Agape Redefined

 

 

When is Agape no longer Agape?  When Agape has been re-defined to promote false teachings and doctrines.

 

There is scarce a Christian, Evangelical, Fundamentalist, Pentecostal, or Charismatic today that has not either heard or used the word Agape.

 

And yet, the two main meanings that have been taught in virtually every quarter since mid-1970’s, are utterly false. What we refer to here is the current populist re-definition of Agape as being “The God kind of love” or as a “Sacrificial undying love.”

 

Before we go too far here we want to state that revisionism, (The rewriting of history events to put a different spin on things) or redefinition, (The redefining of terms and terminology as to play on one’s beliefs or to attempt to appeal to a different segment of audience) occurs all the time out in the world. 

 

In fact, these things occur so frequently that in this day and hour, when a product is re-packaged or a politician re-invents themselves, there is scarcely anyone that bats an eye, even at the most breathtaking claims by the hand of their most un-scrupulous merchants and political handlers.

 

In another article The Ruckmanites Among Us, we give a full discussion to the altering of the word of God by translators.  What we wish to point out here is that within the sand of populist teaching and doctrine, preachers and teachers routinely alter the meanings of Greek and Hebrew words.  They also do this with the meanings or biblical terms and terminology – so as to hide, distort, or out-right deceive their audience into coming to the conclusions and making the decisions they want you to make.

 

When I worked for a marketing corporation in the 1980’s, we had classes every day on homing sales technique, and hands on training regarding our sales presentations.  We also watched films, went to seminars, and read recommended motivational writings, and listened to motivational sales tapes.

 

After a time in the business, it became apparent that what we were being taught was a form of evangelistic preaching, or evangelistic sales techniques.

 

The presentation included a seven page sales pitch and three pages worth of rebuttals, which we were told had been created by leading sales people and psychologists, and was designed to lead buyers through a series of “commitments” or “check in points” that in the end would cause them to purchase a product that they had probably never thought of, or probably ever wanted on their own.

 

In my first week there I broke all sales records by writing seven orders.  In my first year, I was the top salesman in the company winning all expense paid trips to both Curacao and Hawaii.  During my time with the company, I had the highest presentation –written order ratio in the company about 90-95% and the highest stick rate of orders as well (about 95-98%).  Today, I refer to my working for this company as being in the belly of the beast. (I say these things only to demonstrate how powerful and effective what I am speaking of is.)

 

So that the preachers fashioned in the image and likeness of Kenneth Hagin and Kenneth Copeland today are little more than pitchmen and salesman, and when they preach or teach, the last thing they want you to do is to start doing any “unfiltered” digging around in your bible (That would be like someone reading all the fine print in a sales contract before buying.)

 

So, in our sales pitch, there was included “A sales contract talk,” in which we taught the people how we wanted them to read the contract.  During which time we went into the fine print, circled certain things we wanted the customer to focus on, made jokes or scoffed at what we wanted them to ignore, and we would read aloud the most damning text about contract cancellation – to which we would give an on-the-spot redefinition of what those words meant.  Then we sat down with the customer and went over it once more right beside them, so that when we handed them the pen everything that we wanted them to think or feel was rushing through their synapses. – So much so that now when they read the contract they only could hear our words, our jokes, and our redefinition of terms.

 

So, what we are telling you is that for a long time you have not been hearing preaching and teaching of the Gospel, but rather you have been having doctrines and teachings sold to you on an emotional and psychological level. – So much so that once believers go to these preachers and teachers meetings, or listen to their tapes – most believers can no longer read the word of God, because they only hear the voice the words of that preacher, the jokes of what that preacher wishes to joke about of scoff at, and their “latest” redefinition of biblical terms.

 

So powerful and so effective are these men and women’s evangelistic sales techniques that it takes years before the strongest believers can break the hold it has over them.

 

If I had not worked for this marketing corporation and been so highly successful, I would have never ever believed any of this is even possible.  But, it is and has been brought into the church, and its absolute corrupting effects are being felt in every quarter of Bible believing Christianity.

 

 

We wish now to address the word Agape and the ongoing tampering and re-definition of its meaning and the impact of that.

 

First, by re-defining Agape as “The God kind of love,” Agape is declared by theologians to be un-obtainable to mere mortal men.  In this same sales spiel, these men tell us that any love that we produce as men or women of God, despite our new birth, despite our being filled with the Holy Spirit, and despite God working a work of sanctification in us, is not Agape, but rather some “lower,” “baser” form of love.

 

And yet, the Greek Septuagint uses the word Agape over and over for men’s love for one another, (How can this be if it is unobtainable?) and for men’s love for God. (How can this be?) God uses the word Agape for His love toward men, and even for sexual relations between a husband and wife. (How can this be if sex, as we are told by the same theologians, is by nature a part of the fallen and sinful nature of man?)

 

Romans 3:4 – Let God be true, (Is Truth) but every man (Is) a liar; as it is written. (Anyone who promotes lies and falsehood in the name of God by teaching things contrary to God’s word, mistranslating words, or re-defining biblical words or terms to promote their personal agenda or false doctrine, God himself shall destroy them.)

 

What is Agape love?  Agape is defined in classical Greek as a love that spawns or flows from the seat of one’s emotions.

