How do some make themselves eunuchs for the sake of God’s kingdom?Ĥ Jesus called such voluntary virgins self-made eunuchs. The powerful inducing reason for virginity is God’s kingdom.Ĥ. It Scripturally allows freedom to marry before the battle of Armageddon. 4:1-3, NW) The New World society has no such rule. They remain virgin, not because there is a Christian rule “forbidding to marry” in this “time of the end,” in these “later periods of time.” ( 1 Tim. 14:1-4, NW) With commendable virtue many Christians, virgins whether men or women, may choose to remain single, though making no vow to do so. 7:39, 40, NW) Married Christians may still remain spiritually virgin toward Christ by not becoming adulterous friends toward this world and its womanlike systems: “These are the ones that did not defile themselves with women in fact, they are virgins.” ( Rev. But she is happier if she remains as she is.” ( 1 Cor. In the case of a Christian woman, “if her husband should fall asleep in death, she is free to be married to whom she wants, only in the Lord. (a) What may bereaved mates choose to do, and why can married Christians be virgins spiritually? (b) For what powerful reason only do some remain virgins?ģ A Christian bereaved of a mate by death may remarry but may choose not to do so. 9:5, NW) The overtowering reason why many Christians in the “time of the end” of this wicked world stay single must be considered and, if understood, wins no reproach but high respect.ģ. 16:1-4, AS) The apostle Paul did not avail himself of his “authority to lead about a sister as a wife, even as the rest of the apostles and the Lord’s brothers and Cephas.” ( 1 Cor. What other examples do we have of God’s servants who did not marry?Ģ The young prophet Jeremiah held back from marriage because Jehovah God, like a father, forbade him to marry and have children inasmuch as it was the “time of the end” for the Jewish kingdom of the line of David. This spiritual bride whom the Father unites to his Son in heavenly beauty and radiance is the only wife that Jehovah God has authorized Jesus Christ to have.- John 3:29 Rev. But by this course of self-control and obedience he wins a spiritual “bride,” a congregation of 144,000 faithful followers who love him with a love surpassing that of a man for a woman, of a husband for a wife. He died unmarried according to his heavenly Father’s will. To take this view means to downgrade Jesus Christ, for he died a virgin, a single man, at the age of thirty-three and a half years. However, for Christians God’s Word does not take the view of some tribes or peoples that a man has not reached his full estate unless he is married, so that if he is not married he is only half a man. By the attraction that he put into play between the sexes it is normal for man and woman to marry, not even leaving out Christians who are in the flesh. MARRIAGE has joys and blessings that God purposed it to have. (a) What proves that an unmarried man is not half a man? (b) What is the only kind of bride Jesus Christ will ever have?
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