Is There a Real Life Historical Case Like This?
1) Direct answer
Yes. The Bible gives real historical cases that show exactly this principle.
2) Scriptural explanation
- Michal and David: Michal was David’s lawful wife. Saul later gave her to another man (Paltiel) while David still lived (1 Samuel 18:27; 25:44). When David demanded her, she was returned to him and the second union ended (2 Samuel 3:14–16). This shows the first marriage remained binding, and the later union had to cease.
- Sarah and Abimelech: Sarah was taken into Abimelech’s house under a mistaken assumption, but God said, “She is a man’s wife… restore the man his wife” (Genesis 20:2–7). Even in ignorance, God upheld the first covenant.
- Herod and Herodias: John said to Herod, “It is not lawful for thee to have thy brother’s wife” (Mark 6:17–18). While the first husband lived, the second relationship was condemned as unlawful.
- The rule stated: “If, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress… but if her husband be dead, she is free” (Romans 7:2–3).
3) Simple clarifying logic
Now notice: in every case, the living first covenant governed the outcome. Mistake, time, or a second union did not dissolve it. Restoration to the original covenant—or separation from the unlawful union—was required.
4) Short reinforcing statement
You see, the Bible’s history and its doctrine match: the first bond stands while he lives.
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What did the Laodicean Church Age (our age) Angel (- messenger) Say about this?
Ranked passages from the local William Branham sermon and Church Age Book database. Relevance is relative, not a statement of doctrinal certainty.
An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages
CAB 7:E-92
Now let us go another step, but before we do let us review our case thus far. First of all we know most assuredly that the purpose of God stands in election. It was purposed in Himself. It was God's purpose to bring forth a people like unto Himself that would be a Word Bride. She was chosen before the foundation of the world IN HIM. She was fore-known and beloved before she was ever brought forth during the ages upon the earth. She was redeemed by His blood and can NEVER come into condemnation. She can never be in...
Investments
63-0126 §106
just like it did in the little woman when she saw the miracle, that Jesus could tell her where her trouble was. Flashed like that, it went to life. The sun shined on it. And you can't keep the life down when the sun shines on a seed. A seed can lay there with no life in it, and it will just lay there. But if it's got life in it, it will come when the sun strikes it. And Martin, yet that call in his life, and he wanted to do something for God and he didn't know what to do. And he said one day he stood by a gate, and...
An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages
CAB 3:E-95
Some have an idea that the two trees in the garden were just two more trees like unto the rest of those that God had placed there. But careful students know that this is not so. When John the Baptist cried that the axe was laid to the root of all trees, he was not talking of simply natural trees, but of spiritual principles. Now in I John 5:11 it says, "And this is the RECORD, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in His Son." Jesus said in John 5:40, "And ye will not come to Me, that ye might ha...
Life story
53-1108A §75
Well, I tried to go back again. Come to find out, it was a baby she was... A little two year old, three year old child she had there with her, and she didn't know where it was at. But, I'd done got in the boat, and I went back to get the baby. And as I tied the boat to the post, like this, and got in, begin to look around, there was nothing in the house, the bottom give away. And here I was in the house. And I run, jumped through the door real quick, and fell into the water, and got the post like this, and pulled a...
Thirsting for Life
58-0611 §21
Life, what is life? Well, life is what controls you. Life is what makes you what you are. And the life that is within you, makes you the written epistle, read of all men. So while we speak of life... I was thinking sometime ago, way down in the southern states, when they had slavery, and when they would drive the slaves like animals. And they would put them up and auction them off like you would at a used car lot, and would make... And they'd come around, brokers, and would buy these certain slaves. And they'd come...