I CAN HARDLY LIFT UP MY HEAD

Are you grieving as I am? Where is the great nation of our founding fathers? To think that we now live in a nation where the Supreme Court has ruled that in every state of the nation gay marriages have the same status as God-ordained marriages! What kind of a world will this be like for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren? Our first president, George Washington warned that the smiles of heaven can never be expected on a nation “that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which heaven itself hath ordained.”

How could this happen except in a climate of luke-warmness, tolerance, and even apostasy in the Christian church? God gave His eternal plan at the beginning of time for marriage: one man and one woman (Genesis 1:27, 28 and 2:21-24). God clearly makes the difference between male and female in His Word:

Male (zakar) / female (nqebah) Notice that the two Hebrew words are totally different (Genesis 1: 27).
Man / woman (Genesis 2:23).
Father / mother Genesis 2:24).
Husband / wife (Genesis 2:25; Proverbs 12:4; 31:11, 12, and 28).
Master / mistress (Genesis 16:4 and 24:9).
Bridegroom / bride (Psalm 19:5; Isaiah 49:18; 61:10; 62:5; and Jeremiah 33:11).
Mankind / womankind (Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13).
Young men / maidens (Isaiah 62:5).
Sons / daughters (Genesis 5:4).
Boys/ girls (Zechariah 8:5).

God called them Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve. Arthur W. Pink comments on God's creation of man: "Not both males or both females, but one male and one female; and to make the design of this unmistakably plain God says, "Be fruitful and multiply." For this reason marriage is called "matrimony," which signifies motherage because it results in virgins becoming mothers."

Jonathan Cahn, author of the New York Times bestseller “The Harbinger” has truly stated that: “If this court should overrule the word of God and strike down the eternal rules of order and right that heaven itself ordained, how then will God save it? . . . Justices, can you judge the ways of God? There is another court and there another judge, where all men and all judges will give account. . . . If a nation’s high court should pass judgment on the Almighty, should you then be surprised God will pass judgment on the court and that nation?”

It is time for us to stand for truth in the midst of deception, to be a light in the midst of the darkness. We praise God for leaders such as Franklin Graham, James Dobson, Alan Keyes, and many others who state in a full-page ad in the Washington Post, USA Today, and other papers: “We affirm that marriage, as existing solely between one man and one woman, precedes civil government. Though affirmed, fulfilled, and elevated by faith, the truth that marriage can exist only between one man and one woman is not based solely on religion but on the Natural Law, written on the human heart.”

And they conclude: “We will not honor any decision by the Supreme Court which will force us to violate a clear biblical understanding of marriage as solely the union of one man and one woman.”

Isaiah 59:14-16 (ESV) states: “Justice is turned back, and righteousness stands far away; for truth has stumbled in the public squares, and uprightness cannot enter. Truth is lacking, and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. The Lord saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice. He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no one to intercede.”

It is time to stand for truth and intercede for righteousness in the land. It is time to imprint upon our children’s hearts God’s laws and ways lest they be deceived in a society like Sodom and Gomorrah.

Standing for God’s truth,

Nancy Campbell