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13 July 2011
Biblical Plural Marriages - Right or Wrong?
This is one of the best, most well written articles I have ever been blessed enough to discover. What surprised me the most was the fact that it was written by a woman. This article is a must read for everyone because it brings to light so many scriptural truths not only on the subject of polygamy but the very essence of the issue of obedience to YHWH.
22 April 2011
Is Plural Marriage Really Illegal in the USA?
By Ben Szymanski
What Is The Law of the Land?
By The RAMYK-Apostle Rabbi Moshe Yoseph Koniuchowsky
This addendum shows clearly that what is in fact illegal are the current US laws that are unconstitutional, as well as an illegal ban on a practice YHWH blesses and will continue to bless. We have added this for those legal minds that desire to know how to follow plural marriage, yet are concerned with the laws of the land.
It may seem presumptuous for someone with no formal training in the law to write a legal opinion of a practice declared illegal by every one of the fifty states and held illegal by the United States Supreme Court. Recognizing that the blueprint of American government, the fundamental law of our land, was written to the understanding of every common citizen, however, I stand forward as one citizen in defense of the plural family, suggesting that our courts, legislatures, government officials and citizens have never been presented with, nor have they considered the arguments I will present here.
In the United States of America, government is not the law. In this country, government is subject to law, as is every citizen. Here, when government assumes a power not specifically granted by consent of the people government violates the law and any law created under illegally usurped power is not, in truth, law, but a violation of law.
It is assumed by many Americans that the U.S. Supreme Court is the court of last resort in this land. This is not true. Our court of last resort is “We the People.” This court was established by the Declaration of Independence, which declared the people’s right, their duty, to alter or abolish government when it becomes destructive of fundamental human rights. It is not reasonable to assume that any government will police itself. The Constitution has no power unless it is upheld and enforced by the People. No government is policed unless its own citizens police it.
This appeal is presented, therefore, to We the People, with the understanding that every judge, every prosecutor, every legislator and every government executive in the land is a member of this tribunal. I challenge any to publicly refute the reason and logic contained herein.
It is my contention that anti-bigamy statutes in the United States of America are violations of the law of this land, that they constitute violations of fundamental human rights; that patriarchal marriage has never in truth been illegal, but that government, by prohibiting it, illegally persecutes the family unit as a sovereign institution.
Family Sovereignty
Whether you believe in the Judeo-Christian account of Adam and Eve or hold to the Humanist concept of evolution, you must accept the fact that at some point in history, a man and a woman united to form the first unit of civilization on this planet, a family [after Lileth].
This first family relationship rose above the typical animal attractions that draw male and female creatures together for reproductive purposes or mutual survival. The first man and woman to form a family unit were drawn to each other by virtue, by the emotional energy of compassion unique to our species and were bound together by the selfless love this energy feeds.
Call them Adam and Lileth or Adam and Eve; the first couple on earth to form a family relationship did not have a county courthouse to go to for a marriage license, no justice of the peace or minister to perform a wedding ceremony, no county recorder to issue a marriage certificate and record their union. If they did engage in any kind of ritual marking family union, it is doubtful there were mortal witnesses to their sacred commitment and new family identity. In a world utterly void of civil government, they formed and maintained a family unit, the first earthly civilization in microcosm.
This truth is self-evident, that the family defines itself, by virtue, the energy of compassion and the tender emotions that bind individuals into one societal unit.
No civil government, no church, has the power to legislate or decree the love that binds individuals to each other in family relationships. These binding feelings exist only in liberty, by the choice of each individual. Once existent these feelings can be destroyed or abandoned only by the individuals themselves. The family institution exists only in liberty. This is also self-evident.
The family is a self-defined entity, existent by the choice of the individuals involved and held together by love, by virtue in action, by the power of human compassion.
In the early history of man the first families gathered and formed a community. To provide order to their society, each family sent representatives to a community council, forming the first civil government entity. The family existed before and is the founder of civil governments. This truth is also self-evident.
The family is a sovereign entity, self-defined, existing before civil government and independent of its approval. Civil government is a creature of the family, responsible to it, not for it.
The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State. (Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 16:3)
-The Tenth Amendment of the Constitution-
“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
In Reynolds vs. United States (1879), the Supreme Court justices unanimously supported the Morrill Anti-Bigamy Law of 1862 against a constitutional challenge based upon freedom of religion. In his written opinion, Chief Justice Morrison R. Waite argued that every government had the power to decide whether patriarchal marriage or monogamy should be the basis of social life.
Obviously Congress also assumed they had this power when they passed the law, as did President Lincoln when he signed it, yet I would like to ask where in the Constitution was our national government given that power? Where in the Constitution is the federal government given any authority to define or place limits upon the family institution? In reading the Constitution I find no such power delegated to the federal government. I do, however, find two amendments that forbid this power to government.
The Supreme Court is considered our last resort in protecting the individual rights of citizens against the unjust power of government. We have here, however, an instance where that court openly usurped a power never given by consent of the People to dictate and enforce social norms among the citizenry. By assuming this power without the consent of the governed, both Congress and the Supreme Court violated the law.
The Morrill Anti-Bigamy Act of 1862 was not law, but a violation of law.
In addition to usurping power to establish social norms in our society, to decide whether patriarchal marriage or monogamy should be the basis of our social life, in passing the Morrill Anti-Bigamy Act Congress assumed another power without consent of the governed; the power to selectively breed the American citizenry.
Can a government interfere with an individual’s choice of a spouse without assuming the power of selective breeding, a power that exists only in absolute despotism [fascism]?
Can you deny a black person the right to marry a white person without engaging the power of selective breeding? Can you deny a single woman the right to marry a married man without enforcing this same power? You cannot.
If you deny a woman the right to choose a certain man for a husband, you have asserted the power to deny her every choice you disapprove of, leaving her only your choice of a mate for her. Your power to deny her choice is the power of selective breeding, a power we rightfully exercise over cattle and dogs, but not over people.
The Declaration of Independence asserts this truth to be self-evident, “that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”
Have the governments of the United States or any of the fifty individual states been granted the power of selective breeding by their citizens?
The burden of proof rests upon civil government. Unless someone can show that this power has been given to government by the people, or can justify anti-bigamy under some specific power granted by their Constitution, every law prohibiting bigamy is unjust and illegal.
The Tenth Amendment to the Constitution reserves all powers not specifically granted Congress by the Constitution to the states or to the people, which is always the case in a territory, where no state government exists.
Thus the Morrill Anti-Bigamy Law of 1862 was and is unconstitutional under the Tenth Amendment, as Congress was not given power to interfere with intimate or family relationships among its citizens.
In addition, Congress assumed unconstitutional power by placing prohibition of patriarchal marriage as a condition of statehood for Utah and other states. All prohibitions of patriarchal marriage placed in state constitutions under federal duress are thus null and void.
-The U.S. federal government has no legal power, power granted by the people, to dictate or enforce social norms or traditions.
-The U.S. federal government has no power granted by the people to forbid any citizen the choice of a spouse, be it interracial, same-sex (sadly), or patriarchal.
-The Ninth Amendment-
“The enumeration, in the Constitution, of certain (specific) rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.”
Will someone argue that the “other” rights, “retained by the people” and guaranteed by the Ninth Amendment do not include the right to choose one’s own spouse without government interference?
The Ninth Amendment has been applied to establish and defend the Freedom of Intimate Association, including the right to bear and beget children outside of civil marriage (Eisenstadt v. Baird, 1972). Can the Supreme Court consistently defend the right of a man and a woman to bear a child while denying them the right to establish themselves together with that child in a family unit? Can the court deny the child the right to a complete family with those two parents?
Suppose a man, married with children, becomes involved with a second woman and begets a child with her? He has committed no crime under the law and now has children with two women. Anti-bigamy law denies him the right to family relationships with both women, one woman’s right to a family relationship with the man she has chosen to father her child and the child’s right to a united family unit with both parents. Will someone argue that the Ninth Amendment to the Constitution guarantees none of these individuals the right to join together in one family unit?
Please note that anti-bigamy laws do not, cannot deny a man the right to engage in sexual relationships with more than one woman. They only succeed in denying all of these individuals the right to identify themselves as one family unit. An anti-bigamy law is not anti-adultery. Anti-bigamy is anti-family and UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
I submit that the right to unite with others in a plural family relationship is one of the “other rights” protected by the Ninth Amendment to the Constitution and that no government state can constitutionally deny it.
-Conclusion-
Civil government has no power to legislate or destroy the feelings that bind individuals in family units.
The family defines itself from within, by the choice of individuals who generate and maintain tender feelings for each other.
The family is a sovereign institution, existent before and independent of civil government.
Government is a creature of the family, responsible to it, not for it.
Governments are instituted to preserve rights (Declaration of Independence).
Governments are responsible to protect and preserve the family (Universal Declaration of Human Rights).
Government violates law when it usurps power not specifically granted by the people.
Government has no just power to establish and maintain social norms among the people.
Government has no just power to practice selective breeding among the people.
In prohibiting patriarchal marriage, government violates the law.
Patriarchal marriage is legal in the CONSTITUTION'S BILL OF RIGHTS.
Patriarchal marriage has always been legal ordained/allowed by heaven and played out in the earth.
Does the Law of the Land Make Patriarchy Illegal?
Let’s briefly look at the often quoted verses in Romans 13 that allegedly prove that believers, even if being led by YHWH into patriarchal marriage, must “obey the laws of the land.” This catch phrase is designed to try and make Scripture say something that it does not say. As you are about to discover, these verses say absolutely NOTHING about obeying the “laws of the land,” although they should be obeyed, whenever they do not break Yahuwah’s laws, or even His permissible allowances.
13:1-Let every Yisraelite be subject to civil governing powers. For there is no power but from YHWH: the civil powers that exist are ordained of YHWH.
The power, or civil authority is from YHWH. However not every law passed in the land is from YHWH. We must submit to the AUTHORITY and analyze each law that the authority passes to determine if it violates His Set-Apart Word, or not. When Adolf Hitler told Germans it was legal to kill Jews, should Bible believers have obeyed the authority? IT WAS THE LAW OF THE LAND! The obvious answer is no! However when the same German government told citizens to pay taxes, should they have obeyed the law of the land? Yes!
2 Whoever therefore resists the civil power; resists the ordained institution of YHWH: and they that resist shall receive mishpat-judgment on themselves.
