Hello fellow brothers and sisters,
Here is a little bit more about us. I am 27years old, My wife Leslie of 10 years is 28 years old, and my wife Lara of 3 months is 18 years old. They will be joining the site soon. We are all serious Bible believing children of God. In my young age I have been an Elder in 2 churches over the last few years, while my age may shock many people I was put in these positions because God has called me to be a Teacher and a Prophet. By Prophet I mean someone who hears from God on a regular basis directly and delivers warnings and messages via His say so. Paul told Timothy to let no one despise you for your youth. Our church that we went to for 7 years dissolved when the Pastor died and we ended up at another church that we had family friends at. I was a teaching Elder in both of them. We have been recently removed from our church fellowship for our marriage choices. We had been attending there for about 2 years but the Pastor has known my family since before I was born.
God led my wife and I to add her sister as a wife. Lara had already been living with us since she was 15 years old and I had already been taking care of her other than her parents helping with her rent until she was 18. I had already believed in Polygyny being acceptable for 2 years prior to this. I had never considered taking another wife, let alone my sister in law, because of my position as an Elder and the possible interpretations of man of ONE wife. However God made it clear to me that He made me an Elder for his purposes and He can make me not an Elder for his purposes. Before moving forward here is my interpretation of marrying sisters in Lev 18:18. I believe that you cannot do it for the INTENT of rivalry and without that intent I see it as acceptable. Our Father shows himself in 2 different Idioms marrying sisters and I use that as my authority of interpretation. Jeremiah and Ezekiel. So moving on, I let my Pastor and other Elder know that I was engaged to Lara. This was ironically after a meeting of addressing polygamy and what our response should be because we were getting ready to reach out and minister to a Mormon polygamist community. A friend of mine who attends the church had God tell him there was going to be a Polygamist family in the church and so he wrote a letter to us of what a biblical response should be. Long story short it was that we welcome them to fellowship but they dont serve as leaders. We all agreed upon this before i shared my situation. However they changed their mind when it came to me and through 2 meetings and much lies from the enemy we were removed.
We have been doing really well since being removed. God has grown all of us closer together and I have a closer relationship with my first wife than ever before. My second wife and I are growing closer by the day! I have developed my view without any outside sources, however after we were removed I wanted to look at what others believed. I am not a big fan of man's opinions lol. I have currently read about 10 books supporting the subject. I have also written an 8 page letter/study to send to some of my family and friends. I am willing to upload and share that with you guys if you would like. God has called me to be a teacher and i am willing to answer any questions about the scripture, in fact i enjoy it. God bless you all and we hope to make it to a retreat eventually.
