Now I may be able to battle better with my sWORD, but I just love when people tell me, especially Calvinists, that "God hates divorce"... Because I know at least 2 instances where I SHOULD HAVE been much more well versed at the time than I was, healing has been a process for sure (my ex was abusive in every way shape and form)... now I will say this:
"In Jeremiah 3 God saw, "when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also." So God was speaking prior "oh ye heavens" and prior to this Jeremiah. You know what God hates worse, being unequally yolked to an unbeliever who shows no room of repentance- we as individual people have a vow and covenant to God first and foremost, regardless if you believe it or not- God has already established it. So God sent ISRAEL a bill of divorcement. It gets deeper and better- God then came down manifested in the flesh as the Son Jesus Christ, and lived a perfect, sinless life and never got married never committed adultrey- NOTHING!!!! What an amazing bridegroom we have! So that He could die and bleed His last drop of perfect blood- which cleanseth us from all unrighteousness- so that the church could be cleansed by His blood and by the word of God. I was talking to another brother in Christ earlier about how the church does NOT show we as the body of believers as the bride and Christ as our Bridegroom- this is how I know they don't even teach the Bible properly.
God shows His relationship with Israel as a marriage relationship. Israel, according to verse 6, played the harlot. In verse 7, God gave His bride a second chance, a chance to repent and “turn back to me”. Israel did not turn back, and for Israel’s adultery, God did exactly as His Law instructed concerning a husband whose wife no longer has favor in the eyes of her husband. He gave her a bill of divorce and put her away. We are compelled to notice that “put away” (shalach) and “bill of divorce” (keriythuwth) are two separate and distinct things. If they were one and the same, then what God did in verse 8 was:
“And I say, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I divorced her and divorced her;”
Or it might read this way:
“And I say, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had given her a bill of divorce and gave her a bill of divorce;”
Instead, God Himself shows that they are two separate and distinct things.
But what do we now make of these verses? That God is a divorced person! Yes, God is divorced! He has admitted it. He is unrepentant. Is He then disqualified from being God?
It is worth consideration that God’s marriage to Israel is a marriage in the “spiritual realm,” and not a “physical marriage” as between two humans. However, the fact that God was married to Israel in the spiritual realm makes it even more meaningful. God refers to His relationship with Israel and Christ’s with the church as marriages because the earthly marriage relationship is as close to spiritual absolutes that man may experience while still in the flesh. God’s love for Israel is the ultimate example of a marital love.
I would rather stay in my room all day and read and study the word than anything else. It's amazing and where I found true love. Okay, so let's get into this. So now, Jesus Christ is waiting for His bride to arrive at the fullness and stature of Christ and to finish her assignment the Father's will also on earth, and to wait for the Son from heaven. I've talked a lot and posted a ton on how the Marriage Supper of the Lamb (Rev 19.9) is likened unto the ancient Jewish wedding feast. The whole plan of salvation for mankind, is to prepare a people ready for the LORD to receive His kingdom and be with Jesus in Heaven forever- Yes, the greatest desire in our hearts is absolutely possible; by believing in and on Jesus Christ and His blood atonement for us- the THREE DAYS is CRUCIAL here people!!
The Bible is our Kettubah or marriage contract to Christ. The groom would pay a dowry or mohar (bride price) to the bride's dad, and they would spend the next 12 months apart; the bride would get herself ready to become a wife (cooking, learning to manage a household, Esther-like preparations with oils and beauty treatments) and the groom would add an addition onto the house the groom's parents had given him (them).. so this is why I love the feasts! They foreshadow Christ and His plan for us- there are 7 blessings prayed aloud between bride and groom and one is over the wine- the bride and groom drink a cup together and this symbolizes our cup at Passover for Christ- and how we take the cup of salvation and call upon the name of the LORD (Ps. 116:13) Christ paid for the redemption of our souls at the cross on Passover- and at Pentecost when He ascended into Heaven the Holy Spirit was given and poured out on the first believers and He gave gifts unto men (Ephesians 4:8).
The parables themselves (Matthew 25) teach us that the kingdom of heaven is likened unto a wedding feast - so we need to keep wedding garments on (white raiment Rev. 3) so that when the King calls, we are ready to enter in. Jesus tells us over 20x throughout the gospels to watch and wait, blessed are they who watch in the second or third hour- the midnight cry, the 10 Virgins- 5 wise/5 unwise- these are literal all admonitions and preparation letters to ANYONE and WHOSOEVER- because again, Christ was sent to Paul to preach to the GENTILES to provoke the JEWS to jealousy(Romans 11:11)- so to deal with Israel during the tribulation for 7 years- because the wedding supper is alongside the Bema Seat (which is first) rightly dividing the word.
Hosea 2:9 tells us God will betroth us unto Him forever- well this hasn't fully happened yet, but will be completed at the marriage supper of Lamb.
BRIDEGROOM- חָתָן
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