God’s revelation is often difficult to share because it is so diametrically opposed to commonly held beliefs. Add to that the fact that our natural minds cannot understand the things of the Spirit and people can misunderstand what you are saying.
However, I’m sharing revelation to those who desire to hear what God is saying to this generation. Moreover, revelation is not new teaching, it only states what is presently true. Like switching on the light in a darkened room, revelation only illuminates what is already there. We may be surprised at what the room contains, but once we see the light, the truth is plain for all to see.
Is Marriage Really Sacred?
Is marriage sacred? The Catholic church believes so, calling it a “sacrament”. However, is God the author of marriage, or does He speak about it in a similar manner to Paul speaking about slavery? Is marriage ordained by God? I say “in the beginning it was not so”.
At any rate, as practiced by the normative church, marriage is often times opposite of what they say God intends. Yet to many, correcting this error seems like madness. Most clergy view speaking against “holy matrimony” as an attack on the very foundations of the Christian faith.
This is a hard truth
To be sure, this is a hard truth. The reality that we have sinned before God by marrying strange wives and husbands cuts deeply. To understand that our choice of spouse may not be God’s choice of mate, is more than most can accept. Add to that questions of “what about the children”, and you have a perfect storm of conviction, guilt and shame.
Before you read further, I do understand what you are going through. I sympathize with the agony that many feel about these very personal issues. For some, their marriages are Gordian Knots that have no easy solution. All I can say is trust God and allow Him to lead you step by step. Only YHWH, who sees the end from the beginning, can lead and guide you through these difficult times.
Have you married strange wives?
The truth is, hardly anyone marries as God intends. This is because most people are not Spirit led in their choice of mate nor their choice of religion. Oftentimes, they just do it because they grew up in a community with certain traditions. It is similar to how many chose to wed, it has more to do with proximity and your culture than God.
However, being Spirit led it is different. Regardless of your circumstance, God leads to you to the mate of His Choice. Furthermore, the form of marriage or the lack thereof, doesn’t really matter to God. What does matter to YHWH is whether or not you unite with a Divine Mate of His choosing.
In the Old Testament, the word strange means forbidden or foreign. In the New Testament, Paul refers to the false gods worshiped by the Atheneans as strange. Basically, when you unite with a “strange” wife (or husband) you do so with someone God does not approve of.
God says,
“Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.
For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons: so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass.”
Ezra 9:1,2
According to the scriptures, Approximately 150 of Israel’s leaders, and perhaps many others who are not listed, wed the daughters of idolaters.
God also says,
“All these had taken strange wives: and some of them had wives by whom they had children. “
Ezra 10:44
While in the process of rebuilding the walls and temple of Jerusalem, men made the mistake of marrying outside of God’s will. The brides they took from the neighboring nations were not believers in YHWH, but believed in idolatry. As a consequence, God led them them all to divorce.
Divine Divorce is supported by scripture
The truth is, God both sanctioned and blessed this instance of mass divorce. In fact, the Bible devotes two full chapters to Divine Divorce. In order to rebuild Jerusalem, it was absolutely necessary that His people come back into alignment with His will. Unless they rectified these foolish vows, Jerusalem was doomed.
Likewise, and on a much bigger scale, many have married strange wives. Many women have also married strange husbands. Doing so no only is bad for their lives , but in also detrimental to the whole work of God.
It is difficult to be the bride of Christ while married to a strange spouse
Though I do not know what percentage of marriages are out of the will of God, I suspect it is greater than the national divorce rate. People marry for all sorts of reasons, usually not many of which are from God.
Therefore, we have many in our churches that are hopelessly stuck in relationships that are actually contrary to God’s will. These instances of unholy matrimony hinder God’s work and prevent the maturation of His spotless bride.
Put away your strange wives
As hard as this saying is, in order to follow God, the men of Israel had to put away their strange wives, some of whom they had children with. In order for God’s will to be done, the element of idolatry needed to be purged. Likewise, if you have married a strange husband or wife, you will have to put them away too.
