Showing posts with label homosexuality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label homosexuality. Show all posts

Thursday, October 30, 2014

The Torah-less praising the Wicked.

Because lawlessness is increased, most people’s love will grow cold.  Mt. 24:12




This is a key sign of the last times, described by Jesus Himself to his disciples ("followers," "scholars").  This is taking place worldwide, as there is a greater and greater departure from Biblical ethics which were at one point the mainstream ethos of society and culture within the USA.


Not so anymore.  Recently Elton John, that "fabulous" musician praised Pope Francis for his recent comments regarding homosexuality, "Who am I to judge?"  But what the Pope did was legitimize godless behavior that in God's word is condemned as an abomination of Yhwh's created order. 


As scripture says, "Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, But those who keep the law strive with them."  Prov. 28:4


The Apostle Paul tells us that such people, involved in this abominable behavior, die because of the "penalty within themselves" (AIDS of Biblical times?)


"men with men committing [s]indecent acts and receiving in [t]their own persons the due penalty of their error."  Rom. 1:27

Wednesday, July 31, 2013

The LORD is going to Destroy the Sinful Kingdom!

I started to say recently, but it's not, presently we are witnessing a significant rejection of what was America's religious heritage and tradition.  The Hebreo-Christian ethics which raised up this land above all the nations of the world.  And that was no accident.  God's word says in Proverbs 14:34: Righteousness exalts a nation, But sin is a disgrace to any people.

On CBN Newswatch, three ladies were interviewed telling of the horrors they saw working in an abortion clinic in TX, as abortionist doctors literally killed babies born alive, and told of the kicking, the stopping of breathing of the little ones, the spread of toes as the murderers put instruments into the tiny babies' heads/spines.  How depraved have we become?  And the pro-choicers (pro-infant deathers) in TX at the courthouse who were opposing the pro-life people by chanting "Hail Satan."  And truly they did.

Many times the scriptures contain things in it that are hard to explain, and many try to explain it  away.  Most know that Jesus predicted an increase in the number of natural disasters that would come upon the world in the last days before the pseudo-Christ's appearance, and His final return and deliverance.  But many try to vindicate God from responsibility when towns, cities or villages are hit by great and truly AWEsome natural disasters.

The Bible says in Amos 3:6 "If a disaster occurs in a city, hasn't the Yhwh done it?"  During this time, the LORD is giving the nations of the world warning to repent and believe on Yeshua, Jesus, and turn to him for forgiveness of rebelling against His character and His ways.

The Yhwh says, "Look, they eyes of the LORD God are on the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from the face of the earth" (Amos 9:8).  In context, this was referring to Israel, and their turning from God's holy covenant with them.  But we find this principle throughout scripture, that the sin of a people or nation leads to disaster, devastation, the destruction of the earth.

In the time of the King Ahab, rain was being withheld from heaven, and there was great famine on the land of Israel.  When the prophet Elijah finally appeared before Ahab, Ahab greeted him saying, "Is that you, you destroyer of Israel?"  But Elijah responded, "I have not destroyed Israel, but you and your father's house have, because you have abandoned the Yhwh's commandments, and followed the Baals" (1 Kings 18:17-18).

For decades now America has been in the shoes of Ahab, and it continues to reject the LORD's commands, and exalts their own personal "rights" over the rights of other people, including the people growing in their own wombs.  

Because we are one nation, we all share in the judgments of the courts of the land and our political leaders.  With the supreme courts recent decision legalizing homosexual marriage (which by the way is denounced in Islam too and punished the Muslim way), God's judgement are coming upon this land to destroy it from the earth.

For those of us who continue to hold to the ways of God, the LORD tells us, "Then they will hand you over for persecution, and they will kill you.  You will be hated by all nations because of My name...  Many false prophets will rise up and deceive many.  Because lawlessness will multiply the love of most will grow cold.  But the one who endures to the end will be delivered."  Mt. 24:9-13.  Jesus goes on to tell us, "This good news of the kingdom will be proclaimed in all the world as a testimony to all nations.  And then the end will come."

According to the LORD's own word, the only way to escape these things is to turn to the LORD Jesus in faith and turn from your sins.  

12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name (Jn 1:12).

Saturday, April 20, 2013

God Will Judge Gaza?


