okay so I made a video where I brought up the topics of marriage and Unix in regards design and um in reflecting on that uh it it was made apparent to me that there were several things that I now need to bring into this conversation I was trying to scope out a little snippet of many broader topics um to try to impart as much value as possible um in a concise way and there's some lateral ideas
that have to be brought in here and I I missp um in at least one Regard in that video because I said uh something like there will be single men and women in Zion and and after that uh in the in the days subsequent to recording that um the Lord brought some things to my attention and brought into my memory um many things that he's taught me before and added some new stuff too so anyway I've
I've again tried to do a limited depth query into these topics to present to you extremely vital ideas I think what you'll see I didn't do a slideshow on this I could have but I figured this would be better for the purposes and the time that I have right now because this is not my principal Focus this morning um so um bear with me and uh try to explore this in your own thinking and apply it
to your life but but some applications that should become obvious I'll just seed the conversation here is thinking about if you um have daughters and sons and granddaughters and grandsons these are things any anyone in your life or or you personally um who is young enough that they're not married yet or um old enough that they are there are serious implications regarding Zion with these things um many ideas have arisen um boy this this these topics
are not easy to talk about it's like walking through a mindfield of false tradition and I would rather not have my limbs blown off so um my ideological limbs um I don't want to offend people over things that aren't worth getting offended for there's a time and a place for being offensive when it yields the greatest benefit but this is something I'm trying very hard to be uh careful with how I speak about these things but
there are many topics regarding Zion that people have false Traditions around and those are barriers those are hedges that prevent the Lord from teaching them more than what those people already know about these things and they're so scared of certain ideas certain topics uh one of those is polygamy I'm just going to bring it up out front but also people are scared about their current marriages whether they will endure or not and what comes after and
it's funny because people are more scared than they should be about certain things and they're less scared than they should be about others one thing that some people are less scared about than they should be is and if it's not you this is going to be shocking to hear but I could I could point to people and show you people there are numerous folks who are so ready to just abandon their families it's sickening it is
sickening to me so um this is this is uh a very delicate topic any anything that's that's particularly higher truth it's rought with complications because it's a knife's edge and anything you say about it it's like talking to the cops anything you say will'll be used against you teaching higher truth Wicked people are going to use it for wickedness it's like giving them money they're going to use it to to advance their wickedness and just as
God has to cut the prosperity legs out from under Wicked people uh he also withholds truth from them but we live in a very singular time where the purposes of the Lord do not allow for truth to be uh withheld any longer and so it's 5 minutesblatantly put out in the open and the people who are going to use that to harm themselves and others are going to do that no matter how much caution is taken
but anyway so uh maybe that's enough of a preamble I want to start with this idea of um marrying and giving in marriage so in this in this presentation we're going to cover a set of mysteries things that people don't understand uh questions for which questions that they have formulated we going to answer questions that they' formulated around these Mysteries um and it's a whole set of things that are really important and I don't know that
you'll hear them anywhere else at least for now but uh let's just go ahead and release these wild beasts into the wild so um what does it mean marrying and giving in marriage it's a phrase that's used at least in two places I've pulled up those references here so in Matthew 24 the Lord is describing the conditions of the end times and he says uh but as the days of Noah were so also the coming of
the son of man shall be I did not read that properly I'm sorry so shall also the coming of the son of man be for as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking marrying and giving in marriage until the day that Noah entered the Ark into the ark and knew not until the flood came and came and took I cannot read today and took them all away so shall also the
coming of the son of man be and I've included the rest of this passage on purpose um it's really important basically 7 minuteslet's just keep reading uh then shall two be in the field the one shall be taken the other left two women shall be grinding at the Mill the one shall be taken and and the other left watch therefore for ye know not what hour your lord doth come but know this that if the good
man of the house had known in what watch the thief would come he would have watched and would not have suffered his house to be broken up therefore be ye also ready for in such an hour ye think not the son of man cometh who then is a faithful and wise servant whom his Lord hath made ruler over his household to give them meat in due season blessed is that servant whom his Lord when he cometh
shall find so doing verily I say unto you that he shall make him ruler over all his Goods but and if that evil servant shall say in his heart my Lord delayeth his coming and shall begin to Smite his fellow servants and to eat and drink with the drunken the Lord of that servant shall come in a day when he lookth not for him and in an hour that he is not aware of and shall cut
him aund and appoint him as portion with the Hypocrites there shall be weeping and nashing of teeth all right so it's good to read these passages in these videos it it takes a little extra time and we are contending against presumption of familiarity with their meaning however um it's necessary to sort of Harrow that up and turn it over as if it's hard soil so that we can grow some seeds in there there are many ideas
in this short passage and they're they're many of them are relevant to what we need to talk about today but the first is that when people read this Matthew 24 I'm saying in general the chapter that chapter does not describe the Lord's second coming alone it also describes the events to precede it it's one thing that it's be right before the part we quoted Jesus says that no man knows the hour that he's coming so he's
giving signs in hopes that as these things occur people wake the heck up and use them as evidence to consider changes that would otherwise cost too much to make it's very important the purpose of Prophecy one of the purposes of Prophecy is to persuade you to make changes you would not otherwise make by providing evidences for a future consequence that occur before that future con consequence when there's still time to change it's it's like bringing things
ahead because the prophecy is never the direct result the prophesied event is never the direct result of the cause and effect pair that he's trying to prepare you for I don't know if I'm explaining this clearly I'm trying so when Jesus comes for reals in in public because there are multiple second comings actually but the public one is the big one and that's the one people think about when that happens time is up it's done wherever
