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If You’re A Christian You Should Not Refer To Transgender People By Their ‘Preferred Pronouns’ Because Of This One Very Simple Common Sense Reason

Should Christians refer to transgender people by their preferred pronouns, or should we instead stand with God and the Bible as the end times get darker?

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November 25, 2019

Geoffrey Grider

Transgender People and Preferred Pronouns

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Naming may have a certain ambiguity and arbitrariness to it, but the language of he and she, preferred pronouns and the use of bathrooms and hotel rooms does not. And I will draw a line and say, I will not call he “she.” I will not call she “he.”

One of the reasons why the professing Christian Church is weak and powerless in 2019 is because most Christians do not know Bible doctrine, if they do they do not know how to rightly divide, and the vast majority of the Christians I come in contact with have little to no discernment. Because of these factors, as we pointed out in last night’s Bible study on the same subject, the LGBTQ+ has been able to make incredible strides in taking power of our national narrative and steering it to where they want it to go. This is possible because we are no longer in the Philadelphia Church Age but rather the Laodicean one, and I don’t know about you, but it’s really starting to wear on me pretty good. Let’s talk about preferred pronouns.

“This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.” 2 Timothy 3:1 (KJV)

The Transgender Agenda is sucking all the oxygen out of the room lately, as they are now the driving force in the LGBTQ+P for Pedophile Movement, and Christians are confused and bewildered on how they should act when having to interact with them. The current president of the Southern Baptist Convention, an apostate named JD Greear, recently gave an interview where he suggested that Christians use something he calls ‘pronoun hospitality‘, and call them by whatever they identify as. Greear even tries to drag the Bible into his theological nightmare by suggesting that Paul would be accommodating to the transgender and call them by their preferred pronouns. Let me assure you that the apostle Paul would do no such thing.

We should love the lost souls of the LGBTQ+ Movement, without question, almost all of us have a gay or transgender relative. All Christians are called to love the lost no matter their sin, and to be a witness to them of the transforming power of the gospel of the grace of God. But we are never called to confirm people in their sin, and as such, there is a line that needs to be drawn. It is impossible to change your gender, a person who is born male remains male no matter what surgeries, creams, lotions, hormones or clothing they apply to their situation. A transgender ‘woman’ is still a man, and nothing exists anywhere in the world, at the moment, that can change that. Preferred pronouns are all part of the intentional confusion they are trying to draw you, the Christian, into. The transgender will tell you that using their preferred pronouns is a form of “respect and validation”, but it is no such thing, it’s mental illness.

I know that this article will fall on mostly deaf ears as the Laodicean Church in general has no desire to be anything other than lukewarm. It looks at Kanye West and cannot discern that is a deception, so they call him a ‘baby christian’ and allow him to earn $170 million in 6 weeks in album sales. It looks at the Chick-fil-A betrayal and says “Franklin Graham told me Chick-fil-A hasn’t change and I believe him!”. This is Franklin Graham. So I don’t expect that with preferred pronouns most Christians will be able to figure this one out, either. But here’s to hoping.

How Should I Refer to Transgender Friends?

FROM DESIRING GOD: Manhood and womanhood, our sex, are intended in the Bible — that is, intended by God our Creator — to be biologically or genetically identified. Of course, the biblical authors didn’t know anything about genetics, but I am throwing it in because we know genetics, and it is in sync with biology, which they did know.

“Manhood and womanhood are glorious realities that transcend biology, but are never to be severed from biology.”

There is vastly more to the meaning of manhood and womanhood than biology and genetics in the way we relate to each other, but not less. In other words, manhood and womanhood are glorious, personal realities that transcend genetics and biology, but are never intended to be severed from biology. One of the clearest ways to see this reality in the Bible is to see the many references to “male child” or “female child.” I looked them up just to make sure. This fact is so obvious that people wonder, Why are you even arguing? But we need to.

In other words, before children were old enough to express any gender-specific behaviors or desires or preferences, they were identified as male and female. And this identity defined their lives — for example, sometimes in matters of inheritance and other ways. There is no thought in the Bible of the possibility that the sex (biologically identified) could change because its rooted in biology.

Therefore, when Genesis 1:27 says, “God created us male and female,” there is every reason to think that this included our biological, genetic nature at the root of all the other transcendent aspects of male and female personhood. So we have a pervasive, biblical warrant to say that God wills for our sexual identity to be of one piece with our biological, genetic identity. Now that is my biblical premise.

Rare Cases

Let me just mention an exception. We all know that there are very, very rare situations of heart-breaking biological anomalies where the anatomical sexual organs are ambiguous or compromised. In those cases, we face very unusual challenges. If I were a parent to a child who was born in that situation, I think I would ask for genetic testing (which you couldn’t do generations ago) and opt for surgery that suits the child best for what his genetics say he or she is, and then raise him or her with that expectation.

