(CEV) Genesis 3:8-19 Late in the afternoon a breeze began to blow, and the man and woman heard the LORD God walking in the garden. They were frightened and hid behind some trees. The LORD called out to the man and asked, "Where are you?" The man answered, "I was naked, and when I heard you walking through the garden, I was frightened and hid!" "How did you know you were naked?" God asked. "Did you eat any fruit from that tree in the middle of the garden?" "It was the woman you put here with me," the man said. "She gave me some of the fruit, and I ate it." The LORD God then asked the woman, "What have you done?" "The snake tricked me," she answered. "And I ate some of that fruit." So the LORD God said to the snake: "Because of what you have done, you will be the only animal to suffer this curse-- For as long as you live, you will crawl on your stomach and eat dirt. You and this woman will hate each other; your descendants and hers will always be enemies. One of hers will strike you on the head, and you will strike him on the heel." Then the LORD said to the woman, "You will suffer terribly when you give birth. But you will still desire your husband, and he will rule over you." The LORD said to the man, "You listened to your wife and ate fruit from that tree. And so, the ground will be under a curse because of what you did. As long as you live, you will have to struggle to grow enough food. Your food will be plants, but the ground will produce thorns and thistles. You will have to sweat to earn a living; you were made out of soil, and you will once again turn into soil."

Leviticus 21:6-15 I am the Lord your God, and I have chosen you alone to offer sacrifices of food to me on the altar. That's why you must keep yourselves holy. Don't marry a divorced woman or a woman who has served as a temple prostitute. You are holy, because I am holy. And so, you must be treated with proper respect, since you offer food sacrifices to me, the God of holiness. If any of you priests has a daughter who disgraces you by serving as a temple prostitute, she must be burned to death. If you are the high priest, you must not mess up your hair or tear your clothes in order to mourn for the dead. Don't make yourself unclean by going near a dead body, not even that of your own father or mother. If you leave the sacred place to attend a funeral, both you and the sacred place become unclean, because you are the high priest. If you are the high priest, you must marry only a virgin from your own tribe. Don't marry a divorced woman or any other woman who has already had sex, including a temple prostitute. In this way, your descendants will be qualified to serve me. Remember--I am the LORD, and I have chosen you.

Deuteronomy 22:13-30 Suppose a man starts hating his wife soon after they are married. He might tell ugly lies about her, and say, "I married this woman, but when we slept together, I found out she wasn't a virgin." If this happens, the bride's father and mother must go to the town gate to show the town leaders the proof that the woman was a virgin. Her father will say, "I let my daughter marry this man, but he started hating her and accusing her of not being a virgin. But he is wrong, because here is proof that she was a virgin!" Then the bride's parents will show them the bed sheet from the woman's wedding night. The town leaders will beat the man with a whip because he accused his bride of not being a virgin. He will have to pay her father one hundred pieces of silver and will never be allowed to divorce her. But if the man was right and there is no proof that his bride was a virgin, the men of the town will take the woman to the door of her father's house and stone her to death. This woman brought evil into your community by sleeping with someone before she got married, and you must get rid of that evil by killing her. People of Israel, if a man is caught having sex with someone else's wife, you must put them both to death. That way, you will get rid of the evil they have done in Israel. If a man is caught in town having sex with an engaged woman who isn't screaming for help, they both must be put to death. The man is guilty of having sex with a married woman. And the woman is guilty because she didn't call for help, even though she was inside a town and people were nearby. Take them both to the town gate and stone them to death. You must get rid of the evil they brought into your community. If an engaged woman is raped out in the country, only the man will be put to death. Do not punish the woman at all; she has done nothing wrong, and certainly nothing deserving death. This crime is like murder, because the woman was alone out in the country when the man attacked her. She screamed, but there was no one to help her. Suppose a woman isn't engaged to be married, and a man talks her into sleeping with him. If they are caught, they will be forced to get married. He must give her father fifty pieces of silver as a bride-price and can never divorce her. A man must not marry a woman who was married to his father. This would be a disgrace to his father.

Malachi 2:12-17 I pray that the LORD will no longer let those who are guilty belong to his people, even if they eagerly decide to offer the LORD a gift. And what else are you doing? You cry noisily and flood the LORD's altar with your tears, because he isn't pleased with your offerings and refuses to accept them. And why isn't God pleased? It's because he knows that each of you men has been unfaithful to the wife you married when you were young. You promised that she would be your partner, but now you have broken that promise. Didn't God create you to become like one person with your wife? And why did he do this? It was so you would have children, and then lead them to become God's people. Don't ever be unfaithful to your wife. The LORD God All-Powerful of Israel hates anyone who is cruel enough to divorce his wife. So take care never to be unfaithful! You have worn out the LORD with your words. And yet, you ask, "How did we do that?" You did it by saying, "The LORD is pleased with evil and doesn't care about justice."

Matthew 5:27-37 You know the commandment which says, "Be faithful in marriage." But I tell you that if you look at another woman and want her, you are already unfaithful in your thoughts. If your right eye causes you to sin, poke it out and throw it away. It is better to lose one part of your body, than for your whole body to end up in hell. If your right hand causes you to sin, chop it off and throw it away! It is better to lose one part of your body, than for your whole body to be thrown into hell. You have been taught that a man who divorces his wife must write out divorce papers for her. But I tell you not to divorce your wife unless she has committed some terrible sexual sin. If you divorce her, you will cause her to be unfaithful, just as any man who marries her is guilty of taking another man's wife. You know that our ancestors were told, "Don't use the Lord's name to make a promise unless you are going to keep it." But I tell you not to swear by anything when you make a promise! Heaven is God's throne, so don't swear by heaven. The earth is God's footstool, so don't swear by the earth. Jerusalem is the city of the great king, so don't swear by it. Don't swear by your own head. You cannot make one hair white or black. When you make a promise, say only "Yes" or "No." Anything else comes from the devil.

