If we are of Christ, we are the subjects to a great monarch, who is Christ himself. The glory and pomp of our current monarch is but a pale shadow of the kingdom to come. We are exiles. We are on this world, but we are not of this world.

We should therefore expect to be shamed, to be shunned, to be called hateful, to be accused of being not Christian when we preach the gospel and not the pretty lies society expects. And the comments back may be vicious. SSM was saying that she would rather be owned by her husband than by the state. However, this is not acceptable

If serving your husband is enough for you, then why are you bothering the anonymous internet with your hateful (unbecoming of the Christian you claim to be) rants instead of making sandwiches and ironing and cooking and polishing the floor and washing dishes and whatever a good Christian wife should do? You love the attention, that’s why. Or maybe deep down you still think that your way of life is somehow wrong and to confirm that you are perfectly ok the way you are you have to declare every woman that doesn’t live like you as masculine and unhappy. Maybe you have to put a gloss on your life to avoid falling into a deep depression.

It’s perfectly ok to be submissive and stay at home. But please do not impose your kinks and ideals on others by calling everything else unnatural.

Also, you prefer being owned by a faulty, erratic being like your husband (I don’t want to insult him, I don’t even know him, but as a human being he is prone to error) than an institution? What if your husband decides to leave you for a younger, more attractive woman who can provide him with more babies? As he has cheated on you 30 times already, that is not an entirely unrealistic notion. What if you, are suddenly alone? You havent’t worked for years. So you are forced to either strip your ex-husband of his money and thus destroy his new family, or you and your children will be dependant of the state all the more. As you are already in your forties you won’t find another “Alpha male” you seem so fond of to provide for you.

Well, she’s wrong, but before I go to the text I want to quote another woman who gives the contrast and the situation that we live in with but a few sentences.

I thank God for submissive wives that are willing to be vocal. I grew up in the SF Bay area. I’m not sure if you know what that means, but I had liberal morals and kinks imposed on me from the time was in kindergarten. My parents stopped taking me to church when I was 13, and I had NO voice of reason to tell me that I wasn’t weird for wanting marriage and family more than a career.

Feminist doctrine is preached on every street corner, in every school, and by our government. Why is it that you object so much to people on the anonymous internet disagreeing?

Now, to the scriptures. One of the things that the Jews were taught by the prophet was to live in the cities they found themselves. To marry. To breed. To raise their children in the faith. To use the systems of the city if possible, and do it themselves if not.

This remains a useful scripture, as Paul taught Timothy (and I memorized years ago). Timothy is an example of what happens when a Godly woman raises a son, and more so if a Godly husband chimes in: he has been of the faith since his youth. For we have another duty as well. We have to preach, for the progressives preach their doctrines in all our institutions and we need to correct them at every turn.

Jeremiah 29:1, 4-14

¹These are the words of the letter that the prophet Jeremiah sent from Jerusalem to the remaining elders among the exiles, and to the priests, the prophets, and all the people, whom Nebuchadnezzar had taken into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.

⁴Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, to all the exiles whom I have sent into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon: ⁵Build houses and live in them; plant gardens and eat what they produce. ⁶Take wives and have sons and daughters; take wives for your sons, and give your daughters in marriage, that they may bear sons and daughters; multiply there, and do not decrease. ⁷But seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the LORD on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare. ⁸For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Do not let the prophets and the diviners who are among you deceive you, and do not listen to the dreams that they dream, ⁹for it is a lie that they are prophesying to you in my name; I did not send them, says the LORD.

¹⁰For thus says the LORD: Only when Babylon’s seventy years are completed will I visit you, and I will fulfill to you my promise and bring you back to this place. ¹¹For surely I know the plans I have for you, says the LORD,plans for your welfare and not for harm, to give you a future with hope. ¹²Then when you call upon me and come and pray to me, I will hear you. ¹³When you search for me, you will find me; if you seek me with all your heart, ¹⁴I will let you find me, says the LORD, and I will restore your fortunes and gather you from all the nations and all the places where I have driven you, says the LORD, and I will bring you back to the place from which I sent you into exile.

2 Timothy 3:14-4:5

¹⁴But as for you, continue in what you have learned and firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it, ¹⁵and how from childhood you have known the sacred writings that are able to instruct you for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. ¹⁶All scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, ¹⁷so that everyone who belongs to God may be proficient, equipped for every good work.¹In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and in view of his appearing and his kingdom, I solemnly urge you: ²proclaim the message; be persistent whether the time is favorable or unfavorable; convince, rebuke, and encourage, with the utmost patience in teaching. ³For the time is coming when people will not put up with sound doctrine, but having itching ears, they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own desires, ⁴and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander away to myths. ⁵As for you, always be sober, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, carry out your ministry fully.

Consider for a second what the commentator tried to do with SSM.

1. The sarcastically trivialized the work of a woman at home.
2. She told her to shut up. Which is wrong. Women are to be silent in church, thank you very much, but they have a role in teaching younger women how to love their wifes and raising their children. What she wants to do is shut her up in the public realm, so that all the text produced fits within her world model. My answer to that is harden up. If you cannot produce an argument, then perhaps you are … wrong, or perhaps the facts do not fit your thesis: you may have to change your mind as Calvin was wont to do.
3. She tries an emotional argument: SSM wants attention  (SSM wants he thoughts to change others, but prefers to be less known) and or she;s mentally unwell. The last accusation pisses me off. I work with the mentally ill: those people show a bleak courage every day as they deal with experiences I would not wish on my worst enemy, and to trivialize their suffering as an accusation is immoral.
4. She then says that men are erratic. Pot meet kettle. We are fallen. But we all have roles. and being a husband is a role with financial, sexual and spiritual duties. So is that of a wife. And every person who has had a long marriage knows at times one or the other is weak and needs support, and how hard it is to do that.   But the implication in this is that if a man is not perfect, he should not be a husband. Um no. None of us are perfect, and we all love and serve each other imperfectly. This is akin to an expectation that if a mother does not meet all the needs of their child they will be scarred. Which is wrong: the child will be spoiled if all their wants and wishes are fulfilled.
5. Finally, there is an undercurrent that men are not quite human. The tone is akin to an elven princess who needs to be liberated as she is married to an Orc. That women are somehow better and more spiritual than men are. To say that is to deny the gospel to half of mankind, and that. I. will. not. do.

Now, our duty, in Christ, is to not be like this. For feminism and the liberal experiment has been tried, and has failed. Miserably: it will crumble, soon, in the same way that the Soviet experiment did. The death throes are going to be dangerous, but the experiment has already failed and it is merely time before people will rebel and a different way will occur.

That way may be frankly antichristian. So we need, at this time, to pray. For that which is happening in the world — locally, regionally (where I have a duty to pray for the bush fires in Australia) and in the world. And in exile, we should live sensibly and with love, not contempt for each other: that will be a shining witness in these times.