you are that's that's where you're going to be spiritually speaking okay that's the end but well it's the end of the beginning at least but uh it's the end of the current phase but many things will happen before that where there's still time to change so that when we get to that point you'll be better off that's the point so and all prophecy is like that it's just the decision point the decision point is in the
future we're trying to convince people to change in the present and so we're bringing up we're we're turning normal events into evidence for future consequences that's what it is okay so um that's some some some background on this so why does he bring up the days of Noah we're going to get to that but I think we need to address this two will be in the field business people read this and they're like oh that's the
Rapture when when Jesus comes people will be taken up to meet him in heaven yes it says that not here but it says that so this must refer to the same exact thing nope nope remember there are many preceding things before that event and the purpose is so people choose to be better than they are uh in preparation for the time when it's too late to do that so this is describing a splitting of people and
it's not that angels will fly through the heavens and vacuum up people magically and transport them somewhere else and their clothes will fall down to the ground because apparently wherever they're going they're going to be naked I don't know but that's in the movies so in these Rapture movies so um hopefully there are a lot of clothes in heaven um so what this is describing though is it is a division a great Division and that's described
elsewhere and it comes down to information it's a sort of Truth it divides and that's a process and it's really important and a lot more will be said about it and then he says this business about watch therefore for you know not what hour your lord doth come I've I've alluded to this in other videos and we mention here again hopefully I'm going to mention it many many many more times every every single moment is an
opportunity for the Lord to divide you he's separating the sheep and the goats funny story the other day a friend of my wife's she has a daughter who has a goat and she loved that goat and that goat died unfortunately and got sick or something and died and it was a a sudden shock and it really hurtful for the daughter and the my wife's friend was like yeah we we might get another one but really don't
want a goat I said why don't you get a sheep and she's like can goats and sheep live together I said not according to the scriptures I guess that's a Rob joke anyway uh so every moment is an opportunity to divide and the Lord is dividing you and that sounds like a bad thing but division's not always bad in fact all good things includ it so a living cell for example it's always dividing if it stops
dividing that's called Death they're one and the same isn't that funny so the division is a good thing in the Lord's division what happens is if you're on the correct side of the split you get more added to you if you're on the wrong side you get you lose some of what you had but if you're on the right side you get more added to you and the the addition is always better than whatever it uh
whatever I don't know how to say this grammatically weird um the thing that it's whose place it's taken the the the addition is always better than the thing whose place it's taking um so division is a good thing as long as you're on the right side of the divide and you need to watch always and be ready because you don't know which moment is going to have an effect and the degree of that effect this is
why it's absolutely essential to always do your absolute best in all things because to act as Jesus would in your place because you don't know if the kind of cereal you're going to choose to eat today is actually an eternal consequence will have an eternal consequence and I know that sounds ridiculous but that is the degree to which you need to live your life because I'm not saying to live in full anxiety it's not difficult to
perceive what is best to learn to do that is extremely simple that's why it says in the Book of Mormon it's as clear as the day from The Dark Night to actually do it is difficult but not to see it to see it is easy but in seeing what is best there's no promise that you'll see by how much it's better okay so uh hopefully much of what I'm saying here is just a reminder this these
aren't the first times I've mentioned these ideas they won't be the last time but they're relevant I have to go through it as part of uh due diligence here so you have to always be watching okay and if you're not it's very possible that that moment that very moment is going to be a a junction to which you cannot return a door through which you cannot return there are many things I'm going to make a large
case for this a full case for this at some point I have it written but I haven't published it um there are many many things they're listed all throughout the scriptures that have a time limit and there are many things that can only be chosen once there are some things that can only be chosen once like for a woman who she marries the first time um and these you are doors you cannot go through again and
this is why it's of vital importance for us to know what those things are and tell people how things are so that they're warned so that they have evidence before the consequence comes and they know what they're choosing this is extraordinarily relevant to the topics that we're going to address here now we get to get back to the days of Noah and you'll see why all those things tie in hopefully okay so there was a consequence
coming the flood and they didn't know until the flood came and took them all away well they didn't have warning oh yes they did oh yes they did if you read in Moses 8 there are three or four mentions or periods of time where Moses preached to the people and warned them to repent and they didn't listen did I say Moses or Noah it's in the book of Moses but it is Noah Noah went out three
or four times and preached repentance and times I don't mean like okay it's Tuesday I'm going to preach today periods of time extended periods of time where he went out and preached and Noah was was known by everyone and there's so much more to his story than you'll get from a cursory reading of the scriptures maybe I'll get into it one day what an amazing man but the point that's relevant for right here right now is
everyone knew who this guy was and everyone had reason to believe he knew exactly what he was talking about deep deep reasons to believe and I'll get into that at some other time and so shall all also the coming of the son of man be people will be warned people will have deep deep reasons to believe you'll see these in time you'll know these in time and you'll see just how obvious it all is okay it's
amazing the Lord knows exactly what he's doing so he's had all this plan since the beginning and and it's like a ticking 20 minutesclock the gears are turning it's all set up so um it's like it's like have you ever seen one of those ridiculous um Domino setups like it's a whole field of dominoes basically and then they click the first one off and then the whole thing just goes and sometimes they're colored and they have
these intricate patterns it's this big piece of art but you only see it as the Domino's fall that's what this is like and you you you see one or two dominoes falling right now but you don't see the sequence which doesn't really make sense in the analogy because you would see all of it right but just imagine some weird situation where you only like there's some kind of a mask over the whole thing with holes punched
