I don't hate commities. I realize it's hard enough to make a good partnership work to it's full potential but I also know that my Lord blesses cooperatives. I am pleased to be a lesser king to His honor and glory. Not all men can receive this saying. Though it might well be true that I missed my calling it is said that those who cannot do, teach. Therefore I answer to the call of prophecy and to do what I am permitted in this short remaining life my Lord has granted me. I do not believe that the scriptural reference to the seven women of Isaiah applies to the thousand year period. I will explain why. I don't limit God this way because I know better thant to try. I believe that before "that day" shall come "this day" must precede just as it is written. Once THIS DAY is fulfilled in scripture, then THAT DAY the branch of the LORD will be glorious! BUT.. before THAT day should come even another day must come.. and in that day... Isaiah 4 1 And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach. 2 In that day shall the branch of the LORD be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel. 3 And it shall come to pass, <<< [ THIS MEANS ANOTHER DAY... ] that he that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem: 4 When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning. 5 And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defence. 6 And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the day time from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain. In THAT DAY... There will be no reproach until the thousand years is finished. I like to think that we all know the reason why there is suddenly such an abundance of potential wives mentioned in Isaiah Four but none of us is so ready to admit to the fall of those patriarchs which must shortly come to pass. It is nearly finished. Yea, it is even at the door. The call to the patriarchs is to rise up; but the cold light of truth is already on the horizon: They fell many ages ago. Once the kings finish devouring the Harlot the rest will follow and the prophecy of Isaiah 4 will resume completion. All who are His are also part of His commitee and council. There is no escape from this truth. We are also all individually answerable for our souls before God. There will be no such marriage in heaven. Even the Muslims know this is true but take it to an extreme. Women in heaven will also be as angels. The only Husband they will have in heaven will be the Lord God. Sadly, Muslim men don't believe that the spirits of the husbands merge here, on earth, with their wives. That is why they miss out on so much of the truth and so much violence dwells in their hearts: they lack discernment. They are no wiser than the trinitarians in this respect because they believe in no such SPIRITUAL UNION between a man and a woman even on earth, where we live to learn! In fact, I recall recently reading a piece written by a Muslim man who was scoffing at the notion of spirtual bonds between husband and wife. I think it is because he is without sanctification that he should have thought this way. For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. SALAAM |