I’ve been shown that a movement of God is coming, and it will involve many who identify within the LGBTQIA communities.
How can that be when the Christian Church literally rallies against these very people?
The Church’s ammunition to attack comes from the Laws of Moses recorded in Leviticus, the story of Sodom and Gomorrah, and some of the writings of Paul.
First, let’s look at the Laws of Moses.
In our book, Remnants of Ur, we have a chapter on Moses and from where his laws originated. Interestingly, they come from the very culture of which Abram was instructed to leave.
That’s right, the laws of Moses are based upon the Mesopotamian principle of lex talionis, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.
It is that very principle that Yeshua taught against (Matt 5:38).
Although Christ often corrected the Laws of Moses, he said that he did not come to abolish the law but to fulfill it.
Yeshua summed up the law in Matt 22:36-39 when he answered the question of a lawyer/scribe:
The lawyer asked, “Master, what is the greatest commandment in the law?
Jesus said unto him, “you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul and mind. This is the first and great commandment.”
Then Christ continued, “and second is that you shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments, hang all the law and the prophets.”
Those are the two commandments that encompass the teachings of Christ.
He never condemned homosexuality. In fact, he never even mentioned it in his teachings.
The mission of Christ was to connect people to the Father by redeeming them from blood sacrificial religion.
However, his message was quickly snuffed out by Paul who created another blood sacrificial religion.
The Church, instead of addressing this grievous error, has embraced it.
And, rather than looking in the mirror, they have looked outwards, appointing themselves as judges of the world condemning the ones who identify as LGBTQIA.
Why, because it says so in the laws of Moses?
If the Laws of Moses were perfect, Christ would not have corrected several of them in the Sermon on the Mount, and Christ was not the first one.
The prophets did so as well.
Jeremiah spoke out against some of the Laws of Moses. In chapter 7 of the Hebrew Bible is recorded:
Thus said the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel: Add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices and eat the meat!
For when I freed your fathers from the land of Egypt, I did not speak with them or command them concerning burnt offerings or sacrifice.
But what I did command them: Do my bidding, that I may be your God and you may be My People; walk only in the way that I enjoin upon you, that it may go well with you.
Yet, they did not listen or give ear; they followed their own counsels and the willfulness of their evil hearts.
They have gone backward and not forward; from the day your fathers left the land of Egypt until today.
And though I kept sending all My servants, the prophets, to them daily and persistently, they would not listen to Me or give ear.
They stiffened their necks, they acted worse than their fathers.
Jeremiah is clearly saying here that God did not give Moses those commandments concerning burnt offering and sacrifices. They were concocted by evil imaginations of the heart, and that they were going backward and not forward.
What does backward mean?
It means, going back to Mesopotamia, from where Abram was instructed to walk away.
Moses went backward when he wrote these laws regarding sacrifice.
To where were they supposed to go forward?
Jeremiah answers the question: walk only in the way that I enjoin upon you.
Enjoin means to instruct.
God was saying that he wants His people to walk in the way that He instructs them. That, would require them to hear the voice of God. It’s that simple.
Jeremiah was saying to not rely on these written laws, but to hear the voice of God and do what God instructs you to do.
So, if Moses was completely off base in writing those laws, what makes one think that he was spot on regarding his laws on homosexuality?
Pretty questionable, and then, there is the story of Sodom and Gomorrah.
The Christian Church uses this Old Testament Story as if it represents solid proof regarding the “sin” of homosexuality. (My husband and I did a podcast spot on Sodom and Gomorrah. It can be found on our website, RemnantsofUr.com).
When studying the heinous story of Sodom and Gomorrah, it is clear that it is not about homosexuality at all, but rather the depravity of the human condition in that civilization.
The citizens thronged the house of Lot and attempted to beat down the door in order to get to the visiting angels, so they could rape them.
They were acting like wild savages with absolutely no moral compass, a degenerate culture who had no regard for other human beings.
It was not about same gender sex at all.
So, the condemnation of homosexuality is based upon some flawed laws of Moses and upon a story detailing despicable human behavior.
Then, there are a few passages in Paul’s letters where he alludes to the sin of homosexuality, but I am not even going to give any discussion to the teachings of Paul, because his teachings often contradict the teachings of Christ.
Christians, why would you even give an ear to anyone whose teachings contradict the teachings of the very Messiah?
Only the teachings of Christ are the way, the truth and the life.
You’ve been misdirected by your religious teachers.
Jesus never taught against homosexuality, but he did teach his disciples against being judgmental.
Contrary to the teachings of Christ, you have been taught to judge by your religious leaders.
Break away from that negative influence. Instead of judging the people that you don’t understand, show compassion like Christ did.
Look at what you are being taught and compare that to the teachings of Christ.
Be like David who said, “search me, O God, and know my heart; try me and know my thoughts. And, see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.”
That would be a good place to begin, because, remember, judgement starts first in the house of God.