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REPENT AND ABSTAIN FROM SEXUAL IMMORALITY

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1 CORINTHIANS 6:13,18 (ESV)
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The body is not meant for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. … Flee sexual immorality. Every other sin that a person does is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.

What is sexual immorality?

sexual immorality: Interpersonal activity involving sex organs that does not conform to God’s revealed laws governing sexuality.[i] Sexual immorality is defined as any sexual activity that takes place outside of a lawful marriage. This includes adultery, fornication, bestiality, homosexuality, incest, pornography, prostitution, and rape.

“Sexual immorality” means “a surrendering of sexual purity,” and is mostly used regarding premarital or extramarital sexual relations.

Heterosexuals engaged in sexual immorality, either fornication or adultery, often point out the sin of homosexuality as being bad. This is done to psychologically justify their preferred sin of heterosexual sexual immorality. As far as inheriting the kingdom of God is concerned, the Millennial Kingdom, it does not matter what kind of sexual immorality one engages in, as unrepentant fornicators, adulterers, and homosexuals will all not inherit the kingdom of God.

1 CORINTHIANS 6:9-10 (MIXED VERSIONS):
The unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God. Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor covetous (greedy of gain), nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.

GALATIANS 5:19-21 (MIXED VERSIONS):
Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, drug sorcery, hatred, quarrels, jealousies, fits of rage, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

EPHESIANS 5:5 (NKJV):
For this you know, that no fornicator, unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Messiah (Christ) and God.

SATAN ROAMS THE EARTH LIKE A LION, SEEKING TO DEVOUR MEN

1 PETER 5:8 (NKJV):
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

One of Satan’s favorite ways to devour men is through sexual immorality. Satan knows that if he can get people to engage in and remain in sexual immorality, it is a deadly sin that will cause them to lose their salvation.

WE ARE ALL LIKE AN UNCLEAN THING TO GOD

ISAIAH 64:6 (NKJV):
We are all like an unclean thing, and all our righteousness’s are like filthy rags.

One of the ways mankind is made unclean and filthy is through sexual immorality. Any sexual activity conducted outside of a lawful marriage is sexual immorality.

God will regenerate, renew, and cleanse us from all sexual immorality in the age to come if the sexually immoral person repents of sexual immorality and lives a chaste life.

ISAIAH 1:18 (NKJV):
“Come now, and let us reason together,” says YHWH (the Lord),
“Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow;
though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.”

FORGIVENESS FOR SEXUAL IMMORALITY IS DEPENDENT UPON REPENTANCE

Yeshua (Jesus) was very forgiving of penitent sexually immoral people during His Messianic mission on Earth.

A PENITENT, SEXUALLY IMMORAL WOMAN IS FORGIVEN

LUKE 7:36-50 (NKJV):
Then one of the Pharisees asked Him to eat with him. And He went to the Pharisee’s house, and sat down to eat. And behold, a woman in the city who was a sinner, when she knew that Yeshua (Jesus) sat at the table in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster flask of fragrant oil, and stood at His feet behind Him weeping; and she began to wash His feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head; and she kissed His feet and anointed them with the fragrant oil. Now when the Pharisee who had invited Him saw this, he spoke to himself, saying, “This Man, if He were a prophet, would know who and what manner of woman this is who is touching Him, for she is a sinner.” 
And Yeshua (Jesus) answered and said to him, “Simon, I have something to say to you.”
So he said, “Teacher, say it.”
“There was a certain creditor who had two debtors. One owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty. And when they had nothing with which to repay, he freely forgave them both. Tell Me, therefore, which of them will love him more?” Simon answered and said, “I suppose the one whom he forgave more.”
And He said to him, “You have rightly judged.” Then He turned to the woman and said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? I entered your house; you gave Me no water for My feet, but she has washed My feet with her tears and wiped them with the hair of her head. You gave Me no kiss, but this woman has not ceased to kiss My feet since the time I came in. You did not anoint My head with oil, but this woman has anointed My feet with fragrant oil. Therefore I say to you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much. But to whom little is forgiven, the same loves little.”
Then He said to her, “Your sins are forgiven.”
And those who sat at the table with Him began to say to themselves, “Who is this who even forgives sins?”
Then He said to the woman, “Your faith has saved you. Go in peace.”

