Isa 4:1 And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.

Isaiah 4 is a continuation from chapter 3. In Isaiah 3, we read of God’s judgment on the daughters of Zion because of her sins and loftiness (Isaiah 3:16-26). The result of God’s judgment is: “Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war. And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground” (Isaiah 3:25, 26). Isaiah 4 begins with a vivid description of the desperate condition of the daughters of Zion. Their men were killed in the war. There was a shortage of men for the women. The women were desperate for marriage. They said to any man that was left: “And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach” (v.1). Seven women would chase after one man. They were desperate for marriage that they did not expect their husbands to provide for them at all: “We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel”.  They were happy to simply take the name of a husband: “Only let us be called by thy name.” They made the concessions just to take away the reproach of being unmarried and childless. It is a sad picture; don’t you think so? When women were willing to share one husband, did not expect their husbands to provide for the household, just to get married and have children.                                                                                                              Sisters: Don’t be too desperate for marriage and marry for the wrong reasons. The women of Zion married in order to take away the reproach of being branded as unmarried. But they still arrogantly want to do things their own way; they want to provide their own things their own way. It contains a spiritual lesson for us. In the New Testament, Jesus is presented as the Bridegroom and the church His Bride (Revelations 21:9; Luke 5:34, 35). In his lengthy instructions to husbands and wives recorded in Ephesians 5:22-33, Paul inserted this message: “This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church” (Ephesians 5:25). The church is the Bride of Christ. Is Christ a polygamist? The answer is a definite NO! The Bride of Christ is always used in a singular form, never Brides. Paul says there is only One Body (Ephesians 4:4), and that body is the church (Ephesians 1:22, 23). Christ has only ONE body. The "seven women" are like the many denominations in this world. They only want to be CALLED by the name of Christ, to be His brides: “only let us be called by thy name”. And, they also want to do things their own way: “We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel”. They want their own doctrines, instead of the doctrine of Christ. The apostle John warns us about them and says those who do not preach the sound doctrine do not have God (2 John 1:9-11). Paul says such “churches” do not preach sound doctrine but fables (2 Timothy 4:3, 4).                                                                                                                            They also want to clothe themselves in their own apparel, instead of being clothed in the righteousness of Christ. What God condemns as sin, they say it’s not sinful. They approve adulterous marriage when God condemns it (Matthew 19:9). They approve the homosexual lifestyle and same sex marriages when God considers them abominations (Romans 1:32). Christ has only ONE bride. His bride submits to His will and is clothed in His righteousness (Revelation 19:8). Don’t settle for any husband; choose Christ as your bridegroom. Choose the church that submits to the Bridegroom.