BRANDON RICE WROTE ON POLYGAMY A VITAL TOPIC TO EXAMINE SPIRITUALLY  

PART 1--- AN ARTICLE FROM THE TRUMPET, WHICH SHOULD BE HIGHLY REGARDED BY GOD’S PEOPLE.

PART 2--- MORE BIBLICAL KNOWLEDGE REGARDING MARRIAGE ARE ADDED AS ADMONISHINGS FROM PAUL.

FIND OUT WHO HAD COMMITTED POLYGAMY---

Men could have many women, and vice versa--

Tit 1:6  if a man is blameless, the husband of one wife,---8- hospitable, a lover of what is good, sober–minded, just, holy, self–controlled,---9  holding fast the faithful word as he has been taught, --- 10  For there are many insubordinate, both idle talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,---

Tit 1: 11----whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole households, teaching things which they ought not, for the sake of dishonest gain. 16-They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.

THAT IS ABOUT MEN---

JESUS CHRIST said “Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms concern Me.", Lu 24:44; accordingly, a Judgment in Lev.—is a Judgment of JESUS CHRIST--

Lev. 19: 29  Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a whore; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness.

THAT IS ABOUT WOMEN!

One should understand the counsel of the LORD in the above Judgment of His—ONE woman could cause a land to become full of wickedness!

In Lev. 19: 29---the land is destabilized—in Tit 1: 11—whole households (again so many houses in the land) are destabilized!

When marriage is against the Judgments of God, WHOLE HOUSEHOLDS OR LANDS COULD BE DEVASTATED !

When the man is blameless, he would possess godliness!---he would be faithful to the words he had learnt! Otherwise he could be an idle talker!

Therefore—when JESUS CHRIST is preparing New Jerusalem as His wife, Re 19: 7, Re 21: 1,2,  we as God’s children, should know HIS JUDGMENTS from the bible regarding marriage—MEN AND WOMEN SHOULD KNOW LORD’S ETERNAL JUDGMENTS!

PART 1----

What Does God Say About Polygamy?

May 28, 2012 | From theTrumpet.com

BY BRANDON NICE

Every once in a while, our evening news onslaught of Middle East clashes and political wrangling is interrupted by a strangely disconcerting tale of a polygamist running the lives of dozens of wives and children. Warren Jeffs, for example, held almost 150 women and children in a Texas ranch in polygamous relationships. But polygamy can’t be shoved off into the religious offshoots of Mormonism in the West anymore. Islam, the fastest growing religion on the planet, promotes polygamy. Authorities are concerned that instead of decreasing, polygamous marriages are on the rise. Some people use biblical examples to justify the practice. Is this a problem? Is the government right to ban polygamy? Is it really that harmful? Did God’s leaders really have plural wives in the Old Testament?

Perhaps shockingly, the answer to all of these questions is yes! Some of the greatest known men in the Bible had multiple wives. Abraham and David both had multiple wives. Does that mean God condones polygamy? Absolutely not! God never once accepted and absolutely never commanded polygamy. In every case where polygamy was involved, men were punished for their disobedience to God’s marriage laws.

In an article titled “Here’s the Plain Truth About Old Testament Polygamy,” Herbert W. Armstrong wrote, “There was polygamy in ancient Israel. But it was sin! God condemned it—He never condoned or sanctioned it” (Plain Truth, October 1963).

If we examine the fruits, as Christ commanded, we can see that not one of these plural marriages worked out well. These were great men, but they did make mistakes, mistakes that were recorded for “our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come” (1 Corinthians 10:11).

Take Abraham, for example. His wife could not bear a son, though God had promised Abraham he would have one. Instead of simply continuing on and trusting God, Abraham and Sarah reasoned that Hagar should bear a child for Abraham. Hagar successfully conceived, yet this only brought more trouble into their lives. In addition to the intense jealousy the situation provoked in Sarah, God did not accept Ishmael (Hagar’s son) as the heir to the promises of Abraham. Later, God ordered Abraham to send Hagar away. After the birth of Isaac, Abraham had no more concubines—it wasn’t until after Sarah’s death that Abraham took another wife.

