SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES

Jesus said, “Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.” (John 5:39, KJV) To search the Scriptures, we should know something about the three biblical eras: the first law era (Genesis through Numbers), the second law era (Deuteronomy through Malachi) and the third era (New Testament era – the fulfillment era.)

Purity in marriage was delineated in the first law. It was a subject that needed to be continued. Adam and Eve were the progenitors of the Earth.

Moses, one of their descendants along with the many upon the earth was chosen to lead the Hebrew people and their proselytes. For instances, he gave them the Ten Commandments (Ex. 20) and the inheritance law (Nu. 36:5-13) during the first law era. By the way, Maimonides' law count was not accurate because for one reason he evaded the inheritance law.

Moses also gave them the second law (Deuteronomy). During this relatively new era, the marriage law specifically allowed the divorced wife to remarry. Later on, Ezra and Nehemiah restored the inheritance law (Ezra 10:3) during the confusion after returning from Babylon.

Making further restoration, Jesus the Christ later reproved the redaction of Moses (Dt. 24:1-3) in the second law era and disallowed (Mt. 5 – see below) remarriage in the third era (fulfillment era). Monogamy also replaced polygamy. So, we see written change occurred in biblical morality as time passed. Obviously, the marriage purity during the first law era was better than the second law era of Moses as Jesus pointed out to those who questioned him. He restored it and the Christian leaders of administration of the New Covenant era proposed monogamy.

Sexual Purity And Natural Revelation (First Law Era)

Eve, the first woman (implicitly a virgin) on earth, is referenced as an 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 ervat davar (uncleanness), 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 (Gn. 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”.

The Old Testament fortified this female virginity (zero male cognizance factor) and purity concept with law (biblical revelation). The natural (physical) and the spiritual (biblical) attest to the essence of marriage. However, the parent of a daughter, due to the circumstances, was given authority to approve or negate marriage. Regardless, the daughter was obligated to chastity either through life time marriage, or singleness (damage control) through the parent's decision. Unfaithful women, who attempted to deceive and work around chastity law, were judged as criminals to be executed with capital punishment.

As to male sexual enlightenment, Adam discovered and was awakened to Eve's purity, he “knew” her, experiencing her and a marriage bond physically and spiritually from virginity to a chaste wife, having a one-female cognizance. This is part of acceptable marriage, discovering the virginity and purity of a woman: natural revelation. During the old covenant, the male was eventually allowed several wives, having a two-or-more female cognizance (polygamy). However, this stopped and monogamy was restored in the new covenant.

Eventually, as time progressed and further laws of the old testament were made, due to the hardness of the Hebrew people's hearts, remarriages (with women of more than a one-male cognizance factor) became acceptable according to the law of Moses (the second law, the redaction). Nevertheless, the Lord Jesus Christ reproved part (Dt. 24: 1-3) of the second law of Moses, and remarriage (such as that of Hosea and Gomer) was no longer tolerated in the new covenant. Furthermore, the defilement abomination and non-return law (Dt. 24: 4) has never changed. The former female purity and chastity standard was renewed, and also established marriage for chaste widows, who were allowed to marry (being no longer married to a dead man, the widow's cognizance of a deceased husband did not impute liability upon her). The new covenant is a better covenant than the old testament: it is a fulfilling covenant, wherein God's desire for perfection of his people is apprehended.

The Relative First Dispensation of Old Testament Law, Marital Purity and Continuity

Deuteronomy, a book of the bible, means generally “second law”. Evidently, the Hebrew translators of the Greek edition must have realized there were two dispensations of Moses' law. They did not refer to the book merely from the first two words as in the modern, Hebrew title, “aylleh haddevarim”, meaning “these are the words”, but the book was seemingly given a title denoting its subsequent content. (Greek texts are revealing of many things.) Therefore, relatively speaking, there must have been a first giving of a set of laws by Moses. We will take a look into how we can decipher the first giving of the law from the second through a study of a reproof and repeal of divorce and remarriage by Jesus Christ the Lord.

