2001.10.1.12 A Question Regarding A Challenging Principle: Why Are Many Of The Marriages In The Genealogy Of Yahshua Forbidden And Yet They Are Blessed? Created by James3 on 7/27/2019 1:25:23 PM A Question Regarding A Challenging Principle: Why Are Many Of The Marriages In The Genealogy Of Yahshua Forbidden And Yet They Are Blessed?
This item reports briefly on a challenging aspect of Scripture which the writer observed this morning and on which he would value comment.
The context of this message is a prophetic situation in which an man and woman known to the writer had come to a place of close relationship and were contemplating marriage only for the woman to be told by the Spirit that the marriage was "forbidden", a message which, while not explicitly given to the man, he was impressed to accept at the time it was given.
This is made very much more complex however since the man is certain that he has been told by the Father that it IS the Father's will for this man and woman to marry and both are certain that their heart's have been knit together sovereignly by the Father even though this man and woman have never met and they live half way around the world from one another.
In praying about this the writer was progressively shown that the man involved was descended from the blood line of Moses through Gershom and that the woman was descended from the blood line of "Amram and Jochebed through Miriam" (Amram and Jochebed are Moses's parents and Miriam is Moses sister) and that as they were therefore in a specific sense in the context of their ministries and calling brother and aunt (daughter of fathers sister) the marriage was technically forbidden in terms of Leviticus 18:12-13 "12 'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's sister; she is near of kin to your father. 13 'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister, for she is near of kin to your mother." (NKJ)
The fact that the brother - aunt relationship of the two parties is NOT current but relates to generations who lived thousands of years ago and therefore should not have any impact on the prospective marriage, is a prophetic paradox which the writer thinks he understands in the context of what he has been shown about the prophetic office of the two parties concerned. However, any comment would be appreciated.
There is, however, a big question for which the writer is seeking an answer from any who can offer it. This question was formulated as the writer prayed about this situation from a perspective of seeking to offer clear cut understanding to the parties involved who are both currently greatly distressed by what they are both certain that they received direct from Yahweh!
This question is WHY are a very significant number of the explicitly mentioned marriages in the blood line of Yahshua FORBIDDEN in terms of Leviticus 18, 20 and other scriptures?
Consider the following:
1) The children of Adam and Havvah (Eve) had to marry their brothers and sisters.
2) The children of Noah had to marry their half brothers and sisters.
3) Abraham married Sarai his half sister (Genesis 12 and 20).
4) Isaac married Rebekah his half sister (Genesis 26).
5) The son of Judah through whom the genealogy of both David and Yahshua is reckoned was born to Tamar, Judah's daughter-in-law (Matthew 1:3)
6) Salmon the father of Boaz married Rahab who was of the people of the land of Canaan whom the Israelites had been forbidden to marry (Matthew 1:5)
7) Boaz married Ruth who was a Moabite even though it was forbidden for an Israelite to marry a Moabite woman (Deuteronomy 23:3 ""An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter the congregation of Yahweh; even to the tenth generation none of his descendants shall enter the congregation of Yahweh forever," (NKJ) and we read in the book of Ruth that the person who was first in line to marry Ruth declined to marry her, apparently for this reason.
8) David married Bathsheba, who had been Uriah's wife, taken in adultery and murder and MADE HER QUEEN AND the blood line of Yahshua passed through her through Solomon (Matthew 1:6)
The only apparent commonality in all of these seems to be some act of faith or righteousness on the part of the man and / or woman which somehow consecrated what was technically a forbidden marriage OR that the depth of chesed (covenant love) between the man and woman sanctified the union on the basis of great faith or great love or both. Consider:
Galatians 5:6 "For in Messiah Yahshua neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but faith working through love [chesed]." (NKJ adjusted)
1 Corinthians 13:13 "And now abide faith, hope, love [chesed], these three; but the greatest of these is love [chesed]." (NKJ adjusted)
1 Corinthians 13:8 "Love [chesed] never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away." (NKJ adjusted)
It is the writers impression that somehow an act of great faith coupled with an act of great love will overcome the prohibition and that this is the Father's purpose as a prophetic statement in the lives of the people involved relating to their ministries. However, the writer cannot offer any clear basis for this and since he has been in contact with both parties for some time does not feel in a position to offer such critical counsel alone.
There is a gap in what the two parties are hearing from Yahweh and it seems that they are unable to resolve it without the addition of some critical additional information. The writer IS under the impression that the above explanation is the valid one and that IF the parties bring the union before the Father TOGETHER with an act of great faith and love [chesed], the prohibition will be waived.
Comment from people on the list would be greatly appreciated.
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