Revelation and Porn Workbook
The Book of Revelation and Porn Workshop
By
Rev. Glen Maiden PhD, DMin, CSAT, CMAT, CST, LMHC
August 18, 2024
Updated 7/2/24
Contents
Introduction……………………………………………………………………………………1
How to Use the Workbook…………………………………………………………………….2
Intimacy with God……………………………………………………………………………..5
Summary………………………………………………………………………………………..7
The Porn Word Group…………………………………………………………………………10
Session One: Overview……………………………..………………………………………….15
Session Two: Sexual Health Positive Terms..………………………………………………….26
Session Three: Unhealthy Sexuality Terms…………………………………..……………….32
Session Four: Treatment for Problematic Sexuality………………………………..……………….………………………………………38
Key Vocabulary…………………………………………………………………………………46
The Book of Revelation Sexual Health and Safety Workbook
Introduction
Welcome to the Revelation and Porn Workshop. For the first time in over 2000 years of New Testament literary history all sexual health terms and images of the Book of Revelation appear in one place. In addition these words compare with the 180 unique terms and images throughout the entire Bible. The goal restores the Scriptural basis for sexual health education into the hands of parents. Seven times the Bible mandates caregivers educate their children about the Word of God including sexual health. The Biblical command directs to parents, not secular or sacred institutions.
Only be careful, and watch yourselves closely so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen or let them fade from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and to their children after them. (Deuteronomy 4:9)
The workshop provides all Revelation sexual health terms in the original languages using an online Bible search engine. The Blue Letter Bible (BLB) brings depth and meaning of God’s word to families with easy to understand technology. The free online Blue Letter Bible allows examination of Biblical terms as close to the original authors as possible.
At no time does the Workshop intend to dictate gender politics or coerce sexual ethics. The objective gives caregivers tools to teach their children as the Scriptures mandate.
Rev. Dr. Glen Maiden PhD, DMin is a Biblical sexual health educator and pastoral counselor for over 40 years. His undergraduate degree from Asbury University (1984) majored in Bible and Biblical Languages of Hebrew, Koine Greek, and Classical Greek. Dr. Glen earned a masters in New Testament and Christian Education from Grand Rapids Theological Seminary (1987). Doctor of Ministry from Western Theological Seminary focused on the neuroscience and theology of treating addiction and trauma. An earned PhD in Clinical Sexology from the International Institute of Clinical Sexology examined the Book of Genesis as a sexual health positive primer for families (2022). Dr. Glen is a licensed mental health counselor in the State of Washington, and holds certifications in trauma and sex addiction treatment, multiple addiction recovery, and has board certification as a clinical sex therapist.
How to Use this Workbook
The Revelation Workshop uses Biblical theology or the “Scripture interpreting Scripture” method of translation. Orthodox theology embraces the major councils of church history. “Scripture interpreting scripture” is an evidence based method orthodox Christians use to assess the Bible. Orthodox interpretation relies on multiple Scriptural witnesses from the Old and New Testaments for meaning. Biblical theology opposes the “proof texting” method of interpretation shaping major theological beliefs from a single passage of Scripture. Proof texting typically projects personal political agendas rather than the life of Christ as reflected in the Bible. Scripture interpreting scripture is a time tested evidence based methodology.
Before the Workshop please prepare a laptop, tablet, or smart phone. Download the free Hope XP and Blue Letter Bible apps. The Hope XP app has access to all sexual health terms of the Bible. The Blue Letter Bible app is a free search engine to assist in translating sexual health texts.
All sexual health terms in the Workshop define with Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic for the Old Testament, Koine Greek and Classical Greek for the New Testament. English Bible citations in the Workshop come from the The New International Version (NIV), the current most preferred English translation. (Rainer, 2021)The Old Testament Hebrew text reflects the Westminster Leningrad Codex (WLC) and the Greek New Testament is based on the Morphological Greek New Testament (GNT). The WLC and GNT are cited for accuracy. Click on the WLC and GNT links for a deep dive into the integrity of these manuscripts. The Workshop places Biblical languages of Hebrew and Greek in easy to understand ways for parents.
