Eph 5:31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh 32 This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
The text discusses sexual sin and may not be appropriate for all readers.
From a biblical platform, the Adam/Eve procreative unit is a type of Christ and the Bride…the Church…the Family of God. (Heb 13:4 Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge. Dangerous is the unproductive replica of homosexuality the adversary is using to deceive willing participants away from God’s earthly and heavenly plan for man. ( 26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: 27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet. 28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient.’)
The Song of Solomon is a beautiful glimpse into the God ordained love relationship between a man and his bride. It expresses Christ’s love for the Bride and the high and honorable state of the intimate relationship within marriage. While the high and exalted agape love from God in our heart loves the unlovely and loves neighbor as self, we are aware of the low and dishonorable deception that has raised its head against the honorable estate of marriage and defiles the marriage bed…homosexuality. The vile deception attempts to void God’s most beautiful relationship….the Adam and Eve procreative partnership….and replace it with Satan’s replica….the barron homosexual relationship. Not only does Satan want to destroy God’s holy institution of marriage and family, but he desires to replace it with his own reprobate evil. And most evil of all is found in an act that would defile the portion of flesh used by God to both perpetuate human kind and to represent His covenant with man through circumcision….Israel…the Church. Acts 7:8 And he gave him the covenant of circumcision: and so Abraham begat Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat the twelve patriarchs.‘
God’s use of the natural to show the spiritual begins with the Adam and Eve union with Adam as a type of Christ who became sin to redeem his bride. Ro 5:14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam’s transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.)
God’s First Family: Ge 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. Ge 2:24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. Matt 19:6 Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. Ge 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
The very core of man’s life on earth is his procreative propensity….his ability to reproduce…to perpetuate the species upon the earth. Designed by God, it is a type of Christ and the Bride whose offspring are the children of God. Ge 2:24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
The Holy Family is the ultimate purpose of God for his children. He desires renewed fellowship with the Adams and Eves like the original loving and personal relationship enjoyed in Eden. (John 17: 22 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.) God continues to
CHRIST PRAYS FOR HIS FAMILY - THE CHURCH : I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine. 10 And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them. 11 And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. 16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. 18 As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world. 20 Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; 21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
intensely want personal fellowship and relationship like that revealed to Peter. Matt 16:15 He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? 16 And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. 18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.’ The offspring of intimate relationship with God are called the Children of God…the Church. So, of course, the Destroyer/Uncreator who hates the Family and what it represents….has constructed his own version of family…the homosexual lust relationship that is totally depraved and nonproductive….evil. The homosexual relationship robs its participants of offspring, of life-giving fulfillment, and replaces holy love with unholy lust which leads to death. It is the opposite of God’s procreative and life-giving union between and man and a woman. Not only is the homosexual relationship fruitless…but it destroys both body and soul with its dangerously vile roots. (Romans 1:24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: 25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. 26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: 27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet. 28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; 29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers 30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: 32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
As with all sin man is given ample opportunity to turn from it. But when man insists on embracing its deadly fire…he chances reaching a point of no return. God will not be mocked. Sin when finished is death. The failure of the masses within the apostate church of today has led to the growth of evil and is powerless to stop it. Like Sodom and like the days of Noe, we find ourselves in the face of wickedness. Some mourn in the face of such depravation…but others embrace it as normal. Matt 7:13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: 14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
Many hold to the scientific answer for homosexuality which says they are victims of genetic malfunction. If the homosexual is a product of genetic malfunction… then God is unjust, unmericiful…and a liar for pouring out wrath on the homosexual men of Sodom and of Gomorrah who attempted to rape the messengers sent from God ( Gen chapter 19). But the following Word reveals God’s purpose for the body of man…and gives evidence about why the Destroyer seeks man’s destruction.
Acts 17:24 God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;
1 cor 3:16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
17 If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
Satan wishes us to believe man’s scientific explanation for homosexuality….and does not wish us to know his vile purpose in destroying God’s most prized possession….man whom God desires to be His dwelling place on earth. The Destroyer/Hater of God not only hates the procreative relationship that reflects the family of God…he hates God. His hatred is matched only by God’s love. Satan’s destructive propensity is matched only by God’s creative propensity. A spiritual war of historic proportions is raging and since only God has power over Satan…we clearly see the carnage. Eph 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. He who wishes to indwell us is Greater than he that is in the world (satan) and is the only Victor.
The homosexual man or woman are victims of their evil general…but they enlist voluntarily and chose to serve in his forces….not realizing in the beginning that they are grasping fire in their bosoms…and that the fire is deadly. (Matt 6:24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.) All sin is dangerous since ‘sin when finished is death.’ But sin against the body has particular consequence. God’s desire for offspring is accomplished only through spiritual relationship and fellowship by way of the Holy Spirit…and is accomplished in and through the Christian’s physical body. 1 Cor 6:15 Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid. 16 What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh. Homosexual practice is perversion, is vile, is rooted in the father of flesh, and is purposed to destroy both the soul and body of the practitioner.
God is faithful in His promise of redemption!!! Matt 7:8 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. Too, He is faithful in His promise to those who refuse sonship. Heb 10:29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace? Yet the loving and pure heavenly Father continues to seek and to save those that are lost. He continues to desire that none perish….but that all come to repentance.
Rev. 22:17 And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.
Living in this world for 61 years I’ve continually noticed the reinforcement to be a fixer. The skills often come from cultural values, and not God’s Word. It’s a real trap and one always in motion. Your article is powerful. Thank you.
Hi Internet Elias thank you for standing up for God’s Truth maybe not appreciarted by many but needed when God’s guidlines are being ignored.
Although I agree passionately with the need to be Loving and tolerant of others I cannot water down God’s warning that people who practice Homosexuality are in grave error and danger. I believe in light of the Scriptures that God is not accepting of this type of behaviour the same as with all sin, but I do not in any way agree that He does not have compassion and Love for those who do wrong, God’s Truth is very clear about this but He longs for us to repent and turn from evil and do good and so accept the free gift of Salvation.
In warning us that we will be punished for the wrong we do, God is in fact seeking to protect us in the same way the Law in our Country is, for example what would happen if we all chose our own agenda when it came to the traffic lights such as … you and I decided from now on red was go and green meant stop, we would be placing not only ourselves but others in danger and this would still be so even if we found some others who would agree with us. God’s Laws are not to deprive us or cause us pain and they are not based on intolerance as most people understand it. Yes God is indeed intolerant of wrong doing, the same as the Law of the Land is, but it is for our good not bad.
Christian Love Anne.