Ya’ don’t say. What kind of people would engineer this sort of catastrophe killing many lives?
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Ya’ don’t say. What kind of people would engineer this sort of catastrophe killing many lives?
Original link
https://madmaxworld.tv/watch?id=64f1e6f035a37b83131ba4c1
Biblical marriage is a contract, or covenant, between a heterosexual man and woman with stipulations, i.e., conditions to be met by each party or the covenant is broken.
Exodus 21:10-11 was the first recorded biblical marriage mandate from the heart of God. As with most things in life, that mandate eroded over the millennium to just about anything goes. By the time of the Romans, you just physically left the spouse to be divorced without a formal agreement. But Roman law said you had to remarry within 12-18 months or perhaps lose 50% of your goods to someone turning you in to the authorities. They wanted to keep up the birth rate to populate their empire.
By the time of Jesus, there were two schools of divorce and remarriage: the Hillelite and Shammaite. Rabbi Shammai had a strict and literal interpretation of Deuteronomy 24:1 meaning “indecency” which also included abuse in the mind of God. Rabbi Hillel was liberal and tolerant, so his method became to be known as “for any reason.” This is where we get the “she burnt my toast” example regarding flippant reasons for divorce. Hillel died when Jesus was young, and Shammai died twenty years later. So, both were contemporaries of our Lord Jesus during His earthly ministry.
In those days, as with today, both speakers and readers share a common cultural background and knowledge. For example, when modern Western people say a teenager shouldn’t drink, they mean alcohol, not all beverages! And there’s no description of crucifixion in the New Testament, for everyone knew the details of this most barbarous practice of deterring rebellion against the stated order.
The two main Old Testament passages that all this is based upon look like this:
Deuteronomy 24:1 “When a man takes a wife and marries her, and it happens that she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency [an ‘indecent thing’ meaning ‘ervah = indecent’ and ‘davar = thing’ in Hebrew; sexual in nature] in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out from his house…
Exodus 21:10-11 “If he takes to himself another woman [most likely a slave girl as a 2nd wife], he may not reduce her food, her clothing, or her conjugal rights. If he will not do these three things for her, then she shall go out for nothing, without payment of money…”
So, the Hillite school Pharisees ask Jesus to approve the liberal and tolerant approach “for any reason.” And Jesus will have nothing to do with it. This NALT translation is our contribution toward full understanding by clearing the air of all the smoke.
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Divorce “For Any Reason?” Jesus Responds – Matthew 19:3-9 NALT (New Amplified Living Translation by Walk Worthy)
Some conniving religious leaders but still part of the Pharisee sect came to Jesus, testing Him to get Him to agree to their false teaching on divorce that made it easy, and asking,
“Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife [and vice-versa] for our preferred way of the newer liberal and tolerant Hillelite school of interpretation called ‘for any reason’ at all [like modern day ‘no-fault’] since everyone recognizes this these days as legitimate? We hate the traditional and conservative old-school Shammaite interpretation that states divorce is for only adultery like in Deuteronomy [24:1] in addition to the failure to provide the marriage minimums in Exodus [21:10-11] of food, clothing [including shelter], and sex, plus also many other worse abuses than the minimums.”
And Jesus answered and said, “Have you not read [in the Old Testament Torah in Genesis 1] that He [God our Father] who created them from the beginning MADE THEM MALE AND FEMALE,and said [in Genesis 2], ‘FOR THIS REASON A MAN SHALL LEAVE HIS FATHER AND MOTHER AND BE JOINED TO HIS WIFE, AND THE TWO [‘two’ is not in the Hebrew text; it’s added for effect to negate polygamy and reinforce the male-female lifelong covenant-contract]SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH’ So they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate [not ‘no one can separate’].”
They said to Him, “Why then did Moses command to GIVE HER A CERTIFICATE OF DIVORCE AND SEND her AWAY?” He said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart Moses permitted but not ‘commanded’ you to divorce your wives when adultery and other abuses arise; but from the beginning, it has not been this way since divorce is not compulsory like you say it is but is allowable only under the right circumstances. And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife for the wrong reason including using the false and flimsy Hillelite-inspired ‘for any reason’ excuse except for immorality like in Deuteronomy [24:1] and other abuses like in Exodus [21:10-11], and marries another woman commits adultery, which, of course, can be forgiven by genuine repentance.”
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In this dicey exchange between Christ and the religious leader’s teaching error, note the following:
We’re so very grateful for the pioneering work of brother David Instone-Brewer on this most vital topic. His books and videos are invaluable.
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Hi there, folks. Onward to Jesus’ missions in the field and adventure. On Friday, January 29th, both of us, Marc and Sharron, took a swim with the manatees in Crystal River, FL!
We arrived Thursday afternoon and toured the area to find a suitable kayak launch location.
The Lord led us through a referral to Hunter Springs Park — a perfect spot to launch our kayaks when we return. This land was donated to the city as use for a public park.
Along the way on this trip, we proclaimed the gospel in snippets as the situation allowed.Jesus is merciful…Jesus will save.
Notice in this video how beautiful the park is designed and facilitates a variety of public uses.
Friday AM – Up early and ready for the swim
At 11 AM and now 65 degrees, we suited up and motored over to Three Sisters Springs where the manatees had come in during the night to avoid the deadly water temperature in the 50’s of the Gulf of Mexico. The Springs are a constant 72 degrees.
We launched out from the dive shop and motored for quite a while through King’s Bay, the 650 acre bay, until we began to enter the main tributaries on the way to the Springs.
We have about ten people in our group of various backgrounds and persuasions. Most were tourists like we were.
Here we enter the canal.
We move closer to the Springs and see a group in the water right ahead.
And finally we motor up real close to the large gathering of manatees where I begin our first underwater videos.
When we arrived at our spot at the springs, we anchored and stepped into the cool water with our snorkel equipment.
Sweet lady Sharron was a bit hesitant for she had never snorkeled before and has had an aversion to putting her face in the water. In no time, she had head down and in and was marveling at the under water creations of our Lord!
Here we get our first look at the herd of manatees, the sea cows, at the springs.
In this video, notice the fish swimming under the tail of the adult manatee. And then, the baby manatee following it’s mother and coming to the surface for a breath of air. Manatees are mammals.
And here is the view above the water of the herd at the springs head.
Another manatee swims right underneath our group!
Here we find Sharron and our intrepid guide, Michael, at the crossroads on the springs and the channel were we’re anchored.
And finally, Marc shows us sweet lady floating still head down in the springs…and our boat with “Captain Bligh” from the HMS Bounty!