 

The true definition of Agape is: “To treat with great affection, To caress, To love sexually, To be greatly fond of.” (Lexicon of Classic Greek)

 

Here now we give to you the “religious” interpretation of the same word Agape:To greatly love, To highly value, To feel or manifest generous concern for, To delight in, (Analytical Greek Lexicon)

 

One can clearly see how the Lexigrapher of Analytical Lexicon -- flees from using the word “affection,” because these words, “affection” and “emotion,” are not part of the Joy-less, love-less and peace-less tradition of Augustinian- Calvin doctrinal tradition.

 

We note more specifically the Lexigrapher’s complete and utter omission of the rest of the Classical Greek definition of the word Agape: To caress, and To love sexually.  This has been done again because these words are not part of the Joy-less, emotionless Colossians 2:21 Touch not; taste not; handle not; sex of Augustinian- Calvin doctrinal tradition.

 

What has been taught by Augustine and Calvin for almost 1500 years is an utter crime, defrauding husbands from wives, children from their parents, and defrauding Christ from His bride. – We might well declare Augustine-Calvin doctrine as the single greatest impediment to the church entering into the priesthood of all believers, and stopping dead in its tracks any ministry of reconciliation within the household.

 

Those who uphold the teachings of Augustine and Calvin have turned bible believing Christianity into a shadow religion, instead of being filled with the light of the agape of God, Meno’s in the shadows, and traditions of the Talmud’s false and contemptible holiness.

 

In the Gospels, we find Christ accusing the Scribes and Pharisees of this very thing but having stripped away the weightier matters of the law, specifically love, joy and peace from biblical Judaism – and because of that Christ and John the Baptist set about “to destroy the works of the devil” in the Mishnah and Talmud and the destruction of all the Rabbinical schools.

 

When we shortly look at the word Agape as used in the Greek Septuagint, we will see how this false translation or re-definition of Agape with its un-physical, un-sexual translation has been used to carve out a universe within the church of agape-less Christians that neither agape love one another, do not agape the unsaved, do not agape their wives or family and according to the Apostles John, therefore do not agape God.

 

The New Covenant is a covenant of everlasting joy.  The joy of the coming of the Messiah, the joy of the Gospel being preached to the gentiles, the joy of the bride and the bridegroom, and the joy of physical and spiritual fruitfulness.

 

The New covenant is also a covenant of Agape love to God, the love of Christ, the love of our households, our neighbors, and the love of husbands and wives toward one another as Christ also so agape’s his bride, the true church.

 

The foundation of the Gospel are these three; unspeakable joy, and love overflowing, and peace like a river.– However, the foundation upon which bible believing Christians stand this day is not so.  These stand on a foundation of the joy-less joy of Calvinism, the peace-less torment of Calvinists, and the love-less love of Calvinist’s and therefore, we could not see a greater difference in outcomes between what is written in the pages of the Gospels and New Testament and what we see in any bible believing church in the US or around the world.

 

To understand the Greek word agape, one needs to understand little more than it is a love Emanates from the seat of one’s emotions,” it is a love of: “strong emotion and passion,” and therefore Agape incites actions on the part of the lover (Whether it is God, Christ or a man or a woman) Therefore Agape is not the pseudo un-emotional love, it is not a cerebral love, nor is it a platonic love.  It is definitely not the “Touch not, taste not, feel not love” of Talmudic asceticism.  All these teachings lend themselves to a pseudo love where one is required to be a stoic voyeur and sit to the side in torment while the emotion slowly eats away at one’s soul. (All while trying to gain a false and perverted spirituality.)

 

Agape is a highly emotional love.  It is a love that every child is born into the world with..Small children naturally Agape their mothers and fathers, even when their mothers and fathers are evil and perverse.

 

Agape is not intellectually based or some cerebral thing where one plays mind games, coded messages, or ethereal and subliminal hints.  God designed agape to be a like full contact sport.  The sons and daughters of the scribes and Pharisees would never lower themselves to allow themselves to experience emotion of the adrenalin rush, to feel full flow of sexual love coursing though their soul to their emotionless superiority, or the false and empty state of Godliness or Holiness they think that they have.  Instead, they are utterly deluded – as they have been sold these Augustine and Calvin doctrines and teachings on an emotional and psychological level. (These belief are contrary to the word of God and to Christ. -- No one that obeys the lies of the enemy shall be redeemed for such, regardless of what they have been made to believe, their actions are doing for them and the body of Christ.

 

Agape does not count rights and wrongs to see where it would strategically place itself in a given situation.

 

And Agape it is most certainly not “A sacrificial undying love.” By this definition, these evil and perverse theologians seek to place any teaching on Agape love in the category of the made up Roman Catholic English words like “Saints” or “Sainthood,” which are in reality, re-defined Roman Catholic Theological words.  By declaring that Agape love is “A sacrificial undying love.” Agape is being re-defined as a special unobtainable Roman Catholic Holiness or righteousness that only the apostles and saints were able to obtain.

 

This is why Paul allowed all his New Covenant teachings to be scrutinized by the Bereans daily to see if those things be so.  And where did they go, to the Greek Septuagint and the original Hebrew.  Whatever Paul taught was not found if it were not properly rebutted with the correct passages in scripture.  It was summarily rejected and this was declared as being “More Honorable.”

 

As God has illumined this to us by His Spirit, we have found that many passages in the Gospel, as well as the writings of Paul, can not be correctly understood when they are interpreted on face value.  They must be linked to the passages they either quote directly from the Greek Septuagint either by passage or by a unique phrase in or from the Septuagint or a citing of a passage by a unique Greek word that is used in the Greek Septuagint.

