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            Watching some of the many nature programs on television these days that idolatrously exalt non-sentient “mother nature” as the source cause of behavior programming in things that live on earth, I have come to appreciate and glorify the living God as a faithful Christian all the more for “His handiwork” in all of His creation (Psalm 19:1, NKJV)!  That handiwork includes His programming right down into the DNA of every living thing on earth.  God’s will expressed from the beginning is that every living thing reproduce itself (Genesis 1:11-13, 20-31).  It is so.  God also programmed His reproducing creatures to act instinctively out of observable and definable roles and responsibilities.

            So, for example, science has observed that certain penguins mate for life with the male and female each carrying out their separate duties while both go to get food for their offspring.  How did the penguin parents know to do this and who told them they had to?  Nobody; it is programmed in their genetic make up to provide food for their offspring!  Human beings also have parental instincts programmed in us by God, but the difference between us and the animals is we have been given the freewill to override His genetic programming in sin and willfully rebel against His express commandments and instructions to our detriment as write I in this edited 2011 Commentary.

Originally Published October 2011

            Who said it is the man and husband of the family that is responsible to provide for them?  God, the Creator of man has modeled and taught so in His Word!  But now, near the end of this world as we know it, many are rebelling against the instructions of God for the order of the family including a rising number of professed Christians.  They treat the Bible as dated, but the declarations of worldly government officials and science worshipping professionals as sacred.  They are more concerned about the world's approval than God's.  As a result, their homes are as confused as those of the ungodly.  Meanwhile, the wrath of the Bible's God looms on the horizon to destroy our nation and world.

            In my book, The Strong Man Of God: Back To Basics,¹ I am led of the Lord to address the 21^st century confusion on male and female roles and their responsibilities in the family.  It is not a pretty picture and statistics in the book bear this out.  In arrogance, sinful humanity moved by various motivations, but primarily secular humanism, feminism and sexual perversion, have sought to re-define men, women and the family.  It is of pure arrogance because in anybody’s worldview, how can you improve upon perfection?  God's design presented in His Word is perfect because He is the Perfect One!  But these unjust gods would usurp the Almighty and create their own world (Psalm 82).

            Let every professed Christian be reminded it is not the roles and responsibilities of men and women that are flawed as God designed, it is we ourselves as sinners.  God has already given a helpful fix for our problem in the cross of His Son, Jesus Christ, and new birth through the Holy Spirit.  Even in this we are not yet perfected on this side of Heaven.  So, in great zeal to please God and do His will we intentionally labor daily in the strength He supplies to live out the roles He has assigned us.  The outcome should be that every Christian man, woman and family renders a far superior portrait of God's perfect design than any of the world to His glory (Matthew 5:14-16)!²

            In God's design a man is the lead provider in the family because he is so in the image and likeness of God (Genesis 1:26a).  God as the Head and Father of Adam initiated his existence and immediately provided for his needs (Genesis 2:7-10).  He provided a comfortable environment and shelter, food, beauty, water as well as His up close and personal presence for relationship.  Though everything grew of itself, God still made Adam Eden’s caretaker providing Him with responsible work (Genesis 2:15).  After Adam fell in sin, God ordained that He should continue to work, but now, it would be harder as he would have to toil to make the earth yield its bounty (Genesis 3:17-19).

            In the image and likeness of God a man as the head and father of his family works to provide for them.  From Adam, men have worked to provide for their families whether it was building shelter, digging wells, farming, fishing, hunting etc. and then returned home to provide themselves.  God also designed men to in general be bigger and stronger than women in order to help fulfill their historically demanding physical assignment as a provider.  Indeed, the apostle Paul writes the command, "If anyone will not work, neither shall he eat," (2 Thessalonians 3:10, NKJV).  Able-bodied men that sit at home idle while their wives work sin against the Lord despising His order and assignment.

            The transition from an economy that was agrarian and agriculture based to one that is city, industrial and now technology driven over the past 200 hundred years has certainly been influential in giving men and women a greater diversity of work opportunities.  However, God's design of their roles remains the same.  Men have the lead responsibility to provide for their families.  God will not be mocked nor will He allow His Word to be discarded without more than natural consequences to those who defiantly insist on destroying His design of male and female roles and their responsibilities.

