Puzzling Passages Made Plain: The Bickering Harlots

While the story of the harlots (yes, they were prostitutes!) arguing over a baby (1 Kings 3:16-28) demonstrated the knowledge and wisdom of God operating through someone, its symbolism is overlooked. Why were prostitutes allowed to go before the king? Every part of Scripture reveals more than one purpose and here is the deeper meaning behind the tale:

Harlot – heresy (an incorrect opinion); which one was telling the truth (cares about what God thinks)?

Mother – instruction, nourishment; which one abdicated her responsibility (seeking and obeying the will of God as Y’shua taught in Matthew 6:33) and attempted to hide it (putting on an appearance)? See Romans 2:28-29.

Solomon – peace; YHWH Shalom (the Lord is my peace); the king represents God’s desire to bring order and peace. One of Y’shua’s names from Isaiah says He will be the Prince of Peace.

The two harlots being before the king – God deals with all. Jesus searched for the lost sheep of Israel and yet healed a few Gentiles along the way to show how far-reaching His Father’s mercy is.

A baby boy – a new covenant (agreement) – Moses, Samuel, Seth, Issac, and Jesus are the major examples of this symbol. In this story. Yah chooses who will get it. See Matthew 22:14, John 6:44, Revelation 17:14.

The dead baby boy – the rejection of Yah’s gift; the abortion of His given authority. See Proverbs 29:1, John 3:36, Acts 13:46, Acts 18:6.

Switching the babies – trying to get to Yah by other means. See John 10:1

The sword – the sword of truth divides flesh and soul to get into the heart; cutting away the influence of the flesh and soul (refinement)

The harlot who says kill the child – the spiritually dead or willfully immature

The harlot who says give the child to the other woman – death of self, self-sacrificing, humility

The judgment of Solomon to give the child to the one willing to give the child up – the Holy Spirit calling believers out of the world to become ambassadors of the Kingdom.

The moral of the story: He favors those who are willing to give up everything to follow Yah’s supernatural will. See Matthew 6:19-20, Matthew 19:21, Matthew 19:29, Mark 10:29-30, Luke 18:29

Praises to Him for hiding His Son’s future and present activities throughout all of Scripture.

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Thought Splatters (Plink!)

The Will of God begat the Word of God; the Word of God begat the creation. Through the creation (womb), the Will (father) and the Word (mother) begat His children, who are being raised into His likeness. This is the object of the game. Are you ready to play?

Beware of the deadly Ds: distraction, deception, discontentment and delusion.

In the Hebrew Bible, all of the offspring of the woman filled with Yah’s authority will crush the snake’s (beast’s) head. The crushed beast symbolizes the preference of the spiritual nature over the carnal one and the outside world’s influence. Yahshua called the authority “the Kingdom of God.” Those within the Kingdom of God will receive direction straight from Him.

My two new words – promise chasers and blessing beggars – have slightly different meanings. The former twists Scripture in order to demand things from God, while the latter believes their goodness will net rewards here on earth. Both groups try to avoid or pray away their trials by fire. Jesus never promised “your best life now”—look at how many times He brought up suffering, trouble (tribulation), division, persecution, and other things contrary to the “positivity” and “life-vision making” popular today. If they do not repent of this, their fate will be the one of the “five foolish virgins.”

Many who profess Christ as Lord and Savior do not understand that whatever we do in this plane of existence, affects the spiritual realm, and, in turn, trickles down to the rest of the planet. That is what Yahshua meant when He said “…whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.” And “The kingdom of heaven is like leaven that a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, till it was all leavened.”

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On the Top Right…

Under the title Blogroll, I have listed a fraction of the people I listen to or had listened to since 2009. The range of agreement I have with each of them is 70-95%, but I pray that those who check out the link will be edified, especially with their discernment from the Father’s knowledge and wisdom. As always, seek Him for the truth; watch and wait for the answers.

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Thought Splatters (Blip!)

