Preface
The author speaks of his own embarrassment in regards to the Holy Spirit teaching him why it is that God hates the practice of men and women dressing alike. The author also speaks of why this practice has become very prevalent in America and western societies, and is most commonly found practiced when the woman dresses like the man.
It was in the afternoon, the year was 1999, I was 42 years of age at the time and had walked in life with an open Christian testimony since I was 14 years of age, some 28 years. This particular afternoon I had met with a man to discuss issues concerning how we as American people, although once having a deep rooted Christian faith and system of ethics, have strayed very far from the obedience and practice of God's commandments having accepted modern traditions of men which are based upon humanistic thought. Most particularly we were speaking of issues related to what is referred to as Divine Order, or as some call it: Vertical Alignment. The role and order of authority and responsibility spoken of in a condensed form by the Apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians 11:3. Namely: God is the head of Christ, who is the head of the man, who is the head of the woman, and of coarse we understand that women are in headship over children, particularly their own children.
Its a funny thing, for as much as certain aspects of that day have been printed on my mind with what might be called indelible ink, I can not recall who the man was that I spoke with that day, but I remember with absolute certainty the words that he spoke to me as we ended our discussion and walked out into the parking lot of the restruant where we had been sitting together. He said, “Greg, you need to read Deuteronomy 22:5.” I asked him what the verse said. He said, “Just go read it and you'll see.”
I did go from there and read it, and there is no way that I can describe the surprise that I experienced upon doing so. For Although I had for 28 years lived an open Christian testimony, and although never claiming anything near perfection, in my heart I ever purposed to serve and please the God of my Salvation. But upon reading these words the most sincere, certain, and overwhelming conviction of sin and confusion came over my heart. It stated to me in no uncertain terms that I had for all those numerous years (particularly as head of my household) been allowing a thing that was an abomination to God. In fact, in the Old Testament era, before Christ stood between men and the law (before the grace of God was seen in the world in the person of Christ) a person, whether a man or woman, would have been personally considered an abomination to have practiced this sin, but I clearly understood that I was in Christ, and therefore in my person I could not be seen as an abomination to the Lord, but only the action of my life was considered an abomination to God.
I do not believe it is possible for me to describe the feeling that I had as I stood there before the Lord having read Deuteronomy 22:5. I was embarrassed. I was ashamed, and at the same time bewildered as to how I could have walked before the Lord for so many years not knowing or understanding how that I was practicing a thing that was in His determination a thing that is hateful to Him. Let me say this. This experience was a very clear signal to me from that time forward that it is only God that reveals truth, and only His presence can convict any sinner of the error of his or her ways. Yes, we must seek him and that is our responsibility, but He alone is the revealer of truth. He alone turns the “light” on. However, when He does, then it is our responsibility (empowered by His grace) to walk in that light. Perhaps if you can bring to your mind the most embarrassing moments of your life, this was how I felt. I stood there before God embarrassed and very ashamed, because I, how be it in ignorance, had been practicing something that was shameful to Him whom I loved.
Deuteronomy 22:5 in the King James version says The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the Lord thy God.” I have had a number of life changing revelations from the Scripture in my life, but I admit that the conviction of this statement of God's law, and the revelation of its purpose and meaning that would come to me in the following days has ranked right up at the top of the list in reference to how they have upset my life. I have since I first came to the Lord in my youth endeavored to walk honestly before God. To not allow it to be the practice of my life to make silly and pitiful excuses for my sins or failings, either before God or man. So, as I stood there that day I was not about to argue with the simple understanding of the words, which I was then and am even today convinced that an 8 year old can understand, nor was I willing to argue or put away the conviction of His presence that was at work in my inner person. So I simply said before Him, “Here I am Lord. I do not know how I could have so long remained ignorant of this that is so clearly spoken of as an abomination, but I will do your commandment. However, Lord,”, I cried out. “How is it that the Great God of all creation can be excited by threads? What do you care about threads? I don't get it?” For admittedly, it was way beyond my comprehension as to why God Almighty would care about what particular clothes a person might wear. Of coarse at the time I perceived the importance of issues of modesty in regards to clothing, but I had zero perception of deeper issues.
I didn't get it. I could see the commandment and I knew the conviction of His presence was upon me, but I did not have a clue as to the reasoning for the commandment, but God was gracious and kind to me. It was only a few short time later when He used the foundation of prior points of understanding to bring a very profound revelation to me in regards to the purposes of clothing, and most importantly, why it is a detestable thing for a man to dress like a woman, or a woman to dress like a man. And you will note that for a woman to dress in the manner that a man dresses has become a very common thing in this society, and my friend, it is not without reason. It is not by accident, but by the design of the Evil One, having found an entrance into both society at large, and the household of faith in modern western societies.
The Holy Spirit revealed to me that clothing has three purposes. Let's first speak of the basic need for protection from the elements. Our bodies need protection from the sun, the cold, etc. Otherwise we would not be able to maintain our natural lives. The second reason for clothing I'll mention is the the need to protect modesty. All human persons are sexually orientated beings. We were made this way by God as a reflection of Himself and His relationship to the Church, or individual Believer. If we did not cloth ourselves utter chaos would very soon take over. The third reason for clothing is the one that holds the greatest possibility of offense to God when not practiced in obedience to the Scripture. It is that clothing has a symbolic nature to it, and designed to be so by God Himself. The truth that even among men that clothing is symbolic, or has voice or meaning in itself is seen very clearly. For are not soldiers quickly and easily identified by their uniforms? Are not police identified in the same manner? Do not signs on bathroom doors identify the men's and the women's room by the difference in the dress that the figures have?
The highest of all the creation is the human person. Yahweh, by His infinite wisdom and power created the male person to be a reflection of Himself. A living mortal illustration of Himself. This is particularly seen as He grows to manhood, and in marriage. The female person was at the beginning, (and still is by means of birth) created to be a living mortal illustration of the One who is the single great object of the Divine One's love and attention: the Church. So, in the most simple words, the man represents the Lord, the woman was (and is) made to represent the Church, (or the individual Believer). Therefore, both reason, and the commandment of God demands that the man and the woman adorn themselves distinct fully different the one from the other. For they are distinct fully different creatures, designed and created for distinct fully different roles and callings, which when properly lived out will cause each of the sexes to illustrate with their lives true and accurate heavenly realities. However, when either a man or a woman who because of ignorance, and/or confusion, or by reason of outright rebellion refuse to maintain his or her person and calling, and begin to “blend the genders” by the mixing of their clothing, or other acts that deny their role and calling as either a man or a woman, they bring forth an incorrect reflection of heavenly things. For remember that they (the male and female, or man and woman) were created with that purpose in God's mind, namely: to illustrate with their lives heavenly realities. Therefore, to dress a man like a woman, or to dress a woman like a man is to bring forth a slanderous testimony of both the Lord and that which is the chief object of His love and attention. And this is, as you can imagine, a thing that is very offensive to God. That is why any one who is still directly under the jurisdiction of the law, (the one who is not yet hid in Christ) and who disobeys this commandment is for it's sake is considered an abomination. And, whoever's actions, although they may be in Christ, who disobeys this law stands in their action to be doing a thing that is an abomination to God.
I was like this. For years I walked in disobedience to this command of the Lord. However, I was like a young child who in the ignorance and confusion of their childhood poops continually in his diaper. A filthy-rotten mess that the child's guardian has to continually clean up. Now, this is not thought an extreme or unusual thing in so much as the child is small, but if a child is 10 years old and has to be cleaned up in this manner it is exceedingly more detestable, and therefore hateful to whoever is around the child, or has to clean the child up.
