Adultery is but a shadow or an Exoteric archetype corresponding with Spiritual Infidelity…

Spiritual adultery is putting anything above the Spirit.

It is the violation of the sacred Unity between the individual and their Divinity in Heaven.

It is a betrayal of love, betrayal of grace, and rejection of guidance that God has.

Just as physical adultery usually damages the trust and intimacy between mates in a union, this isn’t the point, it is the example leading to the point.

Spiritual adultery damages the intimacy and trust in the relationship between you and yourself, even worse it cuts you off from the God of your soul.

You can no longer comprehend him as his voice no longer guides you as you have severed that aspect of yourself off.

MATERIAL WORLD IS TRANSIENT

Jesus told his followers that the physical world is transient but the spiritual realities He taught about are Eternal.

ALLEGORICAL COMPREHENSION REVEALS PROFUNDITY

Throughout scripture, physical phenomena are regularly used as allegories for profound spiritual truths.

The prophets and apostles understood this well, as their writings are rich with metaphor and symbolism.

Even acts as serious as adultery have deeper layers of significance, as both the prophets and Christ himself indicated.

When God called Israel his wife through the prophets Jeremiah and Isaiah, he was illuminating profound mystical realities about humankind’s relationship with the divine. As James wrote, friendship with “the world” makes us enemies of God – and the “world” here refers not just to physical places and people, but the desires and allurements that captivate our hearts and minds.

By understanding the earthly realities Jesus and the prophets spoke of as representatives of higher spiritual realities, we penetrate beneath surface meanings. We see how God was trying to warn Israel, and all humanity, about straying from intimate connection with our divine Source. Physical adultery reflects humanity’s natural tendency to replace love for God with love of lesser, temporary things that cannot satisfy our souls.

Christ came to lift our eyes above earthly distractions, to the eternal spiritual verities of which our physical, temporary experiences are but pale foreshadowings. When we discern the fullness of meaning behind biblical passages, we find profound wisdom for nurturing an enduring marriage of spirit with God. May this deeper perspective guide us to cherish what truly endures, now revealed without a veil.

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‡ Jeremiah 3:20- Surely, as a treacherous wife leaves her husband, so have you been treacherous to Me, O house of Israel, declares the LORD.’ ”

‡ Isaiah 1:21- How the faithful city has become a whore, she who was full of justice! Righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.

‡ Isaiah 54:5- Your Maker is your husband, the LORD of hosts is His name; and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer, the God of the whole earth He is called.

‡ Isaiah 57:8- Behind the door and the doorpost you have set up your memorial; for, deserting Me, you have uncovered your bed, you have gone up to it, you have made it wide; and you have made a covenant for yourself with them, you have loved their bed, you have looked on nakedness.

‡ James 4:4,5- You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit that He has made to dwell in us”?

‡ Revelation 17:5- And on her forehead was written a name of mystery: “Babylon the great, mother of prostitutes and of earth’s abominations.”

★ 1 John 2:15,16-

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world.

‡ Colossians 3:2- Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.★