I really thought that I was done with Mayor Pete. Apparently not. Drudge Report just featured a CNN article where he— well, see for yourself:
Okay, so he is crediting his creator with being a homosexual. Except that he is wrong.
Male and female He created them, and He blessed them. And in the day they were created, He called them “mankind.” Genesis 5:2
God created male and female AND HE BLESSED THEM. Really, the ignorance of the Bible combined with wacko practices of logic is a lethal combination.
As designed by the Creator, sex has two primary functions. 1. To bind together a male husband and a female wife. The electrical impulses of the neurons and the chemical hormones of the endocrine system work in tandem to establish a strong physiological bonding, which is the organic reason that sex outside of marriage is disastrous. There are emotional and spiritual aspects too, but right now I am talking about God’s physical/biological design for parts that fit together. 2. The other primary function is to procreate children, although that doesn’t play directly into the snarky barb that Buttigieg directed toward Vice President Pence.
How can Buttigieg, the son of two Notre Dame professors, a Rhodes Scholar, and a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard University miss the answer for, “How could a God of justice and righteousness destroy Sodom and Gomorrah (and Admah, and Zeboiim) for homosexuality if he had made them that way?” Only by deliberate altering the premise that they were destroyed for the sin of homosexuality. The LGBT proposes that the cities were destroyed for lack of hospitality, not sharing their wealth with the poor, or some combination thereof. And according to the history written in The Book of Jasher, “lack of hospitality” is understating it. Feeding the poor was a capital offense, and the judge ordered one woman who gave bread to a destitute traveler to be smeared with honey and placed before a swarm of bees so that she was killed by bee stings! In the end, excuses on this point do not matter a whole lot because the towns were destroyed after two witnesses went to observe the wickedness, and from Genesis 19:5 we know they observed homosexuality. The iniquity of the the cities was copious enough in all categories that they deserved what they got.
The main issue is this: Did the Creator create homosexual persons?
The answer is: No. Absolutely not.
So for the rest of this post, I am going to explain the true origin of homosexuality and why most homosexuals are “made” during their formative years before they reach emotional adulthood, and a few are “born that way.” Homosexuality goes beyond any physical act, (although that is the way it is consummated.) It reaches to the core of a person’s identity, which is why regular psychology of the mind and emotions cannot “cure” it. There is always a spiritual component to homosexuality. It must be addressed in the spiritual.
There is a spiritual world that parallels Earth’s physical one. It is inhabited by immortal spirit-beings which the Hebrew bible calls elohim. God is an immortal spirit, of course, but so are messenger angels that serve under Gabriel, the warring host led by Michael, the guardian cherubim, the 24 elders and the seraphs surrounding the throne of God. They are all elohim. There are more “species” (for lack of a better word) of elohim; the Bible does not go into great detail. They were created perfect, but some fell from their original appointment. The Apostle Paul identified some categories of these fallen ones as principalities, powers, rulers of the darkness of this world, and spiritual wickedness in the heavenlies. cf Ephesians 6:12
The Book of Daniel, Chapter 4, tells of a class of elohim called “Watchers.” The job of Watchers is to observe what happens on Earth and make declarations “to the intent that the living may know that the Most High ruleth in the kingdom of men.” (KJV, v17) Except for a couple mentions in Daniel 4, the Bible doesn’t say much about the Watchers, but other ancient historical texts do. The Book of Enoch says that long ago,¹ 200 Watchers came down to Mount Hermon. Watchers were created or assigned to be good observers of life on Earth. These two-hundred, were rebellious. They had observed Earth women and decided to leave the heavenly realm to take some wives. (cf Jude 1:6) They did, and the offspring of immortal fathers and mortal human mothers were Nephilim, the giants.
Notice that the propensities that led to the Watchers’ self-serving sin were (a) sexual and (b) domineering. They took the wives they desired. [As an aside, contrast Eve’s desire for Wisdom, a virtue that Solomon would later be commended for, as the trap that deceived her.] When the fallen elohim set themselves up as the false gods of pagan religions, these two markers would remain throughout human history. It explains why so many satanic cults use deviant sexual rituals or temple prostitutes, and it explains the ungodly control that is exercised over cult members.
The expression “all hell broke lose” fits pretty well here, even though at this point in Earth’s history they came down, not up. The rebellious Watchers began teaching mankind how to make swords and shields. But knowledge of working with metals and minerals did not stop with weapons of war. They also made ornamental bracelets and tinctures for cosmetics. Others taught about enchantments, herbs and potions, astrology, other sorts of alchemy, and divination. Some humans began to worship the Watchers as gods so that they could receive more of this occult knowledge.
