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The Book of Joel – Chapter 3:3

For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s. – 1 Co 6:20 – Eze 37:3.

[Study Aired Sept 21^th]

In the opening two verses of Joel Chapter 3, we were left surveying the valley of dry bones with our Lord as he appealed to us to trust in his deliverance. Otherwise, we, too, would add our blood to the depth of a horse’s bridle (Rev 14:20).

We continue to soberly listen to our Lord while reflecting deeply upon our spiritual correlations to these startling visual images of our disappearing reprehensible nature of refusing to be spiritually aroused by him, our husband.

Significations

Joe 3:3  And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.

The concept of ‘casting lots’ was instituted by the Lord of the Old Covenant for his divine selection of a sin-bearing sacrifice of the Lord’s goat and his people’s goat with the institution of the Day of Atonement. Note that goats, too, are to be presented as an offering without blemish (Lev4:23), just as sheep, yet the goat peculiarly represents sin. My experience with goats, and particularly male goats, is that they are wily, and their eyes and mannerisms appear eerily calculating; they are highly self-aware and, by man’s standards, compared to other animals, overtly sexually offensive, even (hopefully) causing the basest of men to squirm. It seems that those aspects of a goat’s nature match mankind’s devilish artful nature of devising ‘inventions’ (Devise; think; plan. Psa 99:8. 106:29 & 39. Pro 8:12. Particularly Ecc 7.29) for his covert sensual and financial profit physically and spiritually. A male goat’s sexual awareness is somewhat parallel to a female ass, as she compulsively ‘snuffing up the wind in her season’ (Jer 2:24) in an Aholah and Aholiabah-like passion to satiate their’s and their lover’s appetite. That is their animalist nature that grotesquely and deliberately equates to us physically and, worse, spiritually, preferring to seek spiritual paramours (Eze 23:20) in worldly ideologies, snuffing up the spirit of wily doctrines of ‘another Jesus’ (2Cor 11:4).

Since our Lord designed goats ‘goatish’ (literally meaning: Lustful, lascivious, libidinous, lewd, wanton, licentious, salacious, randy, concupiscent, horny) nature, an additional nature of a goat lends itself to leading the Lord’s sheep where they normally don’t want to go on their own accord; hence, such a goat is valuable for the shepherd in the world he calls a ‘Judas goat’ to leading a selected flock through a difficult path of dense vegetation, up yard ramps, or to an unwitting slaughter. No matter how many sheepdogs bark and nip at the heels of the sheep, if they do not want to go where the shepherd wants to move them, they stubbornly crowd together for protection. However, the wily goat seems to understand what the herder is frustratingly attempting to do and steps out from the flock; the sheep uncannily lose their fear and ‘magically’ follow the goat precisely where the shepherd wants the flock to go ~ such is Satan’s way represented by his priests in the churches of the world, today, working enchantments in the laity’s minds (2 Ch 33:6-9).

Lev 16:5 And he shall take of the congregation of the children of Israel two kids of the goats for a sin offering, and one ram for a burnt offering.
Lev 16:6 And Aaron shall offer his bullock of the sin offering, which is for himself, and make an atonement for himself, and for his house.
Lev 16:7 And he shall take the two goats for a sin offering, and present them before the LORD at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
Lev 16:8 And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for the LORD, and the other lot for the Scapegoat.
Lev 16:9 And Aaron shall bring the goat upon which the LORD’S lot fell, and offer him for a sin offering.
Lev 16:10 But the goat, on which the lot fell to be the Scapegoat, shall be presented alive before the LORD, to make an atonement with him, and to let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness.

Our Lord, the “fit man”,  led us, the wily Scapegoat, alive and released into the world of sinful wilderness just as was the Lord’s goat to make an atonement with Him in our flesh. The Lord’s goat, though exceptionally subject to sin, represents Jesus’ flesh that didn’t sin as the fifth part (Lev 5:16. 27:1-34) represents faith through a chastisement he didn’t deserve, while our equivalent goat represents us alive in the wilderness of Babylon, dying daily to sin and overcoming by our Lord’s sinless power and might.

Col 1:24  Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the church:

Joh 17:15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.

The sin offering is a person who is given to see that there is nothing good about his flesh and its works, and thus his need for a saviour, and the Lord’s goat symbolises making an offering to God for what he is and what he is becoming by Christ’s righteousness being in his flesh (Col 1:24).

