Funny how those statements have sat there in front of every readers eyes for a couple thousand years and been completely ignored, huh?
Isaiah 25:7
And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations.
Divine Manifest Destiny.
Just because scriptures call your bluff on your claims of being sinless and following the law, don't get all bent.
I believe every person is saved. Every.Last.One.
And all devils go to hell/the LoF.
I also believe the LAW STANDS UP to reveal and condemn DEVILS in man's flesh/mind/heart. Even empowers them to show their ugly unseen faces.
So what's yer real gripe gripe?
Matthew 1:21
And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus: for he shall save his people from their sins.
How many people are HIS?
All of them. Every.Last.One.
Psalm 24:1
The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
God commanded the light to shine from the darkness.
It's shown in the external.
Look closer and, find it also, internal. God did this for a very specific reason:
Romans 11:32
For God has bound everyone over to disobedience so that he may have mercy on them all.
That disobedience is not us as God's children. It is a temporal foreign stranger. An instrument. A tool. A covering upon the mind. An anti-spiritual robot, if you prefer.
Ephesians 2:2
Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
Who is the prince of the power of the air? That would be Satan, and his children, devils, all.
NOT PEOPLE. But the darkness with us all, that we are bound to, in the flesh.
Interesting, ain't it?
Now, hear Eternal Life AND Eternal Death, spoken to the same person, yet the fates, differ.
Both equations fully true and fully applicable.
Every Word of God is LIFE to man.
And those same Words are ETERNAL DEATH to the enemies, the darkness, the little slice of LEVIATHAN/DRAGON/DARKNESS MEAT, in our own heads.
Psalm 74:14
Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
Isaiah 27:1
In that day the Lord with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.
The sea? The sea? What is the sea?
Revelation 17:15
And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.
Why a whore?
We are supposed to be (and will be/are) the BRIDE of Christ. But…not…quite…there…yet. When the full number is in, the show is complete and ready, then the eternal life begins, apart from dishonor, corruption, weakness, sin, evil and death.
All quite Divinely and cleverly crafted, hidden even, in the Words of The Eternal One.
We can't choose ourselves past the obvious. But we can ask and receive all the LIGHT that we can bear, and be assured that the darkness will strain against it, as it is written.
John 1:5
And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
Some are called to see in their present life. Most will not, til that darkness is removed.
2 Samuel 22:29
For thou art my lamp, O Lord: and the Lord will lighten my darkness.
So you see my friend, singular, bringing the darkness that is not us forward for HIS LIGHT is not a bad thing, but Divine, for the dispelling thereof.
Matthew 4:16
The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death
light is sprung up.
What does the blade see when sprung from the earth?
The tare. That is the first stage of breaking forth. It grows from the same dark ground.
Matthew 13:26
But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also.
The TARE(s) are children of the flesh, children of darkness, children of the devil, unseen. His Light reveals (((them.)))
When we stop lying to ourselves, we have been given the gift of honesty from Above.
Isaiah 63:8
For he said, Surely they are my people, children that will not lie: so he was their Saviour.
Paul spoke a lot about his own darkness, very frankly and openly. We just have a hard time hearing honest folk. We prefer the delusion in basking in all light. But that never happened. Not in this life anyway.
There are many accounts of a first son and a second son. In God's Ways, it is the younger who is blessed. In the count of 1 and 2, the second is the last number. In God's Math and Ways, the last is FIRST.
Benjamin was a second son. The son sought the most above all his brethren by his elder brother, Joseph. Divine Reasoning at its finest.
Abraham had 2 sons. It's actually a picture of Abraham himself, first as Abram, then as Abraham, the 2nd son. Same with Saul to Paul, Cephas to Peter. Many many others.
How many of these pairs can we find in the scriptures?
Adam/Eve
Cain/Abel
Ishmael/Isaac
Esau/Jacob
Joseph/Benjamin
Manasseh/Ephraim
First Job/Last Job
Aaron/Moses
Gershon/Eliezer
And many others.
These are all various allegorical pictures of the first, blinded by Satan/darkness son (male or female), and the second son (male or female), who SEES by The Light of God's Words.
Galatians 4:
29 But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.
The allegories run deep, but not hard to understand, once the simplicity of division is found out. It's a TWO EDGED SWORD that cuts the child in HALF.
One side for us, the other, against the darkness we all bear.
Maybe try on an outer/natural man, Adam
And the inner man, the 2nd man, Eve. A woman in the fleshly senses, of course. The "mother" of all living, taken from within Adam.
God called them both Adam on the day they were created. But the flesh man won't see it, no matter what. A flesh man will come up with stupid notions. Adam didn't see squat coming.
Genesis 5:2
Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
All people are ADAM when they are natural and blinded spiritually by the god of this world unto whom God has placed them UNDER. Blind as bats. Always were, always will be, til the end.
