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GregoryPalamas
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Here’s a commentary from another forum I very much agree with.
2 Kings 23:7 “And he [King Josiah] broke down the houses of the sodomites that were by the house of the Lord…”
The sodomites – those perverts who wanted to attach their homosexual proclivities to the religion of Israel. They brought their abominations right to the house of God. And why? Because they had adopted, under the name of Jehovah, the pagan religion of Baal, the culture surrounding them.
By attaching themselves to the temple they could legitimize what God most assuredly had condemned. They could create a “theology” of sorts to undergird their depraved minds and degenerative behavior. They could turn what was destined for a rigtheous and fiery judgment into a most-seemingly blessed gift from God.
Now the people of the pews, the common folk of Israel, the sheep of God’s pasture would be confused. They come to worship God at His holy temple…and there are the sodomites, perverts sanctifying their immoral proclivities in the holy place. Furthermore the priests appointed to do the worship were allowing, even endorsing the marriage between Jehovah and depravity.
There were prophets who spoke boldly against it. The Elijahs and Isaiahs, the Jeremiahs and Micahs. But while these voices for the true God were heard, and sometimes listened to by the people, they had little effect on the established church. They couldn’t unseat the evil powers which ran the political machinery of the temple.
Then came a bold king. Young, innovative, and passionate for God. Josiah. He knew that no compromise would work, no negotiation with the sodomites and their priests would satisfy the righteous God.
So among his other official actions as king, he “put out the idolatrous priests, whom the (previous) kings of Judah had ordained” [2 Kings 23:5]. No more gay priests in Israel…and no more “straight” priests who sympathized with the sodomites. Then Josiah “broke down the house of the Sodomites…” He made a clean sweep. Put them out, sent them away, and did his best to purify the worship of God.
O where, o where are the bold “kings” today? Where are a handful of unfrightened bishops who would be willing to begin the needed surgery?
Interestingly, Josiah’s reforms didn’t quite go far enough, for we learn in 2 Kings 23:9, that the very priests he deposed still came to the temple and “ate the unleavened bread among their brethren”. They came to the sacred sacrament and desecrated themselves by eating the body of Christ.
Nevertheless, God blessed Josiah, and Israel, not only for his good heart, but for his bold action in a day when such action was seldom taken.
The church, both Catholic and Protestant, is in dire need of such a cleansing now. Not next year, but now. It is time to stop talking, stop negotiating, stop talking about “amiable” separation, stop debating, stop litigating, and DO the right thing.
2 Kings 23:7 “And he [King Josiah] broke down the houses of the sodomites that were by the house of the Lord…”
The sodomites – those perverts who wanted to attach their homosexual proclivities to the religion of Israel. They brought their abominations right to the house of God. And why? Because they had adopted, under the name of Jehovah, the pagan religion of Baal, the culture surrounding them.
By attaching themselves to the temple they could legitimize what God most assuredly had condemned. They could create a “theology” of sorts to undergird their depraved minds and degenerative behavior. They could turn what was destined for a rigtheous and fiery judgment into a most-seemingly blessed gift from God.
Now the people of the pews, the common folk of Israel, the sheep of God’s pasture would be confused. They come to worship God at His holy temple…and there are the sodomites, perverts sanctifying their immoral proclivities in the holy place. Furthermore the priests appointed to do the worship were allowing, even endorsing the marriage between Jehovah and depravity.
There were prophets who spoke boldly against it. The Elijahs and Isaiahs, the Jeremiahs and Micahs. But while these voices for the true God were heard, and sometimes listened to by the people, they had little effect on the established church. They couldn’t unseat the evil powers which ran the political machinery of the temple.
Then came a bold king. Young, innovative, and passionate for God. Josiah. He knew that no compromise would work, no negotiation with the sodomites and their priests would satisfy the righteous God.
So among his other official actions as king, he “put out the idolatrous priests, whom the (previous) kings of Judah had ordained” [2 Kings 23:5]. No more gay priests in Israel…and no more “straight” priests who sympathized with the sodomites. Then Josiah “broke down the house of the Sodomites…” He made a clean sweep. Put them out, sent them away, and did his best to purify the worship of God.
O where, o where are the bold “kings” today? Where are a handful of unfrightened bishops who would be willing to begin the needed surgery?
Interestingly, Josiah’s reforms didn’t quite go far enough, for we learn in 2 Kings 23:9, that the very priests he deposed still came to the temple and “ate the unleavened bread among their brethren”. They came to the sacred sacrament and desecrated themselves by eating the body of Christ.
Nevertheless, God blessed Josiah, and Israel, not only for his good heart, but for his bold action in a day when such action was seldom taken.
The church, both Catholic and Protestant, is in dire need of such a cleansing now. Not next year, but now. It is time to stop talking, stop negotiating, stop talking about “amiable” separation, stop debating, stop litigating, and DO the right thing.