SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 11/18/2016 11:14 PM
My Worship Time
Focus: Treachery
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Malachi 2:10-11, 14
Message of the verses: “10 "Do we not all have one father? Has
not one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously each against his brother
so as to profane the covenant of our fathers? 11 "Judah has dealt
treacherously, and an abomination has been committed in Israel and in
Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the sanctuary of the LORD which He loves and
has married the daughter of a foreign god.
14 “Yet you say, ’For what reason?’ Because the LORD has been a witness
between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt
treacherously, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant.”
We begin
the third main point from Warren Wiersbe’s commentary which he entitles “Profaning
God’s Covenant” and will cover Malachi 2:10-16, and he writes the following
introductory comments on this section: “Having
dealt with the sins of the priests, Malachi now turns to the nation as a whole
and confronts the men who divorced their wives to marry pagan women.”
As I read
this statement it makes me think about Israel when they were in the wilderness
and Balak wanted Balaam to curse Israel, but the Lord would not allow him to do
so. The result was the Balaam used the
foreign women to entice the men of Israel and this they were doing something
which against the Law of the Lord similar to what is not going on in Israel
close to 2000 years later.
Dr. Wiersbe
writes about this sin “In divorcing their Jewish wives and marring pagan women,
the men were committing several sins. To
begin with, it was treachery as they broke their vows to God and to their
wives. They were profaning God’s
covenant and treating it as nothing. Not
only had the Lord given specific requirements for marriage in His Law (Ex.
34:11-16; Deut. 7:3-4), but the covenant of marriage was built into
creation. ‘Have we not all one father?’ (Mal. 2:10) refers to God as the Father of
all humans, the Creator (Acts. 17:28).
God made man and women for each other and established marriage for the
good of human family. So, what these men
did was contrary to what God had written into nature and in His covenant.”
Now as we
look at marriage in the church age Paul has written some things about it in his
letter to the Corinthians, the first letter, and the second letter too. The first letter speaks of a person getting
saved after they are married and what should the unbelieving spouse do? The answer is that if the unbelieving spouse
desires to leave then they should be allowed to leave, but if they want to stay
then they can stay for perhaps they too will be saved as they live with the
believing spouse. However if a person
wants to get married who is a believer they should only get married to a
believer so that they will not be “unequally yoked” is how Paul puts it. 11/18/2016 11:33 PM
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