Strange Wives
F o r b i d d e n
According to the Scripture
Ezra
“We have trespassed against our God, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land and now there is no hope…”
“Now let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the (strange) wives, and such as are born of them…”
From ‘perfection in you generations”,
“to wickedness,
evil, defiling, pollution, con-fusion”
Strange Wives That Are Forbidden
This is a study of the scriptures pertaining to the selection of a mate for marriage, procreation, even friendship. Then as today, we shall see that choice can still determine the very salvation of the parents, their children and descendants of that union.
The Scripture so frequently
refers to the words ‘strange’ and
‘strangers’ (hundreds of times) that there is obviously some
significance, importance attached, perhaps even some profound message.
With so much emphasis, it seems incumbent on us to carefully research
its meaning to be sure we understand God’s intentions.
The more common definition of ‘stranger’ is (1) “someone I do not recognize”
Thus a stranger
can be of my own city, of my own kind, even a distant relative, but
I simply recall no recognition. If two people meet for the very first
time, they are both strangers to each other. Jesus was even considered
a stranger when He first entered Jerusalem.
Both the KGV concordance
and Webster also define ‘stranger’ as
(2)
“not ones own (kind)” and “of
external kind, origin, character”.
Thus we find two kinds of
strangers. For purposes of this study, we reference the latter.
Hereafter, readers must be prepared to discern whether strangers
referred to in scripture are ‘of their own kind’ or not.
The first indication that God’s Great Plan required some ‘distinction’ and ‘seperation’
within his (hu) man creations (kinds), has its beginning in Genesis 6.
V2 “that the sons of God (group A) saw the daughters of men (group B) that they were fair, (i.e. beautiful and of light complexion) and they took them wives of all which they chose”.
V3 God said, because of that act “My spirit shall not always strive (be supportive) with man, for that he is also flesh (worldly)”.
V4 “when the sons of God (group A) came in unto the daughters of men (group B), and they bare children to them, the same (those mixed children) became mighty men which were ‘of old’, men of renown” (prominent and well known)
V5 “and God saw that the wickedness of man (marriage/mixture of group A and B) was great in the Earth, and that every imagination (desire) of thoughts of his heart was evil continually.”
V6 “and it repented (caused sorrow that He had even created man) the Lord that He had made man on the earth, and it grieved Him at his heart.”
V 7 “and the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth.” (all because of the wickedness of ‘A’ mixing their kindred bloodline with ‘B’)
Consider! Why
was God so adamant that (His) sons were not to intermarry with the
daughters of men? He explains that to the children of Abraham, Isaac,
Jacob/ Israel in 1 Kings 11:2 “Ye shall not go into them, neither
shall they come in unto you; for surely they will turn away your heart
after their own gods:” Not only did God explain why that is forbidden,
but we will see later on that. He even gave us detailed instructions
and examples (Genesis 24, 25, & 26) as to how parents and grandparents
are to intervene in order to prevent their sons and daughters from
marrying strangers, i.e. outside their kindred bloodline.
But before God
actually destroyed his creations, (which had multiplied into millions
of people) he took note of just one man on earth, “But Noah
found grace (moral promise) in the eyes of the Lord”
V9 “Noah
was a just (righteous) man, and perfect in his generations.”
(This means
Noah’s bloodline from Adam through Seth, Enos, Cainan, Mahalaleel,
Jared, Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech, therefore Noah was perfect according
to God. That is, Noah’s kindred bloodline even back to Seth in
the Garden of Eden had not been corrupted, polluted, defiled, nor adulterated.
Noah’s forefathers had not married with ‘daughters of men’)
Gen 9:18 Noah’s son’s were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Those sons, along with their wives had been placed aboard the Ark by God, before the flood. God would not have placed them there had they not also been ‘perfect in their generations.’ (Their bloodline had not been polluted by marrying other ‘types’).
Gen 10 Noah’s firstborn Shem, became the great, great, great, great, great, grandfather of Abram.
As we continue
to study the scripture, by the sheer volume of words and attention devoted
to them, we will find that Abram and David are the central characters
of God’s plan, and arguably the most important men of the entire Bible.
