COMPARISON OF YAH'SHUAH'S TEACHINGS AND MOSES' WRITINGS ON MARRIAGE
Both Yah'shuah And Moses Taught That Adultery Is Also Committed In The Heart
Matthew 5:27-28 reads,
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"You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery;’ 5:28but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.Exodus 20:14 reads,
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"You shall not commit adultery.Exodus 20:17 reads,
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"You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s."Seeing that sexually taking another man's wife is committing adultery, and seeing that coveting another man's wife is coveting or desiring in one's heart to commit adultery, isn't it seen that Yah'shuah's teaching in Matthew 5:27-28 is a combination of Moses' writings in Exodus 20:14 and 17? Isn't a man who lusts after or desires to sexually take another man's wife coveting his neighbour's wife? Didn't Moses show in his writings that it is sin to desire to commit sin? And didn't Yah'shuah teach that it is sin to desire to commit sin? Isn't it therefore seen that Yah'shuah's teaching and Moses' writings are in harmony?
Both Yah'shuah And Moses Taught That Sexual Immorality (Porneia) Is The Only Permitted Ground For Divorce
Matthew 5:31-32 reads,
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"It was also said, ‘Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce,’ 5:32but I tell you that whoever who puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery.Deuteronomy 24:1-2 reads,
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When a man takes a wife, and marries her, then it shall be, if she find no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house. 24:2When she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man’s wife.Isn't the ground on which Yah'shuah teaches that a man is allowed to put away his wife the same ground on which Moses writes that a man is allowed to put away or divorce his wife? Isn't the unseemly thing in the wife that Moses writes about, as already seen, the uncleanness or defilement that arises on account of her unfaithfulness towards her husband by sexually lying with another man? Isn't this the same as the sexual immorality or porneia that Yah'shuah teaches about? Isn't it therefore seen that Yah'shuah's teachings and Moses' writings are indeed in harmony?
Don't Yah'shuah's words imply that a woman put away on a ground outside porneia remains the wife of the man putting her away, seeing that the ground on which he puts her away is not allowed in Yahweh's word? Don't Moses' writings imply that a woman put away on a ground outside uncleanness or defilement remains the wife of the man putting her away, seeing that the ground on which he puts her away is not allowed in Yahweh's word? Isn't it therefore seen that Yah'shuah's teachings and Moses' writings are indeed in harmony?
Yah'shuah Did Not Dispute Moses' Teaching That A Duly Divorced Woman Can Be Married By Another Man
Don't Moses' writings make clear that a wife duly put away from her husband may become another man's wife? Aren't the writings of Yah'shuah's teachings silent on whether a woman duly put away may indeed become the wife of another man? Isn't it therefore seen that Yah'shuah's teachings do not contradict Moses' writings, but are in fact in harmony with them?
Both Yah'shuah And Moses Made No Provision For A Woman Validly Unilaterally Putting Away Her Husband
Mark 10:10-12 reads,
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In the house, his disciples asked him again about the same matter. 10:11He said to them, "Whoever puts away his wife, and marries another, commits adultery against her. 10:12If a woman herself puts away her husband, and marries another, she commits adultery."Don't Yah'shuah's words imply that the action of a woman in putting away her husband and marrying another man is void before Yahweh, seeing that Yahweh considers her to be committing adultery? Doesn't this imply that she remains the wife of the man she purports to put away?
Hasn't it been seen that Moses' writings make no provision for a woman putting away her husband and marrying another man? Don't Moses' writings make provision only for a man to put away his wife, and in some instances remove this right from the man, such as when he has sexually offended against his wife?
Isn't it therefore seen that Yah'shuah's teachings and Moses' writings are not in conflict with each other, but are in fact in harmony with each other?
Both Yah'shuah And Moses Taught That Yahweh's Servants Should Be Prepared To Forsake Everything In Faithfully Serving Yahweh
Luke 18:28-30 reads,
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Peter said, "Look, we have left everything, and followed you."18:29
He said to them, "Most assuredly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or wife, or brothers, or parents, or children, for the kingdom of God’s sake, 18:30who will not receive many times more in this time, and in the world to come, eternal life."Deuteronomy 13:6-11 reads,
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If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend, who is as your own soul, entice you secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which you have not known, you, nor your fathers; 13:7of the gods of the peoples who are round about you, near to you, or far off from you, from the one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth; 13:8you shall not consent to him, nor listen to him; neither shall your eye pity him, neither shall you spare, neither shall you conceal him: 13:9but you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people. 13:10You shall stone him to death with stones, because he has sought to draw you away from Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. 13:11All Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall not do any more such wickedness as this is in the midst of you.Don't Yah'shuah's words show that for the sake of the kingdom of Yahweh a man should be prepared to lose his family members? Don't Moses' writings show that for the sake of serving Yahweh a man should be prepared to lose his family members? Isn't it therefore seen that Yah'shuah's teachings and Moses' words are indeed in harmony?
Yah'shuah Upheld The Administration Of The Law Against Adultery As Taught By Moses
John 8:3-11 reads,
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The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman taken in adultery. Having set her in the midst, 8:4they told him, "Teacher, we found this woman in adultery, in the very act. 8:5Now in our law, Moses commanded us to stone such. What then do you say about her?" 8:6They said this testing him, that they might have something to accuse him of.But Jesus stooped down, and wrote on the ground with his finger. 8:7But when they continued asking him, he looked up and said to them, "He who is without sin among you, let him throw the first stone at her." 8:8Again he stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground.
