The Right Partnership For Love

What is the right partnership for love?

Every year in the United States and across the world, there is a holiday called Valentine's Day.  On Valentine's Day, couples give expressions of their love to each other.

When Valentine's Day started becoming popular around 1847 in America, the partners for love were pretty much limited to men and their wives, or men and the woman they were engaged to marry.  These were the candidates for gift exchanges, because only men and their own wives were considered to the right partnerships for love.

Today, things are very different.  The ever expanding Valentine's Day industry has sought out new markets for their products.  Valentine's Day gift exchanges have been expanded to include many other partnerships for love.  So there are now gifts for all kinds of partnerships for love.  These partnerships for love were first expanded to include partnerships between a man and a woman, that he is not married to, or even a man and a woman, who is married to another man.

Still the Valentine's Day industry has not wanted to leave any potential market unreached.  So it has been changing its offerings to accommodate new markets and new opportunities for growth.  So there are now gifts for all kinds of  partnerships including, but not limited to, partnerships composed of three or more partners, and partnerships composed of partners of the same sex.  There is probably some Valentine's Day company out there that caters those involved in partnerships with dead people, children, or animals.

More than that, many of these partnerships for love are endorsed by religious professionals.  Today, this has come to include marriage between a man and a woman, without any examination of their eligibility for marriage, and marriage between two people of the same sex.  Tomorrow, these religious professionals could expand performing marriage ceremonies to include the other partnerships previously mentioned.  After all, the marriage industry is also looking for new ways to grow as well.

Many lawyers support these new definitions of marriage as well.  After all, more marriages mean more divorces, and more lawsuits.  Expanding the definition of marriage to include more partnerships for love, means growing opportunities and profits for the divorce industry.

So is every partnership for love right ?  Or are some partnerships for love wrong?  If so, then which partnerships for love are right, and which are wrong?

These are not unanswerable questions.  The Book of Truth (The Bible) tells which partnerships for love are right, and which are wrong.

What is the right partnership for love?  The answer to this question is obvious, if you just look at the pattern that was set, when sexual love began.

The Father of Truth made people in only two sexes in the beginning, male and female, with no blurring of the lines, or confusion about which sex each person was (Genesis 1:27).   He made only one woman for the only man on Earth (Genesis 2:21-22).  This partnership of one man and one woman was the only partnership that He blessed (Genesis 5:2).

He made one woman for one man to form a partnership for love, so they could reproduce in order to fill the Earth with people (Genesis 1:28).  This partnership for love is formed by a man and a woman leaving the family they grew up in, marrying each other to start a new family, and then engaging in sex, without any sense of shame, so they can carry out their part of the mission to fill the Earth with people (Genesis 2:23-25).  A man and his wife are to engage in sex, after forming a partnership for love, so that the woman can become pregnant to produce more people to live on the Earth (Genesis 4:1-2).

So the right partnership for love is a man married to a woman.  This partnership makes it possible for children to be born, so that the Earth can be populated with people.  This partnership makes it possible to create stable families, with both a father and a mother.  This partnership makes it possible for children to learn how to form the right partnership for love, when they are ready for love.

The Father of Truth is very serious about forming only the right partnership for love.

A man and the wife of someone else do not form the right partnership for love, and the penalty is death if they engage in sex (Leviticus 20:10).

A man and his stepmother do not form the right partnership for love, and the penalty is death if they engage in sex (Leviticus 20:11).  A man and his daughter-in-law do not form the right partnership for love, and the penalty is death if they engage in sex (Leviticus 20:12).  A man, his wife, and his mother-in-law do not form the right partnership for love, and the penalty is death if they engage in sex (Leviticus 20:14).

A man and another man do not form the right partnership for love, and the penalty is death if they engage in sex (Leviticus 20:13).  A man and an animal do not form the right partnership for love, and the penalty is death if they engage in sex (Leviticus 20:15).  A woman and an animal do not form the right partnership for love, and the penalty is death if they engage in sex (Leviticus 20:16).

So whenever people form a wrong partnership for love, they are worthy of death, if they engage in sex (Romans 1:26-32).  Whenever people form a wrong partnership for love, they are fornicators, if they engage in sex (1 Corinthians 7:2).  [Fornication comes from the same Greek root word as porn and means ANY sex other than between a husband and his wife. If it had been assigned the "p" sound, instead of the "f" sound, when the original sound was split into two sounds, then the word would be "pornication". ]

Whenever people form a wrong partnership for love, they will not become part of the kingdom of the Father of Truth, if they engage in sex (1 Corinthians 6:9-10).  Whenever people form a wrong partnership for love, they will suffer the wrath of the Father of Truth, if they engage in sex (Colossians 3:5-6).  Whenever people form a wrong partnership for love, they will fall under the judgment of the Father of Truth, if they engage in sex (Hebrews 13:4).

So people must be careful to be sure that they only form the right partnership for love, before they engage in sex.  This can require more thought than most people think.  It often takes looking beyond the surface to see if people are forming the right partnership for love.

Sometimes, it is easy to identify a right partnership for love.  If a man is getting married, for the first time, to woman who is a virgin, then they are obviously forming the right partnership for love.

Sometimes, it is easy to identify a wrong partnership for love.  If someone forms a partnership with someone else of the same sex, then they are obviously forming the wrong partnership for love.

There can be no doubt about that is a wrong partnership for love, when you considered what has happened to those, who have lived like they were married in Sodom, throughout the world and across the ages.  As already shown, the penalty concerning this wrong partnership, that was first written in the Original Covenant (Tanakh aka The Old Testament), did not change under the Renewed Covenant (B'rit Chadashah aka The New Testament).  The penalty for forming this wrong partnership, and then engaging in sex, has always been death, because the commandments of the unchanging law have never changed.

The wages of sin are still death (Romans 6:23).  The Father of Truth will pay those in this wrong partnership for love what they have earned (Galatians 6:7-8).  The Father of Truth has not changed - and neither has His definition of the right partnership for love (James 1:17).  Transgression of the Law of Truth (Torah aka The Law) is still sin (1 John 3:4).

Since the judgment of the Father of Truth for forming this wrong partnership has plainly been written in the Book of Truth, then it is not judging anyone to warn them about what those judgments are.  Those deceivers who say otherwise, are twisting what the Book of Truth says, by using verses that have been taken out of context.  Those who form this wrong partnership for love will not be acquitted by claiming "My DNA made me do it", any more than someone who kidnapped and tortured to death those in this wrong kind of partnership, would be acquitted by the same claim.  The worst kind of hatred that anyone can have towards those involved in this wrong partnership for love, is to not warn them of the judgment of the Father of Truth for this behavior.  The Children of Truth (those who obey The Father of Truth because they love Him) just need to be careful when warning them, to treat them as respectful as the Man of Truth (Yeshua HaMashiach aka Jesus Christ) would do, if he was personally warning Ellen DeGeneres.

