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In fact, God was even willing to exterminate his people because they were not obedient
to him. (Exodus 32:10) Though husbands cannot kill their wives or strike them with diseases, according to the Biblical model they can
strike them with a malignant boil upon both
knees and both legs, punish them with hunger and thirst or rape them. (Deuteronomy
28:30, 35, 48). A Christian husband should carefully study Jehovahs example, and do the best
he can to follow it when dealing with his family. As a result, he will be a domineering, selfish
and inconsiderate family head.
On the other hand, however, husbands
should consider this: Does your wife complain
that you really do act as head of the family?
Does she say that you would govern everything
at home, schedule all family activities and
make final decisions without considering her
needs? Then tell her that this is what God
requires you, as a husband, to do and that God
wants the husband to be Judge StatueGiver [and] King within his family. (Isaiah
33:22) Of course, it is common in Satans world
to be open to the suggestions and preferences
of other members of the family and take these
suggestions into consideration. But if you make
a sincere effort to fulfill your Biblical role, your
wife most likely will bow to the pressure.
This means that to fulfill their role as husbands, men must regard their wives as inferior
subordinates. (1 Corinthians 11:7) Also, they
must follow Gods example by exercising headship over their wives just as he does over his
people. How did God deal with his people in
Biblical times? He threatened them with pestilence [and] tuberculosis and burning fever
as well as piles and eczema and skin eruption
in case they would not obey him. Deuteronomy 28:21, 22.
Of course, a wife will want to work at avoiding what irritates her man. Yet no matter how
hard she tries, her husband will at times be
upset about her. How, then, should difficulties
be handled? The Bible contains an example
that shows how such issues were treated in
Israel.
Marriage Problems
The Bible tells about a man who has feelings of jealousy and he suspects that his
wife is impure. Even if she is innocent and his
jealousy and suspicions are groundless, he is to
take his wife to the priest The priest then is
to take her while he holds the bitter water
that delivers a curse The priest puts the
woman under this curse 'may God cause your
people to curse and revile you when he makes
your womb shrivel and your belly swell. Let
this water that delivers a curse enter your body
so that your belly swells and your womb shrivels.' He then is to give the woman the bitter
water that delivers a curse. This water will
enter her body and cause acute pain When
she drinks the water that delivers a curse, it
will enter her body and cause acute pain; her
belly will swell and her womb shrivel. She will
be cursed among her people The husband
will be cleared of wrong, but the woman will
pay for her wrong." Numbers 24:14-31, NLT.
Today many couples do not allow the counsel from Gods Word to help them work out
their issues, and they do not get divorced despite problems. Does God approve of staying
together in such a situation? No, he does not.
In Biblical times, an Israelite man who found
something indecent at his wife was obliged to
write out a certificate of divorce for her and
put it in her hand and dismiss her. (Deuteronomy 24:1) The Bible allows only one reason
for not getting a divorce, and that is if the
husband had raped his wife before marriage.
(Deuteronomy 22:28, 29). But even in such a
case, a man can easily take more wives, like
David, a man agreeable to Jehovahs heart.
1 Chronicles 14:3; 1 Samuel 13:14.
In Nehemiahs day, some Israelites refused
to get divorced from their wives. Nehemiah
began to find fault with them and call down
evil upon them and strike some men of them
and pull out their hair. (Nehemiah 13:25) The
priest Ezra reports: As soon as I heard of this
thing I ripped apart my garment and my
sleeveless coat, and I began to pull out some of
the hair of my head and of my beard, and I
kept sitting stunned. (Ezra 9:3) Finally the
Israelites gave in and promised by shaking
hands to put their wives away and they proceeded to send away wives. Ezra 10:19, 44.
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in a reasonable time for human health reasons. (Mans Salvation Out of World Distress
at Hand!, page 273) Accordingly it would be
wise to have a nose clip handy to protect oneself from the smell of death. 2 Corinthians
2:16, NIV.
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In the end there will be 20,736,000,000 humans living on earth, and the great company
or great crowd will have the task to instruct
these. Num. 4:46-48 and Ex. 28:1 indicate but
one priest to each 2,860 Levites, which would
make the number of the Great Company approximate 411,840,000. The Finished Mystery, 1918 edition, page 103.
This means that a total of 411,840,000 people will survive Armageddon and will be responsible for the instruction of 20,324,160,000
persons. This makes roughly 50 persons per
publisher or 100 per couple. Of course we do
not want to have a charge of bloodguilt leveled
against us, and thats why we should have an
adequate number of books and brochures on
hand. (Our Kingdom Ministry, August 1974,
page 5) This will be the only way to give the
resurrected people an understanding of the
entire range of the true teachings of the Bible,
including those beliefs that are unique to Jehovahs Witnesses. The Watchtower, April 1,
1986, page 31.
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