See: (John 3:13) (Romans 8:1- 6) (1 Corinthians 2:14-16)
(1 Corinthians 3:1) (1 Corinthians 14:37) AKJV

Many would tell me that I compare earthly things with things that are spiritual but I will maintain that godly marriage is also heavenly because it is from God and that these earthly things are a type and shadow for us to prepare for the second coming of Christ Jesus in the glory of the Father. Those who fail to grasp these comparisons are also subject to all sorts of self-righteous fits of protest, every wind of doctrine that blows their way, and wicked rebellion to the Word of God. Their hearts will surely be filled with contempt for the truth, not discerning godly things, and calling the good "evil" and the evil "good". I have seen some get so filled with fleshly pride that they have as much as implied that God is the one who needs to "get with the program" and realize that we are now a modern civilization living in the 21rst.century! God have mercy! He has already told us what He has planned for this untoward generation. I think rather it is we who had better return to His ancient land marks before it is too late because FULL BIBLE TRUTH is God's own program for godly living! FULL BIBLE TRUTH tells us what God calls marriage.

See: (Ephesians 4:14) (Isaiah 5:20-24) (Malachi 2:17) (Matthew 5:18) (1 Samuel 15:23) (Malachi 4) (Acts 2:40) AKJV

It is impossible to fully understand what God calls marriage without Divine Intervention because marriage is indeed an institution of God. The fleshly-minded will nearly always reduce it to a carnal equation because they cannot comprehend the spiritual things of God. If you do not know God you certainly will not understand godly marriage. Yet we should know that marriage is also a spiritual union that God sanctifies �?not that carnal union can't be spiritual either, if one is not particular about what sort of spirit one might happen to indulge in at that time. Carnal union is spiritual, but it is not nearly godly. How these are able to hold the truth in unrighteousness is no godly mystery, but rather this Mystery is that great pretender whom we know to be the Harlot of Babylon. She fancies herself a Queen, even a replacement for JESUS, and she is jealous over her husband(s). In the name of "sexual equality" and "human rights" she marches forth through the assemblies, riding high upon the BEAST of the present-day establishment. "What is good for the gander is also good for the goose", she says, and takes another sip from the golden cup filled to the brim with the blood of the saints and wipes her mouth. Folks, this is BIBLE. I'm not making it up! JEZEBEL is a poweful spirit that masquerades as Mary, calling herself the Mother of God!

See: (Micah 5:12) (2Kings 9:22) (Nahum 3:4) (2 Chronicles 33:6) (Galatians 5:20) (Ephesians 5:32) (Isaiah 47) (Revelation 17) AKJV

Marriage has been called the "first ordinance of God" and I will not challenge those who believe this precept. Jesus said that in the last days men would be marrying and giving in marriage, just as they did in the time of Noah. That this ordinance of God has never ceased to exist since the day that Adam and Eve first walked upon the earth is certainly irrefutable. Howbeit, if one is to understand marriage one must also know what God called marriage and godly marriage is not nearly what people today are saying it is. So many today still hold to the same preconceived ideas and myths about marriage that worldly men and women have embraced in their hearts and minds for many centuries and our government officials are only too happy to comply with their beliefs. That is to say that even these would go so far as to presume, that without standing before some appointed "official" and receiving the witness of men, so appointed by men (regardless of spiritual status) to perform an outward ceremony to be seen of men, that echad basar (One Flesh) is not marriage, but fornication! Such condemnation might well apply to unrepentant whoremongers and harlots, but not to a virgin spinster who has freely given herself to an husbandman in the LORD.

See: (1 Corinthians 7:28) (Exodus 22:16) (Hebrews 13:4) AKJV

At this point all sorts of battles break out among denominations of all colours. Suddenly all fornication becomes the sin of "adultery" and even godly marriage is now relegated to the shameful status of "living in sin" because the union wasn't "properly sanctioned" by an "ordained minister" (ordained by whom, I wonder) and the definitions for those words that once made sense begin to blur and melt into a Grande Cesspool of self-righteous justification. God said that for a lack of knowledge His people are destroyed and He was not kidding. What a veritable racket the business of "civil marriage" has become! Admittedly, I too was among that great number of self-righteous and churchly Bible thumpers, erroneously thinking that I knew just what marriage was all about. Having lived well over twenty-two years with the same spouse and remaining totally loyal to her alone as my "one and only faithful companion" in chastity, I then felt quite justified in my knowledge. At that time I had no clue that I was actually building my household upon a foundation of sand bolstered by partial truths. It cost me the respect of my first born son and I can only hope and pray that one day he will forgive me for the harsh words I resorted to in my former ignorance. However; when the moment presented itself, challenging my own horrendously biased and "monogamous" preconceptions, I did confidently accept �?only to learn that I was truly mistaken, for I had proudly believed marriage a thing that God did not ordain it to be, not discerning the Wisdom of His Grace, nor the sanctification of His holy covenant. Folks need to understand that paper "certificate" will never sanctify their marriage and that a church wedding makes one no MORE married than a church funeral makes one MORE DEAD. Please open the HOLY BIBLE to the Book of Matthew, Chapter Nineteen, and read to where Jesus said:

Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

Why does our Master keep repeating the words "one flesh" ? Please pay close attention here because this is very important to know and understand. The Pharisees in the cited scripture were trying to trap Christ in a contention about divorcement. They wanted Jesus to say that divorcement was against God's law so that they would have a reason to crucify him �?even as the beheading of John the Baptist was so steathily arranged. So we plainly read that Jesus spake on this wise concerning divorcement because they specifically asked him to answer their question concerning divorcement. Evidently, the Pharisees were completely clueless as to how Christ was going to silence them, but silence them he did: They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away? He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.

There it is again . . . Why does JESUS keep repeating Himself? Why does He keep saying "ONE FLESH" and talking about the beginning? What does the BEGINNING have to do with these last days? Could it be that JESUS thought there was no need for Him to "get with the program"??? Could it mean that what GOD called ONE FLESH from the beginning is still ONE FLESH today? Could it possibly mean that GOD's MORAL LAW never changes? If GOD's MORAL LAW never changes, this world is in big trouble. To fully appreciate the words of Christ here, in this context, we need to understand how IMMOVABLE the WORD of GOD really is. Friend, GOD's WORD is immovable. GOD does not vacillate. Every single time that a man unites with a woman who is not another man's wife (regardless of how many he may have united with before) to become ONE FLESH with her, it is marriage in the sight of GOD. That is the reason why so many of the men of the OLD TESTAMENT had so many wives! The only exception to this is FORNICATION (sexual and moral uncleanness). GOD doesn't miss a thing and GOD does not lie. GOD called them wives, plural, and the burden of proof is on the reader to produce the scripture where the LORD ever called it anything else! The SIGHT of GOD is not at all limited! You cannot hide from GOD and you cannot shirk responsibility for your actions. Adam tried that thousands of years ago and it didn't work. it is vital to understand that the only marriage "certification" according to scripture that the LORD GOD will ever recognize as being in complete accordance with His Moral Law is cited in the book of Deuteronomy, Chapter twenty-two. The only cause for a divorcement is fornication (moral uncleanness). JESUS did not change His Moral Law but merely recited it back to the Pharisees just as it is written: Marriage (from the beginning) is ONE FLESH.

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  This is marriage in the sight of GOD!

Since when did the CHANGELESS ONE need to "get with the program"? GOD's MORAL LAW does not change! (Matthew 5:17)

The more that I learned about marriage from the scriptures the more I realized that we were all being lied to from the pulpits all the while by well-meaning pastors and teachers who thought even as I did, having been lied to themselves, and receiving false teachings presented over generations of error. I learned why there is so much confusion in the world today concerning this holy institution and ordinance of God and why so many marriages, one-by-one, continue to fall into the depths of despair and misery to end in utter failure �?especially in the churches where divorce and separation are over ten percent higher than those in the secular world! (Statistics may have changed - the last time I checked it was at 11% higher for church weddings. I don't want to look anymore.) Having learned these things I set to the task of seeking out those things God, Himself deemed worthy and fitting to be called marriage. They are not nearly what the world (or most churches) today call marriage and at best, in some of the more diligent institutions of those dedicated saints of the Most High, godly marriage is only faintly reflected upon. One of the first things I learned about godly marriage is that no flesh should glory before God. Herein lies the crux of the issue: For many of the churchly and worldly take great pride in their marriages and invest much of their self-worth in marriage to justify themselves before God, and in the eyes of their peers. If we would truly desire the blessings of God in our marriages and our families we must first seek the Kingdom and embrace ALL (not just some) of what the scriptures state concerning this Divine Institution. We must be prepared to receive what the scriptures say and not faint at His Word. How many cringe when they learn what God calls marriage!

