Today, after eating lunch at some restaurant where the cooks had left out the food out without refrigeration too long to bacteriorize and/or had not washed their hands on non-sanitized counters while preparing it, and after I had ascended off the throne in the emergency-relief room, having looking at the disaster area deposited into the toilet bowl, and wondering how one human being could cause such devastating destruction, my thoughts turned to contemplating that, by now, recently-deceased Roger Ebert, the movie critic - having lost "his battle with cancer" who should have let the Lord fight for him with God-given-and-maintained Divinely-allocated immunity resources - has found out whether or not there was "anything to fear after death" on The Other Side....whether or not the twisted and warped belligerent bellerings and blasphemies of doubts-and-questionings-consigned atheistic and agnostic deceivers, liars, and deviate fools had annihilated the reality of what the Holy Bible describes (hopefully without the never-never-land heresy of mythical purgatory involved to confuse the mix).
The Old-Testament psalms put it well:
(Psalm 41)
1 Blessed is he who considers the poor! The LORD delivers him in the day of trouble;
2 the LORD protects him and keeps him alive; he is called blessed in the land; thou dost not give him up to the will of his enemies.
3 The LORD sustains him on his sickbed; in his illness you heal all his infirmities.
4 As for me, I said, "Oh LORD, be gracious to me; heal me, for I have sinned against you!"
5 My enemies say of me in malice: "When will he die, and his name perish?"
6 And when one comes to see me, he utters empty words, while his heart gathers mischief; when he goes out, he tells it abroad.
7 All who hate me whisper together about me; they imagine the worst for me.
8 They say, "A deadly thing has fastened upon him; he will not rise again from where he lies."
9 Even my bosom friend in whom I trusted, who ate of my bread, has lifted his heel against me.
10 But do you, Oh LORD, be gracious to me, and raise me up, that I may requite them!
11 By this I know that you are pleased with me, in that my enemy has not triumphed over me.
12 But you have upheld me because of my integrity, and set me in your presence forever.
13 Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting! Amen and Amen.
(Psalm 49)
5 Why should I fear in times of trouble, when the iniquity of my persecutors surrounds me,
6 men who trust in their wealth and boast of the abundance of their riches?
7 Truly no man can ransom himself, or give to God the price of his life,
8 for the ransom of his life is costly, and can never suffice,
9 that he should continue to live on forever, and never see the Pit.
10 Yes, he shall see that even the wise die, the fool and the stupid alike must perish and leave their wealth to others.
11 Their graves are their homes forever, their residing places to all generations, though they named lands their own.
12 Man cannot stay in his pomp, he is like the beasts that perish.
13 This is the fate of those who have foolish confidence, the end of those who are pleased with their portion.
14 Like sheep they are appointed for Sheol; Death shall be their shepherd; straight to the grave they descend,
and their form shall waste away; Sheol shall be their home.
15 But God will ransom my soul from the power of Sheol, for He will receive me.
16 Be not afraid when one becomes rich, when the glory of his house increases.
17 For when he dies he will carry nothing away; his glory will not go down after him.
18 Though, while he lives, he counts himself happy, and though a man gets praise when he does well for himself,
19 he will go to the generation of his fathers, who will never more see the light.
20 Man cannot stay in his pomp, he is like the beasts that perish.
(Psalm 52)
1 Why do you boast, mighty man, of mischief done against the godly?
2 All the day you are plotting destruction. Your tongue is like a sharp razor, you worker of treachery.
3 You love evil more than good, and lying more than speaking the truth.
4 You love all words that devour, deceitful tongue.
5 But God will break you down forever; He will snatch and tear you from your tent;
He will uproot you from the land of the living.
6 The righteous shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him, saying,
7 "See the man who would not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his riches,
and sought refuge in his wealth!"
8 But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God. I trust in the continuous love of God forever.
9 I will thank you forever, because you have done it. I will proclaim your name,
for it is good, in the presence of the godly.
(Psalm 53)
1The fool says in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt
(even though some presume that such atheists and agnostics
"are some of the nicest, best, most decent and moral people I know"),
doing abominable iniquity; there is none that does good.
2 God looks down from heaven upon the sons of men to see if there are any that are wise, who seek after God.
3 They have all fallen away; they are all alike depraved; there is none that does good, no, not one.
4 Have those who work evil no understanding, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call upon God?
5 There they are, in great terror, in terror such as has not been!
For God will scatter the bones of the non-godly; they will be put to shame, for God has rejected them.
6 Oh that deliverance for Israel would come from Zion! When God restores the fortunes of his people,
Jacob will rejoice and Israel be glad.
Which gets me to the subject of wrestling, not only male-with-male and female-with-female competitive gymnastic wrestling in school, professionally, or in olympic settings....but especially male-with-female wrestling (whether starting out as described in Genesis 2:25, or instead beginning as revealed in Genesis 3:21 but then progressing in accord with Genesis 2:25).
What I am keenly interested in is ultimate mixed wrestling of the non-tattooed male versus non-tattooed female female-vs-male type, implied in a loving application of:
Isaiah 47:1 Come down and sit in the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, daughter of the Chaldeans! For you shall no more be called tender and delicate.
Isaiah 47:2 Take the millstones and grind meal, put off your veil, strip off your robe, uncover your legs, pass through the rivers.
Isaiah 47:3 Your nakedness shall be uncovered, and your shame shall be seen....
....with a [reverse-instruction] barefooted application of:
Jeremiah 2:25 Keep your feet from going unshod and your throat from thirst. But you said, 'It is hopeless, for I have loved strangers, and after them I will go.'
Leviticus 19:28 You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh on account of the dead or tattoo any marks upon you: I am the LORD.
