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BloomingDale:
Russia is one of the four craftsmen mentioned in the Bible used by God to achieve his aim. Nothing is going to happen to them. China is the other. I’m not sure who the rest are. Probably Iran and North Korea.

Can you explain further pls? I'll appreciate

McEphiks:
I no get money bros...

Lockup. When you get the yankee, holla me. I get other books from am wey me go give you.

Vizconson:
Please can we talk privately? I just sent you a PM

I'll check.

Whether we like it or not, Nigeria won't qualify.

Let the truth be told


The recent agitation by South Eastern part of the country to hold the highest office in the land is very genuine and must be given all the necessary support to see it come to pass however, I hold some reservations about how SE plays politics as a whole. One of the greatest weapon used to establish dominance in politics is numerical strength, when all is said and done, a people can only be invited to the negotiation table on the strength of their voting power. It does not matter how sympathetic their story sounds, what matters most is what can they offer? I have closely looked at the numbers that come in from the SE in every election for the past 20 years, and I can say for sure that they suffer from voter apathy.

The most disturbing for me was even the 2015 general elections. I watched the live collation on TV, while Buhari massively got block votes from the north, I was expecting the Southern states particularly the SS and SE to come through looking at how much they benefitted from the govt. Unfortunately they failed GEJ, there was massive voters registration but the number of voters was nothing to write home about. All sort of flimsy excuses came with this but nothing can justify that. SS on the other hand came through for their son, Rivers alone gave him 1.4 million votes which was what Abia, Enugu and Anambra gave him in total. You just compare the votes of the total number of registered votes and that of casted and you would be angry.

Fast forward to 2019 when PDP picked it’s VP from the SE, the behavior of their leaders was nauseating. They were acting like Peter Obi was not their son, infact they even gave Buhari more votes than they did in 2015 with their son being on the ticket. All Politicians across both parties were watching and observing. Some of these political decisions matters alot.

The south west have become a major political broker today because they have shown the north they can bring up the numbers when ever it is needed to win any elections. GEJ did it with Tinubu in 2011 it worked, Buhari did it with Tinubu in 2015 and 2019 and it worked.

The next most important region in terms of political alignment after SW is the SS. They have shown seriousness and political strength since 2015. The alignment of Ameachi with Buhari while GEJ ran for President made them very prominent in the polity. Fast forward to 2019 while Ameachi maintain his alignment with Buhari Wike on the other hand took the center stage in the PDP and even addent cririce of Buhair like Akpabio joined the Progressives. Omo Agege came to prominence being the DSP, men like Oshiomole came lime light on his strength of controversy and governors like Okowa were always in the news for commissioning one projects or the other. These things made SS politicians active players on the national scene. The question is where are SE politicians in all this?

I know the next answer would be marginalization which has been the easier route out of this argument all the time but enough is enough. Aside their political apathy, they have consistently failed to break the jinx to join the national politics. They demonize those who joined the APC and have refused to actively get involved in the PDP as they should. On some days they claim they have a regional party which is APGA but it exist actively in one state which is Anambra.
While I maintain having a regional party is a very good strategy politically but it must be done with all seriousness like we saw what Tinubu did with ACN in SW and what PMB did with CPC in the North. Regional party politics If done properly have a way of portraying political unity and strength of a region, the ACN and SW are a typical example.

While the North have bowed to the political leadership of PMB, like the west did to Asiwaju, the SE have totally refused the leadership of anyone, they demonize all their sons who have risen to prominence eg Rochas, Peter Obi etc. At the moment, Nnamdi Kanu is the only one prominent Igbo son who have demonstrated an uncommon influence over the Igbo race globally, unfortunately he has used it for another thing. The anger about marginalization is supposed to be used to make a political statement not cause havoc on his own people. Shutting down businesses, killing one another and making your own children miss NECO and WAEC exams ends up hurting your People not PMB.

These decisions must be reviewed, worst still is even asking them to abstain from voting. This did more damage to the Igbo nation than anything. If Mazi Kanu have spent the last 4 years building APGA party in the SE, with his cult like followership he would have at least 3 states under the control of APGA. Or if he has spent his time mobilizing for Peter Obi in 2019 maybe they would have won. If the SE can all be APGA, they would have a strong negotiating and bargaining power with the both parties and they would get all they want, then when the time is right they would just collapse their structures into one of the national parties and they would change their political state.

