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One of the most troubling facts within this present generation is that the Millennials do not support the inerrant, absolute & authoritative Word of God being God’s words.
For this reason we also constantly thank God that when you received the Word of God which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but for what it really is, the Word of God, which also performs its work in you who believe. For you, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea, for you also endured the same sufferings at the hands of your own countrymen, even as they did from the Jews, who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out. They are not pleasing to God, but hostile to all men, hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved; with the result that they always fill up the measure of their sins. But wrath has come upon them to the utmost. (1Thess 2:13-16)
THE ‘MILLENNIAL JESUS’ PROMOTES A ME-ME MARRIAGES
Moreover, the critical deception that needs to be uncovered regarding the Millennial Generation is the enemy’s objective of becoming the great Identity Thief – stealing the personal identity of Christ in the believer through the formation of the Self-Life Identity (Me-Me Identity). This Me-Me Identity forms a Social Gospel centered around the human interpreting what God means by what God says.
It all starts with the common sin of the parents spoiling the child and sparing the child. Once the spoiled child syndrome has been established, the child will jump into the present culture that is inviting them into the all-about-me society, which indirectly sets the child up to serve Satan covertly or overtly – he cares not which.
Once the enemy could establish a global universal thought, religion & and theology (all paths leading to a single god) – he then was able to separate the human need for a Savior. Since the only way to get to Heaven is by marriage, Satan successfully exchanged the doctrines of marriage to Christ Jesus for the anti-Christ of the end times.
The Father Chooses the Bride for His Son
Even though it is not a popular idea today, Hebrew tradition reveals that the groom's father played a significant role in “picking” the bride for his son. The father looked for economic, social, and spiritual qualities, as well as a pure bloodline. These elements were important for the father because these qualities would preserve his investments. It took the wisdom of a father to look through the son’s desires of the flesh to marry and assist him in finding a bride who would be a suitable helpmate. The father was interested in protecting his investment in his son. A wise father understood that a woman could take all that away in a very short period. Since the purpose of a father’s life was to “set up” the next generation to responsibly manage his inheritance (rewards of his labor), he made sure his son had a wife who would not squander it (Exodus 34:16). For it was the father's responsibility to form his son’s future; then, teach him how to do the same with his sons.
Another significant point is that a young man typically looked at the outward beauty of a woman as the primary qualification to marry her, while the father looked at the inward beauty. Because young men lack experience, they tend to look at women externally. Old men, men of wisdom, understand that external beauty quickly fades away; the man is left with the inward woman, and many times that wasn’t much. Therefore, the son had to have complete trust in his father to do the “picking.”
Let it be known that a son has the right to look and desire, but the father is the one who does the choosing.
Judges 14:2 shows us, “So he came back and told his father and mother, ‘I saw a woman in Timnah, one of the daughters of the Philistines; now therefore, get her for me as a wife.’" The simple point here is that the son knew he had no ability to obtain a woman on his own--it required the father to “work the deal” for him.
Dr. Stephen Phinney
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