Is Marriage Spiritual?

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Is Marriage Spiritual?

First of all, marriage is not required, so it’s not a Holy Ordinance; and its purpose is to avoid fornication.  Is it good not to do something that Yahovah instituted from the beginning?--

1Co 7:1  Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
1Co 7:2  Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

Marriage is not forever.  The husband is not the one to wake his wives at the resurrection--
Luk 20:34  And Jesus answering said unto them, The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage:
Luk 20:35  But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage:

“Yeah, but the church is the Bride of Christ.”

Ok, let’s look . . .

Search for--
Bride, Christ—0 hits
Bride, Jesus—o hits
Bride, Messiah—0 hits
Wife, Jesus—3 verses, none about Jesus’ wife.
Wife, Messiah—0 hits
Wife, Christ—2 verses. One is the wife of Felix, the other does not say that the church IS the bride of Christ--
“Metaphor” is an implicit comparison, or figurative language, a symbol.
“Simile” is the same, but containing the word, “like”, or “as”.

Eph 5:23  For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.

“But, Revelation plainly says that the Church is the Bride of Christ.”

Ok, look who gets married—is Jesus actually a Lamb?  No, the lamb is a Metaphor, in a spiritual vision--
Rev 21:9  And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb's wife.

Here is the Lamb’s wife--
Rev 21:10  And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,


Is the Kingdom of Heaven actually a treasure hid in a field?--
Mat 13:44  Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.

--shall we all sell all we have to buy fields where we think the Kingdom of Heaven might be? 
“No, the field is a SIMILE—it says “like unto . . .”

Well, then, why do we try to say that the church is actually the Bride, but we don’t have lamps to trim?  The church being the Bride, and our lamps being ready, is a Metaphor-- an implicit comparison, or figurative language, a symbol.

This does not mean that marriage is anything less than a serious covenant between a man, woman, and God. 

LOOK AT HOW A COVENANT IS MADE. 
I can’t find a marriage covenant in the Bible, so these will serve as a model:
Generally, an agreement is made, some token is set up as a witness, or reminder, and Yahovah is judge--

Gen 31:43  And Laban answered and said unto Jacob, These daughters are my daughters, and these children are my children, and these cattle are my cattle, and all that thou seest is mine: and what can I do this day unto these my daughters, or unto their children which they have born?
Gen 31:44  Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee.
Gen 31:45  And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.
Gen 31:46  And Jacob said unto his brethren, Gather stones; and they took stones, and made an heap: and they did eat there upon the heap.
Gen 31:47  And Laban called it Jegarsahadutha: but Jacob called it Galeed.
Gen 31:48  And Laban said, This heap is a witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed;
Gen 31:49  And Mizpah; for he said, The LORD watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another.
Gen 31:50  If thou shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou shalt take other wives beside my daughters, no man is with us; see, God is witness betwixt me and thee.
Gen 31:51  And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold this pillar, which I have cast betwixt me and thee;
Gen 31:52  This heap be witness, and this pillar be witness, that I will not pass over this heap to thee, and that thou shalt not pass over this heap and this pillar unto me, for harm.
Gen 31:53  The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge betwixt us. And Jacob sware by the fear of his father Isaac.
Gen 31:54  Then Jacob offered sacrifice upon the mount, and called his brethren to eat bread: and they did eat bread, and tarried all night in the mount.
Gen 31:55  And early in the morning Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them: and Laban departed, and returned unto his place.

Here, something is written, a token set up for a witness (reminder), and Yahovah is honored--

Jos 24:25  So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.
Jos 24:26  And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and took a great stone, and set it up there under an oak, that was by the sanctuary of the LORD.
Jos 24:27  And Joshua said unto all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness unto us; for it hath heard all the words of the LORD which he spake unto us: it shall be therefore a witness unto you, lest ye deny your God.
Jos 24:28  So Joshua let the people depart, every man unto his inheritance.

This does not say how to make a covenant with a wife; it just says that there is one--

Mal 2:14  Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.

--So, putting a ring on a finger surely is a good token, and witness of the promises.  And the covenant continues with Yahovah as the judge.

Maybe, I’m wrong.  Maybe I’m missing something.  Someone might be able to show me my error.

But if this is right on; then, we are handling marriage as being something that it’s not: Holy, Romantic, Eternal.

In the name of Yahoshua HaMashiach, and in His love,
Wesley, nobody but His servant.