Malachi Against Divorce, Ezra Requiring Divorce and the Samaritan Schism

[Pyreaux]

The Levitical Priestly Scribe of the Deuteronomic Law of Moses, Ezra returns 75 years to Jerusalem from Babylonian exile in 539 B.C. with his small priestly band of 38 priests, with Persian money forces the people of the land out of Jerusalem, and for every Israelite to divorce any non-Israelite wives and for every Levitical Temple Priest to divorce their foreign wives and disown their children or else they could no longer eat to holy temple bread (Ezra 9-10). They violated Deuteronomic law (Deut 23:1-4), even though prophets have said foreigners should have a place in the temple (Isa 56:3-8). Those who did not divorce regrouped in Sameria, becoming "impure" Israelites, the Samaritans. The Prophet Malachi, whose book is pushed to the back of the Bible for some reason, even though he seems to be directly responding to Ezra's actions. Ezra's reformed Levitical Temple Priesthood had new and impure doctrinal temple practices, so irredeemable that the Gentiles are fated to usurp the Temple Priesthood and offer pure Temple offerings (such as the bread sacraments). That we all have one Father, God, and so Ezra's mass divorces were unnecessary and wrong (Malachi 2:16).

Interestingly, Christ's first preached to a Samaritan woman as an Israelite (as compared to what he told the Canaanite woman), and also forbid divorce despite the Law of Moses (Mark 10:9), claimed a priest without Levitical lineage and sent Paul to the Gentiles where he feed them Temple bread as a holy communion. The Whore of Babylon sitting on the Temple's Many Waters is a foreign spirit the Jews that came from Babylon brought into the Temple, fated to be attacked and burned down by Rome, the Ten-headed Dragon. Ezra was enforcing the Law according to books he himself scribed from memory and recodified. It seems like the Book of Malachi, The Samaritan Secret Book of Moses, the Book of Enoch's apocalyptic histories, the Book of Revelations and even the Quran condemns the Jews that returned from Babylon were altering the Book of Allah.

But then again Ezra has a book in a supposedly divinely protected text, the Holy Bible. Who but a prophet can truly say. So, how do you reconcile Malachi and Ezra?

Edited December 18, 2022 by Pyreaux

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5 minutes ago, Pyreaux said:

The Levitical Priestly Scribe of the Deuteronomic Law of Moses, Ezra returns 75 years to Jerusalem from Babylonian exile in 539 B.C. with his small priestly band of 38 priests, with Persian money forces the people of the land out of Jerusalem, and for every Israelite to divorce any non-Israelite wives and for every Levitical Temple Priest to divorce their foreign wives and disown their children or else they could no longer eat to holy temple bread (Ezra 9-10). They violated Deuteronomic law (Deut 23:1-4), even though prophets have said foreigners should have a place in the temple (Isa 56:3-8). Those who did not divorce regrouped in Sameria, becoming "impure" Israelites, the Samaritans. The Prophet Malachi, whose book is pushed to the back of the Bible for some reason, even though he seems to be directly responding to Ezra's actions. Ezra's reformed Levitical Temple Priesthood had new and impure doctrinal temple practices, so irredeemable that the Gentiles are fated to usurp the Temple Priesthood and offer pure Temple offerings (such as the bread sacraments). That we all have one Father, God, and so Ezra's mass divorces were unnecessary and wrong (Malachi 2:16).

Interestingly, Christ's first preached to a Samaritan woman as an Israelite (as compared to what he told the Canaanite woman), and also forbid divorce despite the Law of Moses (Mark 10:9), claimed a priest without Levitical lineage and sent Paul to the Gentiles where he feed them Temple bread as a holy communion. The Whore of Babylon sitting on the Temple's Many Waters is a foreign spirit the Jews that came from Babylon brought into the Temple, fated to be attacked and burned down by Rome, the Ten-headed Dragon. Ezra was enforcing the Law according to books he himself scribed from memory and recodified. It seems like the Book of Malachi, The Samaritan Secret Book of Moses, the Book of Enoch's apocalyptic histories, the Book of Revelations and even the Quran condemns the Jews that returned from Babylon were altering the Book of Allah.

But Ezra has a Book in the Bible. So, how do you reconcile Malachi and Ezra?

They actually kind of seem to agree to me.  It seems like they are both saying that marrying outside of the covenant is not acceptable.

[Pyreaux]

Even if it was a sound doctrine moving forward, I don't know if promoting an immoral act of divorce was the only moral way to fix the issue. 

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6 minutes ago, Pyreaux said:

Even if it was a sound doctrine moving forward, I don't know if promoting an immoral act of divorce was the only moral way to fix the issue. 

Is divorce always immoral?

[Pyreaux]

Unless there is abuse, yes. Ideally marriages are forever.

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14 minutes ago, Pyreaux said:

Ideally marriages are forever.

Watch out for that massive wall of reality ! 

[Pyreaux]

Which is why I said "Ideally", such are Christ's ideals.

It seems to be a unilateral action based on a possibly outdated interpretation of a book with questionable origins by a Scribe than a modern inspiration of a Prophet that seems to condemn this Scribe's actions. There are a lot of clashing ideologies in Deuteronomic law, Ezra's Second Temple regime with what the twelve Prophets and Christ taught.

Edited December 18, 2022 by Pyreaux

[CV75]

1 hour ago, Pyreaux said:

The Levitical Priestly Scribe of the Deuteronomic Law of Moses, Ezra returns 75 years to Jerusalem from Babylonian exile in 539 B.C. with his small priestly band of 38 priests, with Persian money forces the people of the land out of Jerusalem, and for every Israelite to divorce any non-Israelite wives and for every Levitical Temple Priest to divorce their foreign wives and disown their children or else they could no longer eat to holy temple bread (Ezra 9-10). They violated Deuteronomic law (Deut 23:1-4), even though prophets have said foreigners should have a place in the temple (Isa 56:3-8). Those who did not divorce regrouped in Sameria, becoming "impure" Israelites, the Samaritans. The Prophet Malachi, whose book is pushed to the back of the Bible for some reason, even though he seems to be directly responding to Ezra's actions. Ezra's reformed Levitical Temple Priesthood had new and impure doctrinal temple practices, so irredeemable that the Gentiles are fated to usurp the Temple Priesthood and offer pure Temple offerings (such as the bread sacraments). That we all have one Father, God, and so Ezra's mass divorces were unnecessary and wrong (Malachi 2:16).

Interestingly, Christ's first preached to a Samaritan woman as an Israelite (as compared to what he told the Canaanite woman), and also forbid divorce despite the Law of Moses (Mark 10:9), claimed a priest without Levitical lineage and sent Paul to the Gentiles where he feed them Temple bread as a holy communion. The Whore of Babylon sitting on the Temple's Many Waters is a foreign spirit the Jews that came from Babylon brought into the Temple, fated to be attacked and burned down by Rome, the Ten-headed Dragon. Ezra was enforcing the Law according to books he himself scribed from memory and recodified. It seems like the Book of Malachi, The Samaritan Secret Book of Moses, the Book of Enoch's apocalyptic histories, the Book of Revelations and even the Quran condemns the Jews that returned from Babylon were altering the Book of Allah.

But then again Ezra has a book in a supposedly divinely protected text, the Holy Bible. Who but a prophet can truly say. So, how do you reconcile Malachi and Ezra?

My take is that Ezra was requiring his people to put away illegitimate marriages, Malachi was decrying “treacherous” divorce (both of these were in line with Mosaic Law), and Jesus was standing behind the higher law for this world found in Adam and Eve’s marriage, which everyone seemed to acknowledge conceptually all along.

Edited December 18, 2022 by CV75