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Thanks to God, the Lord Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit for truth and salvation from a spiritually blind and corrupt world. Thanks to all down through the ages who have worked so hard and helped Christians develop ancient languages study. A child can understand simple things, but profound studies are left and contemplated as a man. (1 Cor. 13.11)
Scriptural and biblical revelation
It is illusory to think biblical marriage is instituted by mere contract or vow! Marriage is a physical sex act between a virgin female and a male (Ex. 22.16, Dt. 22.13-21, 28, 29)—biblical and written revelation. There must be evidence of the marriage agreement with the bridegroom and acceptance by the father of the girl.
Natural revelation of female marital eligibility
The virginity of a woman is proof of a woman's eligibility to marry—natural revelation. The male partner by either sharing or violating the virgin female's chastity becomes either a husband or a polygamist (although legally disallowed in many places), the latter sexual status is in contradiction to a new testament principle of monogamy (1 Cor. 7.27, 1 Ti. 3.12). Nature and God's written word, natural and biblical revelation, harmonize as to the enlightenment of the essence of marriage and encourage the continuance of a chaste relationship.
The once virgin female partner no longer has a justifiable opportunity to have sex with anyone else as long as her first male sex partner is alive and she did not officially marry him—to do so would commit fornication. In the case of the female's first man dying, she would have a justifiable opportunity to date or marry someone else because the marriage bond she created through first-time sex can no longer be valid if the man has deceased (Romans 7.1-3). Nevertheless, sexual experiences with men other than the first man (while he is living) defile the female and commence a degree of unchastity even if the first man were to die. In order for her to marry, such fornication would require all of the men of her promiscuity to be dead before she could have a clear account of no male cognizance of her, and it may be very hard to prove.
Marriage, unity and chastity: our need to understand pure marriage
Marriage, much different than fornication, is based upon the principle of unity, “one flesh” (Gen. 2.24) and chastity. Eve, the first woman (implicitly a virgin) on earth, is referenced as an authoritative example of a natural and pure woman, having an acceptable marriage with the male Adam through coitus, meeting the purity requirements of both the new and old covenants. She did not have an er v'at da v'ar, my transliteration for “nakedness of a matter”—“עֶרְוַ֣ת דָּבָ֔ר” (Unicode/XML Leningrad Codex, Dt.23:15) and correlate it with “uncleanness” (Dt. 23.14, Dt. 24.1) in the KJV, defilement or reason to be divorced.
When she married Adam, through having sex and uniting physically and spiritually, her intellect and mentality changed, she obtained and possessed a one-male cognizance. Of course, the male who became intimate with her was Adam, the only other human being on earth. Intellectually, he became more than co-existent, he became one with her. They were a clean and undefiled, marital entity, a united body, each became part of the other, one flesh (Gen. 2.24), and they fulfilled the marriage institution, social and psychological adherence and oneness commandment: “Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.” (Gen. 2.24)
Today, in order to preserve our God-given marital institution, we need to look at the cognizance factor and make background checks for males and females before marriage, looking and finding that neither have any previous sex experiences. Our erring, mainstream churches do not have pastors and teachers that understand and promote sexual purity. One teacher condones adultery and another unclean marriage with a defiled woman. Our colleges and universities are full of women partying at night.
The need for the study and emphasis of the eras of the biblical law has been evident. Islam, Eastern religions and other anti-Christian influences pervade the media. Due to our lack of moral and physical borders, our culture in America has deteriorated to the point the common person doesn't have a clear perception of the difference between adultery, fornication and pure marriage.
NWO hegemony has emasculated the male and masculated the female. We have fallen politically from Jeffersonism to Lincolnism to Reconstruction to Jim Crow to Babelist diversity and transgenderism. Instead of correcting and helping the abused, we are promoting abuse through common law marriage and fornication, whereas there should be deterrent and penalty.