Each sexual health term has a unique identifier. For example, the Greek New Testament (GNT) verb por-NEW-oh,“to sex traffic humans”, connects to the number 72G. The “G” stands for the Greek language. The Old Testament Hebrew counterpart to “sacred sex trafficking” is zah-NAH. This Old Testament term identifies with 72H. The “H” tells readers zah-NAH is a Hebrew word.
For example:
72G. To Sex Traffic Humans or To Engage the Secular Sex Trade, por-NEW-oh (Rev 2:20) Strong, g4203
Nevertheless, I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophet. By her teaching she misleads my servants into sexual immorality (por-NEW-oh) and the eating of food sacrificed to idols.
8 times in 7 GNT (Morphological Greek New Testament) verses
72H. Sacred Sex Trafficking or Secular Sex Trade, zah-NAH (Gen 34:31) Strong, h2181
But they replied, “Should he have treated our sister like a prostitute (zah-NAH)?”
93 times in 81 WLC (Westminster Leningrad Codex) verses
The (GNT) term “to sex traffic humans or to engage the secular sex trade”, por-NEW-oh, is followed by the phonetic Greek spelling for correct pronunciation. The emphasis falls on the second syllable, NEW with raised voice inflection. Parentheses mark the Biblical citation, (Rev 2:20) so the Biblical verse can be examined by the reader. Hover a cursor over (Rev 2:20) and the option of “clicking on” a link leads to the Blue Letter Bible (BLB). This free app is breakthrough technology for studying sexual health terms. Some of the features of the Blue Letter Bible (BLB) include:
Multiple translations
Definitions
Original languages
Commentaries
Lists of word use in the entire Bible
Next, the Strong’s concordance number appears, Strong, g4203. The number 4203 follows “g” standing for the Greek language. Hover a cursor over the Strong’s number and the link connects to the Blue Letter Bible (BLB) examining how a word translates from Genesis through to Revelation. Finally, the number of times within verses of the (GNT) appears.
8 times in 7 GNT (Morphological Greek New Testament) verses
The Old Testament Hebrew word for sex trafficking humans or to engage the sex trade, zah-NAH follows the same method. 72H means the Hebrew, zah-NAH, connects in meaning to the (GNT) New Testament por-NEW-oh, 72G. Next the phonetic pronunciation appears, zah-NAH. Emphasis falls on the second syllable, NAH. Within parentheses the citation (Gen 34:31) can be clicked linking to the Blue Letter Bible (BLB) for assessment. Finally, the number of times the Hebrew term in the Westminster Leningrad Codex (WLC) appears.
For example:
93 times in 81 WLC (Westminster Leningrad Codex) verses
The Hope of the Revelation Workshop
Remember the day you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb, when he said to me, “Assemble the people before me to hear my words so that they may learn to revere me as long as they live in the land and may teach them to their children.” (Deuteronomy 4:10)
The vision of the Revelation Workshop restores the Word of God into the hands of caregivers. Faith based families believe God’s word can change not only humankind but the individual family. The great reformations of history including Moses, The Prophets, King Josiah, Jesus, and the early church were at core sexual health movements. All great cultural revolutions of faith focused on intimacy with God and the Bible’s sexual health and safety vision for children.
The prayerful outcome of this work seeks to bring sexual education choices back to caregivers based on the sacred text of God’s word. What if this generation can replace the porn industry as the primary sexual health educator for our children? What if this reform bases on the Word of God in the hands of caring parents?
The Book of Revelation and Intimacy with God
“Seeing God in creation, Creator-God sees into me, intimacy.”
The Book of Revelation speaks hope and healing to people of faith. Christ rules over the New Heavens and New Earth in the final reveal of chapters 21-22. (Revelation 21-22) The Lamb overcomes global pandemics defeating corrupt political actors. The climax of Christ’s reign redeems the trauma of human trafficking.
