THE SINS OF SODOM

THE SINS OF SODOM

                Everyone knows what the sin of Sodom was. It is the sexual sin for which the name Sodomy was coined. And there can be no question as to what that sin was, for when two angels came to Sodom appearing as men to warn Lot to escape the city, the men of the city, both young and old demanded that Lot send the men out of the house so that they could gang rape them.

                We also know that all kinds of sexual perversion are an abomination to God and the Bible leaves no one guessing what these sexual abominations are… men lying with men, women lying with women, people lying with animals, incest and so on.

                Actually, in God’s eyes, anything outside of marriage between a man and a woman is sin and it is a sign of the age and a sign that a nation is about to be judged when these sins become mainstream and even passed into law. Romans chapter 1 gives us the New Testament rundown on it, but the Old Testament has plenty to say. A sample text would be Lev. 20:18 where is says:

                “If there is a man who lies with a male as those who lie with a woman, both of them have committed a detestable act; they shall surely be put to death. Their blood-guiltiness is upon them.”

                Lev 18:22 says: “You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination.”

                So, in other words, if any denomination or church group decides to treat such sins as “normal” and not a sin, you could rightly say that they are not a Bible believing church. Flee from such a church for the judgments of Sodom are sure to come in these last days.

                The definition of God’s nature has been changed in modern times to such a point that many Christians no longer believe in judgment. They like the first part of God’s description of Himself, but they ignore the last part for God said as He passed before Moses:

                “The Lord, the Lord God, compassionate and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in lovingkindness and truth; who keeps lovingkindness for thousands, who forgives iniquity, transgression and sin; yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and on the grandchildren to the third and fourth generations.  And Moses made haste to bow low toward the earth and worship.” Exodus 34:6b-8.

                We do the people and the world in general a huge disfavor when we hold back from telling the whole truth, for it is the church’s job to restrain evil in the world and for the most part the church has ceased to do so. In fact the politically correct churches are embracing many things that God calls abominations as normal and okay these days. But it is a signal that judgment is on the way and quite apart from what I might say; the guilty will not survive this judgment.

                Strangely enough however, when Ezekiel names the sins of Sodom, he doesn’t even mention directly the sin for which Sodom is notorious. In Ez. 16:49, 50 he said:

                “Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughter had pride, fullness of food, (gluttony) abundance of idleness; 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 fit. "“

                We must conclude that Sodom had corporately reached the extremes of these sins, including the sexual sins that God called an abomination. After all, these sins have been prevalent in most every culture, but there seems to be a tipping point where it takes over the culture to such an extent that immediate destruction becomes a necessity.

                There are many other sins that warrant God’s wrath as well such as Spiritism, Mediums and witchcraft of all kinds. Well, America is in trouble because witchcraft is now the fastest religion in America, along with idol worship, worship of Lucifer and its laws concerning marriage and its tolerance, even promotion of sexual sin of every kind. All of these sins are related to each other.

                But what of these other sins such as, pride, gluttony, idleness and neglect of the poor? Do we even pay attention to them today?

                The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, goodness, kindness, gentleness, faithfulness and temperance. (Self Control) So the Spirit filled life will be demonstrated by self- restraint, self- control and temperance, even as it is known for its love, joy and peace.

                This is something that much of the church has not understood for indeed these things are not preached either and so we let them slide.

                But if we are to be conformed to the image of Christ and if it is the Holy Spirit’s power that works inwardly in us to conform us to the image of Christ, then we must certainly include all of the fruit of the Spirit… not as a matter of legalism, but as a matter of being a Spirit controlled, Spirit filled man or woman of God.

                I was about to list the seven deadly sins, but in looking it up, I found it to be a list made up by Pope Gregory in the late sixth century. They are all listed as sins in the Bible of course, but then we don’t really know how God would list them and which sins He would choose to be among the 7. We can make educated guesses of course, for some of the sins listed in the Bible are described as detestable, abominable and or worthy of stoning or death or being cut off from believers.

                The seven deadly sins mentioned by Pope Gregory were Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, Wrath, Envy and Pride.

                I think the point we must make today is that America is sliding off of its foundations and as it slides, it begins to ignore sins and their definitions. It begins to embrace for the sake of political correctness, sins that God even calls an abomination. Today America is being swallowed up by an agenda of idolatry, witchcraft false religion, and sexual promiscuity of all kinds. In fact there is a satanic agenda in America to reverse every Word and Law of God in order to bring on the global reign of the antichrist.

                In Ezekiel 9 God told Ezekiel to put a mark on the foreheads of those who sigh and groan over all the abominations which are being committed in its midst and then to slaughter those without the mark without pity. So they began with the elders who were before the temple.

                We know that judgment is going to begin with the house of God because we are the keepers, the watchers the guards over the Word of God and so when we leave our post and no longer sound the alarm, we are due the judgments of God.

                Today those of us who teach Bible prophecy and who sigh and cry and send out warnings are derided as fear mongers. But the truth is we don’t say enough. We hold back because people can no longer tolerate the truth. People don’t want to hear from God and they especially don’t want to hear from the prophets. They want to believe that everything is going on as it always has and that we are just in a typical cycle of turmoil. Surely we are not facing the end of all things. God will not judge us will He?

