What is behind Famous Marriage Oath?

 

I [Name] take you [Name] to be my wife/husband, 

to have and to hold from this day forward, 

for better, for worse, 

for richer, for poorer, 

in sickness and in health, 

to love and to cherish, till death us do part, 

according to God’s holy law. 

In the presence of God I make this vow.

A vow is declaration and a prophecy to commit to every condition to do whatever, you have committed to do.

It have been written life and death are at the tip of the tongue, whatever you declare will come to pass.

Proverbs 18:21

Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof

 so back to our Famous Vow, It does declare good things, but so does bad things and even the worst. we will going through each bad word and its ramifications.

The worse.

This opens the abyss of a door to allow everything worst to come to you, it looks like a solidarity vow but it's not, it's actually a declaration to allow the worst to come and i believe you can live without the worst to come.

For Poorer

Again declaration to poverty, this is when people get married and poverty sets in, it's also looks like solidarity pledge to fight it together, but you didn't have to fight it if you didn't call it.

For Sickness

The same goes with sickness windows being opened, and as you observed many marriage have to pass through this windows, and it's bad.

Death.

We have been saved from death and all it's agents by the Blood of Jesus, when you bring this vow into play, you are just opening door for death to creep into and separate you at any given moment it feels like.

And the worst part of it, you involve Almighty God to oversee this torture that you have set for yourselves.

Example:

In judges 11: 30-40 we see jephthah brings on vey odd vow before the LORD to ask Victory from God, which opened a door to very painful death in his family.

He spoke and Demons utilized the words to move in his daughter to come out and be sacrificed and he have to kill his own daughter.

Now it comes to question was it necessary for such a vow, Now sits he sits up with two judgements first to kills his daughter and second to call on God to witness such atrocity.

Now is God saying about a god vow, that brings his full power into marriage.

A marriage involves 3 beings(Husband, wife and Holy Spirit) coming together to do God's work under God's Supervision.

The great purpose of all is to live in Christ, following God into his work in the world and heaven.

New Vow

I...........take you................to be my wife/husband,

to have and to hold, from this day forward,

to grow together in faith,

to grow together in love,

to grow together in God 

and to fulfill together the purpose that God have for us in this marriage, 

till the fullness of time. 

I call The LORD God to be our strength and our witness, Amen.