the Seventh Trump sounds, the end-time Bride will be co-equal in the Word with her Husband Who is the Word. He will have the pre-eminence, and what she says God will do in the manifestation of the Sons of God. nl1026.htm

Pass it on . . . please send this article to someone you knowBrother Grigor-Scott is a non-denominational minister who has ministered full-time since 1981, primarily to other ministers and their congregations overseas. He pastors Bible Believers' tiny congregation, and is available to teach in your church.
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Thursday, May 17, 2018

Headship


Bible Believers' Newsletter 1025

"We focus on the present Truth – what Jesus is doing now. . ."
ISSN 1442-8660
Christian greetings in the precious Name of our Lord Jesus Christ; we are always happy to have your company.

Android PhoneOur main article entitled "Headship" takes us back to the beginning where "woman was made for man" and granted co-equality over the whole terrestrial creation. It outlines how, following Eve's horrible sin that caused the fall and introduced death, God placed man and woman under separate covenants. Woman lost her co-equality, man was made her ruler, and the Lord God introduced divorce, polygamy and remarriage to maintain social order and emphasize the headship of man who is created in the image of God, over the woman who is made in the image of man to serve man.

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This Newsletter serves those of like precious faith. Whoever will receive the truth is welcome to feed their soul from the waters of the River of Life. Everything here presented should be confirmed personally in your own Bible.
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Anthony Grigor-Scott

Israel at Seventy: Symbol of War, Racism, Reaction

Zionism
May 14, 2018 — The settler state of Israel turns 70 on May 14. In imperialist capitals, especially Israel and the US, this state built on the bones of the Palestinian people will be praised and celebrated. The US will open its embassy in Jerusalem the same day. It is a state built on lies. The people of the world have a different assessment of Israel at 70. It is a pariah state and international outlaw; a dog of war armed and unleashed by the Pentagon; a symbol of war, of racism and apartheid, and of reaction. It is a danger to all people of the region, including Israelis. The continued struggle of the Palestinian people is most responsible for shattering the colonizer's illusions . . . Full story: liberationnews.org.

Comment: Apartheid Israel and commencement of large-scale Palestinian Genocide: 14 May 2018 marks the 70th anniversary of the Israeli Declaration of Independence by [non-Semitic, anti-Semitic self-styled Jew] Zionist terrorist David Ben Gurion . . . (countercurrents.org).

The Balfour Declaration and its cost in lives. Donald Trump won the presidential race by promising to 'make America great again,' and beat the war horse Hillary Clinton, but in the background instead of Louis D. Brandeis and Chaim Weizmann there was Jared Kushner and Bibi Netanyahu (who has said, "Once we squeeze all we can out of the United States, it can dry up and blow away"). [All of these names are non-Semitic, anti-Semitic so-called Jews]. Has the prelude to another 'Great War' started? . . . (biblebelievers.org.au).

Israel Bans Entry of Palestinian Medical Delegation into Gaza. Crime against Humanity

Zionism
May 13, 2018 — Israeli authorities refused to issue the necessary entry permits for the members of the medical delegation formed by the Palestinian Minister of Health in Ramallah Jawad Awwad to assist medical staff in Gaza. The Ministry stressed that this ban is a further crime committed against the Gazan people who are also prevented from travelling abroad for treatment . . . Full story: palinfo.com

Comment: In [a] photo, shared by Nir Dvori a reporter at Israeli Channel 2 television news on Friday, seven young Israeli adults are seen smiling and waving at the cameras as they sit on an observation tower in Nahal Oz, outside the fenced-off Gaza strip . . . to watch as the Israeli military uses live fire and excessive force against Palestinian protesters (dailysabah.com).

The use of deadly force against the peaceful protesters was premeditated. The IDF deployed 100 snipers to the border fence between Gaza and Israel, where 30,000 to 40,000 Palestinians had gathered for the Great March of Return. In a damning tweet, later deleted, the IDF wrote, "Nothing was carried out uncontrolled; everything was accurate and measured, and we know where every bullet landed" (consortiumnews.com).

Iran – Trump's Broken Deal – Maneuver to War?

