It was a picture of a man breastfeeding a baby! According to the article, which was written by one of 'his' sisters, the man was a 'trans' as he called himself. He was born female, with female organs and all, given a female name, and raised as a little girl. When he was sixteen years old, he came out of the closet and identified himself as a man. (I am using male gender terms loosely here).
The man (really a woman filled with male hormones) always wanted to have a baby. I don't think this man had sexual organ transplants or surgeries, but if you were to look at him, he certainly looks like a man! That, of course, is due to the male hormones he was given. He stopped taking the male hormones in order to get pregnant, which happened twice. The first pregnancy miscarried, the second was full term. And now he is 'chest-feeding' his baby (even though the picture shows a full sized breast with a baby nursing).
The article was long, so I didn't read the entirety of it. You can read it for yourself here: http://time.com/4475634/trans-man-pregnancy-evan/
My point is not to make much of this article though. The reason why we are in this situation in the first place is that those at the top of our nation in leadership have chosen to throw God out of this country. But this is not the ultimate problem. The real issue has to do with the condition of the church. What goes on in our society is a reflection of the condition of the church in America.
In the 1960's, a woman named Madeline Murray O'Hare went to the Supreme Court and demanded that God be taken out of our public schools. She was successful in getting the 10 Commandments taken out of the schools, as well as taking prayer out of the school system. What happened? The church was not prepared for this and honestly, I don't think much action was taken. It was like an 'Oh well' situation. Whatever will be, will be. The undiscerning Christian assumed that there was something in the Constitution that had been overlooked all these years, concerning the separation of church and state, and bought into the lie that anything that has to do with God or religion having to stay out of the public school system. There was no fight. There was no battle. The church conceded to the lies of the devil, and evil won. Christians were not alarmed when the Supreme Court decided to take God out of the public school system. No one cared. This is why, I believe, we are in the boat we are in today, especially with immorality issues.
I was in public school in the 1960s and70s. The standard of right and wrong was still intact. Abortions were not legal and many abstained from having sexual relationships outside of marriage. If they did have those relationships and a girl got pregnant, she didn't parade herself around or get an abortion. Many times, the young woman was sent away to live with other relatives until the baby got older.
Today it is different though. Even though God's laws never change, people forget. The standard is now gone, and if a young woman gets pregnant, she has a tough decision to make. She will probably choose to have an abortion and get rid of the evidence. There are greedy people who prey on these young woman and charge a high fee to kill the baby, while consoling her into thinking that God is pleased with the decision she is making to have the abortion.
But it only gets worse. Today, in the church, we have those who actually believe that when Scripture and culture are in disagreement, Scripture has to bow to culture. We have false teachers like Rob Bell teaching this kind of philosophy. They would believe that culture rules and has the final and only authoritative say on any issue.
Fast-forward 30-40 years from when the Bible and prayer were removed from the schools. We now have a generation of people who have some authority in our country, who do not have the wisdom of our forefathers. The fear of God is gone. We are now a nation where everyone does their own thing, and because of technological advances, men can have babies.
Is there any hope for our nation? I do know the answer to this one! Yes, there is hope, but the hope will only come to pass as people are envisioned to share the Gospel message with others. You see, we cannot change our country from the top down. We cannot elect God-fearing men and women into political office today because they are not there. But, we can pray for the church, pray for one another, pray for our pastors, and pray for ourselves, that God will change us and that we will become salt and light in our communities. We can pray for a healthy church in America. Ultimately, that will affect those who lead at the top of our nation.
Our local churches need those who can teach and pastor well. The bickering in the body of Christ in America has to stop. We will never see God move in our midst if we spend our time picking people apart and chasing after false teachers in order to destroy them. In my opinion, this is what the devil wants us to do so that the church will be rendered ineffective.
We have no idea how great and awesome God is. We have a knowledge of His greatness, but we do not have a living experience with the awesome God. We are far too distracted by the Enemy of our souls. We are focusing on the wrong enemy. That is a trick of the devil that he is playing on us, and we don't seem to be discerning enough to catch on.
Do you realize how powerful prayer is? Praying is a spiritual weapon that we can used to fight against the lies and schemes of the Enemy. He will distract us so much that we will not even have time to pray, or we might not think of prayer as significant. Fasting is important as well. Fasting and praying are part of what we do as soldiers in the battle for the souls of men and women, boys and girls.
There are so many things to be praying for. If we don't pray, our country will continue to go downhill. We will lose our freedoms and our children and grandchildren possibly will not even have a church to be part of (unless they meet in secret).
I know many people look at the situations at hand, and basically conclude that the evil around us is just a sign that Jesus is coming back soon. Maybe it is. But keep in mind that with God a day is like a thousand years and vice-versa. We can come up with ideas like Obama being the Anti-Christ and the beast is around the corner. Jesus will probably come back sometime within the next year or coming months.
Jesus will indeed come back again. No question about that. But what if He doesn't come back for another hundred years? Or maybe a couple of hundred years? Will the excuse of not taking responsibility as a soldier of God be worth all the repercussions of the evil we are seeing today and not responding to, down the road? Will our grandchildren and great grandchildren appreciate our apathy and hopelessness during their lifetime in this country or wherever they live? Could we change the course of this nation if we put on the armor of God and stand up for the truth? Could revival come about again in America if we turn back to God in faith and repentance? Could the church shine so bright in this dark and dying world that those who are in utter darkness can see it and be given hope for deliverance and salvation? I believe it can.
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