Abraham’s son Isaac had only one wife, Rebekah. Jacob was a bit more complicated, marrying Leah and then Rachel due to his father-in-law’s scheming. After his conversion in Genesis 32, however, Jacob ceased living in polygamy.

The most righteous king of Israel, David, had more than one wife. This disobeyed the direct command from God for kings not to multiply wives in Deuteronomy 17:17. David already had wives, and then took another, Uriah the Hittite’s wife, as his own after having Uriah killed. Because of this action, God said “the sword shall never depart from thine house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife” (2 Samuel 12:9-12). Mr. Armstrong wrote, “This was a tremendous, super sin. God was meting out tremendous superpunishment” (ibid.). Later, David’s wives were defiled publicly except for Bathsheba. David was only saved from death because of his incredibly repentant attitude.

David had to flee Jerusalem because of the civil war that his actions had started. When he returned, the first thing he did was put away all his other wives and concubines. After severe punishment from God, David had realized the error of his sins and repented of them. He remained married to only one woman for the rest of his rule.

Solomon started out right, but by the end had 700 wives and 300 concubines. What did God say? “For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as was the heart of David his father” (1 Kings 11:4).

There are other accounts of men having more than one wife, but close examination shows little happiness in these arrangements, and that God did not accept these marriages.

The misunderstanding about polygamy stems from a misunderstanding about the marriage relationship. Christ said, in Matthew 19:4-6, that God ordained marriage between man and wife (singular) “from the beginning.” God never intended men to marry more than one wife. The first man said to have more than one wife in the Bible was Lamech, a murderer and man of the most degenerate kind of evil. “God made one wife for Adam—not a harem!” Mr. Armstrong wrote. “He started the human family out as He ordained they should go—a family of one man and one wife! … God did not condone polygamy! He punished those who practiced it! It was always sin! It is sin today!” (ibid.).

In the New Testament, the Apostle Paul reinforced God’s disapproval of polygamy in 1 Timothy 3:2: “A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife.” One of the qualifications for a minister in God’s Church is that he have only one wife. No polygamist may be a minister in God’s Church.

Revelation 19:7 speaks of Christ returning to marry His Church, and His wife (singular) will be made ready. Christ will only marry the one Bride, not many different ones! This is why sins like polygamy are so grievous to God—because they demean the relationship He will have with His Church! The special relationship between husband and wife is to reflect the wonderful intimacy between Christ and His Bride, the Church. God condemned, and does to this day, polygamy because of this. However, God has blessed the institution of marriage between one husband and one wife as a God-plane relationship.

PART 2---

MORE BIBLICAL KNOWLEDGE REGARDING MARRIAGE ARE ADDED AS ADMONISHINGS FROM PAUL.

FIND OUT WHO HAD COMMITTED POLYGAMY---

ADMONISHING FROM PAUL—ON MARRIAGE

Heb 13:4--The Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

Tit 1:6 -11 WERE DISCUSSED IN THE BEGINNING OF THESE WRITINGS.  

Tit 2: 1 - But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine:

2  That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.--3  The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;

4  That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,--5  To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

Why harlotry is bad-

Harlot is a deep pit-Pr 23:27-28

Pr 23: 27  For a harlot is a deep pit, And a seductress is a narrow well.

28--She also lies in wait as for a victim, And increases the unfaithful among men.

1Co 6: 16  Or do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body with her? For "the two," He says, "shall become one flesh."

17  But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him.

18  Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

1Co 6:19  Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?-- 20  For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.---when joined to the LORD, we become the temple of Holy Spirit, and we are not  our own, we are LORD’S! LORD’s servants should not sin against their own bodies.

 (JESUS CHRIST said Psalms prophets, Moses concerns Him)

Moses wrote in Lev. 19:29 that wickedness would increase in the land due to prostitutes, whores!

(married, unmarried, divorced, widows , could fall into this category)

(-Le 19: 29--written at the beginning of these writings---)

What are some of these wickedness?

