QUESTIONS on Divorce and Re-marriage

Hi Victor,

Hi Keith,

I visited your website and I was blessed by it. I do have two  questions and I'd appreciate it if you could provide me with scripturally sound answers:

1) Deuteronomy 24:4 prohibited a divorced and remarried woman from returning to her first husband, because such a woman had been "defiled". Is this prohibition still applicable today? Is it scripturally okay today for a divorced and remarried woman to return to her first husband in cases where the divorce was unscriptural?

I ask this question because there are believers today who say that a divorced and remarried woman/man should remain in their current marriage and not attempt to return to their first mates because such return is prohibited by Deuteronomy 24:4.

Others, however, argue that any unscriptural divorce and remarriage constitutes an act of ongoing adultery and, therefore, the divorced and remarried individual must quit the adulterous relationship and either return to his/her first mate or remain single.

I find the use of the word "defiled" in Deut. 24 very significant. The reason given for the prohibition of return of the remarried wife to her first husband is that she has been "defiled" by her marriage to the second husband. This suggests sexual defilement at the hands of the second husband.

What exactly does the Bible teach in such matters? In view of the prohibition of return to the first husband imposed on a divorced and remarried woman in Deuteronomy 24:4, is it biblically correct for a divorced and remarried person to return to their first (former) spouse?

***We  must  understand  the  whole  context  of  marriage  and  divorce  as  under  Moses  or  the  Old  Covenant.  It  was  relatively  easy  to  get  a  divorce;  God  ALLOWED  pretty  easy  divorce  under  the  Old  Covenant.  Jesus  ran  into  this  question  with  the  Pharisees  in  Matt. 19:7,8.  Now  because  God  allowed  easy  divorce  He  had  to  put  some  kind  of  "breaks"  on  the  rolling  out  of  it  all.  If  there  was  not  some  kind  of  "breaking  system"  on  easy  [for  just  about  anything,  as  one  school  of  the  Pharisees  taught;  Jesus  in  Mat.19  seeming  to  agree]  divorce,  or  you  could  soon  see  how  crazy  it  could  become;  one  minute  getting  a  divorce  for  something  simple,  then  deciding  "well  it  wasn't  too  bad  really"  and  getting  re-married  to  the  same  woman.  Go  one  step  further,  later  she  is  divorced  again  for  a  simple  matter,  the  man  marries  another  woman,  gets  divorced  from  her,  and  decides  the  first  woman  was  better,  so  marries  her  again;  then  she  upsets  him  in  some  way  and  he  divorces  her  again,  and  decides  the  second  woman  is  better  and  re-marries  her  once  more.  I  mean  you  could  go  on  and  on  with  half  a  dozen  women  getting  married  and  divorced  and  married  again..... going  on  among  4  or  5  or  6  women,  back  and  forth.  The  whole  thing  would  be  a  travesty  and  a  complete  huge  ridiculous  game  of  marriage  and  divorce,  marriage  and  divorce  among  the  same  women.  It  would  if  not  so  serious  a  matter  be  a  huge  laughable  joke.

So  God  allowing  easy  divorce [which  Jesus  did  away  with  under  the  New  Covenant]  had  to,  needed  to,  put  a  law  in  it  that  would  not  turn  it  into  a  three-ring-circus.  

Now  under  the  New  Covenant,  such  a  law  is  not  needed.  First  divorce  Jesus  brought  back  to  NOT  being  so  easy  and  just  for  every  little  thing [the  subject  is  covered  in-depth  in  my  study  called  "Divorce  and Re-marriage"  on  my  website].  Second,  we  are  in  different  times;  Israel  was  a  nation [supposed  to  be  anyway]  under  God - State  and  Religion  was  NOT  separate  but  one  government  under  God's  laws  and  rules.  So  today  we  have  very  many  different  situations  to  apply  divorce  and  re-marriage.  Okay,  example:  Two  people  marry,  both  non-religious;  then  later  one  becomes  converted  and  accepts  Christ  as  personal  Savior.  The  other  mate  does  not  and  wants  a  divorce.  The  divorce  happens.  They  both  go  their  separate  ways.  Keeping  it  simple [could  be more  involved  in  certain  ways]  they  both  remain  single [for  whatever  reasons]  then  5  years  later  the  non-religious  one  ALSO  becomes  converted  and  accepts  Christ  as  personal  Savior.  By  some  chance  the  two  meet  again,  and  a  courtship  and  falling  in  love  with  each  other  starts  once  more.  YES,  they  can  under  the  New  Covenant  marry  AGAIN.  

The  various  situations  could  be  endless  under  a  New  Covenant  where  God's  people  are  not  a  nation  but  individuals.

