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Deuteronomy 24:1. 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.
Did the Law of Moses support the covenant of marriage, or provide a means to break the covenant?
Was not Messiah questioned on this very issue?
Matthew 19:
3 The Pharisees also came to Him, testing Him, and saying to Him,
Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for just any reason?
4 And He answered and said to them, Have you not read that He who made them
at the beginning made them male and female,
5 and said, For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife,
and the two shall become one flesh’?
6 So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together,
let not man separate.
7 They said to Him, Why then did Moses command to give a certificate of divorce,
and to put her away?
8 He said to them, Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, permitted you
to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.
Notice they say Moses commanded the giving of a certificate of divorce, while Yeshua
corrects them in saying that he permitted.
So, was the Law given for a man to be righteous, or for a man to be unrighteous?
To protect the covenant, or break the vow?
The Law allowed the breaking of the vow, NOT protecting the vow.
The Law allowed the hard of heart to act in unrighteousness,
against what God intended from the beginning.
No other vow received such a concession.
Only the refraining from making vows.
Deuteronomy 23:
21 When you make a vow to the Lord your God, you shall not delay to pay it;
for the Lord your God will surely require it of you, and it would be sin to you.
22 But if you abstain from a vow, it shall not be sin to you.
23 That which has gone from your lips you shall keep and perform, for you voluntarily
vowed to the Lord your God what you have promised with your mouth.
Numbers 30:2. If a man vow a vow unto the LORD, or swear an oath to bind his soul
with a bond; he shall not break his word, he shall do according to all that proceedeth
out of his mouth.
This is supported by Yeshua.
Matthew 5:
33 Again you have heard that it was said to those of old, You shall not swear falsely,
but shall perform your oaths to the Lord.
34 But I say to you, do not swear at all: neither by heaven, for it is God’s throne;
35 nor by the earth, for it is His footstool; nor by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King.
36 Nor shall you swear by your head, because you cannot make one hair white or black.
37 But let your Yes be Yes, and your No, No. For whatever is more than these is from the evil one.
For the record, the “Laws of Marriage” were established long before Moses
as a family matter, as Yeshua said, marriage was “from the beginning.”
As an example:
Genesis 38:8. And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother's wife, and marry her,
and raise up seed to thy brother.
Did the Law of Moses support the covenant of marriage, or provide a means to break the covenant?
Was not Messiah questioned on this very issue?
Matthew 19:
3 The Pharisees also came to Him, testing Him, and saying to Him,
Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for just any reason?
4 And He answered and said to them, Have you not read that He who made them
at the beginning made them male and female,
5 and said, For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife,
and the two shall become one flesh’?
6 So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together,
let not man separate.
7 They said to Him, Why then did Moses command to give a certificate of divorce,
and to put her away?
8 He said to them, Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, permitted you
to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.
Notice they say Moses commanded the giving of a certificate of divorce, while Yeshua
corrects them in saying that he permitted.
So, was the Law given for a man to be righteous, or for a man to be unrighteous?
To protect the covenant, or break the vow?
The Law allowed the breaking of the vow, NOT protecting the vow.
The Law allowed the hard of heart to act in unrighteousness,
against what God intended from the beginning.
No other vow received such a concession.
Only the refraining from making vows.
Deuteronomy 23:
21 When you make a vow to the Lord your God, you shall not delay to pay it;
for the Lord your God will surely require it of you, and it would be sin to you.
22 But if you abstain from a vow, it shall not be sin to you.
23 That which has gone from your lips you shall keep and perform, for you voluntarily
vowed to the Lord your God what you have promised with your mouth.
Numbers 30:2. If a man vow a vow unto the LORD, or swear an oath to bind his soul
with a bond; he shall not break his word, he shall do according to all that proceedeth
out of his mouth.
This is supported by Yeshua.
Matthew 5:
33 Again you have heard that it was said to those of old, You shall not swear falsely,
but shall perform your oaths to the Lord.
34 But I say to you, do not swear at all: neither by heaven, for it is God’s throne;
35 nor by the earth, for it is His footstool; nor by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King.
36 Nor shall you swear by your head, because you cannot make one hair white or black.
37 But let your Yes be Yes, and your No, No. For whatever is more than these is from the evil one.
For the record, the “Laws of Marriage” were established long before Moses
as a family matter, as Yeshua said, marriage was “from the beginning.”
As an example:
Genesis 38:8. And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother's wife, and marry her,
and raise up seed to thy brother.
