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READ the GQ Article About Phil Robertson!

December 23, 2013

If readers would just take the time to read the GQ Article: What The Duck?” you might discover some things about both Phil and the writer that would surprise you!

I won’t add too much commentary at the moment, but I will state a few things that stood out for me, as a born-again Christian woman. I want visitors to go read the article and think for themselves. There are also over 4,000 comments to read! I haven’t read any of them yet. But several things within the article certainly stood out to me and have been apparently lost in the minds of the news network pundits as well as all the hate mongers out there in liberal land.

Another anti-Phil challenge is being spewed by the networks.  Since the “homosexual offenders” remarks have created such a backlash against the A&E network executives who are now punishing Phil Robertson by suspending his appearances on the show, perhaps a new scandal needs to be drudge up from the article:  namely, the so-called “racist” comment that Phil made about blacks.  But it might be too difficult to keep that one going since Phil called himself “white trash” in that particular quote.  Oh no!  He’s anti-white too!!!  [sarcasm now off]

The writer, who didn’t have much in common with Phil Robertson ended up at least respecting Phil (if not perhaps even envying him!) and says so within the article.

He also made this quip:

“If you can’t reconcile some of the things Phil says with his otherwise friendly demeanor—perhaps because you are gay, or a duck—I don’t blame you. And I don’t blame Duck Dynasty for keeping the show safely apolitical, ensuring smooth digestion for a mass audience.”

It’s kind of funny that this secular writer at GQ would equate the inability to reconcile some of what Phil says, “perhaps because you are gay, or a duck.”

In one case, the duck, gets killed. In the other case, the gay just might end up being saved.

We can tell that the concept of being saved is foreign to the writer.  Phil asks:

“So you and your woman: Are y’all Bible people?”

GQ writer:  Not really, I’m sorry to say.

“If you simply put your faith in Jesus coming down in flesh, through a human being, God becoming flesh living on the earth, dying on the cross for the sins of the world, being buried, and being raised from the dead—yours and mine and everybody else’s problems will be solved. And the next time we see you, we will say: ‘You are now a brother. Our brother.’ So then we look at you totally different then. See what I’m saying?”

GQ writer:  I think so?

When someone answers a direct question like that with a question mark on the end of “I think so?”; you can be assured that he doesn’t get it.

Well, that’s the point of it all now isn’t it? Those who “don’t get it” about the need for every human being on earth to confess their sins and repent of them, in order to be saved through the blood shed by Jesus Christ on the cross, do not know from whence each and every Christian has been. Phil has openly admitted his sin.  For we are all sinners in need of the Savior.

During his three-year ministry on earth, Jesus once asked a man, “why do you call me good?” when He was told that He is a good teacher. Then Jesus added, “no one but God is good.”  Jesus was applying the art of apologetics in this encounter.  He was testing the man to see whether or not he really knew who Jesus is!  Being just “a good teacher” doesn’t cut it.  Being the Savior, Son of God, the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world, demonstrates exactly who Christ is and why He came to earth in the flesh to pay the price, once and for all,  for man’s sins.

If you think that you are good enough to go to heaven without repentance in the name of Jesus, take “The Good Test” and see how you do.

 

Merry Christmas!

Phil Robertson is Correct: Homosexual Behavior Is Sinful and Illogical

December 19, 2013

Due to the comment controversy over the famous Duck Dynasty’s A& E show patriarch, Phil Robertson, who shared his free speech right to call homosexual behavior sinful, I want to share a link to my friend Steve’s blog on the issue.

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A portion of my comment at Steve’s blog:

Last night, on the Kelly File,  Megyn  gave too much time to that man who identified himself as a “Jewish gay.” [Note:  HIS words, not mine!]  Well, the guy apparently never read the Babylonian Talmud which describes that “men marrying men” and “women marrying women” was one of the perversions that led to the great Flood in Noah’s day!

In addition, I think it is important to share the post that was written years ago at my former Talk Wisdom blog which backs up many reasons why Phil’s biblical arguments that homosexual behavior is both sinful and illogical are absolutely true.

Copy of former post:

The “Days of Noah” Are Here  [Note:  Originally posted Tuesday, June 24, 2008.]

While reading a new post over at GCMWatch, I learned something new! The post is called Gay “marriage”: The Days of Noah Returns.
GCMWatch excerpts:

A new article released by Janet Folger, president of Faith2Action says what a lot of people who are aware of the times have been thinking. In her article “How same-sex marriage points to the end of the world”, Folger recounts how what we are seeing happen now before our very eyes is the beginning fulfillment of what Jesus said would happen before his return. Moreover, the people had sunken into such a perpetually degenerative moral condition these things were celebrated and viewed as normal.

That describes today quite accurately. Those who have normalized homosexual behavior have done so to the point of thinking anyone who opposes it are “crazy,” “homophobic,” “intolerant,” and “bigots.”

