The Fallout from Adultery
Adultery can gather to it the kind of fallout one only associates with atomic blasts, like the bomb that took out Hiroshima.
Adultery is ugly and what it breeds is even uglier, if that’s possible.
What can be done … to confront it, heal it or offset its devastating effects?
This Guide uses the one example of adultery known perhaps by more people than any other: The “affair” of David and Bathsheba. The really sad issue was this: both of these two Israelites were good people in the Lord before the affair.
Also, their “latter end” brought about much greater strength for righteousness. But, what happened “in between” was heinous. No doubt, grace is the basis for our salvation. Hence the expression, “But for the grace of God go I”.
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Let’s take this issue step by step. We will see the issues are amplified by the Lord’s anger toward this terrible sin. Because of that fact, there is fallout on a much grander scale than most people realize.
Let’s get a picture in mind, and see if it fits the kind of “picture” God makes of adultery.
But, let that fact sink in. God is angry with adultery and amplifies its effects in all directions so that it becomes a reproach in all directions.
Atomic fallout is a pretty good picture of the way adultery works. No one is suggesting that adultery will always have extensive fallout… but when you study the fallout of David’s sin with Bathsheba in the Chart that is also found in this Guide, you may be surprised to find that the comparison, though still a metaphor, is not far-fetched.
This Guide takes the reader through the fallout of adultery… and teaches us HOW to react and what to do to handle this frightening behavior.
More to the point, the Churches can learn to be both properly firm against this terrible holocaust while also handling the issue REDEMPTIVELY. Justice and redemption are BOTH callings for the Christian and the Churches.
The chart included also helps to summarize the effects of the fallout occasioned by this act. That helps us to warn, teach, reprove, and instruct others …perhaps, to the saving of a home, family or marriage.
Sample of a Portion of the Extensive Chart Found in This Guide:
“Atomic fallout”: David and Bathsheba
| Adultery and David’s Life | Scriptural Reference | Damage Done to Person, Faith or Society | ult of David Directly or Someone Else? | Commentary: |
| Lust to sin | II Samuel 11:2 | Personal compromise in character | David and Bathsheba | Sin’s momentum is fueled by desire, stolen waters principle, self-deceit, power to take, and self-justification. |
| Unfaithfulness to spouses | II Samuel 11:4 | Good people become deceivers, and break fellowship with the Lord in their lawlessness | David and Bathsheba | Both David and Bathsheba had faithful and loving spouses who gave no semblance of cause/grounds for divorce. |
| Deception | II Samuel 11: 5-17 | David now relying on deceit to cover up his adultery | David, Joab goes along with it. | Adultery always necessitates deceit. The success of that deceit encourages the adulterer. |
| Treason against the nation | II Samuel 11: 17 | David’s cover up puts troops in jeopardy of death. A defeat occurs (withdraws from the contest so as to leave Uriah at the siege alone). | David | This kind of treason shows why there must be constitutional bounds to power. In addition, the Church must move to stop sin so that this kind of power is exposed. |
| Murder of Uriah | II Samuel 11: 17 | Adultery moves to murder of Uriah. This husband had done nothing whatsoever to provoke his wife or David. | David, Joab obeys an unjust/illegal command. Violates the Law of God Lev. 19: 11, 15,17, 35 (at least). Deut. 17: 19-20. | This represents how strongly adultery moves to protect itself. |
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