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Consequences of the Heresy of Monogamy and Related false Doctrines
Discussion of diverse consequences of the false doctrine of enforced monogamy, including consequences that most people do NOT recognize, like pornography
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8: Consequences of the Heresy of Monogamy and Related false Doctrines
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CHAPTER 8
CONSEQUENCES OF THE HERESY OF MONOGAMY
AND RELATED FALSE DOCTRINES
A variety of consequences flow from the heretical doctrine of monogamy and the related false doctrines discussed in this book. These are briefly summarized below:
72. TOUCHING GOD'S ANOINTED AND DOING HIS PROPHETS HARM
Psalm 105:7-17, also reported in 1 Chr 16 states:
7 He is the LORD our God; his judgments are in all the earth.
8 He remembers His covenant forever, the word which He commanded, for a thousand generations,
9 The covenant which He made with Abraham, and His oath to Isaac,
10 And confirmed it to Jacob for a statute, to Israel as an everlasting covenant,
11 Saying, "To you I will give the land of Canaan as the allotment of your inheritance,"
12 When they were few in number, indeed very few, and strangers in it.
13 When they went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another people,
14 He permitted no one to do them wrong; yes, He rebuked kings for their sakes,
15 Saying, "Do not touch My anointed ones, and do My prophets no harm."
16 Moreover He called for a famine in the land; he destroyed all the provision of bread.
17 He sent a man before them-- Joseph-- who was sold as a slave. (NKJ)
1 Samuel 26:7-12 reports:
7 So David and Abishai came to the people by night; and there Saul lay sleeping within the camp, with his spear stuck in the ground by his head. And Abner and the people lay all around him.
8 Then Abishai said to David, "God has delivered your enemy into your hand this day. Now therefore, please, let me strike him at once with the spear, right to the earth; and I will not have to strike him a second time!"
9 And David said to Abishai, "Do not destroy him; for who can stretch out his hand against the LORD'S anointed, and be guiltless?"
10 David said furthermore, "As the LORD lives, the LORD shall strike him, or his day shall come to die, or he shall go out to battle and perish.
11 "The LORD forbid that I should stretch out my hand against the LORD'S anointed. But please, take now the spear and the jug of water that are by his head, and let us go."
12 So David took the spear and the jug of water by Saul's head, and they got away; and no man saw it or knew it or awoke. For they were all asleep, because a deep sleep from the LORD had fallen on them. (NKJ)
Here we clearly see David, years after he was anointed by God to be king over Israel in 1 Samuel 16, fleeing from Saul who was rejected by God from being king in 1 Samuel 15 (before David was anointed), refusing to kill or even harm Saul when he had the opportunity. If it was so clear to David whom God calls "a man after my own heart" in 1 Samuel 13:14 and Acts 13:22 that he should not exact judgment or vengeance on Saul or even kill Saul in self defence, then surely it is inconceivable that there is any circumstance in which any one today should do anything to harm any man whom God has anointed or whom God may have anointed?
Yet I have heard a number of messages preached and also read a number of texts which condemn Abraham as an adulterer because he took Hagar as a second wife. Other messages condemn David for having adultery in his heart and therefore marrying more than one woman against the word of God. In the process the church totally destroys the standing of Abraham and David as Patriarchs who should provide role models for Godly men in marriage and sets up it's own pagan standards. At the same time God, Himself, is made out to be capricious and to condone sin because he still used Abraham and David "despite their adultery"! Surely this is the most apalling heresy?! In the process the real definition of adultery is totally hidden from view and adultery is rampant with the blessing of those who set themselves up to judge Abraham and David!
Thus we see that men and women who truly are seeking to love God with all their hearts, all their minds, all their soul and all their strength (Deuteronomy 6:5, Mark 12:30 and Luke 10:27) may well find themselves facing a harsh judgment (James 3:1) and possibly cast into outer darkness.
Matthew 22:13-14 states:
13 "Then the king said to the servants, 'Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'
14 "For many are called, but few are chosen." (NKJ)
Where they may genuinely have expected themselves to be called up higher at the feast to a place of honour or even to have sat on a throne with Christ for eternity. Joyner, on page 118 of The Final Quest, reports that most of the thrones in heave are currently heaven but that Jesus says that they could have been filled in any generation. Joyner also reports a "great reformer" and others who are greatly esteemed on earth who today are situated in the outermost courts of heaven because they failed to do what God had called them to do and caused others to stumble! Surely, if you love God and fear His judgment you must revise your thinking on the issues raised in this book and proclaim these truths from the roof tops.