Mat 25:31  When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:
Mat 25:32  And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: 
Mat 25:33  And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. 
Mat 25:34  Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:

Following are links for a more detailed understanding of the Scapegoats:

Scapegoat: https://www.iswasandwillbe.com/the-scapegoat/

Trespass offering/Lord’s goat: https://www.iswasandwillbe.com/do-we-have-a-trespass-offering/

Casting lots by historical customs is a method for two conflicting parties to reach an agreement on a trivial matter, despite their heated debate indicating stubborn, self-righteous, even Laodicean-like piety (wryly observed, Russian roulette would be the more decisive casting of lots). For a possible Elect of God to dally with such delusion clearly identifies cringe-worthy ignorance when our Lord clearly says that we are to know the truth that will set us free from such conceit.

Mat 21:23  And when he was come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came unto him as he was teaching, and said, By what authority doest thou these things? and who gave thee this authority?
Mat 21:24  And Jesus answered and said unto them, I also will ask you one thing, which if ye tell me, I in like wise will tell you by what authority I do these things.
Mat 21:25  The baptism of John, whence was it? from heaven, or of men? And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven; he will say unto us, Why did ye not then believe him?
Mat 21:26  But if we shall say, Of men; we fear the people; for all hold John as a prophet.
Mat 21:27  And they answered Jesus, and said, We cannot tell. And he said unto them, Neither tell I you by what authority I do these things. 

Joh 8:31  Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;
Joh 8:32  And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free [Not ‘you might know the truth’ and thus feeling the need to cast lots for the many gods to decide. Thus…]

Mar 7:13  Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.

The casting of lots was and is for Old Covenant people who don’t know Christ’s word because they do not have spiritual discernment. It effectively is gambling on another Jesus when we are commissioned to know ‘the Jesus’, to diligently seek to find his truth and not be so whorishly insipid by saying we don’t know. It is absurd to believe that God needs to cast lots for him to know his heart, and neither do we to know him.

Joh 8:32  And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Joh 16:13  Howbeit when he, the spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.

The spirit will show us the keys to the Kingdom, and not by the casting of lots that can provoke Satan to step in and, at Christ’s acknowledgement, request to give us a good threshing and we to run off humiliatingly wobbling bare bruised butts. 

Act 19:11  And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul:
Act 19:12  So that from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them [Anointed cloths being a slowly disappearing relic of Jewish traditions].
Act 19:13  Then certain of the vagabond Jews [ones looking for selfish and financial gain], exorcists [All ministers of Babylonian Christianity deluding the laity], took upon them to call over them which had evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preacheth. 

See, the vagabond Jews were unwittingly casting lots since they didn’t know whether this strange new power came from Jesus or Paul. So they, like wily goats, cunningly concluded that they had best ‘bet’ on both of them, colloquially speaking in English humour, to have ‘two bob each way’ and assure financial gain.

Act 19:14  And there were seven sons of one Sceva [means a ‘mind reader’ priest], a Jew, and chief of the priests, which did so.
Act 19:15  And [low and behold!] the evil spirit answered and said, Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are ye? 
Act 19:16  And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overcame them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.

Of course, the classic casting of lots was performed at the foot of the cross.

Mar 15:24  And when they had crucified him, they parted his garments, casting lots upon them, what every man should take.

Clothing represents being arrayed righteously or unrighteously. Since the “vagabond Jews” cast lots to soundly quash any argument over the personal selection of Jesus’ clothing, it again symbolises our former ignorance of not knowing righteousness from unrighteousness. It symbolically is a very haphazard way of imagining that we can acquire our Lord’s righteousness while refusing to follow his path. It is a version of whitewashing the outside of the metaphorical tomb we are, whose insides are full of decay and stench (Mat 23:27). Babylonian Christianity similarly represents a casting of lots since none of the 40,000-plus denominations speaks the words of the same number of different Jesus, and so, to the laity, their noisome babbling is one big gamble and unwittingly, no winners!

The casting of lots spiritually is his true followers asking the Lord for his will to be accomplished for an assuredly righteous outcome, regardless of personal loss.

Pro 16:33  The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the LORD. 

So, in those regards, how has Israel “cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.”?

Additionally, what it means is that treacherous Judah (Jer 3:7-11), representing the Lord’s priests today who claim to hold the Lord’s word righteously, has had a greater God-given and wilful ignorance than Egypt, Sodom, Tyre and Old Jerusalem. She has utterly disregarded her Lord’s commands and searched for enlightenment in her many idols for a more consuming Sodom-like immediate sensuality, as did Aholah and Aholibah ass-like snuffing the wind for more exciting ‘flesh’, and for us, almost guaranteed to overshadow the spiritual.

