No. 1645: Program leader Visjon Norge Liv Søvde Kallevig has remarried as a believer after a divorce before she came to Jesus, is this in accordance with scripture?

No. 1645:

Program leader Visjon Norge has remarried as a believer after a divorce before she came to Jesus, is this in accordance with scripture?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvoatplLN1k
https://idag.no/etter-et-sterkt-mote-med-gud-fikk-liv-sovde-kallevigs-liv-en-helt-ny-retning/19.41235

There are different opinions about whether it is permissible for someone to become a believer.
If the person has been married as a non-believer.

IS IT THEN PERMITTED FOR HIM/HER TO THEN MARRY AS A BELIEVER?

WHAT DOES THE SCRIPTURE SAY?

Does a marriage entered into as a pagan apply?

This is not an easy question to answer. Because it is complicated and not straightforward.
But the word of God, rather than the Apostle Paul's subving.
Is very clear, simple and without misunderstandings!

To start with the clear in the word of God, which says that remarriage for believers is exclusive.
Only death is allowed for remarriage.
That is the starting point for everything.
https://blog.janchristensen.net/2019/07/nr-2490-teolog-og-bibellrer-yvind.html
https://blog.janchristensen.net/2014/01/nr-745-en-mann-en-kvinne-en-pakt-ett.html

1 Cor. 7. 10 To the married I command in the Lord: A wife is not to depart from her husband.
11 But if she departs, let her either remain abstinent or be reconciled to her husband. And a husband must not leave his wife.

Rom 7. 2 A woman who has a husband is bound to him, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of her husband.
3 If her husband lives and she marries another, she will be called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is free from the law of her husband, and is not an adulteress if she marries another man.

It is said, there is no rule without exception.
So it is also here with remarriage.
As the scripture, especially the Apostle Paul teaches about this.
The Gentile Apostle had a clear teaching about this.

Who is given permission and permission for remarriage as a believer?
No one?
There is no permission for remarriage for believers who are married as Christians.
Remarriage here is and remains to be against the word of God and the will of God.

1.) 1 Cor. 12 To the rest I say by the Lord: If any brother has a wife who is not a believer, and she is willing to live with him, he should not divorce her.
13 In the same way, she who has an unbelieving husband, and he is willing to live with her, should not leave him.
14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by his wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by her husband. Otherwise, their children would be unclean, but now they are holy.
15 But if the unbelieving one wishes to depart, let him depart. No one is under bondage in such cases, for God has called us to peace.
16 For how does the wife know whether she will save her husband, or the husband whether he will save his wife?

If a couple have married unbelievers. Where one becomes a believer.
Then the believer should remain in the marriage.
But if the unbeliever does not wish to remain, then the believer is free.
Free to remarry. This is the first “clause” for remarriage.

2.) 1 Thess. 4. 1 Furthermore, brothers, we urge and exhort you by the Lord Christ, just as you received from us how you ought to live and please God, that you would live even more abundantly.
2 And you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus.
3 This is the will of God for you: your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality.
4 Each one of you should know how to control his own body in holiness and honor,
5 not in passionate lust like the Gentiles who do not know God.

Paul is saying here about unbelievers, they find their spouses through passionate lust. So they should not be among us believers.
The starting point for a right marriage is only and only this is among believers.
https://blog.janchristensen.net/2015/04/nr-1087-det-gamle-livet-ligger-bak-da.html
https://blog.janchristensen.net/2015/03/nr-1086-alt-det-en-gjr-fr-en-blir.html

Does the Program Manager in Visjon Norge have the right to enter into a new marriage after she has come to faith?

Since she is divorced as a non-believer?

What does the Apostle Paul say on this subject?
Jesus preached to the Jews, the same as the Apostle Peter.
Here it is Paul who applies!

How are our lives before we come to faith?
The Apostle Paul speaks of us being in darkness.
We are in Satan's kingdom.
Satan is the prince of this world.
We are dead in our sins and transgressions.
The life and the choices we make are thus controlled by Satan all too often.
Then Paul is clear that one starts all over again.
As if one has never lived, made any mistakes.

