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THE BIGGER PICTURE
I am amazed at how people who say they believe the Bible actually take little notice of it. They say we should tolerate homosexuality in the name of loving every one. That sounds so good, and of course we should love each person, but we should not tolerate the actions as it mocks God’s eternal plan.
God said: “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him” (Genesis 2:18 ESV). Who was this helper? Was it another man? No,we all know that God created the one who would be the perfect fit for Adam, She was called a “woman,” a “wife,” and a “mother” so the man and wife could be fruitful and take dominion (Genesis 2:22-24 and 3:20). Any deviation from this plan is a smack in God’s face, the One who intricately designed and created us.
But THERE IS MORE yet! After God brought the woman to the man He stated that “the man and the wife,” the two opposite sexes, were to become “one flesh” (Genesis 2:24). This Scripture is quoted again in Ephesians 5:31, 32 and it goes on to say: “This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.”
God lifts marriage to a very high place, far higher and more sacred than we understand with our human minds. He chose marriage to portray the oneness of Christ and His bride, the church. Notice that she is called His bride (Revelation 21:2, 9). The marriage relationship is to reveal this picture to the world. There is coming a day when those who are called will sit down at “the marriage supper of the Lamb” with “the Lamb’s wife” (Revelation 19:6-9 and 21:9). Christ is the fulfillment of the sacrificial lamb which had to be a male lamb (Exodus 12:5) and the church for which He sacrificed His life is His bride.
To distort this picture is sacrilege.
Blessings from Nancy Campbell
