GOD IS DIVORCED and REMARRIED
Donnie E. posted the above in response to God being DIVORCED & REMARRIED on 8/18/23 on TruthSocial.
When God entered into Covenant with Israel at Sinai, it was likened to the covenant of marriage.
Exodus 19:4-6 You yourselves have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles' wings and brought you to myself. 5 NOW THEREFORE, IF YOU WILL INDEED OBEY MY VOICE AND KEEP MY COVENANT, YOU SHALL BE MY TREASURED POSSESSION AMONG ALL PEOPLES, FOR ALL THE EARTH IS MINE; 6 AND YOU SHALL BE TO ME A KINGDOM OF PRIESTS AND A HOLY NATION. These are the words that you shall speak to the people of Israel.”
Ezekiel 16:6-15 “AND WHEN I PASSED BY YOU AND SAW YOU WALLOWING IN YOUR BLOOD, I SAID TO YOU IN YOUR BLOOD, ‘LIVE!’ I SAID TO YOU IN YOUR BLOOD, ‘LIVE!’ 7 I MADE YOU FLOURISH LIKE A PLANT OF THE FIELD. AND YOU GREW UP AND BECAME TALL AND ARRIVED AT FULL ADORNMENT. YOUR BREASTS WERE FORMED, AND YOUR HAIR HAD GROWN; YET YOU WERE NAKED AND BARE.
GOD DIVORCES ISRAEL (10 NORTHERN KINGDOMS) FOR SPIRITUAL ADULTERY OR IDOLATRY.
Isaiah 50:1 Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother's DIVORCEMENT, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.
Jeremiah 3:6 The LORD said to me in the days of King Josiah: "Have you seen what she did, that faithless one, Israel,) how she went up on every high hill and under every green tree, and there played THE WHORE? 7And I thought, 'After she has done all this she will return to me,' but she did not return, and her treacherous sister Judah saw it. 8She saw that for all the adulteries of that faithless one, Israel, I had sent her away with a decree of DIVORCE. Yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but she too went and played the WHORE. 9Because she took her WHOREDOM lightly, she polluted the land, committing ADULTERY with stone and tree. 10Yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah did not return to me with her whole heart, but in pretense, declares the LORD."
For she is not my wife, and I am not her husband; And let her put away her HARLOTRY from her face
And her ADULTERY from between her breasts,3 Or I will strip her naked
And expose her as on the day when she was born.
I will also make her like a wilderness,
Make her like desert land
And slay her with thirst.4 “Also, I will have no compassion on her children,
Because they are children of HARLOTRY.5 “For their mother has played the HARLOT;
She who conceived them has acted shamefully.
For she said, ‘I will go after my lovers,
Who give me my bread and my water,
My wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’6 “Therefore, behold, I will hedge up her way with thorns,
And I will build a wall against her so that she cannot find her paths.7 “She will pursue her lovers, but she will not overtake them;
And she will seek them, but will not find them.
Then she will say, ‘I will go back to my first husband,
For it was better for me then than now!’
***God is not opposed to all divorce. The fact is, He is divorced and provides the offended party with the divorce option in certain circumstances.
There is a Biblical time to divorce, especially for breaking the covenant in adultery.
'God hates divorce' the Scripture says in Malachi. A good question to ask is "In what sense, does God hate divorce because it doesn't seem to bother Him that He is divorced? Kind of hypocritical for being divorced?"
Better yet, in what context is God saying that He hates divorce?
Malachi 2:16 NASB "I hate divorce," says the LORD God of Israel, "and I hate a man's covering himself with violence as well as with his garment," says the LORD Almighty.
So guard yourself in your spirit, and do not break faith.
CONTEXT: God hates the divorce that the Jewish men were performing in the time of Malachi in that they divorced their older Jewish wives to marry young pagan hotties. The context isn't saying that God hates all divorce, just unbiblical divorce.
Hypothetically, a person could marry a non-believer who wants a divorce and Paul says give him or her a divorce 1 Cor. 7:15; your spouse could commit adultery Matt 5.31-32. (I'm not saying that adultery cannot be forgiven but it is a grounds for divorce.).