Matthew 15:10-20 Jesus called the crowd together and said, "Pay attention and try to understand what I mean. The food that you put into your mouth doesn't make you unclean and unfit to worship God. The bad words that come out of your mouth are what make you unclean." Then His disciples came over to Him and asked, "Do you know that you insulted the Pharisees by what you said?" Jesus answered, "Every plant that my Father in Heaven did not plant will be pulled up by the roots. Stay away from those Pharisees! They are like blind people leading other blind people, and all of them will fall into a ditch." Peter replied, "What did you mean when you talked about the things that make people unclean?" Jesus then said: Don't any of you know what I am talking about by now? Don't you know that the food you put into your mouth goes into your stomach and then out of your body? But the words that come out of your mouth come from your heart. And they are what make you unfit to worship God. Out of your heart come evil thoughts, murder, unfaithfulness in marriage, vulgar deeds, stealing, telling lies, and insulting others. These are what make you unclean. Eating without washing your hands will not make you unfit to worship God.

Matthew 19:3-12 Some Pharisees wanted to test Jesus. They came up to Him and asked, "Is it right for a man to divorce his wife for just any reason?" Jesus answered, "Don't you know that in the beginning the Creator made a man and a woman? That's why a man leaves his father and mother and gets married. He becomes like one person with his wife. Then they are no longer two people, but one. And no one should separate a couple that God has joined together." The Pharisees asked Jesus, "Why did Moses say that a man could write out divorce papers and send his wife away?" Jesus replied, "You are so heartless: That's why Moses allowed you to divorce your wife. But from the beginning God did not intend it to be that way. I say that if your wife has not committed some terrible sexual sin, you must not divorce her to marry someone else. If you do, you are unfaithful." The disciples said, "If that's how it is between a man and a woman, it's better not to get married." Jesus told them, "Only those people who have been given the gift of staying single can accept this teaching. Some people are unable to marry because of birth defects or because of what someone has done to their bodies. Others stay single for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. Anyone who can accept this teaching should do so." Luke 16:18 It is a terrible sin for a man to divorce his wife and marry another woman. It is also a terrible sin for a man to marry a divorced woman.

1st Corinthians 6:9-20 Don't you know that evil people won't have a share in the blessings of God's kingdom? Don't fool yourselves! No one who is immoral or worships idols or is unfaithful in marriage or is a pervert or behaves like a homosexual will share in God's kingdom. Neither will any thief or greedy person or drunkard or anyone who curses and cheats others. Some of you used to be like that. But now the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and the power of God's Spirit have washed you and made you holy and acceptable to God. Some of you say, "We can do anything we want to." But I tell you that not everything is good for us. So I refuse to let anything have power over me. You also say, "Food is meant for our bodies, and our bodies are meant for food." But I tell you that God will destroy them both. We are not supposed to do indecent things with our bodies. We are to use them for the Lord who is in charge of our bodies. God will raise us from death by the same power that He used when He raised our Lord to life. Don't you know that your bodies are part of the Body of Christ? Is it right for me to join part of the Body of Christ to a prostitute? No, it isn't! Don't you know that a man who does that becomes part of her body? The Scriptures say, "The two of them will be like one person." But anyone who is joined to the Lord is one in spirit with Him. Don't be immoral in matters of sex. That is a sin against your own body in a way that no other sin is. You surely know that your body is a temple where the Holy Spirit lives. The Spirit is in you and is a gift from God. You are no longer your own. God paid a great price for you; so use your body to honor God.

1st Corinthians 7:1-16 Now I will answer the questions that you asked in your letter. You asked, "Is it best for people not to marry?" Well, having your own husband or wife should keep you from doing something immoral. Husbands and wives should be fair with each other about having sex. A wife belongs to her husband instead of to herself, and a husband belongs to his wife instead of to himself. So don't refuse sex to each other, unless you agree not to have sex for a little while, in order to spend time in prayer. Then Satan won't be able to tempt you because of your lack of self-control. In my opinion that is what should be done, though I don't know of anything the Lord said about this matter. I wish that all of you were like me, but God has given different gifts to each of us. Here is my advice for people who have never been married and for widows. You should stay single, just as I am. But if you don't have enough self-control, then go ahead and get married. After all, it is better to marry than to burn with desire. I instruct married couples to stay together, and this is exactly what the Lord himself taught. A wife who leaves her husband should either stay single or go back to her husband. And a husband should not leave his wife. I don't know of anything else the Lord said about marriage. All I can do is to give you my own advice. If your wife isn't a follower of the Lord, but is willing to stay with you, don't divorce her. If your husband isn't a follower, but is willing to stay with you, don't divorce him. Your husband or wife who isn't a follower is made holy by having you as a mate. This also makes your children holy and keeps them from being unclean in God's sight. If your husband or wife isn't a follower of the Lord and decides to divorce you, then you should agree to it. You are no longer bound to that person. After all, God chose you and wants you to live at peace. And besides, how do you know if you will be able to save your husband or wife who isn't a follower?