Gen 11 Abram took
Sarai, his half sister, for his wife. She is described as “fair”
even “very fair”. When Abram and his entourage traveled through
Egypt the ‘princes’ noted the strikingly beautiful Sarai and called
her to the attention of the Pharoah. But God intervened and threatened
the pharaoh with plagues if he even touched Sarai.
That was because it would be through the pure and perfect bloodlines of Abram and Sarai that God would restore and perpetuate his “Holy Seed”, which had been polluted in Eden. And from that union of Abram and Sarai, the children, grandchildren, great grandchildren and all future heirs of Abram; would begin the testing and endurance (of their faith and of the law) for qualification, preparation, and acceptance into Christ’s Kingdom.
Fast Forward to Joel 3:17, Speaking to the heirs of Abraham, the children of Israel “So shall ye know that I am the Lord your God dwelling in Zion (the heavenly city), my holy mountain: and there shall no strangers pass through her anymore.
Gen 12:3 God made these promises exclusively to Abraham, and to no one else.
“I will make
thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy
name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: And I will bless them
that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and
in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed. I will
make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can
number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed be numbered.”
Almost every
race and creed of man has at one time or another claimed they are the
seed of Abraham, and thus attempt to claim, or
steal, those promises from the rightful owners.
And when Abram
was 99 years old, and had become very rich in cattle, silver and gold,
the Lord appeared to Abram and said; walk before me and be thou perfect.’ (That is the same term God use
to describe Noah, ‘perfect in his generations).
Since the 10 commandments had not yet been delivered by god to Moses, the only divine and natural law that Abram and Sarai were to ‘multiply’ and do so under the rule of ‘kind after kind’. (Genesis 1)
Gen 16 Because Sarai had been barren, and unable to conceive, she proposed that Abram conceive a child by Sarai’s handmaid, a woman named Hagar, Sarai regretted that decision after Hagar had conceived Abram’s child, named Ishmael. Sarai became jealous and despised Hagar and her son Ishmael, and required them to flee into the wilderness.
Who was Hagar? We must assume here that Abram and Sarai were so well grounded in God’s law, that Hagar was also perfect in her generations, but she had not been a recipient of the ‘special covenant promises’ that God had made exclusively to Abram and Hagar.
Gen 17 In this chapter, God repeats and confirms the exclusive ‘covenant promises, blessings and obligations’ he had earlier made to Abram and his seed. (Gen 12:3)
As a reminder
forever, of the covenant blessings God had promised to Abram, God
required that Abram, and all of his man child seed after him,
must be circumcised, “it shall be a token (sign) of the covenant betwixt
me and thou.” There was neither requirement nor sign, made of anyone
except Abraham’s seed. (That
is a practice (and sign) of Anglo-Saxon-Christians nations today. Other
races may practice circumcision when they live amongst Anglo-Saxon-Christians.)
God promised Abram,
now re-named Abraham, and Sarai, now named Sarah, a son, and told them
to name the son Isaac. (Abraham
means ‘father of many nations’, a prophecy of what
the children of Abraham would eventually become.)
Who are
the modern day bloodline descendants of Abraham that still possess the
covenant promises and blessings from God? The
nations of Israel, is an oft repeated phrase throughout the old
and new testament. They are easily identifiable.
God explained that only Isaac would receive, and then carry forward through His holy seed (bloodline), all of the exclusive and “everlasting” covenant promises and blessings that God had made to Abram and Sarai. This then is God’s first elevation of one man, Abraham, his wife Sarai, and his son Isaac to a status above all other of his mankind creations. Thus the origin of the term, “God’s Chosen People.”
We will
later read many times that this exalted status of these people would
only apply and remain as long as that
specific seed line from Abraham/Sarah remained
‘perfect’ and uncorrupted, unadulterated, unpolluted and undefiled.
It is significant
here to read Gen 21:12 (restated in Heb 11:18) when God said to Abraham
and Sarah, “in Isaac
shall thy seed be called”. That is, ‘your seed will become
known by some derivative of the name Isaac’…… (Isaac’s seed)
(Isaac’s sons) (Saac’s son) (Sax sons) (Saxons)…...