For Bible believing, Christ following born-again Christians, such derogatory views and labels are only perpetuating deception about this dangerous behavior. Furthermore, homosexual activism (both secular as well as in the church) distracts people from what is truly most important in this life – that is – confessing and repenting of sin and knowing Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. The Bible tells us that we are to live “holy and righteous” in this age. We are to be actively sharing the gospel in order for other to be redeemed – precisely because “the days are evil.”
Rev 22:11 He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.
Eph 5:16 Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
It is no accident within the cosmos that homosexual behavior participation, advocacy and activism cause significant problems in our culture – but especially for the Christian church. We all know about the scientifically-backed and determined health risks; but an indifferent blind eye is turned in order to successfully put a positive spin on the “gay” lifestyle.
However, God is not mocked!
The double-edged sword battling against God’s Word is this:
1. Homosexual activity brings God’s judgment upon a people. 2. The homosexual agenda (legal and church advocacy related) is a huge threat to religious freedom today.
Jesus told us that he is “not of this world.” If this world is filled with homosexual advocacy and activism, do you think that he would sanction, no less “sanctify” such activity? Of course not!
This world is filled with lust, murder, theft, adultery, fornication, lying, idol worship and the list could go on and on. Yet, most sane people do not advocate for churches to accept such concepts as “sanctified.” However, this is exactly what is being done in liberal “Christian” churches throughout America! Claiming that a particular sin should be allowed to be “sanctified” within Christ’s church body (meaning, all believers) is an abomination to God! It is a form of idol worship. It is, in fact, as the Scriptures inform us, “exchanging the truth for a lie!”
Now, on to what I found new at GCMWatch and in Janet Folger’s article.
Excerpt from Folger article:

As I wrote about in my book, “The Criminalization of Christianity,” Jeffrey Satinover, who holds an M.D. from Princeton and doctorates from Yale, MIT and Harvard, was on my radio program one day and I asked him about where we are in history. He explained that according to the “Babylonian Talmud” – the book of rabbis’ interpretation of the scriptures 1,000 years before Christ, there was only one time in history that reflects where we are right now. There was only one time in history, according to these writings, where men were given in marriage to men, and women given in marriage to women.


Want to venture a guess as to when? No, it wasn’t in Sodom and Gomorrah, although that was my guess. Homosexuality was rampant there, of course, but according to the Talmud, not homosexual “marriage.” What about ancient Greece? Rome? No. Babylon? No again. The one time in history when homosexual “marriage” was practiced was … during the days of Noah. And according to Satinover, that’s what the “Babylonian Talmud” attributes as the final straw that led to the Flood.

GCMWatch shares new information (for me):

Folger’s article also contains astonishing commentary by Rabbi Aryeh Spero on what the Talmud reveals about homosexuality, state sanctioned homosexual weddings and the coming judgment of God.

Folger article:

25But first must He [Christ] suffer many things and be rejected by this generation. 26And as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of Man: 27They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. 28“Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot: They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; 29but 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 have already posted, many times, that one of the many prophecies shared by Jesus regarding his return included the “Days of Lot”:

“Likewise also as in the days of Lot”
However, until now, I didn’t realize that the Jewish Talmud revealed that “man lying with man as with a woman” and “woman lying with a woman” were marrying before the flood!
The fact that Jesus combined both times in history – “The Days of Noah” and “The Days of Lot,” unequivocally links homosexuality to the destruction of both.
Don’t get me wrong – it wasn’t ONLY homosexual sin that brought about God’s wrath. There were plenty of sinful acts going on other than sodomy. Homosexuality was included in the reasons for God’s wrath at the time of the flood and in the fire and brimstone destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.
Folger concludes:

As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. – Mathew 24:37 (NIV)


I used to read this verse and think: It was bad at lots of points in history; it doesn’t necessarily mean now, but if these Jewish writings are true, we are uniquely like the “days of Noah” right now – and only right now.


But it can’t be yet, you say. You have a lot going on in your life? You’re getting married?

Here’s how the New Living Translation describes that very sentiment in Luke:


When the Son of Man returns, the world will be like the people were in Noah’s day. In those days before the Flood, the people enjoyed banquets and parties and weddings right up to the time Noah entered his boat, and the flood came to destroy them all. – Luke 17:26-27
Happily going about as if everything was fine was what they did, too.


You don’t like this possibility? Don’t even believe in the Flood? Doesn’t matter. Some things are true whether you believe them or not. How can you be sure? There’s a way. Did you know that about one-fourth of the Bible is prophecy? A quarter of the Bible is a lot – it’s a big book. And did you know God’s standard? Perfection. That means that if even one of those prophecies is wrong, you can discount the whole thing. Kind of like a prophet who makes a false prediction – that made him a false prophet and a candidate for stoning. Did you know that 4,000 prophecies in that Bible have already come true down to the last detail? That leaves about 1,000 left to be fulfilled – those are the ones regarding the last days before the return of Christ, which are being checked off the list right now.
If 4,000 out of 5,000 prophecies have already occurred exactly as the Bible predicted they would, you might want to pay attention to the rest.


