The Nuclear Option
Why should divorce be the option of last resort?
On April 12, 1945 Franklin Delanor Roosevelt died, and Harry S. Truman became president of the U.S. On this day, he learned for the first time of a new weapon, that was being developed. It was almost two weeks later (April 25, 1945), that Truman learned, that this new weapon was an atomic bomb. This was the first time, that he had heard of the nuclear option.
Truman was too busy finishing up World War II in Europe, to be too concerned with the nuclear option. He declared victory over the axis powers in Europe on his 61st birthday (May 8, 1945). While he was at the Potsdam Conference, he learned that the Trinity test (July 16, 1945) of the atomic bomb had been successful. He hinted to Joseph Stalin, the leader of Russia, that the nuclear option was now available. (Stalin however, knew about the nuclear option before Truman, due to the excellent spy network, that he had in the U.S.)
Soon Truman was faced with one of the most difficult decisions in history.
The U.S. had beaten the Japanese back to their home islands with only one half of the force that it had used in Europe and virtually no help from its mostly European allies. This had been very costly in terms of American lives and resources. Russia had agreed to invade Japan from the east while the US invaded from the west now that the war in Europe was over. Japan had dwindling resources and no way to get new resources. Japan was already defeated for all practical purposes. Still the Japanese Emperor Hirohito refused to surrender and promised that the Japanese would continue to fight to the last man in order to maintain his position as Emperor.
Truman asked for his options from the military and diplomats. He had three options. First, he could continue to wage war as he had up to this point by continuing to heavily bomb Japanese cities with conventional bombs and then invading Japan with the help of Russia. This option could cost as much as a million American lives as well as many millions of Japanese lives. Second, Hirohito could remain as a figurehead Emperor. The previous responses by Hirohito had made made it clear that this was option was very unlikely to work. The third option was the nuclear option.
Truman wrote in his diary on July 25, 1945 while he agonized over his decision that he had been assured by his military advisers that the nuclear option would only be used against military targets. Time was running out to avoid a costly invasion of Japan and Hirohito was still wavering on surrendering. More than that Russia had lost many people when it invaded Germany and wanted to avoid invading Japan if at all possible. Truman intimated this in a letter that he wrote on July 31, 1945. It had became clear that the nuclear option was his only remaining option.
So on August 6, 1945 the nuclear option was used on Hiroshima, Japan where it instantly killed 80,000 people and caused another 40,000 people to die within a year. Many of these people that suffered terribly were innocent children. Three days later (August 9, 1945), the nuclear option was used again on Nagasaki, Japan where 70,000 people died from it. On August 13, 1945 the U.S. conducted a conventional bombing campaign on Tokyo where Hirohito lived to let him know that he was not immune from the nuclear option. The next day (August 14, 1945) Hirohito surrendered and World War II was over.
Truman has been criticized for using the nuclear option but the fact is that it undoubtedly saved lives. The Japanese had already lost many more people through conventional bombing than when Truman exercised the nuclear option. In fact, Japan lost about 25,0000 more people in the conventional bombings of just two cities, Toyama and Tokyo, than when the nuclear option was used against Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Hirohito and his generals had not cared how many Japanese people died to defend their traditions that included worship of the Emperor. The nuclear option is what caused Hirohito to finally admit defeat and sign a peace treaty on the USS Missouri. This treaty included a provision where he admitted that he was not God.
The truth is that Japan had already lost the war months before the nuclear option was ever exercised. Japan had months to surrender but Hirohito had refused time after time. Hirohito could have sought peace and avoided compelling Truman to use the nuclear option. It was the hardness of the heart of Hirohito that turned the nuclear option into the only option.
The nuclear option is so horrific that it has never been used since World War II. The fact is the potential for damage is so large that everyone that has this option refuses to exercise it for fear of others using it on them. Using the nuclear option is almost guaranteed to bring about mutually assured destruction.
There is another nuclear option that is available to many people. This nuclear option will also cause massive damage and takes generations for people to recover from. This nuclear option brings death instantly on some levels while it slowly drains the life out of people on other levels. This nuclear option brings terrible suffering to innocent children. Like the case of Truman and Hirohito, this nuclear option can be avoided if both parties are willing to seek peace. The use of this nuclear option is almost guaranteed to bring about mutually assured destruction.
