An in-depth examination of what can be inferred from the Bible regarding marriage, divorce and adultery and related subjects towards an overall goal of the Almighty that marriage should be as Heaven on Earth – the first few teachings are based on the eBook “Scriptural Definition of Marriage, Divorce and Adultery” which is presented at https://www.eti-ministries.org/men-women/scriptural-definition-of-marriage and is contained in Volume 5 of the Book Set.  These teachings lay the scriptural founda

Yah’s plan for Healing Marriage – Part 4 – Towards Heaven on Earth in Marriage

The second set of teachings of an in-depth examination of what is required to achieve the overall goal of the Almighty that marriage should be as Heaven on Earth.  These teachings build on the foundation of the first series and contain a diverse set of teachings on the Believers way, the Believing life, bringing about change in our lives by the Spirit of Yah, etc.  This is the spiritual "how to" with regard to application of the teachings in the first set of tapes.

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I would like to offer a word of caution.

At this stage (April 2019) these are the raw transcripts as produced by the transcribers.  I have not proof read them so there are likely to be minor transcription errors which may in the extreme case impact the accuracy of the measure.  For that reason, as with all material on this website it is up to you to pray about anything that seems doubtful and seek Father Yah’s guidance as to the validity of what you read.

Please also note that my doctrine has matured significantly since the time these tapes were recorded, specifically I no longer use “God”, “The LORD” and “Jesus” and regard them as Pagan names, I only use respectively, “The Almighty”, “Yah the Eternally Self-Existing” and “Yahooshua” for these names.  I also no longer believe that the Bible is the Word of God and I believe that Yahooshua {Jesus} was entirely a man and a Prophet and NOT the Almighty in the flesh, it was the Spirit of the Almighty ON Yahooshua that performed the miracles and prophesied.

Section 4 -- Towards Heaven on Earth in Marriage

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The transcripts are nearly complete in draft but must still be proofread.  Given that they run to over 1,100 pages it will take time for me to do this.  There may therefore be minor typographic errors and errors where the transcriber misheard what I said or did not understand it.  Regrettably I have used up all available Annual Leave producing this Book Set so it is likely to be a year or longer before I have time to proofread the entire set.  However, Father has stated to me that He has been waiting a long time (19 years) for me to make these documents available and that He would rather I publish them now in their present form than wait for a further indeterminate period for me to proofread and publish.

This set provides a comprehensive analysis of the current spiritual dispensation and also why marriage in this age is such a mess and HOW to fix it.  I therefore encourage you to read these texts allowing for the possibly of minor mis-transcription to a limited degree.

These recordings were made in 2000 at a time when I was receiving considerable revelation on diverse topics with the result that my doctrine changed substantially during and after the recording of these teachings, nevertheless the fundamental message of these teachings is sound and very important and inspired at a significant level.

Accordingly I must advise caution in reading these texts – there ARE MANY important truths but they are intermingled with significant error relating to the Name of the Almighty, the Name of Yahooshua {Jesus}, the Person of Yahooshua, the Bible and related topics that mostly do NOT impact the overall marriage teaching.

Introduction

This is the introduction to Volume 2 of the marriage tapes in the suite of tapes ‑ God's plan for healing of marriage in the 7th millennium. The second volume of marriage teachings concerned with 'Towards Heaven on Earth in Marriage.' This set of teachings builds on the first set of marriage teachings and I cannot stress strongly enough how important it is for you, first of all, to listen to the tapes in Volume 1 of the marriage series. And I would encourage you to make sure that you listen to the tapes on the coming tribulation on the tapes on judgment in this life before you do that.

Please in going through Volume 2 work systematically, start at the beginning and go on till you get to the end. As with the previous series, you will find much that is controversial and much which if you do not approach this in the order that the Spirit of God gave it to me is likely to offend you. As I mentioned before, the whole process that God has used in this is iteratively dealing and digging deeper and deeper into the truths of His word into the practical application of those truths. And in the process, revealing more and more which has the potential to offend if you do not have the right foundation. So please walk the journey that the Lord has set out in this series of tapes.