It’s not vodu or anything but it’s almost impossible for any of the parties to give SE the ticket for obvious reasons. For the APC, the argument would be they have not gotten enough support from the region, while the PDP would review their level of support when they were on the ticket in 2019. The south east must remember that What matters to every political party is winning an election not being sympathetic to the course of any region. Every region must put itself at a political advantage that would favour them not always shouting fowl. The reason why the north has remain a bride in the polity is her numerical strength and dexterity.

I must at this point salute great Igbo sons who have played national politics and contributed greatly to our nation, men like Senators Rochas, Abaribe, Ikweramadu, Uzodinma, Ngige, Orji Kalu, Ben Obi, Pius Anyim etc regardless of how we all feel about these men, they are prominent and well respected Igbo men that we all should be proud of. Some of these men like Peter Obi, Ben Obi, or Pius can make a good president but so much work need to be done regionally to position the SE for the office.

Politically the East have so much to learn from the SW and until that is done, no one would give them Power unless they make a strong political statement. Mazi Kanu have the chance to make history with his influence in this regard.

To conclude, it is only hypocritical for the SE as people to keep preaching against one Nigeria or the Nigerian state but yet want to rule the country. There has to be a change in attitude towards the Nigerian state, if you are asking for Biafra then remain on it, if you want to be president then maintain that. I can’t deny that the Nigerian state have failed to address some of the injustice done to the Igbo nation but these approached won’t solve the issue. I have nothing against the Igbos, infact I have too many Igbo friends in my life but these tides must change.The SW and SS seem to be politically ahead and the SE must get it right to ensure they take what belongs to them.

NwaAmaikpe:


Rational explanation,

So why has modern day Christianity (mostly the Pentecostal and Protestant movement) forgotten or rather discarded this origin

32-95AD Ephesus..........“Lost your first love...” Rev 2:4, Heresy enters church: Marcionites, Gnostics, Nicolaitans, Balaamites, etc.

95-321AD Smyrna...........“Persecuted 10 days...” Rev 2:10 Ten major persecutions under ten Roman Emperors: (1) Domitian (2) Trajan (3) Hadrian (4) Antonius Pius (5) Marcus Arelius (6) Septimus Severus (7) Maximin ( Decius (9) Valerian (10)Diocletian

321-450AD Pergamum........“Where Satan's throne is...” Rev 2:13 Constantine makes Christianity state religion. Church hierarchy begins.

450-950AD Thyatira.........“That Woman Jezebel...” Rev 2:20 Beginning of Mary worship. Idols brought into the churches. Bishops rise to power. (Catholic Church)

950-1450AD Sardis............“But you are dead...” Rev 3:1 Dead Catholic formalism. Bible taken from the people. Persecution of the brethren intensifies.

1450-1948AD Philadelphia...“You have kept My Word...” Rev 3:8 The Reformation, Protestant churches rise, the Puritan movement, foreign missions founded.

1948AD-? Laodicea........ “You are neither hot nor cold...” Rev 3:15 Lukewarm church of today. Great “so-called works,” but spiritually cool.

THE CHURCH OF TODAY

Revelation 3:14-22 “And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; I know thy works, that thou art neither (spiritually) cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art (spiritually) lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. Because thou sayest, I am (spiritually) rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing (huge organizations, popular pastors and world-renowned TV evangelists); and knowest not that thou art (spiritually) wretched, and (spiritually) miserable, and poor, and blind, and (spiritually) naked: I counsel thee to buy of me (spiritual) gold tried in the fire (of My cross), that thou mayest be (spiritually) rich; and white raiment (of My imputed righteousness), that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy (spiritual) unclothedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with (spiritual) eyesalve, that thou mayest see (marvelous things out of my law). As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man (in the other six churches, the Lord was dealing with the church in general, but in this Laodicean age, He is addressing each of us as individuals) hear my voice, and open the door, I will come into him, and will sup with him, and he with me. To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.”

“He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.”

Revelation is God the Father’s account of the 6000 year battle for His footstool and for the souls of His people. The Church may have forgotten Mount Moriah as the footstool of God’s feet forever, but God has not. As you will soon see, much of Revelation is about the Holy Land and that temple mount!

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AntiChristian:
I am sexually pure.

But what's the context of this John 2:14?
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Finally, who was given tribute as 32 virgins of war in Numbers 31:40?

allah the prostitute and his right hand prostitute mohammed have made you daft.

So sharp?

