Is Christ’s church not His betrothed, as Israel was chosen of the Lord?
A word for the Church from Prophets of old:
Jeremiah 2
Israel Forsakes the Lord
The word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2 “Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem, Thus says the Lord,
“I remember the devotion of your youth,
your love as a bride,
how you followed me in the wilderness,
in a land not sown.
3 Israel was holy to the Lord,
the first fruits of his harvest…
“Dearly beloved,” begins our covenant witness for marriage.
“Dear Lord Jesus,” we praise Christ when first we bow to Him.
9 “Therefore I still contend with you,
declares the Lord,
and with your children’s children I will contend…
19 Your evil will chastise you,
and your apostasy will reprove you.
Know and see that it is evil and bitter
for you to forsake the Lord your God;
the fear of me is not in you,
declares the Lord God of hosts.
20 “For long ago I broke your yoke
and burst your bonds;
but you said, ‘I will not serve.’
Yes, on every high hill
and under every green tree
you bowed down like a whore…
DIVORCE, by ‘christian’ husbands?
DIVORCE, by ‘christian’ wives?
You have long ago forsaken your love for the Lord your God. Your whoredom is against Christ Jesus, your returning Bridegroom!
Our “Lord,” Christ Jesus warns: “Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, permitted you to divorce … but from the beginning it was not so. – Matthew 19:8
Ephesians 5:22 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord…
25 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church… that she might be holy and without blemish.
31 “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.”
32 This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church.
How dare we (christians) even speak of the sexual sin of the world, when we have not returned to the purity Christ Jesus expects of His betrothed so soiled in sexual sin!
Jeremiah 2:
22 Though you wash yourself with lye
and use much soap,
the stain of your guilt is still before me,
declares the Lord God…
29 “Why do you contend with me?
You have all transgressed against me,
declares the Lord.
30 In vain have I struck your children;
they took no correction…
Do our christian children witness the love and forgiveness of Christ even less than their divorced christian parents?
Do our christian children sell their flesh and souls to the same sexual desires we would hide from the world?
To be continued…
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