DEAR READERS:
EVEN THOUGH THIS POST HAS BEEN UP FOR SEVERAL DAYS, I HAVE AN ESSAY THAT I'D LIKE TO SHARE WHICH IS RELATED TO THIS POST TOPIC! IT IS POSTED BELOW (WITH LINKS) AND ALSO IN THE COMMENT SECTION (WITHOUT LINKS).
HAVE A BLESSED DAY!
In Christ,
Christine
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I find it quite interesting that some black pastors have been bold enough to state that their congregations won't vote for Obama again because of his obvious flip-flop over "gay" marriage. A narcissist like Obama would think that he has most of the black vote "in the bag" because 95% of black voters voted for him in 2008. However, now that Obama has turned his back on God's Word concerning this matter, we are seeing that the reason why is not because of any kind of "evolution" about the issue (Obama was for homosexual "marriage" back in the 1990's, but shifted his position for political reasons when he ran for senator and then president), it was done for the purpose of raising huge amounts of money for his re-election campaign. With millions of blacks unemployed, underemployed, and living in poverty (because of Obama's failed economic policies), Mr. Zero knows that he needed to go where the money is - rich homosexual supporters.
Joe Fuiten, pastor of the Cedar Park Church in Kirkland, Wash., said Obama's support for gay marriage will not change deeply held beliefs. "He decided he had to do it to get his liberal base behind him again," said Fuiten, "but it's not going to play well in the country."
I think it had more to do with the fact that
going gay means more green - as in the color of money - for Obama's campaign. Obama would sacrifice some of the black vote for all of the gay vote; simply because there is more money to be had by doing so.
Excerpt:
According to BuzzFeed, an online journal:
Already, gay donors, mostly men, reportedly constitute 1 in 6 of Obama's top fundraisers known as bundlers. And in the first 90 minutes after the news broke Wednesday, the campaign received $1 million in spontaneous contributions, a Democrat told BuzzFeed.
Most observers think of the Obama campaign as cash-flush, but campaigns -- particularly failing ones -- tend never to have enough money. And if Mr. Obama's fundraising network includes more than a few gays as bundlers, it doesn't hurt to energize these super-activists.
Moreover, the gay marriage issue resonates throughout liberaldom. And young people are more inclined to support -- or tolerate -- gay marriage. Hence, the president is hoping for ancillary benefits from flipping and flopping.
One interesting note from the Washington Post after the 2010 midterm elections. Jonathan Capehart reported that, per exit polling, 3% of the ballots cast in 2010 congressional elections were cast by gays. Nearly a third of the gay vote went to Republican candidates. That represented a 4% increase in support by gays for Republicans from 2008 (and an 8% increase from George Bush's 2004 tally).
In other words, the trend line, however modest, has favored increased support for Republicans from gay voters. Gays care about jobs, the economy, and government debt, too.
That slippage in gay support for Democrats was noted at a lesbian online journal back in December 2011, which anticipated Obama's gay marriage about-face.
Obama claims to be Christian. But almost everything he does in his political life turns out to be the most
startling, anti-Christian, anti-Bible, anti-Christ, anti-moral-values types of moves that are typical of those who hold to political expediency over true faith, convictions, and obedience to the God of the Bible.
Obama would go so far over the cliff that he has announced
his intention of repealing The Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA)!
To the liberal minded, such an obvious disconnect between Obama's professed claim to Christian faith and the total lack of Christian values doesn't really matter. However, there are some Democrats who
are alarmed about Obama's chances for re-election. When the Kool-Aid drinkers notice how quickly Obama is losing ground in this election, then we KNOW for a fact that his re-election campaign is in deep trouble.
I think that Obama is in serious trouble.
Most biblically-based Christian voters will not vote for him in 2012. Why? Because God's Word means more to them than "coolness," "color of skin," "likability" or whatever other reason they may think might be a reason to vote for him in 2012.
Bible-based Christians know how the God of the Bible regards marriage as a foundational institution created by Him for the purpose of bringing together one man and one woman to be "as one." We are to procreate within the bonds of life-long matrimony. Children need a mother and a father and are raised better within that most ideal situation. Please know that my purpose in stating this is not to disparage single moms or dads. But it is a fact of life that children do better when their parents are married; especially when they are raised in a good Christian home setting.
Back to why certain biblically-based black pastors reject homosexual "marriage."
I have written several blog posts about this subject over the years, but one of the most powerful discoveries that I have found is in my post entitled
As In The Days of Noah Revisited. You will also find several important additional links within that post.
One of the most startling discoveries (for me, personally, highlighted in bold below) can be found in the following excerpt:
1.
True
Discernment: Jesus, The Days of Noah, and Same Sex Marriage informs us
further:
Excerpt:
Jesus said in Luke 17:26-30, “And as it was in the days of Noe, so
shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. They did eat, they drank, they
married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into
the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. Likewise also as it was in
the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted,
they builded; But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and
brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day
when Son of man is revealed.”
