But as the yamim/days of Noach were, SO shall also the coming of the Ben Ahdahm be. For as in the yamim/days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, UNTIL THE YOM/day that Noach entered into the ark, --- Matt 24:37, 38
With all these weddings and childbirths going on, you would think that the people who are seen so CONFIDENTLY "eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage" while HORRIBLE circumstances are occurring ALL OVER THE WORLD are not the pagans/UNBELIEVERS, but the Nazarene Yisraelites/Believers who are SCRAMBLING to get ECHAD and bear as much "fruit" as possible before the "Final Return"!!!
Can you imagine the PAIRS of people & animals forming in ORGANIZED & SET-APART alignment to ENTER the ark and do the will of Abba YHWH as COMMANDED to Noach?
17 And, see, I, even I, do bring a flood of mayim/water upon the earth, to DESTROY all flesh, in which is the breath of chayim/life, from under the shamayim/heavens; and everything that is in the earth shall die.
18 But with you I will establish My brit/covenant; and you shall come into the tayvah/ark, you, and your sons, and your wife, and your sons' wives with you.
19 And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shall you bring into the tayvah, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female.
20 Of the fowl after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after its kind, two of every sort shall come to you, to keep them alive.
21 And take for you all food that is eaten, and you shall gather it to you; and it shall be for food for you, and for them.
22 So Noach did according to all that Elohim commanded him; so HE DID.
I don't know of many pagans/unbelievers doing OFFICIAL, Torah-based weddings, and if they are "getting together", they are ABORTING or PREVENTING the zera/SEED from being brought to fruition!!!
WOW!!! Baruk Ha Shem YHWH!!!
Oh, and of course, we're eating and drinking 'cause the Abba YHWH gives us our yomly/daily bread ALWAYS--and always EXTRA on the MOADIM/appointed times!!!!!!
Baruk SHEMO/Blessed be His Name!!!
And woe to them that are with child, and to them that are nursing children in those yamim/days! --Matt 24:17 19
Oh, and THIS doesn't mean, "Get SCARED and DON'T have any children." On the contrary, the Yisraelites that were exiting Mitzrayim were BIRTHING the next generation during their trek and THOSE yeladim/children were the ones that were favored to ENTER Eretz Yisra'el with Yahushua!!!!
Baruk SHEMO, again!!!! HalleluYAH!!!
So the MAIN POINT of all this "COMMOTION" is the RESTORATION of ALL things: And Elohim blessed Noach and his sons, and said to them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. ---Beresheet/Genesis 6:1
________________________________________________________________________Marriage and Sex in the Millennial Kingdom
Some insights by Chris Schaefer © 2008
Do you still have room to be shocked some more? OK then. Scripture proves that there will be sexual activity amongst married believers in the atid lavoh, or millennial kingdom. Let's see:
Mattithyahu-Matthew 22:23-32:
23 The same day came to Him the Sadducees/Tzadukim, who say that there is no resurrection and asked Him,
24 Saying, Master, Moshe said, If a man dies, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife and raise up zera/seed for his brother.
25 Now there were among us seven brothers: and the first, when he had married a wife, he died and, having no children, left his wife to his brother:
26 Likewise the second also and the third, all the way to the seventh.
27 And last of all, the woman died also.
28 Therefore in the resurrection whose wife shall she be from the seven? For they all had her as a wife.
29 Yahshua answered and said to them, You are led astray, not knowing the Keetvay HaKadosh /Scriptures, or the power of YHWH.
30 For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the heavenly malachim/angels of YHWH in the shamayim/heavens.
31 But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have you not read that which was spoken to you by Eloah, saying,
32 I am the Eloah of Avraham and the Eloah of Yitzchak and the Eloah of Yaakov? Eloah is not the Eloah of the dead, but of the living.
Yahushua answers them precisely according to their question. They asked about in the resurrection. They did not ask about after the resurrection, or the millennium. To verify that they asked the wrong question, Yahushua says their asking about marriage only touched the subject of the resurrection of the dead; nothing else.
What can malachim/angels do that we cannot? They can fly. In the resurrection, we fly out of our tombs and apparently fast.
Since they asked about "in the resurrection", how long does "in the resurrection" last?
First Corinthians-Qorintyah Aleph 15:50-55:
50 Now this I say, Yisraelite brothers, that flesh and dahm-blood cannot inherit the malchut-kingdom of YHWH; neither does corruption inherit incorruption.
51 Behold, I show you a sod-mystery; We shall not all die, but we shall all be changed,
52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye [nano second], at the last shofar: for the shofar shall sound and the dead shall be raised incorruptible and we shall be changed.
53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption and this mortal must put on immortality.
54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
55 O death, where is your sting? O Sheol-Grave, where is your victory?
A twinkling of an eye. So for a brief moment, in the resurrection, people apparently aren't married to their current spouses because death and/or resurrection have freed them from their marriage covenants.