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They, when they heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning from the oldest, even to the last. Jesus was left alone with the woman where she was, in the middle. 8:10Jesus, standing up, saw her and said, "Woman, where are your accusers? Did no one condemn you?"8:11
She said, "No one, Lord."Jesus said, "Neither do I condemn you. Go your way. From now on, sin no more."
Leviticus 20:10 reads,
20:10
The man who commits adultery with another man’s wife, even he who commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.Deuteronomy 22:22 reads,
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If a man be found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both of them die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman: so shall you put away the evil from Israel.Deuteronomy 1:17 reads,
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You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike; you shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God’s: and the cause that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.Don't Moses' writings show that when a man and a woman are caught in the act of adultery both the man and the woman are to be put to death? Didn't the scribes and Pharisees who brought before Yah'shuah the woman caught in adultery fail to apply the law in Moses' writings, in that they did not bring the man caught together with the woman? Didn't they sin in seeking to selectively or partially apply the law in Moses' writings, rather than apply it as stipulated? Wasn't Yah'shuah right, according to the law in Moses' writings, to imply that they had sin in the matter of seeking to administer the law against the woman? Isn't it therefore seen that Yah'shuah's teachings and practices are in harmony with Moses' writings?
Yah'shuah Drew Upon Moses' Practices In His Word To The Assembly In Pergamum
Revelation 2:12-17 reads,
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"To the angel of the assembly in Pergamum write:"He who has the sharp two-edged sword says these things:
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"I know your works and where you dwell, where Satan’s throne is. You hold firmly to my name, and didn’t deny my faith, even in the days of Antipas my witness, my faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells. 2:14But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality. 2:15So you also have some who hold to the teaching of the Nicolaitans in the same way. 2:16Repent therefore, or else I am coming to you quickly, and I will make war against them with the sword of my mouth. 2:17He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes, to him will I give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written, which no one knows but he who receives it.Numbers 25 reads,
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Israel abode in Shittim; and the people began to play the prostitute with the daughters of Moab: 25:2for they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods; and the people ate, and bowed down to their gods. 25:3Israel joined himself to Baal-peor: and the anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel. 25:4Yahweh said to Moses, Take all the chiefs of the people, and hang them up to Yahweh before the sun, that the fierce anger of Yahweh may turn away from Israel. 25:5Moses said to the judges of Israel, Kill you everyone his men who have joined themselves to Baal-peor.25:6
Behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought to his brothers a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, while they were weeping at the door of the tent of meeting. 25:7When Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from the midst of the congregation, and took a spear in his hand; 25:8and he went after the man of Israel into the pavilion, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her body. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel. 25:9Those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand. 25:10Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 25:11Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I didn’t consume the children of Israel in my jealousy. 25:12Therefore say, Behold, I give to him my covenant of peace: 25:13and it shall be to him, and to his seed after him, the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was jealous for his God, and made atonement for the children of Israel. 25:14Now the name of the man of Israel that was slain, who was slain with the Midianite woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a fathers’ house among the Simeonites. 25:15The name of the Midianite woman who was slain was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he was head of the people of a fathers’ house in Midian. 25:16Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 25:17Vex the Midianites, and strike them; 25:18for they vex you with their wiles, with which they have deceived you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of the prince of Midian, their sister, who was slain on the day of the plague in the matter of Peor.Numbers 31:1-18 reads,
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Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 31:2Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward you shall be gathered to your people.31:3
Moses spoke to the people, saying, Arm you men from among you for the war, that they may go against Midian, to execute Yahweh’s vengeance on Midian. 31:4Of every tribe one thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall you send to the war. 31:5So there were delivered, out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war. 31:6Moses sent them, one thousand of every tribe, to the war, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets for the alarm in his hand. 31:7They warred against Midian, as Yahweh commanded Moses; and they killed every male. 31:8They killed the kings of Midian with the rest of their slain: Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian: Balaam also the son of Beor they killed with the sword.31:9
The children of Israel took captive the women of Midian and their little ones; and all their cattle, and all their flocks, and all their goods, they took for a prey. 31:10All their cities in the places in which they lived, and all their encampments, they burnt with fire. 31:11They took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of man and of animal. 31:12They brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of the children of Israel, to the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by the Jordan at Jericho. 31:13Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them outside of the camp.31:14
Moses was angry with the officers of the host, the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds, who came from the service of the war. 31:15Moses said to them, Have you saved all the women alive? 31:16Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against Yahweh in the matter of Peor, and so the plague was among the congregation of Yahweh. 31:17Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him. 31:18But all the girls, who have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.Isn't Yah'shuah's teaching to the assembly in Pergamum in harmony with the writings of Moses? Isn't Yah'shuah's displeasure at the practices of eating food sacrificed to idols and committing sexual immorality the same as Moses' displeasure at the same practices? Isn't it clear that Yah'shuah's teachings and the writings of Moses are really one and the same, being in harmony with one another, without conflict?
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