At the same time, from the day one accepts Jesus.
One is responsible for one's deeds.
One does not just start over.
But one enters into a relationship of responsibility to God that one did not have before.

As I understand the scripture, Program Manager in Vision Norway Liv Søvde Kallevig is free to remarry!

If she had been divorced as a Christian, she is not free.

Since this happened while she was living as a non-believer, the conditions are completely different.

Here are some scriptures that show the nne enormous contrast it is to be an unbeliever versus a believer.

Col. 1. 13 He has delivered us from the powers of darkness, and will bring us into his kingdom through the love of his Son.

Eph. 2. 1 You too were dead in your trespasses and sins.

2 For you also lived in time past according to the spirit of this world, according to the prince of the air, the spirit that now works in the sons of disobedience.

3 You also also lived in time past in the lusts of the flesh, fulfilling the desires and minds of the flesh. You were by nature children of wrath, just as the rest of us were.

4 But God, who is rich in mercy and with his great love for us,

5 And you, who were dead in trespasses, are made alive in Christ, for by his grace you are saved.

1 Tim. 5. 6 But he who lives in pleasure is dead while he lives.

1930 translation 1 Tim. 5. 6 but he who lives according to his desires is dead alive.

The apostle Paul who preached more severely than anyone.
At the same time was gentler than anyone?
Wrote this.

2 Cor. 5. 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. Old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new!

18 But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation.

19 For God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and he has committed to us the word of reconciliation.

20 Therefore we are Christ's representatives, as though God were making an appeal through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf, ‘Be reconciled to God!’

21 He made him** to be sin who knew no sin, so that the righteousness of God might be made.

Then as an unbeliever, nothing is imputed to it in the same way into the new life.
This is what the Apostle Paul taught us.
The Apostle Paul was the one who was to complete the word of God.
There is no new revelation, what is given. It is given to us.
For teaching, encouragement and imitation.

Col. 1. 25 Of whom I became a servant according to the stewardship which God gave me to fulfill the word of God.
26 In which is also the mystery which has been hidden from the generations for ages, but has now been revealed to the saints.

No. 1644: But punished in relation to going against the authorities and the superiors. Norway, and especially Oslo has become a "Nazi country!"

No. 1644:

But punished in relation to going against the authorities and the superiors. Norway, and especially Oslo has become a "Nazi country!"

http://the-heavenly-blog.janchristensen.net/2025/06/no-1642-oslo-is-city-where-law-of.html
https://www.sokelys.com/selv-nazistene-og-adolf-hitler-var-ikke-sa-ille-som-det-offentlige-er-imot-oss-er-vi-overvevist-om-for-dette-er-ikke-noe-annet-enn-et-offentlig-overgrep/

Norway and especially Oslo are about to become a population like the Nazis who went in step with each other and nothing is tolerated outside the "box" and the mainstream perception!

Illustrative image where the Nazis and the Norwegian authorities and society as it has become in Norway. As in our case with PBE and the public testify and tell us.
Where one is not actually punished in relation to what one has done.
But punished in relation to going against the authorities and the superiors.

 

The punishment for not submitting to the authorities is that the authorities have "permission" to do whatever they want.
The rejection of our arguments is total and the truth does not matter.
We are to be gagged, everything is legal for us.
Think, 280,000, - NOK in fines for having upgraded our property is directly demonic and completely out of all proportion.

Here is the first demand, of nearly 280,000, - NOK.

 

Here is the second incorrect and completely out of all proportion.
Demand of 188,500, - NOK after they forcibly sold our car.
The punishment we receive is not according to our so-called illegality.
It is because we have gone against the authorities, and did not bow to their lies and narrative. Then one should be punished unrestrained until one bows, even if everything is fabricated and exaggerated completely out of all conceivable and possible circumstances.
Norway, and especially Oslo has become a Nazi city.

 

In our case where we have built a wall, stairs and a shed that is not as illegal as PBE claims then the fall on our property indicates that we are allowed to have a wall almost similar to ours. Where we have submitted proposals on how to solve the whole thing.
They do not answer this even though the Administrative Procedure Act says they are required to do this.
In other words, we should be punished for not subordinating ourselves and lying to the authorities.
The Nazis and the Norwegian authorities operate in the same way.
The worst thing you can do in a totalitarian society is not what you have done.
But to go against the authorities and not accept what they say and do, blindly!