Sinning against your own body—getting others to sin,--telling many lies, false accusations, strife, contentions, violence, filthy language, ungodliness, unholiness, back biting, unloving, unmerciful, unforgiving, jealousies, taking revenge, all families connected to such people would suffer many troubles! Peace disrupted in families!

Those wickedness could be experienced with marriage problems!

Look at the following scriptures where those are written--

Ro 1:31  undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving, unmerciful;

2Ti 3:3  unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self–control, brutal, despisers of good,--- 9  but they will progress no further, for their folly will be manifest to all, as theirs also was.

Therefore such wickedness is NOT AT ALL PROFITABLE TO FOLLOWERS OF JESUS CHRIST!

The above kind of wickedness that are associated with harlotry leads one to death-Ro 1;32.

ON THE OTHER HAND—IF ALL PEOPLE FOLLOW THE JUDGMENTS OF JESUS CHRIST, PEACE WOULD PREVAIL! THEN, FAMILIES WOULD BE STRENGTHENED!

THEREFORE JESUS CHRIST NEEDS ALL TO FOLLOW HIS JUDGMENTS WHEN HE CREATES ETERNAL COVENANT!

LAWS ON MARRIAGE SHOULD BE LEARNT---(some are mentioned below)

God hates divorce, Mal 2: 16

LORD had given principles of marriage (marriage relates to mystery of church, Eph 5:32 , how the LORD loves the church---

{ ISRAEL church is spiritual Jerusalem, 1Ki 11:32 -- Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, ---Eze 13:16  -- the prophets of Israel who prophesy concerning Jerusalem, Eze. 21:2  "Son of man, set your face toward Jerusalem, preach against the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel;--- Joe 3:16  The LORD also will roar from Zion, And utter His voice from Jerusalem; ---Eze. 16: 2  Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations,---3  And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem;},

THUS LORD GAVE A PROPHET TO END TIME CHURCH, Eze. 2: 5,33: 33, TO MAKE KNOWN THE ABOMINATIONS OF CHURCH, TO CORRECT THE PEOPLE! LORD spoke through all prophets, but they did not repent, Jer 44: 4,5!

JUST AS A HUSBAND AND A WIFE OF A MARRIAGE OF GOOD STANDING, THE CHURCH SHOULD PREPARE AS WIFE OF JESUS CHRIST!

People are unable to make their marriages perfect, because they do not follow LORD’s instructions! a marriage could be perfected through being doers of the word!

It is difficult to achieve a 100%  perfection, as believers have to grow in the word!

They have to learn the word of God and exercise them!

LOVING---FORGIVING---MERCIFUL---UNDERSTANDING---CARING—SHARING---HUMBLING attitudes are some that matters greatly in a marriage!

Instructions given for relationship of husband and wife, to preserve peace—Chapters 1 Co 6 and 7 (preserve marriage)---Eph Ch. 3,4,5,6 and in many other places, {some Mt 19:8, Col 3:19 , 1Ti 3:11 , 1Pe 3:1} , shows us HOW WE OUGHT TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER,

AND IN THE END TIME--

1 Co 7: 24  Brethren, let every man, wherein he is called, therein abide with God.

TIME IS SHORT---29  But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;

These are the Judgments of JESUS CHRIST, what He taught through Paul!

JESUS CHRIST HIMSELF TAUGHT--

Mt 19:9  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.

Mr 10: 4-12

4  And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away.

5  And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.

6  But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.

7  For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;

8  And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.

9  What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

12  And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.

1Co 7:4  The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.

1Co 7:10 -And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:

1Co 7:11  But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.

Ro 7:3  So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.

JESUS CHRIST WHO TAUGHT 1 CO 7: 11—TO BE RECONCILED TO HER HUSBAND---IS PRACTICING WHAT HE TAUGHT—

Ezekiel CH. 16 IS ABOUT PCG WROTE Gerald Flurry IN HIS BOOKLET “Ezekiel”.

Eze. 16: 8-- I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord GOD, and thou becamest Mine.

Zec 11:10  -- that I might break the covenant which I had made with all the peoples.

