Paul's Reproductive Inversion
One thing is clear in Paul's writings in 1 Corinthians 7, he believes marriage is a second best choice to single-hood, even in a world where the first edict the Father gave to mankind was to be, "fruitful and multiply"(Genesis 1:27-28). As we've pointed out on this channel many times, Paul often gives us inversions of the Father's law, and in this regard, Satan’s point in using Paul was to reverse the Father's command to be fruitful and multiply especially as it applies to His people, those who believe in His Son Jesus Christ and keep the commandments.
Why would Satan want this? Any general in a war wants to limit enemy combatants. Why wouldn't he want to stop Believers from procreating and raising who would end up being highly trained new Believers who had grown up hearing the Word and seeing examples in their parents of how it is supposed to be lived?
Paul's statements which magnify remaining single as the better outcome as well as re-frame marriage as a selfish obsession with sex and a relationship of submission and idolatry of the other spouse through over much service to the other (rather than learning together to be obedient to the Word and to honor and worship the Father and His Son Jesus Christ) corrupt the Father's intent for marriage: to produce offspring and to help each other grow in love, that is, in the keeping of the commandments, and to teach the following generations the same.
Paul's promotion of singlehood as the better choice argues that the single person can make his or her life’s entire focus in service of the Father, thus implying that singleness is the more selfless choice and that marrying is a more selfish, worldly pursuit, something that is only really necessary to quell the fires of lust that burn in the single person.
I will argue that this "selflessness" Paul is promoting is not selflesslessness, but selfishness. His claims as to what single hood really entails are not so when one considers that disobeying the Father is selfish by default. The Father's edict to be fruitful and multiply, along with many other scriptures in which the Word promotes marriage, such "He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor of the Lord," and in Jesus's own words, "What God has put together let no man tear asunder" are there for a reason. Why does the Father put together people in marriage while Paul discourages it?
This is not to say that some of us don't marry and that for some of us it's just not meant to be, but the implication that single hood would always be the better choice if it were not for sexual desire is a fallacy that actually diminishes the value of an amazingly beautiful act that the Father created Himself.
We will dive deep on this, but first, let's pray:
Here are the excerpts from 1 Corinthians 7 where Paul, in essence, tells the people, that if you can't contain and are burning in lust, you should marry, but if you can contain, that is to say, not fall into the sin of lust and maintain sexual purity and self control, it would be better NOT to marry, the implication being that the single life will foster in you freer and therefore better type of servanthood to the Father, in which can be inferred, would be more pleasing to the Father.
But once again, how can that be if the Father's commandment to humankind is to "be fruitful and multiply"? Why would the Father be more pleased to have you do just the opposite of the first edict He ever proclaimed?
As usual, Paul inverts the Father’s original intentions. What is an inversion?
Paul's writings create a sexual torture chamber for Believers who want to give the Father their best but for whom the Father intended to married. They live quiet lives of sexual desperation, fighting against these innate urges that were supposed to be satisfied by married reproductive life. There have also been times since Paul's writings that it was taught in counterfeit versions of Christianity that to desire your spouse when your intention is not reproduction was also considered lust. Paul's writings led to such foolishness!
See Sex and the History of Christianity
If you search under any one of the rocks of Paul’s teachings, you can instantly discover underneath Paul going against what the Father commands.
This time we find Paul diminishing the very first instruction to mankind ever made as recorded in the first chapter of the first book of the Torah, Genesis:
“So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth” (Genesis 1:27-28).
The Father repeats this command after the flood's "great reset" (if you will), when Noah, his wife, his three sons and their wives were all that remained of humanity. Genesis 9:1 reads:
“And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth” (Genesis 9:1).
When Abraham comes along as the second generation born after the flood, the covenantal blessing the Father made with Abraham included the commitment to multiply Abraham's seed and to cause the generations after him to be fruitful.
"And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect. And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly. And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying, As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations. Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee. And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee” (Genesis 17:1-6).
This edict from the Father to His creation has always been pretty plain. He speaks of it many more times in the First Testament, especially when speaking to the seed of Abraham (Jacob: Genesis 35:9, Joseph: Genesis 48:4).
