Yes, it’s true that God commanded Hosea to marry a wife of whoredoms:
“… Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great whoredom, departing from the Lord.” Hosea 1:2
My take on the verses, concerning Hosea’s marriage, is that Hosea’s act of charity was commanded as a way to provide a real life metaphor of God’s forgiveness of His people. However, the exception does not make the rule, and the exception here is an exception to being wise. As Christians we are called to conduct ourselves wisely, and marrying a wife of whoredoms has got to be one of the most foolish things a man can do. Hosea was commanded to do that foolish thing, so in his case, it wasn’t foolish, considering our Sovereign God, who commanded, him had the power to strike him dead and throw him in hell.
I’m aware that the matriarchal Christian churches of the world are full of adulterous men. It is the obvious outcome of the matriarchal Christian’s idolatrous worship of women. When a man realizes his “god” (that is his woman) is not perfect, he searches for another “god.”
He did indeed bow in worship of her when he proposed, on bended knee,, which is more than most so-called Christians do in their worship of the one true God found in the Bible. When the matriarchal “Christian” finally realizes that his wife, his false god, does not provide what she, as his “god” was expected to provide, he turns and searches for other gods. That is what happens daily in the churches of America where matriarchy is the cornerstone, instead of the True Cornerstone, Christ.
“Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on Him shall not be confounded.” 1 Peter 2:6
Yes, women are utterly confounding. You’re not going to find a rudder or a sextant that is not in need of repair on your woman on a regular basis. And the only manual of instruction for repairing your woman’s rudder and sextant is the Bible. Pray that she will read it daily and help her read it daily.
As for verses specifically castigating men for falling prey to adulteresses, or contributing to a woman’s debauchery, there are certainly many. Do a search of any online Bible for adulterer, adulteress, adultery and you will find dozens of verses on that subject, many condemning men. There are two aspects to impurity; one is impurity in general, i.e., fornication, and then there are the subcategories of fornication: adultery, homosexuality, bestiality, incest, including the crime of laying with the sister of your wife, or with your aunt, or half sister, and so forth. All these were practices of Egypt and the other countries from which the Israelites were brought out safely, and are referred to as abomination in Leviticus 18:29
“For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people.” Leviticus 18:29
Those sins carry their specific penalties: “the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people.”
If God’s Word were carried out as all Christians should desire, the majority of death penalty convictions for sexual impurity would fall upon men, because added to their half of the adultery cases, there is the death penalty crime of male homosexuality.
So if the law of God which certainly brings peace and quiet in the community were followed by the judges of today, there would be virtually no homosexuals or adulterers left in the churches. But it is the churches that remain most steadfastly against imposing God’s penalties on sin! Worse yet, they ignore the punishments for crimes against women and instead impose their own punishments, when a shotgun wedding would solve the issue. “Wait!” You say, “They are concerned about sexual immorality!” Then my question is, where are the penalties. When a man is found laying with a virgin who is not yet promised in marriage, that man is to take her under his authority as his bride. There are no exceptions to this outside of the incest laws listed in the Bible. Why are men not forced into paying the bride’s price and taking the woman under their authority? Preaching from the pulpit against immorality, without taking any steps to enforce the Bible’s laws against immorality, is not taking a stand against immorality whatsoever. It’s the very definition of hypocrisy! Enforcing penalties against immorality is what God expects and commands. If the penalty is death, then Christians must treat those committing sins worthy of death as if they were dead, not take them back into fellowship after they’ve spread their contagious virus of sin to half the congregation. One who commits a sin worthy of death, where the penalty cannot be carried out, should simply be treated the same way as the one guilty of accidental manslaughter who the Bible commands be sent to a city of refuge. Keeping the immoral who have harmed others in the church or endanger others in the church cannot be tolerated. It wasn’t tolerated before the 1960s. It should not be tolerated today.
“Then ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you; that the slayer may flee thither, which killeth any person at unawares.” Numbers 35:11
Surely, if a member of the congregation has committed a death penalty crime and the Bishops and Elders have adjudicated it with two eye witnesses, such as a case of adultery, they are more guilty than the one who accidentally commits manslaughter. And what happens to that person? They are sent see Numbers 35:11 above, to a city of refuge. In the case of churches, it could simply be disfellowship until the wronged party dies.
Many Christians have forgotten that we once followed the Bible in the laws of Christian nations, yet today, most Christians have never even been taught the laws of the Bible. But they sure are experts on the laws of their country. Why is this? Well, how about jail? How about fines? How about going before a judge? How about consequences? Those penalties acutely bring the attention of the citizen to what things are against the law. But the churches provide nothing remotely close to biblical consequences for sinful sexual behavior, so rather than repair what could be a blessed union, in the case of a man who lays with a virgin, they chastise the man who lays with the virgin, send the virgin out of the congregation with a ruined reputation, and then forgive the man instead of holding him responsible to the woman with a shotgun wedding; to become her husband, her head, as he had indeed become the moment he took her virginity. The biblical course of action is clear:
Exodus 22:16 And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.
Churches that do not enforce God’s merciful law on virgins worship Christ in vain, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
“But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.” Matthew 15:9
Furthermore, it is common, in the matriarchal Christian churches, to practice monogamy at home and to practice fornication outside the home. If your church has men having sexual relations with whores*, bringing whoredom upon the land, then they must be punished. Tell your church leaders that you’ll stop tithing until they begin court proceedings, within the church, against such men, led by their own church’s bishop(s) and elder(s). There is no other way than withholding tithes to influence the mercenary pastors who teach build the building first and the congregation last.
That said, I disagree with any assertion that men in the churches are committing acts of whoredom at a rate substantially higher than women (if we remove what I’ve already noted on homosexuality.) But let’s not quibble about statistics. The fact is, every time that a woman divorces her husband she has committed an act of whoredom, because a woman may not unwife herself from her husband. She has put herself under his authority as much as God places a daughter under the authority of her father when she is born. She cannot undo that. 67 percent of all divorces in America are filed by women who refer to themselves as Christians. Only a third of divorces are filed by men. This means only a third of divorces are valid. When entire churches and societies believe that the relationship between a man and his woman is breakable by the woman, that entire society is guilty of whoredom. Only a harlot/whore may unloose herself from a man’s authority to go with another man. And there must be consequences, both for the woman who goes with a new man, despite not being divorced by her husband, and for the man who goes with that woman.
Footnotes will be added to this article shortly a well as a link to an upcoming article on the crime of laying with a living wife’s sister.
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As always, I appreciate letters of correction. It is not easy to have so many articles without an occasional typo.
*whore – a woman who gives herself sexually to a man without putting herself permanently under his authority. The man who goes with a whore is known as a fornicator and is guilty of the same sin. If the whore is not free to put herself under the authority of the man with whom she is has relations, because of a marriage to another man (legally or not,) then she is a whore AND an adulteress, and the man who lays with her is a fornicator and an adulterer. The sin of adultery is a capital offense and as such, the trial must follow Bible protocol and include at least two eye witnesses. Whatever penalty the church in which they are members can legally impose, must be imposed. The law prevents suffering. Ignoring the law increases suffering.
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