CREATURE VERSUS CREATOR
Chapter Seven
WORLD
VERSUS FAMILY
God, Who does much
of His creating in sets of threes, ordained 3 human organizations; the family,
government, and the church. He ordained human government more or less out of
the necessity of controlling degenerate sinners/criminals, not as an object of
His Love and Affection. But He formed the family and the church as human
organizations most dear and precious to Him, greatly loved and cared for by
Him. Thus they naturally become prime targets for Satan’s most fierce assaults,
because he delights in trying to destroy that which God loves the most. It is
tragic that we willingly do so much to aid the devil’s attacks on the family
and the church. God is extremely jealous over the human family and the church.
Therefore His Wrath is heavy upon anything that harms either of them.
Upon creating
man in His Image, our Creator promptly proclaimed, “It
is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for
him.” (Genesis 2:18) “Male and female created he
them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they
were created.” (Genesis 5:2) It is interesting here to see that God
applied the name “Adam” to both the male and the female. “And Adam called his wife’s name Eve; because she was the
mother of all living.” (Genesis 3:20) Prior to this verse, the woman has
simply been called “woman.” Now the male human creature, not the Creator,
gives her a name and calls her “Eve”, because she was the mother of all living.
The dictionary in my concordance defines “Eve” as “life giver” and “first
woman.”
God ordained
that the male and female join together as husband and wife in holy marriage
till death doeth part them. “Therefore shall a man
leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall
be one flesh.” (Genesis 2:24) Adam and Eve did not have any earthly
fathers and mothers. So before there were any earthly fathers, mothers, and
children, while the first 2 created human beings were still in their first
estate, our Creator ordained the human family, which is made up of husband and
wife (father and mother) and children. Thus the human family is
composed of 3 different “kinds” of people, husband/father, wife/mother, and
child/children. A married couple is not yet a family.
Children/offspring are the 3rd kind of humans necessary to a married
couple, to be a family in our Creator’s Sight. “And
they shall be one flesh.” This is how God ordained a that married couple
produce a family, by the husband and wife becoming one flesh together in holy,
sacred marriage before God and man.
Our
Creator God restricted the act of a man and a woman becoming one flesh to
married couples only. If two unmarried people (a man and a
woman) become one flesh, it is the sin of fornication. If a married person
becomes one flesh with someone to whom he or she is not married, it is the sin
of adultery. “Know ye not that…neither fornicators…nor
adulterers…shall inherit the kingdom of God.” (I Corinthians 6:9&10)
Nowadays, spineless, cowardly preachers, Christian leaders, and Christians
frequently use the nice sounding, politically correct term, “sexually active,”
when referring to the immoral sins of fornication and adultery. But those acts
will always be awful, soul-damning sins in the Sight of our Creator God, and
the punishment for them will eternally remain the same, never ending Hell fire.
Nowadays, with
the God ordained family so terribly destroyed by the devil’s kingdom, so many
assorted individuals are spending their lives “communing” and abiding together.
Thus, in the 1990s, wicked, high-ranking government officials in the US
declared that any groups of people abiding/living together compose a family.
LIE! A BIG LIE from the devil! A genuine family is that which God created and
ordained a family to be; husband/father, wife/mother, and
offspring/child/children. “God setteth the solitary in
families.” (Psalms 68:6) Immediately upon creating Mr. Adam, the Lord
God declared, “It is not good that the man should be
alone.” Thus our Creator remedied that problem by setting the solitary
in families.
The human
family is most dear and precious to the Heart of our Creator God. Therefore
He well provided for its protection, safety, preservation, provision, life’s
work, joy, pleasure, fulfillment, satisfaction, and contentment in that first
estate He ordained for the human family to live within. God ordained that
all the family members live together practically all the time, on the
land, living and working together day in and day out to produce (not to buy
with money) their physical needs. This God ordained lifestyle preserves
the integrity of the family. The farm (earth) is God’s glue that
holds His created human family together. The world (the devil’s
kingdom) is that which pulls apart and destroys the family so dearly loved by
God Who ordained and created it. The God created family is that which we
degenerate sinners sacrifice upon the devil’s altar in his kingdom of this
world, because we so madly love that world and the things that are in that
world. “Love not the world, neither the things
that are in the world.” God’s Wrath hangs most heavily over this
modern-day generation of rebellious world lovers who have so terribly destroyed
God’s beloved family. May He open our spiritual eyes to see just how great and
severe that wrath presently is.
“Heavenly
Father, please teach me just exactly what has so terribly destroyed the human
family in our modern times. And give me a heart to totally believe the real
reasons for the destruction of the family. I pray this for all other people
also. Amen.”
“The wife is bound by
the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at
liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.” (I
Corinthians 7:39) God ordained that marriage be for a lifetime, broken only by
the death of one of the partners. The above verse shows that the wife is bound
to the husband for a lifetime. Now let’s look at a verse forbidding the husband
from ending his marriage. “And I say unto you,
Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall
marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away
doth commit adultery.” (Matthew 19:9) “Fornication” would be an act by a
woman espoused to (engaged to) a man, before they have gotten married.
God permits the husband-to-be to put away the woman in that case, because he
has not yet become one flesh with her. But once the man and wife have become
one flesh, it is God’s plan that they remain together as long as they both
live. Here, Christ clearly calls it adultery for a man to put away his wife and
marry another woman. Not only that, but if another man marries that woman who
has been put away by her husband, that man also commits adultery by doing so.
God clearly tells us that adulterers and fornicators shall not inherit the
kingdom of God. (I Corinthians 6:9 &10)
God ordained
that married couples daily live their lives together. Barring hardships,
disasters, accidents, wars, and such things entirely beyond their control that
separates them, a married couple should live practically all their
days together, not just their evenings and nights, daily working together
to provide the family’s needs. The family being together practically all the
time bonds the family together in a most strong way. God ordained that it be
so. When the man and wife are apart daily or for days at a time, that is
already “separation” of the married couple and it often leads straight
to divorce.
I am acquainted
with a very godly, fundamental Christian man in the U.S., reared by 2 godly,
Christian parents, his father being a pastor of a fundamental Baptist church.