Volume 2 of the tapes that we are dealing with now comprises 23 teachings. It includes teachings from a variety of different ministries on issues such as faithfulness, the blood covenant, disciplining of flesh, etc., etc., and that was a combination of tapes which the Lord just lead me to pull together as the teachings were unfolding to assist to paint a wonderful tapestry of the beauty of what marriage was intended to be, the vision that God has for marriage and that He wants us to have for marriage and how to get there. The spiritual principles and spiritual disciplines and scriptural principles that God has provided for us to get our marriages healed and to come to a place of Heaven on Earth in marriage, to deal with the issues of change. This set of tapes also draws on my experience as management consultant in the areas of bringing about organisational change and some lessons and principles associated with it and it draws on my entire life experience, things that God has been dealing with me on for a number of years.

And as with the first series, I say to you with firm conviction, all the fundamental principles that are contained in these teachings, God has been revealing to me over a number of years, the finer points of how it all fits together, the finer points of how it is applied and practised have only been revealed to me as I have been putting the tapes together but the underlying core scriptural principles or things that I have been wrestling with and debating with God for a number of years and I declare again as with the first volume, this is given by the Spirit of God, please receive it as that, in Jesus name. Amen.

04 01 Foundation -- Towards Heaven on Earth in Marriage

This is the first tape in the second volume of the series 'Understanding God's Way in Marriage.' Volume 2 is entitled 'Towards Heaven on Earth in Marriage,' and this teaching summarises the teachings in Volume 1 and lays the foundation for Volume 2 directed at helping us to understand how we can experience Heaven on Earth in marriage.

This message was recorded on December 2, 2000, and the prayers and worships that preceded this teaching follow immediately. The teaching itself commences about half an hour and it is two-thirds of the way through the first side of the tape.

Father I bring all of those assembled around the world in time and space who will hear this teaching before you in the name of the Jesus. Father I ask you to pour out your spirit upon them right now and throughout this entire series in Jesus name. Father I thank you that you open their eyes to see the truth, open their ears to hear your voice. Father I thank you that you fill them with a passion for you, the desire to be children before you, the desire to serve you and bring joy to you, the desire to walk in most holy love and faith and serve you with all their hearts and all their minds and all their soul and all their strength, in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

Early this morning I completed the 23rd tape in the Volume 2 teaching, 'Towards Heaven on Earth in Marriage.' And one of the two songs that the Lord gave me in the wee hours this morning to close off the series was the one that we have just heard ‑ 'Release me father to dance like a child again. Turning to what is true, seeking more of God of Jesus, to returning to passion in our love and our service of Him.' And it just seems to me that He has backed this whole series of 23 teachings on the subject of Heaven on Earth in marriage by this song and I just urge you to hear his heart as he calls us to return to the full truth of his word, to return to a love and passion for Jesus which cause everything else to dim and pale into insignificance. If we do not love the saviour, if we do not lay down our lives to serve him and to love him and to praise him and to worship him as we were created to do, we are nothing in the Sight of God who of this strictest judgment. But if we were to lay down our lives and do our all to his truth and the truth of his word, no matter how difficult that is. If we will seek him first, we will experience Heaven on Earth in our marriages as we become more like Jesus as we draw closer to him.

In the series which precedes this Volume 1, which deals with the Scriptural Definition of Marriage, Divorce, and Adultery and lays the entire scriptural foundation for this entire series of teachings, we have gone and travelled a journey which has dealt with many aspects of doctrine which are contrary to what the church teaches and practices today. And I believe that you have been open and if you have put the Word of God first and the Word of Truth first in your life throughout this series to date, you will have been severely and seriously challenged. But if you have persevered and overcome your reservations to this point, God has a wonderful blessing for you.

I have been absolutely amazingly blessed as I recorded this series of tapes in a period of somewhat of the order of between just on a week from the time that I thought that volume...well, I did not even there was going to be a Volume 2, I just had one or two teachings and then it became 10 and then it became 20 and then it ended up being 23 tapes that had been recorded on a continuous basis over the last week or so. And just as things have unfolded and I was laid to a collection of four tapes from a diversity of speakers that had somehow remained together on a bookshelf since 1994-95 and somehow resembled themselves together and came to my attention just as I was doing this teaching. As other teaching series that I was laid to buy as I started this entire series with four 3-day fast over a period of 40 days approximately, suddenly filled in the last pieces of a jigsaw puzzle that God has been constructing in my heart over the last 5-1/2 years to my knowledge since 1995 when I cried out to Him about the level of divorce in the church, where at that point statistics indicated that more than two-thirds of people in the world, or certainly the western world were getting divorced and remarrying and that two-thirds of the people in the Body of Christ were getting divorced and remarrying and yet God says in Malachi that He hates divorce.