May 12, 2018 — What is it then that Trump and his handlers expect from this illegal decision of rescinding an international agreement? . . . with this undiplomatic decision, they are driving President Rouhani into the camp of the hardliners . . . who from the very beginning were against this Deal . . . also a blow to the Atlantists or the "Fifth Column" which is quite strong in Iran . . . abandoned by the west . . . Iran will accelerate the course . . . towards the East, becoming a member of the Eurasian Economic Union and . . . Shanghai Cooperation Organization . . . headed by Russia and China. And how does this "Broken Deal" affect negotiations between President Trump and DPRK's President Kim Jong-un . . . Will anything that Trump negotiates and signs have credibility?

President Xi Jinping . . . recently said that Iran will be a crucial and vital link within . . . Belt and Road Initiative, a Chinese socio-economic and cultural enterprise . . . connecting Asia from the very east with western Europe, Africa, the Middle East and even South America . . . included in the Chinese Constitution . . . this gigantic Chinese Program is hardly mentioned in the western mainstream media . . . oligarchs who control . . . don't want the world to know that the western fraudulent economy, built on debt and a pyramid monetary system (a large Ponzi scheme) is gradually declining, leaving all those that cling to it eventually abandoned and in misery. . . . The BRI is an unstoppable train . . . Trump shot himself in the foot.

But . . . the deep state—the military-security industrial complex . . . produces to destroy and needs to destroy evermore to guarantee its survival . . . Wars also make Wall Street live . . . debt-financed . . . national debt that will never be paid . . . In April 2018, GDP stood at about US$22 trillion as compared to unfunded liabilities of about US$140 trillion, nearly 6.5 times GDP. Ponzi would . . . smile . . . Since Washington's foreign policy is written by Zionist thinktanks, it follows logic that more wars are needed. A big candidate is Iran . . . Full story: globalresearch.ca

Analysis: Trump tells World to drop dead as Netanyahu dictates his nixing of Iran Deal

May 8, 2018 — Israeli PM hopes decision to withdraw from agreement will see Iran go the way of the Soviet Union once harsh sanctions kick in. A few minutes past two in Washington, the president of the United States adopted the "Netanyahu Doctrine" wholesale and made it official American policy.

Occult Star of David so-calledDonald Trump's announcement to exit the Iran nuclear deal could have been scripted by Benjamin Netanyahu. Word. For. Word. This wasn't about improving or "fixing" the Iran deal. It was nixing and deep-sixing the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), and making sure it can never be resurrected. Without any pretense of setting up an alternative arms-control deal or a Plan B. Trump's motive may have been to obliterate his predecessor Barack Obama's foreign policy legacy. But for his team of advisers who prepared the announcement, the target was not just the deal: it was Iran. This is a victory for Netanyahu and the Iran hawks in the Republican Party—and few victories have been so emphatic.

Before he joined the presidential race three years ago next month, Trump knew little about the Iran deal and cared even less. But for others, this is not just about pulling out of the JCPOA. It is part of a much wider campaign to confront Iran, one that always believed in a very different approach to that of the Obama administration and its European allies in striking the Iran deal. They have a broader philosophy of how to block Iran from achieving nuclear weapons. This is the Netanyahu Doctrine. Netanyahu believes the unspecified and tougher sanctions Trump spoke of could ultimately force Iran to negotiate and sign a much tougher arms control agreement—one with stricter inspection requirements, a more comprehensive dismantlement of the uranium enrichment program and no time limits on its implementation . . . Full story: haaretz.com

Comment: They're cheering Trump's nuke deal withdrawal in the Gulf States. Donald Trump's America has just become a rogue nation, as prophesied by Israel's Messiah, Jesus Christ (Revelation 13:11-18).

An Explanation of the May 3 Letter and the Delegated Powers

May 4, 2018 — It's apparent from the questions we are getting about the May 3rd Letter to Donald Trump informing him that THE REPUBLIC OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA—another "governmental services corporation" formed in France over the weekend—does not have a contract, is confusing people. The United States of America (Unincorporated)—our original federal Union of land jurisdiction States delegated nineteen enumerated powers, all of them in the international jurisdiction of the sea.

As a result of the three Constitution(s) three distinct branches of the federal government were created, all of them represented by States of States, and empowered to exercise jurisdiction over specific administrative areas.