            Truly, the state of our economy and lack of work today is another of the many warning judgments from the Lord intended to be remedial and cause our nation to turn back to Him.³  All of our leaders in and outside of the churches need to consider the nation's greatness to this point was never a matter of so-called “exceptionalism” procured by our own wisdom and might.  No, but as the song says, "God shed His grace on thee."⁴  Therefore, the word of the Lord to our nation is repent lest He pour out on the land the wrath that is deserved even before the time (Jeremiah 25:29-33; Luke 12:47-48)!  The risen, living Christ continues His cry among American churches, "Who is on the Lord's side?"

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2 Assembled  together  as  God’s house in local churches (Hebrews 3:1-6), the portrait of His perfect design of the family is supposed to be affirmed, not obliterated as is

   taking place in clear rebellion with the world against God among many churches.  Don’t these folks understand the immutable God never has and never will reward un-

   faithfulness considering it blasphemy or rebellion (Ezekiel 20:27; Hebrews 3:7-19)?

3 This  was  originally  written  during  the  economic downturn that had begun in 2008.  All such downturns should serve not only as reminders of how precarious human

   economies  are  at  any  given  moment,  but  for  us to also realize it is not a sound idea to purposely offend God upon whom upturns and sustained prosperity depend

   (Psalm 107:33-38).

4 Words are from the patriotic song, America The Beautiful, written first as a poem by Katharine Lee Bates in 1895 according to Wikipedia.

            I concluded the June 3, 2018 two-part post, Feminism’s Entry Into The Churches warning as I have soberly and repeatedly over the last several years especially that a dramatic intensification of God’s judgment upon His house in America was imminent.  Having used me in accord with 2 Corinthians 10:3-5 to biblically demolish feminism as one of many strongholds of deceit in His house, this day the Lord has me declaring the time for His intensified judgment in punishing the unrepentant disobedient individually and collectively has come (2 Corinthians 10:6)!  He does so in total consistency with His judgment of ancient Israel for their rebellion against Him also.

            It is absurd to the extreme for professed Christians and those that lead them that are guilty to assert what God did in judgments upon willfully disobedient Israel is of no concern for them today since Christians have a different and more intimate relationship with Him.  However, the apostle Paul specifically directs Christians to examine and be warned by what happened to Israel “as examples,” (1 Corinthians 10:1-11, NKJV).  Why would he do this if in fact, what happened between God and Israel has no serious implications for Christians?  As history and present-day reality prove, professed Christians in the sinful flesh and denial are exactly like the Israelites of old (Jeremiah 2:35, 5:12-13)!

            This idea that from God’s perspective the relational bond with Christians is thicker than with ancient Israel is false.  Just casually reading through the Old Testament it quickly becomes apparent God saw Himself as a Husband and Father to Israel as in The Book Of Jeremiah where from the first seven chapters the Lord has caused me to anchor this discourse.  God loves Israel and will yet completely fulfill His promise of the nation’s restoration after severe judgment for sin over millennia ends (Jeremiah 2:1-3, 3:4, 14-20).  If you are a Christian you have been saved and brought near to God by grace through faith in Israel’s Messiah, the Lord Jesus (Romans 9:1-5; Ephesians 2:11-22).

            And yes, we are born again and marked out by the Holy Spirit as belonging to God according to His New Covenant with Israel first after they broke the old one (John 1:12-13, 3:1-8; 2 Corinthians 1:21-22; Hebrews 8:7-13).  But as many willfully refuse to accept, our new life, relationship with God and promise of eternally dwelling with Him is conditioned on continuing faith in (trust, confidence and reliance upon) Him and demonstrated by love motivated obedience to the end the same as Israel of old (Matthew 24:13; John 14:15-24; Romans 11:11-22; Hebrews 3:7-19).  As Israel is the manifest example, ‘“The Lord will judge His people,’” (Hebrews 6:4-8, 10:26-31, 35-39, 11:6, NKJV).