4 For Gaza will be abandoned And Ashkelon a desolation; Ashdod will be driven out at noon And Ekron will be uprooted.  5 Woe to the inhabitants of the seacoast, The nation of the Cherethites! The word of the LORD is against you, O Canaan, land of the Philistines; And I will destroy you So that there will be no inhabitant.

 

Gaza will be abandoned?  So says Zephaniah (2:4).  Zephaniah speaks of a war with the neighboring countries around Israel who are destroyed, abandoned and of some he says, “made like Sodom…”  and, “made like Gomorrah” (2:9).  Moab and the land of the Ammonites are destined to be made like the OT cities which were destroyed for their widespread practice of homosexuality; their great immorality against the I AM (Gen. 19:24).  So if that tells us anything concerning the Muslim lands around Israel, their fate, like Sodom and Gomorrah will be a rain of fire and sulfur “out of heaven,” that is, from the sky.

So how are you sure where exactly these locations you are speaking of are in the Bible?  Many of the place in scripture are described with enough identifiers to know which locations are spoken.  But aside from that, most of certainty concerning Biblical places comes from archaeological finds that confirm Biblical data.

One website which I think is an excellent tool in researching Biblical locations, which has already done much of the homework, is http://a.openbible.info/geo/.  With this site you can type in the book and chapter of the Bible you are in, and using Google earth, find the Biblical locations which are being spoken of.

Using this site for Zephaniah ch. 2, it places the locations, though some retain their ancient and Biblical names, like Gaza and Ashdod for instance.  Sodom and Gomorrah are located at the south end of the Dead Sea, while Gaza, Ashdod and Ashkelon are located on the coastline of Israel proper.  Today, these cities and territories are inhabited by Muslim peoples that are increasingly raging against Israel, as told of in Psalm 83:4-5.  Verse five tells us that in conspiring against Israel and the Jewish people, they are in fact conspiring against Yahweh Himself (v. 5)!

Psalm 83:5  5 For they have conspired together with one mind; Against You they make a covenant:

When Israel first came up out of servitude in Egypt, the LORD told Israel not to provoke or take the land of Esau’s descendants (Edom) or that of the children of Lot (Moab and Ammon).  But these relatives of the Israelites grew a contempt against Israel, and the prophet Zephaniah prophesies that they are going to be punished, even destroyed for the attitude and behavior toward Israel.

Zephaniah 2:9-13, 15   9 "Therefore, as I live," declares the LORD of hosts, The God of Israel, "Surely Moab will be like Sodom And the sons of Ammon like Gomorrah-- A place possessed by nettles and salt pits, And a perpetual desolation. The remnant of My people will plunder them And the remainder of My nation will inherit them."  10 This they will have in return for their pride, because they have taunted and become arrogant against the people of the Yahweh Saboath.  11 The LORD will be terrifying to them, for He will starve all the gods of the earth; and all the coastlands of the nations will bow down to Him, everyone from his own place.  12 "You also, O Ethiopians, will be slain by My sword."  13 And He will stretch out His hand against the north And destroy Assyria, And He will make Nineveh a desolation, Parched like the wilderness.


15 This is the exultant city Which dwells securely, Who says in her heart, "I am, and there is no one besides me." How she has become a desolation, A resting place for beasts! Everyone who passes by her will hiss And wave his hand in contempt.

 

Muslims seek to annihilate the Jewish race in the name of their god, Allah.

John 16:2-3  2 "1They will make you outcasts from the synagogue, but an hour is coming for everyone who kills you to think that he is offering service to God.  3 "These things they will do because they have not known the Father or Me.

Matthew 11:27   27 "All things have been handed over to Me by My Father; and no one knows the Son except the Father; nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.”

Sunday, August 5, 2012

4 thoughts on Chick-Fil-A Day

Though Chick-Fil-A Day has gone and past, the battle over which it is over still remains, and it's deeper than a business ownwer's right to run his business by his own ideals.  For a provocative, thoughtful analysis, see link below:

4 thoughts on Chick-Fil-A Day

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

The real gay agenda is on your tv and movie screens


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Part 2 of an exclusive interview with Pastor Joe Schimmel of Blessed Hope Chapel in Simi Valley, CA

Shofarsound: There’s hardly a TV show now that doesnt have a “well adjusted” homosexual character. Is this intentional?