The good news is that 1.1 million people across California have signed a petition to bring marriage to a vote of the people through a state constitutional amendment (just like 27 other states have done). And guess what? An amendment to a state constitution trumps even the most out-of-control state judiciary. We’ll likely know if these signatures are validated before this tyrannical ruling goes into effect, and I predict they will be since they gathered 400,000 more signatures more than they needed to qualify. Besides, they already voted – eight years ago where more than 61 percent of Californians declared marriage as the union of a man and a woman. Now they just need to turn that same language into a constitutional amendment.


I don’t live in California, so why am I sounding the alarm? Here’s why:
But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet, and the people are not warned, and the sword comes and takes any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood I will require at the watchman’s hand. – Ezekiel 33:6
I’m praying and working to protect marriage in California (and the rest of the country) not only because I care about marriage, but because I care about civilization. And, if we obey God, he just may spare us from the judgment we deserve.

Well, I DO live in California! This is why so many Christians are working hard to get the word out to vote for the upcoming ballot measure to declare marriage as the union of a man and a woman and write it into the Constitution!
Previously I had quoted from the book, “The Homosexual Agenda: Exposing the Principal Threat to Religious Freedom Today” by Alan Sears and Craig Osten in my post called Allow Gospel To Be Silenced?:

“We cannot allow [a false understanding] of love to trump truth.” In our hope of being accepted, we have often backed away from the spiritual battle for the hearts and souls of men. Rather than confront the culture, we have often chosen to conform to it. Instead of promoting self-fulfillment in our churches, we must get back to modeling self-sacrifice. Christ made the ultimate sacrifice for us, and like him, we must be humble servants and not haughty judges. We need to point the individual trapped in homosexual behavior to the true cross, not a revised, meaningless gospel that require no sacrifice, no repentance, and provides no real lasting deliverance from sin and its pain and sorrow.


We must be willing to be salt and light in our culture, no matter what.


[We] must not remain silent, we must speak up, when Christ and his teaching are ridiculed and sexual deviancy is exalted. This includes the media, our public schools, our elected officials, and our workplace. There may be a price that we will all have to pay, but whatever that price is, we must remember it pales in comparison to the price Christ paid for us. If we stay silent, our children and grandchildren will reap the consequences of our apathy.
Our voice must be consistent: we must love homosexual men and women, and because of this love for them we must want to see them redeemed from a lifestyle of certain, ultimate despair.


[So] many are living testaments to the joy and healing–through faith in Jesus Christ–available to the person who escapes from homosexual behavior.


[For] many years, the church and Christians were essentially AWOL from the courthouse while dozens of legal cases were litigated, setting precedents the homosexual activists rely on today. We can no longer ignore the legal realm.


[Reverend Peter Jensen] said, “…The Christian Gospel is the insertion of truth into the untrustworthy discourse of the world.”


[We] cannot shy away from this task, regardless of the price. We need to ask ourselves: Are we willing to take a stand, to keep the door open for the gospel, or are we going to allow it to be silenced? Are we willing to share Christ’s love with the person trapped in homosexual behavior, or will we simply walk by them like the Levite and the priest on the road to Jericho and not offer a helping hand? (see Luke 10:25-37)

The book concludes:

The answers to those questions will determine the future of marriage, the family, culture, and the gospel in America, and of America itself. They will determine the futures of millions of hurting individuals in need of a loving Father who alone can provide them with the true affirmation, true fulfillment, and the true love they so desperately need. And the good news –even a nation’s heart can turn in a single day (Jonah 3:10).

HT’s: GCMWatch
World Net Daily
ADF – The Homosexual Agenda: Exposing the Principal Threat to Religious Freedom Today

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What’s the moral of the story and the message of all of this information?  It is the FACT that millions of people have been indoctrinated with militant homosexual propaganda.  Their goal is to SILENCE Christians who believe in Jesus, God, the Bible, free speech, liberty and justice for all.  These militants (not all homosexuals are like this, but the most vocal ones in media certainly are!!) are THE MOST INTOLERANT, spiteful, hateful, bigoted and evil perpetrators of false narratives ever in the history of America!
Jesus warned us about such people.  And he warned us that the closer it gets to His return, the more ratcheted-up such attacks against Bible-believing Christians there would be.  His statements that it will be like “in the Days of Noah” and “as in the Days of Lot” point to all the perverse  sins of those times as a sign of the times when He would return to save us all from ourselves!

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