Unbeknownst to the people of Moses’ day (it was a ‘mystery’), marriage was designed by God from the beginning to be a picture or parable of the relationship between Christ and the church. Back when God was planning what marriage would be like, He planned it for this great purpose: it would give a beautiful earthly picture of the relationship that would someday come about between Christ and His church. This was not known to people for many generations, and that is why Paul can call it a ‘mystery.’ But now in the New Testament age Paul reveals this mystery, and it is amazing. This means that when Paul wanted to tell the Ephesians about marriage, he did not just hunt around for a helpful analogy and suddenly think that “Christ and the church” might be a good teaching illustration. No, it was much more fundamental than that: Paul saw that when God designed the original marriage, He already had Christ and the church in mind. This is one of God’s great purposes in marriage: to picture the relationship between Christ and His redeemed people forever! (George Knight)

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CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Grains		Appetizer, Nut	8	Servings

INGREDIENTS

2	c	Nuts
2 1/2	c	Boiling water
1/2	c	Sugar
1	c	Oil
1	ts	Salt

INSTRUCTIONS

In a 2-quart saucepan, boil nuts in water for 1 minutes and drain. Toss
nuts in sugar evenly, spread them on a 12-inch plate and let dry for 30
minutes. Fry nuts in medium-hot oil (about 250 degrees) for 5 minutes.
Spread the nuts on a paper towel. Sprinkle salt all over the nuts and
serve.
Recipe by: Mrs. Yangia Cho Im, Austin
Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #837 by Walt Gray <waltgray@mnsinc.com> on
Oct 11, 1997

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