73. A STUMBLING BLOCK FOR THE JEWS
Most Jews know that the Bible permits a man to have more than one wife, for example, The Living Torah, in a footnote to Exodus 21:10 states:
another wife, Polygamy (sic) was permitted by Torah Law. It was only forbidden later by a ban pronounced by all European rabbis under the leadership of Rabbenu Gershom (circa 965-1029).
Apart from the fact that this text uses the term Polygamy to describe Polygyny (a man having more than one wife) a widespread semantic error referred to in more detail in section 7, page 17, it makes it quite clear that scriptural marriage in which a man can have more than one wife, was still practiced by the Jews until about 1,000 years after the death of Jesus Christ. Maurice Lamm, in his book, "The Jewish Way in Love and Marriage", published by Jonathan David Publishers, Inc, Middle Village, New York 11379 in 1980 reports that this ban was "renewed for all Jews by Israel's Cheif Rabbi when it expired in 1950. Known as the 'Cherem de Rabbenu Gershom,' it is in force regardless of the wishes of the husband or the consent of the wife."
From considering other sources regarding the systematic distancing of the Gentile church from the Jewish roots of Christianity as a consequence of Roman influence as early as 300 AD resulting in steadily increasing persecution of Jews, it appears that the Rabbinical decree was as a consequence of increasing persecution by the Roman church seeking to enforce the proclamation by Justinian enforcing monogamy about three hundred years earlier.
On the few occasions where I have found myself in conversation with Jews on this matter it appears that the rabbinical decree is widely known as is the fact that monogamy is a Roman heresy instituted by the Christian church. It seems that in at least some Jewish quarters this is taken as a further indication that Jesus Christ could not possibly be the Messiah. This, in turn, must surely be a contributor to the difficulty that most Jews have in accepting conversion to Christianity. Surely this reason alone is sufficient grounds for any person who has the Love of God shed abroad in their heart (Romans 5:5) to urgently seek the proclamation from the roof tops of the true doctrines of Jesus Christ concerning marriage?
74. A STUMBLING BLOCK FOR MOSLEMS
For the same reason as the heresy of monogamy is a stumbling block for Jews, it is surely a stumbling block for Moslems. I have personally verified that in Malawi the church will permit a Moslem man with more than one wife to keep his wives but if a man converts he cannot take any more wives. The consequence is that when a man comes to the point of accepting that Jesus Christ is Lord he frequently chooses to delay giving effect to that decision in order to take his full quota of wives against a possible future decision to convert to Christianity.
In the process, Islam is making great inroads in Malawi and elsewhere while Christianity struggles to make an impact in Moslem areas, converts are murdered and great resistance is encountered. Surely this must at least in part relate to the very visible error of the Christian church in the area of marriage?
We must also surely ask ourselves whether it is a coincidence that Mohammed, a man with a number of wives, several of whom were reportedly Jewish and Christian, came to prominence at about the same time that Justinian made monogamy the legal marriage doctrine of the Roman church while at the same time the Roman church was departing more and more extensively from the teachings of scripture and the Lord Jesus Christ and the Holy Apostles and in the process taking harsher and harsher measures to persecute unbelievers.
Is it beyond the bounds of possibility that Mohammed could have indeed been sent by God as a prophet to warn the church but, because of persecution eventually turned away to some greater or lesser extent? Do we in fact know for sure that Mohammed was not a true prophet and that our understanding of his teachings is distorted? Is it possible that the Moslems today have more of the truth of scripture than the Christians? I do not know the answers to these questions but they are questions which I believe that every concerned believer who calls themselves by the name of Christ must surely ask themselves. For surely if we have the pearl of great price, the key to salvation (Matthew 13:45-46) and we have hidden it behind heresy and false doctrine so that it is not available to billions who are perishing we will face great weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth (Matthew 8:12, Matthew 13:42, etc) when we come to judgment?
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