When Abraham expressed concern for his son Ishmael and his seed line, God assured him that although Ishmael would not receive the covenant blessings made in Genesis 12:3, he would still “bless him and make him fruitful, and multiply him exceedingly, 12 princes shall be beget and will make him a great nation.” Webster (nation: an aggregation of persons of the same ethnic, racial family). Simply because Ishmael was Abraham’s son, God did not pass the special blessings to Ishmael and his seed, but those blessings He did provide Ishmael and his children, pale in comparison to those made to the holy and select seed born to his wife Sarah.
Gen 24 The above scripture has now soundly established the sanctified bloodline of Abraham and Sarah, and establishment of a Chosen People blessed above all others. The reference to ‘holy seed’ ‘sanctified bloodline’ and ‘chosen people’, all are one and the same family and race of people, who are often otherwise referred to as the children of Abraham, the children of Isaac, the children of Israel, the House of Jacob, the House of Judah, the House of David, mine elect, my beloved, precious jewels, peculiar treasure, lost tribes of Israel, sheep, flock, and wheat.
This chapter is filled with intrigue and excitement as to how God, through his teaching to Abraham, insured that the future generations of Abraham and Sarah, through Isaac and his wife Rebekah, would preserve that same pure bloodline previously sanctified by God. We will note in the next verse, the delicate, yet commanding plans Abraham required of his trusted servant, to assure that ‘perfection’ of the bloodline was perpetuated until the Kingdom comes).
Gen 24:3 Abraham
instructed his eldest servant, “* And I will make thee swear by
the Lord, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou
shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites,
among whom I dwell: But thou shalt go unto
my country, and to my
kindred, and
take a wife unto my son Isaac.*”
*That is, most likely, the most profound verse in the Old Testament. Why?
Because Abraham knew that all of the patriarchs, all of the prophets, eleven of the disciples, all of the authors of scripture, all of the apostles, all past, present and future Christians, even Mary the Mother of Christ, owed the perfection in their generations, i.e. their uncorrupted, unpolluted, undefiled, and unadulterated bloodline, to the above command that Abraham issued to his trusted servant, and unto his son Isaac.
Abraham made no other qualifications for this daughter in law. Nothing about her morality, her religion, her education, or her appearance. Just that she not come from the Canaanite (strang) people who lived around them, but that she must come from his kindred, i.e. his bloodline (God’s law of ‘kind after kind’). What was wrong with marrying into the ‘Canaanite’ people? Who were they? We must go back to Noah. Noah’s youngest son was named Ham. Ham had a son named Canaan and thus became known as the father of the Canaanites. For an act of immorality by Ham, Gen 9:24, Noah condemned the ‘children of Canaan’ to be servant to the children of Shem, Noah’s oldest son. The children of Canaan became huge in number and were spread over vast areas along the Mediterranean Sea.
We must remember while carefully protecting and re-establishing this “Holy Seed” , of pure strains of the bloodline through Abram (even back to Seth), God had even arranged for Abram to take his half sister ,Sarai, to be his wife.
God remains in total control of that bloodline, even in this day.
Galatians 3:29, “and if ye be Christ’s (Christians), then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.” A careful reading of this verse states the pre-requisite of a Christian, is to first be of Abraham’s seed.
Then Abraham’s
trusted servant questioned what he should do if the (bride to be) would
not agree to return with them as Isaac’s wife, Abraham replied, ‘then don’t
even bother to bring my son home again.’
Abraham repeated that statement a second time. The servant understood
the urgency and prayed to God that would not happen!
When the nervous servant first arrived at the city of Nahor, in the land of Mesopotamia, home to Abraham’s kindred, at the neighborhood water well of his brother, Nahor, he practiced unto himself what to say. But he needed not to worry, as God had taken care of everything and even prearranged for the first damsel to reach the well, to be Rebekah, the daughter of Nahor, Abraham’s own brother.
After the servant gave a complete report to the family of Nahor, about Abraham’s blessings from God that were to be passed on to his son Isaac, and the concern of his master Abraham that the bloodline of his wife must not be polluted nor adulterated, the ‘fair’ (light complexion and beautiful) Rebekah accepted the proposal and agreed to return with the servant to be the wife of Isaac.
Upon hearing that,
Abraham’s servant bowed himself to the earth and worshipped the Lord.
Abraham died shortly thereafter but willed all that he had, especially
those blessings from God, unto Isaac, except that he gave ‘gifts’
to the sons of his concubines, and
sent them away from his son Isaac into the
east country so that they would not intermarry with the
‘holy seed’ now carried forward by Isaac and Rebekah.
