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K-House
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For The
Week Of
January
15, 2008
**TABLE
OF
CONTENTS**
This
Week's
66/40
Radio
Broadcast
Articles
and
Commentary
-
Is
Marriage
Unnecessary?
-
-
Why
Israel
May
Strike
First
-
-
Examining
Ezekiel
-
-
Upcoming
Events
-
Important
News
Headlines
Memory
Verse of
the Week
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**ARTICLES
AND
COMMENTARY**
IS
MARRIAGE
UNNECESSARY?
-
Some
call it
"living
together"
or
"cohabitating",
others
call it
"shacking
up." Yet
no
matter
what
terminology
is used
the fact
remains
that a
rising
number
of
couples
are
choosing
not to
get
married.
According
to a new
survey,
more
than 4
in 10
Americans
believe
that
marriage
is not
necessary
in order
to have
a
successful
long-term
relationship.
Of those
surveyed
who were
in their
20s the
numbers
were
even
higher,
more
than
half
said
marriage
wasn't
essential.
Most of
those
polled
also
said
that
they
favored
living
together
before
getting
married.
In
recent
years
societal
trends
have
moved
away
from
traditional
marriage.
In 2005,
the
number
of
married
couple
households
in
America
dropped
below 50
percent
for the
first
time.
Correspondingly,
the
number
of
unmarried
women
bearing
children
rose to
its
highest
level
ever.
Compare
that to
1930,
when
about 84
percent
of
households
were
married
couples.
Many
young
adults
think
it's a
good
idea to
live
together
to "test
drive" a
potential
spouse
in order
to
insure
that
they are
"compatible."
While
such
logic
may seem
practical
to some,
statistics
show
that
such
relationships
usually
end in
tears
and
heartache.
While
some of
these
couples
intend
to
eventually
get
married,
the
reality
is that
cohabiting
couples
break up
far more
than
married
couples,
and
couples
who
cohabit
before
marriage
are more
likely
to get
divorced
after
marriage.
Research
conducted
by
Rutgers
University's
National
Marriage
Project
indicates
that
couples
who live
together
before
marriage
are 46
percent
more
likely
to
divorce
and
significantly
more
likely
to
experience
domestic
violence
within
their
relationships.
The Word
of God
is
clear:
"Marriage
is
honorable
among
all, and
the bed
undefiled;
but
fornicators
and
adulterers
God will
judge
(Hebrews
13:4)."
The
Bible
expressly
condemns
fornication
(1Cor
6:9,18)
and
there
are
great
reasons
why. Sex
is a
physical,
emotional
and
spiritual
act of
two
people
becoming
one
(Matt
19:5-6,
1 Cor
6:15-16).
Any
relationship
will
have a
better
start if
both
spouses
are free
of vast
amounts
of
baggage
from
previous
broken
relationships.
Besides
the risk
of
disease,
of
children
born out
of
wedlock,
and
other
complications,
it is
simply
spiritually
and
emotionally
damaging
to
engage
in a
series
(long or
short)
of
sexual
relationships.
Waiting
until
marriage
also
involves
practicing
self-control,
which is
just as
useful a
virtue
in the
years
after
the
wedding
as it is
before.
Couples
who have
proven
self-control
also
tend to
trust
and
respect
one
another
more
than
those
who were
sexually
active
before
the
wedding
date.
In the
scriptures
husbands
are
exhorted
to love
their
wives
"even as
Christ
also
loved
the
church,
and gave
himself
for it."
In other
words, a
Biblical
marriage
is one
rooted
in God's
love
rather
than
human
love.
C.S.
Lewis
calls
this
kind of
love a
"gift of
love."
Whereas,
human
love is
a "need
love."
God's
love is
a gift
because
there
are "no
strings
attached"
to it.
There
are no
conditions
to fill,
nothing
to earn,
nothing
to do,
and
nothing
to be.
It just
loves
unconditionally,
spontaneously,
and
continually.
Marriage
is one
of God's
greatest
inventions,
offering
us
partners
in the
battle
through
life, to
encourage
us in
times of
discouragement,
to help
us up
when we
fall.
Marriage
offers
us a
constant
friend
and
companion,
a second
head in
trying
to solve
problems
and a
second
set of
hands in
doing
the work
that
needs to
be done.
