What God Has Joined Together, Let No Man Separate or Touch (Matthew 19:6)
What is Marriage?
According to the Bible, marriage is a supernatural spiritual bonding union instituted by our Supreme God, purposely divinely for a male and female to join together spiritually and legally to become husband and wife on earth. Our Supreme God and Spirit created all human races equally, and God took from Adam’s rib and made a woman specially designed for marriage. Also for the purpose of multiplying the human race as written in the Holy Bible. Marriage is of one heterosexual flesh, whereby, two humans (a male and a female) become one flesh and one spirit with God’s Spirit.
What is the Purpose of God’s Marriage?
Three divine spiritual primary purposes for marriage are Companionship, Procreation, and Redemption.
These purposes are still relevant today and are essential for a healthy society.
In Genesis 2:18, the Lord said it wasn’t good for man to be alone.
God designed marriage so that man and woman could have a close spiritual relationship with each other and God. A Marriage relationship is based on Divine love, trust, and communication to provide a picture of a strong relationship with each other and the Lord.
Marriage is about a male and female who are united as husband and wife under God’s standards to fulfill His mission of reproduction of human beings on earth coming together to share their lives, emotions, and experiences with each other as a family. A married couple should love, comfort, support, and protect each other.
God specially instituted marriage so couples can populate the earth with children and raise them in a loving spiritual home. Children are a blessing from God, and it’s important that they be raised in a home where they can be loved and learn about God’s love.
For the unity of the husband and wife and for the procreation and education of children. Marriage literally procreates through sexual intercourse that leads to biological children and symbolically procreates the life of God when two lives are joined together in love.
God joined a man and woman together because children need two parents who can provide love and guidance to them. A family grounded in God’s principles will be much more likely to succeed and promote love rather than evil and hate than a marriage that doesn’t have this foundation.
The deliverance of human beings (Christians) from sin. God purposely designed marriage so that a man and a woman can come together and be saved from their sins. To be redeemed is to be forgiven, holy, justified, free, adopted, and reconciled back to God through Jesus by the Holt Spirit.
When a spiritual husband and wife come together in holy matrimony, they commit to God’s plan for their lives, not Satan’s. This plan includes raising children in a God-fearing environment (home) and helping each other stay on the path to salvation.
To deliver His people from hell through healthy marriage and building His kingdom on earth to protect us from our enemy, Satan. A husband and wife were instituted for the purpose of building families in the image, likeness, and principles of Jesus Christ’s teachings, which are still relevant today and forever.
Today, there are all types of marriages in the world, and a marriage to fit every religion. God’s purpose was and still is for men to serve Him and live forever with Him. However, Satan is God, and man’s adversary has the Plan to destroy God and steal, kill, and destroy man whom God created. The plan God used when He instituted marriage, government, and church is the same plan Satan uses to destroy man. Christian marriage is the only supernatural spiritual institution that relates to and belongs to God for eternal life, justification, protection, chastisement, and happiness among human beings through Faith in God. Putting our Faith and Trust in God, help us to know that God is responsible for man’s well-being on earth, not another man’s. Man cannot chastise another man above God; the only thing that man can do is obey God’s Word as written in the Holy Bible and respect one another as unto the Lord. Therefore, the institution of marriage is very important to God and His children too. Married is like a glue that holds families together to carry out God’s mission on earth. We need God’s Holy Ghost power to hold families together under God’s creation of human beings. Therefore, when God says, in the Bible “What God has joined together, let no man put asunder Matthew 19:6.” This means that marriage belongs to God and human beings cannot add or take away anything from or add to the Word of God to compromise God’s position. God does not join a marriage together if the two people involved in the marriage are not His spiritual children since it is only through God that man can become one flesh and one Spirit with God by the Holy Spirit. Ephesians 5:31-32, states “Therefore, a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the Church.”
