In general I don’t like to deal with future events because we really don’t know dogmatically exactly how things will happen. Because of that there are just too many questions that have to be answered if you want to defend a certain view. Young Christians, for example, will read what I just said and accept it because they don’t know enough to see possible Scriptural problems with it. Some of you more mature Christians will already have your hands in the air with Scriptural objections/questions. I’m not going to field your questions in this book because, first, we’ll never settle anything conclusively and, second, I don’t think the issue – while interesting – will have any impact on your Christian walk or help you successfully neutralize the harmful effects of tradition and philosophy.

Most Christians I’ve met who do get dogmatic about future events don’t seem to be able to see the forest for the trees, to put things into perspective. More often than not they want to use uncertain and future events – such as exactly when we get the spirit body of the new birth, what the last trump is and exactly when it sounds, whether or not the lake of fire is the same as hell, the pre-trib rapture, whether or not we’ll have our glorified bodies during the millennial reign, whether Re 20:4 applies to all saints or just those beheaded, etc. – as excuses to ignore or reject the major tenets of this book. When I try to teach a Christian about carnality, authority, Reason, and democracy in an effort to help him understand the horrible apostasy that afflicts modern Christianity, and he tries to pick a fight about inconsequential trivia that will neither help the church nor improve his service to God, I can’t help but think his real objective is to preserve Self. In other words, if you think I’m wrong about one or more items of trivia – who cares? The purpose of this book is to reveal and deal with the huge topic of apostasy – not to speculate about trivia. Let’s get back to our subject.

In the beginning Adam was complete (plural). But the female part was taken out of them and became separate. Adam was therefore reduced to a single-sex him. Eve, the female part taken out of Adam, never was complete because she never was made in the image of God. This is, predictably, reflected in language: He, him, and man can have a singular or plural meaning that includes both sexes depending on the context. But she, her, and woman have only a singular meaning and refer to only one sex. Now you know why God is a He – not a She: a she can’t be plural; only a he can be plural. And God is a plural.

As a type of the reunion of the two kingdoms, marriage reunites the sexes; two become one flesh. The female was taken out of the man, and marriage makes him a them again. And since the man is getting part of himself back, the name that applies when the two become one is the man’s name. And since marriage unites the two single sexes into one plural entity (which is a type of the old plural KOG which contained the KOH, and also a type of the complete, made-in-the-image-of-God Adam), we now know why “from the beginning” (Mt 19:8) there was no putting away until (Lucifer’s) fornication started dividing everything.

But, you ask, shouldn’t Lucifer’s sin be called adultery since I am talking about marriage and divorce? Good question. But remember, Lucifer’s sin could only be adultery if his servant/wife status with God was consummated. Two only become one flesh, after all, when the union is consummated. Therefore, the fact that Lucifer and one third of God’s angels were thrown out means angels, like us, have not yet had their union with God consummated. Therefore his sin was fornication, not adultery. But what makes me think angels will ever be consummated unto God like we will? Consistency. I think God wants everlasting peace – including no more second deaths – in His household. That requires the togetherness, oneness, and unity only possible through marriage.

In this life we need to marry if we want to be whole (Lk 20:34) because we live in a divided kingdom. We must be joined, husband and wife, if we wish to be fruitful (Jn 15:4,5). But in the future we saints will be equal to the angels (Lk 20:36) who neither marry (like human men) nor are given in marriage (like human women) because we will be complete, whole, male and female. It appears (Lk 20:33) that today’s single-sex saints will in eternity be made whole, complete, and live as the brides of Christ.

The Jews understood none of this, which is why when they queried Christ about it He rebuked them for not having already figured it out from the Old Testament Scriptures (Mt 22:28,29). By applying what we have learned we can understand Mt 19:4,5: “Have ye not read, that he [God]…at the beginning made them [Adam] male and female [united, complete, whole]…For this cause [the fact that God made Adam united, whole]…twain [things that are now separate] shall be one flesh [via marriage].” It is a beautiful revelation because it shows why the Lord invented the concept of marriage and the accompanying concepts of espousal; fornication; wifely submission; judgment; putting away; consummation; two (head and body) becoming one flesh; the fact that service determines which husband (God or Satan) is preferred, because a woman (a body) can have but one husband (head), etc: God is using marriage to fight and win the war and to restore all things in His realm (God and His children, and the KOG and KOH) that have been divided by carnality (enmity, independence, rebellion, war) to the unified way He made them at the beginning before Lucifer’s rebellion. I say again: It is impossible to understand salvation without an understanding of sex, marriage, and divorce.

