The Real Issue Of Marriage
Written by Elinor Montgomery – emontgomery@cogeco.ca
February 13, 2005
Homosexuality is an abomination in God’s eyes. Unless one deals in truth, then the door is open for the lie. The basic problem of the institutional churches of Christianity, trying to be a voice for the truth about the homosexual issue of marriage, is that their roots are in the religion of Romanism, which is based on the lies of Satan. Satan produces nothing but confusion. Hence, there is confusion on the subject of the nature of marriage within the ranks of denominationalism, and going deeper, confusion is found within the denominations, themselves. Darkness, not light, pervades their various divisions.
Consequently, we see men, such as the pope, claiming a ‘god-on-earth’ status as the possessor of spiritual infallibility, expecting others to bow before his self-proclaimed holiness, being a worshiper of idols and a man who prays to the queen of heaven and to dead men. Then there are the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Queen in headship over the state-controlled religion of Anglicanism, reportedly, taking Druid pagan vows and chanting Druid chants. There has recently been a moderator and head of the United Church, who, as the elected spokesman for the church, denied the divinity of Jesus. The military chaplains of Canada, deeming the name of Jesus to be offensive to those of pagan religions, agreed to avoid using His name publicly within the armed forces, which are called to defend this country. It seemed to matter little or not to them that this country’s spiritual and legal heritage is in the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, with God being the Supreme Ruler of this land, and that such an action would be extremely offensive to Him. It is very simple to conclude that Christianity is not rooted in the truth of God’s Word, but rather in religion under the leadership of such men as these, who oppose the truth and leadership of Jesus. Does all of this make them voices for God, like the prophets of old? Hardly! It makes them voices for nothing but Satan, the author of religion.
Yet, our talk show hosts and the media run to them to sit on their so-called open discussions, seeking answers on an issue for which they have none, while at the same time ignoring the true voice that speaks for God by most likely labeling it as fundamentalism. How extraordinary it is that men want fundamentalism from doctors, engineers and lawyers, but they don’t want it from God! “Temper His truth,” they cry, “with a social gospel suitable for the times.” They prefer to listen to an apostate priesthood, speaking from the authority of their own personally held belief systems, and from their institutional doctrines that are as varied in substance as there are numbers of Christian denominations. However, in contrast to this, when the Bible is the authority for man, he is left with no room for confusion to surround the truth. God speaks through His Word on all issues and His truth never changes from age to age. How do we know it is truth? It is self-validated by prophecy, which intertwines itself through every page of the Scriptures, being fulfilled without error.
I have listed but a few of the ills within the leadership of the religious body of Christianity, a confused body at best, and a dangerous one at worst. It is so divided now between Bible believers and liberalists that there is no possibility, whatsoever, for one voice to speak in unity for such a group. But the real issue is what lies at the very roots of control within the divided body of Christianity, making it nothing more than a religious system. To find the answer to this, one must go back to the Garden of Creation, where the answers are found for all the problems that plague mankind. It all begins with the trees of the garden from which God allowed us to eat, and where their roots lay. All of mankind that bears good fruit is a mirror image of Jesus, the Tree of Life. What makes these trees, or the symbol of men, bearers of good fruit is the vine in which they abide; a branch abiding in the truth of Jesus will bear good fruit and if it does not bear fruit, the vinedresser, the Father, will take it away. If it does bear fruit, it will then be pruned or cut back to bear more fruit.
The cutting off of a fruit-bearing branch could be equated to the cutting off of the apostle Paul and John the Baptist, and most importantly of all, the cutting off of Jesus, the central Tree of Life containing the vine. It means the sacrifice of a cut branch can produce a great deal of fruit. Fruit is that which can be eaten. Jesus said to eat Him, to eat His flesh, but the Bible also says that He is the truth. So the fruit of a tree that is good for eating is the Word of truth, which comes from a tree with a root system only in the truth. It takes but one root of a lie to topple the whole tree. It will produce a spot or blemish on the fruit that will then grow into the rot that destroys it. Hence, there was just one tree in the garden that was forbidden, for Jesus would not accept man, or take him unto Himself as a bride, unless he/she were without spot or blemish. This was the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and though it had a semblance of light in it, it was nothing but a masquerade, with no light at all. What lay in its roots was the lie, the very root of darkness itself. And the lie, which was basic to the foundation of this tree’s root system, was one that states that God does not mean what He says, or, in words appropriate for today, His written Word, the Bible, is not truth. This is the lie that will turn the world, as we know it, upside down. It is at the heart of the problem that faces a society that no longer has the spiritual tools with which to fight the spiritual battle going on today for the very souls of men.