Romans 13:8-10 Let love be your only debt! If you love others, you have done all that the Law demands. In the Law there are many commands, such as, "Be faithful in marriage. Do not murder. Do not steal. Do not want what belongs to others." But all of these are summed up in the command that says, "Love others as much as you love yourself." No one who loves others will harm them. So love is all that the Law demands.         Hebrews 13:4 (cev) Have respect for marriage. Always be faithful to your partner, because God will punish anyone who is immoral or unfaithful in marriage.

James 2:8-11 You will do all right, if you obey the most important law in the Scriptures. It is the law that commands us to love others as much as we love ourselves. But if you treat some people better than others, you have done wrong, and the Scriptures teach that you have sinned. If you obey every law except one, you are still guilty of breaking them all. The same God who told us to be faithful in marriage also told us not to murder. So even if you are faithful in marriage, but murder someone, you still have broken God's Law.

What more can be added: You either get it or you don't! Imagine a child inside of a huge department store; and now, imagine that the child's parents sneak out of the store, get into their car and drive away, never even thinking again, about that little child, now frightened and lost among strangers in this huge store. The utter fear of the child, and the utter indifference of the parents, does not equal, both the fear and the indifference, which divorce represents. For the one who Loves, the experience is many times more horrific than that of the abandoned child's experience. And for the one who abandons, the state of Lovelessness is beyond mere Godlessness, it is Satanic; it is anti-Christ. The most horrifying thing possible within the human condition is to be separated from someone you Love. There is simply nothing else more devastating for a person to experience, than to lose ones Love. The thought of divorce (relational abandonment) sends chills down the back of all Gods children. And so, this is where the rubber meets the road, concerning salvation. For a person to even ponder the thought of abandoning (divorcing) their spouse reveals to God that this person lives in a state of Lovelessness/Godlessness, a state which is necessary even for the thought to exist. Once a person has reached the bottom of Satan's swimming pool, they are ready to actually walk into a divorce Attorney's office, and file the papers; they have lived hard-hearted for a long time, already. It takes a long time existing in a state of utter Godlessness/Lovelessness, in order to get to the place where they are ready, willing and able, to complete the act of relational abandonment: A Saved person would be put to death first! It is not as if they once Loved their spouse, and now, they hereby un-love them and so they need to divorce them: Relational abandonment is the fruit of Lovelessness. Earth is the proving-ground for who are sheep and who are goats; who are the wheat and who are the tares. We are not to judge a person based solely on the person (looks, possessions, positions, words, etc.), but we are indeed, to judge human actions and inactions. As Jesus taught us; by their fruits, you shall know them! The reason why the Godless-religious divorce, is just that; they're Godless; they are churched, and they go to churches that tell them it's OK to abandon others! But until you have suffered in marriage, beyond that of Jesus on the Cross, you have not yet, experienced the Love of God (which only comes with the Indwelling Holy Spirit).

Matthew 18:12-14 (cev) Let me ask you this. What would you do if you had a hundred sheep and one of them wandered off? Wouldn't you leave the ninety-nine on the hillside and go look for the one that had wandered away? I am sure that finding it would make you happier than having the ninety-nine that never wandered off. That's how it is with your Father in Heaven. He doesn't want any of these little ones to be lost.

The Indwelled person would slit their own throat and drop dead in a puddle of their own blood, on the day that the brain actually pondered the thought of divorcement, or any kind of relational abandonment! When marriage is just something that we do on the outside, it can also be un-done on the outside. This is exactly what Jesus was trying to get us to understand. The course of a spouse's life is (and will be) between them and God: I.E: My wife can copulate with every man on earth, and treat me like dirt, and at no time would I even ponder the thought of divorcing/abandoning her (even though I have the right to divorce her for that!). The Love I have for my spouse is the exact same Love God has for her (and for me & you); God IS Love and God IS in me! If God is Not IN YOU, you are not Gods child; you are not (yet) written in the Book of Life! And so, this is one of the fruits to look for when a person claims to be a Christian, which is a very easy thing to do! What is not easy is relational commitment when a person DOES NOT have the Indwelling Holy Spirit IN THEM! Jesus told Peter that he would reject Him, once the "gun is at the head"; once Peter is faced with a true challenge in this life. Peter was fully convinced that he would die along side Jesus Christ, that is, until that challenge actually faced him, and then his conviction vanished, just like all emotions do in time! In affect, he Petered out!

It is only in the face of challenge that we can see the true conviction of other's; there is no evidence of salvation in religious works (church attendance, tithing, bible study, rituals, communion, baptism, etc.); we are not Saved by these works, lest any man should boast (Paul said); these are simple acts that anyone can do (like a birthday party)! The fruit of the Indwelling Holy Spirit IS Love; not the emotion-love of the primate or other mammals, but the Love of God-in-us: Sacrificial, unconditional, eternal, Love! True Love lasts for an eternity, and in like fashion, so does a true marriage. When you have the Love of God in you, that Love exists unto your spouse; you will Love them deeply and completely, for every second of virtually all eternity, and so, the possibility of you thinking about relational abandonment (in this short blink of time we call Earth), is a veritable impossibility! However, for the primate in the zoo who also has emotions, any homosapien can attach the word "love" to a strong emotion, but like all emotions, they fade away and die. Inside the brain, hormones are produced to create attachment emotions so that the primate will bond, mate and reproduce, and then care for offspring. After time passes (weeks or even years, depending on the emotion), the brain vacates the hormones, and the feeling/s fades and then vanishes, as the hormone dissipates. Gods Love fully transcends the brain; the hormones, it is immensely greater and more powerful than mere attachment emotions, and in the case of marriage, divorcement is the fruit on the tree, for all with Spiritual eyes to see. Now, the Godless cannot understand this; oh sure, they know the words, but to fully cognize what I just wrote, they will not get it; not until they give their life to Christ (for real/forever), and the Indwelling Holy Spirit transform that mind! Without that Spiritual metamorphosis, the primate remains a primate; now, and in outer darkness, where there will be wailing and gnashing as a consequence of living a Godless/Loveless life, followed by an eternity, equally absent of God!