Moses’ redaction of the first law (Dt. 24:1-3): divorce for non-dowry brides permitted
Now, on the other hand, divorce is a psychological-physical separation through commitment (1 Cor. 7.10, 11): when the act of divorce is put in writing it becomes a written contract and public notice (Dt. 24.2-3). In the Old Testament, divorce was permitted (Dt. 24.1-3) with some women, but not dowry brides (Dt. 22.19), and sexual immorality or adultery on their part would have earned the death penalty (Lev. 20.10). See (Dt. 22:22-24).
The heart of the people of God had become hardened, and Moses gave a redaction (Dt. 24.1-3) of the first law including the Ten Commandments (Ex. 21). It is the book of Deuteronomy, meaning etymologically, “second law”, which I discussed more thoroughly in chapter II. Then, a man could actually divorce a woman due to something he perceived as naked or unclean (Dt. 24.1) in his view of female morality. An unclean or divorced woman who was given (written) by her ex-husband a book of divorcement was allowed to marry again. It was a contract: transliterated “bibli'on apastasi'ou” in the Greek (Brenton Septuagint, Dt. 24.3). The words in Hebrew are “סֵ֤פֶר כְּרִיתֻת֙” (Tanach.us, 24.1)—transliterated, according to reading the Hebrew from right to left and then giving my transliteration to English from left to right, “s'ayfer keritut'”. (Note, sometimes the Greek and Hebrew texts may be numbered differently. For a couple of things, translators and editors don’t always have the same manuscripts, and people do things differently.)
However, later, the Lord Jesus Christ reproved the redaction of Moses and referred to the one-man purity of Eve (and even the one-woman cognizance—sexual purity of Adam). Thus, since Moses referred to the prophet to come, the Lord Jesus Christ (Dt. 18.15) and his authority, divorce (Mt. 19.9) may be permitted in some cases (1 Cor. 7.11, 15) but female defilement in marriage (fornication) or remarriage (adultery) was not tolerated in the New Testament.
So, considering the biblical facts concerning the essence of marriage and divorce, and the world-wide immoral sexual circumstances, there are probably many state unregistered (unpublished) marriages assuming or not the consummation/marital deposit had been followed with marital acceptance (more so than are revealed by statistics, or spoken of) and divorces. Subsequently, due to the disregard of biblical precepts, many unregistered and registered forbidden, some acts of fornication, others adultery, but legalized, marriages have resulted.
Today there are many questions concerning marriage. There are many different views stemming from social, legal, and religious philosophy. From a Christian perspective the biblical law of the Old Testament delineates the boundaries of marriage: the Apostle Paul wrote, “Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?” (Rom. 7.1) Jesus, upholding the guidance of the law, said, “Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.” (Mt. 5.17). Theological men (1 Cor. 13.11), not heretics, perverts and erring seminary children, use the law knowing it is not for the “… righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, 10 For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine; 11 According to the glorious gospel of the blessed God…” (1 Ti. 1.9-11). The gospel, which was committed to the Apostle Paul’s trust, we have as a reference and written record in the Bible. We live in terrible times and must read the Bible and study it for ourselves.
Ancient Israel was subjected to the law and the prophets. The church is the Israel of God today (Gal. 6.16). Christians are subject now to both the New and Old Testaments. Monogamy (I Timothy 3.12) replaced polygamy (Exodus 21.10) in the early church, and celibacy was highly honored. Our world is very carnal during the apostasy and many people have been influenced by Hollywood and myth, even sexually. There are many defiled marriages today, and one of the reasons America is suffering from so many social problems is because Congress can't discern the necessity and transparency of pure marriage so as to legislate law to prohibit and penalize fornication and adultery. I am working on a second book to explain in detail.
The fallen country used to disallow adulterers to become citizens, and now after so much neglect of character and immorality is rampant. People need to learn that morality must come first and they don't have to have a sex partner, especially if it is biblically forbidden. The Apostle Paul even recommended singleness before marriage, although both avenues of life (marriage and singleness) can be gifts and blessed.
