What's In a Name?

As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. For in the days before the flood ...they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. Matthew 24:37-39 NIV

When God literally rained judgement on Sodom in the Old Testament, the sin which brought them down became known as sodomy. We as a society decided to soften the sin a little, and for a while called it homosexuality, before managing to change the word to gay, and it has stayed that way until now. I say until now, because if you are watching the news, the ‘support sodomy’ community are doing it again. Keep an eye on the interviews as same sex marriage supporters refer to themselves and their support as LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender). Now at a stroke, any offending name is reduced to a four letter abbreviation. That is a far cry from sodomy, and sounds so much nicer now, doesn’t it? The supporters of the intolerant group, Stonewall, have scored a winner here, and we have started to accept it. That’s you and me, and that’s our children and our grandchildren too.

You would be silly to think it will stop there. Already in some of the United States, there are court cases to decide on the need to legalise multiple marriage, between mixed partners. So let’s see, the reference could become LGBT+MM (Multiple Mixed), and on top of that there is talk of lowering the age of consent to 14 (Minor), so that would make it LGBT+MM+M. LGBTMMM is quite a mouthful, but not offensive sounding. Our world is slowly dancing its way to a blind oblivion, and if our society doesn’t change soon, God will have to apologise to Sodom. The sins of that city are clear and well documented, as is its destruction by fire. Go back to Genesis and read the account for yourself.

We are reminded in Scripture that at the end times, society will be “as it was in the days of Noah”, and you can hide from it all you like, but I think we are there already. You may even think today’s sins are worse, and I would tend to agree. For the Child of God, the return of Jesus must be soon, and this is good news, but not for the unsaved, or those who don’t care. I hope we are in neither of those last two groups! Now tell me this cannot or will not happen! I will leave with a thought. Maybe best described as a warning:

The Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man. Genesis 6:3 KJV