THE GREAT DIVIDE

A Canadian actress by the name of Rachelle Lefevre recently entered a Target store with her non-binary seven-year-old son and was shocked to find that the “Pride” display, consisting of gender fluid mugs and Rainbow-themed clothing for children, had been removed in response to a strong conservative backlash. The large box store had already lost over $13 billion in revenue over the LGBTIAA2S+ display, and now they were getting hit from both sides. The actress’s seven-year-old son, according to his outraged mother, had said earlier upon entering the store, “Look, Mom, it’s Pride week. They’re going to celebrate me.” And we all know how woke seven-year-olds can be about such things.

     But now that the display had been relocated to the back of the store, Lefevre was enraged, fearing her amazingly woke seven-year-old would be crushed by its removal. In an emotional Instagram post she accused Target of being hateful and “trying to erase” the LGBTIAA2S+ community, and she vowed to boycott the store before her amazingly woke son suffered any further violence. She added, “We can do much better than this. We’re not supposed to negotiate with terrorists.”

     If I had just arrived from Pluto and was only told one example of our descending cultural rot and mass insanity, this story would be so instructive, and in so many ways, I wish I’d created it myself. It’s not too long ago when this story might have been found in a National Enquirer-type magazine you could read about in the checkout lane at Safeway. Using this scene as a barometer to gauge the world’s rapid dissent into Rainbow debauchery, it’s obvious we have plummeted closer to Dante’s Inferno, and don’t bother asking how much lower it can go or the devil might overhear you and get another idea.

     But none of this should shock biblical believers, okay, it’s shocking nevertheless, ever new degrees of increasing shockwaves, but we’re told in 2Timothy 3: “that in the latter days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient [rebellious] to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God.” Is this not the exact world we increasingly live in?

     The moral confusion behind the debacle of LGBTIAA2S+ isn’t because we’ve suddenly discovered that many of us were born gay or transgendered or any one of the other seventy newfound genders. And it’s not because we’ve suddenly become enlightened and that now those who’ve been forced to closet themselves finally feel safe enough to declare their true personhood. No, that’s just the smokescreen, the chosen narrative. It’s no more than another point of contention, a Marxist strategy to divide people: “divide and conquer.” They tried rich against poor, the haves verses the have-nots, but that didn’t play out very well, because as Americans we have unprecedented opportunities for financial advancement and we take care of our poor better than most. They’ve tried socialism verses capitalism, and that began to make some progress in our universities, but it kept losing its appeal with so many enjoying the fruits of free enterprise, especially compared to nations that already practiced Marxism. And then there were those promoting baby killings and those who thought babies should be allowed to live out their lives like anyone else, which sometimes erupted into violent clashes and with imprisonments of those wanting to save the babies. They’ve tried dividing people by race, but their race-baiting efforts kept running out of steam, since America had become the least racist nation in the world. A little perspective here would be useful: did you know that the only nation in all of history that never practiced slavery was Liberia, and that America and the UK spearheaded the ending of slavery, at least in Western Civilization, and that many African and Arab nations still practice it today?  

     The sports world has recently become a dutiful ambassador for this “divide and conquer” gospel, taking away one of the prime reasons sports are so popular in the first place. Who can forget the ungifted quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who began the social justice circus with “taking the knee for equality.” He stirred up the racial pot temporarily, but it fizzled out for lack of much actual racism, since 70% of the players were already black, and so he just settled for a cash out.  A Toronto Blue Jays pitcher came out against some transgender ads on social media and was loudly booed by his hometown crowd, so he quickly repented and fell in line with the program. But too late, his mea culpa wasn’t enough of a penance and he was cut from the team. Major League Baseball teams celebrated “Pride Night” in one of their home games this year, while experiencing backlash from “hate groups” like the religious Right and constitutional conservatives and any others who hadn’t been bullied into abandoning their consciences. Of the thirty-two teams, only the Texas Rangers were bold enough to opt out of celebrating Pride. They’re not called the “Lone Star State” for nothing.  

     But now, it was time for a more radical approach, something to push the already insane, far-Left agenda to new depths of depravity, knowing it would increasingly clash and cause more divisions with normal people who hadn’t completely lost their minds, those who still wanted to retain some connection to our Judean-Christian family-centered ethics. 

     Enter the transgender storm, which swooped in as if pre-planned, just waiting to be deployed. Some doctors gleefully cooperated, finding the removal of teen’s sexual body parts extremely profitable. The sycophant news media played its part, dignifying the subject as a natural evolution of our true selves, and dared any “do-gooders” to express their bigotry. Bud Light agreed to help push the narrative with their transgender Dylan Mulvaney influencer, as did Nike. With Bud Light taking a loss of billions from a transgender backlash from “unwoked” beer drinkers, they realized they were trying to push too much too soon, and so retreated back to safer ground, ground already won, by openly supporting gay marriage with help from Ellen DeGeneres and Amy Schumer, while Kohls joined Target in their dumpster-diving push to Sodom with their binary-fluid clothing line.

     Now they’ve got the two sides where they want them, fighting each other instead of focusing on the marionette-masters pulling the strings backstage. These Central Planners had to be delighted upon hearing of a physical fight that broke out outside a California school district meeting between those who supported teaching third graders about transgenderism and drag queens and those who thought the subjects unworthy of a civilized society. Call it a political shell game, a highly explosive divide and conquer scheme, where one’s eyes are diverted by all the drama of division until the real battle is lost, the battle for freedom, and the soul of a nation destroyed.

     This is how Satan has always operated, going back to the Garden. He came to Eve and invented some hostility between her and God, a division that didn’t exist previously. He not so subtly suggested that God was withholding something good from her by not allowing her to eat from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. He then convinced her she was a victim of an unjust system, and now driven by a sense of entitlement, she allowed herself to be set at odds with her Creator, bringing this division into her marriage as well.

     But there is one division, a very necessary division, a righteous division that exists between the natural world and the Kingdom of God. This natural world, with its own illusionary version of reality, that world which we can see with our eyes, that world whose gravity pins us to its surface, that world of the Fallen curse, is rapidly passing away. James says, “What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.” So now, the god of this present world, who knows his hour is almost up, is laying all its wild cards on the table in hopes of extinguishing any ray of Light.

       The darkness cannot see or understand the supernatural life of those in the Light, so it’s a threat to them. The Light reminds them of what they don’t want to know or even think about, and so just as Saul was obsessed with killing David because he represented that Light, the unconverted world is enraged unless they can snuff it out. Sometimes this threat is so serious it leads to violence, but usually it settles for a further compromise. This natural world has its own system of thought and practice. It’s not an exclusive club, but you’ve got to sell yourself to it if you want to join and be accepted. And it constantly beckons in subtle, and sometimes not so subtle ways, for you to follow them and just give up the fight. The spiritual man has to relentlessly resist seeing the world the way they want you to see it or they will become more like them.

     The ultimate division of mankind will come in the form of a Final Judgement, where Jesus will “separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats… And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.” And this final separation is just that, final, and once the curtain is drawn there will be no further debate beyond the grave.

     “Today, if you would hear His voice, do not harden your hearts” against God, who wants to give you a free gift, a gift that will separate you from the Evil that is fast descending and will soon engulf this whole world, for “it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.”