In like manner before the commandment came to me (the understanding and conviction of it) I was like a small child. I practiced a thing that was detestable to God, (this action of mine stunk in God's nostrils) but He winked at it, in that He knew I was in darkness (ignorance-confusion) and therefore did not hold it against me. However, one day He convicted me of my error, bringing it to my attention. From that point on I was no longer in ignorance, for I had been made aware that this action was displeasing to God. The Apostle Paul spoke of this process when he said, “when the commandment came, sin revived.” (Romans 7:9 KJV) Jesus made it clear that we are responsible for obedience to commandments that we are knowledgeable concerning when He said, “He that has my commandments and keepeth them, He it is that loveth me.....” (John 14:21a KJV) That is how I was able to live so many years with an open Christian testimony, yet with peace of heart before God, but at the same time be doing a thing that according to God's law is a detestable thing. I was ignorant. I was in regards to this issue, in darkness. But when the darkness passed and the light came I took hold of the light and began to walk in accordance to His law. Not that that action made me more saved, for it did not. But it did prove my devotion to God in that I loved Him enough to obey Him. For the Christian is not saved by the keeping of the law, but when we are saved, it should then be our nature to always turn and obey His commandments when they are brought to us. If we possess a heart that in any way turns from His commandments, then we need to examine ourselves before Him, asking of Him. “What is wrong with me, that I do not turn to do your commandments?” For the heart of a Christian that is right wants to do the Lord's commandments, it wants to please Him who calls from above.
Now, let us give answer to why it has become so extremely common place for women in modern western societies to dress like men. (to cross dress) IE, to wear pants like a man would. Why is it that men do not by in large, dress like women by wearing either a dress or skirt? Is this practice simply by coincidence, or it it because of an influence behind it? And if there is a definite influence behind such an action who is it that is doing the influencing?
Again the man is meant by His creator to be a living mortal illustration of Yahweh. The woman is meant by Yahweh to be a living mortal illustration of the Church, or the individual Believer. This can only be fully realized when the man and the woman by means of obedient understanding follow the Lord's commandments and promises. Other then that we will fall short of this calling. When a woman dresses like a man she is by her action saying that she is the same as , or equal to a man, therefore she dresses like a man. No, I do not mean to say that she thinks she is like a man in body, but that she has begun to think that she is equal to a man in reference to headship. That she is equal in headship. Therefore she has the right to dress as he dresses and assume the place and calling that he (the man) has. In short, she begin to think and act as a man does, usurping the God created and God given authority that men in general have over women in general, and in particular terms, that a father or husband have over those of their household. The spirit of humanism that is the progenitor of the spirit of feminism has received an extreme acceptance into modern western society, and for that matter in to almost all that is called Christian. Feminism teaches that men and woman are equal or the same. Now, remember that Yahweh created the human persons to illustrate heavenly realities. Therefore when the woman dresses like the man, in that she was created to illustrate the Church or individual Believer, she is saying by her actions that the Believer is equal to the Lord Himself. In other words that the Believer is lord over his own self and actions. Which means that they are equal to the Lord and therefore can do as they wish to do, even though what they wish to do may be contrary to God's laws. Sad to say, this spirit and practice fills our western Churches. Confusion and sin has become common place in our Churches, and thus that is why the American nation is being forfeited to the ungodly. The “Salt of the earth” has lost its saltiness, henceforth, as the Lord Himself taught us it is good for nothing but to be cast out and trodden under the feet of men. This is what is happening in America to most everything that is called Christian. One ideological foundation after another in our American society that our godly forefathers by means of great effort and sacrifice had established is being cast out, rejected, and trodden under men's feet as if it were nothing of importance.
To realize an even further depth to the sinfulness of the practice and the spirit behind the blending of the genders, I will ask you to call to remembrance who else in the Bible is spoken of as wishing to be equal to God? Isaiah the prophet in combination with Ezekiel the prophet tells us the story of Lucifer who was the highest of all of Yahweh's heavenly creatures, but in whose heart was one day found the desire to usurp the place of the Almighty and thus declared himself equal to God. (Isaiah 14:13-14 & Ezekiel 28:1-19) When the woman dresses her self as the man she is walking out (how be it many times mostly in confusion and ignorance) the same expression of usurpation that Lucifer introduced into the world a long time ago. Her expression that she is equal to the man is at the same time giving the expression that the Believer is equal to the Lord. Equality means that the one is independent of the other, and of coarse the Believer is anything but independent of the Lord. That is the bottom line reason why the practice of a woman dressing like a man is an abomination to God.
When a man dresses like a woman he is making the expression that he wishes to throw away his manliness and put on femininity. And most men do not wish to do that in a complete manner. However, it has become very common place for men to neglect and forsake their role of manliness by surrendering their role of headship to the woman, allowing her to usurp what is not given her of God. Thus you see this expressed in the adornment of men and women. She puts on his clothes, but he most commonly will not put on her clothes, but he allows her to dress like himself.
Closing Remarks
I will remind you of the illustration of the young child, particularly an infant child who poops in his diaper, yet because the child is young it is excused with almost no thought given to it. In like manner our sins and confusion, (which includes the modern western confusion and sin associated with the blending of the genders) although infinitely detestable to God are excused and winked at until such time as the Holy Spirit begins to enlightenment and conviction us, but when the light of understanding comes to us, these sins then begin to stand between the Christian and the Holy One. Yet how is it is that so many when confronted with the simple directness of the commandment of the Lord for the sexes to dress distinct fully different the one from the other, and when given the explanation of the extreme gravity of the reasoning behind it, reject the commandment as if obedience to it matters nothing? It is because we live in a generation where very many have grown use to following the ways and doctrines of men (humanist teachings that are man centered) instead of the commandments of God. And, in that we do not make it our practice to obey God's laws our senses are dull and not able to easily discern good from evil. (Hebrews 5:14) Much of what is called Christian in this generation is wise in regards to getting along in the world, (this is called worldly wisdom) but proves very often to be very low in obedience to commandments of God that are socially unpopular and may cost the Believer something. This my friend is very dangerous ground. For it is not the Spirit of the Holy One who influences us to think in such a manner, but the spirit of the Wicked One. Let us not forget the exhortation of the Apostle John, when he says, “He that committeth sin (continues therein) is of the devil. (1 John 3:8 KJV)
Let us walk in humility and be overcomes like those that are spoken of in Revelations 12:17 (KJV), And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ. Also, Revelations 14:12 (KJV), Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus Christ. Also, Revelations 22:14 (KJV), Blessed are they at do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates of the city.
Peace to the Israel of God,
A Watchman,
Gregory DeHart
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Why Is It Hated By God For A Woman To Dress Like A Man, And Why Does This Practice Fill America? -or- This Man Of God's Great Embarassment
Preface
The author speaks of his own embarrassment in regards to the Holy Spirit teaching him why it is that God hates the practice of men and women dressing alike. The author also speaks of why this practice has become very prevalent in America and western societies, and is most commonly found practiced when the woman dresses like the man.
It was in the afternoon, the year was 1999, I was 42 years of age at the time and had walked in life with an open Christian testimony since I was 14 years of age, some 28 years. This particular afternoon I had met with a man to discuss issues concerning how we as American people, although once having a deep rooted Christian faith and system of ethics, have strayed very far from the obedience and practice of God's commandments having accepted modern traditions of men which are based upon humanistic thought. Most particularly we were speaking of issues related to what is referred to as Divine Order, or as some call it: Vertical Alignment. The role and order of authority and responsibility spoken of in a condensed form by the Apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians 11:3. Namely: God is the head of Christ, who is the head of the man, who is the head of the woman, and of coarse we understand that women are in headship over children, particularly their own children.
Its a funny thing, for as much as certain aspects of that day have been printed on my mind with what might be called indelible ink, I can not recall who the man was that I spoke with that day, but I remember with absolute certainty the words that he spoke to me as we ended our discussion and walked out into the parking lot of the restruant where we had been sitting together. He said, “Greg, you need to read Deuteronomy 22:5.” I asked him what the verse said. He said, “Just go read it and you'll see.”
I did go from there and read it, and there is no way that I can describe the surprise that I experienced upon doing so. For Although I had for 28 years lived an open Christian testimony, and although never claiming anything near perfection, in my heart I ever purposed to serve and please the God of my Salvation. But upon reading these words the most sincere, certain, and overwhelming conviction of sin and confusion came over my heart. It stated to me in no uncertain terms that I had for all those numerous years (particularly as head of my household) been allowing a thing that was an abomination to God. In fact, in the Old Testament era, before Christ stood between men and the law (before the grace of God was seen in the world in the person of Christ) a person, whether a man or woman, would have been personally considered an abomination to have practiced this sin, but I clearly understood that I was in Christ, and therefore in my person I could not be seen as an abomination to the Lord, but only the action of my life was considered an abomination to God.