This nuclear option is divorce.
The Father of Truth (YHVH aka God aka THE LORD) hates divorce because it only comes from someone dealing treacherously with their spouse (Malachi 2:16).
This treachery is often a man divorcing his wife when she gets older and is no longer in her prime (Malachi 2:15). That man is dealing treacherously because he made a covenant to take of her as long as they both should live when she was young and is now breaking that covenant when she is no longer young (Malachi 2:14).
In the marriage covenant the man has promised to provide his wife with food, covering (clothing and shelter) and her marital right (sex) as much as she needed for as long as they both should live (Exodus 21:10). Even if his wife had been his slave before they married he was still dealing treacherously with her if he divorced her (Exodus 21:7-8).
Of course, the wife can also deal treacherously with her husband by departing from him through divorce just as surely as Israel dealt treacherously with the Father of Truth by departing from Him (Jeremiah 3:20).
Whoever does not provide their spouse with as much sex as their spouse needs for as long as they both should live to the best of their ability is dealing treacherously with their spouse (1 Corinthians 7:2-4). A husband and wife can only refrain from sex for a short time by mutual consent to spend more time with the Father of Truth and then they must resume taking care of the sexual needs of each other (1 Corinthians 7:5). Both husband and wife are to be concerned with taking care of the sexual needs of their spouse because that is part of the covenant they made when they were married (1 Corinthians 7:32-34).
It is not only the parents that suffer from divorce but also the children. The children suffer terribly because a divorce always leaves them missing their parents and all the benefits that only parents working together can provide.
In a divorce the children usually depart with their mother. That is why it was very grievous for Abraham to put Hagar out of his camp (Genesis 21:9-11). That is why Ishmael left with his mother when Abraham put her away (Genesis 21:12-14). That is why it was so hard for those men that had married idol worshipers from other nations to put away their wives that had refused to quit worshiping idols (Ezra 10:44).
In like manner, the land and the house that was on it stayed with the father. This because the land belongs to the family of the father while the father is only in charge of its use until he dies. That is why the Father of Truth said when someone sold the family land that they always had the right to buy it back when they were able (Leviticus 25:23-27). That is why He said the family land must always go back to the family in the year of Jubilee (Leviticus 25:28). That is why the He said when a man of Israel had only daughters then his daughters could only marry someone from their own tribe (Numbers 36:6-9). That is why He said when a man died without any children then his wife had to marry one of his brothers and the first born child would be counted as belonging to her husband that had died (Deuteronomy 25:5-6).
So a divorce leaves the wife like a widow that has no husband and the children are like those that have no father. This can be seen in the case of when the Father of Truth divorced the nation of Judah (Isaiah 50:1). After the divorce Judah was like a widow and her children were like the fatherless (Lamentations 5:3).
So when there is a divorce after children have been born the mother now must try to provide the children for in the place of their father. Worse yet women throughout the ages have only been able to earn about 60 percent of what men can earn. This is why the Father of Truth required that women only had to give thirty shekels when they took on a vow while men had to give fifty shekels (Leviticus 27:2-4).
Her husband had to provide a house on the land of the family before they could marry just like the Man of Truth (Yeshua HaMashiach aka Jesus Christ) is preparing a place for his bride to live in (John 14:2-3). So now with only sixty percent of the money that her husband made she has to provide everything that he had provided with one hundred percent of his money plus a house.
This almost always casts the children into poverty. The children will not be identified with their father and his trade in the community (Matthew 13:55). The children cannot learn the trade of their father so that they can go about his business when they are old enough (Luke 2:49). The mother usually cannot make enough money by herself to lay up money for the children like can be done when her husband and her work together in raising the children (2 Corinthians 12:14). The divorced woman and her children will be afflicted with poverty and in need of help as much as the widow and the fatherless (James 1:27).
