Isaiah – The fifth Hebrew gospel – Chapter 50

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Isa. 50:1 Thus saith יהוה, Where is the bill of your mother’s divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.

Rom 7;1 Or are you ignorant, brothers; for I speak to those who know the Law (what law are we speaking of here? The whole body of the written law); that the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives?

The only way Paul’s readers are going to comprehend the next part of his letter is if they have a good working knowledge of the whole body of Torah.

He’s now going to use ‘the law of the husband’ – contained within the corpus of the BoL to explain the mystery of the divided kingdom of Israel, the subsequent adulteries of the N&S Kingdom and finally YHWH’s divorce of the N. Kingdom.

He’s then going to present Yahusha death and burial as the solution to an adulterous, divided and divorced Israel and his resurrection as the reunification of a marriage of undying love. 

2 For the woman who has a husband is bound by the law (BoL ruling on marriage – Deut 24, that part of the Torah that deals with rights and duties of the husband – BoL) to her husband so long as he lives; but if the husband is dead, she is loosed from the law(BoL ruling of Deut 24.) of her husband.

• V.2 – ’Gamos’/‘marriage’  Versus ‘hupandros gune’/‘married woman.’

• ‘Gamos’ is the common word for marriage used in the Brit, whereas Paul uses ‘gune hupandros’, its only usage in the NT to communicate, ‘under a burden’, or ‘under bondage – literally: ‘a woman under a husband.’

• In Num 5:20/LXX we find the same word used to describe a wife’s unfaithfulness and adultery ‘hup andros’ – a woman who’s gone a whoring; astray from her husband. 

3 So then if, while her husband lives, she is married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband is dead, she is free from the law (BoL ruling, she can’t be an adulteress if her husband dies, she’s free to marry another man) of her husband; so that she is not an adulteress, though she gets married to another man. 

Num 5:11…And יהוה spoke to Moses, saying, 12 Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, If any man’s wife goes astray, and has committed a trespass against him, 13 and a man lie with her carnally, and if it is hidden from the eyes of her husband and is kept hidden, and she is defiled, and there is no witness against her, neither is she taken in the act; 14 and if the spirit of jealousy comes upon him and he is jealous of his wife, and she is defiled— or if the spirit of jealousy comes upon him and he is jealous of his wife, and she is not defiled—15 then the man shall bring his wife to the priest. And he shall bring her offering for her, the tenth of an ephah of barley meal. He shall pour no oil upon it, nor put frankincense on it, for it is an offering of jealousy, a reminding offering, bringing iniquity to mind. 16 And the priest shall bring her near and set her before יהוה .17 And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel. And the priest shall take of the dust that is in the floor of the tabernacle and put it into the water.

18 And the priest shall set the woman before Jehovah, and uncover the woman’s head, and put the reminding offering in her hands, which is the jealousy offering. And the priest shall have in his hand the bitter water that causes the curse.

19 And the priest shall charge her by an oath, and say to the woman, If no man has lain with you, and if you have not gone aside to uncleanness, being under your husband, you are free from this bitter water that causes the curse. 20 But if you have gone aside, being under your husband, and if you are defiled and some man besides your husband has given his semen to you, 21 then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing. And the priest shall say to the woman, Jehovah make you a curse and an oath among your people, when Jehovah makes your thigh to fall away and your belly to swell. 22 And this water that causes the curse shall go into your bowels to make your belly swell and your thigh fall away. And the woman shall say, Amen, amen. 23 And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out with the bitter water. 24 And he shall cause the woman to drink the bitter water that causes the curse. And the water that causes the curse shall enter into her and become bitter. 25 Then the priest shall take the jealousy offering out of the woman’s hand and shall wave the offering before יהוה, and offer it upon the altar. 26 And the priest shall take a handful of the offering, as a memorial of it, and burn it upon the altar, and afterward he shall cause the woman to drink the water. 27 And when he has made her drink the water, then it shall be, if she is defiled and has committed a trespass against her husband, the water that causes the curse shall enter into her and become bitter. And her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall fall away. And the woman shall be a curse among her people. 28 And if the woman is not defiled, but is clean, then she shall be clean, and shall conceive seed. 29 This is the law of jealousies when a woman goes aside, being under her husband, and is defiled. 30 Or when the spirit of jealousy comes on a man, and he is jealous over his wife, and shall set the woman before יהוה, and the priest shall execute upon her all this law.

Num 5:31 Then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity, and the woman shall bear her iniquity.

Jer 3:8 And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.

Jer 3:1 They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man’s, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith יהוה. 

Deut 24:1 When a man has taken a wife, and married her, and it comes to pass that she finds no favor in his eyes, because he has found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a Get, and put it in her hand, and send her out of his bayit.  2 And when she is departed out of his bayit, she may go and be another man’s wife. 3 And if the latter husband hates her, and writes her a Get, and puts it in her hand, and sends her out of his bayit; or if the latter husband dies, who took her to be his wife; 4 Her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after she is defiled; for that is abomination before vuvh:

How does יהוה solve this greatest of mysteries, because His prophecies speak of a restored kingdom? 

4 So you see, my Yisraelite brothers, you also have become dead to the law (BoL rulings) of the husband by the body of Moshiach; that you should be married to another, even to Him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit to vuvh. 

• The bridegroom died for his bride. This is the mystery of the gospel! 

Paradigm Shift is this:

• Dead to the BoL charge of adultery and later divorce NOT dead to the Torah as a whole written corpus.

• The dichotomy between the Torah in the heart and mind Vs. the law of sin and death in the flesh; NOT the false dichotomy of a battle between law and grace!

Isa. 50:10 Who among you fears יהוה, who obeys the voice of His servant, who walks in darkness and has no light? Let him trust in the name of יהוה and rest on his Elohim.

Matt 15:21 And יהושע went out from there and withdrew to the parts of Tsor and Tsiḏon.:22 And see, a woman of Kena‛an came from those borders and cried out to Him, saying, “Have compassion on me, O Master, Son of Dawiḏ! My daughter is badly demon-possessed.” 23 But He did not answer her a word. And His taught ones came and asked Him, saying, “Send her away, because she cries after us.” (Judah sends Ephraim away) 24 And He answering, said, “I was not sent except to the lost sheep (Shem-Tov and Peshita “prostituting”) of the house of Yisra’ěl. (two houses of Israel-Jacob’s flock) 25 But she came and was bowing to Him, saying, “Master, help me!” 26 And He answering, said, “It is not good to take the children’s bread and throw it to the little dogs.” (what does that mean, well children’s bread, Deut 8:3 “And He humbled you, and let you suffer hunger, and fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, to make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but by every Word that comes from the mouth of יהוה). It may often be wasted on the little dogs,the gentiles, it’s not good to take from the children of Israel unless requested by a gentile by faith and hearing. 27 But she said, “Yes Master, for even the little dogs eat the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table.” :28 And יהושע answering, said to her, “O woman, your belief is great! Let it be to you as you desire.” And her daughter was healed from that hour.