The LGBTQ+ revolution will fail. In fact, will collapse under its own weight. We can only oppose the created order and God’s moral law for so long before we reap the consequences. Push nature far enough, and it will push back. The Lord is forbearing but violate his moral order without repentance and his righteous judgment will finally and rightly fall.

The LGBQT+ movement seeks to deny reality. For instance, one website insists that there are 107 gender identities. Other such fictions abound like the ideas that marriage can be anything other than the union of one man and one woman or that a man can be pregnant. Things like biology matter and are intrinsic to who we are and what we do. No matter how long or how hard we try to deny this, reality will eventually triumph. And the consequences of fighting it will be severe.

Even more severe will be the mental and emotional destruction that will occur because of rebellion to God’s moral order. Scripture is clear – God’s judgment will rightly fall on those who practice such things (Romans 2:2). The call to love our neighbors should cause us to weep over this. Multitudes of people are being deceived and irreparably scarred because of this ideology. Many will be eternally damned because of it.

When the LGBTQ+ revolution finally reaps what it has sowed and bears the fruit of death, as followers of Jesus, we must not gloat. Instead, we must be there to pick up the broken pieces. We must be there to offer compassion and hope through the gospel of Jesus Christ. For only Jesus can bring the healing and forgiveness they need.

Using the story of Jesus’ conversation with the Samaritan woman at the well to illustrate the brokenness wrought by sexual sin, Russell Moore writes “If we Christians are right about the universe, the sexual revolution cannot keep its promises. Unhinged sexual utopianism can only go so far before it leaves the ground around it burned over, like every other utopianism. We the Church, need to be ready, after all of this, to point a light to the older paths, toward water that can satisfy. We need to be a John 3:16 people in a John 4:16 world.”

In the meantime, as the church, we must not retreat from the world, despite a powerful pull to do so. We must not sequester ourselves in the Christian subculture where we no longer interact with lost people (1 Corinthians 5:9-10). Instead, we must be present, exhibiting Christlike character as good neighbors and good citizens. If we are present now, people will know where to find us when their world crashes to the ground.

We will also need to be prophetic. Scripture is crystal clear on matters of sexuality and identity. We cannot falter in our commitment to God’s Word and compromise truth if we are to minister effectively to those broken by LGBTQ+ ideology. This demands Christians be exemplars of the Christian sexual ethic through our teaching, believing and obeying of Scripture now so we can offer hope and healing then. In part, this will mean lovingly but firmly disciplining those in our midst who would call themselves Christians and affirm or practice any variant of the LGBTQ+ lifestyle. Failing to correct these people subjects the church to the existential threat of Jezebel’s false teachings (Revelation 2:2-23).

The neighbors we are called to love includes our LGBTQ+ neighbors. Affirming them in the LGBTQ+ lifestyle is cruel, not loving. It will only bring them pain and ugly consequences, in this life and the next. Being counter-culturally present and prophetic now will also us to help pick up the pieces when the LGBTQ+ revolution comes crashing down. Let’s be John 3:16 people in a John 4:16 world.