Reform, not destroy!
Martin Luther did not want to create a new religion, he was trying to reform the Catholic church; why? Because they were "selling" forgiveness from God; they were, as a church, profiting from the abuse of indulgences! Humans have been trying to sell Gods precepts since the dawn of time; all these people, are why hell exists. And so this selling of things Godly, will never end until the Second Advent. But the message is clear: God cares absolutely zero about the marriage ceremony. Having a legal document ceremony that's blessed by some religious hireling, is full-on human; that is, God has zero to do with it. Marriage is a commitment made in the heart/Soul, consummated with copulation, and proven over time. Satan took over the church long ago, and is in full control over it to this day (and, until Jesus' return). Marriage has been commercialized and promoted (as a God-requirement) by the Godless-religious, simply because they make an income from the process (explaining also, why they perform re-marriages). In fact, marriage has become such a commercial product pimped in the modern era, that it has lost all traces of Godliness. It has become stereotypical; it has become a cultural cliche; it has become in industry; it has been lost for many generations, in traditionalism. It's equal to a Bat or Bar Mitzvah! I'd equate it most closely to Halloween! Marriage as a ceremony, has become a Cinderella-type fantasy, which is a form of mental illness; more accurately, it is a social illness wherein, most of its inhabitants are caught-up in the delusion fantasy. This Bridezilla mania is a warped and horrifying prostitution of what God originally intended. As women in modern (predominately Capitalist) cultures are breast-fed these ceremony illusions, they bring along with them, the ideals of male-heroes (the Knight-in-armor pathology), as well as the illusion that all human relationships take on the fictional aspects of a dime-store romance novel. Once a "marriage" has passed by the glitz, the glamour and the honeymoon, reality sets-in and the emotions fade: The consequence? the big D!

But commitment is the marriage; faithfulness is the marriage; two becoming one is the marriage; copulation is the marriage! (Matthew 19 / 1st Corinthians 6:16 / Ephesians 5:31) Certification/ceremony or not, time and faithfulness is the evidence God will be judging us by. The most horrifying thing possible in the human experience, is the loss of ones mate. To voluntarily walk away from someone you consummate (copulate) the union with, is an act of Godlessness: It does not matter if the ceremony was logged at city hall or not! The Godless-religious businesses (churches) that have been indoctrinated by their culture, are the sellers and promoters of the wedding and the ceremony/certification process. They have to be, it is their legal agreement with the Roman Empire (or today, the Federal Government)! They are yoked with this Godless entity, and as a consequence, and as a condition, they must comply with their requirements. Besides, they cannot make any money if they just allow couples to just be couples. And so, they actually break up unions that are not first ran through the processors of cultural conformation; a process that they market. It's like cutting out the middleman and then using their facilities; like making your own cup of coffee and then sitting, sipping it in Starbucks! They'll kick you out! Mammon is always the prostitute to Gods precepts.

Without the Indwelling, Love is the great Mystery: In spousal relationships that exist without Christ (when one or both are not Saved), the spouse is either a resource or a possession; indeed, and so are offspring (and all other relationships)! This fact is witnessed daily in the Family Courts of the Capitalist Oligarchy. When the spouse cheats (i.e.: copulates with another: adultery), the other feels victimized; cheated! Why? It is just like if their property was stolen, they feel like they have been violated; victimized and Godless people enjoy the social benefits of the victim role. But only the person who cheated was violated; they violated Gods law (they sinned), and that, of their own bodies. The Bible teaches that fornication or adultery is to sin against ones own body; it is a sin much like substance or food abuse. Except for rape, one person cannot make another person a fornicator/adulterer; these are personal choices made by volitional beings: God will hold us independently accountable for all actions/inactions. The spouse that was faithful to their unfaithful partner, actually lost nothing but the trust they once held. For Godless women; they feel as if their source of things (money, property, security) is being challenged or threatened by another resource-hunting woman; this is primal. This is why they abandon that man in exchange for another man (who often has more resources); relational abandonment is both a show of revenge (or un-forgiveness), and, an attempt at securing a more dependable resource source. But Jesus taught us to have faith in God to provide for us, not to hold our faith in other humans. The Indwelling gives us an entirely different perspective on other humans; they are no longer resources for sex, for show-n-tell, or for material gain; they are precious creations of our God and worthy of relational restoration and renewal. Saved people (truly Saved people) never even think about relational abandonment (or divorce); even when they're hurt or betrayed. However, the unregenerate think about it because it's a painful form of vengeance; relational abandonment deeply and profoundly hurts other humans, and the Godless (even the Godless-religious) like to hurt others (you cheated me and now I will make you pay!).