Sure, ideally, one enters marriage with the intent and aspiration to remain faithful to their covenant. I just don't think it's biblical to say that divorce is NOT an option. Some people are in ugly marriages. I know a woman who gets battered to a bloody pulp by her husband, raped and committed adultery on. Our Christian culture creates a stigma or taboo on divorce with all its pain and shame, so this Christian sister stays in this violent abusive marriage. This is just more legalism to control people under guilt through a wrong interpretation of Scripture.
God is divorced from Israel and remarried to The Church (Ekklesia), The Israel from above.
Will be like the sand of the sea,
Which cannot be measured or numbered;
And in the place
Where it is said to them,
“You are not My people,”
It will be said to them,
“You are the sons of the living God.”
Hosea
3:4-5
Romans
9:25-26 As indeed he says in Hosea,
“Those who were not my people I will call ‘my people,’ and her who was not beloved I will
call ‘beloved.’” 26 “And in the very place where it
was said to them, ‘YOU ARE NOT MY PEOPLE,’ there they will be called ‘SONS OF THE LIVING GOD.’”
Leviticus 21:1-15
God Almighty & His People – Bridegroom & Bride
by Bible Things in Bible Ways
1. It is evident that God stepped into a relationship where He considered Himself “Engaged” or “Betrothed” to Israel.
Jer 2:2 “Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem: “This is what the Lord says: “‘I remember the devotion of your youth, how as a bride you loved me and followed me through the wilderness, through a land not sown.
2. This “Betrothal” happened at Sinai, when He made an Eternal Covenant with the people “Israel”.
Jer 31:32 It will not be like the covenant I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they broke my covenant, though I was a husband to them,” declares the Lord.
3. From this point onwards, God considered Himself like a Husband unto Israel
Isa 54:5 For your Maker is your husband— the Lord Almighty is his name— the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; he is called the God of all the earth.
– brief summary of the Division of the kingdom of Israel upto their exile —
It is important to know what expired in the Old Testament, at this point. If you do not know about the 2 Houses of Israel (also known as the Divided Kingdom of Israe) I will attempt to give a very short summary for your convenience:- After Moses and Joshua led the people into the promised land, the people were under judges until the time Saul was anointed King of Israel. After Saul, David came to the throne and Solomon after that. When Solomon was in his old age, he was seduced by his many wives to disobey God’s Commandments (1Kin 11:4-13). As punishment, God divided the Kingdom of Israel into 2 parts (1Kin 11:30). Ten tribes were handed onto Jeroboam – the servant of Solomon (1Kin 11:31). Solomon’s son, Rehoboam ruled over the other two tribes which were Judah & Benjamin (1Kin 12:17,23). From this point onwards, Israel became divided into 2 parts/kingdoms known as “The House of Israel” & “The House of Judah” (Jer 3:18) both were led astray by most of their rulers. This continued until finally according to all the prophets “The House of Israel” was taken into captivity in Assyria (2Kin 17:6,18,23), and scattered among the nations (Hos 8:8, Jer 31:10). Approximately 150 years afterwards “The House of Judah” was taken into Babylonian captivity (Dan 1:1,2), but was let back into the land by God after a 70 year exile period (Jer 29:10, Ezr 2:1, Neh 7:6).
—brief summary of the Division of the kingdom of Israel upto their exile —
4. Even though God regarded Himself in a “Marriage covenant” relationship, His people disobeyed Him, even to the extent of going after foreign deities.
Eze 16:32 “‘You adulterous wife! You prefer strangers to your own husband!
Jer 3:20 But like a woman unfaithful to her husband, so you, Israel, have been unfaithful to me,” declares the Lord.
Jer 2:32 Does a young woman forget her jewelry, a bride her wedding ornaments?
Yet my people have forgotten me, days without number.
Hos 3:1 The Lord said to me, “Go, show your love to your wife again, though she is loved by another man and is an adulteress. Love her as the Lord loves the Israelites, though they turn to other gods and love the sacred raisin cakes.”
