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SO... over the holiday, we saw the racism of the education system in America rear its ugly head again… once again disguising itself as “Anti-Racism”.

Key Facts of the New York Post story:

The school had implemented a 50% minimum grade for “showing up”

For years the school has hid National Merit Awards, crippling at least 1200 student's academic careers, blocking potentially millions of dollars of scholarships to students

This is all excused as an attempt to prevent hurt feelings in “minorities”.

How is this not seen as extraordinarily racist against the primarily middle and far eastern Merit recipients and even more racist against the black and brown students the administration is calling to stupid to stand on their own? The Left has traded in the open racism of saying that blacks cannot be taught to an obscured but equally or more so vile racism that claims that those other nationalities who excel must be barred from success. This has occurred in many ways and we have seen this across many stories. Not too long ago we had a professor claim that grade based learning was racist.

Dunbar High School is an interesting case study. Dunbar High School, in Washington DC, was wildly successful in the early to mid 1900s. A black only school, with less funding, and under persecution by Democrats, Dunbar thrived with black students faring as well or better than any white kids in the nation. Did they have a 50% base score for showing up? Did they focus on their African heritage? Did have counseling for the actual persecution that they were facing with under funding and lynchings? No to all of the above. Excellence was demanded, and discipline was employed. Unfortunately, instead of bringing the schools to this level during the 1950s and 60s, the forced integration of schools via busing also led to Dunbar's descent into a “typical ghetto school” as Thomas Sewell puts it. Noone looked to see why Dunbar succeeded and made one of the few examples of an excellent school for African American students into a modern day public school.

How did they accomplish this? By taking merit out of the equation. Set lower standards and people will never be forced to aim higher. What's worse is that students who do aim higher due to their culture and upbringing are kneecapped today by those who would enforce so-called equity. This has only had disastrous results and we now see Dunbar has no more academic excellence than any other public school.

What solutions are proposed? More spending? Lowering the standard? Resegregation? The Dunbar School was underfunded and discipline was incredibly strict so those are not solutions. Resegregation will do just as much damage as half-hearted integration did and leave us in an educational apartheid. What worked in Dunbar, and what produces excellence in children's academics, is not lower standards, more funding, and racism, but the opposite of each. A Godly education with high standards does not need funding and abolishes racism. Of course, this is exactly counter to what we see being proposed today in modern academia. We can only change the culture one heart and mind at a time, but a great place to do this is in the schools. We as Christians need to focus our efforts overhauling or disbanding the public education system. But we can only do this if we offer a replacement. Wouldn't it be an interesting disruption to the evil in our world if the Church offered a pay as you can school option that outperformed public education. Just a thought.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10183499/Arizona-State-University-prof-says-grading-racist-based-labor.html

https://nypost.com/2022/12/23/top-school-principal-hides-academic-awards-in-name-of-equity/amp/

https://www.nationalaffairs.com/storage/app/uploads/public/58e/1a4/ba6/58e1a4ba616e4230354245.pdf

https://www.nationalreview.com/2014/05/fate-dunbar-high-thomas-sowell/

Modern Gender Theory comes from the American Left/European Right of the Early-Mid 20th Century out of the Frankfurt School in Germany. Critical Theory, in general, has left our culture with nothing more than broken lives and harmful ideologies. Where Critical Theory has touched the space of Womanhood, nothing but harm has been produced.

It is interesting how Critical Theory has affected the two genders. Women are supposed to be more manly and men are supposed to be more womanly. While this has made both less happy, it seems to have a more obvious effect on women, in that women are now expected to entertain men in their spaces, think sports and bathrooms. While this is expected of men too, it is rarely an issue that affects men as adversely as it affects women.

However, this phenomenon does present an interesting insight into what the world considers feminine. It is expected that the woman both be physically feminine, but performatively masculine. What I mean by that is women are both expected to attain the beauty standard physically, but to behave like working men, and the worst kind of sexualized stereotype of a man.

The sweet humble spirit is considered internal misogyny, whereas brazen pride in one's womanhood, a superficial external characteristic, I would add, is glorified. Motherhood is shunned, and the unnatural lack of affection in abortion is championed. Chastity, just as it is in men, is shunned as square, and body count is a trophy to be touted.

But is this natural? If not, is it harmful? Are we made to behave in this manner? What has this done to our familial structure, the traditional domain of the woman? Let's look to the Bible for our answers, although reality will also verify our Biblical priors here.

First off, what does Genesis say about the creation of Woman?

Genesis 2:18-25

18 And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

19 And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.

20 And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.

21 And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;

22 And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.

23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.

24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

Who is Woman in this context? Where does she come from? The Foot? The Head? No, the rib! She is meant to stand beside the man as a help meet. This is no different than an IT technician and a Sales Rep working in the same firm. Is the IT Tech lower because they serve a different purpose in fixing the Sales Rep's computer? Maybe a poor analogy, but hopefully it gets across the point. We later see the woman taking up the affairs of home making and the man of providing. This is seen throughout scripture, but we also see the roles are not necessarily concrete.

Judges 4:6-10

6 And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedeshnaphtali, and said unto him, Hath not the LORD God of Israel commanded, saying, Go and draw toward mount Tabor, and take with thee ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun?

7 And I will draw unto thee to the river Kishon Sisera, the captain of Jabin's army, with his chariots and his multitude; and I will deliver him into thine hand.

8 And Barak said unto her, If thou wilt go with me, then I will go: but if thou wilt not go with me, then I will not go.

9 And she said, I will surely go with thee: notwithstanding the journey that thou takest shall not be for thine honour; for the LORD shall sell Sisera into the hand of a woman. And Deborah arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh.

10 And Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh; and he went up with ten thousand men at his feet: and Deborah went up with him.

Note, that women are completely capable of stepping into the leadership position when men fail to be men. This is a failure on the man's part here in Judges 4, and God blesses the leadership of the righteous judge Deborah. However, this is not within the normative design of God. Men need to be men so that women can be women, and visa versa. When we fail to live up to our calling, God will use someone else, even if it's not God's best.