When we make a covenant in the presence of God (like w/marriage), it does not matter what other human creation, we are making it to. If I commit to marrying any adult human female on Earth, the covenant is the same, no matter the person! God Loves everyone the same! The other person is irrelevant; we are making a solemn promise in the presence of our Lord, and it is that commitment, apart from all other things, that is the core and center our true faith. Who we are, in Christ, is a direct reflection of our commitment to our covenants; our promises. Jesus Christ demonstrated this to the world, on the Cross; He did not regard His own feelings; His own body; His own life! He could have come down from the Cross; He could have passed on the commitment; He could have backed out, or divorced the entire event! We all owe Him our lives, for sacrificing Himself on our behalf. My commitment to another, therefore, has absolutely zero to do with that other; my commitment begins and ends between me and the Lord. What that person I commit to, does or does not do, is irrelevant. I can marry the best woman in the world, or the worse woman in the world, or anyone in between; who she is, does not matter; it is all about who I am! Am I marriage material? Am I qualified to be married? If so, the person I marry is inconsequential. My duty is to be all that I can be in the eyes of God, and that is all!

When the Bible refers to the Mystery (or mysteries), this is one manifestation, among many, of the Mystery. It is this: I would rather forgive those I Love, a billion times, rather than the thought of being separated from them for any long period of time. That's the fruit-evidence of Gods Love; of God-in-us (the Indwelling); unity for Life; Love enduring (very easily through this life and) into eternity! Jesus taught forgiveness as a perpetual thing; the Disciples thought of it as a limited (7x) act: Without the Indwelling, even our understanding of Gods word is greatly obscured. Without the Indwelling, humans will Peter-out when the real challenges of human relating confronts us (like adultery). There is little difference between fornication and adultery; the Gospels do not mention fornication and adultery separately because they are one in the same Spiritually; that is, those who fornicate will also be adulterers (as tempting opportunities present themselves). Marriage ceremonies are not Gods sex-soap, the point Jesus was making, had to do with commitment; unity over time and the faithfulness necessary to make that happen peacefully. Marriage is consummated by sexual intercourse (not public ceremonies or paperwork); it is two becoming one flesh, for we are already One in/by Spirit! Divorcement is an act of Lovelessness: a hardness of the heart that occurs because of living long without Christ-in-us! A man who truly Loves his wife, will not dispose of her just because another mans penis was in her vagina. If that is so, then he will also divorce/abandon her if disease or an accident ruins her ability to copulate. Marriage is immeasurably more than venereal gratification, to the Indwelled. To the carnal, however, it is the driving force and thus the center of that existence. Animals have sex with anyone anywhere; those of us who have raised animals (I raised dogs) know that when the pheromones fly, the mindless flaunting & humping continues: Godless humans are no different, save the social layers and pathetic posturing they attach to it. Copulation itself, is not better for the Godless animals, but they will never know, so long as they remain animals: They will never know the total fulfillment of Gods ways, even in the passion of sex! Again: Marriage is not a ceremony, and in fact, God cares nothing about the ceremony of marriage; that was a tradition held over by cultures-past. Intended by God, to be an act of Divine importance, marriage is reduced (by humans) to a certification ceremony, and thus, one need only a decertification to annul that ceremony. This is what the Jews were tempting Jesus with to begin with (but they too, just did not get it!):

Mark 10:2-9 And the Pharisees came to Jesus, and asked Him: Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting Him. And He answered and said unto them: What did Moses command you? And they said; Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away. And Jesus answered and said unto them: For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept. But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife; and they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man put asunder. | It has been said; whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement: But I say unto you, that whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causes her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced commits adultery. Matthew 5:31-32

1st Corinthians 6:15-20 Don't you know that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of a harlot? God forbid. What? Don't you know that he which is joined to a harlot, is one body? For two, says He, shall be one flesh. But he that is joined unto the Lord is one Spirit. Flee fornication. Every sin that a man does is without the body; but he that commits fornication sins against his own body. What? Don't you know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have of God, and you are not your own? For you are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

Genesis 38:6-8 And Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn, whose name was Tamar. And Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the Lord; and the Lord slew him. And Judah said unto Onan: Go in unto thy brother's wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother.
Deut. 25:5 If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without, unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother unto her.

The message is simple; DUTY! We marry via sex; that 2 become 1 at consummation, which is copulation: When a penis enters a vagina, those 2 have become 1 flesh, as far as God is concerned, the 2 are now 1; they're plugged-in; husband & wife: married! God did not ceremonially marry Adam & Eve, and in fact, that cultural ceremony came, long after humans were here and busily copulating/procreating. The Godless-religious, both then and today, promote the paperwork and the ceremonies, simply because they sell such "services"; they market and profit from the marriage ceremony, and of course, even from re-marriage (that is, they prosper from divorce as well!)! But to God, this is all about the Spiritual ramifications, it has zero to do with religious works; with human-made things. If a man & woman is attracted to one another and copulate, that's good enough for God; the rest of it is purely Spiritual. The math is exceedingly simple: how are you going to Love a person for quintillions of millennia (an eternity in Heaven), when you dump people now, in this exceedingly short period of life-time (that we call life on Earth)? If you abandon someone relationally (call it divorce, call it anything else you want), it does not matter how it is justified. We are married to someone of the opposite sex, once we have sex with them, and we are expected to honor that union dutifully, until we die. Those who copulate but never commit, are fornicators; they live lifestyles of fornication, via the continued promiscuity. Once commitment has begun, the marriage is complete; if after the commitment, a person copulates with another, they are adulterers. Jesus taught this Himself: But I say unto you, that whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causes her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced commits adultery. Both fornication and adultery are mentioned in the same sentence...Why? How can someone who is married, fornicate? They're adulterers, right? The answer is/was written in the Old Testament (see them above)!

