By Dennis Edwards:
I was reading
through Leviticus chapter 18 this morning and came across quite a discovery. The
book of Leviticus contains many of the Laws of Moses. Chapter 18 is
specifically about sexual prohibitions, or in other words, who you are not supposed
to have sexual relations with. Generally, these laws follow the law of not
having sexual relations with those who are near kin.
The list
goes like this: You should not have sexual relations with your father, your mother,
your father’s wife if she is not your mother, your sister- the daughter of your
father, nor the daughter of your mother, your granddaughter, your father’s wife’s
daughter, your father’s sister- your aunt, your mother’s sister- your aunt,
your father’s brother’s wife, your daughter-in-law, your brother’s wife, a
woman and her daughter nor her daughter’s daughter, nor the woman’s sister, nor
when a woman is having her menstrual period, nor with thy neighbour’s wife.[1]
That’s quite a list.
After this
long list of who you shouldn’t have sex with, God interjects that He prohibits
letting thy children be passed through the fire to Molech.[2]
This practice, comparable to our modern day birth control, was an ancient form of devil
worship with the sacrificing of one’s son or daughter to the god Molech in
order to obtain spiritual and material blessings. A blood sacrifice to the gods. Does God see modern day abortion in the same light?
In the Psalms we read: "Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frame mischief by a law?"[3] In other words, government officials make it legal to do evil. The Psalm continues, "They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood."[4] What soul could be more righteous and innocent than that of an unborn child? Earlier in the Psalm we read, "Lord, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph?"[5] "They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless. Yet they say, The Lord shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard it."[6] Aren't the children that are aborted in the abortion clinics truly fatherless? The psalmist finishes his song with the promise that God will bring upon the head of the wicked their own iniquity and will cut them off.[7]
After the
prohibition of Molech, we find the Word of the Lord concerning homosexual
relations. God says, you shall not lie with mankind as you do with womankind.[8]
He even calls the practice “an abomination.” The first time he has used the
word in the chapter. Even though a Supreme Court or a government may make homosexuality legal and their marriages, God has a higher court and sees things differently. His next condemnation is on having sexual relations with
animals, which He calls “confusion.”[9] The next time you see a music performance where the singers are going through the
motions of having sexual relations with animals, remember God’s Word. God
concludes with these words:
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 vomits out her inhabitants! Ye shall
therefore keep my statues and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these
abominations; neither any of your nation, nor any stranger that sojourns among
you: (For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were
before you, and the land is defiled;) that the land spue not you out also when
ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you. For whosoever
shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit them shall
be cut off from among their people. Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance,
that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed
before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein.[10]
The Bible
is pretty strong stuff. God has been very patient with the world, but His
patience will not go on forever. The time will come when His must intercede or
as He has said in His Word, no flesh would live. In other words, mankind would
destroy itself.[11]
Have you accepted Christ into your life and rejected the ways of the
unbelieving world? Don’t hesitate any longer. Take Jesus today. It's later than you think. Remember, He’s just a
prayer away!
2 Comments:
Of course, before the Flood and even afterwards, God allowed near-to-kin relations. Adam and Eve's sons and daughters married each other. Even after the Flood Abraham married his half-sister, his father's daughter by a different wife. Isaac married his first cousins, the daughters of his mother's brother.
But God's foreknowledge of the genetic build-up of mutations on the genetic code led Him to prohibit near-to-kin relations. Scientist now know that near-to-kin relations increase the possibility of the same mutation appearing on the new off-springs genetic code resulting in a genetic defficiency or a genetic disease. God knew this ahead of time and therefore introduced these prohibitions. The European kings did not often follow these Biblical guidelines and inter-married near-to-kin, especially first cousins. These near-to-kin relations sometimes resulted in sickly or demented off-spring. As mankind's genetic code continues to build-up genetic mutations, the possibility of genetic defficiencies and diseases increases. That maybe one reason why genetic diseases seem to be presently on the increase.
Dr. John Sanford: Genetic Entropy and the Mystery of the Genome
You can watch him here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY98io7JH-c
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