Page 15 - Push Back

Chapter 2

I am going to begin today’s blog post with a video recently released by the United Nations. This
two minute video was created to coincide with a worldwide campaign to promote the acceptance
and normalization of homosexual behavior. The video is titled The Riddle and is part of a
campaign that is called Free and Equal.

http://youtu.be/sYFNfW1-sM8

Satan is a master of deception. His cunning is without equal. Even as he deceived Eve in the
Garden, he continues to deceive men and women today. Whether he is persuading one person, or
a billion, his methods do not change. He speaks a little truth, and attaches it to a very destructive
lie. He pretends to be offering mankind something that will benefit, but it brings only death and
judgment.

Consider the message of this video. The truth that the video contains is that homosexual behavior
is practiced worldwide, in every nation. The whole world lies in the power of the evil one, and
sin is an universal condition of the descendants of Adam. “For all have sinned, and come short of
the glory of God.”

This video is not lying when it speaks of homosexuality being found throughout all nations of
men. The deceit comes in when the question is asked:

“What has existed in every country throughout history, yet is still considered abnormal?”

This question expresses “The Riddle,” to which the United Nations claims to provide the answer.
Their answer: “Being gay.” The U.N., of course, is following Satan’s script, for long ago he
posed a riddle for mankind when he spoke in the garden.

Genesis 3:1
Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which Yahweh God had made.
And he said to the woman, "Indeed, has God said, 'You shall not eat from any tree of the
garden'?”

It is interesting that Satan would couch his deception in the form of a question. He has done so
with this U.N. program, and he did so in the Garden of Eden. The similarities do not end there,
however. As in the Garden, Satan is presenting his deception in an attractive manner. We are told
that the fruit in the Garden of Eden was “pleasant to the eyes, and desirable to make one wise.”
Similarly, we find that the message and the speakers in this video are presented in an appealing
manner. Most of the speakers are physically attractive. Some were chosen to evince sympathy, or
to appeal to the minds of men and women, in a non-sensual manner.

The video begins with a young woman. She has an appearance of innocence. She has an
unblemished complection, and is standing silently. When she speaks, she does so in a soft voice,
with an expression intended to elicit sympathy. The following speakers maintain this soft voice,