That's Abominable!

Hebrew – TONEBAH

Something disgusting.  Abhorrent to God.  IDOLATRY.  A failure to TRUST God.  A failure to OBEY God.  Wickedness.  (Leviticus 18:22 specifically mentions – Homosexuality).  Interestingly, the reasons given in the New Testament for rampant homosexuality is a refusal to surrender to God’s will in favor of your own feelings.  It continues to say that God gave them over to be swallowed up by those improper and destructive lusts to perform what is shameful (Romans 1:21-32).

That is not the end of the matter.  This conscious removal of God from ones thought life leads to unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity, whisperers, backbiters, God haters, full of spite, prideful, braggarts, evil, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, foolish, covenant breakers, lacking even natural affection, unreasonable and without mercy.  This central truth is clearly seen in society today.  As long as we who believe His Word fail to spread that word so it can grow we will continue to see men and women grow worse and worse. 

If someone should speak against these lifestyles they are called INTOLERANT or HOMOPHOBIC.  If they approve they are called ENLIGHTENED or said to understand TRUE LOVE.  These purveyors of unnatural affections and passions will allow no words to be spoken against their lifestyles that might negatively affect the strides they have made in today’s society.  You MUST agree with them.  You are not allowed to have a personal opinion that is different from theirs.  They may say they just want equal protection under the laws but what they actually demand is full acceptance and public approval of their lives. 

Oddly enough I have never seen a homosexual couple that does not have a male and female member.  There is almost always a masculine and feminine woman, one who wears suits and has masculine mannerisms and one who wears dresses and is more feminine.  In couples made up of two men, one is usually more calm and take charge and the other more submissive and feminine acting.  These people may or may not go as far as wearing gender marking clothing which some call cross dressing but the mannerisms are usually quite obvious.  Even those who cross dress are an abomination to God because He has specifically addressed this in Deuteronomy 22:5.  It is TONEBAH. 

It is impossible to completely remove ourselves from our true natures of man and woman, male and female, husband and wife.  When He removed a rib from Adam to create Eve, it was His intention that mankind follow this intimate union of man and woman in a loving and nurturing relationship for all time.  Once we have left this place and have been accepted in the Beloved “JESUS” we will no longer require the physical bonding of male and female for procreation and passion.  Our passion at that time will be a much higher plane of existence and we will be free from the bondage of flesh.

There are several words translated ABOMINATION in scripture.  Just a few others are…

Hebrew – TAME, pronounced Tom May.

Utterly unclean.  Defiled.  A violation of nature AND God’s nature.

(Leviticus 18:23 – Bestiality.)

I have heard men brag about having sex with farm animals and women with large pets.  All of these things are an abomination “TAME” toward God.  Most people consider this action to be ‘wrong’ but not all.  For some who have completely surrendered themselves to the ‘flesh’ there is no experiment too obscene nor act too terrible to be considered.  These are they who prey upon others and have gone beyond criminals who might rape a woman or man to one who would molest children and even murder and eat another human being. 

These brute beasts are no longer in God’s image.  They have become the ‘Earthborn.’  They are those for whom this existence in this temporary place is everything.  There is no punishment in their eyes for these acts since life is over once the body ceases.  They do not understand that one day every man, every woman will answer to God for their life choices.  Sadly, we have allowed these perversions of God’s gift to become rule makers and society shakers.  They have taken prayer and patriotism from our schools and now children prey upon other children in games that have no limit because no limits are placed upon them by a righteous God who we have abandoned.  There is no absolute right and wrong in their eyes.  Whoever they hurt, whoever they kill matters little against their own lusts.

Hebrew – PIGGUI, PIGGUL

Stink, fetid, smell of death and decay.  Foul thing, unclean.

Spoken of unworthy, unclean sacrifices and failure to follow God’s directions. (Leviticus 7).  Leviticus 7 is all about what God will accept from us.  It has changed in Christ only in that His sacrifice has taken the place of the blood sacrifices of lambs and bullocks.  He still expects us to serve and obey Him.  He has not abdicated His position in our lives; we have abdicated ours. 

Isaiah 64:6-8 says:  But we are all as an unclean thing,

and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags;

and we all do fade as a leaf;

and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

 And there is none that calleth upon thy name,

that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee:

for thou hast hid thy face from us,

and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities.

 But now, O Lord, thou art our father;

we are the clay, and thou our potter;

and we all are the work of thy hand.

This is God’s question for us.  When will we realize we are consumed because of our failure to obey God?  When will we realize we are burning our souls in the fires of iniquity?  When will we call out to our God and repent for our terrible sins? 

He is calling out to us each day.  Some of us hear but others have become completely deaf by the multitude of transgressions.  If you no longer hear His voice or desire His touch; I pray you will repent and ask God to open your eyes and unstop your ears.  Our God is a consuming fire (Hebrew 12:28-29).  Fortunately He is also a God who suffers long with us in love (1 Corinthians 13).  For this brief moment we may call out and He will hear.  I pray you do not waste this moment beloved.

Bishop J.