Does Deut 24:1-4 Forbid The Return of a Former Spouse?
When a person is trying to keep separate what God has joined, they are in DIRECT OPPOSITION to the commandment of God Himself...a very dangerous position to be in. God clearly says that what HE has joined, let not man separate. This truth did not live up to scrutinty when the Pharisees brought it before Jesus. Jesus rebuked them. HE did NOT say, "Yes, that's true, lets apply it to today. IF you are remarried...stay as you are"....He called 'remarriage' time and again...'adultery' which is what we should continue to call it. He raised the bar as He always does. Jesus clearly said that Moses allowed this because of the hardness of their hearts, and from the beginning it was not so....and Jesus then took them back to creation. Be sure to read Matthew 19:3-12.
Mt 19:3 The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause? 4 And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, 5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? 6 Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. 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. 9 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. 10 His disciples say unto him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marry. (Have you ever wondered why the Disciples(this was not even the Pharasies...it was the Disciples response) respond like this? Because THIS is how permenant marriage truly is....so permenant that you cannot divorce for any reason....and so they thougtht it better not to marry.) 11 But he said unto them, All men cannot receive this saying, save they to whom it is given. 12 For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother's womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men: (when a person is put away, they have been 'made a eunuch by men. They are called to live in the service of the King for the Kingdom of Heaven's Sake. This is their only option. Remarriage is not an option, and if it is the case, repentance of it must take place.) and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake.
Argument #3 continued. Deut24:1-4 do not allow the return of a wife to her husband. One woman I know personally was widowed young and remarried a divorced man but always had a check in her heart. Nothing unusual happened in their relationship...God just took the scales off her eyes. She wrote this. "If I had never taken another woman's husband, he would never have been divorced once (as they were only separated for six years, her living in adultery with another man) let alone twice. She is on her own now, never having remarried. So now they too are both out of adultery. What great wickedness the Lord has granted me repentance of, and forgiveness at the cost of His life saving blood. Please Lord, apply your precious redemption to our broken lives and be greatly glorified; making straight the way of the Lord... "
David was condemned for his adultery, and for his polygamy, but never for taking Michal back (and Michal was actively remarried), because she was his covenant wife. De 17:17 Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.
2Sa 3:14 And David sent messengers to Ishbosheth Saul's son, saying, Deliver me my wife Michal, which I espoused to me for an hundred foreskins of the Philistines.
1Sa 25:44 But Saul had given Michal his daughter, David's wife, to Phalti the son of Laish, which was of Gallim.
What about Hosea and Gomer? What Hosea condemned? Was he committing an abomination for bringing Gomer back? Just because this is a 'picture' of God and Isreal does not mean it didn't happen in real life, and it should have the same application...these were real people and this was a real marriage.
What about God and Isreal? Although He divorced her, He CLEARLY is not finished with her..and He will bring her unto Him again.....Is God committing an abomination?
Mt 19:3 The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause? 4 And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, 5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? 6 Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. 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. 9 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. 10 His disciples say unto him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marry. (Have you ever wondered why the Disciples(this was not even the Pharasies...it was the Disciples response) respond like this? Because THIS is how permenant marriage truly is....so permenant that you cannot divorce for any reason....and so they thougtht it better not to marry.) 11 But he said unto them, All men cannot receive this saying, save they to whom it is given. 12 For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother's womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men: (when a person is put away, they have been 'made a eunuch by men. They are called to live in the service of the King for the Kingdom of Heaven's Sake. This is their only option. Remarriage is not an option, and if it is the case, repentance of it must take place.) and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake.
Argument #3 continued. Deut24:1-4 do not allow the return of a wife to her husband. One woman I know personally was widowed young and remarried a divorced man but always had a check in her heart. Nothing unusual happened in their relationship...God just took the scales off her eyes. She wrote this. "If I had never taken another woman's husband, he would never have been divorced once (as they were only separated for six years, her living in adultery with another man) let alone twice. She is on her own now, never having remarried. So now they too are both out of adultery. What great wickedness the Lord has granted me repentance of, and forgiveness at the cost of His life saving blood. Please Lord, apply your precious redemption to our broken lives and be greatly glorified; making straight the way of the Lord... "
David was condemned for his adultery, and for his polygamy, but never for taking Michal back (and Michal was actively remarried), because she was his covenant wife. De 17:17 Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.
2Sa 3:14 And David sent messengers to Ishbosheth Saul's son, saying, Deliver me my wife Michal, which I espoused to me for an hundred foreskins of the Philistines.
1Sa 25:44 But Saul had given Michal his daughter, David's wife, to Phalti the son of Laish, which was of Gallim.
What about Hosea and Gomer? What Hosea condemned? Was he committing an abomination for bringing Gomer back? Just because this is a 'picture' of God and Isreal does not mean it didn't happen in real life, and it should have the same application...these were real people and this was a real marriage.
What about God and Isreal? Although He divorced her, He CLEARLY is not finished with her..and He will bring her unto Him again.....Is God committing an abomination?
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