I once read of an account that a Christian speaker had in which he was approached by a couple of ladies who asked him a very "Un-comfortable" question. He had just got through speaking about Heaven, and some of the things we will be doing there when the women approached him.  After a brief introductory conversation one of the women asked shyly... "We were just wondering... will there be sex in Heaven?..." This was a question birthed from a deeply personal place. And, the desperation for the answer drove these single women to ask such a blatantly "Sacreligious" question. I am sorry to say that had this subject been addressed by Christians before now there would never had been such statements as "I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints..." and... "Tis better to rule in Hell than to serve in Heaven..."
 

The problem with the Church is that it has had no idea where we were truly "Meant" to be. If we take the account of Eden seriously we would find that instead of there being a simplistic couple who had no idea that they were naked, we find a story... a "Reality"... that is completely different.
Ask yourself this question... "Why was the fall of humanity so tragic?..." If there is more pleasure to be had after the fall than before, then Adam and Eve had Good Reason to sin. Yet, Christians today demonstrate the total Opposite. We make Eden look so void of pleasure that sinners have no choice but to avoid it at all cost. We say... "Jesus saves..." but, they retort... "If your'e an example of what Heaven will be then I'll choose Hell, thank you." No, what made the fall of humanity so tragic is that rather than "Gaining" something... we actually "Lost Everything." We did not "Gain" a better and more fulfilling life after Eden. We lost what it was to be Truly Alive. ...But, here's the catch... the "Memory" of Eden never got erased from our memory banks.
 

Herein is the tragedy of the human condition... we "Remember" Eden. Somewhere... deep in the uttermost depths of us we vaguely remember what it was to be fully and passionately alive. And... we look around us... but, what we see is not what we "Remember". We long for it desperately, but see it nowhere. We weep and ache for the fulfilling of that deep and in-expressible desire yet, we have no idea what it is we long for. So, rather than searching out what it is we truly long for, we adopt addictions to "Silence" the memory of Eden. And, what is the number one addiction of this generation?... Sex. The reason these woman wanted to know if there would be "Sex in Heaven" is simply because they were sick of Christians acting as if Heaven could be an enjoyable place when all that brings us joy here in this life is degraded by Christians. It's because, believers in Christ feel as if human desire is ugly and tainted, and should be destroyed rather than made to blossom. It's like C. S. Lewis said... "It isn't that our desire is 'Too strong' for God... it is that our desire is not (Strong Enough)." Then he said again in a more blunt way that Christians "Castrate the gelding, then bids him be fruitful." That is why people of the world despise any notion of giving themselves to Christ. They simply don't want to be "Castrated" then told to be fruitful. It's a very deceptive form of hypocrisy. How can a couple have children the God-Designed way without passion? It just can't happen. Human beings were made by God to 'Thrive'... "Be fruitful and Multiply"... But Christians have the terrible tendency to think like Abraham's wife Sarah. When God told them that they would conceive a son together... Sarah questioned God in her heart, asking... "Can I really have such (Pleasure) with my husband again?..." Believers wonder the very same thing. We have been literally Trained to believe that maturity is supposed to extinguish passion. It's the exact opposite in God's Kingdom. Maturity is supposed to "Increase" passion, not diminish It.
 

The reason that sex has become so base and infantile in this generation is because we are the farthest removed from Eden. This generation bears the un-enviable distinction of being the most distant generation from home. Remember the story of the Prodigal Son in Luke chapter 15? He was given an inheritance. He left and went to a "Far" country. It was there that he spent all his "Inheritance" on prostitutes and base sexual ambitions. Notice that it was when he was "Farthest from Home" that he gave himself entirely to sexual perversion.
Our Father has given us an "Inheritance" called sexuality. But, we are the generation farthest removed from Home. So, it is only natural that the longing for Eden that we all have, will become expressed in increasingly desperate ways, until we are totally spent and left alone to "Starve" in a pig-pen.

What is it about Eden that we desire then? Why must we continually search for that original Feeling? Why is it that sinners seem to know something that Christians don't? That we were "Made for Pleasure." As I stated before... if Eden were as dull as most church services then Adam and Eve had good reason to sin. But, the tragedy of the fall was never that it made us "Too Passionate", but that it actually began killing the Passion we were originally made with. That is why we live in the most cynical and atheistic generation that has ever been. It is as God told Adam... "If you eat of the fruit you will die." What makes this warning so horrible is that it was never supposed to be a "Momentary" death. Adam lived 930 years "After" the fall. So, what did God mean?  God was actually telling Adam... "Eating the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil will (Start a Process) of death." Or, as the original Hebrew asserts... "Dying, you shall die."
 