Gen 25 In this chapter, Rebekah conceives twins, Esau and Jacob. During the time of famine God arranged for Isaac to take his family and holdings to Gerar (Philistine/stranger), a land ruled over by king Abimelech. Once again the wife’s beauty attracted the leader in the land, just as the Pharoah had been attracted to Sarai, except this time it was Abimelech who was attracted to the fair and beautiful Rebekah. Isaac was even afraid that king would kill him for his wife. But instead, after the king Abimelech thereafter protected both Isaac and Rebekah from all suitors.
Eventually Isaac becomes even more blessed and increased his holdings by more than a hundred fold in just one year, even while dwelling in the land of the Philistines (strangers).
Gen 26 The twin Esau, at the age of 40, married “Judith, the daughter of the Hittite, and Bashemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite.” Hittites are from the family of the Canaanites. (Gen 10:15) The very people that Esau’s grandfather Abraham made his servant swear to keep away from Esau’s father Isaac!
Gen 27 “Which
were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.” Their son
Esau had now married a stranger, outside his ‘kindred’, and
thus broken God’s “kind after kind” law, and thus adulterated
his bloodline. This caused Esau to forfeit (lose) his birthright, the
everlasting covenant blessings normally due the firstborn. God’s
blessings were then bestowed upon Esau’s brother Jacob.
Knowing and grieving about the sin adultery (by marrying outside the covenant bloodline and fathering bastards) committed by her first son, Esau, Rebekah said to her husband Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth*. If Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth*, such as these which are of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?” Poor Rebekah did not even want to live any more if her remaining son, Jacob, also married a (stranger) Canaanite.(Heth* was a Canaanite, Gen 10:15)
Gen 28 Just as God had intervened to assure that Isaac found and married Rebekah, according to ‘kind after kind’law, i.e. his ‘kindred’, read this next amazing chapter. Again God would take no chances on the protection and preservation of his Holy Seed.
“And Isaac called his son Jacob and blessed him, and charged (commanded) him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan. Arise, go to Pandanaram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother’s father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban, they mother’s brother.” The daughters of Laban would be Jacob’s first cousins, (kindred).
Now back to Esau for a moment. In verse 8, “And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father, he then took a third wife, Bashemath, the daughter of Ishmael.” Thus Esau may have been trying to re-establish his perfect bloodline and get back in the good graces of God, and his parents. But we recall Ishmael, though a son of Abraham was not a part of the covenant promises, nor of the covenant bloodline, as he was not the son of Sarah. Esau was so embittered and jealous about losing his birthright, which he threatened to kill his brother Jacob upon his return from his journey to find his wife.
Gen 29 Jacob carefully
followed the instructions of his father, Isaac, and went to the kindred
family, his mother’s brother, Laban, to find a wife that met the bloodline
requirements God had originally imposed upon his grandparents, Abraham
and Sarah, and Jacob’s parents, Isaac and Rebekah.
On the way to his
uncle, Laban’s, God paid a visit to Jacob, and conveyed all the covenant
blessing onto Jacob, that He had previously given to Abraham and Isaac.
Not only did Jacob
find his wife, Rachel there, but his uncle, Laban tricked him into also
taking Rachel’s sister as his wife. But it was Rachel who was his
first love. But importantly, the perfect bloodline was maintained, even
through Rachel and Leah, and even their handmaids, as they were
all of the covenant blessed seed of Abraham and Sarah.
These two wives and their ‘handmaids’ became the mothers of the twelve tribes of Israel”. By Leah, Reuben – Simeon – Levi – Judah – Zebulon – Issachar. Leah also bore one daughter, Dinah. By Leah’s handmaid, Gad and Asher. By Rachal – Joseph and Benjamin. By Rachel’s handmaid – Dan and Naphtali. (Be sure to remember those 12 names, as they are engraved over the 12 entry gates to enter the kingdom.)
Gen 32 And God said,
“Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince
has thou power with God and with men, and has prevailed. I am God almighty:
be fruitful and multiply; a nation and company of nations shall be of
thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins.”