out over individual dominoes like when I used to grade multiple choice test I took a hole punch and I take a solid sheet of paper and punched the correct answers on the score sheet and then I just held it up to the multiple choice bubble thing and I could see where the answers were right and wrong and it was really fast to gr it imagine if you had something like that and you only saw one or
two of The Dominoes that's where you are right now and you might see one or two of them fall but there's a pattern here and it's all one giant piece of art it's an intricate design and it's all interconnected and it's a chain and it's all kicking off it's not so simple as linear a b c d e it's a network but you know analogies only go so far but hopefully that helps you understand a little
bit more so as the days of Noah were so also the coming of the son of man I I cannot read the sentence correctly I don't know why so shall also the coming of the son of man be so what was if Jesus is giving us this eating and drinking marrying and giving and marriage as a sign we better understand what it means because otherwise you're not going to recognize it when it happens if if someone
were to say oh today you're going to meet a very important person and you better watch out because right after you meet this important person a giant iron girder is going to swing and take your head off so you need to duck when you see the very important person you say well how should I recognize the very important person oh I don't know who knows or or here's 20 opinions from 20 different people about what this
person might look like so good luck so it's quite important and this is uh like I said it's mentioned in Moses as well um so what do eating and drinking marrying and giving in marriage mean I'm just going to give it to you straight it's not the the subject of this video so I won't dwell too much on this but eating and drinking refers to the sacrament uh other religions call this different things the holy supper
okay it's drinking the wine and eating the bread and marrying and giving and marriage well that just means marrying and giving and marriage so how are these connected these things are regarded as signs that the people doing them are living in God's approval the the the easiest way to break this down is to say these are religious people these are religious people now it's interesting because we read in Genesis 9 and Moses 8 that the people
of that time were so wicked that every single thing that they did was oriented towards evil including eating drinking marrying and giving in marriage which is great evidence that religious rights do not make you holy there's something missing there that's essential which is um full 24 minutesconsecration to God dedication to his purposes if your heart's not right if he's not you're number one in all things and everything in your life isn't constructed within that subordinate to
him then you're on the wrong side of that coin even if you have the pretense of being on the right side now we're going to transition so basically when Noah went to warn these people they said how okay so you're saying God thinks that we're Wicked and we're so wicked he's going to destroy us then tell me this how is it that we are religious people how could that be true if we're religious people and so
you know we Prosper we have families we have kids our kids are strong how could it be that God is unhappy with with us and I guess I I wasn't planning on getting into it in this video but it is relevant now to understanding their their point of confusion because the curse so Noah's father said finally will be free of this curse when he was born Noah was prophesied as a child of Promise a deliverer because
when Enoch city was taken up God cursed them the the the remainder of people were cursed um geez we're really going down the rabbit hole here so it turns out that the number and degree of holy people on the Earth significantly impacts the uh well-being of everyone else there right so there's many stories in the scriptures where the last righteous person's booted out of a city and then it's destroyed so Sodom and Gomorrah for example uh
I guess they were they were taken out by God's Messengers but uh Book of Mormon Alman AMU are thrown out and then they kill all of the people that believe them and then that city is destroyed in a day right so there are countless examples of this well that happens on the scope of the world too at the scope of the Earth the whole earth so when the city of Enoch was taken only the only people
left were Wicked and so guess what happened a curse came and it it it wasn't a punishment from God so much as the natural consequence taking up taking up everything that was preventing it right so if you pull out barriers that are holding back water and the water comes can is that a punishment for for the things that are flooded well no it's just a consequence of taking the damn away it's like that so anyway so
these people were cursed and they lived for a really long time so they remembered when things were good they they knew when things were bad and now they're living in times when it's good again and you know there's Sons and Daughters all through this time but there's a there's a strong living memory it'd be like today if there were tons of people around who remembered the Declaration of Independence being signed it'd be really weird right so
um and anyway um so Noah comes along and through his his life he causes this curse to be lifted now the details of this are not important but they involve prosperity and so you can grossly simplify this down to saying there was a famine and people didn't have enough to eat and now they did they had an abundance of things to eat so and and Noah was the instrument of change this is why everyone knew him
so um it's not quite the same in any regard but maybe some distant analogy would help is to think if if Elon Musk became the most righteous person in the world and started preaching like crazy and people are like yeah Elon I'll take your internet but I'm not interested I'll buy your car I'll take your internet but keep your gospel to yourself so um these guys countered and said yeah but look we're prosperous we practice religion
and God blesses us with children and they're strong they're just like the Ancients who we knew and so they didn't listen to Noah all right now what the heck does this have to do with Unix and marrying and Zion okay here's the question God says that priests have to make sure that unworthy people do not eat the bread and drink the wine um what happens if some random person just eats bread and drinks wine is that
the Lord's Supper does it convey the same blessings no it does not so if random people marry and give in marriage is that the same as whatever righteous marriage looks like no it's not even close well what if they have kids it doesn't matter well what if their kids are are mighty men men of old men of great Renown it doesn't matter it's still miles away from the ideal thing which it is correct to say the
real thing okay animals don't get married but they do mate and they do have babies and they can be strong and and to a degree they can prosper but is animal mating the same thing as human marriage in God's under God's Direction so so God class of marriage no it's not even close right so there you go all right now with all of that which took way longer than I thought we're going to continue now here
