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| Event 1 - Final Signs |
| Sign#19 |
Key Text
"...God
gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the
natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the
men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one
toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving
in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet." Romans
1:26-27 |
Desecration of Marriage
Prophecy: "But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the
coming of the Son of man be." Matthew 24:37
The condition of society today is similar to what it was in the time of Noah
and Lot; and if Jesus was among us, he would say, "Can ye not discern the
signs of the times?" "And as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it
be also in the days of the Son of Man. They did eat, they drank, they married
wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the
ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. Likewise also as it was in the
days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted,
they builded; but the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and
brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day
when the Son of Man is revealed."
"Watch therefore; for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come. But know
this, that if the good man of the house had known in what watch the thief would
come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken
up. Therefore be ye also ready; for in such as hour as ye think not the Son of
Man cometh." The world is given up to the pursuit of temporal affairs, as
men were in the days of Noah. They are eating, drinking, planting, building,
marrying, and giving in marriage. These things are all lawful in themselves,
but it is the carrying of them to excess and the perversion of the holy which
is sinful. Marriage has been perverted to minister to passion.
"Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall
any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion. Defile not
ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled
which I cast out before you: And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the
iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants." Leviticus
18:22-25
"And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that
every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually... The
earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. And
God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted
his way upon the earth. And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come
before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I
will destroy them with the earth." Genesis 6:5, 11-13
The world has had great light, and has been greatly favored, and yet the people
of the world come short of living up to their responsibilities. The warning Christ
gave to the cities that had been most highly favored and had not repented, applies
to the world in this day: "Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida!
for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon,
they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. But I say unto you,
It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment than
for thee."
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