Thus God had now again carefully protected and perpetuated the pure bloodline form Adam into the 12 tribes of Israel, reminding them to protect that bloodline, not to intermarry with ‘strangers’, i.e. the Canaanites, Jebusites, Hittites, Moabites, etc.
Gen
34 While Dinah, the daughter of Jacob and Leah, was on an outing, Shechem,
the son of a Hivite (Canaanite) prince, became enamored with her, and
seduced her, “took her, and lay with her, and defiled her.”
The term ‘defile’ was used because Dinah’s generations were pure and perfect and unpolluted, and her seducer was considered a ‘stranger’ and of the polluted Canaanite people.
Webste
When Jacob received the news about his daughter, Dinah, being violated by the Canaanite, his 12 sons (tribes) gathered and “grieved”. Shechem’s father came and asked them permission for his son to marry Dinah, and offered any dowry (payment) requested. Shechem’s father even offered them his daughters to marry. The sons told him that was impossible because Canaanites were not circumcised, (not of the covenant people but were of a strange bloodline). Eventually, Dinah’s brothers killed all of the Hivite men that had defiled their sister, and spoiled (took) all belongings they had.
Note
here that there is not one word of criticism, nor chastisement recorded
from God for killing the Hivites. That was not considered murder, because
they were not a part of the covenant people descended from Abraham.
Deut 7 Moses had been appointed by God to receive, maintain, and instruct the laws of obedience to the children of Israel (the son of Isaac formerly named Jacob). At this point, God was preparing to send the growing masses of Israelites into a new land, then occupied by Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, all of Canaanite heritage, seven nations greater and mightier than thou.”
God’s orders to the children of Israel “thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy to them: Neither that thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.” Why would God say that? Read on.
“For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the Lord be kindled against you (Israel), and destroy thee suddenly.” Why? Read on.
“For thou
(children of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel) art an holy
people unto the
Lord thy God: the Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above
all people that are upon the face of the earth.”
Matt 10:6 Jesus instructions to his disciples “But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel”
Matt 5:24 Jesus said “I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel”
Joel 2:27 God said to the children of Israel “I am the Lord your God and none else”
Amos 3:2 God said “O children of Israel… You only have I known of all the families of the earth”
Num 25 ‘one of
the men of Israel brought a Midianitish (Canaanite/stranger) woman to the door of the tabernacle
of the congregation, within sight of Moses, the priest. God had given
Moses the responsibility to be the caretaker and instructor of God’s
law and covenant’s given to the children of Abraham including
the 10 commandments. When Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, son of Aaron,
saw that he rose from the congregation, and thrust a javelin through
both of them, the son of Israel, and the strange woman’
God commended Moses
for the killing done by Phinehas, as being “zealous for my sake.”
Phinehas merely
applied God’s law as given in Deut 23:2………a bastard shall
not enter into the congregation of the Lord.” (a bastard, is a person
resulting from prohibited marriages. According to Webster, something
inferior or irregular, confused or not genuine)
Lev 24 ‘an Israelite man strove through the camp of the holy place with a stranger, the (mixed) son of an Egyptian man and an Israelite woman. The stranger cursed and blasphemed the name of the Lord. The Lord commanded Moses that both the bastard and the Israelite man should be stoned to death by the congregation.
Again , Deut 23:2
was God’s applicable law. In both of the above instances the Israelite
man was considered just as guilty as the stranger and thus put to death.
Lev 11 In both these chapters God provides the ‘dietary laws of meats’ to the children of Israel, his Holy Seed, saying “ speak unto the children of Israel, these are the beast which ye shall eat.” He describes in great detail the “clean” meats that are fit for consumption by the children of Abraham, and the “unclean” meats that are unfit for consumption by the children of Abraham. These health statutes were given exclusively to the children of Abraham and the children of Israel, for their good health, but those statutes were not applicable to other peoples/races. For proof of that, in Deut 14:21 God told Israel “Ye shall not eat of any thing that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger (non kindred) that is in thy gates, that he may eat it.”
(God just said that he did not want his chosen seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel to contaminate themselves by eating unclean animals, but it was OK for other people/races to eat them!).
