Stand

 Even though evil has been around since shortly after the creation of man, you’ll never find the devil apologizing for anything he did, said, or instigated, no matter how heinous or depraved. The same goes for his minions, who of late have gotten bolder and more in your face about their true intentions, no longer bothering to mask it in any way but being direct and forthright about their vision for the future.

Their vision involves your children and grandchildren, and if you dare object to toddlers being groomed and sexualized, you’re the intolerant bigot. You’re what’s wrong with society. You’re the one that needs to go.

Even though the devil’s children feel no need to qualify their words or offer apologies, it seems modern Christianity is set on apologizing for everything God said that might be deemed offensive by those in darkness, trying to reinterpret the meaning of His proclamations so that any mention of hell, punishment, or consequences is expunged from the text. Sin? What sin? God is love, and that is all, and if you say anything different, you’re the problem!

It took less than a generation to go from boldly proclaiming the word of God to self-censoring, telling ourselves we can’t say that because it might be deemed offensive and non-inclusive.

We gave up ground, thinking it would pacify the enemy when in hindsight, it only served to embolden him. Those who saw what the future held and were brave enough to sound the alarm were mocked incessantly for being provocateurs, hyperbolists, and instigators. They even made up songs about how they were targeting the youth, and the church just guffawed and ignored it like they do everything else because if it didn’t involve beefing up the building fund, it wasn’t worth focusing on.

That they feel confident enough in their position to come right out and tell you that their goal is the perversion of innocence should concern you. That federal agencies, including the executive branch, envision criminalizing any objection to the most grotesque practices should terrify you. Alas, we have better things to focus on to notice that suddenly pedophilia has rebranded and is being included in the alphabet soup as though people won’t notice.

The first unforced error the church made was that it did not readily push back on the idea that love and perverted lust were interchangeable. They are not. One is pure; the other is twisted. Because no one pushed back on the idea, the love is love mantra has been broadened to include fully grown adults who are sexually attracted to minors. If nothing is perverted and everything is love, then why would you not embrace love in all its forms?

Why would you be bigoted about this love versus another love? You stayed silent when homosexuality was all the rage; that was just love; why are you bristling at pedophilia?

I understand that most people choose to ignore these issues in the hope that they will just go away. It’s like ignoring that noise your car makes, thinking it will fix itself. It won’t. Because we did not take a stand when we needed to, now we’re caught wrong-footed defending our objection to one perversion when we kept silent about the other.

The church allowed this to get out of hand, and now that it has, the push for more, worse, and increasingly perverse is a foregone conclusion. What’s left, you may ask? They’ll come up with something, they always do, because the devil is very inventive and imaginative, and as long as the corruption of innocence can be had, he’ll strive tirelessly to bring it about.

It’s hard to right a ship after it’s hit an iceberg. It’s hard to call people to repentance when half the church is practicing the same sins the world is. Under the guise of love and tolerance, we’ve disregarded the warnings of Scripture. We believed ourselves to be smarter and more erudite than those who came before us and were convinced that we could put light and darkness in a blender and no one would be the wiser. We thought we could think as the world, be as the world, live as the world, act as the world, and still call ourselves bondservants of Christ.

What fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? Plenty! The church answered back with one accord. We thought we could make it work. Or the devil talked us into believing we could because the words of Jesus were just too intolerant for us to heed.

This is what happens when an entire generation sacrifices truth for personal comfort. This is what happens when a heart is divided, and although our love for God is a mere pretense, our love of sin and the world burns bright and undeniably.

The difference shouldn’t be between lawlessness and diet lawlessness. The difference should be between lawlessness and righteousness. The devil has dragged the modern-day church away from the light, and now that they’re beginning to see how complete and impenetrable the darkness is, they’re pulling back, trying to slow the pace, but the devil will have none of it. Now you’re a bigot if you object to pedophilia, or as it is now known, minor-attracted persons.

See how that works? You were okay with a bit of sin, a slight perversion, a little compromise, and a little darkness, and now the darkness wants to eliminate the light altogether. I’m sure some church denominations will be right there, rolling up their sleeves and helping, because they wouldn’t want to be misconstrued as intolerant or unloving.

John 16:1-4, “These things I have spoken to you, that you should not be made to stumble. They will put you out of the synagogues; yes, the time is coming that whoever kills you will think that he offers God service. And these things they will do to you because they have not known the Father nor Me. But these things I have told you, that when the time comes, you may remember that I told you of them.”

With love in Christ,

Michael Boldea, Jr.