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Dr. Jim Garlow is a lifelong pastor who most recently served in San Diego, California, and now leads Well Versed, a ministry dedicated to bringing biblical
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Marriage Under Attack: Reflecting God's Full Image 0:04 Why is marriage so attacked every country my wife and I travel to, every country you go to? Marriage is under attack. How could something so simple as a man and a woman coming together in holy matrimony be so0:15 controversial? There's attack in virtually every country we go to. If you take a look in Genesis, the book begins with a marriage of a man and a woman, and it closes with a wedding of a bride and a0:26 groom. How could this be so so controversial? Let me pose this question. Is God male or female? The answer is neither, nor is he some androgynous being. God, the0:38 attributes of God, cover the full spectrum in such a way that when the Old Testament writers tried to describe him, sometimes they describe him in masculine strength, mighty, a0:50 protector. Other times they would use words we associate with femininity, nurture and tenderness. In fact, God has spoken of as having a breast, feeding a newborn baby, or a womb, giving birth.1:02 So this means that no male by himself is a full representation of the full spectrum of God, the image of God. This means that no woman by herself is a1:14 full representation of the full spectrum of God. It's only as male and female, created by God, come back, the 2 complementary halves of humanity come back together,1:26 they together form the full spectrum of the image of God. In fact, the image of God means in part, God is a creator, and so he gives procreational power.1:38 And when a husband and wife comes together within the covenant of marriage, there is this holy representation of God on the planet Earth. Even the word El Shaddai, 1 of the names for1:50 God, speaks of this El mighty, strong like a mountain, Shaddai, breast that nourishes, even the name of God depicts this very thing. The traditional view in Genesis 1 and 2, is that God2:01 took a rib out of Adam, the word is in the Hebrew, and created woman. That sounds good in the English, but if you go to the Hebrew, it doesn't say quite that. In fact, many of your bibles actually have footnotes that2:13 cover what it's actually saying, what I'm sharing now. The fact is, when God in Genesis 2 7 created humanity, created Adam, not capital A Adam, he created2:26 Adam. He created humanity, and it's the only time God looked at his own creation and said, that's not good. Every other time he said, it's good, it's good. But now he said, for some reason it's not good. Why was2:38 it not good? Because he created a dom with no capacity for a relationship because it's at 1 the Hebrew even implies.2:52 Half. It's used 40 times in the Old Testament. 39 times it's used translated side or half. Only once is it mistranslated rib in the Genesis account. The word is3:03 not rib, it's half or side. God created adam humanity. He said, that's not good. And so he removed that's the word in Hebrew, half or3:15 side. We jokingly refer to that as the splitting of the atom, and now we have man and woman. We have Ish and Ishaw. Now here's a 1 minute Hebrew lesson. If you look at3:27 the Hebrew words, you read from right to left. So aleph, yod, sheen, ish, man, woman, aleph, sheen, hey. Now, you'll notice there's 1 letter in the top line that's not in3:39 the second. That's yod. Think of the letter y. There's 1 letter in the bottom line that's not in the top. What is that? That is hey. Think of the letter h, so a y h, essentially. Let's see3:51 what happens and how significant those 2 are. If we take those letters out, the 2 letters that are left, aleph and shin, are the same on the top and the bottom. Let's just take that yod out for a second, and let's take4:02 the hey out from isha for a moment, now we have yod hey, what is that? You read Hebrew from right to left, yod hey is the rudimentary letters of Yahweh,4:14 yod hey Vav Hey. Yod Hey, man and woman unite, this means that when man and woman come together in the holy covenant of marriage, they reflect the full spectrum4:26 of the image of God, the Imago Dei. 2 men don't do that. 2 women don't do that. It says a man and a woman come together, yod hey, the basis of4:38 the Tetragrammaton, a work that appears in your Bible 6800 times, referring to God himself. The name of God is stamped upon the covenant of marriage. And soHebrew Secrets: Fire, Covenant, and 'In the Beginning' 4:50 let's go further, we removed Yod and Hei out, we had 2 letters left, what were they? Aleph Shein, reading from right to left. What is Aleph Shen? It's fire. It's fire good or bad. Well, if it's5:01 uncontrolled, it's horrible. If it's controlled, it warms our home, it lights our home, cooks our meals, runs our cars. It's running this PowerPoint right now. It's getting the air conditioning and air and the heating5:13 that we need from day to day. So it's good if it's contained. This fire represented in the covenant of marriage is the passion God put. A man for a woman and a woman for a man. Part of the5:24 reason for the sexual attraction, a healthy reason for the sexual attraction, is the desires of the complementary halves of humanity to come back together to be a full reflection of the image of God, the full5:36 image of God. Now let's take this word fire and look what happens in the context of marriage. Outside of marriage, uncontrolled lust is destructive. It harms many. Within the context5:48 of covenant, there's that word again, is powerful, beautiful, and the physical intimacy of a husband and wife is a righteous and godly act. Within covenant, there's that6:00 word that keeps showing up. The word for covenant is a sacred agreement between God and humanity. It's a sacred agreement between a husband and wife. Now, let's put the other word6:12 together. Remember, if we remove yod from man, hey from woman, we have alef shin. What's that word I said? Fire. Let's take a look at the word berit, covenant,6:24 and eish for fire. Let's take the very end of the word berit. Let's take the beginning of the word for berit, right to left, remember. Now let's take that fire, that6:36 passion we talked about, a man for a woman, a woman for a man, but put it in the context of the covenant. Now we have a new word. What is that new word? That new word is Bereshit. What is that?6:47 It translates in the beginning.7:00 First Hebrew word which translates in the beginning. 3 Jewish rabbis taught me what I'm now sharing with you. The 1 who taught me this said these words to me, Jim, marriage is so sacred7:12 and so holy that even in the first word of the Bible, tucked in that word is the profound message of the passionate attraction of a male and female for each other to try to want to complete7:24 what God split apart in the splitting of the and surrounded with the covenantal aspects of bereit,7:46 makes for godly beautiful marriage. But Satan wants to destroy that. He wants to destroy on the planet the image of God. So with divorce, homosexuality, transgender, abuse, pornography,7:58 adultery, fornication, abortion, and a lot of other things, Satan tries to destroy the Imago Dei, the image of God on planet Earth. We go from Genesis, we jump all the way to Revelation. What is the culminationFrom Genesis to Revelation: Satan's Assault on Marriage 8:10 of all of history? History is going towards 1 event. That 1 event is the marriage supper of the lamb. It's gonna close with a big wedding. The Bible started with a marriage. It's gonna end with an8:22 enormous marriage. This marriage is Jesus and the ekklesia. What is the ekklesia? The people of God. The true people of God. And the definition of the words, the people of God called with legislative8:34 authority. You are in this auditorium as the ekklesia, exercising your legislative authority through prayer, through fasting, and through declaration of his word on planet Earth, thy will be done on8:46 Earth as it is in heaven. You're exercising legislative authority. All of history is going towards 1 event. God only has 1 kid, so who marries his kid he's gonna care about a lot? The ekklesia,8:58 the people of God. But you and I can't comprehend Jesus and the people of God being married. We can't grasp that. And so God put on earth, small m marriage to help us understand.9:10 We tend to think that God looked on the earth, borrowed the metaphor of marriage, and used it for a closeout of history. We have it exactly the opposite. Capital M, marriage, you have not seen yet. Capital M, marriage is9:21 what is yet to come. What you have on Earth is small m, marriage. Think of the best marriage you know, I hope it's your own. And think of that marriage, your marriage is to be a representation of the closure9:33 of all history, because we have a hard time grasping how did Jesus and the people of God come together in marriage. And so Paul understood this and he wrote in Ephesians 5,9:45 husband and wife, husband and wife, husband and wife. And then he said, love, you'll become you'll become 1. And then he said, it's a profound mystery. But he said, wait a minute. I'm not talking about husband and wife.9:54 I'm talking about Jesus and the Ecclesia. Ephesians chapter 5. He's aware this is a profound mystery to us. We can't comprehend it. 1 of the reasons God put marriage10:06 on earth was so we would not only see the full Imago Dei, the image of God from JENNA. But we would see the closure of all of history from the book of Revelation. I've written 210:18 books on and so people say to me, why is there no marriage in heaven? Well, the fact is heaven is marriage. That's what the whole thing is about. It's a grand marriage. It's a It's a grand marriage. It's the culmination.10:29 And people say, well, there are known marriages and I don't want to be indelicate, but let me just say it this way. It's the act of physical intimacy in the10:45 presence of Jesus. That's the meaning of Psalm 16 11. At your right hand are pleasures forevermore. I've interviewed a lot of people, near death experiences. They've crossed over and they come back and they report the10:55 ecstasy, the joy, the glory. Nobody who crossed over wanted to come back, and not a 1 of them had fear of death after that point, because they longed to be completed, longed to be completed with Jesus and11:07 the people of God coming together. But along comes Satan. He wants to destroy the image of God in Genesis, destroy the picture of the culmination of history of heaven itself in the book of Revelation. What11:19 happened in Genesis 1? God's makes gender specificity male and female. By Genesis 2, we have 1 flesh marriage. By Genesis 4, we have procreation. Babies being produced now11:31 is the opposite, Satan comes to attack in reverse order. Attack the babies that are being born through abortion, redefine marriage next, and destroy gender specificity, that's specifically what Satan11:43 has done in our culture. December the thirteenth, 20 22, is when the president, at that time Joe Biden, did this to our White House, impunity. Judicial destroyed11:55 marriage in 20 15. Legislative in December of 20 22. Every Democrat and 12 Republicans voted in the Senate to destroy marriage. In the House,12:07 every Democrat, and 39 Republicans in the final vote voted to destroy marriage. And finally, on December the thirteenth, 20 22, I've watched the news almost every day of my life12:19 since 89. It's the first time I turned the television off, I couldn't stand the pain I was watching as the president in the White House that day, Joe Biden at that time, signed into law, meaning that for the12:31 first time in American history, the first time in American history, all 3 branches of government now were supporting that for which God had destroyed Sodom.In this video 0:00 Marriage Under Attack: Reflecting God's Full Image4:49 Hebrew Secrets: Fire, Covenant, and 'In the Beginning'8:06 From Genesis to Revelation: Satan's Assault on Marriage
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