Even allah ordered mohammed to curse the black race himself

With Russia attacking Ukraine and threatening Israel, students of Bible prophecy ought to know what time it is. If you do not understand what I mean, kindly learn how a confrontation between Israel and Russia (in collaboration with Iran, Turkey, Sudan, and Libya) will result in the Ezekiel 38 war and signal the end of human probation. For now, you need to know and accept the sobering fact that Russia’s temper towards Israel (especially since the end of Donald Trump’s presidency) has been moving from green to yellow and is now turning red. It is only a matter of time. And the successful attack on Ukraine (and the all-talk-and-no-action body language of the US and NATO) will embolden Russia to be more vicious in handling Israel from henceforth. And I believe (this is just a belief) that, one day, Israel will feel frustrated and outgunned and use their nuclear weapons to attack Syria (Damascus) bringing Isaiah 17:1 to pass and provoking Russia enough to instigate the immediate fulfilment of the Ezekiel 38 war.

Isaiah 17:1

“The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.”

Point to Note: Since it was founded thousands of years ago, Damascus is one of the cities in the world that has been continuously inhabited. But the pen of prophecy says it will eventually become a ruinous heap – something a nuclear attack can verily achieve.

Perhaps it will help give perspective if I state another matter that has the potential to create immediate, intense, and combustible conflict between Russia and Israel. A few years ago, Israel discovered gas and now has a humongous gas field aptly named Leviathan, which contains trillions of cubic of natural gas. Russia currently supplies Europe gas and will try to play hardball with Europe using gas as leverage, so as to neutralize the sanctions of European nations over its attack on Ukraine. But what if Europe finally does what Donald Trump asked them to do long ago when he sanctioned the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline Russia was then building? Trump had asked Europe (especially Germany) to buy gas from Israel and forget about Nord Stream 2. But when Joe Biden came to power, he removed the sanctions Trump had imposed on that pipeline, giving Vladimir Putin the means for blackmailing Europe and making Europe powerless to react when he invades Ukraine. This is winter season and Russia can cause massive death in Europe by withholding gas supply to Europe or selling at an exorbitant cost. The problem is that, for reasons not clear to me, Israeli gas is about three times cheaper than Russian gas. And the infrastructure required to move gas from Israel to Europe is already being built. This gas pipeline is supposed to pass through Greece via Cyprus and may have been concluded already. I am not sure. But the point is that, if Israel becomes the reason why Russia is unable to play hardball with Europe (thereby suffering European sanctions like expulsion from SWIFT) you can imagine how livid Russia will be with Israel. And the consequences of Russian anger against Israel in a season of utter American weakness is better left to the imagination. Israel has a great army and the best air force in the Middle East and a wonderful intelligence agency – the Mossad. But Israel does not stand a chance in a military conflict with Russia. As a world superpower, Russia is head and shoulders above Israel militarily and can make Israel cease to exist if left uninterrupted by a superior power. In the Ezekiel 38 scenario, Russia and its allies will be left uninterrupted. Forget America; forget Europe. Only God will intervene to save Israel, using natural disasters the Bible enumerates as pestilence, an overflowing rain, great hailstones, fire, and brimstone: that is apart from causing confusion among the invading armies, who will kill one another through what is known as “friendly fire”. Ezekiel 38:21, 22.

Indeed, the world is coming to an end.

Cooleasy:
What I have learnt today from reading your write up and how it opened my eyes, hmmmm! Guy, you know how to argue convincingly. Respect!

Thank you sir.

It is not a sin and God himself approved it.

2 Samuel 12:8

“. . . And I gave . . . wives into thy bosom . . .”

Exodus 22:16

“And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.”

In the above case, the sex came before the marriage and there is no condemnation. In other words, in God’s plan, whether you are married or not, if you touch a woman, you must take her as wife. But note that this must be a single lady. If you touch a married woman, you’re as good as dead and that is the real definition of adultery for men. That is why God kept silent while David married one woman after another but became angry when David touched Uriah’s wife. And guess who Uriah’s wife is? Her name is Bathsheba, the mother of Solomon. I meant to say King Solomon, whom God gave the pet name Jedidah shortly after he was born. 2 Samuel 12:25. Yet some churches will force a polygamous man to ditch his lawfully married second or third wife and more or less abandon his children because he had “accepted Christ.”

What a pity!

What perfect manifestation of the reason for the divine lamentation in Hosea 4:6:

“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.”

Do you understand what it means for a whole people to be destroyed? God is making it clear that lack of knowledge (and not even an invading army) is sufficient to cause such a calamity.

How can God accept Bathsheba, bless her with children, and make her son king (even as wife Number 7) and then a pastor or church will literally destroy a family because he and his church have been made to believe that strict monogamy is the only biblical form of marriage and that polygamy is a sin?

