20111027: Jude 7 Sodom & Gomorrha: A SG Nation

^{Jude 7}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.

These 2 sin cities were first mentioned in Gen 19. Destroyed by God. The term "Fornication" is a common characteristic of two of the seven Churches found in the book of Revelation Chapter 2, which are the Church at Pergamos and the Church at Thyatira.

And even today, the article below may shock you! Man is going after strange flesh indeed! Fornication and strange flesh!

Wednesday, Oct 26, 2011 Today's article below:

HARARE- A Zimbabwean man has told a court that he hired a prostitute who during the night transformed into a donkey, and that he is now "seriously in love" with the animal, state media said Wednesday.

"I think I am also a donkey. I do not know what happened when I left the bar, but I am seriously in love with (the) donkey," Sunday Moyo told the court, according to The Herald newspaper.

He said he had paid $25 for a prostitute, and was surprised Sunday morning when he heard people accusing him of having sex with a donkey. Moyo, 28, was arrested in the town of Zvishavane, about 300 kilometres (185 miles) south of the capital Harare on Sunday.Moyo has been charged with bestiality. The court has ordered him to undergo a mental examination, The Herald said.

We are indeed living in days of increasing darkness. Homosexuals too are becoming more open about their condition. Society which once shun such acts are slowly being sucked in and being pressured to approve such activities in the name of 'human rights and freedom'. Is this what freedom is all about? Is this what independence that man and woman are yearning for?

History has shown that in the days of old , the Israelites when they were out of the slavery of Egypt , were given a set of God's laws in the desert after crossing the miracle of the Red Sea - many instructions given and recorded in Exodus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. Why? Simply because when God rules, He rules lawfully. We obey and we are blessed and if not on the contrary, disobedience brings curses.

Isaiah 1 mentioned the 2 cities of Sodom and Gomorrah again. In the vision he saw what concerned Judah and Jerusalem.

• Is1:4: Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters; they have forsaken the LORD. They have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, there are gone away backward.
• Is1:9 Except the LORD of Hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom and we should have been like Gomorrah
• Is1:10 Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom, give ear unto the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah.
• Is1:21 How is the faithful city become an harlot! It was full of judgement; righteousness lodged in it ; but now murderers

Consequence? Jude 7 - such will suffer the vengeance of eternal fire. Ouch! In Isaiah opening chapter #1: It is recorded.

• ^{Isaiah 1:7}Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
• Isaiah 1:⁸And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
• Isaiah 1:¹¹To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
• Is1:¹²When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?
• Is ¹³Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
• Is 1:¹⁴Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.
• Is 1:¹⁵And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.

Our Freedom of Choice to choose

• ¹⁶Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
• ¹⁷Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
• ¹⁸Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
• ¹⁹If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:
• ²⁰But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.
  • ²⁸And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed.

    • ²⁹For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.
    • ³⁰For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.
    • ³¹And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.

The Hope of God's promises:

• ²⁵And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin:
• ²⁶And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.
• ²⁷Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness.

A Reflection

Let us not become a SG nation. A sin city that is displeasing to the Lord.

But the reality is that such iniquities are increasing around us. We may be be able to change the nation. But perhaps it starts of with just one unit. Me and you first. Let us not be like an oak with fading leaves, like a garden without water. Let us be found to little trees of righteousness , planted by the Lord in that Garden City- the City of Righteousness, the Faithful City. May YHWH help us, keep us, protect us.