Revelation 20:4: And I saw thrones and they sat upon them and mishpat/judgment was given to them: and I saw the beings of them that were beheaded [by the end time Islamic beast].
10 for the witness of Yahushua and for the Word of YHWH,
11 and who had not worshiped the beast, or his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Moshiach a thousand years.
By necessity, for the millennial Kingdom and beyond, people reproduce and therefore need to be married to reproduce. The church has told us that resurrected beings are void of marriage and sex. Says who? The resurrected human beings live and reign with Moshiach for 1000 years. Are we supposed to believe that the resurrected beings get the short end of the stick and are deprived of heterosexual marriage, while the pagans of the earth over whom we rule, still are granted that privilege and pleasure for 1,000 years?
Exactly who the resurrected are married to only Yahushua knows. Since the Sadducees/Tzadukim asked the wrong question and Yahushua answered their question concerning marriage in the resurrection and not marriage in the millennial kingdom, we will have to wait to find out the answer. We also see that none of the 7 brothers will be married to the woman of Matthew 22, as death will have broken, or ended 7 marriage covenants and the brother (if saved) will be given a NEW bride to repopulate the kingdom with righteous seed.
Married people in this age cannot be changed into eunuchs in the millennium, because that would be unacceptable in the presence of YHWH. Additionally, what blessing is it for a bride to be rendered eternally sterile? If all believers are the collective bride of Moshiach, then they must be blessed with the capacity to reproduce.
Yeshayahu-Isaiah 65:20-24 tells us an amazing truth about repopulation in the millennium on earth:
20 There shall be no more there an infant of just a few days, nor an old man that has not filled his days: for the child shall die a hundred years old; but the sinner being a hundred years old shall be cursed.
21 And they shall build houses and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards and eat the fruit of them [kingdom activity].
22 They shall not build and another inhabit; they shall not plant and another eat: for as the days of an eytz/tree so are the days of My people and My chosen people shall outlive the work of their hands.
23 They shall not labor in vain, nor conceive children for trouble; for they are the zera-seed blessed of YHWH and their offspring remains with them.
In verse 21, it tells us of the labor that the saved will perform (building, planting) and then in v. 23, it says that that labor will not be in vain, as when others in this world take away our efforts. Likewise, when verse 23 says: "nor conceive children for trouble," that doesn't mean that they won't conceive children; the rest of the verse explains that they are the blessed seed/zera and their offspring remains with them. Their offspring (children of conception during the kingdom on earth) will not die. In order to have literal earthly kingdom children, there has to be sex (and of course the ONLY Kadosh-holy pattern of sex in Scripture is heterosexual marriage).
We can safely assume that the kingdom will feature both monogamous and plural marriages, as Torah is eternal, along with its liberal allowances.
The church's myth that we cease to be sexual beings in the world to come is nothing more than another fossilized custom! We will marry and have children in the atid lavoh/millennial kingdom.
So then how do we make sense of Luke's account of the same setting seen in Matthew 22, where Yahushua's reply is a bit more detailed?
Luke 20:34-35:
34 And Yahushua answering said to them, The children of the olam hazeh/this world marry and are given in marriage:
35 But those who shall be accounted worthy to obtain the olam haba-age to come and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage:
36 Neither can they die any more: for they are like the heavenly malachim-messengers; and are the children of Eloah, being the children of the resurrection.
37 Now that the dead are raised, even Moshe showed at the bush, when he called the Master YHWH the Eloah of Avraham and the Eloah of Yitzchak and the Eloah of Yaakov.
38 For He is not the Eloah of the dead, but of the living: for all live to Him.
The accounting process still takes place in the twinkling of an eye. During that accounting process there's no time for marriages. The main event at that time is the accounting. If Scripture verifies itself and is harmonious with itself (which it is and does) v. 35 cannot be a negation of marriage! "To obtain the olam haba" refers to something that occurs after the resurrection, which occurs after the accounting of those worthy.
So three events in this order: 1 the accounting, 2 the resurrection, 3 the millennial kingdom (the kingdom to come).
In verse 35: "Neither marry; nor are given in marriage." Our marriage practices in this current world have a lot of rough spots. Our autonomy has often resulted in disaster (even in this world, arranged marriages have better longevity than non-arranged marriages, but still can be problematic).
So whether we choose our marriage partners (marry) in this fallen world, or they are chosen for us by our parents (given in marriage) in this fallen world, the matches for the most part are highly and clearly imperfect. Yahushua in His wisdom knows best. So who we end up married to in the kingdom to come has to be arranged by Him, but not by human arrangement, or autonomy. The marriage in the kingdom is not according to this world's customs and traditions, but according to the Wisdom of Elohim.
By scriptural standards, to really live, to be really living means to reproduce within marriage. And in the kingdom to come, reproduction has to be by a class of marriage that is not of this world. We will have new spouses and new children with whom we will spend eternity. YHWH has promised to make all things new! Revelation 21:5.
There are five positive fruits that result from the teaching of millennial marriage and reproduction:
1. Believers are under far less pressure to hurry up and get married to just any other believer. They know Yahushua will give them the correct spouse/s in the kingdom.