John the Revelator “sees” healing for broken humanity in the final snap shot of the Bible.
Rev 22:1-4
Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb down the middle of the great street of the city. On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations…They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads.
The Books of Revelation and Genesis both begin with “seeing”. Intimacy can be thought of as, “Seeing God in creation, The Creator-God sees into me, intimacy.” Genesis uses the phrase, “and God saw…” seven times in chapters 1. (Genesis 1:4,10,12,18,21,25,31) John the Revelator too speaks of “seeing”:
Rev 1:2 …who testifies to everything he saw—that is, the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ.
“Look, he is coming with the clouds,” and “every eye will see him,
They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads.
Intimacy can be thought of as fully knowing another in Spirit, beauty, pleasure, health, compassion, reconciliation and sexuality. The Prophets of the Old Testament believed the downfall of the people of Israel linked to lack of knowing God. The Hebrew term yah-DAH can mean to know intimately or fully.
Hos 5:4
“Their deeds do not permit them to return to their God. A spirit of prostitution (spirit of human sex trafficking) is in their heart; they do not acknowledge (yah-DAH) the LORD.
Hos 6:3
Let us acknowledge (yah-DAH) the LORD; let us press on to acknowledge (yah-DAH)him. As surely as the sun rises, he will appear; he will come to us like the winter rains, like the spring rains that water the earth.”
The Hebrew word for intimacy, yah-DAH, connects to the premier sexual health positive term for genital intercourse of Genesis 4:1.
Gen 4:1
Adam made love to (yah-DAH) his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. She said, “With the help of the LORD I have brought forth a man.”
The New Testament also speaks of fully knowing of God. The Greek term for knowing parallels the Hebrew word, yah-DAH.
Jhn 8:19
Then they asked him, “Where is your father?” “You do not know me or my Father,” Jesus replied. “If you knew me, you would know my Father also.”
Jhn 17:3
Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.
Jesus mirrors the words of Old Testament Prophets when indicting first century religious leaders for lost awareness. “Knowing” in these passages connects intimacy with God to a spiritual, beautiful, healthy, pleasurable, compassionate, reconciling relationship with Christ. The Workshop views intimacy with God as central to treat problematic sexuality.
Summary of Revelation
The Book of Revelation begins with Jesus encouraging the persecuted church. The first mandates in this great letter? “Write this down…’Do not fear.’” (Revelation 1:11-17) The final two chapters of Revelation reveal the last chapter of life…God controls human destiny. As the Workshop moves through Revelation’s pandemics, politics, and porn…let us…not be afraid…God has your last chapter covered.
Rev 1:17
When I saw him (Jesus), I fell at his feet as though dead. Then he placed his right hand on me and said: “Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last.”
As a parent and grandparent, unsettled thoughts for my family come to mind. Propagandists coerce sexual politics onto elementary school children. The porn industry leads as primary sex educator for children. Faith institutions neglect the spirituality and beauty of Biblical sexuality modeled by Jesus. Until now.
The goal of the Revelation Workshop places the Word of God into hands of caregivers for the sexual education of their children. The Workshop bases on Biblical data not sexual politics. Parents choose the direction for the family based on the inspired, unerring, unfailing Word of God reflecting through the life of Christ.
Accurate Biblical Content
Sexual health education requires accurate content. The Revelation Workshop places reliable Biblical data into the hands of caregivers who are commanded, “to teach their children, so the next generation would know them, even the children yet to be born, and they in turn would tell their children.” (Psalm 78:5-7)
26 unique sexual health terms appear in 22 chapters of The Book of Revelation. 9 sexual health positive words occur: covenant, naked, conceive, give birth to, labor, offspring, virgin, bride, and bridegroom. All Revelation sexual health positive terms first appear in the Book of Genesis. I call Genesis “the sexual health big picture of the Bible”. The Book of Genesis sets the tone for all Scripture where 23% of all sexual health terms in the Bible first appear.
