In the Streets of the City

JERUSALEM, Israel, September 19, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - An ongoing battle over homosexual pride demonstrations in the city of Jerusalem came to an end today, after the controversial Gay Pride parade was rescheduled for November 10, the Jerusalem Post reported.

After talks lasting three hours between the Jerusalem Police, State Prosecution, the Jerusalem Municipality and homosexual activist groups, Jerusalem police agreed to provide security to the event." ---From an article by Gudrun Schultz

You know, there isn't just a prohibition against sexual immorality in the Bible. There is also stark demonstration of God's displeasure with those cities which condoned or promoted the practice. People don't like hearing that, or having any restrictions placed on their morality.

"49Behold, 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. 50And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw [good]." Ezekiel 16:49,50

Verses like the one above could be used to argue that God did not destroy cities like Sodom for it condoning of sexual immorality, but the when the Genesis 19 passage is read honestly, the presence of such widespread abomination is clear. I've read such quotes from liberal scholars as, "That was a case of ostensibly heterosexual males intent on humiliating strangers by treating them "like women," thus demasculinizing them." Oh yeah, that's in the text. That's just an example of truth twisting at its finest, and I'm sure it makes a lot of people feel more at ease about their homosexuality, but God isn't fooled.

I can't say what will happen even one hour from now with certainty, but this parade is scheduled for Novemeber 10th, and another blatant raspberry toward the Holy Maker of the universe will be seen in the streets of Jerusalem. The Bible tells us that "God is not mocked," and that means his perfect creation too, and while mankind continues to force the issue, remember what the Bible has to say in Proverbs; "18 Pride goes before destruction, And a haughty spirit before a fall."

I know there is sin everywhere, and that this is hardly the first sin in Jerusalem, but certainly, nothing of this nature has been seen in that city's streets before. It is a completely radical display of disdain for the things of God, and I marvel that it is going to be allowed.