Pastor Joe: That’s a great question. Tragically, almost anything that is treated favorably by Hollywood and mass media becomes infectious and catches on, even if it is deadly. Humans are very impressionable and easily led by the liberal media. Television shows and movies have been a powerful weapon in Satan’s arsenal to erode godly morals among the American populace.

Oprah Winfrey, who influences millions, promoted homosexuality when she made a cameo appearance on Ellen DeGeneres’ “Coming Out” Episode. Since Oprah claims to be a Christian when in fact she is a new ager, she has duped God only knows how many biblically uninformed Christians on the issue.

Television shows that promote homosexuality are too numerous to list, but in the last couple of years shows like “Degrassi,” “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Pretty Little Liars,” and “Glee” are at the top of the list, when it comes to glamorizing the sin of homosexuality. Many of these TV shows receive awards from the homosexual organization GLAAD for their promotion of homosexual lifestyles. Wise parents will protect their children from being enticed by programming that is intended to program their little ones with gay propaganda.

In “The Overhauling of Straight America,” authors Kirk and Erastes Pill, advocate this strategy to propagate the gay agenda:

“Where we talk is important. The visual media, film and television, are plainly the most powerful image-makers in Western civilization. The average American household watches over seven hours of TV daily. Those hours open up a gateway into the private world of straights, through which a Trojan horse might be passed … So far, gay Hollywood has provided our best covert weapon in the battle to desensitize the mainstream” (Marshall K. Kirk and Erastes Pill, “The Overhauling of Straight America.” Guide Magazine, October and November 1987 [emphasis added].

Consider the following revealing stratagem from a popular manual, advocating homosexual propaganda, by Harvard trained gay activists Marshall Kirk and Hunter Madsen:

“… Famous historical figures are especially useful to us for two reasons: first, they are invariably dead as a doornail, hence in no position to deny the truth and sue for libel. Second, and more serious, the virtues and accomplishments that make these historic gay figures admirable cannot be gainsaid or dismissed by the public, since high school history textbooks have already set them in incontrovertible cement. By casting its violet spotlight on such revered heroes, in no time a skillful media campaign could have the gay community looking like the veritable fairy godmother to Western civilization” (Marshall Kirk and Hunter Madsen, After the Ball).

We can look at just two of the top movies that came out in the month of June 2011 to see how this propaganda works. The latest X-Men movie (X-Men: First Class) was number one at the box office and very few of the millions who viewed it, knew that they were being indoctrinated by a subversive gay propaganda film.

X-men films develop the theme of various X-men discovering their superpowers, as they struggle with their various mutations and societies reluctance to accept their “coming out,” with their superpowers. Unbelievably, some behind the X-Men movies want their audience to see X-Men as superheroes “coming out,” as analogous to gays coming out of the closet, and their superpowers, as analogous to homosexual lifestyles.

Gay X-Men screenwriter Dan Harris, who wrote the screenplay for X2 with gay screenwriter Michael Dougherty, admitted that he sees X-Men mutancy, and the X-Men’s struggle for acceptance in society, as corresponding to homosexuality:

“…. it’s become more a metaphor for sexual identity and orientation because it’s more appropriate to look at a person and have to say, ‘Are you a mutant?’…. you can’t always look at a person and know that they’re a mutant just like you can’t look at a person and know that they’re gay” (Filmfreakcentral.net critic Walter Chaw, X2).

Openly gay X-Men Director, Bryan Singer, has not only directed most of the X-Men movies but recruited openly gay activist actor Ian McKellen, to star as Magneto, by convincing him that mutants were comparable to struggling gays. McKellen stated “I think he expected that I was going to consider it a not posh-enough job,” but revealed that he was told that X-Men is really about Lesbain, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender people. “I thought he was right,” says McKellen. “It’s not just a fantasy story. It’s a parable.” McKellen is a co-founder of the LGBT gay activist group Stonewall.
McKellen further stated “[The producers] will tell you one of the demographics that X-Men appeals to is young gays…. There are enough people in this world who think that the answer to the ‘problem’ of being gay is to be ‘cured’ of your abnormality.” Thus in McKellen’s mind, rather than view sex between two men as immoral behavior, why not portray it as positive genetic mutation, on the level of the fantastic powers of a superhero?