Those who teach that Christians should stay with their present spouse, no matter what the circumstances, are wrong. If God did not author your union, it doesn’t matter if you were married in Westminster Abbey, God doesn’t recognize your union. All you have, at most, is an earthly contract between two people sanctioned by your church and/or state.
Divine Divorce
In instances of unholy matrimony, God institutes Divine Divorce. Just as Christ cleansed the temple, when God comes back to His temple made without hands, it must be cleansed also. If you are married to someone who is not God’s choice, is it not obvious that God would address that issue?
The Tabernacle Experience is all about restoration of the first love of Eden. As such, all that is not of God cannot enter into that experience. If something so fundamental as your mate is contrary to God’s plan, they must go just like the strange wives of book of Ezra.
In conclusion
Foolish vows made against God’s will is the Elephant in the room no one wants to talk about. Holy matrimony is one of the most damaging doctrines the church presently teaches. Contrary to what many clergy say, earthly contracts do not equal Divine Mates. Moreover, Divine Mates exist independent of earthly contracts. Only God joins us through spiritual connections and without His blessings, we greatly err.
This Depicts Divine Love, Anything less is not
what God created
SEOIS-J
Dear Connections,
God does not hate animals. In fact, our Father saved more animals than humans during the great flood. However, when you bring animals into His house, He has a problem.
Likewise, God does not hate marriage. If you want to make an earthly contract to sort out legal matters, that is fine with YHWH. However, while the form of the earthly marriage doesn’t matter that much to God, it does matter a great deal if you wed as He desires.
The truth is, God does not cause Divine Divorce, it’s only a consequence of following His Spirit. Jesus only drove out the animals from the Temple because the people selling them did so in His Father’s house. God’s house was a holy place and people were profaning it. When God cleansed His temple through Jesus, those things that were not His will had to go. Had they been outside, where they should have been, Jesus would have done nothing.
God bless,
Michael
Would you agree there are instances when someone DOES marry someone God clearly leads them to, but not to a spiritual connection, but then God gives them a spiritual connection – or even a divine mate – that is not their spouse? Two different purposes for two different relationships, perhaps? – one earthly and one eternal?
Dear CL,
I believe that in the beginning it was not so. Nor, if Adam and Eve had not sinned, would it have been like that going forward either. The question then becomes, is your present mate keeping you from fulfilling God’s will in your life? That is something no one is qualified to judge but you and God.
Personally, I don’t believe that every minister is called to know the full truth. I have seen good men and women of God who work within established religion that, though they love God, are in no way going to move on with Him in to the deeper things of His Spirit. What I think is that God wants to minister to those people they are serving and if they, for instance, understood the revelation of the oneness, perhaps they could no longer serve where they are. Knowing the full truth isolates you. There was a reason John the Baptist was In the wilderness. In his case, he was the Elijah which was for to come and needed to be alone with God to ready himself to prepare the way for God’s son. The truth is, not everyone is called to be John the Baptist.
Does God postpone Divine Mates until eternity? I tend to believe not. Does God recognize the situation that they are in as relevant to His will? I tend to think no. My personal belief is that if your present mate is not hindering the will of God then He may leave things be. However, each and every situation is so different and only YHWH can guide us at those times.
When I talk about Divine Divorce is has to do with those who make rash vows that severely alter the course of their lives away from Him. This is what happened to the leaders of Israel when they married strange wives. These were not just local women who mattered not to the plan of God, these were daughters of abject idolaters who would pollute God’s people with their worship of false Gods. In such a situation, or its equivalent in our day, God does ask people put away their strange wives and husbands. However, if you are married to a believer and they are pleased to dwell with how God works in your spiritual connection, that is not a divine divorce situation (unless God specifically says so).
The power of spiritual connections and specifically Divine Mates is immense. God most often moves His plan forward through such chosen pairs. If our earthly contracts do not prevent His will from being done, perhaps He will leave well enough alone.