In Proverbs 9 we see an example of a foolish woman, who may look familiar to a modern audience:

13 A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing.

14 For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,

15 To call passengers who go right on their ways:

16 Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,

17 Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.

18 But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.

Contrast this with the Proverbs 31 woman:

0 Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.

11 The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.

12 She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.

13 She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands.

14 She is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar.

15 She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens.

16 She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard.

17 She girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her arms.

18 She perceiveth that her merchandise is good: her candle goeth not out by night.

19 She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff.

20 She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy.

21 She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household are clothed with scarlet.

22 She maketh herself coverings of tapestry; her clothing is silk and purple.

23 Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land.

24 She maketh fine linen, and selleth it; and delivereth girdles unto the merchant.

25 Strength and honour are her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come.

26 She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness.

27 She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.

28 Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.

29 Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.

30 Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.

31 Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.

One of these two destroys her family, the other completes the man in creating a family. Proverbs 31 is God's design for a woman. This woman in Proverbs 31 is not a doormat. She is a wife, mother, entrepreneur, fit, intelligent, honorable, and well respected pillar of her community. Does such a paragon exist in the Bible? Well quite a few, Ester, Ruth, Deborah, Joanna, and Priscilla to name a few.

Complementarianism is often conflated with Egalitarianism, the two are quite similar. However, the primary difference between them is this: the average woman cannot lift as much as the average man, and the man cannot have babies, nor does the average man have the empathy of the average woman. This is Complementarianism, whereas pure literal Egalitarianism could be interpreted to deny these obvious facts. These differences, and many others, are primarily, or in some cases exclusively, driven by biology. The design of the Master Craftsman. In talking about Gender, it is important to also remember that God made you uniquely and intentionally you.

Psalms 139:12-18 gives us insight into how God framed us.

12 Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.

13 For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb.

14 I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.

15 My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.

16 Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.

17 How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!

18 If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.

Our gender, as much as anything else about us, is a gift from God to be enjoyed and used for His glory. Remember that.

Questions for the Chairs:

Theology: Why did God design Women differently than men? (Genesis 2) How does the Complimentarian framework model Christ's relationship to the church? (Ephesians 5 and Revelation 18:23, Revelation 19:7-9, Revelation 21:2-9, and Revelation 22:17) Compare this to the Worldly woman and the harlot in Proverbs 9 and Revelation 21:2-9.

Philosophy: If men and women are designed differently, then would they not be both suited for different tasks? Does this mean that they are not equal in value? What happens when one ignores Teleology (Purpose for being)?

Culture: What happens when our society loses sight of the above tenants? Do jealousy and envy of the benefits of the opposite gender's role damage the family? (See women leaving their role as mother and men abdicating their masculinity.)

Politics: Why would government want to dissolve the nuclear family? Would it not be to put all of us in the position of children of the State? Where does this inevitably lead?

Economics: How has the World succeeded in breaking down the family? Through welfare and the promise of economic prosperity with a two income household? What do these consumeristic tendancies reveal about our view of God and the Institute of Marriage? These things are the same just as a reflection in the mirror is the same as the original.

https://www.betterhelp.com/advice/mental-heath-of-men-and-boys/life-after-divorce-for-men-the-impact-on-mens-health/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/09/30/suicides-are-spiking-among-young-men/

https://law.yale.edu/sites/default/files/documents/pdf/Intellectual_Life/Stevenson_ParadoxDecliningFemaleHappiness_Dec08.pdf

https://ifstudies.org/blog/counterintuitive-trends-in-the-link-between-premarital-sex-and-marital-stability

https://www.profgalloway.com/divor

https://sites.utexas.edu/contemporaryfamilies/2018/10/08/premaritalcohabitation/ce/

https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/a-woman-needs-a-man-like-a-fish-needs-a-bicycle.html

https://jech.bmj.com/content/57/12/993

Today, let's look at the common arguments for a Pagan Origin of Christmas. Let's put them into 3 categories:

1. The 25th Date coincides with other pagan holidays like Saturnalia and Sol Invictus

2. The gods who were born on the 25th make Christ look like a copycat in a long line of copycats.

3. The Christmas Tree appears to be the Asherah Pole from Jeremiah 10:1-5.

So let's start with the date of the 25th. Where did the date come from?

Some sources attribute Theophilus of Antioch circa 171-183 AD as the first to use the 25th of December date as the date of Christ's birth, due to the notion that prophets are conceived on the day they die (Christ's death being attributed here as the 25th of March). Some even attribute Pope St. Telesphorus in circa 125-136 AD as having ascribed the December 25th date decades earlier. The dates of Saturnalia were the 17th-23rd , never on the 25th. A Pre-Christ Sol Invictus is only referenced in 1 manuscript, the Chronography of 354. This manuscript was written over 100 years after Hippolytus of Rome's Commentary on Daniel (circa 202~211 AD), which references the December 25th Birth of Christ. It is entirely possible that the observance of Sol Invictus's birthdate may have even been a mimicry of the December 25th date! There go those two points, showing a crippling lack of scholarship on the part of the proponents of a Pagan Origin of Christmas.

As for other gods who have held or picked up the 25th, some of these have resurrection stories and other vague similarities to Christ's story. I'll have to quote Lewis here on this general contention as Lewis said it better than I could: “And what did God do? …He sent the human race what I call good dreams: I mean those queer stories scattered all through the heathen religions about a god who dies and comes to life again and, by his death, has somehow given new life to men.” If one takes the proposition that man came from Noah, and Noah expected the redeemer of the Genesis 3 covenant, would not man expect such a redeemer? Also, would not the Devil himself love to abuse this desire for a Savior and propagate such false religions for the Devil's own gain? This view, even if you believe it to be wrong, is at least consistent.

On a side note, I do not believe, like many that Christ's birth was on the 25th of December. It was likely on the feast of First Fruits in April. This would better fit the prophetic timeline and The Christ Comet is a theory of the Star of Bethlehem that plots the activities of a specific comet to that time frame. This comet would have behaved in such a way as to lead the Magi to Jerusalem and then to Bethlehem, but this is neither here nor there for this discussion.