 

Any understanding of this is so liberating to individual believers, and at the same time so damaging to the denominations churches and ministries,  Ministries that have been utterly unaccountable until this day and hour for their false use bible verses, and their false re-definitions of bible words, and biblical terminology, to suit themselves and what they want to teach.

 

We declare here by the Spirit that the day is now past and that the light of truth that they have worked so hard to repress, can longer be held back, as this revelation and understanding of the relationship of the Greek Septuagint to the words spoken by Christ and the Apostles is restored.

 

This is the key of knowledge that the rabbis and sages of the Mishnah and Talmud took away from the Jews.  The Mishnah and the Talmud is the veil that Paul spoke of whenever the Talmudized Jews would read Moses.  It was a filter or a lens filled with false word meanings, and the re-definitions and re-re-definitions.

 

These Talmudic doctrines, re-definitions, and traditions were directly piped into church “mainstream doctrine” from the time of Tertullian until the time of  Augustine, which thereafter were re-introduced into the church by the leaders of the reformation; Martin Luther, John Calvin, and Meno Simons.

 

Exactly what brought the church into what was called the dark ages, is what has brought the church into the Light of darkness that is called the reformation, which is also the foundation of all doctrine and traditions in Evangelicalism, Fundamentalism, Pentecostalism and Charismaticism.

 

These are very hard words – but anyone who has the Spirit of God in them has known these very things, to one degree or another for quite some time, but have been afraid to voice or act upon what God has been speaking to them for fear of man.

 

We would put you in remembrance that Christ first came under full obedience to the commandments of God and the voice of the Lord before He was sent forth on his mission of redemption.

 

You too must walk in the light, as He is in the light, by obeying fully the commandments of Christ and submitting yourself to the voice of the Holy Spirit before He would send you forth as a minister of reconciliation.

 

To walk in disobedience and preach tainted truth is to walk in the image and likeness of the scribes and Pharisees, whom Christ Himself declared shall in nowise enter into the kingdom of heaven.

 

Luke 11:34-36 The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, (Pure, Christ is speaking here of the lens or filter that you view truth through) thy whole body also is full of light; (This is the state of the early church while the apostles yet lived – and the manifestations of the God bore this witness)  but when thine eye is evil (Corrupt, Christ is declaring those who view truth through the corrupt and perverted lens or filter of men that the result is) thy body also is full of darkness. (This is the state of the church of this day, and the lack of the manifestations of God bear witness to this) Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness.  (Why would Christ speak such a dire warning specifically to his disciples and apostles if this were not at all possible?)

 

Ephesians 5:23-25 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and He is the saviour of the body. (Somatos –A human or physical body) Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be (Subject) to their own husbands (For even as Christ the husband is also the head of the wife, the savior or redeemer of his wife in marriage, the creation of the household and the bearing of children.) in every thing. Husbands, (That) love (Agapa-Te Agapa The “Pure” love of a small child, Te-Time Price, Value, or precious, [Love as small children and treat as precious]) your wives, (Need to come into a greater love) even as (Even unto the Love which) Christ also loved (E-Gape-Sen E-Edos Pleasure, Gratification, Especially of sensual types of pleasure, Gape –Agape To Caress and Cherish Sen-Seira a cord or rope [Cords of love or the bond of Love]) the church, and gave himself for it. (This was a giving physically 24/7 not spiritually – and yet Augustine and Calvin flipped and spiritualized this – so that relationship were able to be re-defined as spiritual, cerebral and platonic with no attachment to the flesh.)

 

From Christ calling of the Apostles from the beginning, and His physically taking them into His household, it should be self-evident that Paul is writing here of physical and sexual contact between a wife and a husband. And by Christ “The height of spirituality” living with his carnal disciples 24/7, and not dumping them to run off to meetings – this should also be a lesson in the type of Spirituality and the type of Agape God desires.

 

Let us say this another way, that where Christ was, the Apostles were – their church meetings, and prayer meetings did not occur somewhere else.  To that, the meeting of God in the lives of husbands and wives is to occur first and foremost around the marital bed.  If you can not meet God there, you are not spiritual – you are deluded.  You do not go to church to meet God, you do not go to church to pray, you do not go to church to worship, the church is a meeting place of brethren – that are of like heart and like spirit where they are to exchange what God has spoken to them and what they have experience in God that week in their own households and upon their own marital beds.

 

Christ in His household provided the Apostles every need, by teaching and reproving them that they might learn the way wherein they should walk, -- this must occur in the household and even on the martial bed.

 

There is a parable in the Gospels where the person responds to one knocking at their door, my feet are washed and I am in bed.  We see here ,that next to the marital bed was a laver that the husband used to wash his wife’s feet and the wife used to wash the husband’s feet before they climbed in the holy of holies of their household.

 

The church emotionally and theologically has had great problems with foot washing services – we will state that the reason why is that there is no laver next to the marital bed.

 

Within the above text in Ephesians, it is stated that to understand better what God desires between Himself and the church, one only needs to examine any Godly marriage and the relationship between a Godly woman and her Godly Husband.  Conversely, to find out how to “repair” a “weak” a “sickly” or a “dead” marriage, one only needs to examine the relationship of Christ and the Apostles in the Gospels.

 

The relationship between a husband and wife is supposed to mirror Christ’s care and training up of the twelve apostles in the Gospels, aka the Church.

 

And we will categorically state here that sexual relations between a husband and wife were a part of the plan of salvation and redemption from the beginning.