Jesus being a first century Rabbi, like
most Jewish teachers, coupled Sodom with the flood generation as a typical image
of evil. His intent was to inform his audience that at His second coming the
conditions of the world would mirror Noah’s days and the days of Sodom and
Gomorrah.
As in the Days of Noah
The Midrash Rabbah Genesis is a
specific form of rabbinic literature of ancient Judaism commentaries of the
Hebrew Scriptures. It is based on the interpretation of the Torah (Old
Testament). It speaks about the subject of same-sex marriage during the days of
Noah.
The rabbis wrote in the Midrash Rabbah Genesis that the flood in
Noah’s day was primarily triggered when males starting writing marriage deeds
with other males, and between men and beasts (bestiality). Based on the account
of Midrash Rabbah Genesis, same-sex marriages took place during the days of
Noah. There was nothing new under the sun and this is stated by Solomon in
Ecclesiastes 1:9. Lot in Sodom and Gomorrah is synonymous with the destruction
of the flood generation in Midrash Rabbah Genesis. It states in the Midrash
Rabbah Genesis that Lot pleaded all night for mercy for the Sodomites, and that
the angels permitted him to plead for them. But once the people said, “… bring
them out [the angels] so we may have sex with them,” mercy ran out. The angels
told Lot, “for now on you have no right to plead anymore.” Judgment was sent
upon Sodom. Flood water was the judgment of God on the people in Noah’s day.
Fire and brimstone was the judgment against Sodom and
Gomorrah.
The blog author explains that the book of Enoch is not
inspired, and thus not part of the canon of Scripture, however the book of Jude
contains some quotes from it. Enoch is being used by the author as a good
reference resource.
Excerpt:
The book of Enoch was written before the birth of Christ and
although it is not an inspired book, it is a good resource. Parts of it are
quoted in Jude 14-15. 2nd Enoch 34-1, 3-4 states, “God convicts the persons who
are idol worshipers and sodomite fornicators, and for this reason he brings down
the flood upon them. And all the world will be reduced to confusion by
iniquities, wickedness and abominable fornications. That is, friend with friend
in anus, every other kind of wicked uncleanness which is almost too disgusting
to report, and the worship of the evil one. And that is why I shall bring down
the flood onto the earth, and shall destroy everything, and the earth itself
will collapse in great darkness.” Second Enoch states that perverse homosexual
relationships were the main cause of the flood. Both Midrash Rabbah Genesis and
the second book of Enoch state that God frowns on homosexuality in cultic
prostitution, and in so-called “loving consensual” homosexual relationships. So
don’t believe the liberal Christian theologians, gay-affirming churches and
inclusionists. Homosexuality and same-sex marriage are an abomination in God’s
eyesight.
I was pleased to see that the author linked to my
blogging friend DL Foster's
GCM Watch: Why
Gay Marriage And Why Now?
John, the blog author concludes:
GCM Watch’s article on June 24, 2008, “Gay Marriage: the ‘days Noah’
return” examined the fact that same-sex marriage caused the flood in Noah’s day
in the Babylonian Talmud. The Talmud is the interpretation of the Hebrew
scriptures 1000 years before Christ.
The True Church of the Lord Jesus
Christ is the prophetic voice to this world. Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven
is at hand! We must be prepared to start looking up for our redemption draweth
nigh. We must get the gospel message out and call sinners both in and out of the
church to repentance. Acts 3:23 says, “And it shall come to pass, that every
soul, which shall not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed among the people.”
That Prophet is Jesus.
YOUR WARNING IS BEING SERVED!!!
Jeremiah
6:10 says, “To whom shall I speak and give warning, that they hear? Behold,
their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the
Lord is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it.” If you continue to
believe that same-sex marriage is right, if you scoff at the Word of God, if you
ridicule the true Bible-believing Christians as ignorant and small minded, let
the Sword of the Spirit circumcise your spiritual ear to receive the truth…or
believe a lie and be damned.
So you see, dear readers, as
Solomon so wisely stated there really is "nothing new under the sun" when it
comes to the homosexual agenda!
I know friends and relatives (some
Christian, some I'm not sure about) who don't see what the big deal is about
this subject. It is as if their minds have been seared with anything but the
truth of God! When the God of the Bible tells us that homosexual behavior is sin
and that marriage is the union of one man and one woman, who are we to try and
change such truths?
But people still try. They use every weapon of human
error in order to get their way here on this earth. But every person who
dismisses what I am sharing here must ask themselves this question, "what about
how it will affect your eternal destiny?" Isn't that even more important than
the here and now? I think so.
Hat tips to all links.
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UPDATE 5/18/12
The following is an essay written by Peter Jones on May 13, 2012 which contains a related message on this blog topic!
Quote:
The Official End of Christendom?
Fox News journalist, Shep Smith, welcomed President Obama into the
21
st century and declared those who still oppose same-sex marriage to
be on the wrong side of history.