In this world, it is very important to accept God at an early age as your Spiritual Heavenly Father, and unto this happens, you are not a child of God. However, do not confuse being a child of God because of God’s six-day Creation of man and the heavens and earth. Genesis 2:24 gives us a picture of the marriage bond before sin entered the world and after sin entered into the world, God was separated from his human creation and Satan became the counterfeit father of all humans born into the world including me. Therefore, Satan, the originator of sin, caused sin to enter the world from that day forward. Now, all humans have to choose between God or Satan as the spiritual Father they are going to serve. However, sin did not change the Divine Word of God, but sin did separate man from their Creator Father’s God. This is because God is too Holy to look upon sin Habakkuk 1:13, “Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and cannot look on iniquity: wherefore looks thou upon them that deal treacherously, and hold thy tongue when the wicked devours the man that is more righteous than he?” The sin of disobedience by Adam and Eve against God caused the human race in this world to be divided between God’s and Satan’s kingdom. However, this did not change God’s position as Creator of this world and all human beings.
Revelation 22:18-19 states, that there will be consequences for anyone who tampers with the
content of God’s Word in the Holy Bible as written: “For I testify together to everyone who
hears the Words of the prophecy of this Book: If anyone adds to these things, God will add on him the plagues that have been written in this Book. And if anyone takes away from the Words of the Book of this prophecy, God will take away his part out of the Book of Life, out of the holy city, and from the things written in this Book.” This warning is given specifically to those who distort the message of the Book of Revelation.
The definition of Marriage as described by God is when two natural-born (male and female) people join together in Holy matrimony under the Name of Jesus in the power of the Holy Spirit their marriage is blessed by God. Marriage is a spiritual institution that God created to allow the two spiritual hearts (male and female) to connect to the oneness of God’s spiritual heart to bind their marriage together in agape love, which is the nature of God through Jesus by the Holy Spirit. God’s love is unconditional, and it is not by a natural connection of feeling of your mind or a group of natural words coming from within a person’s mouth.
God’s children are those who connect to Him before or after a person gets married, but it is best for both individuals to be connected to God before they get married. However, a person can connect to God whenever their eyes are open to the truth that there are two spirits on earth: God’s kingdom (good) and Satan’s kingdom (Evil), as discussed earlier in this book. Married couples who become one flesh with each other and one spirit with God’s Spirit are in God’s kingdom. This is an example of God’s children who are married and are in covenant with God. This is the exact place and thing that everyone should do or live by, which is 100 percent under the protection of God’s kingdom in this world accordingly to I Corinthians 6:17, instead of living under Satan’s kingdom, who is the evil defected ruler of this world. Satan’s children are not in covenant with God and are not subject to blessings from God.
Legal Marriage per state: Most states allow second-cousin marriage. Some states are open legally to all marriages today.
Marriage between cousins is not forbidden in the Bible to an extent because some people are for first-cousin marriage, and there are others that find fault in it. However, the other relationships listed above are immoral. Children of first-cousin marriages have an increased risk of autosomal recessive genetic disorders, and this risk is higher in populations that are already highly ethnically similar. Children of more distantly related cousins have less risk of these disorders, though still higher than the average population.
However, some people do not see anything wrong with marrying cousins or other, more distant relatives. There are other considerations, though. One is the civil law in the place where we live: One-half of our states and places disallow marriage between first cousins, and the Bible commands us to obey the laws of the nation we live in Romans 13:1–6.
Before the law was given, there was a need for marriage between close relatives in the early days of humanity, as there were a limited number of human beings. Adam and Eve’s children married their siblings, by necessity. Even in those days, however, marriage between parent and child was not allowable, as Genesis 2:24 implies: “That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.” A man was to leave his mother, not marry her.
It was not until humanity increased greatly on the earth that people no longer needed to intermarry among relatives. In the early days of humanity, the human genetic code was not corrupted to the extent that it is today. Therefore, marriages between close relatives carried little risk of genetic abnormalities in thechildren they produced. Once the human race expanded and, due to sin, the human genetic code grew more corrupt, God commanded against the marriage of close relatives.
While Christians are no longer under the Law of Moses, the moral principles still stand. That means that the relationships listed in Leviticus 18 are still immoral. No one should marry a sibling or a parent. The only moral exception to the list is that of marriage to an in-law after the death of a spouse.