God Backs Up the Covenant of Marriage

^¹³"And this is the second thing you do: you cover the altar of the Lord with tears, with weeping and crying; so He does not regard the offering anymore, nor receive it with goodwill from your hands. ^¹⁴ Yet you say, "For what reason?" Because the Lord has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, with whom you have dealt treacherously; yet she is your companion and your covenant. ^¹⁶ "For the Lord God of Israel says that He hates divorce, for it covers one's garment with violence," says the Lord of hosts. "Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you do not deal treacherously."

When two people marry, God stands as a witness to the marriage, sealing it with the strongest possible word: covenant. "Covenant" speaks of faithfulness and enduring commitment. It stands like a divine sentinel over the marriage, for blessing or judgement.
Divorce is here described as violence. To initiate divorce does violence to God's intention for marriage and to the mate to whom one has been joined.
Yet, where husband and wife live according to their marriage vows, all the power of a covenant-keeping God stands behind them and their marriage What a confidence, to know that God backs up our marriage. His power and authority stand against every enemy that would violently threaten it from without or within.

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