is something that people are not going to like at all and I'm sorry but that's just the way it is I'm not sorry I'm not going to apologize for the truth but I am sorry for how hard it is for you to 31 minuteshear uh I wish there was something I could do to make it easier for you to hear because that's a price I would pay much has been said about Isaiah 4 um one thing
that you've heard me say is that one reason these ladies are going to have to beg the men to marry them is because in another part of Isaiah it describes how Institute all people will be and um not just financially or materially but also in terms of the ability to cope with contend with the challenges of life as they will be re revealed in abundance in the end times it's like a gradient with impulses or if
you've watched any videos of title waves it's not like in the movies where it's this mile high wave those things can happen but if you look at um like the big tsunami and Fukushima it's just a constant flood of water it kind of looks like water coming out of a pipe just there's no pipe and then there are impulses in that like little waves inside of that which they're not little if you're the one that's in
it right it's a really big deal but it's not this Mile High of water kind of thing and so many things take on that property in end times one of them is the challenges that come and so fewer and fewer people I made a video about this where I had some pictures of mountains and the Water Rising and then the Peaks are no longer high enough and you have to swim to the next Peak it's the
same idea so the challenges rise and the number of people who can contend with those diminishes so not that the set of people diminish but the the number who are qualified to deal with that is smaller because the challenges are greater 33 minutesso um Isaiah 4 is a mystery to people um this comes back to what I started the video with because their minds are closed to the realities that would make it easy to understand so
there are barriers in Tradition that um prevent your mind from going to the place it needs to to solve that equation but it's actually not that hard to solve uh it just involves some ideas that people don't like so one of those ideas is that men and women are different and here's a new one that you might not know uh what a man can receive and how he can receive it differs from what a woman can
receive and how she can receive it so it's true that neither the woman nor the man is without the other in the Lord um because as you climb the mountain of the Lord not only does your perspective and character converge compared to the others at your level as you go up that becomes trer and truer because you're growing in Fidelity to the Lord You're your um your emulation of him is becoming more complete therefore you're becoming
more similar to all others who are doing the same to the same degree right you also will find and grow closer to a member of the opposite sex and that culminates in the Lord's ideal marriage which is not just any old marriage it consists of a lot more than that it's it's Inseparable from both of them becoming more like the Lord as individuals so um there are things that a woman can only receive through not just
a a husband but a husband who is very righteous now how does this differ from men well a man can receive the greatest things he can receive from another man who does not need to be his father or his biological brother so God has set things up so that men can transmit a fullness of light and Truth as far as they have it one to another but that is not true of men and women and it
is not true of women and women and that's just the way it is so another principle here that I'm just going to throw out and I don't have time to jump into this and make a case for it right now so take it for what it is put put it on your shelf one can only come into the kingdom of God through one who is already there and I apologize for just slapping you in the face
with this but um you know the truth is this complex Network it's not a linear thing and sometimes to address present needs we have to pull on things that aren't fully established yet but so put that on your shelf it's true principle but uh I'm not going to prove it to you right now so take it for what it's worth one can only come into the kingdom of God through one as who is already there okay
so with that series of of blurted information chunks uh I want to share with you a reflection of Mind from Isaiah 34 and if you go and read these verses you're going to find a bunch of gobl that's really hard to get anything out of um but as of right now this is my current understanding of the meaning of that passage so these are verses 14- 16 and I'm just going to read them and um I
invite you to think about these things and take them as far as you can on your own in the diversity of people will call to one another and assemble in like kinds and among these assemblies the night creatur will find a place of rest in that Nest will Deliverance be found and from that Nest will issue emissions of correction that rip apart what was previously undistinguished and to that Nest will be gathered and in the shadow
of that Nest will rest be found and only there will women find their worthy husband and Friends search from the book of Jehovah and read not one of of these women will lack a righteous mate and not one of them will fail to fully adopt his purpose for my mouth has commanded it and they have been gathered by my spirit so there are many ideas here and you know the Lord has a language people think that
that means like a foreign language it's a set of ideas and as you become familiar with these ideas there's the the full magnitude of the idea itself and then it's little handle that you grab it by and we do this all the time with language if I say a car you know what I'm talking about and I don't have to explain to you from first principles what a car is and we can also speak about in
generalities without distinguishing between specific makes and models or instances like you have the same making model as me but they're not the same car they have differences there's a little hole in the seat on mine and yours rattles sometimes when you turn left right o uh the Lord's language what you'll find is as you start understanding these ideas more completely you see references to them everywhere and one of the difficulties of scripture is that you can't
explain everything from scratch every single time you mention it every idea so there are cross references all over the place it's a self-referential volume and God obviously does this himself that's that's what the language is he employs shortened um I guess reductions of ideas references to different ideas as he speaks things so I was talking about this first verse uh the other day I made a short video about logs coming together and uh there there were
some charred up logs that that I I started a fire with a bunch of cardboard and paper and it burned off really quickly and left the logs charred but the the logs weren't really burning on their own but the second I pushed them together the whole thing ignited and the fire got going again and it was roaring in fact it was very self- sustaining successful so the diversity of people will call to one another and assemble
in like kinds so self-similar groups and among these assemblies the night creature will find a place of rest what is this night creature well that's a that's a deep topic but um for now I guess we can say think about think about the set the quality of the set of people that would justify all suffering in the world world that's a good way to think about it and so Zion is a set of people that display