Homosexual William Earnest in his article “Making Gay Sense of X-Men,” admitted “Singer and his screenwriters equipped X-Men and X2 with the rhetorical stealth needed to fly below the gaydar of many critics and audience members.” [source]

In the latest X-Men installment, when an X-Men who works for the US military is asked how he got away with being discovered through the years, he replies “Well, they didn’t ask, and I didn’t tell.” An obvious reference to the “don’t ask don’t tell” policy regarding homosexuality in the U.S. military. Thus the line is drawn from this X-men’s superpower to homosexuality, and Hollywood has gone a step further than simply legitimizing what billions of people deem to be sinful and destructive behavior, to glorifying it as something to be coveted like a
cool superpower.

When we turn to Pirates of the Caribbean, which like X-Men, has been one of the most successful series of movies ever released, we see similar brainwashing. Johnny Depp admits that he read the book “Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition,” to prepare for his staring role as Captain Jack Sparrow.
Famous Film Reviewer, Robert Ebert wrote: “Depp seems to be channeling a drunken drag queen with his eyeliner and the way he minces ashore and slurs his dialogue ever so insouciantly.” When Rolling Stone asked Depp about the “certain gay undercurrent” so obvious in his Jack Sparrow’s character, Depp responded:

“Well, there was a great book I read…. ‘Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition.’ A very interesting book. I wasn’t exactly going for that with the character. And Keith [Richards] is not flamboyant in his actions. Keith is pretty stealth. But with Jack, it was more that I liked the idea of being ambiguous, of taking this character and making everything a little bit…. questionable. Because women were thought to be bad luck on ships. And these pirates would go out for years at a time. So, you know, there is the possibility that one thing might lead to another. You’re lonely. You have an extra ration of rum. ‘Cabin boy!’” (Rolling Stone, July 2006, p. 50).

Sadly, millions of parents had no idea that Depp had inculcated aspects of a homosexual pirate into his character. Children who are enticed by this character, are led to believe that since Captain Jack is portrayed as a hero, that wearing eye shadow and acting effeminate is the stuff heroes are made of today, unable to always discern the difference between fact and fiction. Gay activist Darrell Risk, in his article “Are Homosexual’s Born That Way?” acknowledges the infectious nature of homosexuality, when young people are exposed to it:

“I have found that even many of my most unbiased straight friends grow skittish with my homosexual candor—say, kissing my mate—when their children are around. Underneath it all, they too understand that sexually free ideas are infectious and that, once introduced to the suggestion of same sex love, their kids might just try it and like it” (Darrell Risk, ‘Born?’ p. 424).

In light of Darrell Risk’s admission that his own public sexual expression has the power to “infect” children who witness it, how much more are the purposely-seductive characters of Jack Sparrow, the X-Men and other Hollywood caricatures and story lines, enticing and infecting millions of our children? Harry Hay, the founder of the gay liberation movement stated, Everyone, even heterosexual people, all have the potential to have that fairy spirit.”

Perhaps no movie has been quite as successful in propagating homosexuality as natural and normative as Brokeback Mountain. To get an understanding of how this movie manipulated the public we can look at a piece of propaganda created out of thin air by the father of the sexual revolution here in America, Alfred Kinsey. Kinsey was exposed for fabricating bogus numbers, when he claimed that 10 percent of Americans are homosexual. Subsequent studies revealed that the truth ended up being between two and three percent. Kinsey was found to have inflated his statistics by interviewing large numbers of prison inmates and prostitutes.

Kinsey also made bogus claim that a disproportionate number of cowboys, who ride their horses in the open range, are in fact gay and hook up with each other to have homosexual encounters. Kinsey never showed any study that would suggest such was the case. I mention this because Kinsey was trying to get America away from the effeminate stereotype of homosexuals that repulsed so many people. Kinsey sought to cast homosexuals as real men. What Kinsey may have done though, was take a page from a Marlboro cigarettes advertising campaign that popularized Marlboro among men just a few years earlier than Kinsey’s wild assertion.