By acquiring knowledge, Satan tells us, we, as man, can do things our own way. Why would we need God’s Word to be like Him, when we have the power within to reach heaven or the kingdom of God in our own strength, without Him or His Word? And thus it is spoken according to the gospel of Shirley MacLaine, one of Satan’s spokespersons. Her gospel is nothing new but simply the ancient, age-old Gnosticism from the Garden of Creation, recycled and repackaged for today. With such foundational lies at the very roots of Romanism, a religion sprouted up out of Rome, which is based on the lies of Satan and not on the truth of Jesus and His apostles. This new religion of Christianity established by Constantine, resulted in a Nicolaitan priesthood of men, legally appointment by the Caesar of Rome. Unlike the apostles, this was no appointment of God, but rather one made by men. Pagan practices filled the new institutional church and the truth was locked up by the priesthood, and hidden away from the misguided flock. Spiritual Israel moved into her own kind of Egyptian captivity that made her slaves to the religious system of men.
Hence, we see a full-blown religion, based on the lie, appointed and established by the agents of Satan, whose purposes would be served by the works of men. Like its father the devil, Christianity masquerades as light, but, in fact, it is nothing but darkness. Christianity, and not the apostolic church of Jesus Christ, was responsible for mass killings, and for producing an apostate priesthood just as Judaism had done before her. It is responsible for turning spiritual Israel, destined to be a bride, into a harlot, and for taking the true church into the captivity of the Babylonian system, which produced the dark ages, in which blind leaders led the flock into darkness. We are left with the man-made institutions of religion called ‘Church’, being the counterfeit of the true church, with roots in the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, a forbidden tree of God, which brings only death. And still we run to this priesthood for advice on matters so crucial as that of God’s institution of marriage.
God gave first the governmental plan of liberty for man (the political plan), then the provisional plan by which He became the Provider (the economic plan), and finally the spiritual plan (the truth). He next instituted and defined the nature of marriage as being between a man and a woman, with the potential for fruitfulness. Satan rushed into the Garden with the lure, which man took, hook, line and sinker, becoming nothing more than a beast as a son of the Beast. The monkey didn’t become the man; the man became as the monkey. And so God dressed him with tunics of skin. The government of liberty became the government of liberalism, meaning freedom from God in rebellion to the truth. God’s provision became an economic gold system, while the truth was replaced with a belief system, which is known as religion today. Satan, to complete the job, must destroy the nature of the marriage bed. The sexual counterfeit becomes the perverted practice of homosexuality, on the heels of adultery and divorce.
Was God caught unaware, by slumbering and sleeping while all of this was taking place? He is never fooled or outsmarted by Satan. God does exactly what Joseph told us He does back in Genesis. He takes that which is intended for evil by men and turns it around for good. Out of the system of religion came scribes, whom God used to write and translate the Word of truth into languages men could understand, producing a kind of their own Pentecostal experience for believers. God used a false priesthood to bring forth a man called Martin Luther, who would separate from the Roman system. He denounced the papal authority, which claimed authority over the Word and he denounced practices, which were religious substitutes for salvation in Jesus. God brought forth a movement by protestation of the corruption that resulted in separation from it. It was only the beginning of a move that eventually would bring forth the bride of the apostolic church – a bride without spot or wrinkle, freed from the harlotry of spiritual Israel.
She will be the bride, who will have the only authority to speak for God, as was given by Jesus to His church. They were only the apostles to whom Jesus gave the keys to the kingdom, along with His commission to be the voice for the truth of the gospels and to go out and fish for men, as fruit bearing trees whose roots were only in truth and not in religion. For they had been washed clean by the Word. The bride, as the revived apostolic church, by necessity, must come out of her, the harlot of Babylon, whose roots go back to the mother of all living – to Eve. She was taken from the side of the first Adam, and by believing the lies of Satan, while forsaking the truth, she became a child of the devil, doomed to death, taking down with her the man and all future children born to him. She was the first harlot of history, and neither she, nor any other man of harlotry in her line, has any answers for us today. Unless born of the Spirit and rooted in the truth of the Tree of Life, no man or woman has the right to speak for God, for he/she is rooted in confusion, as opposed to being rooted in the clarity of truth.