All the while, the population of Nephilim kept growing. And they required enormous amounts of food. Some men were enslaved to provide this, but when they could no longer keep up the supply to meet the demand, they were eaten. The giants “began to sin against birds, and beasts, and reptiles, and fish, and to devour one another’s flesh, and drink the blood.”² Killing the Nephilim didn’t fully solve the problem. It might keep you from becoming his dinner, but remember, he’s half-immortal and his spirit-half lingers on after death with no place to go. Ancient texts say that this was the source of demons that are still with us; demons are disembodied Nephilim, distinct from their fallen elohim fathers.
“And there arose much godlessness, and they (humans) committed fornication, and they were led astray, and became corrupt in all their ways.”³ Fornincation here refers to all sexual sins. This is the source of homosexuality. So while it is true that it has been practiced since the earliest times of man, that does not mean it is normal or that God made someone that way. It was, from its introduction, a practice encouraged by fallen, demonic entities, and it remains a demonically inspired practice today.
Once the spiritual origin is recognized as demonic, a lot of other things about homosexuality start making logical connections. These “unclean spirits” as the Gospel writers called them, can influence, entice, attach to, or fully posses a person. All they need is the slightest opening. This explains why so many adult homosexuals have a history of sexual abuse occurring during their childhood. Demons can be transferred from one person to another during sexual acts. That’s basic demonology 101, and disbelief in Satan and/or demons won’t make it not true.
Transfer is not equivalent with possession. Because a demon is a spiritual personality, personal relationships provide a good analogy here: When you are first introduced to someone, they are an acquaintance; at this stage of demonic transfer, a demon becomes acquainted with you. If you spend more time devoted to that sin, it becomes familiar with you; it is a familiar spirit that hangs out with you and it can transfer thoughts , urges, suggestions and such, but you are still your own person with your own free will. And just as every human friendship develops differently, so does the development of demonic transfer. The analogy cannot be extended indefinitely, however; these are demons, after all. Eventually the path ends in destruction, perhaps traveling toward obsession, compulsion, and yes, even possession before it ends very badly.
Most homosexuals became homosexual when a demon was transferred as a result of erotic homosexual contact before or during puberty. In some cases the child abuse occurred while they were too young to remember or fully understand, and these individuals often feel as if they have “always been that way.” And while that is the most common way a person become a homosexual, there are at least three other pathways worth mentioning.
1. Curiosity and consent – this route to homosexuality may not have an overt indication of demonic activity. It will be there offering an ever-so-subtle enticement, but the person will choose to think about it, and keep thinking about it, and eventually will want to act on those thoughts. The demon is inclined to stay in the background making the person think “those thoughts” are his own. And after he thinks on them for a while, they do become his.
2. Rebellion against control extremes – it is unusual to develop a propensity toward homosexuality without a homosexual act, but it can happen when there is more than one demon that is influencing a person, and it is very common for demons to travel in packs. A youth who is subjected to an overwhelming imbalance of power in either direction, either excessively domineering or sickeningly passive, can transfer a “I don’t want to be like that person” reaction along gender lines. In these instances, the primary demons gain access first, often as spirits of anger or hatred; the secondary homosexual demon will appear to ‘help’ the person find a release and it is accepted in an attempt to find relief.
3. Curses – The Western mindset isn’t used to thinking about curses as being real, but again, disbelief doesn’t make it not real. In the rare cases when a homosexual truly is “born that way,” the demon has gained access through a curse. There are several kinds of curses which give the demon access to an unborn child through either a direct bloodline or, theoretically, a satanic ritual.
A satanic ritual can give a demon access to a child who is still in the womb, but I say ‘theoretically’ because I have never heard of an invocation specifically for a homosexual demon like that. Another kind of curse is a generational curse. It does not have to be invoked; it is just there in the bloodline. Some sins can be passed on for up to four generations. cf Exodus 20:5. If someone in the child’s bloodline three generations back had a hatred for God that had never been repented of (and know that the second and first generation back would have the authority to break the curse by repenting for their ancestor, because it was a curse upon them as well), that would be a possible access point for a demon. And there can be unintended curses passed to a baby in utero by the words of his parents. The baby is a complete human spirit from conception. Idle words spoken in anger or expressing abandonment by its parents can be picked up in the spirit realm and inadvertently open a gateway.
God did not create homosexuals. Homosexuality is a secondary effect in response to an ancient rebellion against God; it has a spiritual root.
“If me being gay was a choice, it was a choice that was made far, far above my pay grade,” Buttigieg said. “And that’s the thing I wish the Mike Pences of the world would understand. That if you got a problem with who I am, your problem is not with me — your quarrel, sir, is with my creator.” (CNN) ⁴
No, there is no quarrel with Buttigieg’s Creator because Mayor Pete was never created to be homosexual. A few choose it, but more often homosexuality is perpetrated upon them. Because our Western culture rejects the of the possibility of an unseen realm having a great deal of influence upon sexual preference, many don’t even look there for causes—or for remedies.
So now you know (a) where homosexuality came from and (b) how it can attach to people today, but we have not answered (c) WHY is it a sin, after all, they Love Each Other, don’t they?
