Home is a spiritual battlefield!

The Lord wants us to establish our homes as heaven.

So the Lord has given us the twofold commandment of Jesus, the commandment of heaven (Mt. 22:37, 39).  He also had poured out God’s love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit (Rom. 5:5), so that the fruit of the Spirit, love, fills us more and more gradually (Gal. 5:22).

Therefore, it is our responsibility to obey that commandment in our family and follow the guidance of the Holy Spirit to love God with all our souls as a whole family with one spirit and one mind (Phil. 1:27; 2:2), and to love each other as ourselves.  When we do this, our home will become a heavenly kingdom.  And our home will be filled the joy of heaven (Jn. 15:11; 1 Jn. 1:4), love (Ps. 33:5) and peace (Rom. 15:13).

Satan wants to make our homes a hell.

So Satan is making us disobey Jesus' twofold commandment, which is the commandment of heaven (Eph. 2:2; 5:6), and is making us to hate each other, which is the commandment of hell (Gen. 37:5; Deut. 22:13; Mt. 24:10; 1 Jn. 2:9).  Also, along with the spirit of lies, Satan's hatred is instilled in us (Deut. 21:17; 2 Sam. 13:15; Prov. 10:12), making us to work in darkness (Isa. 29:15; Ezek. 8:12; Eph. 5:11) and thus making our family to bear bitter fruit (Rom. 7:5).

So Satan is making us not want to go to a hellish home, but rather to linger outside the house, or even further away from it.  Satan is also making us not to want to see our family members.  And Satan is making us to hate our spouse even more.  In the midst of growing hatred toward our spouse, Satan seeks to open up a gap in the balance of the marital relationship (cf. Neh 4:3, Hebrew "gap"; 6:1), and thus making us to be interested in other women/men.  In addition, Satan is making us to covet the other person with the lust of the eyes and the lust of the flesh (1 Jn. 2:16) so that ultimately leads us to affair.

The purpose of Satan is to break down and destroy our homes, making it impossible for us to achieve the heavenly home, and to turn our homes into a family like hell.

This is a spiritual warfare!

Home is the spiritual battlefield!