Of all of the Apostle Paul’s perilous times forewarnings for the very end of the Church Age, none, to my way of reviewing the news of the day – juxtaposed against that 2 Timothy chapter 3 prophetic summary – is more starkly represented in headlines today than the term without natural affection.

As most who read these column commentaries know, my belief is that the atrocities inflicted upon the most innocent among us –the babies and small children— are most indicative of just where we must stand on God’s Prophetic Timeline. When I say “innocent,” I mean that they have not yet reached the cognitive ability to recognize that they need Jesus Christ as their Savior. I believe their names are still written in The Book of Life until they reach that realization and choose to accept or reject Christ.

So they are innocent in the Holy Eyes of God until that point. If they choose to reject when fully able to realize they are lost and need Christ to save them from their sinful status, their names are blotted out of the Book of Life. Their names are written back in, I’m convinced, once they then choose to accept God’s Grace Gift Offer through the shed blood of His Son Jesus –the Lamb that takes away the sins of the world.

Paul the apostle tells in no uncertain terms that the last days will be marked as without natural affection. We have looked at how men having sexual relationships with other men and women having such relations with other women is one major signal indicating without natural affection.

God’s Word tells us that such is unseemly and against nature, as any sane person should be able to recognize.

However, today, even a supposedly brilliant Supreme Court justice doesn’t know what a woman is, although she is one, and one political party champions that there are many genders and questions anyone who challenges that reprobate notion.

But an equally powerful proof that this is a generation that is without natural affection is found at the top of headlines in every news cycle. The evil coming against the most innocent of humankind –the babies and small children– is there for anyone to understand. There is an insanity –a satanic, reprobate insanity that seems to have blocked understanding of a growing number of people on this fallen planet.

Considering our Rapture Ready news on Raptureready.com, we see this proof. A few examples in our news links show the proof that these are indeed perilous times, as Paul puts it.

From August 30 RR News:

Satanic Temple Video Shows Woman Doing Abortion Ritual in Hobby Lobby Bathroom
The video shows a simulated satanic ritual inside the Christian-owned store. After taking abortifacient drugs, the woman sits on the toilet and flushes her baby. She then turns to the mirror and says, “By my body, my blood, by my will, it is done.”

From August 31 RR news:

Mom who shot infant son in face said it was ‘worth it’ to deprive father custody
A woman was convicted in a New Mexico courtroom this week for kidnapping and killing her infant son in order to deprive his father of custody. The case adds to the growing number of highly disturbing stories of moms killing their children. In recent weeks, LifeSiteNews has reported on Lindsay Clancy and Kailey Erhart, both of whom brutally killed their young children, including infants.

From August 31 RR News:

Federal Court Rules Sexual AI Images of Children Are Legal to Possess

A federal appeals court says a Supreme Court precedent set in 2002 forces it to protect the in-home possession of AI-generated child sexual abuse material. The court warned that rapidly advancing technology has complicated legal lines drawn nearly 25 years ago. The Seventh Circuit said it was bound by the Supreme Court decision that rejected restrictions on sexually explicit depictions of fictional children when no actual child was involved in their creation.

From September 1 RR News:

Canadian doctors’ group suggests euthanasia for disabled infants
Doctors in Canada have said euthanasia for newborns born with disabilities “may be an appropriate treatment,” as concerns mount over the expansion of the country’s euthanasia and assisted suicide program.

From September 6 RR News:

“Experiencing a Psychotic Episode…”: First ‘Clancy Copycat?’ Mom Hangs 2-Year-Old Son
A horrific copycat Lindsay Clancy murder of a child has been committed by a woman in Frankfort, Illinois. Prosecutors say Corie Walsh hanged her 2-year-old son, Barrett, from a basement rafter on Tuesday, then tried to kill herself with a knife. She told police she did it because the boy was the “devil” and the “anti-Christ.” Witnesses said she had become “very invested” in the Lindsay Clancy trial and was still texting friends about it hours before her son was found.

These types of stories appear weekly, sometimes dominating the news on RR and other venues. Satan’s assault on the most VULNERABLE of humanity is proliferating.

Our own state has experienced such absolutely unspeakable activity. So much so that there have been reporters who shed tears while trying to describe circumstances.

I was very touched that one of the state’s top radio program hosts prayed a most beautiful prayer for a little child on air after reporting the story of a little girl assaulted in the most heinous way. He ended the prayer in the name of Jesus, and that was doubly touching to me. That’s a rarity in today’s media.

(Sadly, I hear now that the little one has died in hospital.)

We must wonder, we who name that most Holy of all names –that of the Lord Jesus Christ- just how long the God of Heaven will allow this evil against the little ones to go on throughout the earth.

The answer, of course, is found in the prophetic words issued by the Apostle Peter.

“But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up: (2 Peter 8-10).

Peter is foretelling that God’s timing is not like our faulty schedule, and that He will not be tardy in His Perfect Will being accomplished. The Rapture will occur like a thief in the night, and then all will play out exactly as He has directed from Eternity past to Eternity future, when all the things of Earth will be burned up and the Heavens and the earth remade into His Perfection.