We  have  moved  from  a  nation  under  God,  and  easy  divorce  being  allowed  as  Jesus  said  in  Mat.  19  for  the  hardness  of  the  heart;  to  a  New  Covenant  that  is  God's  people  as  individuals  and  not  a  nation  as  Old  Israel  was.  The  whole  spectrum  of  divorce  and  re-marriage  has  changed  from  as  under  the  Old  Covenant  to  as  under  the  New  Covenant.

2) My second question has to do with people who got divorced when they were unbelievers. If a person gets an unscriptural divorce as an unbeliever and then he or she latter becomes a believer (saved), is he permitted to remarry? I have seen this type of teaching by a Church and I find no biblical evidence to support it.

***This  is  I  believe  explained  in  my  in-depth  study  on  Divorce  and  Re-marriage. But  whatever  is  done  as  an  un-believer,  when  you  become  a  converted  Christian,  all  the  past  mistakes,  errors,  sins,  is  washed  away.  You  have  a  clean  slate;  you  now  have  a  fresh  start.  Hence  that  person  who  in  your  story  above  is  divorced,  then  they  are  divorced,  they  are  single,  they  have  a  clean  slate,  a  new  fresh  start.  If  not  the  silly  ideas  of  having  to  live  single  for  the  rest  of  your  life;  or  trying  to  find  your  once  mate  and  converting  them  to  Christianity...... well  the  ramifications  of  all  that  just  would  blow  your  mind.  I  go  into  it  somewhat  with  examples  in  my  study  on  Divorce  and  Re-marriage.

Please  read  my  in-depth  study  slowly  and  carefully,  and  I  believe  all  answers  on  divorce  and  re-marriage  you'll  find  answered;  maybe  your  first  question  was  not,  but  it  is  now  in  my  reply.

Keith

NEWS ABOUT PLANET PLUTO

FOR  SOME  TIME..... WELL  ABOUT  16  MONTHS  THEY  SAY,  WE  SHALL  BE  GETTING  INFORMATION  ON  PLUTO.

NOW  WE  ALREADY  KNOW   THAT  TEMPERATURES  ON  MARS  CAN  RANGE  FROM  -35  TO  -70  OR  SO  -- 
THAT  IS  COLD!

PLUTO  IS  OUR  FURTHEST  PLANET [IF  LIKE  ME  YOU  STILL  CONSIDER  IT  A  PLANET]  OUT  FROM  US.

WHICH  WOULD  THEN  MAKE  9  PLANETS  IN  OUR  SOLAR  SYSTEM.

WELL  A  PLANET  OR  NOT,  JUST  IMAGINE  HOW  COLD  IT  MUST  BE  ON  LITTLE  GUY  PLUTO.....

SO  FAR  THEY  HAVE  NOT  ANNOUNCED  IN  ANY  OPEN  PUBLIC  WAY THE  TEMPERATURE  ON  THE  SURFACE  OF  PLUTO.

MAYBE  THEY  JUST  DO  NOT  WANT  TO  SCARE  PEOPLE  OFF  FROM  THE  NEWS  AND  INFORMATION,  THAT  WILL  COME  ABOUT  PLUTO  OVER  THE  NEXT 16  MONTHS.

SHOULD  BE  FASCINATING  AND  HOPEFULLY  BE  SOME  BOOKS  PUBLISHED  ON  THE  LITTLE  FELLOW,  SO  FAR  AWAY  FROM  US,  YET  PART  OF  US.

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DEAL WITH IRAN ???

WELL  A  10  YEAR  OR  SO  DEAL  WITH  IRAN  HAS  BEEN  SIGNED!

IRAN  IS  TO  PUT  ON  HOLD  ITS  DEVELOPMENT  OF  NUCLEAR  ARMS.

IT  GETS  CERTAIN  SANCTIONS  LIFTED;  HOPEFULLY  FOR  THE  AVERAGE  IRANIAN  A  BETTER  PHYSICAL  LIFE.

THE  WORLD,  OR  THE  WESTERN  WORLD  IN  THE  MAIN  GIVES  A  SIGH  OF  RELIEF  OVER  THIS  DEAL.

I'VE  TOLD  YOU  BEFORE  AND  WILL  TELL  YOU  AGAIN  NOW,  IN  BIBLE  PROPHECY  IRAN  PLAYS  NO  MAJOR  ROLE.  BE  IT  BY  SOME  "TREATY"  OR  NOT,  IRAN  IS  NO  THREAT  TO  THE  WORLD  FOR  A  NUCLEAR  WAR,  OR  FOR  THE  3RD  WORLD  WAR!

