Do Not Be Yoked With Unbelievers – Keeping your/our Family’s Inheritance!
2 Corinthians 6:14 (New International Version)
14Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?
The aforementioned scripture (2 Corinthians 6:14) has always been ascribed because it is scripturally confirmed that unbelievers will turn the believers heart against (or at least laxidasical or apathetic) towards God.
While I strongly agree because of Solomon and various other biblical examples, I would suggest another reason why God wouldn’t want believers walking in agreement with non-believers: OUR INHERITANCE IS AT STAKE!
Today in my daily devotional, I came across this concept. In Numbers chapter 36, The son of Manasseh spoke to Moses about the inheritance of their brother Zelophehad to his daughters. (If you remember Zelophehad had no sons, only daughters - Numbers 27:1). If the daughters of Zelophehad would married outside of their tribe during the Year of Jubilee, inheritance allotted to tribe of Manasseh would be transferred to the tribal ancestry of their husbands and make the inheritance of the tribe of Manasseh weaker.
To which Moses responded in Numbers 36:6-7, This is what the LORD commands for Zelophehad's daughters: They may marry anyone they please as long as they marry within the tribal clan of their father. No inheritance in Israel is to pass from tribe to tribe, for every Israelite shall keep the tribal land inherited from his forefathers.
As believers, we have exceeding great and precious promises (inheritance) from the Lord. When we marry outside our believing tribe, we (in essence) transfer our inheritance to non-believing tribe, making our believing tribe weaker.
Discussing this concept with my wife, we came up with this practical example. If a family-oriented believing spouse marries a non-family-oriented believing mate, the family-oriented person’s family is usually weakened. The list can go on and on.
Amos 3:3 Can two walk together, except they be agreed?