As born again believers we are not to resist, or disrespect the civil governing authorities. We need to learn how to obey and submit to the authority without jumping off bridges, if and when they tell us to. If they tell us we cannot marry within the guidelines of Torah, we tell them to take a hike; however, in all other areas where they do not violate, or disallow what YHWH allows, we must obey the governing civil authority. As believers, we need to be able to discern the difference between obeying an “authority structure” ordained by YHWH to avoid anarchy and chaos, as opposed to robotically obeying every single decree that a human civil authority chooses to enact like killing babies and homosexual unions, if and when the specific decree violates YHWH’s Word and allowances, which it clearly does in man made anti plural marriage legislation, which ABORTS the SEED of ISRAEL.
3 For civil shophtim-judges are not a menace to tov mitzvoth-good deeds, but to cause men to fear doing evil. Will you then not be afraid of the authorities? Do that which is tov-good and you shall have tehilla-praise from the same authorities:
In general, the way to keep human authority off your back and out of your private matters is to fear doing evil against YHWH and do His commandments. DO and practice those things that YHWH calls good and you will not have to be afraid of civil authority. Why? Because YHWH will guard you from evil human authority, if and when human authority steps out of line with unjust laws. If you ALWAYS obey YHWH, not only will YHWH guard you, but He will make sure the civil authority will praise you in your devotion to the Creator, even if they refuse to recognize His very existence.
4 For he/it is the eved-servant of YHWH to you for tov-good. But if you do that which is evil, then be afraid; for he/it bears not the sword in vain: for he/it is the eved-servant of YHWH, an instrument to execute wrath upon the one that does evil.
The believer that does evil, or the one who violates Torah, will receive a correction from YHWH through human authority. He bears YHWH’s corrective governing sword to those who practice evil. Evil is defined by Torah alone and not by some nebulous concept called “the laws of the land.”
5 Therefore we must be subject, not only for fear of wrath [from YHWH], but also because of our conscience [based on His Word].
We must be subject to the AUTHORITY itself, not necessarily to every law they pass. Each law they pass must be analyzed in the light of Torah before we make a decision for consciousness sake, whether it can be obeyed, or whether it must be ignored, or even spoken against. This is what Paul is saying! Nowhere does he promote a general robotic submission to ALL the “laws of the land,” which by the way, he himself violated many times in proclaiming the Good News, which is how he wound up in jail! So we see Paul also had to violate some of the “laws of the land,” in order to obey, or follow YHWH’s will for his life.
If plural marriage is His calling for your life, no law of the land can stand in the way. The laws, or allowances of the HEAVENS, ALWAYS supersedes the so called “law of the land.”
6 For this cause pay taxes also: for they [human government] are YHWH’s instruments, attending continually upon this very thing.
A perfect example is taxes. Since Yahushua clearly commanded us to “render unto Cesar,” we must not resist the authority. But if the same authority tells us that we must hire homosexuals to work in our ministries’ and family businesses’, our consciences’ and our YHWH in His Word, does not allow us to obey the authority in that particular matter. In that case, we disobey a law, all the while still submitting ourselves to the general governing authority in all other matters, where conscious and His Word are not violated. If we follow YHWH’s ways all the time (doing tov), He will guard us from bad human authority, or provide a way of escape, so that we will not have the fear of abuse by human authority.
This then at long last is the correct and BALANCED view of civil authority and obeying the so called “laws of the land.” Let’s mature and grow up in Yahushua and learn to discern the difference between obeying the authority and power structure, while discerning each individual law and statute in the light of Scriptural allowances and prohibitions. This is the maturity and balance YHWH seeks for us on this delicate issue, as it applies to patriarchal marriage in western societies.
When done in the Light alone, plural marriage is one such time that we can obey the authority, while ignoring their barbaric and demonic callings to “mandated monogamy,” sterilization, abortion and birth control; demonic callings that stand opposed to the ways of Abraham and Jacob, that today results in a marriage failure rate of about 60-70% and aborted Israelite populations.
And if the truth be told, another 15% are perpetually unhappy, or unfulfilled, but remain together for convenience sake, financial reasons, or for the children’s sake. Surely patriarchal marriage, despite having its own unique troubles and challenges, does not approach those kinds of appalling numbers.
Addendum Two
Scientific Study on Mandated Monogamy by RAMYK
Cheating, lying, adultery and covenant breaking are all around us; mostly they are the bad fruits of man made church and government mandated monogamy statutes. Throw in a 60-70% “divorce on demand” rate and it’s obvious even to the casual observer that men and women have an inclination towards variety, or wandering in their sexual desires. Even many anti plural marriage female proponents claim that they reject plural marriage because it allows men more women, but does not allow them more husbands! That shows us the natural underlying need for variety.
Those who fight to remain monogamous, even in the happiest of marriages (and it is a real difficult lifelong struggle), admit to a life of struggle, work, tension, counseling and wrestling, in order to keep their marriages together. In this struggle, they inevitably feel something is wrong and that if monogamy was the only way to go and if YHWH blessed it alone, it shouldn’t have to feel like hell on earth for some, just to make it last.
Yet these couples have been told that they have no choice in the matter and that their desires for variety, which in all other areas of the human experience are considered the “spice of life,” are somehow evil, or lustful, when it comes to the sexual area.
It is most strange that when it comes to foods, music, art, cars, smells, sights and sounds, variety is considered a virtue and a sign of NATURAL living. Yet when it comes to honoring more than one covenant within a plural marriage arrangement, suddenly variety is forbidden, unclean, unnatural, fleshly and disgusting. Says who? What shameful inconsistency and hypocrisy!
Thanks to some fantastic research that came out in 2001, a top scientist and psychologist that have studied species of all types have found out that most species that YHWH created are not monogamous; and in fact mate often with different partners. Can this explain the underlying problem with mandated monogamy? Homo sapien beings, like all of YHWH’s creation, are created with a NATURAL uninhibited desire for more than one mate and lots of variety. Some may vehemently deny that; but 6,000 years of human behavior belies those self righteous, or self deluded claims. We need to come to grips with this and get real with ourselves, before YHWH can deposit new, or renewed truths in our hearts!
Now we can pursue more than one mate illegally like the world does in their arrogance and rebellion (Yah forbid), or we can once again submit ourselves to YHWH’s Torah and pursue this inbred need in a kosher and sanctified manner. As you read this research below, I want you to ponder the unthinkable.
That it is NOT NATURAL for some men and women to be stuck in a monogamous relationship, when the Creator YHWH placed within each of us the need and desire for variety. Of course we are speaking about a post Edenic fallen world; but the fact remains that is where we live.
That which western society has told us is natural; one man with one woman is according to the latest research of the animal kingdom and human behavior, absolutely incorrect. The two kingdoms (human and animal) are very similar in their created need for variety. This finally explains why the variety of sex practiced within the born again community mimics that practiced in the world and in the animal kingdom.
It’s not that born again believers do not fear YHWH! Indeed most do! But could it be that like other human beings that choose lifetime monogamy, they must contend, suppress and defeat the natural Yah given urge to have more than one mate? How many born again men and women have at some point in the past fantasized about making love to someone other than their lawful spouse? 98%?, 99%?, 100%? Please don’t lie and claim that this has never happened to you! Lying is a sin!
I believe the truth will set you free. I believe now is the time for all of us, or most of us, especially those not celibate, to admit the truth. If we could get away with it, we would opt for multiple sex partners, giving us multiple sexual pleasures from a variety of angles. Every pun intended.
What Is The Law of the Land?
By The RAMYK-Apostle Rabbi Moshe Yoseph Koniuchowsky
This addendum shows clearly that what is in fact illegal are the current US laws that are unconstitutional, as well as an illegal ban on a practice YHWH blesses and will continue to bless. We have added this for those legal minds that desire to know how to follow plural marriage, yet are concerned with the laws of the land.
It may seem presumptuous for someone with no formal training in the law to write a legal opinion of a practice declared illegal by every one of the fifty states and held illegal by the United States Supreme Court. Recognizing that the blueprint of American government, the fundamental law of our land, was written to the understanding of every common citizen, however, I stand forward as one citizen in defense of the plural family, suggesting that our courts, legislatures, government officials and citizens have never been presented with, nor have they considered the arguments I will present here.
In the United States of America, government is not the law. In this country, government is subject to law, as is every citizen. Here, when government assumes a power not specifically granted by consent of the people government violates the law and any law created under illegally usurped power is not, in truth, law, but a violation of law.
It is assumed by many Americans that the U.S. Supreme Court is the court of last resort in this land. This is not true. Our court of last resort is “We the People.” This court was established by the Declaration of Independence, which declared the people’s right, their duty, to alter or abolish government when it becomes destructive of fundamental human rights. It is not reasonable to assume that any government will police itself. The Constitution has no power unless it is upheld and enforced by the People. No government is policed unless its own citizens police it.
This appeal is presented, therefore, to We the People, with the understanding that every judge, every prosecutor, every legislator and every government executive in the land is a member of this tribunal. I challenge any to publicly refute the reason and logic contained herein.
It is my contention that anti-bigamy statutes in the United States of America are violations of the law of this land, that they constitute violations of fundamental human rights; that patriarchal marriage has never in truth been illegal, but that government, by prohibiting it, illegally persecutes the family unit as a sovereign institution.
Family Sovereignty
Whether you believe in the Judeo-Christian account of Adam and Eve or hold to the Humanist concept of evolution, you must accept the fact that at some point in history, a man and a woman united to form the first unit of civilization on this planet, a family [after Lileth].
This first family relationship rose above the typical animal attractions that draw male and female creatures together for reproductive purposes or mutual survival. The first man and woman to form a family unit were drawn to each other by virtue, by the emotional energy of compassion unique to our species and were bound together by the selfless love this energy feeds.
Call them Adam and Lileth or Adam and Eve; the first couple on earth to form a family relationship did not have a county courthouse to go to for a marriage license, no justice of the peace or minister to perform a wedding ceremony, no county recorder to issue a marriage certificate and record their union. If they did engage in any kind of ritual marking family union, it is doubtful there were mortal witnesses to their sacred commitment and new family identity. In a world utterly void of civil government, they formed and maintained a family unit, the first earthly civilization in microcosm.
This truth is self-evident, that the family defines itself, by virtue, the energy of compassion and the tender emotions that bind individuals into one societal unit.
No civil government, no church, has the power to legislate or decree the love that binds individuals to each other in family relationships. These binding feelings exist only in liberty, by the choice of each individual. Once existent these feelings can be destroyed or abandoned only by the individuals themselves. The family institution exists only in liberty. This is also self-evident.
