Chapter 12.18
Incest
Incest
before the Law – The Law – The Law Defied
Exceptions
to the Law - Physical Deformities
Sex
with Mothers, Daughters, Sisters, Aunts
Sex
with Adopted Members of the family
Sexual union inescapable involves the whole person whether within or
outside of the marriage.
Marriage is a state in which a people can naturally fulfill their
respective Sexual roles.
First Word
SEX IS STRONG, it drives both
men and women to go against God’s commands.
Sometimes the passion is so great that you can’t escape it. Sometimes the drive for sex is so strong it
becomes RAPE. While
immoral behavior is only one of the Ten Commandments,[1] it
is by far one of the strongest; INCEST spins off unwanted
children, lies, emotional distress, broken families, disease, sickness,
physical disorders and sometimes murder.[2]
It’s a commandment; no sex outside
of marriage; your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, so therefore do not
dishonor God. SEX outside of marriage IS A SIN.[3]
THE BIG QUESTION: Can a brother marry his sister or
can a father marry his daughter?
The LAW
Defined
Wikipedia: Incest is sexual activity between
family members or close relatives. This
typically includes sexual activity between people in a consanguineous relationship (blood relations), and sometimes those
related by affinity, such as members
of the same household, step
relatives, those related by adoption or marriage, or members of the same clan or lineage.
Bible: Attempted marriage or SEX between closely related persons constituted a
capital crime therefore it required capital punishment; DEATH. The
Hebrew nation was called to a higher code of sexual ethics than their pagan
neighbors, the Hebrew word for Incest means “a mixing of
unnatural elements”.
Physical Deformities
Wikipedia says that a common justification given
for the incest taboo is the impact inbreeding may
have on children of incestuous sex, children whose biological parents have a
close genetic relationship have an
increased risk of congenital
disorders, disabilities and death due at least in part to genetic diseases caused by the
inbreeding.
The Egyptians interestingly enough thought that
marriages between brothers and sisters made the blood line stronger. Medical
science today shows that it can cause Down Syndrome,
mental impairment, stunted growth, shortened hands or neck, low muscle tone,
flat head, large tongue, abnormal teeth, abnormal ears, flattened nose, slanted
eyes, undescended testicles as well as congenital heart disease.
Albinism (white skin) results from inheritance of recessive
gene alleles, it’s a congenital disorder characterized by the complete or partial absence of pigment in the skin. In scripture it appears that when God gave His laws against incest[4]
that He already knew that children could have physical disorders through the inbreeding.
Incest LAW
The Incest LAW would include having SEX with your sister even if she is the child of
your mother from a previous marriage; it included Sex with Your Son’s Daughter,
your Father’s Sister, your Mother’s Sister, your Aunt, your Daughter in Law or your
Bothers Wife.[5] You cannot have sex with a woman and her
daughter nor a woman and her sister while they are both living.
Before
the Levitical Law was given there was obviously major incest
occurring during the time of Adam and Eve whose children intermarried with
their sisters, bothers, cousins and so forth, fulfilling the mandate
and COMMAND to be fruitful,
multiply and replenish the earth.[6] That
same mandate
and Command was passed along to Noah to be fruitful, multiply
and replenish the earth.[7] (NOTE: Adam was told
to RE-PLINISH the earth, SO could there have been life on earth
before Adam? … that’s another Word Study; the
Gap Theory.)
Adam begat his third son Seth when he was
a young man of only 130 and lived to be 930 years of age[8]
giving plenty of time to produce many extended family members for Cain to
choose from to marry. There are no
records of any daughters, as the recorded line of heritage was through the
Sons.
What COLOR was God? We see God as the same color that we are as
scripture says we were made in His image and likeness.[9] What Color was Adam before any genetic
disorders? What if Adam had BLACK skin and Eve had YELLOW skin and when
Cain killed Abel the mark[10]
that God placed on him was that he made his skin turn WHITE setting up the skin colors for the races. (That one is just for fun, it’s not in
the Bible … so don’t get upset.)