Genesis gives us a history of God's creation. Through it and other books of the bible we are given a chronological, ideological glimpse of the past, present and future. God's written word tells us what (and whom!) we need to know according to all time. “Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.” (Psalm 90:2) We know history, and future expectations, even future history according to events that shall pass.

One event that passed was the coming of the expected prophet of God's people like Moses:

Acts 3:18 But those things, which God before had shewed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled. 19 Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord; 20 And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you: 21 Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began. 22 For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you. 23 And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people. 24 Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel and those that follow after, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold of these days.

The book of Exodus, separate from the book of Deuteronomy, relatively can be respected as a book of the first giving of the law. It explains the dowry responsibility of a man who takes the virginity of a girl (Ex. 22:16). Even if her father disallows the man to marry her, the man is still required to pay the dowry price (Ex. 22:17). The second giving of the law supplements the concept of the prerequisite of female virginity and sexual chastity for marriage (Dt. 22:13-21, 28, 29).

Jesus made it clear that the law would be fulfilled: “For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.” (Mt. 5.18)

Now, let's look at the correcting and repeal of the divorce and remarriage law in the “second” giving of the law--Deuteronomy 24.

1 When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house. 2 And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man’s wife.

The Pharisees, although a degree better than the Sadducees due to believing in the resurrection, tempting the Lord Jesus, referred to the divorce law. Jesus answering, implied that particular giving of the law was not fulfilling God's intention of marital purity and continuity, referring to the previous and historical times written in Genesis (first law era): “from the beginning”.

Mt 19:7 They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away? 8 He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.

Remarriage Is Not Permitted In The New Testament/Covenant

Remarriage (divorcing and marrying another man while the first husband is still alive) was permitted in the Old Testament. However, the Lord Jesus Christ brought in the new covenant/testament and gave us better instruction concerning the way God wants people to live as individuals, communities and peoples. Christians are under grace, not under the law. The Scriptures had to be fulfilled concerning the new covenant that God said he shall make with his people: "The time is coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with Israel and Judah" (Je. 31:31 [NEB]). Of course, this new covenant and change of the way how people were to live for God should have had an effect on the laws and customs of nations, which it did!

Notwithstanding, the apostasy has come about and perversion of the principles of the new covenant have been manifested in our decaying societies. Today in the USA, legalized adultery has come about and the nation's negligence of sexual morality is just about equivalent to that of tolerating murder. We have suffered pseudo-philosophy from Machiavellian ethics to erring protestant or popish and anti-Christian, so-called morality. Nevertheless, Christians must strive to obey God even when government antagonizes against their good works.

Let's take a look at the old testament law:

Deuteronomy 24:1 When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house. 2 And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man’s wife. 3 And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, which took her to be his wife; 4 Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before the LORD: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.

Discerning between satisfaction and dissatisfaction: Note in verse 24:1 the woman spoken of who has an uncleanness (ervah) is not a dowry bride, who were accepted by the husband as not defiled and not allowed to be divorced, which Christians should be like. The late centuries have brought in tolerances of evil that destroy family values and building blocks. Dowry-bride law was a part of establishing chastity among the women of Israel. Strict punishment (the death penalty) enforced it. Dt. 22:21 says “so shalt thou put evil away from among you.” Israel was commanded and expected to establish communities of clean women. An alleged defiled woman that did not have proof of her innocence could not pass the test!

Also, according to these verses, these alleged unclean or dissatisfactory women could “remarry”, but divorce and remarriage was not permitted in the new covenant.

Let's look at the explanation concerning the divorce law and its reproof by the Lord Jesus Christ:

Mark 10:2 And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting him. 3 And he answered and said unto them, What did Moses command you? 4 And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away. 5 And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.

Adam and Eve did not have any problem with uncleanness. Marriage was designed a unity that should not be broken. Divorce was not intended:

Mark 10:6 But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female. 7 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife; 8 And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh. 9 What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

Adam and Eve experienced a new dimension of their physical usefulness through having sex. Adam's intellect was opened due to the experiment: “And Adam knew Eve his wife ...” (Gn. 4:1). Their union was honorable and undefiled (He. 13:4): “Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.” No one should break up a marital unity that is ordained of God. (However, note there were refusals of marriage and inheritance due to miscegenation in Ezra 10.)

