Betrothed

Now that many serious Christians and non-Christians across the United States and the world are becoming increasingly aware of the carnage that casual and reckless sexual behavior is unleashing on the world community everyday, is it not time to fight back to regain our grip on the powerful traditional courtship and betrothal covenant tools used by our elders and ancestors to protect and preserve for generations the institutions of marriage and the family? Has one day passed in recent years and especially these days without a man killing his wife after a few week’s sexual encounter because the sex they believed in and trusted as the solid foundation of their betrothal relationship often called marriage went sour? Has it not been common knowledge that current secular dating practice begins with dependence on feelings that quickly flow into cohabitation and illicit ‘honeymoon’ even before any signs of courtship begin to emerge let alone betrothal commitment? To camouflage and cover their sexual escapades after deluding each other enough in their blindness, they fabricate consent as adolescents or adults and rush to the priest to get the blessing of the Church. In their delusion, the pretenders then proceed on ‘bogus honeymoon’ during which they begin to see cracks and crevices in their ‘pre-manufactured’ and contrived relationship. After satisfying their lustful desires, the man and the woman begin to engage in incessant violent altercations especially now that she is pregnant and their intense lustful desire for sex with each other has suddenly begun to erode and decline. They have already had enough of each other sexually and begin to see only the dim light that leads on to new partners, or separation and divorce even before the first child conceived during their illicit honeymoon is born because the requisite faith in God is totally lacking and absent. Rather, with their faith and dependence centered in the flesh and on sex alone without agape love, they fail to let God spiritually join their hearts together to become “one flesh”. Otherwise, why would a seemingly sensible and healthy couple make the most important decision to get married, the most important in a life time and decide to divorce just after four months. Without delving into the logic of those involved or venturing any condemnation of the parties, that there are serious problems with the system that promotes such hurried hook-ups of so-called marriages cannot be denied. It has become equally imperative that the system ought to be confronted without equivocation because of its stench that translates daily into tragedies. This is the reason that this book ‘Betrothed’ is all about the Betrothal Covenant.