HOLY ACRIMONY!
Gay Marriage . . . Does GOD have a “straight” and narrow view of marriage?
Learn why GOD the Father has been choosing thousands of men (and women) to marry His Son, "the man Christ Jesus" in the near future!
1 TIMOTHY 2:3-5
2:3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of GOD our Savior;
2:4 Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
2:5 For there is one GOD, and one mediator between GOD and men, the man Christ Jesus;
This Presentation is directed toward those who cannot seem to expand their personal definition of "marriage" past the arbitrary requirement that it must be based on a couple's potential for engendering children "the old-fashioned way", through sexual intercourse between a "fertile" female and a "fertilizing" male.
Is that arbitrary requirement truly based on GOD's concept of "marriage" as defined in "the Bible"? Does "the Bible" really support, or require, tight restrictions on a broad array of civil "marriage benefits"— which often return a broad array of stabilizing benefits to a society— awarding them only to those who are assumed to "contain" the potential for achieving the microscopic co-joining of a single sperm cell with a single ovum cell? Or is such a "microscopic" focus on the "reason" for marriage, frankly, a load of "fertilizer"?
If the "only real" purpose of marriage is to "legalize" sexual intercourse between two individuals who intend to engender children— as a certain "universal", "all-inclusive", or "catholic" Church seems to decree— then, once one of the two "marriage partners" becomes "infertile", or incapable of engendering a child during each "act of sexual intercourse " (there are other kinds)— logic would "decree" that the "only real" purpose of the marriage has shriveled, and the "marriage" has become no more than an "officialized association"— or in a "best case scenario", an "officialized friendship".
Of course, dissolving a marriage simply because either, or neither of the partners can, or wants to continue "consummating" it sexually, would "spell the doom" of most marriage relationships— which often do not involve much continuing "consummation"— at least as a mutual effort. Some follow the "rule of thumb"— if you want something done to your own satisfaction— do it yourself.
But there seems to be no shortage of "fatherly advisors" preaching about the "sanctity of the sacrament of marriage" (at least the marriages performed by those presumed to be celibate virgins employed by a specific Church that has acquired a worldwide, "universal" reputation of tolerating the sexual abuse of young boys in pursuit of under-cover self-gratification.
There is a completely relevant parallel to the assertion that GOD does not condone (not to be confused with those who don't condone condoms) human "insertion" that can't result in conception. Some couples who are incapable of connecting sexually at some level— either with their "private parts", or their microscopic "germ cells", may have to resort to laboratory procedures to make the connection they cannot achieve naturally— "naturally" meaning the "only way" GOD intended that human "germ cells" meet and "greet" each other.
Such potential fathers (the genetic ones, not the religious ones) "usually" (always) have to masturbate to acquire the sperm cells that are to be combined with a surgically retrieved ovum, or ova, in a laboratory setting in hopes of achieving "in vitro", rather than "in body fertilization".
Since male masturbation does not normally result in conception (though it can— "by accident"), and is thus, supposedly "against GOD's will for human sexuality"—which is the "official position" on the subject in numerous religious denominations— what Biblical precedent is called into action by the ostensibly celibate and virgin administrators of certain Church laws against male masturbation if there is to be an "indulgence" of the necessity?
Or do the couples in a certain Church just interpret "GOD's will for human sexuality" to include a convenient absolution for themselves? After all, those who claim to be the authorities on absolution are always making exceptions for their own expressions of sexuality— even though they wouldn't dare confess it to anyone.
If it is true that GOD only authorizes human sexual intercourse within a "Catholic" sacramental marriage, and only when an "act" can result in conception, then there are obviously an enormous number of exceptions being made by those who claim GOD-given authority to administrate the "sacrament" of marriage, and enforce its exclusively heterosexual definition.
This leads to the fact that GOD imposed no restrictions on His own plan to bypass the normal intercourse-based beginning of the conception process that resulted in the production of the flesh and blood human body in which His Angel was required to live and die, while fulfilling his prophesied role as the human Son of Man, who was also the only supernaturally begotten physical Son of GOD.
That fact should end any claim that GOD is against conception that is accomplished by means other than successful heterosexual union. Mary was not married when she became pregnant by GOD the Father's supernatural genetic completion, or supernatural "fertilization" of an ovum that apparently had been created in one of her ovaries when she was being created naturally within the womb of her mother.
All of the ova a human woman will ever have are created along with her ovaries, and are in a state of "immaturity" throughout her life until one becomes "mature" and receptive to sperm cells through natural hormonal processes.
There are spurious claims that Mary was "immaculately conceived"— not without the need of her father's sperm donation, but supposedly being "without original sin" from the "moment" of her conception" as opposed to the rest of us who are supposedly created as "sinners" already destined for Hell because we have been "un-immaculately conceived"— and the process can be messy.
Every aspect of sexual, hormonal processing within human reproduction, and the reproduction of every other physical specie on Earth— has been designed by GOD, and is enabled to operate successfully by His Spirit—the automated, "non-conscious and non-judgmental" Spirit of GOD that manifests and maintains everything in the Universe that has been "created".