The Constitution FOR the united States of America was the National Constitution and the powers delegated through it were exercised by the original Confederation of National-level States of States doing business as, for example, The State of Georgia, The State of Ohio and their Union created by The Articles of Confederation. Those National-level States of States have been moth-balled since the 1860's and secretively replaced and usurped upon by the British Territorial United States . . .

City of London crestMr. Trump has been offered the actual Office of the President of The United States of America (Unincorporated) and in that Office, he would be one of three Officers responsible for the care and protection of this entire country and would have access to the tremendous wealth and credit that the American States and People are owed. Instead of relying on his own States and his own People, Trump has instead gone crawling to Macron for help and apparently supported yet another betrayal of our interests to those of European con artists who have robbed six generations of Americans blind . . . Full story: mainerepublicemailreport.com

Comment: The British Crown runs the US Legal System "governmental services corporation." The United States is still a British Colony, the land still belongs to the King, America was never "free". Rothschild's Mr. Macron was in Australia last week with Goldman Sachs' Australian P.M. Turnbull for the same purpose . . . he was in the USA.

There is an obnoxious video/email going around the circuit claiming that China "owns" California. I am not sorry at all that this isn't true, but like most lies, it does contain a kernel of buried truth. Consider what I am going to tell you now very carefully: No, China does not own California. CHINA may own the STATE OF CALIFORNIA, which is a different matter entirely . . . Oh, and for everyone's information, we, the actual United States of America (unincorporated) own the UNITED STATES, INC., which owns CHINA . . .

Amazon Censorship Hits Home

Swastika
May 10, 2018 — By this time most folks have probably heard about the March 2018 purge from Amazon.com of books that call into question the story that during World War II Nazi Germany implemented through official policy the gassing to death and cremation of six million Jews at government-run central "extermination" camps. One can find a good summary of the actions by Amazon in Kevin Barrett's article with the tongue-in-cheek title, "Jeff Bezos, Amazon Endorse Holocaust Denial" . . .

Although half a century has now passed, hardly any event, when looked at in the clear light of day, permits us to come to grips more completely with the political reality of the United States today than does the assault on the USS Liberty. We live in an era in which members of the United States military have never been more venerated. From sports events to airport encounters, we're expected to honor them at every turn. "Support the troops" is seemingly an admonition that no one can disagree with. All of the military reverence comes to a screeching halt, though, when it comes to the surviving crewmen of the USS Liberty . . . a customer's review of it that I learned about the little known attempt by the Zionist Stern Gang to assassinate President Harry Truman with a letter bomb in 1947. That discovery led me to write the article, "'Jews' Tried to Kill Truman in 1947" . . . Full story: dcdave.com
Comment: The "squeeze" is gathering pace led by the pale horse rider of Revelation 6:8, bankrupting dissident booksellers.

Hawaii Volcano raises Concerns of Eruptions along West Coast

May 13, 2018 — The West Coast is home to an 800-mile (1,300-kilometer) chain of 13 volcanoes , from Washington state's Mount Baker to California's Lassen Peak. They include Mount St. Helens, whose spectacular 1980 eruption in the Pacific Northwest killed dozens of people and sent volcanic ash across the country, and massive Mount Rainier, which towers above the Seattle metro area . . .

Kilauea, on Hawaii's Big Island, is threatening to blow its top in coming days or weeks after sputtering lava for a week, forcing about 2,000 people to evacuate, destroying two dozen homes and threatening a geothermal plant. Experts fear the volcano could hurl ash and boulders the size of refrigerators miles into the air . . . Roughly 450 volcanoes make up [the Ring of Fire] with Kilauea situated in the middle . . . frequent volcanic and seismic activity caused by the colliding of crustal plates. America's most dangerous volcanoes are all part of the Ring of Fire, and most are on the West Coast, according to the USGS . . . Full story: apnews.com

Ecuador hints it may hand over Julian Assange to Britain & the US

May 12, 2018 — Julian Assange is in immense danger. Remarks made this week by Ecuador's foreign minister suggest that her government may be preparing to renege on the political asylum it granted to the WikiLeaks editor in 2012 and hand him over to British and then American authorities.

On March 28, under immense pressure from the governments in the US, Britain and other powers, Ecuador imposed a complete ban on Assange having any Internet or phone contact with the outside world, and blocked his friends and supporters from physically visiting him. For 45 days, he has not been heard from. Ecuador . . . and Britain "have the intention and the interest that this be resolved." Moves were underway, she said, to reach a "definite agreement" on Assange.