On the note of the Christmas Tree, the Asherah Pole of Pre-Christ Iran is often connoted with the Tradition of the Christmas Tree, which was started around the 1500s by the French and Germanic Christians, the better part of two millennia separated from Jeremiah's words in Jeremiah 10:1-5:

"1 Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of Israel: 2 Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. 3 For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. 4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. 5 They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good."

On that note, how would uncarved trees have anything to do with carved wooden idols? Just because heathens used trees in false worship, does not mean that trees are somehow pagan. If pagans doing something or celebrating in a certain way makes any association with the item or practice anathema, stop singing, stop praying, and while you're at it, stop breathing! This extreme is almost a strawman, but the point of this should be why are we doing what we do? Some traditions are valueless, granted. Some are even dangerous, agreed. But let's base our critiques, if we have them, on facts and not unsupported nonsense. (For example, find an actual ancient source on the use of Christmas Trees for Saturnalia. Few if any exist, and none that we are aware of.)

Santa Clause, on the other hand, is a different story. St. Nicholas (Born circa 280 AD) is the oldest reference of the Jolly Man who gave aid to the poor and powerless. Tales of St. Nicholas include him giving dowries to girls being sold into prostitution, thereby saving them from such a life, and giving gifts to the poor. Others are more fantastic. However, all of these stories should be celebrated, in the context of what the Love of God can do through one man. St. Nicholas wasn't magical, he was transformed through his relationship to Christ. Santa Claus, as we have him today, came from numerous accretions and other legends, some even pagan in origin (think Krampus).

All of that aside, however we got Santa Claus is not necessarily important. What is concerning is that some have taken the caricature of St. Nicholas and turned him into a god who rewards good works and the sacrament of milk and cookies. We tell children Santa and Jesus are both real and then wonder why they no longer believe in Christ only a few short years of their belief in Santa being shattered. Where is our consistency? Have we been guilty of worshiping a false god that satisfies our own paganistic desires for self fulfillment in America? Has Consumerism consumed the message of Christmas?

So, is Christmas a pagan holiday root and branch? Not in the root, but maybe for some, the branch. We should ask ourselves: Is Christ still on the throne of Christmas, or have we erected our own god of self-actualization with a fat bearded man who gives gifts with little effort from us, a caricature of God the Father Himself? Do we spend nearly as much time worshiping the King of Heaven as we do ourselves, and even our children and families?

https://www.learnreligions.com/why-is-christmas-on-december-25-700439

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/davearmstrong/2017/12/december-25th-birth-jesus-interesting-considerations.html

https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2019/12/08/just-how-pagan-is-christmas-really/

https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2018/12/05/the-origins-of-the-christmas-tree/

https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/reviews/great-christ-comet-revealing-star-bethlehem/

After last week's commentary on Feminism and Neo-Masculinity, we thought we should cover Biblical Gender Roles. With men accounting for 80% of suicides, it's important to note that a significant portion of this comes from post divorce. (Men are 8 times as likely to commit suicide than their female counterparts.)

Much of this grief comes from the modern understanding of marriage. However, we should look deeper to understand the core of the issue. What is a man and what is a woman? And what do they have to do with each other?

What was God's original design for marriage? Did God command man to be indecent to women? Did God allow women authority in marriage? What is man's responsibility in marriage? What is the woman's responsibility?

The world would have you believe that authority and submission are bad terms. What does the Bible say about authority in marriage? Ephesians 5 is the most often quoted verse on the topic so let's dive into it.

‭‭Ephesians‬ ‭5‬:‭22‬‬-23: “Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.”

These verses are often quoted out of context. These verses are in a chapter within a book written to a church. The context matters. The idea that submission is somehow a negative word is negated by the same spirit being exemplified in Philippians 2:6-8:

“[6] Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: [7] But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: [8] And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.”

How could Christ submit himself to God if submission is a negative thing. Perhaps submission has more to do with authority than it does with causing harm. If Christ was submitting to God the Father, but both are Co-Equal, then perhaps submission has more to do with assuming a role than it does with oppression.

Ephesians 5:24 continues: “Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing. Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; that he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, that he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.”

Does this sound like oppression?

“So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: for we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.”

If women submit, men are expected to be this kind of man.

“For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. Nevertheless, let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.”

This is why marriage itself is so critical.

Theologically: A man is a supposed to protect the woman who was made to complete the marriage.

Philosophically: Both genders have distinct differences and when we lose sight of what gives us purpose (God's leading in our life), sexual deviancy, infertility, and suicide become common place.

Culturally: Couples are the bedrock of our society, without a strong family unit, what happens to the culture? It breaks down and decays.

Politically: Why would the government have an interest in preserving the God Ordained Gender Roles? Why would a government have an interest in destroying such roles?

Economics: How does the traditional view of marriage, masculinity, and femininity better preserve the family financially?

https://www.betterhelp.com/advice/mental-heath-of-men-and-boys/life-after-divorce-for-men-the-impact-on-mens-health/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/09/30/suicides-are-spiking-among-young-men/

https://jech.bmj.com/content/57/12/993

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xRNrnh__SE

First off, it's important to note what brought the Red Pill movement and the so-called Mano-verse into existence: Feminism. Not Egalitarianism, but Feminism. And even that isn't fair, Feminism can only thrive when the Church is not a clear alternative. The World will always be the World, but Salt and Light are affirmative, transformative forces. Rot and darkness cannot have their way unless we fail to be what we should be as a Church.

The sentiment that a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle, is not only incorrect, but harmful. Not only does it harm the women, who have become more unhappy since the Second Wave of Feminism in the 1970s, but it also harms men.(1) Some men have reacted to the ire of the Modern Feminist, not by persevering, but by becoming resentful. Note, I'm not saying that Red Pillers are necessarily angry women haters, but that does adequately describe some.