Sometimes people think of the concurrence of marriage only as the mutual consent of a male and female, but this perception may be an illusion if the female is not a virgin or a widow (1 Cor. 7)—marriage was also instituted to prevent unchastity in ancient Israel. God honors moral-sexual cleanliness, purity and unity in marriage. The Lord upheld the virginity of a woman so as if a male violated her chastity he was obligated to marry her since he completed the sexual bond with her, the physical part of the marriage unity that Adam and Eve accomplished, who the bible testifies they and the institution of marriage were undefiled.
We find that dowry bride law came into being through consent, seduction and even rape in the first and second law eras. These were marriages wherein virginity was rewarded and protected. The female virgin obtained through the marriage (unity of one flesh) a one-male cognizance as Eve, the wife of Adam. Jesus Christ referred to their honorable (Heb. 13.4) marital unity when he reproved the Pharisees. Chaste female marriages as these are what is expected of a female in our New Covenant era today.
Remedy for rape: required marriage and no divorce tolerated
The obedience, moral cleanliness, beauty, glory, purity, magnificence and innocence of virginity possesses perpetual oversight and protection from the Lord. According to Dt. 22:29, a male was commanded to marry (take for a wife) a girl if he raped her; and it was disclosed; and under the condition that she was not engaged to anyone. He was never able to divorce her. The virginity of a girl is more than a state of chastity before marriage—it is the undefiled housing of potential reproduction of life, significance of sexual purity—God honors its holiness and innocence; and he protected the virgin against impulsive divorce once having married. The Old Testament law states specifically, “… she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.” (Dt. 22.19).
Virgin rape within a Hebrew ethnic group invoked homogeneity law
According to the Old Testament, when rape of a virgin occurs, she is required to marry the rapist. Please acknowledge this rule did not violate the Hebrew, tribal, genealogical-genetic, race prescription in Nu: 36:5-13. Also, note the intolerance of the attempted, inter-racial marriage of Dinah, and the rejection as to sharing of posterity of Ishmael by Sarah. Racial and cultural homogeneity is expected to be preserved.
However, as to dowry brides of the Hebrew tribes, this type of sexual assault may have been considered a great loss to the female victim in an unwanted circumstance, but if the sexual aggressor was a boyfriend or someone that the father accepted as a good man but just couldn't handle his sexual appetite at the time, he may have been obligated to approve the marriage. Hebrew communities were close-knit with genealogical and homogeneous social conditions as to giving in marriage among the families of one another. Nevertheless, the father has the authority to finalize the decision as to marriage according to particular circumstances of seduction.
Incest
Of course, illegitimate rape such as incest would disallow marriage. Tamar, the lovely daughter of King David was raped by Amnon, her half-brother, and lived a secluded and devastated single life afterward. The put-away concubines of David, women whom Absalom defiled, lived as widows (2 Samuel 20.3). Such crimes defile the female, and the male-cognizance factor and defilement causes her to live without a husband, at least as long as the offender is alive.
Seduction, as well as rape, instituted marriage: “And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.” (Ex. 22.16) One translation of the word “יְפַתֶּ֣ה” (Unicode/XML Leningrad Codex, Ex. 22.15), which I transliterate “yefat'ayh” (seduces), means that he speaks to her heart until she consents. Another translation is “to persuade.” Another means “to deceive.” The seduction of a virgin female who was not engaged to anyone determined that the male must marry the girl. Hypothetically, if a girl was induced to have intercourse by the male's promise to marry her, or without such promise she would not have consented to have permitted carnal knowledge with her; or not; is not relevant: the determining factor is that the virginity of the girl was violated through seduction (regardless of what the means of persuasion or enticement may have been).
Thus, according to particular circumstances (regardless of the fact whether there was enticement or not on the part of the female virgin), rape or seduction of a virgin was an act which instituted marriage. However, a girl was expected to scream, cry (Dt. 22.24) or complain—to avoid the silence of passivity—to prove that she did not consent to any immoral sexual aggression. The screaming would give evidence that she resisted rape at least to a degree.