…and that answer is in Romans 1.
Homosexuals surely ‘have feelings’ for each other, but those feelings are not a god-honoring love for each other. They are putting their own desires ahead of their respect for God’s word. Here’s the quote:
25 For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. 26 For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, 27 and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error. […] 32 and although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them.
There you have it. Homosexuality is self-serving; it does not serve the Creator’s purpose for mankind. God is more than miffed about such an affront, and He gives them over to dishonorable passions, or as the King James puts it, to vile affections.
You can read the entire first chapter of Romans if you wish. I cherry-picked the four verses that best laid it out, simply to conserve space. It is not the Mike Penses of this world who have a quarrel with the Creator of it. It is the Pete Buttigiegs of the world who do not see fit to acknowledge God’s word any longer.
Footnotes
¹ The time is indefinite, but roughly five centuries after Adam and Eve were kicked out of the Garden some of the effects caused by Nephilim start showing up.
The Bible is neither silent nor lacking in descriptions of leaders who were Under the Influence of Satan or some of his evil emissaries. I am deliberately using the term “emissaries” because it means • someone who does a job for a government or a leader • someone who delivers a message for them • someone sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else
and because I do not want my real message sidetracked by dithering over distinctions between demons, fallen angels, evil spirits, principalities, and the like.
The first leader obviously identified as under the influence was Nimrod. Genesis 10:9 describes him as ‘Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the Lord,’ and it is not talking about bagging an ibex. This hunter is more like a street commando. Chuck Smith’s commentary says:
It should be translated “he was a mighty tyrant in the face of the LORD.” The hunting was the hunting of men’s soul. Nimrod became a leader in apostasy, developer of a great religious system later to become known as the Babylonian religious system or the “mystery Babylon.” That whole religious system was begun by Nimrod.
Archeology, historical writings, and even mythology offer additional insight into the character of Nimrod, the great-grandson of Noah. Much like the serpent in the Garden of Eden, Nimrod caused men to doubt that God had their true happiness at heart, and suggested that following God was actually an act of weakness. Josephus reports that Nimrod gradually changed the government into tyranny in order to turn men from the fear of God and make them dependent upon his power. The translation continues, “Now the multitude were very ready to follow the determination of Nimrod, and to esteem it a piece of cowardice to submit to God; and they built a tower …” This was, of course, what came to be known as the Tower of Babel because God sent judgment in the form of a confusion of language.
Another leader under the influence was King Saul. After Saul rejected the word of the LORD and listened to the people instead, the LORD has rejected Saul from being king over Israel. At that point, instead of handing in his resignation, Saul tries to remain king without God’s support. An evil spirit comes and begins terrorizing him, and the only thing that brings relief is David’s harp music. Eventually Saul become so jealous of David that he tries repeatedly to murder him.
Another occurrence of biblical examples of a king under the influence is the Book of Daniel’s record of Nebuchadnezzar’s seven seasons of insanity. Nebuchadnezzar had a prophetic dream a year before it came to pass.
Two more examples that are certainly worth mentioning occur in passages from Ezekiel 28:12-17 and Isaiah 14:12-15. These begin with comments about the kings of Tyre and Babylon, but continue on to address the controlling spirit behind them, even possession by Satan.
The case could be made for many other rulers being intermittently controlled or fully possessed— the Pharaoh ‘who knew not Joseph,’ Queen Jezebel, the Herods of the New Testament era, and more. Satan even tried to influence Jesus as he tempted him three times at the end of his wilderness fast. The point is that this was commonplace in the past, the devil purposely tries to influence those with power, and we should expect it to be happening today.
Evil emissaries do visit humans. There is an evil intelligent design in the way they visit leaders and put thought in their minds.
My next planned post is about some counselors and advisers who were also visited by an evil spirit.
18 being darkened in their understanding,
excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them,
because of the hardness of their heart; 19 and they, having become callous, have given themselves over to sensuality
for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness. Ephesians 4:18, 19
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The eighteenth verse lays out the progression that was hinted at in yesterday’s verse:
hard hearts → blinded minds
This is the reason that there are no small lies; merely variations in the recipe for singeing the conscience and cooking the soul. Every lie darkens the heart a little bit more. Every time a lie is told, truth is lost. Those who twist the truth are stewing their own souls.
Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do always err in their heart; and they have not known my ways. … Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God … While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation. Hebrews 3:8-10, 12, 15
Last week’s blogs dealt mainly with Old Testament scripture about hard hearts. Several examples were given of God’s use of hard hearts to bring knowledge to the people, honor to Himself, and to eventually remove the wicked. The examples also pointed out a fourth item associated with hard hearts: signs and wonders. Signs and wonders are miraculous, but they are not necessarily good or desirable miracles, such as the ten plagues sent against Egypt.