Prophets can be corrupted. See Jeremiah, 1 Kings 22:13, Isaiah 30:10.

A perfect marriage is not one that suffers little-to-no strife or avoids conflict; it is one that no matter what life throws at it, it stays strong and grows stronger. That is the symbolic bond of maturation between Christ and the ones He calls unto Himself. See Acts 14:22, John 15:18, John 15:20, John 16:33, Romans 8:35, Romans 12:12, Romans 12:14, 1 Corinthians 4:12-13, 1 Peter 2:21.

Ezekiel’s vision of the Temple with a river flowing from it is what Y’shua spoke of in John 7:38. Also see Proverbs 10:11, Proverbs 18:4, Isaiah 12:3, Isaiah 41:18, Jeremiah 2:13, Zechariah 14:8.

“Keep my commandments” is mentioned over 60 times in Scripture. The word keep in the both the Hebrew and Greek does not mean either do or obey, but guard, protect, or preserve. We are called to have the Law (His supernatural desire for your life) written in our hearts and watch over it, “…so that no one takes your crown (reward or authority given).”

“Keep my commandments” = “protect my instruction” – the male (government, guidance) protects the female (instruction, nourishment) – both are needed for the children (of Yah).

In John 13:34, Jesus said He gave them “…a new command,” but He technically cannot add or subtract from Torah (the Law, instruction, legal food for sheep). I understood it as it was not new to Him but to the disciples, since the leaders in Moses’ seat gave them so many man-made rules that they could not follow Torah properly. After running across someone mentioning this in passing during a Hebrew Roots video, I decided to look up the actual Greek term. The word translated as new is kainēn or kainos, the short definition being “new-in-quality or innovation.” This shows His Father wanted His children to practice this from the get go, see Leviticus 19:18.

More bad translations: the areas where the phrase “first day of the week” is mia sabbaton, or first Sabbath in the Greek. Different Greek words translated as preach obscure the meaning of them. At times like these I feel like I need to translate the Bible for myself.

When God said in Scripture, “I am doing a new thing,” He did not mean new as in completely different, but “taking it to the next level.” Notice that each change in how God conducted His business with man led to more spiritual power and authority given to an increasing number of people. Today, we are called to be “kingly priests” unto the Lord (Exodus 19:6, 1 Peter 2:9, 1 Peter 4:11, Revelation 1:6, Revelation 5:10) and “serving prophets” [the gifts (tools) and fruit (results) of the Holy Spirit] unto the Body.

Did anyone notice that the child Samuel, a Benjamite, was allowed into the Holy Place to minister to the Father? Also as an adult, he was able to make sacrifices for the people outside the Tabernacle?

The glory of the Lord filled the Tabernacle in the wilderness and Solomon’s Temple after it was first built, but not the repaired one or Herod’s of Y’shua’s day. Why? To symbolize the future of church and religion as spiritual dead works. The Kingdom is not about church or religion, but operating in the spirit realm (heaven) under Yah’s nurturing guidance. We, the Body, are now the Temple built without hands. See 1 Chronicles 17:12, Matthew 12:6, John 2:19, 2 Corinthians 5:1, Hebrews 9:11.

Pagans, who believe the creation story in Genesis, say that Adam had both sex organs when he was created. I argue that Adam had both male and female spiritual and soulish attributes, but not the physical ones – those were created when Yah removed the woman from the side (not rib) of Adam. The them in the translation of Genesis 1:27 is not in the original text.