The reason none of us today is in the image of God is even though Adam was “at the beginning” made in the image of God, he was shortly thereafter unmade into two separate people/sexes so he could have an help who was meet for him – because it had been established that none of the animals was a suitable servant-companion. That is why when Adam and Eve – neither of whom was in the image of God – had children, the Bible doesn’t say the children were in the image of God. It says Adam “begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth” (Ge 5:3). Seth was single-sex like his parents, and could become whole (image of God) only through marriage when the two sexes become one flesh. Apply what you’ve learned to understand three things: First, bastards are types of tares of that wicked one because they are not – figuratively speaking – products of the Lord who is whole. That’s why bastards were social outcasts. Second, as demonstrated by circumcision and by Jephthah in Ju 11, being a physical bastard – just like being a physical half-breed, or being this race or that race – does not matter when spiritual truths are concerned. Third, our secular leaders have dominion and can therefore make same-sex marriages legal. But Christians should understand that “joining” two of the same sex is impotent and untenable because the result is not complete, whole, or in the image of God.

The Bible tells us things like seek first the spiritual KOG (Mt 6:33) and not the physical KOH, and to care for the spiritual body and not the physical (Mt 6:25), because the New Testament makes all this stuff about spiritual/physical, types/figures, and dominion very clear. The New Testament also clarifies for us the mystery (Ep 5:31,32) of marriage. In earlier chapters we learned about some important hidden aspects of marriage. Let’s review some of them:

1. Truly and permanently terminating a consummated marriage is possible only through death. This applies to both physical death in the grave (Ro 7:2) and true death in the lake of fire (Mt 7:23).

2. Because of the issue of authority the only way to serve anyone is to be under his authority. Once under someone’s power you have his authority to do things legitimately in his name. Because our mortal bodies bound us to our first husband, Satan, and because truly ending a marriage is possible only through death, we had to die (through Christ’s substitutionary physical death) in order to be married to Another. It was therefore not possible to be legally considered Christ’s bride until He died on the cross. That’s why the Old Testament saints had to wait in Abraham’s bosom.

3. The fact that we are wed to Christ makes us one with Him because we become His body. That’s what 1 Co 12:12-21 is all about: We are members of His body. We are not all the same members of His body; therefore we do not all have the same job or function. We become fellow body members, but we do not become equal to the Head Himself. That’s why the head is not mentioned in 1 Co 12. Eyes and ears (which we consider to make up the head) are mentioned as members of the body. From that we discern the head is the controlling authority. Christ and Satan are competing controlling authorities, each of whom has a legitimate claim to us as his wives. Therefore we determine whose wife we are through our service. Satan’s subtle plan is to make us serve him while thinking (via Reason) we are serving Christ. We cannot make our Christian walk “easier” by serving two masters because no organism can have two heads.

Because Christians do not understand this stuff today, many of them erroneously think “demeaning” verses like 1 Co 14:34,35 and Ep 5:22 have been rendered obsolete by “liberating” verses like 1 Co 11:11 and Ga 3:28. (Some people even think these same verses “prove” the Bible has contradictions and therefore cannot be the word of God.) But you and I understand the significance of “in the Lord” in 1 Co 11:11, and “one in Christ” in Ga 3:28. Becoming a Christian elevates us to the rank of servant of Christ.

1 Co 11:8 is just repeating Ge 2:23. 1 Co 11:9 is restating Ge 2:18. And 1 Co 11:10 draws on the previous verses to show why the woman is subject to the authority of the man (having “power on her head” – which is symbolized by long hair). The phrase “because of the angels” is a reference to what happened to the angels who did not remain in subjection to God but rather elevated themselves to the rank of head, thus becoming equal to God. Therefore, 1 Co 11:11 says: The above is all true, but in the future (“in the Lord”) the man will no longer be outside of – separate from – his female part, and the female will no longer be isolated from her male part. In other words, among Christians there will be no such thing as male alone or female alone, because we shall all be changed into the image of God. Today we are in the image of Adam (1 Co 15:45a,49a), but we shall be in the image of God (1 Co 15:45b,49b).