The family is a self-defined entity, existent by the choice of the individuals involved and held together by love, by virtue in action, by the power of human compassion.
In the early history of man the first families gathered and formed a community. To provide order to their society, each family sent representatives to a community council, forming the first civil government entity. The family existed before and is the founder of civil governments. This truth is also self-evident.
The family is a sovereign entity, self-defined, existing before civil government and independent of its approval. Civil government is a creature of the family, responsible to it, not for it.
The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State. (Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 16:3)
-The Tenth Amendment of the Constitution-
“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
In Reynolds vs. United States (1879), the Supreme Court justices unanimously supported the Morrill Anti-Bigamy Law of 1862 against a constitutional challenge based upon freedom of religion. In his written opinion, Chief Justice Morrison R. Waite argued that every government had the power to decide whether patriarchal marriage or monogamy should be the basis of social life.
Obviously Congress also assumed they had this power when they passed the law, as did President Lincoln when he signed it, yet I would like to ask where in the Constitution was our national government given that power? Where in the Constitution is the federal government given any authority to define or place limits upon the family institution? In reading the Constitution I find no such power delegated to the federal government. I do, however, find two amendments that forbid this power to government.
The Supreme Court is considered our last resort in protecting the individual rights of citizens against the unjust power of government. We have here, however, an instance where that court openly usurped a power never given by consent of the People to dictate and enforce social norms among the citizenry. By assuming this power without the consent of the governed, both Congress and the Supreme Court violated the law.
The Morrill Anti-Bigamy Act of 1862 was not law, but a violation of law.
In addition to usurping power to establish social norms in our society, to decide whether patriarchal marriage or monogamy should be the basis of our social life, in passing the Morrill Anti-Bigamy Act Congress assumed another power without consent of the governed; the power to selectively breed the American citizenry.
Can a government interfere with an individual’s choice of a spouse without assuming the power of selective breeding, a power that exists only in absolute despotism [fascism]?
Can you deny a black person the right to marry a white person without engaging the power of selective breeding? Can you deny a single woman the right to marry a married man without enforcing this same power? You cannot.
If you deny a woman the right to choose a certain man for a husband, you have asserted the power to deny her every choice you disapprove of, leaving her only your choice of a mate for her. Your power to deny her choice is the power of selective breeding, a power we rightfully exercise over cattle and dogs, but not over people.
The Declaration of Independence asserts this truth to be self-evident, “that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”
Have the governments of the United States or any of the fifty individual states been granted the power of selective breeding by their citizens?
The burden of proof rests upon civil government. Unless someone can show that this power has been given to government by the people, or can justify anti-bigamy under some specific power granted by their Constitution, every law prohibiting bigamy is unjust and illegal.
The Tenth Amendment to the Constitution reserves all powers not specifically granted Congress by the Constitution to the states or to the people, which is always the case in a territory, where no state government exists.
Thus the Morrill Anti-Bigamy Law of 1862 was and is unconstitutional under the Tenth Amendment, as Congress was not given power to interfere with intimate or family relationships among its citizens.
In addition, Congress assumed unconstitutional power by placing prohibition of patriarchal marriage as a condition of statehood for Utah and other states. All prohibitions of patriarchal marriage placed in state constitutions under federal duress are thus null and void.
-The U.S. federal government has no legal power, power granted by the people, to dictate or enforce social norms or traditions.
-The U.S. federal government has no power granted by the people to forbid any citizen the choice of a spouse, be it interracial, same-sex (sadly), or patriarchal.
-The Ninth Amendment-
“The enumeration, in the Constitution, of certain (specific) rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.”
Will someone argue that the “other” rights, “retained by the people” and guaranteed by the Ninth Amendment do not include the right to choose one’s own spouse without government interference?
The Ninth Amendment has been applied to establish and defend the Freedom of Intimate Association, including the right to bear and beget children outside of civil marriage (Eisenstadt v. Baird, 1972). Can the Supreme Court consistently defend the right of a man and a woman to bear a child while denying them the right to establish themselves together with that child in a family unit? Can the court deny the child the right to a complete family with those two parents?
Suppose a man, married with children, becomes involved with a second woman and begets a child with her? He has committed no crime under the law and now has children with two women. Anti-bigamy law denies him the right to family relationships with both women, one woman’s right to a family relationship with the man she has chosen to father her child and the child’s right to a united family unit with both parents. Will someone argue that the Ninth Amendment to the Constitution guarantees none of these individuals the right to join together in one family unit?
Please note that anti-bigamy laws do not, cannot deny a man the right to engage in sexual relationships with more than one woman. They only succeed in denying all of these individuals the right to identify themselves as one family unit. An anti-bigamy law is not anti-adultery. Anti-bigamy is anti-family and UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
I submit that the right to unite with others in a plural family relationship is one of the “other rights” protected by the Ninth Amendment to the Constitution and that no government state can constitutionally deny it.
-Conclusion-
Civil government has no power to legislate or destroy the feelings that bind individuals in family units.
The family defines itself from within, by the choice of individuals who generate and maintain tender feelings for each other.
The family is a sovereign institution, existent before and independent of civil government.
Government is a creature of the family, responsible to it, not for it.
Governments are instituted to preserve rights (Declaration of Independence).
Governments are responsible to protect and preserve the family (Universal Declaration of Human Rights).
Government violates law when it usurps power not specifically granted by the people.
Government has no just power to establish and maintain social norms among the people.
Government has no just power to practice selective breeding among the people.
In prohibiting patriarchal marriage, government violates the law.
Patriarchal marriage is legal in the CONSTITUTION'S BILL OF RIGHTS.
Patriarchal marriage has always been legal ordained/allowed by heaven and played out in the earth.
Does the Law of the Land Make Patriarchy Illegal?
Let’s briefly look at the often quoted verses in Romans 13 that allegedly prove that believers, even if being led by YHWH into patriarchal marriage, must “obey the laws of the land.” This catch phrase is designed to try and make Scripture say something that it does not say. As you are about to discover, these verses say absolutely NOTHING about obeying the “laws of the land,” although they should be obeyed, whenever they do not break Yahuwah’s laws, or even His permissible allowances.
13:1-Let every Yisraelite be subject to civil governing powers. For there is no power but from YHWH: the civil powers that exist are ordained of YHWH.
The power, or civil authority is from YHWH. However not every law passed in the land is from YHWH. We must submit to the AUTHORITY and analyze each law that the authority passes to determine if it violates His Set-Apart Word, or not. When Adolf Hitler told Germans it was legal to kill Jews, should Bible believers have obeyed the authority? IT WAS THE LAW OF THE LAND! The obvious answer is no! However when the same German government told citizens to pay taxes, should they have obeyed the law of the land? Yes!
2 Whoever therefore resists the civil power; resists the ordained institution of YHWH: and they that resist shall receive mishpat-judgment on themselves.
As born again believers we are not to resist, or disrespect the civil governing authorities. We need to learn how to obey and submit to the authority without jumping off bridges, if and when they tell us to. If they tell us we cannot marry within the guidelines of Torah, we tell them to take a hike; however, in all other areas where they do not violate, or disallow what YHWH allows, we must obey the governing civil authority. As believers, we need to be able to discern the difference between obeying an “authority structure” ordained by YHWH to avoid anarchy and chaos, as opposed to robotically obeying every single decree that a human civil authority chooses to enact like killing babies and homosexual unions, if and when the specific decree violates YHWH’s Word and allowances, which it clearly does in man made anti plural marriage legislation, which ABORTS the SEED of ISRAEL.
3 For civil shophtim-judges are not a menace to tov mitzvoth-good deeds, but to cause men to fear doing evil. Will you then not be afraid of the authorities? Do that which is tov-good and you shall have tehilla-praise from the same authorities:
In general, the way to keep human authority off your back and out of your private matters is to fear doing evil against YHWH and do His commandments. DO and practice those things that YHWH calls good and you will not have to be afraid of civil authority. Why? Because YHWH will guard you from evil human authority, if and when human authority steps out of line with unjust laws. If you ALWAYS obey YHWH, not only will YHWH guard you, but He will make sure the civil authority will praise you in your devotion to the Creator, even if they refuse to recognize His very existence.
4 For he/it is the eved-servant of YHWH to you for tov-good. But if you do that which is evil, then be afraid; for he/it bears not the sword in vain: for he/it is the eved-servant of YHWH, an instrument to execute wrath upon the one that does evil.
The believer that does evil, or the one who violates Torah, will receive a correction from YHWH through human authority. He bears YHWH’s corrective governing sword to those who practice evil. Evil is defined by Torah alone and not by some nebulous concept called “the laws of the land.”
5 Therefore we must be subject, not only for fear of wrath [from YHWH], but also because of our conscience [based on His Word].
We must be subject to the AUTHORITY itself, not necessarily to every law they pass. Each law they pass must be analyzed in the light of Torah before we make a decision for consciousness sake, whether it can be obeyed, or whether it must be ignored, or even spoken against. This is what Paul is saying! Nowhere does he promote a general robotic submission to ALL the “laws of the land,” which by the way, he himself violated many times in proclaiming the Good News, which is how he wound up in jail! So we see Paul also had to violate some of the “laws of the land,” in order to obey, or follow YHWH’s will for his life.
If plural marriage is His calling for your life, no law of the land can stand in the way. The laws, or allowances of the HEAVENS, ALWAYS supersedes the so called “law of the land.”
6 For this cause pay taxes also: for they [human government] are YHWH’s instruments, attending continually upon this very thing.
A perfect example is taxes. Since Yahushua clearly commanded us to “render unto Cesar,” we must not resist the authority. But if the same authority tells us that we must hire homosexuals to work in our ministries’ and family businesses’, our consciences’ and our YHWH in His Word, does not allow us to obey the authority in that particular matter. In that case, we disobey a law, all the while still submitting ourselves to the general governing authority in all other matters, where conscious and His Word are not violated. If we follow YHWH’s ways all the time (doing tov), He will guard us from bad human authority, or provide a way of escape, so that we will not have the fear of abuse by human authority.
This then at long last is the correct and BALANCED view of civil authority and obeying the so called “laws of the land.” Let’s mature and grow up in Yahushua and learn to discern the difference between obeying the authority and power structure, while discerning each individual law and statute in the light of Scriptural allowances and prohibitions. This is the maturity and balance YHWH seeks for us on this delicate issue, as it applies to patriarchal marriage in western societies.
When done in the Light alone, plural marriage is one such time that we can obey the authority, while ignoring their barbaric and demonic callings to “mandated monogamy,” sterilization, abortion and birth control; demonic callings that stand opposed to the ways of Abraham and Jacob, that today results in a marriage failure rate of about 60-70% and aborted Israelite populations.