Gen 19:4  But before they [The angels of the Lord in Lot’s home] lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter:
Gen 19:5  And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.

Jud 1:5  I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
Jud 1:6  And the angels [The Lord’s budding Elect who returned to spiritual Babylon!]] which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
Jud 1:7  Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

1Pe 4:18  And if the righteous [the Elect] scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
1Pe 4:19  Wherefore let them [the Elect] that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.

Sodom and the cities of the plain (Gen 13:10-12) were exceptionally rich in goods and were the crossroads of trade for the established world.

In the Biblical sense, to “know” someone is represented by a husband and wife who are allegedly united in a righteous spirit, mind, and body (“allegedly” speaking since the concept mostly remains an ached-for vision and rarely a reality) that the energy of physical and spiritual unity is so unspeakable that the only way for men and women to express its complexity is righteous sexual unity. Subsequently, near-perfect and unified sexual satiation between a husband and wife, at best, cloudedly expresses the inexpressible nature of God, the spiritual condition of the Heavenly that lasts for eternity that only the omniscient spirit can effortlessly abide.

Jud 1:18  How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
Jud 1:19  These be they who separate themselves, [divided by lots] sensual, having not the spirit.

Jas 3:14  But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts [and thus resort to the casting of lots mostly within one’s mind regarding the Lord’s word], glory not, and lie not against the truth. 
Jas 3:15  This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. 

As such, “they” spoken of in Joel 3:3 are the Priests of Israel who did not deliver the word of God to the nation righteously, as commissioned. They symbolically and unconsciously ‘cast lots’ by the act of divination and sort other deities from neighbouring tribes since they feared the people, just as a husband, covertly, and from experience, grows to fear intimately approaching his wife and likely rejection; he smoulders in righteous anger hopefully without bitterness for a figurative 40 years (the number for trials or tribulation Acts 14:22) as did the Lord for his wife, Israel. Our Lord hasn’t let the sun go down on his anger, thus giving up on us, since he lives eternally in the spirit of light.

Eph 4:26  Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:

Psa 95:10  Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:
Psa 95:11  Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.

Col 3:18  Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
Col 3:19  Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them. 

Act 14:22  Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.

Because of Eve’s curse, the vast majority of carnal husbands are destined to at least inwardly feel an undignified pleading for boudoir intimacies with their wives and often give up and, in Babylon, seek ‘dishonest spoil’ with more willing Aholibah’s physically and most outstandingly, spiritually in the world’s religions. That ghastly inward feeling of fawning for spiritual intimacy is what Christ, too, felt with Israel’s tardiness when he endlessly ‘pleaded’ with her to return to him.

Jer 2:1  Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
Jer 2:2  Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.

“… and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.”

Having sexual intimacies with another female other than one’s spouse is adultery and worthy of physical death in Old Covenant times, and more profound spiritual death today for the Lord’s Elect. But an alleged priest of God, notably a lay Christian who professes to know ‘the Jesus’ to unconscionably penetrate a boy as naturally as a female, is unutterably shameful. Since males directly represent Christ, the sexual engagement of a boy represents the immaturity of Judah and particularly Christians today and their intimacy with not just ‘another Jesus’, but the god they have created of and in themselves.

Rev 22:15  For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.

Dog H2965 – Definition:

1. a dog 
2. metaph. a man of impure mind, an impudent man.

Lev 18:22  Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
Lev 18:23  Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion.

While the world is currently hell-bent on normalising homosexuality and lesbianism, and the world since the King James Bible indirectly attributes “dogs” to be synonymous with homosexuality, both the seemingly mild-mannered expression “of impure mind” relating to same-sex interactions, and if not repented, belies the phenomenal and guaranteed retribution in the Lake of Fire.

2Ki 23:7  And he [Josiah, King of Israel] brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove.
2Ki 23:8  And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba, and brake down the high places of the gates that were in the entering in of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man’s left hand at the gate of the city.

Again, it is the Priests, the Lord’s very Elect, who he holds accountable for our sexual perversions that mirror the spiritual.

Sodomite H6945 – 1. male temple prostitute. From H6942; a (quasi) sacred person that is (technically) a (male) devotee (by prostitution) to licentious idolatry: – sodomite unclean.

Though homosexuality, rape of either sex and adultery are assuredly not lawful, the following verses seem too mild a condemnation for the act of engaging in same-sex intimacies. Nonetheless, and regardless of the world’s many nuanced levels of disgust or acceptance, God gave us over to the lusts of our hearts to starkly contrast our ways with his. Sin is sin regardless of humanity’s scale of rottenness. And so, these verses almost seem blasé.

