AntiChrist RZ 12/02 - Tomorrow's World

The Seventh Commandment
man and woman: “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue
it…” (Genesis 1:28). With begetting children comes the
responsibility of protecting and training them. A stable, happy
home and marriage are indispensable to the correct nurture and
training of a child. And God commands: “Train up a child in the
way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it”
(Proverbs 22:6). The home and family form the basis of all decent
society! The lessons of character learned in the home—patience,
understanding, kindness—all of these are qualities that God wants
in us for all eternity, and the family relationship is one of the best
places in which they can be learned! Better than in any other
place, the lessons of decency, loyalty, and a sense of responsibility
are learned in a happy and well-balanced home. And so, in addition
to making us complete, and the begetting and training of
children, a third great purpose of sex and marriage is the building
of character in the home and family relationship. The kingdom
and law of God are based on love. Jesus said: “It is more blessed to
give than to receive” (Acts 20:35). To obey God’s law of marriage,
man and wife must literally give themselves to each other in every
phase and facet of their lives.
Marriage Pictures Christ and His Church
As ordained by God, the marriage union is holy. It is so holy
that, in His Word, Almighty God uses the marriage union as a
type (a model or parallel) of the relationship between Christ and
His Church! Notice Ephesians 5:22–24: “Wives, submit to your
own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is head of the
wife, as also Christ is head of the church: and He is the Savior of
the body. Therefore, just as the church; is subject to Christ, so let
the wives be to their own husbands in everything.” Here, God
shows that in the Christian home the wife is to submit herself to
her husband as the head of that home, just as she must learn to
submit to Christ Himself for all eternity! In this holy relationship,
she is learning a lesson of lasting faithfulness!
Then the husbands are addressed: “Husbands, love your
wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for
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