And if the truth be told, another 15% are perpetually unhappy, or unfulfilled, but remain together for convenience sake, financial reasons, or for the children’s sake. Surely patriarchal marriage, despite having its own unique troubles and challenges, does not approach those kinds of appalling numbers.
Addendum Two
Scientific Study on Mandated Monogamy by RAMYK
Cheating, lying, adultery and covenant breaking are all around us; mostly they are the bad fruits of man made church and government mandated monogamy statutes. Throw in a 60-70% “divorce on demand” rate and it’s obvious even to the casual observer that men and women have an inclination towards variety, or wandering in their sexual desires. Even many anti plural marriage female proponents claim that they reject plural marriage because it allows men more women, but does not allow them more husbands! That shows us the natural underlying need for variety.
Those who fight to remain monogamous, even in the happiest of marriages (and it is a real difficult lifelong struggle), admit to a life of struggle, work, tension, counseling and wrestling, in order to keep their marriages together. In this struggle, they inevitably feel something is wrong and that if monogamy was the only way to go and if YHWH blessed it alone, it shouldn’t have to feel like hell on earth for some, just to make it last.
Yet these couples have been told that they have no choice in the matter and that their desires for variety, which in all other areas of the human experience are considered the “spice of life,” are somehow evil, or lustful, when it comes to the sexual area.
It is most strange that when it comes to foods, music, art, cars, smells, sights and sounds, variety is considered a virtue and a sign of NATURAL living. Yet when it comes to honoring more than one covenant within a plural marriage arrangement, suddenly variety is forbidden, unclean, unnatural, fleshly and disgusting. Says who? What shameful inconsistency and hypocrisy!
Thanks to some fantastic research that came out in 2001, a top scientist and psychologist that have studied species of all types have found out that most species that YHWH created are not monogamous; and in fact mate often with different partners. Can this explain the underlying problem with mandated monogamy? Homo sapien beings, like all of YHWH’s creation, are created with a NATURAL uninhibited desire for more than one mate and lots of variety. Some may vehemently deny that; but 6,000 years of human behavior belies those self righteous, or self deluded claims. We need to come to grips with this and get real with ourselves, before YHWH can deposit new, or renewed truths in our hearts!
Now we can pursue more than one mate illegally like the world does in their arrogance and rebellion (Yah forbid), or we can once again submit ourselves to YHWH’s Torah and pursue this inbred need in a kosher and sanctified manner. As you read this research below, I want you to ponder the unthinkable.
That it is NOT NATURAL for some men and women to be stuck in a monogamous relationship, when the Creator YHWH placed within each of us the need and desire for variety. Of course we are speaking about a post Edenic fallen world; but the fact remains that is where we live.
That which western society has told us is natural; one man with one woman is according to the latest research of the animal kingdom and human behavior, absolutely incorrect. The two kingdoms (human and animal) are very similar in their created need for variety. This finally explains why the variety of sex practiced within the born again community mimics that practiced in the world and in the animal kingdom.
It’s not that born again believers do not fear YHWH! Indeed most do! But could it be that like other human beings that choose lifetime monogamy, they must contend, suppress and defeat the natural Yah given urge to have more than one mate? How many born again men and women have at some point in the past fantasized about making love to someone other than their lawful spouse? 98%?, 99%?, 100%? Please don’t lie and claim that this has never happened to you! Lying is a sin!
I believe the truth will set you free. I believe now is the time for all of us, or most of us, especially those not celibate, to admit the truth. If we could get away with it, we would opt for multiple sex partners, giving us multiple sexual pleasures from a variety of angles. Every pun intended.
09 November 2010
A NEW PROPHETIC WARNING TO RETURNING YISRAEL!
A NEW PROPHETIC WARNING TO RETURNING YISRAEL!
By Rabbi Moshe Koniuchowsky
Would Moses, Noah, Yahushua and Abba YHWH Be Asked to Leave Your Congregation or Hebraic Roots Movement?
Is Your Church Background Still Tripping You in a Full Return to Your Hebraic roots?
Editorial by The RAMYK
Delivered by the authorization of the Burden of YHWH
Moon 8 Day 3 5992 SC
This will be a short prophetic word. The Scriptures need no defense and are clear. I will not list hundreds of verses, as that's been done in the excellent works I list below and also because as a true Torah disciple it's your job to study things out!
There is and most likely will continue to be a major problem with most Messianic synagogues/groups and churches at the end of this age, as there has been for the last 1,700 years. Things will not change much until Yahushua returns and fixes this world's anti-Moshiach world order (See Isaiah chapter 4). Religion and religious traditions die hard and cannot be repaired in most cases. Yahushua could have but chose not to fix religious systems, or secular systems that worked hand in glove with the religious orders of His day to place men in spiritual and even physical bondage. These unholy tandems have motivated and in many cases forced mankind, men and women to sin sexually. Many of you reading this now are sinning sexually, because you have knowingly, or unknowingly bought in to a world order of Greco-Romanism taught by your leaders, or websites online that Yahushua, the prophets of Israel and Moses himself knew nothing about. Yahushua and the prophets HATE divorce and the serial monogamy behaviors that Israelite men desire, which moves them to divorce the wives of their youth, despite YHWH's Word. Religion has twisted the Words of Malachi 2:14-16, teaching that YHWH hates polygamy, seen INCORRECTLY by religion as adultery, but tolerates and even encourages divorce. If polygamy is adultery, then we can throw our Bibles in the trash anon, as YHWH, Yahushua and Moses the author of Torah itself all would be adulterers. How many would attend a congregation where the minister is thrice divorced, but not if he has three kosher COVENANT lifetime marriages and is faithful to them all? Most of you, which is why you need a wake-up call in Yahushua's love and a RETURN to TORAH, not to Torah teachers that miss the mark and are blind guides to the sheep of Yisrael! Do you understand the difference?
Since religion and their systems will be overthrown (not fixed) at Yahushua's coming and His earthly Torah based kingdom, we need to come out of those systems that entice, cause and yes even sanction mankind to sin. The ROMAN-TIC system subscribed to by most of the Messianic and church world is a plain abomination to YHWH. There are many excellent books written about marriage and biblical marriage law. There is no sense in reinventing the wheel in this brief prophetic warning. One of the best books based solely on Scripture is Resurrecting the Biblical Family-Men and Women in Biblical Law by Tom Shipley. See http://www.newcovenantpatriarchy.com
Shipley documents over 40 documented leaders and key men in Israel who practiced biblical patriarchy with YHWH's blessings and without a single word about missing His perfect will or a single word of rebuke.
I suggest attaining a downloadable copy immediately to study the issues from a legal biblical perspective. Yet that is not the point of this warning.
The Torah is clear on biblical marriage. There are no words in Hebrew for monogamy or polygamy just marriage. That should tell us something right there. Moses the author of Torah had 2 wives; this cannot be clearer, even though many twist his words and try to make it seem as if Tzipporah was the Ethiopian woman. Tzipporah was the first at the time of the Exodus and some 11-12 years later the Ethiopian woman appears, and because she was black and a "second wife" they rose up against him, including the leaders and his very own kinsmen. The irony is that while most Messianic and Hebrew roots congregations love and study the Torah, the very author of the Torah would be granted the right foot of fellowship and not allowed to enter most of their places. Add to that list men like Noah (2 wives Sefer Yahshar), Benjamin (many wives Sefer Yahshar), Jacob, Gideon, Abraham, Japheth some of the 12 apostles (see my book) and many others. They would be removed, or prohibited from entering these monogamy only church camps based on their kosher biblical choice of a plural lifestyle. Now ask yourself this poignant question! Do I attend a place of worship that claims to embrace all of Torah and the Neviim, all the while removing the author of Torah, along with the Judges and Neviim of Torah from membership were they physically alive today?
Do you attend or support such a place? Would your pastor, or rabbi welcome all kinds of biblical kosher families, or would he single out people like Noah and Moses and mark them to be ostracized? If Moshe and David and Abraham and many other heroes of the faith would be asked to leave due to their scripturally kosher lifestyle, is that a place where you and your family want to be and want to be supporting? Maybe you should ask your leader the hypothetical question and wait to see their response. Make sure they are not granting you lip service by saying plural families are welcome. They can say that, but when one actually shows up, most succumb to the peer pressure of other members and elders. Rare is the leader that can, or is willing to stand up to these religious lynchings. Those who do will pay a great price in the loss of reputation, the false witnesses that will arise against them and their popularity and yet they are worthy of your love, prayers, compassion and support.
Again the purpose of this short editorial is not to make the case for Scripture. The case is made as any lawyer would by Tom Shipley and also in my 450 page book Sex and the Believer
http://store.yourarmstoisrael.org/Qstore/Qstore.cgi?CMD=011&PROD=1212147193&ADMIN=YES
that has turned these hypocritical congregations and their arrogant anti marriage members upside down. Why would anyone want to attend a group that claims to be Torah observant, or Torah based when the fact is that they would throw Moses, Tzipporah and the Ethiopian woman to the curb together?
And what about Yahushua Himself, a polygamist with two sister wives? Oh you claim to believe and support the TWO HOUSE TRUTH, but deny the TWO SISTER WIVES that Yahushua loves and died to make ECHAD-one family? No friend. You are no true two house believer! Don't be offended be willing to be challenged! You cannot condone the persecution and abuse heaped towards this kosher lifestyle and claim your ministry is to make the 2 sister wives one in Yahushua. Go and learn what this means...I desire mercy and not sacrifice, or messianic trappings for that matter. Hebraic culture is a lifestyle not merely a Jewish arts and crafts experience. Ezekiel 23 and many other Scriptures are CRYSTAL clear. The 2 houses are 2 rebellious sister wives, the daughters' of one mother! Yahushua has come to cry out for both and re-marry-re-covenant (Jeremiah 31:31) both wives in His own righteousness family.