the full magnitude of why God created the heavens and the Earth and why we're here and so as part of that it has to it has to justify it has to be so good that it justifies all bad things that can happen that's probably a sufficient way to think about it for now but this this place is this Association it's like a nest it's a nest that provides protection and it also is the base from which
the gospel is preached to the world again and as that sort of Truth goes out that is when the Fulfillment of Matthew 24 of the pairs of people being separated that's when that occurs and in a very real way it is the deployment of angels to gather the elect from the four corners of the world how through information through information through correction and the people that respond to that the people that um are attracted to that
and who live it they are brought in okay anyway but the point is only there will women find their worthy husbands and friends husband and Friends and not one of these women will lack a righteous mate why because it's not just if they don't have one they can't go it's that the way they need to live to be prepared for and draw into this set of ideas known as the fullness of the Gospel known as learning
more about Jesus and living it it will um so the very mechanism by which they are gathered that is the Spirit uh it will lead them to that kind of person and to seeing the value of that kind of person and everything works out so so I can perceive that there will be a lot of people who for whom there are gaps between what you're understanding with what I say and what I'm trying to say so
what I'm saying here is if you were to enumerate all the barriers from that happening these ladies will have a value structure such that their priorities will cause them to do what it takes to overcome those barriers and succeed one instance of that is what we read in Isaiah 4 so they are under if you peel apart that passage you will see that these are ladies who understand the value of a righteous man versus whatever barriers
might impede them from marrying one and they do what it takes to make it happen so that's not the only fulfillment of that I think it's very obvious that the best way to do this is early early so Define them early so that it's not uh such a so the the cost isn't so high so the cost isn't so high and so that what can be gained Remains the highest it can be all right now we
get to transition to um the role of marriage for men and this now so now I'm going to further develop this idea of Unix in Zion because because what what we're reading here is that there will not be single women in Zion in its outskirts different story I don't 46 minutesknow uh I have a feeling that there will be tons and tons of women without husbands I don't mean women who have never been married alone but
women without husbands that pour in as refugees to the outskirts of wherever this place ends up being in its final orientation however the the the the inward core because like heaven Zion has layers so it it's but at its core those are going to be married people and their children and single men and the reason single men can be there is because a man can receive everything a human can receive from another human from a man
that he does not have to be biologically or legally related to um okay and I hope I hope that principle is actually self confirming if you were to think about that in your own family for example so if you're let's say your father um you have a son and you can think of everything you can impart to that son and it's probably everything you could impart to another man right and then if you think about well
it is it isn't probably it is now if you were to think about a random stranger who happened to be male you could bring him into your home and treat him as a son and teach him everything you could teach him and give him everything you could give him as you could your own son right not life but you could give him ET etal life as far as a man could right there's nothing stopping that now
when you think of your daughter there will come a time where she becomes an adult and marries a man and you cannot do for her what that man will do for her even though you can do everything leading up to that to prepare her for that you can't do what he will do for her right so that's my point and now what about an outside woman that's not your daughter and not your wife you can't bring
her into your home and impart everything that you could to your daughter but even if you could you couldn't do that to the extent that you can with your wife right so hopefully that's obvious hopefully it's not contentious it's not going to be popular but it's not difficult to understand that one okay and with women I I I hope it's obvious that you do much more for your birthed children than you could ever do for anyone
else anyway um okay so um now let's talk about what the Lord said about marriage um and and my point here up front is that he made it very clear that it's a higher Road and it's not for everyone now I guess I'll jump ahead here um and read this one so in DC 49 we read um that it's not good to forbid uh people to marry to say that marriage is not ordained of God so
this is one of many and we're going to come back to this but for now this is the preamble we need to hit this is one of very many things that God said that people mischaracterize and use it as evidence for something he did not say he never said it's good for all people to get married and what I'm going to show you is he actually said the opposite but he did say it's essential for some
people to get married and in under the right circumstances it's the only way they can do the greatest good that they can do so we'll get to that in a minute because it's a segue to the next point but let's go back to uh Matthew 19 the Pharisees also came unto him tempting him and saying unto him is it lawful for a man to put away or divorce his wife for every cause so this was a
trick it was a trap it's an obvious trap but the Pharisees knew that there were many of them who treasured their ability to divorce their wives under any circumstances and they love this because it kept their wives subservient to them because in those days if you were divorced it was kind of of an end of life event for a woman not just socially but temporally and um in in terms of of uh being able to afford
to survive and um they treasured this and and they also they used it to manipulate their wives and they also exercised it to um to fulfill their lusts because they could marry people that they just wanted to get married to and it was sort of a um you want to have sex with somebody all you have to do is marry them and then it's okay in the eyes of God and then you can divorce them if
you get tired of them that was their mindset which incidentally that was similar in the days of Noah and it's similar today and people up until recently I mean I think this spiked in the late 90s and then people just stopped caring about getting married all Al together so they let go of even the pretense of doing things in that are right in the 52 minuteseyes of God but people would get married saying well if I
get sick of having sex with this person I can just divorce them and that's what they did right basically if if if it wasn't worth it anymore they' just divorce their spouse and move on and pretend like it never happened and pretend the whole time that God was okay with that so um here's Jesus's response he said have you not read that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female and he said
for this cause shall a man leave father and mother and shall cleave to his wife and they twain shall be one flesh wherefore they are no more Twain but one flesh and I'm going to pause well we what therefore God hath joined together let no man let not man put a suer and I'm going to pause here um there's a lot of uh there's a lot of negative sentiment that arises when people preach against divorce and
