Ritual of Universal Inclusion

If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: (Isaiah 58:13)

Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that layeth hold on it; that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil. 3 Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to the Lord, speak, saying, The Lord hath utterly separated me from his people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree. 4 For thus saith the Lord unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant; 5 Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off. 6 Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the Lord, to serve him, and to love the name of the Lord, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant; (Isaiah 56:2-6)

This is fascinating. We have all been given the idea that before Jesus the Israelites were God's only people and yet here is a clear description of how a non-Jew could potentially show that he wanted to join the Israelite nation and be one of God's people. Obviously it would not suffice for him to stop murdering and stealing, he may not have been doing this before. Apparently it would not be sufficient to stop worshipping idols, even an atheist would do the same. The way for a non-Jew, a Gentile, to declare his loyalty to Jehovah God of Israel was to start keeping the seventh-day Sabbath that was unique to Jehovah alone. A Gentile convert that kept the Sabbath was not able to be admitted into the ceremonies of Jerusalem but was promised full access in the New Jerusalem. The Sabbath is the ritual of universal inclusion.

A castrated man could not have a biological family, and this being the standard form of church growth in Israel made him seem spiritually unfruitful too. But God declares that if that eunuch is faithful in choosing the best things then Jehovah will give him fulfilment beyond that of having children. I think the prophet Daniel is an excellent example of this, and in a less literal sense the apostle Paul. The God who made man's pleasures can make your life pleasurable whether that includes celibacy or not.