In 1688, a “murder case” rocked England. A woman named Mary Hobry was charged with killing her husband. No one justifies such killing. But, she represents what the divorce problem has produced in the churches for 2000 years.
She did kill him AFTER he came home drunk and again beat and abused her, repeatedly. He fell asleep. She fell upon him in his sleep, strangling him to death. She tried to hide her act by dismembering his body.
The Anglican Church (State Church of England by law) would not allow a divorce under any circumstances in her case… or that of others. It wasn’t until decades later (the year 1670) when a Lord Roos was forced to go to great expense to get a divorce from his adulterous wife whose flagrant adulteries hid behind the legal “no-divorce” protection of churches and courts.
His wife correctly believed there would be no penalty for her acts. She feared no real loss. So, she pursued her amorous ways publicly since “No divorce” really only PUNISHES faithful spouses and children (often driving such spouses like Mary Hobry to sin.).
This problem, illustrated often elsewhere in the social archives of many nations, shows us that we may think we are defending “marriage”, but are all too often only keeping pressing the balloon at one end…
... only to see it explode out the other end.
Mary Hobry languished until she desperately (after another beating) “quit the issue” and took things into her hands.
…She killed her husband.
She had tried “legal remedies”. “Remedies were ineffective and extremely expensive. Even if she had “separated” she would’ve been forced to flee overseas to escape English law, since the Anglican Church used the authorities to check who was living where.
Many people led quiet lives of desperation. Children, husbands and wives often lived in fear and abuse. Some finally “break” and pursue extremes as Mary Hobry did.
Push the balloon in at one end… it will bulge and explode out the other.
Christian Fallout:
The “Married Estate”
Rome wasn’t built in a day. Neither was the marital/divorce situation now found in our society …and in the churches. What has been written here in this site – The Marriage Plague - will challenge everyone’s thinking on such subjects as…
marriage
common law marriage
“living together”
Divorce, remarriage
the sexual revolution Click Here for biblical solutions.Click Here for biblical solutions.
the civil authority and marriage
the church and marriage
calling
feminism
headship
inheritance
and the fallout in the American family.
However that may be, there is one topic which must challenge everyone’s thinking. If that doesn’t change, especially in the churches, the marriage plague will NEVER disappear.
It has been a major factor in the history of Western Civilization for 2000 years. The plague has just never been successfully quarantined. Though it has been “contained” at times, it has, nonetheless, re-emerged time and time again to undercut the sinews of society…as it is doing today.
This “plague” has been responsible for so much damage to society:
- It has occasioned more than one war…
- It has divided churches and denominations…
- It has turned political events upside down…
- It had toppled thrones, ended careers, and initiated civil discord…
- It has been responsible for the loss of Christian influence in many cultures…
 In other words, what evangelism, Christian love and heroic faith gains in culture, poor hermeneutics (hermeneutics = principles of interpretation) and a consistently misguided defense of the marriage institution loses. |
You will find however, the Christian Church will be faced with one of two alternatives: solve the marriage problem (which she thinks is a divorce problem) …or Christians will be faced with the now, ever growing counter-Christian “marriage” revolution – one far exceeding what she now faces from varied elements of society:
- the gay marriage issue…
- the ever increasing break-down of marriage (with many broken marriages) in the Christian community… [Read More]
- the sweeping carnage left in the wake of no-fault divorce … with the impoverishing and record bankruptcies emanating from it...
- the hatred for Christian men and women in the courts…
- the new “family” concept of social service/ day care assumption of our children by the State…sometimes called “It takes a village” popularized by President Clinton’s administration…and wife. [Read More]
- the failure of Christianity to keep a nation it once taught…and the ever growing turn towards radical religions of all types throughout Europe and America as people seek an alleged “stability” for their lives and family… [Read More]
- the changes brought upon society by single motherhood…and the fallout among children without two parents living in the same home…
- the changes brought about by the sexual revolution…
- the myriad numbers of internally horrid marriages creating despair and creating a reservoir (cesspool?) for future divorces. [Read More]
- child abuse and child pornography in record rates… to the point where security forces of the United States will “blame anything and everything ” such as Internet
- access and privacy because our society is overwhelmed by these issues (but,
- really as a function of a judiciary out of control)…
- the growing wave of violent crimes committed by children (very often from broken down homes –though often enough broken homes too)…
- the rise of other legal challenges to marital law –alternative marriage concepts - such as polygamy (been to Utah lately?), polyandry, marriages in violation of the laws of consanguinity… [Read More]
But, none of these are the cause of what this book calls the Marriage Plague, which has brought havoc to our society. None of these is the PLAGUE which causes the symptoms and misery of society.
Click Here for your copy of The Marriage Plague
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Here's what one gentleman has to say about the "Marriage Plague" and Solomon's Toolbox.
Hi Wayne and Lori,
Very few times in life have I come across such open, honest people loaded with integrity. I cannot thank you enough for spending the time to talk with me on the phone. To ease my heart, to help me understand the conviction of the Holy Spirit with regards to myself and my marriage. I have been a Christian for such a short time and what a blessing you both are to me. The Lord provides all we need in His good time and we wait patiently, but not in inaction, for His Purpose to be revealed to us.
The Marriage Plague is an incredible guide to the History of not only Marriage, but also Christian History. It is filled with wonderful testimony to how we should act and what we should do, to become the Picture of Christ and His Bride the Church in our own marriage. It is a must read for every Christian so that the apostasy that has a hold on the present day Church can be expelled and the true Living Word be taught in word and action.
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But…ALL of the above will replace the Christian view of marriage as presented in the Bible IF the Church doesn’t act soon. [Read more…]
