What the Prophet Said about 'Marriage and Divorce'
part4
I want to take a minute and clarify something. To some it may seem I'm taking
a lot of time to explain something that is a trivial point in the message.
While it seems that much time is spent looking at the natural side of this
subject, it is the spiritual side I'm concerned about. But if we reject the
natural, then God will not allow us to see the spiritual. Now, that doesn't mean
anybody has to be married even the first time. It means we must understand
the covenant in the natural so that we can understand the spiritual covenant
we are in with Christ. And there is nothing more important than understanding
your relationship with Christ. For it’s through that relationship that we obtain
faith and revelation. It’s through that relationship that we please God.
So let's continue.
Some would have thought that after the prophet laid out the truth of Marriage
and Divorce in such a clear manner that no one would be able to argue with it.
But I've heard many arguments using the prophet’s words to try and contradict
what he said. I tried to find my own arguments at first, not wanting to believe
that the prophet was saying the things I heard him saying.
Here is one I come across first:
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THE.SUPERNATURAL_ OWENSBORO.KY SUNDAY_ 56-0129
E-47 Speaking to someone the other day about polygamy. I said the nation
in a whole would be better off if it practiced polygamy. It would. We're the
highest rated nation in the world with divorces, marrying and intermarrying,
marrying and intermarrying. Because we try to make the men of the world outside
coincide with Christian doctrine, and you can't put the nature of a lamb in a
pig. Polygamy would be better off for him. You may not believe it but God would
look at polygamy and excuse it a lot quicker than what He would...
Now, remember, don't you say that I believe in polygamy; I don't.
I...?...what God said... Moses said that... The Pharisee said to Jesus, said,
"Why did Moses suffer a writing of divorcement?"
Said, "He did it because the hardness of your heart." Right. But it wasn't so
from the beginning, never will be. God did it because of the hardness of their
heart.
But in the nations where they have polygamy the divorce courts are at ebb,
low. But in here where we're trying to make and govern this country as a nation,
because being a Christian nation, but the name of Christian nation doesn't make
it a Christian nation. And you cannot govern the world by the rules of God. You
can't. I have no--nothing against a sinner drinking. I have nothing against a
sinner committing adultery, nothing against the sinner doing this. But
what I'm talking about is these people who are supposed to be Christians and
then doing that.
If a pig wants to stick his snout in the manure pile and eat all day, that's
his business, 'cause he's a pig to begin with. But the lamb doesn't do that.
The sinner, he's a pig to begin with. But then when you try to make a lamb out
of a pig, you have to have a conversion and he has to come into a different
atmosphere. And when he comes into the atmosphere his desires will change and
his nature will change. That's the way it is today.
THE.SEVENTIETH.WEEK.OF.DANIEL_ JEFF.IN DA 89-141 SUNDAY_ 61-0806
209 The divorce courts of America produce more divorces by our women than
all the rest of the nations. The morals in our country is lower, and divorces,
than it is in France or Italy, where prostitution's on the streets so... But
they're prostitutes; ours is married women trying to live with several men, and
several married men trying to live with other women.
In the nations where they have polygamy, it's a thousand times better. And
yet, polygamy's wrong; we know. But to show how degraded we are, I got a
piece up there out of the paper where it showed that when our American boys went
overseas in this last war, that over, I believe, it was around seventy
percent... Well, now, wait a minute, I believe it was three out of four that
went overseas was divorced by their wife before they got back. And great big
headlines says, "What's Happened to the Morals of our American People?" You
remember seeing it? All of you did, I guess. What's happened to the morals of
our American women? Plants, working out yonder with other men... It's a woman's
nation. What's she going have? A woman god--or a goddess
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I certainly caught on to this. Anyone can plainly see the prophet was saying
that when I was born again, this law of polygamy didn't apply. He was saying it
was for beast and the unborn-again. But when I took it back to what the prophet
said in 'Marriage and Divorce' and 'Choosing of a Bride' it was clear that his
understanding had changed. It was by his own admission that we didn't know the
whole truth to Marriage and Divorce until 1965. What did he say in those messages that
made it clear his understanding had changed? Well, read Part One of this series
and here are a few more places to look at:
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MARRIAGE.AND.DIVORCE_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-13 SUNDAY_ 65-0221M
229 See that original back there, "from the beginning," now?
Remarrying, now notice, he can, but she can't. Like David, like Solomon,
like the continuity of the whole Bible, now, same as David and the rest of
them.
