This narrow way

“Put on the full armor of God, so that you will be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil.For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against world forces of this darkness, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.” Ephesians 6:10-12.

We as Christians tend to have an aversion to war language. We want to be kind and gentle and loving and non-confrontational to everyone. We like to say things like “God loves the sinner but hates the sin” (although the citizens of Sodom and Gomorrah might take exception to that one) and in general follow what Voddie Baucham calls the 11^th Commandment, “Thou shalt be nice.” But the verses following the ones above describe the full armor of God. A breastplate, a shield, a sword, a helmet. What a Roman centurion put on when he went into battle.

We are in a war. A war with the direst of consequences for our country and our civilization. And a war in which there must be a winner. Either our side wins or the forces of evil win. There can be no negotiated peace in this war. It will either be victory or unconditional surrender. The war I’m talking about is against the transgender ideology and agenda. And we must have a better battle strategy than we did against homosexuality and same-sex marriage, where we fought half-heartedly for a little while, and then rolled over and waved the white flag of surrender.

We must also have a better battle plan because Satan learned from the homosexuality/same-sex marriage battle too, and although some of his tactics are the same, after all why change a winning game plan, he learned some lessons and has stepped up his game. As high as we thought the stakes were then, they are much higher now. The stakes encompass everything from Genesis and the origins of man to what our future will be with a generation, and succeeding generations, of fully indoctrinated and brain-washed children. If the transgender agenda is victorious, America as we know it will cease to exist.

Some of what I mean by Satan stepping up his game. The homosexuality/same-sex marriage battle was the argument that a man could be attracted to another man, or a woman to another woman, and thus they should have the same rights as a heterosexual couple. As distasteful and contrary to the Word of God as that is to Christians, this time the debate is over what is a man and what is a woman. Men can be women, women can be men, there is no defined order as God laid out in His creation. Man is not questioning whether God made them with a proclivity to be attracted to the same sex, man is questioning the Creator himself. God got it wrong. When God said “male and female created He them” it was a lie. That’s only a guess or something “assigned” by a doctor at birth. We can all choose whether we’re a man or woman, or neither, at some later date. In other words, I am God. Blasphemy doesn’t get any more blatant than that.

To the best of my recollection, the homosexuality/same-sex marriage debate was confined to adults. What consenting adults did in the privacy of their homes was nobody’s business, blah blah blah. Satan saw how easily Christians, again wanting to be nice, rolled over, so he dug a little deeper into the pit of Hell and came up with an ideology that targeted children. Now children as young as 5 and 6 are being force-fed the transgender ideology, with or without parental consent. In fact, there are politicians and school board members across this country saying things like, parents should have absolutely no say in the curriculum because they aren’t educated enough to know what’s best for their own children.

For example, but by no means an outlier, in Minnesota

“An education bill is working its way through Minnesota’s legislature that will require the teaching of “ethnic studies” starting in kindergarten.”

Yes, kindergarten.

“The ethnic studies referred to in this bill, however, has a very different definition: “Ethnic studies analyzes the ways in which race and racism have been and continue to be powerful social, cultural, and political forces, and the connection of race to other groups of stratification, including gender, class, sexuality and legal status.”

This ethnic studies bill would also require the Department of Education to hire “dedicated ethnic studies staff” who’s job in part would be to monitor schools and ensure compliance, as well as develop “a model ethnic studies curriculum” for school districts to use. The model curriculum must also include “a power, race, class, and gender analysis” and “an intersectional analysis of climate, health, food, housing, education and policy.”

This is straight out of the Cultural Marxism handbook. What do you think a kindergartner understands about racism, intersectionality, and climate change? Doesn’t matter. Indoctrinate them as young as possible and you’ll have a true believer in the victim mentality and the oppressed and oppressor classes for a lifetime. They may not be able spell oppressed but they sure know what it means, and that’s what’s important.

And of course while the transgender agenda is attacking the minds of the most vulnerable, Satan has a second front in this war. Long held societal norms like who can use what restroom. States actually have to pass laws now that prohibit men from going into women’s restrooms. Eighteen states and the District of Columbia have so-called anti-discrimination laws that allow it. I never thought I’d see such a thing even being discussed and debated, but here we are.

The good news about this war is this:

“For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses.” 2 Corinthians 10:4.

We have divinely powerful weapons capable of destroying Satan’s fortress of transgenderism. We just have to use them this time.