Everyone should be included and get their rights is the slogan here in Oslo.
Where soon the entire population will follow the Nazis' lead.
Nothing is tolerated outside the box, and if you somehow get outside.
Then there is nothing that the authorities are not allowed to do to you.
But nothing is in proportion and in proportion to what one has made up for by so-called violation of the law.
Totalitarianism means that the public sphere is total, as it is in many ways in Norway.
Where it is for most people quite well.
But if one falls into "disfavor" as we have become. Then all means and punishments are legal.
Going against the totalitarian Norwegian rule, one gets a fine of 280,000, - kr for having built a cracking good wall. Talk about Satan and his demons thriving in these evil and downright devilish people like PBE and the authorities are.
It is simply unhindered evil and harassment they are doing.
What should be punished most severely is that you go against the system!
Are you someone who does not obey, blindly. For the lies, distortion and discrimination of the authorities. Then the demos and Satan come forward with these.
They do not hold back anything, for a gang controlled by Satan and his evil spirit forces this is what we are fighting against.

All means can be used, no inhibitions!

In Norwegian law it is freely translated that a violation of the law shall be punished in relation to the violation of the law. In our case this is completely out of all proportion as it is possible. As we are not punished for anything other than that we will not comply with an invalid and illegal decision.
Where we have built a wall that is not only pretty and functional.
But is a huge environmental gain as it is no longer dirty, wet, dirty and mollusk runs down the road as it did before.
It is now dry, pretty and a clear advantage and environmental gain where stormwater and everything negative is gone, completely!

The biggest "crime" one can commit is to go against the system!

Norway obviously cultivates the totalitarian, rigid and inhuman.
Imagine, we have built a shed that keeps bicycles and other things safe, dry and
It is used to delegitimize what we have built with lies and distortions.
Where they claim that we have a flat plot, but have themselves written that the level difference on our property is 5 meters.
https://blog.janchristensen.net/2024/12/nr-3433-etter-plan-og-bygningsetatens.html

It is alarming that no one reacts to the fact that we should be punished in the harshest possible way for having upgraded our property!

The whole case against us is total madness, madness and downright Devilishness!
What we have built so far, as I have not actually finished the stairs the way I want them. In concrete/stone like our wall is.
Where stormwater and dirt are replaced with dry ground.
What else can you do to succeed in what you do?
Here we now have 188,500, - NOK outstanding after they stole our car.

These people within the public lie about everything, what they do not lie about.

Omit or embezzle everything that is to our advantage.
What is to our disadvantage, they amplify a thousand times.
These people are ruled entirely by darkness and evil.
Should one give in to such?
Never!

We are their bitterest enemies as we do not bow to PBE lies, narrative and discrimination!
The authorities in Norway, especially here in Oslo. There on us as their enemies as we will not obey their rigid and meaningless orders. Which are exclusively built on lies, deceit and unwillingness.
Whether we are their own civilian people means nothing, obey them or not, they are our enemies. These are evil and purely Devilish people of power.

It is Satan and his demons who work in and through PBE and the authorities!

Important not to be fooled here. As this is not normal behavior.
Here are so-called highly educated people who lie, distort the truth and do everything they can to prevent us from getting a wall, staircase and shed approved.
Others are allowed to do most things, we will be held accountable for minimal and insignificant violations.
Where we also make suggestions to resolve this conflict.
Where they don't even bother to answer.
More rotten and unfriendly than these people it is not possible to be and be!

Final comment:

Our case is really completely, completely insignificant?
Where we live 50 meters from the field. What we have built is not in the way or a nuisance to a single person.
What we have built is almost legal, which is why we have sent a proposal to PBE which they refuse to answer. Or take a position on, even though Norwegian law through, among other things, the Public Administration Act requires them to answer.
Here they can BREAK ALL THE LAWS THEY WANNA PUNISH US!

https://blog.janchristensen.net/2025/05/nr-3461-de-totalitre-kreftene-er-sterke.html

The punishment is merciless and diabolical, as these people are hateful, evil and obviously a bunch of psychopaths in their practice of their profession.
This is a bunch of Nazis in my eyes, which we will never in any way come to. Or are willing to bow to, never!
If you read about what a psychopath is like, also for that matter narcissists and other personality traits. As deviants, it fits perfectly with the people we have experienced and experienced within the public sphere.
Absolutely incredible that they are allowed to continue, and no one reacts!?

