November 8, 2011 – Deuteronomy 23 – 24

We just had a section about divorce and some discussion, and here we see it brought up again.  It appears that here the discussion mainly deals with not getting remarried after a divorce.  But it is obvious that divorce was allowed in Israel.  And Christ admits that in Matthew 19:8.  It was allowed because of their hardness of hearts.  It was explained to me, and I don’t know where this comes from, but the husbands, if they were dissatisfied with their wives would just kill them rather than stay married.  To stop this, Moses allowed divorce in order to save the wives.  But Christ points out that in the beginning it was not so.  Divorce was never suppose to be part of the plan and Christ commands that it is not allowed.  Maybe that is not the best way to put it.  Christ teaches that if you get divorce and remarry, you are committing adultery.  I guess there is the option to get a divorce and not remarry.  Basically, the marriage is still there, just not being lived out.