Many Pastors know that polygamy is not a sin. I meant to say many pastors who read their Bible with an independent mind. Even Pastor Matthew Ashimolowo of KICC has publicly come out and said polygamy is not a sin. But whether or not Pastor Ashimolowo says that, it remains a fact. It’s just that, like the celebration of Christmas which many now know to be based on a purely pagan holiday, the issue of permissible polygamy is more or less a taboo topic. Even for those who know it to be biblical, expressing their opinion is socially dangerous due to the possibility of ostracism.

People are under the mistaken notion that polygamy is tantamount to giving men “license to kill.”

Wrong.

If the only car in your village is an old jalopy that has to be cajoled and threatened and then pushed down a steep slope before the engine can start, you may hate cars. But when you come into the city and experience how sleek a good car can be, you are most likely to have a paradigm shift.

Because they follow tradition rather than the Bible, most Christians do not understand what biblical polygamy looks like. So they must mentally assume it is exactly like what their Moslem neighbours practice – or what misguided Christians practice.

The polygamy of Islam is vastly different from that of Christianity for several reasons. I will highlight just a few of these reasons:

1. Whether in polygamy or monogamy, the Bible forbids casual divorce. Casual divorce is divorcing your spouse for any reason other than sexual unfaithfulness. No matter how stubborn she is (or troublesome, or lazy, or insolent, or whatever) God expects a man to retain marriage to a woman forever and simply endure the situation if unpalatable. The same goes for a woman. I’m aware that, in Islam, a man may divorce his wife for reasons other than sexual unfaithfulness. This means that a Moslem man can engineer a civil war in his home just to kick one of his wives out and replace her with another. You may find it interesting to know that this was exactly what some of the Jews were doing and this was what Christ spoke against. Do you remember the sly question of the Pharisees?

Matthew 19:3

“The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?”

And Christ’s answer was that, except for sexual unfaithfulness, no man should put asunder what God had joined together because, in the beginning, God made them male and female and commanded the man to leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife through marriage. Christ was only emphasizing and reemphasizing the sacredness of the marriage bond. He was not talking about the case of a man marrying more than one wife because that was not the question. People should stop being creative and patently crafty, all in an attempt to sustain a doctrine that cannot be found anywhere in the Bible – Old or New Testament.

The fact that the God of the Bible forbids divorce except in cases of sex outside of marriage is peripheral evidence that, in His eyes, sex is equivalent to marriage. You can read that statement again. In God’s eyes, you cannot have sex with a woman (whether you are married or not) and just move on. You must marry her. The only way out of this situation is where a circumstance beyond your control comes up. Such as when the father of the lady utterly refuses to give her away. The Bible says so:

Exodus 22:17

“If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.”

There are also special cases where a direct command from God (like in the case of Abraham and Haggai) results in divorce. There are always special cases in the Bible.

When I explained this situation to one of my friends (who, with all due respect, can accurately be described as a womanizer), he saw the catch-22 and realized that permitting biblical polygamy will restrict men rather than give them the so-called license to kill. According to this friend of mine, men will be running away from women. This guy knows what he is talking about. As a bona fide Casanova, he knows that long term commitment is poison to someone who wants to have casual sex. But the deal in the Bible is this: any woman you touch, you have to take. The fact is that the incentive for adultery or any form of casual sex is the lack of commitment in it. When a man realizes that he has to marry any woman he has sex with, believe me, he will have bones in that boneless part of his body. Talk about divine wisdom. God, Who created men, know how powerful the sex drive in them is. To curtail it, He only permits sex in marriage. To manage cases of accidental discharge, He gives the man the chance to do the right thing after an accidental discharge. Marry the woman. Simple truth.

Many men had this accidental discharge when they were still too young to take responsibility for a woman. But because they did not know the Bible and their pastors were either equally ignorant or just afraid of telling them the truth, these young men abandoned the ladies they had defiled — in some cases even forcing them to abort babies. How many babies would have been saved if young men were taught that accidental discharge does not take God by surprise. But, in order not to allow it degenerate into sin, you must marry the lady. You must surely marry her. Notice the “surely” in the command.

Exodus 22:16

“And if a man entices a maid that is not betrothed and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.”