I was seeing such brokenness and such anger and such hurt and I cried out and I said,"Lord, why is this?" And by implication I said, "Lord, how is this to be fixed?" And to contextualise that statement, I am an engineer, I have been raised to solve problems. My entire life focuses on if I find a problem, I seek the solution to it. And that has gone into the work that constituted my doctoral research for my PhD. It has gone into the absolute fabric of my business career as a management consultant specialising in the effective application in information technology and why information technology investments fail, why 70% of IT projects are written off, why 70% of corporations are dissatisfied with the IT investment. There is more than occasional correlation between what the Lord has called me to do and is contained in this series of teachings and what I do in my professional career.

And so after I prayed that prayer, Lord decided to deal with me about issues of Scripture which rattled my cage in known and certain fashion. I argued with Him for months on one particular point on the reality of Scripture permitting a man to take more than one wife. I wrestled with God over that. I wrestled with Him from Genesis to Revelation and every book of the Bible as I turned to it and said, "Father, I am sure here you will tell me and show me where you changed the practice of the church to what it is today." I just found in every book of the Bible the shadow and the type of the Body of Christ which that are many bodies are one body with Him. And I saw increasingly as I faced our position, as I worked through so much of what forms the fabric of these teachings. I saw by the Spirit of God that it was God's own heart in the end of the age for men to provide their covering to more than one woman, and I saw that this was not something that was carnal and lustful.

I saw that we could not understand God's love for us until we could do that. I saw that we could not understand the marriage until we understood marriage. I saw that the church could not come into unity until we could walk in unity in marriage. In the first volume of the series, you have seen the scriptural basis for all of these things and in the second volume, we will study in depth all the action points that God has shown me since I prayed that prayer and in retrospect things that He was teaching me even in the 30 something years prior to my coming back to Him in 1993 while I was backsliding and away from Him and walking in pride and arrogance self confidence, all of that has come together in a most beautiful jigsaw puzzle or mosaic where God has painted with broad brush strokes on a magnificent canvas a picture of Heaven on Earth in which a man and his wife walk together and serve God where the harmony and the unity is of such enormity, such magnitude that those people can be separated by thousands of miles and they will be able to communicate in the spirit heart to heart as they were in the same room that there would be no distance to separate them.

He has shown me a picture in which at that level of unity begins to be achieved in the life of a married couple where a family unit of more than one wife, the gates of hell will be shaken by prayer and agreement against principalities, power, thrones and dominions and all the evil powers of darkness in this age. He has shown me that as we come into that unity, as a man and his wives proceed through the jungle in this spirit realm that is this age, the ground will be recaptured for the service of the living God. That we would bring Heaven to Earth if we will go to Him as the author and the finisher of our faith for the truth for deliverance, for salvation, for cleansing, for provision and every , He will lay aside every care, every sin, every wait that so easily besets us and we will run the race without giving up, without slowing down and run to Jesus. He will do a miracle in your life and he is doing in ours. And he will bring you to a place of glory on Earth and Heaven on Earth in your marriage, which is beyond anything that you can ask or imagine as you listen to this tape.

And I urge you sincerely, if you have not listened to every one of the 20 tapes that precedes this in Volume 1 of this teaching, please turn back. This is not a journey that can be taken by taking shortcuts. The church has been taking shortcuts in the area of marriage for too long and more than 66% of the Body of Christ today are seen in Heaven as adulterers and adulteresses and many of them, if not most of them, are joined to every Satanist and Witch and Warlock and Wizard and Prostitute on this entire planet by One Flesh Bonds. It is the most appalling abomination. There is no time for shortcuts. God knows the route. He has brought us down a journey to this place and the journey that follows that I have travelled in the last week is a journey of grace and splendour, of magnificence and great and deep soul-searching conviction by the spirit of the living God. I urge you, go back to where you departed from the road and follow the road faithfully for there is much that he has revealed in those first tapes and there is much to follow.

As I was finishing off the second series of tapes thinking that the series was now complete, I started to get a picture of another volume, the practical application of these teachings, to the healing of marriages, to dealing with the consequences of divorce and adultery, to preparing for marriage. And at the moment, those tapes are still a dim picture, but I have an urgency to complete them within days and God willing, that will happen, but you have a journey. You have a journey of something of the order of 30 plus hours of tapes before you reach that point, and I would encourage you and urge you to not deal with a slack hand. Do not take shortcuts.

