EIGHT HALLMARKS OF THE PERVERTED

perverted - adjective

Deviating from what is considered right and correct.
Of, relating to, or practicing sexual perversion.
Marked by misinterpretation or distortion.*

Eight Hallmarks of the perverted:

• Cheapen chastity.  Curse chastity.  Reject chastity.  Revile chastity.
• Worship sexuality.  Warp sexuality.  Subjugate sexuality.  Sensualize sexuality. 
• Disdain pregnancy.  Dehumanize pregnancy.  Prevent pregnancy.  Purge Pregnancy.
• Cajole children.  Corrupt children.  Manipulate children.  Mutilate Children.
• Deny truth.  Disenfranchise truth.  Attack truth.  Alter truth.
• Prefer evil.  Promote evil.  Love evil.  Live evil.
• Approve violence.  Attract violence.  Permit violence.  Practice violence.
• Reject God.  Reinvent God.  Mock God.  Malign God.

The perverted are not modern, they are not post-modern, they are not liberated, they are not new, and they are not novel.  Their way is well documented in history.  Here is but a sample:

"The fear of the LORD is to hate evil; Pride and arrogance and the evil way And the perverted mouth, I hate" (Proverbs 8:13 NASV).

"He who has a crooked mind finds no good, And he who is perverted in his language falls into evil" (Proverbs 17:20 NASV).

"For you will no longer remember the oracle of the LORD, because every man's own word will become the oracle, and you have perverted the words of the living God, the LORD of hosts, our God" (Jeremiah 23:36 NASV).

"Therefore the law is ignored And justice is never upheld. For the wicked surround the righteous; Therefore justice comes out perverted" (Habakkuk 1:4 NASV).

For detail that is more graphic, see Romans 1:18-31.

Not only are the perverted not new or novel, but they are also here to stay (for a while).

"But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,  holding to a form of godliness , although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these" (II Timothy 3:1-5 NASV).

The perverted will persist to the very last days, but they will not persist beyond.  The truth, which the perverted hate and reject, is triumphantly detailed in Revelation chapter 21.

The hallmarks of the perverted have not, nor will they change.  However, there is another hallmark, and that is the great hallmark of the Truth!

"Now when they heard this, they were pierced to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, 'Brethren, what shall we do?' Peter said to them, 'Repent, and each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.  For the promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off, as many as the Lord our God will call to Himself'" (Acts  2:37-39 NASV).

The great hallmark of the truth is that even the most perverted are not beyond the reach of truth, provided they turn to it.  Nothing has changed since Pentecost.  Nothing will change until the last day of the last days.

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