2. Apart from protecting women from abuse by forbidding casual divorce, the Bible puts another condition on polygamy. This is another thing that differentiates biblical polygamy from the Islamic version. Sanusi Lamido Sanusi (former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria) publicly expressed his dismay a few years ago about very poor Moslem men marrying up to four wives, even though they are so poor they cannot comfortably feed themselves. This type of situation is virtually impossible in the case of biblical polygamy. For you to “take another” wife in biblical polygamy, you must have the capacity to not only take care of her but of the other wife also. The Bible codifies the things you must be able to take care of as including her food, her clothes, and you also have to grant her her conjugal right (duty of marriage). Conjugal right is the right of a spouse to have sex with their partner.

Exodus 21:10

“And if he take him another wife, her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.”

People must realize that God takes sexual sin seriously. How do I know that? From my reading of the Bible, I have not seen a list of sins more wide-ranging and extensive than the list of sexual sins. The Bible forbids fornication; the Bible forbids adultery; the Bible forbids homosexuality; the Bible forbids incest; the Bible forbids bestiality; the Bible forbids sex with your maternal auntie, your paternal auntie, your cousin, your daughter in-law, and the list goes on. If polygamy is sinful, it will be the strangest thing for God not to have mentioned it because polygamy was not strange in those days. Consider the statements below and ponder upon them with your God-given intelligence.

A. God forbids casual divorce, forbids prostitution, restricts sex to marriage; commands marriage in case of sex with an unmarried lady, permits the marrying of more than one wife, and forbids homosexuality and the other acts of sexual deviancy like homosexuality already mentioned above. Leviticus 18; Leviticus 19:29.

B. Society permits and promotes casual divorce, permits and promotes prostitution and validates prostitutes — to the extent of giving them the fancy name of commercial sex workers. Society forbids the marrying of more than one wife, permits casual sex, and, of course, permits homosexuality and other types of sexual deviancy like bestiality.

Note the hinge:

Disallow polygamy = allow casual divorce, allow prostitution, and allow all the other deviations from the natural order (bestiality, homosexuality, etc.) that are now common.

Allow polygamy = forbid casual divorce, forbid prostitution, and forbid all the other deviations from the natural order (bestiality, homosexuality, etc.) that are now common.

Which of the two systems respects women, upholds their dignity, protects them from abuse, and forces men to zip up?

Do women have any real value in today’s society? Have you seen how they are debased in hip hop videos? God is wise; Satan is crafty and terribly wicked. To destroy you, he first deceives you. Much of the world is absolutely deceived about this issue. I’m sorry to say that women are the prime victims of this false ideology of marriage. Unfortunately, the greatest resistance to the truth of the matter is most likely to come from them.

In God’s economy, a woman is of so great a value that she cannot be used and dumped by any man — no matter his rank and power. The divine logic seems to be this: if she is good enough for you to have sex with, then she is good enough to be your wife. If, on the other hand, she is not good enough to be your wife, leave her alone. There is a man out there who will love her enough to marry her. If you want her for sex but don’t want her as a wife, then all you want is her body. You want to use her the way you use tissue paper — dump it in the trash can after use. Who do you think you are to treat a being made in God’s image that way?

Leviticus 19:29

“Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a LovePeddler; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness.”

By forbidding prostitution, God also made it impossible for men to have casual sex, which debases the soul and is referred to as whoremongering in the Bible. Prostitution is one of the best gifts society has given to men. And women are the prime victims. For a little amount, a man will have the legal right to take away from a woman her womanhood and that which is most precious to her. The way women are wired, they will not willingly have sex with a man they do not love. But prostitution takes away this natural inhibition and turns a woman into a veritable daughter of Satan. Concerning her, these are the words of the Bible, through the pen of Wise King Solomon:

Proverbs 7:26
“For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.”

Men love sex because that is the way they were wired. A man can happily have sex with a woman he does not care about or respects or desires to be seen with in public. For him, it is like visiting the john to relieve himself. God knows this and gave laws to curtail this natural desire. If prostitution is made a capital offense punishable by death, believe you me, the other option will have to be polygamy. Thus, it is not a coincidence that so-called Christian nations (which forbid polygamy) allow brothels and prostitution and rampant casual sex, where a man will keep one wife and have a variable number of mistresses. God knows this but Satan has deceived men into thinking polygamy is such a bad thing. Satan’s strategy is to make sexual purity impossible for as many men as possible by denying good candidates for polygamy the knowledge that polygamy is biblical.

One of my clients (name withheld) is the son of a man who had 3 wives. As far as this man is concerned, his father is one of the most godly men he has ever known. This man is an adulterer (men have no problems confessing their adultery to one another) and so I advised him to marry the woman in question we were talking about. He casually laughed off the idea and remarked that, if he did that, his wife would kill him. So he continues to be the husband of one wife while being a sex partner of several other women. Society does not care. But it is not society that will judge you on the last day. God will. So think carefully.