IT  IS  NOT  IRAN  WHO  WILL  BRING  IN  THE  3RD  WORLD  WAR,  BUT  A  POWER  THE  WORLD  TODAY  DOES  NOT  EVEN  CONSIDER  ANY  KIND  OF  A  THREAT  TO  WORLD  PEACE.

THERE  IS  MUCH  TO  YET  MOVE  AND  SHAKE  IN  WORLD  POLITICS,  AND  EMPIRE  BUILDING.

ALL  EXPLAINED  TO  YOU  IN  DETAIL  ON  MY  WEBSITE,  UNDER  "PROPHECY"  -  THE  ETERNAL  GOD  HAS  SPOKEN,  AND  SO  IT  WILL  COME  TO  PASS,  AS  HE  HAS  SAID,  IN  HIS  TIME.

WE  CAN  BUT  JUST  WATCH  THE  SIGNS  AS  THEY  UNFOLD,  TO  LEAD  US  TO  THE  LAST  3  AND  1/2  YEARS  OF  THIS  AGE,  AND  THEN  THE  COMING  OF  CHRIST  JESUS  BACK  TO  EARTH,  TO  ESTABLISH  THE  KINGDOM  OF  GOD  OVER  ALL  NATIONS,  AND  BRING  IN  THE  RESTITUTION  OF  ALL  THINGS.
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OLD PLANET PLUTO..... NASA PAYDAY!

SO  WITH  SCIENTISTS  AND  PEOPLE  STILL  WANTING  TO  SAY  OLD  PLANET  PLUTO,  IS  STILL  A  PLANET,  NASA  HITS  PAY  DAY.

THE  LITTLE  GUY  WITH  CAMERA  SENT  FROM  EARTH  YEARS  AGO,  HAS  FINALLY  REACHED  PLANET  PLUTO.

THE  IMAGES  OF  TINY  PLUTO  WILL  NO  DOUBT  BE  RECEIVED  WITH  FULL  EXCITEMENT.

WE  SHALL  KNOW  MORE  ABOUT  PLUTO  THAN  EVER  IN  THE  PAST;  I  MEAN  WE  SHALL  REALLY  SEE  THINGS  ABOUT  THIS  LITTLE  GUY.

SO  YES  TO  ME [AND  MANY  OTHERS]  THIS  PLUTO  IS  STILL  A  PLANET.... OUR  NINTH  IN  OUR  SOLAR  SYSTEM.... HUMMM.... ADDS  UP  TO  THE  9  FRUITS  OF  THE  SPIRIT  THAT  PAUL  GAVE  US  IN  GALATIANS  5: 22,23.

AND  I'LL  STILL  BE  ABLE  TO  SAY  ABOUT  SOME  IDEAS  OF  THEOLOGY  AND  THE  PEOPLE  EXPOUNDING THEM,  "THEY  ARE  WAY  OUT,  EVEN  FROM  PLANET  PLUTO."
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MEDICALLY....GET A SECOND OPINION !!!

A  CLASSIC  EXAMPLE  TONIGHT  ON  ABC  NEWS.....

A  DOCTOR  OVER  TIME  TELLS  OVER  500  PEOPLE  [I THINK  ALL  WOMEN]  THEY  HAVE  CANCER!!

HE  EARNS  17  MILLION  DOLLARS  FROM  IT!

NONE  OF  THEM  HAD  CANCER!

SOME  WENT  THROUGH  MANY  CHEMO-THERAPIES.

A  FEW  WENT  TO  ANOTHER  DOCTOR  FOR  A  SECOND  OPINION...... THEY  WERE  TOLD  THEY  WERE  PERFECTLY  HEALTHY!

WHEN  IT  COMES  TO  MEDICAL  THINGS  AND  YOUR  HEALTH....... FOR  GOODNESS  SAKE  GET  A  SECOND  OR  THIRD  OPINION!!

TONIGHT'S  NEWS  SHOWS  YOU  A  SAD  CLASSIC  EXAMPLE  OF  NOT  GETTING  A  SECOND  OPINION!!
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A  NEW  BOOK  JUST  OUT  THIS  YEAR  OF  2015  CALLED...

"THE  BRAIN'S  WAY  OF  HEALING  -  Remarkable  Discoveries  and  Recoveries  from  the  Frontiers  of  Neuroplasticity"

From  Norman  Doidge, M.D.  author  of  "The  Brain  that  Changes  Itself"

IT  IS  INDEED  VERY  REVEALING,  ESPECIALLY  MAYBE TO  THE  WESTERN  MEDICAL  SCIENCE,  BUT  IT  ALL  IS  DOCUMENTED  TRUTH.

