The Cosmic Waltz

Post 326

Now it’s going to feel like this is a complete reversal from all that I have said before, but it’s not. It’s a major bump in the forward progression that by now should have been expected. So just go with the topic on its own merit, reading in only what conforms to the spirit of the previous works, which itself, conforms to the Spirit and Word of our God, and we will bring it back on point as we continue our point topic, which is, as you will remember; self-governance for wives in what I have declared to be a Woman’s World now. The significance of how this applies to the Grand Tapestry should eventually make itself apparent.
Continuing on in our several examples of design and scripture that validate such a crazy and dangerous idea, we pause to included a Type of a Type in answering the question: “When have women as an entire gender ever been given the power of self-governance in scripture?”:

The reflection of our Sun and Moon types:
When a new husband works hard all day to let his young wife spend his money, this is an unfamiliar complex dance where both parties must practice working in unison or somebody’s toes will be hurt. She must remember that as the lead, her husband works hard to provide it for her to use as she sees fit, but her following role and purpose is to apply it in giving light to her children/his family, and not to flaunt herself in full-moon glory thirty days out of the month (Ezekiel 16:30-34).
In a well-practiced mature perfect waltz the dazzling woman is most dazzling when she allows herself to be presented rather than present herself (Exodus 3:13, John 5:43). In all her beautiful glory the most endearing element that makes it shine brightest is demure, which is an elegant word for “unexpected” humility. When a beautiful woman arrives on the entry’s top step of “the ball of the Century” dressed to make herself even more beautiful than she actually is, to the point that it takes the room’s breath away just to gaze upon her, she is in the ultimate position not to demure but rather bask in her own glory unquestionably deserved; nobody is going to argue that she doesn’t have that right and that power at that moment. But when she demurs, at that moment of all moments; when she blushes at the attention, Wow! It’s as if her beauty suddenly rings the bell at the strong man contest, and every heart bends to her grace.

But this is not the flavor of today’s talented dancers, who lack the grace of humility as her male dance-partner is little more than a coat-hanger stripper-pole jungle-gym to show off her “offering.” He retains the illusion of being her presenter but it’s publicly obvious that he is just the coach-boy that she uses as a step to more elegantly climb down from a great height. She is still beautiful of course, but now it’s in a non-protected voluntary “meat offering to lions” kind of way. Without a high-class male presenter to establish the venue “that she is protected,” her value greatly diminishes like a pimp’s prostitute on the street corner, or worse, an independent whore who actually likes her sluttish work even more than the money (Ezekiel 16:30-34).

I suggest that this is why God designed the glorious sun to faithfully present the moon-- even in her cyclic waves of degree as the moon allows: It’s both to keep her humble by remembering her dark nature, and to more greatly magnify her beauty when things align for her to get all dressed up and come out full in the light of his glory (Leviticus 26:4, Psalm 104:27, Ecclesiastes 10:16-17, Matthew 24:45). As a result we find the moon mysteriously fascinating in all her changing presentations of grace, while the sun is just the same consistent sun of sustenance that we too easily take for granted because of it.
Soon, the moon begins to imagine that she is not chasing the sun but the sun is chasing her! Demure ends and he quickly becomes just a constant sugar-daddy to feed her vanity of self-will, to shine when she wants and be dark when she wants and glory in both faces of her power through independence. Same sun, same moon, same events, but suddenly perspective really changes how we see things. The presenter in the dance is the one who establishes perspective of how the viewer looks at her and therefore what we see, but it’s her attitude to the presenter that over-drives the condition that we actually observe.
A waltz has two active participants, and yet oddly enough, the dance is always intended for the audience to focus on the female role. Why does nature itself forbid us to look at the sun?
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Humanity is a wondrous, marvelous, complex mystery. But in the same degree that we don’t reflect the Son of God, we will be dark, and the world will stumble in proportion to the diminished light from our reflection (Matthew 5:14-16) and the beasts of the field will come out to roam freely in the darkness (John 3:19-20, Proverbs 29:2). As a hunter of predators in Alaska I am well aware of how the differing light of the cyclic moon dramatically changes the boldness of animal behavior at night until they simply don’t move at all in the light of a full moon.
In all her inconsistencies, and weakness, and phases of moods, she is the sun of the night seasons. Mankind, individually and in mass, in this application of the Typology, is Christ’s moon. There are full moons and dark moons and every phase in between, all contingent only upon the light we reflect and the season of the day in which we reflect it.