I do not believe it is possible for me to describe the feeling that I had as I stood there before the Lord having read Deuteronomy 22:5. I was embarrassed. I was ashamed, and at the same time bewildered as to how I could have walked before the Lord for so many years not knowing or understanding how that I was practicing a thing that was in His determination a thing that is hateful to Him. Let me say this. This experience was a very clear signal to me from that time forward that it is only God that reveals truth, and only His presence can convict any sinner of the error of his or her ways. Yes, we must seek him and that is our responsibility, but He alone is the revealer of truth. He alone turns the “light” on. However, when He does, then it is our responsibility (empowered by His grace) to walk in that light. Perhaps if you can bring to your mind the most embarrassing moments of your life, this was how I felt. I stood there before God embarrassed and very ashamed, because I, how be it in ignorance, had been practicing something that was shameful to Him whom I loved.
Deuteronomy 22:5 in the King James version says The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the Lord thy God.” I have had a number of life changing revelations from the Scripture in my life, but I admit that the conviction of this statement of God's law, and the revelation of its purpose and meaning that would come to me in the following days has ranked right up at the top of the list in reference to how they have upset my life. I have since I first came to the Lord in my youth endeavored to walk honestly before God. To not allow it to be the practice of my life to make silly and pitiful excuses for my sins or failings, either before God or man. So, as I stood there that day I was not about to argue with the simple understanding of the words, which I was then and am even today convinced that an 8 year old can understand, nor was I willing to argue or put away the conviction of His presence that was at work in my inner person. So I simply said before Him, “Here I am Lord. I do not know how I could have so long remained ignorant of this that is so clearly spoken of as an abomination, but I will do your commandment. However, Lord,”, I cried out. “How is it that the Great God of all creation can be excited by threads? What do you care about threads? I don't get it?” For admittedly, it was way beyond my comprehension as to why God Almighty would care about what particular clothes a person might wear. Of coarse at the time I perceived the importance of issues of modesty in regards to clothing, but I had zero perception of deeper issues.
I didn't get it. I could see the commandment and I knew the conviction of His presence was upon me, but I did not have a clue as to the reasoning for the commandment, but God was gracious and kind to me. It was only a few short time later when He used the foundation of prior points of understanding to bring a very profound revelation to me in regards to the purposes of clothing, and most importantly, why it is a detestable thing for a man to dress like a woman, or a woman to dress like a man. And you will note that for a woman to dress in the manner that a man dresses has become a very common thing in this society, and my friend, it is not without reason. It is not by accident, but by the design of the Evil One, having found an entrance into both society at large, and the household of faith in modern western societies.
The Holy Spirit revealed to me that clothing has three purposes. Let's first speak of the basic need for protection from the elements. Our bodies need protection from the sun, the cold, etc. Otherwise we would not be able to maintain our natural lives. The second reason for clothing I'll mention is the the need to protect modesty. All human persons are sexually orientated beings. We were made this way by God as a reflection of Himself and His relationship to the Church, or individual Believer. If we did not cloth ourselves utter chaos would very soon take over. The third reason for clothing is the one that holds the greatest possibility of offense to God when not practiced in obedience to the Scripture. It is that clothing has a symbolic nature to it, and designed to be so by God Himself. The truth that even among men that clothing is symbolic, or has voice or meaning in itself is seen very clearly. For are not soldiers quickly and easily identified by their uniforms? Are not police identified in the same manner? Do not signs on bathroom doors identify the men's and the women's room by the difference in the dress that the figures have?
The highest of all the creation is the human person. Yahweh, by His infinite wisdom and power created the male person to be a reflection of Himself. A living mortal illustration of Himself. This is particularly seen as He grows to manhood, and in marriage. The female person was at the beginning, (and still is by means of birth) created to be a living mortal illustration of the One who is the single great object of the Divine One's love and attention: the Church. So, in the most simple words, the man represents the Lord, the woman was (and is) made to represent the Church, (or the individual Believer). Therefore, both reason, and the commandment of God demands that the man and the woman adorn themselves distinct fully different the one from the other. For they are distinct fully different creatures, designed and created for distinct fully different roles and callings, which when properly lived out will cause each of the sexes to illustrate with their lives true and accurate heavenly realities. However, when either a man or a woman who because of ignorance, and/or confusion, or by reason of outright rebellion refuse to maintain his or her person and calling, and begin to “blend the genders” by the mixing of their clothing, or other acts that deny their role and calling as either a man or a woman, they bring forth an incorrect reflection of heavenly things. For remember that they (the male and female, or man and woman) were created with that purpose in God's mind, namely: to illustrate with their lives heavenly realities. Therefore, to dress a man like a woman, or to dress a woman like a man is to bring forth a slanderous testimony of both the Lord and that which is the chief object of His love and attention. And this is, as you can imagine, a thing that is very offensive to God. That is why any one who is still directly under the jurisdiction of the law, (the one who is not yet hid in Christ) and who disobeys this commandment is for it's sake is considered an abomination. And, whoever's actions, although they may be in Christ, who disobeys this law stands in their action to be doing a thing that is an abomination to God.
I was like this. For years I walked in disobedience to this command of the Lord. However, I was like a young child who in the ignorance and confusion of their childhood poops continually in his diaper. A filthy-rotten mess that the child's guardian has to continually clean up. Now, this is not thought an extreme or unusual thing in so much as the child is small, but if a child is 10 years old and has to be cleaned up in this manner it is exceedingly more detestable, and therefore hateful to whoever is around the child, or has to clean the child up.
In like manner before the commandment came to me (the understanding and conviction of it) I was like a small child. I practiced a thing that was detestable to God, (this action of mine stunk in God's nostrils) but He winked at it, in that He knew I was in darkness (ignorance-confusion) and therefore did not hold it against me. However, one day He convicted me of my error, bringing it to my attention. From that point on I was no longer in ignorance, for I had been made aware that this action was displeasing to God. The Apostle Paul spoke of this process when he said, “when the commandment came, sin revived.” (Romans 7:9 KJV) Jesus made it clear that we are responsible for obedience to commandments that we are knowledgeable concerning when He said, “He that has my commandments and keepeth them, He it is that loveth me.....” (John 14:21a KJV) That is how I was able to live so many years with an open Christian testimony, yet with peace of heart before God, but at the same time be doing a thing that according to God's law is a detestable thing. I was ignorant. I was in regards to this issue, in darkness. But when the darkness passed and the light came I took hold of the light and began to walk in accordance to His law. Not that that action made me more saved, for it did not. But it did prove my devotion to God in that I loved Him enough to obey Him. For the Christian is not saved by the keeping of the law, but when we are saved, it should then be our nature to always turn and obey His commandments when they are brought to us. If we possess a heart that in any way turns from His commandments, then we need to examine ourselves before Him, asking of Him. “What is wrong with me, that I do not turn to do your commandments?” For the heart of a Christian that is right wants to do the Lord's commandments, it wants to please Him who calls from above.
Now, let us give answer to why it has become so extremely common place for women in modern western societies to dress like men. (to cross dress) IE, to wear pants like a man would. Why is it that men do not by in large, dress like women by wearing either a dress or skirt? Is this practice simply by coincidence, or it it because of an influence behind it? And if there is a definite influence behind such an action who is it that is doing the influencing?