And incidentally, GOD creates nothing "Ex Nihilo". Those who believe GOD has created every "thing" and every "force" in the Universe out of "nothing"— Ex Nihilo", are, in a sense, "blaspheming" the Spirit of GOD, though not necessarily the Holy, or "hallowed", or "halo'd" Spirit, or central Mind of GOD.
Everything that is known by its apparently "physical" manifestation within the Universe— whether visible "matter", or invisible "force", is created from, and generated by, the Spirit of GOD
HEBREWS 11:3
11:3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of GOD, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
GOD creates "Ex Spiritus"— out of His Spirit— which is administrated by His Angel— represented by the "Ex", or "X", as explained in, The First Atom—Xrayzr.
The union of the hallowing, or halo'ing entity— illustrated by the single electron's relationship to the single proton of a Hydrogen atom, which is symbolized again in the union of a single dominant sperm cell in union with a much "greater" single ovum which contains, by far, the most potential for influencing the successful development of any mutually engendered children—is also the symbolic type of what Marriage truly is— the "spiritual union" of two minds that are committed to the mutual success of a shared goal— which may, or may not include the engendering and "raising", or "rearing" of one or more children.
Marriage is not GOD's requirement for "legalization" of sexual intercourse resulting in the "marriage" of a sperm cell and an ovum. The union of Marriage is not necessarily sexual in nature. In fact, "in Nature", GOD never requires a "marriage certificate" before a male and a female of a specie can engage in sexual intercourse, or union. Only humans have attempted to "officialize" marriage by concocting endless forms of "officialization" requirements.
As many have realized— a marriage certificate, or "piece of paper", as some rudely call it, does not create, or "make" a marriage. Even a "wedding" is not required by GOD to officialize a marriage. As most adult humans know, marriage is not required before a couple can "have sex" with each other. And "having sex" with each other is not required for the successful continuation of a marriage— as many older couples gradually learn.
Marriage is essentially a union of minds, more than a union of "private parts". And an officialized Civil or "Church" marriage that used to be a union of both, can become a union of neither. That doesn't necessitate the dissolution of the officialized marriage. But if the "worse" part of the traditional "marriage vow" becomes unbearable , certain forms of divorce and remarriage are allowed by rulings in the Christian scriptures, even if not by some Christian Church denominations that have no GOD-given authority to change that doctrine.
Though "believers" should marry with expectation of and commitment to a "life-long" marriage, sometimes apparent "believers" are anything but—such as that devil, the Son of Perdition, known as Judas Iscariot.
JOHN 6:60-71
6:60 Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is a hard saying; who can hear it?
6:61 When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said unto them, Does this offend you?
6:62 What and if you shall see the Son of Man ascend up where he was before?
6:63 It is the Spirit that gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit[ual], and they are life [giving].
6:64 But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray him.
6:65 And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father.
6:66 From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.
6:67 Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will you also go away?
6:68 Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.
6:69 And we believe and are sure that you are that Christ, the Son of the living GOD.
6:70 Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?
6:71 He spoke of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon; for he it was that should betray him, being one of the twelve.
1 CORINTHIANS 7:39-40
7:39 The wife is bound by the [Old Covenant] Law as long as her husband lives; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.
7:40 But she is happier if she so abide, after my judgment: and I think also that I have the Spirit of GOD.
1 CORINTHIANS 7:10-15
7:10 And unto the married [believing couples] I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband.
7:11 But, and if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband; and let not the husband put away his wife.
7:12 But to the rest [who are not married to believers—or learn that their spouse isn't really a believer, and disregards spiritual instruction] speak I, not the Lord. If any brother has a wife that believes not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.
7:13 And the woman which has a husband that believes not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him.
7:14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified [set apart for GOD's attention] by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband; else were your children "unclean"; but now are they "holy" ["halo'd"—considered worthy of potential protection by GOD].
7:15 But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under [marital] bondage in such cases [not considered permanently married when he or she is divorced by someone who has lost, or never had genuine Christian faith]; but GOD has called us to peace.
2 CORINTHIANS 13:11-12
13:11 Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect; be of good comfort; be of one mind; live in peace; and the GOD of love and peace shall be with you.
13:12 Greet one another with a holy kiss.
Marriages should be entered with a life-long commitment. Marriage is a time-honored institution, and those who marry should be committed to an institution which will prevent them from escaping.
All seriousness aside— the "issue of the day" is whether the term "marriage "should be defined by Society only as an exclusive, engendering union between two individuals of "opposite" gender, or whether individuals of the "same" gender should be allowed to honor their exclusive, non-engendering relationship publically as a "marriage"— receiving the benefits often awarded by Society to encourage permanent, exclusive emotional relationships— that often include shared expressions of sexuality.