For this reason, Satan wants the marriage bed destroyed, for it is the picture in the natural of the source of fruit bearing in the spiritual, the marriage bed of Jesus and His bride. Divorce, adultery and perverted sex are all tools of Satan for destroying this spiritual marriage bed. The religious leaders could not bear the presence of Jesus in the world, which is to say, the truth made flesh, and in their ties to Rome, cried for His death. Cries from the crowd of “Hail Him!” would lead to the same crowd crying, “Nail Him!” in the very brief period of one week. We have seen the same fast reversal of the popular crowd sentiment toward Jesus in America, today, in what seems like a replay of the last week of Jesus’ life on earth. What began with two nations having a single heritage rooted in the truth of the Bible, turned around, almost overnight, to become a harlot to her Lord and her Supreme Ruler, as the Bible became forbidden literature. The doors of religion had always been opened wide like a harlot with her skirts lifted to show her shame. Consequently, Christianity has no answers whatsoever today, as a religion ready to embrace the lie that states marriage can be anything you want it to be, other than what God created it to be in the Garden.
Look to the roots to see what kind of fruit the tree will bring forth. What will be the fruit of homosexuality? There is absolutely no possibility for there to be any fruit from such a union, only disease, broken lives, and damaged minds that range from deep depression to the illusion that a man can become a woman and a mother, by simply cross-gender dressing and pretending to behave like one. One only has to look to the ‘celebration’ parades of homosexuality to see the nakedness, the coarseness and the lewdness, which they embrace. The homosexual political agenda tries to tell us, in turn, that such behavior must now be embraced by a very deluded society at large, which has become deeply rooted in the lies of secular humanism, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism and yes, last, but not least, Christianity. Has this pseudo style of marriage become an option for the placement and adoption of innocent babies and children, who depend on society to protect them?
Until the world looks to the truth, and not to religion, for its answers, it will find none. Politicians will be like blind guides, leading people into disaster, until they return to Biblical truths for their guidelines, which were the guidelines for the Fathers of Confederation. There are no answers to marriage, or to any other institutions of man, except those found in truth, the truth of the Word, the Bible. There can be no other place for it to be heard, except from the voice of the bride, the “called out of the Lord” to be a voice to His truth, free of the spots and wrinkles of religion. Leaders today in America, and, indeed, throughout the world, would do well to heed this message of truth. The Bible is the heritage that brought freedom to this land. Take the Bible and God out of America, and she shall go the route of Israel, into the captivity of the governments of man, which she always chose over the government offered to her by God.
The liberalism of the nations in rebellion to God offers no freedom from religious controls. If you are told to worship Caesar or the Antichrist, you had better do so, or risk having your head chopped off. America will become just another state/religiously-ruled country, the very thing the liberal accuses America of being. It was her break from state and religion bonded together in the controlling governments of the world, which led America to separate state from religion and make Biblical truth her foundation. It is Satan’s aim to return her back to the place from which she came, to the lies and controls of a religious state, the opposite of a free state under God’s rule and His truth, the move of which all began in the Garden of Creation.
America is in a spiritual battle of truth versus religion, and the more we open our doors to the pagan religions of the world, giving them equal status with the truth of the Bible, the quicker America shall fall. The endorsement of homosexual marriages could well be just the tip of the iceberg that is going to take the ship of fools down, as they lie entombed in the iron hulk of the boat. They are fools who are no different from the ones who danced their time away on the Titanic, while defying God by saying that even He could not destroy their ship. May America get back into the boat with the apostles, so that Jesus is in their midst, the One, Who can calm the storms that are beginning to rage all around her. It is the only boat in which man will be safe when the seas are opened by the hand of God. For He will release evil spirits in judgment upon sinful men for choosing the broad road of Satan with the lie, as opposed to the narrow way of Jesus in the truth. May the media, politicians and the public at large pick very carefully the voices to which they choose to listen, for it is the Spirit and the bride, who will be the last voice to speak for God in truth, warning about the judgment to come.
