WHY DO THEY HATE IT?

“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).

Fatherhood is the very essence of God and He wants His fatherhood represented to the world through man. God reveals His plan for fathering and mothering in the very beginning of the Bible. Genesis 2:24 is the first Scripture to use the word father, before anyone had ever seen a father and mother!

We go over to the New Testament and Paul prays: “I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named” (Ephesians 3:14). Every family finds its source in the fatherhood of God.

The Greek word for family in this passage is patria from the root word pater which is the word for father. Everything that is called after the Father belongs to, or springs from Him. Oh, how the feminists hate this! They hate the word patriarchy which comes from pater.

This is the ridiculous deception of feminism. They hate their origin. They hate who they are because they hate God who is their source. They hate their femininity and motherhood which is their highest destiny. And yet they could not be in this world without a natural father, and of course, their Heavenly Father who is the only One who gives conception and who planned their gender and destiny.

When I have been interviewed by secular TV, I notice that they always gravitate to the so-called evils of patriarchy. Sadly, they see it from a distorted view rather than the heart of God for the blessing of the world.

We know that many harbor this hatred because of hurts they have received from their own fathers or from other men in their lives. This is all the work of the enemy. Satan hates fathering and mothering because it is how God wants to reveal Himself on this earth and he hates every plan of God. Therefore, he constantly attacks these powerful roles to distort them and tread them down.

That’s why we must continually pray the promise of Malachi 4:5 that “He will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers.” God’s ultimate plan is that fathers reveal His beautiful Father heart to their families and the world, just as God wants His female creation to reveal His maternal heart to their children and to the world.

Jesus was one with the Father. He was the Beloved Son of His Father, and the Father was His Beloved Father. And yet in His most amazing mercy He wants to share His Beloved Father with us. That’s why He left the glory of Heaven to come to this earth, shed His blood, and pour out His life for us—to save us and share His Father with us for eternity.

After Jesus had risen from the dead, He said to Mary: “I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God” (John 20:17). Have you ever read anything so incredible? Jesus tells us that He wants His Father to be our Father. He wants to share His glorious and eternal Father with us.

Would you like to share your father? Maybe we would be too selfish to do that. And yet Jesus wants us to experience His Father. When we know Him, we understand what fatherhood is all about.

While Satan and all his cohorts are pulling down fatherhood and motherhood, let’s raise up these roles to be mighty in the nation. When we do this, we reveal God in the earth and we bring God’s blessing to the nation.

Be encouraged. Nancy Campbell

www.aboverubies.org

PRAYER:

“Thank you, dear Father, that it was Your plan to create fatherhood and motherhood. It is Your plan for the way we are to live in this world, and You do not have an alternative plan. Please help my husband and me to show forth Your divine fathering and mothering to our families. Help us to exalt these roles in the midst of this distorted world. Amen.”

AFFIRMATION:

I love what God loves and therefore I embrace and love the roles of fatherhood and motherhood.