But that is very, very rare. And we are talking mainly here about clearly identifiable sexual organs at birth through life that should define the trajectory of the sexual and gender life and understanding.

Now how does all that play out in our culture? Even short of surgery we are being asked in Minnesota to treat boys as girls who want to be treated as girls and vice versa so that it determines what team they play on in high school — the girls’ team or the boys’ team — what locker room they use, and what restrooms they use. We are being asked to call Bob “Mary” and Sally “Jim.” This will make obedience to Jesus in the coming days increasingly costly for us. So now, finally, here are my three guidelines:

Should I Call Her Jim?

(1) In one sense the names Sally or Jim are culturally arbitrary. We can name our kids whatever we want. We can name them after cars or planets or Greek virtues or Grandma. Calling someone by that arbitrary name their parents chosen or the one they choose halfway through life may not imply agreement with all that that name was created to signify by the person.

So if I had a neighbor next door to me, which this is very feasible, who was biologically male, and everybody knew it, and he introduced himself to me as Sally — if I met him for the first time, and I saw him the next day, I might avoid calling him anything, but I would probably default to Sally. I probably would until there was a relationship that would go deeper to see whether I could be of any help. So that is one concession I am going to make because of the arbitrary nature of names. And then it is going to get a little more dicey and divisive.

(2) However, if in the office where we worked, I was compelled to identify every so-called transgender person by the pronoun they preferred in all of my emails, or conversations — suppose in emails and conversations I had used “she” for he or “he” for she — or I would get disciplined in the office, at that point I would say to my superiors, I cannot treat he’s as she’s and she’s as he’s.

“I will draw a line and say that I will not call he ‘she.’ I will not call she ‘he.’”

I cannot buy the whole package. I would be lying to call a he a “she.” I am not lying to call a male “Sally.” That is a culturally arbitrary, weird fluke. But I am lying if I say about a true Jim who wants to be called Sally, “she.” And it would be contrary to my understanding of sexuality and I would start looking for another job.

(3) The same thing applies to bathrooms, locker rooms, and hotel rooms where women identify as men or vice versa. I would refuse to have a roommate who said she was a man, even though I share a room in my travels with my assistant all the time. He is a man, and I know he is a man, and that is a perfectly normal thing to do. But if they insisted that I share the same bathroom, share the same locker room, or share the same hotel room, I am looking for another job.

So in summary, then, the question is: Are we forced to call them a name that they prefer, which I am probably going to submit to in the short run at least, or are we forced to identify them as a different sex than they really are? Naming may have a certain ambiguity and arbitrariness to it, but the language of he and she and the use of bathrooms and hotel rooms does not. And I will draw a line and say, I will not call he “she.” I will not call she “he.” And I will not intrude on the sexual privacy of a person of the opposite sex, or walk into a situation where they would intrude upon mine. READ MORE

Preferred Pronouns And Transgender Confusion

If you want to know how crazy things have gotten with preferred pronouns and the transgender movement, watch this video.

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Orange County Corrections Chaplain Wesley Hooker Writes To Tell Us They’ve Just Handed Out The 32 Cases Of KJVs We Sent And Need More As Soon As Possible

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December 11, 2025

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Our inbox is filled with requests from jails and prisons across America from chaplains in desperate need of King James Bibles in English and Spanish

Chaplain Hooker at the Orange County Corrections in Florida wrote to us earlier to say ‘thank you’, first and foremost, for the 32 cases of KJVs we sent them last year. They see an average of 30 people getting saved per week, and our large print KJV is the most-requested Bible they have. He then asked could we send him some more as soon as possible? We just finished processing his request right before I started writing this article. My inbox is full of emails from chaplains who desperately need Bibles, and we’re sending them out as quick as we can, and we need your help.

“The Lord gave the word: great was the company of those that published it.” Psalm 68:11 (KJB)

In addition to that, we are sending 300 RVG Spanish KJVs to our friend Chaplain Bob at the Harris County Jail in Texas. We just sent pocket-sized Spanish New Testaments to the Willacy County Regional Detention Facility, and 100 Ruckman Reference Bibles for the ADA County Jail in Boise, Idaho. We are still looking to send Bibles to the Franklin County Regional Jail in Frankfort, Kentucky. Chaplain Dean at the Sierra Conservation Correctional Center wrote to say he was overwhelmed when they received the 160 KJVs we sent to them. 2025 will go down as the year we went out the most Bibles to jails and prisons than we ever have. Come help us to fulfill this amazing course the Lord has given us to do!

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Why Are None Of The Celebrity Church Pastors Warning The Jews And Israel About The Coming Time Of Jacob’s Trouble That’s Written In The Prophets?

