As I read through this thread, it seems to me that a number of perceptions have been shattered by this gay marriage issue.
- America's judicial system was not based on Mosaic Law; it was founded upon Roman Law and Order.
- America is not a democracy; it is a federal republic, which means that officials make the key decisions, not the citizens.
- Marriage was originally a civic ceremony, not a religious one.
- While it is true that Christians are the salt of the earth, our salt that preserved the good in society is being cast aside and replaced with secular humanism.
I think it's time for a wake-up call. Time is short.
Rev. 13:11-18
Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb (appears to be God fearing) and spoke like a dragon. And he exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence, and causes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast (Islam), whose deadly wound was healed.
He performs great signs, so that he even makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men (9/11). And he deceives those who dwell on the earth by those signs which he was granted to do in the sight of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast (Radical Islam - Al Qaida - OBL was CIA) who was wounded by the sword and lived (Battle of Tours, 732 AD).
He was granted
power to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak and cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed (recall the Korean missionaries). He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads (the RFID chip, patented in the USA), and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him/her who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man (Javier Solana): His number
is 666 .
The False Prophet comes from the Lamb/Dragon beast and deceives those who received the mark (change you can believe in?).
Given the War on Terror, the Patriot Act, Homeland Security, FEMA camps, and Gitmo, you will either put your faith in the Lamb/Dragon beast and voluntarily take the chip that enables commerce or will you die professing faith in Jesus Christ.
"Be careful, or your hearts will be weighed down with dissipation, drunkenness and the anxieties of life, and that day will close on you unexpectedly like a trap. For it will come upon all those who live on the face of the whole earth. Be always on the watch, and pray that you may be able to escape all that is about to happen, and that you may be able to stand before the Son of Man." (Luke 21:34-36)