“Why should I care if men marry men or women marry women?” The truth is that it’s a very big deal. In fact, it may be the biggest deal – after the state-approved murders of 50 million unborn children – that the United States has ever faced or ever will face.
It’s important because it weakens one of the last remaining foundational pillars on which our nation is built. For that matter, on which any nation is built. You see, the traditional definition of marriage – a recognized and exclusive union of one woman and one man – is the building block on which all civilizations throughout all of history have been founded.
It is, in fact, the only building block that has made history even possible. And when you review the great civilizations and empires that have collapsed throughout the ages, one of the classic death rattles is the demise of the sanctity of marriage and the acceptance and celebration of immorality and, especially, homosexuality.
And don’t make the mistake of believing the lie that only the Old Testament condemns the practice of homosexuality. The writers of the New Testament were very specific and strong in their condemnation, too.
Let me make a distinction, though. I’m not talking about whether to tolerate or accept homosexual behavior. I’m talking about condoning and codifying those behaviors by officially changing our long-standing laws. Society can and does accept or tolerate the presence of certain behaviors as a fact of life without sanctioning or institutionalizing them. Formal recognition of gay marriage by a government implies society’s seal of approval. When a government enacts such a law, it invariably promotes that conduct. […]
In truth, the Scripture teaches that rampant homosexuality — and the general public’s comfort with it — is a primary indicator that a society has willfully rejected God and plunged into darkness and sin.
C. S. Lewis once made a chilling observation. He wrote,
“There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, in the end, ‘Thy will be done.'”
When I look around at our world today and I see the utter collapse of moral and spiritual values and principles, I’m terrified to think of what this world will be like when God finally says to us, “Okay, if this is what you want, then your will be done.”
I am so glad that the true followers of Christ will not be on this earth when that happens. Thank God, the Bible promises that we will be with Jesus, caught up in the clouds of glory to be forever with our Lord and Savior. Make certain you’ve accepted the atoning sacrifice that Jesus made to purchase your pardon. If you’ve done that, then you’re ready to escape that day when God finally says to this sinful world, “This is what you asked for, this is what you will receive.”
from The Hal Lindsey Report – April 26, 2013
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