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I have not enjoyed writing this series, and I am eager to bring it to a close. Yet, there are things
that needed to be expressed, and some things that must yet be set down, before I can conclude. I
want to turn at this time to the spiritual significance of homosexuality. I believe that every sin of
the flesh has a corresponding sin in the spiritual realm. The Bible reveals many of these parallel
transgressions. Not surprisingly, sexual sins of the flesh are frequently linked to spiritual
transgressions. Throughout the Bible we find that God relates spiritual idolatry to the physical sin
of adultery.

Ezekiel 23:37
Thus they have committed adultery with their idols...

Ezekiel 16:30-32
“How languishing is your heart," declares the Yahweh God, "while you do all these things, the
actions of a bold-faced harlot. When you built your shrine at the beginning of every street and
made your high place in every square, in disdaining money, you were not like a harlot. You
adulteress wife, who takes strangers instead of her husband!”

Hosea 3:1
Then Yahweh said to me, “Go again, love a woman who is loved by her husband, yet an
adulteress, even as Yahweh loves the sons of Israel, though they turn to other gods...”

We should not be surprised to find that sexual sins are symbolic of spiritual transgressions that
pertain to the relationship between God and man. Yahweh has created this physical universe to
reveal the hidden things of the spiritual realm. The relationship between a husband and wife, and
the act of procreation that brings forth offspring, offer profound parables of the relationship
between humanity and the Creator. The apostle Paul wrote of the divine mystery contained in the
intimate union of a man and his wife.

Ephesians 5:25-33
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her; that
He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, that He might
present to Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but
that she should be holy and blameless. So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their
own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself; for no one ever hated his own flesh, but
nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church, because we are members of His
body. For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the
two shall become one flesh. This mystery is great; but I am speaking with reference to Christ and
the church. Nevertheless let each individual among you also love his own wife even as himself;
and let the wife see to it that she respect her husband.

Paul declares that we are members of Christ’s body. Eve was formed from a remnant portion of
Adam’s body that was removed while he slept. Adam declared, “This is now bone of my bones,
and flesh of my flesh; She shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.” Adam
had to be cast into a deep sleep in order for Yahweh to remove a portion of his body to form the
woman. Similarly, we find that the Son of God, the Last Adam, had to sleep in the dust of the