Temporarily and conditional Garden-of-Eden clothes-free/in-the-buff Paradise restored!
Expedient it is for there to be various Rules of Engagement which both the non-tattooed man versus non-tattooed woman are astutely aware of and always keep in mind before, while, and after wrestling each other - whether on a mat within and surrounded by a roped-off square ring, on a living-room or other carpeted floor with appropriate leak-proof and washable covering, or a bed.
(1) The non-tattooed man versus non-tattooed woman must first be married to each other.
(2) The man-and-wife wrestlers must previously agree to voluntarily and consensually wrestle.
(3) The two spouses must wrestle in private with no one else around.
(4) Only one man wrestles one woman at a time, and the woman always wrestles the same man.
(5) Husband-with-wife wrestlers must begin wrestling with no intentions nor feelings of retribution nor anger, and mutually agree to not become hostile against each other during the wrestling.
(6) No hitting or punching each other - anywhere on the bodies - during the wrestling, but lips kissing and mouthing is allowed while wrestling, and no sexist female domination with feigned male surrender or helplessness is appropriate.
(7) No spitting on or clawing each other - anywhere on the bodies - during the wrestling. No causing of unnatural bruises or bleeding.
(8) Though "scissors" positions of the legs around each other are allowed, no suffocation nor strangulation is acceptable.
(9) Both partners should mutually win the wrestling match by eventually engaging in some positioning of....
Genesis 29:23 But in the evening he took his daughter Leah and brought her to Jacob; and he went in to her.
Genesis 30:4 So she gave him her maid Bilhah as a wife; and Jacob went in to her.
Genesis 38:2 There Judah saw the daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shua; he married her and went in to her
Genesis 38:18 He said, "What pledge shall I give you?" She replied, "Your signet and your cord, and your staff that is in your hand." So he gave them to her, and went in to her, and she conceived by him.
Judges 16:1 Samson went to Gaza, and there he saw a harlot, and he went in to her.
Ruth 4:13 So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife; and he went in to her, and the LORD gave her conception, and she bore a son.
Second Samuel 12:24 Then David comforted his wife, Bathsheba, and went in to her, and lay with her; and she bore a son, and he called his name Solomon.....
....with their worn-down and wearied partner, after engaging in binding holds enabling urgent tenderness and fervent passion of cunnilingus/fellatio implications suggested in....
Numbers 5:18 And the priest shall set the woman before the LORD, and unbind the hair of the woman's head, and place in her hands the cereal offering of remembrance, which is the cereal offering of jealousy. And in his hand the priest shall have the water of bitterness that brings the curse.
Deuteronomy 25:11 When men fight with one another, and the wife of the one draws near to rescue her husband from the hand of him who is beating him, and puts out her hand and seizes him by the private parts,
Deuteronomy 25:12 then you shall cut off her hand; your eye shall have no pity.
Proverbs 5:19 Like the loving deer and pleasant doe, let her breasts satisfy you at all times, and be ravished always with her love.
Song of Solomon 2:3 As an apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is MY beloved among young men. With great delight I sat in HIS shadow, and HIS fruit was sweet to my taste.
Song of Solomon 2:6 Oh that his left hand were under my head, and that his right hand embraced me!
Song of Solomon 8:3 Oh that his left hand were under my head, and that his right hand embraced me!
Song of Solomon 5:1 I come to MY garden, MY sister, my bride [NO fornication nor adultery, here!], I gather MY myrrh with MY spice, I eat MY honeycomb with MY honey, I drink MY wine with MY milk. Eat, friends, and drink: drink deeply, lovers!
Song of Solomon 7:5 YOUR head crowns you like Carmel, and YOUR flowing locks [otherwise "mopheaded" LOOSE long hair] are like purple; a king is held captive in the tresses.
6 How fair and pleasant YOU are, loved one, delectable maiden!
7 YOU are stately as a palm tree, and your breasts are like its clusters.
8 I say I will climb the palm tree and lay hold of its branches. Oh, may YOUR breasts be like clusters of the vine, and the scent of YOUR breath like apples,
9 and YOUR kisses like the best wine that goes down smoothly, flowing gently over lips and teeth of sleepers.
10 I am MY beloved's, and HIS desire is for ME.
11 Come, MY beloved, let us go forth into the fields, and lodge in the villages;
12 let us go out early to the vineyards, and see whether the vines have budded, whether the grape blossoms have opened and the pomegranates are in bloom. There I will give YOU my love.
13 The mandrakes give forth fragrance, and over our doors are all choice fruits, new as well as old, which I have laid up for YOU, MY beloved.
Isaiah 3:17 (KJV/RSV) the Lord will smite with a scab the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will lay bare their secret parts.
Ezekiel 16:25 (KJV) You have built your high place at the head of every way, and have made your beauty to be despised, and have spread your feet [parted your legs] to everyone who passed by, and have multiplied your fornications.
Ezekiel 23:21 Thus you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when the Egyptians pressed your young breasts for the sake of your nipples.
Hosea 2:3 ....lest I strip her naked and make her as in the day she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and set her like a parched land, and slay her with thirst.
Hosea 13:13 (RSV) The pangs of childbirth come for him, but he is an non-wise son; for now he does not present himself at the mouth of the womb.
....to first occur.
And afterwards?
Leviticus 15:18 If a man lies with a woman and has an emission of semen, both of them shall bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the evening.
Leviticus 15:18 If a man lies with a woman and has an emission of semen, both of them shall bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the evening.
Ephesians 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her,
Ephesians 5:26 that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word [showering together will suffice]
Hebrews 10:22 let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
Leviticus 19:28 You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh on account of the dead or tattoo any marks upon you: I am the LORD.