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THE LAWS OF GOD - #7 (A)
The Seventh Commandment and Related Scriptures
God has set forth HIS Laws in the Holy Scriptures for ALL Mankind to
know--and obey (Proverbs 14:34 and Isaiah 60:12)!
7. THOU (you) SHALL NOT COMMIT ADULTERY!
(Exodus 20:14 - Deuteronomy 5:18)...
The Pagans of the wicked world seek a libertine view of marriage and
family, holding that infidelity and unfaithfullness is old fashioned
and that modern open marraige and swinging ought to be the norm! On
the other extreme, some of the Religious Establishment would have such
a strict view of marriage and family as to do away with it entirely
(and require eveyone to be celibate)! But, the Hebrew view is to have
a balanced, healthy, and wholesome attitude that is pro-Family and
pro-marriage (fidelity and faithfulness). Thus, as Family is the
Foundation of the Realm (Nation), and fidelity the Foundation of the
Family, to commit adultery and defile the wife (breaking her one
flesh with her husband) is one of the most heinous crimes to be
committed!
.A SPECIFIC ADULTERY (Cuckoldry):
The wicked of the world have many ways of defining Adultery (open
marriage, swinging, etc.)--and attempting to justify that infidelity
and unfaithfulness is okay. However, the Holy Scriptures set forth
God's definitions and point out what a great error (and Major Sin)
such an act is!
- ..1 DEFINITIONS OF ADULTERY:
The Holy Scriptures set forth 3 basic definitions of what the word
adultery means:
- ...a GENERAL ADULTERY:
generally, the word adultery in the Scriptures refers to any
perversion or a sex act that is taboo or forbidden, and is often
referred to as whoremongering in the Old Testament and as
fornications (or pornecations) in the New Testament. This was the
view held by the Great Council of Jerusalem, when it wrote:
...BUT, THAT WE WRITE UNTO THEM, THAT THEY ABSTAIN FROM...AND FROM
FORNICATIONS (Perversions)...FOR MOSES, EVEN FROM ANCIENT TIMES,
HAS HAD THIS TAUGHT IN EVERY CITY, BY THOSE WHO PREACH HIM--BEING
READ BY THEM IN THE SYNAGOGUE (Congregation) ON EVERY SABBATH!
(Acts 15:20-21)
Moreover, this view that adultery (especially in the Old
Testament) generally refers to any and all perversions is set
forth by many other Scriptures as well (I Corinthians 5:1, 7:1;
Ephesians 5:3-7; Colossians 3:5-6; I Thessalonians 4:3; Hebrews
13:4).
In addition, the NOAHIC RULES OF
FELLOWSHIP demanded (down through the centuries) that one not
be practicing any of these forbidden acts in order to be acceptable
for Fellowship to any Hebrew Community! So, we will detail the
discussion of these fornications in the following section on
MOSAIC TABBOS for clarity on these Laws
of God.
(For more on this definition, see the next Article on General Adultery.)
- ...b SPECIFIC ADULTERY (Cuckoldry):
The specific and exact Biblical Adultery is defined in the Holy
Scriptures, themselves: THOU (you) SHALL NOT LIE CARNALLY
(sexually) WITH THY (your) NEIGHBOR'S WIFE, TO DEFILE THYSELF
(yourself) WITH HER! (Leviticus 18:20) And the concept
of Adultery as wife defilement is maintained by many other
Scriptures (Leviticus 20:10; Job 31:9-12; Proverbs 5:15-20,
6:27-35; Jeremiah 29:23; I Thessalonians 4:2-6). So, it is this
form of Adultrery that we will treat here, in this section.
Moreover, this definition has been expanded in the Word to
include the following:
- BETHROTHED FEMALES (Deuteronomy 22:23-24).
- UNJUSTIFIED DIVORCE (Matthew 19:8-9; Mark 10:11-12; Luke
16:18)
- MENTAL ADULTERY
Lusting after another's wife (Jeremiah 5:8-9; Matthew 5:27-28),
though perhaps a lessor crime, like thievery. (See Lust--in
Tolderands.)