Ancient Israel used to have a homogeneous, tribal, racial and cultural environment. The people were the police so to speak, and they had an inherent desire to keep their women, posterity and community clean and undefiled. Similarly, the USA used to be much more homogeneous, caring and defensive for its founding, white people and their women.
If a man took (chose) a virgin for a wife and hated her afterward (with dissatisfaction), he was not able to divorce her (Dt. 22.13-19). Just because a man didn't really like a woman he wanted to have sex with didn't give him the right to leave her once he had sex with her, he was obligated to marry her if the father desired and consented, and the NT instructs us that a married man that puts away his chaste wife causes her to commit adultery (Mt. 5:32). In the case of pre-marriage, if he doesn't marry a girl of first time sex with him, wherein he made a physical deposit in her so to speak, it may cause her to fornicate, which the NT also instructs us that fornication is to be avoided (1 Cor. 7:2). As a remedy for situations as such and guarding the institution of chaste marriage, God's law prevented this and the man from just considering it a one-time stand (cheap sex) by requiring the man to marry her, and keep her without an opportunity for divorce regardless of what selfish excuse he could think up.
On the other hand, if the girl was not a virgin (even though she pretended to be) and she did not have any proof of chastity, then the male was not obligated to remain married to her (Dt. 22.20-21). Cheap and unchaste women could not easily get over on a guy. If she wasn't a virgin with cloth-proof evidence of experiencing bleeding after lying with the male in bed, the marriage could easily be annulled. This concept of required female virginity and proof was carried over to the New Testament era; see Mt. 19:9, wherein the male was not obligated to marry but could divorce an unclean woman and even marry another woman without being imputed as committing adultery against the first woman. The defrauded man could marry another woman because the first sexual encounter with an unclean woman did not and could not establish a biblical marriage—it was an act of fornication, which is to be avoided (1 Cor. 7.2).
Righteous male bias from polygamy and the law era as to the male not having to be chaste for marriage
Chaste males are recommended for marriage. However, as mentioned above, a man is not imputed with marriage if he divorces a whore or woman found not to be a virgin. However, in my opinion, his fornication with an unclean woman could possibly be imputed to him as not being beyond reproof as to being a local church official, a minister of the house of the living God, a pillar and ground of the truth (1 Ti. 3:15).
The sexual immorality experience could cost his spiritual leadership endeavor for an office in the local church. Nevertheless, it seems a man would be given another chance to marry depending on the acceptance and vexation or lack thereof upon a future prospective virgin. Thus, the male has a given bias supporting marriage after defilement if it is not adultery-divorce (Mt. 5:32) whereas the woman does not.
It is very important for people to understand what the Bible teaches concerning marriage. The Apostle Paul speaks about the subject in 1 Cor., ch. 7; and in many of the other Scriptures. The principles apply for everyone. There is a need to be thorough in strengthening and armoring souls by means of teaching, exhorting, encouraging, proclaiming and declaring God's written word to be true and an authoritative source for the direction and well being of mankind. God's law is our teacher (1 Ti. 1.8-11), and we see how it is fulfilled through the new covenant apostles and prophets, and the acts of the early church.
Dating And Marriage
Abraham was a follower of God. He was a great beneficiary of God and founder of the Hebrew race, a chosen people that no longer exist today. No one in the world has Torah-required genealogical register. The Hebrews dissolved some time after the destruction of the temple and Titus. Nevertheless, their laws which were given by God and Moses, and the fulfillment of those teachings through Jesus Christ and the institution of the early church are the basis of holy civilization today.
