Mark 10:2–10, cp. Matt 5:31–32 and 19 Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife? Yeshua confirms the fact that divorce wasn’t part of YHVH’s original marriage plan, but that Moses allowed divorce only for a specific reason.
In the Torah, divorce was permitted for lack of virginity at the time of marriage, and for specific sexual sins committed that violated the marriage covenant (note Deut 22:13–14 cp. Deut 24:1–4), yet eventually (by the time of Yeshua), among some of the Jews, the divorce laws had become so liberal that a man could put his wife away for any reason (Matt 19:3). To those Jews who had such a liberal interpretation of the Torah’s divorce laws, Yeshua was addressing not what the Torah specifically said, but what the religious-legal interpretations had become of those laws.
To bring the concept of marriage and divorce back to the Creator’s original design, Yeshua upheld that, according to the Torah—YHVH’s master plan, marriage between a man and a woman was inviolable and that divorce was permissible only for certain gross sexual sins (see more at Matt 19:8–9).
Now the problem is in most churches the Word is so watered down churches are having issues with what is true or not. Homosexual clergy, power hungry leaders, and of the rich pastor.
Sadly, humans are still humans, even in the church. We all need to be regenerated spiritually and be continually washed in the water of YHVH’s Word. And even then only by YHVH’s grace will any of us be counted worthy to become his immortal children and inhabitants of his eternal kingdom.
I just started reading your blog and appreciate how you carefully handle the Word of God. Thank you for increasing our knowledge.
Thank you. May Yehovah Elohim receive all the glory!