Homosexual Marriage

So also [it was the same] as it was in the days of Lot. [People] ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built;  Luke 17:28

The Bible teaches us that in the days of Lot, homosexuality was widely accepted and practiced in Sodom. 

But before they lay down, the men of the city of Sodom, both young and old, all the men from every quarter, surrounded the house. And they called to Lot and said, Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us, that we may know (be intimate with) them. Genesis 19:4-5

So Jesus tells us that before He returns, homosexuality will be widely practiced and accepted, just as it was in the days of Lot. 

Here is what I want you to remember: this will come to pass. We can pray that it won’t. We can complain about it. We can try to have it legislated against, but it will still come to pass. All of the laws in the land will not stop the Truth that before Jesus returns, homosexuality will become common place. Right now religious people are all up in arms over homosexual marriage. To fret about this is a complete waste of time. Laws will not change what our Father has said will happen. 

So what are we to do? Grace! Where sin abounds, and homosexuality and homosexual marriage will abound, Grace will superabound.

But then Law came in, [only] to expand and increase the trespass [making it more apparent and exciting opposition]. But where sin increased and abounded, grace (God’s unmerited favor) has surpassed it and increased the more and superabounded, Romans 5:20

As all of this is happening the Holy Spirit will have us intercede for the lost and He will have us forgive them, and amen, they will be forgiven, John 20:23. It does not matter if they believe it, want it, or accept forgiveness. Just as it did not matter with those who killed Jesus. Jesus’ killers did not ask for forgiveness, they did not want it, they did not believe that they had done anything wrong, so they did not believe they needed it. Yet they were wrong and they were forgiven in spite of themselves. 

Our Father told me this almost 15 years ago: He told me that homosexuality will become mainstream. He also told me that same sex marriages would be allowed. Then He said to rejoice over it. He told me that I was to be happy because it would set millions free. The Truth is that man loves to go against what they are told is wrong, Romans 11:32. When homosexuality is common place and gay marriage is allowed, the allure of being a rebel will be lost.

Also, many homosexuals right now do not have peace. They believe that they do not have peace because they are not totally accepted and that they are not allowed to marry. Yet, when homosexuality is widely accepted and they are allowed to marry, they still will not have the peace that they seek. This is when the true body of Christ, the ones who did not scream, mock, and condemn them, will be used to show the glory and peace of our Lord. It will be just like when Jesus set the woman who was caught in adultery free. Jesus did not condemn her, He just rescued her, John 8. 

Don’t seek judges, politicians, or laws to accomplish our Father’s Grace. Just be patient, and when it looks like sin is abounding and the love of the so called Christians is growing cold towards the homosexuals, Matthew 24:12, our Father’s Grace will superabound through us and millions will be set free by it.  

Galatians 4:30-31

30 But what does the Scripture say? Cast out and send away the slave woman and her son, for never shall the son of the slave woman be heir and share the inheritance with the son of the free woman.

    

When Ishmael was cast out from Abraham was he killed and destroyed, or was he just not permitted to be an heir of Abraham’s? Our Father gave Ishmael a promise of great power, yet not the power of being a son who was an heir, Genesis 21:18. Our Father told Hagar that He was going to make Ishmael a great nation. Far too many think that just because a person is not chosen to be born again and become the Bride of Christ, that they are thrown into the Lake of Fire. This is not true at all, it only means that they are not called to be the Bride. Yet they are chosen to be the guests of the Bride and Groom at the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, Matthew 22. They will be a great nation, just as Ishmael. 

Look at Jesus’ parable of the Kingdom of Heaven, there are guests there and only one of them was found unworthy and wasn’t allowed to stay, Matthew 22:11-12. Only the one who commits blasphemy of the Holy Spirit is thrown into the Lake of Fire, Matthew 12:31. The Truth is that there is only one unforgivable sin. The rest of the guests are permitted to stay and celebrate for all of eternity the Marriage of the Bride and Groom, which is the saved and Jesus. These guests will be served by us and taught by us and they are a great nation, Revelation 3:9!

Read in Revelation 21 and you will see the glory that the nations will bring to us when the New Jerusalem and new earth have come into being. The people of the nations will be those who weren’t chosen to be the Bride of Christ and who did not commit blasphemy of the Holy Spirit. How cool is that? The Truth is that because of what Jesus did for man, not many of us will be lost. Every knee will bow to the Truth that Jesus is Lord and that will set them free, Romans 14:11, and that will bring great praise to our Father. Our Father’s desire that all men be saved and come to the knowledge of the Truth will be satisfied through the power of Jesus’ love for us, 1 Timothy 2:4. 

31 So, brethren, we [who are born again] are not children of a slave woman [the natural], but of the free [the supernatural].

We are the Bride! Jesus has born us into freedom and that gift will never be taken away from us. I love Galatians, I just love it! 