Again the man is meant by His creator to be a living mortal illustration of Yahweh. The woman is meant by Yahweh to be a living mortal illustration of the Church, or the individual Believer. This can only be fully realized when the man and the woman by means of obedient understanding follow the Lord's commandments and promises. Other then that we will fall short of this calling. When a woman dresses like a man she is by her action saying that she is the same as , or equal to a man, therefore she dresses like a man. No, I do not mean to say that she thinks she is like a man in body, but that she has begun to think that she is equal to a man in reference to headship. That she is equal in headship. Therefore she has the right to dress as he dresses and assume the place and calling that he (the man) has. In short, she begin to think and act as a man does, usurping the God created and God given authority that men in general have over women in general, and in particular terms, that a father or husband have over those of their household. The spirit of humanism that is the progenitor of the spirit of feminism has received an extreme acceptance into modern western society, and for that matter in to almost all that is called Christian. Feminism teaches that men and woman are equal or the same. Now, remember that Yahweh created the human persons to illustrate heavenly realities. Therefore when the woman dresses like the man, in that she was created to illustrate the Church or individual Believer, she is saying by her actions that the Believer is equal to the Lord Himself. In other words that the Believer is lord over his own self and actions. Which means that they are equal to the Lord and therefore can do as they wish to do, even though what they wish to do may be contrary to God's laws. Sad to say, this spirit and practice fills our western Churches. Confusion and sin has become common place in our Churches, and thus that is why the American nation is being forfeited to the ungodly. The “Salt of the earth” has lost its saltiness, henceforth, as the Lord Himself taught us it is good for nothing but to be cast out and trodden under the feet of men. This is what is happening in America to most everything that is called Christian. One ideological foundation after another in our American society that our godly forefathers by means of great effort and sacrifice had established is being cast out, rejected, and trodden under men's feet as if it were nothing of importance.
To realize an even further depth to the sinfulness of the practice and the spirit behind the blending of the genders, I will ask you to call to remembrance who else in the Bible is spoken of as wishing to be equal to God? Isaiah the prophet in combination with Ezekiel the prophet tells us the story of Lucifer who was the highest of all of Yahweh's heavenly creatures, but in whose heart was one day found the desire to usurp the place of the Almighty and thus declared himself equal to God. (Isaiah 14:13-14 & Ezekiel 28:1-19) When the woman dresses her self as the man she is walking out (how be it many times mostly in confusion and ignorance) the same expression of usurpation that Lucifer introduced into the world a long time ago. Her expression that she is equal to the man is at the same time giving the expression that the Believer is equal to the Lord. Equality means that the one is independent of the other, and of coarse the Believer is anything but independent of the Lord. That is the bottom line reason why the practice of a woman dressing like a man is an abomination to God.
When a man dresses like a woman he is making the expression that he wishes to throw away his manliness and put on femininity. And most men do not wish to do that in a complete manner. However, it has become very common place for men to neglect and forsake their role of manliness by surrendering their role of headship to the woman, allowing her to usurp what is not given her of God. Thus you see this expressed in the adornment of men and women. She puts on his clothes, but he most commonly will not put on her clothes, but he allows her to dress like himself.
Closing Remarks
I will remind you of the illustration of the young child, particularly an infant child who poops in his diaper, yet because the child is young it is excused with almost no thought given to it. In like manner our sins and confusion, (which includes the modern western confusion and sin associated with the blending of the genders) although infinitely detestable to God are excused and winked at until such time as the Holy Spirit begins to enlightenment and conviction us, but when the light of understanding comes to us, these sins then begin to stand between the Christian and the Holy One. Yet how is it is that so many when confronted with the simple directness of the commandment of the Lord for the sexes to dress distinct fully different the one from the other, and when given the explanation of the extreme gravity of the reasoning behind it, reject the commandment as if obedience to it matters nothing? It is because we live in a generation where very many have grown use to following the ways and doctrines of men (humanist teachings that are man centered) instead of the commandments of God. And, in that we do not make it our practice to obey God's laws our senses are dull and not able to easily discern good from evil. (Hebrews 5:14) Much of what is called Christian in this generation is wise in regards to getting along in the world, (this is called worldly wisdom) but proves very often to be very low in obedience to commandments of God that are socially unpopular and may cost the Believer something. This my friend is very dangerous ground. For it is not the Spirit of the Holy One who influences us to think in such a manner, but the spirit of the Wicked One. Let us not forget the exhortation of the Apostle John, when he says, “He that committeth sin (continues therein) is of the devil. (1 John 3:8 KJV)
Let us walk in humility and be overcomes like those that are spoken of in Revelations 12:17 (KJV), And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ. Also, Revelations 14:12 (KJV), Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus Christ. Also, Revelations 22:14 (KJV), Blessed are they at do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates of the city.
Peace to the Israel of God,
A Watchman,
Gregory DeHart
The author speaks of his own embarrassment in regards to the Holy Spirit teaching him why it is that God hates the practice of men and women dressing alike. The author also speaks of why this practice has become very prevalent in America and western societies, and is most commonly found practiced when the woman dresses like the man.
It was in the afternoon, the year was 1999, I was 42 years of age at the time and had walked in life with an open Christian testimony since I was 14 years of age, some 28 years. This particular afternoon I had met with a man to discuss issues concerning how we as American people, although once having a deep rooted Christian faith and system of ethics, have strayed very far from the obedience and practice of God's commandments having accepted modern traditions of men which are based upon humanistic thought. Most particularly we were speaking of issues related to what is referred to as Divine Order, or as some call it: Vertical Alignment. The role and order of authority and responsibility spoken of in a condensed form by the Apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians 11:3. Namely: God is the head of Christ, who is the head of the man, who is the head of the woman, and of coarse we understand that women are in headship over children, particularly their own children.
Its a funny thing, for as much as certain aspects of that day have been printed on my mind with what might be called indelible ink, I can not recall who the man was that I spoke with that day, but I remember with absolute certainty the words that he spoke to me as we ended our discussion and walked out into the parking lot of the restruant where we had been sitting together. He said, “Greg, you need to read Deuteronomy 22:5.” I asked him what the verse said. He said, “Just go read it and you'll see.”
I did go from there and read it, and there is no way that I can describe the surprise that I experienced upon doing so. For Although I had for 28 years lived an open Christian testimony, and although never claiming anything near perfection, in my heart I ever purposed to serve and please the God of my Salvation. But upon reading these words the most sincere, certain, and overwhelming conviction of sin and confusion came over my heart. It stated to me in no uncertain terms that I had for all those numerous years (particularly as head of my household) been allowing a thing that was an abomination to God. In fact, in the Old Testament era, before Christ stood between men and the law (before the grace of God was seen in the world in the person of Christ) a person, whether a man or woman, would have been personally considered an abomination to have practiced this sin, but I clearly understood that I was in Christ, and therefore in my person I could not be seen as an abomination to the Lord, but only the action of my life was considered an abomination to God.
I do not believe it is possible for me to describe the feeling that I had as I stood there before the Lord having read Deuteronomy 22:5. I was embarrassed. I was ashamed, and at the same time bewildered as to how I could have walked before the Lord for so many years not knowing or understanding how that I was practicing a thing that was in His determination a thing that is hateful to Him. Let me say this. This experience was a very clear signal to me from that time forward that it is only God that reveals truth, and only His presence can convict any sinner of the error of his or her ways. Yes, we must seek him and that is our responsibility, but He alone is the revealer of truth. He alone turns the “light” on. However, when He does, then it is our responsibility (empowered by His grace) to walk in that light. Perhaps if you can bring to your mind the most embarrassing moments of your life, this was how I felt. I stood there before God embarrassed and very ashamed, because I, how be it in ignorance, had been practicing something that was shameful to Him whom I loved.
Deuteronomy 22:5 in the King James version says The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the Lord thy God.” I have had a number of life changing revelations from the Scripture in my life, but I admit that the conviction of this statement of God's law, and the revelation of its purpose and meaning that would come to me in the following days has ranked right up at the top of the list in reference to how they have upset my life. I have since I first came to the Lord in my youth endeavored to walk honestly before God. To not allow it to be the practice of my life to make silly and pitiful excuses for my sins or failings, either before God or man. So, as I stood there that day I was not about to argue with the simple understanding of the words, which I was then and am even today convinced that an 8 year old can understand, nor was I willing to argue or put away the conviction of His presence that was at work in my inner person. So I simply said before Him, “Here I am Lord. I do not know how I could have so long remained ignorant of this that is so clearly spoken of as an abomination, but I will do your commandment. However, Lord,”, I cried out. “How is it that the Great God of all creation can be excited by threads? What do you care about threads? I don't get it?” For admittedly, it was way beyond my comprehension as to why God Almighty would care about what particular clothes a person might wear. Of coarse at the time I perceived the importance of issues of modesty in regards to clothing, but I had zero perception of deeper issues.