Since we know that Yahushua is the express image of YHWH, then YHWH the Father also is A-The Patriarch, as it is He that has sent Yahushua to gather the 2 wayward wives-sticks that He was-is married to. Ephesians 5:22-23 speaks of a mystery between the Bridegroom and His wife, made up of many members, all married to Him simultaneously, not in serial monogamous marriage and divorce fashion, followed by another marriage and divorce. The original model as most assert was not monogamy. If the premise is wrong, the conclusion of a matter will be too. The original model in the Garden of Eden was NOT MONOGAMY OR POLYGAMY. Read that AGAIN!!! It was in fact PATRIARCHY, meaning the woman was made for and as a helpmeet subordinate to the man, under his love and care! If that bothers you, you have discovered the root of the problem with the modern marriage paradigm that most have bought into. Adam's alleged monogamy (we don't know that for sure, as many Jewish sources speak of another wife) was due to circumstance (only one woman around) not to some kind of mandated kosher model, or original pattern. YHWH's original intent was neither monogamy, nor plural marriage. It was pure subordinate patriarchy, where the husband heads the wife/wives, even as Messiah heads the brides of Judah and Efrayim in their own restoration. Again if this statement makes you cringe, you're either a woman who does not understand biblical marriage and family, or a man who has been brainwashed by the apparent evils of modernity and the subtle sound waves of the 'woman's liberation from Yahushua' movement. Both monogamy and polygamy fall under the ORIGINAL PATRIARCHAL MODEL, both being kosher, yet flawed and soiled by mankind. Adam's surroundings and circumstances decided things for him. Are we ever going to get this right, or will we rather continue to argue with YHWH's Word, in the end opposing ourselves and our nation's 2 house restoration? Both monogamy and plural marriage can be His perfect will for you! You must seek it for yourself, not vicariously through a westernized religious leader closed, or blind to the full picture of biblical marriage.
To say that YHWH allowed plural marriage, which is allegedly evil and adulterous, because of men's hearts, is to accuse YHWH of sanctioning, blessing and tolerating evil by allowing evil to procreate and spread in a holy nation, when Scripture clearly states that Abba YHWH is of PURER EYES THAN TO EVEN BEHOLD INIQUITY, LET ALONE TOLERATE IT UNDER SOME SUPPOSED OUTDATED DISPENSATION. Sadly Messianics by and large have adopted this church pabulum without asking any real hard questions, like they do with the false doctrine of all food and pig is now clean in Jesus-Hey-soos Christ. No friends; it has been your religion of choice that has prevented you from coming into social networking and alignment with YHWH. One cannot claim to be Yisrael and a Hebraic roots seeker, all the while dismissing the lifestyle that brought blessing and favor upon our own forefathers. These are the same heroes of the faith listed in Hebrews 11 and yet all of them like Noah and Jeptah and Gideon and Moses himself, along with the living Elohim would be thrust out of most Hebraic congregations. When the author of Israelite life is not welcome, then the place becomes a temple of the dead not the living Elohim.
Now is the time to stand for ALL truth; YHWH is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him, even more than the pressure to be aligned to a ROMANTIC system, that denies the Living Unchangeable Elohim of the Bible, and who in the clearest possible terms through men like Hosea, Jeremiah, Ezekiel and Torah itself, portrays Yahushua Himself as a polygamist Patriarch. The theme carries over unchanged into the Brit Chadasha-New Covenant, as seen in MANY places such as Matthew chapter 25 and the 10 virgin parable all married to Messiah, as well as places such as First Corinthians 5:1, one where a son sleeps with his father's wife, not his own mother. The fact that the early Mormons stole and perverted something YHWH blesses is not the issue, but it is our problem, if we as a nation do not reclaim the lifestyle as our fathers' were the ones to whom the lifestyle was initially given to be the blessed seed rather than Esau the cursed seed. The devil has injected Islam with polygamy, so he can take an alternate route to crush the seed (collective) of the woman.......Yahushua and His bride/s (Judah and Efrayim-Joseph).
The Book of Revelation is all about the risen Yahushua instructing (Torah) His various brides in Asia Minor. It is high time grow up and shut out the voices and then yes, even the very congregations that would not have any remorse to shamefully and smugly throw out most of the heroes of our faith. If you are a leader, or pastor, or rabbi I hope you are allowing the Set Apart Spirit to convict you. Or if you know of such a closed minded leader, please forward this to them in hope and love of the kadosh harvest!
And if the truth be told, if Yahushua-YHWH and Moses would not be welcome in these serial monogamist camps with a 60%-80% divorce rate, then neither should you and yours sanction such places by your alignment with them. It is up to the leaders who are rogue, like Miryam, in her opposition to plural marriage, to get into alignment with the Torah and the New Covenant and not for men and women to get into alignment with religion, personal feelings-preferences, or with the big brother secular state by the conduit of their emotions. Selah
By Rabbi Moshe Koniuchowsky
Would Moses, Noah, Yahushua and Abba YHWH Be Asked to Leave Your Congregation or Hebraic Roots Movement?
Is Your Church Background Still Tripping You in a Full Return to Your Hebraic roots?
Editorial by The RAMYK
Delivered by the authorization of the Burden of YHWH
Moon 8 Day 3 5992 SC
This will be a short prophetic word. The Scriptures need no defense and are clear. I will not list hundreds of verses, as that's been done in the excellent works I list below and also because as a true Torah disciple it's your job to study things out!
There is and most likely will continue to be a major problem with most Messianic synagogues/groups and churches at the end of this age, as there has been for the last 1,700 years. Things will not change much until Yahushua returns and fixes this world's anti-Moshiach world order (See Isaiah chapter 4). Religion and religious traditions die hard and cannot be repaired in most cases. Yahushua could have but chose not to fix religious systems, or secular systems that worked hand in glove with the religious orders of His day to place men in spiritual and even physical bondage. These unholy tandems have motivated and in many cases forced mankind, men and women to sin sexually. Many of you reading this now are sinning sexually, because you have knowingly, or unknowingly bought in to a world order of Greco-Romanism taught by your leaders, or websites online that Yahushua, the prophets of Israel and Moses himself knew nothing about. Yahushua and the prophets HATE divorce and the serial monogamy behaviors that Israelite men desire, which moves them to divorce the wives of their youth, despite YHWH's Word. Religion has twisted the Words of Malachi 2:14-16, teaching that YHWH hates polygamy, seen INCORRECTLY by religion as adultery, but tolerates and even encourages divorce. If polygamy is adultery, then we can throw our Bibles in the trash anon, as YHWH, Yahushua and Moses the author of Torah itself all would be adulterers. How many would attend a congregation where the minister is thrice divorced, but not if he has three kosher COVENANT lifetime marriages and is faithful to them all? Most of you, which is why you need a wake-up call in Yahushua's love and a RETURN to TORAH, not to Torah teachers that miss the mark and are blind guides to the sheep of Yisrael! Do you understand the difference?
Since religion and their systems will be overthrown (not fixed) at Yahushua's coming and His earthly Torah based kingdom, we need to come out of those systems that entice, cause and yes even sanction mankind to sin. The ROMAN-TIC system subscribed to by most of the Messianic and church world is a plain abomination to YHWH. There are many excellent books written about marriage and biblical marriage law. There is no sense in reinventing the wheel in this brief prophetic warning. One of the best books based solely on Scripture is Resurrecting the Biblical Family-Men and Women in Biblical Law by Tom Shipley. See http://www.newcovenantpatriarchy.com
Shipley documents over 40 documented leaders and key men in Israel who practiced biblical patriarchy with YHWH's blessings and without a single word about missing His perfect will or a single word of rebuke.
I suggest attaining a downloadable copy immediately to study the issues from a legal biblical perspective. Yet that is not the point of this warning.
The Torah is clear on biblical marriage. There are no words in Hebrew for monogamy or polygamy just marriage. That should tell us something right there. Moses the author of Torah had 2 wives; this cannot be clearer, even though many twist his words and try to make it seem as if Tzipporah was the Ethiopian woman. Tzipporah was the first at the time of the Exodus and some 11-12 years later the Ethiopian woman appears, and because she was black and a "second wife" they rose up against him, including the leaders and his very own kinsmen. The irony is that while most Messianic and Hebrew roots congregations love and study the Torah, the very author of the Torah would be granted the right foot of fellowship and not allowed to enter most of their places. Add to that list men like Noah (2 wives Sefer Yahshar), Benjamin (many wives Sefer Yahshar), Jacob, Gideon, Abraham, Japheth some of the 12 apostles (see my book) and many others. They would be removed, or prohibited from entering these monogamy only church camps based on their kosher biblical choice of a plural lifestyle. Now ask yourself this poignant question! Do I attend a place of worship that claims to embrace all of Torah and the Neviim, all the while removing the author of Torah, along with the Judges and Neviim of Torah from membership were they physically alive today?
Do you attend or support such a place? Would your pastor, or rabbi welcome all kinds of biblical kosher families, or would he single out people like Noah and Moses and mark them to be ostracized? If Moshe and David and Abraham and many other heroes of the faith would be asked to leave due to their scripturally kosher lifestyle, is that a place where you and your family want to be and want to be supporting? Maybe you should ask your leader the hypothetical question and wait to see their response. Make sure they are not granting you lip service by saying plural families are welcome. They can say that, but when one actually shows up, most succumb to the peer pressure of other members and elders. Rare is the leader that can, or is willing to stand up to these religious lynchings. Those who do will pay a great price in the loss of reputation, the false witnesses that will arise against them and their popularity and yet they are worthy of your love, prayers, compassion and support.
Again the purpose of this short editorial is not to make the case for Scripture. The case is made as any lawyer would by Tom Shipley and also in my 450 page book Sex and the Believer
http://store.yourarmstoisrael.org/Qstore/Qstore.cgi?CMD=011&PROD=1212147193&ADMIN=YES
that has turned these hypocritical congregations and their arrogant anti marriage members upside down. Why would anyone want to attend a group that claims to be Torah observant, or Torah based when the fact is that they would throw Moses, Tzipporah and the Ethiopian woman to the curb together?
And what about Yahushua Himself, a polygamist with two sister wives? Oh you claim to believe and support the TWO HOUSE TRUTH, but deny the TWO SISTER WIVES that Yahushua loves and died to make ECHAD-one family? No friend. You are no true two house believer! Don't be offended be willing to be challenged! You cannot condone the persecution and abuse heaped towards this kosher lifestyle and claim your ministry is to make the 2 sister wives one in Yahushua. Go and learn what this means...I desire mercy and not sacrifice, or messianic trappings for that matter. Hebraic culture is a lifestyle not merely a Jewish arts and crafts experience. Ezekiel 23 and many other Scriptures are CRYSTAL clear. The 2 houses are 2 rebellious sister wives, the daughters' of one mother! Yahushua has come to cry out for both and re-marry-re-covenant (Jeremiah 31:31) both wives in His own righteousness family.