Since 1924, Marlboro was marketed to women, as they were originally designed with a red band around the filter to hide lipstick and advertised as “Mild As May.” In the 1950’s, after cigarettes were proven to cause cancer, Phillip Morris wanted to attract men to his filtered cigarettes, men who would never use filters in the past. How could he get men to smoke what was previously billed a women’s cigarette? Simple: reposition Marlboro as a man’s cigarette by placing it in the mouth of a rugged cowboy. This cowboy, depicted on thousands of billboards nation wide, came to be known as the Marlboro Man. In a matter of months Marlboro went from a market share of less than less one percent to one of the best selling brands in the United States!

Ironically, even though homosexuality is often more deadly than smoking, Hollywood, like Kinsey, sought to make homosexuality acceptable by using a page out of Phillip Morris’ playbook. The licentious movie Brokeback Mountain, recast homosexuality as a lifestyle akin to a healthy masculine cowboy. Kinsey would have been proud!

Shofarsound: Can you give a little more detail on Michael Swift’s comments in the Gay Community News that you mention in your CD expose’ Satanism and Homosexual Agenda?
Pastor Joe: Homosexual activist Michael Swift flaunted gay aspirations in the Gay Community News piece entitled “Gay Revolutionary” as he envisioned a gay utopia:
“We shall sodomize your sons, emblems of your feeble masculinity, of your shallow dreams and



vulgar lies. We shall seduce them in your schools…. in your youth groups, in your movie theater bathrooms…wherever men are men together. Your sons will become our minions and do our bidding. They will be recast in our image. They will come to crave and adore us” [Michael Swift, Gay Community News, 15 February 1987].

What I find chilling, is that while some of Swift’s statements in the piece are somewhat satirical and inflammatory, is that many of the things he articulates as gay aspirations, with regard to our children, are already happening in our “youth groups…. movie theater’s [and] bathrooms” every day.
GCMW Note: Homosexual activists claim the Swift peice was only intended to be taken as “satire”.

Shofarsound: So can we assume that Swift’s revisioning of America under a homosexual rule is coming true?

Pastor Joe: My comments on the question you asked earlier about the media and Hollywood, reveal that they are indeed seeking to “recast” our children in their “image,” as Swift states. Marshall Kirk and Hunter Madsen detail a three-stage plan to homosexualize America in their book, After the Ball. They describe the plan to further the gay agenda and homosexualize America as a threefold plan, “desensitize, jam, and convert.”

The first stage is to desensitize by inundating the public with a “continuous flood of gay-related advertising, presented in the least offensive fashion possible.” They go on to say, “The main thing is to talk about gayness until the issue becomes thoroughly tiresome . . . If you can get [straights] to think [homosexuality] is just another thing—meriting no more than a shrug of the shoulders—then your battle for legal and societal rights is virtually won.” The second stage, “Jamming,” is described as “psychological terrorism meant to silence expression or even support for dissenting opinion.” The third stage is “Conversion” and they define it as the “conversion of the average American’s emotions, mind, and will, through a planned psychological attack, in the form of propaganda fed to the nation via the media” (Selling Homosexuality to America,” Regent Law Review, Volume 14, Number 2, Spring, 2002, available at www.regent.edu)

Friday, May 13, 2011

PC (USA) affirms Homosexuals

Scripture says in the last days that:

3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires, 4 and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths.

2 Tim 4:2-4 (NASB95)
 
The Presbyterians (USA) have affirmed the ordination of homosexual ministers, joing the Methodists, who now affirm homosexuality as a gift from God.  The "Church" is being compromised all around us.



Michael Youssef, is an Egyptian born American who is founding rector of The Church of the Apostles, is lamenting this decision made by this once great Biblical denomination.

Today, I'm appealing to all faithful Presbyterians in the PC(USA) and Episcopalians to vote with your feet and get out of these churches as fast as you can. As I mention in my latest book The Greatest Lie, this type of preaching is now invading many mainline and evangelical churches.


There can be no excuse.

No, you cannot stay and be a witness.

No, you cannot stay and try to change things.

No, you cannot stay and hope that you will be a light.

These denominations have chosen darkness, and they need to experience what true darkness is all about by not having any believers inside their walls.