YESHUA’S (JESUS’) BLOOD COVERS THE SINS OF THE PENITENT PERSON, BUT NOT THE PERSON WHO ENGAGES IN ONGOING SEXUAL IMMORALITY

HEBREWS 10:26-27 (NKJV) [WITH INTERPRETATION]:
For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,  but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries [OF GOD].

THE HABITUAL SIN OF SEXUAL IMMORALITY

A major reason sexual immorality is such a difficult sin to repent of is that people do not want to give up pleasure through sexual activity and live life in celibacy if a lawful spouse cannot be attained. Sex releases dopamine in the brain, which causes people to become addicted to masturbation, pornography, and other forms of sexual immorality.

When a person is addicted to sexual immorality, he or she establishes pathways in the brain that accommodate habitual behavior, such as the habitual sin of sexual immorality leading to sexual addiction. Habit-forming pathways that form in the brain are either good, like remembering the QUERTY keyboard letter placement to type proficiently, or bad, like habitual sexual immoral sin and addiction.

RETHINK AND REPROGRAM YOUR MIND TO ABHOR SEXUAL IMMORALITY

COLOSSIANS 3:2-5 (NKJV) [WITH INTERPRETATION]:
Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. For you died [TO THE CARNAL DESIRES OF THE FLESH], and your life is now hidden with Messiah (Christ) in God. When Messiah (Christ), who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory. Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.

A believer should train his or her mind to hate the sin of sexual immorality and not indulge in it. The hyper-sexualized culture of the wicked world opposes sexual purity through lawful marriage as the only ordained way of having sex. Thus, many have been corrupted by the sexual immorality promoted by the world.

PRESENT YOUR BODIES AS A LIVING SACRIFICE MAKING NO PROVISIONS FOR THE FLESH – TO FULFILL ITS LUSTS

MATTHEW 10:38 (NKJV):
“He who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me.”

MATTHEW 16:24; MARK 8:34; LUKE 9:23 (NKJV):
“If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross  daily, and follow Me.”

ROMANS 12:1 & 13:14 (NKJV):
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. …  But put on the Lord Yeshua Messiah (Jesus Christ), and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts.

1 CORINTHIANS 7:2 (KJV):
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

GALATIANS 5:16 (NKJV)
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Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.

The only provision for sex is exclusively between a man and a woman within a lawful marriage. Any form of sex outside of a lawful marriage is sexual immorality. Believers struggling with the sin of sexual immorality must ask themselves if they are willing to deny themselves by giving up unlawful sexual desires and following Yeshua (Jesus) or not. The Son of God was brutally tortured and gave up His life for us, not so we could live in sexual immorality, but that we would deny ourselves and take up our cross and follow Him in all the ways that He commands us to.

MATTHEW 5:32 (NKJV – Condensed):
“Whoever marries a woman who is divorced commits adultery.”

1 CORINTHIANS 7:10-11,39 (NKJV):
Now to the married I command, yet not I but the Lord: A wife is not to depart from her husband. But even if she does depart, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband. …
A wife is bound by law as long as her husband lives; but if her husband dies, she is at liberty to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord. 

Any man who marries or engages in sex with a divorced woman, whose original husband is still alive, is committing adultery with her.

Many will object and make excuses to ignore God’s restrictive laws on sexual immorality, marriage, and divorce. It is not that the commands are ambiguous or otherwise hard to understand, it is just that many people will not accept them.
                                                                                            
GENESIS 2:24 (NKJV):
Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

MATTHEW 19:12 (NKJV):
“For there are eunuchs who were born thus from their mother’s womb, and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven’s sake. He who is able to accept it, let him accept it.”

