Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet
In most of the world a woman can go to court and divorce her husband.
In the Bible there is no such possibility. In both OT and NT, women did not have "right" to divorce. A woman could leave her husband but there was no such thing as a woman divorcing her husband according to law of Bible.
Which way do you want to live today? By Bible or by world?
When you make decisions for your life, do you consider Bible ... Is this approved by Bible?
In our little church group, a man mentioned that he had filed divorce suit against his wife. He had gone to lawyer and done this. The minute I heard of this, I asked him this question: "Was your wife unfaithful?"
He replied that his wife had never been unfaithful to him.
In New Testament the only grounds for a man to divorce his wife that I know of is her being sexually unfaithful to him.
After hearing this, this man dropped all worldly legal proceedings against his wife and stopped the worldly divorce.
We have to consider what we are doing on this earth. Is what we are doing right in the sight of God? You might do something approved in the worldly courts of law and not be doing that which is approved by God with examples in NT.
There was no "right to divorce" for women in OT or NT. A woman could not divorce her husband. But she could leave her husband. However she could not remarry after leaving her husband.
Paul says the following is a "commandment" of the Lord for the NT church.
I Cor. 7 ... 10 And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:11 But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband:and let not the husband put away his wife.
The rules of this world change based on the various times of life, generations of man ... But the rules set up for us by God, showing us in the Bible do not change. And we see no example at all in NT of a woman being able to file divorce and "put away her husband."
So we of the church, need to choose to go by that ... by rules set forth in Bible. The world can do what it wants to do. We need to do what was shown the church by the Bible and the apostles of the Bible. This is our rule.
It does not matter what the world says. What does the Bible say, should be our measure for our lives.
This is true in all things.
In 1985, I moved to a small town where my mother and other relatives lived. Two women were going out to decorate graves on the worldly holiday the USA calls, "Memorial Day." These women were Baptist. (both are dead now) I was horrified to think a Christian was going to be doing a pagan act such as visiting graves and decorating graves. Of course, I told them this. One of the women, said it just made her feel better.
Why would you do such as thing? What are you saying by decorating graves? What is your testimony concerning God when you do this? These are questions we should consider.
What does God have to say about that which we are about to do?
This should be our consideration.
Isaiah 65 ... 2 I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people,
which walketh in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts;
3 A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick;
4 Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments,
The people who die are asleep. When the Lord comes, those who belong to HIM will be awakened and rise to meet Jesus in the air. In the meantime, they sleep. They don't know what you are doing so certainly it doesn't benefit them for you to visit the place occupied by their dead bodies. And how does it benefit you as a Christian. Focus instead on the resurrection of the dead in Christ.
I Thess. 4 ... Paul says ... 13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep (dead), that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. 14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God:and the dead in Christ shall rise first:17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air:and so shall we ever be with the Lord. 18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
We should think about those things we are doing on this earth and how that fits into Bible.