FOR  A  READ  OF  THE  FIRST  PAGES  HERE'S  MY  LINK  TO  MY  WEBSITE

http://www.keithhunt.com/Brainshealing.html

IT  IS  A  BOOK  ANYONE  INTERESTED  IN  HEALTH  SHOULD  READ;  TELL  OTHERS  ABOUT;  GIVE  A  COPY TO  SOMEONE  YOU  KNOW  WHO  MAY  BENEFIT  FROM  ITS  KNOWLEDGE.
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THE BENEFIT OF.....WHEY PROTEIN...DR. MERCOLA

This  is  not  a  new  fact;  I  remember  reading  about  the  benefits  of  "whey,"  way  back  in  the  "health  books"  in  the  1950s  -  Keith Hunt

High-Quality Whey Can Boost Exercise Benefits and Help Optimize Your Health and Longevity

July 10, 2015 | 

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By Dr. Mercola

As you age, your body gradually loses its ability to produce critical amino acids—the essential proteins you need for energy production, immune function, and muscle building.

Your need for these amino acids also increases in times of high physical stress, like after a workout or when recovering from injury or illness.

High-quality whey protein contains all the essential amino acids, and has the highest protein quality rating among all proteins to boot, making it a valuable food for health, longevity, and fitness.

Whey protein is a by-product of the cheese manufacturing process. At one time it was discarded or used for animal feed, but researchers later discovered it had some really significant health benefits. As noted in the featured article:¹

“Dr. Gustavo Bounous at Canada’s McGill University... discovered that mice fed a whey concentrate [editor’s note: not whey isolate] saw improved immunity to disease. The star player in whey’s immune-boosting power was found to be an antioxidant called glutathione.

In the 1980s, researchers discovered glutathione to be an essential component for cell development and for clearing toxins from the body.

Glutathione is so important to health that a lack of it can lead to premature aging, heart disease, cataracts, macular degeneration, multiple sclerosis, infertility, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, autism, chronic fatigue, cancer, and other diseases.”

Whey is also a dietary “star player” that can help you optimize your fitness potential when consumed at the right time before and/or after strength training and high intensity exercise.

Whey—An Ideal Source of Glutathione

Glutathione has been referred to as “the master antioxidant.” It’s a tripeptide found inside every single cell in your body, and is an important ingredient for optimal health and longevity.

Glutathione is different from other antioxidants in that it is intracellular. It has the unique ability of maximizing the activity of all the other antioxidants, including vitamins C and E, CoQ10, alpha lipoic acid, and the fresh veggies and fruits you (hopefully) eat every day.

It also helps remove toxins from your cells and protects you from the damaging effects of radiation, chemicals, and environmental pollutants.

It’s not surprising then that glutathione supplementation has gained in popularity, but most oral glutathione supplements tend to be poorly absorbed, and hence a waste of money.

Even worse, glutathione supplements may actually interfere with your body’s own glutathione production.

Your body is programmed to self-produce glutathione, and synthetic supplementation signals your body to stop its own production – which leaves you dependent on synthetic supplementation.

Fortunately, there are natural ways to boost your body’s glutathione reserves by optimizing your body’s ability to produce it naturally. Foods rich in sulfur-containing amino acids are usually the best sources of glutathione, and one of the best in this category is high-quality whey protein.

It provides all the key amino acids for glutathione production (cysteine, glycine and glutamate) and contains a unique cysteine residue (glutamylcysteine) that is highly bioactive in its affinity for converting to glutathione.

It also provides critical co-factors (immunoglobulins, lactoferrin, and alpha Lactalbumin), which together help create the right metabolic environment for high glutathione activity.

The Many Health Benefits of Whey Protein

Whey protein has undergone extensive study, revealing an impressive array of benefits, as discussed in an article by Authority Nutrition.²

Being a high-quality, easily digestible protein, it’s an ideal complement to strength training and high intensity interval training (HIIT), promoting muscle growth and human growth hormone production (HGH). Studies show whey consumption may also:

• Help lower blood pressure if you’re overweight and/or hypertensive³
• Support normal blood sugar levels and boost insulin sensitivity in type 2 diabetics⁴
• Reduce inflammation,⁵ including inflammation associated with inflammatory bowel disease.⁶ In the latter case, researchers have suggested its protective actions may be the result of the stimulation of intestinal mucin synthesis and modification of microflora composition
• Help normalize your weight. Not only is whey protein very filling, thereby reducing hunger pangs,^7,8,9 it also boosts metabolism,¹⁰ allowing you to burn more calories, and helps maintain muscle mass while shedding excess fat stores¹¹

Boosting Your Fitness with Whey

While conventional recommendations call for “loads of protein” to build and maintain muscle, most Americans already consume three to five times more protein than they actually need. What’s worse, the vast majority of it is inferior-quality protein, such as meats from animals raised in confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs).