Sex is not the only issue in polygamy

There are at least 6 reasons in the Bible for polygamy.

1. Delay in child bearing (as in the case of the father of prophet Samuel)

2. Love (as in the case of Jacob and Rachel)

3. Levirate Law (when a brother dies without having a child)

4. Accidental discharge (when, for any reason or group of reasons, a man touches a woman that he is not lawfully supposed to touch).

5. Libido (when a man’s sexual prowess demands more than one woman, especially in view of the fact that women have many sexually inactive days but a man is always ready to roll).

6. Adoption of a widow (as in when, to both protect and provide for a widow, the best thing may be to marry her, as in the case of David and Abigail).

Of all the above, note that only number 5 is purely about sex. If a man has the means and the libido, God is perfectly ok with that man marrying more than one wife so as to unleash his virility within the marriage circle rather than indulge in what we refer to in Nigeria as “away matches”. Marrying more than one wife instead of being a player is righteousness in God’s sight. What he will consider evil is for a man to use a woman as a tool for gratifying sexual pleasure with no intention of marrying her. Another thing He will consider evil is for a man to have another man’s wife. In fact, God is so dead set against touching another man’s wife that, even if she is only engaged, the punishment due for touching her is as severe as that reserved for touching a married woman.

James 4:17
“Therefore, to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.”

Acts 17:30
“And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men everywhere to repent.”

We are all sinners and whatever is past is past. God is ready for a new deal with you if you are serious about sexual purity. If you are wealthy enough and want to marry more than one wife, don’t allow society force you to live in sin by constantly lying to your wife, living a double life, searing your conscience, and locking yourself outside heaven’s gate. Be bold. No matter what people may say, do the honorable thing. Marry. This arrangement does appear unfair to women (that much I must admit) but, as the Americans would say, it is what it is. I did not create man and did not write the Bible. However, I believe in God and believe the Bible. Moreover, I have the courage to believe the Bible even if I’m the only one that holds my opinion. It’s not pride; it’s exercising my God-given freewill. It is better to marry and incur the wrath of society than to live in sin and lose salvation. The other option is to stop gallivanting and remain faithful to your spouse. And all things are possible to him that believes. But the way out for some men must have to be polygamy. Mark my words: casual sex will lead to hell and many will find this out at the wrong time.

Some men (even with this knowledge) will never marry another wife because they married the woman they love, they have the self-control to prevent accidental discharge, and they do not qualify for polygamy based on any of the other six biblical reasons already stated above. This is the ideal marriage — between one man and one woman, until death separates them. But to teach that men who marry more than one wife have obtained a one-way ticket to hell is a lie. That teaching is not from the Bible.

Some children of God are rich enough to acquire private jets. But they choose not to. They consider that, although they can afford that luxury, they would rather utilize that humongous amount of cash in helping others. So they buy a hundred cars and give to others, denying themselves a luxury they can afford. Just because polygamy is permissible does not mean it is expedient.

1 Corinthians 6:12
“All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient:”

The history of some marriages makes the idea of polygamy very horrible and absolutely ill-advised. So every man will have to decide what is best. A godly man will mind the things of God and not indulge even in permissible things. But, like the Bible says, it is better to marry than to burn. With the assault on men’s sensibilities through the outlandish dressing of women these days, men must take seriously the words of Christ: if your right eye causes you to offend, cut it off. If you are lustful, you must tackle lust by cutting off your eyes. Do not assume that polygamy is a cure for lust. From all indications, King Solomon was activated by lust in his extreme polygamy. And you will be amazed to realize that, although God permits polygamy (adding of wives), He forbids the multiplication of wives, which seems to be what Solomon did.

Deuteronomy 17:16, 17

“But he shall not multiply horses to himself . . . Neither shall he multiply wives to himself.”

The above law was given to kings perhaps because kings represented the wealthy class – who, based on the Bible, can afford to practice polygamy. In the view of the Bible, polygamy is not for poor men. If you cannot afford to take care of another woman, do not even think about it. This is why virtually all the cases of polygamy highlighted in the Bible involves kings. They are good examples of people for whom the capacity to provide for additional wives will not be an issue. The same is the case with any man in today’s world with enough resources.

When polygamy is based on pure lust without the fear of God, it will lead to the thousand-wife scenario of King Solomon, especially in a case where stupendous wealth is available to the man.

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