I didn't get it. I could see the commandment and I knew the conviction of His presence was upon me, but I did not have a clue as to the reasoning for the commandment, but God was gracious and kind to me. It was only a few short time later when He used the foundation of prior points of understanding to bring a very profound revelation to me in regards to the purposes of clothing, and most importantly, why it is a detestable thing for a man to dress like a woman, or a woman to dress like a man. And you will note that for a woman to dress in the manner that a man dresses has become a very common thing in this society, and my friend, it is not without reason. It is not by accident, but by the design of the Evil One, having found an entrance into both society at large, and the household of faith in modern western societies.
The Holy Spirit revealed to me that clothing has three purposes. Let's first speak of the basic need for protection from the elements. Our bodies need protection from the sun, the cold, etc. Otherwise we would not be able to maintain our natural lives. The second reason for clothing I'll mention is the the need to protect modesty. All human persons are sexually orientated beings. We were made this way by God as a reflection of Himself and His relationship to the Church, or individual Believer. If we did not cloth ourselves utter chaos would very soon take over. The third reason for clothing is the one that holds the greatest possibility of offense to God when not practiced in obedience to the Scripture. It is that clothing has a symbolic nature to it, and designed to be so by God Himself. The truth that even among men that clothing is symbolic, or has voice or meaning in itself is seen very clearly. For are not soldiers quickly and easily identified by their uniforms? Are not police identified in the same manner? Do not signs on bathroom doors identify the men's and the women's room by the difference in the dress that the figures have?
The highest of all the creation is the human person. Yahweh, by His infinite wisdom and power created the male person to be a reflection of Himself. A living mortal illustration of Himself. This is particularly seen as He grows to manhood, and in marriage. The female person was at the beginning, (and still is by means of birth) created to be a living mortal illustration of the One who is the single great object of the Divine One's love and attention: the Church. So, in the most simple words, the man represents the Lord, the woman was (and is) made to represent the Church, (or the individual Believer). Therefore, both reason, and the commandment of God demands that the man and the woman adorn themselves distinct fully different the one from the other. For they are distinct fully different creatures, designed and created for distinct fully different roles and callings, which when properly lived out will cause each of the sexes to illustrate with their lives true and accurate heavenly realities. However, when either a man or a woman who because of ignorance, and/or confusion, or by reason of outright rebellion refuse to maintain his or her person and calling, and begin to “blend the genders” by the mixing of their clothing, or other acts that deny their role and calling as either a man or a woman, they bring forth an incorrect reflection of heavenly things. For remember that they (the male and female, or man and woman) were created with that purpose in God's mind, namely: to illustrate with their lives heavenly realities. Therefore, to dress a man like a woman, or to dress a woman like a man is to bring forth a slanderous testimony of both the Lord and that which is the chief object of His love and attention. And this is, as you can imagine, a thing that is very offensive to God. That is why any one who is still directly under the jurisdiction of the law, (the one who is not yet hid in Christ) and who disobeys this commandment is for it's sake is considered an abomination. And, whoever's actions, although they may be in Christ, who disobeys this law stands in their action to be doing a thing that is an abomination to God.
I was like this. For years I walked in disobedience to this command of the Lord. However, I was like a young child who in the ignorance and confusion of their childhood poops continually in his diaper. A filthy-rotten mess that the child's guardian has to continually clean up. Now, this is not thought an extreme or unusual thing in so much as the child is small, but if a child is 10 years old and has to be cleaned up in this manner it is exceedingly more detestable, and therefore hateful to whoever is around the child, or has to clean the child up.
In like manner before the commandment came to me (the understanding and conviction of it) I was like a small child. I practiced a thing that was detestable to God, (this action of mine stunk in God's nostrils) but He winked at it, in that He knew I was in darkness (ignorance-confusion) and therefore did not hold it against me. However, one day He convicted me of my error, bringing it to my attention. From that point on I was no longer in ignorance, for I had been made aware that this action was displeasing to God. The Apostle Paul spoke of this process when he said, “when the commandment came, sin revived.” (Romans 7:9 KJV) Jesus made it clear that we are responsible for obedience to commandments that we are knowledgeable concerning when He said, “He that has my commandments and keepeth them, He it is that loveth me.....” (John 14:21a KJV) That is how I was able to live so many years with an open Christian testimony, yet with peace of heart before God, but at the same time be doing a thing that according to God's law is a detestable thing. I was ignorant. I was in regards to this issue, in darkness. But when the darkness passed and the light came I took hold of the light and began to walk in accordance to His law. Not that that action made me more saved, for it did not. But it did prove my devotion to God in that I loved Him enough to obey Him. For the Christian is not saved by the keeping of the law, but when we are saved, it should then be our nature to always turn and obey His commandments when they are brought to us. If we possess a heart that in any way turns from His commandments, then we need to examine ourselves before Him, asking of Him. “What is wrong with me, that I do not turn to do your commandments?” For the heart of a Christian that is right wants to do the Lord's commandments, it wants to please Him who calls from above.
Now, let us give answer to why it has become so extremely common place for women in modern western societies to dress like men. (to cross dress) IE, to wear pants like a man would. Why is it that men do not by in large, dress like women by wearing either a dress or skirt? Is this practice simply by coincidence, or it it because of an influence behind it? And if there is a definite influence behind such an action who is it that is doing the influencing?
Again the man is meant by His creator to be a living mortal illustration of Yahweh. The woman is meant by Yahweh to be a living mortal illustration of the Church, or the individual Believer. This can only be fully realized when the man and the woman by means of obedient understanding follow the Lord's commandments and promises. Other then that we will fall short of this calling. When a woman dresses like a man she is by her action saying that she is the same as , or equal to a man, therefore she dresses like a man. No, I do not mean to say that she thinks she is like a man in body, but that she has begun to think that she is equal to a man in reference to headship. That she is equal in headship. Therefore she has the right to dress as he dresses and assume the place and calling that he (the man) has. In short, she begin to think and act as a man does, usurping the God created and God given authority that men in general have over women in general, and in particular terms, that a father or husband have over those of their household. The spirit of humanism that is the progenitor of the spirit of feminism has received an extreme acceptance into modern western society, and for that matter in to almost all that is called Christian. Feminism teaches that men and woman are equal or the same. Now, remember that Yahweh created the human persons to illustrate heavenly realities. Therefore when the woman dresses like the man, in that she was created to illustrate the Church or individual Believer, she is saying by her actions that the Believer is equal to the Lord Himself. In other words that the Believer is lord over his own self and actions. Which means that they are equal to the Lord and therefore can do as they wish to do, even though what they wish to do may be contrary to God's laws. Sad to say, this spirit and practice fills our western Churches. Confusion and sin has become common place in our Churches, and thus that is why the American nation is being forfeited to the ungodly. The “Salt of the earth” has lost its saltiness, henceforth, as the Lord Himself taught us it is good for nothing but to be cast out and trodden under the feet of men. This is what is happening in America to most everything that is called Christian. One ideological foundation after another in our American society that our godly forefathers by means of great effort and sacrifice had established is being cast out, rejected, and trodden under men's feet as if it were nothing of importance.
To realize an even further depth to the sinfulness of the practice and the spirit behind the blending of the genders, I will ask you to call to remembrance who else in the Bible is spoken of as wishing to be equal to God? Isaiah the prophet in combination with Ezekiel the prophet tells us the story of Lucifer who was the highest of all of Yahweh's heavenly creatures, but in whose heart was one day found the desire to usurp the place of the Almighty and thus declared himself equal to God. (Isaiah 14:13-14 & Ezekiel 28:1-19) When the woman dresses her self as the man she is walking out (how be it many times mostly in confusion and ignorance) the same expression of usurpation that Lucifer introduced into the world a long time ago. Her expression that she is equal to the man is at the same time giving the expression that the Believer is equal to the Lord. Equality means that the one is independent of the other, and of coarse the Believer is anything but independent of the Lord. That is the bottom line reason why the practice of a woman dressing like a man is an abomination to God.