All 10 Revelation unhealthy sexuality terms connect to sacred sex trafficking. The final unhealthy sexuality term in Revelation is male sex trafficker, “POR-nos”. Interesting to note “sex trafficked female” is the final Hebrew unhealthy sexuality term in the Book of Genesis, zah-NAH. (Strong, g4205 and h2181) The sexual health vocabulary of the Bible shows remarkable unity throughout.
Seven names and locations for sex trafficking occur in Revelation: Nicolaitans, Balak, Balaam, Jezebel, Sodom, Babylon, and lead female sex trafficker literally, “The Mother of Sex Traffickers”. The only name not mentioned in the Old Testament is, “Nicolaitans”. This means “people of victory” in Greek and may not have existed in the Old Testament.
This may mean that John the scribe of Revelation relied on the Genesis sexual health big picture for content. This makes sense given that nearly 25% of all sexual health terms in the Bible first appear in the Book of Genesis. The sexual health vocabulary of Genesis weaves a thematic message of intimacy, health, and safety throughout the Bible.
The premier sexual health positive word in Revelation is, covenant.
Then God’s temple in heaven was opened, and within his temple was seen the ark of his covenant (dia-THEY-kay). And there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake and a severe hailstorm.
Covenant connects to the first sexual health positive mandate of (Genesis 1:22). The “be fruitful and increase” command begins every relationship or covenant in the Book of Genesis. Click on the (Genesis 1:22) link and all “be fruitful and increase” Scriptures can be examined. This phrase means reproduction of the created order including the term for intimacy of genital intercourse, yah-DAH, to know. (Strong, h3045) The word group for sexual intimacy and health connect to “covenant” throughout Genesis.
100% of the Revelation unhealthy sexuality terms link directly to the economy of human sex trafficking. Four Greek words, called the “porn word group”, describe sex trafficking. Por-NEW-oh is the action verb meaning “ to sex traffic humans”. (Strong, g4203) The verb appears 8 times in the New Testament 5 of which occur in Revelation. All Revelation por-NEW-oh citations connect to sacred cult worship rather than the secular sex trade called prostitution.
Por-NAY-ah is the feminine noun for “sacred sex trafficking” appearing 24 times in the New Testament. (Strong, g4202) Revelation uses sacred sex trafficking 7 times, 9 times in Paul’s writings and the Gospels with Acts cite 8 times. All Revelation uses of por-NAY-ah occur with idolatrous worship and not secular prostitution.
POR-nay is the noun for sex trafficked female or female sex trafficker appearing 12 times in the New Testament. (Strong, g4204) Revelation uses POR-nay 5 times connecting to demons and spirits, Jesus refers to sex trafficked females 3 times, Paul twice, and the General Epistles twice.
POR-nos is the noun for sex trafficked male or male sex trafficker. (Strong, g4205) Paul cites male traffickers 6 times, the writer of Hebrews twice, and Revelation 2 times. Both Revelation references to POR-nos link idolatrous worship to male sex traffickers and not to males in the secular sex trade.
The Book of Revelation uses the porn word group 19 of 54 times in the New Testament. 34% of the New Testament use of the porn word group appears in the Book of Revelation. John, Revelation’s scribe, and Paul the Apostle are the only authors to use all four forms of the porn word group.
Sacred sex trafficking is the Greek New Testament root word for the modern term, porn as in pornography, porn industry, etc. This may be helpful to caregivers as they teach their children about sexual health, erotic images, objectification for personal gratification, and dehumanizing others for sex and money.
The Porn Word Group and Sacred Sex Trafficking
The sex trade formed a major economic piece of ancient Near Eastern culture the Workshop calls, “sexeconomy”. In the Sumerian era 1750 BCE religious actors coerced children, men, and women into places of worship for “sacred sex trafficking”. The Old and New Testaments of the Bible feature extensive sacred sex trafficking references over 1500 years of authorship. The sacred sex trade devoted food, human sacrifice, and money in places of worship to appease deities and fund institutions. The sex trade of the ancient Near East also involved secular sex workers many of whom were trafficked by slave owners.
