Divorce: “…but from the beginning it was not so” (Matthew 19:8)

1)            As pertaining to divorce, the Jewish Pharisees fished out an error in the didacticism of Jesus by their scriptural invocation of, “Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away” [Matthew 19:7]? A superior argument from the lips of the Author of the Scripture is in Matthew 19:8,“Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.” The question here is: what marriage existed from the beginning? Jesus capped His scriptural submission with, “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” [Matthew 19:9]. Is disassociation of conjugation to be suffered?

Judaistic propensity perverted the marriage institution

                Judaistic propensity had, over many centuries, perverted the marriage institution such that a man might divorce his wife if she displeases him even in the dressing of his victuals. Any flimsy reason that causes an occasion of “if she finds no favour in his (husband’s) eyes” of Deuteronomy 24:1 was Pharisaically enough to put away the wife; and should any man meet another woman and her beauty causes the husband not to find the wife no more pleasing, even if she had borne children, “if she finds no favour in his eyes” is enough to send the wife away. Moses, observing their inability to maintain the sanctity of conjugality, and in his bid to prevent a worse bastardization of the Divine establishment, Moses disallowed a continuance of marital faux pas. The Scriptural facticity remains that, “but from the beginning it was not so.”

                What, exactly, is this beginning that Jesus is making reference to? The first marriage of Eden consummation was contacted to last forever. Adam never allowed it even to cross his mind to put the Woman, Adam the female, away even though she was the perpetrator of the original sin. The truth, however, is that in the counsel of the Godhead, long before the creation of Adamic beings, the Trinity, having decided to bring the soteriology in partnership with marriage to the Lamb, it must, unrhetorically be divorce-proof.

I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee” (Hebrews 13:5).

                When it comes to the salvation of the fallen Adam, the Lord says, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16). The security of salvation has its documentation in John 10:28-29 “And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. 29) My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand.”  The word ‘pluck’ is harpazo (har-pa’-zō), meaning: ‘to seize; catch (away, up), pull, take (by force).’ As vicious an act harpazo is, God doubly makes sure nothing affects the marriage to the Divinity: the saved soul is in the Almighty hands of the Eternal Father and the Son – this conjugality is absolutely divorce-proof. The reason for this phenomenon is the Scriptural Romans 11:29 “For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.”  The soteriology is a gift that italicizes Divine beneficence. The phase ‘without repentance’ is the Greek ametameletos (a-me-ta-me’-lee-tos): ‘irrevocable.’

                The favoured recipient of this divine marriage is “the bride, the Lamb’s wife” of Revelation 21:9. God made sure that the nature of true marriage must attract eternal blissfulness. Why would the LORD God create for Adam “a help meet for him?” And when it came to the creation of the Woman, the Divine choice of ‘made’ is the Hebraic banah (baw-naw’) couch, which means: ‘to build.’ The marriage to the Lamb is the building of the Church, God’s most guarded secret, kept even from all the prophets of the Old Testamentary order. “O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out” (Romans 11:33)!

God’s choice is without repentance: irrevocable

                You can be part of the Divine conjugal bliss by being born again. Say this prayer from your heart, believing every word.

Dear heavenly Father, I come to You now in the name of Jesus Christ. I believe in my heart that Jesus is the Son of God. I believe in my heart that Jesus died for my sins and You raised Him from the dead. I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord, and I receive Him as my Lord and my Saviour. I give God all the glory, Amen.

(…to be continued…)

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