We must first understand how things were, before now. We live in the end-times, and the USA is: Sodom + Rome, X mass-media, and then, multiplied again by Satan's stepped-up attack on humanity! In the Jewish culture of Jesus' time, it was already well understood, through generations of observation, that women were the weaker vessels; that a young girl (post-menstruation) will copulate with any man/men that she's attracted to, no matter the consequences, as long as he is cute. The Muslims witnessed this as well! They are sexually and emotionally weak, and so the Patriarch was more about protecting this weakness, than it was to subjugate the human female: But of course, many men misapplied it, to do just that. This is why women did not like living in Godless Patriarchs, because those men used it as a way to conquer females (and then fornicate with them). [In "sexually free nations", women are objectified (see playboy.com, sexandthecityquotes.com or girlsgonewild.com), and yet, they like that even more; go figure!] What God intended, was for the men (Fathers, brothers and other elder male relatives) to protect and guard the virgins, until they could be properly "given in marriage" (paired with good men, well known by the males of the family)! The feminist culture we live in today, is a testimony bearing witness to the fact that women, empowered socio-culturally and left unto their own lusts, will mate with man after man; girls gone wild, they're heavily promiscuous, pornographic, and some even become nymphomaniac (copulating with hundreds of men and not being satisfied; mating even with many men at once). Feminism is the extreme reaction to the Godless Patriarchs. Now, once a female has a Loving husband and a few children and becomes a mother, her sexual drives are more under her control. But few women know how to select a good man (just ask any woman!). Sexy, pretty Godless women are booked-up with men wanting to get in-line to copulate with them, and the resources thrown at them for this service, is massive! There are even porn stars with their own TV channels: The Godless inhabitants of Sodom City could not even fantasize such things; there, where the Godless men actually love Godless women to be free; to be out of the sights of their fathers and brothers, so they can break them! And of course, in modern-America, it is the men who are blamed for the pornography industry: dirty old men! The feminists have secured the victim role here, and our own adversarial system (the Justice Industry) plays/preys upon it, to the tune of multiple billions annually. But we war, not against flesh and blood alone!

The purpose of a Godly patriarch was the protection of females until they could reach an age where their hormones and emotions would not be the true dictator of their sexual future. This is not about controlling someone's behavior as a way to get them into Heaven; it don't work that way for men or women! But we as elders, must try to bring up children into adulthood, admonishing them and teaching them the ways of the world, along side of the ways of God, and let their destiny play out on its own. No matter how hard you try to raise up a child in the right way, he/she has the ultimate power: Volition! Notwithstanding, for us adult men, modesty in dress and attitude is a critical element in knowing who are in Christ and who are not. It is unfortunate that I had to learn this lesson as an older man; I only wish I knew it as a young man, how differently my life would have turned out. And so, this is an admonition, and a warning. We must first understand, that not everyone who says Lord-Lord, will be Saved. Two will be working in a field, one will go, one will stay. In other words, the Saved and the lost are hard to recognize because they're not all grouped up together, as many think. Those who think that their own group are the only ones, will be met with a tragedy in the Judgment. Jesus was teaching that the Saved will be from a mix of (or a scattering of) people from all over the globe, and not at all, from one group or race or denomination or community, etc. (Matthew 13) There will be no set pattern to the picture. Why? Because God ultimately knows the heart and the true Spiritual condition of each individual person, and outward things can sometimes have ulterior motives. This is true even with dress and with modesty. Not every Amish woman, for example, will enter the Kingdom of Heaven just because she dressed modestly and was "appearance-humble" all her life, because God will judge her Soul-condition, not her outward appearance.

1st Timothy 2:7-15 To this I am ordained a preacher and an apostle (I speak the truth in Christ, I do not lie), a teacher of the nations, in faith and truth. Therefore, I desire that men pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting. In the same way also, I desire that women adorn themselves in decent clothing, with modesty and sensibleness, not adorned with braiding, or gold, or pearls, or costly clothing, but with good works, which becomes women professing Godliness. Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I do not allow a woman to teach, or to exercise authority over a man, but to be in silence. For Adam was first formed, then Eve. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression. But she will be kept safe through childbearing, if they continue in faith and love and holiness with sensibleness.

The modern world is a horrifying corruption of Gods original creation plan for humanity; today, feminism is the bottom of the barrel with regards to holiness and purity. Feminism is the end-result of Godlessness being rampant over many generations, wherein the sexual revolution was birthed. It was the over-compensation of Godless women to the publicly accepted promiscuity's of Godless men. This is why we see, what we see in modern Protestantism.

With that said however, when a woman IS Indwelled by the Holy Spirit of God, she is complete in Him; she is obedient to Him; she is more concerned with reflecting the Messiah back to the looking world, via her modesty, than she is concerned about attracting men. Consequently, she is modest in appearance, become of her Love of God and her duty to be His earthen vessel. An Indwelled female, therefore, only cares about a mans character, commitment and cause, not his personality, possessions or penis!