The reality of a lack of money requires the divorce woman to spend much of her time working away from the children and that is what brings about the real fall out from divorce. Without a father to correct them it is as if the children were hated by their parents (Proverbs 29:15). Without their mother around due to trying to provide for their physical needs the children are left to themselves and are bound to do things that will bring her shame (Proverbs 29:15). Children without the chastening of a father are like those that are not part of the family of their father (Hebrews 12:7-9).
So for the children it is like someone used the nuclear option on their family when the parents get a divorce. The children are suddenly without a father, a mother that cannot give them adequate attention, their home is gone and so is the money that they are used to having. The children are damaged in every area of their lives when their parents get a divorce. They are in lack of money, in lack of discipline, in lack of a deep family identity, in lack of the life skills that lead to success in every endeavor and will usually grow up unable to adequately provide those things for their own children. This sets off a chain reaction of destruction that lasts for three or four generations.
The reason is that divorce is always born out of treachery and treachery is always sin. This kind of sin will always bring destruction to the third and fourth generation (Numbers 14:18).
If you want to permanently damage your children, your grandchildren and your great grand children then one of the easiest ways to do so is to get a divorce. That is one reason that divorce is the nuclear option.
Of course, divorce is not just devastating to the mother and the children. It is devastating to the father as well. When there is a divorce the father has lost his wife and children. The father is a often as devastated as Jacob (Ya'acob) was when he believed that he had lost Joseph (Youseph) (Genesis 37:33-35). This is another reason that divorce is the nuclear option. Divorce is almost guaranteed to bring about mutually assured destruction.
Since the Father of Truth hates divorce and it causes so much damage you might wonder why anyone would ever use the nuclear option.
To understand this we must first look at where formalized divorce began. You might be surprised to learn that the Father of Truth is the one that set up formalized divorce.
In the divorce proceedings that He set up a man could initiate a divorce if he found uncleanness in his wife (Deuteronomy 24:1). The woman then had to depart from his house and could marry another man since she was no longer his wife (Deuteronomy 24:2). Once she married another man then her first husband could never remarry her because she was now defiled by another man (Deuteronomy 24:3-4).
Why would He set up the nuclear option like this?
The key to understanding that question is understanding the circumstances that justified using the nuclear option. The uncleanness that allowed a man to initiate divorce was unfaithfulness in his wife. This could be literal adultery that was physical unfaithfulness to him (Matthew 5:31-32). This could be spiritual unfaithfulness to the Father of Truth like the foreign wives that worshiped idols in the days of Ezra (Ezra 10:2-3).
The fact is that the nuclear option was less damaging to the family than the other options. If a woman was physically unfaithful to her husband then one of the other options was to make the sin public so that she and the other man would be stoned to death (Leviticus 20:10). Of course, the problem is that his wife is the mother of his children and the other man might be the father of some more children. So this option would actually cause more damage than using the nuclear option. Joseph (Youseph) sought to divorce Mary (Mariam) quietly because he understood that using the nuclear option was the better option (Matthew 1:18-20).
Even when there is marital unfaithfulness there is a better option than the nuclear option if both parties are willing to take it. That is the peace option of repentance and reconciliation. The only reason that anyone ever takes the nuclear option instead of the peace option is because at least one of the parties involved has hardness of heart (Matthew 19:8).
The peace option can only be taken if the one committing adultery is willing to quit committing adultery and return to faithfulness like the Father of Truth tried to persuade the nation of Israel to do (Jeremiah 3:6-7). The peace option can only be taken if the one that was wronged is willing to forgive the one that committed adultery so that they can be forgiven of the adultery that they have committed against the Father of Truth (Matthew 6:14-15).
If the party that has committed adultery is unwilling to repent then the nuclear option becomes the only option like when the Father of Truth exercised it against the unrepentant nation of Israel (Jeremiah 3:8).
Of course in order to have the faith to exercise the peace option you must first come into the House of Truth to find real peace (Romans 5:1-2). You come into the House of Truth when you surrender to the Man of Truth because you believe that the Father of Truth has raised him from the dead (Romans 10:9).
Come into the House of Truth.