May 9, 2012 was indeed an historic moment. Though President Obama bathed his
decision in
Christian principles: "…our faith…is not only Christ
sacrificing himself on our behalf but it's also the golden rule…treat others the
way you'd want to be treated…" For the first time ever, a sitting US president,
considered the most powerful political leader in the world, has endorsed a
marital arrangement that formally constitutes the pagan "worship of the creation
rather than worship of the Creator" (
Romans 1:25).
"How do you get
there?" you may ask. My statement is neither panic
nor exaggeration, since it comes from the theological reasoning of the inspired
Apostle Paul: "
For this reason,"
he says, "God gave them up to
dishonorable passions [of lesbianism and homosexuality] contrary to nature" (
Romans
1:26–28). The "reason" to which Paul refers is what he stated in the
previous verse (25), namely the exchange of the truth for the lie, and the
worship of creation rather than the Creator. That process includes an exchange
of sexuality for a practice "contrary to [created] nature."
Historian Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, once a radical Marxist feminist, observed
(as a chastened older observer of the Cultural Revolution in which she had
enthusiastically participated): "within a remarkably brief period …has occurred
a cataclysmic transformation of the very nature of our society."
The speed of this "cataclysmic" change takes our breath away. At the same-sex
Stonewall riots of 1969 few people had even
heard of homosexuality.
Just forty-three years later, a president publicly announces support of same-sex
marriage. In the 1960s, thanks to the Beatles and the hippies 1960s
"Christian America" discovered for the first time the spirituality of the East.
In August 2009,
Newsweek announced: "We are all Hindus Now," as yoga
studios outnumber Starbucks cafes in New York City, and we massage our karma
with mantras and meditation.
The "cataclysm" is due to the invasion into the "Christian" West of pagan
spirituality, with its strident intention to "eliminate the binary." The
foremost "binary" is the distinction between the Creator and the creature. Other
binaries then fall like dominos-the binary of right and wrong, for example. "We
must beware of thinking of good and evil as absolute opposites," says a leading
theorist. Modern psychologists tell us that a binary view of reality (as made up
of opposites) produces guilt, the hallmark of neurosis. The Hindu notion of
Advaita, "not two," dominates spirituality and "non-dual spirituality"
is taught even in some "evangelical" schools. Lesbian activists ask: "Can We Put
an End to the Gender Binary?" (
The Advocate.com)
because
"there is no one way a person should be."
On all these levels we see Two-ism (theism) undermined for the promotion of a
One-ist worldview. Of course, it is said that same-sex "marriage" will not harm
anyone. However, its legalization will introduce a God-denying civilization that
will erase 2000 years of Christendom based on Two-ism. The past will be labeled
"homophobic." Nursery rhymes, literature and art that consider heterosexuality
normal (including the Gospel) will be declared illegal and obsolete. Christians
will be outside the law. Already the fifteen Christian groups (Catholic and
Protestant) at Vanderbilt have been kicked off campus for refusing, by
principle, to allow gays on their leadership teams. This is a classic preview of
what the future holds.
May 9th 2012 is in many ways the final "sacralization" of the Sixties, where
behind the pretext of the Golden Rule, the "revolution" fraudulently covers its
unrestrained libido in the white robes of bridal purity.
We must not panic or exaggerate, nor cease to love homosexual individuals.
But we must not re-interpret "Christian" love, so that our contemporary culture
can reject God the Creator in favor of self-serving desires. The Gospel love
story of creation and redemption must be heard via a clear witness to the
biblical worldview, as Paul articulates it in
Colossians 1:19–20:
For in Christ…by whom all things were created…[God] through
him reconcile[d] to himself all things, whether on earth or in
heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.
The President's "Christ sacrificing himself" is not a decorative element of
the Faith but the very essence of
all things, expressed distinctively
in male/female marriage as the love of the
other for the
different. In
this way, Christ the Creator loves his
people. Paul in
Ephesians
5:32 calls this a "mystery," the deep meaning of
all things on
earth and in heaven. The radicals rightly call their same-sex marriage "the
sacrament of monism," and see in it a pagan celebration of One-ist
sameness and of the divinity of self-creating Nature. Alas, Paul would
call this a part of "the mystery of lawlessness" (
2
Thessalonians 2:7). /unquote
About the author: Dr.
Peter Jones is Director of truthXchange, and Adjunct Professor of New
Testament, as well as Scholar in Residence, at Westminster Seminary California.
He has written The Gnostic Empire Strikes Back (1992), Spirit Wars (1997),
Gospel Truth/Pagan Lies (1999), Capturing the Pagan Mind (2003), Cracking
DaVinci's Code (2004, co-author, James Garlow), Stolen Identity (2006) and The
God of Sex (2006). Peter Jones is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian
Church in America, and is married to Rebecca Clowney Jones. They have seven
children and twelve grandchildren. For recreation, Dr. Jones enjoys playing jazz
piano and golf.
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