Hello, John and Doves,

 

One of the signs of the end times is...

    “...[I]n the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark...”

Matthew 24:38  NIV

 

There are four distinct levels of meaning of this passage, regarding the phrase,

"marrying and giving in marriage."

 

P'shat (simple):  Ordinary, Biblical, God-ordained marriage between a man and a woman.

                [Genesis 2:24]

 

Remez (hint):  Buying and selling of stocks, companies--the whole stock market thing.

                    [Revelation 18:1-3]

 

D'rash (seek):  Alternative unions imitating marriage, and thereby giving silent assent

                               that Biblical, heterosexual marriage is the ideal.

 

Sod (hidden):  Divorcing one's heart from one religion and cleaving to another--

                              often over views about sins like homosexuality.  [2 Timothy 4:3]

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            And yet, for anyone who does seek after the things of God,

we know that He goes out of His way to meet us just where we are.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHuTZxSqOe0

                                                           

For it is written,

    8For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9not by works, so that no one can boast. 10For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

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~Blessings,

Mike