230 Now you notice in First Corinthians 7:10, notice, Paul commands
the wife that is, that divorces her husband, to remain single or be reconciled,
not to remarry. She must remain single, or to be reconciled back to her husband.
She cannot remarry. She must remain single, but, notice, he never said about the
man. See, you can't make the Word lie. "From the beginning," the sex law by
polygamy. Now, the Word of God runs true with nature of God, runs in to
continuity.
231 See how there is one school went east, and the other one went west, on
it? You got to come back to the Truth, to find out what it is.
232 It's always been that way, that's the regular covenant with God from the
beginning. First, before the beginning, from the beginning there was just one
and one. After the sin came in, then there was one man and a bunch of women; run
that way in nature, every animal, and human beings and natural flesh is animal.
We are mammal, we know that, all of us, see, and it's all God's nature in
continuity.
233 But now that the Seals are opened, the Spirit of Truth directs us
to the Word. That explains why all the mistakes has been down through the
ages, because the Seals was not opened, This was
not revealed. It's true.
THE.CHOOSING.OF.A.BRIDE_ LA.CA V-2 N-28 THURSDAY_ 65-0429E
133 Now, notice again how the natural bride types the spiritual.
The Word says, that, "She was made for man, and not man made for her."
134 Now I'm going to speak, and why, in a few minutes, on the Bride of
Christ, but I'm trying to show you the background of it.
135 "Woman was made for man, and not man for woman." That's the reason,
under the old laws, that polygamy was legal. Look at David setting down there
with five hundred wives, and the Bible said, "He was a man after God's own heart."
With five hundred wives, and Solomon with a thousand, but not one of them women
could have another husband.
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Before the Seals, he was saying that polygamy was only for people with the
nature of a pig. And that being born again changed your nature from that.
After the Seals he says:
"See, you can't make the Word lie. "From the beginning," the sex law by
polygamy. Now, the Word of God runs true with nature of God, runs in to
continuity."
He continues on with:
After the sin came in, then there was one man and a bunch of women; run that
way in nature, every animal, and human beings and natural flesh is animal. We
are mammal, we know that, all of us, see, and it's all God's nature in
continuity.
So there went all those arguments that it was immoral. If I step in with my
own thinking and remove that covenant with nature that God put in place, where
do I place myself? I try to place myself above God. God knows I don’t want to be
found there. Remember that polygamy was the sex covenant and as long as sex is
here then the covenant is here. So if it is immoral, then sex itself is immoral.
But we know sex is the way that God has allowed the earth to be replenished. It
wasn't His perfect will, but permissive.
To go one step further, consider the natural typing the spiritual in what the
prophet talks about here:
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MARRIAGE.AND.DIVORCE_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-13 SUNDAY_ 65-0221M
243 But to get this Marriage And Divorce straightened out, so that you
would know which was right and which was wrong, now He plainly shows here in
these types. There is one Christ; and many members of that Wife.
Notice, He can put us away for spiritual fornications and false doctrine, any
time He wants to; but how dare you try to put Him away, and make it? The man can
put away his wife and marry another one; but not the woman put away her husband
and marry another one. See all the shadows and types there perfectly balanced
up? See the original creation; not the by-product nowhere. Not the church;
the Bride through the Word. Not the woman; the man, each time. That's why it
never says anything against the man doing it; it's always the woman. That's
exactly.
244 But she can be the Bride of Christ, by being... And remember, she
being a part of a man, the Bible said she can on-... "Nevertheless I suffer not
a woman to teach, or to usurp any authority, but to be in silence. For Adam was
first formed, and then Eve. And Adam was not deceived, but the by-product was
deceived. Notwithstanding she shall be saved if she continues in holiness and
sobriety, and in childbearing, and all such," because then she becomes a part of
this man.
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Notice the natural typing the spiritual.
So how can a spiritual type of Christ be the Word and the natural type of
that not be the Word? It simply can’t.
Find another spiritual type anywhere in the Word that in which the spiritual
type is OK but the natural type is filthy and wrong and immoral. Please send it
to me when you find it. But don’t find your own natural to type the spiritual.