When a man dresses like a woman he is making the expression that he wishes to throw away his manliness and put on femininity. And most men do not wish to do that in a complete manner. However, it has become very common place for men to neglect and forsake their role of manliness by surrendering their role of headship to the woman, allowing her to usurp what is not given her of God. Thus you see this expressed in the adornment of men and women. She puts on his clothes, but he most commonly will not put on her clothes, but he allows her to dress like himself.
Closing Remarks
I will remind you of the illustration of the young child, particularly an infant child who poops in his diaper, yet because the child is young it is excused with almost no thought given to it. In like manner our sins and confusion, (which includes the modern western confusion and sin associated with the blending of the genders) although infinitely detestable to God are excused and winked at until such time as the Holy Spirit begins to enlightenment and conviction us, but when the light of understanding comes to us, these sins then begin to stand between the Christian and the Holy One. Yet how is it is that so many when confronted with the simple directness of the commandment of the Lord for the sexes to dress distinct fully different the one from the other, and when given the explanation of the extreme gravity of the reasoning behind it, reject the commandment as if obedience to it matters nothing? It is because we live in a generation where very many have grown use to following the ways and doctrines of men (humanist teachings that are man centered) instead of the commandments of God. And, in that we do not make it our practice to obey God's laws our senses are dull and not able to easily discern good from evil. (Hebrews 5:14) Much of what is called Christian in this generation is wise in regards to getting along in the world, (this is called worldly wisdom) but proves very often to be very low in obedience to commandments of God that are socially unpopular and may cost the Believer something. This my friend is very dangerous ground. For it is not the Spirit of the Holy One who influences us to think in such a manner, but the spirit of the Wicked One. Let us not forget the exhortation of the Apostle John, when he says, “He that committeth sin (continues therein) is of the devil. (1 John 3:8 KJV)
Let us walk in humility and be overcomes like those that are spoken of in Revelations 12:17 (KJV), And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ. Also, Revelations 14:12 (KJV), Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus Christ. Also, Revelations 22:14 (KJV), Blessed are they at do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates of the city.
Peace to the Israel of God,
A Watchman,
Gregory DeHart
Sunday, August 2, 2009
American Church, Your Salt Is Not Salty
The author in clear and simplicity terms spells out why America, although boasting a citizenship of 40 to 50% Evangelicals is on an on-going basis loosing the moral and spiritual battle to the ideology and practice of humanism. Humanism, that ideology that excludes God and His laws, for the acceptance of the practice that man without God is the highest authority, and has the wisdom within himself to maintain and prosper.
Why The Current Events Of Abortion, Homosexuality, 50% Taxes, and Other Vices Triumph In America --or-- American Church, Your Salt Is Not Salty
Hey America, and the Evangelical of the land:
How is it that in a nation that boasts that 40 to 50% of it's people to be “evangelical” (evangelical being defined as knowledgeable and obedient to the Bible) that in both our laws and institutions we are continually loosing ground in the moral and spiritual battlefield? So that a nation that was once referred to as “Christian” (God centered) is certainly now becoming a “secular” (man centered) nation. A nation where these words are expressed in it's pledge to it's flag, “one nation under God”, and on whose money it is printed, “In God We Trust”. A nation whose first successful colony, (the Pilgrims) because of their faith, considered themselves “a city set upon a hill”.1 A nation where in it's beginnings the faith of it's people was so based in the God of the Bible that at the time of the Revolutionary War the common slogan of the day was, “No king, save king Jesus!.”2 A nation where our first president, George Washington at his farewell address as president had these words to say, “Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity religion and morality are indispensable supports....And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion...reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle”.3 A nation where our former president (Abraham Lincoln) so believed in our “Christian Republic”, that he referred to the preservation of America as...”a great promise to all the people of the world to all time to come;” and was willing to lead the nation into the most terrible civil war to preserve it. 4
In the most straight forward and simple terms I know, the moral digression of America can be described in these words.
The devil, using the advent of the modern multiplication of technical knowledge began to sow humanistic (man centered) thought into the hearts of men, thus sponsoring doubt in the God of the Bible, and with the doubt rebellion against the God of creation. Humanism needing an answer to the origins of man produced the deception of the doctrine of evolution. Evolutionism (the practice of the doctrine of evolution) begat twin sisters. These twin sisters are more then just related, they are Siamese twins, they are joined at the hip. They are the spirits (thought patterns- ideologies) of feminism and socialism. They are spirits of usurpation. Feminism being the corruption of Divine Order, where the woman seeks to usurp the place and the calling of the male head in her life, and males in general. Socialism being the corruption of civil order, where government seeks to usurp the sovereignty of the individual man, and as it does that the control over all men. The spirit of humanism, working through the pretense that there is no God, and through the encouragement of the spirits of feminism and socialism have sought to pull down the ideological moorings that American civilization was built upon, and have produce a generation where great confusion and lawlessness abounds. This my friend, is modern America.
ome broad examples of the sins that the progression of iniquity in modern western nations are:
If a nation was involved in a war and continually experienced defeats, would not that leadership (military and otherwise) consider what it is that they are doing wrong in order to correct it, and thus have victory? In like manner I will speak to those in America that hold to the faith of Jesus Christ, and that consider in your heart that you are a child of righteousness. I will endeavor in plain and very straightforward words to show you why the cause of righteousness in our nation is continually loosing ground, and why we will continue to loose ground against spiritual and moral wickedness in this nation until we change our ways. Why is it that righteousness among our people is not advancing, but rather decaying?
The answer to our dilemma, American Believers, is wrapped up in the wisdom of one single verse, a statement that Jesus voiced. This verse if found in Matthew chapter five, verse 13. (KJV) It is Jesus speaking to the children of faith. Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted: it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under the foot of men. Within the context of the wisdom of this single verse lies the answer to why the battle between good and evil is being lost in this nation. It is simply that the quality of the faith of Christianity in this nation is not what it is supposed to be. You might put it this way, “our salt is not salty!”. Why is our salt not salty? Our sins separate us from both God and His power, the which we need to work in our own lives, and in the life of this nation in order to live victoriously. For He alone has power. Our national fathers accessed that power to build and maintain this nation to this point, but we are proving ourselves unable to maintain it. Why? Again, it is our sins. Our sins separate us from the power of God, and I am not speaking here of the sins of the nation, but rather the sin that is held on to by the Church. I will now list 82 issues where by common practice and/or civil law we as American's practice what is contrary to God's commandments. From this list I will mark with an * the 48 of which are commonly participated in by much of what is called Christian in this nation. These are why again and again, what is called Christian in American, has not of late been proven to hold back the onslaught of sin in this nation, but rather is more and more being held in disdain by society at large.
hich sins are these:
Under the banner of the corruption of Divine Order (the role of authority among men that was established by God) you will find a goodly number of examples of our nation's errancies from the truth. This confusion and sin represents a very major “blind spot” in the thinking and practice of western societies, which very greatly includes western churches. These sins are:
Beyond the category of the corruption and confusion of Divine Order I suppose the next largest set of vices can be found to spring forth directly from the the modern acceptance of socialism.
Beyond those vices that can be seen to originate quite directly from the practice of feminism and/or socialism there are other common practices among our people which are contrary to God, as listed:
For those who may want it, an expanded version of this teaching is available on this web site. It is titled: WHO LEFT THE DOOR OPEN? Take these O Christian, and with them examine your life and conduct, surrendering yourself to the conviction of the Holy Spirit, and may He (the Holy Spirit) guide you in the way of truth and righteousness. Amen!