So what is the Red Pill movement and when did it really explode? Well, the term obviously comes from the scene in the Matrix where Neo is offered two pills by his soon to be mentor Morpheous, take the blue pill and continue to live in a rat race that gets you nowhere and be oblivious to reality, or take the red pill and become aware of reality and face it on a hero's journey. The analogy here is that dating and money are a Matrix-like construct that have secret rules that have been formed to imprison you, the unwitting man. Girls really want a man who treats them poorly and money is easy to come by if you have confidence, at least this is what it has become. There are three main groups that the term “Red Pill” may include: MRA (Men's Rights Activists), MGTOW (Men Going Their Own Way), and the Man-O-Verse (the embrace of so-called Toxic Masculinity).

MRAs are, perhaps, the most sympathetic of the Red Pilled groups. The main complaints of MRAs are that women tend to get the children in divorce 90/10 (this is disputed to be a 65/35 by some evidence and studies, but 90/10 is the claim), men tend to lose most in divorce court, and that 80% of divorces are initiated by women. All of these may be legitimate issues, but the MRA movement has developed an image as bitter and resentful. This was perhaps best changed by Cassie Jaye's documentary named Red Pilled. Cassie Jaye started her expose on the MRA movement from the standpoint of a frustrated feminist, purposed to destroy the “misogynist” and “resentful” MRA movement. Her interviews and research actually led to a change of view on her part. MRAs were mostly divorced men who had mostly accurate critiques of the modern institution of divorce and the collapse of marriage. However, Christ said something very meaningful about demon possession, and I believe that it applies here:

Luke 11:24-26: 24When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he saith, I will return unto my house whence I came out. 25And when he cometh, he findeth it swept and garnished. 26Then goeth he, and taketh to him seven other spirits more wicked than himself; and they enter in, and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first.

If you do not replace bad ideology with good theology, the state of the culture is worse than the first state, as we will see.

Men Going Their Own Way, is a simple enough movement. Hypergamy, Lust for Money, and Shallowness define the modern woman in the eyes of the MGTOW. Therefore, these men have given up on personal interaction with women. The physical needs for female companionship are simply replaced with stoic celibacy, homosexuality, and/or pornography. This is bitterness as pure and clear as the angry raging blue hair feminist protesting in an pro-abortion rally. These men have completely rejected God's command to be fruitful and multiply. Thank God, the Hebrews didn't decide to go MGTOW or there wouldn't be a savior for this world. That would have delighted Satan, wouldn't it? However inconsequential these modern MGTOW men may be to prophecy, the Enemy of Our Souls still is after their joy and the potential that they could enjoy in the light of Godly living.

In Genesis 2:18 God said: “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.”

Forgiveness, however, is usually the main problem here. Does the MGTOW view of women actually stand the test of reality? Do most women really operate in this way, or just the ones who live in clubs and in college parties? The answer is not to abstain from marriage, but to rather find a Proverbs 31 woman, instead of a Proverbs 9 woman. In Proverbs 31, we see the woman that the modern feminist yearns to be, in Proverbs 9, however, we see an accurate description of what the modern feminist has become. Search out Godly women, and perhaps your views of women may change.

Finally, what is the Man-O-Verse? From the seeds sown by the MRA and MGTOW movements, have sprouted fertile marks for men like the infamous Andrew Tate. Andrew Tate is the most ubiquitous name on the internet now. He is loved/hated for his hot takes. The man has made millions off of young men, and some old men too, who have been taken captive by the Red Pill idea. Most of what the Red Pill movement has to offer is based in truth, that's what makes it so easy to twist into a money making scheme.

Most of what Tate says is true, but you have to evaluate actions as well as words. Tate speaks about hard work, being a manly man and bringing home the bacon so that his girl can enjoy a good life. None of these things are inherently bad, they even ring true. Unfortunately, the Church has developed a rather effeminate view of manhood in recent years and this has also painted Christ Himself in an effeminate light. Christ was meek. Meek, and yet also willing to whip the money changers out of the temple. Christ did not allow himself to be stoned by the angry mob either. Christ stood firm, yet fulfilled His purpose with duty and stoic competence. The Church would do well to not cede masculinity to the world as a thing of bygone eras. Otherwise, grifters can take on the trappings of masculinity and appear to have something to offer that the Church does not. Just a note, this doesn't mean act like Tate as far as the vulgar, base, and animalistic tendencies are concerned. Christ was kind to the many women in His life and was the reason the West began to see a shift in the treatment of the fairer sex. One can be strong, masculine, and protect those placed within their care without appearing either weak or brutish. Just a note..

Tate is an online guru who may or may not have committed domestic violence against his girlfriends over the year in multiple instances (one of the videos was later released in its entirety, and the two were both joking about her wanting to be hit harder, and not in a sarcastic way. It's hard to know what's real and what's not concerning the abuse allegations.) However, abuse or not, Tate has employed classic pimp tactics to traffic his girlfriends online and wrote an online course on how to duplicate his success pimping his paramores on web cameras.

This is not masculinity, this is purely selfish promotion. So what is the take away? The Church has the response to Feminism, and the MRA/MGTOW/Man-O-Verse delimas. The Biblical view of marriage and the differences between men and women need to be on display, more than ever before.

https://law.yale.edu/sites/default/files/documents/pdf/Intellectual_Life/Stevenson_ParadoxDecliningFemaleHappiness_Dec08.pdf

https://ifstudies.org/blog/counterintuitive-trends-in-the-link-between-premarital-sex-and-marital-stability

https://www.profgalloway.com/divor

https://sites.utexas.edu/contemporaryfamilies/2018/10/08/premaritalcohabitation/ce/

https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/a-woman-needs-a-man-like-a-fish-needs-a-bicycle.html

First off, no. Just no. Christ had a lot to say on the issue of sexual purity, but so did the Old and New Testament. LGBT activity is primarily the subject of discussion in Romans 1:24-32:

24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:

25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:

32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

However, let's look at some other passages:

Mark 7:21:

24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:

25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:

32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

1 Corinthians 6:9-11 says:

9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

1 Timothy 9-10

9 Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

10 For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;

All of this to say: Fact Checked False, there is no evidence to show that Christ was LGBT, and every piece of evidence that Christ and the Bible, which is His Word, tells us sexual immorality is harmful and wrong.

