In a society so far remove from the biblical foundation of marriage are one dilemma after another hitting them. Let me tell you about one dilemma -it is about maids. I am a Filipino and one time it caused a furor here when the noun “Filipina” became synonymous with MAIDS-or household helps. In 2 Samuel 5:13 we are told that David took more wives and concubines like it was the most natural thing in the world. Let us leave the wives alone but concentrate on what are concubines. An excerpt from:http://www.ukapologetics.net/concubine.html, states:
“Concubinage was practised in many ancient cultures, especially in Mesopotamia…..where a private citizen might have one or two concubines in addition to his primary wife…..a concubine was often a slave or part of the booty of war (Judges 5:30). A man might have a concubine simply as an economical form of marriage, since no dowry or bride-price was required. A concubine could add to a man’s prestige by giving him two wives and thus an increased capacity for children. Such offspring were normally delivered onto the knees of the legal wife, thus establishing their legitimacy as family members. The concubine was also another servant to add to his work force.’ (Baker Encyclopedia of the Bible, 1997, Vol 1, p504).
We see that concubines are also wives and as well as maids; meaning they were given more the bigger chunk of the work in the household. Though they were lower than wives yet their services made the household more better. Services which also included sexual services to the father of the house. concubines were part of the family.
Now when men tampered with the Biblical Model of what marriage is and what family is-this has caused a dilemma to the modern household of today as well as to these lowly helps.
Today maids are not considered as part of a man’s family; and what happens? I saw many Filipinas abused by their employers. Some were burned, punched, tortured and raped; many came home in coffins…
And the family that hired them had a dilemma too. I saw one man of the house got angry with his maids since he had been kind to them the maids were not loyal to him or his family at all. He saw one maid literally through thoughtless acts destroy his tiled kitchen by using the tiles as ice breaker. His things were not given the care that it should have been given-all because the maids were not part of his family. And the man could not get any sexual services from them- he have to get it somewhere else where the one giving them might have AIDS or STD…one maid plotted with thugs and the money and jewelries of the house were stolen…all because of the change that was made from the Biblical Model! What blindness now societies have?
So who gonna help the maids? More legislatures to help them ? Laws from those who despite their Law Degrees and/or inTelligence are ignorant of the Word of God? Will these help the help meet for man? It will PROBABLY in trickles…since the main problem is the CHANGE that was made! The main problem is the BIG BIG LIE that Satan had pulled off in your very faces! The LIE that is the SHOULD BE MONOGAMY FOR ALL MEN-that is the root caused of many evils falling on the family and these lowly service providers!
Matthew 25:40 Verily I say unto you, Since you have done it unto one of the least of these…, you have done it unto me.
Matthew 18:6 But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.
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