It's unlikely that Eve the [supposed] man had a sex change and started having kids, donchathink?
God is openly not kind to the natural man. More interested in the final produce, and uses the first/natural state to get there. For example, though multitudes of Jews were called or more accurately, taken out of Egyptian slavery, they were "TRIED" severely in the desert. The entirety of that first generation over 20 died in the desert other than 2 people, Joshua and Caleb.
You'd think after they openly witnessed all the miraculous things they did, that unbelief wouldn't be an issue, but unbelief was the basis for their eventual killing.
The natural man is essentially doomed. It was never in God's Plan to leave His children bound up in limited wet walking dust piles. His Own Son was no exception.
His Order is thus:
1 Cor. 15:
46 Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.
47 The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second man is the Lord from heaven.
48 As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.
49 And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.'''
The latter part has not yet transpired, in full. But it will by the Will of God in Christ.
God calls out the second man, from within the first. Taken from his earthy clay limited cocoon, by a token, a promise planted therein.
The Law(s) were really meant to kill us all, in the first earthy natural flesh senses. But from there a second LAW rises.
Even the LAW has TWO senses. A first sense, literal, fleshly, natural, earthy, unto death, and a second sense, spiritual and unto to LIFE.
Only God can "make" a spirit.
45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
The Last Adam was made, formed by his first state into a last part, the permanent part of the Heavenly Body of Christ, The Imageo Dei.
So it will be for ALL of the first order.
22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
All natural people are born under a death sentence, in the eventual favor of the Mercy of God in Christ, into the latter, permanent state.
It's problematic for any of us to see or perceive this in full. It hasn't happened. We can only take in so much of God's Glory, in the current state.
Turning up the LIGHT kills us in the natural.
God has put a covering upon us, so we can exist in the first state, for our allotted "time." We have been put in "ward state."
The natural warden is not kind. We are here, in spiritual Egypt and Sodom, under the fleshly dominion of Pharaoh, the leviathan, the serpent, the great dragon, for the time of the first man.
Gal. 4:
Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;
2 But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.
3 Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:
The elements, the slavemaster(s) of the flesh, are unseen. But (((THEY))) are eventually deployed, by God no less, to snuff out all natural men.
When God Speaks Life to man, He does so with the intentions of destroying the first man. We are not made aware of this initially, in our child state.
Some amount of natural men get suckered into the Divine Matrix by the Call of God in Christ, like the proverbial moth to the flame. Not that this is a bad thing.
It's inevitable, that call, out of the clay hut.
Cut to the chase. What is it you are trying to prove? The sanctity of homosexuality, from scriptures? lol
Even the "urges" of the natural man toward women (in general) are technically condemned.
Yet this "lust" serves as the impetus to multiply the cells of natural man.
Matthew 5:
28 But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
I don't think anyone has a choice about the internal lusts that their flesh is bound to. I don't understand the man to man sexual thing, personally.
I kinda feel sorry for those in that condition but whatchagonnado? I celebrate the "sins" of no one, starting with my own. And that's where it ends for me.
Galatians 6:5
For every man shall bear his own burden.
We all have difficult "flesh burdens''' to bear in this present life that afflict us and make us suffer.
There are no exceptions to the rule.
When we see that ALL of our sins are demonic, it becomes easier to step back and away from (((them.))) They are not even of (((us.)))
Romans 7:
17 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
Every person has no more I to contend with.
No exceptions. No MERCY.
Romans 13:
3 For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same:
4 For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.
The US has been under the reign of evil rulers for far too long. But as in times past, it always catches up with (((THEM))).
Let's hope for a DEMONstration of God's Vengeance toward the EVIL, and and uplifting of the GOOD, unto Perfection.
It has been a challenge in this country to protect our minds from the corruption and filth that continually pours forth as a byproduct of our so called "freedom."
Freedom only extends so far, until it produces EVIL.
God Tends to jerk the slack. But it is not unusual before slack jerking time, to see it run rampant, in preparations for the inevitable.
Isaiah 9:
5 For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire.
6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
Q source for the Gospels is lefty liberal shilling to diminish the TRUE SOURCE, which is the Old Testament Words of God spoken through the LAW and the PROPHETS.
Here is a list of direct quotations from the Old Testament cited in New Testament books:
https://www. blueletterbible.org/study/pnt/pnt08.cfm
(note the link gap, which used to be deployed here early on)
These references do not include the allusions and spiritual principles of the Old Testament derived from studies of allegory, parable and similitude, which would be immense body of citations, but this would be esoterically derived, and only meant to be understood for Word aficionado's, those who have spent a considerable amount of time immersed therein with the HIdden Man of our heart, The Spirit of Christ upon and within us.
We do have A Comforter, the presence, overwhelming.
Revelation 19:6
And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia:
for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.