Iron Ink

Children In Adult Bodies

The paradox of the 21st century life is that in the following of previous obvious and once reflexive middle-class manners and mores has now become, oddly enough, an act of rugged individualism that is found to be suspicious. This is so true that the extent to which the once previous standard behavior, that was considered obviously adult and mature, is now considered the behavior of the oddball or the maverick. It is now surreal to our current forever adolescent population to behave in way in which our Christian great-grandparents thought to be distressingly obvious.

For example, our great-grandparents would not attend worship services without dressing so as to be in the presence of the King. Our great-grandparents would be shocked with the casualness in which we enter into worship. Today, in many churches, if a young lady were to wear a modest dress into worship with an appropriate hat for a head-covering most folk would see it as an act of “rugged individualism,” or of “being quirky.” Yet, I have boyhood memories of this once standard behavior of all the women in the church.

For example, what passes for worship today in your average church, complete with praise band, 10 – 15 minute self-help talks from the clergy that we are told are “sermons”, coffee baristas serving up hot joe just outside the sanctuary, all point to adolescents being in charge and running the show. Years ago, while on holiday I attended such a church where the young ladies in the praise band were wearing skirts so short that I’m sure young men attended in hopes of seeing the female band members raise their hands high in praise.

For example, some years ago in Farmland, Indiana (population 1300) the Ladies’ Bridge Club bard its 70-90 year old female bods in a pinup calendar in order to save a courthouse that was a wee bit older than they. It’s hard to imagine our great-grandmothers coming up with that idea. It is more likely that anybody who came up with the idea would be shunned by the Ladies’ Bridge Club of Farmland, Indiana.

For example, the phenomenon of middle age crisis (which I’ve seen a great deal of during my years in the ministry) finds middle age and older adult seeking to reach back to be “young again.” The ironic thing here though is that the attempt to remain “forever young,” by adults of all ages has made the idea of “mid-life crisis” passe. I mean, how can an adult reach back to be young again, when they have never grown up to begin with?

For example, can you really imagine your great-grandparents take your grandparents (when your grandparents were children) to Queer-Time story hour at your local community library? Now the rare few who put up a protest are seen as “prudes” and “puritanical.”

For example, a decade or so ago I overheard a couple Mom’s talking about their teenager sons. One of the Mother’s noted, while giggling, that she had discovered a condom in her son’s jeans while doing the laundry. That Mother’s Grandmother’s response to such a incident doubtless would have been to call the girl’s parents her son was dating in order to warn them. This woman was laughing while she was relating the incident to her friend. She thought it humorous. The grown-up was nowhere to be seen.

What we need to keep in mind here is in the attempt to remain forever adolescent we, as a people, have jettisoned the Christian mores and standards that once defined what it meant to be a healthy adult, and, as said earlier, acting in a way that was considered standard Christian behavior by our Christian forebears is now seen as odd, quirky … even surreal.

What we have experienced in our race to the bottom of the drain is the disappearance of the adult, or perhaps better put, the re-definition of what it means to act like an adult. This pursuit has been a long time coming. Perhaps one could trace its beginning to the “burning of your bra” movement. Perhaps one could trace the disappearance of the adult to the presence of the passage of no-fault divorce laws that turned marriage into a matter of children playing grown up. Instead of being the adult, adults played the child and walked away from marriages saying, “well, that was a fun game while it lasted.”

So, we are in the place where we have to put up a note somewhere saying; “Will the last adult leaving please turn out the lights.”

We have come to the point where even Grandpa and Grandma want to be like the adolescent and the adolescent wants to be like whatever manages to become popular among his/her adolescent peers. This has brought us to the place where we have no gravitas as a people. Our literature is of a comic-book quality. Our music hasn’t advanced much beyond “Jailhouse Rock.” Our language to often sounds Orc-like with eloquence having long ago made its way to the grey-havens beyond the sea. Our learned men are too often fools. Our Christian faith reduced to egalitarian platitudes.

The good news is that our Fathers, though being dead, can still speak if only we will take up and read. By accessing the wise and the wisdom of the ages we can once again become adults. We can once again give our children aspirations to once again desire to “grow up and be adults.” We can return to a time when there is a clear line in people’s thinking between being an adolescent and being an adult.

Slaughter of the Innocents 2025

“[T]he suffering of the Mediator does not date from the end of His stay on earth…. The blood of the Savior’s circumcision is as much atoning blood for us as is the blood shed on Golgotha. His entire life was a continual suffering.”

