As I have stated before that when God sets aside a people for Himself he does so by covenant. Ge 17:7 And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee. Heb 8:10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
God also expects that the people He makes a covenant with to be in agreement. Ge 31:44
Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee.
God also expects that the people keep His wishes. Ge 17:9 And God said unto Abraham,
Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations.
God also provides a token for His covenants. Ge 9:13 I do set my bow in the cloud, and
it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth. Ge 17:11 And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me
and you.
Based on this I think God wants His people to be known-a seperate and peculiar people. Ex 19:5 Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine: Tit 2:14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. 1Pe 2:9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
God also gives warning against breaking His covenant. De 4:23 Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, which the LORD thy God hath forbidden thee. Le 26:15 And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant: 16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow
your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
God also has a place in His covenant for His son. Heb 12:24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that
of Abel.
Now God likens His relationship with His people (the church) to that of marriage. Eph 5:23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and
he is the saviour of the body. 24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the
wives be to their own husbands in every thing. 25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Now if God establishes a covenant with His people and chooses them to be a bride to His
son and seals them through a blood covenant (Heb 13:20 Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,), wouldn’t that be the standard that God sets for marriage between man and woman?
Also you will notice once again in Heb 12:24 that Jesus is a mediator of the covenant making that order God, Jesus and the people (church). Just as God has established the order of marriage in 1 Cor 11:3 God, Christ, man and woman. No state or government stands between God and the church and no state or government should stand between husband and wife.
The topic of this thread is that of Biblical marriage not obeying every ordinance of man. God’s word doesn’t provide for license it does however say this Matt 19: 4 And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, 5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
6 Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh...
God establish marriages and doesn’t give any man jursidiction over it. Matt 19:6 ...What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. Acts 5: 29 Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.