When I think of the word “Jealous” it always has a negative aspect to it. Well a number of years ago I heard a well known talk show host say she didn’t want any part of a God that said He was jealous. To be in such an influential position, you had better do your homework before you start spouting off things you didn’t take the time to look into or the context in which it was written. I found myself getting more and more frustrated listening to her warped version on what she believed God and spiritualism was all about. She and I do not serve the same God. Here are the verses in which she likely only glanced at or heard about without truly grasping.

Exodus 34:14 Do not worship any other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.

Moses wrote the book of Exodus and the Jewish people had hundreds of laws to follow, this being law number 613. It went beyond just the 10 commandments we are all familiar with in chapter 20. The kind of idol worship going on in those days was unimaginable to us today. Torturous human sacrifices including babies, orgies, etc. You get the idea, and it made God very angry. This heathenism was not the kind of worship He would want Himself or His people a part of. So for the greater good of His people He created the law to protect them from this very dangerous lifestyle. God didn’t want the Jewish people even eating the animals that were sacrificed to these god’s, because it was unclean in His eyes due to what part it played in the idol worship.

2 Corinthians 11:2 I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. I promised you to one husband, to Christ, so that I might present you as a pure virgin to him.

In the New Testament Paul writes so much about the “Church” being a bride to Christ. It’s a picture to help show the close relationship we are to have with Him. A lot of liberal-minded women are offended at the book of Ephesians Paul penned, primarily chapter 5 (vs 22 on) on roles on wives and husbands. I think because most believe Paul never married he shouldn’t be writing about marriages. All of the Bible is God inspired and chapter 5 reveals God as the head of the church and we are the body. You have to have a leader for the relationship to work.

We have a living breathing God that has adopted us into His family, and we are His children. He loves us passionately unlike worthless idolatry that is self serving. 2 Corinthians 6:18 “I will be a Father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”

2 Corinthians 11:2 I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. I promised you to one husband, to Christ, so that I might present you as a pure virgin to him.