Those religionists who protest the loudest in condemning the Civil acknowledgment of a marriage union between two men, or two women, claiming that GOD forbids it, are giving no thought to one of the greatest hopes that GOD reveals in the "New Testament"— and which is the focus of the "New Marriage Covenant" which will finally completely replace the "Old Marriage Covenant" between the Angel of the LORD GOD, and the nation of Israel at the time of the Exodus.
It is revealed clearly that marriages that have existed between humans in "this World", will not continue, or be "renewed", within the Kingdom, or supernatural Government of GOD during the Millennial reign of the Messiah/Christ, or thereafter— although some of the humans who survive the End-Time and do not become part of the Government of GOD will have opportunities to marry, and help "replenish the Earth" during the thousand year Millennium.
MARK 12:18-25
12:18 Then came unto him the Sadducees, which say there is no resurrection; and they asked him, saying,
12:19 Master, Moses wrote unto us, If a man's brother dies, and leaves his wife behind him, and leaves no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.
12:20 Now there were seven brothers; and the first took a wife, and dying left no seed.
12:21 And the second took her, and died, neither left he any seed: and the third likewise.
12:22 And the seven had her, and left no seed. Last of all, the woman died also.
12:23 In the resurrection therefore, when they shall rise, whose wife shall she be of them? for the seven had her to be a wife.
12:24 And Jesus answering said unto them, Do you not therefore go astray, because you know not the scriptures, neither the power of GOD?
12:25 For when they shall rise from the dead [after their first and only human life-time] they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but [in regard to intimate relationships] are as the angels which are in Heaven.
After the Millennial period has been fulfilled, and during "the rest of eternity" after the establishment of the New Heavens and the New Earth there will only be one continuing Marriage—the relatively well-known Marriage of the Lamb, between YAHshua the Christ, and a part of his "spiritual Body"—the Church of GOD—whose members only GOD knows with certainty. That will be the Ultimate Marriage— the only Marriage ever made in Heaven.
REVELATION 19:6-9
19:6 And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia; for the LORD GOD, Omnipotent reigns.
19:7 Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honor to Him [GOD, the Father of the Groom—and of the Bride also!]; for the Marriage of the Lamb has come, and his Wife has made herself ready.
19:8 And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white; for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.
19:9 And he says unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. And he says unto me, These are the true sayings of GOD.
The creation of the Bride was first symbolically portrayed when Adam was "put to sleep" immediately before his side was opened up, picturing the wound of the spear which confirmed YAHshua's crucifixion death by heart failure. The Creator performed a "surgery" witnessed by the twenty-four Elohim Elders, during which a small part of Adam's body was transformed into Eve—who was to be his wife.
GENESIS 2:21-25
2:21 And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
2:22 And from the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made [Hebrew "banah"—meaning "built"] he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
2:23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh [they were united genetically as "one flesh", even though they were separate entities—as if a brother and sister were married, which is what happened later between the sons and daughters of Adam and Eve]. She shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man [as if from a simulated "womb" of a man].
2:24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife [that statement actually doesn't define "wife" exclusively as a woman—the term "wife" has also been used in the "Old and New Testaments" in ways that include human men—but in this case the "cleavage" between a man and his wife can result in the following:] and they shall be one flesh [not simply in brief, periodic episodes of "coming together", but in the potentially "permanent" form of genetic union of two becoming "one flesh" in the form of a son, or daughter].
2:25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed [apparently there was nothing to be "ashamed of", and unlike most of us, they had "nothing to hide" in regard to the appearance of their naked bodies—and later efforts to cover themselves had nothing to do with being ashamed of what they were trying to cover—physically. It was their vulnerability to punishment that they were attempting to "cover"—which was a naïve and futile effort].
Just as Eve was "created" from a small part of the body of the "first Adam", in like manner, a relatively small part of the transformed spiritual "Body", or Church of the "last Adam" will become the Bride of Christ. It will consist of 144,000 individuals chosen by GOD the Father, from the Lamb's Book of Life. Please read the Presentation The Most Important Holy Book In The World.
The "Lamb's Book of Life" contains the intimate personal records of the Angel of the LORD—the Messiah/Christ's most favored humans as he has known them throughout human history—beginning with the man Adam, who was made in the bodily image utilized by the Angel of the LORD—and the woman Eve, who was made in the image of femininity most favored by the Angel of the LORD GOD—an appearance and persona that would have given him the most pleasure to be near, if he had originally been made human by GOD, the Unlimited—before he was made human, by GOD; who is now known as his Father.
The flesh and blood mortal, YAHshua, the "last Adam", had virtually the same adult appearance as that of the "first Adam", who had the same appearance, in flesh and blood human form as that most often used by the Angel of the LORD when he appears in "human" "flesh and bone" embodiment, such as when he visited Abraham, with the Archangels Michael and Gabriel, immediately before they destroyed the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah.
