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And in that day, seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by your name, to take away our reproach.
- YeshaYahu [Isaiah] 4:1 |
For the ancient Israelites, the manifestation of Kingdom order in their midst set them apart from all the other great nations of the ancient world - head and shoulders above the pagan, goddess worshipping heathen round about. And in ordering the families of Yisrael (Israel), the use of polygyny (the practice of one man having more than one wife) was not uncommon - especially among the great patriarchs of the faith...
Abraham, Ya'aqob (Jacob), Moshe (Moses), Dawid (David) and many others had more than one wife. The great lawgiver Moshe himself, who commanded that adulterers should be stoned to death, made provisions for polygyny in the Torah - and under certain circumstances, even required it as a matter of law (Debarim [Deut.] 25:5; 21:15-17).
Hear O Yisrael - the original promise to our father Abraham that he would be the father of many nations was itself a call to polygyny! Sélah.
After all, if a man has only one wife, he can only birth one nation! This is why it is written of
Abraham, "But unto the
sons of the concubines (secondary wives),
which Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts, and sent them away from Yitschaq (Isaac) his son,
while he yet lived, eastward, unto the east country."
And as it is written, "And if you be Christ's, then are you Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise." (Gal. 3:29).
As of this year, some eighty-plus percent of the world's societies practice polygyny. And yet according to her own statistics, the United States of America, which considers polygyny immoral, leads the world in adultery, divorce, rape, prostitution and pornography (not to mention drug abuse, alcoholism, and murder). Nevertheless, the issue of biblical polygyny still stirs great wrath among those born and raised under Hellenistic philosophies and influence.
Clearly, Western theologians interpret Hebrew Israelite scripture with a Greco-Roman cultural bias. How then could they NOT conclude that the 'New Testament' condemns the practice of polygyny? And the end result has been that the vast majority of the household of faith, and so-called black people in particular, are completely unaware of the longstanding history of Messianic/Christian polygyny...
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