This change in America from only exchanging Valentine's Day gifts between men and their wives to exchanging these gifts for this obviously wrong partnership for love did not happen overnight.  In fact, it was the result of a subtle influence, that took more than a hundred years to move from treating this wrong partnership for love as a death penalty crime to religious professionals performing marriage ceremonies for it.  Wide spread acceptance of this wrong partnership for love as a right partnership of love is certain to bring about the death of America.  The only hope of saving America, by returning to treating wrong partnership for love as death penalty crime to bring it to an end, is many people recognizing that a time for civil disobedience has arrived, just like past generations did, when they brought an end to British tyranny and slavery.

So it is easy to recognize that the first scenario, a never before married man who marries a virgin, as a right partnership for love, and the second scenario, two people of the same sex marrying each other, as a wrong partnership for love.  However, there are other scenarios involving marriage between a man and a woman, where it is not as easy to determine what is a right partnership for love, and what is a wrong partnership for love.

For instance, a surviving spouse will often form a new partnership for love, after their spouse has died.  There will always be other people who think that this is a wrong partnership for love.  So there is controversy over surviving spouses marrying again to form a new partnership for love, especially, when the new partnership for love is formed soon after the death of their spouse.

The Book of Truth settles this controversy rather clearly.

Marriage is until one of spouse parts from the other spouse through death.  When this happens, the surviving spouse is free to form a new partnership for love, as long as it is a right partnership for love, because they are no longer bound to their spouse, by the old partnership for love (Romans 7:2-3).

It is not good for anyone to be alone without a partnership for love (Genesis 2:18).  This is why the Father of Truth made a woman from the only man on Earth, so the man would have someone to form the right partnership of love with (Genesis 2:20-22).  Two people in a right partnership for love, is still better than one person going through life alone (Ecclesiastes 4:8-12).  In fact, widows below sixty years of age are actually commanded to form a new partnership for love (1 Timothy 5:9-14).  There is no reason for a surviving spouse to walk the rest of their road alone.

Also, there is no minimal waiting period for the surviving spouse to form a new partnership for love after their spouse has died.  For example, Abigail married David on the very day that her first husband, Nabal, died (1 Samuel 25:38-42).

So it does not take a lot of effort to determine a right partnership for love, after one of the spouses dies.  However, it takes a lot more effort to identify a right partnership for love, when divorce is in the mix.

Not every divorce is legitimate according to Book of Truth.  Just because a woman is divorced from her first husband and marries a second husband, does not make the second partnership for love automatically a right partnership for love.  In fact, the woman and her second husband may be in a wrong partnership for love.  When a woman has two men that have been her husband, who are both alive at the same time, then whether the partnership for love is right, or wrong depends up the answer to this question:  Whose wife is she?

The answer to this question, depends upon whether or not the divorce was legitimate.

There are two causes for which a divorce may be legitimately granted.  The first one is really pretty straight forward.

If the wife was also involved in a wrong partnership for love with someone other than her husband, then her husband can legitimately divorce her, and end their partnership for love (Matthew 5:31-32).

A legitimate divorce, can only come from a voluntary action of the individual, where they release their claim on their spouse, while a government mandated decree of divorce, against their will, is never a legitimate divorce (Mark 6:16-18).

If a legitimate divorce occurs, then the woman can form a new partnership for love with another man (Deuteronomy 24:1-2).  If the woman forms a new partnership for love with another man, then she can never form another partnership for love with her former husband, because that would also be a wrong partnership for love (Deuteronomy 24:3-4).

The second one is a bit more involved.  Whereas the first cause is a woman forming a partnership for love with someone other than her husband, the second cause concerns one spouse who is worshiping the Father of Truth, while the other one is not.  This has nothing to do with inter-racial marriage.

The Children of Truth are not to marry anyone, who does not love the Father of Truth, because their unbelieving spouse will seek to turn them from following Him (Deuteronomy 7:3-4).  They are not to do this, because there can be no agreement between them and their unbelieving spouse about these matters (2 Corinthians 6:14-16).

If one spouse seeks to draw the other one away from following the Father of Truth to worship anything else, then they are worthy of death (Deuteronomy 13:6-10).  Therefore, it can also be a wrong partnership for love, when a Child of Truth marries one of the Children of Lies (Ezra 9:12-14).

So if an unbelieving spouse seeks to draw a Child of Truth away from the Father of Truth, then the Child of Truth must divorce the unbelieving spouse, because it is a wrong partnership for love (Ezra 10:2-4).  The Children of Truth must never put their spouse above the Kingdom of the Father of Truth (Luke 18:28-30). 

The Children of Truth must be willing to leave their spouse, if their spouse is keeping them from obeying the Man of Truth (Matthew 19:28-29).  The Children of Truth must be willing to obey the Man of Truth, even if it means losing their spouse (Mark 10:28-30).  The Children of Truth must love the Man of Truth more than they love their spouse (Luke 14:25-27).

Still, if a Child of Truth is married to an unbelieving spouse, they must never divorce their unbelieving spouse, if their unbelieving spouse is willing to let them continue to remain in the House of Truth (1 Corinthians 7:12-14).

So the Children of Truth must seek to bring their unbelieving spouses into the House of Truth, instead of seeking a divorce from them (1 Corinthians 7:16).  They must demonstrate the right partnership for love between the Man of Truth and the Children of Truth to their unbelieving spouses (Ephesians 5:31-33).

The wives among the Children of Truth can still give live in obedience to their unbelieving husband, as long as they are not being asked to be disobedient to the Man of Truth (Ephesians 5:22-24).  They can bring their unbelieving husbands into the House of Truth, with even saying a word, through a quiet and obedient attitude (1 Peter 3:1-6).

The husbands among the Children of Truth can still demonstrate the love of the Man of Truth to their unbelieving wives (Ephesians 5:25-28).  The husbands among the Children of Truth can still treat their unbelieving wives with great respect, so that they might come into the House of Truth (1 Peter 3:7).

However, if their unbelieving spouse divorces them, despite all of these efforts, then the divorce is legitimate, and they can form a new partnership for love (1 Corinthians 7:15).

So the divorce is legitimate, if the unbelieving spouse forced the Child of Truth to choose between them and remaining in the House of Truth, or the unbelieving spouse left them for refusing to leave the House of Truth.

So when the Children of Truth find themselves free to form a new partnership for love, rather through death of their spouse, or a legitimate divorce, they still have to be sure to only marry another one of the Children of Truth, who is legitimately available, so they can form a right partnership for love (1 Corinthians 7:39).

So divorce for any other cause, other than marital infidelity, or divorce from an unbelieving spouse caused by remaining in the House of Truth, is not legitimate.

Anyone who marries someone besides their spouse, without a legitimate divorce, is in an adulterous relationship - a definitely wrong partnership for love (Matthew 19:3-9). 

A husband who divorces his wife, for any other cause, and marries another woman is in a wrong partnership for love (Mark 10:11).  A wife who divorces her husband, for any other cause, and marries another man is in a wrong partnership for love (Mark 10:12).  Anyone who marries anyone, who was divorced for any other cause, is in a wrong partnership for love (Luke 16:18).

So the Children of Truth must never divorce each other, when they are in a right partnership for love, and if they do, then they must certainly not marry someone else (1 Corinthians 7:10-11).

Even when the Children of Truth have a legitimate cause for divorce, they should still treat divorce as the nuclear option.  Divorce can lead to such misery to their children, that their children may blame the bully across the street for their misery, instead of the rebellion of their parents against the commandments of the Father of Truth.

