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The Unrepentant Sinner
It should be realized the unrepentant sinner in the long term will face a terrible time in the
judgment to come and will die an agonizing death in the Lake of Fire:
Revelation 21:7-8 “He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will be his God and he
shall be My son. But [
without, or left out of His coming Kingdom will be
) the cowardly,
UNBELIEVERS, abominable, murderers,
SEXUALLY IMMORAL
, sorcerers, idolaters,
and all liars shall have their part in the lake which
BURNS WITH FIRE AND
BRIMSTONE
, which is the second death.” Revelation 22:15.
The Deception of Fornication
To make the law of fornication (
Porneia, sexual immorality—which covers the widest range of
sexual sins
) clear, Jesus Christ speaks of past fornications prior to a marriage as a lawful cause of
dissolving the marriage vow between a man and woman at the time –
or afterwards
– depending
on whenever the knowledge comes to be known by either the man or woman, then, or later on—
who has been led to believe, and placed emphasis on this belief, that their mate was a virgin at
the time of marriage, and find he or she was deceived.
Once it does come to light— action to disannul the marriage must be taken on the Day that it is
learned (
A principle taken from Numbers 30:1-2, 10-12
). By not taking action beyond that time
means he or she has accepted the mate in marriage; it is then bound by God. Before then it had
not been bound by God for He knew of the deceptive fraud of the previous sexual immorality.
This can be seen by what Jesus Christ said in His quote of an Old Testament Scripture:
Matthew 5:31-32 “Furthermore, it has been said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife let him give
her a certificate of divorce
(Deuteronomy 24:1
).’ But I say to you whoever divorces his wife
for any reason except sexual immorality
(
Greek: Porneia, or fornication – meaning fraud due
to unchasity, perpetrated on the other mate by hiding sexual sins before marriage
)
causes her to
commit adultery and whoever marries a woman who is divorced commits adultery
(
Greek:
moicheia
).”
God led Moses to write of the deceptive fraud when a man would take a woman in marriage and
then find she had either directly lied to her husband or led him to believe she was a virgin when
she wasn’t and therefore became a valid cause for an annulment or divorce:
Deuteronomy 22:13-14 “If any man takes a wife and goes in to her, and charges her with
shameful conduct, and brings a bad name on her, and says, ‘I took this woman (
in
marriage
) and when I came to her I found she was NOT A VIRGIN (
he had been
defrauded
).’ ”
Conversely, though it is much harder to determine, this is also true with a wife believing her
husband to be a virgin at the time of marriage and finding later he had deceived her. Scripture
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