uh I think one thing that's that's not often discussed is marriage creates something that cannot be taken away it's a one-way Street and in my opinion that's one of the biggest challenges in addressing divorce that that no one wants to address is that after that again this is one of those doors that can't be entered into again and um this is particularly true for women and so you can't undo things that are done and I've talked
about this before but I think there's a video called something like uh male it's like male financial success or something like that male money and female virginity something like that anyway um virginity female virginity is not a physical quality it's it's something that's obviously tied to that but it's the physical evidence for a spiritual situation and you can't undo the bond that comes through matrimony there's a part of it that endures forever and it means something
different for men and women it's it's overlapping but not the same and that's really really important and it's what is at the basis of the idea that after a woman's divorce she can't get married again um if she were to it would not be the same thing anyway so um enough about that but my point here is that we do the same thing today in terms of marrying and giving a 55 minutesmarriage we're in a worse
case than that even because we've we've surpassed even the color of using marriage to claim that we're doing what's right in God's eyes when we're actually pursuing the lust of the flesh we don't even bother with the pretense anymore and it's okay because as long as there's a pill to make the physical evidence go away the physical consequence go away we pretend like that's the only consequence there is and um this is obviously very foolish but
let's continue so uh his disciples responded oh I'm sorry I I didn't uh okay so I think we're in verse eight oh no no we're in seven so the Pharisees responded to the his idea that once you're married there's something there that can't be taken away and they respond to this by saying why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement and to put her away in other words well Moses said we would we
could why did he say 56 minutesthat um and by the way Moses did not give a blank check to men to divorce their wives for any reason and that was the question so even the Pharisees did this this thing I mentioned before of um using quotes from God to justify things that God did not mean verse 8 he saith unto them Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives but
from the beginning it was not so and I say unto you whosoever shall put away his wife except it be for fornication and shall marry another committeth adultery and who so Marth her which is put away doth commit adultery so if you marry a woman who's been married before you're committing adultery and uh if you divorce your wife for any reason other than fornication and marry another person you're committing adultery so that's literally what Jesus said
um there's something I wanted to say about verse eight sorry I should have said it when it came it's gone now verse 10 his disciples said unto him if if the case of man be so with his wife it is not good to marry in other words they're saying if when you agree to marry someone as a man when you gr to marry a woman if you're really pinned to her under all conditions except if she
commits fornication then it's not worth getting married because his disciples were wise enough as all wise men should be to understand that this is not a balanced commitment it is not a fair exchange it was never designed to be he said unto them all men cannot receive this saying save they to whom it is given now what did he mean by that did he was he referring to what he was about to say or what he
had already said or was he referring to what the disciples said a better rendering of this would be marriage is not for all men only those for whom it would benefit and then he goes on to say for there are some Unix which were so born from their mother's womb and there are some Unix which were made Unix of men and there be Unix which have made themselves Unix for the kingdom of Heaven's Sake he that
is able to receive it let him receive it now there's this apocryphal text called the cin and uh there's some gems in there 59 minuteshere's one reportedly Jesus said marriage is not the least of life's crosses and any who enter it thinking otherwise fall beneath the unexpected burden if your wife is chosen wisely you will possess a treasure Beyond price but if foolishly you are condemned to a burden of Sorrow now whether he said this or
not it is true and therefore it is valuable but it's more complicated than just choosing a wife who's quote enough quote unquote good enough that's not just what the decision is about whether marriage is beneficial for a man is an equation that includes V various factors one is his quality that's the first and most important thing two is his desire and well let me go through these so one is his quality if a man cannot support
a wife and children he should not get :081 hour, 8 secondsmarried going further than that if a man is not such that he :161 hour, 16 secondsrepresents what is better to the woman who marries him he should not Marry That Woman :261 hour, 26 secondshowever she feels in the moment she will regret marrying him and he will probably regret marrying her because of :391 hour, 39 secondsthat so that's the quality of the man and and second
the the second variable is who he chooses and I just mentioned :461 hour, 46 secondsone qualification for that um a man is trying to maximize what his :551 hour, 55 secondswife receives when he chooses which woman to marry and so he's looking for someone who values what he has to give :031 hour, 1 minute, 3 secondsthe most more than other women another variable that matters in :091 hour, 1 minute, 9 secondsthis is what the man desires
no I'm not talking about his his his physical :171 hour, 1 minute, 17 secondsdesires uh per se what I'm referring to with this is whe whether his attitude is what he :261 hour, 1 minute, 26 secondsgets or what he gives it's better to give to than it is to receive but not all people have that :341 hour, 1 minute, 34 secondspreference in fact it's extraordinarily rare I would say if a man does not seek :411 hour,
1 minute, 41 secondsmarriage uniquely for what opportunities it affords for him to sacrifice himself for the benefit of another person in :491 hour, 1 minute, 49 secondsways he couldn't without it then he should not get married so so here you have two things quality and desire that :571 hour, 1 minute, 57 secondsdetermine whether a man should get married at all or not and the third thing which is the quality of the the woman that determines which
woman he :061 hour, 2 minutes, 6 secondsshould marry if those two conditions are true if those two conditions are false or he cannot find a woman interested in :141 hour, 2 minutes, 14 secondshim who is of sufficient quality to match what would be beneficial between them then he :231 hour, 2 minutes, 23 secondsshouldn't get married it's quite simple it's quite simple :301 hour, 2 minutes, 30 secondsnow um yeah maybe that's maybe that's good :391 hour, 2
minutes, 39 secondsokay so that would be making yourself a unic for the kingdom of Heaven's Sake at :461 hour, 2 minutes, 46 secondsleast uh ideologically not physically per se now let's get to the physical part of :561 hour, 2 minutes, 56 secondsthis well okay this this just uh backs up what we just talked about with those three :041 hour, 3 minutes, 4 secondsqualifications uh and I have to give you another mystery here to really drive this