On April 12, 1945 Franklin Delanor Roosevelt died, and Harry S. Truman became president of the U.S. On this day, he learned for the first time of a new weapon, that was being developed. It was almost two weeks later (April 25, 1945), that Truman learned, that this new weapon was an atomic bomb. This was the first time, that he had heard of the nuclear option.
Truman was too busy finishing up World War II in Europe, to be too concerned with the nuclear option. He declared victory over the axis powers in Europe on his 61st birthday (May 8, 1945). While he was at the Potsdam Conference, he learned that the Trinity test (July 16, 1945) of the atomic bomb had been successful. He hinted to Joseph Stalin, the leader of Russia, that the nuclear option was now available. (Stalin however, knew about the nuclear option before Truman, due to the excellent spy network, that he had in the U.S.)
Soon Truman was faced with one of the most difficult decisions in history.
The U.S. had beaten the Japanese back to their home islands with only one half of the force that it had used in Europe and virtually no help from its mostly European allies. This had been very costly in terms of American lives and resources. Russia had agreed to invade Japan from the east while the US invaded from the west now that the war in Europe was over. Japan had dwindling resources and no way to get new resources. Japan was already defeated for all practical purposes. Still the Japanese Emperor Hirohito refused to surrender and promised that the Japanese would continue to fight to the last man in order to maintain his position as Emperor.
Truman asked for his options from the military and diplomats. He had three options. First, he could continue to wage war as he had up to this point by continuing to heavily bomb Japanese cities with conventional bombs and then invading Japan with the help of Russia. This option could cost as much as a million American lives as well as many millions of Japanese lives. Second, Hirohito could remain as a figurehead Emperor. The previous responses by Hirohito had made made it clear that this was option was very unlikely to work. The third option was the nuclear option.
Truman wrote in his diary on July 25, 1945 while he agonized over his decision that he had been assured by his military advisers that the nuclear option would only be used against military targets. Time was running out to avoid a costly invasion of Japan and Hirohito was still wavering on surrendering. More than that Russia had lost many people when it invaded Germany and wanted to avoid invading Japan if at all possible. Truman intimated this in a letter that he wrote on July 31, 1945. It had became clear that the nuclear option was his only remaining option.
So on August 6, 1945 the nuclear option was used on Hiroshima, Japan where it instantly killed 80,000 people and caused another 40,000 people to die within a year. Many of these people that suffered terribly were innocent children. Three days later (August 9, 1945), the nuclear option was used again on Nagasaki, Japan where 70,000 people died from it. On August 13, 1945 the U.S. conducted a conventional bombing campaign on Tokyo where Hirohito lived to let him know that he was not immune from the nuclear option. The next day (August 14, 1945) Hirohito surrendered and World War II was over.
Truman has been criticized for using the nuclear option but the fact is that it undoubtedly saved lives. The Japanese had already lost many more people through conventional bombing than when Truman exercised the nuclear option. In fact, Japan lost about 25,0000 more people in the conventional bombings of just two cities, Toyama and Tokyo, than when the nuclear option was used against Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Hirohito and his generals had not cared how many Japanese people died to defend their traditions that included worship of the Emperor. The nuclear option is what caused Hirohito to finally admit defeat and sign a peace treaty on the USS Missouri. This treaty included a provision where he admitted that he was not God.
The truth is that Japan had already lost the war months before the nuclear option was ever exercised. Japan had months to surrender but Hirohito had refused time after time. Hirohito could have sought peace and avoided compelling Truman to use the nuclear option. It was the hardness of the heart of Hirohito that turned the nuclear option into the only option.
The nuclear option is so horrific that it has never been used since World War II. The fact is the potential for damage is so large that everyone that has this option refuses to exercise it for fear of others using it on them. Using the nuclear option is almost guaranteed to bring about mutually assured destruction.
There is another nuclear option that is available to many people. This nuclear option will also cause massive damage and takes generations for people to recover from. This nuclear option brings death instantly on some levels while it slowly drains the life out of people on other levels. This nuclear option brings terrible suffering to innocent children. Like the case of Truman and Hirohito, this nuclear option can be avoided if both parties are willing to seek peace. The use of this nuclear option is almost guaranteed to bring about mutually assured destruction.
