Marriage
WHAT THEREFORE GOD HATH JOINED TOGETHER
Malachi 2:14-16
“For the LORD, the God of Israel, saith that He hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the Lord of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit that ye deal not treacherously” (Malachi 2:16).
The day Adam changed accommodation: left Eden, that is, the next place he went, Eve was also there. When life was beautiful and rosy in the Garden of Eden, they were together. When the curse came and life really tough, they did not divorce. When tragedy strike in the family as Cain killed Abel, his brother, it did not bring division between the two with each supporting his favourite son.
In the full bloom of their youth (as they were created) they were together. In the twilight of their life, when they were old, their love for each other was still as strong as ever. This example manifestly reveals God’s plan in marriage from the beginning of the world. God through His plan has left no stone unturned. And His plan from the beginning is the same through to the very end of the world. He is the eternal, unchanging God.
If God has wanted a “divorce possible” relationship when He created Eve, He would have created two more women perhaps called the first’s name, Esther, and the other, Janet. Then God would have told Adam: “If you have any problem with Eve, push her out and go for Esther and Janet as alternatives”. He could also have created another man beside Adam, possibly John, and told Eve, “should you have difficult relating with Adam, just tell him, sorry, I’ll go to live with John”, but no. God never did anything like that. Hence we can infer that God was telling them that they should remain together – through better or worse days.
When God created Adam and Eve, and joined them together. He means they were to cleave together in marriage. It was to be a strong bond. They became one flesh: that means they have an indissoluble union. This shows that marriage is indissoluble.
“Know ye not, brethren (for I speak to them that know the law) how that the law has dominion over a man as long as he liveth? For the woman which has an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband” (Romans 7:1-2).
This passage is saying as long as the man you first married (and who was unmarried before you marry him) remains alive, you can not be separated from him. He is the husband of thy youth; the husband of thy covenant. As long as he remains alive you just have to stay together. You must remain together in the husband-wife relationship.
The woman (or wife) is released or loosed only if her husband dies. Whether the husband is sick, weak, poor or physically handicapped, as long as he is alive, the wife must stay together with him. “ So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law” (Romans 7:3)
Akinbowale Isaac Adewumi
www.devinehome.blogspot.com
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