There is a reenacting of the garden incident in the end time. Satan's plot is to corrupt woman and ruin the race. Womanhood of the nation is running to harlotry. Movie stars set American standards instead of the Bible.

The destiny and the greatness of a nation lie around the hearthstone.

A nation rises or falls with the virtue of its women. The degeneracy of women marks the nation's falls. As sin entered into the world through the woman in the beginning, so today she seems bent on finishing the destruction in these last days.

It is extremely dangerous for a woman to get out of her orbit. God never created woman to rule man. His whole Word is against it. Because of this broken law, the curse of God is on the home, church, society and nation.  seventy years ago a spiritual writer prophesied that one of the sins of the last days was women's striving for mastery over men. This is coming to pass, and with it, ruin; for women must fight God to gain the point.

Christianity Has Become Effeminate

Eve is surely listening to the voice of the serpent again.  Eve should have referred the serpent to Adam in the beginning. God cursed the ground by which Adam must gain a living for hearkening "unto the voice of thy wife", in the matter. (Genesis 3:17). There is a reenacting of the Garden of Eden incident at the end.  Home, family, husband, mean nothing to the modern woman.  She must rule or ruin.  Men too often effeminately coincide with her. This makes possible woman's false position. We are living in an effeminate age. Christianity has become effeminate. It takes a man to hold the Gospel plough. John Knox "never feared the face of any man." ...John the Baptist did not back down on the women question. God made Adam first, then woman for his helper. God is not changing His order.

The early church is our example. Female bishops are an anomaly. A bishop then must be...the husband of one wife, 1 Timothy 3:2 The deacons also, and the elders.  (1 Timothy 3:12; Titus 1:6). A bishop is an overseer. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. 1 Timothy 2:12 Women have their place in the Lord's work, but let them preserve their modesty and their true sphere. Thank God for the army of decent women in [the world] today! But we are amazed at their silence in the face of present conditions. We are still more amazed at the silence of preachers. Is there not a John the Baptist among us? Has Jezebel got us all on the run?

Rebels Against God

A fit type of the fallen church of today is her bobbed-hair, short-skirted women. The spirit evinced among modern women is one of organized rebellion against God. In Deuteronomy 22:5, The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God. What do women today care for God's law? They wear men's clothes cut their hair and drink and smoke like men. Their immodest appearance and conduct in private and public are an insult to their Maker, and to their sex and the humanity. The modern woman seems to be bent on trying to see how far she can tempt God and get away with it.  

[Editor's note: As a disgusting counterpoint to this, young men and boys dress in long shorts and pants that are so many sizes too big for them they look as if they are wearing skirts and dresses and can be mistaken for women from a distance, especially in poor light.]

God's commandment for women is that they adorn themselves in modest apparel. 1 Timothy 2:9 More shameful things are worn on the streets now than were worn in the brothels a few years ago. Our modern women seem to have lost all sense of virtue. In their flaunted brazenness, boldness, and nakedness, they are carrying the race down to hell.

Degeneracy of Mothers Is Suicidal

Wearing so little clothing, women today outrage all decency. Even grandmothers, who ought to be examples of all that is virtuous are seen tugging at their loin cloth, trying to cover their nakedness. A prominent writer has declared that women will soon be going naked all together. This has meant hell and destruction to every nation that has tried it.

The modern female has lost all sense of modesty. The shamelessness of many young women is appalling. The older women dress and act like girls...Elder women should set the standard for the younger and be an example. [Titus 2:3-5.]   There is no longer any glory in age or motherhood. [Proverbs 16:31 The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.] Women who smoke and swear and drink, are not fit to be mothers of men. They are fit only as companions for the devil. God pity the offspring of all such women, soaked in nicotine, cursed before they are born. What a monstrosity is a cursing, drinking, smoking, painted, bobbed-haired mother. She is truly a masterpiece of hell.

A few years ago, women we now see everywhere on our streets, would have been arrested for stark indecency, and relegated to a red-light district. The morals of Sodom are becoming those of America [and many other nations].

Lewdness Commercialized

Satan has succeeded in commercializing his plot to corrupt women and ruin the race on every side. Semi-naked women are expoilted to draw trade. Every line of business has commercialized the nudity of women in their advertising. Vile pictures, that a few years ago were only fit for the brothel and beer parlor, are now flaunted on billboards. The daily press is filled with pictures of naked women and sensual, suggestive movie scenes that take up whole pages of our large city dailies, and compromise the main attention of most magazines. Today few public ceremonies or festivals are sponsored, unless bevies of almost nude women in bathing suits are thrust into the vulgar foreground. Even our little girls are turned out in the streets almost naked. These things are undermining the very foundation of our modern civilization.

[Editor's note: Even among people that profess to be "separated unto the Lord," KJV-only, Baptist, etc.; women are often pushed forward at ceremonies and in meetings who look sleek and sensual as they "minister in song" or present someone with some "award" or gift. Although their bodies may be covered according to the church or school laws, they may act cutesy and hardly be able to keep from twitching as they sing.  My dad has even observed the men shouting "Amen!" more for these women than for the preachers.  The idea that it leaves -- "Aren't they sexy?"  Though the preachers and husbands would probably gag to hear it said outright, they are really selling "narrow-way, Fundamentalist, Baptist, historic faith" Christianity with women's bodies.]

Type of the Fallen Church of Today

The Lord says "But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her:" 1 Corinthians 11:15.  If long hair is a woman's glory, short hair must be her shame.  Mary wiped Jesus' feet with her long hair.  What a beautiful modest act!  A bobbed-haired follower of Christ disqualifies herself for this act of pure devotion to her Lord.  She remains a type of a fallen church, with all the glory gone.  Long hair is the Scriptural badge of virtuous womanhood.  Short hair is the badge of a harlot.  A few years ago everyone knew a harlot by this badge.  The devil has tacked the badge of harlotry on the women of this nation, including Christian mothers and maidens. The harlot bobs her hair because of the difficulty of her keeping it arranged in her mode of living.  This is the origin of a woman's bobbed hair.  

[Editor's note: 1 Corinthians 11:6 For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.  In Paul's day in Corinth women that were harlots "advertised" their profession by having a shaved or shorn head. 1 Corinthians 11:13 Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered?  1 Corinthians 11:15 But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering. A woman's hair is for her covering so that she will not come to God in prayer with the appearance of a harlot, a daughter of Babylon. Revelation 17:5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. While we are permitted to "come boldly unto the throne of grace" in prayer (Hebrews 4:16), how it must grieve God to have women coming to Him with the appearance of a harlot!]

Think of Christian women adopting such a custom!  Because of this, one can scarcely distinguish today between a virtuous and unvirtuous woman.  They bob and dress alike.  It makes it much more respectable for the harlot. Woman's fall has wrecked civilizations in the past.  It will wreck America also.  If God's Word is true, without national and individual repentance, we have nothing left to look for but God's fiery judgment.  For America, it  is either a quick return to God and the Bible, or it is God's judgment on sin as black as that of Sodom.  There is a way to escape wrath.  Are we willing to pay the price?  There is no bargain commodities, no penny sales, no dollar days, when it comes to God dealing with sin in a nation or individual.   "...break off thy sins by righteousness," (Daniel 4:27).

[Editor's note: 2 Corinthians 6:14 ...for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? 15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? 16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, 18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.]