Dear Christian: Here’s something they never told you at youth group: When God’s people have decisively “gone wrong” (Isa.3:8) and have been “an affront to the Eternal (God), resisting His glorious presence.” And “they flaunt their sins like Sodom” … and “they don’t even try to hide them (Isa.3:9)” while “they persist in wrongdoing. (Isa.3:11 VOICE).” One of the ways God brutally disciplines His people is by removing the masculine hero from their midst and replacing that testicular deterrent to evil with a bunch of chinless-wonder boys and lyin’ ladies. Check it out…
Did you catch God’s removal of the “heroes” and “warriors” part of that judgment? You did? Awesome. In case you were wondering, according to the scripture, that is not a good thing when that happens. That means that God has pulled His frontline of defense from His people making them oh-so-vulnerable to their mortal enemies. Yikes, eh?
With the removal of the hero and warrior, guess who God allows to lead in the hero’s and warrior’s absence? If you guessed a bunch of flaky young males and nutty women with horrible, ungodly ideas, you guessed right.
Since God’s people were acting the ungodly fool, blowing off His will and His way, God removes holy masculine heroes and replaces them with unholy feminine zeroes, and when that happens, as you just read, all hell breaks loose upon His people. Yep, God’s people get trampled by the enemy. They get completely stripped by demonic forces. That’s what happens when the heroic spirit is gone. Evil rules the roost (Isa.3:13-26).