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December 11, 2025

Geoffrey Grider

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Why are Christian pastors in the church and pro-Israel social media influencers silent on the coming time of Jacob’s trouble for the Jews and Israel spoken of by the prophets?

The other day, I read about 1,000 American Christian pastors and social media influencers going enmasse to Israel to show support for the Jews in an event orchestrated by the Friends of Zion initiative in collaboration with the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Ok, that’s great, I have no problem with that at all. At NTEB, we’ve been showing support for the Jews and Israel for the past 17 years, but with a noticeable difference. Along with our support, we also warn them of the coming holocaust that will soon envelope them. Why is no one else doing that?

“For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.” Matthew 24:21 (KJB)

Can you imagine, as a Christian, getting to address Jewish leaders in Israel, or better yet, being in the same room as Benjamin Netanyahu and be able to speak with him face to face? Many Christians pastors in America, like John Hagee, have had those opportunities and continue to have them, and stay strangely silent about Jesus Christ and Bible prophecy. These men and women say how much they love and support Israel and the Jews, I don’t doubt that, and are unafraid to publicly declare their support for them. But underneath all that bluster they are cowards, afraid to tell the Jews the truth about their current estranged condition with God, about the coming time of Jacob’s trouble, about how the majority of the Jews will worship Antichrist in the Tribulation, and all the other things the Old and New Testaments declare are coming for them. Why won’t they tell them? For one reason, many pastors in churches today know very little about Bible prophecy, and you can’t speak of what you don’t know. But the other reason, and I believe the larger one, is that they know if they tell the Jews the truth, whatever relationship they have with them, in many cases financial, will be immediately severed. Money talks, and loudly at that.

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So let us take a moment through our platform, to send a message of love, and warning, to the nation of Israel and the Jewish people. In love, everyone at Now The End Begins loves the Jewish people, we pray for the peace of Jerusalem, and we are Zionists in the truest, and most biblical sense. In warning, we bring to your remembrance what the prophets and apostles have declared to be true about the coming time of Jacob’s trouble that will see the rise of Antichrist and the destruction of Jerusalem. But please don’t take our word for it, see for yourself the things that must shortly come to pass, saith the LORD God of Jacob.

A Biblical Outline of Warning to The Jews and Israel About the Coming Time of Jacob’s Trouble

I. Israel’s Present Moment of Unbelief Foretold

Israel remains in partial blindness until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
- “For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.” Romans 11:25 (KJB)
This blindness is temporary, but it leaves Israel currently unprepared for the coming deception.
Israel today stands at the threshold of prophetic fulfillment, not revival — that comes after the Tribulation (Ezek. 36–37).

II. The Rapture Removes the Church and Opens the Final Countdown for Israel

After the Church — the Body of Christ — is caught up (1 Thess. 4, 1 Cor. 15), God’s prophetic clock for Israel restarts.
This begins Daniel’s 70th week — a seven-year period specifically decreed upon “thy people” and “thy holy city.”
- “Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.” Daniel 9:24 (KJB)
The Rapture will leave Israel religious but deceived, vulnerable to signing a covenant with a man they will believe is their Messiah.

III. The Man of Sin Will Deceive Israel Through a Covenant of Peace

Israel will enter a false peace treaty with the Antichrist.
- “And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.” — Daniel 9:27
This peace will not be peace from God but a trap, luring the nation into trusting a Gentile world leader.
The Antichrist will allow the rebuilding of the Temple and the restoration of sacrifices (2 Thess. 2:3-4; Rev. 11:1-2).

IV. Mid-Tribulation Betrayal: The Abomination of Desolation

At the midpoint of the seven years, the Antichrist will break the covenant.
He will enter the Temple and declare himself to be God.
- “When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)” Matthew 24:15 (KJB)
- “Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.” 2 Thessalonians 2:4 (KJB)
This moment begins the Great Tribulation, the fiercest part of Jacob’s Trouble.
Jesus warned the Jews to flee immediately, not debate, negotiate, or stay behind May 14th, 1948 was not the prophesied regathering of the Jews, the Second Advent will be.
- “Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:” Matthew 24:16 (KJB)

V. The Time of Jacob’s Trouble: A Warning of Unprecedented Distress

Jeremiah prophesied a time of terror coming upon Israel.
- “For thus saith the LORD; We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace. Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness? Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.” Jeremiah 30:5-7 (KJB)
God Himself describes it as a time of refining, not annihilation.
Two-thirds of Israel will perish during this period (Zechariah 13:8).
Israel will face:
- Global military assault
- Persecution under the Beast system
- Forced worship of the Antichrist
- Divine judgments poured out (Revelation 6–19)