On one brief occasion, that pastor’s son and I did a little street evangelism
together, back about 1986, and I still vividly recall how diligently he
witnessed to some young, unsaved men on the street. I was so impressed over his
love and compassion for lost souls and the skilled ability he had to talk to
them in such a favorable manner that they stayed around him there on the street
and listened for a long time. (I don’t have the talent that he did. I tend to
spout hellfire and brimstone all the time and run the people off quickly.)
He must have
been about 20 years old then, and soon got married to a Christian woman. But
his father later told me that they soon separated, and as best I recall, the
father said they also divorced. His Dad also told me the reason for that
marriage dissolving. His son worked a job that regularly kept him away from
home 24 to 48 hours at a time, and that alone put enough strain on that
Christian couple’s marriage to end it. You see, being a fundamental Christian
and believing most everything in the Bible is not enough to hold a Christian
marriage together. We need to truly believe in the importance of our Creator
ordained first estate and also in the importance of God’s command, “Love not the world, neither the things that are in the
world.” A couple needs to live their lives together, being together
practically all the time, in order to insure the preservation of the
family. And God well arranged for that in our Creator ordained first estate.
I’ll try to
keep my examples few in order to be brief. You well know that married
couples being apart much of the time was a primary cause of millions of
marriages failing in Christian America during the 20th century. A
lot of those couples were godly, Christian husbands and wives who meant every
word of those marriage vows they took, vowing to love, honour, cherish, and
live together till death do they part. But all those good Christian
intentions were not enough to make a marriage work. The couple must be
“glued” together almost all of the time to ensure that the marriage stays
“glued” together. And when one or both of them live and work in the devil’s
kingdom, it keeps them apart much of the time. That enables God’s archenemy to
destroy the family God so loves. God ordained for a married couple to live
their days together, on a farm.
I recall how
that separation and divorce of Christian couples was practically non-existent
in the 1950’s in the rural Alabama area where I was growing up. Also,
separation and divorce was most rare for couples then and there who didn’t go
to church or profess to be Christians, and some of them lived terribly sinful
lives. Still most of those marriages stayed glued together. I contribute that
to the fact that they were living in (or close to) their Creator ordained first
estate, which naturally kept those marriages glued together.
Living together
tends to make us fonder of each other. I believe that God ordained that. It
also makes us more irritated with each other. I believe that stems from our
degenerate nature. With God’s Help, we should strive to live in victory over
our degenerate flesh, so as to be a blessing and not a curse to our family
members with whom we live. “Separation makes the heart grow fonder.” I know
there is truth in that man-made proverb. But “separation” is definitely not
the way God ordained for married couples to grow in love. Being together
practically all the time is how God ordained that they grow in love. Therefore
that is the way married couples should live. Some of you find it so difficult
to get along with your spouse that you feel like the only thing that makes your
marriage bearable is that you two are apart from each other all day for 5 days
a week. Such a condition is most regrettable and should not be. The way to
improve on that situation is for both of you to strive, with God’s Help, to be
the best Christians possible.
Daily
being away from all of one’s own family members while mingling together all day
long with a host of other people who are also away from all their own family
members, tends to breed familiarity toward those associates that God never
intended to be. Each gender will come to naturally do
innocent little things with and for the other gender that God ordained to be
done with and for one’s spouse. Over a period of time, often an
affectionate bond just naturally forms and grows between a man
and woman not married to each other, simply because they are spending their
days together 5 days a week. Many times that has led to a person divorcing
his or her spouse in order to marry this new found friend, thus destroying that
family, because a husband or wife has grown fond of someone else with whom they
are regularly spending much of their waking day. (I cannot emphasize enough,
the importance of what is written in this paragraph.)
“Almighty
God, I praise Thy Name that nothing is impossible with Thee. So please teach me
clearly and perfectly, the importance of the statements in the above paragraph.
Amen.”
Several times,
I have spoken of God confining us sinners in solitary (family) confinement on
His prison farm. He did so with the purpose of preserving the family and preventing
the rampant spread of sin by us sinners. Frequent visiting privileges are
permitted, and in an old-fashioned farming community, visiting is usually done
by an entire family visiting another entire family. That setting, plus the fact
that it is typically infrequent rather than all day every day, stifles the
growth of undue familiarity between a male and a female who are not family
members. May God teach us the great importance of the family daily living
together throughout the day, not just rooming and boarding together
after the day is done.
“Heavenly
Father, please send Thy Holy Spirit to teach me Thy Divine Truths concerning
what Bro. Richard has just written here. Teach me how important it is for the
family to daily live together. Show me how this bonds the family together and
preserves and protects the family from separation and divorce. Show me the
importance of Thy ordained lifestyle for us human creatures regarding the
family daily living their lives together. I pray for all people to come to an
understanding of Thy Divine Will concerning the human family daily living their
lives together. Amen.”
“His quiver full of them”
A married
couple becoming one flesh “naturally” produces offspring. God created
within the human creature’s heart, the desire to produce offspring. The
intensity of that desire varies from person to person. God instilled that
desire to ensure that His human race would not die out. Offspring are
typically most welcomed and most desired by married couples living in their
first estate, on God’s prison farm, tilling the ground. “Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of
the womb is his reward. As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are
children of the youth. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they
shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.” (Psalms
127:3-5) Bible scholars tell us that in those days, a quiver held about 7
arrows when full. I believe that is the approximate number of children to which
this scripture refers.
As civilization
“advances,” married couples typically produce fewer offspring, and they give 2
main reasons for doing so; putting education first and career second
in their lives. Their first priority in life has come to be that of eating
all the knowledge of good and evil that they possibly can. And then it just
naturally follows that their second priority in life becomes their career,
using all that knowledge to build and enhance the devil’s kingdom. These 2
goals cause married couples to produce few or no offspring. Many such couples
produce only one child, which results in a most bland childhood (and adulthood
also) because there are no siblings. Nowhere else is a quiver full (about 7)
of children as welcomed, as they are on the God-created farm, our
Creator-ordained first estate.
