Sex is Spiritual

How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers. (Isaiah 1:21)

Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts. (Nahum 3:4)

Sex is not a simple physical or biological function.

From the scriptures, we see great focus on the spiritual aspect of sex than on the physical one.

Among some of the indicators was the prohibition of marriage to people of other faiths and priests being forbidden to marry someone who had had sex. That was unless they were previously married to a priest.

You also see that adultery is always associated with witchcraft and their sentences were also similar. I don’t know whether you realize that apart from idolatry, Jezebel was also full of whoredoms. Why would a queen sleep around?

It is thus safe to assume that she got her power to run Ahab and his kingdom through sleeping around since there was no money she needed to earn from her prostitution.

Again, look at Baal Peor. Nobody was invited to that god directly. Moab just paraded slay queens to tempt Israeli men. Once they decided to fall for them, the deal was complete. They then automatically started worshiping the Moabite gods. Sex was the introduction they needed. In short, sex was the gateway to idolatry.

Remember Michal? She was completely devoted to David to the point of defying her father to save his life. But then after David fled she was given to another man.

Then after his coronation he had her brought back. But she had changed.

How can someone who was dedicated to an outlaw turn her back on his God when he becomes king? It goes without say that it was due to her interaction with other spirits in that other marriage.

Does it surprise you that the Bible’s commandments on sex appear too stringent? Why do you think they are like that?

God created sex as a spiritual activity. The physical aspect is the doorway to that spiritual covenant making whether you know it or not.

For example, have you ever wondered why harlots are for the most part beautiful and well formed? Why don’t they get married? And why is it that the average and below average beauty girls rarely, if ever, fail to get husbands?

I suspect beautiful girls, due to their beauty and appeal, get tricked into the sex covenant, many times by men much older than them (many have no place for their age mates anyway). The spirits entered into (since it is a sinful intercourse) will then start controlling the girl, getting into deeper and deeper sin. That until sex becomes her profession.

Don’t tell me about her fending for her children unless you can tell me where those children came from.

Another telling situation that explains this is infidelity.

Someone can swindle one of all their earnings and that will leave a temporary impact. Someone can mistreat, even torture someone and the damage, though it might last long, will somehow wear out.

Why then is it impossible to completely forgive or even forget infidelity?

Mandela was known for his forgiveness, even forgiving those who tortured him in the 27 years he was in prison. Yet he was unable to extend the same grace to his wife who had endured as much adversity for being his wife as he had endured in prison.

And I am sure that was the reason David killed Uriah when he refused to fall for his ploy of covering up their affair. He simply could not have looked the other way once he realized that his wife was pregnant with another man’s child. And that was the Bible’s prescription.

And of course you remember Joseph trying to divorce Mary secretly when he realized that she was pregnant.

That does not happen when a spouse wastes common resources. Even drunkenness can be tolerated. But sex outside marriage is on another plane altogether.

It is because sex is spiritual. Adultery therefore means transferring spiritual devotion to another, something that is irreversible as it has already nullified the first union.

When a man takes a wife, and marries her, then it shall be, if she find no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house. When she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's [wife]. If the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, who took her to be his wife; her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before Yahweh: and you shall not cause the land to sin, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance. (Deuteronomy 24: 1 – 4 WEB)

Though divorce was allowed due to the hardness of hearts, remarriage was not. Doing so is on the same plain with incest, bestiality and homosexuality.

Sex is a serious matter. Trivializing it has very harsh consequences, starting with the spiritual realm.

It can be compared to witchcraft. You can trash it all you want and will be as safe as the distance between you and spiritual compromise. You see, living right and with the right relationship with God actually trumps witchcraft.

Witchcraft is a heightened activation of demons into the physical (if I may call it that). This means that they can access anybody walking according to their standard, which is sin. They simply cannot access anybody outside their realm unless as with Job God allows them and gives limitations to how far they should go.

But I can never be safe if I am interacting with their realm because they do not need permission to deal with me.

Sadly, that is what compromise in sex does. It allows demons a field day in our lives and bodies.

But it goes farther. It introduces demons into someone’s life since it is a spiritual intercourse. It means there is an interaction and interchange of demons. Meaning that they can now legally start running one’s life.

It explains why sex (what some think is a simple physical or biological function like eating) can be so destructive. How such an activity can wreck a marriage and cause depression and many other ills. How it can become compulsive and illogical.

Or do you not wonder who impregnates those ‘despicable’ and dirty mad women in the markets and where and how they do it. You will be shocked to realize that it could be the people being held high in society. And I have a few who have witnessed some of that.

Illicit sex invites demon possession because it is a spiritual exercise, an exercise fighting against God and His standards.

It is therefore for our profit that the Bible places so many caveats on sex outside its God ordained boundaries. And we will be wise and safe following them.