For God’s gifts and His call are irrevocable. [He never withdraws them when once they are given, and He does not change His mind about those to whom He gives His grace or to whom He sends His call.] Romans 11:29

So if the Son liberates you [makes you free men], then you are really and unquestionably free. John 8:36

Galatians 3:6

6 Thus Abraham believed in and adhered to and trusted in and relied on God, and it was reckoned and placed to his account and credited as righteousness (as conformity to the divine will in purpose, thought, and action).

Now ask yourself this question, did Abraham believe what God had for him on his own? Did Abraham adhere to and rely on our Father through his own human strength and ability to believe? No. Abraham was told by the Lord, as he ate with Him, that he was going to have a son, Genesis 18. Go and read Genesis 18, you will see that Abraham actually ate with the Lord. The Lord came down to Abraham and ate with Him! Then the Lord told Abraham what He was going to do with Sodom and Gomorra. Abraham was not left on his own to believe God. 

Our Father has always been the power that worked within men to inspire faith. The Truth is that the Holy Spirit worked through men even before the Cross.

The Lord said to Moses, Take Joshua son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, and lay your hand upon him; Numbers 27:18

And Moses said to the Israelites, See, the Lord called by name Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah; And He has filled him with the Spirit of God, with ability and wisdom, with intelligence and understanding, and with knowledge and all craftsmanship, Exodus 35:30-31

The Spirit of the Lord came upon him, and he judged Israel. He went out to war, and the Lord delivered Chushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand and his hand prevailed over Chushan-rishathaim. Judges 3:10

For he (John the Baptist) will be great and distinguished in the sight of the Lord. And he must drink no wine nor strong drink, and he will be filled with and controlled by the Holy Spirit even in and from his mother's womb. Luke 1:15

Our Father was active in people’s lives even before Jesus came and died for us. We have to remember the Truth, nothing exists that isn’t controlled by our Father. Whether things are seen or unseen, whether they are in Heaven or on earth, everything is controlled and has always been controlled by our Father.

All things were made and came into existence through Him; and without Him was not even one thing made that has come into being. John 1:3

For it was in Him that all things were created, in heaven and on earth, things seen and things unseen, whether thrones, dominions, rulers, or authorities; all things were created and exist through Him [by His service, intervention] and in and for Him. And He Himself existed before all things, and in Him all things consist (cohere, are held together). Colossians 1:16-17

The Truth is that our Father has always been with us and He has always controlled everything. It just has to be that way, because nothing can exist without Him. So Abraham was not left on his own to believe our Father, just as we are not left alone to believe Him. Faith for us has always come from our Father and it always will. Even Jesus prayed in John 17 for our Father to glorify Him, so that He could in turn glorify God. The flesh of God required the Spirit of God to empower Him. If there was any flesh that could have done it on His Own it would have been Jesus, but even Jesus couldn’t. For flesh to have faith and serve the Kingdom it all has to come from the Holy Spirit, flesh on its own just doesn’t have the ability. 

Revelation 19:15

15 From His mouth goes forth a sharp sword with which He can smite (afflict, strike) the nations; and He will shepherd and control them with a staff (scepter, rod) of iron. He will tread the winepress of the fierceness of the wrath and indignation of God the All-Ruler (the Almighty, the Omnipotent).

Notice that not all of the unsaved people die here when Jesus returns. If they did why would Jesus have to rule with an iron rod? John is shown that Jesus smites the nations. John doesn’t write that Jesus smites the people of the nations, but the nations? Think of the nation of America. Does the nation, or the government, of America unite people? Does it cause love? Does the government cause us to look to Jesus or to man? The people of America do a ton of these things, as do people all around the world, but as for our government that is not the case. Jesus smites the things that divide, not those who are divided by them! 

We are told that Jesus rules those who remain alive with an iron rod after He comes back. This makes sense, not everyone left on the earth will be at Armageddon. There has to be people who did not take the mark of the beast and who did not die. Think of all of the people of the earth who are not in technological advanced societies, think of the poor in the developing countries, think of the people of the muslim nations that have been impoverished, while so much wealth has been made around them. These people have been mistreated and abused for centuries by the great whore Babylon. These people don’t buy or sell now in the worlds markets, so do you think that they will during the Great Tribulation? I just can’t see these impoverished people around the world joining up with America and the Catholic Church, even if war, plagues, and natural disasters have ravished the earth. And I can’t see that the anti-christ and false prophet will even care about them to pursue them. 

Arabs have a covenant with our Father through Ishmael, Genesis 17:20. Millions of Arabs will not follow the beast, so that they may finally live in the glory of their covenant with our Father. I am sure that there are others, many others, who will not follow the beast and who will not be at Armageddon. The millennial Reign of Jesus is the chance for those who Babylon has mistreated and overlooked to be taken care of. Remember the Truth, many are called, not all are called. This is the reason that Jesus taught us this, because there will be people left who did not follow the beast and who were not killed during the 3 1/2 years, and who were not born again. These people will be ruled over for the first time in love, grace, truth, and peace. These things of our Father will be absolute; they will be iron clad!

