Marriage
is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and
adulterers God will judge. (Hebrews 13:04, NKJV).
It
should come as no shock today that the world is attempting to
undermine any and all aspects of godly living, marriage, childbirth
and parenting being the most targeted. As human history winds down
into its prophesied depraved conclusion, expect the battles to
intensify.
Christian
marriage, after all, is the bedrock of raising godly children. The
cycle is designed to repeat, as it has for the last 2000 years, so
that those engaged in Christian marriage raise godly children, who
engage in Christian marriage and raise more godly children, and so
on.
This
a threat to the world's long war against God, and from its
perspective, must be stopped at all costs. The strategies of warfare
are many and devious.
In
the past, Christian marriage has been portrayed in a negative light
in terms of sexual repression. Puritanism, painted in the most
derogatory terms possible, became a curse and insult. It was an
effective tactic based on lies. Puritans believed in marital
fidelity, but to say these godly men and women eschewed sex, is to
imply that their typically large families were brought about by
obligation and duty rather than the natural and joyful intimacy of
loving married couples.
But
the stereotype continues in books and movies, and Christian marriage
has become synonymous with cold and perfunctory human relations, or
the evil insistence that a faithful life-long marriage between one
man and one woman is unnatural and damaging.
Nothing
could be further from the truth. Human gender and sexual reproduction
are inventions by God Himself. On the 6th day of Creation,
one physically perfect man became paired with one physically perfect
woman, in a perfect garden situated in a perfect world. And both were
unclothed.
Even
in today's twisted and perverse morality, that does not sound like a
sexually repressive scenario, but rather an idyllic and physically
intense romantic setting. That the end result was corrupted by
rebellion and sin takes nothing away from the obvious original
intent.
God
made man and woman to enjoy and revel in each other's presence and
company on every possible level. Had our original parents stuck to
the original plan, childbirth would have remained painless, and the
marriage partnership would have been effortless and joyful, with
physical bodies unencumbered by aging and decay forever.
That
does not sound like something implemented by a pleasure-aversion
Deity, for it is God who manufactured our bodies to experience
profound joy on the marriage bed.
The
corruption of all that is a human invention. Sexual activity was
defiled by human sin, and used for purposes that are truly evil and
unnatural. Sex outside of marriage (adultery) and sex before marriage
(fornication), are fundamental violations of the Manufacturer's
detailed specifications for His creatures.
The
results of the last 50 years of the so-called Sexual Revolution has
wreaked havoc on the institution of marriage, and has brilliantly
served to undermine the foundation of the most tactically effective
means of evangelism, the godly human family.
This
is not to imply that saving faith is hereditary, but it is to
emphasize that, aside from pleasure and life-long companionship, the
institution of marriage was devised by God to maximize the chances of
raising godly seed in a fallen world.
It
is through the example and teaching of faithful Christian parents
that children come to know of Christ as Lord and Savior. This
is the crucial foundation from which each child may step beyond
merely knowing of, to knowing in a personal
relationship.
That
the enemies of God recognize this, either intellectually or through
brutal animal cunning, is clear by the all-out attacks against
marriage, family and sexual purity.
From
cynical mockery to rabid cultural antagonism, the ways of godly
living are increasingly marginalized and demonized.
By
far, the most effective counterattack is to simply live a godly life,
in a committed Christian relationship that unapologetically affirms
that the best course for human relationships is a godly family. That
means purity and abstinence before marriage, and fidelity afterwards.
This
is the diametric opposite of repressive or restrictive because it
facilitates the manifold pleasures, blessings and security of
lifelong monogamous marriage. There is no human institution more
powerful, or that serves as a stronger bulwark against personal
isolation, despair and moral dissolution.
It
is no wonder that God promises to judge any and all who willfully,
and without repentance or seeking forgiveness, violate His perfect
design for interpersonal relationships, for in so doing these people
become destroyers of the future of God's most beloved creation:
humanity.
It
has been well-proven throughout history, that when the foundations of
godly family are undermined, civilization collapses. We are on that
path now. It is only through God's grace and mercy that the battle
rages on, but there will come a time when He lifts His protective
hand from sphere of earthly events and gives humanity over completely
to its own fallen desires and God-hating rebellion.
Then
all Hell will literally break loose upon the planet.