Seeing that formerly Gentile Believers in Jesus Christ are now those "stones" that the Father could raise up as children unto Abraham as John Baptist told the Pharisees, we, too, are to be fruitful and multiply. One very important reason is for the teaching of the commandments and imparting faith and truth about Jesus as our Savior.
Is there a better school than in one's family? Before the indoctrination centers of modern schooling got control of our children, children spent the lion share of their time learning from their parents and extended families. If children were raised up in the Torah, the Prophets and the teachings of Jesus, would not the truth be more fully taught, not only through instruction, but by example? And would not at least some of those children, the ones who stayed the course, be better equipped to minister to others in their future lives having been raised all those years in the Truth?
Certainly, one of Satan's main schemes to stop the spread of the Gospel would be to get God's children to stop reproducing and/or instructing the children they would have had. The other way to ruin marriage, as we will address at the end of this presentation, would be to pervert marriage into a sort of worship of the other spouse, rather than keeping one focused on loving each other by keeping the commandments and keeping the Father and His Son Jesus first and foremost, and thereby causing disharmony, unhappiness, and ultimately the destruction of the marriage bond.
Paul's seeming veneration of the benefits of the single life of chastity which results in no multiplication goes against the Father's original intent. Satan's obvious purpose is to stop the reproduction of those who actually know the Father, have His Holy Spirit and who would raise their children up in the ways of righteousness. It only stands to reason, that in a war, you would try to limit the numbers of potential combatants against yourself.
Here you can see this very thing happening when Pharaoh made his own edicts trying to limit the multiplication of the Hebrew people:
"And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them. Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph. And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we: Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land. Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses. But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel. And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour: And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour. And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah: And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live. But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive" (Exodus 1:7-18).
So we see the demonically instigated Pharaoh wanted to destroy the Hebrews, " lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us..." Satan's plan for Believers is the same, stop their multiplication either through birth or from the sharing of Truth to others through preaching the Gospel.
So here we have Paul, as always, as Satan's minion, with just a small kernel of a thought, "wouldn't it be better to serve God without the distraction of a spouse?"
And now that so many Believers consider Paul's writings as "God-breathed", it is easily conceivable that the lion share of us would think we might be compromising the best possible outcome by marrying, and so these same people who would have produced children who could have been taught the things of the Father by their own parents, and thus taught others, including their own offspring, and so forth and so on, are simply stopped in their tracks, and generations of new Believers aren't even brought to bare, never even conceived.
Paul's satanic verses were a type birth control of God's people before there was modern birth control, like condoms, and pills, and, yes, abortion.
But we do know that even Jesus said that not all would be part of those who are fruitful and multiply. Jesus spoke of those as a tiny minority of people who would not participate for different reasons.
Jesus was, in fact, magnifying the marriage covenant when he let the apostles know that there could only be one reason for divorcing your wife, that is, if she commits adultery outside of the marriage. Then,
“His disciples say unto him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marry. But he said unto them, All men cannot receive this saying, save they to whom it is given. For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother's womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it” (Matthew 19:10-12).
This speaks to the fact that there’s an inherent need to procreate in most of humanity, and that most people can't receive having a life of singlehood/celibacy. The sexual needs of most must be fulfilled within marriage, and the only way one should not marry is if he, as a gift he received from the Father, can manage his own urges so as to not sin against the Father or the person he may have sex with, or against himself by having sex outside of marriage.
In my view, Jesus is not glorifying single hood as Paul does, that is to say, by making it seem as if it is more beneficial to live as such. As well, Jesus is not going against the Father’s commandment to mankind to be fruitful and multiply, nor against the Father's covenantal blessing for Abraham and his offspring (either of his seed or those "born of these stones") to be fruitful and multiply.
But pesky Paul, as usual comes from his corrupted, inverted angle.
Returning to the war between the Father and Satan with regard to the numbers of "combatants" When the Father tells Abraham and his offspring to be fruitful and multiply, he’s doing so, in part, to increase the numbers of “law-abiding-citizens” in this world. Another way to do this is to preach to those outside of your family, but let's continue with this idea of raising your own children in the instruction of the Father/Torah.