Mt. Vesuvius entombed thousands of Pompeii’s residents in a pyroclastic cloud of debris in the first century CE. Volcanic thermal ash both buried and preserved the shapes of 1150 bodies and structures with their artwork. 25 distinct brothels have been excavated in the ancient city of Pompeii’s 10,000-20,000 inhabitants. Inscriptions on buildings and streets reveal penises pointing potential customers to the largest brothel called, “The Wolf Den”. Two stories tall with ten rooms, frescoes featured erotic images and graffiti etched with customer reviews. Small windowless rooms painted with pornographic images offered menus of service with pricing for various forms of intercourse. Pompeii’s brothels prove the existence of the first century secular sex trade distinct from temple cults.
Sex trade workers were often trafficked slaves or lower income women. 80% of female sex workers’ names inscribed on the Wolf Den’s walls appear to have been trafficked slaves. https://aeon.co/essays/what-pompeiis-ruins-say-about-its-enslaved-prostituted-women This means the ancient world consisted of at least two kinds of sex trafficking. The sacred sex trade involved religious institutions with religious worship. The secular sex industry featured brothels like the Wolf Den distinct from temple cults. Both the religious and secular sex trades shared common ground of trafficking slaves and the very poor. The trade of selling humans founded the sexeconomy of both sacred priests and sex industry entrepreneurs (pimps). https://www.pompeiitours.it/attractions/brothels-of-pompeii/ https://aeon.co/essays/what-pompeiis-ruins-say-about-its-enslaved-prostituted-women.
The Bible cites numerous sections for the sexual safety of children. Leviticus prohibits trafficking family members into the sex trade. Leviticus 19:29 commands parents not to sell their daughters for sex. Tannehil makes the case that trafficking a child was more affordable than paying an expensive marriage dowry. (Note too the use of the trigger term, chaw-LAWL, often connecting a decline in sexual health and safety. Chaw-LAWL first appears in the sexual health decline snap shot of Genesis 6. The underlying reason for annihilation of humankind by flood in Genesis 7-9 is global sexual trauma.) (Gen 6:1; Strong, h2490) The prophets of both Old and New Testaments speak against trafficking boys, girls, and adults.
“ ‘Do not degrade (chaw-LAWL) your daughter by making her a prostitute (zah-NAH), or the land will turn to prostitution and be filled with wickedness.
Approximately 1000 years after Moses, the Prophet Joel speaks to the sexeconomy of trafficking children.
They cast lots for my people and traded boys for prostitutes (zah-NAH); they sold girls for wine to drink.
In the first century CE Paul the Apostle and John the scribe of Revelation repeat similar concern.
1Ti 1:10
..for the sexually immoral (POR-nos, male sex traffickers), for those practicing homosexuality, for slave traders (human traffickers) and liars and perjurers—and for whatever else is contrary to the sound doctrine….
Rev 18:11-13
“The merchants of the earth will weep and mourn over her because no one buys their cargoes anymore—…cargoes of cinnamon and spice, of incense, myrrh and frankincense, of wine and olive oil, of fine flour and wheat; cattle and sheep; horses and carriages; and human beings sold as slaves.
The phrase “human beings sold as slaves” literally means, “selling human flesh and the souls of men.”
Trafficking provided a sexeconomy not only for the secular sex trade, but also “substantial part of the temple’s income” (Tannehill, 1980, p. 79). The business of the sacred sex trade provided tremendous profit to religious institutions. The sexeconomy coerced sex workers to perform for more money. One sex worker named Metiche, with the stage name, Clepsydra-stop watch, streamlined length of customer intercourse for greater income. (Tannehill, 1980, p. 100). King Solomon posted the greatest economic growth in Israel’s history. The emperor also introduced the sexeconomy of Ashtoreth, known as Asherah, with its history of sex trafficking. 300 years after Solomon introduced Israel to the sacred sex trade of his wives, King Josiah’s reform removed the quarters for sex trafficked males from the temple in Jerusalem.