And furthermore, it's not just morally wrong, but why oh why would you promote a lifestyle connected to 4X increase in mortality, exceptionally from suicide? Why does our culture insist on this? As per a Swedish study, one of the most liberal countries on the Earth concerning reassignment and all else LGBT, we have a study showing an incredible regret post 10-15 years of transition. We see the detransition movement being silenced by the LGBT lobby even today. People like rtulip on twitter state this well in pieces such as the thoughtful article written by rTulip and titled “Exploring the Retransition Narrative”:

“Like Cypher in the Matrix asking to be plugged back in, knowing what he knows could only be achieved by wiping his memory. Once you know, you really can't plug back in, and the narrative around those who retransition is centred on people who never really disengaged with the mindset, to begin with.

For males especially, there are still many reasons not to give up their trans identity and stay plugged in. Even those who do wake up, face realities that make returning to their trans identity far more appealing than coming out of it.

Meanwhile, trans activists will celebrate those who retransition to no end, as it validates their rhetoric that the true outcome for a trans person is to transition and the true outcome for a detransitioner is to retransition. It paints detransition as solely due to factors outside of the individual's control, ergo forfeiting any responsibility for their actions.

On the other hand, you have those who have been in the fray for much longer, who understand the dynamics at play, yet become easily frustrated when someone who has just left the cult displays behaviours and attitudes they've been critiquing from the comfort of their armchair and keyboard. But let me tell you this, there is no substitute for lived experience, there is a reason our voices get more traction than theirs, and it frustrates them to no end.

Detransitioners voices are powerful, and the pull of retransition doesn't come just from those on the trans side, but from those whose ideals rely on unchecked fallacies riddled with confirmation bias, that doesn't meet real-world testing.

Leaving an ideology that you've centred your life and body around is tremendously difficult, and there are many reasons for returning, like alcoholics, gamblers and addicts, the devil you know, is sometimes an easier choice.

Given the playing field, who can judge them?”

What does this mean for the LBGT Movement in terms of culture? We are encouraging a group of people who entotal, including the L,G, and B suffer from a 2.5X higher depression rate than those who are heterosexual, Transgenders make up a disproportionate number of the suicide rate in the LGBT Community. So who wants this? The Spirit of the Age, the same spirit that was worshiped in Astoreth.

As far as Politics are concerned, we cannot have a God ordained institution enforcing and codifying evil behavior. Every time we see nations embrace adultery, they then fall into homosexuality, pedophilia, beastiality, necrophilia, and then cannibalism. Nations in this state cannot survive.

Another point to remember is that this is just a job to those who lobby for it in nonprofits. While all causes have their nonprofits, it's important to note that some of these have become as much of a business as they have a cause. More interesting than nonprofits, however, is this transition surgery industry. This industry has appear from nowhere and has grown at a staggering rate. From 2021-2025, it is expected to grow 209 million dollars in value. This is a small market with few competitors, ie doctors who are performing the surgeries. These doctors, are know for ruthless lack of consideration for those the operate upon. TulipR has a horrifying story that we've covered before, but these happen every day. Rylan doesn't regret the top surgery that nearly killed Rylan, link to the video below, but Rylan does have an issue with the surgeon, Dr. Sidbhb Gallagher, who refused to re-evaluate Rylan's double mastectomy gone wrong. Rylan was just another butcher job for Gallagher. Just know what they really think of you when they are recommending transition surgeries in one appointment like Jay Langadinos. Langadinos realized her mistake after a double mastectomy and over a decade of HRT. The damage was already done to a teenage girl who was at her doctor's office to resolve her dysmorphia, not undergo a social that removed her breasts and uterus.

Perhaps the Church has a strong case that has not been made well. We have the answer to these folks' problems. We know what can fill the gaping hole in their souls. We know His Name. Perhaps we should be quicker to speak His Name than our condemnation. Do not forsake the Truth of the Law, sin is sin. However, we can sometimes forget how much we have been forgiven when faced with the sin of others. The Truth of Christ, unvarnished, is that we are all bound for an eternity of suffering, without a redemptive relationship with Christ. Be an agent of that redemption as often as possible.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/gender-reassignment-surgery-market--55-growth-to-originate-from-north-america-301613274.html

https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/industries/summary?cycle=2019&id=J7300

https://www.causeiq.com/organizations/national-lgbtq-task-force,521624852/

https://www.causeiq.com/organizations/family-equality-council,521438455/

https://www.causeiq.com/organizations/palm-center,273039386/

https://www.causeiq.com/organizations/lesbian-gay-bisexualtransgender-network,113192966/

https://nypost.com/2022/08/24/woman-sues-psychiatrist-for-approving-gender-transition/

So, what is more concerning… the fact that we are being asked if we are ready for a New World Order, or the fact that the fact checkers have fact checked the video published by the NWO who asked the question? Just chew on that for a moment.

While as Chirstians, we are not focused on this world, but the next, we should be concerned about what direction this world is headed. Evangelism and Discipleship are going to get harder in a one world order. If you're looking for a reference, see

Revelation 6:9-11 And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held: And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth? And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.

along with

Revelation 12:6 And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.

Revelation 20:4 says: And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

So what should we think about trans and para national groups of people like the World Government Summit and World Economic Forum? The last time mankind was unified against God, the language barrier was instituted by God so that there would be a chance for redemption. The WGS and WEF are both attempting to recreate the same unity among men, and at enmity with God. Let's build that case.

Who is Karl Schab? Some of you may already be familiar with him, but for those who aren't, this is the fellow who literally wrote the book on “The Great Reset”, where you will, and I quote: “Own nothing and be happy.” They want to give you not Democracy, but governance. What does that even look like? What about the recent betrayal of justice by the Biden Admin when they prevented the fiance of Jamal Khashoggi from even suing civilly the Prince of Saudi Arabia for murdering Khashoggi? These are the same people who want to govern us autocratically.