The deeper one
goes into the devil’s kingdom (Sodom and Gomorrah) and the busier one gets
there building the devil’s kingdom and enjoying all the things and pleasures
there, the less he or she will desire offspring. They choose to take pleasure
in the devil’s kingdom instead of taking pleasure in rearing godly descendents.
Also, the cramped living quarters and the busy lifestyle are not conducive to
rearing a quiver full of children. Loving the devil’s kingdom and giving one’s
life to building and enjoying its pleasures leads straight to the terrible sin
of people murdering their offspring before they are born (abortion). Just as
divorce was almost totally unknown to an old fashioned farming family, more so
was the terrible, murderous sin of abortion unknown. These deplorable, family
destroying sins mainly stem from people choosing to live in the devil’s kingdom
instead of on God’s earth. “Love not the world.”
“It
is not good that the man should be alone.” “God setteth the solitary in
families.” Thus what God ordains will result in the
majority of the human race joining with a mate for life in holy marriage and
producing a quiver full of offspring. Human creatures living in their first
estate are most inclined to do these things. Living in the devil’s kingdom,
more people remain unmarried, leading to an increase in the sin of fornication.
Also more mothers murder their unborn offspring. How terribly the devil’s
kingdom destroys Gods most beloved family.
“Almighty
God, teach me the truth of, and the importance of, these things, and guide me
into Thy Perfect Will for me concerning these matters. I pray this for all
other people also. Amen.”
It is natural
for married couples to desire offspring. It is unnatural for a married couple
not to desire offspring. I do not believe it is always a sin, but it is
unnatural. Some Christian couples may not desire offspring because they desire
to fully give their lives to serving God. Also, in this present time, I believe
there is possibly another just reason for couples to not desire offspring. “And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give
suck in those days.” (Matthew 24:19) “For,
behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren,
and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.” (Luke
23:29) Many people believe that we are presently in the last days prophesied in
these verses, and thus some of them do not desire offspring.
God clearly
tells us that the head of the woman is the man. (I Corinthians 11:3) I
believe that naturally makes the man the head of the family, and there is much
instruction in the Bible that bears that out. As the head of the woman and the
family, the man is the primary power, authority, protector, & provider for
his wife and children. I believe that the woman is the heart of the
family. Though the Bible does not state that, I believe that it does clearly
bear out that role of the woman. With her God-created soft emotions and
affections, she is the primary provider of the family’s tender, loving care
which God ordained that she shower upon her husband and their offspring. A
primary role of the woman is that she feather the nest. We can observe
most all animal mothers doing that, just as their Creator ordained. And it is
more important that He ordained it for the human family He created, and thus
important that the human male and female each carry out the primary family role
that God ordained for each of them.
God ordained
that the stronger male primarily do the heavier, manual labor involved in
tilling the ground, caring for animals, building shelters for family and
animals, and such like work. God ordained that the softly affectioned woman
(who is the weaker vessel) primarily do the house work of feeding and clothing
the family, caring for the children (especially the infants), and such like
work. I believe that God clearly ordains for the human male and female,
these separate and distinct primary gender roles. But the common sense God
gave me also teaches me that there is nothing wrong with either spouse
“crossing over” and helping the other with his or her work, when necessity
demands it or when there is simply the desire to do it. However, amidst this
perverted, wicked, sinful generation we now live in, we Christian believers
should never be ashamed to boldly stand for that which our Creator ordained,
including clear and separate gender roles.
It is most
important to our Creator, and most pleasing to Him, for males to live a
masculine life doing the masculine work God ordained for them, and for females
to live a feminine life, doing the feminine work God ordained for them. It is
important for parents to train their sons and daughters in each of their
respective gender roles. This glorifies their Creator and it is THE main
thing God ordained to guard against them becoming sexually perverted. Parents
are to rear masculine boys (not sissies), and feminine girls (not
tomboys).
God did not
ordain that the man and woman co-rule the family on an equal basis,
as many Christians now preach and teach. He clearly tells us that man is the
head of the woman. This is born out by the fact that Eve’s name appears 4 times
in the Bible, and Adam’s name appears 31 times, if I counted correctly.
God certainly
ordained separate primary roles for husband and wife, making Him a
Discriminator between the genders, which is entirely proper of Him. He
hath done all things well, and it is most good, fitting, and proper of Him to
ordain separate primary roles for male and female. I find no fault in Him
concerning this, or concerning anything else He chooses to do with His
creation. Anyone, who objects to anything that Almighty God does with any of
His creation, is wrong in the matter and thereby is in rebellion against his or
her Creator concerning that point. And we Christians who believe in our Creator
God should NEVER be ashamed of anything that He hath ordained for His
creation. And our life and our speech should both always boldly testify before
this sinful, perverse, and perverted generation that we are totally in favor of
all that our just and righteous God ordained for the male/husband/father,
female/wife/mother, and their offspring.
“Almighty
God, please give me Thy Wisdom concerning the gender roles Thou didst ordain
for male and female. Teach me to love these separate roles, knowing that they
are good and right. Help me to properly fill the gender role Thou hast ordained
for me, and help me to teach my children their proper gender roles. I pray this
for all other human creatures also. Amen.”
The
father filling his masculine roles, the mother filling her feminine roles, and
both of them training up their sons and daughters to do the same, is the
primary way God ordained to prevent sinful, sexual perversion.
And in order for each parent to fill his or her role and in order to properly
train up their sons and daughters to fill their masculine and feminine roles,
all the family members need to live together day in and day out, practically
all the time. Look at the history of most any nation, and you will see a rise
in the sin of sexual perversion as people leave the farm to go work in the
devil’s kingdom. When a boy grows up daily toiling and sweating along side his
father as they do manual farm labor together, that guards against that boy
becoming perverted. But when his dad is daily absent from the home and the son
is reared mainly by his mother while rarely in the presence of his father, that
increases the chance of him becoming perverted.