All babies that have been aborted, all little ones who have suffered premature death, will live forever in that Perfection.

The unnatural affection, spawned and fomented by the one called Satan, will never again be experienced by those who are in God’s Family.

If you don’t know the one who makes that Blessed future a certainty for all Believers, here is how to come to Him for God-Guaranteed Life for all of Eternity in that Heavenly Perfection.

“That if you will confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and will believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart man believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto Salvation” (Romans 10: 9-10).

As those who read this column know, I believe a primary prophecy that describes the very moment the Lord Jesus Christ will call all believers into the clouds of Glory is wrapped in the following Scripture passage given by the Lord Jesus Christ Himself:

“Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed” (Luke 17:28–30).

Jesus was so intimately involved with the fate of the city of Sodom that He made this a cornerstone foretelling about His next “revealing” of Himself. He said the people and circumstances, the social and cultural environs of that moment when He next intervenes catastrophically into the affairs of humankind, will be just like Lot’s circumstances and times when God removed Lot and his family, then totally destroyed Sodom.

We’ve looked many times at just how wicked our current times are, with anti-God activity the norm rather than aberrant, in many cases. We have looked specifically at the characteristic of the days we’re now living in as being very similar to the days in which Lot lived in Sodom.

There is no doubt that the characteristic that had grown to the most pronounced extent—the most egregious to God—was homosexuality.

Remember that the angels, in the form of men, were threatened by the raging homosexual men who surrounded Lot’s home. God removed Lot and those of his household just as the providentially blinded homosexual men were about to invade the house.

Jesus tells us through the Luke 17:28–30 account that things will be like this when the world will see Him “reveal” Himself. It will be with the rescue we’ve come to know as the Rapture of the Church—all born-again believers in Jesus Christ for salvation.

Evidence is mounting, without question, that the homosexual invasion continues.

It seems to me that, like other proliferating anti-God things taking place in the US these days, the homosexual assault is manifesting in Minnesota, specifically in Minneapolis.

Here is a news story that presents growing evidence of these Sodom-like days.

According to the Minnesota State Fair’s schedule, POWER: Drag Revue will perform multiple times on Aug. 27 and 28 on state fairgrounds.

The fair schedule says, “POWER: Drag Revue is a high-energy drag performance showcase celebrating the artistry, creativity and diversity of Minnesota’s drag community.”

Drag shows, which feature men dressed as women, have been continuously mainstreamed in recent years. Earlier this year, a drag performance was held inside Minneapolis City Hall, which was reportedly the first time such an event had been held there.

According to Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, POWER: Drag Revue is a “BIPOC-focused musical sketch” formed after George Floyd’s death that has a “goal of expanding opportunities in the Twin Cities for historically underrepresented queer performers and artists.”

POWER: Drag Revue depicts its performers in exaggerated, garish representations of women. Several images on that page show apparent drag performers in revealing, sexualized outfits…

Since news of the drag shows broke earlier this week, the planned performances have faced backlash. Republican state Rep. Mary Franson reacted to a news story about the drag shows, saying, “Gross.”

Former state Rep. Jeremy Munson, a current candidate for Minnesota Senate, mentioned the drag shows in a list of fair events and said, “The State Fair is no longer a place we look forward to attending, and it continues in the direction of not being welcoming to families.” (“Planned drag show performances at Minnesota State Fair face backlash,” by Rachel Rossum, Alpha News MN, August 21, 2026)

Promoters of the show claim it’s all in good fun, and children, especially, should be brought to see the “delightful” performances, as men, prancing about in revealing, highly sexualized feminine attire entertain the crowds.

My imagination goes to those days in Sodom—and likely in Gomorrah, too—when such “delightful” performances surely must have entertained the crowds. We certainly have no trouble understanding what the God of Heaven thinks about such activity.

They are just now beginning, through digs at the south end of the Dead Sea, to find vestiges of what’s left of those twin cities. And it comes to mind, coincidentally, that the cities of Minneapolis/St. Paul are known in their duality, are they not? The twin cities are more and more at the center of homosexual and other wickedness that has been lately reported.

Now this is not meant to in any way besmirch the people of Minneapolis/St. Paul. There are many who protest against what is happening there in terms of anti-God activity.

But we must be alert to what’s going on as a spreading, cancerous sin that threatens to infect American culture and societies in ways that bring God’s judgment upon any people who embrace ways of life symbolized by these effeminate displays by the homosexual influencers.

Here is what God’s Word has to say about such matters of ungodly activity:

“Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God” (1 Corinthians 6:9-10).

While not meaning to cast aspersions on the people of those twin cities, I must say that this area of our nation seems increasingly to embody the modern incarnation of the twin cities of Sodom and Gomorrah – as America, to me, seems more and more to take on the characteristics of the Babylon of Revelation chapter 18.

The answer to stopping this downward movement through anti-God comportment, of course, is prayer and repentance – prayer by each of us, individually, who are Christians—for the people of America to repent and turn back to God and godliness.

“If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land” (2 Chronicles 7:14).