Cut: Governance

In Schwab's world, this will be dictated to you by a Government, and the Karl Schwabs, that literally owns everything and rents it to you. Corporations will have stock and interests dictated to them by the government and people like Karl Schab, while you will be left with nothing but the bare necessities to survive. Elizabeth Warren and others in the American body politic have been pushing for the Corporatist State that both owns controlling interest and reaps the benefits of formerly private companies. And some of these companies have even all but begged for this status, see Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg. This will then regulate what can be done and said in that industry.

Why do you think they wanted to pay off student loan debt? Who got that money? The investment groups and banks. You know, the ones who were bailed out by the government and who also froze assets of protestors of lockdowns in Canada in January 2022. Once banking is a government business, you will not even own your own money. That will be electronic. Not even bitcoin, they want a blockchain secured NON-encrypted money, at least non-encrypted for them in case you buy things that they don't approve of. China already has social credit scores. There you are graded by how well you spend your money. You will be prevented from traveling there if you went to the wrong church within the last 10 years, link below. Vaccine status, buying habits, religious beliefs may likely be disclosed as part of such a social credit system, every time you show your ID, in the near future.

Also note, these are the people who are gleefully elated that they could imprison pastors and congregants in the shadow of Covid, think . Do these folks sound enough like the folks from Revelation yet? Now, are we saying that Karl Schab is the Antichrist? No, the man is right out of a Bond movie, he's just perpetually separated from his silky white long hair cat. No, I suspect these people actually fail in their attempt and the Beast will arrive in time to pick up the pieces of the broken world. People will only be too happy to accept his policies, mores, and religion.

What does this mean for us as Christians today? Well, I don't think the Lord wants us to welcome this wickedness into the world. We are called to be Salt and Light afterall. We need to recognize the signs of the times yet also be in the fields as the harvest is great.

https://bitterwinter.org/attended-church-10-years-ago-no-travel/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7I3ibU2-CU4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cGB8dCDf3c

https://theconversation.com/hundreds-of-chinese-citizens-told-me-what-they-thought-about-the-controversial-social-credit-system-127467

https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/565860-coming-soon-americas-own-social-credit-system

https://www.businessinsider.com/china-social-credit-affects-childs-university-enrolment-2018-7

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/11/news-digital-drivers-license-will-include-vaccine-status-may-eventually-include-credit-score-travel-records-social-credit-score-video/

https://fortune.com/2022/02/16/trudeau-freeze-freedom-convoy-bank-accounts-canada-covid-protest-emergency-powers/

So, first off, we need to start by addressing this as we should any disagreement concerning the Bible, from the Bible. However, there are some other aspects that we can look at today from each of the chairs.

Now, what exactly are “Black Hebrew Israelites” and how are they relevant to the conversation? Well, Congress.gov has this to say about the movement:

“Extremist Hebrew Israelites have a long, strange list of enemies. At the top of the list are white people, who they preach are descended from a race of red, hairy beings, known as Edomites, who were spawned by Esau, the twin

brother of Jacob (later known as Israel) in the Old Testament. Equally hated are "fraudulent" Jews, "the synagogue of Satan." They're closely followed in no particular order by Asians, promiscuous black women, abortionists, continental Africans (who, according to the extremist Israelites, sold the lost tribes of Israel, who were black, to European slave traders), and gay people, who according to extremist Israelites should all be put to death. (In December 2006, three gay men who were assaulted inside an Atlanta nightclub identified their attackers as Hebrew Israelites; no arrests were made).

Recruiting literature describing the extremist Israelite doctrine is just as harsh as the street preachers' angry rhetoric. "Does the Bible teach unity of races?

NO!" reads one of the Israelite Church's widely distributed flyers. "Will the different nations who believe in Jesus be saved from the Lord's wrath? NO! Was Jesus Chris a Caucasian man? NO! Does his color matter? YES!"

Well, the reason we're bringing it up today is because of Ye/Kanye West's remarks about Jews controlling the media. Where is Ye coming from? Well, he has professed belief in the Black Hebrew Israelite ideology, or at least tenants of it, for a while now and this appears to have spurred his remarks recently.

He's not the only R&B or Hip-Hop artist to have professed belief in the BHI ideology. We also see this commonly with other highly successful African American folks. Take the recent dust up with Kyrie Irving and the Nets. Irving promoted the Black Hebrew Israelite film Hebrews to Negroes, from Ronald Dalton's book by the same name.

So where do the BHI folks get the primary assumptions? Primarily out of Deuteronomy.

Deuteronomy 28:41 is a critical verse that is interpreted out of context, reinterpreting the verse through the context of the African Slave Trade. A basic principle in Biblical interpretation is that a verse cannot mean what it could not have meant to the people who were being addressed when the scripture was recorded.

Deuteronomy 28:64-65 is used to claim that the Black Hebrew Israelites are the true Hebrews as they were scattered from Africa as slaves.

So what is the problem with this? Well, this found fulfillment in the Babylonian captivity. This was not speaking about a set of events for a different bloodline thousands of years later, only hundreds.

Deuteronomy 28:68 is further used as a prophecy of the African Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, after substituting Egypt for bondage.

One of the primary principles of Hermeneutics is that the text could not have meant what it could not have meant to the people to whom the original text was addressed.

They believe that the Jews are usurping their birthright as God's chosen people. Jews being the synagogue of Satan.

What is wrong with this? Who was Jesus? Descended from Abraham. From where did this line of Jesus come? Shem. From whom did the African line come? Ham.(Gen. 10:6; 1 Chron. 1:8-16)

They believe that white people are deceivers, especially Christians, and therefore cannot be saved.

(First off, Calvinist much?) Where does ethnocentrism land us? What does the Lord say about respecters of persons in James 2:9?