Eze 24:21  Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will profane My sanctuary,

Eze. 16: 59  For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even deal with thee as thou hast done, which hast despised the oath in breaking the covenant. (PCG broke the covenant by Eze. 44: 7 abomination)

PCG broke EVEN the Sabbath SIGN , Eze 20:12 ,  TO POLLUTE THEM—THROUGH Eze. 44: 7. (Eze 20:12  "Moreover I also gave them My Sabbaths, to be a sign between them and Me,--- Eze 20:20  ‘hallow My Sabbaths, and they will be a sign between Me and you, that you may know that I am the LORD your God.’).

IF ANYONE POLLUTES HIS Sabbaths---KNOW THAT YOU HAD BROKEN THE SIGN BETWEEN you AND JESUS CHRIST! Sabbath IS A SPECIAL THING THAT BELONGS TO GOD, WHICH HE HAD GIVEN TO THOSE WHO MAKE THE COVENANT WITH HIM!

Ez 20: 21--they profaned My Sabbaths. 23  "Also I raised My hand in an oath to those in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the Gentiles and disperse them throughout the countries,

THAT IS HOW PCG WAS DISPERSED IN NATIONS!

When the LORD speaks of captives of nations, it is about PCG!

That is why they would be saved from captivity in pit, through His blood, Zec 9: 11,

And the nations would be sprinkled of His blood--Isa 52:15  So shall He sprinkle many nations.

PCG would be brought back from captivity after pouring His spirit, from nations, Eze. 39: 28,29, to make the covenant!

Ez 16: 60 - Nevertheless I will remember My covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant.

Eze. 16 : 62  And I will establish My covenant with thee; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD:

JESUS CHRIST thus entered marriage covenant with PCG, Eze. 16: 8, broke it when they broke the covenant, Ez 44: 7, and remarries, Re 19: 7, after granting her garments of Righteousness, Re 19: 8, making an everlasting covenant with PCG, ------PCG  to mother ISRAEL, Eze. 16: 61!

THEREFORE WE SEE HOW JESUS CHRIST HONOURS HIS JUDGMENT IN ---1Co 7:11  But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.

JESUS CHRIST RECONCILES TO HER AFTER MAKING HER RIGHTEOUS THROUGH HIS OWN SACRIFICE , RO 6: 3-7, 19,22!—MT 1: 21

IN THE CASE OF BEING A WIDOW--

If a women’s husband dies she becomes a widow- who is a real widow?-

1 Tim 5:3-16 Explains-9  Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man, 10----if she have diligently followed every good work.---11  But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry;---12  Having damnation, because they have cast off their first faith.---13  And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.

Biblical widow ---one who is over 60 years, wife of one man, who had done good works,

Those under 60 years are not counted as a widow for the above mentioned reasons! Vss 11—13!

Gill’s commentary explains vs. 11 above---“for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ”; that is, being at ease, and without labour, live a wanton, loose, and licentious life, and in carnal lusts and pleasures, contrary to the commands of Christ, and to the reproach and dishonour of His name:

But she is not a widow indeed that lives in pleasure , 1Ti 5:6,

1 Tim 5: 14  I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.

15  For some are already turned aside after Satan.

PCG FAILED HER TEST OF HAROTRY, Ez 16: 15

LORD says-that His wife of Ez 16:8 increased harlotry,  Ez 16: 22  And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast polluted in thy blood.

Eze. 16: 3-14 says how PCG was at the beginning, naked and polluted in her blood, and how the LORD entered into a marriage covenant in her youth!

WHAT HAPPENED TO PCG IS SAID IN THE FOLLOWING VERSES—BY THE LORD HIMSELF--

Eze. 16: 23  And it came to pass after all thy wickedness, (woe, woe unto thee! saith the Lord GOD;), 25   Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way, and hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast opened thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredoms.

26  Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours, great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke Me to anger.--28  Thou hast played the whore also with the Assyrians, because thou wast unsatiable; yea, thou hast played the harlot with them, and yet couldest not be satisfied.

29  Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the land of Canaan unto Chaldea; and yet thou wast not satisfied herewith.