 

In other articles, we have described in some detail the relationship between Jesus Christ, the second and last Adam, and the first man, Adam that God created in the garden.  We have written of the similarities of their callings, and mission.  Both were called to be redeemers; Christ for the church and Adam was to redeem his wife.  (The examination of Paul’s writings, and scriptures he cites, are recorded in: Jesus the Second and Last Adam. One may want to read this article before continuing, as this article has some bearing as to what we are discussing here.)

 

Ephesians 5:30-32 For we (The joined church) are members of His body, (Being flesh) of His flesh, and (bone) of His bones. For this cause (The cause here was the future relationship between Christ and His bride.)

 

This is a statement that in the beginning, Adam felt this calling, this lack, this emptiness, this unfruitfulness in him, a lack or emptiness that he himself could not solve.  God having created this irresistible desire in Adam – That the woman was created to fulfill Adam’s lack and emptiness on a number of levels. – The Lord recently opened up some of these things to me.

 

The purpose of this was that God would be able to reveal and manifest Himself in a new way that Adam had not previously known God in.

2 Timothy 2:21 If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet (Eu-Chrestos, A joyous or joyful obedience Proverbs (Septuagint) 29:13 Makes it serviceable [joyously] Proverbs (KJV) 31:13 Worketh willingly) for the master's use, and prepared (Etoimasia,  Preparedness or readiness [Made prepared, and kept in readiness towards the day of use], Ps 65:9-12) unto every good work.

Ephesians 5:30-32 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery: but I (Greek: Ego De, I also) speak concerning Christ and the church.

The cause here, is a man’s calling to marriage.  Paul is declaring that this was a great mystery to the Jews, but these mysteries of marriage, the marital bed and the secret spirituality and power that was hid there was revealed to the early church in the preparation of them fulfilling the priesthood of all believers – but this was quickly lost, as the early church was tempted not to return to the type and shadows of the Old Covenant, but to the false teachings and traditions of the Mishnah and the Talmud.

It is so amazing to me that the Lord would reveal such things to me.  It is so blessed I don’t know what to say or think any more.  I own no copyright to any of this as these things are not my own, but come from the Lord Jesus Christ.  God desires to speak to and reveal scripture such as this to every believer, and He desires that all He has given be freely distributed.

Colossians 3:17-18, 23-24 And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him. Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord. -- And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, (Ek, Psuches, – Ek out of, Psuche The soul, or The seat of one’s emotions or affections.) as to the Lord, and not unto men; (The man here would be your husband) Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ. (When you serve your husband)

Genesis 2:18 And the LORD God said, It is not good (Greek Kalon good, profitable, of full measure, virtuous, effectual, fruitful.) that the man should be alone; (Greek: Monos alone, one, unfruitful, or barren) I will make him an help-meet (Hebrew Ezer To help, to be a helper, to aid, to support, to be an ally, Greek Boethos A suitable help. One whom can be called upon for aid, one that would run to someone’s aid,) for him.

 

Genesis 2:24 Therefore (Because it was not fruitful, but barren for man to dwell alone) shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

 

Hebrews 10:5 Wherefore when he cometh (again) into the world, he (shall) saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: (This is a quote of Psalm 40:6 and a citing of Psalm 40:5-7) The writer of Hebrews is saying that at the second coming Christ is going to return to His vineyard seeking fruit – So, the body He seeks, is His bride.

 

The writer of Hebrews is citing David in Psalm 40 but David is citing Joshua

Joshua 22:26-27 Therefore we said, Let us now prepare to build us an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice: But that it may be a witness between us, and you, and our generations after us. As their was an altar not for sacrifice for Israel there has also been an altar not from sacrifice in the church.  This altar was a witness against Israel and the church – I would suggest here that this altar was the altar of the tithe of the Lord, the seed of his inheritance, and the alter becomes a witness against when it is empty.

Psalm 40:5-7 Many, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered. Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required. Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,

Psalm 40:5-7 (Septuagint) Oh Lord my God thou hast multiplied thy wonderful works (Man being fruitful and multiplying) And in thy thoughts there is none who shall be likened unto thee (God’s purpose in the search for the Ezer and boethos of God in Genesis 2:18?) I declared and spoke and they exceeded in number, (Commandment 0001) Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not (In the garden of Adam and Eve, and even after the garden, men knew nothing of the continual offering of sacrifices to God) But a body hast thou prepared me (This is the divine purpose that Adam and his wife were to create a household, the body or vessel into which God was to pour His seed , aka – the bride of Christ) whole burnt offering and sacrifices for sin didst thou not require (Of Adam and his wife, nor of their children) Then said I behold I come. (This is the Lord prophesying of His coming unto this body or vessel aka His bride) In the volume of the book it is written concerning me I desired to do thy will. Oh (I have) my God (In the midst of my heart) and Thy law in the midst of my heart I have preached righteousness in the midst of the great congregation (This is the body vessel or bride that has been exceedingly multiplied)

 

Job 14:14-16 If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come. (Resurrection) Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire (The desire Job speaks of here is, But a body, God’s tithe, the production of a righteous seed) to the work of thine hands.