GENESIS 18:1-5
18:1 And the Lord appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre; and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;
18:2 And he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him; and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground,
18:3 And said, My Lord, if now I have found favor in your sight, pass not away, I pray you, from your servant:
18:4 Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree:
18:5 And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort you your hearts; after that you shall pass on; for therefore are you come to your servant. And they said, So do, as you have said.
Don't assume that the primary sin of Sodom, and Gomorrah was homo (or same) sexuality—same-sex(uality). The following may appear to be a diversion into perversion, but it is very important to understand which attitudes and behaviors the Lord God of Israel considers truly abominable. It isn't the occasional expression of monogamous sexuality between a couple of loyal same-gender partners who have much more to offer to the World than a record of rampant lust compelling them to attempt to engage in gang-rape for which the "room-full" of violent perverts who were part of the population of Sodom became infamous.
When the House of Judah centered in Jerusalem was being compared, by the God of Israel, to Sodom, with the then conquered Northern ten tribes of Israel referred to as Samaria, it was not homosexuality that was the primary sexual offense toward God. It was rampant heterosexual promiscuity associated with demonic idol worship with total disregard for ethics and morality that caused the Lord of Israel to rant about his hatred of the reputation Israel had accumulated.
Please read the lengthy, explicit, and metaphorical, but very real denunciation, diatribe, harangue, invective, polemic tirade of the God of Israel against the sins of the inhabitants of Jerusalem which caused him to liken "her" to Sodom.
EZEKIEL 16:1-63
16:1 Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
16:2 Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations,
16:3 And say, Thus says the Lord God unto Jerusalem; Your birth and your nativity is of the land of Canaan; your father was an Amorite, and your mother a Hittite.
16:4 And as for your nativity, in the day you were born your navel was not cut, neither were you washed in water to clean you; you were not salted at all, nor swaddled at all.
16:5 No eye pitied you, to do any of these unto you, to have compassion upon you; but you were cast out in the open field, to the loathing of your person, in the day that you were born.
16:6 And when I passed by you, and saw you polluted in your own blood, I said unto you when you were in your blood, Live. Yes, I said unto you when you were in your blood, Live.
16:7 I have caused you to multiply as the bud of the field; and you have increased and become great; and you are come to excellent ornaments. Your breasts are fashioned, and your hair is grown, whereas you were naked and bare.
16:8 Now when I passed by you, and looked upon you, behold, your time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over you, and covered your nakedness: yes, I swore unto you, and entered into a covenant with you, says the Lord God, and you became mine.
16:9 Then washed I you with water; yes, I thoroughly washed away your blood from you, and I anointed you with oil.
16:10 I clothed you also with embroidered work, and shod you with badgers' skin, and I girded you about with fine linen, and I covered you with silk.
16:11 I decked you also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon your hands, and a chain on your neck.
16:12 And I put a jewel on your forehead, and earrings in your ears, and a beautiful crown upon your head.
16:13 Thus were you decked with gold and silver; and your raiment was of fine linen, and silk, and embroidered work; you did eat fine flour, and honey, and oil: and you were exceeding beautiful, and you did prosper into a kingdom [the Kingdom of Solomon].
16:14 And your renown went forth among the heathen for your beauty: for it was perfect through my loveliness, which I had put upon you, says the Lord God.
16:15 But you did trust in your own beauty, and played the harlot because of your renown, and poured out your fornications on every one that passed by; his it was.
16:16 And of your garments you did take, and decked your high places with diverse colors, and played the harlot thereupon: the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so.
16:17 You have also taken your fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you, and made to yourself images of men [idolic dildos], and did commit whoredom with them,
16:18 And took your embroidered garments, and covered them: and you have set my oil and my incense before them.
16:19 My food also which I gave you, fine flour, and oil, and honey, wherewith I fed you, you have even set it before them for a sweet savor: and thus it was, says the Lord God.
16:20 Moreover you have taken your sons and your daughters, whom you have born unto me, and these have you sacrificed unto them to be devoured. Is this of your whoredoms a small matter,
16:21 That you have slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them?
16:22 And in your abominations and your whoredoms you have not remembered the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, and were polluted in your blood.
16:23 And it came to pass after all your wickedness, (woe, woe unto you! says the Lord God;)
16:24 That you have also built unto you an eminent place, and have made you a high place in every street.
16:25 You have built your high place at every head of the way, and have made your beauty to be abhorred, and have opened your feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied your whoredoms.
16:26 You have also committed fornication with the Egyptians your neighbors, great of flesh; and have increased your whoredoms, to provoke me to anger.
16:27 Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over you, and have diminished your ordinary food, and delivered you unto the will of them that hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, which are ashamed of your lewd way.
16:28 You have played the whore also with the Assyrians, because you were insatiable; yes, you have played the harlot with them, and yet could not be satisfied.
16:29 You have moreover multiplied your fornication in the land of Canaan unto Chaldea; and yet you were not satisfied therewith.