Yeshua (Jesus) spoke of three types of eunuchs:

1. Children who were born eunuchs through a congenital birth defect.

2. Eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men.

3. Eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven.

A child who is born a eunuch, as with any other birth defect, is an unfortunate occurrence.

A eunuch who has been made a eunuch by men is a male who has been castrated, or had his external testes, or external genitals removed.

Eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven are not actually eunuchs. Yeshua (Jesus) was speaking metaphorically of unmarried men who, not being able to find a suitable wife, remain celibate and do not engage in sexual immorality. He was also speaking of men who married divorced women whose original husbands were still alive, thus realizing that they were living in adultery and they divorced themselves from the unlawful remarriage union and then lived in celibacy, in essence becoming a eunuch for the sake of the kingdom of heaven.

SEXUAL IMMORALITY IS A TRAP LEADING TO SPIRITUAL DEATH

PROVERBS 7:21-27 (Condensed):
With her enticing speech she caused him to yield, with her flattering lips she seduced him. Immediately he went after her, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks. He did not know it would cost his life. Her house is the way to hell, descending to the chambers of death.

Scripture describes sexual immorality, sex outside of a lawful marriage, as something that can cost a person his/her life, like an ox going to the slaughter or a bird to the snare. A man who gets enticed by a woman to commit acts of sexual immorality with her is like a fish that takes the bait and gets caught on a hook.

A man should seek a Proverbs 31 wife, but if one cannot be found, he should not settle for a Proverbs 5 and 7 sexually immoral woman. Sexual immorality is a salvation issue, likened to a trap, which leads to spiritual death.

SEXUAL IMMORALITY IS UNAUTHORIZED, UNLAWFUL SEX

Just as Satan offers false doctrines as a counterfeit for true doctrines, he deceives the world with unauthorized, unlawful sex. Sex is only authorized by God between a man and a woman in a lawful marriage. All sex outside of a lawful marriage is sexual immorality, which is unauthorized, unlawful, and sinful.

GOD GIVES PEOPLE TIME TO REPENT OF SEXUAL IMMORALITY

REVELATION 2:18-22 (NKJV):
‘These things says the Son of God, who has eyes like a flame of fire, and His feet like fine brass: “I know your works, love, service, faith, and your patience; and as for your works, the last are more than the first. Nevertheless I have a few things against you, because you allow that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, to teach and seduce My servants to commit sexual immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols. And I gave her time to repent of her sexual immorality, and she did not repent. Indeed I will cast her into a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of their deeds.”

Yeshua (Jesus) declared that He gave Jezebel, arguably the most sexually immoral woman in Scripture, time to repent of her sexual immorality, but she did not repent and also gave the men who committed adultery with her time to repent.

EZEKIEL 33:11 (NKJV – Condensed):
“As I live,” says YHWH (the Lord) God, “I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why should you die?”

2 PETER 3:9 (NKJV) [WITH INTERPRETATION]:
The Lord [YESHUA (JESUS)] is not slack concerning His promise [TO RETURN], as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.

God is giving current-day persons time to repent of sexual immorality, as well as other sins. Those who refuse to repent of their sins will not inherit the kingdom of God and will suffer great tribulation outside of the kingdom.

AMERICANS ARE BEING GIVEN TIME TO REPENT OF SEXUAL IMMORALITY

God is giving Americans time to repent of their sexual immorality, but the time to repent will run out. America is Babylon the Great of Isaiah 18 and Revelation 18, which is prophesied to be destroyed by nuclear annihilation. Righteous Americans will be taken by God to safety in the American Rapture.