A Watchman,
Greg DeHart
footnotes
1. The Light And The Glory, Peter Marshall and David Manuel, page 1622.
2.The Light And The Glory, Peter Marshall and David Manuel, page 267
3. The Light And The Glory, Peter Marshall and David Manuel, page 351
4. Lincoln Selected Speeches and Writings, page 280
Why The Current Events Of Abortion, Homosexuality, 50% Taxes, and Other Vices Triumph In America --or-- American Church, Your Salt Is Not Salty
Hey America, and the Evangelical of the land:
How is it that in a nation that boasts that 40 to 50% of it's people to be “evangelical” (evangelical being defined as knowledgeable and obedient to the Bible) that in both our laws and institutions we are continually loosing ground in the moral and spiritual battlefield? So that a nation that was once referred to as “Christian” (God centered) is certainly now becoming a “secular” (man centered) nation. A nation where these words are expressed in it's pledge to it's flag, “one nation under God”, and on whose money it is printed, “In God We Trust”. A nation whose first successful colony, (the Pilgrims) because of their faith, considered themselves “a city set upon a hill”.1 A nation where in it's beginnings the faith of it's people was so based in the God of the Bible that at the time of the Revolutionary War the common slogan of the day was, “No king, save king Jesus!.”2 A nation where our first president, George Washington at his farewell address as president had these words to say, “Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity religion and morality are indispensable supports....And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion...reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle”.3 A nation where our former president (Abraham Lincoln) so believed in our “Christian Republic”, that he referred to the preservation of America as...”a great promise to all the people of the world to all time to come;” and was willing to lead the nation into the most terrible civil war to preserve it. 4
In the most straight forward and simple terms I know, the moral digression of America can be described in these words.
The devil, using the advent of the modern multiplication of technical knowledge began to sow humanistic (man centered) thought into the hearts of men, thus sponsoring doubt in the God of the Bible, and with the doubt rebellion against the God of creation. Humanism needing an answer to the origins of man produced the deception of the doctrine of evolution. Evolutionism (the practice of the doctrine of evolution) begat twin sisters. These twin sisters are more then just related, they are Siamese twins, they are joined at the hip. They are the spirits (thought patterns- ideologies) of feminism and socialism. They are spirits of usurpation. Feminism being the corruption of Divine Order, where the woman seeks to usurp the place and the calling of the male head in her life, and males in general. Socialism being the corruption of civil order, where government seeks to usurp the sovereignty of the individual man, and as it does that the control over all men. The spirit of humanism, working through the pretense that there is no God, and through the encouragement of the spirits of feminism and socialism have sought to pull down the ideological moorings that American civilization was built upon, and have produce a generation where great confusion and lawlessness abounds. This my friend, is modern America.
ome broad examples of the sins that the progression of iniquity in modern western nations are:
- The flood of the filth of pornography. Where a search engine boasts it can produce 1,000,000 pornographic sites. (I saw this with my own eyes) Where is the legislation to suppressed it?
- Where the norm of television is continually vulgar, violent, and contrary to the fear of God.
- The “legalized” murder of over 40 million innocents through abortion.
- Same sex marriage “”legalized” in three states, and there are many other lesser advancements of this perversion being found in other states of the union.
- The divorce rate being 60 some percent for first time marriages, not to consider those that will marry multiple times.
- Approx. 50% of all American youth will not marry at all, but will “cohabitate”. (the back door is left open that way when one or both wishes to make their get-a-way)
- Many spending 50% of their income on taxes. Yes, when you add up local, state, and federal taxes, many pay 50% of their wages to taxes.
- The name or law of God ousted from every public place. Such as the example in Montgomery Alabama when the judge there could not keep a monument displaying the Ten Commandments in the court house lawn.
- Murder, theft and oppression being rampant on our streets.
If a nation was involved in a war and continually experienced defeats, would not that leadership (military and otherwise) consider what it is that they are doing wrong in order to correct it, and thus have victory? In like manner I will speak to those in America that hold to the faith of Jesus Christ, and that consider in your heart that you are a child of righteousness. I will endeavor in plain and very straightforward words to show you why the cause of righteousness in our nation is continually loosing ground, and why we will continue to loose ground against spiritual and moral wickedness in this nation until we change our ways. Why is it that righteousness among our people is not advancing, but rather decaying?
The answer to our dilemma, American Believers, is wrapped up in the wisdom of one single verse, a statement that Jesus voiced. This verse if found in Matthew chapter five, verse 13. (KJV) It is Jesus speaking to the children of faith. Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted: it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under the foot of men. Within the context of the wisdom of this single verse lies the answer to why the battle between good and evil is being lost in this nation. It is simply that the quality of the faith of Christianity in this nation is not what it is supposed to be. You might put it this way, “our salt is not salty!”. Why is our salt not salty? Our sins separate us from both God and His power, the which we need to work in our own lives, and in the life of this nation in order to live victoriously. For He alone has power. Our national fathers accessed that power to build and maintain this nation to this point, but we are proving ourselves unable to maintain it. Why? Again, it is our sins. Our sins separate us from the power of God, and I am not speaking here of the sins of the nation, but rather the sin that is held on to by the Church. I will now list 82 issues where by common practice and/or civil law we as American's practice what is contrary to God's commandments. From this list I will mark with an * the 48 of which are commonly participated in by much of what is called Christian in this nation. These are why again and again, what is called Christian in American, has not of late been proven to hold back the onslaught of sin in this nation, but rather is more and more being held in disdain by society at large.
hich sins are these:
Under the banner of the corruption of Divine Order (the role of authority among men that was established by God) you will find a goodly number of examples of our nation's errancies from the truth. This confusion and sin represents a very major “blind spot” in the thinking and practice of western societies, which very greatly includes western churches. These sins are:
- *Women holding public offices (offices of authority over men)
- *Women in the military (in a place of authority over men)
- *Women in the police force (in a place of authority over men)
- The teaching of a gender free God (a corruption of truth that the male person was created as a
representation of God Himself and as such is given by the creator authority over the woman and
the children that proceed from her) - *Inheritance passed on to a woman versus a man's son, or sons. (a corruption of the God given role of authority)
- *Women suing for divorce (a corruption of the laws of God pertaining to marriage and Divine Order)
- *The promotion of girl's and women's sports (a corruption of the place and calling of women, for in order for a woman to fulfill her primary God given role as wife and mother she must cultivate the spirit and wisdom of a completer, not the spirit of competition)
- *Women preachers, church elders, and deacons (a corruption of the place and calling of woman
in regards to Divine Order) - *Married women refusing to take their husband's family name, but maintaining their maiden
name (a confusion and corruption of the place and calling of the woman, and how it is to
reflect the Bride of Christ) - *immodest clothing (a corruption of the place of the woman as wife and lover to her husband,
and a corruption of the calling of the woman to reflect the Bride of Christ) - *Women leaving the home to pursue a “career”. (the corruption of the place and calling of a
woman as wife and mother) - *Women owning property with a title (For her to own is not a sin, but for her to be empowered
by the government to be able to use that to usurp her husband's place of authority and
ownership is sin) - Immodest clothing in advertisements on television and else where (the nakedness of a woman belongs to her husband, if she is not married then there is very little difference in her showing her nakedness publicly then the practice of fornication-it is entirely the same spirit)
- Pornography (The flood of filth across this land is a direct expression that fathers have no place
of care or authority over their daughters who sell themselves for a profit) - *Lack of the use of the titles Miss and Mrs (The lack of the use of these titles is seen because
the degeneration of marriage has made the titles of little significance, since the virtue of
virginity is not valued, and the virtue of the married woman is not valued) - *The use of the term “Ms”.(In God's economy there is no such thing as a “Ms”. A woman is
either a unmarried woman-“Miss”, or a married woman-“Mrs.”, there is no exception to this. A
“Ms” is simply a woman who does not wish to be recognized as either married or
unmarried. This woman is hiding from the truth) - *Women not wearing a head covering in public prayer or prophesying (the speaking forth of the testimony of God)
- Men wearing long hair (In that the hair is given in both the male and female as a sign of a
covering, long hair on a man always signals either confusion and/or rebellion to God's
placement of the male in His order of authority. This is without exception) - *Women wearing short hair. (This act signals, and that without exception, that there is either
confusion and/or rebellion on the woman's part as to her place in God's order of authority in that
the hair is a natural (token) sign of her place as being in submission to the male headship in her
life, whether that be her father, brother, or another male person) - *Women wearing pants (This is cross dressing. In the law of God it is termed as an abominable
act. (Deuteronomy 22:5) In that the commandment of God expressly prohibits that a man and a woman dress in the same manner, they must by God's law dress distinctively different, the one from the other) - *Women given a civil vote (The practice of a woman exercising a civil vote in effect makes the
woman equal in authority to not only her immediate male head, but all males in general. This
flies headlong in the face of Divine Order) - *Women judges (This practice puts a woman in authority over a man, which is contrary to
Divine Order) - *Women on juries (This practice puts a woman in authority over a man, which is contrary to
Divine Order) - *Girls or women in ROTC programs (This practice puts (promotes) women in authority over
men, which is contrary to Divine Order) - *Community property laws (Where the headship of a man's property is stolen from him in the
event that his wife chooses to leave him) - *Domestic violence laws (These have advanced to the point where men are commonly thrown
into jail for absolutely no more than a woman testifying to a police officer these words, “He
scared me”) - *Restraining orders (Where it is very common for men to be restrained by law from their own
property and children on the whim (testimony of violence without any validation) of a woman) - *Divorce (Especially what is called “no fault divorce”, for this vice could never have such a
strong hold in American except for the deterioration of the practice of Divine Order) - *Unbiblical remarriage. (A practice that is extremely common in America. Where upon people
enter an adulterous relationship but “sanctify” it in the eyes of men by remarriage) - *Child Custody (Where a father, if and when a wife chooses to leave him, has to fight for the
custody if of his own children, when by God's law he owns and is therefore responsible for
both the mother and the children) - *Child support (Where a wife divorces a husband, and the husband is then forced by law to
support the children she has stolen from him)
Beyond the category of the corruption and confusion of Divine Order I suppose the next largest set of vices can be found to spring forth directly from the the modern acceptance of socialism.