Marriage as I have seen it in the last week encapsulates the entire Christian walk. We had been given marriage to understand our relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ and that relationship encapsulates everything that constitutes the Christian walk. As the teachings that follow unfolded, I found myself drawing in teachings with regard to faith, with regard to deliverance, with regard to disciplining the finish. The power of the tongue, the anointing of the Holy Spirit and each of these tapes by a diversity of men of God slotted in a place that He had appointed to rephrase, in other words confirm things that are on my heart, confirm things that had been said or things that resonates about to say and introduce a richer and deeper perspective of things that have made the mosaic and the tapestry of marriage so much richer and more beautiful. So I urge you to take the journey one step at a time as I have been doing for God has an awesome plan for your life and mine.

And remember as we go 1 John 5:3: "For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome." Remember, the scriptures which tell us not to add or subtract from the Word of God lest we be found liars on the Day of Judgement. And as you come to the difficult patches in the road ahead, as you come to the defiles in the jungle and the narrow bridges over ravines of roaring water, and as you are challenged by aspects of doctrine which are completely foreign to your way of thinking, as you discover the things that you thought were carnal are deeply spiritual and things that you thought were deeply spiritual are in fact carnal. Keep your eyes on Jesus and remember this is the love of God that we keep his Commandments and Commandments are not burdensome. So when you find something in these teachings that look burdensome, understand the devil has lied to you and is lying to you again. Understand the need that you have to turn around and look at that Scripture from Jesus' perspective. Seek to understand that he is telling me and telling you through me about that Scripture.

As I give you a brief summing up of all that we have covered to date and form a sketch of what follows, I was led this morning to include passage from Mark chapter 10 in the Amplified Bible. Reading from verse 1: "And [Jesus] left there [Capernaum] and went to the region of Judea and beyond [east of] the Jordan; and crowds [constantly] gathered around Him again, and as was His custom, He began to teach them again." And before I go further, it just struck me as I came to read that Scripture and Jesus left there and went and I believe today, with all my heart that anybody who is listening to this message Jesus is saying "Leave there and go." Leave the place where you are today, and go where he wants you to go. Leave the sorry state of your marriage, leave the loveless situation, the lack of submission, the striving and the argumentation, the spiritual and sometimes physical treachery and betrayal, leave that place and go where he is calling you to go to Heaven on Earth. Recognise that it is God's will today and every day to make your marriage work. God created marriage to work. There is nothing anywhere in Scripture that tells us otherwise.

"And some Pharisees came up, and, in order to test Him and try to find a weakness in Him, asked, 'Is it lawful for a man to dismiss and repudiate and divorce his wife?' He answered them, 'What did Moses command you?' They replied, 'Moses allowed a man to write a bill of divorce and to put her away.' But Jesus said to them, 'Because of your hardness of heart [your condition of insensibility to the call of God] he wrote you this precept in your Law. But from the beginning of creation God made them male and female. For this reason a man shall leave [behind] his father and his mother and be joined to his wife and cleave closely to her permanently, and the two shall become one flesh, so that they are no longer two, but one flesh."

And it is so important to understand many people think that Jesus was introducing some new ramification of Torah, the Law of Moses. He was simply restating what the Word of God says concerning marriage and divorce. Moses said exactly what Jesus said. The Pharisees were dealing with a situation in which man was putting away his wife for no reason. Jesus was restating the truth and setting them right about the false doctrine that they were espousing in that day. What they call divorce was putting away. And when Jesus refers to the hardness of our hearts, I have just seen more and more clearly in recent days that he was saying is because of our incapacity to love as he loves, our rebelliousness and our foolishness and our insistence on doing things our way, divorce became necessary. But now, in this age, at the end of the age of the coming judgement, he is calling us to return to his way of doing things.

If you are sitting on the brink of divorce or recently divorced, I have to say to you in the Sight of God, divorce is not an option unless one of you is headed for hell with no hope of turning back. If that is not the case, repent and turn around because God is able and willing to heal your marriage as you will see as you walk this journey with me. Verse 9: "What therefore God has united (joined together), let not man separate or divide. And indoors the disciples questioned Him again about this subject. And He said to them, 'Whoever dismisses (repudiates and divorces) his wife and marries another commits adultery against her; and if a woman dismisses (repudiates and divorces) her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.'" And we saw that adultery is a spiritual state in which a woman is joined to more than one man and by being joined to more than one man as men become joined to one another, we saw that adultery is treachery, it is betrayal. A man sending away his wife for no reason is betraying his covenant with her.

