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It. So Robert is asking, what does Proverbs 6:34 mean?
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Are you on mute, my friend? I’m just pulling up my notes here. All right, let’s take a look at Proverbs 632, actually. So we’re going to start a little further back and then we’ll work our way forward to give a little bit context. It’s always the best.
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There’s a saying, a text without a context is a pretext. It’s very important. So as you’re studying Bible, always make sure we look ideally at the verses before, look at the whole chapter before, look at the chapter after. Consider the whole book, and then also consider just the entire Bible together. Make sure we’re reading everything harmoniously.
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That’s very important for good Bible interpretation. So here we’re just going to back up a little bit. Give us some context. Proverbs 632. It reads, Whoever commits adultery with a woman lacks understanding.
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He who does so destroys his own soul. Wounds and dishonor he will get, and his reproach will not be wiped away, for jealousy is a husband’s fury. So now we’re into the verse that Robert was asking about. For jealousy is a husband’s fury, therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance. He will accept no recompense, nor will he be appeased, though you may give many gifts.
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So it’s funny in law school, we talked about this often in the context of criminal law, where you think of someone who sees something that just gets them absolutely infuriated, and then they might engage in an act of murder or something like that. And would they be able to get off it or at least not get first degree? An example would be, for example, a father seeing something done to their child and then they act in rage as a result. Well, this verse is talking about the same thing. If a husband, his life’s in his wife, he loves his wife and then hears about how his wife may have been raped or cheated on him, he will get absolutely furious, right?
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He feel betrayed, in fact. So if he’s cheated on, you’ll feel betrayed in jealousy. And in the heat of the moment, who knows what he’ll do, right? And so, yeah, I don’t care about the money. He doesn’t care about getting paid back.
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I think he would just wish the thing could be undone. He would want the relationship restored. It was about the relationship and the trust, and now that’s destroyed and gone. That’s what this verse is speaking about.
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And then we go to thinking of larger spiritual principles and this sort of concept all the time. God is sort of referring to with regard to his relationship with us, that he can be a very jealous God. He wants that relationship with us and he gets angry, he gets very hurt when that relationship, that trust, is broken. So we see this, for example, in Deuteronomy 615, where God says, for the Lord your God is a jealous God among you, lest the anger of the Lord your God be aroused against you and destroy you from the face of the earth.
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So angry, like, might destroy you, right? But he’s also slow to anger. So God’s this sort of dichotomy where he seems to be quick to anger, but really has good reason to be because it’s about relationships. He expresses this anger and this emotion to show us how much he cares. This is how much of a big deal it is to Him.
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And he’s like, Why don’t you think it’s a big deal to have the relationship with me? And we go to Psalms 78 58. And it reads, for they provoked him to anger with their high places and moved him to jealousy with their carved images. When God heard this, he was furious and greatly abhorred Israel. So he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent he had placed among them, and he delivered his strength into captivity and his glory into the enemy’s hand.
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He also gave his people over to the sword and was furious with his inheritance. The fire consumed their young men, and their maidens were not given in marriage. Their priests fell by the sword and their widows made no lamentation. Then the Lord awoke as from asleep, like a mighty man who shouts because of wine. And he beat back his enemies.
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He put them to a perpetual reproach. So this is important to understand. Like, God pulls back and he lets us suffer the consequences of our betrayal on Him, and he lets the people we wanted to be with then take advantage of us and we suffer the consequences. And then God, though at some point says, I’ll come back to you, he keeps coming back. He is the one who’s ever faithful.
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And as he says here, two corinthians eleven two or this is Paul speaking. It says, for I am jealous for you. With Godly jealously, there’s a special good jealousy. For I have betrothed you to one husband that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. So God wants earnestly this relationship with us, that we will be with Him.
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We can love Him, he loves us. We be transformed. We be made in his image, we be his children. Like, no distance between us and Him. It’s not like God has kids who have kids, who have kids who then we’re their kids.
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God’s saying, like, I’m adopting you directly. You are my kids. So this is his love for us. And the greater the love, the greater the jealousy, the greater the anger when the relationship is damaged. And this is all what this verse is getting to in Proverbs 634.
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So thank you for asking, Robert.
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