2. Believers who are already in difficult marriages have something to look forward to in the kingdom to come and thereby have more incentive to endure this life.
3. Potential prospective converts are no longer discouraged by the error of thinking the Creator is some sort of cosmic killjoy, who takes sex and marriage out of the reward for faithful believers, leaving it only to the heathen over whom we reign.
4. Since perfection is properly anticipated (for the millennial marriages assigned by Elohim), then the unrealistic expectation for perfect marriages in this world, isn't an added stress factor.
5. Young unmarried believers are no longer under the pressure to have sex at least once before they die, based upon the erroneous fear of a sexless afterlife.
In Evangelical Christian circles, this is even a greater problem because so many are erroneously anticipating a pre-Tribulation rapture. To be "raptured" means no sex ever after the so called rapture. To a young person with pumping hormones, that sounds like hell in heaven. So what do they do? Fornicate with the presumption that they can ask for forgiveness later right before the alleged rapture. The rates of fornication within evangelical circles bear this out.
Speaking of the millennial kingdom, let's take a closer look at Isaiah chapter 4, verses 1-6, a fascinating piece of Scripture. This is one of the clearest evidences that what today is an option, or an allowance (patriarchal/plural marriage) will be the order of the day in the 1,000 year reign of Yahushua over the earth from Jerusalem.
1 And in that day[seventh day millennium] seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own lechem/bread and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by your name, to take away our reproach.
Seven women will be married to one man, not for material benefits, but for kingdom living and the harmony of the Yisra'elite family in the kingdom. Yahushua will work His authority over the earth in the kingdom through plural marriages! Rather than being sinful, plural marriage actually takes away reproach for many women who have been abused and neglected in the Commonwealth of Israel.
2 In that day shall the Branch of YHWH be beautiful and full of tifereth/glory and the fruit of the land[fruits of the Set Apart Spirit] shall be excellent and comely for those that are escaped of Yisra'el.
In context, the glory and beauty of Messiah Yahushua, the fruits of the Spirit and the land of Israel, will be given to those Israelites who are blood washed, who have not only escaped the nations, but in context, are living as glorious examples of plural marriage families, through whom Yahushua exercises His kingdom rule.
3 And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Tzion and he that remains in Yahrushalayim, shall be called Kadosh-holy, even everyone that is written among the living in Yahrushalayim:
Plural marriage families will live with Messiah in Jerusalem and be called kadosh/holy whose names are written in the Lamb's Book of Life. Note this carefully. Plural marriage families are called HOLY and the majority of kingdom citizens will be living in plural marriage. Unlike this world's sick governments, Yahushua in His kingdom rule will not mandate monogamy and may not even allow it, based on the fact that monogamy brought us the first fallen sinners (Adam and Eve) as well as the first known murderer (Cain). This will be a new start in every which way!
4 When YHWH shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Tzion/Zion and shall have purged the bloodguilt of Yahrushalayim-Jerusalem from the midst of it by the Ruach/Spirit of mishpat/judgment and by the Ruach/Spirit of burning.
When will plural marriage be restored as the order for kingdom living? When both houses are saved and fully washed from all their pagan practices, including state and church mandated monogamy, by the Holy Spirit of burning, or the burning of the filth and pagan practices in both wounded houses of Israel. The daughters (plural) of Tzion-Zion ALL become the bride of Yahushua.
5 And YHWH will create upon every dwelling place of Har Tzion-Mt. Zion and upon her gatherings, a cloud and smoke by day and the shining of a flaming of fire by night: for upon all, the tifereth/glory shall be an eternal Shechinah covering.
YHWH's glory will cover and abide over all those families with seven wives married to one man! Does that sound like plural marriage was a sin yesterday, or is today, or will be in the millennium? Mankind has greatly sinned against Yahuwah, in calling patriarchal marriage dirty and problematic. Are you truly willing to repent of bearing false witness against Yahuwah and His chosen messengers?
6 And there shall be a sukkah for a shadow in the daytime from the heat and for a place of refuge and for a cover from storm and from rain.
This is the promise to all those who have gathered according to the pattern of Isaiah 4:1-6. An eternal tabernacle with Yahushua Himself, as He becomes a refuge to plural married families, who previously had been scorned and ridiculed in this current age.
Another proof that there will be excellent plural marriage sex during the millennial kingdom on earth is seen in the remez, or the hint application of Genesis 1:28:
And Elohim blessed them and Elohim said to them, Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth.
In other words, have sex on biblical Shabbat! The 7th day Shabbat is a foreshadow of the start of the 7th 1,000 year period after the creation of Adam and Eve. If the weekly Shabbat was set aside for rest and sexual pleasure, how much more the coming millennial kingdom right here on earth? What do you do on Shabbat, other than rest and congregate? Selah
Even so, come Mar-Yah Yahushua!
Shalom, brother, you have not posted in months. Is everything kosher?
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