2008.08.02 - The Word of God at the feast of the saint prophet Elijah, Lord Jesus [free biff chip and kipper ebooks .txt] 📗

temple, at the time of the birth of Jesus (Luke: 2/36), who was a wife for seven years. If we assume she got married at the age of 18 and became single at the age of 25. She was 84 years old at the time of Jesus’ birth. Thus if the assumption is correct, she would have lived for service to God for 59 years serving Him in the temple, without the comfort of a husband. Another example would be Jephthah’s daughter (Judges: 11/29-40). She lived her entire life, single, due to her father’s promise to God.

In the same way, the term „eunuch,” with the sense of abstinence, could be extended in a marriage life. There are husbands and wives, who may have a life of a eunuch by their own consent within their marriage so called „white marriage”; they live as brothers and sisters with their spouses for the kingdom of God. Their style of eunuch life for the kingdom of God is mainly based on the word that Jesus said in Matt: 19/29 and on the exhortation of Paul in 1 Cor: 7/1.

To sum up all these different situations, to live a life as a eunuch „for the kingdom of heaven’s sake”, is to advance the cause of God as a lifestyle, without the hindrances of a family, r.n.

[4] «The angel said to me, “The waters which you saw, where the prostitute sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations, and languages». Apoc. 17:15, r.n.

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