Without the Indwelling, humans are self-centric, not Christ-centric; they are carnal, not Spiritual. Consequently, the Godless (and of course, the Godless-religious) are consumed with their physical appearance unto mere mortals. Another factor of great importance here, is not that we become legalistic and overtly restrictive on apparel, but that we realize two critical issues: One, that we live in the end-times; we are fully into the Laodicean Age, and Two: we live in a culture that is more sexually depraved than Sodomites of old, could even fanaticize about. Because of these factors, it is of even greater priority for us to show the viewing world, that we are dedicated to obeying our Messiah in how we present Him. We are to be the candle on the hill, not just another light bulb on the Vegas strip! In other words, we do not make a spectacle of ourselves for the attention it gets; rather, we set ourselves apart in order to attract the Elect, and repel the rest.

This is why modesty in dress and overall appearance, is a mark of the Spirit-centric. Again, not all who dress modestly and skip on the make-up and other attention-getters, are of the Family of God, and yet, those who are Saved and transformed, simply cannot continue to follow the pop-culture of lookism and the look-at-me validations, needed by those without the Indwelling; without that Living Water that fills us to overflowing, from within! The external live is a witness to where a person is Spiritually; it is the fruit on the tree that we are commanded to discern. And so modesty in dress, like we see with the Amish and many other Anabaptists (though not all), as well as the Twelve Tribes Communities, the Brethren and so on, is a light for us to see. But again I must stress, that outward modesty is not the key to the Kingdom; Muslims are very strict in modesty, and yet, if they do not surrender their lives over to the Messiah, they too will perish. It is not the only fruit to look for, but it is the forefront, with the content of the Soul speaking boldly about their faith in the Messiah from Nazareth; our Yahshua, the Lord Jesus Christ.

Therefore, modesty is one major sign to look for (though not the only one). All over the globe, we see this evidence, and I think modesty in appearance is more important today, in these end-times, than ever before. When a woman wants to lure males with her beauty and sexiness, this should be a warning to men, young and old, that something precious is missing from this female, and my council is: Beware! Study Proverbs! It is very easy for men to get caught up in the beauty of the human female. I believe that God created them with this beauty, and indeed, they are the greatest beauty the eye can behold, of all the beauty God has created. But once the human female realizes this to be true, those whose intentions are pure, will tame and temper that reality, in modesty. For those with evil intentions, they will exploit their beauty to lure men in, but it is a trap; the evil one seeks to ruin men (and women) in this game that the lost call, the love game.

You either get it or you don't: It is one of the many mysteries to those who are NOT the Elect of God. Without the Indwelling Holy Spirit present to help us rightly divide Gods word... it is only that...words! The intent of the word of God? It's a tool to teach us why we live (and how to live): It is not intended to be a weapon to control, manipulate and divide (nor to justify those acts)! This is what Jesus was trying to teach the Pharisees, but they were not interested in God or Godly obedience; they wanted to exploit religion, and the word of God, to become something more than brethren and equals (co-laborers in the cause of corporeality); they wanted to live Godless lives, and make it appear to other humans, that they were living Godly lives. They were making a living off of this role, and it kept them out of the fields and of the roofs; the labor force that drove the economy. In this disobedient state of idleness, the human can be further corrupted by Satan; we witness this in the half-billion dollar lawsuit that was won against the Catholic Church for the many confirmed cases of pedophilia among its Priests! They may take a vow of poverty, but they don't labor with their hands for their food, clothing and shelter, and because of that, they do not suffer as laborers, which is to buffet the flesh; to tire us from other non-Godly acts that humans do. If a man does not work, he should not eat; this refers to laboring with our hands and sweating because if it. It does not mean anything that we decide to label "work". Therefore, the Religious professional calls whatever they were/are doing, work: That's simple huh?! This is just why Jesus (God Corporeal) called the Pharisees hypocrites; in other words, frauds and actors! Jesus was a Tekton; a construction worker/laborer, and all the Apostles labored too (tent makers, fishermen, and the like)! The rich young ruler never labored, and, he did not follow Jesus either (is there a connection?). The human, by nature, is lazy; once a human learns to gain his/her resources without actually working (producing those resources); they join-in with all those others, who are part of the Godless staff's "create-a-job program" (Modern Capitalism is a great example of that!). Human history is one long story of those who were slaves, and those who were the recipients of that slavery. [I.E: The Godless are those who make money off of the housing market industry, but who do not actually build/construct the house! They sit back and watch others create, then step in at the end and take a cut of the profit! For every hand-in-the-pie, the price has to go up to make the math work. Oh, and let's not forget underpaying the actual laborers, to increase that profit!]