This week’s blogs look at the New Testament teaching on hard hearts, beginning with the verses from Hebrews that refer to an Old Testament incident. The third chapter of Hebrews is reminding the letter reader of the waters of Meribah. There, under the state of hard hearts, God performed a sin and wonder to prove Himself worthy of honor. But by this time, He had expected the people to have enough knowledge to trust Him.
During the exodus from Egypt, the congregation had journeyed in stages through the wilderness. When they camped at Rephidim, there was no water for the people to drink. Quarrels ensued. The NSV tells the story this way:
2The people quarreled with Moses, and said, ‘Give us water to drink.’ Moses said to them, ‘Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test the LORD?’ 3But the people thirsted there for water; and the people complained against Moses and said, ‘Why did you bring us out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and livestock with thirst?’ 4So Moses cried out to the LORD, ‘What shall I do with this people? They are almost ready to stone me.’ 5The LORD said to Moses, ‘Go on ahead of the people, and take some of the elders of Israel with you; take in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go. 6I will be standing there in front of you on the rock at Horeb. Strike the rock, and water will come out of it, so that the people may drink.’ Moses did so, in the sight of the elders of Israel. Exodus 17:2-6
Moses renamed the place Meribah, meaning “quarrelling.”
Paul presents that example to the Hebrews of his day because people are stubborn and unwilling to trust God. They do not depend on Him to work things out, but take it upon themselves to “help things along” with lies and intentional withholding of exculpatory information. Their hard hearts are perverting justice and in the end, they will succeed in bringing the wrath of God upon themselves.
All this week: Reasons and Results for Hardening the Heart
God gave man a free will. The chief purpose for this was that it makes possible a much higher quality of love. Being able to choose loving acts instead of doing them out of duty and obligation is a higher quality of love.
The LORD said to Moses, “When you go back to Egypt see that you perform before Pharaoh all the wonders which I have put in your power; but I will harden his heart so that he will not let the people go. Exodus 4:21
In this verse, God is sending Moses back to face Pharaoh and gives him a heads-up that Pharaoh won’t listen to him. This is a kindly warning so that Pharaoh’s obstinacy won’t surprise or discourage Moses.
Note how the principle of “according to your deeds” is already at work.
Pharaoh had previously hardened his own heart against human suffering when he oppressed the Israelites. His rule caused their suffering, and he showed neither remorse nor compassion. Now God in turn hardens Pharaoh’s heart against any conviction by the miracles, and any judgment by the plagues. Eventually Pharaoh will be removed because his hard heart drives him to his own destruction.
During the rest of this week, this blog will focus on five reasons and results for the hardening of hearts.
1. Signs and Wonders by God
2. Honor of God
3. Knowledge of God
4. Judgment by God
5. Removal by God
Another important point in this verse that is easy to miss— I will harden… so that he will not let
I will so that he will. Frame it properly because God punishes Pharaoh for his cruelty to the Israelites by removing some of Pharaoh’s free will. Then He holds him accountable for his next choices. Operating with a progressively diminishing capacity, Pharaoh still had a will and still had the choice to let, or not to let, the people go.
This gradual process included the infamous ten plagues. At each step, Pharaoh was taken in more and more by the lying “miracles” of his own magicians. Each twist of the truth took him a little farther from redemption and a little closer to doom.
Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. Revelation 20:14
Many people, even those who attend church regularly, do not know much about hell. Telling a Liar that they are going to hell won’t mean much to them if they don’t know what hell is and if they have many doubts as to whether it exists.
I am not going to try to make a case for the existence part except to say that Jesus preached its existence. You are on your own for believing or rejecting what He said. But I will attempt to lay out the difference between the lake of fire and the pit of hell, and I will also comment on some other terms that many find confusing.
Lake of Fire
The lake of fire is the future “realm of the dead.” No one is there at the moment because it will be filled by those humans who have reached the second death. It will also house some non-human evil entities. It is a place of weeping and gnashing of teeth. In Matthew, Jesus refers to its being in outer darkness. Scripture teaches that the lake of fire is the ultimate destination of the twice-dead, that is, those who (1) died physically and then (2) on Judgment Day will not find their name written in the Book of Life. Because it is described as a lake in outer darkness, I chose a Hubble photo of the accretion disk around a black hole to illustrate it in yesterday’s blog. I will not say definitively that it is the lake of fire mentioned in the Bible, but I will say that it is the ‘best fit’ for an actual literal place, based on what is known so far.
Hell Hell has come to be used as a rather generic term for all the places that evil is found. In its narrow sense, it would be Hades in Greek and Sheol in Hebrew. Both are described below.
Sheol and Hades
This is the Realm of the Dead. Unfortunately many churches don’t like to talk about it and so the congregants get much of their perception of it from movies and fiction instead of from the Bible. There are at least 40 scriptures, possibly more, that reference it as being literally in the center of the earth. Even so, many people ‘spiritualize’ it as being in another dimension. I don’t want to encourage anyone to base their theology on rumors of ghost sightings, but for me, this idea helps explain it: Ghosts haunt physical spaces, so why not have it be “normal” for “departed spirits” to physically occupy the center of the earth?