There's another side to what the Father wrote had written into the Torah to prevent the spread of evil and of evil-doers among the congregation. Punishments for sin, and especially capital punishment laws were written, in effect, to remove from the world of the evil that was being hosted and fostered by law-breaking evil-doers. You can see this sentiment throughout the Torah, but the chapter against false prophets (Deuteronomy 13) makes the point as well as any:
“And that (false) prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath spoken to turn you away from the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the LORD thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee” (Deuteronomy 13:5).
The job of the law was (and is) to promote well-doing among the people and to foster the relationship between the Father and the people. While abiding in the commandments, the people would, by default, be in the state of loving the Father with all their hearts, souls, minds and strengths, and their neighbors as themselves. Meanwhile, those who break the law while in purposeful rebellion would be dealt with or even removed so that evil would be removed like a cancer from among the people, i.e. to get the leaven out of the lump.
But we see throughout history a pushback from Satan, his minions, and his kingdom. He would rather have more of the people alive serving him than the Father. He hates the Father so much that he wants to destroy us as the Father's creation by causing us to serve him.
In our modern times, this race still exists. Now that we are entering the last days, and Revelation tells us that a third of humanity will die, Satan is working desperately with his minions to kill the population, or at the very least, keep many from even seeing the light of day through abortion, homosexuality, and unhindered promiscuity (which believe it or not has hurt the population numbers) made possible by birth control and abortion. Also, the hatred between the sexes that has arisen due to feminism has stopped men and women from marrying and brought upon us much divorce. Still, the race between Satan and the Father is to see who among God’s creation ends up in His Kingdom. He certainly doesn't want God's children to have children to raise up in the Word of their own.
I have seen in my ministry at least 10 Christians who have had their children stolen in divorce, rarely if ever to be seen by the Christian parent again. These children could have been raised up in the ways and tenets of the Father, to live lives pleasing to the Father and who ultimately, could have been able to walk into everlasting life. Instead, the children were taken by the demonized x spouses who nine times out of ten were Jezebel/narcissists literally living lives in tribute to Satan.
I see this as a direct attack on the Christian offspring, to be sure that the Holy Spirit indwelled parent could not share of the knowledge of the Torah and of Jesus Christ, so their offspring would not rise up to be mighty warriors in the Father, too.
Returning to Paul's part in diminishing the reproduction of Christians, as stated before he did so y lifting up single-hood to a position above that of married life. Now he does so delicately, and as always with duplicity.
So while he does echo Jesus’s statement that not all people are able to live the single life, he leans toward giving single hood the nod when it comes to the best way to live for the Father (in his view), saying,
“I would that all men could be even as I am…”
He also says that a single person could serve the Lord, but a married person attempts to do so could only be second best because he must also serve his spouse (interesting that he would couch the improved stature of single hood as better which would naturally place being fruitful and multiplying as second best).
Paul clearly states that when a man and wife serve each other this takes away from their opportunity to serve the Father. But isn't service to other people the same as service to the Father. Wasn't Jesus who said,
"When you do this for the least of these my brethren, you’ve done it unto me."
It seems Paul wants everyone alone without fellowship, except for home church gatherings.
I personally live alone which enables me to write and produce content whenever I feel led, but is this optimal? Could I not do more with a proper help-mate? Also, doesn't this single life style, outside of serving the Father through prayer, Bible study and ministry, lead to my own selfishness? I'm so accustomed now to living my life my way, and not having a dog now, there's no one in my home to care for or to practice service myself. Doesn't this single life just lead to selfishness and self-centeredness?
Would it not have been better for me to have a help mate and children and to serve the Father at the same time? Yes, there are times when we, as ministers, are required to put the Father before our wives and families, but this is not a permanent condition, and the Father never intended it to be so.
Have I gotten more work done than if I had not been alone during these years? Perhaps, but to be honest with you, the Father gives me normal breaks just like anyone else. I go ride my bike or play tennis. I prepare my food. I watch YouTube. You can’t be all study and all prayer all the time. He put us into this world for fellowship with Him and with others, and to enjoy the world He created for us. My time could have been spent with a wife, and children, rather that only in these other by-myself pursuits.