Since we know that Yahushua is the express image of YHWH, then YHWH the Father also is A-The Patriarch, as it is He that has sent Yahushua to gather the 2 wayward wives-sticks that He was-is married to. Ephesians 5:22-23 speaks of a mystery between the Bridegroom and His wife, made up of many members, all married to Him simultaneously, not in serial monogamous marriage and divorce fashion, followed by another marriage and divorce. The original model as most assert was not monogamy. If the premise is wrong, the conclusion of a matter will be too. The original model in the Garden of Eden was NOT MONOGAMY OR POLYGAMY. Read that AGAIN!!! It was in fact PATRIARCHY, meaning the woman was made for and as a helpmeet subordinate to the man, under his love and care! If that bothers you, you have discovered the root of the problem with the modern marriage paradigm that most have bought into. Adam's alleged monogamy (we don't know that for sure, as many Jewish sources speak of another wife) was due to circumstance (only one woman around) not to some kind of mandated kosher model, or original pattern. YHWH's original intent was neither monogamy, nor plural marriage. It was pure subordinate patriarchy, where the husband heads the wife/wives, even as Messiah heads the brides of Judah and Efrayim in their own restoration. Again if this statement makes you cringe, you're either a woman who does not understand biblical marriage and family, or a man who has been brainwashed by the apparent evils of modernity and the subtle sound waves of the 'woman's liberation from Yahushua' movement. Both monogamy and polygamy fall under the ORIGINAL PATRIARCHAL MODEL, both being kosher, yet flawed and soiled by mankind. Adam's surroundings and circumstances decided things for him. Are we ever going to get this right, or will we rather continue to argue with YHWH's Word, in the end opposing ourselves and our nation's 2 house restoration? Both monogamy and plural marriage can be His perfect will for you! You must seek it for yourself, not vicariously through a westernized religious leader closed, or blind to the full picture of biblical marriage.
To say that YHWH allowed plural marriage, which is allegedly evil and adulterous, because of men's hearts, is to accuse YHWH of sanctioning, blessing and tolerating evil by allowing evil to procreate and spread in a holy nation, when Scripture clearly states that Abba YHWH is of PURER EYES THAN TO EVEN BEHOLD INIQUITY, LET ALONE TOLERATE IT UNDER SOME SUPPOSED OUTDATED DISPENSATION. Sadly Messianics by and large have adopted this church pabulum without asking any real hard questions, like they do with the false doctrine of all food and pig is now clean in Jesus-Hey-soos Christ. No friends; it has been your religion of choice that has prevented you from coming into social networking and alignment with YHWH. One cannot claim to be Yisrael and a Hebraic roots seeker, all the while dismissing the lifestyle that brought blessing and favor upon our own forefathers. These are the same heroes of the faith listed in Hebrews 11 and yet all of them like Noah and Jeptah and Gideon and Moses himself, along with the living Elohim would be thrust out of most Hebraic congregations. When the author of Israelite life is not welcome, then the place becomes a temple of the dead not the living Elohim.
Now is the time to stand for ALL truth; YHWH is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him, even more than the pressure to be aligned to a ROMANTIC system, that denies the Living Unchangeable Elohim of the Bible, and who in the clearest possible terms through men like Hosea, Jeremiah, Ezekiel and Torah itself, portrays Yahushua Himself as a polygamist Patriarch. The theme carries over unchanged into the Brit Chadasha-New Covenant, as seen in MANY places such as Matthew chapter 25 and the 10 virgin parable all married to Messiah, as well as places such as First Corinthians 5:1, one where a son sleeps with his father's wife, not his own mother. The fact that the early Mormons stole and perverted something YHWH blesses is not the issue, but it is our problem, if we as a nation do not reclaim the lifestyle as our fathers' were the ones to whom the lifestyle was initially given to be the blessed seed rather than Esau the cursed seed. The devil has injected Islam with polygamy, so he can take an alternate route to crush the seed (collective) of the woman.......Yahushua and His bride/s (Judah and Efrayim-Joseph).
The Book of Revelation is all about the risen Yahushua instructing (Torah) His various brides in Asia Minor. It is high time grow up and shut out the voices and then yes, even the very congregations that would not have any remorse to shamefully and smugly throw out most of the heroes of our faith. If you are a leader, or pastor, or rabbi I hope you are allowing the Set Apart Spirit to convict you. Or if you know of such a closed minded leader, please forward this to them in hope and love of the kadosh harvest!
And if the truth be told, if Yahushua-YHWH and Moses would not be welcome in these serial monogamist camps with a 60%-80% divorce rate, then neither should you and yours sanction such places by your alignment with them. It is up to the leaders who are rogue, like Miryam, in her opposition to plural marriage, to get into alignment with the Torah and the New Covenant and not for men and women to get into alignment with religion, personal feelings-preferences, or with the big brother secular state by the conduit of their emotions. Selah
19 June 2010
The Polygamy Sin!
Many opponents of polygamy claim that it is sinful. If this is true, we certainly must speak out against evil. However, if this is a false claim, then we must speak out against lies! Either way, if you are "bible believer" you have been commanded to have your voice heard.
Yeshayahu 58:1 “Cry aloud, do not spare. Lift up your voice like a ram’s horn. Declare to My people their transgression, and the house of Yaʽaqoḇ their sins."
Where exactly does Scripture condemn polygamy?
Hmmm?
Well???
I'm waiting...
Nowhere?
Correct! There is NOT ONE single verse of scripture that says "Thou shalt not marry more than one woman at a time."
This should throw up some red flags to the thinking! If scripture NEVER ONCE condemns polygamy, what gives you the right to do so?
Let's keep a running tab of offenses as we continue our study. So far, those who claim that polygamy is sinful are guilty of:
1) Lying
Revalation 21:8b “... and all who tell lies, their part is in the lake which burns with fire and sulphur, which is the second death.”
2) Adding to the word of YHWH
Devarim 4:2 “Do not add to the Word which I command you, and do not take away from it, so as to guard the commands of יהוה your Elohim which I am commanding you." Footnote: See also 12:32, Prov. 30:6, Rev. 22:18-19.
Keep those in mind as we continue.
Others have claimed that YHWH "tolerated" the sin of polygamy in "Old Testament" times.
Since when did YHWH EVER tolerate sin?
Eating forbidden fruit - Nope
Murder of Hevel - Nope
Evil hearts in Noach's time -Nope
Tower of Babel - Nope
Sodom and Gomorrah - Hell Nope!
Sin of Achan - Nope
Enslavement of Israel by Pharoah - Nope
Murmuring against Moshe - Nope
Not keeping the Sabbatical year - Nah, ahh
Idolatry - BIG 'OL NOPE
King Sha'ul not obeying the voice of the prophet - Negative
King Dawid committing Adultery and murder - Nope
Other kings of Israel not obeying Torah - Nope
Cḥananyah and his wife lying to Kepha - Nope
Moneychangers at the temple using false weights - Nope
The wicked dead at judgment - Sorry...
As you well know, I could make this list go on, and on , and on, and on...
We know that YHWH never tolerated sin of any kind! And we know He NEVER changes. Therefore, If he tolerated polygamy - it is NOT a sin! Indeed, if He did tolerate sin what would be the point of dying on the cross? His sacrifice and His blood are an immortal testimony to the fact that He DOES NOT TOLERATE SIN!!!
Let's now look at three of the many people who's name you are besmirching by suggesting that polygamy is somehow sinful.
1) Moshe - Moshe was the ONLY man ever to speak to YHWH face to face! (Shemot 33:11)
He spent 40 days and nights on Mt. Sinai with YHWH-Twice!!! (Shemot 24:18; Shemot 34:28-29 and Devarim 10:10) He is "The Lawgiver." The one who physically wrote the Torah. He is the one who received the tablets of stone on which was written the command "Thou shalt not commit adultery." The one who lead Israel across the Yam Suph. The one who was shown the pattern of the Mishkan in the heavens. The one who's face was illuminated with the glory of YHWH! The one who counseled YHWH's people in GREAT matters. The one for whom YHWH took revenge on Korach. The one that our Master said if they refuse to hear him - they will not hear anyone coming back from the dead. The one referred to as a "friend of YHWH!" This man, who knew the will of YHWH better than any other mortal man before or after him was a polygamist! If polygamy was sinful, THIS is the man who would know that. However, we see that he himself practiced polygamy.
Shemot 2:21 "And Mosheh agreed to dwell with the man, and he gave Tsipporah his daughter to Mosheh." (see also Shemot 18:1-6)
B'midbar 12:1 "Now Miryam and Aharon spoke against Mosheh because of the Kushite woman whom he had taken, for he had taken a Kushite woman."
Now, if Moshe was a sinner because of his polygamous lifestyle, we would expect to see YHWH's condemnation and punishment, but we do not. We would expect to see Yahushua and/or His talmidim distancing themselves from Moshe, but we do not. We would expect to see his name blotted out from the heavens in eternity, but we do not. In fact, we see the opposite:
Rev 15:3 "And they sing the song of Mosheh the servant of Elohim, and the song of the Lamb, saying, “Great and marvellous are Your works, יהוה Ěl Shaddai! Righteous and true are Your ways, O Sovereign of the kadosh ones!" Those that overcome the beast will stand on a sea of glass and fire and "sing the song of Moshe" who is STILL called the "servant of Elohim!"
How DARE YOU speak evil of Moshe by calling polygamy a sin! Repent before it's too late!
Let's go one step further-
When you are reading the Torah and you see such things as the creation account of Ahdahm and Chavah, the account of Lamech, "If a man has two wives", "one flesh", "if he take another wife", "Do not multiply wives", and "do not commit adultery" keep in mind that Moshe, the kadosh POLYGAMIST servant of Elohim who's songs will be sung by the overcomers in eternity wrote those things!!!
2) Avraham - Avraham was called out of an idol worshiping family to become the first Hebrew. Most of our children sing the song "Father Abraham had many sons" which recounts YHWH's promise to Avraham to make him into a great nation that would be as numerous as the stars in the sky and the grains of sand on the shores. His faith and obediance was tested by YHWH telling him to sacrifice is son, Yitzchak. Yitzchak himself was a miracle child given to Avraham when he was 100 and his wife, Sarah was 90. He was called the "faithful friend of Elohim" and is still known as the father of the faithful. Yet some would have us believe that he is a sinner because he took three wives - Sarah, Hagar, and Keturah.
The renewed scriptures bestows upon him such titles as "Our Father", and "friend of Elohim." It says that his faith was imputed for righteousness and he is one of the examples of faith mentioned in Hebrews 11 (along with Sarah).
Another polygamist was Avraham's grandson, Ya'akov (Jacob).