Up until the ascension of Christ, Sheol/Hades (Hebrew/Greek) had two main compartments that were separated by a chasm that could not be crossed. One side was known as Paradise or Abraham’s Bosom, and the other was hot, dry, and fiery. It is described by Jesus in Luke 16. After the ascension, the souls in the paradise section moved with Jesus to heaven. The rest of Sheol/Hades stayed put.
It is currently a place of the unrighteous dead. Dante’s Inferno describes hell as having layered compartments; this does have a touch of biblical basis, although he used artistic license in his writing. There are over a dozen scriptures spanning both the Old and New Testaments, that use comparative terms like “lowest pit” or “greater damnation” as well as many instances of “according to his deeds” that support the concept of degrees of punishment or torment for the wicked.
The Abyss
The abyss is a place “without bottom” where (some) demons are confined. All the references in the Book of Revelation apply it to a prison for demonic spirits, not human spirits. It may be worth noting that at the very center of the earth, there is no bottom; relatively speaking, all points would be up.
Gehenna
Gehenna is a literal place, the Valley of Ben Hinnom, just southeast of Jerusalem. It has steep, vertical cliff sides of rock. During the time of Jesus, it was used as a garbage dump for the city. It was filled with rotting debris, animal carcasses and the bodies of executed criminals who could not be buried. It was filled with all the stench, maggots, flies, vultures, and feral animals that such rot would attract. The heat of decomposition combined with the generation of methane gas would keep fires burning there. Jesus used the valley as a visual teaching aid to describe hell, and in the Greek, Gehenna came to be a term synonymous with a place of final punishment. It was over the sides of the cliff to this gorge that Judas hung himself, and then his dead body fell and broke open in a final indignity.
Unrepentant liars will be judged to belong in such a place.
An ungodly witness scorneth judgment: and the mouth of the wicked devoureth iniquity.
Proverbs 19:28
That is the King James translation. Alas, with verbs like scorneth and devoueth, the people this verse is talking about will probably think it refers to somebody else. Here are some contemporary translations and paraphrases:
An unprincipled witness desecrates justice; the mouths of the wicked spew malice.
~ Message
A corrupt witness mocks at justice, and the mouth of the wicked gulps down evil.
~ New International Version
A corrupt witness makes a mockery of justice; the mouth of the wicked gulps down evil.
New Living Translation
A rascally witness makes a mockery of justice, And the mouth of the wicked spreads iniquity.
~ New American Standard
A rascally witness perverts justice and the talk of the wicked fosters mischief.
~ New English Bible
There are two words used in these last passages that have acquired a childish “cutesy” connotation of ‘rascals’ getting into ‘mischief’. These words are not describing two-year-olds who have climbed up on the countertops to get into peanut butter jars the way that Pooh gets into a hunny pot. The translators used the words the way they are defined in Noah Webster’s dictionary:
Mischief: noun
1. Harm; hurt; injury; damage; evil, whether intended or not. A new law is made to remedy the mischief.
2. Intentional injury; harm or damage done by design.
Thy tongue deviseth mischief. Ps.52.
3. Ill consequence; evil; vexatious affair.
So, there you have it, people who give dishonest and fraudulent testimony are evil. Plain and simple. They have contempt for God’s judgment, and therefore disrespect God.
Matthew Henry’s Commentary sums it up this way:
28 An ungodly witness scorneth judgment: and the mouth of the wicked devoureth iniquity.
Here is a description of the worst of sinners, whose hearts are fully set in them to do evil. 1. They set that at defiance which would deter and detain them from sin: An ungodly witness is one that bears false witness against his neighbour, and will forswear himself to do another a mischief, in which there is not only great injustice, but great impiety; this is one of the worst of men. Or an ungodly witness is one that profanely and atheistically witnesses against religion and godliness, whose instructions seduce from the words of knowledge (Proverbs 18:27); such a one scorns judgment, laughs at the terrors of the Lord, mocks at that fear, Job 15:26. Tell him of law and equity, that the scriptures and an oath are sacred things, and not to be jested with, that there will come a reckoning day; he laughs at it all, and scorns to heed it.
4Indeed, you do away with reverence And hinder meditation before God. 5For your guilt teaches your mouth, And you choose the language of the crafty. Job 15:4, 5
The speaker for these verses was Eliphaz, one of Job’s friends. Eliphaz was an okay guy but he had one flaw in his theology, which was that God was causing Job’s problems. Even though he messes up on the who is to blame and therefore mess up on his explanation of why, Eliphaz does have an understanding of how things work when he starts with the correct data.
If God had caused Job’s troubles, then Eliphaz’s deduction that Job would have been guilty might have been correct because God would not have punished Job unjustly. But what was happening was not a punishment; it was Satan being Satan. Job maintained his innocence, was correct in maintaining his innocence, and others got mad at him for it!