But if we full moon Christians glory unduly in a confident perpetual full-moon phase of “I’m the Star, Look at me, I am your sun,” we create an unnatural environment of quazi-“enlightenment,” even if our intent is to bathe the earth in a constant light of our “improvement” on Genesis 1:17. Shouldn’t God be pleased? I don’t think so (Ezekiel 26:2, 27:3, 28:2-6&12-15, Isaiah 47:7-8&10).
Shouldn’t we rather remember that God designed us to shine in our seasons, as he also designed the seasons, for a purpose? Why does a woman cycle? This is all a complex thought that takes more than a casual pondering.

I suggested earlier that the moon’s active role, in a different layer of the same Typology, represents the angel Lucifer before he fell. And in this same self-glory of pride to improve on God’s intent outside of God’s will, Lucifer, like us, forgot his reflecting place in the design of Creation and came to say through his human rulers that reflect his quasi-light; “I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas” (Ezekiel 28:2). Remember, seas are prophetically the masses.
Understand that the moon-god Allah; Satan, called Lucifer at the time, was fulfilling his God-given role of reflecting the Son’s light, when he got his thinking confused by wild desires of self-glory that misused the ministering-glory given to him for another purpose. Lucifer or Humanity; the Type applies:

“Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so…” Ezekiel 28:14,
“Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness…” Ezekiel 28:17.

“And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion…” Genesis 1:28,
“And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took…” Genesis 3:6.

For the purpose of passing Judgment on a crime, does it really matter why he/she became corrupted? In today’s social mindframe of man-over-law it really does. Today we seem to value emotions over conduct, and every wickedness is excused as “non-judgable” because of some emotional cause that makes us innocent of the crime actually committed: insanity, ignorance, youth, passion, drugs, etc. But in the above passage God himself includes the two-fold why in his review before passing judgment on Satan’s crime, as if the why were not a defense but actually a part of the corruption that warranted punishment! (Job 15:6, Luke 19:22a):

“…I will cast thee to the ground (see Revelation 6:13, 12:3-4), I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee” Ezekiel 28:17b, (see also Revelation 12:10-11).

The crime: The heart was lifted up to proclaim “I am God’s replacement,” Allahu-Akbar.
The cause: Pride because of beauty, and corrupted wisdom because of magnificence, (both, gifted to him from God).
Likewise, in the case with Adam’s fall, we read that causality plays a big part in the punishment (Genesis 3:14-17).

As a significantly related concept in our overall study, take special note as to God’s solution for Eve’s failure to control her emotions:

“…and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee” Genesis 3:16,

and His solution for man’s failure in hearkening unto the voice of his wife over God’s:

“…cursed is the ground for thy sake…” Genesis 3:17.

We must understand that motive and intent and heart and desire have no good defense regarding our culpability in our crimes against God and his word. “Ignorance is no excuse” is a legal phrase that should cover a lot of things (Proverbs 7:6-8…). The lie that is so commonly believed today is that these “good motives”-- howevermuch confused-- trump our conduct: “It’s the thought that counts.” The problem is that while the though does in deed count, it’s always counted against us in our crimes! “You are under arrest, whatever you say can and will be used against you in a court of law.” A misunderstanding is actually cause of bad conduct, and so, our “good intentions” in ignorance of what we should have known are additional grounds for further punishment with the sentenced crime (Luke 19:42).