VI. God Will Use This Time to Bring Israel to Repentance

The purpose of Jacob’s Trouble is purging and restoration, not destruction.
During the Tribulation, God will raise up 144,000 sealed Jewish evangelists (Revelation 7), as well as the Two Witnesses (Revelation 11).
Through fiery trial, Israel will finally recognize their rejected Messiah.
- “And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.” Zechariah 12:10 (KJB)
The remnant of Israel will cry out nationally for the return of Jesus, but at tremendous cost.
- “For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.” — Matthew 23:39 (KJB)
- “And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein. And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.” Zechariah 13:9 (KJB)

VII. The Second Coming: Israel’s Deliverance at Armageddon

When Jerusalem is surrounded and on the verge of destruction, the Lord Himself will descend.
- “Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle. And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.” Zechariah 14:3,4 (KJB)
His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives (Zechariah 14:4).
Israel will be rescued, the Antichrist destroyed, and the nations judged (Revelation 19).
The remnant of Israel will enter the Millennial Kingdom, where prophecy finds fulfillment and the promises to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are realized.

“Thus saith the LORD of hosts; In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you.” Zechariah 8:23 (KJB)

This is not my opinion, my interpretation, or the ‘historic view of eschatology’. What I have told you here will absolutely come to pass as it is written in the scripture of truth. The Jews are God’s chosen people, but many of them will choose Antichrist over the Lord and wind up in a burning, fiery Hell. And right, here in the Church Age, every single Jew on the face of the Earth can only be saved by trusting the shed blood of Jesus on the cross. The prophets all point to what the New Testament declares to be true. I believe that all Christians should love the Jews and pray for Israel, but to not tell them this vital truth is tantamount to depraved indifference over their lost spiritual condition. Don’t just say you love the Jews, don’t just say you support Israel, tell them the truth, Pastor.

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DEP’T OF WAR: US Commandos Storm Venezuelan ‘Terror Tanker’ In Breathtaking Airborne Takedown As Tensions Rocket Toward Open Military Conflict

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December 10, 2025

Geoffrey Grider

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US commandos from the Department of War stormed a Venezuelan oil tanker in a breathtaking airborne takedown amid ratcheting tensions in the Caribbean.

The breaking news that U.S. commandos stormed and seized a Venezuelan oil tanker is not simply another geopolitical dust-up — it is a visible sign of the times, a reminder that the world’s great powers are now moving pieces on the prophetic chessboard with increasing speed and intensity. The Department of War is open for business.

“In your patience possess ye your souls.” Luke 21 :19 (KJB)

When President Trump announced that U.S. forces had taken control of what he described as a “very large tanker” operating off the Venezuelan coast, the world caught a glimpse of something Washington hasn’t shown in decades: the willingness to use force decisively, swiftly, and without apology. And make no mistake, while the modern bureaucracy insists on calling it the “Department of Defense,” what you saw on full display was the Department of War, doing exactly what it was renamed from in 1949, projecting American power upon the seas. But where does all this lead, and more importantly, where does it all end?

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President Trump orders seizure of Venezuelan oil tanker with stunning attack by US commandos at the Department of War

FROM THE DAILY MAIL UK: Footage released by the Trump administration on Wednesday showed American forces swooping on the tanker in helicopters and rappelling down ropes. Troops with guns drawn darted up stairs to the bridge to take control of the vessel off the coast of Venezuela.

Attorney General Pam Bondi wrote in a statement on X: ‘Today, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Homeland Security Investigations, and the United States Coast Guard, with support from the Department of War, executed a seizure warrant for a crude oil tanker used to transport sanctioned oil from Venezuela and Iran.

‘For multiple years, the oil tanker has been sanctioned by the United States due to its involvement in an illicit oil shipping network supporting foreign terrorist organizations.’

The release of the video comes hours after it was reported on Wednesday that the tanker had been seized, sparking fears of a potential blockade and sending oil prices sky-rocketing. No name was given for the ‘stateless’ vessel, nor was it confirmed precisely where off the coast of Venezuela the raid unfolded.

Trump called it ‘the largest one ever seized’ and warned that ‘other things are happening.’

The capture sent oil prices climbing sharply, with Brent crude rising 1.21 percent to $62.69 a barrel amid fears the escalation could disrupt global supply. Venezuela is one of the largest suppliers of oil to China, which has been the destination of between 55 percent and 90 percent of the country’s oil exports.

A Bloomberg report called the move ‘a serious escalation’ after Trump demanded Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro step down. Caracas did not immediately respond to the seizure.

When asked about what the US will do with the oil seized from the Venezuelan tanker, Trump said, ‘We keep it.’

This week’s seizure marks the first time the Trump administration has moved to interfere with the country’s oil distribution amid the hostile pressure campaign. When a reporter on Wednesday asked Trump about who owns the seized oil tanker, the President responded, ‘You’ll get that information later.’ READ MORE

Dramatic Footage Shows US Forces Seize Tanker Off Venezuela

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