- ...c FIGURATIVE ADULTERY (Spiritual Adultery):
occassionally, the Holy Scriptures make a symbolic play upon the
word Adultery, where what is really meant is Idolatry--our
unfaithfulness to God being pictured as a bride's infidelity to
her husband (Judges 2:17, 8:27; I Chronicles 5:25; Psalms
106:39-40; Jeremiah 13:27; Ezekiel 6:9, 23:43-44; Hosea 1:2,
4:12; James 4:4). This topic is dealt with under the 2nd COMMANDMENT on Idolatry.
- ..2 REASONS WHY GOD HAS FORBIDDEN SPECIFIC ADULTERY:
Adultery, or wife defilement, is taboo for good reasons. It is not
just a silly whim of God. Rather, there are some very good reasons
why we need to keep and obey this Commandment:
- ...a IT destroys a wife's wedlock or one fleshedness with her
husband (Jeremiah 3:20; Ephesians 5:30-32).
- ...b IT promotes witchcraft and fertility cult harlotry, which
is Idolatry (Exodus 32:25, 34:14-16; Leviticus 20:5-6).
- ...c IT, therefore, defiles the children, causing them to become
miscegenates (or ill-conceived children), who are often demonic
(or diseased) from birth (Deuteronomy 23:2; Jeremiah 5:7, 31:29;
Hosea 2:4-5, 4:12, 5:7; Mark 9:20-22; John 9:1-2), as the souls
of a man's children will not completely transfer from his loins to
that of his wife's womb (Genesis 35:11, 46:26; Exodus 1:5; I Kings
8:19; II Chronicles 6:9; Hebrews 7:5, 10).
- ...d IT, also, clouds the family heritage--confusing the clear
patrilineal descent set forth by the Holy Scriptures, and thus
destroying not only the links in the chain from ancestors to
descendants, but also the foundation of the Realm, itself
(Genesis 5:3-28).
- ...e IT causes homosexuality for it not only results in the
wife giving her husband's flesh to another man, as she is one
flesh with her husband (Genesis 5:3-28), but it also results in
the curse of homosexuality afflicting the child--for as history
shows, in those nations where adultery became fashionable and
widely practiced then the next generation was smitten with a large
increase in the number of homosexuals!
- ...f IT, also, spreads a whole host of Social Disease or
V.D.--even more so that simple prostitution (II Chronicles
21:13-15; I Thessalonians 4:6), such as: Blindness (John 9:1-2)
and infertitily or childlessness (Leviticus 20:20-21; Jeremiah
22:29-30).
- ...g IT destroys the sanctity of the individual's temple-body,
causing him to be unfit for God's service (I Corinthians 6:13,
18-19)--perhaps even resulting in demonic possession.
- ...h IT weakens and debilitates the mind, in some cases leading
even to insanity (Romans 1:28-31).
- ...i IT, thus, pollutes the Land and fills it with spiritual
defilement, by increasing populations of miscegenates, and
homosexuals, and idolatrous witchcraft--and growing numbers of the
Socially Diseased (Leviticus 18:24-29; Jeremiah 3:1-2).
- ...j IT, therefore, brings down God's curses upon the Nation and
the Land--to cleanse it of such wickedness (Deuteronomy 31:16-17;
Job 31:9-12; Jeremiah 5:8-9; I Corinthians 10:8; I Thessalonians
4:2-6).
- ...k IT excludes the individual from Heaven, for God will not
allow one so defiled to enter in to Glory (Galatians 5:19-21;
Hebrews 13:4; Revelationas 19:3-12, 21:8, 22:15).
- ...l IT, therefore, causes one to be excluded from Fellowship,
for according to the Noahic Rules of Fellowship, which have been
used reputedly since the Days of Noah, those who continue to
practice such immorality and sexual perversion MUST be set out of
the Congregation (I Corinthians 5:11, 6:9-10; Revelations
22:14-15).
CONSEQUENTLY, is it any wonder that WE preach so sternly against
IT in Our teachings? And act so strongly against it in Our Law? For,
it is a Major Sin in God's eyes!
.B GENERAL ADULTERY
PERVERSIONS (Sex Crimes)--Mosaic Taboos: The other major definition
of Adultery is basically taboos or perversions that we are not to
practice. Moses had a list of these specificaly preached against by
his teachings. And, according to tradition, the
NOAHIC RULES excluded those who practiced
them, from Fellowship. But, to fully explain them, we have set them
off in the following section.
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