- The practice of an inheritance tax (This practice makes the government the heir of an individual,
a government has never yet come from the loins of a man so therefore can not be his heir) - Progressive income tax (This is unconstitutional and oppressive, and unfair)
- The Federal control of schools (It is unconstitutional and the “big brother” of federal
government does not need to, nor is it effectively able to control schools on the local level) - The outlawing of the Ten Commandments, and other Christian expressions in public places
(this nation was founded by Christians, and what's more, the separation of Church and state
does mean that “religion”, Christian or otherwise, does not have the right to influence both
society and government) - The outlawing of the Bible from public schools (Any local community as the right to use as it's
curriculum what it sees fit to use. It is not the right of the “feds” to dictate what we as
individuals or communities teach our children. To outlaw the Bible from public schools is
unconstitutional, remember the men that wrote the constitution were by in large God fearing,
and Bible promoters) - Property tax. (Where one can never own his property because the government has a continual
lien on it) - 50% of a person's income going to taxes. This is not uncommon. (Add up local, state, and
federal taxes) - *Welfare, entitlements and grants. (The hundreds of ways the government gives away
the money it has wrung out of the tax payer) - *Equal opportunity laws (I have nothing against government mandating equal opportunity with
what is it's own, but it has no right to usurp the sovereignty of an individual proprietor, or a
corporation to demand it (he) that it, (he) has to hire so many of these, and so many of those)
Beyond those vices that can be seen to originate quite directly from the practice of feminism and/or socialism there are other common practices among our people which are contrary to God, as listed:
- Tolerance and promotion of witchcraft, mediums, physics, Satan worship
- *Wave the flag and boast, “forever-together we stand”, yet not repent of our sin
- The offering of God's blessing by our leadership, but without repentance (God's blessing is only
available for the obedient) - The sending forth of ambassadors for peace and human rights, but at home we practice the
murder of abortion - Billions spent on pursuing terrorists (At least what are called terrorists) but the whole-sale
slaughter of the unborn continues (abortion) - The common inequity of “do not pouch the moose,(or any other animal) but go ahead and kill your unborn child” (abortion
- The practice of a large standing army. (This is not of faith, nor is it economically responsible)
- *The promotion of the practice of usury across this land, thus causing one's neighbor to be
enslaved - *A debt ridden society (The practice of living beyond one's means, exemplified by our federal
government which has a rapidly growing multi-trillion dollar debt) - *Religious holidays being polluted by fantasies and commercialism
- *Failure to teach the accurate history of our nation's beginnings
- *Civil and religious leadership unwilling to call men to prayer and repent
- *Our Church's failure to pray. (Where is the burden to pray in our land?)
- *Ministers of God's word who are both cowardly and confused (Therefore unable or unwilling to teach men the truth)
- *People having itching ears (hearing only that which is easy and convenient to hear)
- *A flood of pornography on the Internet, movies and books
- Illegal drug use not severely punished
- DWI's not severely punished
- *Youth allowed to cast a civil vote (By God's law eldership is to rule, a man of 18 is anything
but an elder) - *The promotion that America is a democracy versus the promotion that it is a democratic
republic (The difference being that a republic is based on a set of laws, (which were meant by our nation's founding fathers to reflex God's laws) thus a people who are
ruled by law, versus the whim of immediate public sentiment) - Judicial tyranny (The practice of judges usurping the will and determination of our legislative
governmental bodies) - Multiculturalism so called (Which works out to the allowance and promotion of every different
group's perversion) - Same sex marriage (Isn't it strange that a perversion that the Scripture teaches is to be answered
with the death penalty, our courts are beginning to determine to be equal to marriage) - Wicked civil leaders (Any civil leader that promotes any agenda contrary to laws of God)
- The keeping of long term prisoners
- *The lack of corporal punishment (billions are spent on “re orientating” prisoners, when a whip or a rod to the back would in all most all cases do it very easily and very inexpensively, also the failure
to use corporal punishment in the rearing of children) - *Sons and daughters leaving home before marriage and before they are grounded in life
- The allowance and promotion of Gambling-legalized casinos (Sin always begets more sin.
Confusion always begets more confusion. These vices serve no good and productive purpose,
but only promote confusion and poverty among its users, and with their presence comes every
wicked and perverse practice of men) - *The practice of “no fault” divorce laws (There is no such thing, it is an impossibility)
- The illustration of extramarital sexual union in forms of entertainment
- The use of the name of God, or the expression of God without purpose
- The promotion and/or the allowance of random violence in forms of entertainment
- Promotion and/or allowance of nakedness in forms of entertainment
- The legalization of abortive birth control methods. (I guess the idea is that the sooner we kill the
unborn we do not want, the better) - Society's practice of abortion
- Governmental promotion of birth control, particularly in lieu of the practice of chastity
- *The practice of birth control (Birth control is contrary to the proper illustration that the
man and the woman were created by Yahweh to give of the Lord and the Church. For the seed
of man represents the seed of God. So I ask you, does the Lord sow His seed into the Church to then destroy it? In like manner the seed of the man is not to be destroyed. Also the practice of birth control possesses with it the spirit of abortion. For one destroys life, and the other destroys the potential for life) - *The promotion in every level of society of the fable of evolution
- *The mixing of fabrics in our adornment(The purity of the non-blending of fabrics in clothing is a token practice commanded by God to help the Believer maintain a pure and “unblended” testimony of godliness in their lives. As one is to put on Christ without mixture, so one is to adorn themselves with clothing where the fabric has not been blended)
- *The neglecting of obedience to the laws pertaining to sexual abstinence during a woman's
menstruation. How do I know this law is not by in large obeyed? Because it is taught by very few. - *Failure to observe the Sabbath (The American people used to do this, how be it for most it was obeyed in confusion, where Sunday was held as the Sabbath. However, in more recent times even the practice of holding Sunday as the Sabbath is very greatly neglected)
For those who may want it, an expanded version of this teaching is available on this web site. It is titled: WHO LEFT THE DOOR OPEN? Take these O Christian, and with them examine your life and conduct, surrendering yourself to the conviction of the Holy Spirit, and may He (the Holy Spirit) guide you in the way of truth and righteousness. Amen!
A Watchman,
Greg DeHart
footnotes
1. The Light And The Glory, Peter Marshall and David Manuel, page 1622.
2.The Light And The Glory, Peter Marshall and David Manuel, page 267
3. The Light And The Glory, Peter Marshall and David Manuel, page 351
4. Lincoln Selected Speeches and Writings, page 280
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