Judges 11:2 Jephthah,
the son of Gilead, although a mighty man of valor, an heir of Abraham
through Manasseh, was told by his mother that he ‘shalt not inherit
anything in our father’s house; for thou are the son of a strange*
woman, a harlot’. (by God’s definition, a bastard)
Judges 14 Because of their disobedience to him, for their punishment, God had delivered the children of Israel into the hands of Philistines (strangers), akin to the Canaanites. In time, God made a plan to free the Israelites from bondage to the Philistines, by announcing the birth of Samson.
Samson was from the bloodline of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Dan, who was one of the 12 sons born to Israel. When he became of age, Samson was smitten by the (stranger) daughter of a Philistine, and asked his parents permission to marry her.
Samson’s father
and mother, recalling the admonition and grief of their forefathers,
said unto him, “Is there not a woman among the daughters of thy
brethren (kindred) or among all my
people that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistine(strangers).”
Ruth The entire book of Ruth records the research into the generational forefathers of Ruth, Naomi, and Boaz. Because of famines in their own homeland, many families of the children of Abraham, including the family of Elimelech, Ruth and their two sons went to live in the land of the Moabites who were strangers according to God’s definition. While there, the two sons married ‘women of Moab’. This does not necessarily mean, nor does the scripture say, the wives were of a mixed bloodline, as there were likely many heirs of Abraham there to also escape the famine.
Who were the Moabites?
(Genesis 19) Moab was the son of Lot. Lot was the son of Haran, Abraham’s
own brother. Lot’s own daughter(s) had plied him with wine until he
was asleep, then seduced him without his knowledge. They did this for
fear they would not otherwise have children of their own. Although immoral,
that act in itself caused no adulteration of the bloodline.
When Elimelech and his sons died, Naomi and her ‘daughter in law’, Ruth returned to her homeland for Judah/Bethlehem. Council meetings were held to determine how the laws of Israel must be applied before Ruth could remarry, a kinsman of Elimelech, whose name was Boaz. She is clearly identified by the Council as a ‘kinsman’ (bloodline) of Boaz, and the ‘elders’ of Israel declared her of equal to Rachel, Leah, and Tamar, who were important “to build the house of Israel”.
Every assurance was made by the elders and families of both Boaz and Naomi, that Boaz and Ruth were ‘kinsman’, and all had pure unadulterated bloodlines of Abraham’s stock.
The term “kinsman” was used over and over to assure their marriage union was lawful in the eyes of God.
To understand why the bloodline in this particular marriage union was so important, one must understand that Ruth and Boaz became the parents of Obed, who became the father of Jesse, who became the father of David, all of whom are mentioned in the New Testament’s “generations of Jesus Christ,” Matt 1:1 and Luke 3:23. Though Jesus was the Son of God, born of the Virgin Mary, the Disciple/Author Matthew knew it was imperative to trace the clean and pure and perfect bloodline back to Abraham.
God had
depended upon Abraham to perpetuate his clean, pure and perfect bloodline
through his generations unto the time God’s kingdom is established
on Earth. God then appointed, and depended upon David to assure that
David’s special bloodline perpetuated a king to sit upon the throne
of the children of Israel for evermore, and until Christ returned to
sit on that same throne and rule and reign
over the 12 tribes of Israel (Matthew, Luke, Acts)
I Kings 11 Solomon
was appointed king over the people of Israel upon the death of his father
David. God blessed Solomon immensely with knowledge and material things,
because he promised God he would obey his teachings, as his father,
David had done. The one downfall Solomon had was “strange women”,
i.e., not of his ‘kinship,’ not of the bloodline of his forefathers.
“But King Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of pharaoh, women of Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Aidonians, and Hittites; of the nations concerning which the Lord said unto the Children of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in unto you: for surely they will turn away your heart after other god’s: Solomon clave unto these in love.” “and it came to pass that, when Solomon was old, his (strange) wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as was the heart of David his father.” The justification God had earlier given (Deut. 7) for not taking “strange wives” is now vindicated and proven by Solomon. “and likewise did he for all his strange wives, which burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods.”
That law ‘kind after kind’ which originated in the first chapter of Genesis, applied to the children of Abraham then, and even unto this very day it has never been rescinded.
Ezra 9 “The people of Israel … have not separated themselves from … doing the abominations of … of the Canaanites, the Hittites , the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites … for they have taken their daughters of themselves , and for their sons: so that the Holy Seed have mingled themselves with (strange) people of those lands.”
