Adultery

Racemixing

It is clear, even from the ten commandments as they were given in Exodus chapter 20, that adultery to the Hebrews meant race-mixing [as well as the bloodline confusion which comes from sleeping with others wives and husbands]. Here the word for adultery comes from a Greek word, moicheuo. While it is indeed related to the verb mignumi, which means to mix, the Greeks did not use the word in the racial sense. Rather, they used it to describe any possible confusion of the bloodline which would possibly result in children belonging to men other than their fathers. Yet this was the word which Hebrews writing Greek chose to use for the commandment, “thou shalt not commit adultery”, from the days of the Septuagint. It reflected the literal meaning, but not the colloquial meaning. For that reason the apostles, in Acts chapter 15, decided that it was necessary to add an injunction prohibiting fornication, since the Greeks understood race-mixing to be a form of fornication, or illicit sexual relations

Protections with the Bill of Divorce

Matthew 5:31 And it has been said ‘He who would put away his wife must give to her a bill of divorce.’

Putting away a wife is the act of divorce. The bill of divorce only officiates the act, and was instituted in the days of Moses in order to protect women who were put off by their husbands. That is because a married woman found in the house of another man would have no defense against a charge of adultery – both her and the other man could be stoned to death. However if she could display a bill of divorcement, no such charge could hold. This law appears in Deuteronomy chapter 24.

Today many men fail, even men in Israel Identity, because they confuse the act of the issuing of a bill of divorcement with the act of divorce. That is a modern precept which finds no place in scripture. Here we see that it is clear, that the putting away of one's wife is the act of divorce, and the issuing of the bill of divorcement only officiates the act! If one puts away his wife without issuing the bill, one violates the law of divorcement. However the wife has still been put away! Those who would deny this, are practicing Midrash, and not obedience to the Scripture.

Implications for Israel

It is an opinion, that while the healing of lepers is not specifically prophesied of the ministry of Christ, and since contracting the disease in the ancient world was so horrible a sentence of death, that Yahshua's having cleansed lepers was symbolic of His mercy upon the children of Israel: that no matter how horrible the sentence of death, His promise uttered through the prophets was to cleanse them of all of their sins, and as Isaiah 45:25 says, He promises to justify all of the offspring of Israel, without exception and no matter how grievously they have sinned.