30  How weak is thine heart, saith the Lord GOD, seeing thou doest all these things, the work of an imperious whorish woman;-- 32  But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her husband!—(IN Eze. 44: 7 PCG INVITED STRANGERS AND BROKE THE COVENANT!) –

Ez 16: 35 -  Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD:

36  Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thy filthiness was poured out, and thy nakedness discovered through thy whoredoms with thy lovers, and with all the idols of thy abominations, and by the blood of thy children, which thou didst give unto them;-

-That is how LORD explains—many lovers—EVERY ONE THAT PASSED BY—EGYPTIANS---ASSYRIANS---STRANGERS----THY LOVERS as a wife that committeth adultery 

IT IS MANY LOVERS!

IS IT NOT Spiritual polygamy?????????

THE LORD HIMSELF who made the covenant SAYS!

It is persistent unfaithfulness, which caused the famine, Ez 14:13-

SO THE LORD’S WIFE OF YOUTH COMMITTED spiritual POLYGAMY! That is why Lev. 19:29 happened-the whole land was desolated!. PCG BECAME THE HARLOT OF RE 17: 5!

BUT JESUS CHRIST MAKES THE COVENANT OF YOUTH AGAIN AFTER CORRECTING HIS WIFE!

ISRAEL fathers broke the covenant, Jer 31:32, PCG broke the covenant of youth, Ez 16:59 but LORD corrects His wife and makes the covenant again Ez 16:60-62 ,providing the atonement, vs 63, through His own sacrifice, Ro 6:3-7. GIVING THEM , His Righteousness unto Holiness, Ro 6 19,22.

LORD  judged PCG, Ez 16:40-42, recompensed their deeds on leader,  

So that they do not commit this lewdness above all their abominations,  vs. 43,

Vs.  44-47, PCG was worse,

vs. 49 Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. (when the poor stood against Bamah matter, PCG did not listen to their just cause to stop church from falling!)

50  And they were haughty, and committed abomination before Me: therefore I took them away as I saw good.—(so God took away the poor and needy from PCG),

LORD sent all ISRAEL of Ro 9:4,6(those who had the covenant and right to serve God in God’s church) into captivity, and would bring them back, Ez 16:53.—

Ezekiel 17 parable of eagle tells what happened to PCG leader--

Ez 17:12 --Say now to the rebellious house, Know ye not what these things mean? tell them, Behold, the king of Babylon is come to Jerusalem, and hath taken the king thereof, and the princes thereof, and led them with him to Babylon;

13  And hath taken of the king’s seed, and made a covenant with him, and hath taken an oath of him: he hath also taken the mighty of the land:--14  That the kingdom might be base, that it might not lift itself up, but that by keeping of his covenant it might stand.--15  But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people. Shall he prosper? shall he escape that doeth such things? or shall he break the covenant, and be delivered?

Leader and his helpers (mighty) rebelled as Pharaoh and his horses, they made a covenant on their own---one man leader and his helpers thought of running the church as they want!

17: 16  As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely in the place where the king dwelleth that made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he brake, even with him in the midst of Babylon he shall die.

17  Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company make for him in the war, by casting up mounts, and building forts, to cut off many persons:

Pharaoh was given over to Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, Jer 25:9, Jer 27:8, Jer 28:14 ,

- Jer 29:1  Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the remainder of the elders who were carried away captive––to the priests, the prophets, and all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon.

leader dies spiritually, (becomes Laodiceans), and were in captivity!

Eze. 17: 18  Seeing he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, when, lo, he had given his hand, and hath done all these things, he shall not escape.

19  Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; As I live, surely Mine oath that he hath despised, and My covenant that he hath broken, even it will I recompense upon his own head.—

LORD explains how church leaders went to Babylon, by breaking LORD’s covenant making their own covenant – which is transgressing against LORD!

Therefore JESUS CHRIST PUNISHED THEM WITH HIS CUP OF WRATH, before HE GAVE HIS CUP OF CONSOALTION—

Read—

http://www.restoringcaptivity.com

LORD GAVE HIS CUP OF WRATH FOR THEIR LEWEDNESS--

Ez 16:58--Thou hast borne thy lewdness and thine abominations, saith the LORD.—  

THE CUP CONTAINED—Ps. 11: 6-- Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.