See: (Matthew 19:4-6) (1 Corinthians 1) (Mark 10:1-12) (Hebrews 8) AKJV

It rarely ceases to amaze me how that so many of these "bishops", "deacons", "elders", "pastors", (and their wives) are not so willing to take God at His Word concerning the fact that God says that if a man takes a willing, virgin woman to wife that the virgin woman that he takes is indeed his wife regardless of how many wives he may have. JESUS said so and God does not lie. I marvel at how a pastor will turn to Leviticus, or Exodus, or any book of Old Testament law to elaborate their point concerning practically EVERY MORAL ISSUE under the sun; but when approaching some matter that doesn't suit his personal flavour of doctrine he will announce that this is OLD TESTAMENT and we don't do it like that anymore! What outrageous hypocrisy! Mr. Pastors, if you do this thing then you had better ban all the HOLY BIBLES from your church and insist that only the NEW TESTAMENT is welcome past your church doors! HYPOCRITES! There is no scripture found within the pages of the Holy Bible stating that before a man takes an additional wife that he must first divorce the wife of his youth; but much evidence to the contrary does exist. That God even recognizes the state of having two wives should be suffice. Oh how they continually reject God's word! How contemptuous of God's perfect law have these, our pastors, elders, deacons, and bishops become! They do always and greatly err not knowing the scriptures. Neither is it forbidden of God, that any godly man should not have more than one wife, but they would put words into the mouth of His anointed and lies into the mouth of Moses before they would think to embrace the FULL BIBLE TRUTH!

See: (ACTS 7:51-60) (Genesis 4:19) (Genesis 32:22) (Deuteronomy 21:15) (1 Samuel 1:2) (1 Samuel 27:3)
(1 Samuel 30:5) (2 Samuel 30:18) (2 Kings 4:1) (1 Chronicles 4:5) (2 Chronicles 13:21) (2 Chronicles 24:3) (2 Samuel 2:2) (Deuteronomy 24:5) (Matthew 25) (1 Corinthians 5:1) AKJV

Now the issue here is not the "issue" they want it to be. The real issue at hand is the hardness of their hearts and their fleshly pride; for these pretenders would desire to console themselves with the illusion that they are their spouse's "one and only" and they aim to keep it that way �?even when they know it is not truly the case."Oh, but that was long ago", does not wash with God. We know fornication becomes adultery the moment that a man takes another man's wife. Admittedly, fornication is bad enough. All have sinned and come short of the glory of God. What others (especially others who have position and power in the church) do not desire to confess to is that those men who have taken virgins in their sinful past have caused their brothers and sisters to commit adultery when they scorned the commandment of God stating, "he shall surely endow her to be his wife". Likewise all those women who have willingly, or willfully, given up the tokens of their virginity (frivolously or otherwise), did in fact become adulteresses the very moment they gave themselves to another man while their first sex partner yet lived! Adultery is "woman who breaketh wedlock". No piece of paper, no ring, no outward ceremony before the congregation, no vows (in secret or in public) will change the fact that marriage is indeed the voluntary union of a man and a woman (a virgin, in most cases) to become One Flesh. AGAIN:

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This is marriage in the SIGHT of GOD.

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As I have stated before, this ministry is a call to honesty. Only those precious and rare individuals who love Jesus enough to go out on a limb for Him will admit that this is the full Bible truth. Once this scriptural truth is established, that ONE FLESH is indeed marriage, we can then move on to learn what godly marriage is, what sanctifies marriage, and why this is a great Mystery concerning Christ and the church. I am also frequently asked: "Is marriage really so important?" and, "What does marriage have to do with SALVATION AND THE GOSPEL?" See: (Ephesians 5:32) AKJV

Any man who has taken more than one willing virgin to wife in his lifetime is without question, a biblical bigamist. If he did so without a wedding ceremony and they be found, he may not put her away all the rest of his days, saith the WORD; but if she puts him away and marries another, he is not in bondage to her, saith the WORD. GOD has called us to peace and the true light has no fellowship with the darkness of this world. Serial monogamy is an oxymoron that does not excuse anyone from the truth of God's word. No matter what labels we might reach for, this thing that we call "monogamy" is not the only form of marriage that God recognizes and honors among men, for God surely recognizes "two wives" (and more) in the scripture. Also there is a difference between a wife and an adulteress even as there is a difference between a wife and a virgin; but as touching the subject of "recognition" and "certification", all marriage that is without sanctification is doomed before God. Now what God "recognizes" is ONE FLESH, just as He ordained it. What God recognizes as "godly" is what He sanctifies with His Holy Spirit. Spouses around the globe should really be grateful to God if they are married to one of HIS because there can be no sanctification outside of Jesus. The fact that godly marriage is honourable in all surely does not mean that all marriage is honourable. We will not find it in the AKJV. A paper contract and a ceremony do NOT a marriage make. God called marriage ONE FLESH.

Let us rejoice in the Wisdom of the Most Merciful and Most High God.

JT