3) Ya'akov - Ya'akov is the grandson of Avraham who had his name changed to Yisra'el (Prince of Elohim) as a blessing after wrestling all night with a messenger. He is the one who worked twenty years for his father-in-law in exchange for his FOUR wives Leah, Rachel, Bilhah and Zilpah along with flocks and money. Out of this polygamous houshold the twelve tribes of Israel were birthed, YHWH's chosen people. Both Avraham and Ya'akov are claimed by YHWH as His very own on numerous occasions when He declares "I am the El of Avraham, the El of Yitzchak and the El of Ya'akov" They were obviously servants of the most high. Yet, some would claim that the very chosen people of YHWH came from an adulterous, sinful patriarch!
What did our Master, Yahushua promise His faithful followers?
Mattithyahu 8:11 “And I say to you that many shall come from east and west, and sit down with Avraham, and Yitzchak, and Yaʽakov̱ in the reign of the heavens, "
Wait! He promised those who would follow Him would sit with these "sinful" polygamists as their reward???
You heard from the Master's mouth (which contained no guile). Our Master didn't seem to think of these polygamists as sinners, why would you? In fact, I would soberly warn you that unless you admit that polygamy is kosher and Holy - you will not be sitting with these men in the kingdom!
There is one more extremely lame attempt to "prove" that polygamy is sinful. The "proof" that is offered is the account of Lamech, the first named polygamist in the Torah. The argument goes like this: "Lamech is the first named polygamist in Scripture and he was a murderer, therefore polygamy is sinful because it is associated with murder and only an evil murderer would engage in polygamy" Besides the obvious logical flaws there, and the fact that we have seen examples of Kadosh, righteous men who were polygamists, let's look at the passage in context:
B'reisheet 4:18-24 "And to Ḥanoḵ was born Iraḏ. And Iraḏ brought forth Meḥuya’ĕl, and Meḥuya’ĕl brought forth Methusa’ĕl, and Methusa’ĕl brought forth Lemeḵ. And Lemeḵ took for himself two wives, the name of one was Aḏah, and the name of the second was Tsillah. And Aḏah bore Yaḇal. He was the father of those who dwell in tents, with livestock. And his brother’s name was Yuḇal. He was the father of all those who play the lyre and flute. As for Tsillah, she also bore Tuḇal-Qayin, a smith of all kinds of tools in bronze and iron. And the sister of Tuḇal-Qayin was Naʽamah. And Lemeḵ said to his wives, “Aḏah and Tsillah, hear my voice! Wives of Lemeḵ, listen to my words! For I have killed a man for wounding me, even a young man for hurting me. “For Kayin is avenged sevenfold, and Lemeḵ seventy-sevenfold.”
First things first! (pun intended) If we follow the logic (or apparent lack thereof) of the argument then we must make further conclusions:
a) The first born child mentioned in scripture was a murderer, therefore it is a sin to have children.
b) The passage above contains many "first mentions" in scripture, therefore because of their association with a "murderer": dwelling in tents is sinful, keeping livestock is sinful, playing a lyre or flute is sinful, and smithing tools in iron or bronze is sinful. Do you see how stupid that sounds?
Furthermore, from a reading of this passage, it sounds more like a case of self-defense than murder. Perhaps it is a shadow of the attacks that polygamists would suffer for years to come by the young and immature?
Those making this argument are ignorant of the very definition of sin. What is sin? It is transgression of the commands of YHWH given to us in His Torah. We are not free to define things arbitrarily as "sin." It is up to YHWH's word to do that! His word never once defines polygamy as sin. His word condones polygamy as valid. His word gives us commandments to regulate marriage including that to more than one wife. His word commands polygamy in at least one instance. His word defines sin and allows polygamy. Who are you to change that?
If polygamy is sinful, why did YHWH bless those that engaged in it?
B'reisheet 24:1 "And Avraham was old, advanced in years. And יהוה had blessed Avraham in every way." (including his marriages)
(Before Avraham had Hagar given to him, YHWH told him "“I am Ěl Shaddai – walk before Me and be perfect" Apparently Avraham didn't find it less than perfect to take a second wife, or a third)
B'reisheet 28:1-4 "And Yitzchak called Yaʽakov and blessed him, and commanded him, and said to him, “Do not take a wife from the daughters of Kenaʽan. Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethu’ĕl your mother’s father. And take a wife for yourself from there, from the daughters of Laḇan your mother’s brother. And Ěl Shaddai bless you, and make you bear fruit and increase you, and you shall become an assembly of peoples, and give you the blessing of Avraham, to you and your seed with you, so that you inherit the land of your sojournings, which Elohim gave to Avraham.” "
That blessing was indeed given:
B'reisheet 28:10-17 "And Yaʽakov went out from Be’ĕrsheḇa and went toward Ḥaran. And he came upon a place and stopped over for the night, for the sun had set. And he took one of the stones of that place and put it at his head, and he lay down in that place to sleep. And he dreamed and saw a ladder set up on the earth, and its top reached to the heavens, and saw messengers of Elohim going up and coming down on it. And see, יהוה stood above it and said, “I am יהוה Elohim of Avraham your father and the Elohim of Yitzchak. The land on which you are lying, I give it to you and your seed. And your seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and you shall break forth to the west and to the east, to the north and the south. And all the clans of the earth shall be blessed in you and in your seed. And see, I am with you and shall guard you wherever you go, and shall bring you back to this land. For I am not going to leave you until I have done what I have spoken to you.” And Yaʽakov awoke from his sleep and said, “Truly, יהוה is in this place, and I did not know it.” And he was afraid and said, “How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of Elohim, and this is the gate of the heavens!”"
This promise was made before Ya'akov had ANY wives.
B'reisheet 32:26-29 "And He said, “Let Me go, for the day breaks.” But he said, “I am not letting You go until You have blessed me!” So He asked him, “What is your name?” And he said, “Yaʽakov.” And He said, “Your name is no longer called Yaʽakov, but Yisra’ĕl, because you have striven with Elohim and with men, and have overcome.” And Yaʽakov asked Him, saying, “Please let me know Your Name.” And He said, “Why do you ask about My Name?” And He blessed him there.
This was AFTER Ya'akov had taken FOUR WIVES and had children with each of them. So, again we see YHWH's blessing being poured out on a polygamist! Does YHWH bless sinners?
Isra'el was to be a light to the nations, an example for all the earth to follow. Are you sure that polygamy is sinful when you consider the origins of the nation of Israel through whom our Messiah came?
2Ti 3:16-17 "All Scripture is breathed by Elohim and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for setting straight, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of Elohim might be fitted, equipped for every good work."
Why would YHWH inspire polygamous men such as Moshe, Dawid, Shlomo, etc to write polygamous things such as laws governing multiple wives, polygamous poetry, etc in His Kadosh, perfect word to make us "equipped for every good work" if polygamy was somehow wrong or sinful? I'll allow the Ruach to answer that question for you.
Tehillim 33:4 "For the Word of יהוה is straight, And all His works are in truth"
Yochannan 17:17 “Set them apart in Your truth – Your Word is truth"
2Timmothy 2:15 "Do your utmost to present yourself approved to Elohim, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly handling the Word of Truth."
Ya'akov 3:2 "For we all stumble in many matters. If anyone does not stumble in word, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle the entire body. "
Remember our list? Let's check it. Someone who claims that polygamy is a sin is guilty of:
1) Lying
2) Adding to the word
3) Attacking the anointed of YHWH
4) Mishandling the word of Elohim
5) False preaching
6) Spreading false doctrines
IS THERE A SIN ASSOCIATED WITH POLYGAMY????
YES!!!! There certainly is:
Yeshayahu 5:20 "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! "
The polygamy sin is calling polygamy sin!!!
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Yeshayahu 58:1 “Cry aloud, do not spare. Lift up your voice like a ram’s horn. Declare to My people their transgression, and the house of Yaʽaqoḇ their sins."
Where exactly does Scripture condemn polygamy?
Hmmm?
Well???
I'm waiting...
Nowhere?
Correct! There is NOT ONE single verse of scripture that says "Thou shalt not marry more than one woman at a time."
This should throw up some red flags to the thinking! If scripture NEVER ONCE condemns polygamy, what gives you the right to do so?
Let's keep a running tab of offenses as we continue our study. So far, those who claim that polygamy is sinful are guilty of:
1) Lying
Revalation 21:8b “... and all who tell lies, their part is in the lake which burns with fire and sulphur, which is the second death.”
2) Adding to the word of YHWH
Devarim 4:2 “Do not add to the Word which I command you, and do not take away from it, so as to guard the commands of יהוה your Elohim which I am commanding you." Footnote: See also 12:32, Prov. 30:6, Rev. 22:18-19.
Keep those in mind as we continue.
Others have claimed that YHWH "tolerated" the sin of polygamy in "Old Testament" times.
Since when did YHWH EVER tolerate sin?
Eating forbidden fruit - Nope
Murder of Hevel - Nope
Evil hearts in Noach's time -Nope
Tower of Babel - Nope
Sodom and Gomorrah - Hell Nope!
Sin of Achan - Nope
Enslavement of Israel by Pharoah - Nope
Murmuring against Moshe - Nope
Not keeping the Sabbatical year - Nah, ahh
Idolatry - BIG 'OL NOPE
King Sha'ul not obeying the voice of the prophet - Negative
King Dawid committing Adultery and murder - Nope
Other kings of Israel not obeying Torah - Nope
Cḥananyah and his wife lying to Kepha - Nope
Moneychangers at the temple using false weights - Nope
The wicked dead at judgment - Sorry...
As you well know, I could make this list go on, and on , and on, and on...
We know that YHWH never tolerated sin of any kind! And we know He NEVER changes. Therefore, If he tolerated polygamy - it is NOT a sin! Indeed, if He did tolerate sin what would be the point of dying on the cross? His sacrifice and His blood are an immortal testimony to the fact that He DOES NOT TOLERATE SIN!!!
Let's now look at three of the many people who's name you are besmirching by suggesting that polygamy is somehow sinful.
