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INTRODUCTION

I normally avoid disclaimers, but if you understand what I am saying in this article, then you will not only understand almost everything you need to know about spiritual warfare, why this country is the way it is, and how Christians can wage war against it, but you will also come to see how the antidote is dangerous families.

Here is the argument.

THE ARGUMENT FOR DANGEROUS FAMILIES

POINT 1: Satan is the enemy of God. He hates the things God loves. He tries to pervert what God calls good. And he attacks the things God makes.

POINT 2: As a matter of warfare, Satan has focused his attack on the most precious thing God ever designed, that which God has called VERY GOOD (See Genesis 1:26-31)

POINT 3: The thing God called VERY GOOD, is a male and female, human, sexually healthy, covenantally faithful, child producing, monogomas marriage. Or to say that in a different way, a family.

POINT 4: God installed this VERY GOOD family as the basis for, and the most central unit, of all society (see Genesis 1:28)

POINT 5: Knowing this, one can reasonably assume that Satan's most ferocious attacks, and the heart of all spiritual warfare, will be leveled against the family.

THEREFORE: The way we fight back is by raising up the kind of families that are oriented back toward’s God VERY GOOD vision, that threatens Satan, thwart his plans, resist his temptations, and will eventually topple his kingdom.

But, before we get into that, let us look at how Satan is waging an all-out war on the family. Below, I list a litany (although not an exhaustive list) of examples.

MODERN EXAMPLES OF SATAN’S ATTACK ON FAMILY:

This list could be pages upon pages long. But, here are some obvious examples of how Satan is attempting to destroy the family, which means destroying godliness, men, women, marriage, and children.

Gender confusion, perverted (woke) cartoons, divorce, sodomy, adultery, pornography, lesbianism, fornication, godless schools, cross-dressing, effeminate men, passive husbands, domineering women, pronoun confusion, feminism, transgenderism, hook up culture, woke college campuses, birth control, abortions, sex-ed curriculums, intersectionality, government propagated sexual perversion, subsidizing the murder of babies, etc.

HOW DO FAMILIES FIGHT THESE PERVERSIONS??

The reason we learn about spiritual warfare is not to sit down in victimhood, but to rise up as victors. This is impossible apart from a relationship with Jesus Christ, but for the Christian, spiritual warfare does not end there. Like soldiers, we do not put on the uniform of Christ and think the battle is magically over. There is training, education, fighting, deploying, war-waging, raising up new soldiers, and the eventual triumph after a long and hard-fought campaign.

Below is another non-exhaustive list of activities we can be doing, as soldiers of Christ, to successfully wage war against the serpent. (P.S. it has everything to do with the recovery of the family)

Read the Bible and submit to its truth, pray continually, commit to a local church, get baptized, take communion weekly, love Jesus, and be discipled. Then, while you wait on Jesus to return, guard your virginity, date with purity, protect your eyes and your heart from Satanic perversions, get married to a godly believer, and be faithful to your spouse physically, mentally, and emotionally. Have frequent godly sex so that you are not tempted, make lots of babies, raise them up in the Lord, and refuse to send them to our perverted public schools. Instead, disciple them to grow up and have godly, fruitful, and multiplying families, teach them to worship Jesus fiercely, and to storm the gates of hell advancing Jesus’ Kingdom. If you cannot have children, adopt children, help others raise their children, and be the kind of member of your church that cheers for and supports godly families. If you have kids, do not forget to teach them how to date, how to marry, and how to raise children the same convictions, so that they can make for you an army of grandbabies, that you will assist in preparing for the war.

If you are fortunate enough to live to see your grandchildren marry, then you will get to encourage another generation to take up the blessing of godly, fruitful, and multiplying family life, and you will get to die with an astounding heritage and legacy.

WHY WILL THIS KIND OF FAMILY WARFARE WORK?

Because every Satanic attack listed above is meant to pervert the family. Satan has exhausted all of his energy and effort to pervert boys, soil girls, poison marriages, and stop women from having children. In fact, I believe this is the very reason Satan attacks women as ferociously as he does, since it is the woman who will carry the next generation of serpent crushing Christian children in her womb. If he can cause a society to be confused about what a woman is, then the battle seems nigh to its conclusion.

But, this is exactly the point we have to stand up and fight with dangerous, Satan threatening, families! Because, we will certainly win if we just get in the battle and stop standing on the sidelines in confusion! We will win if we engage as God intended!

Think about it, if believers would simply act like Christians, marry Christians, have pure, faithful, frequent, and joyful covenantal sex, make lots of babies, welcome them into distinctively Christian and worshipping families, and send them out to do it all over again, then we would soon fill the earth with Christians. The battle would be over.

One of the main reasons Satan’s attack is winning so decisively right now, and the very reason our society is rushing over the cliffs of insanity, is because Christians have historically low birth rates, have no vision for raising up dangerous families, are given over to Satan’s lies, and are confused about discipleship. We treat evangelism and discipleship as teaching people how to have an individual walk with God instead of preparing them to be godly husbands, fathers, wives, and mothers.

But, imagine if Christian churches, and individual believers caught a vision for the family! Imagine what would happen if men and women were discipled and prepared to live holy, fruitful, multiplying lives! Marriages would be healthy, a legion of godly children would be raised up, and the earth would be busting at the seems with Gospel-loving people! Imagine if we prepared our kids not to succumb to Satan’s lies, but to attack them! We would see nothing less than the entire world filled with Christians in 1-2 generations.

And we know this would happen, because the world has forfeited fruitful and multiplying marriages. They have adopted a kind of lifestyle that cannot reproduce, which means they will be extinct in a single generation, as soon as we stop allowing them to convert our children!

I know we like to think that political engagement, social movements, big seeker-sensitive churches, and things like that will win the day. But they won't! Satan is not attacking families as hard as he is for no reason. Godly, Christ-honoring, fruitful, and multiplying families are dangerous to the kingdom of darkness. If we want to win this battle, then we need to start waging our war accordingly.