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WHAT IS THE MESSAGE OF THE WESTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH? AMERICA IS A NATION THAT “TEACHES FOR DOCTRINES THE COMMANDMENTS OF MEN” INCLUDING WHOREMONGERY, ADULTERY, FORNICATION, SODOMY, IDOLATRY, MURDER AND OTHERS, ALL CONTRARY TO THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD; AND GOD WILL PUNISH AMERICA FOR THESE MIGHTY SINS. Rev. 6:10 - How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth? Jude 7- Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh (homosexuality), are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. Matthew 15:8-9 Jesus saith: This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. Dear Earth-Dweller: The message of the West boro Baptist Church is as plain as the Bible itself. The world and the United States of America Sodom in particular, have deeply corrupted1 themselves and incurred the wrath of God. Shortly the LORD Je sus is co ming to execute judgme nt on the earth (see Luke 17:16-30). The y have completely corrupted themselves with their filthy manner of life and refuse to obe y God in a smashmouth fashion and instead “teach for d octrine the co mmandments of men”, inc luding but not lim ited to: adultery, fornication, homosexuality, pedophilia, bestiality, incest, murder/abortion, idolatry, false 1 Hos. 9:9 They have deeply corrupted themselves…therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins. *Color Coding: Blue = Old Testament; Purple = New Testament; Jesus = Yellow or Red 1 religious sy stems, greed, covetousness, drunkenness , and reveling, am ong ot hers. Amer ica co mmits these filthy abominations while filling the air with ta lk about bei ng “Christian.” The words of Jesus i n Matthew 15:8-9 com e to mind: “ This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.” “As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the (return) of the Son of man. They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.” JESUS – Luke 17:26-27 “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 the Son of man is revealed.” JESUS – Luke 17:28-30 When any nation refuses t o obey God, refuses to fe ar God, refuses to keep Hi s commandments and so corrupts itself that hom osexuality, adultery, fornication and false religious s ystems are widely accepted, that’s when the LORD’s wrath is poured out on that nation. Gen. 6:12-13 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. And God said unto Noah, the end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth. Numbers 14:32-35 But as for you, your carcasses, they shall fall in this wilderness. And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcasses be wasted in the wilderness. After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise. I the LORD have said, I will surely do it unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die. Numbers 25:1-9 And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab. And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods. And Israel joined himself unto Baalpeor: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel. And the LORD said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the LORD against the sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel... And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand. Judges 2:11- 20 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim: And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were round about them, and 2 bowed themselves unto them, and provoked the LORD to anger… And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers that spoiled them, and he sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies. Whithersoever they went out, the hand of the LORD was against them for evil, as the LORD had said, and as the LORD had sworn unto them: and they were greatly distressed… they went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves unto them: they turned quickly out of the way which their fathers walked in, obeying the commandments of the LORD; but they did not so.… And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel. 2 Kings 17:7 -23 For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods, And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made. And the children of Israel … built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city. And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree: And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the heathen whom the LORD carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger: For they served idols, whereof the LORD had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing. Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets. Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the LORD their God. And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them. And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal. And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only... And the LORD rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight… Until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as he had said by all his servants the prophets. So was Israel carried away out of their own land to Assyria unto this day. Isaiah 1:2-9 The LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider. Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward…. From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrefying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment. Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers…. Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah. Jeremiah 7:9-24 Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not; And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?... And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, even the whole seed of Ephraim. Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear thee…. Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, mine anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the 3 fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched. … But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you. But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward. Ezekiel 15:16-23 But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that passed by; his it was. … and playedst the harlot thereupon: the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so. Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given thee, and madest to thyself images of men, and didst commit whoredom with them, … Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured. Is this of thy whoredoms a small matter… And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast polluted in thy blood. And it came to pass after all thy wickedness, (woe, woe unto thee! saith the Lord GOD;) Rev. 14:10 [They] shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and… shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb. Romans 3:12-18 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one… There is no fear of God before their eyes. De 6:2 That thou mightest fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son’s son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged. “If ye will fear the LORD, and serve him, and obey his voice, and not reb el against the commandment of the LORD, then sh all both ye and also the king that reigneth over you continue following the LORD you r God: But if ye will not obey the voice of the LORD, but rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then shall the hand of the LORD be against you, as it was against your fathers.” 1 Sam 12:14 De 6:13 Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God, and serve him, and shalt swear by his name. De 6:24 And the LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as it is at this day. De 8:6 Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him. 1 Sam 12:14 If ye will fear the LORD, and serve him, and obey his voice, and not rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then shall both ye and also the king that reigneth over you continue following the LORD your God: But if ye will not obey the voice of the LORD, but rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then shall the hand of the LORD be against you, as it was against your fathers. Jos 24:14 Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the 4 flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD. Job 1:1 There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil. Ps 89:7 God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him. Ps 96:4 For the LORD is great, and greatly to be praised: he is to be feared above all gods. Pr 2:5 Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God. Ec 8:13 But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God. Ec 12:13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. Acts10:1 There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of the band called the Italian band, A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway. 2Cor 7:1 Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. Heb 12:28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. Do not delu de yourself that th e oft-chanted m antra, “God loves everyo ne,” will s ave this natio n that refuses to keep His commandme nts, refuses to f ear Him, and ref uses to turn away f rom its filthy abominations. It did not save any of the pe ople reflected in the above first ten verses! It did not save the favored Israel in days gone by! The truth is that God does not love everyone, and that phrase though espoused from every pulpit now is never found, not one time, in the Bible, Old or New Tes tament. The God-fearing Puritans that participated in the founding of this Republic never believed su ch heresy. If G od loved ever yone, why would he create hell, death, pain, war, poverty, and all the other ills of human existence? “God loves everyone” is an urban myth created by Satan him self to the end that simplistic humans would go a whoring after their own lusts. The Satanic lie tricks the v ile sinner into believing th at there is no Day of Judgment and that m ankind can live any way th ey wan t, with no accountab ility, and that everyone goes to Heaven. It is the sam e lie that he told to Eve at the Garden of Eden - if you violate the express direction of a sovereign God and eat of the fru it (see Genesis 3 :4) “ye sh all not surely die” - you can violate all the comma ndments of God, and don’t worry “ye shall not surely die” everyone goes to heaven anyway. See also http://www.godhatesfags.com/writings/20060331_god-loves-everyone-lie.pdf, wher e m ore than 700 passages from the Bible are set forth in detail , which com pletely and to tally annihilate this lie. 5 I. “HATE” - THE GREAT STUMBLING BLOCK – “I PRAY YOU, BRETHREN, DO NOT SO WICKEDLY.” The Westboro Baptist C hurch tells this nation, like Lot told the m en of Sodom , do not do this wickedness (Genesis 19:7). In response, this “gen eration of vipers” (Matthew 3:7) rises up with one voice to espouse that this is “hatred.” W as it “hate” when Jonah preached to Ninevah that in 40 days they would be destroyed for their m ighty sins (Jon ah 3:4)? Was it “h ate” when Noah preached to the world before the flood (2 Peter 2:5)? Was it “hate” when Lot preached to Sodom (2 Peter 2:6-8)? Was it “hate” when Isaiah preached to Israel of their idolatry and they would not hearken to him (Isaiah 1:4)? W as it “hate” wh en Jerem iah preached to Judah that because of their abom inable sins including adultery, m urder and idolatry (Jerem iah 7:9) the Babylonians were yet on the way to kill them? Was it “hate” when Ezekiel preached to Judah in the captivity about their rebellious ab ominable sins (Ezekiel 2: 3)? W as it “hate” when Jesus preached to the Jews about their great sins, and warned them that Titus was on his way, 36 years later, to tear down the Tem ple at Jerusalem (Matthew 24:2)? Was it “hate” when Paul preached to the J ews about their blatant apostasy and rejection of Christ, and they conspired to kill him for hi s preaching? Was it “hate” when Stephen, a Jew, preached to the reprobate Jews of his generatio n regarding their m ighty sins so that they stoned him to death (Acts 7: 1)? It is a great sin for this generation to fram e “keeping the commandm ents” (John 14:21) and “fea ring God” (Revelation 14:7) as “h ate.” This is the stumbling block that God has cast before this apos tate and evil generation. 1 Peter 2:8 And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed. This docum ent c learly s ets ou t why th e wrath o f God is on the United States and the world. It is m ade up of scripture taken from every part of the Bible. These are th e exact sam e doctrines as those believed by the Puritans who helped to found this country. The reason God blessed the United States at its foundation is beca use the Puritans lived and breathed the Commandments, the Bible, and the fear of God 2. The Puritans are gone, except a few of us who still lo ve these doctrines, because they are the doctrines of the Old and New Testament. THE PURITANS OF EARLY AMERICA 2 Selected Excerpt from the World Book – “Puritan”. “Puritans were members of a religious and social movement of t he 15 00’s and 1 600’s. The m ovement beg an i n E ngland a nd s pread t o A merica w here i t grea tly i nfluenced social, political, and religious institutions. Puritan beliefs developed from the teachings of religious reformers, such as John Wycliffe a nd John Calvin. C alvin was a lead er of the Reformation, the religious movement of th e 1500’s that gave rise to Pro testantism. Th ey wished t o sha pe the Chu rch of En gland to meet th eir id eals. [They were called] Puritans because of their proposals to “purify” the church. The Puritans considered the Bible as t he true law of God that provided guidelines for church government. The Pu ritans emphasized Bible reading, prayer, and preaching in worship servic es. The P uritans stressed grace, devoti on, prayer, and self-exami nation to achieve religious vi rtue. Du ring t he 16 00’s, so me Puri tan gr oups bel ieved t hat ref orm of t he C hurch of England w as impossible and d eparted t o settle in No rth America . They fo unded settlements in Vi rginia and a long t he New England coast, especially in Massachusetts Bay Colony and Connecticut. The Puritans shaped religion, social life, and government in North America to their ideals. Th eir strong belief i n education led them to establish Harvard and Yale as c olleges and to require a syst em of grammar schools in colonies. [ They must be s pinning in their graves given the current hedonism , pride, arrogance and filthiness of these institutions now.] Excerpt from the World Book – “Protestantism” – Protestantism resulted chiefly from the Reformation, a religious and political mo vement tha t b egan in Euro pe in 1517. Th e wo rd “Pro testant” co mes from the La tin w ord “protestans,” which means “one who protests.” 6 The great stum bling block that God has put be fore this generation is that even though the doctrines th e W estboro Baptis t Ch urch be lieves are the very sam e the Puritans believed and preached, th ey are now fra med by this gen eration as “hate.” Every single story about the Westboro Baptist Church by supposed “fair” and “balan ced” newspaper reporters (allegedly just reporting the news); ever y editorial by newspaper editors; and every radio talk show host, lies , frames and angles coverage of the words of W estboro Baptist Church to present them as an evi l “hate” group, m ade up of hateful peopl e, with a hatef ul message. This is a com plete lie. W e preach a pu re Gospel, s traight from the Bible. We are jealous for the things of God (1 Kings 19:10) but with no m alice toward any m an. We do not hate, but we will p reach this message of living a so ber, righ teous lif e (Tit us 2:12) with great boldness (2 Cor. 7:4) to this evil and adulterous generation (Mat. 12:39). We make no apologies for the words of the Bible and we are not asham ed of its words (Luke 9:26) nor do we apologize for a God that sends unrepentant sinners to hell (Rev. 21:8). It is a great sin of this country to call the people of God evil. Isaiah 5:20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! The people of the W estboro Baptist Church, just lik e our P uritan forefathers, are determined to honor God’s commandm ents, statutes and judgm ents; and like our scriptural forefathers, ar e determined to re lentlessly rem ind this na tion of those com mandments and show Am erica her abominations (Ezk. 16:2 ). This li ttle group of p eople has preached and protested on the streets of this country every single day for m ore than 15 years to a nation tha t won’t he ar it ( Isaiah 53:1). So what is our sin in the nostrils of this apostate media? What is our sin as espoused by this filthy country? That we do not preach that God lo ves everyone, and that we beg you, for God’s sake, to stop all of you r unrighteous sinning. The W estboro Baptist Church preaches what Lot preached to Sodom – Genesis 19:7 “I pray you brethren, do not so wickedly.” We simply ask our generation to no t violate all of the Commandm ents of God, which this so-called “Christian” nation cannot even articulate any longer. The Westboro Baptist Church is completely and totally non-violent. This little church does not hate anyone. We’ll say it again: We do not hate anyone, not even homosexuals, not even those that bomb our Church, vandaliz e our property, fire us from employment, beat us, and “The Westboro Baptist unmercifully libel, sla nder, vilify and marginaliz e Church is completely us. We are completely and totally non-violen t. We and totally non-violent. are no threat to anyone. Al l we have and all w e ever use are WORDS, to persuade men. 2 Cor. 5:10 This little church does For we must all appear before the judgment seat of not hate anyone. We’ll Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be say it again: We do not good or bad. Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; hate anyone, not even homosexuals…” Look at the sentim ent of every sign, and you will s ee that it is supported completely by a Bible verse. W e do not want any one hurt. W e are kind-hearted, l oving people that are absolutely convinced that when you ignore God’s word and engage in behavior that He hates, you go to hell 7 for it (Mat. 13:42). The urgency of delivering th is m essage faithfully to our generation is so powerful that we will not be silenced! It makes no difference whether this generation will hear us or forbear (Ezekiel 2:5). W e consider ourselves in good company; the hell bound generations of Noah, Elijah, Elisha, Micaiah, Amos, Hosea, Isai ah, Jerem iah, Ezekiel, John, Paul and Peter among others did not listen to their warnings either . Consider that for every funeral we picket, we are conv inced that the deceas ed has ang ered God, that the d eceased is m ost likely in hell (Luke 16:22-23), and that we are warning the attendees that they too are headed to hell quickly, lest they repent (Luke 13:1-5). Thus, the purpose of funeral picketing is to preach to the living, to repent, lest they enter hell also. Jesus preached regarding the death of Galilaeans whose blood Pilate mingled with the anim al sacrifices and th e death of eighteen people that were killed whe n the tower in Siloam fell. Jesus did not preach these people into heaven, or talk about how m any people attended their fu neral, or talk about h is love for th em, or about their fam ilies loss - He said that they were not the worst of all sinners, but noneth eless unless you re pent you will likewise perish. Luke 13:1-5 There were present a t that seaso n some that told him of the Galilae ans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. And Jesus answering said unto them, Suppose ye that these Galilaeans were sinners a bove all th e Galilaeans, because the y suffered such things? I tell you, Nay: but, except y repent, ye shall all likewise pe rish. Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and sl ew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem? I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. For more than 15 years we have im plored this nation to obey; America has refused to be warned and refused to hear us (Jer. 11:10), and all along the way persecuted us for one thing, to wit, our words. So, when God Al mighty punishes and judge s this country and this world for their sins, we are going o report this fact. And, we are going to rejoice at the works of a sovereign Almighty God that avenges his pe ople. It is not the W estboro Baptist Church you sin and war against – it’s God. Below is the proof. II. GOD’S STANDARD OF CONDUCT IN THE EARTH The LORD God has set a standard of conduct in the earth for man. The standard of conduct includes the ten commandments. Exo 20:3-17: 1. Thou shalt have no other gods before me; 2. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments. 3. Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. 4. Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy… 5. Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. 6. Thou shalt not kill. 7. Thou shalt not commit adultery. 8. Thou shalt not steal. 9. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. 10. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy 8 neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s. Lev 26:14-18 But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments; And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant: I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you. And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins. Mat 7:21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Mat. 15:7-9 Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias (Isaiah) prophesy of you, saying, This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. 1 John 2:3-4 And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. John 14:15-21 If ye love me, keep my commandments…. He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me. Matthew 19:17 And he said unto him… but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments. Mark 7:6-9 This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do. And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition. 1 John 5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous. Rev. 12:17 And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ. Rev 22:14 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. The standard includes loving thy neighbor, which again means nothing more than to keep God’s commandments since this is how you love one another. Romans 13:8-9 Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. For this, Thou shalt 9 not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. The standard includes fearing God and keeping his comm andments. Ecc 12:13-14 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil. Rev 14:6-7 And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth…saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come. 2 Cor 7:1 Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. Prov. 9:10 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding. The standard includes living a sober life a nd not partaking in drunkenness and reveling. Titus 2:12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world. Romans 13:13-14 Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof. Heb 11:24-25 By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter. Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season. The standards of God are set forth in m ore detail in s ection III. No oth er standard matters; no other s tandard applies; God’s stand ard is ab solute and unc onditional. Every human is dutybound to know, love and obey the standard. God’s covenant with mankind is blessedly straightforward: If you obey his comm andments, he’l l bless you; if you disobey his comm andments, he’ll curse you. Deut 11:26-28 Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse; A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you this day: And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known. 10 III. THE EARTH-DWELLERS’ CORRUPT AND FILTHY MANNER OF LIFE Smash-Mouth 1. ADULTERY Definition: Adultery is extra-m arital sexual relations other than between one m an and one wom an, for life (save the death of a spouse, see below). The Bible standard regarding adultery is unambiguous and is delivered by none other than Jesus him self (among others). America and the world are completely awash in adultery. Twenty percent of all first marriages in the U.S. end in divorce in the first five years. Thirty -three perc ent e nd in divo rce in the f irst ten years, and 43 percent end in divorce in the f irst 15 y ears. It is estimated th at 50 perce nt or m ore of all m arriages will e nd in divorce. F or exam ple, in 1998 th ere were 2. 2 m illion couples married and 1.1 million couples divorced . More than a m illion divorces are granted each year in the United States, which viol ates the standard from God, “what therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder” (Mt 19:6; Mk 10:9; also see below). More people are part of second m arriages t oday than first m arriages. It is difficult to overestimate the extent to which the United St ates now totally and thoroughly breaks this commandment. For the reason, God hates America. For this reason God is punishing America. A. OLD TESTAMENT The 7th commandment is: Exodus 20:14 - Thou shalt not commit adultery. “Adultery,” which is forbidden in the Seventh Command ment stands for all sexual im purity. The Bible gives specific attention to adultery – sex by a m arried person outside of m arriage. In the Old Testam ent the punishment for adultery was death. Lev. 20:10 And the man that committeth adulter y with another man’s wife, even he that committeth a dultery with his neighbour’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death. Adultery is not an innocent alternate lifestyle according to the Lord your God. In the Old Testam ent the nations of Israel and Judah repeatedly angered the LORD with their adultery and whore mongery to th e extent th at he eventually de livered them into Assyrian and Babylonian captivity, where they were mass murdered and enslaved. Jer 3:8 And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also. 11 Jer 5:7 How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots’ houses. Jer 13:27 I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when shall it once be? Jer 23:14 I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem a horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah. Jer 29:21-23 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, of Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and of Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, which prophesy a lie unto you in my name; Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall slay them before your eyes; And of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captivity of Judah which are in Babylon, saying, The LORD make thee like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire; Because they have committed villany in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbours’ wives, and have spoken lying words in my name, which I have not commanded them; even I know, and am a witness, saith the LORD. Hosea 4:1-10 Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land. By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood. Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish… Therefore shalt thou fall in the day, and the prophet also shall fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy mother. My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children. As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame. They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity… and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings. For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase: because they have left off to take heed to the LORD. 12 B. NEW TESTAMENT – JESUS The standard in th e New Testam ent is the sam e as the Old Testament, and was delivered by none other than Jesus himself. Matthew 5:27 (Jesus p reaching) Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery. Matthew 19:3-6 (J esus preaching) The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause? And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. The standard from the LORD is clear. In th e beginning G od m ade Adam and Eve, m ale and female; when they were married they were on e flesh. W hat “God jo ined together, let no t man put asunder” (Mt. 19:6; Mk. 10:9). This ev il nation puts asunder m arriages daily, through elaborate and expensive divorce court systems. They do it lik e flowing water. The populace of the United States openly and in a sm ash-mouth m anner practices adu ltery, even though they know it is in blatant defiance of God’s commandments. Do you think God was kidding when he set this standard? Do you think God is going to willy-nilly forgive this, when His words clearly say he won’t? Of course, if what God has join ed together (male and female in marriage) is put asunder by God, through the death of one of the spouses, that union is no more and the surviving spouse is loosed from the law and allowed to remarry to whom she will (I Cor 7:39), but “only in the Lord.” That is not adultery. That is not the issue in this nation, but is only a straw man some seek to prop up in the hope of distractin g from the ram pant si n that goes o n daily by putting asun der through divorce, and adultery by rem arriage while th e f irst m arriage is s till f ully applicable with both spouses living. See also Rom. 7:1-3. The populace of the United States openly and in a smash-mouth manner practices adultery even though they know it is in blatant defiance of God’s commandments. Rom. 7:1-3 Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law, )how that the law hath dominion over a man as l ong as he liveth? For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband. So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be call ed an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is fr ee from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man. 13 Under scrutiny from the Pharisees, Jesus clarifies that divorce and rem arriage is adultery. Matthew 19:7-9 They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away? He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so. And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery. Jesus clea rly says that the only reason Mo ses allow ed divorce w as out of the hardness of their hearts ; just like this nation allow s divorce because of the hardness of th eir hearts. Jesus says that “from the beginning it was not so” (Mt. 19:8). Since the creation of man in Genesis, divorce has been unscrip tural and contrary to the laws of God Alm ighty. Jesus also made it very plain that if you put away your wife and marry another, you commit adultery (with only one narrow exception, being for fornication -- specifically referring to the wedding night if a m an discovered his wife was not a virgin an d had lied about it, he had a one-tim e only and immediate only chance to get an ann ulment). Likewise, if you marry a person that has put away a spouse you comm it adultery. Ever y night of that adulterous m arriage the sin is renewed. The standard is simple and plain. Jesus even expands the m eaning of adultery to include looking on a w oman to lu st af ter he r. How i mportant is this issue of adultery to the L ORD Jesus Christ? Im portant enough that he says it would be better for you to poke your eyes out rather than commit adultery and go to hell. Matthew 5:28-30 (Jesus preaching) But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell. And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell. Jesus even expands it o ne step further to say if a m an divorces his wife, that m ere fact of the divorce “causeth her to comm it adultery.” Mt 5:32 (Jesus preaching) But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery. Jesus called his generation “an evil and adulterous generation” in Matthew 12:39; “a wicked and adulterous generation,” in Matthew 16:4; and an “adulterous and sinful generation” in Mark 8:38. C. NEW TESTAMENT – APOSTLES “Whoremongers adulterers judge.” God and will Heb 13:4 Paul speaks clearly to the issue of adultery. Hebrews 13:4 Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge. 14 It is hard to make it any more plain than “whoremonge rs and adul terers God will judge.” In the Day of Judgment God Almighty is going to judge whoremongers and adulterers for their evil sin against his command ment. Listen up you whorem ongers and adulterers, God is going to judge you. Even if this world approves of adultery, it nonetheless is an awful sin in the nostrils of God and he declares it as such in both the Old and New Tes taments in no uncertain terms. If there is any doubt left, Paul clarifies the rule once again in Galatians 5. Galatians 5:19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness… that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. Peter also covers the subject in 2 Peter 2. 2 Peter 2:9-15 The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished. But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness…But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption; And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time…Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children: Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness. D. REWARD FOR ADULTERY = HELL Revelation 2:22-23 tells exactly ho w God w ill reward tho se that commit adu ltery. Rev. 2:22-23 Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds. And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works. “Ye are departed out of the way… the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant. And did not he make one? For the LORD, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away. Mal 2:8-16 E. GOD HATES PUTTING AWAY The LORD God takes the issue of m arriage seriously and puts a burd en on his creatures to deal faithfully with those that enter into marriage. The LORD God of Eternity says, in his own words what he hates. And… what is that thing the LORD hates ? He ha tes “putting away!” He hates that thing called divorce! Mal. 2:2-17 If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart. Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and 15 spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts… But ye are departed out of the way… the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant. “Ye have wearied the And did not he make one? Yet had he the LORD with your words. residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed Yet ye say, Wherein have to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously we wearied him? When ye against the wife of his youth. For the LORD, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting say, Every one that doeth away: for one covereth violence with his evil is good in the sight of garment, saith the LORD of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not the LORD, and he treacherously. Ye have wearied the LORD with delighteth in them; or, your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? When ye say, Every one that doeth Where is the God of evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of judgment?” judgment? Mal 2:17 The LORD is not slack concerning his judgm ents and he m akes it clear that the stan dard for a hus band and wife is to deal faithfully and not treacherously with one another. He m akes it clear, that He hateth putting away, and the garm ent of divorce will no t cleanse this filthy deed. G od is wearied by th e whining and complaining of an abominable people who try to change the sta ndard, and turn som ething evil in to something good. Proverbs add one more verse to the equation, lest any of you are still confused. Proverbs 6:32 But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul. The very nature of adultery is such that it destroys the soul. How much plainer could a sovereign God be than this? F. ADULTERY WAS PREVALENT BEFORE THE FLOOD In Luke 17 Jesus says that one of the sins of wives, they were given in marriage. the world bef ore the Floo d was that they m arried Luke 17:26-27 (Jesus p reaching) And as it was in the days of Noah, 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 Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. Jesus specifically states that before the fl ood there was som e abuse regarding the state of marriage, since merely marrying wives in itself was no sin. Some expositors believe this specific reference is noted because they w ere abus ing God’s standards regarding m arriage and were liberally marrying according to their own sta ndards – like today, in cluding divorce and remarriage and same-sex marriage among others. 16 G. PRACTICING ADULTERERS CANNOT BE MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH OF GOD It enrages a sovereign God for his subjects to defy his commandm ents and then com e into His house of worship, as if no crime has been committed. Jer.7:8-10 Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit. Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not; And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations? Lest you be confused, those that divorce and remarry are comm itting adultery an d cannot be members of a New Testam ent Church. If their soul is destroyed; if God is going to judge them ; if they openly break the comm andment of God; a nd if they cannot inher it the kingdom of God; then by definition they cannot have membership in the Church of the LORD Jesus Christ. H. ADULTERY RUINS THE ANALOGY OF CHRIST AND HIS BRIDE/CHURCH Why is fidelity between a husba nd and wife so important? The relationship between a husband and a wife is the stand ing symbol in the New Testament for the relations hip between Christ and his Bride, the Church. Eph 5:22-33 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing. Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. 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. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband. I. CONCLUSION The 600,000 churches an d synagogues of the United Stat es are filled to th e brim with practicing adulterers, in the p ews and in the pulpits. Th ese adu lterers are in go od standing with their churches. C all the roll of every single m ainline church in Am erica and you will find practicing adulterers in the congregation, even though God sa id he is going to judge them and they will not inherit the kingdom . He hates them putting the wives and husbands of their youth away . He hates that they have dealt treacherously with one another. He hates that they have put asunder 17 what he has joined . T hey have done a horrible thing. They have forgotten G od and are backslidden. The fact that th ese practicin g adulterers are in go od standing in these congregations is soul dam ning leaven to the whole loaf of those churches, and proves that they are not churches of God. The preachers and priests of these dog kennels avoid the subject of adultery, because their sa lary and their pension depend on it. They weary the LORD with their adultery. If America w as truly a Christian nation under God she w ould follow the teachings of Christ and not commit adultery in every town, every city, every house, and every church. But, of co urse, America defian tly refuses to keep God’s command ment – Thou shalt not commit adultery -- and this is why God hates America, and why God w ill continue to punish America. God w ill not pardon America; He changes not. He w ill not allow America to call its adu ltery good, when it is in fact evil. This nation’s mere w ords, “God bless America,” and incessant ch atter about Jesus cannot cover this violence. If the people of America truly “loved” their neighbor, the nation w ould not be overflow ing w ith adulterers. But they do not love the ir n eighbor, so they consta ntly neigh after each other’s spou ses. Shall not God be avenged on such a nation as this? America is doomed for its widespread acceptance of adultery. “How shall I pardon thee for this? Thy children have forsaken me…they then committed adultery… They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour’s wife. Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? Jer. 5:7-9 Jer 5:7-9 How shall I pardon thee for this? Thy children have forsaken me…they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots’ houses. They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour’s wife. Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? Mal 3:5-7 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts. For I am the LORD, I change not… Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Hebrews 13:4 Whoremongers and adulterers God will judge. 18 Smash-Mouth 2. FORNICATION Definition: Fornication in the Bible has two m eanings that are related, one is pre-m arital sex and the other is worshipping false gods. In the Old Testament, literal fornication almost always led to spiritual fornication. Israel whor ed after the daughters and sons of the nations around them and soon th ereafter they were worshipping their false gods. This section primarily consider s the sin of premarital sex. Even more so than adultery, the United States and world are awash in fornication. Fornication is practiced by people of all ages from teenagers to the elderly. Recent surveys sh ow that nearly 70 percent of Am ericans 14-21 y ear o lds are sexu ally active. Fornication is rampant in colleges and universities, in churches, and in the homes of America from sea to shining sea. While fornication is absolutely approved of by the m ores of America, make no m istake, it is absolu tely forbidden in the Bible. Its widespread accep tance and p romotion in this country is m ore evidence that America is rebellious to the laws of God and ha s chosen to m ake its own standard, rather than follow God’s standard. As Jesus said, “But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.” Matthew 15:8-9 As with adultery, the Unites States is quick to standards do not change. forget what God says about fornication, but Hi s A. FORNICATION IN THE OLD TESTAMENT In the Old Testam ent, the words “fornication” and “whore” or “whoredom ” are synonym ous. The most famous story of fornication in the Old Testament is in Num bers 24 and 25, where the false prophet, Baalim , taught the ch ildren of Israel to comm it fornication with the daughters of Moab which brought down the wrath of God on Is rael. That said, there are countless passages regarding the whoredoms of Israel in the Old Testament. Numbers 25:1-11 And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit fornication with the daughters of Moab. And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods. And Israel joined himself unto Baalpeor: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel. And the LORD said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the LORD against the sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel. And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, Slay ye every one his men that were joined unto Baalpeor. And, behold, one of the 19 “Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours, great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke me to anger. I will judge thee… and I will give thee blood in fury and jealousy.” Ezekiel 16:26-41 children of Israel came and brought unto his brethren a Midianitish woman [and had sex with her] in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from among the congregation, and took a javelin in his hand; And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel. And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand. And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, while he was zealous for my sake among them, that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy. Lev 20:5 Then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go a whoring after him, to commit fornication with Molech, from among their people. Lev 19:29 Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a whore; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness. Ezek 16:26-41 Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours, great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke me to anger. Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee, and have diminished thine ordinary food, and delivered thee unto the will of them that hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines, which are ashamed of thy lewd way. Thou hast played the whore also with the Assyrians, because thou wast unsatiable; yea, thou hast played the harlot with them, and yet couldest not be satisfied. Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the land of Canaan unto Chaldea; and yet thou wast not satisfied herewith. How weak is thine heart, saith the Lord GOD, seeing thou doest all these things, the work of an imperious whorish woman… Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD…And I will judge thee, as women that break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will give thee blood in fury and jealousy. And I will also give thee into their hand, and they shall throw down thine eminent place, and shall break down thy high places: they shall strip thee also of thy clothes, and shall take thy fair jewels, and leave thee naked and bare. They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords. And they shall burn thine houses with fire, and execute judgments upon thee in the sight of many women: and I will cause thee to cease from playing the harlot, and thou also shalt give no hire any more. Hos 4:12 For the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God. 20 Deut 23:17-18 There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel. Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD thy God for any vow: for even both these are abomination unto the LORD thy God. Psa. 106:39-41 Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions. Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance. And he gave them into the hand of the heathen; and they that hated them ruled over them. B. FORNICATION IN THE NEW TESTAMENT “But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints.” Eph. 5:3 From one end of the N ew Testament to the other fornication is absolu tely forbidden and described as a soul-damning sin. Th e Apostle Paul instructs the New Testam ent Church to not have com pany with them that commit fornication. Mat 15:16-22 And Jesus said, Are ye also yet without understanding? Do not ye yet understand… But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: These are the things which defile a man: Mark 7:20-23 And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man. For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders…All these evil things come from within, and defile the man. Acts 15:20 … [W] e write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood. Romans 1:28-32 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; Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness… 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. 1 Cor 6:13 Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body…. 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… Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. 1 Cor 10:1-8 Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea…But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they 21 were overthrown in the wilderness. Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted. Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play. Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand. 2 Cor. 12:20-21 For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults: And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed. Eph 5:3 But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints; 1 Thes 4:2-3 For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus. For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: Heb 12:15-16 Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled; Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. C. FORNICATORS WILL NOT ENTER THE KINGDOM OF GOD “Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers…shall inherit the kingdom of God.” 1 Cor. 6:9 1 Cor 6:9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers…shall inherit the kingdom of God. Eph. 5:5 For this ye know, that no whoremonger…hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. Gal 5:16-21 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, …, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. 22 D. REWARD FOR FORNICATION = HELL AND JUDGMENT Jude 7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. Heb. 13:4 Whoremongers and adulterers God will judge. “But the fearful…and fornicators…shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.” Rev. 21:8 But the fearful…and fornicators…shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death. Col 3:1-6 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth…. Mortify therefore Rev. 21:8 your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: For which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience. Rev. 14:8-12 And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication. And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name. Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus. Rev 18:8-10 Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her. And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning, Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come. Rev. 19:2-3 For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand. And again they said, Alleluia. And her smoke rose up for ever and ever. 23 Rev. 22:14-16 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and fornicators, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie. I, Jesus, have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. “Blessed are they that do his commandments that they may have right to the tree of life… For without are dogs, and fornicators, & murderers, & idolaters… I, Jesus, have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches.” Rev. 22:14-16 E. NEW TESTAMENT CHURCHES CANNOT COMPANY WITH UNREPENTANT FORNICATORS 1 Cor 5:1-13 It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father’s wife. And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you… deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat. For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within? But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person. In Revelation 2 and 3 the LORD God judges the seven Churches. He tells them that even though they have done some good things, He is angry with them for their fornication. Rev 2:12-14 And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write; These things saith he which hath the sharp sword with two edges; I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan’s seat is: and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in those days wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth. But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication. Rev. 2:18-23 And unto the angel of the church in Thyatira write; These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire, and his feet are like fine brass; I know thy works, and charity, and service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy works; and the last to be more than the first. Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols. And I gave her space to repent of 24 her fornication; and she repented not. Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds. And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works. F. FORNICATION CONCLUSION Just like the 600,000 ch urches and synagogues of the United States are filled to the brim with practicing a dulterers, th ey are also f illed with practicing f ornicators. These f ornicators a re unrepentant and in good standing with their “church es” (read “whore houses”). Call the roll of every single m ainline church in Am erica an d you will find practicing fornicators in the congregation, even though God’s word for it fornication is an abomination, it is wicked, unclean, it kindles the anger of the LORD and it provokes God to wrath . God has sworn to stretch out his hand and to set His face against those that commit fornication and their families and to cut them off. Because of their w horedoms God has sworn to bring up a com pany against them, to stone them with s tones, to thrust them through with swords, to burn thei r houses with fire, and to execute jud gment upon them. Jesus says th at fornication d efiles a man . The New Testam ent further states that fornicato rs have a reprobate mind and are worthy of death , and that fornication is a sin against a man’s own body. The New Testam ent teaches to abstain and flee from fornication because it is a work of the flesh and that th e inhabitants of the earth are drunk with the win e of fornica tion including its abominations and filthiness and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through th e abundance of her delicacies. The New Testament states in n o uncertain terms that fornicators shall not inherit the kingdom of God. It teaches that the ancient cities of Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed for their fornication and because they went after strange flesh (homosexuality) and for those sins it is forever set forth as an example to those that would thereafter live ungodly sufferi ng the vengeance of eternal fire. It teaches that God will judge fornicators and whoremongers and tha t they shall have their part in th e lake whic h burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death. It teaches that God’s wrath cometh on the children of disobedience for am ong other things the sin of fornication and that those that partake of such sin will be tormented and the smoke of their torment will r ise for ever and ever . If America was truly a It teaches that New Testam ent churches m ust purge fornicators from their ro les in that a little Christian nation under leaven leaveneth the whole lump, and that they are God she would follow the to not have company with th em that comm it fornication, to not eat with fornicators (the Lord’s teachings of Christ and Supper) and to put away fornicators from their not commit fornication in midst in tha t the y are wicked perso ns. If a New every town, in every city, Testament church refuses to do these things then it se riously risks the L ORD withdrawing from it in every house, and in and the LORD having a few things against it. The sin of f ornication is not tr ivial and chur ches every church. God will that refuse to expel thei r unrepentant members for repay America to her face this s in do not f ollow Christ, do n ot f ollow th e New Testam ent and kindle the wrath of the for this sin. Jealous God. If America w as truly a Christian nation under God she w ould follow the teachings of Christ and not commit fornication in every town, in every city, in every house, and in every 25 church. God will repay America to her face for this sin. America defiantly refuses to keep God’s commandments and statutes and this is w hy God hates A merica, an d this is w hy God will continue to punish America. God will not pard on America – He changes not. He will not allow America to call its fornication good, when it is in fact evil. This nation’s mere words of “God Bless America” and talking about Jesus cannot cover this violence. If the people of A merica truly “loved” their neighb or, the nation w ould not be completely full of fornicators. But they d o not love their neighbor and that is w hy they commit w horedomes. America is doomed for its widespread acceptance of fornication. Rev. 17:1-5 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters: With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication. So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. Rev. 18:3-5 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies. And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities. 26 Smash-Mouth 3. HOMOSEXUALITY Definition: In the Bible, homosexuality is r eferred to in a number of different ways including “lying with mankind as with womankind” “going after strange flesh” “abusers of themselves with mankind,” “vile affections” or references to Sodom and Gomorrah . Sodom and Gomorrah were city s tates th at were utterly destroyed by God with fire and brimstone for going after homosexuality and fornication. Hom osexuality is sex between people of the same gender. As if adultery and fornication were light things, 3 the United States has now progressed down the depravity ladder to accepting hom osexuality as an innocent alternate lif estyle lik e Sodom and Gomorrah. Homosexuals garner wi despread support in the United States. Many states and city governments extend legal protection to hom osexuals against discrim ination in em ployment and housing. Many em ployers protect homosexuals against discrim ination or harassment by their policies. Many public and private schools promote homosexuality by their policies, school plays and program s, curriculum and school clubs. N early all universities and colleges extend protection to hom osexuals in th eir policies regarding discrim ination, harassment, and adm ission and further extend funding to prom ote the hom osexual lifestyle. The Unites S tates government spends billions of dollars annua lly on AIDS research and other social program s that directly benefit homosexual cau ses and in terests. In every m ajor city you will find gay pride parades, gay areas of town, gay bars, gay businesses and the like. Many m ainline churches allow openly homosexual parishioners a nd clergy to belong and participat e in their churche s. Even those churches that say homosexuality is a sin, say that “God loves everyone” including homosexuals. Homosexuals have prominent places in society including governm ent and political parties. W e have openly homosexual ambassadors, agency heads, members of Congress, and members of the 3 1Ki 16:31 And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took to wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshipped him. Ezek. 8:17-18 Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land with violence, and have returned to provoke me to anger: and, lo, they put the branch to their nose. Therefore will I also deal in fury: mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them. 27 Administration among others. The United States Supreme Court in Lawrence v. Texas instructed the populace to respect homosexuals. W hile the United States now accepts hom osexuality like ancient Sodom and Gomorrah did, it has not always been the case. M any of the states in y ears gone by had statutes that crim inalized hom osexuality. All of those laws have either been repealed or nullified. While the U nited States has changed its popular view of homosexuality in recent years, the Almighty God has not. United States Supreme Court Lawrence v. Texas. 