16:30 How weak is your heart, says the Lord God, seeing you do all these things, the work of an domineering whorish woman;
16:31 In that you build your eminent place in the head of every way, and make your high place in every street; and have not been as an harlot, in that you scorn hire;
16:32 But as a wife that commits adultery, which takes strangers instead of her husband!
16:33 They give gifts to all whores: but you give your gifts to all your lovers, and hire them, that they may come unto you on every side for your whoredom.
16:34 And the contrary is in you from other women in your whoredoms, whereas none follows you to commit whoredoms: and in that you give a reward, and no reward is given unto you, therefore you are contrary.
16:35 Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the Lord:
16:36 Thus says the Lord God; Because your filthiness was poured out, and your nakedness discovered through your whoredoms with your lovers, and with all the idols of your abominations, and by the blood of your children, which you did give unto them;
16:37 Behold, therefore I will gather all your lovers, with whom you have taken pleasure, and all them that you have loved, with all them that you have hated; I will even gather them round about against you, and will discover your nakedness unto them, that they may see all your nakedness.
16:38 And I will judge you, as women that violate marriage bond and shed blood are judged; and I will give you blood in fury and jealousy.
16:39 And I will also give you into their hand, and they shall throw down your eminent place, and shall break down your high places: they shall strip you also of your clothes, and shall take your fair jewels, and leave you naked and bare.
16:40 They shall also bring up a company against you, and they shall stone you with stones, and thrust you through with their swords.
16:41 And they shall burn your houses with fire, and execute judgments upon you in the sight of many women: and I will cause you to cease from playing the harlot, and you also shall give no hire any more.
16:42 So will I make my fury toward you to rest, and my jealousy shall depart from you, and I will be quiet, and will be no more angry.
16:43 Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have fretted me in all these things; behold, therefore I also will recompense your way upon your head, says the Lord God: and you shall not commit this lewdness above your abominations.
16:44 Behold, every one that uses proverbs shall use this proverb against you, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.
16:45 You are your mother's daughter, that detests her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters, which loathed their husbands and their children: your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.
16:46 And your elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell at your left hand: and your younger sister, that dwells at your right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.
16:47 Yet have you not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but, as if that were a very little thing, you were corrupted more than they in all your ways.
16:48 As I live, says the Lord God, Sodom your [historical] "sister" has not done, she nor her daughters, as you have done, you and your daughters.
16:49 Behold, this was the iniquity of your [historical] "sister" Sodom, pride, fullness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
16:50 And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good.
16:51 Neither has Samaria committed half of your sins; but you have multiplied your abominations more than they, and have justified your sisters in your abominations which you have done.
16:52 You also, which have judged your sisters, bear your own shame, for your sins that you have committed are more abominable than they. They are more righteous than you. Yes, be you confounded also, and bear your shame, in that you have justified your sisters.
16:53 When I shall bring again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, then will I bring again the captivity of your captives in the midst of them:
16:54 That you may bear your own shame, and may be confounded in all that you have done, in that you are a comfort unto them.
16:55 When your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former estate, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former estate, then you and your daughters shall return to your former estate.
16:56 For your sister Sodom was not mentioned by your mouth in the day of your pride,
16:57 Before your wickedness was discovered, as at the time of your reproach of the daughters of Syria, and all that are round about her, the daughters of the Philistines, which despise you round about.
16:58 You have borne your lewdness and your abominations, says the Lord.
16:59 For thus says the Lord God; I will even deal with you as you have done, which have despised the oath in breaking the covenant.
16:60 Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish unto you an everlasting covenant.
16:61 Then you shall remember your ways, and be ashamed, when you shall receive your sisters, your elder and your younger: and I will give them unto you for daughters, but not by your covenant.
16:62 And I will establish my covenant with you; and you shall know that I am the Lord:
16:63 That you may remember, and be confounded, and never open your mouth any more because of your shame, when I am pacified toward you for all that you have done, says the Lord God.
Once again, YAHshua expressed his opinion about a very relevant, related parallel of the attitudes of the citizens of a small city he lived in with the attitudes of the citizens of the small cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. Capernaum was a small city in which YAHshua maintained a private home throughout his "twenties".
He believed he had "wasted" a lot of miracles and effort attempting to enlighten his "home town"—not about the supposed "abomination" of every form of homosexuality, or "sodomy", but about his Messiahship which he began to publicize and validate in Capernaum before any other population center in the region of Galilee, where he began his public ministry. He said the following, with the same righteous indignation he used as the Angel of the LORD when he likened the idolatrous and sexually promiscuous citizens of "Judea" to ancient Sodom.
MATTHEW 11:18-24
11:18 For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He has a devil.
11:19 The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a wine indulger, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.
11:20 Then began he to reproach the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done, because they repented not:
11:21 Woe unto you, Chorazin! woe unto you, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
11:22 But I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the Day of Judgment, than for you.
11:23 And you, Capernaum, which are exalted unto Heaven, shall be brought down to hell: for if the mighty works, which have been done in you, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.
