Section 2: Practical Wisdom, Article 11
Laws Governing Marriage
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      Yet, even after centuries of apostasy and divorcement, Yehuveh wants to renew His covenant individually with each of His remnant people. He has plans to restore. Turn, O backsliding children, saith Yehuveh; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion: And I will give you pastors according to Mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.” Before we can expect to understand and get matters right in a human marriage, we must set things right in our first and most important marriage. Jeremiah 3:14-15.


Second Law of Marriage: Three Become One. The initial law of human marriage was given at creation: “And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him. And Yehuveh Elohim caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which Yehuveh Elohim had taken from man, made He a woman, and brought her unto the man. And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.” Notice that neither Adam nor his beloved helpmeet sought a spouse. There was a being who was the natural part of Adam and Yehuveh brought that one being to him. Yehuveh gave Adam the helpmeet that perfectly completed him and, of course, it was a good match. When Yehuveh is trusted with our matchmaking, and in prayer we wait on Him to lead and provide, marriage will be the wonderful experience He planned for us. Genesis 2:20-24.
       When a man has been given that helpmeet whom Yehuveh has chosen for him, and
each of them have made a personal everlasting covenant to“cleave unto Yehuveh your Elohim,” with Yehuveh they form a union of three. Every day each of them answers first to their covenant with Yehuveh, and then to each other. This is true marriage as Yehuveh designed it to be, and every person privileged to be in such a marriage is truly blessed. Such “a threefold cord is not quickly broken.” Joshua 23:8; Ecclesiastes 4:12
       Isn’t this idealism? Definitely! Yehuveh has always held up this ideal for His children. If you are not now
married, it is decidedly time to turn the matter of finding your Yehuveh-chosen spouse over to Him to be accomplished as He sees fit. If you are blessed to be living in a threefold union, pray that you are ever preserved here. Yehuveh is to be greatly praised! If you are currently involved in a union not of Yehuveh’s appointment, earnestly pray He will resolve your situation. Contrary to popular evangelical opinion, Scriptures do not require that every such union be preserved. Yehuveh not only provides for separation from abuse, but also separates His children from those who hate Him. At times, as in Ezra 10, Yehuveh Himself requires His returning people to divorce themselves from any spouse who refuses to be united with Him.
       
Yehuveh-required divorce? Yes, but as with Ezra and those returning from Babylon, such a decision must be a matter of earnest and honest prayer. Only He knows when such a choice is right. Consider very prayerfully what Yehuveh did when His people acknowledged that their marriages did not honor Him: Now when Ezra had prayed, and when he had confessed, weeping and casting himself down before the house of Elohim, there assembled unto him out of Israel a very great congregation of men and women and children: for the people wept very sore. And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our Elohim, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land: yet now there is hope in Israel concerning this thing. Now therefore let us make a covenant with our Elohim to put away all the wives, and such as are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those that tremble at the commandment of our Elohim; and let it be done according to the law. Arise; for this matter belongeth unto thee: we also will be with thee: be of good courage, and do it.” According to the Scriptures, Ezra and the elders of Israel who stood by him, evaluated every case individually and every decision was only made under the direct guidance of Yehuveh. So it must be now. Your decision must be under His direction. Ezra 10:1-4. 


Gael Bataman         
Originally Written:      13 October 2005
Latest Update:              3 February 2010


   
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