Marriage In Heaven

By Edward King

Nothing in this universe will be lost. All things including the marriage relationship will be regained and restored to its fullest glory, beauty and magnificence. Of all the relationships God gave to mankind, marriage between a man and a woman is the most noble and sacred of them all, for it reflects completely the relationship between God himself and mankind.

Marriage, which is the bond of inseparably union, is two people, man and woman, joined together, and are actually becoming one in soul and heart. This oneness of soul between a man and a woman ones reached cannot be separated. The couples then go on to live together forever as one in heaven. This relationship which was created and ordained by God himself, will extend beyond time itself, for whatsoever God does, it shall last forever.

This book is a Look beyond the veil and an Exploration of the beauty, glory and magnificence of the love life between a man and his wife, who have attained oneness in soul, and how it goes on forever in heaven. In Heaven, married couples will be allowed to explore and experience the deeper dimensions of their love life together, which they may not have even known existed. In heaven, people will not get married, but they will be married. Questions such as who will I be married to in heaven? Will there be lovemaking and sex in the afterlife? These and many more, will be answered in this writing.

There is absolutely nothing evil or sinful in love, marriage and sex, and as such, there is no reason why God will not permit them in heaven. Marriage is honorable in all things.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Edward King
• Release date: Jun 18, 2020
• ISBN: 9780463391105

Edward King

A Missionary apostle on an Apostolic-Mission to Awaken men to the HIGHEST, the GOD-POWER within.

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MARRIAGE IN HEAVEN

©Copyright 2013 by Edward King.

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Marriage In Heaven

By

Edward King

CONTENTS

LEGAL NOTES

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER ONE

MARRIAGE BEYOND THIS WORLD

CHAPTER TWO

HISTORICAL VIEWS OF MARRIAGE

CHAPTER THREE

MARRIAGE – ITS TRUE MEANING AND UNDERSTANDING

CHAPTER FOUR

WHO TRULY IS A WIFE?

CHAPTER FIVE

MARRIAGE IS CREATED BY GOD

CHAPTER SIX

MARRIAGE AND ITS PURPOSE

CHAPTER SEVEN

THE PURPOSE REVEALED

CHAPTER EIGHT

THE ETERNITY OF MARRIAGE

CHAPTER NINE

MARRIAGE AS USED IN THE WORD

CHAPTER TEN

THE MARRIAGE COVENANT IN HEAVEN

CHAPTER ELEVEN

THE MARRIAGE PRINCIPLE IS ETERNAL

CHAPTER TWELVE

MARRIED COUPLES IN HEAVEN

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

TO WHOM, WILL I BE MARRIED TO IN HEAVEN?

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

GOD IS PREPARING SOMEONE FOR YOU

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

YOUR MARRIAGE WILL CONTINUE AFTER DEATH

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

SEX IN HEAVEN! WHY NOT?

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

MARRIAGE AND SPIRITUALITY

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

THE NEW HEAVEN AND NEW EARTH

ABOUT AUTHOR

ABOUT THE BOOK

INTRODUCTION

Contrary to popular belief, Jesus did not say that there’s no marriage in heaven. What he did say is that people who attain to the resurrection or eternal life don’t get married in the afterlife. There’s a big difference between both statements, and we will get into more details later.

Further, marriage in Jesus’ day is not very different from what many people think of as marriage even today. And this accounts greatly for why most people cannot see why this most noble and sacred of all relationships will exist in heaven or in the afterlife.

More like in Jesus’ day, marriage for most people have little or nothing to do, with, what at the moment we will call deep or true love, soulmates, the loving coitus, or the inseparable union.  For most people in Jesus’ day, and even till this day, marriage has nothing of an inner connectedness at all.

Believe it or not, the concept of marriage as a relationship based on the experiencing and expressing of deep love, and of inward and inner connectedness of soul and spirit, is something that till this day, is yet to be truly developed in human society. It is the reason why most of humanity cannot see why this relationship can exist in the spiritual world. They look upon marriage from a wrong perspective, and that for the most part, has been the problem of mankind. Mankind seems to see all things and understand them from a distorted perspective and view.

For Jesus’ listeners, and throughout most of human history, marriage was what we today would call a contract, an agreement, or contractual and business relationship. It is more of an agreement to live together as husband and wife, and for the most part, get a priest to pronounce them as man and wife, so they can go on to raise children, and to perpetuate and preserve for themselves a lineage and their names, and possessions. For most people, that is about all they know and understand about the relationship of marriage. There seems not to be that inner or inward dimensions of connectedness at all.

Yet to many also, in Jesus’ day and even till today, it is about their social status and raising a family. To most, it’s purpose was to provide financial advantages and social recognition to married couples and their clans, and to perpetuate the family’s lineage, property, and inheritance as we have mentioned before. And as Jesus said, that sort of marriage does not exist in heaven. There is no need for it there.