In fact, the Father tells us from the beginning, prior to the creation of the woman, that,
"...It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him" (Genesis 2:18).
How can the Father say it's not good for us to be alone and Paul communicate, well, it would be probably better for your relationship with the Father if your single? Do you see the inversion?
And, if a Believing man gets a real Believing wife, could she not be a "helpmate" that helps to lift her husband to be even more productive? I know that in modern western society that most people, men and women, are so selfish and want to be served rather than to serve, but True Believers have reversed this and learn that greatest among us are the least and servants to all. If a Believing couple believes an adheres to this tenet, will not the rising tide of this behavior raise all ships?
I do want to emphasize that if you find the wrong person, if you compromise in your choice, if you get with someone who doesn't love the Father, it stands to reason, you will get something so much worse than single hood could ever be. If the choice is between someone that hates the Father (even if their words lie and say they love Him), best to run and not marry. Don't marry until the right person comes along. And even then, you will be tested with regard to learning to serve without making the other person an idol.
Another side to this, is that while Paul tries to get people to live as chaste, asexual beings, he also seems to have an obsessions with sexual sins.
The Father, while putting adultery in the Ten Commandments, and also listing the abominable sexually related sins in Leviticus 20, he doesn't so focus on it as to make it center stage, as does Paul and even the early Church "fathers," (more later).
We seen his list of fleshly sins that will get you hell (as opposed to the laws in the Father's Torah as He determined them), the first four apply to sexuality. Sure, adultery and fornication are listed, but going on to say uncleanness (as applies to sexuality) and lasciviousness (which is an overbearing lust), just seems like, "Brutus, thou dost protest too much."
Keep in mind Paul's statement here,
He's admitting that his own flesh rises up in the form of his members? If it's some form of lust, is the fact that he remained single when it wasn't required of him what's causing him to struggle? Was it his own selfishness and pride that kept him from doing so?
Paul’s condition in this sense reminded me of the plight of Catholic priests and nuns who also commit to lives of celibacy, in spite of there being no Biblical reason to do so.
So much perversion, homosexuality, bastard births, and pedofilia has resulted from this rule that these poor souls are not able to abide by, it's difficult to quantify. Even if the Father had called on his leadership to not marry, how could they remain in a state of celibacy in the midst of so many demonic spirits they have no power to fight. How can you break the Father's commandments with regard to idolatry and necromancy as they do and expect to live in a condition of deliverance from their lusts?
I think that those who follow Paul in any capacity and try to remain single (or even overly control their sexual impulses within marriage - more later) are driven to this overmuch focus on fornications and uncleanness while at the same time being told it’s better to stay single. In this condition, because they're not keeping the Father's commandments by believing Paul's lying false gospel that if you try to do so you're actually going to fall into a state of pride and boast ("lest any man should boast"), they will never have the Holy Spirit and be able to take authority over the perverted demonic spirits that so haunt them
So then they’re left trying to be something the Father never intended (for most), that is to be single, while having the sinful nature of sex outside of marriage brought up constantly, and thereby being stirred up to do the very sin that Paul is supposedly railing on.
What’s funny about this, is Paul accuses the law of stirring up sin in his mortal body, but the accusation against the law is false, while Paul's rules and obsessions are actually doing this to the very people he told not to honor the Father's law. What a double bind!!!
Satan was truly in Paul's pen hand as he wrote these letters.
Sexual practices in the early Church - Hyper vigilance about sex
Satan loves tormenting Jesus’ followers with sex because he obviously knows that we know the high bar Jesus set (if you look on a woman to lust you’ve already committed adultery in your heart).
This truth is why Satan loves when we do anything sexual outside of marriage.
(Many people, even those who call themselves Christians, are demonized to the point where they can’t feel any arousal in normal marital intercourse. They need adulterous, fornicative, forbidden, taboo sex to stimulate them.)
