She desires to be her husband's Lord and Master. She has not learned that she can serve her lord only in the LORD. She has forgotten her Lord, or she despises her Lord. This spirit does not become a lady in the LORD. But her earthly lord and master should know he can only serve his Lord in the LORD and that he too, can only have one Lord in the LORD: ONLY ONE! It is to her confusion she thinks that because she must submit to her earthly husband in the LORD as her "one and only" that her lord must likewise reciprocate to her in the same way. But my God is a jealous God and He says no such thing! The 'Old School' Oneness Pastors are well aware of this spirit of Woman Worship but many New Age pastors have already forgotten it due to neo-feminist, Jezebel oppression. Neo-Feminist: God gave this absolute command regarding future kings of Israel....telling them they must not do as the pagan nations around them (whose kings had their harems): "Neither shall he multiply wives to himself!" Saul, Israel's first king, DISOBEYED God's command. He let demons take hold of him. Jacobs_Trouble: Let's look at this "absolute command" of yours that you say God keeps changing His mind about: Deuteronomy 17 1 Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the LORD thy God any bullock, or sheep, wherein is blemish, or any evilfavouredness: for that is an abomination unto the LORD thy God. 2 If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the LORD thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the LORD thy God, in transgressing his covenant, 3 And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded; 4 And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and enquired diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel: 5 Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that man or that woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die. 6 At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death. 7 The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So thou shalt put the evil away from among you. 8 If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and get thee up into the place which the LORD thy God shall choose; 9 And thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days, and enquire; and they shall shew thee the sentence of judgment: 10 And thou shalt do according to the sentence, which they of that place which the LORD shall choose shall shew thee; and thou shalt observe to do according to all that they inform thee: 11 According to the sentence of the law which they shall teach thee, and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, thou shalt do: thou shalt not decline from the sentence which they shall shew thee, to the right hand, nor to the left. 12 And the man that will do presumptuously, and will not hearken unto the priest that standeth to minister there before the LORD thy God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die: and thou shalt put away the evil from Israel. 13 And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously. 14 When thou art come unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein, and shalt say, I will set a king over me, like as all the nations that are about me; 15 Thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee, whom the LORD thy God shall choose: one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee: thou mayest not set a stranger over thee, which is not thy brother. 16 But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the LORD hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no more that way. 17 Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold. 18 And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of that which is before the priests the Levites: 19 And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life: that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them: 20 That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left: to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he, and his children, in the midst of Israel. *** Aside from the obvious fact that these laws of sin and death are from that Levitical priesthood of which Paul stated was "... abolished... even the law of commandments contained in ordinances" (Ephesians 2:15) we can plainly see how this "absolute command" of yours actually applies in its fully correct context. By your neo-feminist logic you are saying that a king may only own ONE HORSE, marry only ONE WIFE, and keep only modest sums of money. Are you sure that this is what God meant when He admonished His people that a king should not "multiply" horses, or wives, or much money?? Is it a sin for a king to have more than one horse? Do you think that King David only had one horse in his entire estate? True, that if he did only have one horse it would be impossible for that horse to multiply, but is that what this scripture is saying? Let's look again: But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the LORD hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no more that way. Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold. Aaah! This is all about money! The words "to the end" properly describe the REASON, the MOTIVE, the PURPOSE for which all of this "multiplying" is done. He may not multiply horses and wives for money (as they did in Egypt) that his heart should turn away and the people should return to captivity! Now it would stand to reason that "multiplying" wives is a great sin. No man should collect wives as cattle to engage in husbandry as if wives were mere beasts! Yet nowhere, throughout all this scripture, do we read the words "only one wife". Clearly there is a great difference between a man multiplying wives for profit and gain and God adding wives to a household as a blessing. We should be able to see how God could add wives unto David's household without violating His own ordinances. Only about a century ago it was custom among certain cultures in my country to trade horses for wives. Could it possibly be that the indigenous peoples of America have ancient roots in Egypt? One thing is certain: there is a difference between multiplying and simple addition. See: Evil Patriarchs. Let's not be presumptuous. Did God break His own Law? Neo-Feminist: There was polygamy in ancient Israel. But it was SIN! God condemned it -- He never condoned or sanctioned it. Jacobs_Trouble: Nowhere in all of the Holy Bible will you read the words "only one wife". When King David received wives (plural) from the hand of God there is no question as to whether or not God sanctioned it. The word "condone" means to overlook, to ignore, to wink at. Of course God didn't ignore his gracious gifts to the king. In this respect you speak truly. Neo-Feminist: They reaped what they sowed. Israelites practiced what God had forbidden -- divorce and remarriage. Jacobs_Trouble: I was wondering when you would finally stoop to this, considering how you would equate godly marriage with adultery; but godly "polygyny" is godly marriage. There is no divorce in godly marriage - there is only marriage. Neo-Feminist: Jesus said: "Moses [not God] because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so. And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery" Jacobs_Trouble: I fully agree with the above words of my Lord and Saviour Who knows that godly marriage is not the same thing as adultery and fornication. Why do you equate godly marriage with such things? Is it because you truly do not know the difference, or is it because you are merely in denial of the truth? The above verse concerns the PUTTING AWAY. Neo-Feminist: GOD has never legalized divorce and remarriage. It is not allowable today. It is done but it isn't right. Jacobs_Trouble: You add much to the word of God and many of the words you resort to are not found in the scripture. If you are saying that Moses put words in God's mouth you surely speak falsely. Deuteronomy 24 was given to Moses from the hand of God. But what has this to do with the subject at hand? I do not teach divorce so why do you condemn me, a man who has never divorced? The government could press such a letter upon me and yet I would not sign it. I would go to jail first. What. Would you have me divorce??? that I should satisfy your neo-feminist mandatory monogamy laws and evil inventions of men? Neo-Feminist: Now CHRIST will never have but the ONE WIFE. One true Church. Jacobs_Trouble: New Jerusalem was not the "wife" of God's youth but Heavenly Zion will surely come. The Lord Jesus has surely married a plurality within a singularity. We have been over this before. You know that the scripture cannot be broken. Jeremiah 3 tells us about the Lord's two wives of Old Testament times and how that Jesus was married to harlots. Some of these have repented. Verily these shall enter into the Kingdom before self-righteous Puritans. Isaac had only one wife. Isaac's wife, Rebekah, like her mother-in-law, Sarah, was barren. But Isaac did not take things into his own hands and have children by her handmaids, or by concubines...like many OT men did... Neither did Rebekah do as Sarah had done, and resort to bringing a servant girl to Isaac to produce a son for Rebekah in this manner. Instead of using human reason, taking things into his own hands, Isaac TRUSTED GOD! Men are not trusting God much these days! Jacobs_Trouble: This is the second time you stated something that smacks of true doctrine. (The first time was when you began quoting the scripture as it was written.) Not only are men not trusting God much these days but neither are women. The world is becoming increasingly corrupt and desperately wicked. CONCLUSION
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