1) Moshe - Moshe was the ONLY man ever to speak to YHWH face to face! (Shemot 33:11)
He spent 40 days and nights on Mt. Sinai with YHWH-Twice!!! (Shemot 24:18; Shemot 34:28-29 and Devarim 10:10) He is "The Lawgiver." The one who physically wrote the Torah. He is the one who received the tablets of stone on which was written the command "Thou shalt not commit adultery." The one who lead Israel across the Yam Suph. The one who was shown the pattern of the Mishkan in the heavens. The one who's face was illuminated with the glory of YHWH! The one who counseled YHWH's people in GREAT matters. The one for whom YHWH took revenge on Korach. The one that our Master said if they refuse to hear him - they will not hear anyone coming back from the dead. The one referred to as a "friend of YHWH!" This man, who knew the will of YHWH better than any other mortal man before or after him was a polygamist! If polygamy was sinful, THIS is the man who would know that. However, we see that he himself practiced polygamy.
Shemot 2:21 "And Mosheh agreed to dwell with the man, and he gave Tsipporah his daughter to Mosheh." (see also Shemot 18:1-6)
B'midbar 12:1 "Now Miryam and Aharon spoke against Mosheh because of the Kushite woman whom he had taken, for he had taken a Kushite woman."
Now, if Moshe was a sinner because of his polygamous lifestyle, we would expect to see YHWH's condemnation and punishment, but we do not. We would expect to see Yahushua and/or His talmidim distancing themselves from Moshe, but we do not. We would expect to see his name blotted out from the heavens in eternity, but we do not. In fact, we see the opposite:
Rev 15:3 "And they sing the song of Mosheh the servant of Elohim, and the song of the Lamb, saying, “Great and marvellous are Your works, יהוה Ěl Shaddai! Righteous and true are Your ways, O Sovereign of the kadosh ones!" Those that overcome the beast will stand on a sea of glass and fire and "sing the song of Moshe" who is STILL called the "servant of Elohim!"
How DARE YOU speak evil of Moshe by calling polygamy a sin! Repent before it's too late!
Let's go one step further-
When you are reading the Torah and you see such things as the creation account of Ahdahm and Chavah, the account of Lamech, "If a man has two wives", "one flesh", "if he take another wife", "Do not multiply wives", and "do not commit adultery" keep in mind that Moshe, the kadosh POLYGAMIST servant of Elohim who's songs will be sung by the overcomers in eternity wrote those things!!!
2) Avraham - Avraham was called out of an idol worshiping family to become the first Hebrew. Most of our children sing the song "Father Abraham had many sons" which recounts YHWH's promise to Avraham to make him into a great nation that would be as numerous as the stars in the sky and the grains of sand on the shores. His faith and obediance was tested by YHWH telling him to sacrifice is son, Yitzchak. Yitzchak himself was a miracle child given to Avraham when he was 100 and his wife, Sarah was 90. He was called the "faithful friend of Elohim" and is still known as the father of the faithful. Yet some would have us believe that he is a sinner because he took three wives - Sarah, Hagar, and Keturah.
The renewed scriptures bestows upon him such titles as "Our Father", and "friend of Elohim." It says that his faith was imputed for righteousness and he is one of the examples of faith mentioned in Hebrews 11 (along with Sarah).
Another polygamist was Avraham's grandson, Ya'akov (Jacob).
3) Ya'akov - Ya'akov is the grandson of Avraham who had his name changed to Yisra'el (Prince of Elohim) as a blessing after wrestling all night with a messenger. He is the one who worked twenty years for his father-in-law in exchange for his FOUR wives Leah, Rachel, Bilhah and Zilpah along with flocks and money. Out of this polygamous houshold the twelve tribes of Israel were birthed, YHWH's chosen people. Both Avraham and Ya'akov are claimed by YHWH as His very own on numerous occasions when He declares "I am the El of Avraham, the El of Yitzchak and the El of Ya'akov" They were obviously servants of the most high. Yet, some would claim that the very chosen people of YHWH came from an adulterous, sinful patriarch!
What did our Master, Yahushua promise His faithful followers?
Mattithyahu 8:11 “And I say to you that many shall come from east and west, and sit down with Avraham, and Yitzchak, and Yaʽakov̱ in the reign of the heavens, "
Wait! He promised those who would follow Him would sit with these "sinful" polygamists as their reward???
You heard from the Master's mouth (which contained no guile). Our Master didn't seem to think of these polygamists as sinners, why would you? In fact, I would soberly warn you that unless you admit that polygamy is kosher and Holy - you will not be sitting with these men in the kingdom!
There is one more extremely lame attempt to "prove" that polygamy is sinful. The "proof" that is offered is the account of Lamech, the first named polygamist in the Torah. The argument goes like this: "Lamech is the first named polygamist in Scripture and he was a murderer, therefore polygamy is sinful because it is associated with murder and only an evil murderer would engage in polygamy" Besides the obvious logical flaws there, and the fact that we have seen examples of Kadosh, righteous men who were polygamists, let's look at the passage in context:
B'reisheet 4:18-24 "And to Ḥanoḵ was born Iraḏ. And Iraḏ brought forth Meḥuya’ĕl, and Meḥuya’ĕl brought forth Methusa’ĕl, and Methusa’ĕl brought forth Lemeḵ. And Lemeḵ took for himself two wives, the name of one was Aḏah, and the name of the second was Tsillah. And Aḏah bore Yaḇal. He was the father of those who dwell in tents, with livestock. And his brother’s name was Yuḇal. He was the father of all those who play the lyre and flute. As for Tsillah, she also bore Tuḇal-Qayin, a smith of all kinds of tools in bronze and iron. And the sister of Tuḇal-Qayin was Naʽamah. And Lemeḵ said to his wives, “Aḏah and Tsillah, hear my voice! Wives of Lemeḵ, listen to my words! For I have killed a man for wounding me, even a young man for hurting me. “For Kayin is avenged sevenfold, and Lemeḵ seventy-sevenfold.”
First things first! (pun intended) If we follow the logic (or apparent lack thereof) of the argument then we must make further conclusions:
a) The first born child mentioned in scripture was a murderer, therefore it is a sin to have children.
b) The passage above contains many "first mentions" in scripture, therefore because of their association with a "murderer": dwelling in tents is sinful, keeping livestock is sinful, playing a lyre or flute is sinful, and smithing tools in iron or bronze is sinful. Do you see how stupid that sounds?
Furthermore, from a reading of this passage, it sounds more like a case of self-defense than murder. Perhaps it is a shadow of the attacks that polygamists would suffer for years to come by the young and immature?
Those making this argument are ignorant of the very definition of sin. What is sin? It is transgression of the commands of YHWH given to us in His Torah. We are not free to define things arbitrarily as "sin." It is up to YHWH's word to do that! His word never once defines polygamy as sin. His word condones polygamy as valid. His word gives us commandments to regulate marriage including that to more than one wife. His word commands polygamy in at least one instance. His word defines sin and allows polygamy. Who are you to change that?
If polygamy is sinful, why did YHWH bless those that engaged in it?
B'reisheet 24:1 "And Avraham was old, advanced in years. And יהוה had blessed Avraham in every way." (including his marriages)
(Before Avraham had Hagar given to him, YHWH told him "“I am Ěl Shaddai – walk before Me and be perfect" Apparently Avraham didn't find it less than perfect to take a second wife, or a third)
B'reisheet 28:1-4 "And Yitzchak called Yaʽakov and blessed him, and commanded him, and said to him, “Do not take a wife from the daughters of Kenaʽan. Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethu’ĕl your mother’s father. And take a wife for yourself from there, from the daughters of Laḇan your mother’s brother. And Ěl Shaddai bless you, and make you bear fruit and increase you, and you shall become an assembly of peoples, and give you the blessing of Avraham, to you and your seed with you, so that you inherit the land of your sojournings, which Elohim gave to Avraham.” "
That blessing was indeed given:
B'reisheet 28:10-17 "And Yaʽakov went out from Be’ĕrsheḇa and went toward Ḥaran. And he came upon a place and stopped over for the night, for the sun had set. And he took one of the stones of that place and put it at his head, and he lay down in that place to sleep. And he dreamed and saw a ladder set up on the earth, and its top reached to the heavens, and saw messengers of Elohim going up and coming down on it. And see, יהוה stood above it and said, “I am יהוה Elohim of Avraham your father and the Elohim of Yitzchak. The land on which you are lying, I give it to you and your seed. And your seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and you shall break forth to the west and to the east, to the north and the south. And all the clans of the earth shall be blessed in you and in your seed. And see, I am with you and shall guard you wherever you go, and shall bring you back to this land. For I am not going to leave you until I have done what I have spoken to you.” And Yaʽakov awoke from his sleep and said, “Truly, יהוה is in this place, and I did not know it.” And he was afraid and said, “How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of Elohim, and this is the gate of the heavens!”"
This promise was made before Ya'akov had ANY wives.
B'reisheet 32:26-29 "And He said, “Let Me go, for the day breaks.” But he said, “I am not letting You go until You have blessed me!” So He asked him, “What is your name?” And he said, “Yaʽakov.” And He said, “Your name is no longer called Yaʽakov, but Yisra’ĕl, because you have striven with Elohim and with men, and have overcome.” And Yaʽakov asked Him, saying, “Please let me know Your Name.” And He said, “Why do you ask about My Name?” And He blessed him there.
This was AFTER Ya'akov had taken FOUR WIVES and had children with each of them. So, again we see YHWH's blessing being poured out on a polygamist! Does YHWH bless sinners?
Isra'el was to be a light to the nations, an example for all the earth to follow. Are you sure that polygamy is sinful when you consider the origins of the nation of Israel through whom our Messiah came?
2Ti 3:16-17 "All Scripture is breathed by Elohim and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for setting straight, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of Elohim might be fitted, equipped for every good work."
Why would YHWH inspire polygamous men such as Moshe, Dawid, Shlomo, etc to write polygamous things such as laws governing multiple wives, polygamous poetry, etc in His Kadosh, perfect word to make us "equipped for every good work" if polygamy was somehow wrong or sinful? I'll allow the Ruach to answer that question for you.
Tehillim 33:4 "For the Word of יהוה is straight, And all His works are in truth"
Yochannan 17:17 “Set them apart in Your truth – Your Word is truth"
2Timmothy 2:15 "Do your utmost to present yourself approved to Elohim, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly handling the Word of Truth."
Ya'akov 3:2 "For we all stumble in many matters. If anyone does not stumble in word, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle the entire body. "
Remember our list? Let's check it. Someone who claims that polygamy is a sin is guilty of:
1) Lying
2) Adding to the word
3) Attacking the anointed of YHWH
4) Mishandling the word of Elohim
5) False preaching
6) Spreading false doctrines
IS THERE A SIN ASSOCIATED WITH POLYGAMY????
YES!!!! There certainly is:
Yeshayahu 5:20 "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! "
The polygamy sin is calling polygamy sin!!!
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