Government
should not make child labor laws that forbid children from laboring on their
family farm. Any chores that farming parents assign to their children should be
kept in accordance to the child’s age abilities. Following that wise guideline,
it is most beneficial to the child to regularly do appropriate farm chores from
an early age, and I believe that God ordained that to be. I have observed that
it is most rare for farm parents to ruthlessly push their children to do hard
labor that strains at the child’s ability, in the manner that coaches and
managers of children’s organized sports teams sometimes ruthlessly push
children (from a very young age) to excel and perform dazzling feats in
numerous types of sports. How sinfully wrong people are to push children to the
limits in training them to rise up as high as possible in some worldly
endeavor, but then call it child abuse for farming parents to have their own
children do appropriate farm chores. Such should not be. Growing up on a farm
and doing appropriate farm chores from a very early age is the best way to
train and equip a person to labor productively enough to earn his or her
living. Such is what our Creator ordained.
The
God-ordained family is best preserved by living together all the time on their
God-ordained first estate, the earth (farm). And if you are going to live
together daily, you definitely need a few acres of land on which to live. A
family daily cooped up together all day in a small apartment would likely drive
each other crazy. Also they would have little profitable work to do there.
When the man
daily leaves home to go work all day in the devil’s kingdom, the head of
the family is then missing, removed by the devil from daily ruling over his
family. If the woman daily absents herself from the home, then the heart
of the family is missing. In either case, it results in death to the family.
I didn’t say it results in death to any person, but rather to the family,
which is the very first and most precious earthly human organization God
ordained. If someone were to remove either my head or my heart from my body,
I well know that would result in death to my body. Therefore I believe that
removing either the head or the heart from the family just as certainly brings
death to the family, long before any legal separation or divorce occurs. All
the devil has to do in order to destroy the precious, God-created family is to
get its members separated from each other for much of their waking day. And
he does that by enticing them to leave God’s prison farm each day and go their
separate ways out in the devil’s kingdom. Little children go to a babysitter’s
or to day care. The older children go to school to eat of the knowledge of good
and evil. The parents go work to build the devil’s kingdom and to enjoy the
lusts of the flesh, the lusts of the eyes, and the pride of life to be found
there. Thus the family is daily dismembered, put to death, and made null and
void in a true sense. A most basic cause of this is the human creature’s love
for the world, the devil’s kingdom. “Love not the
world, neither the things that are in the world.”
God
ordained that both parents together daily rear their offspring.
“It takes a community to raise a child.” That is a lie of the devil that we
have been bombarded with for some time. But recently, “experts” who have
honestly evaluated that concept have admitted that it is mistaken thinking.
They have observed that day care children are overly aggressive and “bad” in
several other ways also. Therefore they concluded that parents do a much better
job of rearing their children. God ordained that the 2 parents do that job
together, as the head and as the heart of the family. Always remember
that both a functioning heart and a functioning head are absolutely necessary
to keep a body alive. God created the two parents as THE absolute
authorities over their offspring. Therefore, no one else is as well equipped or
qualified to discipline them properly or to love them properly. God did not
intend for parents to turn their children over to babysitters, day care and
kindergarten personnel, and school teachers to be reared by them. You well how
a child naturally recognizes the authority of parents in a way that the child
never totally recognizes and accepts the authority of any other adult. I am not
implying that a child always obeys its parents. But a child well recognizes
God’s authority bestowed upon those parents, that recognition itself instilled
in the child by its Creator.
Parents
alone have the patience to suffice for this most important task of
properly rearing children, that sufficient patience stemming from the
God-created love, affection, and concern for their own offspring that God
instilled in parents. Some working Christian parents choose a Christian
day care facility as the best place for their little children to be reared
while those parents are daily living their lives out in the world
building the devil’s kingdom. Once I stopped by a church (in America) about
mid-afternoon on a weekday, and thus just happened to briefly observe their day
care in operation. In one room of it, a teenage girl was taking care of about 5
little children, each about 4 years old, and “imprisoned” there on that
concrete, tile floor and surrounded by drab cinderblock walls. That teenage
girl’s workday was approaching its end, and she also was about at the end of
her rope. She had been taking care of those children all day and had long
before run out of patience with them, leaving her frustrated and mad, which had
reduced her to simply yelling each child’s name when one did something he or
she should not do. And by this time, the children were reduced to whimpering
and whining in response to her yelling. What a terrible situation that was for
both that teenage girl and for those little toddlers.
There were 3
important things wrong in that situation. She was not the parent of any one of
those children. She was too young and immature for the task she was attempting
to do. And God ordained that human parents rarely give birth to more than one
child at a time, making it most rare for parents to have to care for more than
one child of the same age. Childcare providers, schoolteachers, and other
people who take care of groups of children, are often afflicted with high blood
pressure, frayed nerves, and other such maladies. It is a practice filled with
much destruction, because it stems from the devil’s world and is not the life
our Creator ordained for us. To me, it was most regretful to see how those
precious little souls were being reared there at that church day care.
By the way, the farm scenes and nature scenes painted on the drab cinderblock
walls of many day care centers and kindergartens give clear testimony that the
children confined there have been robbed of their God-ordained environment.
Sometime back
in history when we Christian believers firmly set ourselves to love the devil’s
kingdom, we declared that it was proper for the man to daily absent himself
from the home to go out into the world make a living for the family and that
the woman was to stay home and rear the children. As time passed and more
Christian mothers began to work away from home, much of Christianity (maybe
somewhat reluctantly) put its stamp of approval on that, and called on the
parents to choose a good person or facility to care for their children. Such
free thinking and freely setting of our own rules for our lives had its start
when Eve opted to be her own god by disobeying her Creator, a trait which is
now common in all of us degenerate human creatures. We choose to let our own
minds be our bibles and thus we make what rules we want when we want them. Not
only do lost sinners do that, but individual Christians and Christianity as a
whole also do it.
“Lord
God, please save me from making myself and my own mind and thinking into my own
bible and god. Please help me to totally submit myself to Thee, my Creator, and
to Thy Holy Bible. Please help me to diligently study the Bible and to keenly
listen to the Voice of Thy Holy Spirit as I do so, in order to learn what Thou
requirest of me. Please give me the will and the ability to obey Thee fully
while in this life here on earth. I pray this for all other people also. Amen.”