LORD made them drink the cup of His wrath----with the fire of God, Jer 5:14,Jer 23,29 was sent to burn their wickedness-Is 9:18-while gentiles ruled them, Is 3:4,12, when they were spiritually in captivity in nations, Ez 12;15 and ISRAEL would be grafted to the vine again and all saved, Ro 11:26, captivity would end after ISRAEL learn of His spirit which was poured on them, Ez 39:28,29, HIS SPIRIT being words of life to give them life—

Jn 6:63-- the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit,

It is the blood of redemption that cleanses the wife who turned to be the harlot, Ez 16:15, Revelations 17:5, the blood which releases captives, Zec 9:11.

God hates physical  polygamy ( as we understand from the worldly people ) or spiritual polygamy (as we understand from Ez 16)

Through polygamy -----or bigamy -----or immoral sexuality,---- adultery -----or fornication -----peoples minds become CORRUPT AND SINFUL!. All these sins are lusts of the flesh, Gal 5:19;21-- that could destroy the peace and joy of families in lands.

GAL 5: 19  Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

20  Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,

21  Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

If God’s servants are causing these troubles in lands THAT CAUSE PEACE OF LAND TO BE DESTROYED------

ARE THEY AMBASSODORS OF JESUS CHRIST ?

Isa 33: 5  The LORD is exalted, for He dwells on high; He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.

6  Wisdom and knowledge will be the stability of your times, And the strength of salvation; The fear of the LORD is His treasure.

7  Surely their valiant ones shall cry outside, The ambassadors of peace shall weep bitterly.

The true ambassadors of JESUS CHRIST are weeping to see the trouble in the land!

God’s people should understand that LORD hates divorce, Mal 2: 16, AND ----disfellowshipping, Eze 45:9  ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: "Enough, O princes of Israel! Remove violence and plundering, execute justice and righteousness, and stop dispossessing My people," says the Lord GOD.

Therefore, God’s servants should work to bring about peace—teach the people to have peace with one another!

LORD’s covenant is of peace.

Mal 2:5  "My covenant was with him, one of life and peace,

Eze 37:26  "Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them, and it shall be an everlasting covenant with them;

Isa 54:10  For the mountains shall depart And the hills be removed, But My kindness shall not depart from you, Nor shall My covenant of peace be removed," Says the LORD, who has mercy on you.

THEREFORE THE LORD WOULD MAKE AN ETERNAL COVENANT OF PEACE IN Eze. 16: 60-62, WITH PCG AS MOTHER OF REST OF THE CALLED OUT ISRAEL, OF RO 9: 4,6.

If church leaders are associated with physical or spiritual adulterous nature COULD A COVENANT of PEACE TAKE PLACE BETWEEN THE CHURCH AND JESUS CHRIST?

2Co 5:20  Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ’s behalf, be reconciled to God.

Therefore people of God should understand that JESUS CHRIST through His death had paved the way to forgive them and to give newness of life, Ro 6:3,7, and thus when they get baptized unto His death they become sinless and are able to make the marriage covenant with Him, Re 19:7. Therefore LORD’s baptism is the garment mentioned in Re 19:8, THAT COULD MAKE HER RIGHTEOUS, Ro 6: 19,22. When their Righteousness becomes as white linen, they become saints, they are ready as a purified land, a virgin, Beulah & Hepzibah, Is 62:4,5, that land would be new Jerusalem Re 21:1,2.

When we get LORD’s name we are to depart from iniquity,

2 Tim 2;19--Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are His. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.

LORD corrects  the same wife of ISRAEL !----He performs His words TO GIVE Righteousness TO HIS WIFE! then she should DEPART FROM INIQUITY!

Therefore just as Paul said he would preach nothing but JESUS CHRIST and Him crucified, 1 Co 2:2, people of God should BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST AND HIS DEATH  THAT GIVES HIS Righteousness unto Holiness to serve Him, Ro 6: 19,22, NOT BEING SLAVES OF SIN ANY MORE, RO 6: 6!

ALL PRAISE AND THANKS BE TO THE REDEEMER AND SAVIOUR OF ISRAEL, Amen.

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