Is the command not to be unequally yoked still applicable today?
Yes. Scripture teaches the admonition remains applicable today: believers must not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. Paul wrote by inspiration that such a union will not work, drawing on the yoke imagery of two oxen pulling in unison. The principle still stands.
Les teaches that the command not to be unequally yoked is still applicable today. He explains that the word “yoke” immediately brings to mind beasts of burden out in the field plowing, where two oxen were put together to pull in unison. Paul says, by inspiration, that it will not work for a believer and an unbeliever to be unequally yoked. Les connects this to Deuteronomy 22:9–10, part of Israel’s law, noting that Israel was a rural or agrarian society and that there is correlation between the agricultural practices of the day and spiritual understanding. The admonition remains the same today: be not unequally yoked together with unbelievers.
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?