Marriage
is the
foundational
structure
of a
whole,
happy
family,
where
children
can be
raised
in
security
and
love. To
learn
more
about
God's
unconditional
love
and what
makes a
marriage
last
click on
the
links
below.
Related
Links:
•
4 in 10
Find
Marriage
Unnecessary
- ONN
•
The
Perils
of
Playing
House -
Psychology
Today
•
Women
Who
Cohabit
Have
Daughters
Who Do
the Same
-
Newswire
• The
Way of
Agape:
Understanding
God's
Love
–MP3-CD
Rom
• The
Way of
Agape -
DVD -
Koinonia
House
• The
Kings
Highway
-
Ministry
WHY
ISRAEL
MAY
STRIKE
FIRST
-
Related
Links:
•
Iran's
Dangerous
Nuke
Game -
NY Post
•
Israel
Keeps
All
Options
Open -
AFP
•
Russia
to
Supply
New
Anti-Aircraft
Missiles
for Iran
-
Guardian
EXAMINING
EZEKIEL
-
It is
difficult
to
understand
the
caldron
of the
Middle
East
without
first
studying
the
remarkable
prophecies
found in
the book
of
Ezekiel.
Ezekiel
was
among
the
captives
with
King
Jehoiachin
in the
second
of three
deportations
under
King
Nebuchadnezzar
of
Babylon.
He
mentions
Daniel
three
times,
who had
been in
Babylon
nine
years
before
Ezekiel
arrived.
Ezekiel
ministered,
as did
Jeremiah,
to a
nation
experiencing
judgment
for
their
sins. In
his
captivity
he lived
at the
River
Chebar,
which
was the
great
ship
canal
branching
off from
the
Euphrates
above
Babylon
and
turning
through
Nippur
to the
Tigris.
This was
the
primary
settlement
location
of the
Jewish
captives.
Ezekiel
was born
in
approximately
627 B.C.
and
lived in
a time
of moral
decline,
distress
and
uprooting.
His
messages
were not
well
received
at
first,
but did
ultimately
result
in the
nation
being
purged
of
idolatrous
practices.
He was
married
and
owned
his
home.
His wife
died
during
his
ministry,
and he
was
forbidden
to mourn
her.
We also
learn
that God
intended
his life
to be a
series
of signs
to
Israel;
therefore,
he does
all
kinds of
strange
things.
He shuts
himself
up in
his
home. He
binds
himself.
He is
struck
dumb. In
a formal
ritual,
he was
to lie
on his
right
and his
left
sides
for a
total of
430
days. He
ate
bread
that was
prepared
in an
unclean
manner.
He
shaved
his head
and
beard,
which
was
considered
a shame
in his
particular
calling.
Throughout
the
book,
his main
theme
was the
sovereignty
and
glory of
God.
This is
good for
us,
because
we can
get so
focused
on God’s
grace
that we
tend to
forget
there is
also a
governing
role of
God, and
that His
glory
requires
justice.
Ezekiel
was very
direct.
He
carefully
vindicated
God’s
justice
throughout
the
book,
although
he deals
more in
symbol
and
allegory
that any
other
Old
Testament
prophet.
He is
probably
the
greatest
mystic
of the
Old
Testament.
He was
well
suited
for the
calling
God gave
him,
which
included
a
remarkable
vision
of God's
Throne
in
Chapter
1. This
dramatic
vision
of God
never
left
him. It
is not
just
introduced
in the
first
chapter,
it is
referenced
all the
way
through.
The
Prophet
of the
Regathering
The
famed
vision
of the
Valley
of the
Dry
Bones in
Chapters
36 and
37 is
unquestionably
the
monumental
Biblical
fulfillment
of the
20th
century.
Beginning
in the
last
half of
the 19th
century,
the
regathering
that
climaxed
in the
establishment
of the
State of
Israel
is one
of the
most
irrefutable
evidences
that we
are on
threshold
of God's
climax
for the
nations
mentioned
throughout
the
Bible -
and
remarkably
detailed
in the
writings
of
Ezekiel.
The
final
chapters,
40-48,
climax
with a
remarkably
detailed
description
of the
Millennial
Temple
to be
rebuilt.
Ezekiel
was
uniquely
qualified
for this
role due
to his
priestly
background.