We saw that if people commit adultery, 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 says: "Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God." And yet reports today indicate that 66% plus of all marriages end in divorce in the world and a greater percentage in the church. Those statistics are being repeatedly reported and nobody is disputing them. In terms of what we have just read from Mark 10 and 1 Corinthians 6, approximately 70% minimum of all people who call themselves by the name of Christ, who have been involved in an ungodly carnal divorce will not inherit the Kingdom of God. That is a devastating statistic. It is time for all to repent and turn around and return to the truth of God's word.

In order to lay the foundation for Volume 2 of this teaching, 'Heaven on Earth in Marriage,' I want to provide you with a concise scripturally recap of Volume 1, 'The Scriptural Definition of Marriage, Divorce and Adultery.' Volume 1 sets the doctrinal, theological foundation, if you want to use those words, I prefer to use the word 'scriptural foundation,' we have to return to what the Word of God says. Our own imaginations, our Doctrines of Demons, our own understanding are an abomination in the sight of a holy righteous living and loving God. So let me take you briefly through the headlines of what we have covered so far. We referred to an article called 'Wow! So that's how Jesus loves me' that was published in Joy magazine in October 1999 and I read the introductory passage. "The Lord began speaking to us recently about marriage and giving us some understanding of why so many marriages are in a mess or out of order and even why so few Christian marriages are what they could be. Daily we seem to hear of people suffering the most terrible abuse and unhappiness and fear within marriages and hear of more and more Christian marriages ending in the cataclysmic of divorce. Something that God purposed to be one of His greatest sources of joy and blessing to people often ends up as a curse and misery. The Lord began to reveal that the reason why marriages are under such incredible attack is because of what He meant it to be. We see God purposed marriage to be a prophetic sign and a wonder, yet the enemy so often succeeds in making it a laughing stock instead of a prophetic signpost that points the way it is something much deeper."

Ephesians 5:21-33: "Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body. Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her, that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word, that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish. So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does the church. For we are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones. 'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.' This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church. Nevertheless let each one of you in particular so love his own wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband."

That passage of Scripture has been the cornerstone, if you like, of this entire teaching. The three verses which clearly juxtapose us a born-again believers being one body with the Lord Jesus Christ and a man being one flesh with his wives. We have to see that those three verses of Scripture unlock a great mystery, that unlock the reality that everything we read in the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation about the relationship between God and His church speaks of the relationship between a man and his wives. And conversely, anything in Scripture which speaks of relationship between man and wife tells us something about our relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ. Returning to the article, 'Wow!' and quoting,"Paul says this is a great or profound mystery he is speaking about. The only other great or profound mysteries found in 1 Timothy 3:16: 'And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifested in the flesh, Justified in the Spirit, Seen by angels, Preached among the Gentiles, Believed on in the world, Received up in glory.'" And what I see here is if we understand the mystery of marriage, we will understand the mystery of godliness. Because if we can experience that spiritual oneness that I spoke about earlier in marriage, we will begin to understand what God is speaking about. But it is an iterative recursive process. We need to understand God before our marriages can work and we need to understand marriages before we can develop a full relationship with God. It is so intimately correlated and correlated and that is why Satan is so hell bent on destroying marriage.

Returning to the article, "Whenever Scripture speaks of a mystery, it is something that can only be understood by divine revelation how much more so a great mystery. However, these mysteries are something God wants us to understand because if we do not, the enemy will run riot in that area of ignorance in our lives. So Paul is saying, when I am talking about marriage, I am talking about Christ and the church. He is saying that every time you look at a Christian marriage, you should be able to say, "Aha, so that's how Jesus loves his church and that is how we as the church should respond to him." Marriage was made by God to be a sign that shows the world how much Jesus loves his church. Yet how many of us can say we have seen even a handful of marriages in our lifetimes that have been this. Marriages where you look at the way loves his wife and you can say "Wow, that's how Jesus loves me" as part of his church. Or you look at the wife and are able to say "Yes, I see my understand how I as a Christian need to submit to Jesus in love." And the article goes on and makes many, many important points. It returns to the statement, every area of marriage was purposed to be a prophetic sign. If you want to understand what idolatry does to the heart of God, then look at what sexual infidelity does in marriage and so it goes. A profoundly important publication and one which gelled and confirmed many things that the Lord had been saying to me at the time that I received it.