No. 1643: A preacher and pastor should not be remarried as a believer, but a husband of one woman!

No. 1643:

A preacher and pastor should not be remarried as a believer, but a husband of one woman!

Former Mission Secretary in PYM and preacher Hans Svartdahl made several couples who were remarried as believers realize that this was against the word of God, to separate! Picture by Hans Svartdahl
http://the-heavenly-blog.janchristensen.net/2015/03/no-911-earlier-mission-secretary-pym.html
https://blog.janchristensen.net/2020/03/nr-2688-det-gar-som-en-rd-trad-igjennom.html

 

 

Titus 1. 5 The reason I left you in Crete was that you would put in order what was left undone and appoint elders in the cities, as I commanded you.
6 If so, he must be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children who are not accused of debauchery or rebellion.
7 An overseer must be blameless, a steward of God; not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not given to drinking, not violent, not corrupt.
8 He must be hospitable, a lover of goodness, self-controlled, just, God-fearing, and sober-minded.
9 He must hold firmly to the trustworthy message we were taught, having the ability to teach in unadulterated terms and to be able to rebuke and refute those who contradict.

A husband of one wife—is this a one-time occurrence in the Word of God?

It is with great astonishment and with a certain degree of discouragement that I share this.
All truths in the Word of God, whether it be salvation, healing, holiness.
What it is, we find a common thread throughout the word of God where God means the same thing all the way.

Heb. 13. 8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today, yes forever.

So also when it comes to no preacher and with responsibility should be divorced and remarried as a believer!

This is not something the Apostle takes out of thin air.

This is a biblical principle.

Through all covenants and also in the coming 1000-year kingdom.

It applies to the church, it applies to Israel. This is God's standard.

Ministry and remarriage

But still one has been divorced as a believer and one holds a ministry, then stricter criteria are set. There are several places in Paul's teaching that one should be the husband of one wife (see the Pastoral letters). What then?

James says in his letter chapter 3:1: "My brothers! Not many of you should become teachers! For we know that we will receive a stricter judgment".

The responsibility is very great to be a preacher. There is a big difference between being an ordinary church member and being a preacher.
It does not mean that one is more loved by God, but it has to do with being faithful to the area of ​​responsibility God has given one. I believe that God will forgive everyone and every sin. But here there are other things that must be taken into account, as a preacher one has a special responsibility. Would anyone in a secular context allow a pedophile to work with children?
No, of course not!

The Scriptures are equally clear that we should not allow a remarried preacher to preach to other people with a Pastoral and teaching responsibility. That one is an Evangelist as, among others, Frank Mangs was after he was divorced, we can allow.
https://blog.janchristensen.net/2013/09/nr.html

But not to be ordained as a Pastor, Shepherd or elder. One should not be the leader of the flock and the herd, but be under some form of supervision.
But when one holds an office as a preacher, much is required. That is why James says that not many should be preachers. Therefore, a preacher cannot take liberties only at his own expense, he has a special responsibility to God and his fellow men.
Regarding marriage, it is not permitted for a preacher to remarry under any circumstances, then he disqualifies himself for the office he has been given. It is like an athlete cutting off his legs, he is no longer fit to be an athlete, even if he wants to. A preacher should be the husband of one wife, as we see Paul teaching time and time again. (1 Tim. 3.2 and Titus 1:6).

If something is unclear here, I recommend submitting a question to our blog or writing something there yourself. This should and should have been a common Christian understanding where remarried people were not allowed to travel around the country. There are spiritual powers, demonic ones that follow in the footsteps of loose sexual and moral life.

1.Tim. 4. 1. The Spirit clearly says that in the last times some will fall away from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and teachings that come from evil powers. 2 They are deceived by lying hypocrites whose conscience is seared. 3 These people forbid people to marry and insist that they abstain from certain foods, although God created these things to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. 4 For everything God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving. 5 It is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.