Down through
the ages till the 20th century, it was predominantly the male who
left home daily to go work a job out in the devil’s kingdom, with much of
Christianity putting its stamp of approval on that while declaring that the
mother’s place is in the home. That leaves the family without a head, without
the strong authority figure that is so necessary in the home. Somewhere in
times past, the man was declared to be the breadwinner. But God ordained
that he be the bread grower, tilling the ground to grow the bread
and the rest of the family’s food. Thus the male authority is daily present
with his family to exercise the proper authority any time it is needed. Even
though he is out in the fields much of the time instead of inside the house,
often some of his family members are right there with him. And when they are in
the house at the time he is out working his land, he is still close by to
exercise his authority when needed.
Our Creator set
up you husbands and fathers as the head of your help meet, your children, your
house, your home. It is impossible for your family to be anything close to
what God ordained it to be, when you are nothing more than an infrequent
visitor in your home. When the devil daily removes the head of the family,
he deals a most devastating blow to the family that is dearly beloved by its
Creator God. Too often it results in a broken marriage, a fatal blow to the
family. I urge you husbands and fathers to seriously think on that.
“Heavenly
Father, please help me, as a husband and father, as the head of this precious
and most valuable family for which Thou hast made me responsible, to properly
fill my role and completely do all my duties involved in being the head of this
family. Please clearly teach and show me the full extent of those duties, and
help me to change my life in any way that is needed in order to properly carry
out those duties. I pray this for all other heads of family also. Amen.”
First, it was
typically the man who daily left home to work elsewhere, decapitating the
family’s head. Soon the woman followed suit. That removed the “heart” from the
family and also usually resulted in the parents hiring other people to take
care of their children during the day. The concept of “family” CANNOT mean
as much as it should to children who are not reared full time by both parents.
When those children become parents, I believe they are handicapped in their
knowledge of how to fulfill their parental roles. That produces many family
problems, including a greater likelihood of divorce.
God
ordained that all the family members (father, mother, and offspring) live
together most all the time as a way of preserving the family intact and
preventing broken marriages and broken homes. Another thing
God ordained to bond the family together is that of the family members working
together to produce their needs of food, clothing, shelter, and such. I do not
mean working a paying job to obtain mammon to buy those necessities. I mean
actually growing the food they eat; cutting trees and sawing them into boards
to build their house and barn; and spinning the thread, weaving the cloth and
then sewing the cloth to make the garments they wear. The farm family of
yesteryear seldom or never ate out, nor did they order ready-to-eat meals
delivered to their house, nor did they zap food in a microwave oven or quickly
throw together a meal of “instant” food. Instead, the farm house was daily
filled with the tantalizing aromas of bread baking in the oven, a meat roast
simmering in the oven, and one or more pots and fry pans simmering on the stove
or over the fireplace. The children participated in all this family work
according to their ability. And by growing, building, making, producing, and
cooking their own necessities of life, they are demonstrating their love for
each other in a most concrete way that bonds the family together just as our
Creator ordained that it do. Children participate in this family work all the
time they are growing up, which trains them to well carry it on when they marry
and start their family.
Look at how
kitchen size becomes smaller and kitchen facilities become fewer as families
prepare and eat fewer meals at home. That situation alone gravely weakens
family ties. If you believe the truth of what I am writing in this chapter, but
do not see how you can possibly immediately move your family onto a farm and start
growing your food, then start with smaller, easier steps. Start cooking your
meals at home and there eating them together as a family as often as you can.
Major on preparing meals from scratch, baking bread, and such. The pleasant
smell of food cooking is one thing that turns a house into a home and is
important in preserving the family. Eat your meals together as a family around
the meal table while looking at each other and talking together, instead of
eating in the living room or den while each person stares silently at a TV or
video screen, mesmerized by the continuous worldly and sinful scenes shown on
that screen. Take control of the life God has given you, so that you have time
to regularly enjoy leisurely meals with all family members present and talking
and fellowshipping with each other. Daily spending an appropriate amount of
time in this way is not being lazy, but rather it is enhancing and
strengthening the family in a way that God ordained.
“But Brother
Richard, we don’t have time to do that.” If so, then you do not have time to be
a family, nor do you have time to keep the devil from destroying the precious
family your Creator entrusted in your care (and for which He holds you
responsible), tho you have the same number of hours in your day as all other
people have had since God created the human race. And just look at what you and
your family members are spending your time doing; eating the knowledge of good
and evil, building the devil’s kingdom, and enjoying the lusts of the flesh,
the lusts of the eyes, and the pride of life out there in his kingdom. “Love not the world, neither the things that are in the
world.”
“Well Brother
Richard, it is not exactly like that. It is because we all have to work so many
jobs so many long hours just to make ends meet financially.” Well if that is
the case, it is far past the time when you should be frantically calling out to
your Creator in prayer, for Him to save you from, and deliver you from, your
bondage to the devil’s kingdom. Honestly confess to God your need for that
deliverance and submit yourself to Him for Him to bring about that deliverance
for you. Though in your own eyes you cannot see the possibility of any such
deliverance, ask God to give you faith to believe that all things are possible with
Him.
“Heavenly
Father, I do desire that Thy Will be done in the lives of all my family
members. I desire Thy salvation and deliverance from any and all of Satan’s
entrapments I am presently in, and from all things I am presently doing that
are not Thy Will for me to do. Please give me strong faith to believe that with
Thee, all things are possible. Please give me the faith to see Thee make my
life just what it should be. Thank Thee, Lord, for giving me the necessary help
in these matters. Amen.”
As Christian
parents rear their offspring on a farm, they can teach their children reading,
writing, and arithmetic. They can add as much history, geography, government,
and true science as they deem necessary. And they can use God’s Holy Bible as a
textbook for much of this teaching. God ordained 12 hours of labor a day, 6
days a week on His prison farms for sinful mankind. That is a long (72 hour)
workweek. But all that time, the family can be together, loving and
cherishing one another as they grow, build, make, and cook the things necessary
for our life here on earth. Also, farm life best enables them to take pleasure
in the 3 things God ordained that we take pleasure in; our Creator God, other
people, and the nature God created. These are the 3 things that God ordained to
fulfill our being (body, soul, & spirit), during our stay on this earth.