They believe Jesus is a created being, who we can emulate and fulfill the OT Law perfectly.

Where does this fall short? If Jesus is not God, then we do not have atonement, but also the Bible falls short (Luke 22:70, John 10:38, John 14:7-10, Revelation 19:16, etc)

So when coming to someone who believes in this, come with love, truth, and meekness. This is how Christ always came to those with open hearts. Only to the scholars and priests who were willingly disobedient did Christ treat with a harsh tone. We should be looking to win people, not debates, when discussing these things one on one.

https://jude3project.org/blog/engagingbhi

https://www.congress.gov/117/meeting/house/111227/documents/HHRG-117-JU08-20210224-SD009.pdf

#073 Abortion, An Ancient Sacrement In The Spirit Of Molech -Further. Every. Day.

You may have heard of the song BDF (Baby. Daddy. Free.), you may not have. However, the song, if you can call it that, is indicative of where our culture is right now. The lyrics are incredible:

“F-R-E-E Baby daddy free

That means I ain't got a n***a baby coming out of me

So I'm A-B-O-R-T-I-N-G

On the way to the clinic, I forgot the Plan B

Let's GOOOO. B*tch I got murder on my mind

I'm BDF, baby daddy free. I ain't got a baby coming out of me so I'm A-B-O-R-T-ING.”

The lyrics continue with these gems:

“Look, I forgot the Plan B

Ain't no n***a cuffin' me

You can't put me on a shelf, b*tch, I'm outside with the team

All these b*tches havin' babies, but that ain't finna be me

Said he wanna settle down, n***a sellin' all these drеams

He got one kid, two kid, three kid, four

B*tch, he chеaper by the dozen if his ass have any mo'

And I'm only 25, still got a couple years to go

I don't need a babysitter 'cause this baby gotta go

It's a shortage on the milk, and them diapers be expensive…

I done took care of n***s, now it's time to care for me”

Abortion has become a sacrament for the left. Look at how Governor Cuomo lit up the World Trade Centers Pink when they legalized late term infanticide.

What about Michelle Williams and her speech proclaiming that she would never have earned her “Golden Globe” without Abortion? Celebrities cannot crawl over each other fast enough to proclaim the wonders of abortion. Michelle Wolf infamously said God Bless America and God Bless Abortion on her painfully unfunny Netflix comedy special. This is a long way from safe legal and rare.

We're now at the point where people actually get pregnant so that they can abort their child. In an article from The Liberal we can hear a couple talk about abortion as a fetish:

“I know this fetish. My girlfriend and me have the same fetish. My girlfriend enjoys her pregnancies and she enjoys the abortion. Her preferred date to abort is between 20 and 24 weeks of gestation. I enjoy making her pregnant. And I enjoy the time of her pregnancy. She has no menstrual period and she is sexually very active, In the last ten years in our relationship we have done seven abortions and my girlfriend is pregnant again with a little girl,”.

While this may turn your stomach, at least I hope it still does, this is a warning sign. Our culture is so devoid of Godly restraint, that this is permissible in a “civilized” society. But is this a new thing? The children of Israel were often warned by God to stop rendering their children to Molech.

Who was Molech and what did worship of Molech look like? From the Midrash, Tanchuma (Buber) addition to Va'etchanan, section 2, we can get some insight:

“How did the Molech work in the valley of Ben-Hinnom? It was built outside of Jerusalem. It was an idol with the face of a calf and open hands like someone who wants to take something from another. They would light this idol on fire until his hands were scorching. There were seven chambers before him and according to the quality of the sacrifice that is how close one could come to him. If one came with a bird, then chamber one; goat, chamber two; sheep, chamber three; calf, chamber four; cow, chamber five; and ox, chamber six.

He who brought his child, the priests would say that he is offering the greatest sacrifice. He would enter the innermost chamber and go kiss the Molech . . .

The priests would then take the child and place it near the Molech. They would then bang with drums to drown out the cries.”

From Bilblicalcyclopedia.com:

“Molech, "the king," was the lord and master of the Ammonites; their country was his possession (Jer 49:1), as Moab was the heritage of Chemosh; the princes of the land were the princes of Malcham (Jer 49:3; Am 1:15). His priests were men of rank (Jer 49:3), taking precedence of the princes. So the priest of Hercules at Tyre was second to the king (Justin, 18:4, § 5), and like Molech, the god himself, Baal Chamman, is Melkart, "the king of the city." The priests of Molech, like those of other idols, were called Chemarim (2Ki 23:5; Ho 10:5; Zep 1:4).

Most of the Jewish interpreters, Jarchi (on Le 17:16), Kimchi, and Maimonides (Mor. Neb. 3:38) among the number, say that in the worship of Molech the children were not burned, but made to pass between two burning pyres, as a purificatory rite. But the allusions to the actual slaughter are too plain to be mistaken, and Aben Ezra, in his note on Le 18:21, says that "to cause to pass through" is the same as "to burn." "They sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils, and shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan" (Ps 106:37-38). In Jer 7:31, the reference to the worship of Molech by human sacrifice is still more distinct: "They have built the high places of Tophet... to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire," as "burnt-offerings unto Baal," the sun-god of Tyre, with whom, or in whose character, Molech was worshipped (Jer 19:5). Compare the statements in De 12:31; Eze 16:20-21; Eze 23:37; the last two of which may also be adduced to show that the victims were slaughtered before they were burned. But the most remarkable passage is that in 2Ch 28:3, in which the wickedness of Ahaz is described: "Moreover, he burned incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burned (וִיִּבעֵר) his children in the fire, after the abominations of the nations whom Jehovah had driven out before the children of Israel." Now, in the parallel narrative of 2Ki 16:3, instead of וִיִּבעֵר, "and he burned," the reading is הֶעֵַביר, "he made to pass through," and Dr. Geiger suggests that the former may be the true reading, of which the latter is an easy modification, serving as a euphemistic expression to disguise the horrible nature of the sacrificial rites. But it is more natural to suppose that it is an exceptional instance, and that the true reading is וִיִּעֲבֵר than to assume that the other passages have been intentionally altered. We may infer from the expression, "after the abominations of the nations whom Jehovah had driven out before the children of Israel," that the character of the Molech-worship of the time of Ahaz was essentially the same. as that of the old Canaanites, although Movers maintains the contrary. “