ISAIAH 18:7 (NKJV) [WITH INTERPRETATION]:
In that time [OF AMERICA’S DESTRUCTION] a present [THE AMERICAN SAINTS] will be brought to YHWH (the Lord) of hosts from a people [AMERICANS] tall and smooth of skin, and from a people [AMERICANS] terrible from their beginning onward, a nation [MILITARILY] powerful and treading down [IMPOSING ITS WILL UPON OTHER NATIONS], whose land [AMERICA] the rivers divide— to the place of the name of the Lord of hosts, to Mount Zion.

REVELATION 18:4 (NKJV) [WITH INTERPRETATION]:
And I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come [BE RAPTURED] out of her [AMERICA], My people, lest you share in [THE JUDGMENT OF] her [AMERICA’S] sins, and lest you receive of her [AMERICA’S] plagues.”

SEXUALLY IMMORAL AMERICANS WILL SUFFER THE SAME FATE AS JEZEBEL

1 KINGS 21:23 (NKJV):
And concerning Jezebel YHWH (the Lord) also spoke, saying, ‘The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel.’
(see also: 2 Kings 9:30-37)

ISAIAH 18:6 (NKJV) [WITH INTERPRETATION]:
They [UNRIGHTEOUS AMERICANS] will be left [BEHIND] together for the mountain birds of prey and for the beasts of the earth; the birds of prey will summer on them, and all the beasts of the earth will winter on them [EAT THEM].
                                                                                            
REVELATION 18:2 (TLV) [WITH INTERPRETATION]:
“Fallen, fallen is Babylon [AMERICA] the great! She [AMERICA] has become a den for demons, a haunt for every unclean spirit and for every unclean bird and for every unclean and detestable beast.”

Jezebel was thrown out her palace window and killed. Her body was eaten by dogs. America’s prophetic fate is to be judged by fire and destroyed. The corpses of unrighteous left behind Americans will be eaten by unclean birds and beasts (see also Matthew 24:28 and Luke 17:37).

WEEP NOW OR WEEP LATER (AFTER THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM)

MATTHEW 5:4 (NKJV):
“Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.”

LUKE 6:21,25 (NKJV):
“Blessed are you who weep now, for you shall laugh. …
Woe to you who laugh now, for you shall mourn and weep.”

Yeshua (Jesus) was not speaking of people who mourn or weep over the loss of loved ones in the Beatitudes. He was speaking about those who mourn and weep over their sins, that they will be comforted. He was speaking of people who laugh now, who take joy and pleasure in their sins – including sexual immorality, that they will mourn and weep over their sins. The sins that many people will mourn and weep over, whether now or later (after the Millennial Kingdom), are their sins of sexual immorality.

JAMES 4:4,7-10 (NKJV):
Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. …
Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Lament and mourn and weep!
Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up.

The following warning should be heeded now to avoid God’s judgment:

HEBREWS 13:4 (NKJV) [WITH INTERPRETATION]:
Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; but [UNREPENTANT] fornicators and [UNREPENTANT] adulterers God will judge.

MANY PROCLAIM THAT IT IS NOT FAIR TO BE DENIED SEX

Many unmarried persons engaged in sexual immorality complain that it is not fair and it is too difficult to live a life of celibacy and abstain from sexual immorality.

EZEKIEL 18:21-29 (NKJV):
If a wicked man turns from all his sins which he has committed, keeps all My statutes, and does what is lawful and right, he shall surely live; he shall not die. None of the transgressions which he has committed shall be remembered against him; because of the righteousness which he has done, he shall live. 
Do I have any pleasure at all that the wicked should die?” says YHWH (the Lord) God, “and not that he should turn from his ways and live?
But when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, shall he live? All the righteousness which he has done shall not be remembered; because of the unfaithfulness of which he is guilty and the sin which he has committed, because of them he shall die.
Yet you say, ‘The way of YHWH (the Lord) is not fair.’ Hear now, O house of Israel, is it not My way which is fair, and your ways which are not fair? When a righteous man turns away from his righteousness, commits iniquity, and dies in it, it is because of the iniquity which he has done that he dies. Again, when a wicked man turns away from the wickedness which he committed, and does what is lawful and right, he preserves himself alive. Because he considers and turns away from all the transgressions which he committed, he shall surely live; he shall not die. Yet the house of Israel says, ‘The way of YHWH (the Lord) is not fair.’ O house of Israel, is it not My ways which are fair, and your ways which are not fair?”