If Assange falls into the hands of the British state, he faces being turned over to the US . . . In 2010, WikiLeaks courageously published information . . . that exposed war crimes committed by American forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. WikiLeaks also published . . . tens of thousands of secret diplomatic cables, exposing the daily anti-democratic intrigues of US imperialism and numerous other governments . . . The effort to haul Assange before a US court is inseparable from the broader campaign underway by the American state and allied governments to impose sweeping censorship on the Internet . . . Full story: wsws.org


Headship

Matthew 4:4, "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God".

John 6:63, "The Words that I speak to you, they are Spirit, and they are Life".

Genesis 2:16-17, "And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the Garden you may freely eat: but of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, you shall not eat of it: for in the day that you eat thereof you shall surely die".

Before time and material creation the eternal Spirit was alone with the Attributes of His thinking. His thoughts are eternal, they are real and will come to pass in their designated and decreed season and time. Time and matter began when He expressed His thoughts as the Logos which means "thought in speech, or concept," Ezekiel called this Supernatural Light "the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord." Any Word is a thought expressed, and if it is God's Word it will take place. So the Bible is the story of God changing His form, unfolding His Attributes, which is Himself, into the flesh of His glorified Family. This will be the real "communion of saints," unlike Judaeo Roman Catholic heresy the Apostle's Creed, "read and approved at the Council of Chalcedon in 451," more than three hundred and fifty years after the death of the first apostles (Documents of the Christian Church, second ed., Henry Bettenson, p. 26). It is as transparent as Adam and Eve's Fig leaves and contrary to the foundation of the apostles and prophets on which Christ is building His Church (Ephesians 2:20).

If you were in God's eternal thinking you have Eternal Life and are "without beginning of time or end of life" (Hebrews 7:3). Jesus died for those souls whose names were written in the Lamb's Book of Life from the foundation of the world, and when the last members of Christ's end-time Bride recognize their place in the Body the first resurrection will commence for they are the manifestation of God's Attributes for this day.

Everything was God's expressed Word in perfect harmony until Eve was deceived by Satan and seduced by the Serpent. From then on Satan, who stood at God's right hand and was almost co-equal with God except as a creator, became His Adversary; everything became subject to death, and woman lost her co-equality with man over the creation (Genesis 1:28; 3:16). "Unto the woman the Lord God said, I will greatly multiply your sorrow and conception; in sorrow you shall bring forth children; and your desire (longing or craving) shall be to your husband, and he shall rule over you" (Ephesians 5:22-24; I Peter 3:6).

I Timothy 2:11-15 refers to the original sin and the woman's loss of co-equality under a separate covenant after the Fall: "Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. For Adam was first formed, then Eve. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression. However she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety".

Like the church your soul is feminine in designation, under submission, not co-equal with her lord but desiring to serve, which is why every human being will worship someone or something. All religion is intellectual and not of God. Cain's children have all been religious. Since the church rejected Christ the Word in the revelation of the Seven Seals God has been calling the wise and foolish virgins OUT from Rome and her (once) Protestant daughters to meet Christ "in the unity of the faith . . . lest they become partakers of her sins and receive her plagues" (Matthew 25:6; Ephesians 4:13; Revelation 18:4).

Adam could not be deceived on the Word of God for God was his father and we take the nature of your parent, but when we are born again we take the Nature of our heavenly Parent. Adam was God's spoken Word made flesh whereas Eve was a by-product made from Adam's rib. From the same lump of clay God made two people, one to honour, and one to dishonour. Anyone "born-again of incorruptible Seed, by the Word of God that lives and abides forever" cannot be deceived on the revealed Word (Matthew 24:24; John 10:3-5; Ephesians 5:26; Colossians 3:10; James 1:18-21; I Peter 1:21-25).

In I Corinthians 11:2-16 Paul wrote, "I praise you, brethren, that you remember me in all things, and observe the rules of conduct, order and doctrine in the Church as I delivered them to you. [Paul next reproves the Church for their neglect to one of his precepts]: 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. Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered [uncut hair], dishonours His Head [Jesus Christ]. But every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered [cut hair] dishonours her head [her husband]: for that is the same as if she were shaven, [a harlot or suspected of impropriety as in the ordeal of jealousy of Numbers 5:6-31].