Geerhardus Vos

Yesterday, on the Church calendar, is the day when the “Slaughter of the Innocents” is remembered. Matthew’s Gospel records this event as being continuous with OT anticipation as he connects the lamentations of the Bethlehem mothers with the lamentation or Rachel as recorded in the book of Jeremiah (31:5).

Matthew is informing us that Rachel’s weeping was a type of the weeping that was present in Bethlehem when Herod ordered the slaughter in an attempt to kill off any King that might arise to replace him.

Interesting enough, Rachel was known to have been buried in Ramah, a town not far from Bethlehem. Jeremiah’s prophecy, in its immediate context, spoke of the sorrow that would arise surrounding the Babylonian exile. Matthew, by reaching for this prophecy, informs us that the mourning and lamentation had a dual fulfillment. First, what Jeremiah speaks of was fulfilled when Israel went into captivity, but there is a deeper and greater fulfillment in the weeping surrounding the slaughter of the innocents. In doing so, Matthew, as he does throughout his Gospel, teaches us to read the Bible, as one book, with one overarching narrative. This in turn reminds us that all attempts to read the Bible in terms of discontinuity and dispensations except when explicitly informed by Scripture is a misinformed way of reading Scripture that leads to no good results.

Moving from reading the slaughter of the innocents exegetically we consider the theological significance. Theologically we find the slaughter to be consistent with the promise found in Genesis 3:15 that there would be constant conflict between the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent. Herod is the seed of the serpent making war on the seed of the woman. Much like Pharaoh ordering the extermination of the seed of Israel, Herod likewise takes up the attempt to extinguish the seed of the woman. Matthew gives us Jesus through whom Israel’s story is retold, with the difference being where Israel failed as God’s Son, Jesus is God’s faithful son who does not fail.

Teasing this out, we would notice that the slaughter of the innocents puts on display the ongoing conflict that continues between the children of their father the Devil, and those who have been swept up in the train of Christ’s blessed redemption. Herods exist even now who continue to seek the death of those who champion the Redeemer King’s truth.

Our Moment

When I was born in 1959, the white population in these united States was 88.6%. It was a white Christian nation. Stores closed on Good Friday and on every Sunday. The SCOTUS even upheld Michigan’s blue laws in 1962 affirming the Michigan Blue Laws constitutionality based on the need for a day of rest.

When I graduated High School in 1977 the white population had dipped a wee bit to appx. 85%. Nobody talked about “race being a social construct,” and very few people denied that race was a real thing. The Franz Boas / Civil Rights Revolution was still on the upswing. Very few people realized the Cultural Marxist egg that had been laid and was already beginning to hatch.

I graduated Undergrad in 1982 and the total percentage of White people in the nation was now down to appx. 83.1% and by the time Jane and I were done having babies the nation was at 80.3%. Now, 35 years later, with the recent 202o census the percentage of White people in these united States is at 61.6%. For those not excelling at math this means between the time I was born and the time my children were born the percentage of White people had decreased by roughly 8%. Between the time of my children’s birth and my most recent grandchildren’s birth the percentage of decrease of White people in America has decreased by almost 20% more. By the time my youngest grandchildren are having their own babies in 2045 the projection is that the US will become a “majority minority white” people in the US with whites expected to comprise about 49.7%.

This is a staggeringly rapid pace of social, cultural, religious and racial change. Of course none of it “just happened,” nor was any of it a matter of coincidence. All of this can only be described as “genocide,” and if these stats had been correspondingly true of the Han Chinese or Nguni Zulu in their respective nations everyone would be able to recite the statistics by memory because those statistics would be crammed down our throats by the Western Lugenpresse.

However, a noticing of the disappearance of the White Christian though is considered bad taste and proof positive that one is the worst kind of company. The White Christian is being genocided and we are being convinced that noticing is worse than the genocide itself.

Indeed, matters have gotten so bad that church courts in once were thought to be conservative Reformed denominations are doing yeoman’s work in bringing white clergy up on charges who dare commit this kind same kind of sin of noticing. Those few of us who have gotten out of line by noticing loudly have been forced to walk the ecclesiastical plank thus ensuring that any other clergy who might be tempted to state out loud rather Captain Obvious truths will likewise be fed to the politically correct sharks. We are in a position where we have to fight against those inside the camp as well as fighting against those outside the camp. Which of those two is more dangerous is a coin flip.

And so, we as a people are being incrementally but definitively genocided and matters have been arranged so that it is a crime if you notice the genocide. It’s all very Orwellian as combined with expertise gaslighting.

Of course, it is our elites who have done this to us as they have profited by feeding their people to the NWO alligator, not realizing that the day is coming when they will no longer have anyone to throw to the gator, resulting in the gator finally viewing the elites or their descendants as a tasty morsel.

We really are at a Sobieski arriving at Vienna moment. Either we find another Sobieski to lift the siege or we will all be speaking some NWO form of esperanto. Indeed, it is not unreasonable to consider the possibility that the demographics is destiny bell is not a bell that one can now unring. Are we at the point where all the efforts of a Martel, Sobieski, Lavallette, and Don Juan combined will not avail us? On my most realistic days I think it is already too late. On my most optimistic days I think that maybe, even yet at this late hour, the tide can be turned.

But the tide cannot and will not be turned unless more and more Christian white men step up and see themselves as heros … knights errant on a mission to set the world aright. The tide will not be turned unless the Church abandons its 250 year romance with a pietism that interprets Christianity to be most noble when it is most defeated, crushed, and vanquished. The call of the hour is a return to an older Christianity that was willing to fight the Turk, willing to call councils to deal with the Jew, and willing to embrace the Ordo Amoris while not being ashamed to deal justly with the heretic.

If I thought it was all hopeless I would not write. If I did not think that God could yet deliver us I would not plead. If I were not conversant with an older Christianity that if returned to could be the muscle needed to conquer under the banners of Christ and His Kingdom I would already have surrendered myself.

But, I still do believe. I believe that Christ sits at the right hand of the Father ruling all things for the good of His Church and Kingdom and I believe that if the Christian will only fight the Christian will either win or if defeated they will make such a glorious end that when the time comes for the Christian faith to rise again subsequent generations will sing songs and recite the poetry that told of how their Fathers with nobility and resolve last fought the good fight. And that will inspire our sons and the sons of Christ to again fight the fight that they will be called to in their generation.

MY orders are to fight;

Then if I bleed, or fail,

Or strongly win, what matters it?

God only doth prevail.

The servant craveth naught

Except to serve with might.

I was not told to win or lose,–

My orders are to fight.

Revolution; Its Downstream Impact On Male & Female Relations

“It was always the women, and above all, the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy.”

George Orwell
1984

Now consider the implications of this and the implications of the implications.

1.) If party propaganda can market compassion as being synonymous with conformity while also rebranding control with “care” the result is that the State taps into the feminine role as nurturers who champion compassion and care (conformity and control) in order to enforce ideological obedience from the citizenry. People will be forced to be compassionate and caring by the State.

2.) If propaganda combined with State action successfully wins over the young women market on this matter of “care and compassion”, the young men are sure to follow as young men will do almost anything to woo young women, up to and including, feminizing themselves in order to please and attract the pool of women whose nurturing side has been exploited by the State and the zeitgeist. This means that young men will now also be supporters of Statist command and control mechanism and that in order to woo women who support the State because those young women are convinced that the State is being benign when it offers up a care and compassion to the citizenry which is in point of fact a mask for command and control.

3.) All of this in turn creates un-masculine men (effeminate/soft men) who have embraced femininity in order to mate with women whose femininity has been bastardized from what God created it to be. The result of this is women who have embraced a bitchy feminine posture and men who likewise emasculate themselves to be male versions of bitchy women.

4.) This is turn leads to the break down of the family as women finally recoil at the idea of being married to a weak effeminate man. Women flee the marriage and find a State that is cast in their image willing to support their decision to commit hari kari on their family.

5.) The ironic thing here is that though the man is now dealing w/ a broken family, the State comes along side and forces the effeminate ex-husband to provide for the bitchy ex-wife in the creation of a second household. And all of this in the name of a care and compassion that young women, and young men in pursuit of young women, keep voting for.

6.) Rinse and repeat enough times and you get young men who resolve never to marry and so become incels and you get young women who resolve never to marry and you get middle age cat women who, because they have no children to nurture, take up lunatic left social causes to be replacement children upon which they can pour out their nurturing side. This, in part, explains rows upon rows of women in 2016 going to DC to protest Trump’s first inauguration while wearing pink “pussy hats.” Another example is the way single women can infantilize illegal immigrants and minorities, taking them as her proxy children she never had and pouring out on them all her care and compassion that the cat lady might have once poured out on her own.

7.) Incel men then, having never married and never had children, to provide and protect for, tend to become middle aged adolescents who never grow up. The responsibility of raising a family matures a man and without that properly maturing pressure young men are increasingly forever teenagers. They also tend to hate women and so objectify them for sexual pleasure alone or become sodomites or massive porn consumers.

8.) As an aside this may explain why sane women are often attracted to “bad boys.” Some women want men who break societal expectations and who are independent in a very raw way. These relationships can work out depending upon how the “bad boy” can harness his “badness,” to productive ends. However, “bad boys” have a hard time making it through the cultural institutional gauntlet since the cultural institutional gauntlet exists to reinforce the propaganda that care and compassion are synonymous with conformity and control.

Christmas Eve Address — 2025

“The people who sat in darkness have seen a great light, And upon those who sat in the region and shadow of death Light has dawned.”

Matthew 4:16

12″Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, ‘I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.’”

John 8:12

And this is the verdict of condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

John 3:19

The Son is the effulgence of the Father’s glory, and the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had made purification of sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

Hebrews 1:3

“You are the light of the world. Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your father in heaven.”

Matthew 5:12

Christmas speaks of numerous realities. We have seen some of those as we have preached Christ in His saving offices during this Advent season. In all honesty we could spend a year preaching on the anticipated coming of Christ. All year long could be a Advent preaching series.

Not only might we preach on Jesus the Christ promised coming to fill the office of Prophet, Priest, and King to save His people we could preach on a multitude of redemptive-historical themes. We could preach on the anticipation of Jesus coming as the lamb of God to be the sin-bearer of God’s people. We could preach on Jesus coming as the desire of the nations. We could preach on Jesus the God-Man. We could preach on the anti-types of Christ in the OT that Christ fulfilled as the type. We could preach on the Old Testament Scriptures and references to Christ that are used in the New Testament by New Testament writers to illumine the presence of Christ in the OT and to declare Him present in the 1st century. We could pick up on the unfolding of the Covenant of Grace in the OT that finds its climax in the New and Better covenant in the coming of Christ. One covenant coming to full maturity with the arrival and work of Christ — a covenant that bespeaks unity in diversity … continuity over discontinuity.

These and many other are reasonable advent themes could well make for a year long preaching on the Advent, Incarnation and arrival of Jesus the Christ.

However, as is our custom here we complete Advent by speaking of Christ as “The Light of the World,” combined with His instructions that we also, are the light of the World who are to let our light so shine before men that they might see our good works, and glorify our Father in heaven.

The great premise of Advent is the fall of mankind into darkness. The Old Covenant speaks of a coming light and indeed that coming light is in the Old Covenant for those with eyes to see. With the arrival of the Christ though the darkness is dispelled.

The Hymn “O Holy Night” captures some of this w/ the lyrics,

“Long Lay the World in sin and error pining

Till he appeared.”

Christ comes as the light of the world but John tells us that men loved the darkness because their deeds were evil.

But the light has come and it can not be quenched. The light shines forth and so we have great hope as bearers of the light. The darkness continues to seek to overcome the light but the light overcomes the darkness and wins out, sometimes in the most unexpected ways.

This Christmas season then proclaims Christ as the light of the world and His people as little refracting points of Christ the great light. Because we are refracting of a light that continues to shine we do not despair. We understand that the greater the darkness the more powerful the light to roll back that darkness.

During this Advent season we are reminded that Christ is the light of the World. As being the light of the world He will not leave Himself without witness. He will continue to provide illuminating power to a world that struggles to remain in the darkness.

This is the problem with pessimistic eschatologies. They one and all teach that the darkness finally wins out in the end in this time and on this planet. However, we believe that the light will never be snuffed out … even temporarily. We believe that the light will continue to overcome darkness until that day that He who is the light returns in glorious triumph.

And so Christmas reminds us not only of the promised coming light but as Christ remains the light of the World it reminds us of coming victory and the dominion of God’s rule over darkness. The light who is Christ reminds us that there is no war against the darkness that cannot or should not be waged with confidence. The light who is Christ reminds us that the children of the devil will be exposed to the light and so either convert or be scattered. The light who is Christ means missionary efforts will succeed and the nations of this world will become the nations of the Lord and His Light … His Christ.