Last night Dalrock proceeded to discuss the sad case of Jenny Erikson. He sees her as an example of the modern feminist life cycle, which, if I understand it goes something like this within the church.
1. Be a virginal daughter of God until college,
2. Go to college to get a degree of as high a status as you can gain.
3. While there, chase hot and desirable men.
4. After college jump of the dating carousel, and find a steady and unexciting husband.
5. After 10 or so years of marriage (alimony laws in the U$), divorce the boring brute because god told you there was more in your life. (God in lower case –there is clear teaching on this)
6. Relive your youth…. but without as much male attention now you are middle-aged. Only men with baggage are around… so.
7. Remarry –or more commonly live with ( still get alimony) the hunky handyman millionaire.
The trouble is that hunky handymen are generally not millionaires. At this point a lot of women get cats, while dreaming of that mythical creature.
I cannot link as much as I would like, but Dalrock has a series on this woman, and Sunshine Mary has discussed the case. IN short she was or is a mommy blogger and republican activist who has nuked her marriage and is now irate that the church they went to has excommunicated her.
For today we have Jude. The entire book. And it is sobering.
JUDE 1-16
1 Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James, To those who are called, who are beloved in God the Father and kept safe for Jesus Christ: 2 May mercy, peace, and love be yours in abundance. 3 Beloved, while eagerly preparing to write to you about the salvation we share, I find it necessary to write and appeal to you to contend for the faith that was once for all entrusted to the saints. 4 For certain intruders have stolen in among you, people who long ago were designated for this condemnation as ungodly, who pervert the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus
Christ.
5 Now I desire to remind you, though you are fully informed, that the Lord, who once for all saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe. 6 And the angels who did not keep their own position, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains in deepest darkness for the judgment of the great Day. 7 Likewise, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which, in the same manner as they, indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural lust, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.
8 Yet in the same way these dreamers also defile the flesh, reject authority, and slander the glorious ones. 9 But when the archangel Michael contended with the devil and disputed about the body of Moses, he did not dare to bring a condemnation of slander against him, but said, “The Lord rebuke you!” 10 But these people slander whatever they do not understand, and they are destroyed by those things that, like irrational animals, they know by instinct. 11 Woe to them! For they go the way of Cain, and abandon themselves to Balaam’s error for the sake of gain, and perish in Korah’s rebellion. 12 These are blemishes on your love-feasts, while they feast with you without fear, feeding themselves. They are waterless clouds carried along by the winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, uprooted; 13 wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the deepest darkness has been reserved forever.
14 It was also about these that E’noch, in the seventh generation from Adam, prophesied, saying, “See, the Lord is coming with ten thousands of his holy ones, 15 to execute judgment on all, and to convict everyone of all the deeds of ungodliness that they have committed in such an ungodly way, and all the harsh things that ungodly sinners have spoken against him.” 16 These are grumblers and malcontents; they indulge their own lusts; they are bombastic in speech, flattering people to their own advantage.
The Church is imperfect. There is always a need for reform. There is a need for Godly leadership — in the home, among the elders, and between churches. The role of an apostle includes correction. This is, if you will, the true ecunemicism — that the reformed can share rigor with the Papists, and the Papists can share prayer with the reformed, We will disagree on much, for we are limited, and we will all be corrected by Christ.
But we have to submit to our leaders. Not blindly. Not as a robot, but as a choice. We need to pray that they will be led by the spirit and not I to error, but we have to listen to them, for you cannot be a solo Christian nor can you just choose a church that accepts your proclivities.
Which brings me back to Jenny. Woman, welcome to the suck. You have nuked your marriage. Your husband should be considering the stage of your children — for the data says that your daughters are far safer with their biological father than your boyfriends.
You have a very small window to get on your knees anc beg him to take you back.
God hates divorce. It is the duty of the church elders to help married couples be loving and faithful. In fact, older women in the church are commanded to teach younger woman about this. And when you rebel fro m Godly authority, you put your soul in jeopardy.
UPDATE.
Linkage added, and the text now flows correctly.