To modify slightly the words of the apostle Paul, the faithful believers ought to deliver these institutions to Satan by walking out as fast as they can. (1 Corinthians 5:4-5) [italics mine
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Perspectives/Default.aspx?id=1346586

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

JESUS DOES CONDEMN HOMOSEXUALITY

The blog at this link is a follow up to my RE: Evangelical Gay Awakening. Walter Martin has a very thorough, informed response to what society says (1 Jn. 2:15-17).

JESUS DOES CONDEMN HOMOSEXUALITY


Saturday, January 15, 2011

American Evangelicals Approaching a Gay Awakening? A Biblical Response to God Girl.

In one of her blogs, Cathleen Falsani writes an article about the coming “Gay Awakening” of Evangelicals. In her article, she cites a lot of “theologians” that differ with the traditional understanding of homosexuality. One she cites early in her article, the tattooed son of Jim and Tammy Faye, Jay Bakker, pulpit (or, rather, barstool) champion of homosexuality.

To read Falsani’s blog in full, go to:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cathleen-falsani/the-great-gay-awakening_b_808235.html


In introducing this pastor that she lauds, she tells us that he is 35, pastors a "church" in a bar… and is single and divorced.
I would like to introduce myself to Cathleen. Hello Cathleen. My name is Chris Parker. I didn’t have the privilege of going to a stalwart conservative undergrad school like Wheaton, which has produced many inspiring models of the faithful, like Jim Elliot. But I did attend the flagship seminary of the Southern Baptist Convention, SBTS in Louisville, KY. I am 36 years old, married now for six years (I was married at thirty!) to a godly woman I prayed for for near twelve years, and we have two handsome young boys the Lord graciously blessed us with.


I grew up in a conservative SB church, and made a “profession of faith” at the age of six years. I was very active in church life, youth choir, drama, missions, etc., till I began to drift from the teachings I was taught in the traditional, conservative church. This continued through my second semester in college where I was in a car wreck one morning coming home from a midnight snowboarding session.


My head was smashed between my newly painted Mustang and it fractured all the bones on my face. I was also bruised on the right side of my brain stem, resulting in leaving me paralyzed on my left side and in a coma for 16 days. As I finally regained my long-term memory a month later, I saw God’s grace and mercy in sparing my life when I had been spitting in his face by living for myself. I repented of my sins and gave control of my life to Jesus, and my life has been a shining blaze of glory, through the trials of life, following God’s leadership through His word to this day.


As I’ve heard many of the arguments you make before, I thought I might offer a true biblical response. In your blog, you write:

According to biblical accounts, Jesus said very little, if anything, about homosexuality. But he spent loads of time talking, preaching, teaching and issuing commandments about love.


That was my answer: Love them. Unconditionally, without caveats or exceptions.


I wasn't sure whether homosexuality actually was a sin. But I was certain I was commanded to love.

You know, there are many things Jesus didn’t speak about. He didn’t speak about the pros and cons of different forms of government. He didn’t speak about the original language mankind used. Jesus didn’t ever speak about duck-billed platypluses or kangaroos. There’s a lot Jesus didn’t speak about. But regarding your statement that He never spoke to Homosexuality, a sin forbidden in the Jewish Torah, along with many others… He did affirm the validity of the Old Testament. He said in Matthew 5:


17 “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. 18 For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.


Here Jesus clearly states that He is not to abolish the teachings of the Law (the Torah) or the Prophets. In fact, in verse eighteen, he implies that God’s word in the Old Testament is going to have validity until heaven and earth disappear! So as Jesus Himself affirms the Old Testament teachings, He gives validity to the authority of the Old Testament.

"The simple fact is that Old Testament references in Leviticus do treat homosexuality as a sin ... a capital offense even," Bakker writes. "But before you say, 'I told you so,' consider this: Eating shellfish, cutting your sideburns and getting tattoos were equally prohibited by ancient religious law.”

Indeed, if you read the Old Testament laws without the proper understanding of seeing it in reference to the Jewish people as the people chosen by God to reveal his standards of righteousness, in contrast to the “Gentiles,” the other nations of the world that did not know the true God, Old Testament laws can seem trite and outdated.