539 U.S. 558 (2003) “The case…involve[s] two adults who, with full and mutual consent from each other, engaged in sexual practices common to a homosexual lifestyle. The petitioners are entitled to respect for their private lives. The State cannot demean their existence or control their destiny by making their private sexual conduct a crime.” The Alpha and the Omega declares in no uncertain terms that hom osexuality is “abomination.” The God of Eternity declares that such cond uct is a crim e “worthy of death.” The Servants of the Living God will never give re spect to something that God d eclares is abom ination. Th e United States Supreme Court spoke the above word s against their own interest and against their own never dying souls and dam ned this na tion to de struction a nd the fires of hell “even as Sodom and Gom orrha, and the cities about them in like m anner, giving them selves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire (see Jude 6 -8).” For th ese words the Supreme Court wrote, God hates A merica and America is doomed. A. HOMOSEXUALITY IS BLATANT FORNICATION Homosexuality is sp ecifically mentioned in the Bible, both in the Old a nd the New Testam ent many times (see later in this section) . The references to homosexuality in both the Old and New Testament are tied directly to death, destru ction, and eternal damnation. But, even if homosexuality was not speci fically referenced in th e Bible it is still prohibi ted as fornication. So, all of the vers es agains t fornication apply to hom osexuality as just another form of whoremongery (see section 2. Fornication). B. HOMOSEXUALITY IN THE OLD TESTAMENT The genesis of God’s h atred of homosexuality is found in the book of Gene sis and it continues throughout the whole Bible. At its essence, G od’s hatred of homosexuality is tied to God’s 28 decision at creation itself to create male and female and to have respect for that relationship and none others. The standard God created was one man, one woman, for life – Adam and Eve. If a sovereign God had desired to provide for adulter y, fornication and homosexuality He could have since it was in his power and discre tion as the Creator to do so. He simply did not. In fact, God decided to do just the opposite, to tie His unres trained wrath and judgm ent in this life and his eternal wrath and judgm ent in the next life to these sins. Sodom ites argue that the Old Testament verses agains t homosexuality do not apply because the Old Testam ent also prohib it eating shell fish and su ch things. The argum ent is disingenuous because 1) there is a d ifference between the moral law of God which is what th e prohibition against sodomy is (which has never changed – think “thou shalt not kill ,” “thou shalt not comm it adultery), and the ceremonial law which has passed away and no longer applies (think not eating shell fish); 2) if none of the Old Testament applies, then it would be okay to kill, commit incest, commit adultery, steal, lie, etc. – the argum ent proves too m uch; and 3) the New Testament, like the Old Testam ent clearly prohibit homosexuality so both testaments are agreed on this issue (see below). Genesis 13:13 But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly. Genesis 18:20-21 And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous; I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know. Genesis 19:4,5,11 But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter: And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men [angels] which came in to thee this night? Bring them out unto us, that we may know them [the angels]. And they [the angels] smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to find the door. Genesis 19:12-13 And the men (angels) said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides?... For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it. Genesis 19:24-26 Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven; And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground. But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt. Genesis 19:28-29 And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace. And it 29 came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt. Leviticus 18:22-25 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination. Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion. Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you: And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants. Leviticus 20:13 If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them. Deut 23:17-18 There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel. Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD thy God for any vow: for even both these are abomination unto the LORD thy God. Deut 29:23 And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath. Judges 19:20-26 And the old man said [to the man and his concubine], Peace be with thee; howsoever let all thy wants lie upon me; only lodge not in the street. So he brought him into his house, and gave provender unto the asses: and they washed their feet, and did eat and drink. Now as they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house round about, and beat at the door, and spake to the master of the house, the old man, saying, Bring forth the man that came into thine house, that we may KNOW him. And the man, the master of the house, went out unto them, and said unto them, Nay, my brethren, nay, I pray you, do not so wickedly; seeing that this man is come into mine house, do not this folly. Behold, here is my daughter a maiden, and his concubine; them I will bring out now, and humble ye them, and do with them what seemeth good unto you: but unto this man do not so vile a thing. But the men would not hearken to him: so the man took his concubine, and brought her forth unto them; and they knew her, and abused her all the night until the morning: and when the day began to spring, they let her go. Then came the woman in the dawning of the day, and fell down [dead] at the door of the man’s house where her lord was, till it was light. “If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.” Lev. 20:13 30 1 Kings 14:22-24 And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done. For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree. And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel. 1 Kings 15:11-12 And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, as did David his father. And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made. II Kings 23:5-7 And he [King Josiah] put down the idolatrous priests... them also that burned incense unto Baal… And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove. Isa 1:10, 9 Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah. Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah. Isaiah refers to the natio n of Israel as rulers of Sodom and t he people of Gom orrah because of their homosexuality and mighty sins. Isa 3:9 The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves. Isaiah com pares the nation of Israel to Sodom in that Sodom was proud of their iniquities, homosexuality, and whoremongery so that they were not in the least bit ashamed. Jer. 23:11-16 For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the LORD. Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith the LORD. And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err. I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah. Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land.Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the LORD. Eze 16:49-52 Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good…thou hast committed more abominable than they: they are more righteous than thou: yea, be thou confounded also, and bear thy shame, in that thou hast justified thy sisters. 31 Amos 4:10-11 I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD. I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD. C. HOMOSEXUALITY IN THE NEW TESTAMENT Jesus m akes ref erence to the destru ction of Sodom and Gom orrha m ultiple tim es in the New Testament. Mt 10:15 Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city. Mt 11:23 And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted unto heaven, shalt be brought down to hell: for if the mighty works, which have been done in thee, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day. Mt 11:24 But I say unto you, That it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for thee. Mr 6:11 And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear you, when ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them. Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city. Lu 10:12 But I say unto you, that it shall be more tolerable in that day for Sodom, than for that city. Jesus speaks directly to the issue of marriage and it being instituted at the creation between male and female, so that there is no question about this matter. “Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave t o his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh.” Jesus Mat. 19:4-6 Mat 19: 4-6 Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. Mark 10:5-9 And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept. But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife; And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. 32 1 Tim 1:4-10 Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith… From which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling; Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm. But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully; Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine. D. REWARD FOR HOMOSEXUALITY = DEATH, WRATH, HELL AND JUDGMENT Lu 17:26-32 And as it was in the days of Noah, 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 Noah 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 the Son of man is revealed… Remember Lot’s wife. Romans 1:18-32 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness…Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: 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. 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: 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 recompence of their error which was meet. 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; Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: 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. 33 “For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodlin ess and unrighteousness of men…God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: 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…they which commit such things are worthy of death.” Rom. 1:18-32 Jude 6-8 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities. Some false prophets try to argue that the sin of Sodom was inhospitality. While it is true that gang-sodomizing som eone is very inhospitable, the truth is that the sin of Sodom was not “inhospitality.” Jude 6-8 specifically states that the sin of Sodom and Gom orrha was “giving themselves over to strange flesh” (homosexuality) and fornication of the worst kind. Besides, everyone knows the word “sodom y” doesn’t mean being inhospitable; it m eans having anal sex! 2 Peter 2:1-10 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of…For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly; And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly; And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked: (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;) The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished: But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities. 34 E. HOMOSEXUALS SHALL NOT INHERIT HEAVEN The New Testament refers to hom osexuality as “abusers of themselves with mankind,” and says those who live that life will not inherit the kingdom of God. 1 Cor. 6:9-10 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind… shall inherit the kingdom of God. F, CONCLUSION Homosexuality is ref erred to as “ sodomy” to this very day in reference to the sin of Sodom and Gomorrah. John Gill (a well-renowned expositor of every verse of the Bible) says that homosexuality is a “detestable and unnatural sin, it is an e xceeding great sin, con trary to th e light of nature and law of G od, dishonourable to human nature, and scandalous to a nation and people, and commonly prevails where idolatry and infidelity do and ar ose from idleness and fulness of bread in Sodom, and was committed in the sight of God, with great impudence.” Homosexuality is a great sin in the nostrils of God. Sodomites are referred to as wicked sinners before the LORD; their sin is v ery grie vous and it greatly cries out to him for judgm ent. In retribution for the accep tance of homosexuality in Sodom the LORD r ained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven, and in his wrath and anger he overthrew those cities a nd also destroyed Lot’s wife, who looked back; and, none other than the LORD Jesus him self said to “ remember Lot’s wife.” God calls hom osexuality an abomination and under the Mosaic Law, violators were directed to be put to death. One aspect of Judah’s evil in the Old T estament which provoked the LO RD to jealousy was that they allowed sodomites in the land and did according to the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out. The Old Testament states that the nature of Sodom and homosexuality was that they openly declared their sin; that they hid it not; and that for this unrepentant attitude he says woe unto their sou l! For they ha ve rewarded evil unto themselves. T he Bible say s that pride, fullness of bread and abundance of idleness is what leads to th e sin. Jesus him self states that the nature o f marriage arrives from creation where male a nd female were formed by God to m arry. Jesus also states that when he returns in power and glory at His second com ing, when the son of man is revealed to judge the earth, that the conditio n of the earth will be as it was in the days of Sodom and Gomorrah. Hom osexuality, f ornication and sodomy will be prevalent as it was in the days of Sodom, and God will r ender judg ment like in the days of Sodom where it rained fire an d brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. The New Testament states that the wrath of God is revea led against all ungodliness and unrighteousn ess of men who hold the truth in unrighteousness and that God gave homosexuals up to uncleanness, to dishonor their ow n bodies between themselves. Further, it states that God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, bur ned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly , and receiving in themselves th at recompense of their error which was meet and that they whic h commit su ch things a re worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them. It also states that Sodom and Gomorrah, for giving themselves over to forn ication and going after strange flesh are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire and that those cities were turned into ashes and 35 condemned with an overthrow and were made an ensample to those t hat after should live ungodly. The New Testam ent finally states th at homosexuals shall not inherit the kingdom of God. America is doom ed for its acceptance of ho mosexuality. If God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah for going af ter f ornication and homosexuality then why wouldn’t God destro y America for the same thing? 36 4. PEDOPHILIA, INCEST, AND BESTIALITY Definition: Webster defines pedophili a as: sexual perversion in which children a re the p referred sexua l o bject. Inc est is sexua l inte rcourse between persons so closely related that they are forbidden by law to marry. Bestia lity is se xual relatio ns between a hum an being and a lower anim al. Transge nder is th e state of one' s gender identity not matching one's assigned gender As if the wretched whorem ongery of adultery, fornication and homosexuality were not enough, this unabashed and sinful nation has found yet more ways to enrage their Creator. T he scriptures generally call such perversions “confusion,” “uncleanness,” “abom ination,” “wickedness” and others. The st andard is one m an, one wom an, for life. At bes t, pedophilia, incest and bestiality amount to the worst and most perver ted f ornication which is absolute ly f orbidden in the Bible (see section 2). The fact that Catholic priests and other religious leaders are routinely and regularly found to be raping little boys, comm itting adultery and fornicat ion with their paris hioners/secretaries, and engaging in hom osexual activity is absolute proof that there is no god liness in the churches of America. Can you i magine Noah, Abraham , Isaiah, Elish a, Elijah, E zekiel, Jerem iah, Jonah, Hosea, Paul, John, or Peter partaking of such unthinkable and abominable sins? A Report on the Crisis in the Catholic Church in the United States, commissioned by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, found the following: • • • • • • • • US clerics accused of abuse from 1950-2002: 4,392. About 4% of the 109,694 serving during those 52 years. Individuals making accusations: 10,667. Victims' ages: 5.8% under 7; 16% ages 8-10; 50.9% ages 11-14; 27.3% ages 15-17. Victims' gender: 81% male, 19% female Duration of abuse: Among victims, 38.4% said all incidents occurred within one year; 21.8% said one to two years; 28%, two to four years; 11.8% longer. Victims per priest: 55.7% with one victim; 26.9% with two or three; 13.9% with four to nine; 3.5% with 10 or more (these 149 priests caused 27% of allegations). Abuse locations: 40.9% at priest's residence; 16.3% in church; 42.8% elsewhere. Known cost to dioceses and religious orders: over $5 billion. 37 • Note: 30% of all accusations were not investigated as they were deemed unsubstantiated or because the accused priest is dead. Many expositors say that these acts, including homosexuality, were ways of life for the people of Noah’s tim e; were the principle reason the B ible s ays th ey were wicked sinn ers before the LORD; and were the reason God brought the flood and executed them. PEDOPHILIA, INCEST, AND BESTIALITY Lev 18:4-30 Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I am the LORD your God… None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am the LORD… The nakedness of thy father, or the nakedness of thy mother, shalt thou not uncover: she is thy mother; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness. The nakedness of thy father’s wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy father’s nakedness. The nakedness of thy sister, the daughter of thy father, or daughter of thy mother, whether she be born at home, or born abroad, even their nakedness thou shalt no t uncover. The nakedness of thy son ’s daughter, or of thy daughter’s da ughter, even their naked ness thou sh alt not unco ver: for theirs is thin e own nakedness. The nakedness of th y father’s wife’s daug hter, begotten of thy father, she is thy sister, thou shalt not uncover her nakedness. Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father’s sister: she is thy father’s near kinswoman. Thou s halt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother’s sister: for she is thy mother’s near kinswoman… Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father’s brother, thou shalt not approach to his wife: she is thine aunt. Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy daughter in law: she is thy son’s wife; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness. Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother’s wife : it is thy brother’s nakedness. Thou shalt not uncover the naked ness of a woman and her daughter, neither shalt thou take her son’s daughter, or her daughter’s daughter, to uncover her nakedness; for they are her near kinswomen: it is wickedness…Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination. Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion. Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you: And the land is defiled: therefore I do vi sit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants. Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you: (For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;) That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you. For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people. Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the LORD your God. Lev 20:12-23 And if a man lie with his daughter in law, both of them shall surely be put to death: they have wrought confusion; their blood shall be upon them. If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an a bomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them. And if a man take a wife and her mother, it is wicked ness: they s hall b e bur nt with fire, both h e an d they; that ther e be n o wickednes s among you. And if a man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to death: and ye shall slay the beast. And if a woman approach unto any beast, and lie down thereto, thou shalt kill the woman, and the beast: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them. And if a man shall take his sister, his father’s daughter, or his mother’s daughter, and see her 38 nakedness, and she see his nakedn ess; it is a wicked thing; and they sh all be cut off in the sigh t of their people: he hath uncover ed his sister’s nakedness; he s hall bear his in iquity… Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judg ments, and do them: that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, spue you not out. And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them. Gal 5:19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, uncleanness, lasciviousness. which are these; Adultery, fornication, Eph 4:19 Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. Eph 5:5 For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor co vetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. Col 3:5 Mortify therefore your members which ar e upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry. 2 Pet 2:9 The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished: But chiefly them that w alk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness …. Mark 7:21-23 Out o f the heart of men, proceed ev il thoughts, a dulteries, fo rnications… wickedness, deceit, las civiousness, an evil eye … All these evil things come from within, and defile the man. Psa 106:39 Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their ow n inventions. Therefore w as the wrath of the LORD kindled against his people, insom uch that he abhorred his own inheritance. Rom 1:28-32 And even as they did not like to retain God in their kno wledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things wh ich are not convenient being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness… inventors of evil things… Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of de ath, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them. PEDOPHILIA, INCEST, AND BESTIALITY CONCLUSION Pedophilia, incest and bestiality are perver se sins of the fl esh. They are an abomination an d abhorrence to God. People indulging in these perversions cut off their own souls and shall not inherit the kingdom of God. God has reserved them unto the Day of Judgment. They ar e unclean, defiled, wicked and engage in whoredoms of their own invention. They are worthy of death. If f ornication is not to be even nam ed am ong the saints, then where m ust these abominations fall? America is doomed for the filthy and abominable acts of its people including pedophilia, incest and bestiality. 39 Smash-Mouth 5. ABORTION Definition: Abortio n is the term ination of a pregnancy, which results in th e death of a child. The smash-mouth nature of abortion to a sovereign God is truly breathtaking. As if th e sins of fornication and adultery were a light thing, Am erica has for more than 30 years legalized the slaughter of unborn children on the altar of the whorem ongery of its citizens. If for no other reason than abortion, God hates Am erica! If for no other reason than abortion America is doomed! This country has exponentially compounded its crime of intentional lustful w horemongery by murdering an inn ocent ch ild w hich the participants of such who remongery knew could be a result of their ungodly, unrighteous con duct. What could be m ore s mash-mouth to a sovereign God? Below are s tatistics reg arding abo rtion in th e United States as pu blished by the Guttm acher Ins titute which is a “pro-cho ice” (read “baby killing”) organization: IF FOR NO OTHER • In 2002, 1.29 million abortions occurred , down from 1.36 million abortions in 1996. • Half of all pregnancies to Am erican wom en are un intended; four in 10 of these end in abortion. IF FOR NO OTHER • REASON THAN ABORTION, AMERICA IS DOOMED! About half of Ame rican women have experienced an unintended pregnancy, and at current rate s m ore than one-third (35%) will have had an abortion by age 45. • Overall unintended pregnancy rates have REASON THAN ABORTION, GOD HATES AMERICA! 40 stagnated over the past decade, yet unintended pregnancy increased by 2 9% among poor women while decreasing 20% among higher-income women. • A broad cross section of U.S. women have abortions: o o o o o o 56% of women having abortions are in their 20s; 61% have one or more children; 67% have never married; 57% are economically disadvantaged; 88% live in a metropolitan area; and 78% report a religious affiliation. ABORTION DEATH TOLL 30,000,000 & COUNTING LORD repay for such crimes? According to these statisti cs, the United States of America murders a w hopping 1.3 m illion babies a year in a slow year. Since the United States Sup reme Court legalized abortion in Roe v. Wade, in 1973, the United States has murdered in the neighborhood of 30 million babies. The hypocrisy of a nation that claims it has freed oms for its people yet s laughters millions is unbelievable. The hypoc risy of a nation whose legal system supposedly uses “what is in the best interest of the child” as the standard for addressing all legal issue s rela ted to c hildren, yet legally sanc tions the inhum ane term ination of children becau se the fornicating, adulterous, whoremongering parents do not want to take care of th eir children is breathtaking. The hypocrisy of a nation whose doctors are supposedly world class and who have taken an oath to do no harm, but who butcher millions of babies by the functional equivalent of putting hum an beings in a blender on “puree” is u nconscionable. W ill no t the Romans 12:19 Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. This kind of smash-mouth behavior by any people, no matter who they are, will surely bring the wrath of God down on a nation. Have you not heard from the mouth of the LORD JESUS, thou shalt not kill? Mt 5:21 Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment. Listen up, you military personnel! The LORD JESUS CHRIST says that “whosever shall kill shall be in danger of judgment.” These verses apply to anyone that murders and 41 takes life. You beat your chest, wave your flag and cry God Bless America and with the same hands you shed blood and take life. A. ABORTION/MURDER/KILLING - OLD TESTAMENT Proverbs 6:16-17 These six thing s doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomin ation un to him…hands that shed innocent blood, an hear t that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that b e swift in running to mischief… 2 King 24:-4 And the LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldees…and sent them against Judah to destroy it… to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did; And also for the innocent blood that he sh ed: for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the LORD would not pardon. Psalms 106:38-41 And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood. Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions. Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance. And he gave them into the hand of the heathen; and they that hated them ruled over them. Isaiah 59:2-15 But your iniquities have separated be tween you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hea r. For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spok en lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness. None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in van ity, and spea k lies; the y conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity… thei r works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands. Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths. … In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood. And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter. Yea, truth faileth; and he that de parteth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment. Exodus 20:13 Thou shalt not kill. De 5:17 Thou shalt not kill. Psalms 10:2-8 The wicked in his pride doth persecute th e poor: let them be taken in the devices that they ha ve imagin ed. … The wicked, thro ugh the p ride of h is co untenance, will no t s eek after God: God is not in all his thoughts. His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them. … His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity. He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent. 42 Jer 7:9-11 Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not; And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations? Is this house, which is called by my name, become a de n of robbers in your ey es? Behold, even I have seen it, saith the LORD. B. ABORTION/KILLING - NEW TESTAMENT Mt 5:21 Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment. Mat 19:17-18 But if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments... Thou shalt do no murder… Mark 10:19 Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill… Romans 1:28-32 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; Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder… without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: 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. Romans 13:8-9 Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill… 2 Tim 3:1-5 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters … without natural affection… heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. Rev 9:20-21 And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk: Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts. Rev. 21:8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death. Rev. 22:14-15 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. For without are dogs, and 43 sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie. C. ABORTION CONCLUSION There are few things in life as the innate, basic knowledge that it is wrong to kill another hum an being. The LORD hates the shedding of innocent bl ood. The LORD removes from his sight nations that shed innocent blood and he will not pardon them for this. The LORD’s wrath is kindled against people that shed innocent blood. He abhors them. Those that commit abortion have hands that are defiled with blood. Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of ini quity; wasting and destruction are in their paths. Jesus himself says that if you violate the commandment not to kill tha t you shall be in danger of the judgment. Paul says that G od gave sinful m an over to a reprobate mind to do those things which are not c onvenient including committing mu rder, being without natural affection and being unmerciful. These that com mit abortion – the m others and the doctors, and all the “friends” and fam ily who encourage th em -- are truly without natural affection and are without mercy. Those that commit abortion have no love for their fellow man. The churches of this country are directly responsible for the s hocking rate of abortion in this country. The churches of this country either 1) openly support abortion, 2) refuse to openly preach against this monstrous sin because it m ight run off m embers/donors or 3) say they are opposed to it, bu t water down the m essage to nothi ng by openly proclaim ing that “God loves everyone.” In any case, the facts speak for them selves: 1.3 m illion children are slaughtered while they sing “Jesu s Loves Me.” America is doomed for her murderous abortion. 44 6. DRUNKENNESS, DRUGS, REVELING AND HEDONISM Definition: Drunkenness: Given to habitual excessive use of alcohol or characterized by intoxication. The abuse of alcohol, illegal drugs and prescription drugs in the United States is unprecedented. The sale of alcohol in this country is a $116 billion a year business. The alcohol industry spends in excess of $1 billion annually just on marketing in the United States. The United States is awash in the abuse of alcohol to “party,” binge drink, drink at sporting events/tail gate, drink at bars, drink at restaurants, and drink and get drunk at home. It is a pastime that knows no boundaries as to age, race, or gender. People of all ages, young, middleaged, and old; black, white, Hispanic, and Asian; male and female all engage in this practice. Likewise, the abuse of illegal and prescription drugs is rampant in the United States. There is no limit to the abuse of th ese subs tances. Rughl y 2 m illion people s eek treatm ent for substance abuse in the United States annually. The sale o f illegal dru gs in the U.S. is estim ated at m ore than $50 billion a year. Approxim ately 60% of those seeking treatm ent for substance abuse seek treatment for drugs including Cocaine, Heroi n, Methamphetamines, Marijuana and others. The scriptures refer to these si ns as being “drunk,” “reveli ng,” “banqueting,” and “excess of wine.” The excess of alcohol and drugs has contributed to a m assive prison system in America that is choking the life out the nation. The budget for jails and prisons in this country today is $60 billion. A little over 7 m illion adults are in pris on, jail or under supervision by some correction s agent, and over 160,000 juveniles are sitting in pr ison as we speak. The United States puts m ore of its c itizens in p rison than any n ation in th e world, and new prisons ar e literally being buil t every month. This is a byproduct of the filthy and sinful manner of life of America. 45 “Now the works of the flesh are manifest , which ar e these; Ad ultery, fo rnication, uncleanness… murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such li ke: of t he which I t ell you bef ore, as I have also told you in time past, that they whi ch do s uch thi ngs shall not inherit the kingdom of God.” A. OLD TESTAMENT Isaiah 5:11 Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them! Isaiah 5:21-25 Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, a nd prudent in their own sight! Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink: Which jus tify the wicked for reward, and take away th e Gal 5:19-21 righteousness of the righte ous from him! Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and th eir blossom shall go up as dust : because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel. Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcases were torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned aw ay, but his hand is stretched out still. Isa 28:7 But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drin k, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment. Hab 2;15 Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drin k, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness! Thou art filled with shame for glory: drink thou also, and le t thy foreskin be uncovered: th e cup of the LORD’S right hand shall be turned unto thee, and shameful spewing shall be on thy glory. B. NEW TESTAMENT 1 Pet. 4:1-3 Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin; That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God. For the time past of our life may suffice us to h ave wrought the will o f the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries. Eph 5:15-18 See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, Redeeming the time, because the days are evil. Wher efore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of th e Lord is. And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit. 1 Thes 5: 2-7 For yourselves know perfec tly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For when they shall say, Peace and safety ; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child ; and they shall not escape. But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should o vertake you as a thief Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darknes s. Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. 46 Tit 2:2 That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience. Gal 5:19-21 Now the works of the flesh are m anifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness… murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inheri t the kingdom of God. 1 Pe 1:13 Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. 1 Pe 4:7 But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer. 1 Pe 5:8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour. C. DRUNKENESS, DRUGS, REVELLING & HEDONISM CONCLUSION The saints of God are to ld to be sober minded. However, the chil dren of the flesh have no such direction. God says woe unto them. He says that they have erred through their wine and strong drink and have gone out of he way. The New Testament says that the sins and the works of the flesh include such things as excess of wine, reveling and banqueting and that they which do such things shall not inher it the kingdom of God. The New Testam ent says that peop le are to walk circumspectly and not as fools and th at they are to be filled w ith the Spirit not drunk with wine. Again, the weak priests , preachers and churches of this country, afraid to run off mem bers and donors are afraid to address the issue, so the dru nkenness continues and they love to have it so. America is doomed for her drunkenness, drugs, reveling and blatant hedonism. 47 7. COVETOUSNESS AND GREED Definition: Covetousness - to wish f or enviously, to desire (what belongs to another). Greed: excessive or insatiable desire for wealth or gain. In the early days of the United States the people feared God m ightily. Bible teachings and th e duty to obey God dominated every part of lif e in the United Stat es from daily behavior, to government, to religious practice. A strong work ethic and obedience to Bible teachings fueled the early U.S. econom y. These Bible sentim ents prevailed through the 1800’s to one extent or another. However, by the beginning of the 20 th century and the start of the industrial revolution, things changed. Instead of obedience to G od being the prim ary m otivator for the populace, financial wealth, m aterial gain and hedonism (the doctrine that pl easure or happiness is the sole or chief good in life) began to ru le the day. This is an abom inable sin. The United S tates changed the truth of G od into a lie, and worshi pped and served the creature more than the Creator (Romans 1:25). The greed and covetousness of the United States is unparalleled. From the corporations, to the government, to the churches they all run on one thing, to wit, money, and lots of it, and the insatiable desire to have more and more. A. COVETOUSNESS/GREED IN THE OLD TESTAMENT Exodus 18:19-21 Hearken now unto my voice… And th ou shalt teach them ordinances and laws, and shalt shew them the way wherein they must w alk, and the work that they must do. Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the peop le able men, such as fear God, men of truth, 48 hating covetousness; and place such over th hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens. em, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of Ex 20:17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, t hou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maid servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, no r any thing that is th y neighbour’s. De 5:21 Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour’s w ife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour’s house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant , his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbour’s. Psalms 119:35 Make me to go in the path of thy comm andments; for therein do I delight. Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness. Proverbs 28:16 He that hateth covetousness shall prolong his days. Isaiah 57:17 For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him. Jer 6:13 For from the least of th em even unto the gr eatest of th em every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely. Jer 8:10 For every one from the lea st even unto the grea test is given to covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely. Eze 33:31 And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness. B. COVETOUSNESS/GREED AND IN THE NEW TESTAMENT Mark 7:21-23 For fro m within, o ut of the h eart o f men , proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications… covetousness, wickedness… All these evil things come from within, and defile the man. “Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.” Jesus Luke 12:15 And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousnes s: for a man’s life con sisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth. Luke 16:19-31 There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day: A nd there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full o f sores. … And desiring to be fed with th e crumbs which fe ll fr om the rich man’s table: the dogs came and licked his sores. And it Luke 12:15 moreover came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham’s bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried; And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in to rments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. And he 49 cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame. But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receiveds t thy good things, and likewise L azarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented. And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence. Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father’s house: Fo r I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment. Abraha m saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them. And he sai d, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repe nt. And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead. Mat 19:23-24 Then said Jesus unto his disc iples, Verily I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven. And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. Mark 10:23-25 And Jesus looked round about, and saith unto his disciples, How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God! And the disc iples were astonished at his words. But Jesus answereth again, and saith unto them, Children, how hard is it for them that trust in riches to enter into the kingdom of God! It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. Luke 18:24-25 And when Jesus saw that he was very sorrowful, he said, How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God! For it is easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. Acts 8:18-22 And when Simon saw t hat through laying on of the apostles’ hands the Holy Ghost was given, he offered them money, Saying, Give me also this power, that on whomsoever I lay hands, he may receive the Holy Ghost. But Peter said u nto him, Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money. Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter: for thy heart is not right in the sight of God. Repent therefore of this thy wickedne ss, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee. Romans 1:28-32 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; Being filled with all unrighteousness…covetousness … 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. Romans 13:9 For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery… T hou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehende d in this saying, namely , Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 50 1 Cor. 5:9-13 I wrote unto you in an epistle not to com pany with fornicators. Yet not altogether with the for nicators o f this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat… Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person. “Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters … nor covetous … shall inherit the kingdom of God.” 1 Cor. 6:9-10 1 Cor. 6:9-10 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor i dolaters … nor covetous … shall inherit the kingdom of God. 1 Cor. 1:26-28 For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: But God hath chosen thefoolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; And base things of the worl d, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are. Eph 5:3 But fornication, and all uncleanness, covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints; or Eph 5:5 For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. Col 3:5 Mortify therefore your members which ar e upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: 2 Tim 3:1-5 This know also, that in th e last days perilous times s hall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud… despisers of those that are good… lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of god liness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. Heb 11:24-27 By fa ith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son o f Pharaoh’s daughter; Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had re spect unto the recompence of the rew ard. By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible. Heb 13:5 Let your conversation be without covetousness ; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. 2 Pet 2:1-3 But there were false prophets also among th e people, even as th ere shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves s wift des truction. And many shall follow th eir pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. And through 51 covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not. 2 Pet 2:14-15 Having eyes full of a dultery, and that c annot cease from sin; begu iling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children: Which have forsaken the right way, and are gon e astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness. “And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.” 2 Pet 2:1-3 1 Tim 6:2-6 These things teach and exhort. If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Chr ist, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness; He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, wher eof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings , Perverse disputing s of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself. But godliness with contentment is great gain. 1 Tim 6:7-8 For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. And having food and raiment let us be therewith content. 1Tim 6:9-11 But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. But thou, O man of God, flee these things. James 5:1-6 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days. Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth. Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter. Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you. James 1:10-11 But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away. For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways. 1 Tim 6:17-18 Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy; That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate. 52 C. COVETOUSNESS AND GREED CONCLUSION The United States is full of covetousness and gree d. It has an insatiable desire for m ore and more money and worldly goods. The LORD God says that men that fear God and men of truth hate covetousness. The last of the Ten Comm andments is, Thou shalt not covet. God says that he that hateth covetousness shall prolong his days. God says that for the iniquity of covetousness he was wroth and smote Israel . In talking about old Israel God said that from the least o f them even unto th e greatest o f them every one is given to covetous ness and th at while they show love with their mouth that their heart goes after covetousness. So it is with the cu rrent state of this country. Jesus says that covetousness is e vil and defiles a man, and he says to Take heed, and beware of covetousnes s: for a man’s life con sisteth not in the abundance of the th ings which he possesseth. Jesus says that a rich man shall hardly enter in to the kingdom of heaven and that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, th an for a rich man to enter into th e kingdom of God. Jesus tells of the rich man that died and in hell he lifted up his eyes and cried for the righteous to give him a drop of wate r, but no mercy or water was given to him. The New Testament says that m en are filled with all unrighteousness and knowing the judgm ent 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. Paul says not to company with covetous pe ople and to put aw ay from you that wicked person and that covetous people shall not inherit the kingdom of God. He says to let not covetousness be once named among you, as becometh saints. Paul says again that a covetous man has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. How can the Bible be any clearer? People that are covetous and greedy do not go t o heaven. We are told to mortify covetousness from us. The New Testament says that the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. It says that in the last days perilous times shall come and that men shall be covetous. Peter says there will be false teachers that through covetousness and feigned words will make merchandise of people and that their damnation slumbereth not. James says for th e rich men to weep and howl for the miseries th at shall co me upon them and that their riches will be cor rupted, their gold and silver is cankered, and that they are be ing prepared as for the day of slaughter, and that they are condemned. The New Testament teaches to not trust in uncertain riches. America is doomed for her greed and covetousness. 53 8. FALSE RELIGIOUS SYSTEMS AND IDOLATRY America’s false religious systems and idolatry are unprecedented, particularly when considering the humble and God-fearing Puritans that settled this country. Of all of the sins of this country, there is nothing m ore enraging to the Jealous G od, the Consum ing Fire, the LORD of Eternit y than widespread acceptance of false relig ious systems. In fact, it is the false religious systems that have enabled adultery, forn ication, homosexuality, pedophilia, abortion, and covetousness. There are so m any verses that speak to the consequences of abandoning the commandm ents and the statutes, and failing to live soberly and godly. America spells love L-U-S-T. It is America’s filthy, fleshly lusts that God hates – eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we die. It is the sinful churches of this country that have led to this abandonment of God. A. GOD DESTROYS ISRAEL BY DELIVERING IT TO THE ASSYRIANS If the nation of Israel (the so called “10 lost tribes of Israel”) in the Old Testament so angered the Sovereign God because of their religious idolatry, false reli gious system s and whorem ongery, causing h im to de liver them into the hands of the Assy rians to be conquered and destroyed in 721 B.C., why wouldn’t He do the same to this country? 2 Kings 17:6-23 In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into A ssyria, and placed them in Halah a nd in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes. For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods, And walked in the statutes of the heathen, 54 whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made. And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city. And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree: And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the heathen whom the LORD carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger: For they served idols, whereof the LORD had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing. Yet the LORD testified again st Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn ye from yo ur evil wa ys, and keep my commandments and my statu tes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets. Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the LORD their God. And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them. And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal. And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only. Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made. And the LORD rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight. For he rent Israel from the house of David; and they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king: and Jeroboam drave Israel from following the LORD, and made them sin a great sin. For the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they departed not from them; Until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as he had said by all his servants the prophets. So was Israel carried away out of their own land to Assyria unto this day. B. GOD DESTROYS JUDAH BY DELIVERING IT TO THE BABYLONIANS If Judah in the Old Testam ent so angered God Almighty due to their idolatry, false religious systems and whoremongery that he delivered them into the hands of the Babylonians in 585 B.C. so that two-thirds of them were killed outright, why wouldn’t He do the same to this country? Jeremiah 7:1-34 The word that came to Jerem iah from the LORD, saying, Stand in the gate of the LORD’S house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the LORD, all ye of Judah, that enter in at these gates to worship the LORD. Thus saith the LO RD of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place. Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the LO RD, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, are these… Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit. Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not; And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations? Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, saith the LORD…And now, because ye have done all these work s, saith the LORD, and I spake unto you, rising up early and speaking, bu t ye heard not; and I called you, but ye answered not; 55 Therefore will I do unto this house, which is called by my name, wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh. And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, even the whole seed of Ephraim. Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear thee…Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, mine anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched… For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concer ning burnt offerings or sacrifices: But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you. But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward... Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers. Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them; but they will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call unto them; but they will not answer thee. But thou shalt say unto them, This is a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the LORD their God, nor receiveth correction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth… For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the LORD: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to pollute it. And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart. Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in Tophet, till there be no place. And the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray them away. Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate. Jeremiah 21:3-14 Then said Jeremiah unto them, Thus sha ll ye say to Zedekiah: Thus saith the LORD God of Isra el; Behold, I w ill turn back the weap ons of war that are in your hands, wherewith ye fight against the king of Baby lon, and against the Chaldeans, which besiege you without the walls, and I will ass emble th em into the midst of this city. And I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, even in anger, and in fury, and in great wrath. And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast: they shall die of a great pestilence. And afterward, saith the LORD, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and such as are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those that seek their life: and he shall smite them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor have mercy. And unto this people thou shalt say, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the way of death. He that abideth in this city shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth out, and falleth to the Chaldeans that besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be unto him for a prey. For I have set my face against this city for evil, and not for good, saith the LORD: it shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire. And touching the house of the king of Judah, say, Hear ye the word of the LORD; O house of David, thus saith the LORD; Execute judgment in the morning, and deliver him that is spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury go out like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings. Behold, I am 56 against thee, O inhabitant of the valley, and rock of the plain, saith the LORD; which say, Who shall come down against us? or who shall enter into our habitations? But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, saith the LORD: and I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof, and it shall devour all things round about it. C. GOD DELIVERS THE JEWS INTO THE HANDS OF TITUS THE GREAT If the Jews s o angered the LORD their God, by their false religious system s and for persecuting His people including crucifying Christ , that he delivered them into the hands of General Titus in 70 A.D., then why wouldn’t He do the same to America? Mat 24:1-2 And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildin gs of the te mple. And Jes us said u nto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down. Mark 13:1-2 And as he went out of the temple, one of his disciples saith unto him, Master, see what manner of stones and what buildings are here! And Jesus answering said unto him, Seest thou these great buildings? there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down. Luke 21:5-6 And as some spake of the temple, how it was adorned with goodly stones and gifts, he said, As for these thin gs which ye behold, the days will come, in the w hich there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down. The false religious sys tems in Am erica are so o ut of sync with the scriptures it’s breathtaking. Below are a few examples: D. GRAVEN IMAGES, IDOLS & STRANGE GODS American churches worship graven im ages and idols like they drink water, even though they are not supposed to. You cannot walk into a church in this country without seeing a graven image of Jesus on the cross. The “Christians” of this country are awash in idolatry. There is an entire thriving industry of idols and other “Bible supplies,” that market in crosses, Jesus pictures, Mary statues, fish symbols, W hat-Would-Jesus-Do bracelets, books, rings, earrings, and m ore – all for filthy lucre. This country m akes idols out of everything including its so-called “holidays” (Christmas, Halloween, St. Patrick’s Day, St. Valentine’s Day, 57 Flag Day, etc.), not to m ention the recreationa l idols that perm eate th is country, including billions spent on sports of every kind, and the national obse ssion with m aking m oney on getrich-quick schemes. This nation worships anything and everything except God. That is idolatry! The gods and goddesses that Am erica worships a bound, ranging from the rectum (fags) to “free will” (“Chr istians”) and everything in between . W e acknowledge as a nation th at we have “commercialized” every holiday, bu t refuse to acknowledge that every Am erican’s worship of whatever he or she places as a priority before his or her duty to serve God is equally idolatrous. Ex 20:3-4 Thou shalt have no other gods before me (1 st Commandment ). Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any th ing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth (2nd Commandment). Ex 32:1-35 And when t he people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaro n, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of th e land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him. And Aaron sa id unto them, Break off th e golden earrings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them unto me. And all the people brake off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron. And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O I srael, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt… An d the LORD said un to Moses, Go, get thee down ; for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have co rrupted themselves: They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be thy gods, O Israel, w hich have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. And the LORD said unto Mose s, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffn ecked people: Now therefore le t me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will ma ke of thee a great nation… And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses’ anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount. And when Moses saw that the people were naked; (for Aaron had made them naked unto their shame among their enemies:) Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Who is on the LORD’S side? let him come unto me. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together unto him. And he said unt o them, Thus saith the L ORD God of Israel, Put every man h is sword by his sid e, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbour, And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men… And the LORD said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blo t o ut of my book… And the LORD pl agued the p eople, beca use they ma de the calf, which Aaron made. Lev 26:1 Ye shall make you no idols nor graven im age, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in yo ur land, to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God. Deut 4:16 Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female, 58 Deut 4:23 Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, which the LORD thy God hath forbidden thee. Deut 4:25 When thou shalt beget children, and childre n’s children, and ye shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD thy God, to provoke him to anger: Deut 5:8 Thou shalt not make thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth: Deut 27:15 Cursed be the man that maketh any gr aven or molten image, an abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putte th it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen. Deut 31:16-18 And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, th ou shalt s leep with thy fathers; a nd this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them. Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day , Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is not among us? And I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evils which they shall have wrought, in that they are turned unto other gods. Duet 32:16-22 They provoked him to jealousy with st range gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger. They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not. Of th e Rock that bega t thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee. And when the L ORD saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters. And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will se e what their en d shall be: for “And J udah did evil i n t he they are a very froward generation, children in sight of the LOR D, and t hey whom is no faith. They have moved me to jealousy with that which is no t God; they have provoked me provoked him to jealousy… to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to For they also built them high jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation. F or a places, and images, and fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto groves, on ever y high hill, the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with and under every green tree. her increase, and set on fir e the foundations of the mountains. And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.” I Kings 14:22-24 1 Kings 14:22-24 And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins w hich they had committed, above all that their fathers had done. For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and un der every g reen tree. A nd there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the 59 LORD cast out before the children of Israel. Jer 1:16 And I will utter my judgments aga inst th em touch ing all their wickedness, who have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto othe r gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands. Jer 8:19 Is not the LORD in Zion? is not her king in her? Why have they provoked m e to anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities? Mic 1:7 And all the gr aven images thereof sha ll be beaten to pieces, a nd all the hires thereo f shall be burned with the fire, and all the idols thereof will I lay desolate: for she gathered it of the hire of an harlot, and they shall return to the hire of an harlot. Ac 15:20 But that we write unto them, that they fornication… abstain from pollutions of idols, and from 1 Cor. 5:9-11 I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: Yet not altogether with the for nicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. But now I have written unto you no t to keep company, if any man that is called a brothe r be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat. 1 Cor 10:6-11 Now these things were our exam ples, to the intent we sh ould not lus t after e vil things, as they also lusted. Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play… Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destro yed of serpents. Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer. Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come. “Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; … uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry … they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. Gal 5:19-21 1 Cor 8:4-6 As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one. For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,) But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are a ll things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him. 1 Cor 10:14 Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry. 2 Cor 6:14-16 Be ye not unequally yoked t ogether with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what par t hath he that believet h with an infidel? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God 60 hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them ; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Gal 5 :19-21 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; … uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry … and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. Eph 5:5 For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. 1 Thes 1:9-10 For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God; And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come. 1 Peter 4:2-4 That he no longer should live the rest of hi s time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God. For the tim e past of our life may suffice us to have wr ought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lascivio usness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries: Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you. Rev 2:20 Notwithstanding I have a few thi ngs against thee, because th ou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols. Rev 9:20-21 And the rest of the men which were not kill ed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not w orship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk: Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts. Rev 21:8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominabl e, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death. Rev 22:14-15 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie. E. NO DISTINCTION BETWEEN THE CLEAN AND THE UNCLEAN, BETWEEN THE LEAVEN AND THE UNLEAVEN, BETWEEN THE PRECIOUS AND THE VILE – PREACHING “SMOOTH THINGS”, TEACHERS WITH ITCHING EARS The churches of Am erica no longer put a distinction betw een good and evil, o r between clean an d unclean. They wholeheartedly subscribe to “God loves everyon e.” They com pletely do away with any standard or accountability to God. They whitewash proud sin by claiming God can forgive any sin, overlooking the f act that forgiveness i s a gi ft fr om God (Acts 2:38) that only comes in the wake of repentance (also a gift from God). They also gloss right over the requirement that a person admit he’s sinning, stop the sinning, and 61 have remorse, before repentance can possibly occur. This grotesque blurring of the line between good and evil is an earmark of a nation that is cursed by God. Isaiah 5:20-25 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! …Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcases we re torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. Eze 22:26 Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them. Jer 15:19 Therefore thus saith the LORD, If thou return, then will I brin g thee again, and thou shalt stand before me: and if thou take forth the pr ecious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: let them return unto thee; but return not thou unto them. “This is a rebellious people… children that will not hear the law of the LORD: Which say… Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits.” Isaiah 30 1-10 Isaiah 30:1-10 Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, tha t they may add sin to sin... Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever an d ever : That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD: Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits. Mark 8:15 And he charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod. 1 Cor 5:6-8 Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? Purge out therefor e the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: Therefore let us keep the feas t, not with old leaven, neith er with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. 2 Cor 6:17-7:1 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive y ou, And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith th e Lord Almighty. Having ther efore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. 2 Tim 4:1-4 I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearin g and his kingdom; Preach the wo rd; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhor t with all longsuffering and doctrine. For the time will 62 come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. 63 F. CHURCH BUILDING IDOLS The churches of today have spent billions of dollars to erec t elabo rate m onolithic building s, grand and opulent, as a substitute f or obeying God. These giant idols testify to their greed, covetousness and selfishness. Yet, this is not what is im portant to the Holy One of Israel. There certainly is no church as splendid as the Tem ple of Solom on, yet when Solom on dedicated the Temple, the LORD God said that if Israel ab andoned his commandments an d statutes that he would destroy Israel and the Temple. It has never been about the buildings and the idols and the images; it is about obeying the statutes and the commandments. 1 Kings 9:1-9 And it came to pass, when “When Sol omon had fini shed t he Solomon had finished the building of the house of the LORD, and the king’s house, building of the house of the LORD, and all Solomon’s desire which he was … the LORD appeared to pleased to do, That the LORD appe ared to Solomon…And the LOR D said… if Solomon the second time, as he had appeared unto him at Gibeon. And the ye shall at all turn from following LORD said unto him, I have heard thy me, ye or your children, and will prayer and thy supplication, that thou hast not keep my commandments and made before me: I have hallowed this house, which thou hast built, to put my name there my statutes… but go and serve for ever; and mine eyes and mine heart shall other gods, and worship them: be there perpetually. And if thou wilt walk Then will I cut off Israel out of before me, as David thy father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do the land.” according to all that I have commanded 1 Kings 9:1-9 thee, and wilt keep my statutes and my judgments: Then I will establish the throne of thy kingdom upon Israel for ever, as I promised to David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man upon the throne of Israel. But which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people: And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and to this house? And they shall answer, Because they forsook the LORD their God, 64 who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have taken hold upon other gods, and have worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath the LORD brought upon them all this evil. Heb 9:24 For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us: Acts 7:48 prophet. Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the Ac 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. G. FILTHY LUCRE The “preachers” of this generation are motivated by m oney. In sem inaries they are taught various strategies for raising funds. If a “preacher” doesn’t m eet his quota in fundraising his job is in jeopardy. It is impossible to expect any truth to be told in an environment of filthy lucre. Christ was angered by the money makers in the synagogue. It is simply wrong to see “church” as a place to make money. Yet that is precisely what the Am erican “Christian” industry is doing. Mt 21:12-13 And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in th e temple, and overthrew the ta bles o f the moneychangers, and the seats of them that so ld doves, And said unto th em, It is written, My ho use shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves. Filthy lucre is expressly condem ned in the Ne w Testam ent. Notice that the group told not to seek after filthy lucre are the leaders of the church; the opposite is true today. Men pretend to be leaders in churches whose m ain function is fund raising. Men go to church to make business connections. The entire “church” s ystem of America is nothing but a greedy m oney-making machine, and if the dollars dried up so would any interest by anyone in attending. 1 Ti 3:3 Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous. 1 Ti 3:8 Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre. Tit 1:7 For a bishop must be blameless, as the st eward of God; not selfwilled, not s oon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre. 65 Tit 1:11 Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre‘s sake. 1 Pe 5:2 F eed the flock of God which is among y ou, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind. The time has com e when the “pre achers” have itching ears – lis tening closely to the people to find out what they wan t to hear, s o they can teach them those lies. Otherwise their salary, benefits and pension are in jeopardy. 2 Ti 4:3-4 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctr ine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselv es teachers, having itching ears; A nd they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. Godly m en like Abraha m and David knew the y were no t to let f ilthy lucre be the m otivating force in their service to God: Ge 23 :7-19 And Abrah am stood u p, and bowed himself to the people of th e land, even to the children of Heth. And he communed with them, saying, If it be your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight; hear me, and intreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar, That he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he hath, which is in the end of his field; for as much money as it is worth he shall give it me for a possessi on of a buryingplace amongst you. And Ephron dwelt among the children of H eth: and Ephron the Hit tite answered Abraham in the audience of the children of Heth, even of all that went in at the gate of his city, saying, Nay, my lord, hear me: the field give I thee, and the cave th at is therein, I give it thee; in the pr esence of the sons of my people give I it thee: bu ry thy dead. And Abraham bowed down hi mself before the people of the land. And he spake unto Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, But if thou wilt give it, I pray thee, hear me: I will give thee money for the field; take it of me, and I will bury my dead there. And Ephron answered Abraham, s aying unto him, My lord, hearken unto me: the land is worth four hundred shekels of silver; what is that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore thy dead. And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Ab raham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Het h, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant. And the field of E phron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, and the cave which was therein, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all the borders round about, were made sure. Unto Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all that went in at th e gate of his city. And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre: the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan. 2 Sa 24:18-25 And Gad came that day to David, and said unto him, Go up, rear an altar unto the LORD in the threshingfloor of Araunah the Je busite. And David, according to the saying of Gad, went up as the LORD commanded. And Araunah looked, and saw the king and his servants coming on toward him: and Araunah went out, and bowed himself before the king on his face upon the ground. And Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant? And David said, To buy the threshingfloor of thee, to build an altar unto the LORD, that the plague may be stayed from the peopl e. And Araunah said unto David, Le t m y lord the king take and offer up what seemeth good unto him: behold, here be oxen for bur nt sacrifice, and threshing instruments and other instruments of the oxen for wood. All these things did Araunah, as a king, 66 give unto th e king. And Araunah said unto th e ki ng, The LORD thy God accept thee. And th e king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I w ill surely buy it of thee at a pr ice: neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the LORD my God of that which doth cost me nothing. So David bought the threshingfloor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver. And David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the LORD was intreated for the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel. H. FEMALE PREACHERS PROHIBITED Many of the churches and religio us denominations of this count ry allow, perm it and encourage female preachers. The only problem is that fr om the beginning the LORD God of Eternity has only allowed m ales to b e preachers. In the Old Testament, only m ales could be priests. In the New Testament, Paul specifically states that women must learn in silence and that they are not to teach in th e New Testam ent church. It’s that s imple. In Revelation th e LORD God specifically states that he has something against the church at Thyatira because they have fem ale priests that teach. If you go and stand outside som e of these “churches” today, with some signs that declare the judgments of God, you will quickly find that they are full of loud-mouth, pushy, im pudent, immodest, hard-hearted, Christ-rejecting wom en. These wom en run the show! It is an abomination! Le 2:2 And he shall bring it to Aaron’s sons the priests: and he shall take thereout his handful of the flour th ereof, and o f the oil th ereof, with al l the fran kincense ther eof; and the pries t sha ll burn the memorial of it upon the altar, to be an o ffering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD: “Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.” 