 

We are now going to look at a group of verses on Agape in the Greek Septuagint that relate to sex and one’s sexual relationship

 

Genesis 24:67 And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved (Greek: H-Gap H Sen, H--Hdos Pleasure, Gratification, Especially of sensual types of pleasure, Gap-Agape To treat with great affection, To caress, To love sexually, To be greatly fond of, H--Hdos Pleasure, Gratification, Especially of sensual types of pleasure Se-Seira a cord or rope [Isaac was bonded to Rebekah as he was smitten with the pleasure of sexually loving]) her: and Isaac was comforted (Par-Ek-Le-The,  Par- Partner  Ek- Out from away from  Le-Lego To speak  The-Theros Harvest, fruitfulness [A time of great joyfulness] Called away as her partner in the harvesting of fruitfulness)

 

This creation of  the bond of marriage through having frequent and intensive sexual relations is spoken of specifically in  the book of Job. In  the Law of Moses it is declared to be a daily wage, and Paul speaks of this as Husband and wives not defrauding each other.

Job 41:12-13 His soul (The husband) is a heap of burning coals (Of sexual desire –This is dunamis) and from his mouth comes  blazing fire (The expression of these desires) which he passes from himself to his wife, so that they become yoked together by the power (Dunamis) of their sexual life. (Aulis-Zoa)

 

Here we see that there is a relationship between husbands and wives being truly yoked together or truly being made one flesh – and their having Dunamis in their sex life. Where there is no Dunamis in a sex life they husband and wife will not be yoked together. God did not join Adam and Eve together to have a “Platonic relationship” In this passage we see that God does not command man to suppress these desires and so Paul knowing these things in 1 Corinthians 7 says if a husband is burning with desires for adultery and fornication – he does not need to plead the blood, receive deliverance, or confess he is a stick or meditate – Paul says the husband needs to vent the fire that burns in him by having more sex with his wife and that includes an articulation of those desires, wants, and needs to his wife. So that the suppression and the hiding of this is sin – as it leads to division and the destruction of the household.

 

It does not appear that Isaac took his task of fulfilling Commandment 00001 all to seriously.  From the time of Rebekah’s pregnancy with Esau and Jacob, Isaac seems to have put his duties and calling on the back burner.  Isaac seems to be the polar opposite of his father, Abraham, who with great gusto, sought to produce The Household of Faith and The Seed of Promise.  We find this great gusto concerning Commandment 00001 and building The Household of Faith in Job (A great grand son of Abraham, who unlike the sons of Jacob and their children, walked in the fullness of the covenant of Abraham.)

 

Job 29:19 (Septuagint) My root (I can not get over how many biblical terms have become “supposed” unclean communications and sexual slang in the world.) was disbursing forth my waters of continual building, and I was continually flowing forth in sexual fruitfulness (Greek: Aulis-Thesetai) unto the time of the one (Greek: Monos) harvest. (Job definitely understood something here about Commandment 00001; that neither Israel, nor the Church have ever understood. –Job here describes himself, as by himself trying to, with his wife and concubines, to see to it that the household of faith was not left empty.)

 

Also, see here that Job understood not only Commandment 00001 from Abraham, but that he understood that this had relation with the end-time harvest of God.  If there are no households with their quivers filled with the righteous seed of God, there is nothing to be harvested in the one harvest the end-time harvest before the millennium.

 

Genesis 29:18 And Jacob loved (H-Gap-H-Sa, H--Hdos Pleasure, Gratification, Especially of sensual types of pleasure, Gap-Agape To treat with great affection, To caress, To love sexually, To be greatly fond of, H--Hdos Pleasure, Gratification, Especially of sensual types of pleasure Sa-Saino To wag the tail [As a puppy in delight to see its master,], To fawn over, to take ones joy and delight in. [Jacob was  smitten Rachel and the thought [There was no premarital sex here] of the pleasure he was to have in sexually loving]) Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.

 

Genesis 29:20 And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love (Agapan, Agapa The pure and intensive love of a small child) he had to her.

 

Genesis 29:30 And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved (H-Gap-H-Se, H--Hdos Pleasure, Gratification, Especially of sensual types of pleasure, Gap-Agape To treat with great affection, To caress, To love sexually, To be greatly fond of, H--Hdos Pleasure, Gratification, Especially of sensual types of pleasure Se-Seira a cord or rope [Isaac was bonded to Rebekah as he was smitten with the pleasure of sexually loving]) also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.

 

Genesis 29:31-32 And when the LORD saw (Saw to it) that Leah was hated, (Emi -Seito, Emi-Eimi Truly, Seito-Miseo To harbor with ill will, To detest, To abhor, To regard as less, To have little or no affection towards.) He (God) opened her womb: but Rachel was (Made) barren (By the Lord) And Leah conceived, Sune-Labe, Sune joined together or assembled with Jacob and Labe-Lambano, And seized upon in a sexual manner, so that she conceived.)  and bare a son, and she called his name Reuben: for she said, Surely the LORD hath looked upon my affliction; now therefore my husband will love (Agap-H-Sei Agap-Agape To treat with great affection, To caress, To love sexually, To be greatly fond of, H--Hdos Pleasure, Gratification, Especially of sensual types of pleasure Se-Seira a cord or rope [Isaac was bonded to Rebekah as he was smitten with the pleasure of sexually loving]) me.

 

Here we find that God is working on Jacob and his lack of Agape towards Leah. Jacob was a man filled with bitterness towards his wife Leah and her children. The Lord rebuked Jacob and took Joseph away from him, and Jacob loved then Benjamin over the other brethren it was not that in his old age that he was brought to Joseph who rebuked and corrected Jacob with his testimony of what God wrought from the evil of his brethren -- Joseph loved his father and his brethren that had been his enemies. It would appear that through Joseph Jacob in his latter days was finally able to be at peace with his household and love his wives and children – much of Jacob’s life was a chaos due to his Agape problems.  (Similarly the church or Corinth had Agape problems; we also see in the Book of Revelation the churches of Ephesus Laodicea had Agape problems. And in the 1 John the Apostle leads us to believe the whole of the early church was failing because of Agape problems.)

