JEWISH CUSTOMS?

A sodomite activist has mockingly propounded what he calls the ‘Shellfish Suppression Act‘ as his scornful response to my initiative. To such an evil sodomite the pronouncement of God’s wrath against him and the entire society is just an occasion for ridicule and levity. It’s all a great big joke until the day of reckoning arrives.

“And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the LORD will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law.” (Genesis 19:14)

Nevertheless, this might be a truly perplexing issue to some people. Some might wonder, “Why did Moses tell the Jews not to eat shellfish? (Leviticus 11). And if that prohibition was discarded in the New Testament (Acts 10:15), then can the prohibition against sodomy be made equally outdated?”

The explanation is simply that Moses’ law expressed two things: (1) Governing sinful people according to moral principles; and (2) providing special customs for the Jewish nation.

The moral code is innately written in man’s heart and conscience (Romans 2:15) from which all societies know and enforce Natural Law as a restraint against human evil (Romans 13:9; 1 Timothy 1:9-10). Thus when Moses announced moral laws, they were statements of eternal truth.

But God also decreed that the people of the earth should be separated from each other (Genesis 11:6-8; Deuteronomy 32:8) – and to that end all societies also retain particular customs which set them apart from other people. And so likewise, Moses commanded Jewish ceremonial customs for his people.

So although the Jewish customs that he gave are not necessarily applicable to other nations, nevertheless Moses did make clear those moral standards of human behaviour that do apply to all people and nations.

The sodomite who is mockingly proposing the outlawing of shellfish would be incensed if he watched his neighbour kill a stray cat and turn him into chop-suey. We consider eating cats and dogs to be abomination. In fact, California voters also made horse-meat consumption a crime under Proposition 6 in 1998.

The shellfish ban is part of the ceremonial customs of the Jewish people – but the prohibition against men fornicating with other men is part of the universal moral law – it is never okay in any country under any circumstances:

“If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.” (Leviticus 20:13)

About five hundred years before Moses wrote the verse above, the men of Sodom were destroyed for violating it. They were already culpable for violating God’s natural laws for human procreation which have remained in existence from the moment man and woman were created upon the earth.

“But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife; And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.” (Mark 10:6-9)

A TERRIBLE SIN.

According to God sodomy is one of the most wicked sins that a man can commit.

In fact, several of the great men of faith in the Bible committed terrible sins like murder (Ex. 2:12; 2 Sam. 12:9)- yet they were forgiven and used by God. But not so with sodomy – there isn’t a single example in scripture of a sodomite reforming his life and being used by God to do anything. Theoretically it’s possible (1 Corinthians 6:11), but every indication is that the sin is like a black-hole for those whom God has given up on (Romans 1:24,26).

To demonstrate just how incredibly wicked sodomites are from God’s viewpoint (Genesis 13:13), notice that when God burned all of them up, he saved out of their midst a man associated with rape and incest (Gen. 19:8; Gen 19:36; 2 Peter 2:7). Rape and incest occurs between a man and a woman – but sodomy is against nature. Yet to make it even more pronounced, God killed Lot’s wife for no other sin than just lingering behind and looking back toward that wicked city (Gen. 19:26).

The Bible says,

“And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.” (Ephesians 5:11-12)

LOT’S WIFE.

Jesus says, “Remember Lot’s wife.“ (Luke 17:32). Have you obeyed that command?

The Sodomite Suppression Act is based upon the Bible. If the Bible is to be believed, then God will destroy California because of the sodomites in our midst. Are you with God and the Bible, or standing with Lot’s wife looking back with longing on all your friends in the city?