SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 11/20/2016 8:10 PM
My Worship Time Focus: Purity
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Malachi 2:15
Message of the verses: “15 “But not one has done so who has a
remnant of the Spirit. And what did that one do while he was seeking a godly
offspring? Take heed then to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously
against the wife of your youth.” “15
Didn’t the LORD make you one with your wife? In body and spirit you are his.
And what does he want? Godly children from your union. So guard your heart;
remain loyal to the wife of your youth.”
Dr. Wiersbe
writes “In the entire Book of Malachi, this is recognized as the most difficult
verse to translate and interpret. I think
the best translation is given by Dr. Gleason Archer: ‘But no one has done so who has a residue of
the Spirit. And what does that one seek
for? A godly offspring! Therefore take heed to your spirit [as a true
believer under the covenant] and let none of you deal faithlessly with the wife
of his youth.’”
It seems
that Malachi is commending the faithful husband, the one who obeyed the Spirit
of God along with the Word of God, not like those who did not obey the Spirit
and Word of God and divorced their Jewish wives to marry pagan wives, which
they probably did because of sexual desires.
The result for those who did not divorce their wives would be godly seed
as God had intended to happen.
Now we have
mentioned before that God had called Israel to be a channel to bring the
Messiah into the world, and by marrying pagans that could have destroyed that
channel and so Malachi had every right to chastise them for going against the
Law. In the end we can see the genealogy
of Jesus Christ, the Messiah in both Matthew and Luke’s gospels, one gives the genealogy
of Christ through Joseph as seen in Matthew and Luke’s gospel through
Mary.
11/20/2016 8:22 PM
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