Exodus 21:5 And if the servant shall plainly say, I love (H-Gap-H-Ka, H--Hdos Pleasure, Gratification, Especially of sensual types of pleasure, Gap-Agape To treat with great affection, To caress, To love sexually, To be greatly fond of, H--Hdos Pleasure, Gratification, Especially of sensual types of pleasure  Ka-Kalos  Beautiful delightful, Perfect, Good, Richly fertile or great fruitfulness [I delight in and take great pleasure in]  my master, [I delight and pleasure in the sexual pleasures of ] my wife [My master has granted  me,] and [I delight in and take great pleasure in] my children; [Or household My master has allowed me to have] I will not go out free:

(This is supposed to be our Agape filled relationship with Jesus Christ and with our wife and household.)

 

Recently I was told by a preacher about several women that they had ministered to that felt they were being taken for granted, and being spoken disparagingly of by their husbands and that the husbands were speaking evilly of them also to their children. The preacher used the word “slaves” repeatedly to describe how these women felt they were being viewed. The preacher ended the story with one woman’s young children telling her that she was their and her husbands slave – the preacher said the woman was so struck and hurt she did not know what to say.  The word servant in the New Testament is slave, bondsman and bondwoman is the word slave. – I would consider it a badge of honor if my children would say that to me. And I would confess that it is so, and this is exactly how I want it to be seen. 

 

The Lord has many things to say to us but because of pride, but because we wish to be highly esteemed among our peers – chafe against the word and workings of the Lord and refuse to hear any of it, whether it is from the mouth of the Lord or out of the mouth of babes and sucklings. And then we go to war against these things to our own hurt, and the hurt of our household. I view the troubles I have gone through for the last three decades as God dealing with me on my personal sins and short comings not because others were out to get me or what others sought to do to me.  I view that any repairing of my marriage or household comes through me and my relationship with the Lord, and my allowing Him to rebuke reprove and chastise me so that in time as I lay low and lay my life down my household can enter into the fullness of what He has, rather than the misguided conceits I held for myself and my household.    

 

Judges 16:4 And it came to pass afterward, that he loved (H-Gap-H-Se Agap-Agape To treat with great affection, To caress, To love sexually, To be greatly fond of, H--Hdos Pleasure, Gratification, Especially of sensual types of pleasure Se-Seira a cord or rope [Samson was bonded to Delilah as he was smitten with the pleasure of sexually loving]) a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.

 

Ruth 4:15 And he (Boaz in his marriage and fruitful relations with Ruth) shall be unto thee a restorer of thy life, and thy Numphe (The Numph Ruth a greatly sexually endowed woman, One who is oozing with fruitfulness shall be) a nourisher (Greek Agap-H-Sa-Sa, Agap-Agape To treat with great affection, To caress, To love sexually, To be greatly fond of, Hdos Pleasure, Gratification, Especially of sensual types of pleasure Sa-Saino To wag the tail [As a puppy in delight to see its master,], To fawn over, to take ones joy and delight in.  Because it is Sa-Sa the word is intensified in the word to come to mean that Ruth is a delighter of delighters of sexually Agape-ing Boaz) over her (Et-Ek-En The joyful or joyous return from captivity.): And thy daughter in law, which loveth (Aga-Th-Os  Good, Profitable, Beneficent, Fruitfulness, Agape-Theros Harvest, fruitfulness [A time of great joyfulness]  Os As) shall (Estin To set a pillar, Through Ruth’s Agape-Sa-Sa and Aga-Th-Os she will establish thee,) and (The result) shall be better to thee than seven sons, born of him. (Thine own Son)

 

Leviticus 19:18 Thou shalt not avenge, (Thyself against the children of thy people) nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love (Agap-H-Seis Agap-Agape To treat with great affection, To caress, To be greatly fond of, H--Hdos Pleasure, Gratification, Especially of sensual types of pleasure Se-Seira a cord or rope [We are to have great affection and become bonded in Love to) thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD.

 

Leviticus 19:34 But the stranger (Pros-H-Lutos, Pros, Nearby to, by the side of,  H-Hdos Pleasure, Gratification, Especially of sensual types of pleasure, Lutos, To Loosen, to unbind, To set free, To deliver, [To desire to come nearby or go in unto so as to be set free or delivered]) that dwelleth (Pros-Por-Eu-O-Menos  Pros, Nearby to, by the side of,  Por-Poros To convey or transport, To pass from one place to another, Eu Joyously of Joyfully, Meno To dwell, or To abide under the influence or rulership of, [To Joyously or Joyfully pass from their former dwelling place to move by your side so that they might abide under the influence or rulership of your Agape-H-Seis]) with you shall be (Allowed to be) unto (Among) you as one born (Pros-H-Lutos Pros, Nearby to, by the side of,  H-Hdos Pleasure, Gratification, Especially of sensual types of pleasure, Lutos, To Loosen, to unbind, To set free, To deliver, [To desire to come nearby or go in unto so as to be set free or delivered]) among you, and thou shalt love (Agap-H-Seis Agap-Agape To treat with great affection, To caress, To love sexually, To be greatly fond of, H--Hdos Pleasure, Gratification, Especially of sensual types of pleasure Se-Seira a cord or rope [To be smitten with the pleasure of sexually loving]) him as thyself; for ye were strangers (Pros-H-Lutoi Pros, Nearby to, by the side of,  H-Hdos Pleasure, Gratification, Especially of sensual types of pleasure, Lutos, To Loosen, to unbind, To set free, To deliver, [To desire to come nearby or go in unto so as to be set free or delivered from])) (Being among those) in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.