This generation lives by a passion that is near it's death. But, we have grown so accustomed to it that we think our sexual abandon is all the Heaven we will ever know. We believe our unbridled passion to be "Too Strong" for God, and we take pride in that. Yet, we are in fact so "Dull" of Passion that God said He would have to "Remove your stone hearts and give you hearts of flesh." In other words,... our passion is nothing more than stone to God. For all our sexual boasting against Him, He actually reveals that we don't even "Feel" at all.
 

What makes Eden such a place of desperate longing is that It's Desire and Passion never grew dull and hard. We were "Naked and un-ashamed." But, in spite of God's original plan... if the Perfect Adam and Eve ever walked into a church building today the congregation would balk with horror. They would have been arrested on the spot for "Indecent Exposure." Yet, that is how God originally planned. For us to be "Exposed" to Him and to each-other. Our sexuality today is nothing but a death-bed version of it's former Glory in Eden. It's cold and lifeless. It's stone. It has died in it's endless depths, to become nothing more than a shallow lust of the flesh. Yet, somehow we... "Remember from whence we have fallen." We remember in some deep and unexplored realm of us... Eden. And, we ache and burn, strive and bleed to go back. We lose our dignity, we lose our families, we lose... even our very sanity and lives in our pursuit of the ancient Garden. But, we don't even know what it is we are looking for. That is the tragedy of the fall. How can we return then to that place where human sexuality was Deepest, torrentially flowing and fully Divine? Where there was no shame in nakedness, and no fear of rejection? How do we go Home, where we originally belonged? Jesus said... "I am the Door. If you enter through Me you will be Saved." But, He also warned that there would be people who would try to "Climb up some (Other) way" into Eden.
 

Christ made it clear that He was "The Way..." and that there simply is no other way Home. If you refuse to go through Christ then you refuse Eden. It's just that simple. You'll never get in any other way. Why else do you think God posted Angels and a flaming Sword at the entrance of Eden when humanity fell? He did so because He would provide "His Own Way" of bringing us back. We simply were not allowed to stroll back in any-time we wished. He honors us enough to give us the "Right" to choose (Our Own Way) and rebel against Him,... so we should in turn honor Him enough to allow Him the "Right" to choose (His Own Way) of Saving us. We are hypocrites if we don't.

The source of Sexuality... is God. So, it was never an ir-reverent question for these women to ask if there would be sex in Heaven. I'm going to blow your minds now. Will there be sex in Heaven? Yes. But, Sex as it was originally intended. As a matter of fact, we shouldn't even degrade such an Experience by calling It such a cheap and common name as "sex." There is simply no word for it. No way to describe it. That is why the memory of Eden cannot be described. That is why we search for it, but have no idea what we are searching for, because we are looking only in this world to meet that desperate longing. That is why we live in a sexual age. We have the "Right" longing,... but we look in the "Wrong" place to have it fulfilled. That is why sex has become such a shallow and passionless thing. It's become a marketing ploy rather than a Divine experience. It's become a lust for flesh rather than an intense love and devotion for human depths. It's no longer a meaningful journey of deep souls, but it has become nothing more than a thrill-ride of technique. We no longer love and worship each-other in the bonds of Holy Matrimony, but we love and worship the orgasm,... yet even in this there is no real pleasure, because afterward there's nothing left to do. The thrill ride is over.
 

Can you see the satanic conspiracy? The serpent sought to deceive us "Out" of the Garden. That's what He did with the first couple. Now that we are out of Eden, what is satan's next plan?... to "Keep us Out." To keep us out of Eden with dull and bland religion. To keep us out of Eden with ignorance of who we truly were. To keep us out of Eden with a dying passion that he tricks us into believing is the very thing we long for. No, we don't long for sex... we long to be "Known." That is the True Mystery of sexuality. We ache to be seen and known by someone who will never despise what they see and know. But, since human sexuality has grown so shallow and meaningless in the absence of Eden, we have adopted the mindset that sex can never be anything but a temporary and often "Guilty" pleasure. There's no more adventure of deep and abiding search. There's no more beauty. There's no more pleasure after the orgasm. All that remains of human sexuality is a flat two-dimensional, distorted shadow of it's original Flame. ...That is... until Christ came.
God bless you much.

Thunder Angel- Joel

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