Under Adultery's Shadow: Betrayed Vows and Invalid Secular Divorce

"And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery." - Mark 10:12The judge signed the paperwork. The church told you God understood. So you moved on, built a new life, and married another man.Then that verse found you again.This book is for the woman who divorced her husband and remarried. It is for the man who married a woman who had divorced her husband. And it is for the man whose wife filed for divorce from him. If any of those descriptions is yours, what follows matters more than you may realize.This is true for the woman who left her covenant and remarried. It is equally true for the man who married her. The text does not excuse him because he loved her, or because he did not know, or because everyone around him said it was fine. The covenant does not bend for good intentions.Under Adultery's Shadow is for anyone who cannot make Mark 10:12 fit what they have assumed about divorce. The text says what it says. This book will not talk you out of it.Glenn Braunstein goes straight to the biblical text and stays there. No denominational filters. No pastoral softening. What he finds is not what most churches are teaching: secular divorce courts have no authority over a marriage covenant. A judge's signature changes your legal status before the state. It does not change your covenantal status before God.Jesus of Nazareth did not leave room for ambiguity. This book does not either.The woman who divorced her husband and married another man is living in adultery. So is the man who married her. Jesus stated that in plain words. "And adulterers shall not inherit the kingdom of God." The Bible stated that also. That is not a threat. It is a verdict. You are evicted from the Kingdom of God. Unless...Under Adultery's Shadow will show you what that path out looks like. What you do with what you find is between you and God. And eternity is a long time to have gotten it wrong.