People ask questions, God answers

In the sermon on the mountain (Mt. 5:27-32) our
Lord also spoke about adultery and divorce, “Thou
shalt not commit adultery … even not to lust after
another man’s wife …” Thereupon He says, “If thy
right eye offend thee pluck it out and cast it from
thee … And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off,
and cast it from thee …” Then He addresses the
man who could — not should — divorce his wife
only if she commits fornication (v. 32). Otherwise
he causes her to commit adultery, if she remarries,
and most certainly will be held responsible for it.
In any culture on earth, even with atheists, marriage
is generally respected as part of the natural
family life and order. The burning question is this:
What is adultery, whereupon both had to die according
to God’s law? What does the Scripture say?
Adultery is when a man has a sexual relationship
with a married woman, the wife of another man. “If
a man be found laying with a woman married to an
husband then they shall both of them die …” (Dt.
22:22).
In Mal. 2 the Lord first admonishes the priests and
the tribe of Levi because of their false teachings.
Then He speaks of the covenant of our fathers,
which Judah desecrated by marrying the daughters
of a foreign god. This prophetic chapter is
very deep and leads to the main point, “… that He
might seek a godly seed …” That seed is the promised
seed from the Garden of Eden, which is Christ
(Gal. 3:16). Then we read about divorce being an
act of violence. When a man divorces the wife of his
youth he breaks the covenant with her (v. 14). It
was never in God’s thinking that a wife would divorce
her husband, just as Israel could not divorce
God. Therefore it only states that in certain cases
the husband could give his wife a writ of divorce-
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