“When a man takes a wife and marries her, and it happens that she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some uncleanness in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce, puts it in her hand, and sends her out of his house...When a man has taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war or be charged with any business; he shall be free at home one year, and bring happiness to his wife whom he has taken." vv.1,5
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Marriage, divorce and honeymoon. Let's look at the good first before the bad. The Lord commands a yearlong honeymoon! Thank you Jesus!
Ok now on to the unfortunate part of marriage: divorce. Here we don't see a command to get a divorce but a permission to, like Jesus said in Matthew 19:8, "He said to them, 'Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, permitted you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.'" This uncleanness for cause for divorce was not adultery because death by stoning was the command for adultery, so must have been something else that was repulsive to him yet unknown what all uncleanness entailed. Yet it seems that the innocent spouse was free to remarry (v.2). This certificate of divorce "protected the woman from slander and abuse and also gave her the privilege of a second marriage" (Be Equipped, Warren Wiersbe).
No one hopes to get divorced one day, yet some many people allow it to happen without fighting for their marriage. I just watched the movie War Room and highly suggest you watch as it pertains to the power of prayer and marriage on the edge of divorce. War Room trailer
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