HUMAN MARRIAGE REMOVED; COSMIC MARRIAGE RESTORED.
Christianity is NOT a religion: it is a Way-Of-LIFE.
But those who are considered worthy of taking part in the age to come and in the resurrection from the dead will neither marry nor be given in marriage. Luke 20: 35
For the Lord will take delight in you,
and your land will be married. Isaiah 62: 4
I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband.
Revelation 21: 2
Changes coming:
In the USA half the marriages end in divorce. The emotional pain! The financial hardship! The suffering children! The Lord, in his wisdom, has looked at this institution and decided that it won’t work in eternity: a forever union is simply too long.
No sex there.
At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven. Matthew 22: 30.
In eternity life will be different, totally so. Jesus is quite explicit on this score. He lived the Kingdom life in his short stay on earth. And he remained single, even though he had lots of female friends.
I was married for 67 years, and it was a good marriage. In eternity I will meet my wife again, as total equals. Sex, even though I delighted in it, will be over, forever: no more childbearing with its pain and uncertainty, because, basically, marriage always was an unequal situation.
Yet, marriage will be maintained.
But marriage will not disappear: The Land will be married! The Land? Yes. Again! That bond God established in Paradise: then humanity was married to creation, was broken but was healed on the Cross. Again, the land will be married to humanity, with Jesus included, perfect man among perfected people, NOT, I repeat NOT with Jesus as the groom and the church as the bride. Forget it: the church will disappear: totally. Jesus will be Immanuel, God with us, the Primus Inter Pares, the First among Equals, the equals being the Redeemed of the Lord.
I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. Revelation 21: 2.
That IS the new creation: It is the bride. We, the redeemed of the Lord, together with Jesus, are the groom: The new state of Marriage, lasting forever.
We again have been hoodwinked by Greek pagan philosophy, which saw matter – creation –as evil and spirit as good.
In ecclesiastical circles, the church is touted as the Bride of Christ. Now, don’t get me wrong: I am not a theologian, have no academic qualifications to lend authority to my musings. I believe the biblical truth of John 3: 16, that God loved his creation above anything else. That to me makes it my utmost priority to do the same. Romans 1: 20 confirms this in a somewhat negative way, where, in essence it says that the perfection of creation should lead us to believe in God, and we stand condemned if we don’t.
Then there is 1 John 5: 19, blandly stating that in today’s society not Christ is in charge: We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one: The powers of evil dominate, all too visible everywhere.
Am I correct?
So, keeping these texts in mind, here is my reasoning, purely human, and thus fallible, but it happens to be my view on my path to eternity, based on 2 Philippians 12, I try to work out my salvation with fear and trembling.
“The whole world, including the church, is under the control of the evil one”. Exceptions there are, I know.
That’s the premise from which I start. The church, as we see it with its pompand circumstance, its rites and its new High Priest, Donald Trump, who yields more ‘spiritual’ power than the Pope, have, by and large, abandoned God’s Creation in favor of a fictional heaven, even though Jesus repeatedly states that ‘Where I am going you cannot come”. (John 3: 13, John 8: 21-22, John 13:33), but the ‘know nothing’ Christians insist to know better.
The reason why we have a world on fire – with worse to come – is that organized Christian Religion, has surrendered God’s cosmos to be exploited to the point where, today, it is a tinderbox. Had the church, 500 years ago or so, insisted on treating the earth as HOLY, as God’s precious possession, the church’s then undoubted authority, would have prevented our current state of decomposition.
Yes, I see the church as the main culprit in this matter. Just as the church of Jesus’ days killed him, this time the church is well on its way to kill God’s Holy Earth. Harsh words, but I see them as true.
Jesus in John 10:10 is quite explicit: I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. Christ, in his life and actions, represented the New Creation. What he thought about the then reigning religion is well documented in Matthew 23, and is as true today as it was then.
HUMAN MARRIAGE REMOVED; COSMIC MARRIAGE RESTORED.