Spiritual Madness in Britain
Those in positions of authority and influence in Britain are vying with each other to show support for homosexuality and transgenderism. Prominent endorsers of these evils include the Prime Minister, the Mayor of London, the First Minister of Scotland, the Speaker of the House of Commons, many other political leaders, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Church of Scotland, the Methodists, the BBC, newspapers, the police, the armed forces, local councils, the National Trust, the Post Office, the RNLI, the Bank of England, and many large businesses such as Tesco, the Co-op, Virgin, Starbucks, Primark, Lush. The British “establishment”, publicly at least, is now wholly behind the movement.
Nevertheless, the “Gay Pride” marches – which are now simply known as “Pride” marches – continue unabated. Originally they were a protest against public opposition, but now that the opposition has been intimidated and silenced they are described as “celebrations”. Partly they are acts of open and public defiance against the law of God, and partly they are against the Christians, Muslims, Roman Catholics, Mormons and other members of society who still adhere to the morality of the past and, indeed, to the morality of the rest of the world which is not under the delusion of sodomy.
In recent days the promoters of sodomy and transgenderism have become bolder and more intoxicated than ever. All arguments against these evils are immediately shouted down as bigotry and hatred. A woman who complained about a transgender man in the women’s changing-room at a fitness gym – the man spending an hour at the mirror putting on make-up and watching the women changing – was herself banned from the gym. A group of lesbians who protested at the “London Pride” march against the dangers to women from transgenderism were denounced by the march organisers as “sowing division and hatred” and showing a “level of bigotry, ignorance and hate that is unacceptable”. When a church in Aberdeen, meeting in a primary school, distributed rainbow-coloured leaflets warning against the sin of pride, the leaders of the “Grampian Pride” parade demanded that the Aberdeen council expel the church from the school and that the police investigate the “hate crime” that had been committed.
We are seeing the spectacle of a nation given over to a “strong delusion” and driven on by Satan. Politicians, businessmen, parents, and schoolchildren are doing his bidding unquestioningly, and there is little that can be done at present to halt them or to make them think. All that stand in the way are persecuted as far as the law will permit, and somewhat beyond that as well.
We are called to observe this exhibition of Satan’s power over sinners when they are given into his hands; we are to use the spiritual weapons that we have, though with no great expectation of success until the Lord arises and pleads His own cause (Ps 74:22); but we have the encouragement that this mighty juggernaut trembles and cringes before the Word of God. Any witness to the truth, even a few rainbow-coloured leaflets, stirs up its venom and fury. Its day will soon come. “Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall” (Prov 16:18). The watchers and the holy ones are demanding the downfall of such insolence against heaven: “this matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones: to the intent that the living may know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men” (Dan 4:17). DWBS
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