Matthew 19:23-24 | 11:28-30 Then said Jesus unto His disciples: Verily I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of Heaven. And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. | Come unto me, all you that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and you shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
Acts 20:33-35 I have coveted no man's silver, or gold, or apparel. Yea, you yourselves know, that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me. I have showed you all things, how that so laboring, you ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how He said: "It is more blessed to give than to receive".
James 2:5 Hearken, my beloved brethren; has not God chosen the poor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which He has promised to them that Love Him?
Ephesians 4:28 Let him that stole, steal no more; but rather, let him labor, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needs.
1st Thess. 2:9 For you remember, brethren, our labor and travail; for laboring night and day; because we would not be chargable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.
2nd Thess. 3:6-15 Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother that walks disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us. For yourselves know how you ought to follow us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you; neither did we eat any man's bread for naught; but wrought with labor and travail night and day, that we might not be chargable to any of you: Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an example unto you to follow us. For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat. For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies. Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread. But you, brethren, be not weary in well doing. And if any man obey's not, our word by this epistle, note that man and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed. Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

And so the Godly work with their hands to build a better world for future progeny; we live very simple upon the Earth, obeying God in all things, including laboring with our hands. We build our homes collectively and also our gardens and flocks that provide us with natural unprocessed, healthy meals. We do not decimate the land God gave us to steward, but instead, we plant more trees than what we harvest; we protect the soil from overuse! Conversely, the Godless (including the Godless-religious) see Earth and all other things, including other humans, as a resource for their own consumption and subsequent discard. Therefore, the (divorcing) Pharisees, just like all Godless people, see other humans as a thing that they can consume and then discard, once they become bored with them, or, when they find someone new and exciting. You see, it is all connected; the one coincides with the other. In the world, you will hear that opposites attract, but in Gods word, (and in all Science) opposites repel. When a Godly person crosses paths with a Godless person, that Godless person must and will, use that Godly person and then dump them along life's way. This was the central message Jesus was trying to convey too all humanity! The sum of your Soul will be reflected in how you navigate this life; that you cannot live in a state of Lovelessness, and at the same time, be Godly. It's the sum of our actions in the here-&-now, which shows the universe (God, the Angels, and all humans w/Spiritual eyes/ears) our true Spiritual condition. If water and oil are placed into a blender, they will mix together at first, but as time passes, they begin to slowly (but surely) separate, until finally, they are completely separated from each other. This is how it works in human relationships; between the Godly and the Godless. In marriages, the attempt to re-blend the parts may extend the stay, but inevitably, the separation must occur: It first begins as a psychological (emotional) separation, then an intimate separation, and then finally a physical separation. The Godless cannot remain in the Light for too long, no matter the type or condition of the relationship/partnership (spousal, parental, social, business or otherwise).

Because we live in a mythological Christian culture, and not an actual Fellowship of the Spiritually transformed, the culture has become a heavy burden, indeed. On the one hand, we have the traditions born out of Biblical concepts, and yet, only a rare few Americans who were Saved/transformed by the Indwelling; most of the churched; the religionists, were caught in the viscous gap between the laws and sin. This is why so many desperately need for salvation to be a think we think into existence, because those who claim to be Christina, do not know Christ at all; they are Matthew Seven Christians, and this burden is horrifying. Sex and copulation is the best barometer of this fact. The flesh; the carnal human, wants to copulate like, well, primates. There are no moral restraints, its all about sweaty, raw sex, and plenty of it! This is the bodily commandments of the Godless and the Godless-religious, and then on the other hand, we have that monogamy, fidelity, virginity and celibacy stuff that we get from the Bible: What a burden; what a conflict! How is this all reconciled for those without the Indwelling, but with the self-belief and the verbal proclamations of being a Christian (the Godless-religious)? And so, guilt and condemnation gets a band aid from the religionists, but deep inside, the true Spiritual bankruptcy prevails. For the Godless, "love" is just a better orgasm provider; just a better shopping provider! Humans fall into and out of love in direct proportion to the content of the emotion that word gets attached to. Women who have plenty of financial resources are more focused on a man who will bring her attention and deep orgasms, whereas, a poor woman who has had many lovers, is more interested in a wealthy man. They "fall in love" with whomever best fits their needs and wants. A man will seek the best looking woman he can obtain, given his prowess’s, be it money, or looks, or a large penis; whatever he has to offer, and whom he is offering it to, is what determines "love", and then marriage. The Godless-religious humans will copulate with multitudes of "lovers", and then stops every so often, from guilt or frustration, and gets married. Because the religionists will accept divorcées and even remarry them, the ability to use this process to appease the guilt, has become normalized over many generations (in Westernized "Christian" cultures). In other words, marriage represents a cessation of promiscuity, and as time passes, adultery becomes the motive for divorcement and remarriage, thus cleaning up the life-long dedication to multiple copulation partners, while under the banner of "Christianity"! The religionists have a few fixes; get rid of the men and forgive the fallen women; or, rush the fornicators into a marriage that has no greater odds of success than any other Godless person has! Since the westernized cultures have already normalized the feminist-centric paradigm of men are villains and women are victims, it is rather easy for any woman, at any time, to claim foul concerning a man, and she has the full force of the social system on her side, to deal with this evil-man-person!

It really does not matter if we are referring to work or marriage, or any other thing that humans do upon this planet: We either obey God, or not! When we copulate with another, we are showing God that this person is someone we will live and die for; OR, that this person is an ejaculation station, and when we are done/bored, we will abandon them and go on to the next station! Marriage is committment until death! Fornication is to copulate with many others, and with the intent of continuing to do so, ceremonially married or not. This was the intent of the Pharisees, and why Jesus said that the writing of divorcement existed only because they were hard-hearted (I.E: Godless/Loveless). Besides, it would not be to the unwanted wifes' best interest, to be tied to a Loveless man (and likewise, a man to remain tied to a Godless/Loveless woman). In summary: Marriage has zero to do with ceremonies or words or papers that are filed away somewhere (endless geneologies, indeed!). Marriage is like Love; it is a verb; it is either the sum of who we are, or not. Those who Love as God Loves (the only Love there really is); marriage is t