These offerings were a perversion of the sacrificial system. One doesn't have to dig too deep to see the symbolism of Christ dying for our sins being perverted here. Once again, what is the enemy of our souls doing here? Satan's favorite pastime is destroying the image of the Godly family. Whether through perverting the relationship of husband and wife (Christ and the Church) or parent and child (God and his adoptive children the Church), Satan loves destroying our relationships as an attack on God's order.

https://www.biblicalcyclopedia.com/M/molech.html

https://theliberal.ie/new-fetish-trending-online-involves-couples-purposefully-getting-pregnant-so-they-can-abort-for-sexual-gratification/

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/08/sex-selective-abortion-choice-right-life

Some may not believe that the LGBT Issue is not one of Spiritual Warfare, make no mistake, it is.

When engaging the culture, one must be careful to claim that these newfangled ideas are somehow new. As the teacher in the first chapter of Ecclesiastes said:

“ 9 The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

10 Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.”

Gender ideology as it stands before us today, is not new in essence. The idea that man can alter what God has fundamentally ordained, is an ancient lie that has taken many forms. In the case of Critical Gender Theory, we are simply seeing a revitalization of ancient barbarism in the guise of modernity.

To best understand this, who is Ashtoreth? Who is the Queen of Heaven from the Bible? Well, we can find references to her in Genesis 14:5, Jeremiah 7:18; 44:17-19 and 44:25, 1 Kings 11:5, as well as many other places. What did worshiping Ashtoreth entail?

Historians are at odds on this, but Herodutus claimed that: “...every Babylonian woman had to attend the temple of Ishtar/Inanna and agree to sex with any male that asked her. Once she performed this ritual, the male visitor gave her money to donate to the temple.”

Asherah also had the ability to, according to her priestess: “‘To destroy, to create, to tear out, to establish are yours, Inanna. / To turn a man into a woman and a woman into a man are yours, Inanna.'

According to an article from acadaemuseducation.co.uk: “

In fact, individuals living outside of the gender binary were heavily involved and associated with the cult of Inanna, and her cult members and priests were known for their androgyny and blurring or destroying the gender binary. The gender-blurring members of her cult have often been included in poems and dedications written for her, often with Inanna personally transforming the gender of her devotees. One such example is the pilipili, a group of cultic performers in Inanna's Sumerian festivals. The name pilipili is referenced within Passionate Inanna (80-90) in relation to an individual named pilipili who is transformed by Inanna. They are raised as a woman, the Sumerian for young woman (ki-sikil) being used to describe them, and Inanna blesses them, handing them a spear ‘as if she were a man' and renames them ‘pilipili'. From this point forward they are referred to as ‘the transformed pilipili'.

We cannot know for sure what the word ‘transformation' means in this context, and especially since Sumerian did not use gendered pronouns it is difficult to reconstruct the exact meaning, but one interpretation is that through the blessings of Inanna, the pilipili transitioned into a man. Even if Sumerian did not use gendered pronouns, the possible phallic connotations of the word ‘spear' add more weight to this theory.”

In a poem from an archeological find in Southern Turkey someone wrote: "... may the god Hadad dash him into pieces with the weapon which is in his hand; may Hebat-Ishtar shatter his spear; may Ishtar deliver him into the hands of those who pursue him; may Ishtar... impress feminine parts into his male parts."

This goddess also had her cultists perform “gender conversions” in other works. How is this different from today? These articles even reference these barbaric practices as “much like our own society today.” It is not a slippery slope argument for us to say that we are headed towards Neo-Paganism, we are in a defacto Neo-Pagan society.

How does this affect the church? Well, what have many denominations done with the LGBT idea? From Pew Research in 2015:

“Many of the largest U.S. religious institutions have remained firmly against allowing same-sex marriage, including the Roman Catholic Church, the Orthodox Jewish movement and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as well as the Southern Baptist Convention and other evangelical Protestant denominations. The nation's largest historically black church, the National Baptist Convention, and its biggest Pentecostal denomination, the Assemblies of God, also prohibit their clergy from marrying same-sex couples.

At the same time, in the past two decades, several other religious groups also have moved to allow same-sex couples to marry within their traditions. This includes the Reform and Conservative Jewish movements, the Unitarian Universalist Association and the United Church of Christ.”

In the Episicpol and Methodist denominations, we see a growing acceptance of sin in the guise of kindness as well.

“...many United Methodists in the United States have a more accepting view toward homosexuality. In Pew Research Center's 2014 U.S. Religious Landscape Study, 60% of United Methodists said homosexuality should be accepted by society – a clear majority, and a substantial increase from 2007, when 51% said this. In addition, about half of U.S. Methodists (49%) said they favored legal same-sex marriage.” -Pew Research

What have we done in these churches? Is this actually loving? Why are we afraid to speak out against this self destructive behavior? These are questions that we should be asking ourselves as Christians. Are we apathetic to God's Law? If so, how can we be on fire for the Gospel?

So, in your day to day interactions with friends and family, some notes to carry with a loving winsome attitude:

Gender Theory is nothing new and has been around since shortly after Noah got off of the Ark

Sexual and Body Dysmorphia have alarming psychological consequences and are typically rooted in deeper trauma

True fulfillment can only be found in the role that your Creator made for you. Accept nothing less.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/12/21/where-christian-churches-stand-on-gay-marriage/

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/02/26/rift-over-gay-rights-comes-as-united-methodists-in-us-have-become-more-accepting-of-homosexuality/

https://www.academuseducation.co.uk/post/ancient-mesopotamian-transgender-and-non-binary-identities

"Sacred Marriage and Sacred Prostitution in Ancient Mesopotamia" History on the Net

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October 26, 2022