If Satan (through Paul) can get Christians to think that marriage is less holy, and that it lessens your relationship to the Father and somehow shows a lack of commitment on your part, then Satan can get truly born again and zealous believers to put themselves in a state of unnecessary suffering as they fight in their built in desires to procreate. This can be a place of casostrophic torment that can (and has) cause(d) many to give up and walk away from the faith. If only they had thought that marriage was a possible outcome that didn't mean you loved the Father less or if they knew they didn't extra bonus points for remaining single than a person who had married. In this case, it's all about us individually.
Many of us, through sexual sin, past adulteries and fornications with manifold number of partners, have through our sin, disqualified ourselves from marriage. It's my belief, that we must accept our fates, due to our sin, and use spiritual warfare and self-discipline to over come and keep going. If we fall sexually through lust, we repent, get off the ground, brush ourselves off, and keep going with the celibate life. This is the price to pay for many who so disrespected the Father's covenant of marriage and his creation of sex that they've become disqualified from future participation. If that's the case, just keep going and enjoy your love affair with the Father. At least you're saved now.
In the world to come there is no more marriage or giving in marriage, so sex will be non-existent. You can already embrace the lifestyle of the world to come in such a case. But I don't think that at any time since Jesus' resurrection that we were all supposed to close up shop, remain single, and stop reproducing, all because we could serve the Father better that way. Nonsense.
In our modern day, and outside of the Body of Believers, Satan has been able to keep down reproduction by tricking women in to using birth control. Women have become extremely promiscuous which means they can no longer pair bond, even if they do marry. Then you have adulterous promiscuity with they stray outside of marriage and the divorces that result.
And with this regard, a very small number of men engaging with the promiscuous women, so much of the population of men are unsexxed or their only access to it is porn/masterbation. And now they've been so disabused from society that they are not marrying any more. Just like Paul (and Satan) wanted. MGTOW all the way.
If an unmarried believing man is on his own with no sexual outlet and yet he’s not one of the ones who was born with the ability to handle it, he can often turn to porn or even prostitution, even He is not staying prayed up and doing deliverance.
If it wasn't for deliverance my late 20's and 30's would have been torture, and even as such, they were a huge challenge to tamp down the desires I had activated prior to being born again through fornicative behaviors I should have known better than to participate in.
But this is what Satan wants, lonely, sexually tortured Believers who do not procreate, whose lineage, which could have been raised up in the teachings of the Father and His Son, stops with a dead bachelor or old maid.
So you have Jesus saying, “what God has put together let no man tear asunder.”
Paul essentially said, “You’ll serve the Father better if you don’t let the Father put you together.”
Jesus protected marriage and all of his teachings in regard to it and sex in general were to foster life long marriages that could respond to the Father's command to be fruitful and multiply.
Jesus knew that any other circumstance, that is, where sex was practiced outside of marriage would produce a society that did the opposite, and also create more bastard children who stood very little chance.
His warning to not lust after a woman (who's not your wife) was meant to keep the fantasy that would lead to the disruption of proper sexual reproduction from growing into reality. Jesus wanted marriage and reproduction, but not at the expense of the sin that would have terrible consequences. Look at these date points about bastards being raised by single mothers:
Returning to Paul's take on the improved proposition of living single, in 1 Corinthians 7 he implants a thought worm in all Believers, "If I'm not single I'm not giving the Father my best," or, "I chose selfishness and the way of the flesh by choosing to marry; I let the Father down," rather than, "I chose to obey the Father's original edict to be fruitful and multiply, which, in fact makes one inherently less selfish." Again, we find Paul's inversion.
Look at this Proverb. How can this be if Paul is right?
This does not mean that marrying is ALWAYS the answer, and then there's the fact that many, dare I say, most of us choose wrongly in who we determine to marry. Many of us marry people who are unbelievers or who are at the least, "faking their faith." Those fakers, during courtship, while on the one hand mirroring and love bombing us, still showed us time and time again their true colors, but we chose to believe their words over and above the low hanging rotten fruit that could be plainly seen. The people we chose often didn't believe and certainly did not care about the Father or His Son (The Word), only themselves.
And this was done, in many cases, because the person(s) we married (or ourselves) had been sexually active outside of marriage. So instead of the Father's model of two virgins making a blood covenant (when the hymen breaks) we have two former fornicators and even adulterers trying to paste themselves together in a marriage. Without much prayer, soul-tie breaking, and a truly born again experience on both parts, there's no way for the marriage to make it.
