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Seven Women shall take hold of One Man
"And in that day
seven women shall take hold of one man,
saying,
We will eat our own bread,
and wear our own apparel:
only let us be called by thy name,
to take away our reproach. "
Isaiah 4:1.
That "seven women" would seek to be called by the name of "one man" is a
clear evidence of
polygamy (polygyny) in the Bible, even in prophecy such as this passage.
Of course, though, the
situation described in this prophetic verse is not all that positive.
A rather small minority, however, does view that verse as a "literal"
prophecy, foretelling of
a time when women might out-number men, seven-to-one.
Howbeit, most Bible-believers see that verse, instead, as a negative
prophecy, regarding the
churches of God seeking to "do their own thing".
According to the verse, the seven women are arrogant women. Their only
motivation for marrying
the man is to use him. They only want to be CALLED by the man's name, only
so as to take away
their reproach, their shame. But they still arrogantly want to do things
their own way. They
want to provide their own things their own way.
This, of course, does NOT present an image of the type of wives that
Bible-believing men would
want to marry! It certainly does not describe marriage within the Biblical
marriage-model of
Ephesians 5:22-25.
Given, as the majority of Bible-believers believe, that this prophecy is
an image about
arrogant churches (rather than "literally" about arrogant women wanting to
marry a polygamist),
this passage presents a "wake-up call" for all Bible-believers.
Namely, the "seven women" are understood as being churches who only want
to be CALLED by the
name of Christ, to be His brides. They only do so in hopes of having their
fruitless shame (as
per sin) removed, even though they still arrogantly want to do things
their own way.
They want to feed themselves their own bread, instead of being fed on the
bread of Christ.
They want to clothe themselves in their own apparel, instead of being
clothed in the
righteousness of Christ.
While there is reasonable debate among many as to whether the similitude
of the "seven women"
in Isaiah 4:1 is connected directly with the "seven churches" of
Revelation chapters 2 and 3,
many still agree, nevertheless, that Isaiah 4:1 is a negative prophecy
concerning arrogant
churches. It is the foretelling of seven churches wanting to marry Christ
who do so only with a
selfish motive to seek to have His salvation (i.e., to be CALLED
"Christian", to be CALLED by
His Name) but while, at the same time, still wanting to be doing things
their own way, to stay
in their sin. They want to be CALLED "Christian" but they do not want to
BE Christian, in ALL
their ways, "in spirit and in truth".
As www.TruthBearer.org 's Mark the Founder has said, Isaiah 4:1 could be
seen as a forewarning,
that this prophecy could even be foretelling of any Churches that
adamantly refuse to believe
or to allow themselves to see the Biblically-proven truth that polygamy
(polygyny) really is
Biblical. That is, such Churches want to be called by the name of Christ,
while they
simultaneously close their ears to the Biblical truth of polygyny and
thereby unwittingly even
accuse Jesus Christ Himself of supposed "sin", because of Matthew 25:1-13!
This is, of course,
combined with the matter that 1 Timothy 4:1-3a reveals that the Holy
Spirit expressly foretold
of the time when people would be forbidding to marry any families such as
that of polygamous
Abraham, Moses, David, and others, as well as how The Lord described
Himself polygynously too,
as Jesus clearly did, for example, in Matthew 25:1-13.
Indeed, Isaiah 4:1 is not the only time that a prophecy describes the
relation****p between The
Lord and the Churches in a context of a polygamist marriage setting.
Namely, this Isaiah 4:1 prophecy does indeed also provide such additional
confirmation of the
Biblical presentation of the plurality of Churches (i.e., more than one)
being as brides of
Christ (plurally). Just as Christ is presented as polygamously married to
His Churches (i.e.,
being Bridegroom of the "five wise virgins") in Matthew 25:1-13, so too
does this Isaiah 4:1
present Christ in another context of polygamous marriage with Churches.
Even as the Isaiah 4:1 prophecy is indeed so perceived by most
Bible-believers as such a
negative prophecy regarding the churches, it does still, nevertheless,
demonstrate a key point
about the topic of polygamy.
Namely, the fact that this prophecy would detail the idea of seven women
who WANT to marry a
polygamist (even in the context of churches unto Christ), that fact
itself, that a prophecy of
God would use polygamy in such an example, is further proof again that
polygamy really is
Biblical.
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