Within his speech, we do see that when Eliphaz begins with the correct premise, he does reason to the correct conclusion—
When guilt teaches the mouth and the language of the crafty is chosen, then reverence is done away with and meditation is hindered before God.
But based on his false assumption of Job’s guilt, Eliphaz proceeds to rip into Job and compound the false allegations. Eliphaz claims that all the smart elders “knew” that all the losses that Job was suffering were “proof” of Job’s guilt.
But it was all circumstantial evidence based on a crafty half-truth. There was another explanation for what happened to Job, the correct one, but the local councilmen were unwilling to accept that they might be wrong and they were doggedly entrenched in their presumption of Job’s guilt.
On the recent post about the History of Deceit, it was shown how Satan craftily changed the woman’s premise about the fruit before he told his bald-faced lie. Acting on false presumption makes errors grow. Eliphaz began with a false presumption and ended up adding to his own guilt by making many false accusations about Job.
1O God, hear my voice when I complain. Keep my life safe from the fear of those who hate me. 2Hide me from the secret plans of the sinful and from the noise of those who do bad things. 3They have made their tongues sharp like a sword. They use poison words like arrows. 4They shoot at the blameless man from their hiding place. They are quick to shoot at him and are not afraid. 5They talk each other into doing sinful things. They talk about setting hidden traps. They say, “Who will see them?” 6They think of ways to do bad things, and say, “We have made a perfect plan!” For the inside thoughts and the heart of a man are deep.
7But God will shoot at them with an arrow. They will be hurt very soon. 8They will be made to trip and fall. Their own tongue is against them. All who see them will shake their heads. 9Then all men will be afraid. They will tell about the work of God. And they will think about what He has done. 10The man who is right and good will be glad in the Lord and go to Him to be safe. All those whose hearts are right will give Him praise. Psalm 64 Psalm 64 provided by studylight.org
Today we look at an entire Psalm in context. David is praying for protection.
Verse 3 in the King James begins, “Who whet their tongue like a sword.” Whetting or sharpening a sword is an intentional act. It is a preparation that is taken when a person desires to be prepared to attack. The second part of the verse speaks of bending the bow to aim venomous words like arrows. Apparently one weapon is not enough for them.
Verse 4 reveals that they shoot at the innocent. They may not think that their victim is innocent in the heat of the moment. But he is, and God knows he is, and if they were not so hell-bent on attacking, then they have the means available to them to find that out. But they do not want to. They like the power of their attack. (And in the cases of CPS and cops, they often thrill in the ambush; that is what was attractive about going in to that line of work. In the case of private citizens, they often thrill in the thought of siccing the cops on their victim.) They are quick to shoot; the innocent person was totally blindsided.
Notice also how confident these attackers are. The innocent has no warning or any opportunity to defend himself. They are totally confident of their success. They do not fear God. They have become accustomed to destroying for the excitement and self-aggrandizing importance of it all. They are used to getting away with hurting the innocent.
But…
God has an arrow prepared too. Notice the number. Those who accuse the innocent need many weapons and arrows. God uses only one.
This is significant. It also explains why they seem to get away with it. Once God does strike, they are taken out on the first arrowhead.
You let your mouth loose in evil And your tongue frames deceit. Psalm 50:19
This verse is part of a list where God is describing the ‘diagnostic indicators’ of a wicked person. Other items on the list are hating discipline, ignoring what God says, admiring thieves, hanging out with adulterers, and being critical and slandering your brother. This blog, however is meant to focus on “the tongue that frames deceit.”
Notice that the wording, “the tongue that frames deceit,” (which is a literal translation,) uses the word frame to show that the overall structure of what is being said is deceitful. Wickedness, in this case, does not necessitate the telling of bald-faced lies. It is enough that snippets of truth can be structured and framed in such a way that they are deceitful.
This is far craftier than plainly stating an untruth. It builds layers of allegation, implication and insinuation based on half-truths. Not telling the whole truth and intentionally allowing someone to believe a misleading half-truth is wickedness.
False witnesses frame the innocent by framing deceit with their tongues.
twisting truth 
Why Mayor Pete is REALLY gay—& what he does not know.
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I really thought that I was done with Mayor Pete. Apparently not. Drudge Report just featured a CNN article where he— well, see for yourself:
Okay, so he is crediting his creator with being a homosexual. Except that he is wrong.
Male and female He created them, and He blessed them. And in the day they were created, He called them “mankind.” Genesis 5:2
God created male and female AND HE BLESSED THEM. Really, the ignorance of the Bible combined with wacko practices of logic is a lethal combination.
As designed by the Creator, sex has two primary functions. 1. To bind together a male husband and a female wife. The electrical impulses of the neurons and the chemical hormones of the endocrine system work in tandem to establish a strong physiological bonding, which is the organic reason that sex outside of marriage is disastrous. There are emotional and spiritual aspects too, but right now I am talking about God’s physical/biological design for parts that fit together. 2. The other primary function is to procreate children, although that doesn’t play directly into the snarky barb that Buttigieg directed toward Vice President Pence.
