And surely, as it is written, "All scripture is given by inspiration of GOD, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness; that the man of GOD may be complete; thoroughly equipped for every good work" (2 Tim. 3:16-17).

 

Now despite modern Greco-Roman laws and traditions, Kingdom marriage among the Yisraelites is not an ancient practice that we as believers have somehow "grown out of" in Christ. YAH forbid! For example, if that were the case, then Yahushua Himself - the very One who established the New Covenant - would not have been conceived in the womb of a twelve-year-old virgin, being espoused to a man who was age ninety. In fact, if Almighty YAH had intended to change His original Order of Marriage, would that not be the Divine Marriage He would have chosen to set a New Covenant precedent?

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As a case in point, many of us look to the landmark union of Adam and Eve to justify the western nations' notion of holy matrimony, where a Christian "bride and groom" follow the pseudo-monogamous fairytale ideal. But the truth is, Adam was at least several decades older than his wife, for example; having spent an extended period of time assigning the names, identities and purposes of the millions of species of creatures of the land, sea and air - long before the creation of Eve.

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And therefore, in Spirit and in Truth: with an anointed husband being a covering for his wives like unto Christ and His churches (Rev. 1:20), Kingdom Marriage is more like unto father and daughter than brother and sister. Sélah.

 

Behold, saints, in Abba YAH's Kingdom Order, every man's life unfolds according to his chronological age at a given stage of his spiritual development, in order to effectively serve his wives, children, tribe and nation, according to the ancient order of Hebrew numerics.​

 

With that being said, according to our restored Hebrew culture, the marital age for Kingdom men begins at age forty, when a Yisraelite man's sojourning in the wilderness season is complete. Forty years is also the set time for a new generation to come forth. And therefore, a righteous man who has reached that stage is fully prepared to serve as the head of a Kingdom family. For example, Moshéh-Moses closed out his wilderness phase in Egypt in the palace of Pharaoh at age forty; and then migrated to the land of the Midianites, another branch of the family of Abraham, where he took a wife, and studied under his father-in-law, Yithro-Jethro, who was the Chief Priest of Midian. And likewise, Yitzhaq-Isaac being the original type of Christ, the complete Man, was also age forty when he married his divinely selected wife, Rebekah-Rebecca...

 

[Now according to the Torah, the age of twenty is the Kingdom stage when a Yisraelite man has reached his full physical stature; and is therefore, fully able to physically defend his nation (Num. 1:1-3). The age of thirty is the priestly age, when a faithful man is ready to minister to his nation (Num. 4:1-4). And the age of fifty is the age of full spiritual stature, when a priestly man has reached the level of maturity to provide spiritual leadership for his nation as an Elder (Num. 4)].

 

According to Hebrew numerics, the age of sixty is the point where a Kingdom elder enters into his Sabbath rest; having completed his first six decades of labor and spiritual growth. And age seventy represents the end of the first cycle of life; with seven being the number of divine completion. Age seventy is also the start of the eighth decade, when the cycle begins anew, but on a higher plane; as in the same note on a piano being sounded - but an octave (eight steps) higher...

 

Age eighty begins the ninth decade in the life cycle; the developmental stage of finality and divine judgment. For example, Moshéh-Moses was eighty when he confronted Pharaoh over the bondage of the children of Yisrael. It was in his ninth decade that Moshéh delivered YAH's judgment upon Egypt, secured the finality of the Egyptian bondage, and gave Yisrael her laws, statutes and Holy Convocations.

 

Beloved saints, when it comes to something as critical to the well-being of the chosen as Abba YAH's Kingdom marriages, they must be rooted in His cultural guidelines for the sons of Abba YAH in Christ. They must be built according to the Divine blueprint of the Marriages of I AM to Yisrael and Yahudah, and Christ to His Jew and Gentile Churches. 

 

Now, let's take a brief look at four Hebrew marriages of the Bible that we all know and recognize to be role models of Kingdom marriage in the Body of Christ today. And of course, the primary marriage of the father of the patriarchs, and of the faith itself, Abraham, is the obvious place to begin our review.

 

As the first couple of the faith, Abraham and his first wife Sarah were only ten years apart in age, which according to Biblical age differences, makes their marriage the exception to the rule. That is to say, for the father of the faith, his marriage to Sarah - and they were born of the same father - is a type of the Marriage of the Self-existent YAH to His beloved Creation, the heavens and the earth; which being as One, is His Wife. And being taken from Him, the Universe is the Mother of mother Earth...

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Again, Abraham's heir Yitzhaq-Isaac was forty years of age, the divine age of headship readiness, when he married his wife Rebekah. His bride was age twelve at the time, which was the normal set time of puberty...

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Rebekah was also Isaac's kindred daughter; being the granddaughter of Nahor, his father Abraham's brother, making Rebekah his second cousin. And Isaac's heir, Ya'aqob-Jacob, the grandson of Abraham, was eighty-four years of age at the time of his marriage to Leah, during his ninth decade of finality and judgment; representing the fulfillment of the promise of the Kingdom of Yisrael. Leah was still in her twenties at the time; seven years after she was secretly espoused to Jacob when he first arrived at her father Labán's house at age seventy-seven. Leah was the daughter of Jacob's maternal uncle, Labán, which means that Leah was Jacob's first cousin.

 

Jacob was age ninety-one when he married Rakhel, who was about twenty-six; some fourteen years after she reached puberty, and after her husband had labored for fourteen years for her, under her father. And of course, Rakhel was the younger sister of Leah. So Yisrael married his two cousins - who were sisters. And with their blessings, he married their maids, Bilhah and Zilpah (Gen. 30:1-13), who by divine decree, conceived four of the twelve patriarchs of Yisrael. 

 

Now - for those among the hypocritical and unlawful church corporations who condemn these ancient practices as being "done away with in Christ" - let it be known this day, that the names of the twelve patriarchs born of these Old Covenant marriages, who in turn fathered the twelve tribes of Yisrael, are permanently enshrined in the gates of the Eternal City, Christ's Bride, New Jerusalem - recorded for posterity in the New Testament (Rev. 21:12). Case closed.

 

Finally, in keeping with the Hebrew culture of the ancient patriarchs, the ultimate prototype of Kingdom marriage is found in the book of Ruth. Now at the time of Ruth's espousal to Boaz, the great elder of Bethlehem, she was age forty, with her beloved Boaz being eighty. And like Moses, at age eighty, Boaz had just entered into his ninth decade. It was at that stage of his life that Boaz and Ruth were chosen by YAH to usher in the finality of spiritual bondage for the children of Yisrael, by perfectly foreshadowing the Divine Marriage of the Kinsman Redeemer, Christ.

 

And - by producing the Royal lineage of the great King Davïd; who went on to defeat all the heathen nations within and 'round about the Promised land; and who established for the first time in the thousand-year sojourn of the Hebrews, a sovereign United Kingdom under YAH! (Psalms 68:4). Sélah.