National Groups Like Plural Wives

Many countries in the world - if not most - may be said to be nations containing various national groups. Switzerland is a nation consisting of four main peoples: Germans, French, Italians and Romansh. Belgium is a nation of three main groups: Flemish (Dutch), Walloons (French) and Germans. Canada is a nation of three main groups: British (for the most part), French (Montreal) and Inuit. Great Britain is a nation of four main groups: English, Welsh, Scottish and Irish (Ulster). Russia is a Federation of many different groups. South Africa is a nation of various Bantu groups, British and Dutch (Afrikaaners). And Poland, between the two world wars, was a nation of Poles, Belarussians, Ukrainians, Lithuanians and West Prussians (Germans, Kashubians).

The Nation Like a Patriarchal Husband

In each of these case, the nation may be said to be the 'husband' andCPM207-Nations.htmlgone their the groups his allegorical 'co-wives', each of the latter having their own unique 'personalities'. If there is a principle group (like the Poles in Poland or the Russians in the Russian Federation) then these may be likened to the 'First' or 'Queen Wife'. Not all of these arrangements are necessarily happy ones. Some could be said to be 'shotgun marriages' with different groups forced into marriage against their will. Some are 'marriages of convenience' since the alternative (being in another country or empire) was worse. Few of the non-Polish groups wanted to be a part of the First Polish Republic (1918-39), especially the larger ones like the Belarussians and Ukrainians.

Closely Related Sister-Wife National Groups are Best

Some nations that are principally of one ethnic group may be said to be composed of a different kind of 'sister-wife' since they are more closely related. In Germany, for example, the Brandenburgers, Thuringians, Wurttembergers, Saxons and Bavarians are Germans all speaking the same language (though with different dialects) and so the plural 'marriage' is, by and large, a happy one. The plural marriages that work best are always those where the wives are very close friends to begin with even if there is an invisible division between the northern Germans and the southern who align more with Austria.

Belgium as a Failed Plural Marriage

Belgium is a good example of an 'artificial marriage' created by the victors of the war against Napoleon in 1815 and has always therefore had tensions. Today the two largest groups - the Flems and Walloons - can't stand each other and have been wanting a 'divorce' for sometime, the King being a Walloon. As so often happens, one group (the Walloons) dominated the other (the Flems) which was quite naturally resented. Today they officially have equality but the Flems have outperformed the Walloons economically and want to be independent. There really is no such thing as a 'Belgian', in spite of Agatha Christie's attempt to create one in her Poirot detective books, the country being named after an ancient tribe in Gaul that lay some distance away in the south-west to the modern state. The two groups came together under unusual circumstances - a 'marriage of convenience' in the wake of war and religious conflict. The Germans of Malmund/Malmédy-Eupen were forced to 'join' after the First World War against their will, a prize of the defeat of Imperial Germany, theirs a 'shotgun' relationship, a bit like a slave-wife of ancient times.

Jumbled Up Nations

Very few nations are unitary states with a shared language, religion and culture which causes tensions. In inter-war Poland the Belarussians and Ukrainians were Orthodox Christians while the rest were Roman Catholic. Different groups must learn to get along with one another. In my life, the Slovaks 'divorced' their own Czechoslovak 'husband' in 1991 and have gone their own way and 'remarried', having before that had a Hungarian 'husband' for many centuries. The Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, Sudan and Somalia are good examples. Some close polygamous marriages have been forced apart like the two Koreas and (for a while) Vietnam reminding one of those monogamy-only Christian churches who break up plural marriages by force. Because of the way ethnic groups are arranged demograoically in jumbled-up settlements it's often impossible to draw fair boundaries. Bosnia is a good example where clean lines of separation are hard to create between Serbs, Croats and Moslems. Most African countries retain their own colonial borders and not only have multiple tribal groups but sometimes these tribal groups are split between countries, like the Masaai of Kenya and Tanzania, the Tswana of Botswanaa and South Africa, the Punjabis of India and Pakistan or the Mongols of Mongolia and China. Forming stable marriages is as complex as creating stable countries that lack ethnic tensions. Thus when Austria-Hungary was partitioned after the First World War, drawing clean ethnic frontiers was virtually impossible.

The Millennial Kingdom of Yahweh is Not a Single Globalist State

The Scriptures teach us that the Kingdom of Yahweh that is to come will not be a unitary globalist state where all the races are jumbled up but a world consisting of separate nation states in a world-wide confederation having as their head a supra-husband head-state, namely, Israel, whose ruler is Yah'shua the Messiah (Jesus Christ). It will, to put it another way, be a benevolent Empire of perfect justice and fairness. Moreoever, Yahweh has indicted most forcefully that even Israel will retain its 12 separate tribal divisions, itself ideally a theocratic Confederacy. The distinctive nations, their distinctive tribes and within these, distinctive clans and distinctive individual families, are all a part of Yahweh's design, and this for the harmony of the whole. Zion is both individualistic and collective with different spheres of responsibility. It's simplest unit will consist of monogamous marriages and it's most advanced will be plural ones, like the original marriage of Jacob-Israel.

Conclusion

All of this reflects a divine tavnith or pattern that reflects in other spheres of existence such as marriage too. It is our belief that Yahweh has foreordained our marriage partners in the eternities and that the wrong choices made in mortality of incompatile spouses will be rectified in the resurrection. If, as we believe, our foreordained wives were in some way created out of us in the premortal spiritual world in a similar way to that Eve being created physically out of Adam using his substance, then we should expect plural marriage in the eternities of be reflective of this compatibility for the same reasons that nation-states should contain compatible peoples. Many of the nation-states of today consist of incompatible groups of people whose interests would be best served as separate states in the same way that many plural (and even monogamous) marriages are. Our Master Yah'shua (Jesus) will sort everything out in the Millennial Kingdom-to-come to everyone's satisfaction.

Author: SBSK