Today, I am reading and commenting on Deuteronomy 24-26.

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Divorce and remarriage should be a difficult issue for the Church today.  Before I get into the lesson I see in today’s passage, let me be clear, Jesus teaches us that we should never get divorced in Matthew 19.  (Jesus may have included an exception for those cases where one’s spouse cheats with someone else depending on how you read that passage)  But people do get divorced, along with many other sins, and later repent and turn back to God.  Sometimes that happens after they have remarried.  While I do not think that today’s passage is binding on us today (see Acts 15), I think that it provides us with some insight into how we should behave.  Here Moses commanded the Israelites that if a man divorced his wife and she married another who later divorced her as well, or if her second husband dies, he should not remarry her.  While this passage addresses only if the woman remarries, I believe it applies to either spouse, because I think it is telling us something about people.  So, if a couple gets divorced and one or the other of the people from that marriage marries someone else, all of those will be better off if the original couple never get back together again.

My interpretation is based on my experience with seeing people I know who got back together with people they had been with in the past.  In every case of people I knew where a couple had been sexually involved, whether legally married or not, and they broke up, got together with other people who they later broke up with, and then the original couple got back together, the second relationship ended in the same manner as the first.  The reason I bring this up is because I remember that when the Church I was involved with as a child and into my teen years dealt with divorce and remarriage, there was a faction which believed that couples which got divorced and married to someone else should divorce their second spouse and reunite with their first spouse, particularly in cases where they were professing Christians during their first marriage.

I want to conclude by saying that I think what I have written here today is more valuable to provoke thoughts than for the ideas I present.

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