home so the idea of marriage is :131 hour, 3 minutes, 13 secondsthat the Earth might answer the end of its creation that's why it's not good to forbid to marry God knows full well so :211 hour, 3 minutes, 21 secondshe's first off citing the fact that people get married and have kids as evidence of God's :291 hour, 3 minutes, 29 secondsapproval is the dumbest thing you could ever do or among the dumbest things you could ever
do because he has given :361 hour, 3 minutes, 36 secondsblanket authority to mankind to choose to get married and obviously to have kids that's the having kids part is a :441 hour, 3 minutes, 44 secondsphysical thing yes there is uh there are fertility complications sometimes but by and :511 hour, 3 minutes, 51 secondslarge by and large this is something something that happens like clockwork a plus b equals c okay as far as having :001 hour, 4
minutesbabies it's pretty simple now actually getting married that's :071 hour, 4 minutes, 7 secondssomething two people agreed to do right this is not um you know it's funny people go through such a rigma ro to :141 hour, 4 minutes, 14 secondsinvolve some sort of religious official what is that dude doing if he doesn't have the authority to say you :221 hour, 4 minutes, 22 secondstwo should not get married and you would not listen to that then
he has no input :291 hour, 4 minutes, 29 secondsthat's valid in any way in saying you are married that's if if you trust that :361 hour, 4 minutes, 36 secondsperson to be a representative of God to such an extent that you would listen to him if he said this is not the one for :441 hour, 4 minutes, 44 secondsyou move on like you come to say hey we're ready to get married I've known this person for
a year we're in love whatever and he says no this isn't the :521 hour, 4 minutes, 52 secondsone for you move on and you're like hey forget you I'll get another guy to marry me then guess what whatever you're :591 hour, 4 minutes, 59 secondsgetting out of him is zero that there's nothing there so that's a good test for that :081 hour, 5 minutes, 8 secondsokay so if that's the case anyway right or if God honors
any kind of civil union if you can go before a :161 hour, 5 minutes, 16 secondsjudge and that counts as marriage in God's eyes according to you then there's no point in even doing that you can make :241 hour, 5 minutes, 24 secondsan agreement one person to another and God has already given blanket Authority for that in this world if you want something higher then :331 hour, 5 minutes, 33 secondsfind something that's actually higher but don't
pretend that the same lower thing is different there's no evidence :401 hour, 5 minutes, 40 secondsfor that and there's sufficient contrary evidence against it okay so there's :491 hour, 5 minutes, 49 secondsthat um Okay so one reason he's made that bar :551 hour, 5 minutes, 55 secondsso low is because having kids furthers his purposes so there there need to be there :051 hour, 6 minutes, 5 secondsneeds to be procreation for the world to continue and if
the only people that ever got married here were the ones that were going to be married Hereafter :141 hour, 6 minutes, 14 secondseverything would come to a grinding stop way before now everything would have ended a long time ago :221 hour, 6 minutes, 22 secondsokay EX L when is Up For Debate but it might be a lot sooner than you thought a lot earlier than you :311 hour, 6 minutes, 31 secondsthought so what's this business that
it might be filled with the measure of man well since we're on this topic it's :401 hour, 6 minutes, 40 secondsalways good to come back and poke this I had a conversation with some people once :471 hour, 6 minutes, 47 secondsthat Illustrated an attitude that a whole lot of people have and when they read be fruitful and multiply in Genesis :541 hour, 6 minutes, 54 secondswhich was said to Adam and Eve to Noah and his sons
to others :021 hour, 7 minutes, 2 secondsum they read that and think oh God wants us to have as many kids as we physically can because that's his purpose that that :101 hour, 7 minutes, 10 secondsfulfills his purpose and irrespective of how much money we have or the living conditions we're under or the safety of those kids :181 hour, 7 minutes, 18 secondswe should do it anyway because if we're able to physically have them then obviously
it's will that we do there are many many people who believe this in :261 hour, 7 minutes, 26 secondsthis world not a majority of course but a lot of people a lot of religious people believe this and it's utter :331 hour, 7 minutes, 33 secondsnonsense it's utter nonsense okay that Hebrew phrase be fruitful and :421 hour, 7 minutes, 42 secondsmultiply it doesn't mean have as many kids as you possibly can and fill up the space in
the Earth the Earth space is already full :511 hour, 7 minutes, 51 secondsI'm not a malthusian but if you look at the arable land in the world and you take out fossil :011 hour, 8 minutes, 1 secondfuels the Earth cannot support the current population the it's just not possible on on subsistence :091 hour, 8 minutes, 9 secondsfarming so the Earth is already full the Earth's purposes are not :161 hour, 8 minutes, 16 secondsfulfilled this is very
different so why do you think God told Adam and Eve Noah and Abraham :241 hour, 8 minutes, 24 secondsto have kids it's because they knew what was up :321 hour, 8 minutes, 32 secondsthey were righteous and the best thing super righteous people can do is have kids because there's no contribution you can :401 hour, 8 minutes, 40 secondsmake in this world that exceeds what uh that exceeds the builtin advantage you have in the :501 hour, 8
minutes, 50 secondsparent child relationship to teach truth that is the most fruitful environment there is for :581 hour, 8 minutes, 58 secondsteaching truth because the people get to know you so well that they cannot deny the evidence they have to believe that :061 hour, 9 minutes, 6 secondswhatever you say is true as far as you know that's why it's valuable and it's something that's wasted for the most :141 hour, 9 minutes, 14 secondspart in this world
including amongst these people that breed like rabbits now I okay this being said I have five kids :231 hour, 9 minutes, 23 secondsand I wish I had more I wish I had more but um so there's nothing wrong with :301 hour, 9 minutes, 30 secondsbreeding like rabbits if you're doing it for the right purposes which is to help accomplish the purpose of the earth to :391 hour, 9 minutes, 39 secondsimprove all things okay that's what it
means to be fruitful and multiply it's not about :471 hour, 9 minutes, 47 secondsyour physical progyny it's about the Lord's purpose if physical austerity assists in :551 hour, 9 minutes, 55 secondsthat then it's part of that and so is building a wooden chair or pruning a fruit tree you see it's not so simple as :051 hour, 10 minutes, 5 secondsall right baby mode activated all right now we we'll end :131 hour, 10 minutes, 13 secondswith this
this is oh I didn't cite it I'm sorry :211 hour, 10 minutes, 21 secondsum this is Isaiah sorry I need to look this :311 hour, 10 minutes, 31 secondsup I think it's 30 oh it's 56 sorry this is Isaiah :411 hour, 10 minutes, 41 seconds56 okay so here's a passage that talks about Unix in Zion and we do not have an equivalent passage :491 hour, 10 minutes, 49 secondsfor women for adult single women in Zion thus
sayith the Lord keep you judgment :561 hour, 10 minutes, 56 secondsand do justice for my salvation is near to come and my righteousness to be revealed blessed is the man that doeth this and the son of man that layeth hold :051 hour, 11 minutes, 5 secondson it that keepeth the Sabbath from polluting it and keepeth his hand from doing any evil neither let the son of the stranger :151 hour, 11 minutes, 15 secondsthat ha joined himself