5. God spoke through the prophets asking this adulterous wife to return back to Him
Joe 1:8 Wail like a virgin clothed with sackcloth For the groom of her youth.
Jer 3:1 God says, “If a husband divorces his wife And she leaves him
And becomes another man’s wife, Will he return to her again?
Would that land not be completely defiled? But you are a prostitute with many lovers; Yet you turn to Me,”declares the Lord.
Jer 3:14 “Return, O backsliding children,” says the Lord; “for I am married to you. I will take you, one from a city and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion.
6. Finally, the House of Israel is “put away”/”divorced” while the House of Judah is exiled for 70years in Babylon for her indiscretions
Jer 3:8 Then I saw that for all the causes for which backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a certificate of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but went and played the harlot also.
Isa 50:1 This is what the Lord says: “Where is your mother’s certificate of divorce with which I sent her away? Or to which of my creditors did I sell you? Because of your sins you were sold; because of your transgressions your mother was sent away.
Hos 2:2 “Rebuke your mother, rebuke her, for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband. Let her remove the adulterous look from her face and the unfaithfulness from between her breasts.
7. God knew that the “Divorced” (Broken Covenant) House of Israel had fewer people than the “Married” (in Covenant) House of Judah
Isa 54:1 “Sing, barren woman, you who never bore a child; burst into song, shout for joy, you who were never in labor; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband,” says the Lord.
(Please read Ezekiel Chapter 23 as well, to understand the disobedience of the 2 Houses and the punishment which was ordered https://tueseahkiong.blogspot.com/2023/07/ezekiel-23-nastiest-xxx-super-whores.html)
8. But God had a plan of Re-Betrothal towards the House of Israel. He knew that “She” will return back to Him
Hos 2:7 She will chase her lovers, But not overtake them; Yes, she will seek them, but not find them. Then she will say, ‘I will go and return to my first husband, For then it was better for me than now.’
(Look at the similarity of this proclamation and the Prodigal Son)
Luk 15:17-20 “When he came to his senses, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have food to spare, and here I am starving to death! 18 I will set out and go back to my father and say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. 19 I am no longer worthy to be called your son; make me like one of your hired servants.’ 20 So he got up and went to his father.
“But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him.
Hos 2:19,20 “I will betroth you to Me forever; Yes, I will betroth you to Me In righteousness and justice, In lovingkindness and mercy; 20 I will betroth you to Me in faithfulness, And you shall know the Lord.
Isa 62:5 For as a young man marries a virgin, So shall your sons marry you; And as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, So shall your God rejoice over you.
9. According to God’s own Word/Law, a woman who is divorced by her husband cannot be married back. She is under this Law till the death of her 1st Husband.
Deu 24:1-4 “When a man takes a wife and marries her, and it happens that she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some uncleanness in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce, puts it in her hand, and sends her out of his house, 2 when she has departed from his house, and goes and becomes another man’s wife, 3 if the latter husband detests her and writes her a certificate of divorce, puts it in her hand, and sends her out of his house, or if the latter husband dies who took her as his wife, 4 then her former husband who divorced her must not take her back to be his wife after she has been defiled; for that is an abomination before the Lord, and you shall not bring sin on the land which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.
Jer 3:1 “They say, ‘If a man divorces his wife, And she goes from him And becomes another man’s, May he return to her again?’ Would not that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the harlot with many lovers; Yet return to Me,” says the Lord.
10. So how can God go against His own Word and take this wife (The House of Israel), again in marriage, who He put away because of adultery?
THE SHORT ANSWER IS MESSIAH!!!
BABYLON THE GREAT, MOTHER OF PROSTITUTES was UNBELIEVING 1st Century Israel who spilled the blood of the saints and murdered the sinless, Prince of Peace, Holy Holy Holy Son of God. The Bible calls Israel a harlot adulterer prostitute about 100 times!
http://tueseahkiong.blogspot.com/2014/09/babylon-great-mother-of-prostitutes-was.html
Iron sharpens iron.
to be continued...
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