Sometimes it
does gives me pause to wonder, if in God’s plan, the inner marriages caused the
physical changes in skin colors and eventually the different races. Just a
thought.
In the Belief System of many students of the Word
and my BS
too; we believe that Noah’s three sons took wives from other nations before the
flood. (See the Word Study on the other nations; the
Races.)
Noah repopulated the
earth with three races;
Shem is the
progenitor of the “Semitic” peoples of the East. (White)
Japheth’s descendants are the inhabitants of Asia Minor and
the sea people. (Yellow)
Ham’s descendants
became the Egyptians, Canaanites and Africans. (Black)
The Law Defied
There
are recorded instances in the Bible where incest occurred between members of the same household or with step
relatives or those related by marriage, or were members of the same clan, which makes you
scratch your head and say “WHAT’S
GOING ON HERE”? The first one we
see is Lot, who was the grandson of Terah, Abraham’s Father.
1)
Lot’s
two daughters got him drunk on two different occasions and had
sex with him because there were no tribal men to marry to be able to preserve
and carry on their family line.[11]
2)
Abraham married Sarah
his sister who was the daughter of his father, but not the daughter of his
mother; it was his step sister.[12]
3)
Nahor the brother of
Abraham married his brother Haran’s daughter.[13]
4)
Ruben has sex with
his father Jacob’s wife and concubine.[14]
5)
Amram
married
his father’s sister, Jochebed.[15]
6)
Judah unknowingly had sex with Tamar his daughter in law.[16]
7)
Amnon rapes his Sister Tamar and then his passion turned to hate.[17]
8)
Absalom went in and had
sex with his father David’s concubines.[18]
9)
King
Herod took
his brother’s wife and married her.[19]
10)
Isaac marries Rebekah who was his near of kin.[20]
11)
Jacob although
tricked, married Sisters; Leah and Rachael.[21]
12) Rehoboam married his
cousin Mahalath.[22]
Noah’s Family “Affair”
Uncover the
Nakedness is
a polite term used in the Bible meaning to have SEX. In the Story of Noah; he had planted a vineyard
and made some wine out of the grapes and got drunk and was inside his tent
naked; (In my BS, I personally
think EVERYBODY
was drunk.)
It seems someone in the near family came
in and uncovered Noah’s nakedness.[23]
I realize some students of the Word BS is that this was the first act of HOMOSEXUALITY with Noah and had nothing to do with Mrs.
Noah at all, and I believed that too for a while.
In my BS, I believe scripture supports, that someone had
sex with Noah’s wife. Many students
believe the perpetrator was his son Ham and should have been put to death;[24] others
think it was not Ham, but Ham’s Son “Canaan”
who did the dirty. Noah’s reaction was NOT to curse his son Ham, but to curse his grandson Canaan.
NONE
OF THE ABOVE THOUGHTS ARE TOTALLY ACCURATE; in
our BS
we forget that Noah was not under the Mosaic Law, much less the Ten
Commandments; you
must read the Word Study “Noah Gets Drunk”; you will be stunned at what
actually happened, you will FREAK OUT when you find
out why Cannan
was cursed.
The Bereans were commended for being so OPEN MINDED and checking out everything that was
taught by Paul with scripture. It is so
important to have an open mind to new
thoughts as long as they are proven with scripture. My Belief System has
been changed many times by being open minded and reading
what other commentators have documented with scripture.
Acts 17:11 - The
people of Berea
were more OPEN-MINDED and searched
the Scriptures day after day to see if Paul and Silas were teaching the truth. NLT
The LAW
Exception
Levirate Marriage is the
exception to the rule of the intermarriage law and is where a surviving brother
marries the childless wife of a deceased brother.[25] Onan by law was supposed to marry Tamar
his dead brother’s wife and produce a child, but spilled his semen on the
ground so he would not have a child by her;[26] so God took his
life.