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Catechize Time! Part Four – Bible

Q: What is a bible?
A: A collection of related books

Q: How many parts?
A: Old and New Testaments

Q: What is the first book?
A: Genesis

Q: What is the last book?
A: Revelation

Q: How many books?
A: 66

Q: How many books are on the OT?
A: 39

Q: How many books are in the NT?
A: 27

Q: What is the Hebrew Bible called?
A: The Tanahk

Q: Where is Torah found?
A: The Pentateuch – the first five books of the Bible

Q: Who wrote the Pentateuch?
A: Moses

Q: Which is the oldest book?
A: Job

Q: What is the last book of the OT?
A: Malachi

Q: What is first book of the NT?
A: Matthew

Q: What are the four Gospels?
A: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John

Q: What book did Jesus quote from the most?
A: Deuteronomy

Q: How many laws are in Torah?
A: 613

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Catechize Time! Part Three – Symbolism

Q: What does Egypt symbolize?
A: The world

Q: What does Babylon represent?
A: A powerful country or group in disobedience

Q: What is the wilderness?
A: A time of testing

Q: What is light?
A: Knowledge and wisdom from God

Q: What is darkness?
A: Ignorance (lack of knowledge) of what God wants

Q: What does clothing represent?
A: A person’s character

Q: What does a male represent?
A: The flesh; the spirit; government or guidance – good or bad

Q: What is bad governance symbolized as?
A: A beast

Q: What does a female represent?
A: The soul; instruction or nurturing – good or bad

Q: What symbolizes good instruction received?
A: A virgin

Q: What symbolizes good instruction practiced?
A: A bride

Q: What symbolizes bad instruction practiced?
A: A harlot

Q: What symbolizes backsliding?
A: An adulteress

Q: What does famine symbolize?
A: Death of truth

Q: What does healing represent?
A: Salvation

Q: What does leprosy or illness symbolize?
A: Sin

Q: What does leaven represent?
A: Influence, good or bad

Q: What do birds symbolize?
A: Spirits, good or bad

Q: How are good spirits symbolized?
A: doves, clean birds for eating

Q: How are bad spirits symbolized?
A: unclean or flesh-eating ones

Q: What does the serpent symbolize?
A: Satan, the adversary

Q: What does a lion represent?
A: Pride or unbridled power

Q: What does a horse represent?
A: Reliance on men for protection

Q: What does a chariot represent?
A: Reliance on the tools of war

Q: What does a horn represent?
A: Power

Q: What does blood symbolize?
A: Life, soul

Q: What does a crown represent?
A: Authority given to someone by God

Q: What does “a woman in travail (giving birth)” mean?
A: Great distress during God’s judgment

Q: What does the hand represent?
A: Actions, good or bad

Q: What does the arm represent?
A: Exercising authority

Q: What do the feet represent?
A: Our life moving either towards or away from God

Q: What does the forehead represent?
A: The mind

Q: What do the ears represent?
A: The “mouth” the soul and spirit “eat” through

Q: What do the eyes represent?
A: Discernment; how the soul and spirit “drink” God’s actions.

Q: What does a path represent?
A: How we live our lives, good or bad

Q: What does “His face” mean?
A: His presence, His favor, His attention

Q: What is “seed”?
A: Descendants

Q: What does “tongue” mean?
A: Language, speech

Q: What do trees symbolize?
A: People

Q: What does an olive tree represent?
A: Israel

Q: What does a fig tree represent?
A: Judah

Q: What does fruit symbolize?
A: Results, good or bad

Q: What does olive oil represent?
A: The Holy Spirit

Q: What does the number 1 symbolize?
A: Unity

Q: What does the number 2 symbolize?
A: Division and separation; minimum number of witnesses for a matter to be established

Q: What does the number 3 symbolize?
A: A paradigm shift, completion

Q: What does the number 4 symbolize?
A: Earthly completion or truth

Q: What does the number 5 symbolize?
A: Grace, power

Q: What does the number 6 symbolize?
A: Man, beasts

Q: What does the number 7 symbolize?
A: Spiritual perfection or completion

Q: What does the number 8 symbolize?
A: A new beginning

Q: What does the number 9 symbolize?
A: Judgment

Q: What does the number 10 symbolize?
A: Human works or government

Q: What does the number 11 symbolize?
A: Chaos, failure, lacking

Q: What does the number 12 symbolize?
A: God’s government

Q: What does the number 40 symbolize?
A: Testing and trials

Q: What does the Jordan River represent?
A: Death through baptism

Q: What is the Word of God is symbolized by?
A: Lamp, light, bread, living (running) water, fire, solid food, milk, sword, hammer, seed, anchor