As I write this [May 6], the Muslim band called Boko Haram abducted some 200+ young girls from school, allegedly making some of them slave wives of their band and threatening to sell the others as slave wives for men in need - BBC Nigeria 5-6-2014 (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-27298614). That sounds reasonable to them and they use their woman-controlling religion of Islam to support it. The crime is the abduction of girls, the additional grounds for punishment is their messed up thinking… “well intended” or not. Their declared intent is to keep girls uneducated as good and obedient wives.
We civilized Christian Westerners like to be appalled at such abominable mentality of 21st Century men regarding women, but I find most Christian men, even in America, struggle with the deep belief that their wives are technically supposed to be submissive to their every command without complaint because God made them the head. A significant degree of male frustration is how to live with the fact that it is inapplicable in today’s society. How is this thinking actually different from Boko Haram? What are we Christians missing here?
Does the Son of God-- the Head and Sun that we reflect in our present Church age-- treat us this way today? Sure, in the previous young-ages of the Old Testament, God ruled his wife with a stronger hand, in kind to the Genesis 3:16 solution, but where in scripture does it reveal that in our present age, our Lord Christ Jesus and Head to reflect, rules his bride-- good or bad-- with a rod of iron? It just doesn’t. So why do we naturally still want to rule her this OT way in this NT age? Do we not know of another way to lead? Is leading by force the only way? Is our Father actually Allah while we attempt to follow Christ? (John 8:43-46). Are we becoming the new Roman Catholic Church in the effort to maintain control of those under our jurisdiction while we claim their liberation from the law of Rome, i.e. God?
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Why does the sun go down at night? It gives place for the moon to shine. What does this mean?
It means that the moon is an entity too, with her own sub-realm with its obligations and accountability to God, it has its own sphere of granted dominion in its time, and, while it indeed reflects the light of the sun, it does so in its own non-sun, sun way. The moon is not the sun’s stool pigeon, nor its replacement; rather, as a team member, it occupies his place on his behalf while the sun is away (Luke 19:13 in context). The moon does not even pretend to be the sun, though in effect it acts very much like the sun and we might even say it looks adorable in its soft effort of imitation… which, they say, is the purest form of admiration. The moon “mimics” the actions of the sun as well as its light, but again, it’s in a non-sun way. And that’s actually a good thing.
It would be wrong to criticize the moon for missing the sun’s schedule, or for acting constantly and dramatically unstable in its non-sun-like presentation of standing in for the sun, or even for failing to provide the same degree of light, which failure is so great that it can’t even make things grow or provide heat to the earth, none of which is found in its commanded purposes (Genesis 1:14-18, Matthew 5:16). How it conducts its designated duties before God is a matter for its own judgment or reward; it’s not the sun, and neither is it the sun’s job to micro-manage the moon’s creativity in its given function anymore than the nobleman in the above passage of Luke 19 micromanaged his servants whom he put in charge while he was away. It’s theirs to do now. The accounting simply comes in the day of reckoning as to the fruit/results of her/their doing, each according to their ability to use what they were given (Luke 19:15). We might have said of that parable’s age; “It’s a servants world now.”

Do you suppose that God was sore at the parable’s nobleman (Jesus) for not keeping them in line, or instructing them all on how to return a full potential? Why was the nobleman so willing to let them blow his money? Wasn’t he afraid that they would really mess things up if he wasn’t constantly directing them? I wonder if they had cell phones back then?
What are we men seriously still missing? We are missing the empowerment of our own wives!

So the world empowers them for us, which in truth is a psychological kidnapping in guise of rescue... that they like, even if they at first don’t think it’s a good idea (Genesis 3:2-3). Since the time that Movies began, they are filled with this concept, where the very rich and benevolent man gives his wife everything but personhood, then the non-wealthy, charming, earthy man, comes along and offers her just that. She tries to resist because she is a good wife, and she really does love her inattentive husband, but she just can’t help it once she smells the chocolate. She has a natural overpowering yearning to experience personhood. In the Typology of children we call this puberty.

The Age has been thrust upon us outside of our control, and if we don’t respond accordingly, we will loose our own wives and children and faith. The time of suppression to keep her in line is past. This is a new mature age, and it requires new and mature guidance in new and mature choices.
But while Satan thinks this intoxicating age is his design to his advantage, God has another purpose in mind!

Husband, Empower your wife!
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