                No… “God is good all the time… all the time God is good. We need not fear the Reaper. He is no longer that mean old God of the Old Testament. He has now become our Santa Claus, giving us everything we want… and in fact, He has done away with His naughty and nice list so that He can include everybody whether they love and obey Him or not.”

                We turn a blind eye to the fact that the kingdom of the Antichrist, so long predicted in Scripture, is now being built and the whole world, along with many so called Christian churches are lining up, joining hands with the Pope to form a global religion whose god will be the antichrist.

                Can there be any greater blasphemy than including Jesus as one of the gods? Can there be anything worse than including Jesus among the Idol demons, the fallen ones, the gods of the Hindus, the Buddhists, Voodoo, or the thousands of African and island gods, or Islam?

                How brain dead does a Christian have to be in order to claim that Allah is the same god as the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob? Allah claims to have no son. He is NOT the same God and Mohammed is in no way a prophet of the Most High God. He is in fact a satanic knockoff and the Muslim people need to be brought to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ, who will soon return as King of kings and Lord of lords.

                America has been overrun by the sins and the gods of Sodom and judgment is due now just as it was in the days of Noah and Lot.

                Jesus Himself gave us this powerful clue saying: “For the coming of the Son of Man will be just like the days of Noah. Mt. 24:37

                Then Luke 17:26-29 it describes the last days as the days of Lot when Lot went out from Sodom and it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all.

                These days are coming my friends and shall I keep silent? Shall I tell us that sin isn’t the same as it used to be… that some of it is okay now?

                Once I attended a meeting where they introduced a so called prophet of God. She walked around the audience prophesying over people and as fate would have it she came to me. She began to prophesy over me, stuff that didn’t seem to have to do with me at all. She was probing my eyes and watching for any type of body language that would indicate to her what I might respond to.

                I suddenly realized that this woman was not operating by the Spirit of God at all. At best she was a psychic or maybe even something worse. So I returned her penetrating eyes with a stone cold stare and I refused to give in to her probing. There was a long moment of silence and she suddenly moved on. Well, I got up and left the church and never returned to it. I shook those demons off in the name of Jesus and departed realizing that in the Charismatic movement some people have tended to embrace anything spiritual as being from God.

                This is why large parts of that movement are drifting into delusions that will carry them into the global religion of the Beast. There are, of course many genuine Christians in that movement. Some have discernment of spirits so as to not fall for these parlor tricks of the enemy and in fact, the Word of knowledge is one of the gifts of the Spirit. Someone may come up to us with a genuine word from God and it is up to us to test that spirit and to test that Word according to scripture and then to hold on to that which is good.

                God has set up His Word and finalized it as the litmus test for all prophecy so that we must discern a prophet’s validity by the Word of God. I am convinced that there are no infallible prophets apart from the cannon of Scripture. In fact in the book of Acts, Luke tells us that the Bereans were more noble-minded because they received the Word with great eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.” Acts 17:11.

                We too must examine every prophetic word according to Scripture to see if it is true and then as Paul says, Hold onto that which is good. First of all, there can be no other foundation than the foundation laid by Jesus Christ.” 1 Cor. 3:11.

                John also warned us in 1Jn. 4:1 saying: “Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world.”

                We need to examine everything according to Scripture. God has given us this one book in which He has stated His will and His purpose. He has lovingly given it to us so that we need not wonder what His will is, or what we must do to be saved. If we leave the Bible on the shelf to gather dust and thereby fall into error, who will we have to blame in the judgment? We will be without excuse. And not only that, but for those who have no bible, but see God’s handiwork in creation are without excuse.

                Scientists today all know that there are irreducible parts in nature that require information outside of random chance. The DNA of all living things absolutely requires outside information and design. The forming of proteins requires outside information. Even the tail of an amoeba has a motor that cannot be reduced beyond a certain point. All of nature screams out for a Designer and yet people are so determined to reject God that they will willingly believe a lie. Even now they are embracing the idea that we were seeded here millions of years ago by an alien race. So they have pushed the question off as to who designed everything, but this is a childish prank, for we are still left to wonder who created the aliens. Life does not just simply spontaneously generate itself.

                So it all comes back to the authenticity of God’s Word and His definitions of sin and righteousness and those who will be saved and those who will be lost based upon their acceptance of His Word. And that Word became flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld His glory, glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. And that Word died in our place so that we could have His life. And He took upon Himself our sinfulness so that we could share in His righteousness.

                We have been adopted into His family so that we are now sons and daughters of God and joint heirs with Jesus. All of creation is waiting eagerly for the revealing of the sons and daughters of God for all of creation suffers the pains of sin and death with us… and so when we have been glorified, then all of creation will be restored as well. It is well worth it to believe in and walk in God’s Word and in His salvation which is offered to all of mankind… to whosoever will… for it will come about in those days that all who call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.  Joel 2:32, Acts 2:21