Q: What did the Tabernacle/Temple symbolize?
A: The body

Q: What did the Holy of Holies symbolize?
A: God’s throne room; the heart

Q: What does gold represent?
A: His divine nature, kings, wealth

Q: What does silver represent?
A: Redemption, truth

Q: What does bronze or brass represent?
A: Judgment

Q: What does iron represent?
A: Bondage, war, correction

Q: What does a mountain represent?
A: A country or capital city

Q: What does a hill represent?
A: A lesser country or province

Q: What do valleys signify?
A: Without earthly power

Q: What does a sea symbolize?
A: A mass of people

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Catechize Time! Part Two – Concepts

Q: Why were we created?
A: To glorify God

Q: How do we give Him glory?
A: Obeying and worshiping Him

Q: Why do we worship and obey Him?
A: To mold us into the image of His Son

Q: What are the results?
A: To love and reign with Him as a part of His family

Q: What is Sabbath (Shabbat)?
A: Rest; from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday

Q: What is the spiritual Sabbath?
A: Ceasing from your own works and doing only what God commands

Q: What is salvation?
A: The lifelong process of being prepared for the next creation

Q: What are the 3 parts of salvation?
A: Justification, sanctification, and glorification

Q: What is “justify”?
A: To declare innocent by Jesus’ blood sacrifice

Q: What is “redeem”?
A: To pay a ransom

Q: What is a ransom?
A: A price a relative pays to free someone into his authority

Q: What is “sanctify”?
A: To make holy

Q: What is glorification?
A: Receiving our glorified bodies and meeting the Father face-to-face

Q: What is regeneration?
A: The process in which the Holy Spirit transforms us into the image of Jesus

Q: What is refinement?
A: The trials and troubles of life which purge us of self, fleshly influences and attachments

Q: What are other words for refinement?
A: Tribulation, testing, drink from the cup (of wrath), purged in the fire, baptism

Q: What is the soul?
A: The result of when the breath(s) of life (spirit) joins with the body; your personality

Q: What are the components of the soul?
A: Your heart (emotions), mind (thoughts, intellect), and will (motivation)

Q: What is spirit?
A: The part of us alive in the heart and mind of God

Q: What are the breaths of life?
A: The living and speaking abilities from God

Q: What is “the Word of God”?
A: When God gives a person direct instruction and guidance

Q: Is the Bible the Word of God?
A: The Bible is a tool for this but it is not the word of God.

Q: Who is the Word?
A: God Almighty Himself; Jesus is the Word in flesh; the Holy Spirit, the Word delivered

Q: Does the Law still apply today?
A: Yes, physically and spiritually as He dictates

Q: How did judgment manifest?
A: Famine, pestilence, sword (war), captivity

Q: What is an idiom?
A: A combination of words that has a figurative meaning; slang

Q: What is a metaphor?
A: A comparison between two unrelated things, making one thing mean the other

Q: What is supernatural?
A: Above or beyond what is physical; how God operates

Q: What is discipleship?
A: The process of learning how to be in the world (existence), yet not of the world.

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Catechize Time! Part One – Definitions

Q: Who is God?
A: The Creator of all things; our Father

Q: What is God?
A: The essence and totality of life; He is what spirit is

Q: Is God His name?
A: No, it is a title of divinity.