This "investigation" or "temporary judgment" of the ordeal of jealousy is the Old Testament type of the Seven Vials that plague non-elect believers and denominations after each Church Age. We live in the parenthesis between the Sixth and Seventh Vials (Revelation 16:13-16). The antitype of the three angels of Genesis 18 promised us by Jesus in Luke 17:28-30 have gone to their rewards. The angels to Sodom were Billy Graham who visited the evangelicals and Oral Roberts who visited the Pentecostals. The Prophet William Branham was the 'Elijah' of Malachi 4:5-6, the seventh angel of Revelation 10:7 who revealed "Jesus Christ, the same yesterday and today and forever by discerning the thoughts and intents of the heart"—the Messianic sign of Hebrews 4:12. As John the Baptist foreran Christ's first or (Gk.) 'erchomai' Coming in the office Son of man, Brother Branham's Message foreran and introduced the second or (Gk.) 'parousia' Coming of the Son of man to His elect and separated brethren.

"For if the woman is not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it is a shame for a woman to be shorn (have cut hair) or shaved (bald), let her be covered (by uncut hair). For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, for as much as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man. The man is [first formed] not of the woman; but the woman is [out] of the man. Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man, so the woman ought to have a token of submission on her head because of the angels [who are men]" (Ephesians 4:8; I Timothy 2:12; Hebrews 2:1-3). Paul is the prophet who wrote the New Testament, the angel to the Ephesian Church Age whose THUS SAITH THE LORD is Absolute and cannot change or pass away. In I Corinthians 11:3-16 he reproves and corrects men in the image of God for abrogating their authority, and women for usurping equality with men when they are under a separate Covenant. Galatians 1:8-9 "if an angel from Heaven or any man preaches contrary to what I have preached to you, let him be accursed." Any true messenger to the church will correct a woman with cut hair because he is at one with God who's love is corrective. No Christian woman cuts her hair. A woman who cuts her hair signifies she has rejected the authority of God and man, and her husband can put her away.

The token of the Old Covenant was circumcision, but it is not possible to circumcise a woman so she came under the Covenant by her husband's token as did their unwed daughters also under his authority. Under the New Testament our circumcision is not in the flesh but of the soul by a clear revelation of "the present Truth" revealed for our day: new birth. Galatians 2:27-29, "For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Judean nor Gentile, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: you are all co-equal [spiritually] in Christ Jesus. And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise." In the flesh male and female are under distinct and separate covenants and she is no longer a ruler with him.

"Nevertheless, in the Lord woman is not independent of man, nor man of woman. For as woman was made from man, so now man is born of woman; and all things are from God. Judge for yourselves: is it proper for a woman to pray with her head uncovered? Does not even nature itself teach you, that for a man to have long [uncut] hair is degrading to him? But if a woman has long [uncut] hair it is her pride: for her hair is given to her for a covering. But if any man is disposed to be contentious, we recognize no other practice, nor do the churches of God".

Woman was given a place in man before the Fall (Genesis 5:2), co-equal over all creation (Genesis 1:28). When he was separated from the theophany and put in flesh; part of his being was still in a theophany in God's great thinking. Had the Lord formed woman in the original creation, there would have been no sin because as the Word manifest she could not be deceived, but she is a perversion of the original creation. The whole of God's creation is the manifestation of His spoken Word except for woman who was taken from man after God had finished forming the animals in pairs, male and female and bringing them to Adam to name. After the Fall He was to be her ruler (Genesis 3:16).

Among the animals it is usually the male that is beautiful while the female is plain. Consider the lion with his magnificent mane, the beautiful peacock and the dowdy peahen, but in the human race the woman is beautiful and the male is plain. God is a man, when He was made flesh, "He had no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see Him, there is no beauty that we should desire Him" (Isaiah 53:2). No animal is immoral, nor can it be for it is the manifestation of God's spoken Word and original creation. Dogs and other animals copulate perhaps once year, to reproduce, not for sexual pleasure, but woman is designed out of continuity with nature and is able to be seduced. A pretty woman can sway a man anyway she wants to; she has the power of lust and can cohabit practically whenever she desires (Proverbs 30:18-20).

