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Fatherless Day: A Nation Without Its Covering

By The Artist ONE

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As we pause for another Father’s Day, it's hard not to reflect with a heavy heart. What should be a celebration of strength, love, and guidance has become, for many, a painful reminder of what was lost—or what never was.

What we see today—the chaos in our streets, the confusion in our classrooms, the brokenness in homes—is not random. It has been orchestrated over generations. Slowly, methodically, the role of the father has been erased. We didn’t just wake up in a world full of disorder; this was planned.

The Covering That Was Removed
The Apostle Paul laid out divine order in 1 Corinthians 11:3 (KJV):

“But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.”

This is not about domination. It’s about covering—a spiritual hierarchy where each one protects and provides for the next. The man was designed to be the earthly covering of his family. Remove that covering, and you expose everything underneath to attack.

Jesus affirmed this spiritual authority. Just as He submitted to the Father, men were to lead under Christ’s example—servant leaders, strong in faith, yet humble in heart. But the evil one knows this, and his children on this earth do too. That’s why they didn’t just attack the man—they planned his removal.

How They Took Him Down
It started in wars. Countless fathers were sent off to die—generation after generation, taken from their homes, their sons, their daughters. Those who returned were often broken.

Then came the ideological wars:

• The sexual revolution and radical feminism that rebranded male authority as toxic.

• Schools that now teach children to choose their gender before they understand their identity.

• A legal system that rips apart families and leaves fathers homeless, broke, and branded.

Divorce courts became battlegrounds. Custody became leverage. The narrative was set: The man is the problem. He became the abuser, the absentee, the failure—while in truth, many were just stripped of everything and told they were nothing.

“Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness...”
— Isaiah 5:20 (KJV)

The Result: A Generation Adrift
Now we have a generation of fatherless sons and daughters. Many have turned to alcohol, drugs, gangs, or whatever counterfeit love they can find. And those raised without a father are now leading us—with no example of mercy, no model of restraint, and no comprehension of real love.

We are being governed by men and women who have never had a father’s affirmation. They were never told they were enough. They were never corrected in love. So they lead as orphans—with cold hearts and hardened faces. They don’t build homes—they build bombs. They don’t nurture peace—they provoke war.

“The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.”
— Proverbs 23:24 (KJV)

The Fake Father Is Coming
And now, in this spiritual vacuum, I fear what comes next. People are desperate for leadership. They want a father—any father. But when the true is removed, the false fills the void.

The world is ready to accept a counterfeit father—a global figure, perhaps even calling for peace—but one who has no soul, no love, and no real authority. An anti-father. A mockery of God.

“Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do...”
— John 8:44 (KJV)

Hope for the Fatherless
But even in this broken land, there is hope. For those who never had a father, or whose father was taken by sin, war, or lies—there is a Father who never leaves.

“A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.”
— Psalm 68:5 (KJV)

You can call on Him today. You can become the man your children need. You can be the father your father never was. God still raises up men. He still restores what the enemy tried to destroy.

So today, I pray for the fathers who stood strong. I weep for those crushed by this world. And I cry out for a generation that still needs a father’s love.

Let the men rise again. Let us be the covering. Let us cry out:

“As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”
— Joshua 24:15 (KJV)

Happy Father’s Day to those who stood. To those who fell, may you rise again in Christ. And to those who never knew one—may you know the Heavenly Father, who never leaves nor forsakes.