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,
5:27"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,
20:14"You
shall not commit adultery.
Exodus 20:17 reads,
20:17"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,
5:31"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,
24:1When
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,
10:10In
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,
18:28Peter
said, "Look, we have left everything, and followed you."
18:29He
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,
13:6If
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
Don't Yah'shuah's words show that for the sake of the
Yah'shuah
Upheld The Administration Of The Law Against Adultery As Taught By Moses
John 8:3-11 reads,
8:3The
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.
8:9They,
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?"
8:11She
said, "No one, Lord."
Jesus said, "Neither
do I condemn you. Go your way. From now on, sin no more."
Leviticus 20:10 reads,
20:10The
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,
22:22If
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
Deuteronomy 1:17 reads,
1:17You
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
Revelation 2:12-17 reads,
2:12"To the angel of the assembly in
"He who has the
sharp two-edged sword says these things:
2:13"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
Numbers 25 reads,
25:1Israel
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.
25:6Behold,
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,
31:1Yahweh
spoke to Moses, saying, 31:2Avenge
the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward you shall be gathered to
your people.
31:3Moses
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.
31:9The
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.
31:14Moses
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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