But yet, there is more to Jesus’ words than meets the eye. Jesus was a master of metaphor and parable. He used them wisely, mainly, because of the nature of the hearts of those that heard him in his days. If we look at his words more deeply, which we will do later, we can learn a great deal about what kind of marriage does and doesn’t exist in heaven. And more importantly, we can learn a great deal about how to live here on earth so that we can experience real, eternal marriage in heaven.

Yes, there is marriage in heaven. We’ll get to that, and to the deeper message and meaning of Jesus’ words, in the preceding chapters

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CHAPTER ONE

MARRIAGE BEYOND THIS WORLD

AS WE HAD MENTIONED earlier in the introduction, there is a tradition in Christianity that says that in heaven, there will be no marriages; and that marriage is for this world and in this life only. It further states that, when we enter into the new heaven, and new earth, which is the world to come, there will no longer be marriage.

This belief and idea as we have also seen, is majorly entrenched on a very tricky question that Jesus was asked by the Sadducees, concerning a woman who got married to seven brothers, and later died herself. Jesus was asked, and this we will look into in full in a later chapter:  Therefore in the resurrection whose wife shall she be of the seven? for they all had her. - Matthew 22:28.

To which Jesus answered and said:

[30] For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.

-Matthew 22:30

MANY TRADITIONAL CHRISTIANS think that since there is no marriage in heaven, Christians resurrect and are made sexless, which is to say, that in heaven, there are neither male nor female since scripture says, they "are as the angels of God in heaven." As such, they are cognitive that everyone lives a separate and a single life in heaven forever, or better still, we just relate to one another same as the angels.

But is it true that we will live our separate and single lives without our spouses and families forever in heaven? Can that be the divine thought?

We are fully aware that the very thought of living single and separate lives, is contrary to what heaven represents in its entirety. That absolutely cannot be heaven. That is the true definition of hell – singleness and separateness. If anything, heaven represents a state of absolute peace, deep love, unspeakable joy, true harmony and inseparable union, both with God, with all of mankind and with all things. So that the very thought of being single and separate in heaven is actually opposing to what heaven is.

There cannot be true love, peace, joy and harmony, if there are no true human relationships, that is, if there are no others with whom to express and share these essence of life with. Life is more beautiful when shared with others and, especially with the one whom you deeply love and care about.

Hence, until there are true human relationships, like that between a husband and a wife, who are deeply in love, heaven cannot be said to be beautiful. The beauty of heaven will be our love life fully realized and expressed, for God is love.

The thought of being single and separate in heaven, and to be without a spouse, can be likened to the state in which Adam was in the beginning, before God made Eve and brought her to him.

God seeing Adam in this state of singleness, separateness and aloneness that is, being all alone by himself in the world, which at the time, was without sin, said: "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him." (Genesis 2:18) What God saw in the beginning not to be good for man, how can that turn to be His chosen order or established state for him in the afterlife? If that wasn’t a good state for man on earth back at the beginning when there was no sin, how will it then become good in the world to come? Or was God just carrying out an experiment with man on the earth? Perhaps he wasn’t sure yet at the time what he wanted for him on earth. Is that it? Absolutely not.

HEAVENS ORDER ON EARTH

IN THE PRAYER WHERE Jesus taught his disciples how to pray, what popularly is known as the Lord’s Prayer, Jesus made it clear to his disciples and us, that God’s desire has always been for His will to be done on earth as it is in heaven -(Luke 11:2). Earth was made to be a reflection, and an expression of the heavens. That is true.

If God’s desire is done fully on earth as it is in heaven, you can guess what earth will become. Indeed earth will become as the heavens, which precisely, is what God desires – to make earth into a paradise, a place of utmost delight, of unspeakable peace, joy and love with harmony, to bring heaven fully to earth, and to make all of heaven real on earth.

It is clear therefore, that whatever was on earth, or whatever God was doing on earth back then, especially before sin entered the world was what was in heaven. That is, God was moving all that was in heaven to earth, he was bringing all of his desires to earth. God had wanted the earth to be fully as the heavens without any disparity. It is, as it is said: Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.

We believe that the condition that once prevailed or existed on earth, ever before sin entered the world, was a heavenly order. It was the established order or condition that prevailed in heaven. God literally lived on the earth with the first man. He was always here with him on earth. And God’s desire had been for mankind to live, walk and grow in that order, until he can realize that order in its fullness and totality, such that mankind would have no thought in them of another heaven.

In the beginning when God created man, He created them both male and female. The very thought that God made them both male and female, was so that they might live forever in that state, and come together as one, and live in the bond of inseparable union, which is as we have noted is what marriage is. That was the whole idea behind the male and female principle as we would see later. Therefore, it would be against the natural principle and order of things, for things created not to follow or continue in their created or established order of life forever.

