Not unlike any other ministries earnestly contending for the faith, FULL BIBLE TRUTH is a call to honesty and personal responsibility. A dishonest heart cannot attain to truth. Likewise when people do not even know what marriage is, they cannot expect to rightfully divide the word of truth pertaining to marriage. That these would fail to keep in mind that the enemy means to corrupt every good thing and that godly marriage is salvation in the Lord is very revealing. They are sure to stumble in the dark, fall into pits and snares, and play into the hands of the enemy. First they need to repent of their preconceived ideas about marriage and return to the fullness of God's own truth as it is plainly stated in the scriptures. Jesus said, If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? 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 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 do so are subject to all sorts of self-righteous fits of protest, every wind of doctrine, and wicked rebellion to the Word. Their hearts will surely be filled with contempt for the truth, not discerning godly things, and calling good "evil" and evil "good".  I have even seen some get so filled with fleshly pride that they have as much said that God 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 hurry up and return to His ancient land marks before it is too late because this is part of God's program for godly living! see: (Ephesians 4:14) (Isaiah 5:20-24) (Malachi 2:17) (Matthew 5:18) (1 Samuel 15:23)   (Acts 2:40) AKJV

It is impossible to fully understand marriage without Divine Intervention because marriage is indeed an institution of God. The fleshly minded nearly always reduce it to a carnal equation because they cannot comprehend the spiritual things of God. Yet we know also that marriage is also a spiritual union when God sanctifies it �?Not that carnal union can't be spiritual either, if one is not particular about what spirit one might happen to indulge in at that time. It is surely 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. see: (Micah 5:12) (2Kings 9:22) (Nahum 3:4) (2 Chronicles 33:6) (Galatians 5:20) (Ephesians 5:32) (Rev. 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 Noe. That this ordinance has never ceased to exist since the day Adam and Eve first walked upon the earth is certainly irrefutable. Yet so many today have the same preconceived ideas about marriage that ungodly men and women have embraced in their hearts and minds centuries ago. That is, they would go so far 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 l'basar echad (One Flesh) is not marriage, but fornication! Such condemnation might well apply to unrepentant whoremongers and harlots, but not to a virgin who has given herself to an husbandman. See: (Exodus 22:16) (Hebrews 13:4) AKJV

At this point all sorts of battles break out. Suddenly all fornication becomes adultery and even godly marriage is now relegated to the status of "living in sin" because it wasn't 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 racket the business of "civil marriage" has become! I too, was among that number of self-righteous and churchly Bible thumpers, thinking I knew just what marriage was all about. Having lived 22 years with the same wife and loyal to her alone as my "only spouse" and faithful companion, I also felt 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. When the moment presented itself, challenging my own "monogamous" preconceptions, I did confidently accept �?nbsp;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 covenant. Folks need to understand that "certificate" will never sanctify their marriage and that a church wedding makes one no more married than a church funeral makes one more dead.  see: (Deuteronomy 22) AKJV  Since when did the CHANGLESS ONE need to "get with the program" ?

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 who thought even as I did at the time �?having been lied to themselves, 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!  d'x,a r'f'b.l (see 1 Corinthians 1) (Mark 10:1-12) (Hebrews 8) (Matthew 19:6) AKJV

It rarely ceases to amaze me how that "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 that the virgin that he takes is indeed his wife. Jesus said so and God does not lie. 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 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 union of a man and a woman (a virgin, in most cases) to become d'x,a r'f'b.l ONE FLESH.  This is marriage.

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 virgin to wife in his lifetime is without question, a polygamist. Serial monogamy is an oxymoron that does not excuse him from the truth of God's word. No matter what labels we reach for, this thing that we call "monogamy" is not the only form of marriage that God recognizes, for God surely recognizes "two wives" (and more) in the scripture. But as touching the subject of "recognition", all marriage that is without sanctification is doomed. 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.

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

JT