Polygamy and Violence Against Women
Malachi 2:13-14
In the Garden, God forbade polygamy. Then Moses permitted it. But Jesus came and confirmed that monogamy was always God’s perfect and divine created plan.
Malachi wrote: “And this have you done again covering the altar of YAHVEH with tears with weeping and with crying out insomuch that He regards not the offering any more nor receives it with good will at your hands Yet you say Why? Because YAHVEH has been witness between you and the wives of your youth against whom you have dealt treacherously your companions and the wives of your covenant”
Comment: Malachi made it clear that God is not hearing the prayers and entreaties of husbands who physically and emotionally mistreat and deal treacherously with their wives, sending them away for no reason, replacing them just because they tire of them. Peter reiterated this in his letter to the Out-Called 1 Peter 3:7. It was never God’s intention for men to have multiple wives.
15: And did not He make [two] one? Yet had He the rest of the Spirit. And why [make two] one? That he might seek seed of ELOHIM. Because of this take heed to your spirits and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth 16: For YAHVEH ELOHIM of Israel says that he hates [the] sending away [of wives] for he covers violence with his garment says YAHVEH of Armies therefore take heed to your spirits that you deal not treacherously
Comments: Malachi 2:15-16 …that he might seek Seed of ELOHIM. What exactly does that mean?
In the beginning, when God presented the man with his wife and joined the two humans in a covenant of marriage, making them one flesh, He made it clear to the man that one wife was all he was supposed to have. Through His command to the first man, all men were commanded that upon getting married, all husbands were to leave their parents and family homes to create completely new homes with their wives.
Husbands were commanded to follow closely after their wives and allow no other mortal to replace her. That command was directly related to what The Almighty called the Seed of ELOHIM, who, in the Garden, He called the Seed of the Woman, who we now know as the Messiah, Jesus.
Before the great flood, violence filled the earth. The enemy of our souls sought to destroy the Seed of ELOHIM before He was ever conceived, The carrying out of this insidious plan was the direct reason for the flood. This is plainly stated in Genesis 6:1-2, where the Lord God said the union between angels and human women was the reason for the coming destruction of the human race.
If the God had not sent the great cataclysm, humanity would have annihilated itself through genetic corruption. This eventually became an imminent threat to the continued existence of humanity and to the Holy Seed—Jesus—from ever being conceived.
God told Noah He was giving humanity 120 years to stop corrupting the race by producing abominable off-spring (nephilim) through these forbidden unions. Of course, He knew they would not. And 120 years later, the practice finally reached the tipping point, when Noah and his family were the last humans left on earth whose DNA had not been corrupted by hybrid marriages between fallen angels and human women [Genesis 6:9].
Noah—who was the husband of one wife—knew about the coming cataclysm and why it was coming. While he obediently built the ark, he preached to save humanity for 120 years. The 120-year number given in scripture is not the average age of humans during that era, but the number of years given to humanity to stop making these hybrid/forbidden marriages, which were producing the most violent of off-spring that were rapidly replacing the image of God on the planet with hybrid beings from whom the Messiah could never descend.
The anti-diluvian attempted coup against humanity was but one reason for God’s prohibition against men being husbands of more than one wife. He made it clear through Malachi how much He hates both the physical and emotional abuse of wives by false, underhanded, and even violent husbands Genesis 6:2-3, Genesis 2:23-24, Matthew 19:4-6, 1 Timothy 3:1, 1 Peter 3:7.
Jocelyn Andersen is the author of several non-fiction books, including, Redemption: Bible Prophecy Simplified, a Study of HOPE.
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