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WHY DO THEY HATE IT?
Fatherhood is the very essence of God and He wants His fatherhood represented in man. God reveals His plan for fathering and mothering in the very beginning of the Bible (Genesis 2:24), 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” (father).
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 could not be in this world without a natural father, and of course, their Heavenly Father who is the only One who can give conception and who planned to bring them into this world.
We know that many harbor this hatred because of hurts they have received from their own fathers, or from 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 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 the families and 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.” 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 want 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.
Be encouraged.
Nancy Campbell
Painting by Katie Berggren