Eating too much low-quality protein can lead to elevated blood sugar and weight gain, and may even stimulate cancer cell growth, so quality and quantity are two key considerations when it comes to protein. As a general rule, I recommend limiting your protein to about one-half gram of high-quality protein per pound of lean body mass, which for most is 40 to 70 grams a day. Pregnant women and heavy exercisers typically need about 25 percent more.

That said, after strength training exercises, your body needs protein in order to build muscle. Whey protein assimilates very quickly and will get to your muscles within 10-15 minutes of swallowing it, supplying your muscles with the right food at the right time to stop the catabolic process in your muscle and shift the process toward repair and growth.¹²

There’s a crucial window of time in which this needs to be done—typically within one hour of exercise. One of the reasons whey protein concentrate works so well is that it has the highest concentration of any food of the amino acid leucine, which is typically the rate limiting protein element for muscle building. 

A study published in the journal Medicine and Science in Sports & Exercise¹³ showed that leucine and other amino acids found in high-quality whey protein activate cellular pathways, including a mechanism called mTORC-1, which in turn promote muscle protein synthesis, boost thyroid, and also protect against declining testosterone levels after exercise.

Other research¹⁴ has demonstrated that consuming whey protein (20g protein/serving) 30 minutes before resistance training helps boost your body's metabolism for as much as 24 hours after your workout.  In practical terms, consuming 20 grams of whey protein before exercise and another serving afterward (within one hour of finishing your workout) will likely yield the double benefit of increasing both fat burning and muscle build-up at the same time.

Avoid Sugar Before and After Exercise

After an intense workout, there's an exercise recovery phase of two to three hours during which you have to be somewhat careful about what foods you choose to eat. Fructose (typically found in the form of high fructose corn syrup) is particularly detrimental during this phase, as it tricks your body into gaining weight by turning off your body's appetite-control system, and promotes insulin resistance.

Fructose has also been shown to increase the levels of TNF-α, a pro-inflammatory cytokine known to inhibit fat burning and promote muscle wasting—the complete converse of what you’re trying to achieve through your workout. Moreover, if you’re doing high intensity interval exercises with the aim of promoting the release of human growth hormone (HGH), sugar/fructose will effectively make you forfeit this benefit...

In the end, it’s important to realize that what you eat can either add to or detract from your exercise benefits, and if you're devoting the time to exercise for health and longevity, you'd be well advised to harness your meals to support your goals. So, if you’re seeking to improve your body composition and optimize health and fitness, remember to ditch the energy drinks, sports drinks, most energy bars and even "healthy" drinks like vitamin water, as these will effectively sabotage your efforts. To rehydrate, all you really need is pure water.

Choosing the Right Whey

When it comes to whey, you need to be very careful in your selection. A majority of the whey products on the market are of inferior quality and will not provide the health benefits associated with high-quality whey. Below is a quick reference chart of what to look for and what to avoid.

High quality whey is typically more expensive than lower quality whey products and I believe it's well worth the investment. However, if you can't afford high quality whey, your next-best option is raw dairy products, such as raw milk or raw milk cheese. (To find a source selling raw dairy near you, check out www.RealMilk.com.)

High-Quality Whey Products to Look For	Whey Products to Avoid
Whey protein concentrate: High quality whey protein concentrates have glutamylcysteine, the major precursor to glutathione.	Whey protein isolates. All whey protein isolates are devoid of nutritional co-factors including alkalizing minerals, naturally occurring vitamins, and lipids, which are lost in the processing. Additionally once the fat has been removed from whey protein isolate, you lose some of the most important components of its immunological properties, such as phospholipids, phosphatidylserine, and CLA.
Cold pressed, minimally processed, derived from unpasteurized (raw) milk from grass fed cows; water soluble, and highly digestible—look for medium chain fatty acids (MCTs), not long chain fatty acids.	Whey proteins derived from ultrapasteurized milk and/or processed using acid. Heat and acid damages the protein and makes it insoluble in water. This is one of the key ways to differentiate high quality whey protein from inferior ones.
Certified organic and naturally sweetened, with a rich, creamy, full flavor, free of hormones, chemicals, and sugar	Products containing genetically modified soy lecithin, polysorbate 80, propylene glycol, ethoxylated mono-diglycerides, maltodextrin, caseinates, hydrolyzed proteins (MSG in disguise), sugar and/or artificial sweeteners like aspartame and sucralose.