Q: What is God’s name?
A: YHWH; He has many names according to His authority and personality

Q: How does God manifest Himself?
A: Through His actions, His Word, and His personas, His Son and the Holy Spirit

Q: Who is His Son?
A: Jesus

Q: What does Jesus mean?
A: Hebrew Yeshua – God saves

Q: What are His titles?
A: Christ – the Anointed One, HaMashiach – the Messiah (Savior), the Word made flesh, Son of Man, Son of David

Q: What is the Holy Spirit?
A: Ruach HaKodesh – the set-apart spirit

Q: What does the Holy Spirit do?
A: He is the spirit of God that deals with the physical, our connection to the Father, and the deliverer of the Word

Q: What is holy?
A: Separation; set apart for God’s purposes

Q: What is righteousness?
A: The result of obeying God and holiness

Q: What is obedience?
A: Learning then doing the supernatural will of God

Q: What are works?
A: Things done that either please or displease God

Q: What is a commandment?
A: An instruction

Q: What is a statute?
A: A law that cannot be changed

Q: What is a precept?
A: A general rule of action

Q: What is an ordinance?
A: A law or judgment applicable for the time period

Q: What is the Law?
A: Torah – instruction, doctrine

Q: Why Torah?
A: A peek into the heart and mind of the Father

Q: What are the Ten Commandments?
A: A summary of the Law

Q: How are they applied?
A: The first four state how to treat God and the last six, each other.

Q: What is a covenant?
A: An agreement, marriage, contract, pact, testament

Q: What is “consecrate”?
A: To make holy for or dedicate to God

Q: What is a blessing?
A: God’s favor, protection or gift

Q: What is a curse?
A: An evil wish or oath, given or taken, as punishment for disobedience

Q: What is evil?
A: Good, twisted

Q: What other words mean evil?
A: Calamity, disaster, harm, wickedness

Q: What is sin?
A: To miss the mark; to go against God’s Law

Q: What other words mean sin?
A: Lawlessness, iniquity, transgression, wrongdoing, abomination

Q: What is backsliding?
A: To revert to sin

Q: What is unclean?
A: Whatever is common, forbidden, or impure for His use.

Q: What is profane?
A: To make something holy unholy; to deliberately do or say anything against God’s desire

Q: What is heresy?
A: An incorrect opinion

Q: What is apostasy?
A: To depart from God’s truth

Q: What is blasphemy?
A: To insult God; to lack reverence for Him

Q: What is a falsehood?
A: A lie

Q: What is “covet”?
A: To desire someone or something that does not belong to you

Q: What is “tempt”?
A: To try to get someone to do something wrong

Q: What is “confess”?
A: To agree with God

Q: What is “profess”?
A: To declare loyalty

Q: What is “witness”?
A: To tell the truth

Q: What is a sacrifice?
A: To give a life to spare another’s

Q: What sacrifice do we offer today?
A: The surrender of body, soul, and spirit for the Lord’s use

Q: What is an offering?
A: A sacrifice or gift given to God

Q: What is atonement?
A: A covering for sin

Q: What is faith (belief)?
A: Loyalty with trust; seeking God’s will and doing it; hope in His supernatural will; persistent surrender and obedience

Q: What does “name” mean?
A: Authority, power, cause, nature, character, reputation

Q: What is grace?
A: A covering to give us a chance to obey God; the period of refinement

Q: What is mercy?
A: Giving someone a chance to do good even though the person may not deserve it

Q: What is repentance?
A: To change your mind, your heart, your attitude towards God’s desire

Q: What is forgiveness?
A: Setting aside a wrong done against you

Q: What is humility (meekness)?
A: The complete absence of self in all we think, say, or do; caring about His (or another’s) opinion

Q: What is prayer?
A: Verbal submission to the will of God

Q: Why do we pray?
A: It is our most important tool for getting His will done

Q: What is intercession?
A: To speak to God on someone else’s behalf.

Q: What is a fast or fasting?
A: Going without food (or drink) for a certain period of time

Q: What is supplication?
A: A request

Q: What is worship?
A: Giving God what He wants

Q: How do we worship?
A: praying on our knees, bowed to the ground, or lying prostrate; praising, singing, obeying, submitting, prophesying, etc.