He was
the son
of Buzi,
who was
also a
priest.
It is
interesting
that
even
though
he never
served
as a
priest,
he
apparently
so
influenced
later
worship
that
today he
is
called
by some,
"The
Father
of
Judaism."
From
Numbers
4:3 we
know
that
Kohathites
had to
be 30
years
old
before
they
could
begin
service
as
priests.
When
Ezekiel
became
30,
however,
he was
deported,
in
approximately
the
eightieth
year of
the
reign of
Nebuchadnezzar.
The
Temple
which
Ezekiel
describes
has
never
yet been
built.
Most
scholars
regard
it as
the
details
for the
Temple
which
will be
established
during
the
Millennium
on
Planet
Earth.
Between
the
regathering
of the
nation
in
Chapters
36 and
37, and
the
Millennium
Temple
described
in
Chapters
40-48,
there is
a
climactic
event
that
intervenes.
The
invasion
of Gog
and
Magog,
described
in
Chapters
38 and
39, are
among
the most
famous
prophetic
passages
in the
Bible.
For a
variety
of
reasons,
the
identity
of
"Magog"
as the
people
of
Russia
seems
well
established.
Have you
ever
studied
this
incredible
book
carefully?
See our
verse-by-verse
Commentary
on the
Book of
Ezekiel,
click on
the link
below to
learn
more.
Related
Links:
•
Ezekiel
- CD-Rom
- Over
22 Hours
of
In-Depth
Teaching!
• The
Mystery
Of
Babylon:
An
Alternate
View -
DVD -
Koinonia
House
**IMPORTANT
NEWS
HEADLINES**
Court
Ends
Bible
Distribution
in
School
-
January
15, 2008
A rural
school
district's
long-standing
practice
of
allowing
the
distribution
of
Bibles
to grade
school
students
is
unconstitutional,
a
federal
judge
has
ruled.
The
lawsuit
was
filed by
the ACLU
against
the
school
district
for
allowing
representatives
of
Gideons
International
to give
away
Bibles
in
schools.
AP
Deadly
New Form
of MRSA
Emerges
-
January
15, 2008
A deadly
strain
of the
superbug
MRSA
which
can lead
to a
flesh-eating
form of
pneumonia
has
emerged.
The new
strain
is
resistant
to
treatment
by many
front-line
antibiotics.
Research
suggests
it may
be more
prevalent
among
the gay
community.
BBC
US
Considering
Int'l
Force in
West
Bank
-
January
15, 2008
The US
may be
preparing
a plan
to
station
third
party
troops
in the
West
Bank.
The
international
troops
would
secure
the area
after an
Israeli
withdrawal
and
before
the
Palestinian
Authority
can take
over
full
security
control.
Jerusalem
Post
19
Killed
in
Israeli-Palestinian
Conflicts
-
January
15, 2008
Israeli
troops
killed a
son of
Gaza's
most
powerful
leader
along
with 18
other
Palestinians
on
Tuesday
in the
bloodiest
day of
fighting
in the
coastal
area
since
Hamas
militants
seized
control
last
summer.
FOX News
Pakistan
Prepares
for
Elections
-
January
15, 2008
Pakistani
President
Pervez
Musharraf
said
that
elections
will be
held on
February
18th as
planned
and his
government
will
instruct
troops
to shoot
anyone
trying
to
disrupt
them.
Meanwhile
the
violence
continues,
in
Karachi
on
Monday a
bomb
exploded
in a
busy
market
killing
10
people
and
injuring
45
others.
CNN
**MEMORY
VERSE OF
THE
WEEK**
Know ye
not that
the
unrighteous
shall
not
inherit
the
kingdom
of God?
Be not
deceived:
neither
fornicators,
nor
idolaters,
nor
adulterers,
nor
effeminate,
nor
abusers
of
themselves
with
mankind,
Nor
thieves,
nor
covetous,
nor
drunkards,
nor
revilers,
nor
extortioners,
shall
inherit
the
kingdom
of God.
And such
were
some of
you: but
ye are
washed,
but ye
are
sanctified,
but ye
are
justified
in the
name of
the Lord
Jesus,
and by
the
Spirit
of our
God.
1
Corinthians
6:9-11
KJV
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