God used the prophet and told us what in the natural typed what in the
spiritual. So you do the same thing. But, keep this in mind if you do that
search:
“Now, the Word of God runs true with nature of God, runs in to continuity."
He finishes it up with this:
233 But now that the Seals are opened, the Spirit of Truth directs us
to the Word. That explains why all the mistakes has been down through the
ages, because the Seals was not opened, This was not revealed. It's true.
Let’s continue on now.
That last quote in ‘Choosing of a Bride’ says something that brings up the
next argument I ran across.
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THE.CHOOSING.OF.A.BRIDE_ LA.CA V-2 N-28 THURSDAY_ 65-0429E
135 "Woman was made for man, and not man for woman." That's the
reason, under the old laws, that polygamy was legal. Look at David setting
down there with five hundred wives, and the Bible said, "He was a man after
God's own heart." With five hundred wives, and Solomon with a thousand, but not
one of them women could have another husband.
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We know that in this country it's against the law to have more than one wife.
But being against the law doesn't change what the prophet said was the truth.
Let's look at one more place where people try to make the Word contradict the
Word. I don't say that lightly. It's a horrible thing in God's eyes to try and
make the Word contradict Itself, whether you know you are doing it or not.
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THE.SEED.IS.NOT.HEIR.WITH.THE.SHUCK_ JEFF.IN V-6 N-4 THURSDAY_ 65-0218
70 Notice Sarah, the tassel that had the pollen, that Jewish nation raised
from her. From, come out of Sarah, brought Isaac; through Isaac, brought Jacob;
Jacob brought the patriarchs; and through the patriarchs, brought forth a
nation.
71 Mary, the virgin's faith, produced the true, spiritual Seed Word made
flesh. See?
The three women, three women that this Seed was carried through. One of
them was actually an adultery, under polygamy; the second was a freewoman; and
the third one had no sex affair at all, but by faith she believed the Word of
God. Hagar, Sarah, both Sarah and Hagar, was sex; but Mary was virgin, by
the power of the promised Word of God. That's right.
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The first thought for many people is to interpret polygamy as being adultery.
But notice that he says "adultery under polygamy" not "adultery by
polygamy" or "adultery in polygamy"
But for the sake of this discussion and to sort this out, let's say that the
prophet was saying that polygamy was adultery. Let's take that back to the Word
and see if that works or if it makes the prophet contradict the Word.
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AS.I.THOUGHT.ON.MY.WAY_ CHICAGO.IL WEDNESDAY_ 59-0610
E-29 David, after he did wrong and taken Uriah, the Hittite's wife, the
lovely Bathsheba, and was going to be the father of her child, and had caused
her gallant husband to be killed in battle... But when the prophet, Nathan, come
in and revealed his sins to him, then David thought on his ways, and he turned
hisself to repentance in sackcloth and ashes. That's the way to turn. God heard
him. God will always hear a man or woman that'll turn their feet to His
testimony.
David was worthy of dying, and he pronounced his own death. But Nathan
said, "Surely, you'll not die." For he knowed David knew God, and knew that he'd
done wrong. He'd defiled his brother's wife.
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So David, the man who had a hundred sons born to him in one year, God never
pronounced him an adulterer through Nathan the prophet. In fact if you go read
the story in the Bible you will see that the God gave those sheep (wives) to
David and God gave one sheep (wife) to Uriah.
II SAMUEL 12:7
7 And Nathan said to David, Thou art the man. Thus saith the LORD
God of Israel, I anointed thee king over Israel, and I delivered thee out of the
hand of Saul;
8 And
I gave thee thy master's house, and thy master's wives into thy bosom,
and gave thee the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that had been too little,
I would moreover have given unto thee such and such things.
9 Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his
sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his
wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
So as
soon as David took another man's wife, then adultery charges were on
their way to David, through Nathan the prophet. David was a man after God's own
heart and therefore God wanted him to walk before Him correctly. So He corrected
David when he got out of line.
To take the prophet’s words and make him say that polygamy is adultery is to
make him contradict what the Bible taught and what he himself taught in Marriage
and Divorce.
We'll leave off on that and we’ll wrap up this series the next time by seeing
what the prophet taught about remarriage and divorce.
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