This nuclear option is divorce.
The Father of Truth (YHVH aka God aka THE LORD) hates divorce because it only comes from someone dealing treacherously with their spouse (Malachi 2:16).
This treachery is often a man divorcing his wife when she gets older and is no longer in her prime (Malachi 2:15). That man is dealing treacherously because he made a covenant to take of her as long as they both should live when she was young and is now breaking that covenant when she is no longer young (Malachi 2:14).
In the marriage covenant the man has promised to provide his wife with food, covering (clothing and shelter) and her marital right (sex) as much as she needed for as long as they both should live (Exodus 21:10). Even if his wife had been his slave before they married he was still dealing treacherously with her if he divorced her (Exodus 21:7-8).
Of course, the wife can also deal treacherously with her husband by departing from him through divorce just as surely as Israel dealt treacherously with the Father of Truth by departing from Him (Jeremiah 3:20).
Whoever does not provide their spouse with as much sex as their spouse needs for as long as they both should live to the best of their ability is dealing treacherously with their spouse (1 Corinthians 7:2-4). A husband and wife can only refrain from sex for a short time by mutual consent to spend more time with the Father of Truth and then they must resume taking care of the sexual needs of each other (1 Corinthians 7:5). Both husband and wife are to be concerned with taking care of the sexual needs of their spouse because that is part of the covenant they made when they were married (1 Corinthians 7:32-34).
It is not only the parents that suffer from divorce but also the children. The children suffer terribly because a divorce always leaves them missing their parents and all the benefits that only parents working together can provide.
In a divorce the children usually depart with their mother. That is why it was very grievous for Abraham to put Hagar out of his camp (Genesis 21:9-11). That is why Ishmael left with his mother when Abraham put her away (Genesis 21:12-14). That is why it was so hard for those men that had married idol worshipers from other nations to put away their wives that had refused to quit worshiping idols (Ezra 10:44).
In like manner, the land and the house that was on it stayed with the father. This because the land belongs to the family of the father while the father is only in charge of its use until he dies. That is why the Father of Truth said when someone sold the family land that they always had the right to buy it back when they were able (Leviticus 25:23-27). That is why He said the family land must always go back to the family in the year of Jubilee (Leviticus 25:28). That is why the He said when a man of Israel had only daughters then his daughters could only marry someone from their own tribe (Numbers 36:6-9). That is why He said when a man died without any children then his wife had to marry one of his brothers and the first born child would be counted as belonging to her husband that had died (Deuteronomy 25:5-6).
So a divorce leaves the wife like a widow that has no husband and the children are like those that have no father. This can be seen in the case of when the Father of Truth divorced the nation of Judah (Isaiah 50:1). After the divorce Judah was like a widow and her children were like the fatherless (Lamentations 5:3).
So when there is a divorce after children have been born the mother now must try to provide the children for in the place of their father. Worse yet women throughout the ages have only been able to earn about 60 percent of what men can earn. This is why the Father of Truth required that women only had to give thirty shekels when they took on a vow while men had to give fifty shekels (Leviticus 27:2-4).
Her husband had to provide a house on the land of the family before they could marry just like the Man of Truth (Yeshua HaMashiach aka Jesus Christ) is preparing a place for his bride to live in (John 14:2-3). So now with only sixty percent of the money that her husband made she has to provide everything that he had provided with one hundred percent of his money plus a house.
This almost always casts the children into poverty. The children will not be identified with their father and his trade in the community (Matthew 13:55). The children cannot learn the trade of their father so that they can go about his business when they are old enough (Luke 2:49). The mother usually cannot make enough money by herself to lay up money for the children like can be done when her husband and her work together in raising the children (2 Corinthians 12:14). The divorced woman and her children will be afflicted with poverty and in need of help as much as the widow and the fatherless (James 1:27).