THE CREATION OF MALE AND FEMALE

WHY WOULD GOD IN THE beginning create man both male and female, if He does not intend for them to continue forever in that state? Or is God intending to change the male into a female, and the female into a male? Or rather, is He intending to obliterate the sexes, and make both the man and woman sexless, as much of humanity have always thought, for they say, we shall be, as the angels in heaven?

Otherwise, why did he make them both male and female in the first place? Why did He say, that it is not good that the man should be alone; and went ahead to make for him a help meet, that is, a suitable partner for him? Why would God give the man a partner suitable for him if he does not want them to continue together forever? Was it just for the purpose of the earth alone that man needed a partner, and after that do away without it? Why did He make Eve for Adam and called her his wife, if He had no intentions for them to continue as couples forever?

Ask yourself, what if Adam and Eve never sinned or disobeyed God in the beginning as it were? What if death never entered the human world as a result of man’s sin? Will that union, which they already established as man and wife, and was so established by God himself, had been broken up or severed after a time, with each going their separate ways and each living their separate lives, or would that relationship have gone on for all eternity? Think on that, and you will begin to see the truth for yourself, that the relationship of marriage goes beyond this world. Understand that sin brought a great divide and a great distortion to the human mind and soul from the beginning.

BONE OF MY BONES

AFTER GOD MADE EVE and brought her to Adam, the scripture recorded Adam as saying:

[23].. This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. [24] Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

- Genesis 2:23-24

The above text clearly illustrates the vital and inseparable union and closeness of relationship between the man and the woman, which is his wife. Adam called the woman, whom he came to know as his wife, bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. That’s the very definition and expression of intimacy, of oneness, closeness and of inseparable union between the two.

Again, the very reason she was called woman from the scripture was because, according to Adam, she was taken out of man. Scripture went further, and said also, "Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother and be joined {cleave} unto his wife, and they two, shall become one flesh." The word cleave in that scripture is a very powerful word. It means to stick to each other in such a way that it is impossible to separate between the two. It means both shall not continue as two but as one forever. And the only reason and way they can be one in the flesh {body}, is because they have first become one in soul and in spirit. That is the firmness of the marital bond.

In God’s universe, or in the spiritual world, there are no rooms for separation or isolation. It is a law in the spiritual world that all things must function and live as one. And that’s precisely what Adam was expressing in regards to his marital relationship with Eve, his wife. Adam knew that, because in his own words, he said, she was taken out of man.

As already mentioned, this union between the two, the man and his wife, which is so vital, so sacred, so holy, and full of love and magnificence, between the man and the woman, is it meant only for the earth and not for the heavens as well? Can there be other relationships more glorious and more beautiful than that which exists between a man and his wife in glory?

Do you realize, that to separate the woman from the man, is like separating the man from his bones and his flesh? Because that’s what Adam called the woman; bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. And it is a known fact, that a man separated from his bones and from his flesh, is a dead man, such a man cannot live. That cannot be what God ordained for man.

SEPARATION, NOT THE DIVINE IDEA

FOR SEPARATION, WHICH is precisely what death is, was never part of the Divine idea or plan for man. God deliberately and purposefully made the woman for the man, that they might live together, not in isolation, not in separation, but to live together forever as one. That is the whole idea of marriage in heaven. That the man and the woman were made to live together forever as one, both here on earth and in the afterlife. 

We must bear in mind as we have mentioned, that God never made man originally with the intentions of him dying. Death we are all aware, came with sin, which was the result of man’s disobedience to the laws of life. However, if man ever was married to his wife in the beginning, it is only natural for the man to live in that state of marriage, the state of inseparable union with his wife both on earth and in heaven. The only reason it seems that they were separated was because of death, which was never part of the plan.

Apart from the entrance of sin into the human world, there is no obvious reason why the man and his wife should not continue in the marital state forever. God's Word clearly states that, "Whatsoever the Lord God doeth, it shall be forever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it" - (Ecclesiastes 3:14). And that includes the marital union between a male and a female, a man and his wife. 

NAKED IN GLORY

IN VERSE TWENTY FIVE of Genesis chapter two, it reads: "And they were both naked, the man and his wife and were not ashamed." We wish to presume here, that the verse, in spite of other meanings that may be given to it, implies that the man and his wife made love or had sex, and were not ashamed. Though this was not clearly implied in that verse, but we think it is, because, God had told them to be fruitful and to multiply.

The point is, the man before he ever sinned and fell, lived and walked naked with his wife. And in that state, they both lived and walked with God, and in his glory. They were naked in God’s glory, the man and his wife. The man and his wife before sin came, lived nowhere else, but in God’s glory.

If God had told them to be fruitful and to multiply, we know today, that there is only one way God had ordained for that to be done. And that is through love making