Herodias to Jezebel--Man in Dress Syndrome
“But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence” (1 Tim. 2:12)
“Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication” (Rev. 2:20)
Are these two syndromes, you say, or one? And what exactly is Herodias to Jezebel--Man in Dress Syndrome (HJMDS)? Herodias to Jezebel--Man in Dress Syndrome is what you have when the nation’s school children, in their biology classes, are made to watch the world’s most powerful deliberating body, the august US Senate, solemnly approve a man (in a dress) who confesses to not even know the difference between “male and female,” as the nation’s steward of National Health. There is no better example of National Herodias to Jezebel--Man in Dress Syndrome than that. If your children come home with their heads in a mental basket (or charger) you know they have been exposed to Man in Dress--Herodias to Jezebel Syndrome.
When you see leaders of the Southern Jezebel Convention shed crocodile tears of crippling grief and sorrow over the departure of their greatest preacher (fast rising to be the next Billy Graham, Bethebel Moore), you are witnessing Herodias to Jezebel--Man in Dress Syndrome. “And I sought for a man (in this case literally) among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none” (Ezk 22.30). "The question," the Washington Post asks breathlessly, "is whether the women will follow her." It they do, rest assured that their men will meekly hitch up their skirts and follow their pant-wearing women. Whether this is an episode from the Book of Judges or a new chapter in the Book of Jezebel remains to be seen. I suspect it has something to do with Man-in-Dress Syndrome, where even august Senators have become incapable of telling real men from a man in a dress. Trump has long talked about building a huge MAGA Church (he does good with towers, you know, just as Brother Musk "does good with rockets") in Florida with favorite priestess Paula White. Bethebel could fill in during White's time-off to settle her never ending divorces (James Dobson tells people that White led Trump to salvation). I suggest the top floor as an "upper room" reserved for billionaires to sing Amazing Space, and the rest In the Suites By and Bye.
Last month, mega-parson Mush Lucado gave a sarman on (of all things) the Holy Spirit at the world shrine to all gods, deities, and abominations: the National Cathedral. In 2004, when he was not yet a card carrying member of Herodias to Jezebel--Man in Dress Syndrome, he mentioned Man-in-Dress in a sermon. Now, immediately after the sarmon (this time he played to the choir), days of rage followed because of his 2004 sermon. He immediately went into sackcloth and ashes mode, bewailing his former transgression of “disrespecting” Man in Dress Families, because of his (brace yourself) "straight privilege" (as the Cathedral head preacher reproves him). When you see the maniac of Gaderenes, “out of his right mind” and “cutting himself” after his deliverance from swine, you know you are witnessing Herodias to Jezebel--Man in Dress Syndrome.
When you see the NY Times and Washington Post do glowing frontpage features on the most popular Evangelical preacher of our day, and go on and on about her exegetical prowess in unraveling the hardest knots in the Bible, her soaring eloquence, and her ability to keep stadiums full of toxic males and oppressed women spellbound, you know you are reading about Herodias to Jezebel--Man in Dress Syndrome. Before she made her game changing move, she went back into her files and deleted everything that has to do with Man in Dress Syndrome. Now the bookies are weighing odds to see how soon she will make her move to go full Mush Lucado, and embrace Herodias to Jezebel--Man in Dress Syndrome without measure. Because the only reason the New York Times and Washington Post went all out here is, because, they know all too well where all this is going. When “Lot pitches his tent toward,” the rest is already history. There is not one example to the contrary. It is now only a matter of time. "All they that seek her need not weary themselves; in her month they will find her."