11:24 But I say unto you, That it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the Day of Judgment, than for you. [And he should know, because he will be the final Judge of all of the historical citizens of those cities.]
But back to a lighter theme . . . It is very likely that GOD ordered His Spirit to "build" the human body of Mary, of Magdala, YAHshua's closest female friend, to have the same adult appearance as that of Eve. And, as noted above, the scripture says in its more accurate rendering—the Lord God took one of Adam's ribs and "built" Eve—she was really "built"!
"Be that as it may" (have been), it is certain that all of the prophets, and all of the renown, just plain known, and unknown favorites of the Angel of the LORD will be included in his own personal version of the Universal Book of Life. But that does not mean they have automatically been chosen to be part of the 144,000 who will be the "part" of the "last Adam's Body" that will be chosen by GOD to be His Son's eternal "Bride and Wife".
The body of 144,000 individuals that will be referred to here is different from the 12,000 from each of the genetically "pure" descendants of the historical tribes of Israel (which will also include Dan) who will be saved alive to begin the parenting of the newest human generation of the re-structured nation of Israel after the establishment of the Messianic Kingdom of GOD on Earth.
REVELATION 7:3-8
7:3 Saying, Hurt not the Earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our GOD in their foreheads.
7:4 And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed a hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.
7:5 Of the tribe of Judah were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Reuben were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Gad were sealed twelve thousand.
7:6 Of the tribe of Asher were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Nephthalim were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Manasseh were sealed twelve thousand.
7:7 Of the tribe of Simeon were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Levi were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Issachar were sealed twelve thousand.
7:8 Of the tribe of Zabulon were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Joseph were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Benjamin were sealed twelve thousand.
REVELATION 14:1-6
14:1 And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Zion, and with him a hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads.
14:2 And I heard a voice from Heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps:
14:3 And they sung as it were a new song before the Throne, and before the four "beasts", and the Elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the Earth.
14:4 These are they which were not [spiritually] defiled with "women" [a euphemism for seduction by devils, which often used whoring women to attract Israelite men to idolatrous activities]; for they are "virgins" [a euphemism for never having been seduced and "entered", or possessed by a devil spirit]. These are they which follow the Lamb anywhere he goes. These were redeemed from among men [and women], being the first-fruits unto GOD and to the Lamb.
14:5 And in their mouth was found no guile [devious deceitfulness]; for they are without fault before the throne of GOD.
14:6 And I saw another angel fly in the midst of Heaven, having the everlasting Gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the Earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people,
REVELATION 3:7-12
3:7 And to the "angel" [representation in Heaven] of the Church in Philadelphia write; These things says he that is holy, he that is true, he that has the key of [King] David [access to "the Way" into the Kingdom, or Government of GOD], he that opens, and no man shuts; and shuts, and no man opens;
3:8 I know your works. Behold, I have set before you an open door, and no man can shut it; for you have a little strength, and have kept my word, and have not denied my name.
3:9 Behold, I will make them of the "synagogue of Satan" [during the End-Time], which say they are "Jews" [not Jews in general], and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you.
3:10 Because you have kept the word of my patience, I also will keep you from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the World, to try them that dwell upon the Earth.
3:11 Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which you have, that no man take your crown.
3:12 Him that overcomes will I make a pillar in the Temple of my GOD, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my GOD, and the name of the City of my GOD, which is New Jerusalem, which comes down out of Heaven from my GOD: and I will write upon him my new name.
REVELATION 21:1-2
21:1 And I saw a New Heaven and a New Earth: for the first Heaven and the first Earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
21:2 And I, John, saw the Holy City, New Jerusalem, coming down from GOD out of Heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
The New Jerusalem will not be the Bride—it will be the home of the Lamb and his Bride, or Wife, consisting of 144,000 former human men and women specifically chosen by GOD the Father from the Lamb's Book of Life.
After the Millennium, the New Heaven, with its towering walled City, the New Jerusalem, will become unified with the New Earth—symbolized throughout human history by a single sperm cell joining and unifying itself with a far larger spherical ovum.
The New Earth will not remain spherical however. It will revert to its original flattened "galactic" shape surrounding an enormous radiant spherical "Mount" able to be seen simultaneously by all inhabitants of the New Earth. That's right—it will become a "flat Earth" once again—patterned on a common shape seen in many galactic configurations. But expansion of that revelation must wait for future publications.
The 144,000 chosen, and "glorified" to become the "Bride of the Lamb" will include individuals—truly "born again", spirit men and women—from among the innumerable multitude, of every nation, people, and language who will have proven their loyalty to the Lord, and to GOD during the End-Time. And as explained recently, all past prophets, apostles, and other disciples of the Messiah/Christ will be returned to a continuation of their former lives to become witnesses of the fulfillment of all they may have believed and attempted to teach others during their original life-times.
