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Ephesians 3:14-19
For this reason, I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in
heaven and on earth derives its name, that He would grant you, according to the
riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner
man; so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you,
being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints
what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of
Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the
fulness of God.

Undoubtedly, some will take offense at comparing the physical union of the man and
woman to the spiritual union of Christ and His people. Yet, Yahweh clearly intended one
to stand as a symbol and revelation of the other. Our problem is that we live in a perverse
society that has transformed that which was designed to be holy into a promiscuous,
adulterous, fornicating, cesspool of indecency.
I would raise the vision of the people of God to see the holiness with which Yahweh
has adorned the physical union of a man and his wife. Can anything be more righteous than
the spiritual union of Christ and His people? Should we not then guard with jealousy that
physical union that is given as a type and shadow of that which is most holy?
The apostle Paul declares that the man and woman become “one flesh,” but the one
joined to Christ becomes “one spirit with Him.” I urge you to reflect upon this for a
moment.
Consider that the day will come when Christ will approach His bride. He will say, “The
time has come for us to become fully one in spirit. Before I have given you a pledge of this
union. Now I will give Myself fully to you. All you must do is receive.” In doing so,
everything that pertains to Christ will enter into His people. His omnipotent power; His
omniscient mind; His fathomless glory; His indestructible life; all that He possesses will in
a moment be infused into His people. The experience will be indescribable joy.
The apostle Paul declares, “We shall know fully, even as we have been fully known.”
There will be no more veil. Is this not the message of the virgin’s veil. She has seen things
as through a veil, but the veil will be removed. The veil is symbolically removed by the
Bridegroom during the wedding ceremony. It is removed in substance when the hymen is
torn and the man enters into his virgin bride. We too will have the veil that has covered our
eyes removed when we experience a complete spiritual union with Christ. We will see as He
sees. We will know as He knows. We will be one.
Can you not sense the deficiency of your current union with Christ? We struggle to
know His thoughts. We see through a veil darkly. We wrestle with perplexity and confusion.
We desire to have power to open blind eyes and unstop deaf ears. We yearn to raise those
who are spiritually dead. We experience that which Paul described in the following words:

Romans 8:22-23
For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together
until now. Not only that, but we also who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we
ourselves groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for the adoption, the redemption
of our body.

We presently have “the firstfruits of the Spirit.” We do not have the fulness of the