Nowadays, few
families spend much time together at home. And for the brief time they are
together, they have ceased much of the interaction among family members that
God ordained. Instead, they work and play (often in solitary) with an
unending assortment of things of the world, especially hi tech gadgets. To love
the world is to sacrifice the family on the devil’s altar out there in his
kingdom. May God save us from doing that.
I see a clear
(and most alarming) trend in the use of all the mind-boggling gadgetry that
keeps rapidly evolving and advancing in the devil’s kingdom. Solitary use of
it by individuals steadily increases. It tends to isolate people from each
other. Tho they may constantly be in a crowded environment with people all
around them, that crowd of people is interacting less and less. More and more
they are in virtual solitary as they interact with some hi tech gadgetry and
not with other human creatures. Just look at the increase in the use of cubicle
type work areas and study areas. And when the physical cubicle isn’t present,
just observe how that people form their own mental cubicle as they carry on in
solitary with some hi tech gadget, oblivious to the people around them. I
believe that is turning people into lonely souls like nothing else ever has.
It is emptying out their hearts of every good thing God created in the human
heart and soul. It is robbing people of their natural affections and emotions,
and it is making them into extremely lonely creatures in a crowded world
full of lonely human creatures. So few people are aware of this fact, and that
alone is dangerous. Not only does the use of this dazzling gadgetry make
the user oblivious to people, it also makes them oblivious to their Creator God
and to the beautiful and wonderful nature He created for us to live in.
(Remember, these are the 3 things God ordained that we take pleasure in; God,
the natural world He created, and other people.) I believe the increasing
solitary use of the devil’s gadgetry is robbing people of their sanity and
natural affections (II Timothy 3:3), that it is destroying the family, and that
it is destroying the human race God created in His Image. Therefore it would
behoove us to not love the devil’s kingdom and the things in it. God forbid
that we sacrifice the family upon the devil’s altar, because we love the world
and the things of the world. Look at the steady increase of crime and sin by
teens, and now by children, of younger and younger ages. I believe one of the
main causes of this increasing destruction is people loving the devil’s
kingdom, living in it instead of on God’s earth, and constantly staring at an
infinite number of images on various screens of the devil’s gadgetry. The
quickest way to destroy the God created family is to live in the devil’s world.
The best way to preserve the human family is to live on God’s earth, tilling
it for a living, and finding our pleasures in our Creator God, His created
nature, and other human creatures. May God open our eyes to see the important
truth of this.
“Heavenly
Father, please give me Thy Wisdom concerning these things I have just read
here. And also give me Thy Divine
Guidance as to what I should do concerning them. I pray this for all other
people also. Amen.”
If mankind did
not eat of the knowledge of good and evil, I do not believe that the human race
would “progress” in the way we regard the term “progress,” that is, becoming
more modern and advanced. That would just about totally prevent “generation
gaps” where descendents become estranged from their living ancestors because
the lives they live are so different. I was reared by a dirt farmer, my Dad,
who did not have a high school education. I grew up doing much hard, manual
labor on our family farm. On reaching adulthood, I decided I did not want to
live that kind of life. So I got a college education and became a military jet
pilot. When I achieved that status, my life and my Dad’s life had very little
in common. He knew almost nothing about the job I was then doing, and I had
very little interest in his lowly occupation of tilling the ground. In very
definite ways, that set up a barrier between us.
Not only does this
“progress” alienate family members by means of generation gaps, I believe it
also definitely alienates human creatures from their Creator and steadily leads
each succeeding generation further from God and further into sin and
destruction. I look at my Dad’s generation, how that many of them had very
little education, farmed for a living, and were quite content with little more
than the basic necessities of life. But very few of the farm boys of my
generation continued to farm, because we were intent on rising higher than
that. More of my generation of farm boys went to town to get the best job to be
found there or entered a university and got a degree there as we set ourselves
on rising and gaining many things of the world. Then I look at each succeeding
generation after me, how they lust more and more after the world, and how that
increasing numbers of them are destroyed by worldly and sinful things like
drugs and such. And we can expect the destruction of families and of
individuals to increase as each succeeding generation alienates itself further
from our God-ordained first estate. Each generation needs to stay in that first
estate for the salvation our Creator God provided in it.
As each
generation goes deeper into the ever changing “world” (the devil’s kingdom),
they become more estranged from the previous generation, having less in common
with them. This naturally weakens family ties. Living ancestors come to mean
less to the younger, modern generation who will easily be bored by the
old-fashioned speech and actions of the older ones. Our Creator Who changes
not, intended that His human race remain old-fashioned in its first
estate. By doing so, grandchildren grow up doing the exact same thing with
their lives that their grandparents are doing with their lives. Therefore each
of those generations can receive much pleasure from each other as grandparents
help train up their grandchildren to work in their Creator ordained first
estate. (My dirt farmer Dad could not possibly have given me any of the training
necessary for me to become a jet pilot, because he had no knowledge of that
job.)
Living on the
land, it has been customary for one child and his or her family to remain at
home. Therefore, as his or her parents become old they just naturally reduce
their labor as age and waning strength dictate. What joy and security they
derive from seeing the next 2 generations (children and grandchildren) bearing
the load in the vigor and strength of their youth as they do the exact same
farm labor the grandparents did. That prevents generation gaps with the
generations being worlds apart in their lifestyles. As the older generation
becomes frail and unable to do most anything, they are cared for by their
descendents. In general, that is what our Creator ordained regarding retirement
for the elderly and none of us can improve on it.
Life among a
human race of degenerate sinners abounds with danger, and true safety in any
area of life is to be found in our Creator God and in Him alone. Overall,
tilling the ground is the safest occupation and lifestyle on this planet. That
is one reason God ordained it for us. I know that farm machines frequently
cause horrible accidents that kill or severely injure farm workers. But such
power machines came about as products of people eating of the knowledge of good
and evil and using that knowledge to invent those machines. I do not believe
such machines were in God’s plan for man to till the ground.