The Take Away
Incest and Sexual
immorality are not new temptations or something special to modern man, it’s been
around since creation and God has made His positon on it very clear. You GRIEVE the Holy Spirit[27] when you go
against God’s commands; they are placed there for your own good and the good of
your children and your children’s children.
Do not test God:[28] you DO have control over your own body[29]
and God will give you a way of escape from the temptation.[30] SEX IS STRONG and you have to WANT to
control it in order to subdue it; it all starts
in the imaginations of your mind.
Life is choice driven; you don’t have
to stay where you are.[31] God
has given you a lifetime to repent[32]
and leave the life of immorality behind for a new life that honors Him.[33] It’s a choice.
INCEST GRIEVES THE HOLY SPIRIT
[1] Exodus 20:14 – ADULTERY NOT -- Proverbs 6:32 – An
adultery destroys himself for lack of knowledge. -- Acts 15:20 – FORNICATION NOT --
1 Thessalonians 4:3 – It is God’s will that you abstain from fornication
[2] Proverbs 27:7 – When
you’re horny, a toad frog looks like a prince. -- Proverbs
[3] Exodus
[4] Leviticus 18:6 – Don’t have sex with a blood relative. -- Leviticus – 18:9-18 – NO SEX with Sisters, Daughters or
Aunts
[5] Ezekiel 22:10-11 – NO SEX with your Daughter in Laws or your Neighbor’s Wives
[6] Genesis 1:28 – Adam; be fruitful, multiply, and replenish the earth
[7] Genesis 9:7 – Noah; be fruitful, multiply
and replenish the earth
[8] Genesis 5:5 - Adam lived 930 years
[9] Genesis 1:26 – Let us make man in our image; our
likeness
[10] Genesis 4:15 - Then the LORD put a mark on Cain
[11] Genesis 19:31-36 – Lot has SEX with his TWO daughters
[12] Genesis 20:12 – Abraham married his Sister
[13] Genesis 11:29 – Nahor married his brothers
daughter
[14] Genesis 49:4 - Ruben had SEX with his father’s Wife
-- Genesis 35:22 – Ruben has SEX with his father’s Concubine
[15] Exodus 6:20 - Amram married his
father’s sister Jochebed
[16] Genesis 38:16-18 – Judah unknowingly had
sex with his daughter in law -- 1 Chronicles 2:4 – Judah
had twin sons by daughter in law
[17] 2 Samuel 13:14 - Amnon rapes his Sister
Tamar
[18] 2 Samuel 16:21-22 - Absalom had sex
with father’s concubines
[19] Matthew 14:3-4 – King Herod marries his
brother’s wife
[20] Genesis 24:4 - Isaac marries Rebekah; near
of kin
[21] Genesis 29:23-27 – Jacob tricked; marries
sisters Leah & Rachel
[22] 2 Chronicles 11:18 - Rehoboam
married his cousin Mahalath
[23] Leviticus – 18:7-8 – The
father’s nakedness is having SEX with the Mother.
[24] Leviticus 20:11 – SEX
with your mother; both be put to death -- 1 Corinthians 5:1 – SEX with your Mother is immoral -- Deuteronomy
27:20 – CURSE whoever has SEX with his Mother
[25] Deuteronomy 25:5 – Brother should fulfill duties of dead brother
[26] Genesis 38:7-10 – Onan did not fulfil his duty towards Tamar
[27] Ephesians 4:30 – Do not GRIEVE the Holy Spirit
[28] 1 Corenthians 10:8-9 – Do
not test God, some did and died
[29] Galatians
[30] 1 Corenthians
[31] Joshua 24:15 – Choose
today who you will serve
[32] Revelation 2:20-21 – God gives us time to repent
[33] 1 Peter 4:3-4 – You must
leave the immoral past behind.
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