Moreover, one of the mistakes the apostle Paul made is that he was too detailed about what people should and should not do to serve God. While Paul was lead of the Spirit, those who came after him were not. Therefore, because of his pharisaical training, he gave a blueprint for believing in Christ that ended up putting the church in bondage for the next 2000 years. I am beginning to realize that I may be doing the same thing to some extend by describing so much.
In your particular situation those around you, if I understand you right, are limiting your access to each other in the natural realm. While this is not ideal, you have gone to God and are in constant contact with him through the Spirit. You are a strong woman of faith, so I don’t think you are buckling under pressure from others, but trying to be Spirit lead. However, and this is what I feel to say to you by the Spirit, this is only for a time and a season. You cannot stay apart for too long because God wants to use you to bring forth His will by completing your spiritual connection in whatever way He sees fit.
In conclusion, you particular connection is very special and something I have not come across before. I think that you know you are paired for eternity. The bottom line is that you have to ask yourself “are allowing God or your circumstances dictate what you’re willing to d?” Often we must lose our life in order to save it. I think what you are wrestling with is the question of whether you should be with your Divine Mate or stay with you present marriage. I don’t think you can know that right now for certain. What I do know is that you cannot allow other people to put asunder what God has joined together.
Big hugs,
Michael
Thank you, Michael. I appreciate your grace and your candid reply. I also thank you very much for sharing what you feel led by the Spirit to say to me. Each time you have done that, it spoke something to me that God had been saying, but I was having a hard time believing….so thank you.
If you don’t mind, can you explain what you mean by saying our particular connection is very special and one you have not come across before? You have been teaching on and experiencing spiritual connections for over 30 years, right?
Hi CL,
Hope all is well with you. I didn’t mean much by it other than the configuration of your connection. The things you are experiencing within it are pretty much what others have had happen to them.
When people are moving in the spirit they don’t react with jealousy and envy as they normally do in the world. Therefore, there is kind of the tacit approval of anything God does by His Spirit.
You have a very sweet and gentle spirit and I recognize you as someone who is very careful, not out of fear, but out of love for God and others. However, even with your compassion and grace for those around you, you have a surprising steadfastness in Him. These are all traits of agape love spoken about in 1 Corinthians 13 and the are fruits of the Spirit.
I have wondered when you spiritual connection began and what were the sequence of events to it. My sense is that it began before other things happened. If that is so, then that means God was on about something else entirely and the enemy of our souls stepped in and muddied the water, putting seemingly insurmountable road blocks between you.
The thing is, when you walk against the wind it is always a tough slog of it. However, when you go with the wind you always have and extra push behind you. It is like that in the Spirit too, for when you are going with God things tend to just work out no matter what they look like. When you are going against His will everything just seems to be difficult.
The fact of the matter is that sometimes you can’t see the future from where you are even if God tells you plainly about it. By faith, we have to change our position in order to see things from His vantage point. What looks impossible from where we are is actually quite doable from where God is at.
Bottom line of all this is that I don’t feel to speak plainly about your specific situation here on a public forum. I think you quite understand what I am saying anyway. Like I said, the separation you are experiencing is not of God even though you have experienced grace during it. Until you are together and God can speak through each of you to one another, I don’t think the way forward will appear.
Inconclusion, don’t despair because God does not call in vain and if He has joined you, then there is a way forward. However, it is super important that you complete whatever God is calling you too with your connection. The alternative does more damage than we can possibly imagine.
Big hugs and God bless,
Michael
Thank you, Michael! I genuinely appreciate your insight and comments, and am always taking them to Jesus for clarity and wisdom, but He uses you to clear some things up for me…. and I agree, we must complete what He is calling us to do. He is moving for sure these days, and I feel spiritual blockages are coming down…..
Thank you for your faithfulness!
Blessings!
Dear CL,
Lovely! God bless and have a wonderful evening.
God bless,
Michael
Amen a very powerful message.