….theLambslainfromthe
foundationof
the world.
(Rev 13:8)
From the Scripture verse above we are given
to understand that way back in time, before there was ever a
world and before the first human being was created, our Triune
God desired, above all things else, to have a Divine family.
With that in mind, is it any wonder when you
open your Bible, almost immediately you will find yourself at
a wedding (Gen 2:22)? And as you open the New Testament, once
again you find yourself at a wedding (John 2:1-2). Then, in the last book of the Bible, you
will discover the wedding of all weddings (Rev 19:6-9). Nevertheless, the most valuable piece of
information given to us is near the end of the first book, in
Genesis. Here we gain instruction regarding God’s intentions
for the everlasting and ever expanding Kingdom of His Son (Gen 38-8).
It should profit us to remember that when Our
Lord embraced Calvary and accomplished His redeeming work, He
was not married and had left no biological children to carry
on His Name. Yet it was His Name that was to be great in all
the earth. Thus the words in Genesis 38:8 (“Go in to your
brother’s wife and perform the duty of a
brother-in-law to her, and raise-up offspring for yourbrother”)
disclose their true meaning (John 5:39), while also revealing that a Christian
ought not to marry a non-Christian.
From Luke 3:38 we learn that Adam was a created son of God.
The implications are that it was to a son of God and to a
daughter of God that the commandment to “be fruitful and
multiply and fill the earth” was given. God’s
revealed intensions were to fill the earth with His sons and
daughters, and, the ministry of marriage was God’s original
vehicle for the raising of seed for, and in, The Name of Our
Lord Jesus Christ.
Love did not originate with humankind.
Therefore, for all who have been called to the ministry of
marriage—the very first ministry that God created and the
ministry that brings Christ into view—the joy and pleasure of
the conjugal union is ours, while the fruit of the womb is
Christ’s reward (Psalm 127:3).
May it forever be so, knowing as we do the
vast (and immeasurable) price our Triune God paid to secure
His Divine family,the glorious
family of “the Lamb slain from
the foundation of the world.”
To the King of the
ages, immortal, invisible, the only wise
God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen (1 Tim 1:17).