Satan himself was "full of wisdom and perfect in beauty" (Ezekiel 28:12), and Judas was handsome, strong and a deceiver. Sin is beautiful in the eyes of the world, however God is not featured in physical beauty but by character—"Christ in you, the hope of glory" (Colossians 1:27; II Corinthians 3:2). Satan started working on the woman, not Adam. He is her designer with immoral fashions that expose her form, high heels, undergarments and makeup that make her look like what she ain't, bifurcated garments—jeans and slacks—an "abomination" in God's sight (Deuteronomy 22:5; I Timothy 2:9-10). The Bible mentions one woman who painted her face and that was Jezebel (II Kings 9:30-37). You don't paint your face to meet God. Heathens worship women as goddesses; the Judaeo-Roman church made Mary a mediatrix in about the 5th century. Hollywood and Bollywood have made them film idols and stars. Christians don't go to movies but Satan and his seed who control the entertainment industry bring them into the homes of non-Christians via television, and instead of him being her ruler, she has become his god.

Because you were conceived by the desire of a man and a woman through Satan's wisdom you were born an earthly child with the nature of this world whose god is Satan. You bypassed your theophany, which is God's "likeness" in which you were created (Heb.) 'bara' out of nothing but His thought before his incarnation as "the firstborn among many brethren" (Genesis 1:26-28; Romans 8:29; Colossians 1:15). So when you recognized the Word for your day, you left the denomination and have been formed into the living image of the living God. You heard from your theophany. "If our earthly house of this body were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens" (I Corinthians 5:1; John 14:2). You have heard your name called from the Lamb's Book of Life.

When Adam was male and female in himself God said: "Multiply and fill the earth," showing us that the last Adam's Bride must be born of the Man, the Word, by spiritual multiplication, not by sexual desire as it has been since the Fall. Jesus had to be born by woman through Mary's faith, without sexual desire: He was the Seed Eve should have produced. Eve disbelieved and brought death upon all creation. Mary said, "Be it unto me according to your Word." The Life had to come through that Seed without sexual desire to restore the Truth and fulfil God's command "in the beginning," then fall to the ground and die in order to multiply worldwide so an election from every nation, tribe and tongue of Adam's race could make their individual decision. Soon without sex, God will call His children from the dust of the earth, as He created the first Adam. Our navel calls attention to the original sin. Its mark is upon every human being born since the Fall. Only Adam and Eve who were created, not born, had no navel.

At the end there will be one Lord Jesus, and His many-membered Bride, singular. There was one David on one throne, one king (after God's own heart) with five hundred wives. Wise King Solomon who had a thousand wives in his harem said: "one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those I have not found" (Ecclesiastes, 7:26-29). Like an exquisite jewel, Christ's Bride is few, and rare among the believers. Solomon was a type of King Jesus Christ in the office Son of David sitting on His Throne in the Millennium, with a Wife, created out of the earth in the resurrection by the hand of Almighty God, like it was "in the beginning"—thousand thousands. Neither a woman nor a man can make it outside Jesus Christ, and in Christ "there is neither male nor female," we are all one in the faith.

A human beingYou are your soul and your soul is the nature of the spirit ruling it. Your first husband is the nature of this world who's god is Satan to whom Adam forfeited his dominion when he took Eve to himself, and as a type of Christ bore her responsibility on his shoulders: "by one man's offence death reigned through Adam [saving his wife]" (Romans 5:17-18). Eve should have been burnt along with the Serpent for their terrible deed (Leviticus 20:10, 15-16; 21:9). "Wherefore as by one man, Adam, sin entered into the world, and death by sin: and so death passed upon all men, in that all have sinned"  (Romans 5:12). We, our soul is "dead in trespasses and sins" (Ephesians 2:1) until it is quickened to new birth by a clear revelation of "the present Truth"—what Jesus is doing now. Prior to redemption the god of this world reigned from head knowledge and intelligence and the worldly desires of our spirit and flesh ran roughshod over our unregenerate soul. Christ enthrones the heart in union with our soul, bringing our spirit under submission to rule the senses of our flesh. The Law imputed sin but could not liberate from sin, and without being born-again it is difficult for a man to bring his passions under submission so the Lord introduced polygamy not only for the man, but for all male animals as indicated in Genesis 32:13-15. "Jacob took of that which came to his hand a present for Esau his brother; two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams, thirty milk camels with their colts, forty heifers, and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals".