If a person repents from sexual immorality, he or she will not be judged by God as a fornicator or adulterer (1 Corinthians 6:11), as Yeshua’s (Jesus’) blood will fully atone for these sins (Ezekiel 18:21-22). If a person does not repent from sexual immorality, either by the end of his/her life or the end of the age, God will judge that person, and said person will not inherit the kingdom of God.

YESHUA (JESUS) WAS A DYING SACRIFICE TO PAY FOR OUR SINS WHO ASKS US TO PRESENT OUR BODIES AS A LIVING SACRIFICE, REFRAINING FROM FULFILLING ITS LUSTS THROUGH SEXUAL IMMORALITY, WHICH IS REASONABLE SERVICE TO GOD

MATTHEW 26:39 (ESV):
And going a little farther He fell on His face and prayed, saying,
“My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from Me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will.”

ROMANS 12:1 (NKJV):
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.

1 CORINTHIANS 6:19-20 (NKJV):
Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

SEX IS A PRIVILEGE FOR THE LAWFULLY MARRIED, NOT FOR THE UNMARRIED

It was not fair, but necessary, that Yeshua (Jesus) suffered and was crucified to die to atone for the sins of mankind; the just for the unjust (1 Peter 3:18). Yeshua (Jesus) was a dying sacrifice who did the will of the Father and died to pay the price for our redemption. God has forbidden all sexual activity outside of a lawful marriage. Our bodies are not our own. God requires that the unmarried be a living sacrifice of sexual purity, refraining from satisfying the carnal desires of the flesh, as a reasonable service, making no provision for the flesh to fulfill its lusts, so as to be acceptable to Him (Romans 12:1).

THE PURSUIT OF HOLINESS BEFORE HAPPINESS

This life is not solely for seeking happiness and certainly is not for pleasure through sexual immorality. God wants us to be happy, but not at the expense of holiness. This life is a test comparable to a race to be won.

1 CORINTHIANS 9:24 (NKJV):
Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may obtain it.

HEBREWS 12:1 (NKJV):
Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us.

SEXUAL IMMORALITY GRIEVES THE HOLY SPIRIT

Do not grieve the Holy Spirit over the sin of sexual immorality (Ephesians 4:30), but if you have done so, know that God is still with you, fighting for you, and has not given up on you. If committing acts of sexual immorality does not grieve the Holy Spirit within a person, then he or she is in worse danger, as God has given them over to sexual immorality (Romans 1:24). Such persons do not only need to repent of sexual immorality; they also need to call upon God to come back to them.

1 CORINTHIANS 6:19-20 (ESV):
Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

THE FATE OF FAMILY AND FRIENDS LIVING IN SEXUAL IMMORALITY

JEREMIAH 16:19 (NKJV) [WITH INTERPRETATION]:
The Gentiles [CATHOLICS, PROTESTANTS, MAINSTREAM CHRISTIANS] shall come to You from the ends of the earth and say, “Surely our [CHURCH] fathers have inherited lies, worthlessness and unprofitable things.”

REVELATION 20:5 (NKJV):
The rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished.

REVELATION 22:14-15:
Blessed are those who do His commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter through the gates into the city. But outside are dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and whoever loves and practices a lie.

Many righteous-living believers have concerns about the fate of family and friends living in unrepentant sexual immorality. Many Catholic, Protestant, and mainstream Christian churches’ teachings are soft on sexual immorality in addition to many other worthless and unprofitable doctrines. The bad news is that the sexually immoral, unless they repent, will not inherit the kingdom of God as first-fruit saints. The good news is the sexually immoral are not being judged to hell immediately at the second resurrection, the resurrection of the rest of the dead. The sexually immoral will be raised at the second resurrection and will weep and mourn and then have a final chance to repent and be part of the final harvest.