And that formed the core of teaching 1, the introduction to this entire series which at the time I recorded it I thought was going to be about six tapes. It was based on the draft of the book, 'The Scriptural Definition of Marriage' which I have been writing over several years and which constitutes in a sense a thesis of all scriptures dealing with marriage, which is available from this Ministry should you require a copy. But let us return to the different components of this teaching. In the second teaching, which is entitled 'How Scripture Defines the Marriage Covenant,' we looked at Deuteronomy 22:13-21, "If any man takes a wife, and goes in to her, and detests her," and we saw that in verse 17, "Now he has charged her with shameful conduct, saying, 'I found your daughter was not a virgin,' and yet these are the evidences of my daughter’s virginity." And verse 19, "And they shall fine him one hundred shekels of silver and give them to the father of the young woman, because he has brought a bad name on a virgin of Israel. And she shall be his wife; he cannot divorce her all his days. But if the thing is true, and evidences of virginity are not found for the young woman, then they shall bring out the young woman to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has done a disgraceful thing in Israel, to play the harlot in her father’s house. So you shall put away the evil from among you."

And we saw further in Deuteronomy 22:28-29, "If a man finds a young woman who is a virgin, who is not betrothed, and he seizes her and lies with her, and they are found out, then the man who lay with her shall give to the young woman’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife because he has humbled her; he shall not be permitted to divorce her all his days." And we saw in Judges 21 a dramatic implementation of that particular passage of Scripture. But the cracks of what we saw here was that if a woman is not a virgin, she may not get married. We saw very clearly that virginity and marriage go hand in hand. We discussed in some length that the actual definition of the marriage covenant and we saw that covenant requires the shedding of blood in Hebrews 9:18-20. We saw that covenant requires this cleaving or splitting or cutting of some living creature and we referred to Genesis 15:4-21 and we see that was where Abraham split the animals and God walked through the split animals. We saw from a variety of other aspects and the passage in Jeremiah that the cutting of covenant involved the splitting or cleaving of an animal and walking in the blood.

We saw that out of a footnote to the Living Torah which refers to Genesis 15:10 where it says that he split the animals in half and then in the footnote in the commentary, it says split them, this was the way of making a covenant. Indeed the words both covenant and split appear to be closely related. It symbolised that just as the two halves of the animal were really one, so will the two people making the covenant. Moreover, just as one side cannot live without the other, so the two cannot live without each other. It was also seen as a malediction. Anyone violating the Earth would be torn asunder. And so out of that we saw the critical components of covenant. We also saw that the word split in the Oxford English dictionary is defined as break forcibly, be broken into parts, especially, longitudinally or with the grain or the plane of cleavage. And from there we went on to Genesis 2:24 in the King James translation which says therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and shall cleave unto his wife and they shall be one flesh and suddenly we saw that the act of sexual intercourse between a man and his virgin wife cleaving or splitting her on the plane of cleavage of her sexual organs cleaving the hymen with the shedding of blood is the act of the marriage covenant that as that marriage is consummated, as the pain is experienced, as the blood is shed, as the man walks in the blood, the covenant is cut and it is unbreakable, they become one and a person who breaks covenant is to be put to death.

And the fact that we may not see the death in this life, does not mean that on the Day of Judgement we will not be found guilty of covenant breaking and put to death for eternity, or at the very least have a part in the Lake of Fire and Brimstone, which is the second death. The imagery is vivid and powerful. If we put aside our prudery for a moment and wonder at the physical appearance of the external female sexual organ, we should be even further amazed at the imagery which our God has encapsulated in what superficially is an organ whose structure and design makes no earthly sense; it is not intended to. It faithfully recreates the two halves of the covenant animal, even to the hair covering the animal. Surely we must conclude that God knew the end from the beginning and designed woman to be symbolic of His covenant with man.