Notwithstanding, fornication (Mt. 19:9) gave reason to separate or divorce from the once unity. Impliedly Mary, the mother of Jesus, was untouched by a man until after the birth of Jesus. Did you ever wonder why the Bible says Joseph was "righteous" as to thinking about putting Mary away (divorcing)? (Mt. 1.19) Even though Joseph was learned of the law, the angel of the Lord corrected his pre-meditative decision to separate from her. However, his intentions were righteous. It is righteous to divorce under the circumstances of a woman who has fornicated so as to prevent a whole family from being unclean. Learn principles of marital unity and separation law at the introduction of my paper "Illusion.". We should understand that fornication is unclean and corrupts a whole family who does not do anything about it by not divorcing. America's families have suffered greatly because of devastation and neglectful consequent uncleanliness (failure of divorce proceedings) due to ignorance, deception and heresy!

Every married man has a responsibility to keep his wife under every circumstance, except one: if his wife is unchaste, that is, if his wife has partaken in a sexual act with someone else – this is fornication, if not adultery. Then, and only then, is the husband lawfully (according to the Bible) to put away his wife, and to give her a bill of divorcement. Logically, if a woman, has committed a sin of fornication with someone, a bill of divorcement does not induce her to become unchaste--she has already committed the act which defiled her.

And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.

If a man puts away his wife for any reason other than fornication, he causes her to commit adultery (Mt. 5:32). Fundamentally, from a synoptical viewpoint, there are two distinct acts, the one subsequent to the other, which constitute adultery. The first act is a sin of “putting away” because the Scripture says the husband “shall cleave to his wife” (Gn. 2:24); and also, that no one should separate what God has yoked together (Mk. 10:9)--”one flesh” (Gn. 2:24). The second sinful act, “marry another”, is subsequent to the first. It also contradicts I Cor. 7:10, 11. The Lord Jesus explained that going beyond divorce so as to “marry another” constitutes adultery:

Mark 10:10 And in the house his disciples asked him again of the same matter. 11 And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her. 12 And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.

So, clearly, remarriage for any reason other than fornication is adultery and against the teaching of the Lord. Take for instance a case of betrothal. If a man had betrothed a wife and had not slept with her yet similarly as Joseph and Mary before the chaste birth of our Lord Jesus Christ, but then his woman fornicated, failing to keep chaste, would leave him in a predicament. Since he did not become one flesh with her through consummation, he was not committed to the marriage to her because she failed her chastity obligation. Hence, he was no longer bound to her. He could lawfully divorce and annul the relationship without being obligated to a marriage. Marriage is based on faith and purity as the example Adam and Eve gave us.

However, if he was a man who had different circumstances and married through consummation, and if his wife fornicated through committing adultery or some other horrible act, he could lawfully divorce her so as not to defile his whole family by living with such an unclean woman. However, he still would be obligated to remain single due to the New Testament concept of monogamy (I Cor. 7.27) and the direction of the Apostle Paul.

Chaste Re-uniting VS Abomination

Now, let's consider a chaste re-union in comparison with the matter of the defiled relationship of Dt. 24.4: If a woman is married to a man and she divorces him, of course they would be separated but hypothetically she could join back with him as long as she remains chaste. However, that re-uniting would be a “restoration” of the marriage; it would not be “remarrying” as in the sense of adultery, which is erringly permitted and occurs in the modern, heretical congregations.

However, on the other hand, if the woman divorces her husband and remarries to another man, she becomes an adulteress. She would be a defiled woman even to her second man whether he recognizes it or not. Then, after becoming a remarried woman and no longer chaste, and not being satisfied with her consequent man, if she leaves him also and re-unites with her first man it would be an abomination.