Q: What is praise?
A: Compliments to God

Q: How do we praise Him?
A: Telling Him and others about what He has done in His goodness; rejoicing to and about Him during good and bad times

Q: What is glory?
A: The totality (heaviness) of the holiness of Yah.

Q: How do we glorify God?
A: Honoring and celebrating God’s authority and nature

Q: What is thanksgivings?
A: Thanking Our Father for His role in our lives

Q: What is prophecy?
A: A word directly from God to you or others, usually a warning

Q: What is “prophesy”?
A: To speak what God tells you to speak

Q: What is “baptize”?
A: To immerse or sink; to stain or dye

Q: How are we baptized?
A: In water, spirit and fire

Q: Why are we baptized?
A: To become born again in Christ, purified, or given spiritual power

Q: What is “carnal”?
A: The physical world (existence); fleshly; the first heaven

Q: What is flesh?
A: The body and its influence over us; all of mankind

Q: What is a harlot?
A: A prostitute – someone who sells one’s body for money

Q: What is a Gentile?
A: A non-Jew

Q: What is a Jew?
A: Someone of the tribe of Judah; Judeans and Benjamites

Q: What is debt?
A: Something owed to someone else

Q: What are alms?
A: Things given to help the poor

Q: What is the Tabernacle?
A: The portable temple the ancient Israelites used

Q: What is a kinsman?
A: A blood relative

Q: What is idolatry?
A: To serve what you perceive with the senses, heart or mind

Q: What is lovingkindness?
A: The Father’s great, long-lasting patience towards us

Q: What is “reprove”?
A: To correct or criticize gently

Q: What is “reproach”?
A: To blame or discredit; disapproval

Q: What is “rejoice”?
A: Being cheerful and thankful for the Lord’s work

Q: What is heaven?
A: The spirit realm

Q: What is an angel?
A: God’s messenger, heavenly or human

Q: What are “hosts”?
A: An army

Q: What is a seal or mark?
A: A sign of approval or disapproval

Q: What is a parable?
A: A story told to teach a lesson

Q: What is a fable?
A: A myth that leads to a false teaching

Q: What is a proverb?
A: A wise and truthful saying

Q: What is a psalm?
A: A sacred song or hymn

Q: What is a miracle?
A: A supernatural act of God

Q: What is Sheol?
A: The grave

Q: What is death?
A: Removal of the spirit from the body; separation from God

Q: What is resurrection?
A: To return from death into a glorified body

Q: What does gospel mean?
A: Latin for the Greek word, evangel – good news or tale

Q: What does evangelize mean?
A: To spread God’s news of salvation

Q: What is an elder?
A: A pastor (shepherd), bishop, presbyter, overseer – caretaker of an assembly

Q: What is a deacon?
A: A servant, minister – one who serves God and His Body

Q: What is a priest?
A: One called to perform services for God

Q: What is an apostle?
A: One sent by God on a mission

Q: What does Zion mean?
A: Sunny

Q: What is desolation?
A: A wasteland, emptiness

Q: What is a cistern?
A: A well or pit

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Thought Splatters (Plop!)

If you only want to hear the truth from the male sex then you will miss half the Word. YHWH split His attributes (nature) into two beings like Himself. Quit focusing on the physical and realize everyone is used to advance His Kingdom.

Every believer has moments of backsliding, whether or not it appears in the physical. Your soul involves the mind and what you imagine. Impure images and ideas can ruin the vessel He needs to operate through, so get clean (ask for forgiveness and cleansing) before approaching your King.

Contrary to popular belief, Torah still applies, but how it applies has changed. If Torah changes, then what is sin changes. Remember Jesus said He fulfilled Torah, not destroyed it. To fulfill in Matthew 5:17 means the completion of the will of God–Torah in the heart (soul), which causes the Spirit of Y’shua to reign in our bodies.

Why is the sexual union such a powerful influence in our lives? Since we are made in the image (nature, attributes) of God, reproduction is the only way we are able to create life similar to what He does. To distort this power turns people into beasts (ruled by the desire of the flesh).