This is not about A and B Christians. Marriage is a God-given arrangement that also shows the relationship between Christ and the church. Therefore, it is in the very nature of this that such great demands are made. God stands behind his word, therefore this is a model of something even greater and richer. Our preold to Jesus and his relationship with us. Therefore, be careful both about who you marry and that you do not contaminate your life here. By living in accordance with the word of God here, the best condition is that you grow as a believer.

1 Thess. 4. 1. Finally, brothers, we ask and exhort you in the Lord Jesus: As you received and learned from us how you ought to live and please God, and so you are already living, but you should make even greater progress in this! 2 For you know what orders we gave you from the Lord Jesus. 3 For this is the will of God - your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; 4 each of you should know how to control his own wife in holiness and honor, 5 not in sensual desire like the Gentiles, who do not know God. 6 And no one should wrong or defraud his brother in these things. The Lord punishes all such things, as we have told you before and warned you about. 7 For God did not call us to impurity, but to holiness. 8 Therefore, whoever rejects this does not reject man, but God, who gives you his Holy Spirit.

We read that the scriptures give clear testimony about the priest in the old covenant how he should live, who was in the same responsibility before God and his fellow men as the preacher and overseer is in the new covenant. Leviticus 21:14: "A widow or a divorced woman or a woman defiled or a prostitute - these he must not marry. Only a virgin from his own people he must take as his wife."

We read that God gives the same testimony and demands the same from the Priest during the coming 1000-year kingdom who will serve the people in Jerusalem in Israel, where law and justice will come from. Ezekiel 44:22: “A widow or a woman divorced from her husband they shall not take as wives, but only virgins of the house of Israel. But a widow who is the widow of a priest they may take.”

If the Scripture is so clear regarding the priest in the old covenant and under the millennium, it is no less clear regarding the dispensation of the church, we who live under the most glorious and greatest privilege of all; “the husband of one wife.”

Just as the Scripture says that it is demonic and seductive to refuse a preacher and overseer to marry (1 Tim. 4:1), it is to come under the same negative conditions to accept and allow preachers to remarry while their spouse is alive.
It is only upon death that it can be right for an overseer to remarry again, and then to one who is not divorced!
Rom. 7. 2 A woman who has a husband is bound to him, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of her husband.
3 If, while her husband lives, she is married to another man, she will be called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is free from the law of her husband, and is not an adulteress if she is married to another man.

Final comment:

A man should guard his own life above all else, says the scripture.

1 Tim. 4. 16 Pay attention to yourself and to the teaching; continue in it! For in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.

It is like a red thread throughout the word of God, being a preacher or holding an office.
There are completely different requirements than for others. Where one of the requirements is to take care of the relationship in marriage and family.

1 Tim. 5. 17 An elder who proves himself capable is worthy of double honor, especially if he strives to teach the word
18 For the Scripture says, ‘You shall not muzzle an ox while it threshes out the grain.’ And, ‘The laborer is worthy of his wages.’ Deuteronomy 25:4, Luke 10:7
19 Do not receive an accusation against an elder except on the evidence of two or three witnesses.
20 But a sinner rebuke him before all, that he may be a warning to others.

Here, as elsewhere, the scripture is clear.
It is consistent throughout the entire Word of God, to have an office of oversight.
Far stricter requirements are set than with others.
One of them is that one should not be divorced and remarried as a believer as far as I understand the scripture.
Must be the husband of one wife. Where one is bound as long as the other lives.
Also, several wives that we find among others. The Kings in the OT practiced, always led in a negative direction. Following God's word to the letter is what brings Blessing, not Curse.
We are to be head, not tail. Where we are to be above, not below for sin, the world and the flesh.

Deuteronomy 28. 13 The Lord will make you the head and not the tail; and you will always be above and never below, if you listen to the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you today to keep and do,
14 and if you do not deviate from any of the words that I set before you today, either to the right or to the left, to go after other gods and serve them.
https://blog.janchristensen.net/2012/03/nr-390-hvorfor-det-er-pakrevd-i-henhold.html