THE ANCIENT PRACTICE OF PLURAL MARRIAGE, Chapter 7 of Jesus was Married

THE ANCIENT PRACTICE OF PLURAL MARRIAGE, Chapter 7 of Jesus was Married 

Pages 52 to 78

Jesus defended and honored His lineage through the grand patriarch Abraham. Is it possible that Jesus would sustain the life of that great prophet, but not the laws and principles that made him great? Throughout the ministry of Jesus and His disciples there is not one word of denunciation against the principle of marriage or plural marriage. Certainly they were aware of such scriptures in the Old Testament as, “If he take him another wife, her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.” (Exodus 21:10) Yet He made no change in these instructions. Rather he advocated men to “do the works of Abraham” to be worthy of being Abraham’s seed.

It is not presumptuous to assume that Jesus had lived plural marriage—it had always been a law among the prophets of Israel. Jesus was to obey those laws—not to destroy them—but to show mankind how to live a fullness of all of the laws of God and the Gospel. His answer to Satan when tempted was “to live by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God;”

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