The word heaven actually represents the spirit world in Scripture, therefore, what believers do in the physical, affects the spiritual. See Matthew 16:19, Matthew 18:18, Matthew 18:19, Matthew 21:25, John 20:23. So the phrase “…seek the things above where the Christ is…” (Colossians 3:1) means “seek operation in the spirit realm.”

The Bible’s definition of perfect does not mean flawless; it means mature or fully developed. When Paul wrote (literally) “…out from faith to faith, according to what has been written…” (Romans 1:17), it meant the increasing maturity into Christ’s righteous image and obsession with His Father’s desire.

Sorry to say this but God does not care about our opinions or desires outside of His. To become like His Son, we must adopt His desires and opinions (given in the spirit).

Being a good, little boy or girl does not guarantee salvation or blessings if we are operating outside of the ministry He assigned to you before you were created. Find out from Him what He actually wants always.

Persistence + consistence = diligence

Proper guidance + proper instruction ≈ proper understanding. An approximation symbol has to be used because we can see, hear, and do, but still not understand.

The enemy only goes after those truly doing the faith (obedient to His voice).

I do not care if people accept what I say or my opinion. My joy comes from making people think, going to Yah for clarification, and observing His work in them…and me.

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The Biblical Symbolism of Male and Female

From the Wikipedia article: Names of God, also see Names of God in Judaism:

“A common title of God in the Hebrew Bible is Elohim (Hebrew: אלהים), as opposed to other titles of God in Judaism. The root Eloah אלה is a feminine noun, meaning goddess, also used in poetry and late prose (e.g., the Book of Job) and ending with the masculine plural suffix “-im” ים creating a word that indicates a plurality of both masculine and feminine essences, yet in a singular identity.”

The female symbolizes the soul (the operations of the heart and mind) and instruction:

motherhood=delivering good instruction
virgin or young woman=accepting good instruction
daughter=had been given good instruction
harlot=accepting bad instruction (heresy or idolatry)
adulteress=falling away from good instruction (apostasy)

The male symbolizes the spirit (what Yah operates through) and government (guidance):

fatherhood=delivering good guidance
young man=accepting good guidance
son or child=had been given good guidance
king=good guidance
beast=bad guidance
idolater, fornicator, or whoremonger=accepting or delivering bad guidance
leaven=influence, good or bad

The symbolism of Genesis 2:24 –the marriage covenant between a man and woman, between Y’shua and His Ecclesia–now becomes clearer. This is why fornication and homosexuality disgusts Yah; both distort His established order in the spirit realm (heaven), which, in turn, distorts the actions on the physical plane (earth).

What fornication has those who profess Christ committed? Submission to the tangible: what one experiences in the physical. Surrendering to what the world declares as good or evil instead of seeking Yah’s knowledge is sleeping with other lovers (authorities not ordained for you by God). One can even argue bestiality is politics, or the belief that man-led government is supposed to solve all problems.

How does homosexuality appear on the spiritual tip? Disobedience to the rules of discipleship (Matthew 16:24, Matthew 10:38, Luke 9:23, Mark 8:34, Mark 10:21, Luke 14:2627) causes a focus on self and what one thinks God wants (self-love, self-righteousness, selflessness for the praises of men). If we are to become like Christ, why worry about self-esteem? If we are to lay up treasures in heaven (in spirit), then why worry about money or power? If we are to be spirit-led, then why worry about religions, governments or corporations? If we are called to lay down our lives for the Evangel and the Body, then why worry about what men think? If we are called to love, then why not ask Him how we are to do that?

We cannot continue to simply focus on what is wrong with the world unless we, the Body, examine and clean up what is wrong in us. Throughout the Bible, we see Yah separating out a remnant of true believers over and over again. Given the state of the world and the lack of change in the churches, this is happening right now. Choose who you will serve and, as always, do not believe a word I or anyone says; seek the Lord for His truth and stay seeking. Amen.

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