REVELATION 7:9-15
7:9 After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and families, and people, and tongues, stood before the Throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;
7:10 And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our GOD which sits upon the Throne, and unto the Lamb. [This was an extremely rare appearance of GOD, the Father, Himself]
7:11 And all the angels stood round about the Throne, and about the Elders and the four "beasts", and fell before the Throne on their faces, and worshipped GOD,
7:12 Saying, Amen. Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honor, and power, and might, be unto our GOD for ever and ever. Amen.
7:13 And one of the Elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and from where came they?
7:14 And I said unto him, Sir, you know. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
7:15 Therefore are they before the Throne of GOD, and serve Him day and night in His Temple: and He that sits on the Throne shall dwell among them.
REVELATION 5:8-10
5:8 And when he had taken the book, the four "beasts" and four and twenty Elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of fragrances, which are [symbolic of] the prayers of saints.
5:9 And they [the saints] sung a new song [in their prayers], saying, You are worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof; for you were slain, and have redeemed us to GOD by your blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;
5:10 And have made us unto our GOD kings and priests: and we shall reign on the Earth.
The unnatural covenantal marriage union between the men and women of historical Israel and the Angel of the LORD—which was actually an "inter-specie" forced marriage that was doomed to fail from the beginning—can only be caricatured by imagining Adam deciding to "marry" a female chimpanzee paraded in front of him rather than have the Creator provide a compatible human mate of the same mind—not that of a chimpanzee, but of the same mind as Adam's. And that's what GOD will provide for His Angel in the future, after the End-Time—a Bride with a collective "mind" able to reason at the level he does.
GENESIS 2:18-20
2:18 And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make a helpmate for him.
2:19 And out of the ground [in front of Adam's eyes—in addition to the earlier, and on-going re-population of the entire Earth with countless species and their essential environments which had been designed for the "human World"] the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof. [Obviously there were only a few representatives of every beast, and fowl—much like taking a child to a zoo; or a "petting zoo"]
2:20 And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found a helpmate for him.
The Angel of the LORD always had a terrible relationship with Israel throughout its historical generations as recorded in the Hebrew scriptures—and Israel never seemed to care what their God thought of them. Finally the Angel of the LORD divorced Israel and never became "re-married" to any other nation, having learned the "hard way" about the limitations imposed on him by "the only true GOD" who had warned Israel to beware of him and to obey what He, GOD said, through His Angel's voice. If that assertion is new to you, please read the numerous explanations in the other Xrayzr Revelations Presentations.
EXODUS 23:20-22
23:20 Behold, I send an Angel before you, to keep you in the way, and to bring you into the place which I have prepared.
23:21 Beware of him, and obey his voice; provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name [YAHWH] is in him.
23:22 But if you shall indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto your enemies, and an adversary unto your adversaries.
JEREMIAH 3:6-20
3:6 The Lord said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Have you seen that which backsliding Israel has done? She is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there has played the harlot.
3:7 And I said after she had done all these things, Turn you unto me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it.
3:8 And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed "adultery" [meaning idolatry with other spirit gods] I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.
3:9 And it came to pass through the levity of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery [and idolatry] with stones and with stocks.
3:10 And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah has not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, says the Lord.
3:11 And the Lord said unto me, The backsliding Israel has justified herself more than treacherous Judah.
3:12 Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, you backsliding Israel, says the Lord; and I will not cause my anger to fall upon you; for I am merciful, says the Lord, and I will not keep anger for ever.
3:13 Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have transgressed against the Lord your God, and have scattered your ways to the strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed my voice, says the Lord.
3:14 Turn, O backsliding children, says the Lord; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:
3:15 And I will give you pastors according to my heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.
3:16 And it shall come to pass, when you be multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, says the Lord, they shall say no more, The Ark of the [Old] Covenant of the Lord: neither shall it come to mind: neither shall they remember it; neither shall they visit it; neither shall that be done any more.
3:17 At that time they shall call Jerusalem the Throne of the Lord; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the Lord, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart.
3:18 In those days the House of Judah shall walk with the House of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the North to the land that I have given for an inheritance unto your fathers.
3:19 But I said, How shall I put you among the children, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, You shall call me, My father [he will relate to them as if they were little children—not as if they were his wife]; and shall not turn away from me.
3:20 Surely as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so have you dealt treacherously with me, O House of Israel, says the Lord.
The collective Bride, or Wife who will be chosen by GOD the Father for his Son will be composed of former human men who will become married to the former human "man, Christ Jesus".
1 TIMOTHY 2:5
2:5 For there is one GOD, and one mediator between GOD and men, the man Christ Jesus;
GOD the Father will have no "ethical" problem choosing at least half of the 144,000 members of the Wife of Christ from among former men because the ultimate, and only eternal marriage will be what all marriages should be—a union of minds—not a license to join "private parts" without "offending" GOD.
PHILLIPIANS 2:5-9
2:5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
2:6 Who, being in the form of GOD, thought it not robbery to be "equal" [equated] with GOD:
2:7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men;
2:8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
2:9 Wherefore GOD also has highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:
Can there be a moral parallel between YAHshua's future Marriage, and a Society allowing individuals of the same gender to publicly honor a mutual commitment to an exclusive union of their minds (and possibly their bodies), by allowing them to have the same civil benefits often awarded to more traditional marriages between a man and a woman?
