Dear VictoryinJesus,
You said:
This explains the below. Of submitting to please these elemental spirits who have no value in stopping the indulgence of the flesh…having an appearance of wisdom(but this wisdom is from below and devilish) promoting self-made religion.
I agree. The spirit of the world is the spirit of anti-Christ. It teaches "babes" (Early Rain only, unconverted) to
mix works with faith. This is the crooked way and is why Satan is called the crooked serpent. This is the false gospel that that apostate believers follow and teach.
You said:
Consider the above. He who is married to the spirit of the world …cares for the things of the world…yes how he may please his wife.
^which flesh can and will never be pleased. You can not please self- made religion. You can not please human precepts and teachings. They themselves are in the bondage of sin.
Likewise
1 Corinthians 7:34 There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married cares for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.
This verse is in reference to the marriage analogy used in scripture.
A virgin is a "babe" who has only been given the Early Rain of the Spirit. She remains unconverted and is waiting to marry Christ when He returns to her. When Christ returns, He will pour out the Latter Rain and the marriage will take place. The virgin will then be the bride (wife) of Christ and will be converted. During Paul's lifetime, the virgins in the church were remaining faithful while they waited for Christ to return. This is what Paul was referencing in the verse below:
2Cor 11:2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
However, shortly after Paul's death, the spirit of anti-Christ came into the world and devoured the virgins (babes) in the churches. After a virgin has been indwelt with the spirit of anti-Christ, she becomes married to Satan and will care for the things of this world - the things that are pleasing to her husband (Satan).
Most of the church (the "many") will remain in this apostate condition until they die. They will continue to follow the ways of Satan which includes following Satan's false gospel of mixing works with faith. For the "few" unfaithful virgins who have been chosen, Christ will come to them a second time and give them the Latter Rain of the Spirit. With the Latter Rain, the unfaithful virgin will be restored. Christ will then appear to her and the marriage will take place. Judgment will then fall on the believer. This judgment will remove and destroy the spirit of anti-Christ (cast into the Lake of Fire).
You said:
So how does Christ restore His marriage relationship with mankind?
Romans 7:3-4 KSo then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man. [4] Wherefore, my brethren, you also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that you should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God. (Notice in the parable of the sower, seed, and ground…caring for the things of the world, pleasing man-made religion for men’s praise…it does nothing, it chokes and is unfruitful.
The marriage analogy, which I briefly explained above, teaches the
pathway to salvation. Salvation occurs when a believer has both the Early and Latter Rains of the Spirit, followed by judgment. This is also called conversion. After a person is converted, they become the bride (wife) of Christ. This is how Christ is now restoring the marriage relationship with mankind - the one that Adam and Eve lost in the Garden of Eden when they fornicated with Satan (believing Satan over Christ).
This scripture below applies to the marriage analogy:
Isa 54:5 For thy Maker is thine husband; the LORD of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called. 6 For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God. 7 For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee.
The "great mercies" are shown to mankind by the New Covenant of Grace through Faith.
Also, the story of the woman taken in adultery in John 8:3-10 is based on the marriage analogy.
The woman represents mankind who has fornicated with Satan. She was caught in adultery. To restore the marriage relationship, Christ writes in the earth (writes the law of the spirit in the woman). The first time He writes in the earth represents the
Early Rain of the Spirit. The second time Christ writes in the earth represents the
Latter Rain of the Spirit. After the woman has received both the Early and Latter Rain, she is no longer condemned by the law. The Pharisees then drop the stones and leave because the law can no longer accuse her. The woman is now converted and restored to her former husband (Christ).
Joe