This Marriage Is a Sacred Demonstration

A FATHER DIVINE Excerpt From a Message, Given at The Circle Mission Church,
Bronx, N.Y., May 14, 1950 A.D.F.D.


FATHER and MOTHER DIVINE at The Mount of the House of the Lord

FATHER and MOTHER DIVINE at The Mount of the House of the Lord

 

 

 

"Peace, Everyone: it is good to be here to observe this great Universal Brotherhood of man and the realization of the FATHERHOOD of GOD exemplified! And this is realized more specifically and definitely at this Fourth Anniversary of MY Marriage to MY Spotless Virgin Bride; something that is unique, unheard of; but the Scripture must be fulfilled! Since I Came, the Fulfiller of the Scripture, I AM now fulfilling that part of the Scripture where it was predicted and written that as man,

'Man shall leave father and mother and be joined unto his wife and they two shall be one flesh!'

"It was but a parable in an illustration in the marriage of woman and man, which was a parable-ated expression of what we should have observed from eons of years~~but they failed to observe it because they sought this Holy Matrimony and the Holy domestic relationship selfishly! But the Scripture tells us very explicitly,

'It is written that man shall leave father and mother and be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh,'
but it did not stop there. It was not a period.
'This is a great mystery, for I speak concerning CHRIST and the Church!'

"Marriage is a sacred demonstration and it is a sacred expression if it is done legitimately, Evangelically, and by the Holy Bonds of the Holy Matrimony that was handed down by Judaism and thence to Christianity, and represented as a parable of the Mystery of the Kingdom of GOD and how the Children of GOD from all parts of the world would be United together under One Banner of Brotherhood Universally! If men would have looked upon it as Sacred and as Virtuous and as Holy and as an Unselfish Expression of humanity Uniting themselves together to bring about the Kingdom of GOD on earth among men, it could and would have been a blessing throughout All Nations!~~and the men that are destroyed through self-indulgence, human affection, lust and passion would not have gone through the sacred bonds of matrimony! I CAME to bring about this demonstration and this unfoldment of the mystery and what it really depicts and what we are endeavoring to do universally!"