“We have forsaken thy commandments … the land … is an unclean land with the filthiness of the people of the lands, with their abominations … with their uncleanness.”
“Now therefore give not your daughters unto their sons, neither take daughters unto your sons … that ye be strong.”
Ezra 10 “We have trespassed against our God, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land … now there is no hope in Israel concerning this thing.”
“Now therefore let us make a covenant with our god to put away all the (strange) wives, and such as are born of them … and let it be done according to the law.”
“Now therefore
make confession unto the Lord God of your fathers …and separate
yourselves … from the strange wives.”
“And among the
sons of the priests there were found them that had taken strange
wives … they gave their hands (swore) that they would put
away their wives. “ So that “the
fierce wrath of our God for this matter be turned from us.”
Neh 9 “And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all strangers, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.”
Neh 10 The leaders
of Israel rededicate themselves “to walk in God’s law, which was
given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments
of the Lord our God, and his judgments and statutes: and that
we would not give our daughters unto the people (strangers) of
the land, (and) not take their daughters (strangers) for our sons.”
Neh 13 “to transgress
against our God in marrying strange wives.”
Proverbs 2 “to deliver thee from the strange woman”
Proverbs 5 “and
why wilt thou, my son, be ravished (enraptured) with a strange
woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?” “remove thy
way far form her and come not nigh the door of her house.”
“Let them be only thine own (kind), and not strangers’ with thee”
“Drink waters out of thine own cistern.” (I.e. children of Abraham, do not mix, adulterate, make filthy your Holy Seed with strange seed)
Proverbs 7 Chapter heading: ‘Advice against wicked women’ That they may keep thee from the strange woman (not of your kind), from the stranger which flattereth with her words.”
Isaiah 1 “your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.”
Isaiah 2 “O house of Jacob... has forsaken thy (kindred) people … and (do) please themselves in the children of strangers.”
Ezekiel 44:7-9 “In
that ye have brought into my sanctuary (congregation) strangers*,
uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary,
to pollute it… No stranger, uncircumcised in heart, nor
uncircumcised in flesh shall enter into my sanctuary (temple/church).”
Deuteronomy 23:2 “A bastard* (stranger) shall not enter into the congregation (sanctuary/kingdom) of the Lord; even to the tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the Lord. An Ammonite or Moabite (nor any stranger that is not an Israelite) shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord”
*A bastard is a person that has an irregular, confused, polluted, adulterated, defiled bloodline” resulting from prohibited, mixed marriages as noted above. Another term for bastard would be ‘mongrel’.
Numbers 25:6
“And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought in to
his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight of Moses (the priest),
and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel,
who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
And when Phinehas, the son of Aaron, the priest, saw it, he rose up
from among the congregation, and took a javelin in his hand, and he
went after the man of Israel, into the tent, and thrust both of them
through, the man of Israel, and the woman through the belly. And after
the Lord observed what Phinehas had done, God spoke unto Moses saying,
“Phinehas … was zealous for my sake…behold I give unto him my
covenant of peace, even the covenant of everlasting priesthood; because
he was zealous for his God, and made atonement for the children of Israel.”
Actually, God was so proud of Phinehas, that God rewarded him for upholding the law as given above in Deuteronomy 23:2
According to
these scriptures, the congregation, the house of the Lord and the Kingdom,
even Christianity are open only to the children of Abraham, his son
Isaac, his grandson Jacob/Israel, and their heirs.
Revelation 21:10-12 “that great city, the holy Jerusalem descending out of heaven from God, had twelve gates and had a name written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel.” Reuben – Simeon – Levi – Judah – Zebulon – Issachar – Gad – Asher – Joseph – Benjamin – Dan – Naphtali
Hosea 5 “The pride of Israel…shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the Lord; but they shall not find Him; He hath withdrawn himself from them ….they have dealt treachously against the Lord: for they have begotten strange children…”
Jude ‘To them,
the children of Israel that are … sanctified by God … and called
… and preserved … giving themselves over to fornication,
and going after strange flesh … suffering the vengeance of eternal
fire … filthy dreamers.’
If readers are unable to discern
who they are, and who are today’s Canaanites, Jebusites, Moabites,
Perizzites, Ammonites, and Philistines, the consequences may be alarming.