In the Old Testament there are types and shadows that carry symbolic value.Traditionally speaking, a type is interpreted as a person, place, thing or an event having a future fulfillment. In more similar terms, types are molds or templates, patterns and examples of spiritual realities. For example, the Children of Israel in the Old Testament is a type of the Church in the New Testament.
In the Bible, bondage is an illustration of the enslaving power of sin.
In the Old Testament, the Children of Israel were in slavery in Egypt. That bondage of slavery in Egypt is an illustration of the sinner’s bondage in sin. Egypt is a type of the world.
We all are born into sin, meaning with a sinful nature thanks to Adam. When he disobeyed God, humanity’s nature shifted from a dispensation of innocence to the dispensation of conscience. Dispensations is a whole another topic of discussion so I’m not going to go into that. But basically, because of Adam’s sin, we all inherit a sinful nature until we receive salvation.
Jesus shedding blood for us redeemed us from spiritual death to spiritual life.
Salvation replaces that old nature with a new nature—a divine nature.
We now are new creatures with a new nature.
Paul says in 2 Corinthians 5:17 KJV, “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.”
However, that transformation happens in our spirit. Our soul is still lurking with old nature tendencies and habits that are sinful. This is where bondage comes in because people are in bondage to different sins. Meaning they are slave to that sin. For an example you may have someone who is in bondage to alcoholism or pornography. They can’t come away from it because they are bound by it. So alcohol or lust is their master.
To be free from bondage requires a renewal of the mind and deliverance.
Being set free sounds as if that's the end result, but, it’s not because you must stay free.
Getting free is step 1, but staying free will be a lifestyle of steps.
How does this relate to relationships? Glad you asked!
Some people are dressed up and polished, and they say all the right things, but behind all of that they are bound in sin. If you connect with them, you will find yourself bound too. Some people have the thought that in spite of a person’s bondage that they could be the one to help that person while dating. I used to think that too. But I learned that God would not have you to do missionary dating.
I also learned that this is one of the tricks of the enemy. He is very cunning. He knows bondage.
Darkness is his domain.
The enemy watches and is attentive.
He knows what you like and what you don’t like.
Just like God sends people for divine connections, the enemy also sends people for demonic connections. The enemy doesn't care and doesn’t play fair. He wants to detour you and get you to abort the mission God has for your life.
This is one of the ways he does it, wrong relationships!
The thing that you have been set free from, is the very thing the enemy will send your way to tempt you because he wants you to be in bondage. He doesn’t want you to be free. He wants you to live a sinful life so you’ll end up with him in eternal hell.
But that’s not God’s heart for you. God wishes that no man would perish. God does not want you in perishing relationships or relationships that are bondage.
God is all for you having a Bae but not Bae Bondage.
The Bible talks about generational curses. Those curses in a family’s bloodline are from generations and generations of sin bondage. As believers, we should be breaking free from bondages and also breaking generational curses.
The bible says in Galatians 5:1 KJV, “Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.”
Paul was speaking metaphorically because an animal (or person) bound by a yoke must obey its master. Sometimes if you aren’t careful, the very thing that God delivered you from will come to Bae you. Before you know it, you will be in bondage or back in bondage again.
You want to be in a relationship with someone who will be a bondage breaker, not a bondage maker.
Also, you yourself want to make sure that you are a bondage breaker and not a bondage maker.