The reality of a lack of money requires the divorce woman to spend much of her time working away from the children and that is what brings about the real fall out from divorce. Without a father to correct them it is as if the children were hated by their parents (Proverbs 29:15). Without their mother around due to trying to provide for their physical needs the children are left to themselves and are bound to do things that will bring her shame (Proverbs 29:15). Children without the chastening of a father are like those that are not part of the family of their father (Hebrews 12:7-9).
So for the children it is like someone used the nuclear option on their family when the parents get a divorce. The children are suddenly without a father, a mother that cannot give them adequate attention, their home is gone and so is the money that they are used to having. The children are damaged in every area of their lives when their parents get a divorce. They are in lack of money, in lack of discipline, in lack of a deep family identity, in lack of the life skills that lead to success in every endeavor and will usually grow up unable to adequately provide those things for their own children. This sets off a chain reaction of destruction that lasts for three or four generations.
The reason is that divorce is always born out of treachery and treachery is always sin. This kind of sin will always bring destruction to the third and fourth generation (Numbers 14:18).
If you want to permanently damage your children, your grandchildren and your great grand children then one of the easiest ways to do so is to get a divorce. That is one reason that divorce is the nuclear option.
Of course, divorce is not just devastating to the mother and the children. It is devastating to the father as well. When there is a divorce the father has lost his wife and children. The father is a often as devastated as Jacob (Ya'acob) was when he believed that he had lost Joseph (Youseph) (Genesis 37:33-35). This is another reason that divorce is the nuclear option. Divorce is almost guaranteed to bring about mutually assured destruction.
Since the Father of Truth hates divorce and it causes so much damage you might wonder why anyone would ever use the nuclear option.
To understand this we must first look at where formalized divorce began. You might be surprised to learn that the Father of Truth is the one that set up formalized divorce.
In the divorce proceedings that He set up a man could initiate a divorce if he found uncleanness in his wife (Deuteronomy 24:1). The woman then had to depart from his house and could marry another man since she was no longer his wife (Deuteronomy 24:2). Once she married another man then her first husband could never remarry her because she was now defiled by another man (Deuteronomy 24:3-4).
Why would He set up the nuclear option like this?
The key to understanding that question is understanding the circumstances that justified using the nuclear option. The uncleanness that allowed a man to initiate divorce was unfaithfulness in his wife. This could be literal adultery that was physical unfaithfulness to him (Matthew 5:31-32). This could be spiritual unfaithfulness to the Father of Truth like the foreign wives that worshiped idols in the days of Ezra (Ezra 10:2-3).
The fact is that the nuclear option was less damaging to the family than the other options. If a woman was physically unfaithful to her husband then one of the other options was to make the sin public so that she and the other man would be stoned to death (Leviticus 20:10). Of course, the problem is that his wife is the mother of his children and the other man might be the father of some more children. So this option would actually cause more damage than using the nuclear option. Joseph (Youseph) sought to divorce Mary (Mariam) quietly because he understood that using the nuclear option was the better option (Matthew 1:18-20).
Even when there is marital unfaithfulness there is a better option than the nuclear option if both parties are willing to take it. That is the peace option of repentance and reconciliation. The only reason that anyone ever takes the nuclear option instead of the peace option is because at least one of the parties involved has hardness of heart (Matthew 19:8).
The peace option can only be taken if the one committing adultery is willing to quit committing adultery and return to faithfulness like the Father of Truth tried to persuade the nation of Israel to do (Jeremiah 3:6-7). The peace option can only be taken if the one that was wronged is willing to forgive the one that committed adultery so that they can be forgiven of the adultery that they have committed against the Father of Truth (Matthew 6:14-15).
If the party that has committed adultery is unwilling to repent then the nuclear option becomes the only option like when the Father of Truth exercised it against the unrepentant nation of Israel (Jeremiah 3:8).
Of course in order to have the faith to exercise the peace option you must first come into the House of Truth to find real peace (Romans 5:1-2). You come into the House of Truth when you surrender to the Man of Truth because you believe that the Father of Truth has raised him from the dead (Romans 10:9).
Come into the House of Truth.
Labels: Adultery, Divorce, History, Marriage, Money, Nuclear Bombs, Sex, WWII
posted by The House Of Truth @ August 24, 2013
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