 

Deuteronomy 7:9 Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love (Agap-Osin Agap-Agape To treat with great affection, To caress, To love sexually, To be greatly fond of. Osin-Osos Greatly or much [An Overflowing or super abundant Agape.]) him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations; (Agap-Osin is used in Luke 6:32 Those that love them)

 

Samuel 1:5 But unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he loved (H-Gapa H--Hdos Pleasure, Gratification, Especially of sensual types of pleasure, Gapa-Agapa The pure and intensive love of a small child [He loved with the great intensity and purity his wife) Hannah: but (Despite that) the LORD had shut up her womb.

 

Song of Solomon 1:3-4 (Septuagint) The smell of thine ointments (oils and lotions) are better than all spices, thy name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the young virgins love (H-Gap-H-San, H--Hdos Pleasure, Gratification, Especially of sensual types of pleasure, Gap-Agape To treat with great affection, To caress, To love sexually, To be greatly fond of, H--Hdos Pleasure, Gratification, Especially of sensual types of pleasure Sa-Saino To wag the tail [As a puppy in delight to see its master,], To fawn over, to take ones joy and delight in. [The Sunamite woman here was  smitten with Solomon Rachel and the thought of the pleasure she was to have in sexually loving]) thee. Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers (Greek Tamieon –Bed Chambers) we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will love (Agap-H-So-Men Agap-Agape To treat with great affection, To caress, To love sexually, To be greatly fond of.  H-Gap-H-Se, H--Hdos Pleasure, Gratification, Especially of sensual types of pleasure So-Sophos Wisdom of, One instructed in, or enlightened by, Men-Meno To dwell, or To abide under the influence or rulership of [To abide under the rulership of what we have been instructed in, concerning the pleasures of sexual loving]) thy breasts (that in that we shall be more intoxicated) than (with) wine: and in righteousness love (H-Gape-Se  H-Hdos Pleasure, Gratification, Especially of sensual types of pleasure, Gape –Agape  Se-Seira a cord or rope [Isaac was bonded to Rebekah as he was smitten with the pleasure of sexually loving]) thee.

(In the epistle of 1 John the Apostle uses a Agap-H-So-Men in varying forms about a dozen times Showing he is commenting on the song of Solomon)

 

Song of Solomon 1:7 Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, (H-Gape-H-Sen H-Gap-H-Se, H--Hdos Pleasure, Gratification, Especially of sensual types of pleasure, Gap-Agape To treat with great affection, To caress, To love sexually, To be greatly fond of, H--Hdos Pleasure, Gratification, Especially of sensual types of pleasure Se-Seira a cord or rope [Here the Sunamite woman is bonded to Solomon as she was smitten with the pleasure of sexually loving]) where feedest thou? Where thou makest thy flock (Thy wives) to rest (Coita-leis, Coita-Sex, Lei-Leitourgos A minister one who performs a service, One who ministers relief, [One who ministers sexual relief]) at noon: for why should I be as one that turneth aside (Veil myself) by the flocks (GenomaiGinomai Sexual relations, or To give birth Gino-Vagina) ([Untranslated word] Peri-Ballo-Mene, Peri Concerning, Respecting or Companions  Ballou To place deposit or To put, Mene-Meno To dwell, or To abide under the influence or rulership of. [Thy Companions– many wives, receiving deposits as they abide under the influence and rulership of thy Ginomai.) Of thy companions? (Etairos Fellow comrades, or Friends)

Song of Solomon 2:5 Stay me with flagons (Septuagint: Gallons of sweet scented wine), comfort me with a half peck of apples: (Love apples -Mandrakes) for I am sick (Tetro-Menos On all fours under your authority) awaiting thy love. (Agap-Hn,  Agap-Agape To treat with great affection, To caress, To love sexually, To be greatly fond of, H--Hdos Pleasure, Gratification, Especially of sensual types of pleasure [Loving sexual pleasure)

(In the epistle of 1 John the Apostle Uses Agap-H about half a dozen times Showing he is commenting on the song of Solomon)

Song of Solomon 3:1  By night on my bed (Coite) I sought him whom my soul loveth, (H-Gape-H-Sen, H--Hdos Pleasure, Gratification, Especially of sensual types of pleasure Gap-Agape To treat with great affection, To caress, To love sexually, To be greatly fond of, H--Hdos Pleasure, Gratification, Especially of sensual types of pleasure Se-Seira a cord or rope [To take great pleasure in the bond of sexual pleasure) I sought him, but I found him not.