1 Tim 2:11-15 De 31:9 And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it unto the p riests the sons of Levi, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and unto all the elders of Israel. Mal 3:3 And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness. 1 Tim 2:11-15 Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. For Adam was first formed, then Eve. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression. Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety. 1 Tim 3:1-2 This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach. Rev. 2:18-20 And unto the angel of the church in Thya tira write; These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire, and his feet ar e like fine bra ss; I know thy 67 works, and charity, and service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy works; and the last to be more than the first, Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols. I. THE CHURCH SOCIAL CLUB VS. SUFFERING THE AFFLICTIONS OF CHRIST The “church es” of today are all abo ut socializ ing. Pass by any m ainstream “church” building and you’ll see signs referencing potluck dinners, singles groups, pancake feeds, dram a tea ms, sports leagues, vacation bible school, music groups, and a variety of other social activities. This “social club” approach to religion is com pletely at odds with the descriptions given of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. T he most common and oft discussed attributes of the Church – beyond its doctrinal purity and prohibition agains t sexual irregularity (which alw ays follow doctrinal impurity) – are the facts that the church is hated, its members are shunned by the world, and there is a sharp separation between the c hurch and the world. You cannot claim to be serving God, and no church can claim to have th e candlestick of God in its m idst, unless that church is persecuted, and unless its members are on the streets reminding the people of their duty to obey God, resu lting in the people m ocking them until th ey are withou t a rem edy. This is th e new testament pattern, this is what the disciples and apostles did. Remember that God m ade a covenant with m an; if you obey him , he’ll bless you, and if you disobey him, he’ll curse you. De 11:26-28 Behold, I set before you this day a blessi ng and a curse; A ble ssing, if ye obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you this day: And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of th e LORD your God, but turn as ide out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known. De 30:1-8 And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all t he nations, whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee, And shalt return unto the LORD thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul; That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will retu rn and gather thee from all the nations, whither the LOR D thy God hath scattered thee. If any of thine be dr iven out unto the outmost parts of heaven, from thence will the LORD thy God gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee: And the LORD thy God will br ing thee into the l and which th y fathers possessed, and thou s halt possess it; and he will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers. And the LORD thy God will circumcis e thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, th at thou mayest live. An d the LORD thy God will put a ll these cur ses upon thine enemies, and on them that hate thee, which pe rsecuted thee. And thou s halt return and obey the voice of the LORD, and do all his commandments which I command thee this day. The prophets and people of God have always rem inded their generation of this duty; and with time, they reject the word of God to such a de gree, and they mock and persecute the prophets to such a degree, that God cuts them off without remedy: 68 2 Chr 7:12-14 And the LORD appeared to Solomon by night, and said unto him, I have heard thy prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for an house of sacrifice. If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people; If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. Isa 58:1-2 Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, an d shew my people th eir transgression, and the hous e of Jacob their sins. Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know m y ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of th eir God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God. Ho 5:8-10 Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah: cry aloud at Bethaven, after thee, O Benjamin. Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shal l surely be. T he princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound: therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water. 2 Ch 36:14-21 Moreover all the c hief o f the priests, and the people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen; and polluted the house of the LORD which he had hallowed in Jerusalem. And the L ORD God of th eir fathers sent to th em by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwellin g place: But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, u ntil th e wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy. Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave them all into his hand. And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of th e house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes; all thes e he brought to Babylon. And th ey burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all th e palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof. And th em that had escaped from th e sw ord carried he away to Babylon; where they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia: To fulfil the word of the LORD by the m outh of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years. The people of God, who m ake up the m embership of his church, are told they have an unction with God and that he has placed his candlestick there. 1 John 2:20-27 But ye have an unction from the Holy On e, and ye know all things. I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of th e truth. Who is a liar but he that de nieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son. Wh osoever den ieth the Son , th e same hath not th e Father: (b ut) he that acknowledgeth the Son hat h the F ather also. Let that ther efore abide in you, which ye have heard from the beginning. If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father. And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life. These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you. But the anointing which ye have received of him abide th in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teac heth you of all things, and is tr uth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him. 69 Rev 2:4-7 Nevertheless I have so mewhat against thee, because thou hast left th y first love. Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent. But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God. The people of God, who make up the membership of his church, recognize that they are hated of the world, rejoice in this fact, and know it is strong evidence th at the p lace where they worship is, indeed, the true church of God. Note that Christ himself spoke of this fact. Mt 10:22-24 And ye shall be hated of all men for my nam e’s sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved. But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another: for verily I say unto you, Y e shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come. The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord. “If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.” Jesus John 15:18-19 John 15:18-19 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. John 17:14 I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of th e world. 1 John 3:13 Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you. Further, the people of God suffer affliction for publishing the words of the Bible am ong their generation; and they choose (by grace) to suffer these afflictions rather than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season. This is NOT an attribute that you see in the “churches” of America today. 2 Cor 4:17 For our light affliction, which is but fo exceeding and eternal weight of glory. r a moment, worketh for us a far more 2 Cor 8:2 How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality. 1 Th 1:6 And ye became followers of us, and of the affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost. Lord, having received the w ord in much 1 Th 3:7 Therefore, brethren, we were comforted o ver you in all our affliction and distress by your faith. 70 Heb 11:25 Choosing rather to suffer pleasures of sin for a season. affliction with the people Jas 5:10 Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have s example of suffering affliction, and of patience. of God, than to enjoy the poken in the name of the Lord, for an The church m ilitant – where God resides with his peo ple, where he helps th em in their afflictions, where he hears their prayers, and wh ere he abides with his people – is a body that watches for the return of Christ, and finds comfort in contemplating Christ returning to this earth to punish the disobedient and to melt the earth with a fervent heat . These are they described so often in the Revelation, as those who will be robed in white linen, and rule with Christ in glory: Joh 14:15-21 If ye love me, keep my commandments. And I will pray th e Father, an d he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; Even th e Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. I will not leave you comfor tless: I will come to you. Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also. At that day ye shall know that I am in my Fath er, and ye in me, and I in you. He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him. 1 Co 7:20-24 Let every man abide in the same calli ng wherein he was called. Art thou called being a servant? care not for it: but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather. For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord’s freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ’s servant. Ye are bought with a pri ce; be not ye the servants of men. Brethren, let every man, wherein he is called, therein abide with God. 2 Th 1:7-9 And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our L ord Jesus Ch rist: Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power. 2 Pe 3:7-14 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men . But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us–ward, not willing that any should peris h, but that all s hould come to repentance. But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which th e heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. Seeing then that all th ese things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, Looking for and hasting unto the co ming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt w ith fervent heat? Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new eart h, wherein dwelleth righteousness. Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for su ch things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless. Re 3:4-5, 18 Thou hast a few names even in Sa rdis which h ave not defiled their garments; and they sh all walk with me in white: for the y are worthy. He that overcome th, the same shall be 71 clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels. … I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see. Re 4:4 And round about the throne were four and twenty seats: and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment; and they had on their heads crowns of gold. Re 6:11 And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was s aid unto them, that they should rest yet fo r a little seas on, until their fellowservants also and their breth ren, that shou ld be killed as they were, should be fulfilled. Re 7:9, 13-14 After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitud e, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and peopl e, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands; … And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they? And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Re 15:6 And the seven angels came out of the temple , having the seven plagues, clothed in pure and white linen, and having their breasts girded with golden girdles. Re 19:8, 11, 14 And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of sain ts. … And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called F aithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. … And the armies which w ere in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. Re 20:11 And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. The people of God have always prophesied th e coming judgment of God, through his Son Jesus Christ, and the earth-dwellers have always reject ed it. Only those churches that prophesy of God’s judgments are truly the Church of the Lo rd Jesus Christ; the rest are full of God-rejecting earth-dwellers. Jude 14-18 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of th ese, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, T o execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly co mmitted, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him. These are murmurers, complainers, walking a fter their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage. But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lo rd Jesus Christ; How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts. Re 3:8-13 I know thy works: behold, I have set be fore thee an open door , and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strengt h, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name. Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which sa y th ey are Jews, and are no t, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee. 72 Because th ou hast kep t the word of my patien ce, I a lso will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth. Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast wh ich thou hast, that no man take th y crown. Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches. Re 14:6-7 And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the ev erlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on th e earth, and to every na tion, and kindred, and tongue, and people, Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters. J. FALSE RELIGIOUS SYSTEMS AND IDOLATRY CONCLUSION The “churches” of Am erica today are the single greatest contributors to the fact that this nation is full of rebellious, sti ff-necked, God-hating, Christ-rejecting earth-dwellers. In the beginning of this nation’s history, the churches were righteous, the truth of God thundered from the pulpits, and people obeyed the Bible. The churches, in other wo rds, taught the people not to sin. T oday the “preachers” are whores , whoremongers, adulte rers, fornic ators, pedophiles, and every other kind of pervert. Women brazenly tromp through the “churches” in leadership positions as though they have some authority to be there, and the sodomites build their strong holds against the house of the Lord, the abomination of the desolation standing where it ought not. You can watch the churches of a society and there see how it goes w ith the people. The earth-dwel lers of Am erica are full of proud sin, and the “preachers” en courage th eir act ions. They do so because th ey are paid handsomely to do so. P reaching is now an industry, no t a calling; it is preci sely as it was in the days of Jeroboam , after the kingdom of Isra el split into two kingdom s, with King Jeroboam reigning over the ten northern tribes, where he established a false religion (because the people of these ten tribes no long er had acces s to th e legitimate place of worship in Jerusalem ), where it says he put the basest of m en to be priests, letting anyone w ho wanted to be a priest be a priest. That’s the way it is to day. You just decide y ou want to go to one of these f ilthy sem inaries, where there is a hom osexual and f ornicating envi ronment, and you do so. It doesn’t m atter if you believe the Bible; it doesn’t m atter if you fe ar God; it doesn’t m atter what kind of a sexual pervert you are; and abov e all, it doesn’t m atter one whit whether God has called you to preach! That’s why America is doomed – and that’s how America is doomed! God has filled up this land with lying false prophets, who are keeping the pe ople in a drunken, delusional state, so they CAN NOT HEED T HE WORDS OF THE PR OPHETS OF GOD. Never ag ain will the people of America hear what God has to say. He’s blinded them , hardened their hearts, and stopped up their ears. The ONLY THING you can do when you hear our words and read our signs is BECOME FURIOUS. God has pickled/preserved you in that spot. 73 OUR PARTING MESSAGE TO YOU So, earth-dweller, our message to you is this: You’ve sinn ed away your last day of grace; there is no rem edy for this co untry and this world; God is your enemy; and Am erica is doom ed. Like Noah’s world and Sodom you’ve gone too far, you have crossed the line. You knew the Master’s will, you knew the comm andments of God, you had knowledge of what you were supposed to do, but you refused to do it – so you will receive many more stripes (Lu 12:47-48), there is nothing to look forward to but a cert ain fearful watching for God’s judgment (He 10:2628), and you would have been better off never knowing the truth of God, having grown up in a heathen pagan nation, than having grown up in America today (2 Pe 2). We warned you to obey, so your blood is not on our hands, but is on your s. Your duty stands constant – OBEY. You won’t fulfill it, and very shortly C hrist is com ing through the clouds to punish the disobedient, and to destroy this earth w ith a fervent heat (2 P et 3:10). Hear the words of Jesus “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 w ent out of Sodom it rain ed fire and brimstone from heaven, and destr oyed them all. Even thus sha ll it be in the day w hen the Son of man is revealed… Remember Lot’s wife.” 74