The basic ideas of "fray"

Fray: disorderly or protracted (drawn out)fight, struggle or dispute.

Fray is the description of what is presently occuring in the "woman in the wilderness"; ie, the assembly/body "church", who lives by reason and emotion based fear instead of faith.

Fray can be described by three basic ideas. These three ideas I will describe in three sentences in parable or indirect form and then will explain the meaning of each sentence. If anyone has ears to hear this, then hear it. #1. "I'm going to let you go!"#2. "We're not guilty men!"#3. "I'm for retirement".

Fray is the God directed struggle which is on-going within the woman in the wilderness, the end result of which will be the SPIRITUAL bride of Christ. The fray is actually the "heavenly fire" of God purging out all dross and purifying and cleansing within the woman in the wilderness, so that she will be a suitable submissive wife of He who bought and paid for her.

Fray is also earthquake or shaking or sifting within the life of each individual member who makes up this woman. God is "loosening things up a bit" in and between those who make up the woman.

"Beloved! be not held in surprise by the BURNING among you which for putting you to the proof is befalling you as though a surprising thing were happening to you" - 1Peter 4:12 -

"Whose voice shook the earth then, but now has He promised saying-yet once for all I will SHAKE not only the earth, but also the heaven. But the saying-yet once for all-makes clear the removal of the things which can be SHAKEN as of things done with- that they remain which cannot be SHAKEN" - Heb 12:26-27 - Rotherham translation

Now for the first parabolic sentence. "I am going to let you go!" The idea behind this is fear. This fear leads to the individual's working for salvation, because if they don't, God is "going to let them go"and they will be lost. Fear causes (is) torment or correction.

"Fear exists not in love, but perfect(complete) love casts fear outside, because fear has torment (or correction)); he that fears has not been made perfect (complete) in love." - 1John 4:18 -

This is the fear of God much spoken of in scripture, which is good WHEN it leads an individual to mature by seeking God with his whole heart(heart:center of man's being; the ground or seat of his intentions or motives). When the individual does this his former fear-living is turned into faith-living and begins to live eventually (as long as he continues on this "road") in idea #3. More on that number later. This fear or "heavenly fire" is God's burning in the individual member of the wilderness woman, and is God's shaking earthquake which causes the individual to leave off those things which hinder the life of faith (flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God). These are worldly habits and attachments which as the individual wholeheartedly seeks to know God, fall away, as it were, without effort on the part of the individual. Idea #2 to come.