Revelation 16:13-14

13 And I saw three loathsome spirits like frogs, [leaping] from the mouth of the dragon and from the mouth of the beast and from the mouth of the false prophet. 

14 For really they are the spirits of demons that perform signs (wonders, miracles). And they go forth to the rulers and leaders all over the world, to gather them together for war on the great day of God the Almighty.

Here is a great Truth about what the demons are used to do by our Father, they miraculously gather those who take the mark of the beast to Armageddon. Think of what we have been shown so far in Revelation: a 1/3rd of the ships of the world will have been destroyed at this time. We have been shown that the air will be so thick with ash that a 1/3rd of the sun will be darkened. We are told that there will be extreme world wide famine. We are told that anyone who joins with the anti-christ will be vexed with extreme ulcers and soars, so they won’t be able to travel. These things mean that the anti-christ will not be able to move armies with ships or airplanes or by marches. The anti-christ will not be able to supply the massive troops with food and water to sustain them. Yet millions will be gathered to Armageddon to be destroyed. They are gathered there miraculously by these three demons. They are gathered without being shipped to Armageddon or flown there. 

With that in mind now look at Jesus’ parable in Luke 17 about the two men in one bed, one will be taken and one left. The disciples asked Jesus where would they be taken to and Jesus told them plainly to Armageddon, where the birds are gathered to consume their flesh, Luke 17:37 and Revelation 19:21. In Luke 17:22-29 Jesus was telling the disciples about the last days. So in Luke 17, Jesus was showing us that those who follow the anti-christ will be miraculously transported to Armageddon to be destroyed.

Now you want to see something very powerful. Look at the parable of the wheat and darnel in Matthew 13.

Let them grow together until the harvest; and at harvest time I will say to the reapers, Gather the darnel first and bind it in bundles to be burned, but gather the wheat into my granary. Matthew 13:30

Jesus tells us that the darnel will be gathered first. Now darnel is not wheat. It never was wheat. It is not wheat that has been perverted. Darnel is a weed and it was sown by the enemy. Think of our enemy satan and the third of the angels that followed him. Where could they do more damage then in the leadership of religion and government? We know that angels can take on the form of being human, Hebrews 13:2, Mark 16:5, and Genesis 6:2. These fallen angels, or darnel, know that their time is short here on the earth, Revelation 12:12. They want to make people trust in themselves and others instead of our Father, which is exactly what governments and religions do. 

Jesus has been given all men, John 17:2. Jesus will not lose any that He has been given, John 6:39. So the darnel must be the fallen angels who we are told can look like people, but they are not people. They are angels and they are not used by our Father to produce fruit as man is. Our Father allows them to stay among us until the end to use them to strengthen us in Him, 2 Corinthians 12:6-8. Then He removes them first, by taking them to Armageddon to be destroyed.   Satan cannot sow men, because he has not been given men, but he has been given a 1/3rd of the angels. 

Revelation 14:19-20 Part 3

19 So the angel swung his scythe on the earth and stripped the grapes and gathered the vintage from the vines of the earth and cast it into the huge winepress of God's indignation and wrath. 

20 And [the grapes in] the winepress were trodden outside the city, and blood poured from the winepress, [reaching] as high as horses' bridles, for a distance of 1,600 stadia (about 200 miles).

Let them grow together until the harvest; and at harvest time I will say to the reapers, Gather the darnel first and bind it in bundles to be burned, but gather the wheat into my granary. Matthew 13:30

In Jesus’ parable about the wheat and the darnel in Matthew 13, we are told that an enemy came and sowed weeds resembling wheat in the field. Now darnel is not wheat, even though it looks like wheat. Darnel was never wheat and it never could be wheat, even though it resembles wheat. 

Also notice that an enemy sowed the weeds, not the owner of the field. So what exactly am I getting at? It is that I am coming to believe more and more that the fallen angels are right here among us, not just as spirits, but as bodies who look like humans. Our Father allowed satan to sow them here and they believe that they are harming us, when actually they are strengthening our Father within us, 2 Corinthians 12:10. 

We are told in the Old Testament that angels actually came and had children with human women, Genesis 6:4. We are told in the New Testament that we can be entertaining angels and not even be aware of it, Hebrews 13:2. So these beings, or darnel, look like people, act like people, yet they are not human. They are unable to ever be one with our Father through Jesus Christ and will never be used to produce fruit by the Holy Spirit. These beings marvel at the relationship that we have with our Father and the attention that He gives us, Hebrews 2:6. They rebelled and have been cast down to the earth and they know that there time is short, Revelation 12:9. During the end times these fallen angels will actually believe that they can do battle with Jesus and win. This is why they are caught away and taken to the place where our Father gathers together the birds to consume their flesh, Armageddon, Matthew 24:28. 