Some Societies seem to have no problem accepting the "legality" of allowing their male and female citizens to engage in a series of sequential marriages, dissolved by a series of divorces, which makes a mockery of the so-called "sanctity of marriage. Yet some Societies think they are defending GOD's "one and only" concept of Marriage by forbidding individuals of the same gender from officially "marrying", because they equate "marriage" with "license, or obligation to find ways to reproduce"—which fewer and fewer adults seem to want to do anymore—married, or not.
If a loyal, monogamous, yet "unmarried" same-gender couple chooses to have a private "marriage" of those parts of their bodies which should always be nobody else's business but their own; then it's nobody's business but their own whether they continue to be intimate after a public marriage—which is also the general sequence of coupling chosen by most hetero-sexual couples in today's Society. At least same-gender coupling never results in countless unwanted pregnancies—and unwanted children.
The term "same-sex" marriage is actually more applicable to the majority of heterosexual couples that always have the "same sex" year after year until the husband finally decides it's not worth the effort to convince the wife to be co-operative; or the husband doesn't want to go to the trouble of "having sex" with his wife in the same room—but hopefully, not with anyone else in the same room either.
I'm referring to do-it-yourself sex, which seems to be a satisfying outlet for uncountable millions of men who can't tolerate the thought of having to get married to "get sex"—once again inappropriately equating "marriage" with license to "have sex" at the drop of a "boner pill" down one's esophagus.
Marriage is almost always better, "in the long run", than the isolation of "singleness" at all ages. If anyone wants to publicly have an exclusive marriage relationship with someone of the same gender, it should not be forgotten that the most public display of the honorability of marriage will involve the future "Marriage made in Heaven" between "the man Christ Jesus" and dozens of thousands of men who will have been chosen, along with dozens of thousands of women, to be known forever as the "Wife of Christ".
REVELATION 19:6-9
19:6 And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the LORD GOD, Omnipotent reigns.
19:7 Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honor to him: for the Marriage of the Lamb has come, and his Wife has made herself ready.
19:8 And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.
19:9 And he says unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. And he says unto me, These are the true sayings of GOD.
The 144,000 glorified spirit members of the Wife of the Lamb will be so exalted that all of them will be worthy of worship because all of them will be authorized to "wear" the name of GOD—YAHWH, and His Angel—YAHshua. Notice the continual use of the pronoun "him" in referring to this elite group—whom the Lord loves more than any others.
REVELATION 3:8-12
3:8 I know your works: behold, I have set before you an open door, and no man can shut it: for you have a little strength, and have kept my word, and have not denied my name.
3:9 Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you [more than all others].
3:10 Because you have kept the word of my patience, I also will keep you from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.
3:11 Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which you have, that no man take your crown.
3:12 "Him" that overcomes will I make a pillar in the Temple of my GOD, and "he" shall go no more out: and I will write upon "him" the name of my GOD, and the name of the City of my GOD, which is New Jerusalem, which comes down out of Heaven from my GOD: and I will write upon "him" my new name.
And if you think that the glorified Marriage of the Angel of the LORD with those chosen to marry him cannot possibly involve literal sexuality—you have no idea what the Ultimate Creator—GOD, has designed and perfected within the reproductive capabilities and components of countless species that have been created for life on Earth—and elsewhere.
GOD's Angel, and the twenty-four Elohim Elders have developed, tested, and perfected the infinite array of physical sensations, and capabilities experienced by every specie that has ever been designed throughout the vast ages before mortal humans, as we know them, were designed and brought into existence only a few thousand years ago. The exploration of the implications of that concept will be saved for future publications.
REVELATION 4:6-11
4:6 And before the Throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal; and in the midst of the Throne, and round about the Throne, were four "beasts" [the top angelic administrators of all categories of gene-based creatures found on Earth, displaying their power to symbolically, and literally manifest themselves as any creature] full of eyes before and behind.
4:7 And the first "beast" was like a lion, and the second "beast" like a calf, and the third "beast" had a face as a man, and the fourth "beast" was like a flying eagle.
4:8 And the four "beasts" had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, LORD GOD Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.
4:9 And when those "beasts" give glory and honor and thanks to Him that sat on the throne, who lives for ever and ever,
4:10 The four and twenty Elders fall down before Him that sat on the Throne, and worship him that lives for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the Throne, saying,
4:11 You are worthy, O LORD, to receive glory and honor and power; for you have created all things, and for your pleasure they are and were created.
PSALMS 36:7-9
36:7 How excellent is your loving kindness, O GOD! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of your wings.
36:8 They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of your House; and you shall make them drink of the river of your pleasures.
36:9 For with you is the fountain of life; in your light shall we see light.
PSALMS 16:11
16:11 You will show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy; at your right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
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