How can Buttigieg, the son of two Notre Dame professors, a Rhodes Scholar, and a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard University miss the answer for, “How could a God of justice and righteousness destroy Sodom and Gomorrah (and Admah, and Zeboiim) for homosexuality if he had made them that way?” Only by deliberate altering the premise that they were destroyed for the sin of homosexuality. The LGBT proposes that the cities were destroyed for lack of hospitality, not sharing their wealth with the poor, or some combination thereof. And according to the history written in The Book of Jasher, “lack of hospitality” is understating it. Feeding the poor was a capital offense, and the judge ordered one woman who gave bread to a destitute traveler to be smeared with honey and placed before a swarm of bees so that she was killed by bee stings! In the end, excuses on this point do not matter a whole lot because the towns were destroyed after two witnesses went to observe the wickedness, and from Genesis 19:5 we know they observed homosexuality. The iniquity of the the cities was copious enough in all categories that they deserved what they got.
The main issue is this: Did the Creator create homosexual persons?
The answer is: No. Absolutely not.
So for the rest of this post, I am going to explain the true origin of homosexuality and why most homosexuals are “made” during their formative years before they reach emotional adulthood, and a few are “born that way.” Homosexuality goes beyond any physical act, (although that is the way it is consummated.) It reaches to the core of a person’s identity, which is why regular psychology of the mind and emotions cannot “cure” it. There is always a spiritual component to homosexuality. It must be addressed in the spiritual.
There is a spiritual world that parallels Earth’s physical one. It is inhabited by immortal spirit-beings which the Hebrew bible calls elohim. God is an immortal spirit, of course, but so are messenger angels that serve under Gabriel, the warring host led by Michael, the guardian cherubim, the 24 elders and the seraphs surrounding the throne of God. They are all elohim. There are more “species” (for lack of a better word) of elohim; the Bible does not go into great detail. They were created perfect, but some fell from their original appointment. The Apostle Paul identified some categories of these fallen ones as principalities, powers, rulers of the darkness of this world, and spiritual wickedness in the heavenlies. cf Ephesians 6:12
The Book of Daniel, Chapter 4, tells of a class of elohim called “Watchers.” The job of Watchers is to observe what happens on Earth and make declarations “to the intent that the living may know that the Most High ruleth in the kingdom of men.” (KJV, v17) Except for a couple mentions in Daniel 4, the Bible doesn’t say much about the Watchers, but other ancient historical texts do. The Book of Enoch says that long ago,¹ 200 Watchers came down to Mount Hermon. Watchers were created or assigned to be good observers of life on Earth. These two-hundred, were rebellious. They had observed Earth women and decided to leave the heavenly realm to take some wives. (cf Jude 1:6) They did, and the offspring of immortal fathers and mortal human mothers were Nephilim, the giants.
Notice that the propensities that led to the Watchers’ self-serving sin were (a) sexual and (b) domineering. They took the wives they desired. [As an aside, contrast Eve’s desire for Wisdom, a virtue that Solomon would later be commended for, as the trap that deceived her.] When the fallen elohim set themselves up as the false gods of pagan religions, these two markers would remain throughout human history. It explains why so many satanic cults use deviant sexual rituals or temple prostitutes, and it explains the ungodly control that is exercised over cult members.
The expression “all hell broke lose” fits pretty well here, even though at this point in Earth’s history they came down, not up. The rebellious Watchers began teaching mankind how to make swords and shields. But knowledge of working with metals and minerals did not stop with weapons of war. They also made ornamental bracelets and tinctures for cosmetics. Others taught about enchantments, herbs and potions, astrology, other sorts of alchemy, and divination. Some humans began to worship the Watchers as gods so that they could receive more of this occult knowledge.
All the while, the population of Nephilim kept growing. And they required enormous amounts of food. Some men were enslaved to provide this, but when they could no longer keep up the supply to meet the demand, they were eaten. The giants “began to sin against birds, and beasts, and reptiles, and fish, and to devour one another’s flesh, and drink the blood.”² Killing the Nephilim didn’t fully solve the problem. It might keep you from becoming his dinner, but remember, he’s half-immortal and his spirit-half lingers on after death with no place to go. Ancient texts say that this was the source of demons that are still with us; demons are disembodied Nephilim, distinct from their fallen elohim fathers.
“And there arose much godlessness, and they (humans) committed fornication, and they were led astray, and became corrupt in all their ways.”³ Fornincation here refers to all sexual sins. This is the source of homosexuality. So while it is true that it has been practiced since the earliest times of man, that does not mean it is normal or that God made someone that way. It was, from its introduction, a practice encouraged by fallen, demonic entities, and it remains a demonically inspired practice today.