ISAIAH 4:1 (NKJV) [WITH INTERPRETATION]:
And in that day seven women [PERSONS OF THE SECOND RESURRECTION – REVELATION 20:5] shall take hold of one man [RIGHTEOUS FIRST-FRUIT SAINT], saying, “We will eat our own food and wear our own apparel; only let us be called by your name, to take away our reproach [SHAME].”

Most sexually immoral people, when resurrected after the Millennial Kingdom reign of Yeshua (Jesus), will repent and seek to be part of the final harvest.

MARRIAGE IN THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM

 ISAIAH 54:1-3 (NKJV):
“Sing, O barren, you who have not borne! Break forth into singing, and cry aloud, you who have not labored with child! For more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married woman,” says YHWH (the Lord).
“Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch out the curtains of your dwellings; do not spare; lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes. For you shall expand to the right and to the left, and your descendants will inherit the nations, and make the desolate cities inhabited.”

MATTHEW 6:33 (NASB):
“Seek first God’s kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you.”

Many people believe that there will be no marriages between men and women in the age to come, based on a question answered by Yeshua (Jesus), concerning marriage and the resurrection of the dead.

MATTHEW 22:30 (NKJV):
“For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels of God in heaven.”

MARK 12:25 (NKJV):
“For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.”

At the resurrection, no one will be married as death ends the marriage covenant. No person will enter God’s kingdom married (Matthew 22:30; Mark 12:25). The first fruit saints of the resurrection will be spending time with God in the clouds, during the great tribulation and 7-year reign of the Antimessiah (Antichrist). At this time, there will be no marriages between men and women.

The little “mustard seed” flock of first fruit saints will be leavened and become the big flock, through childbearing, during the Millennial Kingdom reign of Yeshua (Jesus) (Matthew 13:33; Mark 13:21; Luke 12:32,13:18-21). The only way that barren women, during the Millennial Kingdom, can lawfully have more children than married women of this age is through some form of marriage. Since there will be no more death for the first fruit saints of the Millennial Kingdom, marriage may take on another name as God may institute a superior union for men and women in place of the marriage covenant, which ends in “till death do you part.”

GOD IS MERCIFUL AND QUICK TO FORGIVE THE SIN OF SEXUAL IMMORALITY

Samson committed sexual immorality with a harlot and fornicated with Delilah (Judges 16:1,4). Afterward, Samson called out to God in repentance and God forgave him (Judges 16:28-30). King David committed adultery with Bathsheba
(2 Samuel 11:4), impregnated her (2 Samuel 11:5), and saw to it that her husband Uriah was killed in battle (2 Samuel 11:14-17). When David’s sins were revealed to him by the prophet Nathan, he repented (2 Samuel 12:7-12). When David confessed that he had sinned against YHWH (the Lord) he was forgiven (2 Samuel 12:13). David was considered a man after God’s own heart (Acts 13:22).

God gave Jezebel time to repent of her sexual immorality (Revelation 2:21-22), just as He is giving others time to repent of their sexual immorality. God takes no pleasure in the death of the wicked (Ezekiel 33:11), but is longsuffering and patient as He wants all people to come to repentance (2 Peter 3:9). For people who are engaged in sexual immorality and come to repentance, God is merciful and quick to forgive. God will forgive sexually immoral persons who repent, and such persons will avoid His judgment (1 Corinthians 6:11). God calls upon the sexually immoral to become living sacrifices by not fulfilling the lust of the flesh – which is reasonable service to God.

GALATIANS 5:24 (NKJV) [WITH INTERPRETATION]:
And those who are Messiah’s (Christ’s) have crucified the flesh with its [UNLAWFUL] passions and desires.

 

[i] Baker’s Evangelical Dictionary, 1996, https://www.biblestudytools.com/dictionary/immorality-sexual/

George Lujack