So what were the early Hebrew women like and what were the requirements of the first era law for marriage? Evidently, virgin women expected to be married and their fathers given a dowry price. The virgins who were not betrothed (formally engaged to the extent of being accepted as a wife but yet
having to await consummation) were able to meet men preferably of their same tribe (Nu. 36:5-13) and have conversations with them. They were able to make romantic decisions and implicitly were even at times “enticed” (Ex. 22:16) by men to go to bed. The verse tells us:
16 And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife. 17 If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins. (Ex. 22.16, 17)
However, the father of the girl was the one who decided whether a marriage was to be accepted. It seems he had the choice of determining his daughter's future (almost as if she were property) whether she agreed or not. If he did not give his daughter in marriage after a man had sex with her (taken her virginity), the rejected man was still responsible for his actions and had to pay money even though he could not get the woman he had sex with for a wife. Of course, this would leave the daughter in an unchaste condition, a very hard way for a woman to live. So, in such a religious, close-knit family and community under chastity-preserving laws (which we Japhethites should have today!), it would probably take an undesirable or seemingly worthless man to cause her father to commit his daughter to living unchaste and never able to marry as a virgin.
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Alphabetical Index
Alphabetical Index
Abomination of living with return divorced and remarried wife (Dt. 24.4)
2 Samuel 20.3 5
Basic precepts of marriage law
Ex. 22.16, Dt. 22.13-21, 28, 29 1
church is the Israel of God
Christians are God's chosen people
Gal. 6.16 4
Cognizance factor
No recollection of impurity
Gen. 2.24 2
difference from adultery-divorce (Mt. 5.32) and whore-divorce (Mt. 19.9)
Types of divorces
Mt. 5:32 7
dislike of a virgin after marriage is not a justified reason for divorce
Marriage is meant for a life time, divorce unacceptable
Dt. 22.13-19 6
Divorce
1 Cor. 7.10, 11 2
Divorce not allowed for dowry brides
different from non-virgin women who married
(Dt. 22.19 2
Divorce not permitted (OT.)
Scripture
Dt. 22.19 5
divorce permitted in some instances
1 Cor. 7.11, 15 3
Emasculation of the male
masculation of the female
NWO hegemony 2
Enforcement of marriage after man takes virginity of a female (OT.)
Dt. 22:29 4
Enforcement of marriage due to seduction of a virgin
citation
Ex. 22.15 5
former husband causes wife to commit adultery
Mt. 5:32 6
fulfillment of the law
Mt. 5.17 3
OT. authority (Rom. 7.1)
. 3
intolerance of inter-racial marriage
Dinah's tradgedy was not accepted by the Hebrews even before the law of patrilineal genealogy (Gn. 34)
Nu: 36:5-13 5
lacks the spiritual ability to discern and obey
fails to penalize death-penalty (or now, life-in-prison) sins
Congress 4
Male parent of daughter can refuse potential groom of his daugher
Payment for physical sex to the father of the daughter from enticer
Ex. 22.16, 17 7
Moses' redaction
OT. divorce for non-dowry brides
Dt. 24:1-3 2
nakedness of a matter
citation
Dt. 23.14, Dt. 24.1 2
non-betrothed virgin protection
forced marriage
Ex. 22.16 5
not permitted in NT
(Dt. 18.15, Mt. 19.9)
remarriage (adultery) 3
Physical marriage bond
first-time sex 1
Physical marriage bond by intercourse
Avoidance of fornication: Marriage as remedy for one-night stand
1 Cor. 7:2 6
Polygamy was tolerated and even encouraged in the OT.
Exodus 21.10 4
principle of unity
"one flesh"
Gen. 2.24 1
principles of monogamy
1 Cor. 7.27, 1 Ti. 3.12 1
promiscuous women were not recognized as legitimate dowry wives
preservation of virginity and purity law
Dt. 22.20-21 6
Public notice of divorce (OT.)
Dt. 24.2-3 2
Pure and not defiled relatonship
Honor for purity, judgment for those who disobey
Heb. 13.4 4
responsibility of a female to scream and complaing during rapacious event
Avoidance of passivity and consent to offense
Dt. 22.24 6
Virginity maintenance of church officials
Avoidance of fornication: Sharp discernment and background checking
1 Ti. 3:15 7
Citations: Greek And Hebrew
Citations: Greek And Hebrew
Unicode/XML Leningrad Codex, Dt.23:15 2
Brenton Septuagint, Dt. 24.3 3
Unicode/XML Leningrad Codex, Ex. 22.15 5