(17.2) With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
1. It should be mentioned, at this point, that the false religion seeking to supplant the worship of the one true and living God is characterized as feminine. I have a long-held conviction of the tendency of Western Christendom toward effeminacy, and that trend reaches its climax in the completely feminine nature of the false religion.[1]
2. True religion is masculine. The proper worship of God is led by men and not by women, and by masculine men and not like the effeminate men who pastor so many churches and who cater to so many of the women who fund parachurch ministries. Why else would the Apostle Paul encourage the Corinthian congregation, and by extension all Christians, women included with men, to “quit you like men” in First Corinthians 16.13. This is also why those called to pastoral leadership must be men, according to First Timothy 3.1-5:
1 This is
a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.
2 A bishop then must be blameless, the
husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality,
apt to teach;
3 Not given to wine, no striker, not
greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;
4 One that ruleth well his own house,
having his children in subjection with all gravity;
5 (For if a man know not how to rule his
own house, how shall he take care of the
3. When a Church
loses its distinctive masculinity and becomes effeminate or tolerates the
pretense of promiscuity by the men in the Church tending to look like and
behave like the promiscuous men in the dominant culture who do not know what
godly manliness is, then that Church is moving in the direction of this end-time
false religious system.
4. Again, there is a reason why this false religion is characterized as feminine. You want your women to be feminine. Make no mistake about that. For example, The longer the hair is on a woman, the more feminine it makes her look, something the Apostle Paul addressed to the Corinthians. But religion should not be feminine. And spiritual leaders should not be either women or effeminate men.
5. This whore is
guilty of spiritual prostitution with the kings of the earth. Any historian
would agree that this description parallels
6. And the part about being “drunk with the wine of her fornication”? The power, prestige, and enlarged egos built up have an intoxicating effect on those who participate in this spiritually illicit game.
[1] David
Murrow, Why Men Hate Going To Church, (Nashville: Nelson Books,
2005), Leon J. Podles, The Church Impotent: The Feminization Of
Christianity, (Dallas: Spence Publishing Company, 1999), John W.
Robbins, The Church Effeminate & Other Essays, (The Trinity
Foundation, 2001).