            As He had done from the Exodus in sending prophets to His rebel people, so, God called Jeremiah before conception in his mother’s womb to bear what turned out to be His final call to repentance and warning of impending judgment for disobedience and apostasy to Judah (Jeremiah 1, 7:21-26).  Later, the prophet Ezekiel--a contemporary taken to Babylon in the first wave of captives, also brought God’s message to His rebellious people there (Ezekiel 1:28-3:11).  Similarly, in these latter days I have been gifted and called a watchman/prophet to the Lord’s churches in accord with Ezekiel 33:1-9 and have consciously served as such since 1986; warning the Lord’s sword was drawing near.

            Now--in what should be to no one’s surprise, the sword of the Lord in judgment upon His house in disobedience and apostasy has fully arrived in America.  His charges are spiritually exactly the same as He brought against ancient Israel.  Though outwardly many professed Christians claim to know and love Jesus, their hearts are engrossed with the idols of this world to include fellow, fallen human beings and self, success, material things, wealth, power--moving far away from the Lord and changing “their Glory for what does not profit,” (Jeremiah 2:4-13, NKJV).  Brazenly, they sin and commit iniquity embracing this world’s ways such as feminism taught by demons and sexual immorality.  Claiming innocence in deceit, they are unwilling to “receive correction,” (Jeremiah 2:14-3:5, 5:1-9, 7:27-28, NKJV).

            However, the Lord is a witness against the unrepentant who will be punished!  For besides sounding the trumpet of warning for His approaching sword, all of the Lord’s true prophets cry out against the sins of His people He has seen.¹  But as ancient Judah would not give heed except superficially nor learn from sister Israel’s experience, neither have guilty professed American Christians given heed or learned from all Israel; insulated in falsely crafted doctrines of security (Jeremiah 3:6-13, 21-4:4, 5:20-31, 6:16-17, 7:1-11)!  Though these doctrines of ‘“peace’” come from some well meaning teachers, they are still false!  Otherwise, the teachers are false just like Judah’s false prophets proven wrong by God’s judgment that fell as foretold (Jeremiah 4:5-31, 5:10-19, 6:1-15, 18-30, 7:12-20, 29-34; 2 Peter 2, NKJV). 

            Too, as in ancient Israel, the prophets of ‘“peace’” today outnumber those of judgment in truth.  But He comforts us that are true as He did Jeremiah (Jeremiah 14:10-16, NKJV).  Thus, His judgment will be as the storm the Lord Jesus describes in Luke 6:46-49.  Testing by way of severe persecution that tries every professed Christian soul to reveal faith and love in the faithful² or impostors and rebels that fall away along with the withdrawal of the almost universal protection from calamity church and parachurch property graciously enjoyed has come as foretold (Matthew 24:9-28; 2 Thessalonians 1:3-2:4; 1 Peter 1:3-9, 4:12-19; Revelation 17:16-18:8).³  Hear His word to me the morning of May 31, 2018: “I will burn away the chaff in the fire of judgment until only a remnant is left ready to receive the Lord!”

1 All of my posts under the category, Call To Repent, are a starting point for how the Lord has used me to cry out against the sins of His people in love, grace, mercy and

   with sober exhortation to repent to avert punishment!

2 The  earlier  reference to Ezekiel as among the first captives taken to Babylon should encourage faithful Christians--every aspiring strong man and great woman of God

   in  the  image  of Christ--now facing God’s intensified judgment upon His house.  For with Ezekiel was also Daniel who though both were impacted by the adversities of

   God’s  judgment  upon all Judah, they were still used mightily by Him and brought forth two of the Bible’s most significant prophetic books!  So, let us be as they and all

   of the faithful saints used of God in history to witness Christ and stand true to Him until He comes (Daniel 11:32-35; 1 Corinthians 16:13-14).

3 See  among  other  posts  The  Falling  Away, February 2, 2014, The Man Of Sin, February 23, 2014, The Prayers Of The Saints parts 1 and 2, March 16-23, 2014 and

   Babylon  Is  Falling,  August  23, 2015, all under the category, Bible Prophecy.  Also, read Praise For The Lord God Almighty!, September 13, 2015 under the category,

   Glory To God! and Willful And De Facto Apostates, March 20, 2016 under the category, The Faith.