1Ki 11:5-8
He (Solomon) followed Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and Molek the detestable god of the Ammonites. So Solomon did evil in the eyes of the LORD; he did not follow the LORD completely, as David his father had done. On a hill east of Jerusalem, Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the detestable god of Moab, and for Molek the detestable god of the Ammonites. He did the same for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and offered sacrifices to their gods.
2Ki 23:7
He (Josiah) also tore down the quarters of the male shrine prostitutes that were in the temple of the LORD, the quarters where women did weaving for Asherah.
The Hebrew language uses gendered words for sex trade income. Female earnings are called eth-NAWN. (Strong, h868) The specific male sex trade term for income is meh-CHERE. (Strong, h4242)
You must not bring the earnings of a female prostitute (eth-NAWN) or of a male prostitute (meh-CHERE) into the house of the LORD your God to pay any vow, because the LORD your God detests them both.
Four Forms of The Porn Word Group
God has always connected to humankind through words. Jesus is the word. Sexual health and safety terms of the Bible are important for parents of faith. People of faith understand Scripture bears the image of God breathed by His Spirit. Examining the word for porn in the Bible may very well assist parents educating their children.
The Revelation Workshop uses the the online Blue Letter Bible search engine to assess terms with integrity. The purpose places accurate Biblical content into the hands of caregivers to teach their children about sexual health. Examining the porn word group of Revelation may help parents communicate values about the image of God versus objectifying humans for sex and money.
The first porn citation in Revelation is the verb por-NEW-oh “to sex traffic humans.” (Strong, g4203) All 8 occurrences in 7 verses of the GNT (Morphological Greek New Testament) term por-NEW-oh link to religious cult practice and idolatry.
Rev 2:14
Nevertheless, I have a few things against you: There are some among you who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to entice the Israelites to sin so that they ate food sacrificed to idols and committed sexual immorality (por-NEW-oh).
An infamous Old Testament character, Balaam led the Israelites into the sacred sex trade of Numbers 25:1-3.
Num 25:1-3
While Israel was staying in Shittim, the men began to indulge in sexual immorality (zah-NAH is Hebrew Old Testament and por-NEW-oh is Greek) with Moabite women, who invited them to the sacrifices to their gods. The people ate the sacrificial meal and bowed down before these gods. So Israel yoked themselves to the Baal of Peor. And the LORD’s anger burned against them.
Both the Hebrew word zah-NAH (WLC) and the Greek term por-NEW-oh (GNT) connect to food sacrificed to idols and the religion of Baal. Meaning lord, Baal worship links the sex trade to religious cult practice. “Trafficking” appears in the porn definition due to, “power differential”. When a religious institution directs worshipers to have sex for pay, the clergy act in place of the deity. The clergy’s position legitimizes the sex act for both the victim trafficked and the payers. The temple staff received financial benefit from the intercourse. The clergy mediated blessing to the sacred sex participants from deities. Recent history has shown the power differential in clergy sex offending cases. Perpetrators used positions of power to groom and then assault children by ensuring trust from the parents. This power differential legitimized in part because clergy stood in place of deity during religious rituals.
The second porn term to appear in Revelation is the feminine noun, por-NAY-ah, sacred sex trafficking. Appearing 25 times in 24 verses of the GNT, Por-NAY-ah connects to sacred cult practices in 20 of the 25 GNT occurrences.(Strong, g4202) The Gospels feature por-NAY-ah 5 times: twice as cause for divorce and evil thoughts, and once in conflict with religious leaders who resist the idea they are sex trafficked spawn. (Matthew 5:32, 15:19, 19:9; Mark 7:22 and John 8:41) Beginning in Acts 15:20 through Revelation all uses of por-NAY-ah occur with sacred cult worship of food sacrificed to idols. 80% of all uses of por-NAY-ah link to religious practices in the GNT.
