Perspective

   By L. Jim Tuck

   June 8, 2023

A Mandate from God:  Protect Marriage and Family in this Evil Generation

            There is an assault on the institution of marriage and family, and a major cultural change is afoot. A real effort being made under the heading of ‘inclusiveness’ to change the definition of a family utilizing large segments of government, business, educational sources, and the media to do it. It is incumbent on all of those who wish to obey God to protect the institution of marriage and family from this corrupt generation.

Perspective

 

            A nuclear family is a family group consisting of parents, a mother and father, and their children living in one home residence. Right now, actions are being taken in our society to destroy the nuclear family.  It is incumbent on God’s people to protect our marriages and families.

            How is marriage and family being destroyed in our time? One way is the blurring of the roles of men and women in marriage, and most recently the increasing efforts to reach down into the formative years of developing boys and girls to cause them to be confused about their sexuality. There is a real effort being made under the heading of ‘inclusiveness’ to change the definition of a family.  This is being done utilizing large segments of government, business, and educational sources. The current administration is “all in” to the movement, and major corporations are openly marketing this distorted ideology from beer producers to restaurants.  The schools are pushing the same cultural change. Thankfully, there are some conservative parents pushing back. Some who do not buy into these perverted value changes are boycotting the purchase of corporate products; stocks are plummeting and products are going unsold.

Darwinian View of the Origin of Marriage

            Where did the concept of family originate? Wikipedia, under the subject of, “The History of Family” says, “Early scholars of family history applied Darwin's biological theory of evolution in their theory of the evolution of family structure. American anthropologist, Lewis H. Morgan, published Ancient Society in 1877, based on his theory of the three stages of human progress, from savagery through barbarism, to civilization. Morgan's book was the "inspiration for Friedrich Engels' book", The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State, published in 1884.  Engels expanded Morgan's hypothesis that economic factors caused the transformation of primitive community into a class-divided society.”

            The article in Wikipedia also states, “The Judaeo-Christian tradition originates in the Bible's Book of Genesis. The first man and woman created by God gave rise to all of the humanity. The Bible reflects the patriarchal worldview…”

            It further says states, “Roman families would include everyone within a household under the authoritarian role of the father, the pater familias; this included grown children and the slaves of the household.”

            So, all of us are supposed to believe the idea that the family just evolved, and that it is only natural for it to keep evolving into something else?

Marriage and Family is a Part of God’s Creation

            When, where, and from Whom did the concept of family begin, and what was intended? It certainly is true it came into existence in the physical sense in the book of Genesis. It is God Who created the family unit, and it in no way just evolved!

            Family was not a concept which somehow came out of myths of old as some scholars try to insinuate. God created man and woman. He created Eve from Adam’s rib: “And Adam said: ‘This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.’”  (Genesis 2:23)

            Then God said, “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.” (Genesis 2:24)

            God created the institution of marriage, and it was between a man and a woman. Since Eden, man has done many things to alter what God intended.  Even the Pharisees and other religious leaders during the time of Jesus had perverted what God established, and they tried to test Christ by asking him about the institution of marriage: “The Pharisees also came to Him, testing Him, and saying to Him, ‘Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for just any reason?’ And He answered and said to them, ‘Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning “made them male and female,” and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh?’ So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, let not man separate.” (Matthew 19:3-6)

            The Pharisees then said to Jesus, “Why then did Moses command to give a certificate of divorce, and to put her away?” He said to them, ‘Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, permitted you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.’”  (Matthew 19:7-8)

            God created the institution of marriage, and He intended it to be an enduring union between a husband and a wife. However, it is because of the hardness of the hearts of human beings that divorce was permitted by Moses. Why did God create the holy union of marriage? The answer helps us understand why Satan has been so intent upon destroying the godly concept of family, and why around forty-one percent of marriages end in divorce. The answer is rather simple, and it helps us understand why two people being one is so very important.

            Marriage can be a beautiful thing. When two people marry it is for better or worse.  A young man and woman marry with a commitment to each other to share a lifetime together regardless of what life brings. Hopefully, they set out to build a family together obeying God, and they desire to teach their children about God, marriage, and family.  They will be successful in marriage if selfishness does not take hold in their relationship.

He Seeks a Godly Offspring

            God says in Malachi 2:16 that He hates divorce. In ancient Israel divorce was common, an almost expected thing, as it is today. God was so displeased with the way they treated marriage He did not accept their crying and tears and offerings at the altar. They said to God, “For what reason do you reject our pleas and offerings?” The prophet Malachi states God’s response to them: “Yet you say, ‘For what reason?’ Because the Lord has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth, with whom you have dealt treacherously; yet she is your companion and your wife by covenant. But did He not make them one, having a remnant of the Spirit? And why one? He seeks godly offspring. Therefore, take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously with the wife of his youth.” (Malachi 2:14-15)

            God implores us to have a right attitude towards one another in marriage and become one. Why? So, a godly seed can be produced. No wonder the Devil and this world he influences wants to destroy the institution of marriage and family structure God created to bring about a godly seed.

            For God’s people in this end time, it is imperative we protect our marriages and families from the onslaught of the great tsunami of perversion in this corrupt and evil generation!

 

            Have a restful Sabbath and a good weekend.