to the Lord speak saying the Lord hath utterly separated me from his people neither let the unic :221 hour, 11 minutes, 22 secondssay behold I a dry tree you know because they can't have kids for thus sayith the Lord unto the :301 hour, 11 minutes, 30 secondsUnix that keep my sabbaths and choose the things that please me and take hold of my Covenant even unto them will I :371 hour, 11 minutes, 37 secondsgive in mine house
and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters I will give them an :451 hour, 11 minutes, 45 secondseverlasting name that shall not be cut off also the sons of the stranger that join them themselves to :541 hour, 11 minutes, 54 secondsthe Lord to serve him and to love the name of the Lord to be his servants everyone that keepeth the Sabbath from :001 hour, 12 minutespolluting it and taketh
hold of my Covenant so these these relationships are :081 hour, 12 minutes, 8 secondscreated from Men to Men even when those receiving men cannot have children and are not :171 hour, 12 minutes, 17 secondsmarried okay um I :241 hour, 12 minutes, 24 secondsleft out a scripture here unfortunately um and it's important so :321 hour, 12 minutes, 32 secondsplease bear with me uh shoot what's the best way to find :411 hour, 12 minutes, 41 secondsit I really
thought I put this in but I didn't so let's um let's look it :511 hour, 12 minutes, 51 secondsup which one do I want here let's go with Matthew 5 so Jesus :011 hour, 13 minutes, 1 secondmentions this several times but there's this idea that it's better it's better to cut :101 hour, 13 minutes, 10 secondsoff what deviates from God and enter into life :161 hour, 13 minutes, 16 secondsmaed than it is to go to hell
whole so one example is from that to :251 hour, 13 minutes, 25 seconds529 and 30 I'll just paste this :331 hour, 13 minutes, 33 secondsbelow so he says If thy right eye offend thee pluck it out and cast it from thee for is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish and not that :421 hour, 13 minutes, 42 secondsthy whole body should be cast into hell and If thy right hand offend thee cut it
off and cast it from thee what is this oh there was more :501 hour, 13 minutes, 50 secondsthere it is I'm sorry what is going on here okay I had more of Isaiah 56 sorry :591 hour, 13 minutes, 59 secondstechnical difficulties I didn't realize there was another page :101 hour, 14 minutes, 10 secondshere okay well let's sorry back it up um going back to Isaiah 56 so we left :191 hour, 14 minutes, 19 secondsoff everyone that
keepeth Sabbath from polluting it and taking taketh hold of my Covenant even them will I bring to my Holy Mountain and make them joyful In My :271 hour, 14 minutes, 27 secondsHouse of Prayer their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine Altar for mine house shall be called in House of Prayer for all people :361 hour, 14 minutes, 36 secondsthe Lord God which gathereth the outcast of Israel saith yet will I gather others
to him beside those that are gathered :441 hour, 14 minutes, 44 secondsunto him that's a model not just of the eventual Latter :511 hour, 14 minutes, 51 secondsDay Jerusalem um attracting to it people from from the whole world but :011 hour, 15 minutes, 1 secondum and that's after the Lord visits uh well it happens before as well but I won't get into that so but well just to :101 hour, 15 minutes, 10 secondsput it briefly so
the Jews come to Jerusalem and um the Lord comes after :201 hour, 15 minutes, 20 secondsthat and I'm leaving out a whole bunch of other things and then the world comes to Jerusalem so um it's not just referring :291 hour, 15 minutes, 29 secondsto that but this is a pattern that applies of different Scopes it it happens uh I've just described this as water droplets how they on on a glass :381 hour, 15 minutes, 38 secondspane
they'll they'll suck into each other and and it's in unpredictable ways :451 hour, 15 minutes, 45 secondsright it's kind of chaotic and that's how these groups of self-similar people will join up with one another :531 hour, 15 minutes, 53 secondsand they'll gather others to them besides those that are already gathered to them so :001 hour, 16 minutesanyway um so back to this Matthew 5 verse here and If thy right eye offend thee pluck it out and
cast it from the :091 hour, 16 minutes, 9 secondsfor it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell and If thy right hand offend they :171 hour, 16 minutes, 17 secondscut it off and cast it from thee for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members shall should perish and not that thy whole body should be cast into :251 hour, 16
minutes, 25 secondshell okay so when people discuss this passage they say well this is figurative God doesn't want you to pluck out your right eye or cut off your :331 hour, 16 minutes, 33 secondshand um if you're a drunk if you're an alcoholic you might find success in :411 hour, 16 minutes, 41 secondsrefusing to ever go to any place that serves alcohol many have is that not a literal application :491 hour, 16 minutes, 49 secondsof this
now in that case it's isn't it better to become strong enough in the Lord that you're not tempted by those :581 hour, 16 minutes, 58 secondsthings even when they're offered to you yes absolutely it is but if you're not willing to do :051 hour, 17 minutes, 5 secondsthat then the next best thing you could do is say I will never go on to a bar again I will never go to a restaurant serves alcohol I won't
go to parties :131 hour, 17 minutes, 13 secondswhere they're alcohol Etc right well and it's oh by the way it's :201 hour, 17 minutes, 20 secondseven better to get to the point where you can use alcohol always for the greatest benefit that's :271 hour, 17 minutes, 27 secondsthe maximum blessing there three tiers for the greatest benefit or you've decided that you don't :341 hour, 17 minutes, 34 secondswant to do that you're not willing to do that
so it's better to just abstain from :411 hour, 17 minutes, 41 secondsit completely okay cool or you don't even want to go there in the first place fine you're tier two it's a good place :481 hour, 17 minutes, 48 secondsto be tier three is I will not go around it at all because I will fall uh into :561 hour, 17 minutes, 56 secondsthat Temptation well the whole reason we're on this Earth is to be subjected to
Temptation so that we can conquer it but :051 hour, 18 minutes, 5 secondsit is better to make the choice to withdraw from those situations than it is to sin by :131 hour, 18 minutes, 13 secondspartaking of them in ways that the Lord would not approve that he wouldn't do in your :201 hour, 18 minutes, 20 secondsplace yeah Jesus drank got in trouble for it with the Pharisees John didn't and they criticized him for that Jesus :281
hour, 18 minutes, 28 secondsdid they criticized him for that how does this apply to sexual :361 hour, 18 minutes, 36 secondsTemptation well I submit that there's a very literal application there are likewise three tiers the first tier is :451 hour, 18 minutes, 45 secondsto use it for what it's meant for the second tier is to abstain completely because you're you're not :531 hour, 18 minutes, 53 secondswilling to use it for what it's meant for and this
one has a slight modification because there are people :001 hour, 19 minuteswho have no business there are men who have no business getting married so what's tier :131 hour, 19 minutes, 13 secondsthree um the Lord said it right :201 hour, 19 minutes, 20 secondshere right here there be Unix which have made themselves Unix for the kingdom of Heaven's Sake :291 hour, 19 minutes, 29 secondsMatthew that's what it is he that is able to receive it let