The darnel, or the fallen angels, are gathered first. Jesus so plainly tells us in John 17:2 that He has been given all human flesh and that He will give eternal life to all that He has been given. In John 6:39. Jesus tells us that He will not lose any that He has been given and He has been given all humans. I believe that Jesus was more successful on the Cross then satan was at the Garden of Eden. I believe that the sin of Adam that allowed all sin to come into the world is in no way to be compared with the victory of the Cross, Romans 5:16. I believe that because of Jesus the number of people who spend eternity with Him will be as the sands of the sea. There is a reason that in the parable of the Marriage Supper of the Lamb that Jesus only said one wasn’t allowed to stay and then in John 17 Jesus tells us that only Judas was lost. Jesus was very successful and the more that our Father shows me with His Word the more clearly the greatness and the mass quantity of those saved becomes to me.  

I hope that this study of Revelation is bringing you peace and hope and that our Father uses you to read Revelation out loud and hear it being read out loud in groups. There is such a blessing on us when He does. 

Revelation 7:15

15 For this reason they are [now] before the [very] throne of God and serve Him day and night in His sanctuary (temple); and He Who is sitting upon the throne will protect and spread His tabernacle over and shelter them with His presence. 

Once again Jesus tells us that these people, the people who are dressed in white and washed by His Blood, are before the Throne, not that they are seated in the Throne with Him. Jesus also shows us that He will protect them and shelter them. The Bride of Christ is Jesus’ actual Body, so let me ask you, what does Jesus need protected from? There is no weapon that can harm Jesus and there is no weapon that can harm us, Romans 8:37. But we are told that these people need protected. The only reason that they must need to be protected is because they are not the Body of Christ. These people that fill up eternity are our guests, just as Matthew 22:10 teaches. These people have been raised up and they have been given back their flesh and flesh needs protected, or in other words, flesh needs provided for. 

We are shown later in Revelation that the New Jerusalem will have a River flowing through its middle and along its shores will be twelve manner of tree’s, bearing twelve manner of fruit, for the healing of the nations, Revelation 22:2. These people will have flesh that will need provided for and we are shown that they will be. The Bride of Christ, or the born again, have never been of this world, even though we have been in the world. We are not in need of the healing that the nations will need. Jesus bore our sins and sicknesses and by His stripes we are healed. 

Repeatedly we are told that these people will serve our Father from before the Throne. The born again will be transformed to be just like Jesus when He returns, 1 John 3:2. Our bodies will be as our Lord’s body is and we will rule, or serve, these guests who have not been transformed to be just like Jesus. Jesus ever lives to intercede for people and we are one with Him, Hebrews 7:25. So we too will ever live to serve. We will be used for all of eternity to serve an uncountable number of people.

Now think about this: the number of people who have ever lived can be counted. I Googled it and it is estimated that around 107 billion people have been born on the earth. So we can count the number of people. But, Jesus tells us that we cannot count the number of guests that serve our Father from before the Throne. The only way for this to be True, is if people continue to be born for all of eternity and they all live forever. Our Father told Abraham that his descendants will be as the number of the grains of sand of the sea, Genesis 22:17. All of the people who have ever lived only would amount to a very very small portion of the number of grains of sand. So according to our Father there is going to be far more people and the only way that can happen, is if these people continue to live and have children forever. 

You may be thinking to yourself: but Jesus said that no one is married or given in marriage in eternity? That is not what He actually said. Jesus said that only those who have been resurrected will not be given in marriage, Matthew 22:30. Jesus never says that the living, who never have to be resurrected, cannot stay in their marriage and continue to have children, who will have children, for ever and ever. 

In Revelation 20 we are told about Judgment Day and in Revelation 20 Jesus only talks about the dead being judged. He never tells us that the living will be judged, only the dead. There are going to be millions upon millions of people alive at the end of the Millennial Reign of Christ when the Judgment Day occurs. These people will have been married and having children during the thousand years of Christ’s Rule. So why would they ever stop? Our Father will end death for them, take away all pain, and sorrow, Revelation 21:4. Jesus will extend His Tabernacle over them and they will never see death and there will be a population explosion! Jesus’ Blood will be applied to them and they will continue to have children and our Father will fulfill His promise to Abraham that his descendants will be counted as the number of grains of sand of the sea. 

Our Father will also fulfill His promise to Jesus and allow Him and His Bride to serve these guests forever.    

And there shall be no more night; they have no need for lamplight or sunlight, for the Lord God will illuminate them and be their light, and they shall reign [as kings] forever and ever (through the eternities of the eternities). Revelation 22:5