Song of Solomon 3:4 It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: (H-Gape-H-Sen, H--Hdos Pleasure, Gratification, Especially of sensual types of pleasure Gap-Agape To treat with great affection, To caress, To love sexually, To be greatly fond of, H--Hdos Pleasure, Gratification, Especially of sensual types of pleasure Se-Seira a cord or rope [To take great pleasure in the bond of sexual pleasure) I held him, (E-krate-Sa , I joyously wrestled with him) and would not let him go, (Dismiss him or let him depart) until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the bed chamber (Tamieon) of her that conceived me. (She brings him here to show him her mother’s sexual prowess as a statement of her own.  I have no idea what possibly would)

 

Song of Solomon 5:8 I charge (Or-Kisa, Or-Ora Time, Kisa- Kissa To crave for exotic food.[This is the time for exotic sex])  you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find (Tas, Tas-asso To arrange to devote to pursue) Powerful Awesome sex (DunemesiDunamis Powerful Awesome [sex]  Solomon is citing here from the book of Ruth “Thou art a dunamis woman”)

my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick (Tetro-Menos On all fours under your authority) of love.(Agap-Hs Agap-Agape To treat with great affection, To caress, To love sexually, To be greatly fond of, H--Hdos Pleasure, Gratification, Especially of sensual types of pleasure {Loving sexual pleasure)

 

Song of Solomon 7:6 How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, (Agap-Hs, Agap-Agape To treat with great affection, To caress, To love sexually, To be greatly fond of, H--Hdos Pleasure, Gratification, Especially of sensual types of pleasure {Loving sexual pleasure)) for delights! (E-Dun-Thes E-Eu joyfully or Joyously Dunamis Power Theseti fruitfulness)

 

Song of Solomon 8:6-7 Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love (Agap-H, Agap-Agape To treat with great affection, To caress, To love sexually, To be greatly fond of, H--Hdos Pleasure, Gratification, Especially of sensual types of pleasure {Loving sexual pleasure) is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame. Many waters cannot quench (Duna-Se-Ti,  Duna-Dunamis overpower, Se-Seira a cord or rope, Te-Time Price, Value, or precious, [To treasure love and the bond of ]) love, (Agap-Hn Agap-Agape To treat with great affection, To caress, To love sexually, To be greatly fond of, H--Hdos Pleasure, Gratification, Especially of sensual types of pleasure [Loving sexual pleasure]) neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, (Agap-H, Agap-Agape To treat with great affection, To caress, To love sexually, To be greatly fond of, H--Hdos Pleasure, Gratification, Especially of sensual types of pleasure [Loving sexual pleasure) it would utterly be contemned.

Ecclesiastes 9:7-9 (Septuagint) Go eat thy bread with mirth (Eu-Phro-Sune Eu Joyous of joyful, PhroPhren Mind, Think, Sune The assembling or The coming together, [Eat thy bread together with joyfulness and thoughtfulness]), and drink thy wine with a Joyful (Aga-The, Profitable, Beneficent, Fruitfulness,  Aga-Agape To treat with great affection or to be greatly fond of The-Theros Harvest, fruitfulness [And drink thy wine with a great fondness or affection remembering the joyful time of harvest]) (Of) heart for now God hath favorably accepted thy works. (This justification needs to be understood as God finding True Agape within this household) Let thy garment always be white, and let not oil be wanting on thy head. Behold being together (Joined in sexually union) is life with the wife that thou lovest (H-Gape-Sas H-Hdos Pleasure, Gratification, Especially of sensual types of pleasure, Gape–Agape Love sexually Sa-Saino To wag the tail [As a puppy in delight to see its master,], To fawn over, to take ones joy and delight in.) all the days of your life, (And even in the times) of thy vanity, (Mataio-Tes-Tos  Mataios Vain, Fruitless, without profit, Tes-Tessares Four, Tos-Tosoutos For the great part of, or for so much of, [The emptiness, or fruitlessness for much of the rest of the four season between harvests])  for that (Joyous sexual union and delight of your wife) is thy portion (reward or inheritance – [After the fall and even in the change that the fall brought to mankind God did not take Eve away she was still left as Adam’s portion) in this life, and in the labor (Mochtho wearisome labor or travail [The wearisome travail Adam was appointed to work after the fall]) where thou laborest under the sun.  (Solomon here is citing in Genesis the sowing of the field empty fields and the bringing forth of children with great or multiplied travail)

In this passage Solomon states that in  the times that the Husband can not sow the seed in the field – that his wife is his portion, his reward and his inheritance of the Lord and that in those fruitless or empty times the husband is to E-Gap-Sas his wife every day, from the time of the youth of their marriage right up until the day they are parted by death (We will call this an as Sarah and Abraham worked out their faith and salvation with their constant daily sexual relations – which did not cease even after the birth of Isaac.

 

Conversely look at the language God uses when he describes how he expects to be loved by His people

 

Deuteronomy 11:13 And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love (Agapan Agapa The pure and intensive love of a small child) the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,

 

Deuteronomy 11:22 For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love (Agapan Agapa The pure and intensive love of a small child)) the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him;

 

Deuteronomy 13:3 Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love (Agapa-Te Agapa The pure love of a small child, Te-Time Price, Value, or precious, [Love as small children and treat as precious) the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

 

Deuteronomy 30:20  That thou mayest love (Agapan Agapa The pure and intensive love of a small child) the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.

This is what God said to Adam

 

Joshua 22:5 But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the LORD charged you, to love (Agapan Agapa The pure and intensive love of a small child) the LORD your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.

 

Understanding these verses spoken by the Lord, one does not have too much difficulty in seeing how the Apostle could declare that if one can not agape their husband or wife with complete abandonment (Daily, as part of their daily worship and prayer upon the marital bed) – such a one can not Agape God whom they have not seen.

 

1 Chronicles 29:18 O LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this for ever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of thy people, and prepare their heart unto thee: