Men are disappearing from the American landscape. Oh, I don’t mean they are physically disappearing, but they are rapidly becoming absent from the conversation except as murderers, rapists, and sperm donors.

This struck me recently as I was reading the Washington Post (Know your enemy!). Day after day, week after week, month after month the WP features articles on popular culture and life in general. Two things stand out: most of the writers are either women or gay men, and in most of the articles men do not exist except as appendages or sperm donors.

The article that just slapped me in the face and yelled, “Wake up!” was one about a family living in an RV. Now living in an RV is not unusual, tens of thousands of families do it. But this article was all about the woman and her managment of RV living. It was only with close reading that the reader would see that this was a family – wife, husband, and children living the nomad lifestyle. The writer only saw fit to casually mention that the man had refurbished the trailer with his wife’s help to make this life possible. It was all about her, not them.

I watched a YouTube of one of John MacArthur’s sermons recently. He was preaching what American Christians ignore: Satan is the ruler of this world and is sovereign (to the extent permitted by THE SOVEREIGN) over all earthly governments. This prince of this world is highly intelligent and subtle beyond description. But American Christians don’t believe the devil exists. They don’t believe demons are controlling the minds of the men and women who have not been born into the family of God through the regenerating power of the Holy Spirit. And why do I put this paragraph into a post about disappearing men? Because making men disappear is part of satan’s plan to erase the image of God in humanity.

You cannot be a Christian and not believe in Creation. If you believe that humanity arose from the slime in the natural course of evolution, you are not a Christian, and if you think you are, you are deluding yourself. Every doctrine held sacred by the worshipers of God is rooted in creation. It is only in the creation narrative that we know that from the very beginning, God made one humanity out of one essence and animated by one breath. There we see we were created male and female perfectly designed to join together to navigate life and to continue the creation through the marriage union.

God created the man to be the head of the race with the woman at his side as his complement (completion). No relationship furthers the creation other than marriage. Is it any wonder then that satan would work through his human servants to destroy male headship and the marriage union that this headship promotes. Women are either being called to the nobility of motherhood without a husband, or to the nobility of killing the infants conceived during the pursuit of individual fulfillment, or the nobility of career over motherhood. No wonder we hear cries against “the patriarchy” and have an entire month dedicated to the promotion of homosexuality and other deviancies from the purpose of our male-female creation. A lifelong union of husband and wife stands athwart the aims of the evil one and his minions.

So men are being erased, and this erasure is part of satan’s devisings to erase the image of God in our race. What should we do? Christians must resist the pressures the world brings to bear to conform to it. We must elevate true manhood, the manhood of hard work, faithfulness to one’s wife, trainer of manhood in one’s sons and teacher of daughters to only place their affections on real men. We must study the scriptures and see them, not as anachronisms from an ancient and irrelevant past, but as guides for present duty and future joy. We must say NO. Men will disappear in America, but they must not disappear in the Church.