Once the spiritual origin is recognized as demonic, a lot of other things about homosexuality start making logical connections. These “unclean spirits” as the Gospel writers called them, can influence, entice, attach to, or fully posses a person. All they need is the slightest opening. This explains why so many adult homosexuals have a history of sexual abuse occurring during their childhood. Demons can be transferred from one person to another during sexual acts. That’s basic demonology 101, and disbelief in Satan and/or demons won’t make it not true.
Transfer is not equivalent with possession. Because a demon is a spiritual personality, personal relationships provide a good analogy here: When you are first introduced to someone, they are an acquaintance; at this stage of demonic transfer, a demon becomes acquainted with you. If you spend more time devoted to that sin, it becomes familiar with you; it is a familiar spirit that hangs out with you and it can transfer thoughts , urges, suggestions and such, but you are still your own person with your own free will. And just as every human friendship develops differently, so does the development of demonic transfer. The analogy cannot be extended indefinitely, however; these are demons, after all. Eventually the path ends in destruction, perhaps traveling toward obsession, compulsion, and yes, even possession before it ends very badly.
Most homosexuals became homosexual when a demon was transferred as a result of erotic homosexual contact before or during puberty. In some cases the child abuse occurred while they were too young to remember or fully understand, and these individuals often feel as if they have “always been that way.” And while that is the most common way a person become a homosexual, there are at least three other pathways worth mentioning.
1. Curiosity and consent – this route to homosexuality may not have an overt indication of demonic activity. It will be there offering an ever-so-subtle enticement, but the person will choose to think about it, and keep thinking about it, and eventually will want to act on those thoughts. The demon is inclined to stay in the background making the person think “those thoughts” are his own. And after he thinks on them for a while, they do become his.
2. Rebellion against control extremes – it is unusual to develop a propensity toward homosexuality without a homosexual act, but it can happen when there is more than one demon that is influencing a person, and it is very common for demons to travel in packs. A youth who is subjected to an overwhelming imbalance of power in either direction, either excessively domineering or sickeningly passive, can transfer a “I don’t want to be like that person” reaction along gender lines. In these instances, the primary demons gain access first, often as spirits of anger or hatred; the secondary homosexual demon will appear to ‘help’ the person find a release and it is accepted in an attempt to find relief.
3. Curses – The Western mindset isn’t used to thinking about curses as being real, but again, disbelief doesn’t make it not real. In the rare cases when a homosexual truly is “born that way,” the demon has gained access through a curse. There are several kinds of curses which give the demon access to an unborn child through either a direct bloodline or, theoretically, a satanic ritual.
A satanic ritual can give a demon access to a child who is still in the womb, but I say ‘theoretically’ because I have never heard of an invocation specifically for a homosexual demon like that. Another kind of curse is a generational curse. It does not have to be invoked; it is just there in the bloodline. Some sins can be passed on for up to four generations. cf Exodus 20:5. If someone in the child’s bloodline three generations back had a hatred for God that had never been repented of (and know that the second and first generation back would have the authority to break the curse by repenting for their ancestor, because it was a curse upon them as well), that would be a possible access point for a demon. And there can be unintended curses passed to a baby in utero by the words of his parents. The baby is a complete human spirit from conception. Idle words spoken in anger or expressing abandonment by its parents can be picked up in the spirit realm and inadvertently open a gateway.
God did not create homosexuals. Homosexuality is a secondary effect in response to an ancient rebellion against God; it has a spiritual root.
No, there is no quarrel with Buttigieg’s Creator because Mayor Pete was never created to be homosexual. A few choose it, but more often homosexuality is perpetrated upon them. Because our Western culture rejects the of the possibility of an unseen realm having a great deal of influence upon sexual preference, many don’t even look there for causes—or for remedies.
So now you know (a) where homosexuality came from and (b) how it can attach to people today, but we have not answered (c) WHY is it a sin, after all, they Love Each Other, don’t they?
…and that answer is in Romans 1.
Homosexuals surely ‘have feelings’ for each other, but those feelings are not a god-honoring love for each other. They are putting their own desires ahead of their respect for God’s word. Here’s the quote:
There you have it. Homosexuality is self-serving; it does not serve the Creator’s purpose for mankind. God is more than miffed about such an affront, and He gives them over to dishonorable passions, or as the King James puts it, to vile affections.
You can read the entire first chapter of Romans if you wish. I cherry-picked the four verses that best laid it out, simply to conserve space. It is not the Mike Penses of this world who have a quarrel with the Creator of it. It is the Pete Buttigiegs of the world who do not see fit to acknowledge God’s word any longer.
Footnotes
¹ The time is indefinite, but roughly five centuries after Adam and Eve were kicked out of the Garden some of the effects caused by Nephilim start showing up.
² Enoch 7:5
³ Enoch 8:2
⁴ https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/08/politics/pete-buttigieg-mike-pence/index.html
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