One area of
safety to be considered is our physical health. Much food abounds in the
devil’s kingdom, there available for anyone to purchase with mammon. Much of
that food has been processed in ways that destroy much of its nutrition. Often
preservatives, flavorings, colorings, and such non-food items have been added,
which are usually detrimental to our health. Such foods comprise the main diet
of many people who live in the devil’s world. Not only do these altered foods
damage the eaters’ health, but also tend to turn them into worse sinners.
Once, a group
of confined, inner city, juvenile delinquents was fed only healthy and natural
foods to see what affect it would have on their behavior. To make a long story
short, they soon ceased to be criminals. They just naturally ceased committing
the crimes that previously were their nature to commit. Breathing the poisons
in polluted city air has also been linked to forming criminal natures in
people. Improper nutrition, junk foods, pollution, stress, and other such
dangers in the devil’s kingdom have resulted in many children being put on
prescription drugs for depression, hyper activity, and many similar problems.
Those problems, and the drugs given to cure them, have resulted in suicides
among children and teens. Truly, the devil’s kingdom is a most dangerous and deadly
place to live.
Another way, in
which living in the devil’s kingdom is dangerous, is that it hardens the hearts
of the human creatures who live there against their Creator, greatly increasing
the chance they will die just as they were born, a lost child of the devil who
perishes in Hell. The “hardness” (and lifelessness) of its concrete, asphalt,
iron, and steel environment just naturally hardens the hearts of those who live
amongst that awful mess that fallen man has built. God ordained that we live in
His created nature, because it is the most suitable environment for us.
Once, in
America, I visited a church that had a farm for “problem” young people who were
drug users, criminals, and such. Those problem youth who were sent there were
given farm work to do and also had the Bible taught and preached to them daily.
After being there for some time, many of them would receive Christ and start
living a victorious Christian life. One of the Christian men there who worked
with them told me of how terribly hardened some of those city youth were when
they first arrived there. At first, those who were most hardened would not
listen to the preaching, Bible teaching, or any good advice by the Christians
in charge of them. Satan had formed an extremely hard shell around their heart
that was most difficult to penetrate. Bible preaching and teaching (along with
prayer) was one main method those Christians used to change those delinquents
for the better.
Another method
they used was to have those sinfully hardened young people do farm work. And
that is what usually FIRST penetrated that hard shell around their hearts and
emotions. Upon coming there, most of those hardened youth would be totally
closed to what any of those Christian adults tried to teach them. But as time
went by with those youth doing farm work, usually the farm animals softened
their emotions and started melting away that hard shell around their heart and
emotions. Before long, they would be smiling as they helped take care of a
calf, pony, or kid goat. They would typically first “open up” to and become
friendly to the animals, and then in due time they would also open up their
hearts to the Christians who were helping them. And in due time, a majority of
them would open up their hearts to their Creator, repent to Him of their sins,
and trust in God the Saviour to save them and change them into new creatures. “Environment”
played a major role in them becoming converted into children of God. Their
salvation was tremendously aided by them moving from a life lived in the
devil’s kingdom to a life lived on God’s earth (the farm). “Love not the world.”
Another
dangerous thing about living in the devil’s kingdom is the much sin and abuse
that the children of the devil habitually and constantly heap upon most all of
the human creatures around them; physically and verbal abuse, and all kinds of
crimes including murder. Tho such sinners can invade your private property to
there commit such sin and crimes against you, it is much more inconvenient and
difficult for them to do that. Your privately owned land surrounding your abode
acts as a buffer of safety to you against trespassers, rendering more difficult
any kind of surprise attack or attempt of mischief against your family. Out in
the devil’s kingdom, we regularly find ourselves literally rubbing elbows with
numerous people who are total strangers to us. And we have no knowledge of what
evil deeds they may be plotting against us, nor do we have much warning when
they launch any kind of attack against us from less than an arm’s length away.
Often when we are in public, we are alone without any family members or friends
to aid us if the need arises. There is more safety in numbers, and when the
family lives together on the farm, the males are there to rise to the defense
of the family if and when that becomes necessary.
Everything in
the previous paragraph, I wrote with the intention of relating it to the safety
of the family, not an individual. God created little children as fragile and
vulnerable creatures who are quite defenseless. But He provided parents to
guard over them and protect them. And on this planet full of degenerate
sinners, God ordained and provided the safest place possible for rearing
vulnerable little children, that being the family farm, of course. There they
have the spacious buffer of their private property surrounding them and both
parents there all the time to protect and defend them. We can
never improve on that Creator ordained plan for safety of the family.
You are as well
aware as I am, of the much sin and abuse heaped upon children of all ages when
they are out in the devil’s world, especially when their parents are not there
with them to protect them. You have heard many horror stories from near and far
(and no doubt personally know many cases) of the constant fear and dread that
children live with because of the abuse they have already suffered as they live
their lives out in the devil’s world away from their protective parents, and
because of their knowledge of that abuse constantly lurking around them,
waiting to again assault them at any time. I have heard plenty of true stories
of children (especially girls, being the tender, soft-hearted creatures
God created them to be, and also being strongly desired and determinedly sought
after by males) lying in their beds at night, habitually sobbing throughout
most of the night because of the abuse they suffered at school that day, and
also because they know that the same horrible abuse awaits them the next day
(and every day) when they go to school. That is because their parents, society,
government, and all such powers that be, have all firmly decreed that children
and youth will be reared at school for the purpose of devouring all the
knowledge of good and evil possible, instead of being reared by their 2 parents
on a farm as their Creator ordained. How heavy is God’s Wrath upon this
destruction of those precious little human creatures of His.
When children
and young people live their daily lives grouped together with a good number of
peers, it easily turns into a viscous jungle. Oh, the magnitude of the abuse
they suffer from other children in day care, kindergarten, school, and in any
such place where they are daily bunched together away from their family,
especially away from their protective parents. Because you are as well aware of
this fact as I am, I will not include any of those many true, but tragic,
stories here. All of it is heartbreaking, especially some of the abuse the
girls suffer. And likely the most tragic thing about it is that it could
practically all be prevented by parents rearing their children the way God
ordained they do; at home on the farm, always in the presence of those
loving and protecting parents.