Taking it further, He symbolically recreates the cutting of covenant every time a wife and husband make love. How can we conclude other than that the sexual act is the most sublimely holy representation of the act of covenant? How can we be other than appalled at how this symbolism has been lost and distorted? The sexual act is an act of such enormous spiritual significance. Is it any wonder that Satan has expended the energy that he has to deceive us for so long? And so we saw that the female sexual organ is in fact the symbol of the marriage covenant and likewise the male sexual organ is the counterpoint to that. We then understood that in 1 Corinthians 12:23-24, "And those members of the body which we think to be less honourable, on these we bestow greater honour; and our unpresentable parts have greater modesty, but our presentable parts have no need. But God composed the body, having given greater honour to that part which lacks it." And we saw that the male and female sexual organs are the most holy part of a body. They are sacred. We also pointed out that the 'red heart' that is used on Valentine's Day's cards and as a symbol of love throughout the world is in fact a graphic portrayal of woman's most holy organ. It is an abomination and it subliminally sends a message of lust and fornication to the hearts of all who look on it.

In the third teaching, 'The One Flesh Bond and Submission,' we saw in the Genesis 2:24 in the Amplified, "Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and shall become united and cleave to his wife, and they shall become one flesh." Matthew 19:5-6 in the Amplified, "And said, for this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and shall be united firmly (joined inseparably) to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. So they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man put asunder (separate)." And we went through the scriptural basis of that. I shared a portion of my testimony where I was almost totally destroyed as a consequence of an ungodly One Flesh Bond resulting from an adulterous extramarital relationship and that I wrestled with this situation for nearly 18 months, cried out to God, laid down my life, read the word and took counsel and nothing helped until I had a revelation of the One Flesh Bond and the mercy and the grace of God which permitted me to petition him for something that I have no scriptural basis for. Because the Word of God says man cannot put asunder the One Flesh Bond, only God in His mercy and His grace can put this asunder. We went on and we saw Ephesians 5:24 which says, "Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything."

We saw that said everything, not just something, it is not just when the wife felt like. 1 Peter 3:1, "Wives, likewise, be submissive to your own husbands, that even if some do not obey the word, they, without a word, may be won by the conduct of their wives." In 1 Peter 2:21-24 what wives should likewise be submissive to and that was Jesus Christ who committed no sin nor was deceit found in his mouth for when he was reviled did not revile in return, when he suffered, he did not threaten but committed himself to him who judges righteously who himself bore our sins in his own body on the tree that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness by whose stripes we are healed. We saw out of that very clearly and out of other scriptures that a wife is required to submit to her husband no matter how ungodly, how just and righteous he is no matter how he conducts his life, no matter what his appearance his and no matter what he requires of her, we saw that even if he forces her into prostitution or adultery she is required to submit to him, and that we saw that Sarah submitting to Abraham in two instances which put her in a situation to find herself in adultery but because she submitted and she walked by faith, God delivered her. We saw that this is not telling women to suffer without God. It is an act of self denial, it is an act of laying down the life, and being crucified with Christ. And if it is done in faith and obedience we saw that God is well able to intervene miraculously to save such a woman and that even if she was not saved, she would be storing up much treasure in Heaven through her obedience.

In the fifth teaching, we spoke about love. Ephesians 5:25, "Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her." James 2:8, "If you really fulfil the royal law according to the Scripture, 'You shall love your neighbour as yourself,' you do well." We looked at 1 Corinthians 13 and many other scriptures which indicated that the love of God and the agape love of God was prerequisite for the Christian walk and prerequisite for healing in marriage. In the fifth teaching, the husband is covering but the wife builds the house, we saw very challenging Scripture in Proverbs 14:1, "The wise woman builds her house, but the foolish pulls it down with her hands." We saw progressively that woman has a very active and very positive and constructive role to play in the success of marriage. In Ruth 3:9 in the Amplified we read, "And she answered, I am Ruth your maidservant. Spread your wing [of protection] over your maidservant, for you are a next of kin." From a book by Schnoebelen entitled 'Masonry: Beyond the Light' with regard to headship we read Paul teaches that the head of every man is Christ and the head of a woman is man, 1 Corinthians 11:3. This is how men and women are created by God. Two verses in this passage tell us that "Any woman who prays or prophesies when she is bareheaded dishonours her head; it is the same as [if her head were] shaved. For man was not [created] from woman, but woman from man; neither was man created on account of or for the benefit of woman, but woman on account of and for the benefit of man. For this cause, ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels."And the commentary says, although this is a rather deep passage, it is not so deep that it cannot be interpreted by turning to the Bible itself for help.

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