I have given her time to repent of her immorality (por-NAY-ah), but she is unwilling.
The third form of the porn word group is POR-nay, sex trafficked female or female sex trafficker. (Strong, g4204)
One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute (POR-nay), who sits by many waters.
Sex trafficked female or female sex trafficker, POR-nayis Greek for the Hebrew word, zah-NAH. (Strong, g4204 and h2181) Appearing 93 times in 91 verses of the WLC, zah-NAH connects to rape and coercive sex in Genesis.
Shechem, a local tribal chief, rapes Dinah, the daughter of Leah and Jacob. In retaliation, Dinah’s brothers annihilate the chieftain’s male population. When confronted for the massacre, the brothers respond,
“Should he have treated our sister like a prostitute (zah-NAH)?” (Genesis 34:31)
The first Biblical use of zah-NAH links the non consensual nature of sex trafficked girls and women. Dinah’s brothers compare her rape to the violence against sex trafficked females. The final two uses of zah-NAH in Genesis relate the coercive sex snap shot of Tamar and Judah.
Gen 38:15-16
When Judah saw her (Tamar), he thought she was a prostitute (zah-NAH) for she had covered her face. Not realizing that she was his daughter-in-law, he went over to her by the roadside and said, “Come now, let me sleep with you.” “And what will you give me to sleep with you?” she asked.
This coercive sexuality snap-shot in Genesis 38 narrates the family betrayal of Judah and his daughter in law, Tamar. Judah promised his son, Shelah, in marriage to Tamar but reneged. The vengeful daughter retaliates posing as a zah-NAH, sex trade worker. She conspires to seduce a pregnancy by her father in law. Judah impregnates Tamar unaware of their family connection. When Judah attempts to send payment for the sex act, Tamar is not called a secular prostitute. The designation forTamar is, “sacred sex trade worker”, kah-day-SHAW. (Strong, h6948) Kah-day-SHAW builds on the Hebrew cultic religious term for “sacred or holy” as “God is holy”.
Gen 38:21
He asked the men who lived there, “Where is (Tamar) the shrine prostitute (kah-day-SHAW) who was beside the road at Enaim?” “There hasn’t been any shrine prostitute (kah-day-SHAW) here,” they said.
53 out of 93 uses of zah-NAH in the WLC link to sacred cult practices. Add the 11 times kah-day-SHAW and kah-DEISH appear for sex trafficked females and males, and this means 60% of all Old Testament zah-NAH citations connect directly to the sacred sex trade. The majority use of zah-NAH links to sacred sex trafficking rather than secular prostitution.
The fourth form of the porn word group, male sex trafficker or sex trafficked male, POR-nos,appears 10 times in the GNT. (Strong, g4205) Seven citations directly connect to sacred cult practices of idolatry. The writer of Hebrews and Paul both cite POR-nos without mention of religious worship. These references may indicate secular sex trade work. 70% of GNT male sex trade references link to sacred sex trafficking. The Hebrew parallel to POR-nos is kah-DEISH appearing 6 times in 6 WLC verses. (Strong, H6945) 81% of all male sex trade references in the Bible connect to institutional sexeconomy of religious clerics within a sacrificial system called idolatry.
Rev 21:8
But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral (POR-nos), those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.”
The majority use of the porn word group in the Bible points to coercive trafficking of humans for the sexeconomy of religious cults. This may assist parents as they speak to their children about pornography. Restoring the image of God to human sexuality may treat human trafficking and erotic media of the porn industry. Is it possible objectification and dehumanization form the common ground of trafficking and pornography? Could the intrinsic value of God’s image redeem dehumanization of trafficking? Can this conversation with our children begin to replace the porn industry as the primary education or sexual health?
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