1Co 6:12  All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.
1Co 6:13  Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats [for this cause, a male member is designed for its female equivalence]: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
1Co 6:14  And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power.
1Co 6:15  Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.
1Co 6:16  What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
1Co 6:17  But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit. 
1Co 6:18  Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
1Co 6:19  What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
1Co 6:20  For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s. 

To this point, the above signifies the male spiritual equivalence of those highly innovative (mostly unexpressed) variations of sexual obscenities; so, what is the benefit of selling a girl for wine?

The first correlation that springs to mind of selling a girl for wine is the malicious intention of intoxicating her enough to break down her possible resistance to unwanted sexual intimacy.

Hab 2:15  Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness! 
Hab 2:16  Thou art filled with shame for glory: drink thou also, and let thy foreskin be uncovered: the cup of the LORD’S right hand shall be turned unto thee, and shameful spewing shall be on thy glory.

Sensually having one’s foreskin uncovered, as depicted in Habakkuk 2:16, doesn’t take much imagination to understand the heightened state of vocalised arousal by the intoxicated person, blurting his normally embarrassingly darkest sins for his groomer friend’s itching ears. Since uncircumcision represents physical uncleanliness and, therefore, spiritual uncleanliness, both parties are drunk with their figurative foreskins uncovered symbolically and shamefully revealing their ‘impure’, ‘unclean’ minds represented by a “dog” being an unclean animal (See “dog” above). Both raucously and unashamedly glory in sharing thoughtless ejaculations of normally dishonourable exploits. Noah’s son, Ham, likewise shamefully spewed news to his brothers of seeing his father through the open tent fly following Noah’s night of overly enjoyed wine, lying comatose and naked on his bed (Gen 9:20-25). Ham’s brothers, to their credit, didn’t share in degrading their father and gloriously covered his nakedness.

1Co 7:19  Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God. 

Rom 2:29  But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.

We are to glorify God with our bodies, directly identifying our sexuality and righteous arousal as holy and glorious for Christ, our Husband. His kisses are better than wine, and his wife knows she is guaranteed to bring forth his pure ‘issue’ of truth for spiritual children, the fruit of the womb of our minds.

Lev 26:9  For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.

Psa 128:3  Thy wife [The Bride of Christ] shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.

1Jn 3:9  Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed [Being Christ’s seed, and not of the Serpent] remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. 

For not glorifying God sexually with our bodies in the purity of marriage, our Lord’s right hand of chastisement will strike us for our drunkenness on doctrinal lies graphically pictured by a man’s shamefully inglorious “spewing” of lies and resulting bastard children from the womb of The Great Whore.

Lev 15:31  Thus shall ye separate the children of Israel from their [uncircumcised] uncleanness; that they die not in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that is among them.
Lev 15:32  This is the law of him that hath an issue, and of him whose seed goeth from him, and is defiled therewith; 
Lev 15:33  And of her that is sick of her flowers, and of him that hath an issue, of the man, and of the woman, and of him that lieth with her that is unclean.

1Co 6:16  What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot [or another man, woman or beast] is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh [… mind-blowing, isn’t it?].

And so, a girl being sold for wine is financial gain from the despicable acts of rape or her wilful pimping for monetary gain. It represents spiritual pedophilia by recklessly selling the immature, ignorant or innocent word of God for one’s selfish richness of a vile spirit.

1Co 6:17  But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit. 
1Co 6:18  Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body [Be it fornication with another man, woman or beast he is in unity with that spirit (Ecc 3:21  Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast [the unconverted man] that goeth downward to the earth? To where Satan’s spirit eats your dust].
1Co 6:19  What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the holy ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
1Co 6:20  For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s. 

Num 14:24  But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it. 

2Co 11:3  But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
2Co 11:4  For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.

The Lord’s Elect are ‘bought with a price’, and that price is Christ and his sinless sacrifice so that we can fill up behind him the spiritual death of our old man.

Subsequently, the Lord has today gathered his Elect in the valley of Jehoshaphat to plead with them to personally judge their nations within for every imaginably disgraceful sexual act represented by Laodicean slothfulness of spiritual homosexuality and whoredoms with the ignorant and innocent for riotous personal gain. Hence, being bought with a price, we glorify God with the members of our bodies in His spirit with a circumcised heart (Rom 2:29), exposing the righteous glory of the headship of Christ and our Father.