Divorce is not their only option, no matter what they have done.  They can even recover from one of them behaving like the unfaithful wife with the help of the Father of Truth.  In fact, the Children of Truth will never resort to divorce, if they both learn how to form a love triangle with the Man of Truth.  When they learn how to become intimate with the Spirit of Truth (Ruach HaQodesh aka The Holy Spirit aka The Holy Ghost), then they will find something that is better than sex.  They will be in the ultimate right partnership for love.

However, before anyone can get in the right partnership for love, they must first get out of any wrong partnership for love that they are in.  A marriage that is a wrong partnership for love, due to an illegitimate divorce, is not the unrepentable sin. 

Whether the marriage is a wrong partnership for love because an unbelieving spouse is trying to move the Child of Truth out of the House of Truth, or because the marriage is really an adulterous relationship caused by one of the spouses having an illegitimate divorce, there is a way out of a wrong partnership for love. 

The Child of Truth must get a divorce to end the wrong partnership for love (Ezra 10:10-12).  The Child of Truth must do this, if they do to not want to suffer from the wrath of the Father of Truth, for continuing in a wrong partnership for love (Ezra 10:13-14).  The Child of Truth must do this as quickly as they can (Ezra 10:15-17).  The Child of Truth must recognized that as long as they are in a wrong partnership for love, then they are living in sin (Ezra 10:18-19).  The Child of Truth must end this wrong partnership for love, even if they have had children from this wrong partnership for love (Ezra 10:44).

As discussed before, a divorce to end a wrong partnership for love, now makes the Child of Truth able to form a right partnership for love with another available Child of Truth.

Yet, no matter even if people are in the ultimate right partnership for love, it is only a temporary partnership for love that ends, when this life ends (Matthew 22:24-30).  Those who come into the House of Truth will have no need for marriage in the next life, because they will already be in final and unending right partnership for love (Luke 20:34-36).  This right partnership for love started when they came into the House of Truth, by submitting to the Man of Truth in obedience, because they believed that His Father raised him from the dead (Romans 10:9).

Come into the House of Truth!

Better Than Sex

What is better than sex?

When I was twenty I married the love of my life.  All through my twenties and beyond my wife was always dragging me into the bedroom.  Some days off we would go every two hours.  Some nights I wondered if she knew that people were actually supposed to sleep at night.  Sometimes I felt like an over milked cow.  Fortunately, I would get ten to fourteen days of reprieve every month.

Now I do not want to give anyone the wrong impression about my wife.  My wife was beyond thermonuclear hot.  The surface of a white dwarf star was cold compared to her.  The theoretical big bang explosion could not have been hotter than my wife.

Nor was there any kind of physical issue that was causing us problems.  During the ten years from when we were first married until I had my last child at thirty my wife was pregnant ten times.  Sadly, she had seven miscarriages and three of them were twins.  Three times she ended up pregnant despite both of us taking every precaution possible other than abstinence.  According to US government studies the chances of pregnancy were about 3 in 10,0000 with our set of precautions.  We managed to beat those odds three times because we were as fertile as the Garden of Eden.

I had not fallen of out love with her or any such nonsense as that.  I was crazy about my wife and still am.  I have always loved spending time with her.  There has never been another woman in my life nor will there ever be.  I love her more than the air I breathe.

Now I suppose most men would not have found this to be problem yet I did.  The problem was not a total lack of interest on my part or that I lost interest in her or anything like that. The problem was just there was something else in my life that neither my wife nor any woman could ever compete with.

This other thing was so amazing that my wife would have to drag me away from it from time to time and remind me of my obligations to her.  This other thing was so good that I would not eat for days despite my huge appetite for food and the superb cooking of my wife just so I could keep at it.  The fact is that I had found something that was better than sex.

Now I am not the only man who has found this activity that is better than sex.  Those men who find this activity are in no way uninterested in the opposite sex.  In fact, they quite often seem to be rather romantic and some are involved with many women over the course of their lives.  You can be sure that they are in no shape, form, or fashion involved in homosexuality.  In fact, the more involved they become in this activity the more repulsive homosexuality becomes to them.

For example, consider King David who also found this thing that is better than sex.

David wanted to be sure that he would get the girl for killing Goliath before he ever picked up his sling (1 Samuel 17:25-27).  He then killed two hundred Philistines to close the deal because he was anxious to be involved with his first wife (1 Samuel 18:26-28).  Then he married more wives and concubines (2 Samuel 5:13).  He had at least ten concubines (2 Samuel 15:14-16).  He also had at least seven more wives (1 Chronicles 3:1-5).  So David had was sexually involved with at least eighteen women.  David plainly was interested in women.

Yet he found spending time with the Father of Truth (YHVH aka God aka THE LORD) to be better than life itself and more desirous than eating food or drinking water (Psalm 63:1-3).

He desired to spend time worshiping the Father of Truth more than he desired his wife (2 Samuel 6:14-23).  David delighted in the Law of Truth (Torah aka The Law) and meditated on it day and night (Psalm 1:1-2).  His greatest desire was to be in the House of the Father of Truth where His presence dwells (Psalm 26:6-8).  David found a day spent with the Father of Truth to be better than a thousand days doing anything else (Psalm 84:10).  He was willing to go through any kind of affliction to learn how to keep the commandments of the Law of Truth in the way that the Father of Truth intended because David found that to be true riches (Psalm 119:71-73).

David had always been in pursuit of pleasing the Father of Truth by keeping His commandments (1 Samuel 13:14).  It was being anointed with the Spirit of Truth (Ruach HaQodesh aka The Holy Spirit aka The Holy Ghost) that caused David to delight in spending time with the Father of Truth, reading His Word and being in His presence at a fanatical level (1 Samuel 16:13).  All the revelations that the David had about the future and the Man of Truth (Yeshua HaMashiach aka Jesus Christ) that He wrote in the Psalms had came from spending time with the Spirit of Truth (2 Samuel 23:1-3).  David would have rather of lost anything, including his wives, than to have lost his connection to the Spirit of Truth (Psalm 51:11).  It was experiences with the Spirit of Truth that he found to be better than sex.

I have also found experiences with the Spirit of Truth to be better than sex.  I would usually start off praying in tongues and in my understanding about whatever was on my mind.  This might go on for a few minutes or maybe even a few hours if I had a lot on my mind.  Then suddenly things would get interesting.

Sometimes the Spirit of Truth would cause me to break out singing songs.  Often they were in a language that I did not know but the Spirit of Truth would still cause me to understand them.  Sometimes I would preach out loud in these other languages.  Sometimes these were human languages that I did not know and sometimes it was the language spoken by the angels.

For example, I did this often on the rooftop of the house of my landlord when I lived in Greece.  I could not speak Greek and he could not speak much English when I arrived in Greece.  About a year later, he told me through his wife who spoke better English and my wife who had mastered conversational Greek (I told you that she was extraordinary) that I had been preaching in Greek and he had learned things about the Father of Truth and the Man of Truth that he had never learned in his church.

In similar fashion, one of my fellow airman, who had been to Israel, told me that I had been preaching in Hebrew when I stayed the night at the site where I worked.  I honestly do not know how many times I have spoken in a language that I did not know but someone else who heard me understood.

Other times, the Spirit of Truth would explain some passage in the Book of Truth (The Bible) to me that I was struggling to understand.  The Spirit of Truth would lead to passages in the Book of Truth to show me things in there that I had never heard preached.  The Spirit of Truth would also tell me what to do about situations in my life where I needed wisdom.  The Spirit of Truth would show me changes that I needed to make in my own life.  The Spirit of Truth would talk to me about all kinds of things.

Sometimes the Spirit of Truth would show me judgments that were going to come about although they were often conditional upon whether or not people repented.  The Spirit of Truth showed me things like smart phones, embedded microchips and other technologies that would be invented so that the prophecies in the Book of Truth could literally come to pass.  The Spirit of Truth would show me political changes like the end of the USSR that were necessary to set the stage for the Man of Lies (The Antichrist aka The Beast) to rise suddenly to power.

For example, from 1997 to 2001 I warned people constantly that the US was going to be attacked on American soil by Muslims as judgment for doing wicked things like abortion and divorce for any cause unless we repented.  I was called a false prophet by many people who claimed to be Children of Truth (those who obey The Father of Truth because they love Him) and an Islamaphobe by human secularists.  Yet somehow when Muslim terrorists attacked the US on American soil on September 11th all of my detractors were suddenly silent.

After that churches were filled to the brim for about three weeks but most of the religious professionals lied to people to make them feel better.  They did not tell Americans the truth that this was judgment for the wickedness of America and repentance from national sin was the only way to avoid worse judgment in the future.  Sadly, America has only grown much more wicked and the death of America is inevitable without dramatic and widespread repentance.

Mostly, the Spirit of Truth would make me stronger on the inside so that I was more like the Man of Truth and draw me closer to the Father of Truth. I could feel the presence of the Father of Truth and the longer I was in His presence the stronger I would feel.

Sometimes I would be transported to another place on Earth, or so it seemed, and would see what was going on there.  Usually I would start praying about the situation in the Spirit of Truth although sometimes I would lay hands on people who were sick or tell Spirits of Lies (devils aka demons aka unclean spirits aka gods) that they had to leave.  This would continue until the situation was resolved.

These trips were so vivid that I could not tell if I was only seeing the situation or I was actually there.

For example, in one case I could feel the African heat in the grass hut where I stood.  I could hear people talking in what I presumed was Swahili.  I could smell the food that had been cooked there and the smell of illness that protruded from the white man on the cot.  When I laid my hand on his head to heal him I could feel his fever.  Then the fever left and he looked right at me.  He seemed to be aware of my presence but it seemed that he could not actually see me.

When these events first occurred I wondered at times if these experiences were real or if I just had an over active imagination.  Even if they were real, I was not sure if I had only had a vision of people in need or if these events had really happened in some cases.  It did not take long to get my answer. 

Sometimes when I was visiting people in other towns and went to church with them I would encounter some of the people that I had seen in these experiences with the Spirit of Truth.  One that particularly stood out was the iterating missionary that was telling about his experiences in Africa to a church that I was visiting.  He had been struck down with a tropical disease that had nearly killed him.  He then proceeded to tell about how he had felt a hand on his forehead, the fever left and how he looked to see who had laid their hand on him in the hut.  He told how he thought it must have been an angel because he could not see anyone but he could feel the presence of the Spirit of Truth.  Everything he said matched exactly what I had experienced.

Sometimes it would seem that I had only been praying for a few minutes but when I stopped I would find that eight hours had actually went by.  It was as if I had been in a place where time had no meaning.

These were not occasional occurrences but everyday occurrences.  I never knew what was going to happen when I spent time praying in tongues but if I knew if I kept at it something would always occur.  It was addictive.  I never wanted it to end.  It was better than sex.

Of course, the test of rather or not something really came from the Father of Truth is NOT the experiences that I or anyone else has had.  These experiences have to be measured against the Book of Truth just like dreams and visions to see if they really are from the Spirit of Truth.   The Spirit of Truth will never lead people into something that contradicts the Book of Truth because the Spirit of Truth is the author of the Book of Truth (2 Peter 1:21).

While David was anointed with the Spirit of Truth, that is to say poured on his head, the Man of Truth came to baptize, that is to say to totally submerse, people in the Spirit of Truth (Mark 1:7-9). He told the Apostles of Truth and the other Children of Truth that they would be baptized in the Spirit of Truth if they would wait for the baptism of the Spirit of Truth in Jerusalem (Acts 1:3-5).  The Children of Truth who obeyed his instructions began to speak in languages that they did not know when they were baptized in the Spirit of Truth (Acts 2:1-4).  This is when the Children of Truth began to produce the sound of power.

Even though the Children of Truth are speaking in a language that they do not know it is sometimes a message about the Man of Truth in a language that their listeners understand (Acts 2:5-11).  This is a sign to the hearer so that they might believe the message that they are hearing (1 Corinthians 14:22).

Other times they are speaking the language spoken by angels (1 Corinthians 13:1).  The Children of Truth will also break out singing songs in a language that they do not know (1 Corinthians 14:15).

The Man of Truth not only said that the Children of Truth across the ages would speak in languages that they did not know but they would also cast out Spirits of Lies and heal the sick by laying their hands on the sick (Mark 16:16-18).

The Man of Truth said that the Spirit of Truth would teach the Children of Truth everything they needed to know and bring the Word of Truth back to remembrance when they needed it (John 14:26).  He said the Spirit of Truth would lead the Children of Truth into all truth and even show them future events and inventions in revelations that come from him and the Father of Truth (John 16:13-15).  It is the Spirit of Truth who reveals the deep things that come from the Father of Truth (1 Corinthians 2:9-11).  These revelations from the Spirit of Truth often come to people when they are praying in tongues (1 Corinthians 14:4-6).  The Children of Truth are strengthened in their confidence in the Father of Truth that leads to bold action when they spend time praying through the Spirit of Truth in languages that they do not know (Jude 1:19-21).

Sometimes the Children of Truth are transported to another place during these experiences with the Spirit of Truth.  Ezekiel the Prophet of Truth (Yechezqel) was carried by the Spirit of Truth in a vision to the Temple in Jerusalem where he saw what other people were doing even though he was hundreds of miles away at banks of the Chebar river in modern Syria (Ezekiel 8:3-16).  Philip the Evangelist of Truth was physically transported by the Spirit of Truth in a moment of time from the Gaza road to the city of Azotus that was more than fifty miles away (Acts 8:26-40).  Paul the Jew (Shaul aka Saul aka The Apostle Paul) had experiences with the Spirit of Truth that were so vivid that he could not tell whether he actually met the man who had went to Heaven or if he only saw the man who went to Heaven in a vision (2 Corinthians 12:1-4).  John the Jew (Yochanon aka The Apostle John) could actually taste what he ate and feel the results of eating when he had one of these experiences (Revelation 10:8-10).

When the Children of Truth are having one of these experiences with the Spirit of Truth time has no meaning.  Moses (Moishe) twice spent forty days without eating or drinking when he was in the presence of the Father of Truth yet did not suffer hunger or thirst because it did not seem that long to him due to the Spirit of Truth who caused his face to shine (Exodus 34:27-29).   On the other hand shortly before his exile on the isle of Patmos ended, John the Jew had a revelation of the Man of Truth when he was spending time with the Spirit of Truth  (Revelation 1:9-11).  During this short period of time he was taken to Heaven by the Spirit of Truth where he witnesses future events unfold over a span of more than seven years (Revelation 4:1-3).  The amount of time that passes on Earth while someone is having an experience with the Spirit of Truth has absolutely no correlation to the amount of time that they experience while they involved with the Spirit of Truth.

The thing that makes is such an adventure is that you have no control over what will happen when you spend time with the Spirit of Truth because the Spirit of Truth is the one who decides what will happen (1 Corinthians 12:7-11).

So in short, these experiences with the Spirit of Truth that I have had should be so common among the Children of Truth that they almost take them for granted.  This is what it means to be normal when you are involved with the Spirit of Truth.  Time spent with the Spirit of Truth is never boring.  It is a great adventure.  It is better than sex.

These experiences with the Spirit of Truth were in no way done away with when the last Apostle died.  The Children of Truth are supposed to seek after the best gifts that the Spirit of Truth has to offer like a man in pursuit of his wife (1 Corinthians 12:28-31).  The Children of Truth are supposed to seek after the Spirit of Truth to receive what is needed to help other people become stronger in their confidence in the Father of Truth (1 Corinthians 14:1-3).  The Children of Truth are commanded to greatly desire to speak messages by the Spirit of Truth and to not forbid speaking in tongues (1 Corinthians 14:39).  The Children of Truth are commanded to not to shut down the operation of the Spirit of Truth by despising these experiences from the Spirit of Truth (1 Thessalonians 5:19-20).  The Children of Truth are not supposed to do things like that to grieve the Spirit of Truth who lives inside them (Ephesians 4:30).

So even though everyone who comes into the House of Truth receives the better circumcision still not everyone receives the baptism of the Spirit of Truth.  Yet everyone in the House of Truth can receive the baptism of the Spirit of Truth and fire because the Father of Truth has provided five ways to start a fire so that His promise can be fulfilled to everyone who is willing to follow His instructions.  He wants you to have experiences with the Spirit of Truth that are better than sex.

The Father of Truth wants His Children to come to greater revelations about His Word and His Son through the Spirit of Truth (Ephesians 1:17-21).  The Father of Truth wants His Children to be strengthen in their spirit that lives on the inside by spending time with the Spirit of Truth (Ephesians 3:14-19).

The baptism of the Spirit of Truth is both women and men whether they are young or old (Acts 2:17-18). The baptism of the Spirit of Truth is promised to everyone who will come into the House of Truth (Acts 2:38-39).  It was speaking in languages that they did not know which proved that the Gentile Children of Truth were baptized in the Spirit of Truth even though they had never heard of this baptism nor had been circumcised nor even baptized in water (Acts 10:44-47).  The baptism of the Spirit of Truth is for everyone who comes into the House of Truth (Acts 11:15-18).

In order to come into the House of Truth where you can have these experiences that are better than sex you must surrender control of your life to the Man of Truth because you believe that he was raised from the dead by His Father (Romans 10:9).

Come into the House of Truth.

The Path Of True Love

What holiday celebrates true love better than Valentine's day?

Every year on February 14th in the US and many other places people celebrate Valentine's day.  Have you ever wonder exactly where all of these customs for Valentine's day came from and why it is associated with the path of true love?

While there are many sources for the customs of Valentine's day and how it came to be celebrated as a day of romance none of them are the sufficient by themselves to explain all of the customs.  A good place to start untangling the mess is by recognizing that Valentine's day is a religious holiday for commemorating Saint Valentine.

This is not as easy as one might hope. 

In fact, there were people named Valentine who lived at different times and places that are commemorated on different days on different religious calendars.  They were all martyred in various places during a three hundred year span of time that went from 197 AD to 496 AD.  They were given various days of commemoration on different religious calendars.  Saint Valentine of Rome was given February 14th on the Catholic calendar because that was the day that this Roman Catholic priest was martyred in 496 AD.  (This is not the Valentine that was martyred during the reign of Claudius II (268 AD - 270 AD) for supposedly performing marriage ceremonies.) 

All of these people known as Saint Valentine, some who are commemorated on different days on different calendars, has added to the confusion. This has lead people to confuse which Valentine's Day is being referred to in various historical records that contain various customs that were associated with Valentine's Day long ago.

For example, it is known that the customs associated with the Saint Valentine that is mention in one ancient text is the Saint Valentine whose day is May 3rd even though people have assumed that it was the Saint Valentine whose day is February 14th.  The various Saint Valentine day festivals originally marked various agricultural events like the first day of planting and the first day of working in the vineyards for about a thousand years.  Valentine's Day originally had nothing to do with the path of true love.

Valentine's day was not associated with romance until Chaucer associated it with birds mating in a poem he wrote in 1382 AD. (It is unclear which Valentine's day he was referring to but the one associated with February 14 became the popular assumption.)  After that various customs of Pagan origin associated with sexual love began to be associated with February 14.  These practices had been carried out on different dates and in different locations until they all began to be rolled into the celebration Valentine's day on February 14th.

Many of these customs were also tamed in some regards.  For example, one custom in the middle ages was for young men to draw out the names of young women written on cards from a box and then the two were to have sex with each other (and perhaps be married although that is uncertain).  This was the origin of the Valentine's box.

A Roman holiday that may have been the source of the various Medieval customs that became modern day customs associated with Valentine's day was Lupercalia. During this holiday young men in ancient Rome would participate in the sacrifice of two male goats and a dog to Pan (the god of sex and wild parties).  They would then smear the blood of the goats on their foreheads and laugh.  They would then take two thongs made from the shaggy skin of the goats (often with blood all over them) and run a course through the streets of Rome naked.  The young women of Rome who wanted to either have an easy pregnancy or to get pregnant would get in the way of with their hands facing palm up to receive a slap on the wrist from the naked runners.  This festival was celebrated every year from February 13th through February 15th.  The only definite connection between the two is that a Catholic priest named Saint Valentine was martyred in the middle of the last observation of Lupercalia (February 14th) before it was outlawed by Pope Gelasius I in that same year.  The red associated with Valentine's day might have its origin in the blood that smeared on the foreheads of the runners, or the red marks that the bloody thongs left on the wrists of the women or the blood of Saint Valentine that was shed when he was martyred on that day.

An even older Roman custom than any of these was the heart shape.  The heart shape came from the heart shaped seeds of a plant called Silphium.  These seeds would both raise the desire for sex in women while also inhibiting their ability to get pregnant.  The Silphium plant was harvested into extinction by the Romans but the heart shape of its seeds has remained as a symbol of sexual love.  So people would give each other heart shaped objects instead of Silphium seeds in the hopes that they could somehow get the same results as eating the Silphium seeds.

The small naked children with wings known as cupids also came from Roman pagan beliefs.  The Romans believe that these spirits would cause people to fall in love with each other.  People would decorate cards with pictures of cupids to show that they had been smitten by a cupid and were now in love with the recipient.

All of these absurd practices were carried out because people wanted to find the path of true love.

It was not until the 1700s that English merchants began inducing people to celebrate Valentine's day (February 14th) with chocolates, flowers and cards.  This caught on because many people thought that this was the path of true love.

Today, many couples in America still follow these same English traditions along with some American traditions.  They have added, dressing up in formal clothing, going out to fancy restaurants to eat dinners by candle light, drinking champagne, and dancing to the list.  Often there are other gestures of romance as well because they think that this is the path of true love.

However, the Book of Truth (The Bible) tells of another holiday that really celebrates the path of true love.  During this holiday the story of Esther is read who understood and showed how to really walk in the path of true love.

The first thing to know about Esther was that her parents did not name her Esther and that she was Jewish.  Her birth name was Hadassah but her parents died so she was raised by her cousin Mordecai (Esther 2:5-7).

Like most Jewish girls she probably dreamed of one day marrying a fine Jewish man.  Since she was Godly she undoubtedly wanted to marry a Godly man as well.  Perhaps she hoped to marry someone who was like her cousin Mordecai.  However, she soon found herself in circumstances beyond her control that would shatter those dreams.

The queen of Persia, Vashti, had refused to show herself off to the drunken guests of Ahasuerus as he had commanded (Esther 1:10-12).  So after consulting with his advisers, Ahasuerus vanished Vashti from the royal city of Shushan and began to look for someone better to serve as queen that would not disrespect him by not obeying his commands - no matter how humiliating the command was (Esther 1:13-21).  So people were sent throughout the Persian Empire, that stretched from India to Ethiopia, to round up all of the most beautiful virgins from each of the 127 provinces to be brought to the royal harem so Ahasuerus could select one of them to be his new queen (Esther 2:2-4).  Hadassah was among those that were selected (Esther 2:8).  However, Mordecai had commanded her to not let anyone know that she was Jewish (Esther 2:10).

Now Ahasuerus was the furthest thing from what Hadassah had wanted in a husband.  Ahasuerus was full of pride (Esther 1:1-4). Ahasuerus was given to getting drunk and overeating (Esther 1:5-10).  Ahasuerus had already showed that he expected his spouse to do whatever he said and that he had a temper (Esther 1:12).  Ahasuerus and the princes of Persia believed that he was a god in the flesh so he could not alter any commandment once he gave it because that would be admitting that he had made a mistake - what an ego! (Esther 1:19).  Ahasuerus was involved with many other women (Esther 2:12-14).  Worst of all, Ahasuerus was not Jewish, did not know about the Law of Truth (Torah aka The Law) and thus was not circumcised (Esther 3:8).

The Law of Truth said that Hadassah was not supposed to marry anyone that worshiped idols (Deuteronomy 7:3-4). Yet she was forced to marry Ahasuerus with absolutely no say in the matter.  How could Hadassah hope to find the path of true love in these circumstances?

Well, she could have tried to get out of the marriage before she lost her virginity to Ahasuerus.  If she had refused to go to him then she might have been vanished from Shushan like Vashti and still had her virginity intact.  She could then look for a Godly husband that was more to her liking.

Another option was for her to go ahead and lose her virginity to him but to only do the bare minimum required.  A frigid performance would make her forgettable to man with many wives.  She would then continue to be pampered in the palace while never having to give herself over to Ahasuerus again (Esther 2:13-14).

However, Hadassah chose the path of true love.  She understood that this had happened to her because her people had not showed love to the Father of Truth (YHVH aka God aka THE LORD) by obeying the Law of Truth (Deuteronomy 28:32).

She had already been on the path of true love because she had not given husband benefits to anyone before she was married (Esther 2:2).  She changed her name to Esther (which means "sex goddess") before she was introduced to her husband (Esther 2:7).  Then she formed a relationship with someone who knew what her husband liked (Esther 2:8-9). She found out what clothing pleased her husband and wore it when she went to meet him in the wedding chamber (Esther 2:15).  Esther did everything that pleased her husband in their wedding bed (Esther 2:16-17).

Ahasuerus had been more with more than 100 other women in that same marriage bed on different nights competing to become queen.  However her performance made Esther unforgettable because she had chosen the path of true love.  Since Esther had chosen the path of true love she became his queen (Esther 2:17-18).

Now Esther still had another chance to get out being married to someone that many of her people believed to be the wrong person.  When she was told by Mordecai that people had intended to kill Ahasuerus she could have simply not warned him.  Instead of looking for a way out of a less than ideal marriage, she continued to walk on the path of true love.  So she told her husband that Mordecai had sent a warning to her and saved her husband from the plot (Esther 2:21-23). 

However, there was soon trouble in paradise.  Ahasuerus, her husband, promoted a man named Haman to second in command (Esther 3:1).  Mordecai refused to bow down to him as Ahasuerus had commanded (Esther 3:2-4).  Haman hated all Jews because Mordecai refused to bow down to him (Esther 3:5-7).  So Haman sought to convince Ahasuerus to issue a decree that all of the Jews across the Persian empire were to be killed (Esther 3:8-9).  Ahasuerus did not look into the matter himself but rather issued a decree that all Jews, including Esther, should be killed based on the word of Haman (Esther 3:10-14).  Soon Esther learned that her husband had signed a decree to have her, her family and her people exterminated (Esther 4:5-9).  Worse yet, she was afraid to go to plead with her husband because he had been ignoring her for the last month and might kill her if she showed up uninvited (Esther 4:10-12).  However if she did nothing then she would be killed by the decree of her husband even though the Father of Truth would deliver the Jews in some other manner (Esther 4:13-14).

Needless to say this was an obstacle in the path of true love.  Esther may have been tempted to work with the enemies of her husband that were in the palace to kill him and Haman to bring an end to decree.  Instead she decided to continue to walk in the path of true love.

She first prepared herself by seeking the Father of Truth for three days in prayer and fasting before ever saying a word to her husband (Esther 4:15-17).  Then she showed up in his inner court uninvited and her husband was glad to see her (Esther 5:1-3)  Still she did not tell him what she wanted but instead invited him and Haman to a feast of his favorites foods (Esther 5:4). At the feast of food and wine she invited him and Haman to another feast before she would tell her husband what she wanted (Esther 5:5-8).  (Perhaps her husband saw fit to spend the night between feasts with Esther so she could take care of his other great appetite as well but it is not certain.)  It was only after the second feast when she had appeased his other great appetites, besides the one for sex, that she told her husband what she wanted (Esther 7:1-4).  She had continued to walk in the path of true love.

Her efforts to please her husband paid off.  His heart was now bound to hers.  Ahasuerus, who had a quick temper, was ready to kill Haman for tricking him into issuing a decree to have his wife killed (Esther 7:5-7).  When he thought Haman was trying to rape his wife then he had Haman killed (Esther 7:8-10).  He made Mordecai second in command because of his love for Esther (Esther 8:1-2).  His heart was now willing to give his attention to the concerns of his wife (Esther 8:3-6).  He issued a new decree that Jews could defend themselves and kill everyone in the Persian Empire that sought to harm any one that was part of the people of his wife (Esther 8:7-13).  Her husband would stop at nothing to defend Esther because he was now on the path of true love. 

So then the Feast of Purim was created to commemorate the deliverance that came from a woman who chose to walk in the path of true love even when her husband did not (Esther 9:20-22).  Purim is the holiday that really shows people the path of true love (Esther 9:29-32).

So you see that the path of true love is not determined by meeting or marrying the right person.  It is not determined by being in the ideal circumstances or by getting what you think is important.  It is not even based upon being treated right by your spouse.  The path of true love is the result of doing the right things regardless of everything else.

The path of true love can be walked by anyone that is willing to do so.  The Renewed Covenant (B'rit Chadashah aka the New Testament) gives many commands that will keep those that obey them on the path of true love.  These commands were all carried out by Esther before the Renewed Covenant was written because the same Spirit of Truth (Ruach HaQodesh aka The Holy Spirit aka The Holy Ghost) that wrote the Renewed Covenant wrote the Original Covenant (Tanak'h aka the Old Testament) and guided Esther on the path of true love.

The path of true love begins before marriage like it did with Esther.

Fornicators (those that have sex outside of marriage) will not live forever with the Man of Truth (Yeshua HaMashiach aka Jesus Christ) in the kingdom of His Father (1 Corinthians 6:9-10).  All fornicators will suffer forever with the Father of Lies (HaShatan aka Satan aka The Devil) in the Lake of Fire (Revelation 21:8).

The Children of Truth (those who show their love for the Father of Truth by obeying Him) who are unmarried and cannot keep their hands off each other are to get married because that is better than burning in Hell with fornicators (1 Corinthians 7:8-9).  They just need to know that there will be hard times in any marriage (1 Corinthians 7:28).  Still they are to get married if they are determined to have sex with each other (1 Corinthians 7:35-36). 

Like Esther, the Children of Truth are to be careful about who they marry.

The Children of Truth are told to not marry anyone that has been divorce for any reason except fornication (Matthew 5:32).  Those who do so are committing adultery against the spouse of the one they married because only adultery can break the bond of marriage (Matthew 19:9).  They are free from the bond of marriage however if their unbelieving spouse leaves them despite doing all that they could to please their unbelieving spouse (1 Corinthians 7:15). They are also free to remarry if their spouse dies (1 Corinthians 7:39-40).

The Children of Truth are told to not marry anyone that does not follow the Man of Truth (2 Corinthians 6:14).  The Children of Truth are told to only marry others that follow the Man of Truth (1 Corinthians 7:39).

Like Esther, the Children of Truth are to walk the path of true love no matter what their spouse is like.

The Children of Truth are to do all they can to completely fulfill the sexual appetite of their spouses so their spouses never need to look elsewhere (1 Corinthians 7:2-5).   The Children of Truth must to be willing to do all they can to please their spouses in every way that they can (1 Corinthians 7:32-34). 

The Children of Truth are commanded to not try to escape their marriage when things are not going well (1 Corinthians 7:10-11).  The Children of Truth are warned to not try to escape their marriage when their spouse is not one of the Children of Truth (1 Corinthians 7:12-14).  The Children of Truth are to show the same faithful to their unbelieving spouses that the Man of Truth has shown to them so that their unbelieving spouses might come into the House of Truth (1 Corinthians 7:15-16).  The Children of Truth are never to seek a divorce to escape a difficult marriage (1 Corinthians 7:27).

Instead wives are to submit to their husbands in everything to show how the Children of Truth are subject to the Man of Truth in everything (Ephesians 5:22-24).  Husbands are to love their wives and protect them with their lives (Ephesians 5:25).  Husbands are to love their wives even as the Man of Truth loves the Children of Truth (Ephesians 5:28-30).  Husbands are to love their wives as their own selves and wives are to show reverence to their husbands so the world can see the relationship between the Man of Truth and the Children of Truth (Ephesians 5:31-33).  Wives are to submit to their husbands and husbands are to love their wives instead of being bitter against them to show that they are the Children of Truth (Colossians 3:17-19).

Like Esther, they can win over their spouse by remaining on the path of true love.

The wife that walks the path of true love can get her husband to come into the House of Truth by her actions without ever saying a word to him about how he is living (1 Peter 3:1-2).  Like Esther understood, it is not the efforts to make one outwardly beautiful that will cause the heart of a husband to be bound to the heart of his wife but rather her showing him reverence by doing whatever he asks without arguing (1 Peter 3:3-6).

Sometimes husbands are like Ahasuerus and simply do not know how to really love their wives.
 
The husband needs to learn to how to live in understanding with his wife by showing her honor and protecting her as Ahasuerus finally learned to do with Esther (1 Peter 3:7)  It is having compassion on each other and doing everything to bless each other on a daily basis that is the path of true love (1 Peter 3:8-9).

The Father of Truth demonstrated true love when He gave His Son to die for us so we could come into the House of Truth while we were still not treating Him right (Romans 5:7-9).  You will walk the path of true love when you come into the House of Truth by submitting to the Man of Truth in everything because you believe that the Father of Truth raised him from the dead (Romans 10:8-10).  The Man of Truth demonstrated true love when he gave his life so people could come into the House of Truth (Ephesians 5:25-27).

Come into the House of Truth.

Chasing Aphrodite

What does it really take to be attractive?

Ladies, are you tired of the never ending struggle, to be that perfect woman?  You go through waxing and other tortures to meet some ever changing standard of beauty.  You work out and starve yourself to get one dress size smaller but it just gets harder every year.  You squish your innards to make your waist seem smaller.  The clothes, that retailers told you, that you had to have last year, are no longer good enough to die in, according to those same retailers this year.  You constantly worry yourself over your hair and nails.  You squeeze your feet into shoes that are too tight in the toes, and that are damaging to your ankles just so your legs will appear to be a little smoother.  You constantly spend money to have the latest fashion, the newest make up and the rarest perfume.  You just can never seem to be good enough.  Would you like to get off of the hamster wheel?  Are you tired of chasing Aphrodite?

Gentlemen, are you tired of women, who never seem as good a few years after, you first become involved with them?  You meet a woman that seems perfect, but somehow she always deteriorates into someone, that you cannot stand to be around.  Then you meet another woman, and the same thing happens again.  This pattern seems to continue with no end in sight.  You might even think, that you need to up your game, so you start trying to improve yourself, so that you can obtain that perfect woman.  You go to the gym to become more buff.  You work long hours, and do whatever it takes to become richer.  You drive the nicest cars, and wear the best suits.  Then you spend, spend, spend, on what you have been lead to believe, is a better class of woman.  Still, it is all in vain.  No matter how classy the woman that you find, in the end the pattern still holds true. You just can never seem to be good enough.  Would you like to get off of the hamster wheel?  Are you tired of chasing Aphrodite?

Ladies and Gentlemen, you are not the first generation to chase Aphrodite.  In fact, chasing Aphrodite was the root of marital and sexual dissatisfaction among the Corinthians that Shual (aka Paul) had to address in his letters to them. You see Aphrodite was the principle deity that was worshiped in Corinth.  She was literally a sex goddess.  Every night, more than a thousand harlots (temple prostitutes) would descend upon Corinth from the temple of Aphrodite that was on the high hill that over shadowed Corinth.  These women were chasing Aphrodite in order to be seen as among the most beautiful women in the world.  They would engage in every imaginable sexual activity, often right in the middle of the street, with any man that was willing.  In first century Greek culture, to call a woman a Corinthian was the same as calling her a harlot.  These men were chasing Aphrodite in order to be seen as a man that could obtain a perfect woman.  The man had to promise to make an offering to Aphrodite at the Temple and give an offering to the harlot if he could although an oath to do so was sometimes accepted.  A young man might not have to even pay anything for his first encounter.  Of course, the men were also encouraged to drink wine to lose their inhibitions.  The men would soon be hooked on the harlots and making frequent offerings to Aphrodite.  In first century Greek culture, to call a man a Corinthian was the same as calling him a drunkard.   Those who were chasing Aphrodite made Las Vegas look like Disney Land compared to first century Corinth.

Although those who ran the temple of Aphrodite had promised satisfaction to their adherents, inevitably those who were chasing Aphrodite found themselves to be miserable.  Why is that chasing Aphrodite is never leads to long term satisfaction?

Aphrodite is like a woman that I heard speak at a church one time.  This woman had been a model for a well known pornographic magazine and later went on to model for fashion magazines.   She explained that they would spend hours preparing her and the setting for a shoot, including rubbing oil all over her body to accentuate every nuance.  They would then have her pose in dozens of positions and shoot a photo of each position from more than fifty camera shots adjusting the camera angle and lighting for each shot.  After it was over, they would have sometimes have a thousand photos, of which they would use one for the magazine.  This woman stated that not even she could look as good as she looked in the final photo all of the time.  She could never be good enough.  So one day she got off the hamster wheel.  She was done chasing Aphrodite.  How was she able to stop chasing Aphrodite?

She had been reading the Book of Truth (The Bible) and discovered the truth about chasing Aphrodite.  She also discovered how to stop chasing Aphrodite.

She realized that she could never be as good enough for those that are chasing Aphrodite because Aphrodite is not real.  Those that are chasing Aphrodite are chasing after the unrealistic imaginations of men instead of the truth that comes from the Father of Truth (YHVH aka God aka THE LORD) (2 Kings 17:14-16).   [Aphrodite is known by different names in different cultures.  Some of those names are Asherah, Ashtoreth, Ashtaroth, Ishtar, Esther and Easter.]  Aphrodite was an idol and idols have no basis in reality (Jeremiah 10:14-15).  Those who are chasing Aphrodite, are being lead about by an idol that can never help them to become good enough (Habakkuk 2:18-19).  Aphrodite was the chief idol that carried away the people in Corinth to a state of continual dissatisfaction (1 Corinthians 12:2).

In like manner, men can never measure up when they are chasing Aphrodite.  Her lovers are often shown with begetters (those things men use to beget children) the size of a horse (Ezekiel 23:20).   I saw pictures of the lovers of Aphrodite on ancient pottery when I used to live in Greece and their begetter was literally shown to be that size in the pictures.

She realized that chasing Aphrodite is destructive. The Father of Truth divided Israel into two kingdoms because Solomon was chasing Aphrodite (1 Kings 11:31-33).   Those in Corinth that were Children of Truth (those that obey the Father of Truth because they love Him) would lose their salvation if they left the House of Truth to return to chasing Aphrodite (1 Corinthians 6:9).  Chasing Aphrodite can even destroy your health (1 Corinthians 6:18).  Chasing Aphrodite caused those that once followed the Father of Truth (YHVH aka God aka THE LORD) to be destroyed (1 Corinthians 10:6-8).

She realized that chasing Aphrodite was a spiritual thing.  You probably are not literally bowing down to an idol made of white marble like the Corinthians but that does not mean that you are not chasing Aphrodite.  Aphrodite is a spirit that leads to whoredom whose goal is to separate you from the Father of Truth (Exodus 34:13-16).   Aphrodite is a Spirit of Lies (devil aka demon aka unclean spirit aka god) that keeps you from giving yourself to the purposes of the Father of Truth because you sacrifice so much to chase after what Aphrodite represents (Deuteronomy 32:17).  Aphrodite is a spirit that leads to fornication (2 Chronicles 21:11). [Fornication comes from the same Greek root word as pornography and means ANY sex other than between a husband and his wife.]   Aphrodite is a spirit that leads to adultery (Jeremiah 7:8-10).  The Man of Truth (Yeshua HaMashiach aka Jesus Christ) said that if a man lusts after any woman other than his wife then he is committing adultery which is chasing Aphrodite (Matthew 5:27-28).  The Man of Truth said that the actions that come from chasing Aphrodite starts in the spirit of the person (Matthew 15:19).  Any time a man joins his body to a harlot he is chasing Aphrodite because he has joined his spirit to Aphrodite (1 Corinthians 6:15-17).  Any sacrifice that you make in chasing Aphrodite is a sacrifice to a Spirit of Lies (1 Corinthians 10:19-21).  If you are coveting another person other than your spouse as a sex partner or coveting being lusted after as a sex partner by any person other than your spouse then you an idolater that is chasing Aphrodite (Ephesians 5:5).

She stopped chasing Aphrodite when she started pursuing the things that the Father of Truth said were worth pursuing.  Husbands stop chasing Aphrodite when they look to satisfy the sexual needs of their own wife and wives stop chasing Aphrodite when they look to satisfy the sexual needs of their own husband (1 Corinthians 7:2-4).  Single people stop chasing Aphrodite when they learn to be content with pursuing the Man of Truth (1 Corinthians 7:7-9).  Single men stop chasing Aphrodite when they seek to dress and conduct themselves in a manner that is pleasing to the Man of Truth (1 Corinthians 7:32).  Married men stop chasing Aphrodite when they seek to dress and conduct themselves in a manner that is pleasing to their wife.  (1 Corinthians 7:33)  Likewise married women stop chasing Aphrodite when they seek to dress and conduct themselves in a manner that is pleasing to their husband while single women stop chasing Aphrodite when they seek to dress and conduct themselves in a manner that is pleasing to the Man of Truth (1 Corinthians 7:34).  The Children of Truth stop chasing Aphrodite when they no longer seek to be joined to those that are not following the Man of Truth (2 Corinthians 6:14-16).  The Children of Truth stop chasing Aphrodite when they decide to separate themselves from those that do not are not in the family of the Father of Truth (2 Corinthians 6:17-18).

The truth is that you are more than good enough the way that the Father of Truth made you so you do not need to be chasing Aphrodite (Psalm 139:14).   A woman who does what is pleasing to the Father of Truth will want to marry a man that seeks to please the Father of Truth (Ruth 3:9-11).  A man who does what is pleasing to the Father of Truth highly values a woman that seeks to please the Father of Truth (Proverbs 31:10).  Those who seek to please the Father of Truth no longer find themselves chasing Aphrodite (Proverbs 31:30).  People are freed from the hamster wheel when they come to know the truth by coming into the House of Truth (John 8:31-32).

Are you tired of chasing Aphrodite?

You can come into the House of Truth by seeking to please the Man of Truth in all you do because you believe that the Father of Truth raised him from the dead (Romans 10:9).

Come into the House of Truth.