For a simple answer to Bakker’s assertion to the inapplicability of God’s word, I would say that God’s LAW, the Torah, consisted of three different parts, the Civil, the Moral and the Ceremonial (form of Religion, though it all was “religious,” that is, done to Yahweh). It was primarily the Civil forms that were fulfilled by Jesus, when He said He did not come to abolish, but to fulfill. Examples of these would be of eating shellfish, cutting sideburns, etc., all of which had religious significance.



The reason God contained these in His holy laws for the Israelites, was to set them apart from the nations of the world. Read the story of Sodom and Gomorrah in Genesis 18:19-21; 19 . Of course, the Moral aspects of Yahweh’s Law, such as the Ten Commandments, are still in effect. Now, after the first coming of Christ, who made a New Covenant, or Testament, followers of His word are no longer bound to the restrictions of the Civil code under the Old Covenant (Testament). Since the Gospel is first to the Jew, then the Gentile, the Gentiles are grafted by faith, into the Covenant promises of Abraham, that the righteous would inherit the earth (aretz).


The ceremonial law has not all been fulfilled yet with the first coming of Christ, to lay down his life to satisfy the wrath of God against those God has chosen and predestines to receive His favor (Rom 9:16). In His first coming, Christ fulfilled the meaning of the spring feasts, and the fall feasts await their fulfillment in Christ’s second coming. For a thorough explanation of this, WatchmanBibleStudy shows an excellent graph detailing this fulfillment: http://www.watchmanbiblestudy.com/BibleStudies/Definitions/Feasts/FeastsofIsrael.htm.


For this brief answer to Bakker and Bell’s and Mclaren and Falsani’s claims that we can throw out the Old Testament’s codes of morality because Jesus didn’t speak of Homosexuality, He didn’t have to. Jesus told us that He believes God’s word (the Old and New Testaments) is truth (John 17:17). This includes Leviticus 18, which states: 22 “‘Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable. Those are the LORD’s words, not mine.

It appears, Cathleen, you have not found the completion to your theological framework as you had hoped. Jesus affirms the Old Testament. Your openly gay friends are twisting the words of Jesus, or discarding them, and claiming their teachings as truth, and guardians of the old faith as outdated, unenlightened, bigoted and intolerant. Don’t you think, Cathleen, that it sounds like the ploy of another one, who sought to twist God’s truth in the very beginning. I believe his exact words were, “Did God really say…?”

If you really want to live your life in fear of the holy One, you should seek new friends, and new birth (cf. John 3).



This blog I write is to try and tell people about the warning signs God has given us in His word about His return and judgment, so that we would recognize them and the nearness of His coming and judgment. One of these signs is the modern day debate about the acceptability of the Homosexual lifestyle.

One of the signs of the last times that Jesus gave was that life would be much like it was lived in the time of Noah. That famous descriptor that was familiar to every Jewish mind was Genesis 6:5, which tells us… 5 The LORD saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time.

Part of that great wickedness was sexual immorality, perversity, a twisting/distorting, if you will, of God’s perfect design form the complementarian roles of man and woman together for life. Earlier, in verse 2, Moses speaks of the fallen angels (“sons of God”) marrying the daughters of men, and giving birth to a breed of giants. Immediately after this, we are told that

7 So the LORD said, “I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created—and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground—for I regret that I have made them.”

The rebellious angels that left their proper abode (Jude 6) came to marry and corrupt the human gene pool, and thus thwart the Creator’s plan of redeeming humanity. If they could introduce bestiality and interbreed the humans with animals, then man’s gene pool would be inhuman, and the hopes of sending a human redeemer would be thwarted.

Part of that sexual perversity was homosexuality, to which Paul, inspired by the Holy Spirit writes in Romans 1:18-32: 29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31 they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. 32 Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.

Here you can see a picture of the great wickedness that grieved the LORD of all. And from Genesis 6--9, you see the story unfolding of God’s great judgment upon man’s great wickedness, the perversion of creation and the corruption of human and animal lines. And we see that happening again today, so much so that not only are sexually deviant behaviors shouted to be “normal” and “good for society,”, but there is even an ideology forming of Tran humanism, combining the human genome with that of technology, to “improve” humanity.


It seems like today’s society sounds alot like the description Jesus gives of the last times before his return for judgment of all those who reject His truth (Matt. 24:37; 2 Thess. 2:10).