And, in many cases, people who remarry are often not even eligible to do so, having been disqualified by their past actions, such as being the one to cheat on a faithful spouse. The faithful spouse, in my view, can remarry. Can the cheater? Is he/she still eligible to marry again, even if he/she gets born again after the fact? The longer I live, the less I think so. Cheaters always want to have their cake and eat it, too. How much more are they doing so after they've ruined one or more past marriages and families (their own and that of the potentially married people they cheated with) and now they get to have another God sanctioned and honored marriage? I trow not. At what point is enough, enough?
Adulterers in the law were stoned to get the evil out from among them. But now we have so much promiscuity that those who commit adultery don't even see the practice as evil or worthy of consequence. Instead it's a beneficial, pleasurable act that is without punishment. The only thing an adulterer could suffer these days is a bit of reputation loss. But even if they become infamous for adultery in one community, they can just move to the next and start over. I think it's safe to say, however, that society has degraded so much and there are so many adulterers among us, that very few of them would find cause to be embarrassed, much less move, unless it's a really small, close knit community. Nobody cares anymore, because most everyone is doing it.
I think now it would be interesting to address the Church's attitude toward sex since the early days. Throughout the last two millennia since Jesus's death, burial and resurrection, the Church has ping-ponged back and forth in this regard (all because of Paul's nefarious false teachings). You can truly see Satan's hand in the changes which occurred where even proper sex between married couples was seen as possibly taboo, to others who celebrated it. It's interesting how the Puritans, who are often reflected as sexual fuddy-duddies, were the ones who were closest to the Father's Word and also the ones that enjoyed a promoted sex within the confines of marriage as being a blessing. This article does a good job speaking to the history of Church's attitude toward sex for the past two millennia.
See Sex and the History of Christianity
I know it seems like I've veered way off track from Paul's inversion in this discussion, but once again, I believe Paul laid a groundwork for making marriage a second best option that's led to sexual sin inasmuch as most men and women are designed to participate in the act of reproduction, and Paul so cleverly making this to seem as a more selfish choice, leads to many people choosing lives they were never meant to lead, and to ignore the Father's original edict to be "fruitful and multiply," all because they're wrongly convinced that doing so as a suffering single will bring the Father more pleasure. He might just want you to make more babies to serve Him, something Paul doesn't even seem to consider or care about.
Paul's accomplishes another inversion in his teachings about marriage. (Imagine a man never married teaching people how to be married?) it's very interesting how the Proverbs tell men not to give their strength unto women, but married men get stuck with this idea of "losing their life for their wives" attitude that nearly makes wives into idols.
We, as Believers, are the kings and priests, as Revelation tell us:
If you do that, you can't go wrong in your marriage. You won't make your spouse an idol and you won't under love or support them either. You will find the happy medium for which the Father wants you to abide.
Also, from the woman's perspective, Paul calls for submission to husbands, silence in the Church and practically erases them as sentient beings. But Proverbs 31 speaks of a wife who builds up her house and has her hands in all sorts of endeavors, as well as a man who is outside the house in the community having his effect there, not home bowing to and worshipping his wife. Men lose their women when they are not about their higher purpose.
Finally, There is a time and season for everything. And this may not be the best time to be procreating. If we are indeed entering the tribulation, Jesus warned:
The tribulation is a short period of time, that begins and ends within a seven year period. And the specific time of which Jesus speaks is when people are in the process of fleeing the anti-christ, so that's an even smaller window. The point is, Jesus did not mean for us all to be single and celibate to avoid having children ever since Paul's writings until now. He just wanted to warn us that we will need to be nimble during that period of tribulation.
Paul's clever inversions are abundant in his writings. He inverted the importance of the Father's Holy Days, especially the Sabbath (fourth commandment), which the Father had blessed, sanctified and hallowed, by saying that no one day is more important than another.
He inverted the Father's first two commandments of the ten with regard to false gods and idols with 1 Corinthians 8 where he tells you how to eat things sacrificed to idols.
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