If she became defiled by her second man and rejected him, she certainly could not become undefiled by leaving him. Her unchastity would be a physical and spiritual disgrace that she would have to live with for the rest of her life. It would be impossible for her to restore her marriage with her first man. [King David could not have sex with his defiled concubines (a fulfilled prophecy of Nathan the prophet) after the treachery of Absalom (2 Samuel 12:11, 2 Samuel 16:22); they lived as widows (2 Samuel 20.3).] Even though she may go through a legal proceeding for marriage or not to be re-united with him, it would be in vain and would constitute an abomination.

Women must bear in mind to remain chaste and not get involved in affairs, becoming defiled. If a woman lives in an unhappy marriage and her husband leaves her, she should live single and keep her dignity. Perhaps in the future her husband and she may decide to live together again, which would be acceptable.

Fulfilling the Inheritance Law Of Numbers 36:5-13: Genealogical-patrilineal Descendancy Of The Lord Jesus Christ

Until I have time to work on genealogies, you may visit this site which I found on the Internet but I do not know the writer(s): Genealogical chart: http://ecclesia.org/truth/geneology.html.

My explanations may help you understand some things about Biblical genetics and genealogy:

Genealogical-patrilineal succession is both a Written Torah (the Old Testament) genetic and genealogical requirement! Jesus Christ met the requirement of the register (Ezra 2:61-63) and genealogical-patrilineal pedigree through Joseph and Mary. Note the rejects at the congregation of Ezra could not meet the register requirements. The modern Jewish people are not Hebrew and do not possess these racial or genealogical qualities. The state of Israel is currently in a process of transition, but the possibility of finding a person with proof of pedigree (documents of register) and of the Hebrew race is almost null. I do believe the Hebrews became extinct; so, it is impossible.

You could search the world as far as you want, but whatever descendant you may find, that descendant without patrilineal-descendancy to meet the registry requirement of Ezra 2:61-63 would not be able to qualify as a member of a former Hebrew tribe, similarly as the Jewish can't. His DNA test could not prove it, his legacy and Hebrew-like mannerisms could not prove it. Hypothetically, if a descendant did arise that could meet the requirement of the registry, it would disqualify and expose the fraudulent Jewish of modern Israel because they don't have proof of register and can't obtain it. They would have to kill or hide him so that it would not stir up controversy to their matrilineal-Hebrew myth, and they would not be justly rejected as the those at the Ezra congregation.

After the dispersion of Titus, the remaining anti-Christian Hebrew people lost their fundamental cohesiveness (forewarned by Joshua) and eventually a heretical and genocidal, matrilineal form of law became known among a factional and biblically fraudulent group known today as the “Jewish” (mere Gentiles with a customized, non-proof of register, partial-Hebrew religion), who uplift their bible-contradicting, “oral” torah commentary as religious authority. They are not a Hebrew people, nor are their God-in-the-flesh and Jesus-denying factions and groups that even approve of only the written torah. Regardless of their spiritual failures, they cannot make their rejected pedigree meet the requirement of the register (Ezra 2:61-63).

Some non-Hebrew women were tolerated to be patrilineal wives in ancient Israel, but a woman married to a non-Hebrew man could not have an inheritance in Israel. Of course, the law was strictly kept after Ezra. The “Jewish” cannot meet that requirement. That is why they merely “occupy” but are not and never will be legitimate heirs of the land. They seem to be the rise of the anti-Christian elite and have developed a platform for a false and non-Hebrew messiah: their false religion eschatologically trampling over faith of the firstfruits and the fulfillment of the early church.

Let us abide in faith of the Lord Jesus Christ (Yeshua hamashiach) with respect to the requirement of Hebrew registry (Ezra 2:61-63, Matthew 1:1-17, Luke 3:23-38). The author of the book of Ruth reveals to us its importance: chapter 4, verses 18-22; so does Matthew and Luke and other Scriptures.

The Old Testament (two eras) is a collection of beginner-guideline books and the New Testament (third era) is its set of fulfillment books. Actually, the latter era should be learned first today. It can be supplemented with a study of the earlier eras. Study and search the Scriptures for answers to questions. When someone gives you a message saying it is from God, test it if it is concentric with the law and fulfillment.