Since the woman broke God's Covenant (Genesis 2:17) God established another order in nature, by sex. A second covenant: one male, many females; one buck deer, a whole harem of does; one bull, a herd of cows; one rooster, a yard full of hens. One David, with five hundred wives, a man after God's Own heart. One Solomon, with a thousand wives. It wasn't so at the beginning, but now it's "after" the beginning.

As we have explained, the First Adam and Eve type the last Adam and Eve. As the first Eve committed adultery before her husband had knowledge of her. The second Eve, the church, committed adultery against her espoused Husband, Christ the Word, at the First Nicaea Council and bore the bastard Judaeo-Roman Catholic church by spiritual hybridization as Eve bore the bastard Cain by physical hybridization.

The last Adam is marrying a virgin to the Word, NOT a denominational harlot whose intellectual religion adds to and takes from the Word. As a type of Christ a Christian minister can only marry a Christian virgin in the flesh, showing that the Church of the living God is the pure unadulterated Word of God, not a denomination that has been touched by another man.

When Jesus was instructing His disciples He said, "It has been said, Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement: but I tell you, whoever puts away his wife, except for fornication [unconfessed before marriage], causes her to commit adultery [because she will remarry]: and whosoever marries she who is divorced commits adultery [because she has a living husband]" (Matthew 5:31-32; Romans 7:1-3).

Because of the original sin we are all born through sex and from birth our soul was in fornication with our first husband, the nature of Satan. Thus before we can be born-again we must repent, confess our past sin (or unbelief) and be baptized in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ for the remission [not forgiveness] of sins (Acts 2:38-39). If a bride does not do that in Spiritual as in the natural marriage she has contracted under false pretence and He can put her away and take another because the marriage was void.

No man can marry a woman who has a living husband (Deuteronomy 24:1-4). However there is no prohibition against him remarrying. Christ is our type. In every dispensation change throughout the Gentile dispensations He put away the denominations of the previous Age and married another in "the present Truth." He can like Abraham, Jacob, David, Solomon and all the rest, but she can't. And a minister can remarry, if she is a virgin  (Leviticus 21:10-15; Ezekiel 44:22). Since the Fall God has dealt with men and women under two separate covenants.

I Corinthians 7:10, "To the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband: but and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband (Romans 7:1-3): and let not the husband put away his wife (Matthew 5:32; 19:9). She must remain single, or be reconciled to her husband. She cannot remarry but he can remarry. The sex law by polygamy ensures the Word of God runs in continuity. From the beginning there was just one man and one wife. After sin entered there was one man and a many women in continuity with nature, and human flesh is animal.

The New Testament must follow the shadows and types established in the Old Testament. Woman was not formed in the original creation but is a by-product from Adam designed to be a sex act, no other creature on earth is designed like that. She is made so that she can deceive and be deceived and placed on free moral agency, knowing the outcome, enabling God to manifest His Attributes and gather glory to Himself. This introduced polygamy, ultimately there will be one Jesus Christ, one Man, God, Immanuel in glorified flesh, and His many-membered Wife, the Bride, the Church. That's why He said to the first Adam before sex was introduced, "Multiply to fill the earth," when he was male and female in himself. Had she waited for her husband, her head, to receive the revelation and speak the Word, Eve would have given birth to Jesus Christ, "the beginning of the creation of God" without sex! Christ's Bride is begotten by the Word of the hour, Spiritual multiplication by "the present Truth" (II Peter 1:12; I John 1:7). After four thousand years the virgin, Mary, received the spoken Word from the Angel Gabriel (the Man of God who is Christ, the last Adam) and gave birth to Jesus Messiah—now both the beginner and "the beginning of the [NEW] creation of God[-men and God-women]"

Since the Seals have been opened and "the mystery of God is finished," the Spirit of Truth guides us into all truth and shows us things to come" (John 6:13). nl1025.htm
Homework: Please review the teaching sermon, "polygamy".

Pass it on . . . please send this article to someone you knowBrother Grigor-Scott is a non-denominational minister who has ministered full-time since 1981, primarily to other ministers and their congregations overseas. He pastors Bible Believers' tiny congregation, and is available to teach in your church.
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