Each
and every human being is dearly beloved by our Creator God. Little frail,
“defenseless,” vulnerable children are particularly precious in the Sight of
their Creator God. He is a Consuming Fire, and His Wrath is fiery hot upon
parents who daily opt out of their Creator ordained protective roles, but
instead they send those precious little souls out into the devil’s kingdom to
daily receive a strong dose of the awfully destructive abuse heaped upon them
there by the children of the devil. Tho history abounds
with a practically infinite list of those abuses, Almighty God did not miss nor
overlook a single one of them. He has kept a minutely detailed record of each
sinful abuse for parents (and all guilty parties) to face on Judgment Day.
There those parents (and all guilty parties involved) can explain to their
Creator just why they made the decision to sacrifice their children upon the
altar of the devil’s kingdom in order to live for all the lusts of the flesh,
the lusts of the eyes, and the pride of life offered to them (and to their
children) out in the devil’s kingdom. What a Consuming Fire of Divine, Holy
Wrath awaits many people regarding this matter. “PREPARE
TO MEET THY GOD.”
“Almighty
God, I beg Thee to teach me clearly the truth and the importance of these
things I have just read. Then please clearly guide me and show me Thy Will for
me concerning these matters. Please open up the way for me and my family to be
saved from the world and the things of the world. I pray this for all other
people also. Amen.”
As more and
more people move from God’s earth to the devil’s world, thus naturally adding
to the power and destructiveness of the devil’s kingdom, Christians become
increasingly alarmed as they observe it so viciously destroying the human
family that God created. Hence arise numerous Christian ministries that focus
on the family, with a general goal of coming to the family’s rescue to save it
from this ongoing destruction. Think seriously on the fact that such ministries
practically did not exist when most families were farming families. That is
because the God-ordained family farm preserved the family, thus rendering such
ministries unnecessary.
These various
Christian ministries, which focus on the family, are typically founded by good,
dedicated Christians with the noble goal of helping and saving the family. I commend
them on that most worthy goal, and on their diligent labor toward that goal.
They typically have large volumes of and a great variety of teaching, advice,
and plans aimed at keeping the family intact. But if you will look closely at
all their teachings and endeavors, you will see that, in general, most of these
ministries that focus on the family, major on aiding families to have their
cake and eat it too. By that, I mean that the thrust is to keep the family
intact with it continuing to live out in the devil’s kingdom. That is a lot
like putting a band-aid on a cancer. If we are going to focus on saving the
family from being destroyed by the devil’s kingdom, it is of necessity that we
focus on the family living where God ordained they live, on the land (farm)
that He created to sustain our physical life here on earth. But very few
Christian ministries that focus on saving the family care to focus on the farm.
The main reason is that they despise the 72-hour workweek of dirty, sweaty,
hard toil and labor that God ordained for us to earn our living. Rather they
love the world and the things of the world. And if it means forsaking the world
and the things of the world to live on a dirt farm toiling and sweating 6 long
days a week to make a living, then they just won’t do that. Therefore they make
the decision to sacrifice our Creator’s precious family upon the altar of the
devil’s kingdom, in an act of loving and worshipping the world and the things
of the world. “Love not the world, neither the things
that are the world.”
In recent
years, I have seen God raising up Christians who see the family farm as the
best salvation for the family. And some of those Christians have somewhat of a
ministry of teaching and preaching about the importance of the family farm. It
greatly blesses and encourages me to see that. Keep up the good work, and may
God’s most abundant blessings be upon you as you do so. Tilling the ground is
intensely despised by many Christian believers, some of whom have given me an
earful of hot speech about how they detest their God ordained first estate. God
forbid that you and I be among them. May God give us a great love for the first
estate He ordained for us. And may He give us the boldness to declare to anyone
and everyone that He ordained that the family live together full time on the
farm, in order to keep the family from being destroyed in the devil’s kingdom.
Down thru the
ages, Godly preachers and Christians have rightly exalted the family and lauded
parenthood as the highest calling in life, commending fathers and mothers for
both properly carrying out their important responsibility of rearing their
offspring. But the kingdom of the devil belittles parenthood in many ways,
causing Christian parents who love the world to feel as if they are missing out
on the best things in life by taking the time required to properly rear their
children. I have heard testimonies by Christian mothers who had gotten a
university degree because it was a good thing to do. Afterwards, they got
married, had children, and stayed at home to rear them. They spoke of how they
felt trapped, and felt like they were missing out on so much because they were
not pursuing a career out in the world. How tragic that is. May God help us to
keep ours eyes firmly fixed upon our Creator. And may He help us to totally
believe and obey all that He teaches us in His Holy Bible. May we constantly
keep in mind the certainty of Judgment Day awaiting us, and therefore serve the
Lord with fear and trembling regarding these most important aspects of our
short life here on this earth. May we totally submit ourselves to God for Him
to save us from loving the world (the devil’s kingdom) and the things of the
world. May we do what God ordained that we do for the preservation of the human
family that He created and so dearly loves and cherishes.
The
first reason I gave in favor of people tilling the ground, is because that is
what our Creator God ordained that we human creatures do with our lives. The
second reason I gave was that it is necessary for us to have food to eat to
sustain our physical lives. Now in this chapter I have given a third reason; it
is the lifestyle God ordained for the safety and preservation of the human
family. May God help each of us to think most gravely
and seriously on the validity of these reasons and also help us to truly seek
His Guidance for our lives.
“Almighty
God, please help me to consider these things just as gravely and seriously as
Thou desirest that I do. Please give me a full understanding of their
importance. Also, please clearly instruct and guide me into Thy Will concerning
these matters. Cause me to fully understand just how precious the human family
is to Thee, and just how greatly it is beloved by Thee, and how terrible Thy
Wrath is upon that which destroys the human family Thou has created as an
object of Thy Divine Love. I pray this for all other people also. Amen.”
(This ends Chapter 7 of Creature Versus Creator)