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the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. God chose to break down His
Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; nature into packages - male,
fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over female - to help man’s fallen self
the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” understand and come back to his
Genesis 1:31 Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it spiritual self in God through Christ.
was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day. To express the limitations of the
natural world versus the spiritual.
Galatians 3:26-29 For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ To give man a future and a hope to
Jesus. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on look for away from the mundane
Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, of the seen world. Not a fantasy,
there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And but a reality far greater than this
if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to world could ever offer, despite its
the promise. own great beauty and appeal.

Revelation 19:7 Let us be glad and rejoice and give Him glory, for the If you see the beauty and perfection
marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has made herself ready.” of the Bride of Christ as defined

And to her it was granted to be arrayed in fine linen, clean and bright, for in Revelation 19 (the righteous
the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints. acts of the saints) and the New
Jerusalem (light, dimensions,
Revelation 21:9-13 Then one of the seven angels who had the seven substance, with God and Jesus at
bowls filled with the seven last plagues came to me and talked with the centre), you understand that
me, saying, “Come, I will show you the bride, the Lamb’s wife.” And he when God constructed the female
carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed form, He was trying to draw men
me the great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from to see Himself. His gentleness, His
God, having the glory of God. Her light was like a most precious stone, tenderness, His ability to produce,
like a jasper stone, clear as crystal. Also she had a great and high wall His compassion, His tenderness,
with twelve gates, and twelve angels at the gates, and names written on His love, His strength, His beauty

them, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel: and draw them to deeper than
three gates on the east, three gates on the north, three gates on the physicality.
south, and three gates on the west.
In short, the true feminine is the
Revelation 21:23 The city had no need of the sun or of the moon to shine ultimate expression of the Divine
in it, for the glory of God illuminated it. The Lamb is its light. Nature and purpose of God from
the perspective of female.
Here’s what He showed me. Mankind has set a standard for the feminine
that does not exist, because the standard that mankind has set is based So, what does that mean? There is
solely on the physical. But man is spirit. Made in the image and likeness no standard that man can create
of Spirit. God made man in His image and likeness, determining to that could ever fit what God really
express Himself through man as male and female, which remain God. has in store for those who love
Meaning that God has attributes which God chose to express as male Him, for those who are His. Ours
and female. The reason why mankind forms the body of Christ as One, is to push beyond what we know,
why a Redeemed Mankind can express as tribeless, tongueless and have seen, have been told, have
neither male nor female, and can come together as an entity known as been taught, has been laid down
the Bride of Christ and the New Jerusalem which express the female as laws governing male/female/
(feminine) aspects of God is because mankind is spirit placed in a God and look to Jesus, the Author
physical body. and Finisher of our faith for the
The physical body, which is the lowest form of expression, mankind true and complete story to be told
elevated as the highest because he has eliminated the Highest, Who is of what the feminine really is, and
God. really can do and can become. A
limitless, powerful stream of life,
So, understand this, what mankind defines as female or feminine, he when connected to the One and
sees through the limitation of his own carnality, he defines female as Only and True God.
breasts and physical form, womb and a strong back and a face that is
defined as comely or not based purely on preference.
What God defines as female is Himself expressed as Spiritual form,
Nurturer (breasts), new realities incubated and produced (womb), His
joy (strength), hidden beauty of the heart (comeliness/attractiveness).

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