By John Roberts, October 8, 2003

What is the significance and relevance of this story to last days prophecy?

By voting an openly gay and non-repenting adulterer to a bishopric the Episcopalian leadership has committed a great sin.   I don’t care what this wicked world says, God calls homosexuality an abomination, and for good reason.   Most people don’t realize that in the ancient world acts of sexual perversion (fornication, adultery, homosexuality, pedophilia, bestiality, necrophilia, etc.) were institutionalized in pagan temple rituals as a form of worship and initiation into secret mystery religions.   And today when people engage in this type of deviant behavior they are in essence worshipping Satan and blaspheming God.

God’s plan of salvation is built upon His promise to send a Savior to the world from the Seed of Eve.   God placed much prophetic and spiritual significance upon the marriage ceremony and the family unit comprised of a man, woman, and their children.   Eve was created out of Adam.   So too is the church, the universal body of believers, created out of the flesh and blood of Christ, which He offered on the cross to make us whole.   Marriage is for life because it represents our everlasting relationship with Christ.   And children represent the fruit of our relationship with Christ.

“For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.  This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.”    Ephesians 5:31-32

God surrounded us with many things to serve as reminders of His promise of salvation least we get carried away with the things of this world and forget Him and our pending judgment.   The twelve constellations, the rainbow, the musical scale, the Great Pyramid at Gaza, the Jewish Feasts, the Jubilee, and the traditional family are all testimonies of Jesus Christ.

Likewise, the Devil created mystery religions and pagan mythology as a means to deceive people into worshiping Satan instead of God.   Mystery religions first appeared after the Great Flood in the city of Babel and from there they spread around the globe.   It is not a coincidence that the Far East worships the dragon.

At the core of all false religions is a blasphemous spin of the Biblical story of the Original sin.  Satan and the snake are worshiped in mystery religions as good pagan gods because they opened Eve’s eyes to good and evil.  And thus you have the beginning of a pattern in which paganism and Satan take the counter position to everything God tells us in scripture.  If God says marriage and fidelity are good then Satan sets about destroying the family through fornication, adultery, and homosexuality.

In Babylon it was the custom that every Babylonian woman should at least once in their lifetime, married or not, serve as a priestess in one of the various pagan temples.   By serve I mean service the men that came in to “worship.”   There was a fee for ‘worshiping the goddess,’ a single coin tossed into the lap of the selected priestess.   Babylon was literally as well as spiritually the Mother of Harlots.

This is why Babylon is used in scripture as a symbol of the seat of antichrist.   There have been six Gentile kingdoms of prophetic significance to spring up around the Great Sea (Mediterranean).   And each one had their “Babylon.”   But we know from prophecy that there will be one more kingdom, a seventh.   And the spiritual Babylon of the sixth kingdom (the Roman Empire) and seventh kingdom (the European Union) is the same city located on seven hills, Rome.

Babylon is called the Mother of Harlots because Babylon gave birth to many false religions.   Roman Catholicism is the seventh incarnation of the Mystery Babylon and is also called the Mother of Harlots because Catholicism has also given rise to many false religions, such as Calvinism and the Episcopal denomination.

Prophecy tells us that perversion will reign freely in this world until our Lord comes.   Then there will be a time of reckoning when everyone will give account of their actions.   That time is sooner than most people think.

Ecclesiastics 3:1-22

  1     To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
  2     A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
  3     A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
  4     A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
  5     A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
  6     A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
  7     A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
  8     A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
  9     What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?
  10     I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.
  11     He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
  12     I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life.
  13     And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God.
  14     I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him.
  15     That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past.
  16     And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.
  17     I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.
  18     I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.
  19     For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.
  20     All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
  21     Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?
  22     Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?

What inspired words!   Solomon, the wisest man to walk the earth, addresses the question, “what is life all about?”   Solomon puts forth the thesis that “all is vanity.”   And he should know.   The son of David speaks from experience when he says the world has nothing to offer but disappointment and dissatisfaction.

People today are searching for purpose in everything from science, music, art, religious organizations, social relationships, money, and power.   All these are futile.   Too many spend their life in these endless cycles pursuing knowledge, levity, and pleasure.

If you want to find something you must look for it in the right place.   The meaning of life is found in God and His plan of salvation.   And the “good life” is not found in every superficial thing under the sun.   It can only be found in this:

Fear God and keep His commandments,
For this is the whole duty of man.
For God will bring every work into judgment,
Including every secret thing,
Whether it is good or whether it is evil.

Solomon is like a father giving a child good advice so that the mistakes he made won’t be repeated by future generations.   Life is short.   Every day you get out of bed is a good day.   Don’t waist your life in useless pursuits of the flesh.

The fear of God is the beginning of knowledge.   Ask yourself, what is the season and when is the time of His coming?

1.   Ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars.
2.   The gospel must first be published among all nations.
3.   Children shall rise up against their parents.
4.   Ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake.
5.   For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy
6.   Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
7.   Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God
8.   Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof
9.   Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

There is a very real similarity between the people of the world today and the passengers on the Titanic right before it struck the iceberg and sank.   They didn’t have a clue that perilous times were just ahead.

Luke 17:26-30

  26     And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.
  27     They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
  28     Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;
  29     But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.
  30     Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.

I John 2:15-18

  15     Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
  16     For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
  17     And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
  18     Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.

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