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God's Judgment Looms: Supreme Court Has Been Warned

Scripture warns that perversions violate the law of the land ... (Leviticus 18:22-30).

A team of lawyers, acting on behalf of a number of Christian and liberty-focused organizations, has told the U.S. Supreme Court that to mandate same-sex marriage is to invite God's judgement. The Supreme Court is to hear arguments later this month in a case coming from the 6th U.S. Court of Appeals in which judges said that state residents are allowed to define marriage in their state. The appeal to the Supreme Court contends barring same-sex marriage violates the U.S. Constitution. Marriage existed before any government, law or constitution, so the judiciary doesn't have the authority to allow people to simply change the definition.

Should the Court require the states and the people to “ritualize” sodomite behavior by government issuance of a state marriage license, it could bring God's judgment on the nation. The Bible says that homosexual behavior and other sexual perversions violate the law of the land ... and when the land is defiled, the people have been cast out of their homes. In the Leviticus 18 account, verse 22 states, “Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable” ... and the subsequent section warns against such defilement. “If you defile the land, it will vomit you out, as it vomited out the nations that were before you. Keep My requirements and do not follow any of the detestable customs that were practiced before you came, and do not defile yourselves with them.”

Now some will say, that these rules apply only to ancient Israel. But in II Peter 2, it says that God turned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes, and condemned them with an overthrow, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly. The Book of Jude also confirms this: “Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.”

Whatever justification any judge may believe compels a state to define marriage to include same-sex couples, it is not found in the Constitution, nor is it based in any constitutional principles. For any judge to require a state to define marriage to include same-sex couples, is an usurpation of authority that he does not have under the laws of man or God, and is thus illegal.

Christians, it is our duty to pray about the decision the Supreme Court will be making this month. The authority of God's Word stands! Take a look at the weather, for example, across the globe, in Job 37, it says that “God causes it to come ... whether for correction, or for His land, or for mercy.” America needs God's mercy badly! Are you willing to do your part, to bring it about?

Barry Beard, Pastor

Joy Fellowship Church

Glasgow

 

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