Malachi 2:10-16
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God’s View of Marriage
God’s View of Marriage
Dishonoring the covenant VERSE 10
The connection
Father of all of Israel
Creator of all of Israel
But now, thus says the Lord, who created you, O Jacob,
And He who formed you, O Israel:
“Fear not, for I have redeemed you;
I have called you by your name;
You are Mine.
Everyone who is called by My name,
Whom I have created for My glory;
I have formed him, yes, I have made him.”
This people I have formed for Myself;
They shall declare My praise.
The covenant (Overall but specifically the marriage covenant)
Treacherously
be unfaithful, be faithless, break faith, i.e., not trustworthy or reliable to a person or standard (1Sa 14:33); 2. LN 88.271–88.282 (qal) commit adultery, be unfaithful, i.e., have sex with partner that is not one’s married spouse (Jer 3:9), note: this refers to a spiritual unfaithfulness to other gods; 3. LN 37.111–37.113 (qal) betray, act. treacherously, i.e., to be faithless to a principle, person or group, often with a result of handing someone into control of another, with justification (Isa 21:2)
Profaning
defile, profane, treat with contempt, i.e., ceremonially or ritually be common and impure in the eyes of deity and/or society, seen as a violation of covenant (Lev 19:8), see also LN 88.256–88.261; (nif) defiled, profaned, desecrated (Lev 21:4, 9; Isa 48:11; Eze 7:24; 20:9, 14, 22; 22:16, 26; 25:3+)
The injured party (brothers in KJV, one another in NKJV)
Particularly the Jewish wives divorced by their husbands so the husbands could marry foeign wives
An abomination has been committed in Israel VERSE 11
An abomination by a holy people (Judah) in a holy land (Israel) in a holy city (Jerusalem)
Abomination
detestable thing, abomination, repulsion, i.e., an object which is loathsome and abhorrent (Dt 7:26), note: the object may be a concrete “thing” or a “way” or “practice,” as lifestyle behavior;
The profaning of the Lord’s holy Temple
Profane see above
Holy = sanctuary, holy object, holiness, sacredness
God loves His place designated for worship
The abomination was the unholy union in marriage
At the expense of their Jewish wives whom they divorced
In direct disobedience to the Lord’s command
Israel was to be a separate people
Now therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be a special treasure to Me above all people; for all the earth is Mine.
But I have said to you, “You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess, a land flowing with milk and honey.” I am the Lord your God, who has separated you from the peoples.
God’s command forbidding Israel to marry foreign women was connected with idolatry
Observe what I command you this day. Behold, I am driving out from before you the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite.
Observe what I command you this day. Behold, I am driving out from before you the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite. Take heed to yourself, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it be a snare in your midst. But you shall destroy their altars, break their sacred pillars, and cut down their wooden images (for you shall worship no other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God), lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they play the harlot with their gods and make sacrifice to their gods, and one of them invites you and you eat of his sacrifice, and you take of his daughters for your sons, and his daughters play the harlot with their gods and make your sons play the harlot with their gods.
Exodus 34:11-
Nor shall you make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to their son, nor take their daughter for your son. For they will turn your sons away from following Me, to serve other gods; so the anger of the Lord will be aroused against you and destroy you suddenly.
Deuteronomy 7:
Or else, if indeed you do go back, and cling to the remnant of these nations—these that remain among you—and make marriages with them, and go in to them and they to you, know for certain that the Lord your God will no longer drive out these nations from before you. But they shall be snares and traps to you, and scourges on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land which the Lord your God has given you.
Joshua 23:
Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness?
“You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together.
Deuteronomy
Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness? And what accord has Christ with Belial? Or what part has a believer with an unbeliever? And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God. As God has said:
“I will dwell in them
And walk among them.
I will be their God,
And they shall be My people.”
2 Corinthians 6
Dealing with the offender VERSE 12
Calling for the Lord to take action
The offender identified
awake
aware
hypocrisy
God’s View of Divorce
God’s View of Divorce
Unacceptable offerings VERSE 13
False worship when one has unconfessed sin
Rejected worship
The reason is for the unacceptable divorcing of their wife VERSE 14
The LORD witnesses our marriage vows
God protects the wife from a treacherously dealing husband
The wife of his youth
His companion
Wife by covenant
Marriage is not a contract
Marriage is not a contract
Malachi: Messenger of rebuke and Renewal David Levy
Page 55 Jewish Marriage
Marriage is created by God VERSE 15 (see Feinberg Notes)
Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
God made the man and woman one by His breath
And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.
God made them one so they might have godly children
Take heed and do not divorce your wife from your youth
God’s warning
God’s warning
God hates divorce
And He answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.”
Divorce reveals one’s character
He repeats the warning
